Episode summary
Conan O’Brien speaks with podcaster and actor Amanda Lund, the wife of longtime Conan collaborator Matt Gourley, in a comedic conversation that veers between their relationship and Lund’s work. Lund recounts performing as face characters at Disneyland and Tokyo Disney, including Cinderella and Mary Poppins, and describes fan culture in Japan: being approached on the subway with envelopes of photos taken in the park and receiving gifts from fans at the end of a six-month term.
Lund also discusses her podcast project The Complete Woman, a character-driven satire inspired by The Total Woman author Marabel Morgan. Lund frames Morgan as a backlash figure to second-wave feminism whose advice was rooted in evangelical Christianity, and she offers examples she considers outlandish, including roleplay and costuming intended to keep husbands faithful. She says Morgan was widely known at the time and appeared on the cover of Time magazine.
The episode’s central running joke becomes a personal reveal: Lund says she once opened a trunk in their apartment to find hundreds of novelty Shakespeare T-shirts, which she says Gourley had been selling online without mentioning the side venture to her. Gourley downplays it as a faded hobby business. The conversation ends with brief discussion of how the couple met while performing at Universal Studios Hollywood and light talk about reality television habits.
