Conan O'Brien

Thank you.

Crazy respect for what you did and that you always kept it, like I say, the emphasis on goodwill and let's try it.

That spirit of let's get boys to men and the temptations and see what happens.

That's a beautiful thing.

What I didn't know is that you start to burn out.

You're like, I think I've gotta stop doing this.

I've gotta stop doing this.

I need to put this down.

And you go to Paramount and you write them a letter and you say, I'm going to leave.

And they say, okay, well, don't say anything about it yet.

And they sit on the letter.

and they tell you, you can't tell anybody.

So you keep doing your job, but you have every intention of leaving.

And then they announce that they're ending it, which is in, I don't have another word.

It's just a shitty thing to do.

And it's also, it's really important for people to know that you were like, this now needs to end and I want to end it and go out on my note.

And then I put the letter in the book.

Oh, do I know?

And that creates a misconception that, oh, because, you know, you very publicly disagreed with a lot of the things that Farrakhan was saying, and rightfully so,

But you wanted to confront him about those things and talk about it.