The Tallest Thing in Marrakesh

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Speaker 1 Hi, Yasmina. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan.
Hey. Hi, Yasmina.
How are you? I'm good. How are you guys?

Speaker 1 We are doing great. I think we're

Speaker 1 all

Speaker 1 here. I am excited to be talking to you because I'm told you're from Morocco.
Is that right? I am from Morocco, and I live in Brussels. Oh, you live in Brussels? Okay.

Speaker 1 I am from Morocco. You're from Morocco originally.
And why did you go to Brussels? Is there a reason for that?

Speaker 1 I went to Brussels because medical school is cheap here. Oh.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the weather is really bad.

Speaker 1 I'm not paying for my studies. Well, I'm done with medical school, but I didn't pay.
So

Speaker 1 I had to make the wise choice for my parents. Yes, I think you did the right thing.

Speaker 1 But do you miss Morocco? Let's talk about Morocco.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Are you from, where are you from in Morocco? So I'm from Marrakech. Oh, Marrakesh.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I've never been to Morocco. I've never been to Marrakech.
If you're familiar with me at all, I assume you are because you've called in. You listen to the podcast.

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You're aware of all the things, she said, filled with shame. It's just a sad way to ask.

Speaker 1 Do you watch my show? Have you seen my show? Yeah. Well, I'm trying to do my podcast.

Speaker 1 What do you like? What do you like that I do? This is all leading up to something crucial.

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Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's very ominous, but it's, I ask for a reason, which is then, if you're familiar with me, maybe you have an opinion on what it would be like if I came to Marrakesh. Would I be a natural?

Speaker 1 Do you think I would blend in well in Marrakesh and Morocco?

Speaker 1 You'd be the tallest thing there.

Speaker 1 Not even human.

Speaker 1 I'd be the tallest thing. Human thing.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 So I'm the whitest thing. You don't have a mountain that's higher than six foot four inches.

Speaker 1 No. This is the mighty mount.
Greatest mountain we have is six foot two in its shoes.

Speaker 1 You'd be towering over everything.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, I've never been to a country where I'm the tallest thing,

Speaker 1 including all inanimate objects and mountain ranges.

Speaker 1 okay

Speaker 1 I'd be tall

Speaker 1 would I get along with the people in Marrakesh

Speaker 1 I think you'd get along

Speaker 1 people from Marrakesh tease a lot so you wouldn't know whether they'd be like laughing

Speaker 1 with you or teasing you there's a very fine line between bullying

Speaker 1 and just joking around. Okay, I sound like I'd be right at home.

Speaker 1 You found your people. Yeah, first of all, I don't care why people are laughing as long as they're laughing.
And if it's at me, I'm just as happy.

Speaker 1 And I grew up being bullied and bullying. So I think I'm ready to go to Marrakesh.
And tell me about the culture. I mean, I want to learn about Marrakesh.

Speaker 1 Okay, so the culture...

Speaker 1 So there's the Moroccan culture and then there's a Marrakesh sort of vibe, which is much light-hearted than the rest of the cities.

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 we're very cool, we're chill, we don't uh

Speaker 1 we don't really take ourselves seriously, yeah, which is perfect for you, I'm guessing. Um, yeah,

Speaker 1 and uh, the culture is very open, to be honest, but then I was in an American school, so that's a bit weird because we had a little

Speaker 1 little

Speaker 1 microcosm of

Speaker 1 people, but we still Americash is very open to everything. So you'd you'd you'd be you'd fit in perfectly.
I think I'd just get like maybe

Speaker 1 maybe a little shorter then.

Speaker 1 Okay, you're obsessed with my height.

Speaker 1 I think I can

Speaker 1 reach across this divide. I think it'll be okay.

Speaker 1 Like I'll give you an example. If you were to wear what

Speaker 1 like a traditional Moroccan man would wear, you'd wear this thing called a jalaba. A jalaba?

Speaker 1 Yeah, and it's like a long sweater.

Speaker 1 And, but you're so tall, it would fit like a mini skirt.

Speaker 1 I'd like to see that. I know.

