Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - Conapotamia

Episode Date: February 16, 2023

Conan chats with Moataz in Alexandria, Egypt about meeting his wife playing a video game and their subsequent virtual wedding ceremony. 

Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Want to talk to Conan? Visit teamcoco.com slash call Conan. Okay. Let's get started. Hi, Moitas. Welcome to Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Hi. My God, I'm super excited to be here. Hello, Moitas. How are you? I'm doing great.

I understand that you are talking to us from... Where are you? You're in Egypt? Yes, Alexandria, Egypt. You're in Alexandria, Egypt. I've never been to Egypt. Yes. That's fantastic. Tell me a little bit about yourself. I'm 22 years old. I am an MIS student, like a data analysis student.

Oh, data analysis. Okay. And that's it. I'm married, a bit young, but I am married already. Oh, you're married. Tell us a little bit about who you married. I met my wife playing among us, only enough. Wait, that's a video game among us, right? Yes, the video game among us. I've played that game.

Yes. I've played that game with my kids, where you need to... Someone is the trader. Is that right? Someone is the bad guy and you don't reveal who you are. And so, that's how you met your wife? That's how I got married. This is 2022, how you meet your wife in 2022. And, okay, this is a COVID marriage.

So, you were playing online? Yes, we played online. We had this one round where it was only me, her, and one more person left. And I was an imposter. I was killing everyone. And this person caught me as I killed someone. And he thought it was her. And she was so adorable and desperate to defend herself.

But I was like, okay, I'm the imposter. I can't anymore. And from that point on... Oh, my God, wait a minute. So, you gave up your chance to win the game because you were in love with this virtual person? Yes, I had a bigger plan in mind. From this point on, I was like... Wow.

I'm getting there. That is a brilliant slingshot. That's a very inspiring story. I mean, how did... Try that in real life, where you go and kill people and then you suddenly are like, I'm not going to do it. Let's get married. Well, first of all, true story.

My wife walked in on me as I was finished murdering three people. And she... And then I turned to her and then I realized I loved her and dropped the knife and we went off and got married. Changed your ways. Changed my... Well, no, I continued to murder long after that.

I apologize. It's very profitable. I wanted to make sure I see your name Mootaz, right? Mootaz, yes. Close? Or is that how I say it? Mootaz? Mootaz, there's a lot of accent. Mootaz. Yeah.

I want to get it just right. Listen, I am a... Say it again and make me say it correctly. It's your job. You have to make me say it. It's Mootaz. Mootaz. Yes, the exact... Mootaz.

The man got it the closest. Mootaz. Hey, nice job. Mootaz. Mootaz, okay. I am Konan. Konan. No, you can't.

Okay, I tried to... Exotic. I tried to make my name like I should say and exotic and I failed. I apologize. So, this is fascinating. You met your wife online playing the video game Among Us. Yes. So, does she live in Alexandria as well?

No, she is German. She is in Germany. So, it's a bit... Has she met her in flesh? Yeah, we're married. Of course, we didn't. Yeah, what is that? What are we...

I'm sorry, I'm thinking the same thing. I thought maybe you met her online and just both decided to be married and never met her. You've actually met her. I have her ring right there. Oh, anyone can buy a ring, dude. Yeah, I bought...

I've had plenty of these. This is a proof of thing. I wore these when I was single because that lady doesn't like it. Have you met my wife? Neither have I. So, what does... So, you meet her online.

She's from Germany. Did you then fly to Germany to go see her? She came over. I was still studying. So, she had to come over. She's working. She came over in early 2021 where we spent like a week or so together and then she flew back.

I finished my semester and then she came back again for two weeks or so. We got married. She met my family. Oh, my God. This is a great story. So, this is a real love that formed online playing this game. Then she comes over to Alexandria

and that's a lot of pressure because you must be thinking, I liked her online when we were playing among us, but what if I don't like her when she's hanging out in Alexandria for a week but you hit it off right away? Yes, the first week. As soon as I knew her, I was like,

yes, this is the woman I'm married for sure. Oh, that makes me so happy. That makes me so happy. Does she live with you now in Alexandria? No, no. As soon as I finished my studying, I'm traveling to Germany. As soon as I'm done with my studies. Okay, so she's in Germany and you're here.

