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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Busy Philipps

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Busy Philipps joins Andy Richter to talk about sharing the difficult parts of her memoir with her family, abortion advocacy, and leaning into the pivot with her podcast Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. You are tuned into the three questions with Andy Richter and it's not just

0:16.0

Andy Richter. It's busy Phillips. She's here with me. Hi. How are you? I'm good. I see

0:23.6

you're in your closet. We were talking about a minute ago. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. I love it. I think

0:29.2

it's great. I'm in behind. I'm in front of a boring Venetian blind track. Shutters.

0:36.1

Those are shutters. Oh right. Plantation shutters I guess they're called the plant. I don't

0:40.5

know if we still call them that. Yeah. It does seem like to have a connotation but I don't want to

0:47.1

have that connotation. Let's just call them the column white shutters. Tropical shutters. Tropical shutters.

0:52.9

Yeah. They're tropical. They're tropical. Yeah. That's what I had in my bedroom growing up are

0:58.3

those exact shutters. Yeah. It's a little strange for me to look at them right now. I'm not even

1:05.1

kidding. It reminds you of your bedroom. Yeah. Yeah. It's very evocative. It was like the thing that

1:11.9

came with the house I guess were those shutters. Yeah. And houses in Arizona all had those shutters.

1:19.6

Yes. Now you're from Arizona. Correct. Well it was born in Chicago outside Chicago.

1:27.3

Oh right. I knew that and you have a bunch of family there still yeah. And then we moved to

1:33.1

Arizona for my dad's job when I was going into first grade. So what job was that? What is

1:38.4

what does he do? He's a nuclear engineer. He's retired now. Yeah. Yeah. Was he working like a

1:44.0

nuclear power plant or was making oh wow. Cool. He did like safety something. I don't know. I

1:51.9

always thought he was in the CIA kind of like I didn't understand. And he so he worked in

1:56.2

Arizona for years. He was a consultant and he worked and he got you know stations, no not

2:03.6

station transferred to Arizona to the power plant there. And then there were several years like in my

2:10.6

late late preteens early teens I guess that he had to take jobs in other cities. And so he was like

2:19.0

a he commuted. So he lived in like Salt Lake City and came back on the weekends. He lived in

2:26.0

he lived in Kansas at one point. He lived in Michigan. He lived in Florida. And he lived in

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