Hi, everyone. It's Andy Richter. You're listening to the three questions. And I am talking today to just a joyous, wonderful, talented, very funny actress. And while I'm in your credits now are like producer.

Director, Earth mover, you know, time changer. But it's Gillian Jacobs. Hi. How are you? Good. It's so good to see you. It's good to see you. It's been a long time. Yeah.

And you're there. I you can't see it out in podcasting world, but you are surrounded by where you have a packing blanket hung behind you. I do. And a beach towel.

Yes. Showbiz people. Welcome to Hollywood. And this is this is you probably had this set up for all of COVID, right? Oh, yes. I've spent I don't want to calculate how many hours I have spent.

Yes. Tiny space. Yeah. Is this in a closet or is it? Yeah. Yeah. Now if you access clothes or is it like just an extra closet that has been given up to to interviews.

You know, it's to the point where when my mother came to visit, I told her she wasn't allowed to bring anything that needed to be hung because she couldn't get in there.

So there's clothing behind these packing blankets, but it's pretty inaccessible at the school. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's great. Well, congratulations.

You really you're really adapted. You really adapted. How has your COVID been? If you, I mean, if you, what have you done? I mean, we're trapped at home by yourself.

I mean, you know, well, I actually have my own podcast that I have been doing from home. So that's been a new thing in my life. Yeah.

And it's called tech related, right? Yeah. Yeah. So I, you know, why make it easy on myself? I chose to co host a podcast in which I interview people who work in STEM. I have no background or education in anything related to STEM. And so I have to

quickly try and cram some research before these interviews with these brilliant accomplished people, but it's also a fun thing. You know, I get to learn a little about a lot of different areas in the world of STEM.

I mean, why, how did that happen? Why did, why did, you know, where you tired of being on hold? It's like, you know, tech support and decided, I'm going to learn.

It's so random. So

six years ago, somewhere around then, I was asked to direct a short documentary about this woman named Grace Hopper, who was a very important person in the early days of computers, starting during World War 2.

And previous to that, I knew nothing about computers. I'd never studied it at all, but I liked the challenge of it. And in doing the documentary, I learned a bit more about the world of STEM. And then once people knew I'd done that, they would say to me, oh, you should know about this person or this heading Lamar, do you know about heading Lamar and frequency, you know.

And so then I started interviewing various people who worked in STEM for like print publications like Glamour magazine.

And then I realized podcasting was actually a great way to talk to a lot of different people. It's, you know, quicker and easier to make than documentary.

And it's been really fun. I don't know. I've just felt this need to keep going. I don't know exactly.

But you still enjoy it. It's not like a thing that's been foisted.

No, no, yeah, I love it. And it makes me much more excited and kind of curious about the world around me.

I realized how much I didn't know about plate tectonics and all kinds of things. It hurts. Yeah, it's been really hurt.

I have those things. Well, you know, we had a paleontologist on who studies avian dinosaurs.

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