Sam Richardson | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

welcome welcome welcome to armchair expert I'm Dan Shephard and I'm joined by Lily padman and we have one of our very favorite comedians of all time on today Sam Richardson so fun so funny oh Detroit comedy Cedar Point oh I know this is yes this will be the beginning of these are all the things that Dax liked about Sam oh Sam Richardson he you know him is the best part of anything you've ever seen him in you know of course he had the great show at Tim Robinson detroiters and the Afterparty vep where we fell in love with him my God so good I think you should leave and then Ted lasso for which he won an Emmy and he has a new series out now on Prime video called sausage party foodtopia so this is a series based on the hysterical cartoon of the same name sausage party so please check out on Prime video sausage party food Topia please enjoy the prince from Detroit Sam Richardson he's an CH he's [Music] an oh my God I'm so happy you're here me too I've been trying very long you're it's true you smell delightful thank you very much it's a afternoon swim my l t oh my God oh my God you're fancy we saw your car oh yes don't blow them up it's also not a Detroit vehicle I know like okay I have some forn Vehicles do you need anything before we begin drink a hot coffee or think about all the things we have some RX bars a little protein we have water of course and we have coffee and tea a sparkling water by chance oh my God the one to run one no no no no no no we should have some just [ __ ] watch this I should stop asking people if they want anything cuz we don't have anything I know it's false advertis also you know it's all like the opposite of the creative box where it's like helpful to have parameters you go like do you want anything you start going like maybe a fruit smoothie would be good do you have aai juice asai you guys have a Chutney oh yeah Chutney would be like actually really good right now like a bowl of Chutney hi would you be so kind as to run up some peras for Mr Richardson thank you that's my kid's sister oh yeah she's adult native she's old no she's going to be my kid sister that's forever just the timeline yeah she also went to you went to a nice school yeah I went to ufd Jesuit I know this is going to be probably unfortunately for The Listener the most Michigan Centric can't wait yes I cannot wait even though I was watching some interviews with you and it's like you couldn't get through an interview without dropping Cedar Point do you know how often I talk about Cedar Point no one gives a [ __ ] I haven't been there in 20 years but I can't get it out of my head you when was the last time I was at America's roller coast Mecca Mecca Nirvana for the coaster Enthusiast entire this is Carly my sister do you love Sam Carly I'm obsessed I Delta just said I'll run him up and I go I got this i got this all right love you thank you thank you how cute is my sister very super she's got a great boyfriend but would you like to marry her a great girlfriend everyone's everyone's all tied up selfishly if you were at Christmas it' be really great it'd be fun yeah until it turns do you think turn no I don't think so I don't think so you can always fall back on Michigan yeah always talking about Cedar Point yeah exactly there's a 9-year age gap between you and I so I'm hoping all the overlaps still there I think so cuz when I watch detroiters I was like this is great these guys are almost older than they should be cuz you know all the old commercials yeah but maybe they just ran forever that's part of it some of these commercials were made once and then they just use those bad boys nonstop don't you wish our business was like that where like you made a movie once and it came out every summer for the rest of your life that would be fantastic yes I had to go with a Without a Paddle Premiere next week I'd be so happy yeah I would show up to a Mike and Dave need wedding dates premere annually so in my memory I only remember meeting you one time I was seated behind you behind me at the Game of Thrones Premiere oh yes and I was dressed to the NES I had like a tank top on that said uh Stark in the streets wild Le in the sheets tattoo a bunch of iron on tattoos you weren't as aveneda yeah wasn't everyone like dressed up up yeah most people were at a Premiere you know like what you would expect suits and such yeah to bore you with one St well [ __ ] it I'm sure I told you in the seat because I kept turning around to talk to you and I was like is he being friendly or am I turning around too much no way automatic any Detroit Michigan connection we're good it's kind of like being in AA exactly it's the closest thing I think we have although I did have one bad Michigan oh yeah Monica will cut this out but I bet you could even guess when I want want to ins snare you in it let's do a clue Making Connections oh oh interesting do you play Oh I sure do I don't think I played I did play today oh before your perect perfect four lines perfect nice do you ever try for reverse back we invented that no what is reverse back you got to go purple blue green yellow okay so here's my question on that yeah what is exactly purple how do you know what purple is this part of the game okay it's the hardest one it's generally the one that's going to share a common word word play of sort okay what's really frustrating is you pursue the reverse back is I know you will now I really will the challenge isn't even necessarily getting them all or getting purple first it's like green and blue I don't know man we are often in great objection like there's no way that was [ __ ] easier than that oh it add so many staks but what bums me out sometimes is like you're talking about Hardware pieces and I saw screw on there and you said screws not that's hardware she does Miss nomers red herrings well we've decided wna is her name spelled w y na a we thought it was W it's wa that is W but sure I mean between the three of us it's w we all know it's w it's w is there two ends maybe between Y and the N it's winner so like the win like the hotel oh Steve win like Steve win the man named after the hotel I think but she can be grumpy like us you're an improv Master a genius I appreciate that and sometimes when you're in a grumpy mood on the way in you're still improving but there's a little Edge to it little pepper in the sauce that's right little Reaper sneaks in it's on Scoville scales it gets high up on that scov in the millions so you know W is going to have a [ __ ] day one day and let's even say it could even have been an interaction with someone in a certain sector of the economy and now I'm really going out on oh sure but like if she had a bad Hospitality experience she might purposely [ __ ] with a category that has to do with a hotel right say that's a real stret wow that is a stress but she's just a human is all I'm saying she's not Ai and I imagine her puzzles are going to reflect the mood she's in yeah sometimes there's clues in those about current events I'm like ooh I know who this is for oh wonderful we think that's happening too yeah I'm certain of it not even in the answers but in the presentation of the puzzle itself I'm like oh this is a message right she's just read all fours yep yeah yeah do you know about this book I don't but I said yep so quickly how long have you been with your lover eight years eight years that's a great stretch you're not married though we're not married are you against the institution of marriage a little bit yeah yeah I was too I get that is she not entirely y will you please hit me with your philosophy because I had mine really fine-tuned when Chris and I were dating I just would you feel safer if I went first yeah okay I was like I'm not religious I question the institution's origins I think it had a lot to do with weird capitalism ownership ownership and building of Empires the notion I would have to ask my state or local government for permission to separate seems insane to me agreed there's no log having a baby with someone you love I'm just not seeing any of the upside and it all seems steeped in a bunch of traditions I don't even agree with I agree entirely and religious tradition Business Partnership sure but those Partnerships shouldn't need to be B by two it doesn't need to be a binary so I think we're on the same page also I was like I'll be with you for the rest of your life that I'm in and let's have children and let's do the whole thing I just don't want to go to the State of California and declare hey guys sign off on us and then if something goes sideways you become a meth adct I want to get the [ __ ] out I got hire some attorneys people change and I'm not saying this about my girlfriend at all no cuz she's not going to change at all she's not going to change she's Rock Solid she's The Rock exactly but just the notion of it I don't agree also every time somebody pushes me to it it makes me revert even further back I'm like I don't have to I don't want to yes yes yes I think there might be some more layers for you too there are understandably but you know what happened is I was like okay you've made your court case you won she's accepted it it's not your thing congrats and then I was like oh but also I could give somebody something that's really important to them despite the fact that it's not to me and then very much talking out of school but I don't think she would mind she would say this she almost died when I presented a ring cuz she accepted that wasn't for me do that some issues were resolved in 6 seconds permanently interesting for her that did mean true security and some jealousy that she used to have I'm friends with all my ex-girlfriends I believe that's also positive that was always kind of an issue and in a snap of the fingers that was all gone that's never been like that again and so it was a weird leap of faith for me and then the results were completely unexpected and I was like oh wow that actually made things much much better yeah that's my testimonial emotionally but I'm with you on the logic of it it's kind of out there just it's kind of out there and then take my name then you know you don't have to take my name and pick my oh hyphenate my name hyphenate my name and then I'm like oh why is mine I'm not going to try and blast out my folks but there's some stuff there that I'm like uh I don't this that and the other sure sure sure sure yeah being married doesn't make a relationship innately Better or Worse well and in fact I'll even argue so I was interviewing Goldie Han and I said to her do you think you and Kurt had you gotten married you might have gotten divorced and she said oh several times like the fact that they never got married is why they've been together for 30 years right cuz there's a freedom there yeah I think a lot of people think of it as like this commitment and it is a pain in the ass to get out of it financially in all other ways that'll be an incentive to work through your problems but I would argue the opposite thing can happen as well which is I don't think we can work through these this is for the rest of my life you're constantly going this problem I'm in right now is for the rest of my life and it takes on a weight and you probably wouldn't bring up things you're like well this is going to shatter my life if I bring up this thing and it becomes a fight I will then become financially yeah yeah you might keep some stuff quiet and just deal to that point of Goldie and Kurt I think most people assumed that they were married so most people assume that anybody in a relationship for so long is married why do they have to be right well and also you go around the world and increasingly a lot of countries I go to people don't really do it in New Zealand everyone has Partners almost no one's getting married yeah okay well we might have destroyed the institution of I think I fixed it m I think it fixed it all fixed well you just said one thing though oh yeah so you were going to tell a story about someone in Michigan that you didn't like yes okay but before that my last thought on the names and I don't want to hurt any guys feelings cuz I think it's super well-intentioned guys will take their wives names or they're hyphenated or whatever and I'm like guys that's not progress right the first thing was [ __ ] up the answer isn't to repli down map that out for three generations so your kid inherits his hyphen a name in three generations there's seven last names it just starts duplicating cuz you got to take her two hyphenated names your two hyphenated names and then your kids's two hyph names with their Partners power ATT tenant more adoms than the universe so just think this through think about for like pens and like the ink of the world just to be writing down so many names data entry folks how much space on your birth certificate or on your driver's license how long will a passport be in five generations you know it would be Pages or super wide in some other countries they do have really long names like Anna has a really long name five or six names I have a long name so my full name is Samuel William Oscar Richardson [ __ ] nuts that's a paragraph I love how you say love it you're kind of like the newscaster when you say it oh yeah because you say Sam in the very American English Sam William Oscar Richardson you you kind of have to exactly each one has to have its own okay so the michigander I met so we know the famous michiganders we know them by heart yeah we do we got Bob Seager we got Bob Seager king of all Kings Ted Nan yep we got oh oh two and two the host of Love connection oh I actually saw him at a Coney Island wearing a camel hair full length he looked gorgeous Chuck wry Chuck woy yeah there it is I knew it was in there we're going to skip all the