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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Tony Dokoupil

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Tony Dokoupil (CBS Sunday Morning) joins Andy Richter to discuss his father's career as a weed dealer, accidentally catfishing Andy, learning the ropes of broadcast news on air, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, all right, let's get started. Hi, everyone. Andy Richter here with another, another

0:21.0

episode edition. I don't know episode, I guess, of the three questions. And today I am talking

0:29.8

with Tony Jokopil. You're close. I'm going to jump in. I'm going to jump in. Andy, and don't

0:35.5

feel bad for a second about what I'm about to do here because my last name was Miss pronounced

0:40.5

at my graduation in high school. That's how complicated it is. The name, the name is, is never.

0:46.7

And as a result, I continue to, I don't because people always screw my name up, and I'm good

0:52.6

with it. I'm very carefree, but other people's names, which turns out they get upset about it.

0:56.7

They like, when I write new in the news business, they really want you to say it right. So it's

1:00.9

that decopal. Decopal. Okay. My ancestors would be very happy if I continued with the proper

1:10.0

Czech, not Slovakian pronunciation of decopal. Decopal. Yes. It's decopal. And yeah, it's a Czech word.

1:17.6

Anyway, it's a really, it's an on-the-leave. What does it mean? It means I sold it all, or sold out,

1:24.5

all gone, which was a fitting last name for my father, who, as you may know, was for his only

1:32.2

professional career as a grown-up, a drug dealer. Yes. So selling it all was a great thing. We will

1:37.6

get to that. Well, I was also going to say it's also good for somebody that's on television.

1:41.3

I don't know. Anything in the vicinity or ballpark of selling out, I don't know, maybe that could

1:46.4

be used against you. It's okay. I don't think there's anybody on television that can feel like they

1:53.6

haven't leveraged their soul in some small way. There are compromises to make it. Yeah, dozens of

2:00.4

times a day, you do it. If you do this for a living in a capitalist society, there's going to be

2:08.4

some amount of selling your art. And you might as well just kind of get used to it. And then feel your

2:15.5

way through to what feels right and what feels wrong. But I just, I mean, I came for, I went to

2:21.7

film school and I came from a bunch of guys that are like, I would never sell out. It's kind of like,

2:26.8

why not? We should disclose the people that I'm actually paying you for this interview.

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