ANDY RICHTER Is a Disneyland Dad

Summary

Episode Summary: "ANDY RICHTER Is a Disneyland Dad"

Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers, hosted by Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers, explores the humorous and heartfelt stories of family vacations, childhood memories, and the occasional disaster. In this episode, released on March 4, 2025, guest Andy Richter joins Seth and Josh to share his experiences as a Disneyland dad, offering insights into parenting, family dynamics, and the joys and challenges of traveling with young children.

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1. Introduction and Episode Overview

The episode begins with Seth (referred to as "Sufi") and Josh ("Bashi") discussing a recent family trip that took an unexpected turn. Josh recounts how his father's elective foot surgery placed additional caregiving responsibilities on his mother, prompting him to visit his parents. Initially planning to bring his daughter Addie along, he faces last-minute changes that set the stage for the day's adventures.

2. Planning and Last-Minute Changes

Josh explains the situation leading up to the trip:

Josh (Bashi) [00:22]: "Mom has been bearing a great weight, being a caregiver to Dad."

Despite his initial reluctance, Addie's excitement becomes apparent when she secretly decides to embark on an extended eight-night trip, packing twelve dresses into her rolling suitcase—a Christmas present.

3. Addie's Unexpected Trip

Addie's spontaneous decision leads to chaos:

Josh (Bashi) [01:46]: "As soon as I left, Addie went up to her room, took out her little rolling suitcase... and decided to go for eight nights."

This surprise departure wasn't communicated to Josh in advance, leaving him scrambling to manage the logistics and prepare his other children for the sudden change.

4. Turmoil Among the Siblings

The revelation of Addie's trip causes immediate distress among the siblings:

Josh (Bashi) [02:18]: "Axel screaming and then Ash just sitting and silently crying."

Axel reacts with overt anger, while Ash shows his sorrow more quietly, highlighting the varied personalities within the family.

5. Airport and Flight Experiences

Despite the morning's upheaval, Josh and Addie proceed to the airport. Addie's enthusiasm surfaces as she interacts with the flight attendant, Kayla:

Josh (Bashi) [04:04]: "Kayla... asked for her by name, Adelaide."

Addie remains captivated throughout the flight, frequently requesting Kayla's attention and snacks, making the journey both amusing and exhausting for Josh.

6. Interactions with Flight Attendant Kayla

Addie's interactions with Kayla become a memorable highlight:

Josh (Bashi) [04:18]: "Kayla made the mistake of saying, maybe I'll be back later with some snacks. At which point Addie was pretty dead set on knowing her location at all times."

Upon landing, Addie's eagerness leads her to seek out Kayla for a hug, prompting Josh to arrange a brief meeting, ensuring Kayla received Addie's enthusiastic affection along with a chewy granola bar.

7. Surprise Visit to Dad

Josh and Addie return home to surprise their father during his lunch with an old friend. The plan involves Josh entering the restaurant first, followed by Addie. However, Addie's initiative results in her leading the surprise:

Josh (Bashi) [07:15]: "Addie walks over and dad looks at her and he goes, hey."

The heartfelt reunion is captured on video, later watched repeatedly by the siblings, epitomizing the joy and spontaneity of family gatherings.

8. Grandparents’ Home and Hide and Seek

At the grandparents' house, Josh shares playful moments like hide and seek, where their dog Albert becomes a key figure in finding their father:

Josh (Bashi) [08:23]: "We went to the playground... Addie insisted she get on every single thing."

The house, filled with unique hiding spots and the ever-watchful Albert, provides a backdrop for both fun and laughter, reinforcing the special bond with their grandparents.

9. Parenting Challenges and Family Dynamics

Josh discusses the challenges of parenting Addie, from bedtime routines to managing household dynamics. Addie's anxiety about unfamiliar environments and her insistence on keeping Josh engaged highlight the complexities of modern parenting:

Josh (Bashi) [10:44]: "Addie felt very strongly about this. She did not want me to sleep in bed with her."

The interplay between parenting styles and household adjustments paints a relatable picture for listeners navigating similar situations.