motom people cuz we don't have the time Jeff Daniels Jeff Daniels we love our Jeff yes we sure do Eminem Eminem Kid Rock Kid Rock mhm all right so this group of people who do you think I might had a rough interaction I mean I know who I'm thinking of by the way this is before anyone was even outspokenly political yeah before the Bud Lights of it all yeah way before this is a birthday party 15 years ago swinging around okay so you got it we don't have that flag there we left at the jewel of Detroit Jack White oh yeah I introduced him at the train station reing ceremony oh my gosh you were at that I was at that first time came out like I introduced like a person they were part of the history of Detroit and then they had me come back out to introduce Jack White and they sent me out oh no first I came out to introduce no that's that's right sorry I'm just remembering it and time this is me coming I think you should leave no no and um and then no but then oh yeah no yes because yes definitive every time you think you got it oh oh no no this is exactly but the producer says all right and go now and I go out there and I'm standing there and Jack White's still going and he's like I'm like I'm just like standing out there in the middle of like what do you do that's cool in that situation tap your to like rock your head devil horns like I'm part of this too take your shirt off exactly just start doing push-ups oh yeah so you were more out there maybe to go and give it up for Jack okay not an introduction whatever we I did I was supposed to do both so I'm like ladies and gentlemen Jack what in fact that's what it was the guy and I come out and we introduce Jack and then I come back out again and I C to this video thing booking Jack book ending Jack White okay and man yeah you can feel nice and awkward huh boy similarly I brought out Nate Dog and Warren G oh yeah in Anaheim at a concert and I felt that similar how do I play all this you're right what is my exact and I Swang for the fences man sometimes you got to okay Detroit 1984 what's it called the something Edison District Boston Edison so I know this area well cuz it's bordered by Woodward yes yep and so I constantly would be driving down Woodward to go downtown yeah there's all these really cool old neighborhoods just to the west of Woodward so many Boston is where I grew up so it's like the old historic homes and they were built by these people in the early 1900s that had come to what was then Silicon Valley and they were hugely successful you had like Fisher body family and all these suppliers they built these really cool grandiose homes but in ' 84 it's like four would be completely empty three would be working and great it was a very unique scene no so even by 84 Boston Edison was pretty full very well manicured and maintained I think by 2000 something houses start becoming a little bit more empty there because the houses are empty they keep on getting broken into people stealing copper out of the houses and all the plumbing that's demoral like when the copper is the most valuable thing the easiest valuable thing that you can get in and get out but like now recently it's unreal and I'll be the first to admit I was not optimistic so I lived down at Griswald right by lafay at Cony Island in 94 if that was not the ner of it it has to be approaching it it was wild when I left and moved to California '95 I was like thoughts and prayers I don't know how this turns around yeah and then I was back like 3 years ago I just drove by the old place it's [ __ ] gorgeous as a Farmers Market I'm like wow I didn't see this coming the idea of trying to just casually buy property in downtown Detroit forget about it it's so popular and they're spending so much on it it looks so great it's so like walkable what of the dog whistle term so walkable so safe you know they spell it with three W exactly they spell walkable W ha a l k walkable if you know what I mean that's what I observed I saw more white people at this farmers market when I was there three years ago than I had seen the entire time I lived in Detroit I'm like is there a festival yeah no the Greeks are down here the Greeks are down here it used to be that this would happened during a Dave Matthews Band concert and they would come to C Park and then please maybe St L yet tear that place up te that place up really show up and show their asses and get out of there show their asses Second City was downtown at the hockey Town Cafe right next to Fox right across from America we would be there all the time so we'd be downtown all the time really you would see people come in to come to the fox or to Tigers game Joe leis for a hockey game and then party and then like as soon as those shows were done traffic to get out of there but now there's so much to do plus all the games are there just right on top of each other and so it's just bustling wild yeah yeah okay you have had to talk about this so much and I'm going to try to spare you repeating all the stuff but certainly I need to know what it's like going to Ghana a lot when you're a kid your grandpa he's a chief he had some leverage and some stat I'm sorry can I back up when did your mom get to Detroit 77 is when she would have gotten to Detroit okay and what age was she when she came she' have been 32 no that's not right 1949 28 28 okay is that right yeah 49 make sure is 49 my mom just had her 70th oh no then she was born in4 54 45 now my dad is 45 wow you know what I came out in the middle of Jack White now that I think about it it came out in the middle middle of Jack White and then like oh no wait if the Jack White was 7even minutes I came out 3 minutes in 29 seconds so that's not exactly the middle but it's pretty close as close as you could be but including foot steps I was out there during the middle okay so she she was like let's say early 30s I'm just going to say 31 and what was her what was her goal my dad met my mom in Ghana and brought her what was he doing down there is he from Detroit he's from Detroit how many generations 1920 I think is when the Richardsons came from Alabama okay so he's been there for three generations what is he doing in Ghana my dad worked for the Burger King corporation he helped open the first Burger King in Harlem in like the early 70s retired from Burger King and then moved back to Detroit bought a house one day his phone rings this is 1976 and he answers it lady on the phone's like hey is Barbara there this is the number I have bar supposed to pick me up from the airport my dad's like where from say Africa Africa my dad starts talking to this woman on the phone for like a half hour and then finally he's like you know what I'm going to come pick you up so he drives to the airport picks this woman up from the airport and on the way back she's like you got to go to Africa you got to go to Ghana I'm just coming from there it's great when you go to Ghana look for this man his name is Mr RFI he loves Americans no your grandpa check it out mhm oh my God whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa and really quick do I got to contextualize all that so he's retired so he's feeling maybe adventurous or what's happening in the second stage of his life he very impulsive present him with a good adventure and he's like yes I will do this okay great so then you know he goes travels all over West Africa then finishes his trip in Ghana looks for this guy Mr RFI everybody's like oh we we big Mano so he finds this office building talks secr I'm here to see Mr RFI my name's Lamar Richardson she's like oh okay calls him up say oh okay he's excited to see you uh he's been expecting to see you but he's in the middle of a meeting why don't you like hang out and talk here with me for a little bit goes up to see Mr RFI oh wow I'm so excited to see you I love Americans it's great but I'm very busy why don't you come to my house for dinner oh so he's like yeah sure great on his way out he talks to the secretary and his way and he's like uh I'm only in town for like another week or so but maybe we can dinner sometime and she's like okay oh this is like a house H you know it's wild wow and look who comes down for supper exactly at the table was like that's his daughter he didn't know and so they spent the rest of their time and Ghana together this is so story book it really is and you're against marriage after all that dare you is that well it'll never match it w wow so he goes to dinner at the house and and then your mom's there and they fall in love your grandpa is he signed off on this or is he a little bit like hey slow down fast Westerner slow down fast Wester for sure so then he goes back to to Detroit then they would rendevu in London you know she have to do stuff in London very important and hang out hold on a second I do have to say this is a very dangerous way to fall in love yes it is very heightened very heightened very heightened you're only meeting on vacation in a foreign city you both love yep you met on a vacation all your dating was on other every vacation is on a honeymoon yes yes yes yes yes yes so then he proposes and they go back to Detroit and then my grandfather finds out everybody in my family in Detroit is like okay R's coming so everybody on my dad's side of the family gather at the house you know everybody's like dressed in their finest clothes I have to point out the parallel you must ha it the movie yes I remember when they had the apartment Coming to America to America yes I'm sorry it's very similar I tell you it's even more similar he opens a dowels I wish was burgering okay okay I don't want to get out of myself so everybody's there everybody's ready to really impress this man he flies in it's a stormy day police escort where are they living at the time they're living in Boston this is at the Boston house he comes in meets everybody he's like a little story talks to everybody and then they prepared him like a place day was like all right I must be off I have business so then he leaves he was there for a couple hours because he couldn't stand there you know yeah yeah he had business at the Runa Sun Center exactly had to go watch a movie got to stay somewhere Star Wars just came out I got to see that did they woo him they wooed him and my grandfather also loved Americans so he was like excited anyway sure sure sure he had an American son he us to always call my dad a bush man he always tease my dad he led like American call like blue jeans your father's a Bushman he I'm like cool I know what that means now your mom I'm presuming she left a pretty comfortable lifestyle yes and she didn't moved in Manhattan we just described at painful detail the scene in Detroit very Stark difference from the ghanan lifestyle that she was living and used to because it's also Ghana and London CU like she went to boarding school in London my grandfather was like a member of parliament your dad must be very charismatic well I mean Apple in the tree and is not too far not too far but yes he's one of the most charismatic men in the world so wait did Grandpa then helped dad buy a Burger King is that where you were going with that story he had already done the Burger King he retired from Burger King but just the parallels and then they opened a restaurant together my mom and dad opened a restaurant together right in downtown Detroit it's called ginami House Restaurant on grit and you guys lived above it yeah we had an apartment directly above it I would have been 3 years old but I just remember that restaurant so well and I can remember watching old Superman videos the F your brother Superman and I would just I don't know where going jumping out the Second Story window kind of yeah of course all the void all the void and this is very nosy but where does Dad get the money to open up an Outback so the Outback money comes from a few places but mostly my mom and I think we kind of put everything that we had into that Outback what location was it so we tried to open it in down town for the longest time red tape couldn't do it found a site in Southfield open in like a few months yes of course Southfield loves business Southfield loves business 9 m in Greenfield that's where my father was at slinging those Fords virtually right there yeah okay and then you went to ufd and that's a Jesuit school y I didn't know that till today I know ufd they always have a good football team and good sports teams but I didn't realize it was a Jesuit school and we've interviewed a few people that went to Jesuit schools and they loved it I really did the approach to education was very real am I right to summarize that their approach is you are encouraged to challenge things yes if I didn't understand how something worked I could talk about it but I was also a bad student I think I'm pretty smart I would agree so far and lazy as well okay so if I can figure something out I'll just figure it out and I can just kind of do that without paying attention but you can't do that for math unless you're a super genius and I am not so wouldn't do my math homework oh what is this symbol yeah yeah yeah like uh oh well I was super into math until you had to get that certain calculator like the trig calculator and I looked at all the buttons I was like get out of here this is ridiculous I can't learn hieroglyphics to continue on with this education I got overwhelmed graphic calculator graic calculator thing I got it it was like when they upgraded Nintendo and there was too many buttons on it and I was out yep cuz that's the thing if you don't steadily move along with video games especially with Nintendo and then like how the Third di menion was introduced to it and the joystick all of a sudden you can control your view and that was like something so new to video games to control an access of observation but now kids do that innately