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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Ken Jennings

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Author and Jeopardy legend Ken Jennings joins Andy Richter to talk about growing up in Seoul, how his Mormon upbringing has shaped his life, and the behind-the-scenes story of his famed Jeopardy run. Plus, Ken discusses how he’s made a career out of his game show success and the importance of creating one’s own niche. This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp (www.betterhelp.com/threequestions code: THREEQUESTIONS), Dashlane, and HelloFresh (www.hellofresh.com/THREEQUESTIONS9 code: THREEQUESTIONS9).

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0:00.0

Hello world, it's Andy Richter. This is the three questions with Andy Richter. I say my

0:18.4

name again because I like to hear it. I'm here today with a name I like to say Ken Jennings,

0:25.4

who is, we're sort of friends, don't you think? By now. I like to say we're friends because you're

0:30.7

more famous than me. I don't know if you say it. I like to say we're friends because I like you.

0:34.6

Oh. And because we have actually spent some face time together. We went to dinner in Portland.

0:40.3

We did. We did at the restaurant, Pock Pock. We got into Pock Pock because the owner's name

0:45.8

sounds similar to yours. And we, therefore, you know him. And we are friends now. We are friends,

0:50.6

he invited me to his wedding in Thailand, which I boy, I wish I could have gone to his wedding in

0:56.4

Thailand. But you know, this makes me jealous because I don't know, for example, Ken Jung.

1:01.0

I don't know. Cat Dennings. How do you just, how do you get on the de-friends of people whose names

1:06.5

are phonetically similar to yours? Well, for those who don't know that there's a guy named Andy

1:11.9

Richter. He's amazing chef. He had a has a very popular Thai restaurant in Portland, long-standing

1:18.0

restaurant called Pock Pock. It's amazing, incredibly authentic Thai food. And he's also written

1:24.3

some absolutely beautiful cookbooks if anybody cares about that kind of thing because I do. But

1:30.1

yeah, his name is Andy Richter, RICKER. And people started addressing him with questions about

1:38.6

the Conan show or comments about his failing career and show business. And there's two good

1:45.0

questions about fish sauce chicken. And people were saying things to me about my restaurant. It's

1:50.2

fantastic. It's fantastic. It really notes about my restaurant. So we then started talking and then

1:56.0

we met and you know, and now, you know, he just was in town actually because he has a new noodle cookbook

2:01.3

and I went and hung out with him and met him. Oh, we got a very good table. Yeah. And he lives in

2:06.6

Thailand for the most part. Yeah, we should get off this. Nobody gives a shit about this except for

2:10.5

this will all get caught. Andy Richter. Yeah. The thing I wanted to say, maybe you'll be too modest to

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