10. Guest Introduction: Andy Richter

Andy Richter, renowned actor and comedian, joins Seth and Josh to delve deeper into themes of parenting and family dynamics. His personal anecdotes offer a blend of humor and introspection, enriching the episode's narrative.

11. Andy Richter's Upbringing and Family Dynamics

Andy shares his experiences growing up in Yorkville, Illinois, highlighting his parents' divorce and the role of his grandparents in his upbringing:

Andy Richter [43:22]: "We lived with them until my mom remarried. Then we moved to Aurora, which was five, six miles away."

He reflects on the responsibilities he bore from a young age, helping with chores and caring for his younger siblings, providing a candid look into his formative years.

12. Balancing Parenting and Career

Andy discusses balancing his career with parenting, touching on the demands of show business and the importance of being present for his children:

Andy Richter [19:52]: "I am a different parent. Yes. It actually feels like in some ways like pre-grandparenting..."

His insights highlight the evolving nature of parenting across generations, emphasizing adaptability and understanding.

13. Reflections on Family Travel

Both Josh and Andy reminisce about their family trips, contrasting their experiences and offering humorous takes on travel mishaps:

Andy Richter [72:12]: "We stayed at Disneyland hotel... tried on all these masks... just like... trying to tell my mom."

These stories underscore the unpredictable and often humorous nature of family vacations, resonating with listeners who have faced similar challenges.

14. Speed Round Questions

The episode concludes with a light-hearted speed round where Andy answers quick questions about his ideal vacations, favorite transportation, and hypothetical family scenarios. This segment adds a playful finish, showcasing Andy's comedic flair.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Josh (Bashi) [04:18]: "Kayla made the mistake of saying, maybe I'll be back later with some snacks. At which point Addie was pretty dead set on knowing her location at all times."

• Josh (Bashi) [07:15]: "Addie walks over and dad looks at her and he goes, hey."

• Andy Richter [43:22]: "We lived with them until my mom remarried. Then we moved to Aurora, which was five, six miles away."

• Andy Richter [19:52]: "I am a different parent. Yes. It actually feels like in some ways like pre-grandparenting..."

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Conclusion

In this episode of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers, Seth and Josh Meyers, alongside guest Andy Richter, navigate the intricate and often chaotic world of family vacations. Through a blend of personal anecdotes, humor, and heartfelt reflections, the trio offers listeners a relatable glimpse into the joys and challenges of traveling with family. Andy Richter's contributions enrich the conversation, providing depth and a unique perspective on balancing parenting with personal and professional responsibilities. The episode serves as both an entertaining and insightful exploration of what it means to embark on family adventures, no matter how unexpected they may be.

Transcript

[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

Hi Bashi.

[Sufi]

Hi Sufi.

[Bashi]

Oh boy, oh boy, did I have a trip.

[Sufi]

Oh yeah, you did. Oh man.

[Bashi]

A family trip, no less.

[Sufi]

Indeed.

[Bashi]

So, as you know, dad got elective foot surgery because he did not feel like one of feet look the way he wanted it to look.

[Sufi]

Right. He wanted a pretty foot.

[Bashi]

We've established he wanted one pretty foot. So anyway, I. Mom has been, you know, bearing a great weight, being a caregiver to dad.

[Sufi]

Sure.

[Bashi]

And I wanted to go visit them. You went and visited them?

[Sufi]

I did.

[Bashi]

And you had a lovely time?

[Sufi]

I sure did, yeah, it was great.

