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Hi,

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Veronica. Meet Conan in the

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chute. Hey. Hello?

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Hi, Sarah.

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Hi, Matt.

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Hi. How are you, Veronica?

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I'm so good. So nice to meet you

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all.

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It's very nice to meet you.

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I'm sensing that you are from a foreign

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land. You have a slight accent. Tell

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us where are you? Are you coming from someplace

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else in the world? Yes. I'm from Hungary.

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Are you in Hungary right now? Yeah.

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Oh,

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what part of what part of Hungary are you in?

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I'm in AGA. It's like tiny

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town.

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How tiny is tiny? How tiny

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is tiny.

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Fifty thousand people.

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Oh, wow. Okay. That

0:50

is a very small town. in

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so you're in you say it agar? Agar.

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Agar. Agar. Am I saying I wanna say it right.

0:58

Agar. Yeah. Agar. Yeah. You're

1:00

an egg at egg. And you saw us the closest.

1:02

Yeah. Oh, wow.

1:04

Or rescue is also not born in America.

1:06

So I

1:08

I

1:09

respect other culture. Sure. Okay. Now whenever

1:12

you can hear you ain't. Anyway,

1:15

I got hungry. Wow. That's that's in

1:17

credible. I don't I have never been to Hungary. Tell

1:20

me, what is it like in

1:22

in Egger and your in your town? What's

1:25

it like to be Hungarian? Tell us all about

1:27

it.

1:27

Well, well, we've just been declared another

1:29

democracy. Oh,

1:31

wait. I don't

1:32

know if you guys don't know. So we are

1:35

not a democracy anymore? Yes. And

1:37

We don't fit the criteria according

1:39

to Oh,

1:40

right. Yes. Right. Yes. This was

1:42

announced how recently?

1:44

I think last week or two weeks

1:46

ago.

1:47

Right. And and this is decided by

1:49

was this decided by the United

1:52

Nations?

1:53

The Union for European Union.

1:55

Oh, European Union said that you

1:57

don't qualify as a democracy. I

1:59

have news for you I don't think we

2:01

qualify as a democracy anymore. No. I

2:03

don't think I mean, I don't hear a team

2:05

COCO either. No. Well, not a team COCO, certainly.

2:08

this is what we call an autocracy. But

2:12

but no, the United States is having its own

2:14

real problems with democracy. And

2:16

we like to think that we helped not invent

2:19

it, but give it a real boost. And we were

2:21

supposed to be some peaking for

2:23

other democracies, and we're struggling

2:25

right now to figure this out. But,

2:28

well, yes, you're going through. Is

2:30

it turbulent where you are right now? Or how

2:32

are people accepting the news? Are people upset?

2:35

I don't really know

2:37

because it's like a it's

2:39

a weird time. Mhmm. We

2:41

just had an election, and then the

2:43

guy I don't

2:44

know if you guys know Ivan. He's

2:46

the prime minister. He's like

2:48

Trump. Everyone

2:50

seems to have their own Trump. I mean,

2:53

you know, it is it

2:55

is yes. It is just a hallmark

2:57

of humanity that each nation

3:00

increasingly seems to have their own. So

3:03

are you able to speak about this freely? Are you

3:05

comfortable talking about -- Yeah. -- okay. Yeah.

3:07

Yeah. Yeah. But I don't

3:09

wanna bring the conversation down, so we're

3:11

gonna Well, we'll

3:14

talk about other things. But, you

3:16

know, I'm I'm sorry that you're going through this turbulent

3:18

time. You know, we

3:20

you you know, it's it's but

3:22

it's nice to be able to speak with you.

3:24

You know, it's one of the things we like

3:26

that I like the most about this podcast.

3:29

We do two we do one where we

3:31

speak to celebrities, and then there's

3:33

this one where I get to talk

3:35

to people all around the world is I I like

3:37

I'm really fascinated by how people are living

3:39

and I like to to hear how they're doing

3:42

and how they're experiencing life. So

3:45

I'm glad that you mentioned that. But

3:47

it's

3:48

it's fine. We don't have,

3:50

like, revolutions or anything.

3:52

It's it's

3:53

It's just We urge

3:56

Yeah. It's weird right now. Yeah. Well, guess

3:58

what? Yeah. I have news for you. It's weird everywhere

4:00

right now. It's a very I think it's a weird

4:02

time for just across the world

4:05

humanity. So Yeah. But

4:07

this is also helpful too. Like, I

4:09

feel like I'm gonna leave this podcast and just

4:11

read up more on what's happening and hungry. Me

4:13

too. I think that's the It's not that

4:16

I didn't know what was happening.

