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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

The Freedom Reader

4/9/202627 min

Conan talks to Reginald from New Haven Connecticut about a past mistake that led him to a life of enrichment, education, and eventually the founding of FreedomReads.org, a non-profit that transforms the experience of incarceration by opening libraries in cellblocks.
 

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Clips

Underground library in solitary
From contraband to 600 libraries
No plan, only trust
Books over pistol whips
Mother’s faith and hard truths
Speed-reading overdue notice
Conan’s book-sniffing bit

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

    [upbeat music] Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan. Wanna talk to Conan? Visit teamcoco.com/callconan. Okay, let's get started.

  2. Reginald· Guest0:12

    Hey, Reginald. Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan. Hey, how's it going?

  3. Conan O'Brien· Host0:16

    Hey, Reginald. How are you?

  4. Reginald· Guest0:17

    I'm, I'm delightful, man. I'm doing, I'm doing great, honestly. Yeah.

  5. Conan O'Brien· Host0:21

    Um, I have been reading your, your bio, your story, your Marvel origin story, uh, Reginald, and it's fascinating. It's amazing.

  6. Reginald· Guest0:33

    Thank you. I, I... And it doesn't rival yours. I mean, yours is amazing. Mine is just... I'm, I'm just trying to make it out here.

  7. Speaker 00:40

    No, yours is better.

  8. Reginald· Guest0:41

    Yeah. Yeah, honestly.

  9. Conan O'Brien· Host0:42

    [laughs] I'm sorry, Reginald. [laughs] Reginald, I love to- [laughs] I love to toot my own horn, but no, you have me beat by a country mile. [laughs] Um, you just have an amazing story. You have a law degree from Yale Law School, and, uh, which, uh, is insanely, uh, impressive. And, um, you have an MFA in poetry, and here's what's... Those are incredibly impressive accomplishments. W- And then you add to it that when you were 16, you participated in a carjacking and went to prison for eight and a half years.

  10. Reginald· Guest1:20

    Yeah, that one's not as impressive. I think that was the bane of my existence, but I think you live and learn. And, and for me, you know, picking up a gun was the most

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