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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Adam Rippon

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

American former figure skater Adam Rippon joins Andy Richter to talk about helping raise younger siblings, training for the Olympics, being an openly gay Olympic athlete, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm recording. I'm recording too. I'm recording. We're all recording. Let's start to podcast

0:20.2

everybody. Hi. This is Andy Richter. And you've tuned into the three questions again.

0:29.6

I am lucky enough to talk today to a prodigy to a, I don't know, can you be a prodigy

0:38.0

anymore? Or you were a prodigy? I think when you're in your 30s, you're not really a

0:42.4

prodigy unless it's for, unless it's for like wheelchair races or something probably or

0:48.4

walker races maybe. Yeah, which is really famously known as the second wind of life, a wheelchair

0:54.3

race. No, what I'm speaking to Adam Ripon is rip on right or rip on is completely right.

1:01.6

Yes. All right. Good. Good. Who is you're the first Olympian? I think I've ever spoken

1:07.8

to really I hope not the last two. No, no, this is Bobby. I'll follow them. Yeah. I'll

1:15.7

probably have like the, you know, the women's soccer team on next week and stuff. Yeah.

1:20.2

Helps is, helps is in line. Some on Biles is on, she's on my, I don't, I don't feel like

1:28.1

Michael Phelps would be a good hour. I'm just guessing. I don't know, I don't know

1:34.5

them at all, but I do feel like fair guess. Well, how are you? I've, I'm fantastic. And

1:42.8

I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy we get to chat. This is going to be great. Thank

1:47.8

you. Yeah. We actually, well, you and I have been Twitter pals for a while. Yeah. And

1:54.9

I mean, and I obviously heard about you when most of the country did, which was in 2018

2:01.3

when you became the first out gay Olympian, correct for the US in the winter games. Yes.

2:11.5

Oh, somebody beat you to the summer games. Yeah. And then and I hang up. No, I turned

2:18.9

to dust. No, no, it's just, you know, I guess it's just easier to be gay when the weather's

2:26.4

warm. That's probably the deal. I think that is kind of the natural. That's what they do.

2:31.6

That's kind of like the, um, the motto of the Trevor project. It's, it's easier to be

2:37.1

gay if the weather's warm. If you're in a nice climate, yeah, they always say that it gets

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