4:18

Well, So that'd be You're right next

4:20

to Ukraine. Oh, yes. Yeah.

4:22

Yeah. You're gonna What are you gonna say? I'm

4:24

sorry. I was I was gonna say you don't seem to

4:26

know about a lot of things. Oh, yeah. I'm

4:28

sorry. You're not wrong. You're no you really know a

4:30

lot of them. You're gonna insult me. Oh, no. No.

4:32

No. No. You know a lot of them. Take that as

4:34

an insult. You're not

4:36

wrong. Veronica. Sonia knows

4:39

very much about different she

4:42

knows a lot about reality shows,

4:44

that involve people hook what we call hooking

4:47

up. Hanging up. And she's

4:49

watched every iteration of

4:51

human caterpillar. Yes. Oh. Sent a

4:53

human sent a human sent a Oh, no. I

4:55

watched human caterpillar. Oh, you know

4:57

you're doubling down on human caterpillar. And

4:59

you know what? It's not it's not weird at

5:01

all. I mean, it's not sexy at all and

5:04

weird as anything. That's just the the

5:06

movie where they graft feet to people's

5:08

cuts. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Multiple

5:10

feet. Yeah. I love human caterpillar.

5:13

And I'm waiting for human slug. Oh,

5:16

god. Okay. We

5:18

got off track here. to me.

5:20

Veronica, tell us -- Seriously. -- you

5:22

live in this small town and

5:24

tell us about your life. Just we're

5:26

gonna leave politics aside. Okay?

5:28

So what? You no longer a democracy.

5:30

Democracy ish democracy, I

5:32

say. It's all gonna

5:34

it's all gonna work out in in the

5:36

in the wash. Tell us what's

5:39

what's your life like right now on human scale?

5:41

It's fine. I If

5:43

someone is someone are you

5:45

being held at Gun Hill? Are you at gunpoint

5:47

right now, Veronica? Is someone is

5:49

someone holding you prisoner? Yeah.

5:51

I have to tell you something. So Hungarian

5:53

people I'm very sad

5:55

all of the

5:55

time. Do you know that was, like, chlorigo? But

5:58

Wait. Not funny. I don't know

5:59

why I'm laughing. Yeah. That's so funny. Nothing. That's

6:02

a real rib check or something. My

6:04

people are very sad all the time. Is

6:06

there smiling when you say it? My

6:08

people they're so sad. I mean, you seem

6:10

happy, but you're saying Are they sad

6:12

because when you say they're sad, people just

6:14

laugh at hungry. Is that why they're sad?

6:16

No. So we're

6:18

generally not very optimistic.

6:19

I guess Yeah. I see. Well,

6:22

that's how Yes. I am Irish.

6:24

I mean, my people are from Ireland, and we

6:26

are not optimistic. We're very gloomy

6:28

people, and we We drink a lot to make

6:30

up for it. I don't know what they do in it.

6:32

You guys you have you drink. You

6:34

have goulash as well. Don't you have goulash?

6:37

Yes. It's a beach food.

6:39

It's a what? Beach food. A beach

6:42

food. Yeah. Wait.

6:43

A beach. Like, you eat it at the

6:45

beach?

6:46

No. No. You don't. Goulash?

6:48

Goulash. No. Goulash is the opposite

6:50

of beet food. No

6:52

one I'm sorry. worry, Veronica, no

6:54

one goes to the beach and says,

6:57

let's Hey, I'm I worked up

6:59

I worked up a big sweat playing volleyball.

7:01

Now, let's break out the Dula. He

7:07

has a point. I'm sorry. This

7:09

is why you guys are so sad. Yeah.

7:11

I was just We found out why you're depressed.

7:14

Free some ice cream more like -- Yeah. -- free

7:16

sun. Yeah. We

7:19

have those as well. Right. Also,

7:21

we have we have a beach food

7:23

that's it's

7:25

a dough dough --

7:27

Mhmm. -- but it's salty. It's like the

7:29

size of a plate. A

7:31

salty dough the size of a

7:33

plate.

7:34

Yes. And then we put garlic on

7:36

it. Oh, wow. Yeah. And

7:38

then sour cream? Yeah. This sounds

7:40

like -- Just eat on the beach. -- surface.

7:42

This sounds like light beach food.

