Conan O’Brien on the Lincolns

Significant Others

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Liza is joined by her significant other, self-proclaimed Lincoln super-fan Conan O’Brien, to discuss how crucial Mary Lincoln was to her husband's political career.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Significant Others.
0:03.5	I'm Liza Powell O'Brien.
0:05.8	When my Significant Others suggested the subject of yesterday's episode, I thought,
0:10.1	yeah, yeah, we all know about Mary Todd Lincoln already.
0:13.6	But then he went on about how useful she had been to her husband's political career,
0:17.8	which was an angle I hadn't heard before, and I decided I had to know more.
0:22.5	Before I knew it, yesterday's episode was born.
0:25.6	And when it came time to talk it all down, I knew just the expert I wanted to interview.
0:33.4	Do you wish that in our marriage vows, I had added the phrase, I will never ask you to
0:38.7	do my podcast?
0:39.7	Yes.
0:40.7	I think that who knew at the time it was 2002, I'm so glad I got that year right.
0:46.6	I was thinking it was different.
0:48.9	Exactly.
0:49.9	I'm pretty sure it was 2002, and let's move on from these sorted matters.
0:55.6	I will say that when I was looking for books to do my research, I went into our library,
1:03.8	and I looked at one of the walls, and all four or five shelves were filled with books
1:10.6	on Lincoln.
1:11.6	Yeah.
1:12.6	Yeah.
1:13.6	No, I've been interested in Lincoln for a really long time, and realized at one point,
1:20.3	when we finally got a decent bookshelf years after we were married, and we put our books
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