Mark Foster of Foster the People

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

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Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Musician Mark Foster of Foster the People joins Andy Richter to discuss how “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” (sort of) led to Mark’s musical career, the similarities between comedy and music, protecting your inner child, sobriety, why Foster the People needed to make a joyful record right now, and more. Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER. Listen to "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Channel.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to the three questions I'm your host Andy Richter and this week I'm here with Mark Foster of the band Foster the People and we had a great conversation about his early days in Los Angeles the creative, and a lot more than that.
0:15.0	Be sure to check out Foster the People's new album, Paradise State of Mind.
0:18.8	It's out now.
0:20.2	But before my conversation with Mark, I want to thank everyone who's called into the Andy Richter Collins show so far.
0:25.7	If you want to be a part of this new show, you can find out more information in the description of this episode.
0:32.4	Now, here's my conversation with the very in the description of this episode.
0:32.6	Now, here's my conversation
0:34.4	with the very talented and very interesting Mark Foster. You don't have kids do you know No. Yeah. Yeah. See that's why I can wake up at right at 10 a.m. and still be tired. Right, right. Yep. No, you can be tired at 10 a.m. when you have kids. It's just a different kind of tired.
1:04.0	I feel like I feel like you as a dad you get used to being tired, right? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:11.0	You just learn how to function tired. Yeah, pretty much and it's yeah and it is it's yeah I would say yeah yeah it's it's very rare that you feel and I mean I get I get a good amount of sleep, but it's still it's a lot, you know?
1:28.0	Yeah, it's weird because all the all the dads that I know that are good dads.
1:34.0	Yeah, that's the key.
1:37.0	I'm just like you're a complete badass.
1:40.0	Like I don't know how you function.
1:41.0	Yeah, you could go to bed at like 2 a.m.
1:44.1	still wake up at 6.
1:45.4	Yeah.
1:46.2	And then just go through a whole day.
1:47.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:48.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:51.2	And be completely exhausted, but they seem fine. Yes. But after a while though, you don't, if you, you cannot do the, you can't stay up to 2 o'clock. Like it just becomes physically impossible unless you're you know if you're working then you have to
2:07.2	but like this just like 1030. I'm like fuck it. I cannot stay upright anymore and it's just, and I mean I'm older now, I'm 57, but it's like, you just, you don't, I can't even like the the number of nights in a row that I would be up to like one two three o'clock in the morning. It's just like sure
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