Sona Movsesian: In-N-Out Burger

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Sona Movsesian has been Conan O'Brien's assistant for 13 years, and podcast co-host for five, but their relationship feels more like brother and sister. Sona loves snacks, and Conan loves to manically knock them out of her hands. Sona likes to watch TV at her desk, and Conan likes to tell the world what an awful assistant she is. And her new book, The World's Worst Assistant, is an up close and personal look at just this sort of high jinks.

A card carrying, native Californian, it is Sona's birthright to love In-N-Out Burger -- and she does! So professional hamburger expert, George Motz, joins the show to do a deep dive on the iconic hamburger chain. Why isn't there an In-N-Out in your town? What does it mean to order your fries Animal Style? Why do the employees smile so much? George tells all!

Sona loves chocolate. She eats it every day. And if she doesn't? She gets a headache. Neuroscientist Dr Nicole Avena is an expert on this topic and tells host Rachel Belle why humans are born to be addicted to sugar.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:11.6	I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:30.9	Today on the program, Sona Mavsessian.
0:34.2	Sona has been Conan O'Brien's assistant since 2009.
0:37.6	She was featured countless times on his TV show and documentary.
0:41.2	She's a co-host on his podcast, Conan O'Brien needs a friend.
0:44.9	And she has a new book that just came out this week called The World's Worst Assistant.
0:50.1	Your book is called The World's Worst Assistant, and I received it and I'm like,
0:53.9	oh, ha, ha, what a funny title.
0:55.7	And then you start reading it, and you're like, oh, no, she's being serious.
0:58.9	Yeah, I know.
1:00.0	I think people thought it was being a little hyperbolic, but I think there's so much truth to it.
1:04.9	And, of course, I assist a hugely successful, wildly popular person like Conan O'Brien. But as you can see, he also wrote
1:12.6	the foreword, so he encourages this behavior. Like so many Californians, Sona has a special place
1:18.6	in her heart for In and Out. So I invited George Mote to the show, the Burger Scholar who
1:24.1	hosts TV shows and writes books about hamburgers to tell us everything he
1:28.4	knows about In-N-Out Burger.
1:30.4	The history, it's unorthodox way of doing business, why there are so few locations, everything.
1:36.5	And George Motes will go to great lengths to have an In-N-Out burger.
1:39.5	Wait, hang on, I've actually rented cars on a layover.
1:42.4	I was in a layover from Japan once.
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