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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Andrew Rannells

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Rannells joins Andy Richter to discuss re-uniting with Josh Gad on Broadway for “Guttenburg! The Musical,” the art of the water-bottle tour, running into Adam Devine in Omaha, Andrew’s new book “Uncle of the Year,” and more. This episode was recorded on July 12, 2023. This episode was recorded on July 12, 2023.

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0:00.0

What I was just checking was is because you're from Omaha. That's correct. And I just interviewed Adam Devine. Oh, yes, from Omaha too. He is also from Omaha. Yeah, we didn't know each other because you are here. No, he's you were gonna say it, but yes, he is younger than I am.

0:29.5

Obviously, everyone's younger than me these days, which is I used to be the young one. And now I'm the oldest all the time. So no, no, no, no. Well, there's older out there. But Adam and I met. We didn't meet until we were both in LA. And then we worked. We worked on the first thing we worked on together was a movie called Why Him with Brian Cranston that we did. We both just had sort of like little parts in and we were on the set together. And then

0:59.5

later we did the intern together with Nancy Myers. And we had a couple. I don't even know. I don't think we had scenes together, but we were on set together a lot and during that process. But and then as it always happens in life, then anytime I went to Omaha for like a holiday or something, I would see him in the airport or I would see him. I get a restaurant like never saw him before, but then all right. Right. Yeah. I think that just happens. It does just happen. But we used to see each other at an airport bar in Omaha called Cracky McGee.

1:29.5

Oh, it's one of those bars that serves crack. Yes, it was a crack bar. An Irish bar. An Irish crack bar. But yes, from Omaha. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we've already started. By the way, this is I'm talking to Andrew Randalls. Who are you? Andrew all the time? Or are you ever Andy? I am. I am Andy at home in Omaha. So I was just I was just in Omaha for 4th of July. And I'm still very much an Andy. But I was just in Omaha. So I was just in Omaha for 4th of July. And I'm still very much an Andy.

1:59.5

But we can't have two Andy's on this interview. Well, I mean, I'm I'm still waiting to see if Andy Williams will be on. Oh, that'd be great. I can't remember if he's still alive. Well, if he's not, that'd be even more of a get. I want to ask him about the whole Coke spoon thing. Well, I mentioned it Omaha. I mean, it's it's actually people hear Omaha and Nebraska. And they think.

2:29.5

New news. Um, when actually it's kind of a bustling metropolis. Is it not? It is. It's a, it's a bustling metropolis. And they, I have to say, every time I go back, I was 19 when I moved. So I was not like fully aware of like what the city had to offer. But over the past, you know, 25 years going back. Um, they really do a nice job of revitalizing like their downtown area and they, I mean, yes, it is a huge there's a big suburban sprawl.

2:59.5

there, but they also, they do a nice job of actually using the space that they have and

3:05.6

using older buildings, and which I appreciate.

3:07.9

I appreciate that they use those old neighborhoods, and now there's a lot of young, fun, little

3:13.9

hipster folk running around.

3:15.7

Yeah, isn't that weird?

3:17.1

It's really weird.

3:18.1

For me, it's more the suburbs of Chicago, but there seem to be hipsters in the suburbs

3:23.1

of Chicago, which I just am like, what are you doing out here?

3:27.7

Shouldn't you be?

3:28.7

No, I guess you could be, you could be a hipster anywhere, it turns out.

3:34.2

Yeah, no, it seems like that, but my son is an artist, he's just finishing up college,

3:42.7

and he talks about how there's amazing art opportunities in Tulsa.

3:48.0

Really?

3:49.0

Yeah, like they are trying to attract artists with incentives or grants or something to

3:55.7

become populate downtown Tulsa, which is not what you'd expect from Tulsa.

4:00.8

No, but that's very cool, I felt like, and I don't know if you felt the same, like when

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