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special edition of Access Podcasts. You know, in the business, we always do special editions when something's going on and we can't do a normal show, so then it becomes a special edition. But I guess this one is special break from an interview, it isn't, I guess. Well, but not really, because what we're gonna do for this special edition is play you back some of our favorite answers from the segment called three Killer Questions. I love it's

my favorite. Now, if you don't know three Killer Questions, that means you probably only listen to the first few minutes of the show, or you only listen to the interview and you don't stick around maybe towards the end of the interview. So rude, So rude. It is rude, shame on you. Thanks for listening. Just keep listening. Share Subscribe, Yeah, share, subscribe to all that Luke comments. Tell your friends listen. So three killer questions Every week I ask three questions.

They're usually the same questions, but I will vary them from time to time based on the guest. And I thought maybe in case people don't know what it is, I would do three killer questions with u Z. I'm so nervous. Why are you nervous? My hands? I don't think I can think of something off the top of my head. I'm not that clever, but I'm gonna try. Okay, my hands are sweating. First question. First question. When I ask everybody if you could listen to a podcast featuring

anybody alive or dead, look at you. I'm like really exciting. So if you could listen to a podcast with any buddy, living or dead, who would be on the show. I'm going to say, Oh my gosh, you were stretching time out with the Peyton Manning. What Yeah, Peyton Manning, he's kind of a quiet, reserved guy. I want to know more about his I really want to know what goes on his head while because I think he's the smartest quarterback that we've ever had, that the NFL has ever had,

maybe Anthony Bourdain. See this is nerve wracking. I'm so feel my hands. They're actually sweaty. They are gross. I interviewed Anthony Bourdain and I did, and I was a complete dufus I was such a fan girl. It's hard not to be around him. I feel like I was terrible with him. I I it was. I thought when I listened back, maybe it wouldn't have been as bad as I thought. It was worse. Oh you know who? Maybe I would want dead? Who's dead? Sorry? R I

P Prince a Prince podcast. Yeah, that would be pretty interesting because he's got a lot of stories. Yeah, and he's already he was already like a pretty quiet guy. Yeah, there we go. I'm just really, I'm so flummix that you would pick out of everybody in the world, maybe you're dead, Like the last podcast, I would want to listen to people. Probably that might be. It might be a good killer. It's actually really funny. Have you seen

him on SNL when he hosted Top ten? Is he funny or is he just did they have somebody right funny stuff for him? Papa John his print commercials. ESPN now wants him as an analyst. Come on, did not listen? Point? Did I like it at all? So? Killer question number two. I don't know which one to ask you. Um, okay,

here's the one. I'll ask you if if you were in your life life, what is the one piece of technology that changed it the most that you remember getting as a new piece of technology that made you go, this is going to change my life. Oh, I don't know. I feel like I've always going on technology, right, So it's not it was not everything felt like amazing because it's just like, okay, yeah. Another thing when I moved

to America, because you're not from America. From America, yeah, from Sri Lanka when we moved because in Sri Lanka we had a computer with the floppies or whatever. The floppy I think it's great that you even know that a year olds don't know what a floppy is. Um. We got a Sega Genesis and that was like life changing to me. Video games was life changing to me

and my brother. We were like what is this because I mean we never I mean we had computer games like that mind Sweep thing on the desktop, but what's the first TV show you saw from America? Oh, Frasier And I still watched Frasier to this day, every day. That was your introduction to American Fraser Seinfeld and um, cheers, I what what? You know? What? That's great? Yeah? Well my mom went to school here too, so she was

like American TV watch. It was like it's dope. Yeah you sound yeah, Okay, the last question, I think we'll go ahead and give you this one. If you're a sandwich personified, if you're any sandwich person not not not your favorite sandwich, but if you were a sandwich personified, what sandwich would you be? So in Sri Lanka, we make this sandwich. It's bread, butter, some sugar, and this like spicy spread that we put on top. I think that would be me. I don't know what it's called,

but I think that's me. I'm a little sweet, I'm a little spicy. I love bread, you know, I'm a little you know. Yeah, it's nice and comforting. That's what I am. I'm comforting. So I would say you're sweet and spicy. Yeah yeah, I got the devilok at the angel on my shoulders, you know, I see both sides. Yeah,

