So my guest today. No, my guest. God damn it. Don't you do that. This is my show. Andy. Come on. All right. Hi, I'm Andy Richter and I'm Jim Gaffergan and this is Andy.

Ask three questions. That is. Oh, what a terrible title that would now if you're unfamiliar with it. Andy, you know, so like we both come from Chicago land. Yes.

Not really Chicago. No, you are from like an ideal where you live is so close to the Indiana. Do it's a beautiful place. It is beautiful. Yeah. It is beautiful. But no one used to live there because it was still mill area. Yeah.

So it was rust belt. So people used to drive from Chicago to Michigan. Yeah. Indiana was the road to Michigan. Yeah, but so I knew people. I knew like some fancy people that had beautiful homes on Indiana. Doons. Yeah.

He just couldn't spend as much time and the closer you got to Gary, the least time you want to spend on the black. That's very racist. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. No, it's very anti. You don't like black people. Fine. Go ahead. Say you're the one that went there. So you're I love the Jackson family and that's where they're from.

You know, you played me. You played my brother on your show on your show. A very similar similar kind of geographic upbringing you had. And it and we probably when people want to make fun of us, they both do the same thing. Yeah. They do the same thing.

There's a Midwestern. Yeah. Yeah. It's like John Malik of that. Yeah. Exactly. Although his seems classier just because he could be Juilliard or wherever the fuck he went. Yeah.

I think you would just other no annoyance. Really? It's carbon. Oh, it was hard. It's probably hard to pull off that attitude in carbon. Yeah. I mean, he was probably not as artistic back then. Right. Right. Well, yeah, no. Hi. Hi, Jim. How are you? I'm good. Yeah. There's a lot of Midwestern whining between the two of us. There certainly is. It's a it's a wide try. Kind of there's a lot of although you and I both anger.

Both kind of I think examples of people that one might not think that guy should be in show business. Right. And yet we are both in show business. Yeah. And I mean bone crushingly successful. Right. Both of us. I will you know, I think of myself as ethnically a tourist. I look like a tourist. And people treat me like a tourist. I've been no matter where you are. Yeah. I've always kind of looked like I'm visiting. Yeah. I'm very white bread. But you know what?

That's not the end of the world. Oh, no, what are you going to do? You can't. There's nothing. Yeah. You can't crawl out of your own pale skin. You know, you can't. And I've always either do feel like as time has gone, at least my attitude about feeling like a haze seed. Yeah. Like I can't do any and I also I still because I can I dress like a toddler as much as I can shorts and a t-shirt or I say like Rosio Donalon vacation. That's sort of my wardrobe too. Right. But I am no longer in the

intimidated going into fancy places being me because fuck those people. Right. Yeah. We were born in the wrong era. Right. We were in what way? I don't know. I just feel as though the doey white guy. It peaked maybe 30 years ago. Whoa. Oh, no, worry. We're ruined. We're still going to ruin the planet. Don't worry. Now we're going to ruin the planet. Yeah. Oh, we're fucking things up big times. You know, good going. I mean, most the senators look like

us still, but that's some of the female senators look like us. Yeah, no, but not for that much longer. Right. No, no, no. It's there's a demographic wave coming right that will be able to, you know, like find the non radioactive places and start encampments there. After whitey. Yeah.

Yeah, I went everything. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Tell me about your childhood in Chesterton. Tell me about your, you were one of many. I was one. I was the youngest of six of six. Now, were you treated as the baby or were you treated as an afterthought? I was treated as the baby. Yeah. I don't have like the fragments of my memory are not like some people do remember most of your. I'm right there with you. There is shit. I just don't remember. I am not good at that. I don't know.

I know there was a coping mechanism to get over rough times. Yeah. But there's things like my brother talks about with absolute clarity. Yeah. I'm like, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Yeah. And there'll be stories about me that something I did and said and, you know, destroyed. And I don't remember that in the slightest. It's, it's so confusing for me because I also being the youngest like there's different kind of adjectives that are put in front of people.

And I've always been kind of resistant to them. But I look at my children because I have five children. And I, you know, my youngest Patrick looks very much like me. And I look exactly like my father who looked exactly like his father. Like the jeans are very weird. So I look at Patrick and I sometimes think, am I like that? Was I like that? Was I as as funny and smart? Yeah. And I don't know.

Because then, you know, among my siblings, you're not going to get a straight answer from them. They're going to bust your balls. Yeah. I mean, even when even people that I went to college with kind of look at me like, I didn't know you were going to be a comedian. And I'm like, yeah, well, I was, you know, studying finance. It's hard to be that funny. But so like as a kid, but I know that I'm kind of a combination of a lot of things. Like I was born in Illinois.

In a raised until like the age of eight in Barrington, Barrington, that's a classy. That's a swanky suburb. It was it was not a swanky then. I'm sure now it's now it's my swanker kind of half rural then it was half rural. It was like the it was a big commute for my dad to Chicago. Yeah.

And so then we moved to Northwest Indiana, which is like, which is Roswell, which is a working class, which was kind of a culture shock.

Was he was he still working in Chicago, taking the job he worked, he started working for a smaller bank in in Indiana, I see in in Northwest Indiana, I see.

So I consider myself very much an Indiana person. And I grew up on, you know, so Russ, where Russ belt meets farmland. So there were many, you know, I went to parties and trailer parks. And I also went to, you know, parties.

And you know, where I sat on a bail of hey, you know, again, but even hearing myself say that, you know, I don't want to exaggerate this. You know, I mean, it's like I grew up in the Russ belt, but I grew up in a nice area. Yeah.

You know, I mean, and I grew up around farmland, but it's not like I wrote a tractor to school. Right. Right.

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