Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook of The Rest Is History Podcast

Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.8 • 57.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Historians Dominic Sandbrook & Tom Holland feel surprisingly aroused and chuffed, respectively, about being Conan O’Brien’s friends. Hosts of The Rest Is History podcast Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland sit down with Conan to discuss laughing through the grimmest historical episodes, all-time favorite heroes of yore, and allowing history to remind us that everything is cyclical. Later, Conan consults his (not so) fake lawyer David Melmed about singing popular songs on the podcast. For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com. Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (669) 587-2847.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Dominic Sambrick, and I feel surprisingly aroused about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
0:08.5	Okay, you understand that.
0:12.3	Hi, my name is Tom Holland, and I feel chuffed about being Conan of Brian's friend.
0:17.8	Okay, looking that up now on UK slang.
0:24.1	Folly's here, hear the yell, back to school, ring the bell, brandy shoes, walking loose, climb the fence, books and pens, I can tell that we are going to be friends. Yes, I can tell that we are going to be friends. I can tell that we are going to be friends.
0:43.3	Hey there. Welcome to Conan O'Brien. Needs a friend. Shocking. Shocking revelation today. Sonam of Sessian is not with us.
0:52.3	Her chair like Tiny Tim's little stool in the corner is empty. Just a crutch. She's not here. No. Instead, it's just Matt and I, which is nice because this is a different dynamic for us. There's none of that her braying laugh. Yeah. She's a nice icebreaker, though, because isn't it a little awkward? It's just you and me, you know. reminds me of an old norm McDonald joke. He said, yeah, I went to,
1:11.0	uh, He's a nice icebreaker though, because isn't it a little awkward, it's just you and me, you know? Reminds me of an old Norm MacDonald joke. He said, yeah, I went to, went home for Thanksgiving and
1:17.5	saw the family and my dad and I accidentally made eye contact. And I thought, God damn it, I relate to that.
1:30.5	So now we have to look in each other's eyes.
1:37.1	No, you can't do it. I can't do that. But do you know where Sona is? I don't. No one told me where she went to me. You're going to love this. Okay. She is speaking, I think a featured guest speaker
1:42.9	at an assistance convention.
1:45.2	No, she's not. Is that a bit?
1:47.3	I swear to God.
1:48.1	This is not a bit.
1:48.7	This is true.
1:49.5	Yeah.
1:50.5	There.
1:50.7	I can just see your eyes glowing.
1:52.5	No, I'm sorry.
1:53.5	Is it a how-to or like a cautionary tale?
1:56.4	I don't know.
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