Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend with Conan O’Brien

06/29/22 • 31 min

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So, do we really have the right to give any advice to Conan O’Brien and his top-25 podcast Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend? Probably not. But we're going to do it anyway.

After 25 years at the Late Night desk, Conan realized that the only people at his holiday party are the people who work for him. Over the years and despite thousands of interviews, Conan believes he has never made a real and lasting friendship with any of his celebrity guests. This is his podcast to see why this is, and maybe find a friend.

You kind of know what you're going to get when you listen to a Conan podcast, and he consistently delivers, but can Team Coco use this premise to make a difference in the world? One of us thinks so.

In this episode Mike and Eric focus on episodes with Howie Mandel and Molly Shannon, along with regular people including a pharmacist from Cairo, a prison guard from North Carolina’s death row, and a bus driver from outside Ottawa.

The episodes with Howie Mandel and Nariman from Cairo can be found here on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/howie-mandel/id1438054347?i=1000541911434

https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/pharmacies-and-fast-food-in-cairo/id1438054347?i=1000541517134

Team Coco and all his merch can be found here at https://teamcoco.com/

Conan has a decent following on Twitter at @ConanOBrien

Check out us on Twitter too at @noharmaskingpod. We greatly appreciate it.

So, do we really have the right to give any advice to Conan O’Brien and his top-25 podcast Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend? Probably not. But we're going to do it anyway.

You kind of know what you're going to get when you listen to a Conan podcast, and he consistently delivers, but can Team Coco use this premise to make a difference in the world? One of us thinks so.

The episodes with Howie Mandel and Nariman from Cairo can be found here on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/howie-mandel/id1438054347?i=1000541911434

https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/pharmacies-and-fast-food-in-cairo/id1438054347?i=1000541517134

Team Coco and all his merch can be found here at https://teamcoco.com/

Conan has a decent following on Twitter at @ConanOBrien

Check out us on Twitter too at @noharmaskingpod. We greatly appreciate it.

Previous Episode

Blockcrunch: The Crypto Investor Podcast with Jason Choi

What a privilege to listen to and review Jason Choi doing his podcast, Blockcrunch, this week. Now in his 5th year of doing the show, Jason is a young man mature beyond his years. But when you’re already an expert, are there “tricks” you can implement in your podcast to showcase your knowledge even more? We believe there are!

The go-to podcast trusted by fund managers, founders and operators in crypto and Web 3, Jason Choi is full-time investor who goes deep weekly into the technology and economics behind blockchain projects with the aim of dissecting trends and themes in a global context.

In this episode Mike and Eric reference a few of our past “No Harm In Asking” podcast reviews to help Jason elevate his expertise and suggest tying in older podcasts to add extra value to his listeners. Specifically we focus on Episode 178, "Why This Top Selling Metal Band is Using NFTs to Engage Fans - Synyster Gates, Lead Guitarist of Avenged Sevenfold".

This episode can be found here on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/blockcrunch-the-crypto-investor-podcast-project/id1350649166?i=1000546362632

Everything Jason can be found on his website at https://www.jasonchoi.me/

Jason can be found on Twitter at @mrjasonchoi

Music in the podcast is from Avenged Sevenfold and can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_V4y4CWYGE&ab_channel=MUSICAL

Check out us on Twitter too at @noharmaskingpod. We greatly appreciate it.

Next Episode

Very Serious with Josh Barro

Do you have a big enough tribe such that you can now quit your day job and head out on your own?

When do you decide, this is the time?

Perhaps we all haven't had the same kind of success as journalist, radio personality and now podcaster Josh Barro, but if you're looking for someone that works hard to pull it all together in this space, checking out Josh is a good start.

Very Serious is a weekly conversation with top political commentators, columnists and policymakers, focused on how events in the news relate to major, long-standing controversies in politics, economics and culture. Joined by a rotating set of regular guests to work out the ideas behind the arguments on topics serious and not-so-serious. Josh's goal is a great conversation across ideological lines that hopefully leave you entertained, enlightened, and maybe even persuaded. We found Josh easy to listen to and sufficiently cerebral despite his overuse of the word salient.

In this episode Mike and Eric focus on his episode with Matt Yglesias, that in fairness, Mike didn't get all the way through.

In total, we listened to the following episodes, which are all mentioned at some point in our review: "Why Is Flying Such a Nightmare Right Now?", "Allison Schrager on Why We Can't Have Nice Things", "Tyler Cowen on Identifying Talent" and "Matt Yglesias on Popularism, Joe Rogan, and Getting 'Back to Normal'". They can all be found at the link below.

https://www.joshbarro.com/podcast

Josh is also on Apple Podcasts and Acast at https://shows.acast.com/very-serious-with-josh-barro

Josh Barro's Substack articles and podcast can be found here https://www.joshbarro.com/

Josh, now up to 290,000 followers, signed up early on at Twitter and thus got the sweet handle @jbarro

Check us out on Twitter too at @noharmaskingpod. We greatly appreciate it.

Eric also publishes his online journey titled "A Podcasting Journal" on Substack at https://ericbyron.substack.com/