Sam Reich

I am also, as you have coached me through a lot over the months and years, Hank, becoming quickly used to the fact that you can't please everybody.

And that, you know, you will have to make decisions that are unpopular sometimes.

And that's okay.

I actually, you know, some people, particularly entertainers, need to be liked by everybody.

And I think some people worry about me in that way because they think that my affable nature means that I would really dislike being unpopular.

And I am actually like totally okay if some people don't like me.

I honestly, like, you know, nepotism, I'm sure, served me even ways that I'm not fully conscious of in, like, all sorts of ways.

But one thing that is really useful is that my dad modeled fame for me.

So I do have someone, like, very close to me out there in the world who's also a public person who, by virtue of his job, deals with controversy at least three times a year.

It probably thickens my skin a little bit.

A hundred percent.

You and I have connected a lot on the topic of Homestar Runner over the years.

Homestar Runner may be like, like hugely responsible for my career taking the direction it has.

Like it was incredibly influential on me.

And something I loved about it was like, it felt like a walled garden of weird that existed at a URL.

Like I could, and I think about how sometimes like.

That resonates.

Yeah.

I wish that I could plant a forest full of weird trees on the internet.

I wish that the internet was still a place where just like there was really fun, mysterious, hopeful stuff that existed a URL away.