you do. Uh, you get both sides of me too. U. One of the few people that I would say, probably when you talk to former students, are they surprised that I'm I'm as hard a boss as as I am because I know I'm not easy all the time, right, I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think they're surprised. I think they don't think. I think they don't think that you're a hard boss. They just know that you want a lot of out of us because you like know that we have the ability to do it, that

you don't want us to be lazy. That makes me feel good. I feel good by the way he as a former student. I'm still kissing up. I know I forgot we made this four questions because I always asked, what what's the one podcast that you would binge? But the last one you've benched? Oh, it's called Up and Vanished. Yeah, I just found it. One of my best friends was

listening to it, and it's this filmmaker. He's a documentarian and he wanted to make a podcast documentary and he picked a story of a cold case and a Georgia of this woman named Tara who they still haven't solved this case. So he went back and he's trying to figure it out because he was like and he prefaces it with like, you know, I loved Cereal. I love all these things. So not I'm not a podcaster, but

it's actually really really good. Well, we talked to a lot of great people since we've started this podcast, and we're going to hear from them. I think some of the folks that I remember that I'm really looking forward to hearing from, what Well, Phoebe Judge because I'm just awesome that we had her on. Best voice ever, Yeah, the best voice ever. Who are some of the other folks that you're looking forward to? Al Madrigal definitely a magical and you know that whole interview if you want

to go back and listen to it. Folks, it started off a little rocky, yeah, and then it got really good. Yeah. Yeah, a little a little combative at first, maybe I I then it meshed and then it went really well. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. I think I think it's always hard when it's over a phone or something like that make a connection, you know. Yeah. Initially, Um, also Carla Marie and Anthony I thought they were they were like my age, So I was like, yeah, you guys are cool. No, no,

they're great too. Yeah. Um, Seth Lynn Mujan's Alfagari our first episode, I think we'll probably start with that one. And also Bobby Bones. I hope we hear from Bobby Bones during this episode as well. But our very first show that we ever did was featuring Seth and Muson from Mission to zix uh and still one of my favorite shows. They're great and Muson I I do have a giant crush on her. I see her now she's done, like she's she shows up in bit parts. I finally

saw her her bit part on Kimmy Schmidt. Yeah, she's so I just love her. So they were the first ones to do three killer questions, and that's what we're gonna focus on today. I hope you enjoy it. We've got Seth Land you might know him from This American Life, and Muson Zolfagari actress, comedian and just overall awesome lady. And the first one is a question I ask everybody if you were a sandwich personified, not your favorite sandwich,

but like, if you were sandwich, which sandwich would you be? Sethland, let's start with you. Mm hmm, I think not my favorite. But what did I be? I think I would be like a slider, like a small hamburger to the I know I'm going, I'm no, I'm entering very dangerous territory by calling a hamburger a sandwich. I know that I just alienated a lot of people, a lot of a lot of a lot of sandwich definition boundary enthusiasts now

hate the podcast. But yeah, I think a slider just because it's like, it's kind of it's like small, like I'm a pretty small person, and uh and it's um, I don't know, like I guess it's a little bit. Yeah, that's what came to mind, like a slider nice. Uh Yeah. I think I would be a sandwich that my mom used to make me in high school, which is, take the Persian stew that she made for dinner and put

it in between two slices of bread. That's just how I feel sometimes I'm just Persian stew out of place between these breads, trying to pretend to be a sandwich. But I'm not a sandwich. I'm just stew. I think that's my favorite answer to that. Cad you she's your favorite character your favorite answer. It's like, you know, and she was on my favorite show, Kimmy Schmidt. You're just You're just the best. Thank you. What a great podcast. Yeah, I know what I'm gonna tweet about. I'm starting my

Twitter today. Second question. First piece of technology that you said this changed my life. For example, mine was a Sony Walkman. I remember getting it from my brother and being like, oh, my gosh, tapes, this is great. I can listen to, uh, you know, my Asia tape now all over the place. I would think it's because I come from a huge techy family, Like my brothers are techy's, my dad did all. They are all in Silicon Valley.