7:44

You know what I like to do? I like to

7:46

eat a giant salty garlic

7:49

frisbee and then

7:51

have some goulash and then what?

7:53

I jump in the water. and

7:56

I drowned. Yeah.

7:59

Make sure the make

8:02

sure you wait. fifteen hours

8:04

after eating goulash and

8:07

a Joe frisbee before going in the

8:09

water. Oh my god. Oh my god,

8:11

Veronica. This is incredible. What do

8:13

you eat for, like, cold winter months?

8:15

Just bricks. Yeah. Yeah.

8:19

wow. This is amazing. Now, you

8:21

know what? You're you know what I love,

8:23

Veronica, about the podcast about doing

8:25

the podcast is that you get

8:27

you listen to the podcast in

8:29

Hungary. Isn't that cool? I think I

8:31

just love that. Were you familiar with

8:33

my work prior to the podcast? Yeah.

8:36

So

8:38

no. It's okay. It's okay. You don't

8:40

have to be ashamed. It's we

8:42

we're probably never seen there

8:44

and You know, I was Oh, we we

8:46

didn't have, like, late night on

8:48

TV. Yeah. So the only thing the

8:51

all all the things

8:51

I know about you,

8:52

which from the podcast. Yes.

8:55

Okay. So you know that I'm a beeped up. You

8:57

know that I'm a megalomania? Yeah.

9:01

No. I am one of the

9:03

biggest stars in the world --

9:05

Wow. -- from television,

9:07

I had a show

9:10

Uh-huh. Yeah. Okay. I'm

9:12

gonna amend what I said. I'm gonna change what

9:14

I said. I had

9:16

a late night show. and

9:19

for a number of years. And

9:22

so that's how many people know

9:24

me, but it's interesting that you only know

9:26

me from this podcast. But

9:29

as long as you know me, my ego is

9:31

satisfied. That's

9:34

good. Yeah. So that's

9:36

that's a victory for me, I think.

9:39

Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations.

9:41

It

9:41

doesn't bother you at all that you had this

9:43

whole body of work for twenty eight

9:45

years and she doesn't know anything about

9:46

it. Well, maybe have you ever watched the

9:49

Simpsons? Nope. Oh

9:51

my god. Well, I think this conversation's

9:53

over. I can't

9:56

speak to you if you haven't watched the Simpsons. Have you ever

9:58

watched any of his online

9:59

clips from the show? Like, Sonya

10:02

promotes with Sonya and thing?

10:03

I watched

10:04

some interviews. Uh-huh. And

10:06

then when I found that, I'm going to be

10:08

talking to you. I googled you.

10:10

So what I'm -- Okay. -- is you like owning,

10:13

but only if sonar and I

10:15

are involved. That's not what I'm hearing at

10:17

all. That's not what I'm hearing. I

10:19

think you're missing you're missing the headline

10:21

here, Gory. Well, the headline here is

10:23

that she knew nothing. Then

10:25

found out that she was going to be interviewed

10:27

by me so she Googled

10:29

me. So

10:34

I guess you randomly applied to be, oh,

10:36

yeah. This would just You didn't even

10:38

care. You were you were like, I

10:40

don't you. I don't care. Yes.

10:42

It's a every episode. Okay. Well, that's nice. That's

10:44

nice. But it's nice that you fool me. I

10:46

wanna tell you a true story, which is

10:48

sometimes I

10:50

sit I'll be invited to a dinner

10:52

party, and I'll sit, be

10:54

seated with some people I don't know,

10:56

and then it becomes very clear to me

10:58

within minutes that they googled

11:00

me on the way to

11:03

No. No. It is. No. No. I mean, they

11:05

knew kind of who I was or whatever. but

11:07

they'll start saying things. It's just

11:09

so funny. They'll just start talking to me and

11:11

Wayne, it's clear that they were reading

11:13

this off of Google not five

11:15

minutes ago while they were waiting for the valet to

11:17

park the car. I remember when Adam asked me to

11:19

do work on this podcast, I had to Google.

11:21

Yeah. I did too. Before my first

11:23

my interview with you, I Googled you. Okay.

11:25

Well, you're all awful people. It doesn't

11:27

mean we don't No. I'm I'm not

11:29

here. No. I don't. Got it. Because

11:31

yeah.

11:31

Okay. Yeah. You hosted but all you

11:34

did a lot of other stuff too that I didn't know

11:35

about. You didn't know I was a body builder.

