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Summer Spouses

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Brief overview

Conan retires Summer S'mores for Summer Spouses, bringing Amanda, Tack and Liza onto the podcast.

  1. Summer S'mores is retired for Summer SpousesThe drinking segment is replaced by a five-episode run in which each spouse comes in, ending with Tack, Amanda and Liza alone.
  2. The hosts fear their spouses will outshine themConan calls it a real danger of losing the podcast and wishes they had married dunderheads and idiots.
  3. Ground rules that only made things worseSona asks Conan not to mention Chernobyl or the word chop about Tack's karate, which guarantees he does both.
Executive Summary AI
  • Conan explains that the summer tradition of Summer S'mores grew out of his bitter complaint that s'mores are a failure as a dessert, and over the years turned mostly into drinking Matt's cocktails on air.0:30
  • For summer 2026 he announces a replacement series, Summer Spouses, a title the three of them immediately argue over because s'mores is really S-apostrophe-mores.1:48
  • The format is two episodes with just the hosts, then one episode each for Matt's wife Amanda, Sona's husband Tack and Conan's wife Liza, then a fifth with the three spouses alone in a room, and this time there is no drinking, only Camino gummies.3:45
  • Conan decides the spouses are smart and funny enough to replace them, calls the whole idea a mistake, and says that under pure capitalism if they cannot hang on to the podcast they deserve to lose it.8:51
  • After sorting out childcare — Adam's eleven-year-old Golda minding Conan's daughter Glenn, Sona's two sets of grandparents on Mikey and Charlie — they sign off with Matt's wife Amanda Lund as next week's guest.19:19
Key Quote
“I don't think it's a failure.”
— Sona0:47
Key Quote
“I am dissolving this parliament.”
— Conan O'Brien2:52
Key Quote
“That's going to be a long episode, but you're really going to get you're going to see all of our assets, which is pretty cool.”
— Conan O'Brien4:12