Hi, everyone. This is the three questions, which you probably know because it's hard to stumble

upon a podcast accidentally on Andy Richter. And I am very excited to have theatrical wonder

kind Mike for bigly here with me today. We've been trying to make this happen for a while and

and I'm very happy that you're here. You're a little under the weather. I'm thrilled. Yeah, I

have just had this cough for two weeks of the five week run in Los Angeles. So that's just been

challenging. You're doing a live show at live show. I was in the comments and yeah. So 40 performances.

And but yeah, it's it's this thing where you just try to make sure that the audience doesn't hear

the coughs. You try to like, you know, hide them here, hide them here. You know, I do have a thing

with my sound guy where he kills the mic when I'm about to cough. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah, it's

like a whole thing. Yeah, yeah. But it's you were describing a off mic. I was like playing hurt.

It's a little bit like that. It is. It is. It's always I um, using my voice for a living.

I had to that was like a transition for me or a sort of evolution for me is just I used to smoke

cigarettes. And I mean, I quit in 2001, I think. Wow. Maybe 2000. I don't remember exactly.

No 2001. And but I would I would lose my voice. Yeah. You know, like two or three times a cold

and flu season. Yeah, I started just feel like, yeah, this is not a good thing. Yeah. This is like,

I don't know, like a football player getting, you know, breaking their leg frequently. Yeah.

And then and then I used to smoke weed too. And I was the same thing. I had it was like, it was like,

I just, I can't smoke because it fucks up with my voice. And it is that thing too of like,

I got it, you know, I could have been TV totally, you know, I had to do this thing.

You're the whole thing when you with when the show was on Broadway a year ago, my whole life

revolved around essentially not getting sick. Yeah, like the whole thing would go all the time.

Yeah. And smoking or smoking weed those, yeah, those will hurt you. Yeah, yeah. But some people

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