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Okay, let's get started. Hey, Cooper.
Welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan. Hey, Cooper, how are you?

Speaker 2 Good. How are you?

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm going to ask you to... pretend to be excited to see me

Speaker 1 because right now I'm excited you just look like you're in the eight items or less aisle.

Speaker 1 And you're just, I mean, I want you to just manufacture, right? Just to manufacture a little like me. Be excited.
Be so excited. Yeah, no, seriously.
How are you, Cooper?

Speaker 2 I am really good. I'm so excited to be here.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Well, now you look like you're a hostage. You're saying the stuff you've been told to say by your captors, which in a kind of way you are.
Where are you coming from, Cooper?

Speaker 2 I live in D.C.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
And

Speaker 1 tell us a little bit about yourself, Cooper. All I know is you're Cooper.
You're from D.C. You appear to be a young fellow.
Are you in your late 20s? Are you in your 30s? Give us an age.

Speaker 2 I'm 26, and I am a Civil War historian.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm glad to talk to you. I'm a bit of a Civil War.
I'm a bit of a history buff, and Civil War is one of the areas that I'm kind of interested in.

Speaker 1 Have you been a Civil War buff your whole life, or is this something you came to later on?

Speaker 2 I have. I've been a history buff my whole life.
When I was in third grade, my teacher wrote on my report card that I watched too much history channel.

Speaker 1 Wow. Held back a year.

Speaker 1 Enough history.

Speaker 2 Yeah, which basically meant I couldn't shut up.

Speaker 2 So, and then it was a fifth grade field trip to Gettysburg that really got me onto Civil War, and I haven't really stopped since.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Gettysburg will get you.

Speaker 1 I've visited many battlefields.

Speaker 1 And my wife drew the line when we were in Georgia, and I tried to make her come see Andersonville, which is the famous Confederate prison where they kept a lot of Northern prisoners and they all died of dysentery.

Speaker 1 And my wife was like, wait, where are we driving to now? And I said, we're off to Andersonville. And she said, what happened there?

Speaker 1 Thousands of people died of diarrhea. And she said, nope, not on our honeymoon.
Not on our honeymoon.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I haven't been there. I blame her.

Speaker 1 But Gettysburg, that is, it's incredible to walk that area. It was such a pivotal battle and to walk that area and kind of you can see the topography is still the same.

Speaker 1 So you can kind of get a feel for why things played out the way they did.

Speaker 2 It is. It's really amazing.
And I get the chance to lead students on tours there every year.

Speaker 2 And you can tell not all of them are really into the military history, but I think the human interest stories are really how you get to the students. Like

Speaker 2 when I lead a tour of, shall I say, older people, they really want to know the nuts and bolts of where was the right flank of the third Alabama.

Speaker 2 But when you're engaging with high school and college students, it's the human interest stories that like really blow them away at a place like Edison.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you tell them, here's where Taylor Swift reloaded her musket.

Speaker 1 I would just lie to the students. I would just plug in all kinds of the latest pop stars and reality stars just to get them interested.

Speaker 1 Yeah, here's where the real housewives of New Jersey led a charge.

Speaker 1 Cooper, you're allowed to lie if it keeps them interested. No, you're not.
No, you're not, Cooper. You can't lie about the Civil War.

Speaker 1 Can I ask you a question?

Speaker 1 One of my favorite books, like one of my desert island books, if I was allowed like five books on a desert island, one of them would be Killer Angels by Michael Scharrow, which I think is one of the most beautiful.

Speaker 1 It's a novel, but it's historically accurate to the Battle of Gettysburg, and it takes place over three days, and all the main players are in there.

Speaker 1 And I've read that book maybe seven, eight, nine times.

Speaker 1 And I just find it haunting and beautiful. Killer Angels, Michael Sharo.
Michael Shara, you don't even have to be a Civil War buff to find out a powerful book, I think.

Speaker 2 Do you agree with that? I read that when I was very young. It's a good idea.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. So you're so smart.
You read it when you were. You're like, yes, I read that when I was two.

Speaker 1 And then I

Speaker 1 you read it just before everybody poops

Speaker 1 with dysentery. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 You got to bring it back.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, so I like you. We have similar interests.
I think this date's going well so far, Cooper.

Speaker 1 And you live, you know, I would think it'd be hard not to get into some of the history because if you live in D.C.

Speaker 1 and you live in that area, you know, you can't walk 15 feet without being on ground that was somehow involved in something historic. You know,

Speaker 1 and I felt the same way in Massachusetts growing up. It was all about the Revolutionary War.
You know,

Speaker 1 you could take a trip to Lexington and Conquer, or even if you're walking around Boston, you're or in the hills around Boston, Bunker Hill, it's all stuff where history played itself out.

