Hey, everybody. I'm Andy Richter. This is three questions with Andy Richter. So yeah, that's me.

I'm the host and today I'm talking to another host and I'm excited to talk to her. It's Rachel

Maddo. She's a brilliant writer, political commentator, television news host. She hosts the Rachel

Maddo show on MSNBC every Monday night as if I needed to tell you. And her new book, which is

fantastic, prequel, an American fight against fascism, is out today. So go get one from your

local independent bookseller. I spoke with Rachel via Zoom back in September and here is my conversation

with her. Rachel, first thing that I have to thank you for is for giving and this is such a

buttering up, giving like a reason to be excited about Monday. Like now that you're on, I mean,

I miss you not being on more days, but it is. It's like, oh, it's Monday, which, you know,

there's like one aspect of, you know, it usually isn't until like four o'clock, five o'clock that I

start, oh, it's Monday and Rachel will be on. It's like when I moved to New England, I decided I

needed a winter hobby. So I get excited about the oncoming cold. So I started ice fishing. So then

as soon as we started having nights well below zero, it would get me all excited because my hobby

is coming. So it's the same sort of thing. I'm trying to, I'm trying to make Monday's a good thing.

It was kind of an accident that I ended up on Mondays, but I actually, I think it's kind of great.

I love it. How was it an accident in what way? Because I mean, being on television, this is always

the stuff. I'm like, how did it end up there? You know, like, it's interesting to me. It was a,

it was, I don't want to say bumbling because I don't want to make it sound bad. I don't want

to want a derogatory term. But when I first started talking with MSNBC about like reimagining

what I'm doing and approaching it in a different way, a bunch of people at MSNBC suggested from

the very beginning, oh, you should do a weekly show. And I was like, I definitely don't want to do

a weekly show because that's like a magazine and like a digest of what's happened in the past week.

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