Hi, Andy Richter here. I'm here again with the three questions and I'm speaking today to a beloved presence on our stage screen both large and small Jason Alexander. Hi.

Hey Andy. How are you? I'm better than most now. It's good. Good. Good. Good. And and and we were just speaking about how this where we're recording this is very much in your neighborhood. This was a delight. I strolled. I literally strolled from my home to yours. It was a delight. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I felt like I was back in New York going, Hey, look at me. It's all welcome. I know it's always great when you can walk somewhere here. Although it does feel weird sometimes. It is a little strange. Yeah. Yeah. The first time I ever came out here with long, long

time ago. I can't remember. I was auditioning for something and I had to go over to the Fox studios and I was staying at a hotel in Beverly Hills and I in on the map. It was like not a big distance. Oh, yeah. So I went, Oh, you know what? I'm just going to walk in. Yeah. And a Beverly Hills police officer as I'm walking with a sport gun on. Can I help you? No. They were very concerned that a stranger was walking in Beverly Hills with a benefit of dog. You know, so it was fairly not a good thing out here. Yeah, no, I have done that.

Well, doing it here and then but in other cities too, like going to Kansas City, picking a restaurant and saying, Oh, look at on the map. It's not that long. And it's like, Oh, no, it's a long walk. Yeah, long walk. Yeah. And in Buffalo, I did that as a young man in Buffalo. And I remember asking a guy who was sitting on the stoop. You know, I'm looking for the such and such restaurant. How far is it? Two, 12 blocks. No, wow. That's a range.

I guess we don't do that. Well, I want to get this right off the top. I asked my new venture. Yes, your new, the thing that'll finally put you on the map. That's right. Yeah. It's about time. People started. You know, we wanted to, we wanted to hop into the podcasting thing before it took off. I don't want to get in with something's flooded. I want to get him an expression. I was I will. I, you know, my agents Johnny come lately. Yeah, incorporated. Because yeah, no, it was already.

I, I mentioned this before in here. I have friends who were truly podcast, but they were, they were pioneers. They were. I would, I went on their podcast and was like, what does that mean podcast? So I was always a little bit hesitant. I can't come in TV boy. And like, I'd like to do one too. But I'm right there with you. Yeah, but then it ended up like, well, everybody's doing them, you know, we've had a fascinating time. It's really.

I'll help you with the plug. It's called really no really. It's really the brainchild of my creative partner, Peter Tilden.

Mm hmm. Who I think I've met. I'm sure you absolutely. Peter was somewhere. He was talking to us. Yeah, 30 years. Yeah. I've had two very failed, but very fun follow-up series. The

science. All them Peter created both of them. Why I'm still with him. I don't know. I'm a glutton for fun. Well, the, you know, three times. That's the charm.

Yeah. So this was really his idea, but the show is. It's a really simple premise. It's just we explore stuff that makes us go really. Yeah.

No, really. And, and the range is extraordinary. Yeah. And we were, we, we actually did a lot of episodes as a proof of concept and then sold it to

I heart. I see. We've only the competition. Oh, I'm so sorry. Yeah. Yeah. But it's also available. Whatever you listen. Of course.

Yes. But we've only I think we've dropped eight or nine. Oh, wow. You know, full episodes on the air. And how many did you do for as the proof of concept? We did about a dozen, but the format changed. I see.

Because we thought, you know, the first one we ever did was based on a Jerry Seinfeld standard premise of his observation about why is it that the, the stall doors in public

restaurants don't come down to the floor. Why can't we have that privacy? He does a great bit about it's a little viewing window for your said belt and your pathetic shoes.

But he, but you know, he never answers the question because he doesn't know the answer. Right. We went. Okay. Funny observation. But yeah, why is that? Yeah. Yeah.

So we found an award-winning public restroom designer. Oh, my God. The answer. And initially when we did that episode, he was our entire episode. We did 40 minutes with that guy. Right.

And he was great. And it was fun. And Peter and I have a fun banter. But we realized that's a lot of time for a single small topic like that. So over the course of developing it to sell it.

The episodes tend to start with something quite small and they balloon up into bigger issues. So that when, when bathroom finally aired, we had three guests on that. And it became about why are we so quick to surrender our privacy? Why are you so cavalier about that? Yeah. And so it, it starts with something kind of silly. And it often gets, you know,

rather, if not, he's significant or thoughtful. Can I guess the reason that they don't go all the way down? Sure. Mopping.

You're, you're the first person to really get it. Yeah. Yeah. So it has to do with it. Unfortunately, in high traffic, public restrooms, the mopping is minimal. What they do is they have almost like a sprayer. Oh, yeah.

And the tile goes up the walls. So they spray over the top of the stalls. Oh, wow. It runs down the walls. It runs across the floor. And you notice there's dreams or the floor. So all these guys are doing a squeegee down. They don't want to have to deal with.

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