[Bashi]

I decided to take Addie with me. Uh huh. And I should know. The first thing I said to Addie was, do you want to go visit the Poncas? And she said, no. And then I figured, okay, that's fine, I'll just go on my own. And then I left to bring the boys to school and Alexi sent me a video. As soon as I left, Addie went up to her room, took out her little rolling suitcase, which was her Christmas present this year, unzipped it and put 12 dresses into her suitcase. And Alexi said, what are you doing? And she said, I'm going to go visit the Poncas. And Alexi said, you're only going for one night. And she said, no, I am going to go for eight nights. So she packed 11 dresses. Anyway, she was very excited. Then there was an issue, which is this was a very last minute trip. And so I did not have time to properly prepare the boys for the fact that I was taking their sister to see their grandparents.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

And I'd gone and gotten her a sticker book at Barnes and Noble for the airplane because I knew that she would not be allowed to watch a video or anything like that. So I, you know, got activities and then I foolishly left it out on the table. And so we were leaving the next morning and Axel saw this sticker book. And I said, oh no, that's for the plane. And he was like, who's going on a plane? And I said, oh, I'm taking Addie to see the Poncas. And immediate two boy meltdown.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bashi]

Axel screaming and then Ash just sitting and silently crying. The difference in their personality is fantastic. And Ash was silently crying, just saying, I also love my grandparents. And Axel screaming, Alexi like rocking him while he screamed and Addie, no help at all. Just walked over and patted him on the knee and said, axel, you can't come. Axel, you can't come. And he was just making it way worse. But then next morning, you know, credit to Alexi, she had managed to sort of calm them down. They'd come to terms with it. And Addie and I went to the airport. Having her in the airport alone, worth the price of admission. Oh, I bet. Little, little backpack. Rolling suitcase. A million questions. Never stop talking. I felt I maybe got more recognized than I've ever been recognized just because I was talking more than I'm ever talking in an airport, because I just constantly had to answer questions. And then we got on the airplane. Not a lot of people on our flight from New York to Boston. The Kayla was the name of the JetBlue flight attendant. She came over and said, hi, Adelaide. And Adi was like, how's she know my name? Obviously she just sort of done this, read the manifest for the purposes of the kids on the plane, gave her little airplane wings. Wings they stick on now they no longer pins. They stick them on. She's thrilled about that, I would say. She then asked for Kayla or screamed for Kayla 50 times over the course of the 45 minute flight.

[Sufi]

What did she want from her?

[Bashi]

Just say hi. And she also wanted snacks. Yeah, she. Kayla made the mistake of saying, maybe I'll be back later with some snacks. At which point Addie was pretty dead set on knowing her location at all times.

[Sufi]

Yep.

[Bashi]

When the flight. When we landed, we had to let. I had to let everybody deplane because Kayla was in the back of the plane because Addie wanted to go run and give her a hug.

[Sufi]

Oh, I bet that was met with some enthusiasm and joy.

[Bashi]

Kayla got her money's worth for the wings. She gave Addie for the. For the wings and a chewy granola bar. She did very well.

[Andy Richter]

Yes.

[Bashi]

As far as the affection she got in return. Then we walked up, the cockpit was open. Adi walked right in there, talked to the pilots for a while. Then we obviously we got a car.

[Sufi]

Took ask the pilots why they say which direction the wind is coming from and what the visibility is like.

[Bashi]

She like. Who want to know that? Who want to know that?

[Sufi]

No one wants to know that.

[Bashi]

Yeah. So then. But the best is again, we were surprising dad. So it was not his job to be where we needed him to be. He had lunch plans.

[Sufi]

Yep.

[Bashi]

We got home, got to hang out with mom for a little bit. He was also having lunch with an old friend, so we didn't want to go right Away and sort of ruin that.

[Sufi]

Right?

[Bashi]

And so about an hour into dad's lunch, we went to the restaurant. My plan was I would walk in, surprise dad while Addie hung back with mom. And I just said, just wait a minute. And then I'll say to dad, you know, within a minute, I'll be like, I'm actually not the surprise. And then Addie would walk in. Addie was not having this. Addie very much felt that she should surprise dad first.

[Sufi]

Yeah. She's the tip of the spear.

[Bashi]

She's the tip of the spear. And so. And the amount of my life with Addie right now is her being like, you wait here. Meanwhile, my boys have never wanted me to. To wait. They've never wanted to go anywhere without me. The amount that she's like, you wait here. Even when we were at the airport, she wanted to take the escalator without me. She goes, you get on when I'm at the top. I'm like, no, it's not how that's gonna work. So Addie walks in. You've seen the video.

