Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Aziz Ansari

Aziz Ansari is still using his flip phone, even if he gets lost sometimes. Amy hangs with her former 'Parks and Rec' costar and talks about skipping the first grade, being the first person cast on 'Parks,' and making chicken 65 for Rashida Jones. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Rashida Jones and Aziz AnsariExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, and Aleya Zenieris; lighting director Caroline Jannace; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat SpillaneOriginal Music: Amy MilesPalmolive removes up to 2.5X the grease**vs. leading brand non-concentrated formulaOrder Sephora on Uber Eats today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 1h 8m
Broadcast on: 14 Oct 2025
Audio Format: other

Host: Amy Poehler
Guests: Rashida Jones and Aziz Ansari
Executive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-Berman
For Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel Lovell
For The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, and Aleya Zenieris; lighting director Caroline Jannace; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat Spillane
Original Music: Amy Miles
Palmolive removes up to 2.5X the grease*
*vs. leading brand non-concentrated formula
Order Sephora on Uber Eats today.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is a disaster. Okay. How are you guys over there? Am I the over there? Oh, oh, I can look at your face now. Yay. Oh, you couldn't see me before. It was a side view. Oh, no, it's a terrible view. Oh, it's great. This is just more direct and intimate. Bones. Polos. We just had a tech fiasco. Biasco. We had a snafu. I mean, it still is a miracle that you can talk to each other in live time. Yeah. Like across regions. So I'm going to stick with that story. I still can't believe that we have airplanes. Exactly. Exactly. So there you go. This is a miracle. Our meeting today is a miracle. Where are we talking to you from right now? I'm in my friend. I know this every time I talk to you, I feel like I'm in my friend's sitting room. Okay. In London. Well, what makes a sitting room? What's a sitting restaurant? Lots of places to sit. And kind of no other functionality. Like we were just kind of sitting and staring at each other, you know? You're in London. I'm in London. Oh, I miss you, friend. I miss you too. I'm talking to Aziz today and I'm having a lot of, I'm having a lot of nostalgic feelings today. I feel that I really miss, I really miss us as a cast. Same. And I kind of feel like we are his aunties a little bit. We are definitely. Totally. You especially. But the education of Aziz, I'm sorry. It was sort of like that alternate title for Parks and Recreation. I know him and Plaza feel like they were babies. Our babies. They were our babies that we raised. Our beautiful family. The four of us. Before we get to Aziz who, like you, I think has like a very specific cultured aesthetic. I'm loving the color brown that you're wearing. Thank you so much because somebody told me they didn't like this color. I don't remember what it was. And I was like, I do. I don't know why. It's like very 70s to me. And I was wondering what you think the color of the color of fall is. I always ask Rashida these questions because she knows. She's in the know. Well, there's a there's a palette because you know, like when you have, have you ever done your makeup test where you're like an autumn or a spring or summer? Yeah, I think you're an autumn. You're an autumn. You are such an autumn. I think you're summer, I think. I think you're right. Oh, and I very I wanted very much to be a winter. It's kind of the story of my life. Summer polos. But you love summer. I do. But the colors feel a little,

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