Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the three questions. I'm your host, Andy Richter. And today I am talking to Dan Bukitinsky. You've seen him in scandal, hacks, 24 Legacy, and more. You can see him now, and again, because he was in it before, on the comeback on HBO, here's my conversation with Dan Bukitinsky.

You've been such a good player of our show, 25 words or less.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's right.

I forgot you guys are. Producers on that. Now, what does that mean? It means I developed that game with Mary McCormick and Lisa Kudrow. Uh-huh. And this guy named John Quinn. Yeah. We took the board game and we... Mary had gotten the rights to this board game. Uh-huh. And we spent a year adapting the game for television. Yeah. Pitching it all over town. It took three years. Yeah, yeah. I've never, it was crazy. Yeah. And then we got a pilot, and then a year later, we got 15 episodes, and then a year later, we got a full season. Right, right. And now we've been on for eight seasons. But you're one of our best players. Oh, thank you. No, it's fun. I really love it. And I mean, I do it because it's a fun game and, um, and Meredith. She's just so cool and so great. She's one of the most favorite people I've ever met. I love her. Yeah, yeah. And people do it because of her.

Yeah. No, and I mean, yeah. It's a lot of fun. And then, you know, and she was, it was funny, too,

because she'd plug my podcast, because especially when I was doing 25 words or less much than I'm,

it was the only thing I had to plug because it was so goddamn slow.

Well, did it? And COVID times, too. Yeah, yeah. We were one of the few examples of pivoting for

COVID in a way that actually worked. Yep. So much so that the entire format of our game show changed.

Yes. As a result of, as a result of COVID. Yeah, yeah. Like, we used to be on a, I don't know. I saw clips, right? I never was in the day. Yeah, yeah. With, with, like, couches. Yeah, yeah. And the whole idea was that we'd have four celebrities playing, not two. Yeah. And we would all be talking shit at each other. Yeah. And we did that. Yeah. And then COVID hit, and we changed it to sort of that Hollywood Squares look, which the audiences love. Oh, they do. And now for six seasons, people prefer to see the game being played. Yeah. Faces always forward. Yeah. And everyone can see Meredith and everyone can see the contestants and everyone can see the celebrities and the words. Yeah. And it really makes for better, for us, it's like this was intended to be a living room game. Yeah, yeah. And it's now, I think we've stayed on the air as long as we have because the format looks like that. Right, right. That was like an inadvertent win. Right, right. And everybody getting sick. I think, and I think I did it two or three times before I was in the same building as Meredith Biera.

Oh, she was in her basement.

I know.

I went in basement.

That's a sweet gig.

I couldn't believe it.

I mean, she was literally, when I went to go visit her at her house, we went downstairs.

And I was like, your washing machine is right there.

I go, and then you turn around and it's like the 25 words world, like game show, laundry,

cat litter, wine.

You know, it was so crazy.

There's a lot of great footage of TV weathermen and their cats

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