[Sufi]

I have seen the video. What I don't understand in the video is, did she know where dad was gonna be? Because there were a bunch of people in there.

[Bashi]

No.

[Sufi]

And she. And he's. His back was to her, and she.

[Bashi]

Never had a doubt.

[Sufi]

She, like. It was like she like locked on with some target thing.

[Bashi]

And it's crazy. It's a crowded restaurant. She immediately walks over to Panchayeri, as he's known.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

By his grandchildren and by the listeners of the pot at this point, let's be honest. So she walks over by the. The best thing is the amount that, you know, Kayla, the flight attendant would say, where are you going? I gotta go see Pankayeri. And it's just like crazy words. So she walks over and dad looks at her and he goes, hey. But you can tell he's not. He can't make any sense of it. Yeah.

[Sufi]

I spoke to him and he's like, I knew right away it was Addie, but it like just. There was a cognitive break because he couldn't figure out how it was possible that this three year old girl, his granddaughter, was standing next to him without an adult. Right.

[Bashi]

So then he goes, hey. And then he looks around and he sees me because I'm at the door of the restaurant filming it.

[Sufi]

Right.

[Bashi]

And then he processes and he looks at it and goes, whoa. And then he says, this is my granddaughter. And it's a big hug. Anyway, I showed the video, the Boys have watched the video 50 times, and they all day were walking around going, hey, whoa. So that was just a. Dad was so excited. And then. Yeah, I mean, it was just 24 hours. But, you know, having a kid in your childhood home is very special.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

Even though my bedroom is now an office that also had a pipe burst. And so you really can only just look at it from the doorway.

[Sufi]

But, yeah, you guys did a bunch of stuff. You went to a playground. You went to the library.

[Bashi]

Went to the playground. Give it up. I mean, give it up for Hurry. Who got on every single thing, every single dumb thing built for children that Addie insisted she get on. There was like a bumblebee thing that you sort of rock back and forth. Great picture. And, yep, Hurry had to get on a bumblebee. She had to get on a spaceship. She had to walk around. Dad was moving around pretty well, but he couldn't go in the snow because of his foot. And I took a picture of dad and Albert. Did I send it to you?

[Sufi]

I think so. Yeah. In the car.

[Bashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

Albert looks more like dad than either of us.

[Sufi]

Albert, I will say Albert, the old English sheepdog. I didn't tell you this before, but when I got home, I pulled in, and mom let Albert out the front door so he could come and greet me. And Albert and I have a pretty good thing going on. We like each other very much. And he was so excited, and he was, like, squeaking and you know, those little excited cries. And then he turned around and I was scratching his butt and he just threw up. Cause he was so excited. He, like, threw up his breakfast and then seemed a little stunned, but then just, like, ran towards the house, towards mom and dad. It was. Yeah, it was quite the greeting.

[Bashi]

She had this thing where she kept walking over to Albert's dog food bowl, and she would bring it over to where he was and sit it down, and then he would just eat the whole bowl, and then she would pick it up and bring it, and they were like, he never does this. He only eats when he's hungry. And I'm like, do you ever bring the food over to wherever he is? Yeah.

[Sufi]

I mean, well, in their defense, they put his dog food down, and if he wants to eat, he can eat it, right?

[Bashi]

Of course. Yeah. Lot of hide and seek. Not a ton of hiding spots in our childhood home, but the two pictures.

[Sufi]

I saw, pretty easy hiding spots. Addie in the tub, just with her.

[Bashi]

Head down, just covering her head.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

And then dad in his shower with a towel over his head, but also Albert sitting next to him.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

We were saying the key about hide and seek when you're trying to find dad is just look for wherever Albert is, because Albert will not leave his side. Yeah. Definitely planned on. Addie was gonna sleep in your bed, and I was gonna sleep in the guest room. Addie felt very strongly about this. She did not want me to sleep in bed with her. You have the bed. Well, mom and dad, you have a queen.

[Sufi]

Sure.

