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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Paula Poundstone

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Paula Poundstone talks with Andy Richter about learning not to “look for peaches in a hardware store”, the joys and pitfalls of working in a nursing home, and working on a pilot with Debbie Reynolds. Check out Paula’s podcast Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone here.

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0:00.0

Oh my gosh, that reminds me of when I was skydiving.

0:16.0

I used to take skydiving lessons and it's never very good, but on the other hand, here I am.

0:27.0

You don't have to be that good. You're just falling out of a plane.

0:30.0

No, there's a little bit of skill to it.

0:33.0

All right, all right.

0:34.0

But so, all right. So I had gone, I'd gone a few times and I did the kind of training where you don't have to.

0:44.0

I did the kind of training where you pull your own record from the first.

0:48.0

Yeah. Right. It's not tandem.

0:51.0

You know, you see, you do a little bit of extra training so that your first dive, you pull your own record and you do free fall for a few seconds, anyways, unattended.

1:00.0

So you jump out of the plane, you have an instructor on both sides of you and they hold you into your stabilized and then you indicate to them basically with a sign that you know what you're doing.

1:12.0

And they follow away and then you free fall for a few seconds on your own and then you pull the record.

1:18.0

And so I jump out of it.

1:21.0

So I don't know, we had like a few dives, maybe.

1:25.0

And then or jumps or whatever you call it.

1:28.0

I see I wasn't at it all that long. I don't even know the language.

1:31.0

But so we're going up in the airplane one time and one of the instructors has a new jumpsuit.

1:38.0

Usually you wear a thing that's sort of a big flappy like it looks like a prison outfit.

1:43.0

Yeah, you know, jump suit.

1:45.0

Right. But he had one, he bought one for himself that wasn't provided by the facility.

1:50.0

And it was tight. It was like spandex. It was tight to his body.

1:54.0

And we kind of made some jokes about it on the way up in the plane.

1:57.0

And now we jump out of the plane.

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