cuz that's how you learn video games I know but there was a curve you like okay Nintendo 64 oh what Mario can turn his head around or you can make link move his head around and jump and see the sky and I still game so now just do it cuz I just know and all the controls are the same before where it was you know up down left right Abba right yeah Contra Contra yeah you know that one no that was before my tot left right left right up down up down Abba something give you unlimited lives on cont it's a very famous code it makes its way into movies a lot yes it does I always think I don't have children but when it like oh get that screen away from or they're on the iPad again I'm like yes cuz that's how they're going to be able to know how to fly the flying cars it's true cuz they can just do it you're right it is weird it is the future it's like why would you take it although I mean there's a lot of stats that it's bad for their it's definitely bad for them but also you're preparing them to live what in the ' 80s exactly also give them a time machine use their analog everything is touchscreen chairs have touch screens on them yeah when you go get a job presumably it's going to be youing [Music] that stay tuned for more armchair expert if you dare [Music] okay so you like UD what kind of kid are you at school it's all boys which was great because nobody was postering or flexing we were all just like stinky boys hanging out at least not in my experience I was popular that was funny what are you going to do you know I was kind of like in a bunch of different groups I would hang out with skaters with the theater kids Bas was the black achievement Society of Education I wasn't a member of bass cuz I didn't go to the meeting but you know around with them lazy you were in bla you the elf for lazy the elf for lazy exactly but I think mostly theater was your sister's School Mercy Mercy yeah oh yeah I in farington Hills yeah I went to their prom me too was it at the Gross Point Yacht Club yeah yeah same yes it was so I went to Mercy's prom I went to maran's prom and I went to my prom right did I go to another three proms how are you meeting girls if it's an all through theater and that's why I did theater was because I didn't know it was an all boy school when I first joined my parents were moving gu I was supposed to move to London to go to boarding school oh my Lord and then last second very impulsive parents they were like actually were not and I took the entrance exam to to U I went to a friend school which is a small Quaker School that was in Detroit my graduating class was like 15 kids this is a very kaleidoscopic childhood you're in Gone in the Summers you're at a Quaker School for primary you go to a Jesuit school very unique but it doesn't seem like you suffer at all from it's almost tangible when people feel perpetually lost in their Identity or having never been an actual member of the group they were constantly in you don't present that way or do you have any of that like you were in Ghana were you the American there was some of that especially with my family to my cousins in America I was the Gyan kid to my Ghan cousins I was the American exactly and I would laugh just like him no look there's two different Baseline of confidence that can either make you feel very alienated or it can make you feel exotic and interesting and I think that's what it was I have siblings but half siblings I'm my mom's only child so I'm the only one who has this experience I always kind of wish that I had grown up with like a twin so that I can be like are you experiencing this as well yes a control we remember this and then kind of check on each other when we say this no cuz you don't exist I wish I journaled just for facts and just for objectivity yes what was more fun though I didn't appreciate Ghana when I was a kid cuz I was like H where's the Ninja Turtles the new episodes of Saturday morning cartoons but we're also living a very Charmed Life there I also went to an international school in Ghana so I went to a school with like a bunch of Americans and British and French who had probably had really interesting parents they were doing wild and amazing things my best friend parant his parents were from India and they were there for the banks and my friend Alex was from Canada my friend Gert Gert Gert Jan Meer wow he's from Germany or something that would be my guess he Dutch Dutch okay it was truly a Rainbow Coalition yeah and would you live at Grandpa's while you were there there was a few houses so I would stay at my grandfather's house sometimes however when I lived there to go to school for first and second grade as my grandfather was dying oh no I would go back and forth but first and second grade we lived there cuz he was passing and then he passed and so we were like there forget my ignorance are they speaking English there English is the national language in Ghana there was one year all my cousins we just spoke English one year I going back and all of a sudden everybody speaks chewy chewy is like our family language speak it and I'm like wait oh no oh boy I'm D straight up the American now you know they just switched it on you like one day like how' you like you guys download it just overnight hell you know I didn't pay for the upgrade it's like a little outside and at the same time missing those summers in Detroit I'm a little outside they got like inside jokes that I don't have everyone went to see their point and having a little bit of a accent I don't sound exactly like my cousins do either side I guess you get to decide that's rad about me or I feel other all the time yeah I just always had like a confidence I took that it's not like a oh no but it's again oh well I'm interesting to you you know exactly being an only child I make friends really quick and easy cuz I am interested and I'm curious and I also I could bring my Curiosities to new things and people and want to connect yeah you're dying for a sibling exactly did you get to do any of the fun Michigan outdoorsy stuff oh yes for you've gone to the Lakes we had a ma I've never went to ma Island right now it's just been hitting me for at the dog days of summer I'm like I have not been on a lake in Michigan this Summer and I got to get there I feel immoral if I don't we had the cottage up north from Michigan you know up north just means north of Detroit and everybody goes up north anything north of Flint is like up I haven't been in so long I used to love we us fish we used to hunt and we used to just do country [ __ ] that's where you feel the tedja come out exactly he's like a leprechaun out there he kind of just floats around and if you catch him you get money you know he lived in the town next to mine and occasionally there'd be spottings of Ted n cuz he had a Bronco that was completely zebra striped he' drive through our town sometimes and people were like Ted nent driving a zebra Bronco through town zebra native to Northern Michigan okay so you ended up going to Wayne State did you stay I did not graduate from way State okay cuz when you get out you know immediately you're going to do comedy they opened that second City up well I don't know what year that would have been but probably right when I was in high school yeah being in theater my friend Pete joks who was a senior and I was a freshman was taking classes at Second City and so I went to see his class show when I was 14 but I knew Second City because i' like always been a fan of Comedy SNL satv of course so I knew everything about ComEd I was like wait second second C's in Detroit yes so I went to see that show and I'm like and so I started taking classes when I was like 15 at Second City Detroit so by the time you graduate high school are you already on stage there by 20 I'm performing wow for people who don't know improv that's very rare most of the time you're starting at that age or later yeah you're approaching some of these records I forget what age Eddie Murphy was on SNL I think he was like 19 I'm like getting reps I'm not in the Second City cast but I'm performing shows there I'm performing shows at Planet Ant theater and amp dram while trying to get my theater degree but then it just became so hard I was being punished for doing both and finally was doing a Comedia show at the Planet Ant theater that we'd written and we were rehearsing and like we finally performed it and I was late because I was getting lectured by my professor about doing more things but I told my Dean that I was doing more things I was like is it okay and he was like great opportunities but this professor was like not having it every time we went to humiliate me in front of the class he' stop me and kind of just lecture me I'm like look I'm working I came here to try and do both but finally she's like I don't think you need it having never met the person I hate to guess this but maybe probably threatened that you were talented maybe going somewhere I think so we just had Kirby on formerly Kirby how batist but now just Kirby but she went to acting school in London she had a very similar experience and I said was the subtext you should be so grateful to be here very much finally I was like you know what I'm not coming back and then I just kept floating through Second City in Detroit when do you meet Tim Robinson so I met Tim Robinson early on into the this and I got in his class when I was 18 oh no kidding you started as student teacher started student teacher I was 18 he was 21 okay so he was incredibly young as well going through this fast friends thick as thieves he would sneak me into bars you know not hard in Detroit method was easy get snuck in grab a beer come out and talk to the bouncer a lot get know a beer in my hand so you're like yeah so now you identify me I was regular at this bar called Seven Brothers you should have known that I was 18 years old cuz I would always be like hey can I have a White Russian please oh nice I'm exclusively drinking white Russians like I'm the dude it's because it's like an ice cream so I'm like can you please give me the sweetest nicest thing this dive bar in ham tramy and they would have to go get cream so that I could have my thing because was there so much that they were like well we got to have our cream so Sam can have this white Russians this teen the owner was name was George sposi he just died recently he was like my Sur grandfather essentially I was there's so much we would always hang out he was m Onan man who also had like a thousand lives but he owned this bar so then I had my 21st birthday at seven brothers and George is like happy birthday Sam how old are you and I'm like I'm 21 George he's like you sun he didn't talk to me for like 6 months cuz he was so mad disappointed in his Grand exactly you end up going to Chicago though as well right yes I got hired to work in a second City cruise ship and is that a blast it was a blast cuz I was like 22 I think I turned 23 on this ship what route were you on the Caribbean so we were going to Barbados Samana KML St Lucia how are you not showing back up on the boat hammered for the show or are you we only had show one night 7day cruise we had our show on like Wednesday a 7 o' and a 9:00 show of best of Second City and then we do two shows on Sunday an 8:00 improv show and then like a 10:00 adults improv show oh my Lord so I'm working like 5 hours at the most including like a workshop and then I'm on vacation I'm living on vacation you could probably get trapped in that oh my goodness I felt myself atrophying also I'm 22 mind you oh boy the buffet the buffets if you want to get nasty you spend $20 and then you go to steakhous is all you could eat oh baby $15 for the sushi bar $25 for the French restaurant this is not an exaggeration I went one time with my girlfriend Bri on a family trip and I weighed myself at the hotel in Orlando and I was 185 and then when I got off the boat I weighed myself and I was 198 13 lbs in a week that's a small dog yeah if I had stayed on that boat for another few months I would have come off on a wheelchair my first Cask I did two tours I did two tours dude exactly both five months long with a month in between five months vacation 5 months vacation I had a nickname they called me colossal Sam because I could just sit down like eat be like oh I'll make you pay for $20 for the steakhouse you fools I'll make you Ru the day the chef will be crying when'll be like please stop this was the food for the week I had the same commitment every time I went to S Unlimited chicken wings we'll see we'll see how much oil you have back there what's the policy on banging the gas the other passengers you weren't supposed to of course but we were passengers who had crew status once again you're in a Nether world of identity you're not crew you're not a passenger then I'm like so young would be College time supposed to be at a keger but my keger is at c a free time all of the so young and had young bodies and young excitement there's dancers on the cruise become friends with the bar staff the bar staff exactly D staff exactly all this and they call it ship life as in like what happens on the ship stays on the sh some shady stuff happening also people who were like you're behav like you don't have a home life ooh that's hard cuz when you're at you're not on Earth what a wild experience it really was so I did a five Monon contract and while I was on that first contract 6ity Detroit closed I closed and I didn't save any money cuz I was living like I was on vacation I was making the most money i' ever made like $1,000 a week and I was like I'm rich yes and I'm spending money in Barbados I'm spending money in you know are you gambling at all we're not allowed to gamble actually I'm lying cuz I would gamble when we go to like NASA that's what I'm thinking when you get to