It seems impossible that we’d discover a new side of Bob Saget at this point. After all, the man has been almost omnipresent in pop culture and comedy for more than 30 years. He played the consummate, caring family man in Full House and then reprised that role in the recent reboot Fuller House. He had an eight-year run as host of America’s Funniest Home Videos, voicing over blooper reels and inviting viewers everywhere to laugh along in their living rooms. On the opposite end of the humor spectrum, he’s done fearless and profane stand-up for decades, and played a depraved, over-the-top version of himself on Entourage that served as a counterweight to the sanitized, everyone’s-dad role he played as Danny Tanner.

Surely, we know Saget by now. But then came his new podcast: Bob Saget’s Here for You. Since the podcast launched in April, a slew of celebrity guests have appeared on the show, including Judd Apatow, Jay Pharoah, Jeff Garlin, and Jon Hamm. But while there are plenty of laughs on Saget’s show, the conversations are frequently heavy. Recently, he and Regina Hall chatted for more than an hour about the importance of compassion and the failure of American political leadership during the pandemic. There’s also a phone number listed for the pod—562-600-0343—that Saget encourages people to call and leave messages that he regularly includes in the program. That approach yielded an episode when he had conversations with people whose lives have been deeply impacted by COVID-19.