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I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

I Weigh - Unfiltered: AMA with Liza Powel O'Brien

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jameela is joined by playwright and podcaster Liza Powel-O'Brien for a fascinating look into some famous historical figures and their partners featured in Liza’s podcast 'Significant Others.' Liza (famously Conan O’Brien’s significant other) also helps Jameela with some of your questions around commitment, raising children and juggling domesticity. Find 'Significant Others' on your podcast players or here: https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/significant-others

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to a special Ask Me Anything episode of Iway with Jamila Jamil. I love these episodes. This is where you ask your questions and I bring on someone very clever to help me answer them. And we try to work out solutions together that might make your life or the world a happier place. And this week was very focused on marriage because my guest is part of my favorite marriage.

0:24.7

I think I've seen ever. She's been married to someone who I know well. His name's Conan O'Brien.

0:31.1

He's a hilarious comedian, a total legend. He's been on this podcast before and was fantastic.

0:35.8

They've been married and in love for well

0:38.3

over two decades and are still together, still in love, still speak so highly of one another.

0:45.1

And when they're together, there's just this ease that you're like, how are you achieving

0:49.1

this after all this time and having children and one of you having this very public career

0:53.9

in the limelight how the

0:54.9

fuck you balancing all of this and so lisa was very kind as to give us an insight into that dynamic

1:01.6

and the challenges and the hurdles of that and and different problems that people who have children

1:07.6

might face and and ways around it through her own experience. It's a very,

1:12.8

very warm and intimate and honest chat. And I was really surprised as to how many of you

1:19.0

were asking about marriage and a long-term relationship, especially after children, because I know

1:25.5

it can add so many stresses that society just doesn't

1:28.7

do enough to warn us about. And so we talk a lot about relationships, how to maintain relationships,

1:33.7

how to keep your cool, how to self-investigate. And we also talk about Liza's fantastic podcast called

1:40.4

Significant Others, where she talks about all the people in very famous known public figures

1:46.2

and historical figures' lives who weren't shouted out, who maybe we don't know about,

1:50.4

who were instrumental in that person's success and journey, whether it was for good reasons or bad.

1:56.7

And it's a brilliant, brilliant podcast that's narrated by lots of different people.

2:02.1

I've been one of the narrators, Conan, all kinds of fabulous actors, et cetera, and comedic voices,

2:08.7

have participated in this storytelling that is unlike anything I've ever heard.

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