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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Ira Madison III

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Writer Ira Madison III talks with Andy Richter about growing up a comic book fan in Milwaukee, his early gigs writing for magazines, and turning a Twitter catchphrase into a podcast with his show “Keep It."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello podcast world. This is Andy Richter and you are listening to the three questions.

0:16.2

And I'm very excited to have somebody that, well, we've met in person at once, but,

0:23.2

you know, we're sort of, we're Twitter pals, we're online pals and it's the very funny and

0:30.9

very witty, I rematis in the third. Hello. Hi Andy. How are you? I'm good. You know, it's

0:38.4

good. We were, I was just saying before this, you're the first person I've interviewed, I think,

0:42.8

that is sitting behind, or sitting in front of lots of books. You know, I'm really trying to

0:48.4

be reading into my brain. You know, yeah, yeah. I made a joke, I made a joke on Twitter. I said,

0:55.5

I would do that with all my on screen stuff, but all my books have the word piss in their title.

1:00.7

So, whenever I've been, whenever I've done my pundit spots on MSNBC, they don't like that.

1:10.6

Now you are a Midwesterner. I am. I'm from Milwaukee. From Milwaukee? As your family

1:16.6

been in Milwaukee for a long time? Or, yeah, since, like the 70s, like 60s or 70s? Yeah, yeah.

1:26.6

And how was that? How has grown up in Milwaukee? Yes, Quaint, you know, Quaint and called a lot of

1:35.5

white people. Not that, in the city actually, Milwaukee actually has a heavily diverse population,

1:45.4

you know, people don't realize that. You know, you would think it's one big beer hall from,

1:51.2

you know, just like what history has been, you know, or the Vernon Shirley Happy Day stuff. You

1:55.9

like, you think, Oh, it's just this. I'm like, well, that was 1952. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a huge

2:02.8

Hispanic population there. Yeah. Yeah. So, were you from downtown, did you live downtown?

2:09.7

Now, well, I lived to the east side of town, like River, like I think River Edge.

2:19.1

Not me calling that the wrong neighborhood. I lived only the east side of town briefly.

2:24.6

Finished in Noah. You get this.

2:27.4

lived only the east side of town briefly. We grew up on like Booster Street and like,

2:31.2

Silver Spring Drive. I lived by this army base because my grandmother was in the army.

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