Hello podcast world, it's me Andy Richter and I am back with another episode of the three

questions and I am happy to have on today a very, very funny, talented guy that I've known

for a long time. We have some shared history a little bit geographically at least. It's Richard

Kind, star stage screen and I don't know anything else. TV, I've done an opera. Oh, and I

the opera world and the opera world. Wait, did you have, did you sing? I mean, I know you were

in some, some song time stuff. Are you a good singer? Uh, am I a good singer? I'm loud. Uh,

I can sing. I can sing enough to be at an opera at Lincoln Center at City Opera. I did

do indeed. And there are high G's that you have to hit. I think there's even an A that I may

have hit back when I was younger and my voice was, was decent. Did you study singing? I can't say

studied. Of course I've taken lessons. Years and years ago, I am a character singer. I see.

And I can sing fairly, fairly well. I'm okay. At what point? Because this is always fascinating

to me because, you know, I came up just kind of through improv and then started to get work

and when and no one really realized how untrained I truly was, you know, I just been, you know,

in the basements of Italian restaurants in Chicago, making things up. So I didn't really

have, you know, concrete skills. But I always wondered like at what point do you start

to do? Was this in in in high school? I started all the musicals in college. I did them and

I can't look. I fall modesty. I can sing. I can really project. I cannot harmonize. But I can

stay on tune. Oh, that's great. And the more I rehearse, the better I get. And I was in an

original Sondheim musical. Now, it was my dream. My dream. You must understand. People have

bucket list. This was my dream to be in an original Sondheim musical directed by Howe Prince.

Yeah. They stopped working together in 1982. So what are the chances? So enough, I can't sing.

Well, they're not doing anything. Years later, they got together and they did get back together

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