shore go into the Atlantis and let it R specifically the Atlantis time I was playing three card poker at the Atlanta and the worst thing ever happened to me I was sitting one seat from the left so I was like second seat I am playing three card poker the guy to my right stands up and the guy sits down to my left the next hand the guy gets a royal flush and I'm like that was my hand oh that was my hand oh man that'll destroy you I think about it every day I have a very similar situation I'm more culpable in that fault it was like Punk did just come out I'm starting to get these weird offers to go do things so one is like do you want to come announce something for Nokia at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on your birthday you can bring friends it's my birthday going to this casino and I'm playing video poker and it deals me a royal flush and I just stare at it and stare at it and stare at it and then I say to Aaron who's there with me I'm like look at this and we don't know what to do we don't know why it's not paying out right and we stare at it for so long and eventually he's like I don't know if I say or he I'm like am I supposed to just hit the cash out or whatever what I was supposed to do is save each one y cuz that's what you do in video poker oh no can you believe that oh no so I had a button and it just went away how about oh three of clubs and this five of Diamonds oh my God I think about that very regularly I would have won $1,200 you feel like asking someone well we stared at it for so long and we're like why isn't it just like why aren't bells and whistles going on and you're like oh this must be something simple let me just push this button and then it oh man that hurts see to mind's words cuz I have some definite personal responsibility you got f it happened to me I was doing everything right and then just like the table had to shut down get a Pit Boss in there and I'm like show that on the camera show him getting up and show him sitting down this is my hand I'd been sitting at that table for like 45 minutes I think it was like $10,000 this guy won I'm so mad still I would have spent all that on booze in Barbados yeah you would you have lost next yeah for real like I can't lose got a hot hand got a hot hand folks play what's the lowest odds thing in this casino I'm going hard at it exactly so I would have gotten this moment you got to get out of here and you got to [ __ ] get going yes cuz I felt myself atrophying I enjoyed it a whole lot but the whole time I was like I got to move to LA even the Improv it became kind of repetitive learns the tricks and I was like trying really hard to not do the tricks but then like everybody wanted to do the tricks it's like it's easy and you know the show will be great they're not a comedy crowd they're checking out this thing for the first time it would drive me nuts cuz we were sketch and they had Windows of improv but then in those improv Windows if there was a suggestion that was similar I would improvise something at 7 o'cl at 9:00 they were trying to like bring it back I'm like no no we did that already so I was really excited to get off the boat then they hired me to the touring company the Second City so then after that second ship I moved to Chicago after two years of that got hired for the main stage wrote two shows on the main stage Tim and I got hired the same day so we got to like write these shows and perform these shows together Awesome every day eight shows a week six days a week we'd go out and drink every night six nights a week and then on Mondays was our off day so then we just hang out at a different bar start earlier start earlier exactly oh I love it wild oh what a time so what age do you get to La and are you afraid to leave there cuz Life's good I was ready to go we ran those shows for a year you're doing the exact same show six days a week eight times a week get the point where you're on autopilot just kind of thinking about my day while I'm like saying comedy lines it got to the point where if you thought about what you're saying you'd mess up you know right not that then we're trying to [ __ ] with each other and then timid left and I was like I'm also cuz I audition for SNL twice I did two screen tests I got was like I was super nervous the first time I didn't know what to expect second time I was like oh okay but I was going to write a third show only because I was like trying to audition again I was like oh well I don't want to do that to my experience at Second City or to my cast is to be here to write audition material I'm going to leave my time is done had Tim gone to SNL Tim hadn't gone to SNL he just left he was still in Chicago he just left the main stage so then I moved to LA February of 2012 28 how quickly from when you get here do you have an agent and you get these six episodes of the office I went there with an agent and managers because of SNL oh okay Allison Jones had come to see my show in Chicago and she's a casting director she's a casting director one of the biggest ones cast the office she cast so much so I went to meet her and she was like I will get you working just come out here so I'm like oh okay and I'd been so close on things as well where I would send in tapes from Chicago I'd get call back and call back and call back where I'm partially improvising and I'd see the sides and these sides had my improv in them you know and then they would go with local hire so then my people were just like all right it's time to move and so I moved and then Allison Jones gets me on the office and then Alison Jones also casts AR rest of episode development but then she also cast vep she really is the greatest she's the greatest cuz you're naming the very best comedic casts ever assembled when you walk into the office and it's the last season they know each other like their siblings are you intimidated are you comfy there I'm learning there I'm intimidated a little bit but I'm like also just very excited I'm taking pictures of myself in the makeup chair the part was supposed to be a little bit bigger than it was I was supposed to come in as Jim's college roommate we start a Sports Management Company together in Philadelphia also like so last season you're going to introduce a new character right lay a lot of track the whole time I'm learning so much about how takes work where to sit for a camera the thing you just said about the auditions I auditioned for commercials for eight years and I never got them but I on several occasions saw the commercial on TV and it had an improv I had done in the thing that was really specific right and go like oh man you didn't hire me but you you took that thing I wish I check for writing then or something I'm freaking starving and you don't have what you want so you're very bitter about it the greatest advice that was ever given to me at the ground Lings as I had done a sketch and then it was very very identically done shortly thereafter on Sant live and it was a very unique thing and I was really wound up about it maybe it was in my mind but this person said to me if you think that's your last great idea you should get a lawyer and Sue and go all the way to the matap but if you think you have infinite great ideas keep rolling 100% that's great advice done it like I to get a lawy okay great I'll take do you have a suggestion of one no great Council my character's name is Anchorman wait two minutes on Alison J I just have to do this before I moved out here I like to learn absolutely everything about everything she was a celebrity to me knowing what she cast all the appat movies all these shows that I was obsessed with when I got to audition for her I was like I made it I don't even have to book it she like a king and queen maker and comedy and she's so nice so nice which is so strange she has the right to be mean or scary C just like little exactly there was a talk ill of someone but I can't I can't remember the name specifically I audition for the CBS showcase about to be in it and then lady who was running it was so rude and I was like I'm not coming back and I didn't I'm excited to make it and have these opportunities but I don't want to sacrifice who you are who I am I'm so freshed I'm not immediately going to like start casting aside the things I think make me yes you had some conviction well that's the advantage of having established yourself very young comedically and you had a point of view when you arrived here it almost sounds like you had some wherewithal to say I want this to be a certain experience regardless of the outcome I really did and I still do this I have like a vision of what I want out of the world or out of my career and I try to do things that match that and I try and avoid things that don't sometimes I can't help but play Monday Morning Quarterback doesn't even work anymore cuz I got Monday Night Football Tuesday Morning quar Tuesday Morning Quarterback and I'm like I should have done that movie I didn't do it if I felt it was going to be the exact same thing I've done before or if I thought that it was going to paint a picture of me in an audience's mind that I couldn't recover from typ cast me when I'm at home I'm like oh I've got 3 weeks off I'm like I shouldn't have three weeks off I want to be on a movie right now I have to fight that I also just always want to be doing it because it's what I love so I have to kind of fight the regrets of my convictions what's the biggest one you have recently there was a movie I don't want to say specifically Wolverine I didn't want to say it yeah $200 million opening 200 mil offered me three points I said I need four and a half for a non- negotiable you know this Matt Damon story was just about to say you know the Matt Damon story he turned down Avatar and he was offered I think 5% of hundreds of millions of of the Fran yes Disney doesn't have of the franchise of like all the movies that were to come I mean insane oh my God yeah incredible right luckily he made his own hundreds of millions but still wow what a thing cuz it wasn't really a script or anything at first and so he was like ah no and I think he had something else that also was going to happen but yes that was a biggie oh my Lord okay so vep for me is when I discover you personally back to your compliment of Allison it's probably the best cast ever outside of myself I agree every person that pops up is a comedy 10 and everybody plays in tandem so well it was such a lightning and a bottle perfectly steered ship I learned so much on the set of vep also about how to behave on set you know you kind of like watch how Julia moves and you watch how Tony moves and everybody respects each other and everybody like really loves each other and then when it comes to Comedy everybody's flowing so when I got cast it was supposed to be for one episode and I remember I get to the table read and I was like okay well I'm going to really have to steal myself for when I do these lines and like everybody kind of pushes through it and remember I read my first line and I got a laugh and they laughed like legitimately and I was like whoo so giving I was invigorated and then to find out that after that the process was that they put the scripts aside and then you go and you reim provise them in like the next room where the writer is writing oh really and I'm like oh well this is Second City this is my skill set and so I was able to do that and then on the day you get the script and the bits of the improvs in there and I'm like I'm valued and it was so much fun that's as good as it gets as an actor you guys shot that in DC sh that in Baltimore oh in Baltimore I joined season 3 so seasons 1 through four were in Baltimore and then it moved to LA for 5 through S were you sad when it was over or you had popped and you really had some opportunities coming off of that so were you anxious to get to those opportunities I would have done vep for the rest of your life of my life I love that show so much I thought we were going to do eight the world made it kind of hard to make a show that Lampoons when politics is like Stranger Than Fiction anything you could write there would be things in an episode we have filmed six months ago and then it happens real life real life a month before the show comes out oh did you write this because of this it's like no also it became a little more stressful to watch the show because it was like this is real now it's not as funny because it's happening and idiocracy had almost the opposite trajectory which is like was too [ __ ] absurd for people to even wrap their head around then more and more was like oh wow this isn't that absurd okay so after that you get to do or during that really that's very cool that they allowed you to be a cast member full-time and do detroiters it it worked out very well because our writer room for detroiters was on the Paramount lot and that's where we shot feet so I was able to in between scenes go sit in the room so it kind of worked out perfectly okay I think I was turned on to detroiters because of the Dietrich Furs commercial yeah and I'm going to try not to make this too esoteric I'm going to try and I don't know if this is unique to Detroit it can't be you can answer me for Atlanta we had so many local commercials and there's such a part of Detroit I was at a blackjack table in Laughlin Nevada 20 years ago and a guy sitting next to me says he's from Detroit and I said me and dog are going down to T right now get a good deal and he immediately started singing that here dog come on dog come on dog and and then Mel far Superstar far better deal fantastic I feel like it was a golden eror of local TV spot it really was and we already talked about but they ran for my entire childhood always the Dedrick for commercial Monica was a woman riding horse in a fur coat and