I just remember my brother, the middle brother, getting like an early Apple like computer and like early nineties and just for me, just my relationship with my brother was just sitting down and watching him play things, and then for the rest of my life sitting down and watching him play video games. And so I was never the player. I was always the observer. So perhaps that's that's why I got into storytelling. Nope, that's not a link. Okay, I tried so hard. Also, an iPhone. iPhones are pretty

pretty changed my life. Um, this is not first, but I do I feel like I for Um, I'm thirty eight years old and I just got my first car last year. Um, and I've never owned a car before, and it's amazing, especially living in Brooklyn, to be able to leave and go to a place where you can hike or just go to the grocery store that's not near the subway. That is yeah, like cheaper and better. So having a car, big big thumbs up to all you people entering middle age. You haven't given it a shot. Lastly,

what was the last podcast that you you binged? Probably Homecoming? I think I listened to all of season when I haven't listened to season two. And oh, although this is I guess it's more of like a news binge, but one of my favorite podcasts in the morning is The Daily with Michael Barbarrow from New York Times. And I think I was gone, I want to like vacation for like two weeks and I came back and I listened to all the news. That's not a good binge. That's

more like, oh God, what happened? Oh got all the worst things? I missed all these things? Uh yeah, what about Um, I've been getting really into song exploder Um, which is, uh, it's a it's a short podcast that

just deconstructs songs. It's like a it's an interview that's not narrated, so it's just the answers from the musician and then the different instrumental parts and vocal parts of the song all separated out, and them talking about the history of the song, and then you just at the end here the complete song, and it's just this like perfect structure and they're like fifteen minutes, so they're really good for like I can listen to the two of them on the way and and even and and even

like artists with things like the Mark Marin Show, like I typically don't I'm not that interested if I'm not interested in the person. But with this, like it's made me appreciate songs I don't think I would like at all if I hadn't just heard the musician tell the story of it. Am here like the bits all separate. One of my favorite podcasts of all time is the show Criminal. I like it for many reasons, but probably number one is the voice behind the show, Phoebe Judge

Number one. What kind of criminal would you be if you were going to be a criminal, I think i'd be I know that i'd be a nonviolent criminal. I think I might be a bank robber because you're not hurting that many people. And I just think the whole idea of escape is so interesting and the planning. I once was able to follow around a bank robber for an episode we did, and I was just so fascinated by the whole thing. And so and I think about that all the time. How would I get away with something?

So I think bank robbery. I have planned so many bank robberies in my head. It's it's disgusting, alright. Question number two, if any criminal alive did did a podcast, who would you want to listen to? I think John Dillinger interesting? Why is that? I don't know. Well, I'm from Chicago, and so I'm pretty intrigued by Chicago crime because I love I Maybe this is the wrong to say.

I love the glamor of his of his crimes. And he would escape up to a little you know, retreats in Wisconsin in the woods, and I just think, you know, I just think John Dillinger, I think I would love to just he burned off his fingerprints. I mean there's wonderful stuff about him. Um, I think him. I would listen to that. And finally, what was the last podcast that you binged? I listened to Stown, which is another podcast kind of about crime. Um. I listened to Stown

and I thought it was wonderful. Today's guest, how magical. So happy to have him on. He's funny, he's on TV, he's in movies. I'm gonna give you the first one. This is a dumb question. I hope you don't find it too dumb. If you're a sandwich personified, what what would it be? Not not your favorite? Like if you were one? What says? Oh yeah, that's a really stupid question, thank you, but uh yeah, I'll play along with it.

