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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Rhett Miller

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Musician/writer Rhett Miller joins Andy Richter to discuss thirty years with Old 97's, the delicate balance of art and business, sending your kids off to college, and more.

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0:00.0

Hi, Rhett.

0:07.0

Hi, Andy. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Fantastic. We have, we have, this is the

0:19.2

podcast, by the way, we've already started. You, and I'm speaking to Rhett Miller, solo

0:25.2

artists, but also lead singer and sort of, do you consider yourself the leader of the old

0:32.2

90s? Well, I'm definitely the lead singer of the old 90s. I used to really try to boss

0:40.2

those guys around and it did go well, but you know, we're about to have our 30th anniversary

0:46.0

celebration in January, 30 years, same band, same lineup. But so, yeah, no, I had to let

0:51.6

go of the idea that I was the leader of the band. Right. And that's the part of why we've

0:55.8

stayed together, I think. Is it because they picked on you enough? They, you know, you've

1:00.1

got enough wedgies and dressing downs and short cheating your bus bunk? They pick on me

1:06.9

to this day. Yeah. It's, you know, honestly, that is like, you know, that was always one

1:13.6

of the nice things about Conan. Is that occasionally interns would make fun of them.

1:20.0

And you know, the braver interns and he could handle it because it's such an awful thing

1:25.6

to work with some royal entity that can't be, I don't know, can't have a sense of humor

1:33.6

about themselves, you know? Oh my God. And I know we all know people like that. I know

1:39.4

lots of, lots of lead singers of bands that, like, you know, John Bryan and Los Angeles.

1:44.8

I do. Yes. So John, years ago, when we were 20 years ago, in fact, when we were making

1:49.3

the instigator, John, he was talking about an Irish singer whom I won't name because

1:55.7

I don't know them personally. But I know it's one of two people. He said, oh, that guy,

2:03.2

he should be shot with balls of his own shit. I love that. It's so perfect. Which one

2:14.0

of the chieftains is it? That was fucking chieftains. Well, 30 years, that's, I mean, do

2:23.2

you know, I mean, you know, outside, well, even like the, that's better than the rolling

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