Speaker 1 So I think that helped fuel my interest in history was just that I kind of grew up around it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, absolutely the same for me. I mean, I grew up a little bit north of Gettysburg.
So I kind of grew up in an area where Civil War history was, you know, all around me. And then moving to D.C.

Speaker 2 for grad school, obviously, I'm next to the archives. I'm immersed in history all the time.
So almost almost to the point where I take it for granted, but I try not to.

Speaker 1 So tell me a little bit about your life. So we've covered the Civil War part.
Tell us more about Cooper. What's your last name, Cooper?

Speaker 1 Wingert. Okay, Cooper Wingert.
Tell us about Cooper Wingert, the man.

Speaker 1 What's going on? What's happening?

Speaker 2 I guess my two hobbies besides, I love reading and writing. I love teaching.
That kind of is an extension of my work. So that's a big part of who I am.

Speaker 2 One of my favorite things professionally that I do is each summer I do a summer program for rising high school seniors. It's aimed at first-generation college students.

Speaker 2 So I actually get to live in the dorms with these students. I'm like their TA, their RA.
I'm like basically their, you know, glorified babysitter.

Speaker 2 So I get to kind of help them transition to, you know, doing college-level coursework.

Speaker 2 But at the same time, I have to, you know, just be like the adult in the room and make sure they don't, they look both ways before they cross the street.

Speaker 2 So it's kind of one of the fun things I get to do. I get to be really silly.
I get to do like PowerPoint night with them. I have a fan favorite Nicholas Cage PowerPoint night.

Speaker 1 Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
So every now and then, when you guys really want to just rip the lid off this thing

Speaker 1 and go totally loco,

Speaker 1 you have PowerPoint night.

Speaker 2 I know.

Speaker 1 It's how old are these kids? How old are these kids, by the way?

Speaker 2 They're 16, 17. So we got to keep them, you know, like, you know, fun and

Speaker 2 not crazy entertainment.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but when you get to the funny funnel, when do you get to the fun part, Cooper? Or crazy entertainment. Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, they get to design the PowerPoint. So they design a PowerPoint about some crazy topic they pick.

Speaker 2 And then we, as the staff, also design our own PowerPoint. So I designed one about how Nicholas Cage blew his fortune, and they seem to like that one.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. All right.
Wait a minute. I'm liking this now.
How did Nicholas Cage blow his fortune?

Speaker 2 A series of very strange purchases, like a dinosaur

Speaker 2 skeleton that ended up being repossessed by Interpol, I think.

Speaker 1 You know, there's nothing worse than when a skeleton you bought is repossessed. It's one thing when they come take your Maserati, but when they take your skeleton.
If I had a dime.

Speaker 1 Yes, didn't he? He bought some bones and then they were controversial. Maybe they were even counterfeit.
Who can say? I don't know. But look, Nick Cage, terrific actor, great body of work.

Speaker 1 But maybe what you're saying is we shouldn't go to him for investment counsel.

Speaker 2 Maybe not. That's kind of the theme of the presentation.

Speaker 1 Okay. Well, okay.
It sounds like you guys are having a good time. The PowerPoint.

Speaker 1 What about your life? What's going on in your social life?

Speaker 2 I live in D.C. I'm in the final stage of my PhD program.
So I'm kind of like on the job market. So I'm like potentially moving anywhere in the country.

Speaker 2 So everything's kind of up in the air right now, but it's kind of a good position to be in because

Speaker 2 I don't really like the choices are in some ways like out of my hands. So I'm kind of, you know, just kind of seeing where things go right now.

Speaker 1 Okay, but what about like dating? Are you on the apps? Like all the young people? Are you on the apps?

Speaker 2 No, I am single. I try not to bring up the Civil War stuff on dating.
Wait a minute.

Speaker 1 I said, are you on the apps? And you went, no, I'm single.

Speaker 1 Well, I'm married and I'm on the apps.

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Speaker 1 You're single, but you're not on the apps. No, I am on the apps.
Okay, okay, good. Okay, good.
Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 And you want to kind of hide the Civil War stuff for now?

Speaker 2 I think let it out in moderation. I don't want to scare somebody on a first date.

Speaker 2 You know, it's kind of like I almost imagine giving a date, like, you know, the cards they give you in like a soccer game, the refs, like, they hold up a card if you do something, like commit a foul.

