Hi, I'm Anna Marie Cox. Welcome to With Friends Like These. Andy Richter is our guest this week.

His relationship with Conan O'Brien has extended over decades. It has, in fact, lasted

longer than most marriages. Americans stay hitched for an average of eight years, and all

told Andy and Conan it's been an almost 20-year partnership, with a decade in the middle

where they were kind of seeing other people. And that might be the secret. Their relationship

is still evolving. Conan on TBS ends on June 25th, and no one is quite sure what comes next.

Conan's moving to HBO Max. Will Andy join him? As Andy put it, maybe. Still, what's the secret

to a long relationship? Workplace or no? How do you know when it's over? And how does a woke

white guy do the right thing in an era when people say they want to stop hearing from woke

white guys? After Andy, we're going to learn about Brussels sprouts, the animal companion of Podsave

America producer Olivia Martinez. Andy Richter, coming right up.

Andy, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Now, is it Anna Marie or is it Anna?

Oh, God. It's, it's actually Anna. Oh, it's Anna. Okay. It's Anna. It's just Anna. It's just

Anna. I'm sorry. And let's I'm in trouble. In which case, you feel free to put on that second name.

Yeah, yeah. That's probably, yeah, right. That's what your mother uses.

Yes. Yeah. So as we were saying earlier, when we booked you, I just wanted to talk to you,

because I think you're interesting. Thank you. But now I have to I'm one of the few you and me

together. But now I have to ask you about a Conan going away, at least off off of a TBS. Yeah.

Yeah, it's it's it's weird. It's not an unexpected thing. And then actually in many ways,

I think that maybe COVID sort of like I don't think like COVID made the show on TBS go away.

It actually kind of became almost like a a therapeutic ramp, you know, kind of from from one

existence to another, because we couldn't do the show in the studio. And then it became evident that

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