Hey, recently I had a really nice conversation with Billy Corgan.

Always been a fan, I admire his work, and I did this as part of my words and music series

that aired on SXM's Team Coco radio channel 106.

We talked about music that inspired Billy, and because it was on the radio we were able

to even play the songs.

It was cool.

I enjoyed the conversation so much.

I thought, let's share it with my podcast listeners.

Now unfortunately, as you can imagine, we're not able to play the songs in the podcast

itself, so I would encourage listeners to either do the following.

If you're a serious SXM subscriber, open up the SXM app and search Conan, and you'll

be able to find the conversation with the songs.

Or if you're not a serious SXM subscriber, we'll provide a list of the songs in the episode

notes, so you can listen along to the songs with the music streaming service of your choice.

Anyway, you'll figure it out, but we had a lot of fun.

So I think you'll enjoy this conversation.

I want to start with this is a nice memory I have, Billy, and I think about this sometimes

because I think we both hit the scene around the same time, and when I mean hit the scene,

I don't think anyone set that in 30 years, maybe 40, so I apologize, but 1993 was when

I started doing my late night show.

I think that's when smashing pumpkins sort of show up on, is that correct, 93?

To the general world, yes, to the general public is what I meant.

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