Uh probably club. I could see a lot of people saying club A club say I want to simple yet complex and you know, not necessarily the healthiest thing you've ever had, but you know with the bacon turkey. Um yeah, I think it's a club sandwich. I think, uh, did you get that a lot? Though? I feel that I get PP get P b J a lot. See what else do we get grilled cheese? Yeah, I've never I don't think it makes that club before no, no club. No,

you're the first. If you could listen to a podcast featuring any comedians living or dead, who would you want to listen to? Oh? Well, I just I such a big Chappelle fan, So I love Dave Chappelle. I would love to listen to him jiggle podcast and interview people because in terms of his take sort of like Bill Burr, you know, I feel like you're going to get a great take out of Dave. Um. I would just go to my favorite comics and Dana Gould. Dana Gould is

a podcast you can listen to. So yeah, I just I'd love to hear Patrese doing a podcast, Greg Giraldo do a podcast, So probably Patrese and Greg and some sort of back table thing if I could pick anyone, that would be my top one. Patrese and great Geralda. And what was the last podcast that that you binged? Podcast that I binged? Um got so many of my own that I need to listen to that I don't really know. My wife, yeah exactly, I don't. I listen

to all all things comedy podcasts all the time. We um me and my wife listen to show podcasts, so we're very into television, so recently, you know this is through her. We were listening to some thor podcasts, um, and then it's all TV related stuff. So we'll listen to a Stranger Things podcast, West World podcast, Game of Thrones podcasts, so it's all sort of TV companion podcasts what we listened to. And one quickly than that, magical home one quick bonus is there speaking of bad TV?

Is there something that makes you laugh at home that maybe you wouldn't want people to know about, that you'd be shamed of, ashamed of. Oh, we have a sort of running joke in our family where it's like guilty pleasure of music, but I would be ashamed of. People don't. But it is something that totally makes us laugh here because I have two kids, my wife, I play Counting Crows.

Mr Joe owns uh randomly and then we have a well this is not so embarrassing, but my kids when we have to relate somewhere and start playing driving music for me, like sort of baby driver type of thing. So immediately the bluetooth and I drive to Ie the Tiger with my family in the car. On a regular basis, it's a good image to go out on he's naturally syndicated radio host, author, comedian, and host of the Bobby

Cast Bobby Bones. The first one Bobby Bones is if there's anyone in history, living dead that you can hear do a podcast? Who would you like to hear anyone in history do a podcast? And I get to pick the subject. Yeah, this is all you. You're the producer. Whatever you want, more more difficult than than it probably

should be. I could just give an answer. I guess you know what, Man, when I look at I would love to hear Andy Kaufman really talk as a human being and not as one of the characters that he may or may not have been playing like. I would love to hear a Andy Kaufman talks as Andy Kaufman podcast, and he tells me about all of the everything behind all of the bits that he did, all of these

ideas and the stunts, and that's what I was. Andy Kaufman to me is one of the more revolutionary comedic figures, because man, he would take a joke and just beat it to death where it wasn't funny, and then keep beating it till it became funny again. And they'll be able to sit in that spot right where it's like, oh, people don't like it and just sit and know that they're gonna come back around or they're not. That to me is vulnerable and brilliant, and that's what I would want.

Did you watch the Jim Carey documentaries on Netflix right now about the win Man on the Moon. Yes, I watched it. Love that. I mean, I I just feel like those are kindred spirits man for me, like I'm nuts too. I just watched it Saturday, and I meant to watch like I was gonna watch a little bit of it and then go to bed, and I stayed up till one in the morning. It was so fascinating,

such a such a good watch. It's called Jim and Andy and I'm gonna tell you if I worked in that Man on the Moon set with Jim says all that crap. I don't want nuts too, Like I've been so pissed at him, but I mean, like I get I I don't understand why he's like he is, but I get feeling different than everybody, and that's funn I watched that The documents fascinating anyway, because I love any coughman.

I love man on the mood and I like Jim Carrey because of he just lowers his head and goes into things, and so I admire anyone that can do that. But the documentary is fantastic. And I watched another one on Hulu. It was called Too Funny to Fail with Danna Carvey and uh where it was. It's about that show and how Steve Carrell was on it and Stephen Colbert was on it, and you know, the show had

everybody that ended up being fantastic but it bombed. And it's a that's a really great documentary too if you love comedy. Man, We're we are in the glory days of of of network content as far as with Netflix and Hulu. But I just real quick on the sign up with that Jim Carey you know he did that, you know, working radio. We all got that clip when he was being uh at fashion Week and he was saying, oh, none of this is real and and people were like, oh,

Jim Carrey has gone crazy. Well, I haven't watched that documentary. I'm like, no, now, he's right, none of this is real. And I really I feel like I understand Jim Carrey a lot more from watching that documentary. Yeah, is he's so right that he's crazy, that's the question. Like, it's because we found that the craziest people throughout history were the ones that were we're right a lot of times.

