Ed Helms

Unlike New York City, which is a pretty serious little metropolis, it's nothing obviously like it is now, but at least there's some society, there's culture, and he didn't think there was any of that in Virginia.

I grew up in the South.

You grew up in where?

I grew up in South Jersey.

I feel like in modern terms, like you can find so much culture anywhere now.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

There's so much going on everywhere.

But at that at this time, I have to think maybe maybe he's right.

They probably Virginia at the time, the colony of Virginia may not have had the artistic community that New York had.

I think he was doing okay by the crown's estimation.

But once he settled into Williamsburg, which was Virginia's capital at the time, Richmond would come later, 1780.

Right.

Lord Dunmore wasted no time stirring the pot.

He allegedly had an affair with a woman who was in court battling her estranged husband, which might sound like just some regular old spicy colonial gossip, except for one tiny detail.

Dunmore was actually the chief justice presiding over this case.

So real statesman energy here.

Yeah, exactly.

I'm being ironic, but the irony is lost on today's society.

Yeah, it sounds less like he was governing a colony and more like he was workshopping a reality show.