Speaker 1 So, so now I'm picturing myself walking through Marrakech, like through a bazaar, a market. Are there markets there? I'm guessing that's my image in my head,

Speaker 1 maybe just based on movies and things, but walking through a market, and I'm wearing wearing

Speaker 1 a mini skirt and maybe high heels and I have a

Speaker 1 clutch, a clutch bag and a little sash. You'd have a nice leg tan

Speaker 1 with that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 what's the food like? I mean, what kind of food do you see me eating there?

Speaker 1 Okay, so

Speaker 1 we have

Speaker 1 a very diverse range of foods.

Speaker 1 I have a very good Irish friend friend who's, well, the main, I guess, like on Fridays, you'd eat something called couscous, which is like... Yes, we're all familiar with couscous.

Speaker 1 Now you're going to say things. They're like, we have this strange dish called, and it's something that we eat all the time here in LA.

Speaker 1 Well, listen, couscous, you'd eat it on Friday, then you'd have these different types of tagines. But I know you're originally from Ireland.

Speaker 1 I have a very close Irish friend who thinks that couscous is crushed cardboard, like tastes like crushed cardboard.

Speaker 1 But I'm not going to be taking lessons from a guy whose ancestors fled because there was no more potatoes.

Speaker 1 Okay. Snap! Shots fired.
Okay, yes, I mean that first of all,

Speaker 1 potato fam was quite a serious matter.

Speaker 1 There was literally no food to eat, and that's why some of my people left.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 no, I think. You thought they left Ireland just because they didn't like the taste of potatoes.

Speaker 1 But no, I think, first of all, it was wrong for your Irish friend. Well, first of all, I'm going to start at the beginning.
There's a couple of things you said the other day, incorrect.

Speaker 1 I am not from Ireland. I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.
And

Speaker 1 originally, my people are from Ireland. But

Speaker 1 that's the first thing. Second of all, I don't think anyone from Ireland should be dissing couscous and saying it tastes like cardboard because,

Speaker 1 you know, it's just not, it's not right. And also, there are plenty of dishes in Ireland that taste like cardboard and are cardboard

Speaker 1 and quite good, actually. Are they? Very good cardboard.
I think what she's saying is, you can't trust an Irishman's palate. I don't think she said that.
Well, that's what I got. And I agree with

Speaker 1 someone's rights. That's what I know.
Give me five. Best stew I've ever had was in Ireland.
I'll say it right now. They made it with Guinness.
It was delicious.

Speaker 1 No cabbage.

Speaker 1 Cardboard. There was no cabbage in there.

Speaker 1 No, but I would make you eat tagines. Okay, I'll be serious.
Various tagines, various tagines, an assortment of tagines.

Speaker 1 Yes, you would have to be very good with

Speaker 1 your

Speaker 1 fingers because you have to pick up like,

Speaker 1 have a piece of bread and sort of eat it with your finger. Yeah, I like it.
I like it. It's very tactile.
It's very...

Speaker 1 Are you getting creeped out? The way you said it.

Speaker 1 I'm going to be honest. I think it's very erotic to eat foods with your hands and your fingers and be

Speaker 1 sucking on your fingers to get the the sauces off

Speaker 1 i'll get you

Speaker 1 it's very no no

Speaker 1 i'll get you a fork or a spoon i like you yasmina i like you um

Speaker 1 and uh

Speaker 1 tell me family do you have family in marrakech

Speaker 1 yeah okay um

Speaker 1 i have my parents uh and who live in marrakech and my older brother uh lives in marrakech Oh, cool. Well, went back to Marrakesh.
He used to live.

Speaker 1 So you have parents and an older brother in Marrakesh. Yes, and a younger brother in Canada.
In Canada.

Speaker 1 That's so this is fascinating to me because if I did come and visit, I could meet your parents. I think it's important that I meet your parents.

Speaker 1 Yes. If we're going to eat finger food together,

Speaker 1 I should meet your parents first

Speaker 1 and your brother. You have to ask permission.
I have to ask permission

Speaker 1 to eat finger food.

