SitcomD&D - Introducing: Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim

Episode Date: September 19, 2024

Have a listen to Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim, a new Headgum podcast! Raised by a single mom, Ego Nwodim may have daddy issues, but she suspects you might, too. On Thanks Dad, she invites guests like Bill Burr, Kenan Thompson, Adam Pally, Hasan Minaj, Tim Meadows, Andy Cohen, and many more to be her “Dad for the Day” and has funny, heartfelt conversations with them about their experiences with their own dads and as parents themselves. Each episode wraps up with her getting practical advice from her guests such as how to get the best deal when buying a house, how to know you’ve found “the one,” and how to perfect your jump shot.Subscribe to Thanks Dad on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts and check out new episodes every Monday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, I'm Ego Wodom, and here's a clip from my new podcast, Thanks Dad. Were you in trouble a lot? A lot. Yeah, a lot. What do you think that is? Attention. Yeah. Attention and no outlet for, you know, I was obsessed with Saturday Night Live and stuff very young.

Uh-huh. Like, there's video of me doing, like, De Beers at, like, four years old. Oh, wow. Shock, and I would watch it on repeat. Everything. You know what I mean? Like, so. So I think they're just when you're a kid, like, there's no outlet. Yeah. Like in Skokie. You know, people weren't like. Oh, yeah. You weren't in Illinois. Yeah. People weren't like, oh, yeah, put him in an acting school. You know what I mean? They're like, this kid won't fucking shut up. Yeah. Yeah. You know, so you end up, you know, you'd be like, hey, class, you want to hear my impression? And they'd be like, yes. And the teacher would be like, you're fucking done here. Are all the kids who talk too much in class, like on TV and doing music now?

Maybe, but I think it's definitely in our age. Well, I'm so much older than you. You're old enough to be my dad. I know. I don't think that's true. But Papa bear. Sure. You could have had me.

In my generation. You were just a little, if you lost your virginity at a, at a teenage age. Do you count like paying for sex as virginity loss? So you were, if I say no, then what age would you say you were when you lost your virginity? 31. I knew it I freaking knew it yes no yeah you're right about that

I'm sorry no but I do think our generation talking in class getting in trouble yeah it just was different like now now I feel like because my son both my all my kids have it they're like you know that like that need to like

perform or get a rise out of people and and I see as soon as it happens like the conversation is so different. They're like, Cole has an amazing sense of humor, an amazing timing. Like, you've thought of improv classes?

Which is not a thing a teacher would have said back in the day. It was like, bad kid. Yeah, no. Are you kidding? They're like, yeah,

they're like, no, he's going to need extra time for his test. Yeah. So it's also given the profession, the city you're in. Yes. The profession you're in.

Totally. But still, I do think still it's probably gotten a lot better. It for sure has. And so. Yeah, no, I think you're right. I think we all, were you that way too? I was a talk too much in class.

Talk too much. Families over for the holidays. I'm like putting on a show doing impressions of this. Oh, yeah. Impressions of that. Like Thanksgiving was like showtime. Yeah, for sure. I was like, the audience is, the audience is filling in.

Oh, yeah. I was working on shit, working at workshopping characters beforehand. Like the high holidays, like the rush of shun was like me workshopping. Yeah. For Thanksgiving. I wish I could have been. there. Oh, yeah. I was like, well, only the Jews will see this part. But once I get to the broader audience, it'll really... Stop. All right. Okay, that's all you get for now. But head over to

thanks, Dad, wherever you get your podcast, to listen to the full episode.