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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend Podcast Transcripts

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After 25 years at the Late Night desk, Conan realized that the only people at his holiday party are the men and women who work for him. Over the years and despite thousands of interviews, Conan has never made a real and lasting friendship with any of his celebrity guests.

Spoken has transcripts of 745 Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 19, 2026.

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  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1438054347/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
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        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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October 19, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Conan O'Brien (0:30)

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Sonam Avsesian (0:32)

Always.

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