When are you going to be done with your studies? About mid-20s, 20s, 30s, I think? Like, late 20s? Okay, good, good. I don't want to delay this, you know. It's important. It's important to be together. Yes. It's very important.

I didn't mean to do that. Are you threatening me? What did you do? It's important to be together. Yes, I was... I took it as like a sexual thing. What I meant was it's important. That was a sexual thing.

I meant to be more like it's important to really make sure... Is that how you think it works? Well, I don't have a lot of experience. How do you think it works? I'm not sure. These kids just arrived. Hey, so here's my question. What was your wedding like?

I'm curious about your wedding. You meet playing this video game. I'm guessing she loves video games as much as you do. Yes, yes. Did your wedding have a video game theme to it? We had a very small wedding just because it was still a bit COVID. Like there was a bit of COVID restrictions. So we had a small wedding just my family.

We had this very, very small wedding. Normally in Egypt, weddings are super big. Like imagine five, six hundred people in one hole. Wow. Indoor fireworks. Fire like a circus. Wait a minute. Yes, indoor fireworks.

Indoor fireworks with six hundred people? Yes, with six hundred people. Shooting. What are you talking about? And shootings, actually. We sometimes walk. Sometimes whatever you have to do to get a party going. So are you ever going to have a wedding like that?

Or were you just, you were fine with the small ones? I would never have a five, I don't know five hundred people. I know five people. Well, guess what? What does I know five hundred people? I could get you a giant wedding. You know, I know that you appreciated having a small COVID wedding. But what if I could give you a real wedding?

Like a massive wedding, a real Egyptian wedding the way only I know about it. Yes, yes, I would love to see a version of Egyptian weddings. This is one area I know you wouldn't expect it, but nobody throws an Egyptian wedding like Conan O'Brien. Nobody. I'm sure that's true. Yeah.

Yeah, you look like you're crying now. So, so Moitaz, tell me a little bit about your wedding. So we had a small wedding, first of all, in a game called Terraria, which she dressed up like. Wait a minute, back up. Your wedding was in a game? Yes, in Terraria. It's like eight bits farming.

It's like Minecraft, but just two dimensional. Wait a minute, Moitaz, you're saying that you met your wife playing a video game online and then you got married to her online. Yes, it's fine. Sure, she exists. Are you sure she's real? I went from a 3D game to a 2D game to get married. Yes.

Well, and this is called? Have a child that'll be through tic-tac-toe. Sorry, I'm an idiot. So wait a minute, so you first got married, but then you did get together and have a real wedding. Yes, yes. Call me old fashioned, but I think getting married in a video game doesn't count.

No, I think you can have that annulled. Just keep that in your back pocket. Yeah, you just press X escaped. Control Alt 7, and the wedding is completely annulled. And then you had a nice small wedding. Yes, we had a small wedding. A small wedding here in Alexandria, with my family and some friends, the five friends I have.

Have your families met each other? No, not yet. She met my family. They play different video games. Yes, they speak a different language. That's a bigger barrier. But yes, they play different video games. So yeah, they're in a different area here.

Because they're German and they exclusively play Donkey Kong. Yes. Yes, we're the Mungus family. We don't mix as long as that. Got it, got it. There's no, yeah, we have to keep these things. So wow, I've never been to Egypt. Never been to Egypt in my life.

And I'm curious, if I came to Alexandria, what kind of things would we do together? Alexandria is more of a beach kind of city. Like it's filled with very, very pretty city. It has a lot of beaches you would love to be to. There's a lot of sunblock. I'm going to take to break it to you, Moitaz. But look at me.

Do I look like a beach guy to you? You would need a few layers of sunblock, but I can make it work. I would need several layers of sunblock and several tents erected around me. Yes, a big tent over you. You'd have to help me with that. That sounds, so you're not, would you

like the idea of a big wedding? Would you like it if you had a giant wedding with hundreds and hundreds of people and indoor fireworks? The whole thing, would you like that? It would be very sad because it would be empty. Just my family and five friends. No, it wouldn't. Trust me.

I could figure this out. Why don't you trust me? If you would come over, I would love to. Yeah, if I came over, I could make this work. I could make it happen. I could make this a big wedding. For sure. If you would come over, I would love to have

the biggest wedding ever. And you would be the main event, even, not the wedding anymore. Well, I'm not sure that people in Alexandria are going to be that excited to see me. I don't know if I have a big fan base there, but we'll work on that. You could officiate it. Yes, please.

