Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Conan O'Brien needs a fan. Want to talk to Conan? Visit teamcoco.com slash call Conan. Okay, let's get started.
Hey, guys. Hi, Sid. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan.
Hello. Thank you so much. Hey, Sid. How are you? Hey, Matt. Hey, David.
Hi. Yes. You can leave. What the hell was that? You got Conan O'Brien in the room. You got the Queen of England in the room, and you're talking to the footman. What are you doing? Here's what it is.
Okay. This is the inaugural episode of Matt Gourley Needs a Fan.
Oh! Nice. Look at you. You've got a James Bond poster and a cat back there. You are.
You're goddamn right. Wow.
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Chapter 2: How does Sid feel about being a fan of Matt Gourley?
This is great. Listen, I am very secure in my fame, and I will allow Matt Gurley to have one fan, and that can be you, Sid, as long as you remain in Budapest. And never leave.
Wait, I can never meet him?
You can never meet him.
Oh, man.
That I will not allow. You meeting a fan, I won't have it. All right. No, well, I'll come to Pasadena and I'll find you. How about that? Oh, my God. Sounds like you already know where he lives. Sounds ominous. Well, tell us a little bit about yourself. We already know that you do you listen to this podcast at all or you only listen to Matt Gourley products?
Well, here's the thing. First of all, I listen to this podcast religiously. There you go.
I'm like Trump.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Sid share about the cheese industry?
I'm like Trump. You really need to blow a lot of hot air my way. And then I come around.
Yeah.
All right, okay.
You're like him in a lot of ways. I'm a lot like him. It's true. I bloviate. I have insane hair. I spent a lot of time in Florida. But anyway, so go ahead. Tell us the story. You listen to this. I like how this is starting. You listen to the Conan O'Brien podcast all the time. Go ahead.
Yeah, and I re-listen to episodes as well. I find certain ones that sort of comfort me a lot. I'm a big fan of the podcast, but I have to be honest, Conan, it was your podcast that made me a fan of you. You mean it was Matt's podcast?
It was... Oh, wait a minute. I'm sorry.
This is episode one. We'll see how it goes.
Yeah, yeah. But what I'm saying is it was you didn't know about me at all. And then you started listening to my podcast. Well, I knew your name. I knew your face. I saw your little walk on cameo in the office and stuff. You saw no reason to pursue. I heard your name and I saw your face and I was out. I love that he knows me from my cameo on The Office. That's fantastic.
Listen, here's my attitude about all of this. You want to know the fucked up thing about that? I thought you were Craig Kilborn. Yeah. Oh, wow.
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Chapter 4: How does the comedy scene in Budapest compare to other places?
There's a name I haven't heard in a while. I know, yeah. Listen, I said, this is good for me. You're like a loofah for my ego. You're scrubbing away at it, removing all the dead layers. So I welcome this. Yes. You know, I have too many people on the street saying, I want to do you, do me now. Oh, we walk around with you. Have you ever heard?
No, I've never heard that.
This is in my mind.
But I've heard you say that. I say it.
I say it to myself. No, but sit around with earbuds. Yeah. Yeah. It's just a recording of me on a loop. Sid, I am fine. I like that you here's my here's how I feel. I'm kind of like a drug dealer in that as long as I get you on heroin, I don't care how you came to like it. So if when people say to me, oh, I only knew you from your failed line of designer jeans in 1996.
I'm like, I don't care as long as I got you in the door.
But now I feel like I have to apologize because I'm responsible for getting you hooked on this heroin. You know what I mean?
Yeah. Because you were a Gourley fan. Right. You listen to Gourley's podcast.
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Chapter 5: What unique cheese flavors are being developed?
Which one?
Yeah. Okay. So, Matt, genuinely, I am a bit starstruck talking to you.
Oh, come on. No, I'm liking this.
This is good.
This makes me so uncomfortable. You're so sweet.