Speaker 1 What are your intentions? What are your intentions? I'm going to eat

Speaker 1 some couscous with my fingers. Oh, not with those spiders here.

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Speaker 1 And I'd get along with your parents, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you'd get along with my parents.

Speaker 1 My mom would probably not understand you very well. She understands a bit of English, but not well.
My dad, I think you could get along with him. Well, I use my body a lot and my face together.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm very,

Speaker 1 I do. I use, I'm very expressive and I do well.
I don't need English to communicate with people. I kill with two-year-old kids.
That's so good. I do great.

Speaker 1 And so with your parents, I think I would be able to, first of all, I would have their attention because I'm the biggest thing they've ever seen.

Speaker 1 And then I would use my body a lot and I would tell great tales using my flailing limbs. Exactly.

Speaker 1 You'd probably break the house because it's so tiny. It's a small house.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'd have to pick it up and put it over my head and look around.

Speaker 1 But yeah, you'd get along even with my mother.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why do you keep saying even with your mother? Is your mother tough?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 I mean, you could,

Speaker 1 she wouldn't understand everything you said, but I think you could get along,

Speaker 1 you know, just with sign language. I don't know.
Yeah. Whatever your talents are.

Speaker 1 Whatever my talents are. No, I mean, like,

Speaker 1 if you can speak with your hands.

Speaker 1 You're talking to Conan O'Brien here, and you're saying, whatever your talents are,

Speaker 1 what is that?

Speaker 1 What is that?

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, this is, I mean, this is exciting.
I think Morocco is a place I've never been, and I could see myself,

Speaker 1 you know, oh, would I ride a camel in Morocco?

Speaker 1 Well, they have these tourist spots where they have like three, four camels where you can, I mean, you can bond with them because they might think you're also a camel because they're also

Speaker 1 big

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 they have they have long legs short torso ginger i mean so you think i'm a camel

Speaker 1 no i mean they might

Speaker 1 you just

Speaker 1 camels might think you're camels with you camels might bond with them right

Speaker 1 You think a camel might try to mate with me because it thinks I'm another camel. No, no.
If I'm wearing a mini skirt

Speaker 1 and you're doing your erotic finger frame,

Speaker 1 If I'm wearing a mini skirt and I'm doing my erotic couscous

Speaker 1 eating with my fingers, I could see a camel siling up to me and going,

Speaker 1 yeah. There you are.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 1 You can bond with the camels. You could talk about world affairs, world poll.
I don't know. I don't know what camels talk about.

Speaker 1 Well, I do. It's time you listen.

Speaker 1 I like that this plan is all fine. He said,

Speaker 1 what you you talk about is up to you because that part I don't

Speaker 1 talk to the camels about is your business. I don't know what camels talk about.
Hey,

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 1 I have to say, the idea of me going to, say, a market

Speaker 1 in Morocco feels a little intimidating because I think they're used to it. It's the haggling culture, right? It's the you have to try and get a bargain.
I would be very intimidated.

Speaker 1 And I also, they might spot me as someone who they can take advantage of because I look stupid.

Speaker 1 No, you just, you don't look stupid.

Speaker 1 Come on. But you look, you look different.
So they'd be like, hmm.

Speaker 1 How did this camel get yourself? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I can sell this camel anything. This camel doesn't know.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 could you help me if I was in a market? Let's say I was in a market in Morocco, in Marrakesh, and it's a busy,

Speaker 1 you know, and people are trying to take advantage of me because they think I'm a camel that wandered in.

Speaker 1 would you be able to help me in those situations

Speaker 1 I would definitely be able to help you because

Speaker 1 basically what tourists do in general is they would for instance I want to sell I want to sell this pen to you

Speaker 1 and you'd say how much is this pen and I'd say well it's a thousand dollars and you'd go that's a bit much can you make it like 900

Speaker 1 wrong that's not what you're supposed to say if they say this is a thousand you have to go, well, I'll give you zero, nothing.

Speaker 1 I want it for free.

