Joe Biden Tapes Interview With Conan O’Brien For ‘Needs A Friend’ Podcast

Ted Johnson
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Joe Biden taped an interview with Conan O’Brien’s Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast on Friday, the president’s latest embrace of non-traditional media, and the former late night host paid a visit to the White House briefing room.

“They won’t let me take questions, but boy I have the answers to everything,” O’Brien told reporters as he stood near the briefing room lectern.

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He later said that he was a “huge history buff and nerd,” including on the history of the White House, and chatted with reporters about the briefing room itself, noting that it used to be the location of an indoor pool. During John F. Kennedy’s administration, O’Brien noted, his father Joseph Kennedy had a Venetian mural installed on the walls. He said that the mural is now in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.

O’Brien’s podcast launched in 2018, and his Team Coco production company, including the show, was sold to SiriusXM last year.

Other political guests on the show have included Barack and Michelle Obama.

As president, Biden has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Daily Show, and appeared with YouTube stars to promote the vaccine.

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