I mean, just think about I mean Galileo. I mean we can go to someone who's just we go oh, yes, of course, a great astronomer who the dude was told he was absolutely nuts. And so throughout times it's taken to people with the really crazy. Idea is two, what was the Bill Gates do with Steve Jobs. Let's say it takes someone just crazy and that's so crazy to think they can change the world to actually change the world,

and so Jeff care is nuts. But those are the people that actually end at making things happen, and people who are so nuts that they believe in themselves. So yeah, now we're on a whole different thing where we could spend an hour on. But yes, question number two, what was the one piece of technology you know in your life that you you got and realized this is going to change my life? I mean the easy answers radio.

But I'm gonna not say radio. I'm gonna say, ah, probably whenever my whenever I could take my radio show

and put it over the internet. And so I guess it would be whenever because we started streaming our show and making it a priority before it was fashionable only because not because I was some suits there, but only because I was young and in radio, and they gave me a huge advantage because I was actually living the live life of other twenty three year olds and I wasn't fifty having to adapt, which I always hope that i'm not, because I mean now in my thirties and

I'm hoping I'm not having to adapt to something and it's not quite fitting, and you know, you don't want to lose your your feet into the ground. But I would say the media Player was a huge deal to me because people could hear my show on the internet and we made it a huge priority, and like two thousand and four, whenever, in two thousand and five, whenever, it really wasn't. Shows weren't doing that. So I'm gonna say, the media player, what was the last podcast you binged?

Um that? I so I don't. I won't beinge a podcast. I will listen to them episode only that's even a word, because I have something I like. Um, I like the the the NPR where they tell you how things came about. I just listened to the one on South with Southwest Carolines, or they tell you how how things are created. I listen to the one UM where they talked about al

Alvin and the chipmunks. But that's a good I know NPR is like a big rival of ours, I guess, but whatever, um, but yeah, so that's probably the one that when people will go, hey, what podcast should I listen to? That's why I send them too, because you don't have to listen to all of them. You can scroll them and you don't have to feel like you

have to binge. You can find something to interest you, just like my Bobby cast like, you can find a writer and artist and interests you and listen to it and you don't have to listen to the next episode or one seven away. You can find someone else that interests you. And so, um, how that that's probably the one that I listened to latest, um I listened. I listened to Ricky Gervais. His um, Ricky gervaisis uh deadly serious?

What everyone on serious? Because I love Ricky Gervais, like Ricky Gerbay's, Adam Krola and Chris rock Can were the funniest living individuals, and so I listened to that one and again I have all the technology, and sometimes the company gets mad at mean if you're talking about other things, but then I'm just ignorant if I'm not talking about other things like I those are the probably tool some to last. And this is a bonus question that I asked.

That is a stupid question. But if you were a sandwich personified, not not your favorite sandwich, but if there was a Bobby Bones sandwich that encompassed you, what would it be? They would probably a freaking white, red Bologney sandwich with just mustard, because there's not a lot to it, but they are very effective. And I think that there's not a lot to me. I'm not the smartest, I'm not the funniest, I'm not to anything nest, but just give me a bed of time and I'll make it work.

And so I'm a freaking Bologna sandwich, hard working, I'll fail you, not a lot of fantishiness to it, and I'm gonna show up every day. So probably a blondie sandwich. We are about to hear a radio fairy tale. Carla Marine and Anthony first question for you guys, if you could listen to anybody do a podcast living You're dead, Who's podcast would you want to listen to? God? God, that would be a good podcast. It would be like, Hey, everybody,

I know everything. Actually, I know I want to say this one, but it's such a cliche girl things to say. Let's say Marilyn Monroe, that girl's got stories. That's not I've never had anybody give that answer before, because you know, I mean, I like, but she better keep it real because I want to know all about JFK and Joe DiMaggio and all those guys. My producer and see a shaking head. She would listen to that podcast. Good to know. I think I just watched the Ric Flair documentary. The third,

