Conan O'Brien

This is really dark.

Are you like- No, no, if you got past your, if you got past into your teens, you probably lived to be 98 and wrote the Declaration of Independence.

But-

But what's – no, it was just – I would like people to be a little more conscious of all the ways in which we're very blessed.

And I also – when I watch the American Revolution series –

One of the things that impresses me is just this stunning good luck.

I mean, the idea that so many things broke our way during the American Revolution does make you believe in providence.

And it reminds me of this quote that I'm going to butcher right now.

I think it was Otto Bismarck said, there is a divine providence that protects drunkards, children, and the United States of America.

And it's just like this wonderful quote where, I don't know what is going on with America, but they always seem to get away with stuff.

He asked him

And also-

The French, because they gave us so much money and so much help during the Revolutionary War, go bankrupt, leading to their revolution.

They had other problems, too.

He's a rock star in France.

Yeah.

Well, it's amazing just how many times things just keep flipping and flipping and flipping.

So, you know, Stalin, our best friend and our buddy up until about 1946, you know, or 1945, 46, and then it switches.

And so, yeah.

I have a propaganda poster of Uncle Sam and I think it's Chiang Kai-shek and Churchill and Stalin as all these good buddies who are tormenting a little Hitler.