probably nothing else he probably nothing else but they left that up for the imagination but she didn't have like pants on and she's like writing and it's like a kind of slow motion and it's like this person singing o de trick first oh very what's the end of that song drick F from the dick family yes and then you guys really lean in was like ooh d Deo we made Deo wigs Deo wigs which again too if you were in Detroit in the90s four out of every five storefronts was a wig shop more wigs per capita probably than any place on the planet that commercial the grain of that thing it was from like 1972 yeah it was wearing out real time like when I saw it when I was 6 versus 14 the film was degrading it got harder and harder to see these businesses are lasting many many years dri f is was like 1930 you know person been around for a long time like a beaver Trading Company from turn of the century and in an era Where the Fur was really going out of style becoming less double down on it that woman used to see very aspirational on the horse and then oh my God just one last one I want to know if you had seen as a kid a bunch we build them big we build them small we're Father and Son no job too big no job too smallo small no job too big no job too small we're Father and Son we'll do it all wow and Son we'll get it done for any problem you need done no job too big no job too small we're father and son give us a call boom wow and that one was a cartoon and it had like two Lumberjack Builders and they would put pieces of a house together and they build it oh yeah oh God it makes me feel so safe and good I loved it I loved it so much well you passed the test you remembered the words really good but yeah you ever meet someone from Detroit you just yell hey dog and you're going to get the rest come on right nowal so detroiters was just you guys doing that doing local ads so good yep actually in order so I saw you on vep Lov that and then I started watching of course I think you should leave it's is the very best it's the very very best I also love Eric so much but somewhere on the spectrum between Tim and Eric and S alive Tim and Eric were big influences on us we were so into Tim and Eric and are so into Tim Eric that DNA you can see it they were somehow part heaker is in I think you should live and then there's a lot of nods there's an Odin Kirk scene where he's telling the kid about his cars whose cars yeah there's a lot of nods to all the institutions that came before you can tell there's a lot of respect for comedy in it yeah but yeah you hosting the little buff boys competition I think it's about as good as it possibly gets got to come up got to come up when the boss comes up come on look these little boys these little buff bodies so many of those sketches especially my sketches are like 13 minutes long sure sure and it get edited down to like 3 minutes yeah I'm really really envious of you and Tim because to me it feels like me and my best friend Aaron Weekley but he didn't go into show business but like if we're together within 45 seconds we have some joke that's annoying everybody in the room and it's so weirdly esoteric we have such a specific sense of humor it's maddening to everyone else and I'm like oh yeah you got to do that professionally professionally exactly we have to do that on the stage of Second City we have to do that every night yeah man that's hitting the lottery right there so Ted lasso comes along also I got to throw in the Afterparty I say this about you all the time and this is nothing away from anyone else you're always the best thing in anything I see you're always the best thing in everything we watch that you're in we come and we agree and in impossible situations you're always surrounded by incredible people too but yeah Tiff hadish and Ike Baron Holtz and the Afterparty stay tuned for more armchair expert if you dare [Music] so Ted lasso how did that come about and that ends up getting you nominated twice for Amy and then winning one so Joe Kelly co-created detroiters with me and Tim and Zach Cannon and Jason sedus was an executive producer of detroiters he was oh I didn't know that yeah in fact Jason was like you and Tim need to do a show and had Tim met him at SNL so we met him because he would come through Second City he's a second City alumni so he would come and like play the sets and so we would improvise with him so then when Tim went to SNL that's how Tim met Joe and I had met Joe when I came out to LA Joe and Jason worked together at second City Las Vegas the camp was made that way so when we made detroiters it was Tim and Zach who they become writing Partners at SNL and Joe who was also at SNL that time and me so it's got to be a show about the two of them and we were like it's got to be about Detroit so you make the show so years later Joe co-creates Ted lasso with Jason and Bill and Brendan hunt I didn't know Bill at that time well actually and we're saying Bill Lawrence B La yeah bill was a fan of vep kind of a little bit a follow and yeah he's good at DM and people for me I'm like oh my goodness that's a wild scrubs is like one my all times I remember Watching Ted lasso the first season because mid pandemic and I was like I got to see my homies show and I'm watching it and I'm like this is so wonderful and I'm like what can this character s o BNA text Joe I'm like is Sam me and he's like of course buddy oh so they planted the seed before they hired you and Jason was always like oh wouldn't you do something GH I'm like yeah I'll find the thing they sent the character which was like written for me which is also something that was different than anything I'd done before accent excluded he was like able to be charming and then like mean and you have all the status and highest status not give handshakes was like but it's all in charm but playing with that status the whole time time very aware of it but then like trying to act like it's not a thing I love it in the accent you must have grown up imitating mom yeah exactly all my Ghana and family and what I was trying to do with that accent even people I know in Ghana who are like very wealthy and England educated to have that sort of English accent on the ghanan accent just also trying to be somebody so that was like a fun layer to get to put on top of that by the way when you were younger and you were in Ghana would you affect that accent a bit more while you were there how you hear everything or even just like words that aren't the same so instead of saying soft drink or pop or whatever you say mineral can I have mineral like a mineral water me soft drink at me have Minal was it fun winning it aty I didn't expect to win it so when you won you had written something but you're like I'm going to write this but I'm not going to say in my pocket even for Superstition but I was even going through Superstition like is writing it what makes me not win it you know of course it's hard to know what the gods want exactly it's like you got to be humble enough to win it exactly which means if you're super you wouldn't write it but you got to write itly you got to write it so you're not up there being like huh I didn't write it anyway who's out there Tim won and Emy the year before for I think you should leave we see at different tables I see a piece of paper on the floor and I'm like I'm just going to grab that and it's Tim's speech what and I'm like Tim is this yours yes he would have been in so much trouble but I'm the one who finds that speech and I know his handwriting it was very wild no and you're both there and we're both there and so then this time Tim also wins his Emmy so we to win our emys the same day as well I think should pretty wild this is I think you guys should get married you know I want the option okay sausage party I have to say I didn't see the movie but I've watched the TV show at first it starts I'm always looking our kids are 9 and 11 and they're starting to really come online they just completely binged Brooklyn night entire thing they love Kier enthusiasm so it starts and I'm like yeah this is going to be a fun cartoon for us and then all the food starts [ __ ] each other and they [ __ ] each other forever forever forever I can't believe how much of the animation budget is probably funneled just into the [ __ ] cuz it's the most complicated animation they have is all this groin rubbing groin rubbing is like so much specific motions yeah there's no like set assets they don't just replicate the [ __ ] each one is individual [ __ ] creative had you seen the movie I had I saw the movie in the theaters when it came out this was eight years ago and I loved it and you play an orange yeah I play a megalomaniac orange named Julius the reason why he's an orange isn't to parallel a real life dictator but it's because oranges have anuses oh the na looks like a big old butthole does like a prolapse and when we meet you you're getting your salad toss exactly oh wow right off the bat good intro yeah your first line is while getting your it's getting fully rimmed oh my God what's it on Amazon Prime okay wow good for Amazon yeah you're carving out a really great voiceover career I just really love animation and I love voiceover yeah it's kind of as close as you can get to doing sketch without seeming so Broad and terrible as actor it's like where you can let that loose maybe you just do the biggest thing it's countered by just the imagination of whatever the look of the animation is I truly love it so any opportunity I get I want to do it I want to do it well it must be fun I'm envious of this there's debate on whether I want to say jealous or envious I want you to have all this so I don't want you to not have it yes but you are a comedian's comedian you're someone all comedians likee so I imagine you keep getting invited into these camps so it's like now you're invited into cess camp and is that radical I love all the stuff that he does like I did the movie good boys it's a cool Camp to be in cuz funny people who make funny things and are cool genuine people that's who you want to hang out with and who you want to like collaborate with yeah I think the comedy is almost even second as impressive as the work ethic and output of him there's been only a handful of people who had all the different assets yep the output is phenomenal staggering staggering and then he's a full-time Potter fulltime Potter and it's a full-time Pottery business yeah Bo he really counters The Stereotype of a Stoner yeah affable funny Stoner who works so hard and like has his hands in so many different pots p literally yeah three ways Pottery marijuana K yep and business business pod it's rare you get a triple pun very rare I'm very proud of it very very proud of it I think they bring a plaque for me next you're in the new Star Trek the new Star Trek so section 31 it says Star Trek movie I had a really great time I'm a Star Trek fan my whole life so I know every iteration of it the Motion Pictures the Shatner movies theard movies I didn't watch the TV show but I got to say I loved the Chris Pine version love the JJ AB JJ ABS 2009 as we call it you know in a weird way too it's also a little bit of a financial safety net because you do one of these in worst case scenario you can go to these conventions the rest of your life exactly yeah very smart they already wrapped it can I get in there I might sign in a couple head shot down the road who do you play in that so I play a physicist Shape Shifter what's called a camelid this is the second time there's ever been a camelid in Star Trek and the first time was Iman in Star Trek 6 oh wow cool they only do supermodels that's what I'm saying yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's actually very funny with they mod is like this is a shape shifter you want to like look good yeah I'll make myself Iman and me it's like I want to look good I'm going to make myself Sam Richardson I going accept it right you take that in well Sam it's so delightful I thought it would be just like this favorite ride at Cedar Point not the demon drop I'd be lying it's the Magnum Magnum xj220 yes sir I did the demon drop one time in my life I'll never do it again did you put a quarter on your knee I didn't you didn't too scared describe them both that the demon drop is literally just like a freef fall drop they bring you up few hundred feet in the air and then it just Falls yeah and if you put a quarter on your kneecap it'll come up in the air and spin and I think that was in the commercial I think they're everywhere yeah but we'll pretend it only exists acrob because of the age gap for me it'll always be the Gemini well the Gemini I love Gemini roller coaster but just a little too too many sounds that thing makes too much noise the best thing about the Gemini is you're in line for a while it's a hit ride and you're staring at and is an enormous wood roller coaster you're hearing all this creaking and you're staring at the wood and you're like those are pretty thin pieces of wood yeah it's doing a lot of the work of the ride for you getting you scared of the structural Integrity before you get on but only to be way suppressed by the silver stre which is truly dangerous you can fly right out they never updated the restraint system you get air like you go over a hill your feet or your butt is like yeah way off and it's not even a great roller coaster but you're not in there you're basically just sitting on a bleacher is Magnum does it go upside down are you guys upside down roller coasters yes but that wasn't its primary selling point the primary selling point was at the time it was built it was the tallest freef fall and it went the fastest fast and they it held that record for a few I they beat it with the Millennium Force then that one people were like passing outz like so fast as it