10.02.2025

I also like Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. It's the only podcast I listen to weekly. I like how manic and crazy he is and how he's cultivated a perfect morning-show dynamic with his assistants and how the guests are all in on all the jokes. His hybrid persona of a humble middle child and an outsize evil dictator and how he moves fluently or occupies all spaces all at once in a multidimensional fugue state. And the stories he gets to tell after forty years in the business. The long-form conversations after decades of having to cram simulated acquaintanceships into six minute segments with ad breaks. Even the ads are funny. I wish he would read more copy for bidet manufacturers. The only episode I didn't listen to is the Rahm Emanuel one. And I won't. Otherwise no notes.