Conan talks to Conan O’Brien Must Go writer Mike Sweeney about following Javier Bardem around Madrid and writing exit strategies for the fans. Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/conan.
Chapter 1: What is the premise of the Conan O'Brien Must Go series?
Hey, Conan O'Brien here, and we are doing something a little different today. My Max Travel series is back, and the first episode, this is the second season, first episode drops, that's what the kids say, on May 8th. We're taping this in 1978, and I haven't even started high school yet. Sitting in with us is a special guest. He's been with me many, many years.
And he has been with me on every single travel show. And his name is Mike Sweeney. Hi, Conan.
Chapter 2: Who is Mike Sweeney and what is his role in the show?
Good to see you. Hi, Sona.
Hi, Matt. Hi, Mike. And I will point out, you are a fan fave. They do like it when Mike Sweeney graces our presence. It's the first time hearing that.
You're a room fave. Room fave. I like being a room fave.
13.
13 countries. And then we started doing these for Macs and they were called and are called Conan O'Brien Must Go, and we did four last year, and we have the second season dropping. It starts today.
Yes.
And let's just talk about Spain, because Spain is the first show. Correct. This is not a police interview. You shouldn't do this. Continue. Continue. You're being recorded.
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Chapter 3: How was Javier Bardem involved in the Spain episode?
I don't recall.
I don't recall. You still don't want your attorney with you. Okay, go ahead. Spain. Spain. We went to Spain. We went to Madrid. And that episode drops today. We have a special guest star on that episode. And I'm just going to say it. It's Javier Bardem. Oh, man. You thought it was me. Yeah.
It was Javier Bardem. No, I'm disappointed it's Javier Bardem.
Now, there are two other writer-producers who were unable to join us for this session. When I say unable, I didn't invite them.
Right. Probably because of the 10 minutes notice before recording.
Exactly.
What's up?
Jose Arroyo and Jesse Gaskell, who are brilliant writers and funny and helped put this whole thing together. Invaluable. They're not with us today, but I think you can fill the bill.
They were extra invaluable in Spain because, well, Jose grew up in Spain and Jesse grew up all over the world and is very fluent in Spanish as well. Yeah, very helpful. And of course, I too. And you have a knack for Spanish.
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Chapter 4: What makes Madrid a special setting for this episode?
I know we'll talk about it eventually. Okay. Well, we're going to get into it right now. Jesus, what a- What?
I'm a fan fave. I can do whatever I want.
You are a DW dickus.
You should not have told me I was a fan fave. That was a big mistake.
I made it up to try and grease the skids. All right, I'll go back to my regulars. Go ahead.
uh spain yes madrid we i i thought this was a wonderful trip i had never been to madrid before and uh we went of course the premise of the show is uh people call in from around the world they zoom in i chat with them you can hear those uh during the week those drop on the conor o'brien needs a fan episodes right but uh we had We noticed that we had a couple of fans in Madrid. Yes.
And we decided to go and visit them and get involved in their lives.
We have three fans in this episode. Three fans. Which is one more than usual because they were all great.
I'm going to say four because I think Javier is a big fan. Can I tell you something about Javier? Or Javier. Is that he... We were so worried. He's a huge star. Yes. And he's always been lovely when he's come on the show, when he's come on the podcast. I adore this guy, and he's universally beloved for his talent and his incredible looks and his magnetism and his machismo. But...
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Chapter 5: How is the content for Conan's travel show planned and created?
There's more to do!
And he had this, like, he had this Zorba-like energy to keep doing more, and man, did he dive in. He's the star of the show.
He's great. Unbelievable. The whole week, we'd check back in with him and be like, because he's... TV, TV's great. What a medium. But he's a movie star.
Yes.
He was like, it was like handling plutonium.
We're like, oh my God. And so when we're, when we're with a TV star, we will, we will waste their goddamn time. Like you wouldn't believe. I don't care. I don't care what tier you're on in television. It doesn't matter. I will cover you in caramel. I'll, uh, I'll waste weeks of your time. But if you've made it in the movie biz, in film, no, I respect that.
Cinema. And bilingual. He's the master of the Spanish cinema as well as now the English language. So we'd be like, are you sure? Because... Also, it was physically demanding, the things, and we were going to shoot with Javier Bardem.
Oh, yeah.
I can't wait to see this. He finally just was like, listen, I am yours for the day. Yeah. I will go start. And we started at 7 a.m. Yeah, 7 a.m. We met him at the Prado. The Prado Museum. Prado Museum. They would only let us in before they opened their doors. And right through till the evening. He's my hero.
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