Speaker 2 Sure. Like, that's what I need for like when I start going off about the Civil War.
I need somebody to just be like, you're cut off. Okay.
Like, this is your warning.

Speaker 1 So, Cooper, this could be bad advice, but I couldn't disagree more. I say, you leave the Civil War and go hard.
I say, yeah, I say you should. You should be dressed on the apps as a Civil War soldier

Speaker 1 with

Speaker 1 the kooky beard and the musket. And you should talk to them and say, I just got back from the battle.

Speaker 1 We had a, I was in the hornet's nest. It was the fire was coming pretty fast and thick.
Why is he talking like that? You know what? What? Civil War reenactments. Yes.

Speaker 1 You can meet someone at a Civil War reenactment. You've done a Civil War reenactment.
Sure, I did. I did.
Yeah, we did it down in

Speaker 1 Atlanta. Yeah.
Yeah. That's where I met Liza.

Speaker 1 She was,

Speaker 1 she was a corpse.

Speaker 1 We were two corpses right outside Atlanta. And I just like the way that she was laid out, you know? Oh, dear.

Speaker 1 Laid out. And we couldn't move much, but I was like, hey.
And she was like, hi.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, I got shot in the chest. And she's like, I got a belly wound.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, those are bad. Those get infected.
And one thing led to the another.

Speaker 1 And yeah.

Speaker 1 So have you done any Civil War reenactments?

Speaker 2 I have. When I was like 12, I was conscripted into one for 10 minutes and I quit.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry. You can't be drafted in a fake war.
No. How do you think? Yeah, how?

Speaker 2 I think one of the reenactors had to leave for something. He just got in his car and drove away.

Speaker 2 So they gave me a uniform and they said, like, carry this baked potato from here to the cannon and put it in the cannon or pretend to. And we're going to.

Speaker 1 Baked potato. What kind of reenactment is this? I like a no, you know what I like? I like a no-starch reenactment.
No starches on my reenactment.

Speaker 1 That's hilarious. Well, I was a very odd child, and I remembered writing a play about Lincoln's assassination at Ford Theater in the third grade

Speaker 1 and making Scotty McGregor play Lincoln, and I played Booth, and we staged it in the gymnasium so I could yell six Semper Tyrannis and jump from the top.

Speaker 1 They had bars that went up to the ceiling for gymnastics, and I leapt and then crawled into a little crawl space and hid. And the play lasted like three minutes.
And the whole third grade.

Speaker 1 It was all so dark.

Speaker 1 I know. I know.
Why did you choose to be booth? Because I wanted Scotty McGregor to be Lincoln. I thought he was a good.
And I wanted to make that leap. Six semper Tyrannis and then leap.

Speaker 1 And then I crawled into a little hole and I had to stay there because there was no way out until all the students left.

Speaker 1 So I crawled into a little hole at the Michael Baldwin School in Brookline, Massachusetts. Were you in costume? Yes! I had a little mustache and I had a little overcoat.

Speaker 1 And I think my Derringer was just a baked potato because that's the go-to in Civil War reenactments.

Speaker 1 So I killed Lincoln with a baked potato.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I got, I'll never, I don't know why, I remember that very well. Scotty McGregor asking him in the playground, can you be my Lincoln? And he was like, sure.

Speaker 1 What do I do? You just sit there and watch a pretend play and I shoot you. And then I climb into a hole and hide there until the whole auditorium leaves.
So I'm a weird guy.

Speaker 1 And I like you. I like you, Cooper.

Speaker 1 Well, I don't think you have to hide the fact that you have these interests. You seem like a really nice person.
I think,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 I think you can be, I think you can be open about it. Because what if you meet someone that's just as into it as you are?

Speaker 2 That would be surprising.

Speaker 1 Would you either want that or do you kind of like to keep it for yourself?

Speaker 2 I mean, to be honest, I don't think that's ideal in a partner. I think if there's too much similar interest, I don't know that I'd want to hear about the Civil War from somebody else.

Speaker 2 I like to listen myself talk about it all day, but I don't know if I want to hear somebody else's voice talking about it.

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Speaker 1 about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, I'm going to lose it.

Speaker 1 I don't. I just, you seem like an exemplary young fellow, doesn't he? I mean, this is the kind of person we need more of.
You're teaching, you're helping people, you're obsessed with the Civil War.

Speaker 1 These are all the qualities that I find mandatory in a human being.

Speaker 1 Where are you right now in your house? Because there's nothing hanging on the wall.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 2 I actually stress so much about my Zoom background.

