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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Paul F. Tompkins

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Paul F. Tompkins talks with Andy Richter about growing up under the shadow of a contentious marriage, the gradual evolution to performing personal material, and making his mark on the podcasting world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello America or at least the America who is listening to a podcast, even more specifically

0:19.6

this podcast, which is the three questions with Andy Richter, but also today, and I am

0:27.4

very excited about this. My dear old pal Paul F. Tomkens is here. Hi. Hi. How are you? I'm

0:38.5

well. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. This is your milieu. This podcast world is really, you're

0:45.5

the king of podcasts. You get tired of people being like podcast Paul kind of thing or.

0:50.4

No. Well, you know what? That's a new one. I have not heard that before. I just made it up.

0:57.0

Old podcast ball. Here he comes. The Hates Dick Tracy. I hope that like when you're like 90 sitting

1:04.8

in the corner of a tavern every day and shuffle in. That's podcast Paul. What the fuck?

1:11.6

This is bleak picture. Can't stop bleak. You're getting out of the house. You're 90. But I'm 90

1:17.3

and I'm sitting in a tavern every day. But not for a whole day. You know, you go in and you play

1:24.4

Yachtsy with some young people and you regale them with tales of shows. That actually sounds fun.

1:29.5

She doesn't sound nice. Yeah. Well, how are you doing? I haven't talked to you in a long time.

1:38.4

I know. I'm doing okay. I think I'm doing like everybody else is doing. It's up and down and

1:43.9

some days are better than others. It's nice to have things like this to look forward to and feel

1:51.1

busy and that you're doing something different than panicking and wondering what life is going to be

1:57.9

like in the future. Yeah. But I'm doing all right. I'm doing all right. What is your thought?

2:04.4

Because I mean my thought process of what life will be in the future is I have just come to the

2:13.2

conclusion. I need to just stop thinking about it because it's like it's like trying to figure out

2:19.2

who's going to win the 2023 Super Bowl. You know, no fucking way of knowing. Oh, Bill's.

2:25.4

But I try to I pretty much get to that point. I always arrive at that point. Yeah.

2:31.2

Because like where I am now is I have no idea what is going to happen. I truly have no idea

2:36.8

about anything. I mean, but it makes you realize, well, you didn't before either, you know, but you

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