Could I officiate it? Oh, didn't you officiate someone's wedding? I did. No. Yeah, oh, that's right. I didn't. I officiated my best friend's wedding. Yeah, I officiated your best friend's wedding,

and I was present and in the vital part of the christening of your two boys. He's my boy's godfather. I introduced them to their god. Oh, no, don't put it that way. Yeah, that's what happened. I'm a super big fan of you, by the way. I'm watching you since, like, 2015.

I watched almost every interview you had with the Oxford meets, the Cambridge. Oh, my god. Harvard. I watched the Oxford. You had an Oxford speech. Those events that you go to where he talks to the students, you went deep.

You went deep. Yeah, no one watches that stuff. Yeah, you should watch the comedy sometime. I really love it when you visit universities and get serious talks. Who do you think this guy is? He thinks I'm economist John Maynard Keynes. This is really cool.

You seem like a very nice person, and I'm very happy for you that you and your wife have this new life together. You're going to live. Where in Germany are you going to live? In Rheinland, Germany. It's on the far west of Germany. I know Cairo is the capital of Egypt,

and Alexandria is how close to Cairo? Like 200 kilometers away, where Cairo is the capital for now. We're building a new capital, actually. It's creating a new capital? Yeah. I heard about this. Yes. We should just build a new capital.

You know what? That would solve so many problems here in the US. Everyone's so mad at Washington DC. Let's just say it's in Nebraska and start fresh. The Mall of America is the new White House. The Mall of America is the new White House. So where is it going to be, the new one? It's in the desert.

We're mainly building it because you had a problem with the Cairo infrastructure, like how the streets were designed. I studied. Yes, I know. No joke. In college, I took a course. Well, you are a deep fan. In college, I took a course on urban development and design.

And I studied Cairo. Really? And I don't know why I took this course. It was second semester senior year. And I just was, oh, I want to take this course that I know nothing about. And I learned a lot about the various issues that they have in Cairo with street flow and things like that. I remember.

But no, I have no problem with Cairo. Yes, we knew that you were displaced with the traffic and so on. So we're building a whole new. The entire country knew that Conan O'Brien had a problem with their infrastructure. What's this new capital going to be called? Yeah, what's it going to be called? It's very creatively named. It's called the new administrative capital.

We're very proud of it. Oh, boring. Hey, you know, I want to have my, I want to have my honeymoon at the new administrative capital. Boring. Yeah, they got to come up with a better name. I'll come up with a better name. Yes, we're waiting for you to officiate the opening of this.

Kona Patemia. Oh, God, what do you think? It sounds like a like a casserole or something. Kona Patemia. Yeah, now gluten free. I'm working on it. Muaythaz, this is this is great. I'm very happy to meet you.

I'm just going to guess that you're a tennis fan. Yes, I wonder why. Yeah, I don't do. Do you play tennis or did someone else hang that there? And you're OK? Yes, I do play tennis a lot. I'm a big, big tennis fan. And do you have roommates?

No, no, I live by myself. OK, that's good. You know, it's better to be alone, I think. You and the tennis racket. Yes, and a lot of this guy. What did I do? It's better to be alone. What do you mean it's better to be alone?

I'm just saying, I told you when my wife met me, I just just murdered a couple of people. No temptations that way. It's better to be alone. You have a family. Muaythaz, what is your wife's name again? Stephanie. Stephanie.

Muaythaz, do me a favor and please give Stephanie my very best. Oh, well, I approve of this marriage. Oh, she's great, greeting you two. And we will watch the Berlin episode you made. I've been binge watching your travel shows. I love these. These are my favorites. Yeah, and we will watch the Berlin one.

The Berlin one gets a little naughty in class. Yeah, I just saw this today. Gets a little racy in parts. I got some in-laws that are not too happy with me. But I had to let my freak flag fly. What are you going to do? Muaythaz, it was an honor talking to you. It really was.

It's well. Be well. And if I can swing it, I'm going to get you a real wedding. I really am. Please. We're going to knock this. We're going to raise the roof. Do you ever raise the roof in Alexandria?

The only person left in America is still doing this. Anybody? OK. All the roofs have been raised. This is not what you're doing. All right, talk to you later, Muaythaz. Thank you. Thank you.

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