Are you going to celebrate Christmas in London or Mexico City?

I mean, I have to pretend I love being in London in winter, but no one's saying can actually say that.

You know, e.

I mean, it's a beautiful city to watch from your window, but if it gets really cold and wet at this for for a Mexican is is not probably the best.

So I'm flying back home as soon as we finish, uh, to spend the holidays.

Not just that.

It's not just the weather, you know, My family is there.

I wanna be with this pandemic.

It's like there's no time off.

I don't wanna be next to my kids.

My that my friends.

Yeah, we might see what really matters.

You know, I'm told that's true.

I don't think it's helped me know what matters.

Uh, I'm is distant from my family has ever.

Um, but I'm broken inside.

Diego.

I'm terribly broken inside T.

To be honest, it's it's quite sad to see you with the Christmas tree, the lights there and no audience, man.

It's like normally you have people were laughing about your jokes But I know I know.

It's like ordering.

You can play a recording off laughter.

People used to go to your show.

I have some tapes of people laughing at my jokes from 1996 so I'll start playing those those and all the people laughing.

Or now they've all died of old age.

So we'll we'll be coming from beyond the grave.

Um, tell me about what it's like because I would imagine that the Mexican people take Christmas very, very seriously.

How seriously do they take it in Mexico City?

I mean, it's just another event on a chance to drink mescal and have fun now, but it is a very religious country, and we take we call it the marathon Guadalupe Radius, you know, which basically starts the 12th of December, that we celebrate the the virgins they virgin off Guadalupe L.

A is a on It goes all the way to January, you know?

So it's basically a drinking contest that doesn't stop and party after party and and everybody, my birthday happens to be just just in between, you know, the 29th of December.

Oh, nice it Zbig holiday in Mexico.

You know, s so you're basically saying you've never been sober for your birthday.

Now I I've always been alone, you know, people are with their families or hungover or getting ready for New Year's Eve or somewhere else, but with me.

So there's no it's impossible for someone in Mexico City, a true Mexican, to not indulge on the holidays.

You just have thio you just everyone has two.

Everyone has to like I did a documentary film on a fantastic Mexican boxer called Julio Cesar Chavez, the biggest champion.

Andi.

He said to me one day in the in on an interview that the first time he lost it was because Don King could put him to fight in the first weeks of January on, he was like, You cannot do that on the biggest record, you know, off the unbeaten champion, 88 or 89 fights.

Professional fights was broken because because he was coming out of the party.

I mean, you received his New Year's Eve.

Come on.

No, he lost his.

He had the greatest record going in boxing, 88 89 victories in a row, but then because he had to fight in early January.

He lost just because he had been partying.

But But he says in the documentary, I told John King, you know, he was even mad.

Not at himself a dunking for programming, fighting generally, but not to himself.

That he couldn't stop that that year from going to the party.

And I think we all understand that because, like, yeah, dunking.

I mean, what was he thinking?

Yeah, he fought that guy again like weeks later and beating him in one round.

It was clearly e coming out of the holidays.

So that's my new plan.

I'm going to challenge Mexico's greatest champion on.

I wanted to take place on January 1st.

And you think maybe I have a chance of winning?

Don't challenge Canelo because I think he doesn't drink.

Okay, well, e won't do that, E want to say your beloved in your country are you getting used to the fact that this is true?

That many people are naming their Children after you?

That must.

How does that feel?

I thought it was after me, but then I understood it was about Maradona.

You know, we have We share the same name.

And it wasn't me you know, But it was, you know, no, suddenly not.

But there's many comments there.

I You know, I just I mean, I'm sorry for those kids when they why would you feel sorry for a beautiful young Mexican boy or girl growing up with the name Conan?

What a proud heritage.

Yeah.

Until they go onto YouTube and find out why I I'm going to see this video.

They're going to see the image of you with the bottle like this.

That's everything.

They're gonna have to say.

I'm a good role model for all the Children s.

Yeah.

There's no one's naming kids after me.

It's not happening.