Speaker 2 Basically, I just moved apartments. So I was going to do like a bookshelf.
So I, you know, looked very professorial, but,

Speaker 2 you know, just life got the better of me. So you're getting the hostage background.

Speaker 1 It's okay. I like how the light switch is painted the same color as the wall.
So I think that was a nice time. And the shelf reckoned, too.
Yeah. Everything blends into everything else.

Speaker 1 But man, does your green sweater pop? That's for sure.

Speaker 1 It's going well.

Speaker 1 It is going well. Do you have a question for Conan?

Speaker 2 I do. So I'm curious.
I know you have a big love of the Civil War. If you were a Civil War general, I want to know what skill sets or liabilities you would bring to the battlefield.

Speaker 1 In real life.

Speaker 1 I think my cowardice, I'm going to say is a plus.

Speaker 1 Well, it's very good to save lives, and the best way to do that is to lead everybody away from the fight. Now, would I be leading them so much as just running first? I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think I'd be really good around a campfire at night. You know, spinning a yarn, entertaining people.
And then the next day when the fighting broke out, they'd notice, I don't see him either.

Speaker 1 I don't know where he went.

Speaker 1 Maybe he got killed, but then I'm back at the fire that night. And I'm like, I tell you, did you see the way Lee took off on his horse? Oh, that right.

Speaker 1 He ran faster than a man, that right flank crumpled. Like, you know, and then I would just be making jokes and stuff and I'd be laughing again.
Next day, I'm gone.

Speaker 1 No one knows where I am because I found one hollow tree nobody knows about. Just Just like Booth, you're in your little hole.
In my little hole.

Speaker 1 Like any threatened animal, I like to just go find a little hole and hide in it until everything calms down. But I think I'd be a lot of fun around the campfire.
I really do. What about you?

Speaker 1 How do you, what do you, do you think you'd make a good leader?

Speaker 1 Let's say we get in a time machine, you go back to 1863, Battle of Gettysburg, of course,

Speaker 1 summer, you know, you're there in Pennsylvania. Do you think you'd do a good job?

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, considering that I quit reenacting after 10 minutes because the uniform was too hot, you know, probably not, but

Speaker 2 you'd give me a baked potato, sure. I mean, I could probably launch that thing.

Speaker 1 Right. Okay.

Speaker 1 And of course, and I hate to bring it up, but, you know,

Speaker 1 most

Speaker 1 soldiers did die of disease back then. So, you know.

Speaker 1 What is that? What's your point there? My point is that Cooper, you'd get real sick real fast.

Speaker 1 Probably, yeah. Yeah.
And

Speaker 1 me, I wouldn't because I'd be far from the battlefield

Speaker 1 eating wholesome, just a lot of apples. You should be at some hot springs.

Speaker 1 Convalescing.

Speaker 1 I find a five-star resort that's adjacent to the battle. And

Speaker 1 I've got

Speaker 1 binoculars? No, no, no. What do they put on their eyes and spas? What do they put?

Speaker 1 I've got cucumbers on my eyes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Stop bringing up potatoes.

Speaker 1 Anyway,

Speaker 1 well, I wish you well, Cooper.

Speaker 1 You seem like a good guy. I really do.
I think you're a good guy.

Speaker 1 And I think you haven't said it yet, but I can tell you really admire me and think I'm a great man.

Speaker 1 And I'm just going to fill that in, and you can just keep nodding with about as little enthusiasm as I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 Go for it.

Speaker 2 I admire you so much. I'd love for you to blurb my next book, but for it to be something totally unrelated to the book.

Speaker 1 I'll do that.

Speaker 2 Sure. Like this book about the Civil War.
This had the greatest tomato soup recipe ever.

Speaker 1 Done. I'll do it for you.
We'll reach out to you. We'll contact you.
What's your next book going to be about?

Speaker 2 My next book is about the destruction of slavery during the Civil War.

Speaker 1 Oh, good. Well, you probably don't want to have like, I don't want a funny blurb on the back of a

Speaker 1 white, the whitest guy. Yeah, exactly.
I'm the whitest guy in the world. Did you see Conan's comedy blurb on the back of this book on slavery? That seemed inappropriate.

Speaker 1 I think you're trying to destroy my career, Cooper.

Speaker 1 I'll wait till the next book after that. But I do wish you all the best.
I think teachers are doing God's work. I really do.
And so bless you, sir.

Speaker 1 And I hope we meet in person one day on a fake battlefield.

Speaker 2 Sounds great. If you ever want to tour Gettysburg.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
We'll figure it out. All right.
Take care. Thanks a lot.
Bye.

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