Radio Better Offline: Andy Richter
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in Los Angeles.
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by comedian Andy Richter to talk about how comedy and broadcast have evolved thanks to the internet.
Follow Andy: https://bsky.app/profile/andyrichter.co
The Three Questions: https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/the-three-questions-with-andy-richter
The Andy Richter Call-in Show: https://www.siriusxm.com/blog/andy-richter-call-in-show
Sixteenth Minute (of Fame): https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sixteenth-minute-of-fame-172216473/
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | That business idea you've been sitting on this new year. |
| 0:08.9 | Stop waiting for the perfect time. |
| 0:11.3 | GoDaddy Arrow uses AI to build your website, logo, and marketing in minutes, not months. |
| 0:18.0 | No tech skills. |
| 0:19.4 | No excuses. |
| 0:22.7 | Just your idea made real. |
| 0:26.6 | Get started at godaddy.com with GoDaddy Arrow. |
| 0:37.6 | The future is bulletproof. The aftermath is secondary. |
| 0:38.8 | Welcome to Better Offline. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm your host, Ed Zittron. |
| 1:44.5 | Today, we're joined in the beautiful Los Angeles, Nevada. And I'm joined by Andy Richter, though. The comedian, Andy, thank you so much for joining me. Thank you for being here. On the way to the studio, I got to see a man smoking crack. It did. Which I haven't seen that in a long time. That's kind of, that's nostalgic. Sure, it is. People are still doing crack. People are still doing crack in this town. Good to know. That's what they're saying. So, Andy, you've been... So 90s. So 90s, I know. We're bringing the 90s back. I was listening to a system of a down... Sorry, I've been down this rabbit hole, and this is a tech podcast, we'll talk about stuff eventually. I've been down this rabbit hole of listening to this band called O2 that does covers of bands in the style of other bands. And there was a system of a down, in the style of system of down, cover of the scatman song. Wow. It was truly amazing. Wow. They nailed both the scatman rap and the system of a down Wow. And the comments on these things are amazing because it's like 50% people like me saying, |
| 1:47.9 | this is really great. |
| 1:48.5 | And 50% people are being like, no, it's not. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah, what the fucking you're doing? |
| 1:51.1 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:52.7 | The Scatman fans are all out there. |
| 1:54.4 | Anyway, you've been fairly online for a while. |
| 1:57.6 | I've noticed you on social media. |
| 1:59.1 | Yes. online for a while. I've noticed you on social media. When did you first get online? |
| 2:09.4 | Well, first online, like on the internet, would have been in the early 90s when I started working on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. That was when sort of, you know, there was AOL. |
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