I understand that, but I do have to say it. But you and I had a brief interaction on Twitter, actually, back when it was Twitter. A few years ago where I where I said that you were more like instrumental in forming my comedic voice than anyone else. And that's through me listening to the James Bonding podcast.
Oh, my God.
From from day one over and over. Actually, I've relistened to the entire run, I think maybe six or seven times.
Wow.
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Chapter 6: How does humor play a role in the cheese business?
I'm going to put the knife away. Speaking of heroin, I'd like just a little taste right now. I want to disassociate from my emotions at the moment. No, but that's great. I'm glad, but let's... We'll go back to Gorley, but I want to find out a little bit about you, okay? Because part of the...
The whole reason for this podcast, where I talk to people around the world, is to find out what they're up to, and then we can return to the great Matt Gourley. Tell us about yourself. What do you do? Are you native to Budapest? Tell us about yourself. Matt, is it okay if I answer that question?
Yes. I will allow it, but you've got 20 seconds, then we get back to me.
Okay.
Well, okay, so I'm not native to Budapest. Good pronunciation, by the way, Conan.
Thank you. You know, I have such an ugly face, I have a lot of time to get pronunciations right because no one invites me out. Go ahead.
I don't want it to be on the record that I find you ugly because I don't. I find you to be a very attractive man, so let's just get that out there. Yes, I'm originally Indian. I left there when I was very young, when I was eight. And I was basically raised in Central Eastern Europe. I lived in Prague for a couple of years. And for the last 25 years, I've been here in Budapest.
So I'm essentially a local here, but I don't present as such, obviously. Do people in Budapest think that you are a tourist often? You know, when I was a teenager, they thought I was a member of the Roma population.
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Chapter 7: What challenges do comedians face in Hungary?
And so they would kind of get a little bit nervous that I was going to, you know, steal something from them or behave in an unsavory way or whatever. Did you live in the States?
Did you live in America because of your accent?
Are you asking because of the accent? Yeah. There's an American school here, and that's where I went to school. Oh, wow.
But I mean, the fact that you do that accent. So you've been in the United States. You spent a lot of time here?
No, you went to an American school. There's like an American international school here in Budapest. That's where I went to school.
Wow.
That's very impressive that you would, I mean, honestly, I feel like if I was just talking to you on the phone, I'd feel like you were from Rhine, New York. Yeah. You know, it's just, it's incredible that you, a school can provide that.
Yeah, did movies and James Bond movies have anything to do with that? I know they're English, but...
Well, it's weird. It was more cartoons, actually, because when I left India, it was a lot of cartoons, but you know, the Bugs Bunnies and the Cartoon Networks of the world. But obviously, when I speak to my family, I still speak with an Indian accent, so I code switch. But that happens.
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Chapter 8: What final thoughts does Conan share about the conversation?
So he's the CEO. It's like a family run company. So I'm their head of marketing. On the side, I also dabble in stand up. But yeah, but obviously that doesn't pay anything.
Well, I don't know. I mean, it might. Is there a thriving stand-up scene in Budapest?
You know, it's not bad. It's pretty good. But I guess the market for it is kind of limited because you have a couple of filters. You have, number one, people who are interested in comedy, which in a former Soviet country is also questionable. There's people interested in comedy, people who are interested in comedy who speak English.
people interested in comedy who speak English, who actually want to go to a basement bar on a weekday. So there's a few levels. But, you know, we draw a crowd. There's a few very talented people that I admire a lot. And yeah, it's pretty good. It's an up and coming scene. It's been active for, I guess, at most, maybe 15 years.
Why don't you do me a favor? It'd be a nice thing to give a shout out to some of your favorite comedians that you see in the Budapest scene.
And your favorite cheese.
We want a pairing of best comic with best cheese. But seriously, just quickly name a few people so that maybe some of our listeners, someone out there might hear about this and then we might discover somebody. Oh, trust me. I'm going to tell him about it.
All right. So shout out to your full name too. So people can come see you. Yeah. What's your full name? Hey, Sid Murthy. Thank you very much.
Okay.
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