11:38

Okay. You didn't know that I was

11:40

also a successful eye surgeon.

11:46

Veronica. Anyway,

11:50

we're forgetting about our friend here,

11:52

Veronica. Veronica, welcome. I

11:54

it's okay that you googled me, and I'm glad that

11:56

you listened to the podcast, and I'm glad that

11:59

we're friends. And

12:01

tell us about your life, like day

12:03

to day. Well, I have a question

12:05

that I know from now it's Veronica. You're quite a

12:07

nitter. Is that right? Mhmm. And did

12:09

you make that sweater, that beautiful sweater?

12:11

Yeah. That's very nice. I wouldn't. It's it's it's

12:13

kroshade. It's a Oh, kroshade. Sorry.

12:15

Cardigan. It's got it's got

12:17

heart all over it. Does that mean you're

12:19

looking for love? Or are you already

12:21

in love? What's happening? Well, I am

12:23

in love, but I just made this because

12:25

it looked cool. It is cute. It

12:27

is really nice. Okay. So that's not a

12:29

signal, you know, I see.

12:31

Okay. Well, tell us, I'm just

12:33

curious. When I wear a

12:35

when I wear a lot of hearts, it means I'm

12:37

desperately looking for love. No. And then my

12:39

wife asks me to please take that off.

12:41

Yeah. You've been married for, like, twenty years.

12:43

Well, you can Google it. Yeah. Yeah.

12:46

You can research. So who's in

12:48

your life? Tell us about this this this

12:50

person in your life. So I'm just

12:52

cutting this to my fiance in

12:55

April. Oh, great.

12:56

Very nice. Congratulations. We went

12:58

to Portugal on a holiday,

13:00

and then keep her post there.

13:02

Oh, was it a surprise that he proposed to

13:04

you? Yes. He tried

13:07

many. What do you mean he tried many? Likeups.

13:09

I kept accidentally sabotaging

13:12

him. What do you mean? Like

13:14

describe? What were you doing? So he so

13:16

he started try and work his way into the

13:18

proposal, and then you would say,

13:20

let's

13:20

go get some good vibes. Or I

13:22

have a date tonight. Yeah. Or

13:25

I never loved

13:26

you.

13:29

I

13:29

haven't

13:32

deeped in that.

13:32

What's what's his what's

13:34

his so his name is Marty.

13:37

Marty. And you kept interrupting

13:39

him? Yeah.

13:40

So he had a plan to go see

13:42

a sunset

13:42

from, like, a nice

13:46

park in Portugal,

13:47

and it was

13:49

supposed to

13:50

be on the first day when we got

13:52

there. him and they they wanted to do it.

13:54

So, you know, we

13:55

tied him away. And

13:58

and and then I told him, you

13:59

know, I'm not leaving the hotel because

14:02

and too

14:02

tired. So that was the first

14:04

day. Okay. And

14:07

then the

14:07

next day was the same plan.

14:10

and then we went to the park and we

14:12

wanted to see the sunset, and we

14:14

got there around seven. And then I

14:16

checked my phone and it said that

14:18

the sunset sunset is at,

14:20

like,

14:20

nine thirty.

14:22

So after an hour, I told him

14:24

that it's just I'm getting too

14:26

cold, so I'm just going back

14:28

down. my

14:30

god. You sound like well,

14:32

anyway, you sound like a lot of fun.

14:35

Veronica is

14:37

really fun day. So did

14:39

you ever have you ever seen a sunset

14:41

in your life? No.

14:44

You know, like, you

14:46

don't even know what one is. It

14:48

goes down below the horizon. In

14:52

the west, really, I didn't know

14:54

that. So did he

14:56

eventually maybe he needs to give up on

14:58

the sunset thing and just pop the

15:00

question? Yeah. He didn't give up.

15:01

So he just ask

15:03

me. No. It's so too walking

15:05

away. Well,

15:08

you know what? I think I think you guys

15:10

are gonna be very happy. because let

15:12

me tell you something Veronica. Marriage is all

15:14

about giving up. He

15:18

just gave up. So

15:20

literally, you're walking back

15:22

to the bus stop. And he was like, oh, anyway,

15:24

maybe we will get married. And he went, sure. Let's get

15:26

out of here. We do see a ring in a box to

15:28

get thrown past you left. There

15:30

hasn't you want it? At the back

15:32

of her head. Yeah. Well,

15:34

he sounds like a very patient man.

15:36

He is very patient. Yeah. Yeah.