should be you know there should always be a couple rides there that can hurt you yeah exactly got to respect you got to respect the world did you ever go in matching outfits with a girlfriend I didn't I went in t-shirts with groups with family members I wish I had I know I always saw those couples and I was pretty jealous I didn't put it together but I was there on the prowl yeah no better place C points you're in that line forever and you're like peeping babes and then you're going to cross you're in love with that babe for like 15 minutes and then you see another babe and then you're in love with her for 12 minutes yeah [ __ ] I picked out my babe too soon oh sorry babe can't be got move I got to move on this other babe in my mind that I'll never say hi to the whole world with what a the instant okay well I'm going to land This Plane but I just hope we're somehow in Michigan together at some that could be so fun I really want to go to Cedar Point I want to take my kids I want to Al I haven't been in forever and I just need to go well listen if we plan a trip cuz my other thing was we didn't have any money so you would drive there in the morning then you drive home at night yeah that drive home was perilous my grandpa was rubbing spit in his eyes to stay awake he guzzling coffee God and hitting the shoulder occasionally you know this a long day for the grandparents yeah oh I bet and I always want to stay at one of those hotels yeah me too and I want to go Sam I don't get the biggest room in Sandusky don't you want to go big time in there exactly just really just [ __ ] play all the games show them Rockefeller style yeah give me the pass we we matching outfits I'm truly all for it me too you and your girl Krist and I all four of us four matching outfits [ __ ] all right I'm putting this on like sincere need to make it happen in my lifetime absolutely I'm in all right well Sam this has been great everyone watched sausage party food Topia I feel like the it's shaking yeah yeah I felt shaking yeah right it was shaking yeah it could be any number of things it could be an earthquake it could be the construction that's happening more L it could be we're on a fault line I knowfor so sorry sausage party food Topia on Amazon Prime now Sam come back you're going to be in a thousand more funny things that you'll be the best thing in and we'll want to talk to you again I'll come back anytime all right be well thank you stay tuned for the fact check so you can hear all the facts hour wrong oh pajamas like a grandpa grandpa Jamies gr Grandpa Jamies gramys but then that's confusing yeah gramas gramas yeah cuz you don't like pamas right cuz it's it reminds you it's triggering what it's Spanish well I thought maybe it specifically reminded you of the the um nighttime the Sleep uh nurse yeah cuz she said pamas ew I hate her do you think that was it though is that what was no I didn't know that she said that speaking of Spanish speaking I'm reading a beautiful book right now uhhuh I think you might really like it oh what is it it's called the world I see by Dr I think Fifi Lee f f i lee she's a professor she had a testify in front of Congress about AI she's like a genius Professor but also came here from China in 11th grade so the book is like her personal story paired with like what she learned about computer science so beautifully written and the people that come here and cannot speak and get dropped into High School none of us have ever overcome some like I'm whining about dyslexia like holy [ __ ] if you can survive that yeah I know and she saw some really rough stuff like people me to her well there's like an ESL class she's in and like some boy just brushes some other boy's backpack like barely nothing and the guy explodes and like beats him up really bad in front of everybody and there's blood everywhere and she's like the beating was one thing but how his Spirit was broken after that she has Soul crushing people are so mean to other people I know well it's like chimp crazy you watched have you started it no oh my Lord we had a guest on who suggested this and you freaked out yeah Easter egg uh upcoming guest said are you watching chimp crazy and it's insane I wasn't well I just didn't know but anything labeled chimp I'm going to watch yeah you're in but for anyone who's unaware of it it is by the filmmaker who made Tiger King and it's the same [ __ ] it's the these people who want wild animals there's a type but so then of course this guest who suggested it I text her saying like holy smokes are you right that that's so good and then she sent me an article in the New York Magazine about a completely different story of this woman who got a young chimp they had him for 5 years he was great everyone in town loved him the cops loved him he was a sweetheart and then he became sexually mature oh no and you know what it says in this article how many times do you think male chimps have sex in a day in the wild re you know real guests and I'll tell you what my my guess was 14 I would have guessed 5 to 10 okay they're only awake for 12 hours sure a male chimp has sex 50 times a day Monica F this an animal that's designed have six 50 times a day and that's living in a household with humans and then the the New York Magazine article is fascinating let me see if I can give you the um title of it Travis the Menace o he was the most famous ape in America but to really understand a chimp you have to know his mother what did the mother do really fascinating story this woman I think Born in the 30s in Connecticut has one husband and they get divorced meets another guy they build these businesses together they become pretty wealthy they buy a big compound they're into horses she starts riding horses she has a daughter she loves her daughter they're out and they go to some Rodeo Show in another part of the country to do their barrel racing and they see a chimp riding a a horse and they really like the chimp and then she kind of bonds with the chimp and then the chimp's in the middle of his horse routine and he jumps off his horse and then runs and jumps on her and the audience and gives her a hug and then runs back cuz she gave him um a gummy bear oh yeah so then she contacted ding ding ding the same woman this Doc is about in the this in the I don't know I don't know what year this is maybe 80s or something and um she gets Travis this chimp and she's this very very close relationship with her daughter too and then the daughter oh it's she gets the chimp when her daughter leaves she meets a man and moves away and kind of heart it's heartbreaking to her yeah and then I don't want to ruin the story because it's a twisty and tury and incredible story but it is both about chimps but also what you can take from this article is like life is weirdly long it's short but it's long it's like you can be on top of the mount and they have the business and then and then your daughter leaves and then this person in your life dies and this person gets cancer and then you can just be like you can be at the lowest point after achieving quote safety right and you can be at your darkest hour and then you can get desperate you can make weird decisions and then there can be another upswing you know and then there's this creature they're dealing with this it's it's just wild and life life is precarious it is it is there are car accidents and there are these you know there are Cancers and there's all this stuff yeah yeah it's just very precarious and I guess when I was reading it I was like man when the sun's out you just got to really [ __ ] embrace it and enjoy it I agree I was listening to nobody's listening right my favorite podcast Elizabeth and Andy and they were kind of just talking about this too Elizabeth saw a picture it's a picture it's like from the maybe '90s I guess it's a courtroom and it's husband and wife MH and they're sorting out Beanie Babies oh my God they're getting divorced and dividing up their collection Beanie Babies yes and but it's clear at that time like they thought this was a fortune and so they're like you know so intense and struggling and spending all this time and energy and effort lawers exactly to figure out how to separate these Beanie Babies yeah and they're nothing yeah now they're nothing they're nothing and it's it is such a good metaphor for everything it's like it's nothing yeah the value you place on everything and you buy there's only a few things that are really worth something and those are relationships but other than that like it's all crap like it doesn't it all amounts to nothing when you're dead we're really Easter egging this future guest because she brought up the chimps and then we also got into this a lot it's just really a profound moment when you look at someone's collection of things and they're no longer there to provide the value that they have without them they're just objects that'll get moved to a dump well that's like um on the positive end of it that's like the line and air okay when they say a shoe's just a shoe until someone steps in it oh Michael Jord okay I.E Michael Jordan that's what the movie's about so um I cannot wait you know it's good and well let me ask you this do you like when you can get everything at once or when they do week to week oh I think there's pros and cons to both well ding ding ding to our last fact check about delayed gratification yes I like it all yeah but then I it is nice to have to wait I know cuz like like now I'm really excited for Sunday cuz the new chimp episode comes out look forward to something I think the sweet spot is to jump in halfway through a season yeah so you can binge the first few and then Waites yeah yeah that's smart waight he wait but then it's like remember when we were watching ding ding ding the last dance oh Cedar is calling me pin same okay I talked to him last night talked to him last night yeah for like an hour okay that's my pin so we'll Circle back to that yeah because on the last dance and we were watching we thought there were more remember and then it turned into week to week right that was horrible but gray no oh okay that's in the Tantrum okay okay so yeah so Dr Richard Isaacson who we have had on yeah the show go back and listen that's when we got our blood drawn we did a whole thing he's lovely yeah uh we said he was very playful which he is he is yeah uh he's a preventative neurologist and so he to you know he did all these tests they sent them all out and then he's been in touch about our results and what we need to look into further and yeah so he called me a couple days ago and told me my heart's going to explode at any moment I doubt those were his exact words he did not say that he did not say that but there's some unnerving cholesterol stuff which by the way isn't terribly new we were talking about your cholesterol 3 years ago yeah but he's shocked at the lack of based on what he's seeing intervention yeah have you were advised to go on a St though you had to have been no no you weren't no they're just like you know keep an eye on it and that yeah he's surprised by that uh and he's hooking me up quickly with with a preventative cardiologist to go and like look into all this much further yeah cuz you're I mean you're 36 today but really at the time of this era in your 37 happy birthday again thank you great time just look into it plenty of time yeah it seemed well I'd rather be getting this news if I were you now than at 49 well yeah it seems like I'll be dead if I don't based on the the urgency I mean I'm kidding sort of you know he's done all the research it's so nice I can't believe kind it is he's generous so generous he's such a busy man and he like he's spending a lot of time yeah on all of us it sounds like um but he doesn't know a preventative cardiologist he was just like let's find one basically so then he was just Googling calling yeah and then he emailed this person and like gave the rundown and then they said they would see me and then he was like it is but then he was like maybe you should look at some backups but in case it takes a long time for them to see you and I'm like how bad is this I didn't ask that which I probably should he said he he said not to worry about this not to freak out but there is also some like pre pre pre diabetes things he's seeing well that makes sense because of the family it's all connected it's all fine but you know you know what a thought I had what I'm like what if he's never taken an Indian's blood and like what if these markers are just standard for the Indian population my mom doesn't have it she does have any of these mm she doesn't have high cholesterol only my dad looks like I got a lot of his jeans well I'll say I I knew I knew that before yeah so anywh who I'll keep everyone updated on that on my heart um if it explodes I had a great I've had a great life I really have I've had such a good life and um you know 37 it's pretty good not too bad you're born in the 1300s too bad pretty average um okay so you're speaking to him today too yeah yeah he wants to talk to me about some findings oh I wonder what he found yeah I'll find out it too I guess tell me what he says I will I will what did he say about you uh he said it was pretty boring in my result but my Omega 3s were the worst almost out of anyone that took the study you just take a pill a pill and fish once a week oh do you fish once a we eat I don't eat a lot of fish only at like a restaurant I'll eat he said take a pill and fish once a week well that's good actually it's probably not good it's not great exercise man and he wants me to change my exercise routine zone two I mostly only do high-intensity yeah and he wants me to do L hold on a second this is a news break for me breaking news you you exercise yeah I did Paton like an hour a day five to six days a week