Writer and journalist Ron Chernow feels very warmly about anyone who has won the Mark Twain Award for American Humor, including our friend Conan. Ron sits down with Conan for a deep dive into the life of Mark Twain, touching on Twain’s mercurial personality, his affinity for oddball inventions, the unique relationship he shared with his wife, his obsession with Shakespeare’s true authorship, and much more. Check out Mark Twain by Ron Chernow here. For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com.Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (669) 587-2847. Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/conan.
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Hello, my name is Ron Chernow. And I feel very, very warmly about anyone who has won the Mark Twain Award for American Humor. Oh, wow. Including our friend Conan O'Brien. So it's a delight to be here.
Thank you very much. Yeah.
Fall is here, hear the yell Back to school, ring the bell Brand new shoes, walkin' loose Climb the fence, books and pens I can tell that we are gonna be friends Yes, I can tell that we are gonna be friends
Hello and welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. This is kind of a special episode. You probably know I'm a huge history buff, and I have read every single book that this gentleman has written, I believe. If he has another book out there, he might have written a Nancy Drew mystery that I'm Unaware of. But other than that, I think I have read all of his books. His latest is a joy.
My guest, of course, is a Pulitzer Prize winning author. And his latest biography, Mark Twain, is out now. And Twain, in my opinion, is more relevant at this moment than ever before. And we need Twain. And I'm just thrilled that this gentleman is here today and that he's written this magnificent book. Ron Chernow, welcome.
I saw in your resume, Conan, that you had studied history at Harvard and I had studied literature at Yale. So you were in training for my career and I was in training for your career.
I know, I know. So all this history that I've done. You want to trade? You want to trade? Sure. Sure. You've done, you know, I've noticed something, which is there's a, and other people have pointed it out as well, that you have written this string of spectacular biographies. And I congratulate you on the Mark Twain. I read all, I believe, 1,200 pages of this book and was enthralled. I love it.
And I learned so much about Twain that I didn't know because you've unearthed some amazing stuff about the man. And to see his life, I mean, it's very hard to contain this guy's life. And I think you have managed to do that brilliantly. Thank you. But I was looking at your work because I believe I have read all of your books, which I can't say to many people. Judy Blume.
But it's you and Judy Blume. But there's an interesting path to the order in which you wrote because you start out and you write about J.P. Morgan. and great Gilded Age industrialists, which then got you interested and whet your appetite for your next book, which is Rockefeller, which then got you interested in finance.
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