Speaker 1 And then they would go, oh, well, that's a little exaggerated. Maybe I'll sell it for like 500.

Speaker 1 Tourists go, if it's a thousand, they go, ah, 900. And then the other guy would go, 950, 950.
You really have to go really low. You really go to zero? I'm going to go to zero.

Speaker 1 Okay, you can say like one or something, but

Speaker 1 you really have to make it the least possible, like almost insulting. Yes, what I'm going to do, I'm going to actually say things like, that's the worst

Speaker 1 lamp I've ever seen. I hate that lamp, and I would never want that lamp in my house.
I loathe that lamp. I despise it.
It makes me want to

Speaker 1 break it as well. I want to smash it to pieces.
And then I start with that. And then I say, but I might, might take it.

Speaker 1 And he goes, $1,000 and you go to it. I'll take it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, $1,200.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
How about $15?

Speaker 1 Okay. Not $12,000.
$17. $18.
Oh, my God. This camel's made of money over here.

Speaker 1 What do you think's in the hump?

Speaker 1 What you could do is tell me I want that and then I can just walk in, say it in Arabic, and he'll sell it for the proper reason. So I should just lay low.

Speaker 1 I should hide under some carpets or something. And you should go and and do all the haggling.
But how do you know Yasmina's not conning you or hustling you?

Speaker 1 She might be in with this guy.

Speaker 1 It's true. Yasmina, can we trust you?

Speaker 1 Wow. Yasmina, what do you do, by the way? I don't know what you do.
I'm a doctor. You're a doctor.
That's very impressive. It's all right.
Yeah. Well, what kind of doctor are you?

Speaker 1 I'm a radiologist. So like a fake doctor.

Speaker 1 Why is radiologist a fake? That sounds very good. Because

Speaker 1 we don't know medicine. We don't know how to treat.
We just go, oh, that's not good.

Speaker 1 That's all you do. Even when it is good, you go, that's not good.

Speaker 1 Or, like, if we see a foot, we just say foot.

Speaker 1 But no, no, no.

Speaker 1 Who's going to

Speaker 1 a doctor to find out, is this indeed my foot? Yes, it's your foot. No, it's not.
It's got to be 1,000. It's going to broken.

Speaker 1 We go, it's broken. How do I fix it? I don't know.
Okay, so yeah. But you look at bones all the time, right? No, it's so I'm a radiologist and I work mainly in abdominal radiology

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 what do you call it in English?

Speaker 1 Breast imaging. Oh, okay.
Well, that's very important. It's crucial.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Are you worried at all about being replaced by AI? Do they say that's going to happen in radiology?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 I'm worried.

Speaker 1 Well, not for me because

Speaker 1 it's not a thing that's happening right this second in my hospital.

Speaker 1 But it might be an issue in the coming years.

Speaker 1 But I don't care because I'll be retired by then. Okay.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 You're retiring in six months? That's pretty young. That's incredible.
I know.

Speaker 1 I've been replaced by AI. This is an AI Conan you're talking to right now.

Speaker 1 Yes. This is an AI Yasmina you're talking to.
Very nice. I knew there's something I liked about you.

Speaker 1 We share a synthetic quality.

Speaker 1 I like you, Yasmina, and you're very funny. And I think you're a fine representative of Marrakech, Morocco.
And I do hope one day I get to meet your parents, eat finger foods in front of them.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then go out and find a camel to mess around with.

Speaker 1 This has been lovely talking to you. And

Speaker 1 thank you for reaching out to us. That's really nice.
I love it when people from other countries, places I've never been,

Speaker 1 reach out to us. It's really fun.

Speaker 1 Thanks. Also, you don't look like a Belgian woman.
You keep saying you look like a beautiful Belgian woman from behind. I heard you say that, but you don't.
No.

Speaker 1 Oh, thank you very much. Saying I don't look like a woman is the nicest nicest thing anyone's ever said to me.
Looks like a Belgian Campbell. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, thank you very much for that. And I hope our paths cross sometime in the future.
I hope so, too. Okay.

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Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
He's a big fan of yours. All right.
All right. Take care.
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