Hey, Conan O'Brien here. We've got a very special treat for listeners today. We're bringing you a clip from Team Coco's newest podcast

Significant others hosted by my significant other, Liza, Paolo Brian

Significant others is a history podcast that explores the less familiar side of history and those just outside the spotlight

People like Sophia Tolstoy, Kastur Bugandi and Mary Lincoln each week

Liza tells the story of one of these figures and then the next day

She breaks it down with someone close to the source material in a bonus episode

Well, I got to be part of one of these bonus episodes and talk to Liza about Mary Lincoln

I'm a big Lincoln buff and now we want to share that chat with you

So please enjoy this bonus episode of significant others

Welcome back to significant others. I'm Liza Powell O'Brien when my significant other suggested the subject of yesterday's episode

I thought yeah, yeah, we all know about Mary Todd Lincoln already

But then he went on about how useful she had been to her husband's political career

Which was an angle I hadn't heard before and I decided I had to know more

Before I knew it yesterday's episode was born and when it came time to talk it all down

I knew just the expert I wanted to interview

Do you wish that in our marriage vows? I had

Added the phrase I will never ask you to do my podcast. Yes. I think that who knew at the time it was 2002

I'm so glad I got that year right. I was thinking it was different

Pretty sure it was 2002 and

Let's move on from these sorted matters. I say I will say that when I was looking for books to do my research

I went into our library and I

looked at one of the walls and all four or five shelves were filled with books on Lincoln. Yeah, so yeah

...