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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Tressie McMillan Cottom

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Author and Sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom joins Andy Richter to talk about growing up as an only child, being known on TV, her New York Times column and more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Andy Richter and this is the three questions yet again.

0:18.3

I am very happy to talk to an old pal of mine.

0:24.2

We've been online Twitter pals for a number of years now.

0:29.6

We've been online for a number of years now.

0:35.0

I was really talking about Dolly Parton, or, like, real music.

0:40.8

She's a sociologist and she's a genius in everything.

0:44.1

But we mostly just talk about Dolly Parton.

0:47.3

But she has written some amazing books, Lower Ed, was a book that she wrote about the

0:46.6

for-profit college industry and thick and other essays which dealt with, I guess, intersectional

0:53.5

feminism, racism, all those kind of issues and how they intersect.

0:58.3

And you are a provocateur and now a fancy pants opinion columnist for the New York Times.

1:06.7

How about that?

1:07.7

Congratulations.

1:08.7

Thank you very much.

1:09.7

Tressie McMillan-Cottam.

1:11.5

Do people just go Tressie?

1:14.9

No, they just go full share and be Tressie.

1:17.9

I don't know if I can go full share, but that never stops anybody from trying to go

1:23.0

full share.

1:24.0

But I say with a name like Tressie, the other two are just, you know, overkill.

1:29.3

Yeah.

1:30.3

Students, friends, colleagues, everybody.

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