Author Malcolm Gladwell has mixed feelings about being Conan O’Brien’s friend.Malcolm sits down with Conan once more to discuss his latest book Revenge of the Tipping Point, Malcolm’s observations as a new parent, the opioid epidemic, why Harvard has so many sports teams, and much more. 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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Hi, my name is Malcolm Gladwell. Well, I didn't think about this. Well, I have mixed feelings about being Conan O'Brien's friend. Now, wait a minute. Why would you say that? I'm a huge admirer of your work. Can I do a long explanation of why? Is it going to be another book? No, no, no, no.
Fall is here, hear the yell. Back to school, ring the bell. Brand new shoes, walking blues. Climb the fence, books and pens. I can tell that we are gonna be friends. I can tell that we are going to be friends.
Hi, and welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I've got Matt Gourley with me right here. Hi. Scribbling away something. I don't know what he's doing. What are you writing? Last Will and Testament. And I've got Sona Movsesian here. Yes. You know, we're getting into the holiday seasons.
Yeah, we are.
And I have a question for you because this is something that hit me recently. I don't often reveal my interior life, my emotions, but I'm going to get vulnerable here for a moment, which is, as you guys know, I'm an empty nester now. Both my kids are in school.
You're also an empty soul guy too, aren't you?
Empty soul. Yeah, yeah. But that's been, you know, whole life. But I didn't expect to feel this way. But I remember feeling this way at Halloween. I walked by some houses and they were all decked out with, you know, skeletons and witches and things like that. And one of them had, there's this spider that plops down if it senses a presence. Have you seen that? Yeah. It just goes...
and it makes a little noise and its eyes light up a little bit. And I just had this really strong memory of... My kids watching me put all that stuff out and being really excited and saying, where's the spider? And me going and getting, you know, there's the, you can get the fake graves and you can get the skeleton hand that comes out of the ground.
My excitement came from their excitement of watching me do it. And, you know, they're not, they're in college now. And so we're not doing that to our house. And then I walked around and I had that pang of, it made me sad.
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