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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. In 2010 Ben Schwartz got a part on the hit NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation.

He played Jean-Ralfiose Sanchez, a former director of the film, and was a director of the

film, The New York Times.

It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. In 2010 Ben Schwartz got a part on the hit NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation.

He played Jean-Ralfiose Sapperstein, an underachieving club kid who personified confidence in chaos.

Tommy T, you just missed the craziest of crazy clubs, girls dancing naked, mom, argument, police, fleeing the

seed, hiding in a dumpster, coming here, crashing on your couch for a week, because technically I'm homeless.

Hey, moustache, I'ma hit the couch, you know I'll be.

Within a couple years Ben's character went from a fun guest star to a genuine sensation,

complete with gifts and clips and memes. And then, a little under a decade later, Ben got the

opportunity to play one of the most iconic fictional characters of all time.

I refer, of course, to Sonic the Hedgehog.

Ben starred alongside Jim Carrey and James Marsden in Sonic the Hedgehog, the 2020 blockbuster,

the role of a lifetime in a film that was dramatically better than it had to be.

Ben has also recently starred in the fun murder mystery show The After Party and on Greg Daniels sitcom Space Force.

And now, well guess what, there's more Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is in theaters now returning America's

favorite, very fast blue creature to the big screen. So we thought we'd dig into the archives to

listen back to my 2020 interview with Ben Schwartz.

If you need a refresher, here is the premise of Sonic the Hedgehog. Our hero, a blue hedgehog,

comes to Earth from another planet. He arrives in a town in rural Montana where James Marsden's character Tom Wakowski lives.

Sonic shows up at Tom's house, startles him so badly that Tom accidentally shoots Sonic with a

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