Conan O'Brien

But it's bluer, it's bluer.

Imagine the Civil War with spanking.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like anything that makes you stop because I spent so much of my life in New York City living there.

Every time I pass the Brooklyn Bridge, I think about what went into making that and it used to be just this thing.

It's a Brooklyn Bridge.

And we can all do that.

But when you realize that this is before people know what happens when you submerge humans at great depths.

And get caissons.

Yes.

And you put them in these caissons and you submerge them down, but they don't know.

And people are dying these horrible deaths.

All the thought that went into it and the lives that went into it.

And then what it meant when it was completed and it's beautiful.

And so I just appreciate when I read history, one of the things it does is it usually makes me a little more optimistic, which is a strange thing to say because most of the history I'm reading is very, you know, many dark things happen.

But I meet a lot of young people who have this attitude that these are end days and the world is on fire and it's all over for us.

Yeah.

And it's also, it's like a friend that can calm you down and give you a little bit of perspective.

When things are very dark, I've had so many people say to me, it's never been worse in this country than it is now.