I know this sounds weird but just follow along here for a moment. I want you to close

your eyes and think of Conan O'Brien. In your mind you're probably picturing a tall lanky Irishman with carrot-colored poofy hair, a pointed nose, and a big

Cheshire cat-like smile. I don't need to tell you what he looks like because

Conan is one of the most famous talk show hosts in America. Now there's a reason I know this about his fame and it's

one we're going to get to in today's podcast. But before we begin, let's keep

playing. Keeping your eyes closed, imagine walking into a set of offices on a

Los Angeles film lot and everywhere you look there are pictures of Conan.

There are posters of him on the wall as you walk down a hallway, there are photos of him stuck to cubicles,

there's even a bobblehead of him on someone's desk.

Well, welcome to Conan O'Brien's studio on the TBS lot, where I'm sitting right now.

You can probably guess why I'm here so without further ado you're listening to

inside the hive I'm your host Nick Bilton and my guest today is none other than

Conan O'Brien. Thanks for coming on the show today. Well I think this is your

time to come clean. Do you regret voting for Donald Trump?

Look I always back the winner and I think I made the right call. No so you and I met in San Francisco at a dinner, right? And Donald Trump was not

president yet. And we got into a conversation about, we didn't actually think he was going to be president.

Is that correct at the time?

No one did.

No one did. If you look at the New York Times headlines in the months before Trump was elected.

Every headline is, Trump win an impossibility.

Yeah, it was like 10% chance of him winning.

So you and I got into this discussion about how it was bizarre that there was even a possibility that a celebrity, which is what he was, still

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