no when did this start two years ago you are so secretive Monica and I would have been blabbing about that a pelaton if we were doing the pelaton 5 days a week for an hour or a day we would be we'd be so proud of ourselves we'd be blabbing un I mean only if drama happens like people are won't get out of your way T and you're like oh [ __ ] I don't know what to do he want me to do less of that and do two low intensity and two strength training days yeah he's so into strength training he said the same to me he said I'm under muscle yeah which obviously I don't do any strength training right um but I made an appointment with the trainer you did yes I'm going to start doing it when we get back from New York oh good two days a week you're going to like it no I'm really pissed but it's fine I guess I got to do it trust me I have been under muscled and overmuscled and it physically feels really good I like how it feels for your um your skeletal system like there's something about having that muscle that keeps your oh let's just say this my posture was way worse when I had less muscle yeah I had more pains when I had less muscle like I just have notice that physically makes me feel a lot better when I have more muscle mass yeah that makes sense I mean there's no getting around it we've had a million people say especially for women that it's really important to do yeah it's pretty unrefuted at this point so year seven we're going to do it you and me yeah we'll do it I know what I want to say I read this yesterday that Alex Cooper did you read this got a $125 million deal with serus and I want to say publicly [ __ ] go get it girl I'm so happy for her what a [ __ ] awesome just make your [ __ ] yeah build your thing she did it it's [ __ ] awesome I couldn't be happier for her that's so cool blew the boys away I love it yeah that's really cool good for her we like to hear that mhm all right well let's get into it you got a lunch and I got a Santa Monica that's much later but still what time 4 but that was intentional right cuz you like to spend the evening there yeah it was on purpose now you regret it regret it a little bit oh that's okay I'll figure it out do you have a um do you have a rough night's sleep no okay don't oh stop don't act like I'm crazy for that response anyone who says did you have a rough night's sleep I know what you're saying that you're you are grumpy yeah you're saying that and then you act shocked that I have this reaction that feels gasy really I think it feels generous cuz I don't think you're a grumpy person and so my guess is something happened and you're grumpy and don't want to go to Santa Monica for anymore so my hun is want to go to Santa Monica well you made the appointment at the time you made it you were excited and that seemed like the right move and then now you don't want to do that so I'm like because you might have had a bad night's sleep no because I was generous okay well that's not how I took it okay um also the reason I was excited to or I was happy to do it at 4 is cuz normally Molly and I hang out yeah but is coming back from Hawaii and won't be back until late so now I'm just going to be stuck there for 4 hours and that's now why I regret it gotcha there's there's reasoning behind it okay um and I don't really have any other friends in San Monica well you can't exactly it's like having a friend in Nevada although I I saw my friend from Santa Monica yesterday but he made the effort the Castro drove out after he dropped his baby off at school and we did a hike fun yeah I'm a little mad at him oh why cuzz when he arrived he said oh my God I haven't worked out and um I think he said a year wow for people who don't remember Steve decastro is a stunt man extraordinary one one of my great friends and he also stunt coordinated two of the movies I did he also did some second unit directing on chips he's lovely dude Jiu-Jitsu black belt yeah he said he hasn't worked out he goes and I haven't I haven't done cardio in like a year wow so I'm almost thinking like this is going to be a rough hike like I'm going to have to be going so slow so I go I'm going to throw on my ruck sack and he goes yeah get do something wait yourself down cuz I don't want you to kill me ah and then we we hiked and he chatted the whole time you know it's very hard to chat when you're hiking yeah he was completely fine and I was like you're panting from it wasn't panting but there wasn't much of a gap between our mind you I haven't hiked either since we went away this summer it's been so hot regardless I was like this kid he's a physical Phenom I guess he always has been like he just he hasn't worked out in a year and then he [ __ ] hiked up and he was chatting the whole time and we were going at a pretty good pace and he was completely fine I don't even think he was sweating wow yeah so [ __ ] you congratulations Alex Cooper and [ __ ] you Steve dcastro wow wow wow wow I wonder how his cholesterol is he's probably smart enough to have never checked what you don't know can't hurt you I think this is that's what they say okay so this is for Sam Richardson funny man funny the jewel of Detroit well Chuck Woolery and then him okay yeah and some other people yeah Jeff Jeff Daniels Bob Seager yeah we talked about all these people yeah we talking about Cedar Point my God are you a really quick yeah does are you a little bit curious to go just because you have to admit of any topic that comes out the people that go have gone there they can't shut up about it right it's like the funniest thing like I know it's annoying to you but it's also pretty comedic it's the same reaction every time and people go through the same list of roller coasters it is it would be like if every time a certain restaurant came up in New York everyone went on about it for 15 minutes i' be like I've got to try that restaurant and I guess I'm curious does it not elicit that it doesn't because this is really what it does okay I feel like that that you're G to be so mad but I I feel that hours Six Flags Over Georgia was that uhhuh and so like that is what happens if you talk to people who who went there well Counterpoint we've had a lot of people from Georgia on this show and you guys have talked about Atlanta and Georgia and it's never come up but I don't bring it up I don't say how you been to Six Flags normally let's be honest and truthful normally you say have you been deceit or point and that's what kicks off the conversations perhaps I've never done that I have I can't I'm not gonna go back and listen and there's a hundred at this point conversations about Cedar Point again I gotta I'm y congratulations Alex Cooper [ __ ] you decastro and [ __ ] you Cedar Point oh my God am the amount that I publicize Cedar Point and they have not reached out to give me free passes for my family cuz I'm struggling yeah CU I'm you don't deserve free passes every time you go on now you say you want to go and you want to take a private bit jet there that's my new thing way crazy you got your feet are not on the ground anymore I'm not going to ever do that it's just a funny fantasy in fact it's more fun to have that fantasy than it would be to do that obviously cuz I'd be on the plane like this is a waste of money I mean this is so stupid oh it is yeah yeah I mean if it was real if it was real but but the fantasy of it is fantastic like maybe even wear a suit on the way there yeah I mean sure David Letterman would be so mad if you did that because I wore a suit for that and not his dinner party oh right right that so rude it's so rude ah um anyway I'm not going to do it but I might do it okay I have to say I might do it so that the fantasy works I get it I get it you can't say like if I win the lottery but you don't buy a lottery ticket you still got to buy the lottery ticket yeah that's right but making it clear I don't think you should get free tickets I think they save the free tickets for um a child need orphans or a child in need let's get the orphans they might they might already do that yeah I hope they probably don't well um but they might the orphans aren't well organized as a like voting block that's the problem I know they need foster care that you said you were going to take on as your cause I know how far are you really throwing daggers this got very cruel okay but let me tell tell you something Six Flags was so fun yeah tell me about it what was the best ride well Batman was my favorite okay well you know why I'm saying okay cuz they have that at this Six Flags it's they have Superman and Batman they both that is so different I guarantee um do they have um what's it called Raging Bull no no Riddler's Revenge no do they have the Viper no they don't yes they do they have the Viper that goes one way and then circles back the other way I'm gonna read you the list of roller coasters at the um I think Chicago have that do they have the Georgia coaster Six Flags is McDonald's Cedar points is Emmy burger oh gross so you know what itd be funny is I don't get free tickets from Cedar Point but I get a c McDonald cease and assist I do too I love it so much I love it this is from who from Z Flags so what would be funny is I don't get any free passes from Cedar Point but I do get sued by for defamation for Six Flags they don't need to because I'm here to stick up for Six Flags everyone should go to Six Flags but I do want to get the list of go Six Flags what's it even called this one have American Eagle that's Magic Mountain not the same as six packs Over Georgia no I know did you have the American Eagle at the Georgia one that was the big like Chicago ride no we didn't have that one's cool that's the one that's in vacation that's the white wooden one yeah yeah that's like the Gemini at Cedar Point best amusement park in the world oh I'm so annoyed we're still talking about this okay let me look at six [ __ ] Over Georgia all rides oh first one that comes you want to hear what they have there yeah they have the Riddler's Revenge okay tatuo Wonder Woman okay Twisted Colossus Six Flags that's the Great America I think I think they call it Colossus at Magic M I think so new Revolution Superman Viper apocalypse Batman magic flyer gold rusher F throttle Road Runner Express gold rusher I already read that one but they separated it one was a compound word and this one separated Goliath scream X2 Canyon Blaster Cyclone ninja Green Lantern Goliath flashback kanyon blaster okay what was the Riddler one Riddler's Revenge okay so these are all different because we have Batman the ride we have acrophobia that was a huge ride so apocalypse SC apocalypse well they got one here called apocalypse no we don't have that just the like drop one oh like the demon drop exactly that's my whole point that they're all the same yes that what's at Cedar Point is at Six Flags how dare you okay and you've also said it about Rob Six Flags yeah that's like this at Cedar Point it's all the same well I mean the joke's on me cuz Six Flags bought Cedar Point you know that right I didn't that just happened you've been keeping that silent it's very new wow you know what and certainly now they're not going to send me free tickets okay you know what um you know what Six Flags Magic mountainer whatever doesn't have Georgia scorcher doesn't have that that'd be crazy that was that was the one a great ride what happens there is it metal is it steel you put your feet to the fire it's upside Downs some they're all so many are upside down I don't care about upside down if I'm being honest I love upside down yeah I used to I mean I probably don't anymore oh it would [ __ ] you up yeah probably you know you remember my story with Carly yeah yeah you both interesting it was just the anniversary of that terrible day cuz her birthday was two days ago oh yeah you we rode out there on the Harley we were going to have the best day of Our Lives took one ride and we had to sit on the grass for like an hour and a half cuz we were so sick and then finally we got back on the motorcycle and drove home defeated it was what a disaster is a disaster was embarrassing really I'm embarrassed also we had the Scream Machine that was huge that was probably like your um yeah the Great American Scream Machine was it looks just like the American Eagle okay and then like the one you had at Cedar Point no yeah you already told him that that it was the Gemini greatest roller coaster in the history so anyway I think it's it's a little like hate to say it it's a little like little brother energy what is Cedar Point little brother energy what are you talking about we talk about it we got to talk about see our Point all the time oh wow also is little brother energy a thing or did you just invent it I invented it bird Rhode Island episode because I think Rhode Island has little brother energy and I'm I'm really grossed out by little brother energy You Are I Am you must be grossed out by me because I'm a little brother no it's not I'm a baby little I'm a baby brother it doesn't it's your baby brother Dax hi David can we go to see the point oh my God it's a Baby W oh that's cute listen it's it's not I'm 49 now still Your Baby W oh my God it doesn't actually equate to if you're a baby brother or a little brother it's an energy beta energy is what you're talking about I think it's not it's approving yourself energy and it is uncom like my brother's a little brother but he has zero little brother energy could give a [ __ ] he does not want to he has no lbe yep anyway well so let's Okay so the Scoville scale we talk about that for a second people know this probably but it's it's a measurement of pungency spiciness or heat heat of chili peppers and other substances this isn't going to shock you but I don't fully embrace the Scoville system why because I've done hot ones right I've also gotten