15:39

He's a mathematician. Oh, I don't

15:41

know. Really? Yeah. Do you have a

15:43

question for Conan at all? Yes.

15:45

So about the wedding. Yeah. Who

15:47

are you? Who

15:50

the fuck are you? I don't want that in the

15:52

bigger sister. Sorry.

15:59

Go ahead. So I

15:59

was thinking I found out that I I'm

16:02

going to have to make

16:03

a speech. Mhmm.

16:04

And my question

16:07

was, how do you write a

16:09

wedding speech because it just

16:10

seems like such a

16:13

big

16:13

moment and I've never had to write

16:16

a speech ever for

16:18

anything. Mhmm. And I I

16:20

wanted to be special. I wanted to

16:22

be honest -- Mhmm. -- also

16:24

met nursing?

16:25

Well, I think first

16:27

of all, I wouldn't eat any of the food

16:29

you described before the

16:32

speech. Okay? So no

16:34

goulash and no giant fifteen

16:36

pound manhole

16:38

cover of yeast. And certainly do not give the

16:40

speech at sunset because you'll never make it.

16:42

Yeah. Yeah. But

16:45

my sincere when you know what

16:47

I I really do believe is

16:50

sometimes people think Speeches

16:52

need to be long and they don't. I think

16:54

the magic of a speech

16:56

is that it can be quite

16:58

short. And and you just

17:00

be honest, You know, you you love this

17:02

guy and if you speak.

17:04

And also, I'll tell you this, you have a very good

17:06

sense of humor. You'd seem like a really

17:09

delightfully funny and fun

17:11

person despite you're

17:13

just a terrible person to propose

17:16

to. But I

17:18

I think sun I think it's low blood sugar

17:20

around sunset is your

17:22

problem. But but if I were you,

17:24

I would just I bet if you

17:26

sat down and you thought about what

17:28

he means to you, what Marty

17:30

means to you, and what he

17:32

means, and and the life that you want

17:34

together, and you're honest and

17:36

you wrote it down, I

17:38

think in ten minutes, you'd have something

17:40

really lovely. And that's all it has to

17:42

be. I think you don't put too much pressure on it.

17:44

And I think in and I I think that's gonna be

17:46

a lovely speech. And can you

17:49

make funny, is that weird? I

17:51

can't. I'm not good at that. And

17:54

also, I'm in a union. I gotta get paid. It's the writers

17:56

Guild America. But,

17:59

yes, of course, you can make it funny. And

18:01

I think Myself, I mean, we've already

18:03

ruined it. But I think if you just

18:05

told the story of how many

18:07

times Marty tried to propose to you,

18:09

that would be really funny and people

18:11

would laugh. if you said, I

18:13

mean, first of all, you can be

18:15

you can start out and and you

18:17

can talk about how much it means

18:19

you that everyone's come to your wedding, assuming that everyone in

18:21

town shows up, was that

18:23

fifty thousand people? No.

18:27

But if you tell that story, that's

18:29

a really sweet story. It really it's

18:32

funny, and then you

18:34

can on a sweet note, just talk about what he means to you and

18:36

you have a really good speech right there.

18:38

That's what I would do. Sounds good.

18:40

Yeah. That sound good. Okay.

18:43

Well, send it to me and I'll I'll I'll punch it out with

18:45

a dumbbell shell. You should write it for her.

18:47

No. No. Send it for her and

18:48

then film it and then she could just

18:50

play that at the

18:51

wedding. Yeah. And no one in the at no one

18:53

in the town will know who this man is.

18:55

Fifty thousand phones start Googling.

18:58

Yeah. such as Google

19:00

will Google will crash. Your

19:02

wedding will crash. Google.

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Suddenly we're getting all these hits

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for who is Conan

19:09

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Veronica, please have

19:16

wonderful wedding and you're gonna you're gonna

19:18

do very well with your speech you really are and

19:20

we're very happy for you. And it's nice to have you as

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a friend. It really is.

19:23

Thank you so much. It

19:24

was so nice to meet you guys. Nice to meet you

19:26

too. I'm I'm I'm sorry I said

19:28

if I send me things, I No. No. No. No.

19:30

No. It's funny. It's really funny.

19:33

It's funny. And you know why it's funny because

19:36

it's true. Yeah. So and

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and and so that was terrific. That was

19:40

good. So don't you worry about that.

19:42

Thank you, Veronica. Thank you, Veronica. Bye

19:44

bye. Thank you. Thank you.

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