I'm sorry, I can't not do that, um you. I feel like an old school wrestler would be cool because they were always on the road, They're always doing crazy things. I feel like that'd be a cool podcast to listen to, especially if it was done like in the eighties, like with those guys or The Rock, because I can listen to anything The Rock does. The second question is I'm gonna ask the I'm gonna ask that them. Ready, I'm gonna ask this question. I get yelled at for this question,

but I like this question. If you are a sandwich personified, what kind of sandwich would you be Tailor him and cheese because we don't have that here and I really want Tiller him and cheese. But how does that exemplify your personality? Because you know what, Tiller him is very rare. There's not much Teller him in the world. Not many people know about Tiller him, but when they meet Taylor Him, they really like Taylor Him. That's me with cheese. Yeah, but you don't do it with egg. No, I don't

need egg. I'm great without egg. Raging psychopaths, are you? Yeah? Exactly, I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, no, I don't need I don't know eggs coming in here blowing up my spot. I'm just Taylor Ham with cheese. How about you, Anthony, Um, I would be you're a meat bassmer. I honestly, dude, just from our conversation and seeing and checking out, I would I would probably say that's something very Jersey like that.

But you go with the blt Why because I think it's it's got your bacon, so it has its little bit of like manliness in there, but it's also gotta listen tomato and I have some very feminine traits as well. Okay, can I just say my my producers? Her face is in her hands, looking down right now, laughing. I've never heard and describe himself any better. Actually write a little bit of bacon, a lot of tomato, I don't know a lot of lettuce. Uh. And finally, guys, what's the

last podcast that you binged? Um? I do a lot. I do listen to a lot of morning shows on demand. Um, but I think the last one I binged actual podcast probably ump last actual pods? Crap? What was it? Was a history one? Oh? Is it micro? I'll look it up as she's so, the last podcast I actual actually binge from beginning to end was s Town And that is just that's a whole another world Thursdays where I'm just like the amount of research and effort he puts

into that is just mind blowing to me. That's a whole another world of podcasting, which is the whole cool part about podcasting is there's so many. But day to day I just listened to other I heart morning shows. I've listened to Anthony's podcast, and I think it was the micro one. I really like that. We just talked about that podcast last week, because well, Mike's I've known Mike a long time. He used to be in San Francisco, and he's so good. He's and he's that guy all

the time. Yeah, and I love I love his boys, and I love listening to talk and the way he takes you through the podcast and tells you a story about something you already know but you don't realize that that's what that story is about. It's incredible. The stuff you missed in history class is one of them. And then Radio Labs has some good stuff too. Love Radio Lab. Love Radio Lab. So good with headphones on a long car trip, exactly. All right, that was great. Another killer

episode O boo. Yeah, we should put that so that maybe all the folks like True Crime was are listening to the show like, oh, killer killer stuff. It must be a true chrome better under crime, pud. I'm excited about how many people love as Town. We hear that a lot when we asked that question, Are you really surprised, I'm not, no, no, no, I'm very happy to um so if you haven't like it's like one of those shows like, yeah, go listen to that, Yeah, go listen

to that. Um but a lot of stuff. I think that you you connected the most with the last interview we heard Anthony. They're the coolest, And I liked her answer for who she would want living or dead to hear a podcast, which was Marilyn Monroe. That's a great one, so juicy. Yeah, it would be. Yes. You can always tell that nobody listens to this podcast before they come on because nobody has answers ready. But yeah, but isn't that kind of fun maybe one day. Yeah, I guess

it wouldn't be as fun if if if they didn't. Anyway, thanks for listening. We promised next week we'll be back on track with the new guest. We've got like six people lined up. It's just a matter of coordinating all the times and all that fun stuff and that ze job she has, so really it's all diss fault if it doesn't work out. Thanks for listening. I want to

thank everybody involved with the show. Of course, we have Don Parker at Katie Bollcox here in San Francisco, and Chris Peterson, who was our our podcast overlord at I Heeart Radio, and special thanks to Casey Franco who did the music, Don Rumbrook who did the artwork for our podcast, our engineers, Horace and Red and David, and I think that's everybody. Oh, I forgot to thank you. See you

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