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with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews.

Now here's your host, David Loy.

Hi, and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews.

I'm your host, David Loy.

Thanks for taking the time to join us.

We, Andy, we hear from people all the time. You were laughing before we started. I was laughing. You were laughing. And I said, what are you laughing at? And I said we'd talk about it once we started recording. Okay, so we're recording. So talk about it. Well, a minute ago, before we started recording, you said in a very serious tone, well, you just, I'm not going to repeat it. What did you say?

I said, I'd just feel a little melancholy today. And I'd looked in the mirror and I had a head

like a melon in the face like a color. And that's what I was laughing at. I was picturing you,

setting up that joke, as you so often do, in such a serious tone.

And Matt and I both genuinely said, well, why, Andy? Are you okay?

And of course, you respond with the head like a melon, face like a collie.

That was just, it just reminds me.

No, that's something I've done. I have done that forever.

And I think that, I mean, pre-comedy days, I did that.

I loved setting people up for a punchline.

But I also, in high school, I got, I had the same reputation in high school that I have with my wife,

Pollitt, which is, you know, I'll start with something, like at a dinner party. And I had to,

I had to say to Polly, look, you cannot, you cannot just, like, roll your eyes when I start talking.

You know, I mean, everybody knows that I'm coming out with something. You can't,

you can't do that. And we laugh about it, but in high school, it was that way with almost everybody.

Because I could have come in and said, you know, I could have said, my grandfather just died.

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