like Carolina Reaper I've gotten the chips that are this yeah and so often I'm like well that's interesting the one that was half on the skull system was hotter and everyone agrees this is really weird that everyone agrees oh that that second to last one's the hottest on hot ones yeah it's like a you know a 500,000 Less on the Scoville and I'm like so I guess in my experience it's not well he says with the the host of hot ones he's so cool he is the greatest we we should have him on Def Sean Evans Sean Evans um Sean the host of hot ones says it's actually because it hits in different parts of the mouth and throat and stuff so sometimes even if it's less the place it hits your body reacts more intensely exactly like I do believe there is some chemical they mix with this thing that produces a metric and I do believe that is all correct but I don't know that that chemical compound they use to evaluate it is perfectly paralleling The Human Experience with it yeah I get that okay I'm going to read a little bit okay the scale is named after its creator America oh also recorded in Scoville heat units Shu that seems like that would be on trivia Shu sh people can remember that it's based on the concentration of capsinoids capsinoid caps noise when you do that sometimes you know what it reminds me of little brother in a way um spelling be contestant so they say the same they're like habiter habiter they'll like say it yeah kind of totically while they're working out habash habash habacher origin and then they'll ask question like iteration you know whatever the [ __ ] they say definition maybe they get they get a definition and they can also find out the his like origin but that has a name well place of origin is important because of the way you spell things sure TI in England tire tire you know these [ __ ] Brits t y r e that was on that's crazy that was on a cross word I did the other day like two days ago and I don't do crosswords that often I think they spell leader wrong too I think it might be l i t r e probably yeah um okay Scoville shu capsinoids among which caps I'm probably saying it wrong capsacin is the predominant component so that's what they're measuring yeah concentration of caps capsacin capsacin it's really hard if you saw this c a p s a i c i n you you lost me so long ago I can't even visualize what that was yeah oh an alternative method high performance liquid chromatography hplc can be used to analytically quantify the capsinoid content as an indicator of pungency okay so that's a competitor like Six Flags and yeah what's it called CED Point how dare you you're a piece of you a piece of [ __ ] energ energy if I can say it you have p e oh that sounds like PCOS which I do think I have I don't but I's PCOS it's a a polycystic ovarian syndrome oh well that that came right off the tongue for you yeah I did I know a lot about it sweet bell pepper zero on the scale okay and then pure capin is 16 million oh I want to try that so a habanero is 300,000 Carolina Reaper 2.1 million 2.1 mil okay pepper spray is 5 million ooh yeah I am I feel very fortunate I have two things I feel very fortunate about today one is I've never been sprayed with pepper spray I hope to make it through my whole life without that experience number two I'm applying for Global Entry Aha and the fact that I haven't been arrested is almost impossible I can't even believe shock cuz I even in my own mind I had to really like I know sounds crazy I had to really think about I've certainly had a ton of interaction with police I've been in the back of police cars right I've been questioned by the police they came to my high school to talk to me they came to my front yard to talk to me and I didn't ever get arrested wow and it's I I can't believe I got out of all that addiction without being arrested this is so lucky so lucky and fights and stuff oh my God so many fights yeah it's crazy crazy hello David it's for will ba are 50 years old today still your will Bubba he sounds kind of like oh god oh my Tombstone it's going to say here wise Widow buffer a that's sad there's to been too much death talk lately okay let's talk about some births okay hello it's Bob is that what you were thinking it was similar to hello it's Bob no do we have any money no it sounded like our friend oh her and per yes sounded a little herum perum talks like this oh yeah he's not a little brother he's the only child he sings Yeah I never met any of my family members miss Monica that's why you're my Moma you're such a good mom eka happy birthday to you a thank turn 37 years old he really doesn't let anyone else talk does he he has social awkwardness and developmental things oh you're shining a big old light on it now he wants to retreat into his apartment not come out for a couple weeks that's okay I got television and streaming services there's an incredible documentary about chimpanzees I'm thinking about getting one myself Jesus oh my God okay miss Monica you ever been the theater [Music] [Laughter] point you do have little brother energy I love herum I we we haven't seen him in a while yeah has he been all right it's hard for me to come out in the summertime it's awfully hot outside I like to stay inside the AC condition I think it's the greatest invention of all time that ice cold air blowing as you look out the window people are sweating not you you're inside watching your temp documentary thinking about getting one yourself um I just want to say just just as his M um that he needs to be a little careful saying that there's an invention that's better than what the robot has invented okay cuz he might get upset oh my robot friend yeah what did he invent he claims stuff I don't know if it's real okay but he's confused go on tell me more well hasn't to us I love to learn miss Monica don't worry I'm not like that other man Fredo I'm not going to say anything weird that's fair thank you oh no I see him coming I see him loock knock stop is Miss Monica there e he I need a mommy too for all my feelings I'm hungry should we stop what if I got into some weird do you ever worried you were you couldn't stop but what yeah do you ever have you ever worried that like maybe I'll go into some crazy schizophrenic Loop where all the characters will be talking to each other and then you'll have to run outside and you'll like get my family to come in and try you everyone will be screaming at me but I can't get out of the loop does that ever cross your mind yeah okay you know who hasn't been here in so long but now we're doing it so let's get them all out of the closet Monica I heard you're about to put on some muscle mass get some quadriceps and some triceps and some eltis Miss oh my God are you going to get the pump you know when I get the pump It Feels Like Coming ew that's a direct quote Monica ta it's from the documentary you cross the line that is his words I didn't that's not me I'm just reporting the news as it comes in can I do some facts on yeah okay okay you said other country in other countries people aren't getting married so I wanted to do some marriage rates by country oh that's a fun exercise what do you think's the lowest well this is interesting I think I'm my guess is either going to be New Zealand or like some of these Scandinavian countries it's Qatar I'm surprised well and I I get in trouble suggesting this one guy is snatching up like all the wives and a ton of the men are going unmarried okay so that could be skewing the data okay okay Venezuela is 9 9 6 96 what per un out of 99 like I'm on there's this is the list okay oh this is number of marriages per a thousand population per year by country um this is from The Economist I got to add one thing okay when we're looking at data clearly this data could be reflective too of how young a population is right like if like Japan has a very old population and obviously older people are married at a higher rate than younger people so this like right could be confusing but go ahead yeah uh the United States is 44th on the list it's 5.1 marriages per per what was it per thousand right only five people per a thousand are married per year per year it's not an account for people previously married okay so it's just the the current rate I got you five people get married per year out of every thousand okay seems low doesn't it does seem low Palestine is number one at 10 so it's not like CRA nothing is crazy so that's got the highest rate of marriage Palestine yeah okay okay and what was the last place last place is Qatar 1.4 okay yeah interesting where's kiwi Ville in there okay New Zealand is united king United Kingdom lower than uh the US uh I believe that um Germany Germany I hate to say this Japan 4.1 one lower but again cuz this is R oh yeah so that totally makes sense okay New Zealand what number on the list 70 70 okay do you see any of those Scandinavian countries Norway 71 okay uh Sweden 68 okay who's 69 and that's 3.8 69 South Korea congrats South Korea congrats Alex Cooper congrats [ __ ] you Castro [ __ ] you C can't can't even say it see see okay anyway and you're right there are a lot of the European ones are less than America but America's still halfway like I hate to say this people are going to be very mad that I say this and I say this as a married person I do think it'll evolve away from it I think we're evolving away from it yes yeah so I think like when you look at these countries that are more Progressive you're seeing but you like marriage I love it yeah you say you're it but again this gets into Christmas and all these different things which is do I like marriage I don't know do I like Partnerships and kids do I like families yeah do they need to go to the courthouse and make it official I don't have no I don't care about that was there's a song I don't care about that what is that I don't know it I don't think what was the Teen Witch thing it was um Sabrina no there's a earlier thing that you would know cuz you're closer to Carly although Carly is older than you you going to miss top that yes top that top that I don't give up about that I don't know that it was like a song they sang teen witch 1989 movie Teen Witch 1989 top that top that I don't give about that and they blanked it bleeped it like that was Teenage witches it wasn't adult witches adult witches are nasty hey hey ding ding ding that same guas I know I know I know just air it after this no they have to hang tight okay let was pretty quick on the fire wobby wob just Google got lucky he was only two years old when that came out just a little BBA oh oh okay the code you were talking about Abba left right left right up down up down left wait left right left right up down up down Abba okay so there's a few codes Konami Code Konami code is commonly referred to as the Contra code and sometimes the 30 lives code is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games as well as some non- Konami games um the code has also found a place in popular culture as a reference to the third generation of video game consoles and is present as an Easter egg on a number of websites in the original code the player has to press the following sequence of buttons on the game controller to enable a cheat or for other effects this is up up down down left right left right ba sometimes start and select is added to the sequence oh wow my Contra code was definitely Abba but maybe just the ab's what triggered it and the ba was auxiliary and not necessary and then I would hit select what a the first time you do that it's unreal you've been playing this game you can't get through it you have three lives hit that code and you're like oh I can breathe um Eddie Murphy was on SNL 19 um that's crazy that is crazy um also yeah so Matt Damon was doing born during the Avatar ask okay so he would have had to leave them okay he just has too much Integrity my God okay drick Furs drick fur yeah it's still working it's still up and running still up and running the website Michigan's only it's since 1893 that's pretty awesome yeah legendary warmth they're going to be having their 150th anniversary here in a sec they're older than Ford it's pretty cool so as so far as furs are cool I mean it's cool to have a business that lasts that long absolutely also real quick we talked about vep and we shot baby director on the vep set oh yeah we went to the V set and Morgan was working on it yeah yeah which was really fun yeah like the president's roomal office the oval the Oval Office she was the president for a second I'd love to dust that off see that little baby um well he talked about auditioning for the CBS showcase mhm I also did that yeah I did it too and it was when you back like come back and you have to do an Indian character oh in an [Music] accent what year was that [ __ ] you [ __ ] you girl [ __ ] you Steve dcastro [ __ ] you Cedar Point it would have been God I guess it would have been 2011 or 12ish probably okay mine might have been the ABC showcase I'm not sure it was one of the network showcases I got to just do cuz they came to the ground Lings and saw me and then invited me to do it so I got to just do a sketch that Josh and I had that had been running for a long time oh that's fun yeah it was very fun cuz I was the only one in there that did something that I had written yeah took great pride in that I didn't get anything out of it but it was fun to be invited it was called let's dance and um D dang it's two guys like at a club and somehow they they're like overly mcho and then they're kind of getting into it and then somehow it it turns out they both would love to dance with one another God it was great this is probably the best one we ever wrote um all right well that's it for Sam a nice boy love him great time yeah he's so [ __ ] funny he really is I can't wait to keep watching him all right love you love you [Music]