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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Jason Kander

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Jason Kander joins Andy Richter post traumatic growth, becoming the Secretary of State of Missouri and to talk about his book "Invisible Storm: A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD."

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. You are listening to the three questions. I continue to be Andy Richter.

0:18.6

And I am talking today with one of my Twitter pals, most people on this show and it being

0:24.3

one of my Twitter pals, but most of my Twitter pals are scumbag asshole comedians. Whereas today,

0:35.7

I'm talking to an author and a former office holder. And now, well, it's Jason Kander, who has a

0:46.4

new book out called Invisible Storm, a soldier's memoir of politics and PTSD. And it is pretty

0:53.0

riveting stuff. But I first got to know Jason because you were, everybody was talking about you

0:59.2

running for president back in, I don't know when 2016 wasn't 2018, but I mean, at that point, you know,

1:06.8

who wasn't thinking about running for president in 2018? I wasn't. Oh, Jesus Christ. It's one long

1:12.4

PTA meeting that. Yeah, I think. Oh, man, that is perfectly put. No, you're totally right. Yeah,

1:18.4

you were the one person not thinking about it. The rest of us on the left were all running around,

1:23.4

you know, being in green rooms in Iowa and New Hampshire, given the same speeches over and over again.

1:28.1

Yeah, yeah. Now, had had you or you were were you secretary of state and Missouri at that particular

1:33.6

time? No. So at that time, I was former secretary of state had run that race for the US Senate in 2016,

1:39.9

where, you know, Hillary lost my state by 19 and I lost that day by 2.8. So everybody went, oh,

1:46.6

this guy got like over 100,000 people to vote for Trump and then vote for him while he's still

1:51.5

a progressive like how'd you do that? And then, yeah, yeah, you know, Obama said nice things about

1:56.0

me and the next thing I knew I was ready to run for president, not as if I wasn't like wanting to

2:00.5

anyway. Right, right. That gave me the excuse, I guess. And is that still is that still part of your

2:08.0

long term goals? I know that's one of the questions. So I was just asking is what are your plans?

2:12.1

I had, you know, like what are you going to do? But, but you know, let's get to it quick. Yeah, I get

2:16.4

that question, you know, I'm not very creative. I'm not very creative in my question asking. So,

2:22.4

you know, it's okay. Here's a lot of it. Get it out of the way. Same shit. Yeah. Let's get it out of

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