[Bashi]

And also, she's never slept in a bed before. And I kind of thought, middle of a queen, best chance she's not going to roll over. I can put pillows on either side of her. So I had a plan. And. And then. And she tells you when she's ready for bed, which is shocking. But she's like, it is time for books and bath and bed. And so I was very excited because mostly I wanted to catch up with mom and dad as well. And so I get her into bed, and the minute I think I get her into bed, she's definitely has anxiety about, I don't know, this bedroom. I don't know what's going on.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

And also, you don't have curtains. Oh, yeah.

[Sufi]

They're like little wispy things. They're not like, it wasn't my choice to have those.

[Bashi]

No. But it was not. It was not built to block out light.

[Sufi]

Correct.

[Bashi]

And so it was way brighter than she's used to. And so she's like, don't leave. Don't leave. And so the one time I left. Cause I thought she was. I was like, I'm gonna leave now, and you're gonna fall asleep, and everything's gonna be good. And I went down and I said to mom and dad, like, so I think she's good, and I'm not sure. And literally, I think she had just followed me out as I left. And she's in a sleep stack, too, which is a hard thing to move in. She looks like a sack of potatoes. And I'm like, I think she's asleep. And she's like, dad, Da? I want to talk to you. Finally got her to fall asleep, which is great. And then I had a nice time with mom and dad, but then we also, you know, went out, had lunch. Yeah, like you said, library. And, you know, it was. It was. It was probably only, you know, 24 hours in. In the house, but it was. It was a jackpot in that way. But, you know, we've talked to guests about how kids remember things. Like, she's really, really Gonna remember this trip.

[Sufi]

Yeah. Yeah. And it's fun. There's like, there's lots of, you know, there's lots of little drawers and cupboards and things in our house.

[Bashi]

Not a drawer. Not a drawer with my baseball cards. Now, again, there's a high likelihood that mom and dad sent me my baseball cards, which they shouldn't have done because I don't have a place for them. They have so much empty space. I had one file cabinet that had all my comic books and all my baseball cards.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

They wanted. For some reason, they got it in their head that they couldn't. I couldn't have a file cabinet in the home. They sent me all my comic books. I kept them in the basement of my apartment where we have a storage facility. Flooded, ruined.

[Sufi]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bashi]

But heaven forbid, now they're living a full life of retirement because there's not a One black file cabinet. Two. Two drawers. And then I'm like, I had my. I knew exactly where to look, and it's like, not even there.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

And then as you found out, I said, well, I'll go check the attic. Nothing's in the attic.

[Sufi]

All gone. We had a box full of all of our old stuffed animals up there. Where are those? Although I did see your stuffed animal Popsicle is, I believe, still in your closet.

[Bashi]

Popsicle's survival is really, truly something to see. Yeah, I think if you checked his belly, it would look like he's eaten a thousand moths.

[Sufi]

He's hungry for moths.

[Bashi]

And hey, shout out to mom. And also dad. Dad said, you know, because there's not a lot of two way traffic where both directions are praise with mom and dad.

[Sufi]

Oh, yeah.

[Bashi]

But dad said, mom's been an incredible caregiver. And. And she said, thank you. And he goes. And I. And no, she goes, and you've been a very good patient. And I was very. Yeah. Cause I do think he maybe wasn't that fussy.

[Sufi]

Did you get a look at that foot?

[Bashi]

It's beautiful. Oh, it's like Angelina. It's like Angelina Jolie's foot. 1995, I guess that's the picture he gave him. Just gorgeous. We ate off it.

[Sufi]

He was talking about how he wanted to, like, send a picture of that foot. And I just don't know that you could. You can publish it.

[Bashi]

I mean, I think a lot of perverts online would love to get their eyes on that foot.

[Sufi]

Oh, man. I was giving him a hard time about his foot and he's like, show me your foot. And like, my foot looks Like a. I have a nice foot, and I took my sock off, and he was like, oh, yeah, Yeah.

[Bashi]

I would say both mom and dad have less toes, more talons. If you say that. I mean, I will. Addie, you know, we're giving Dad's foot a lot of grief. Addy spent a lot of time asking mom about her toes and why they go in the directions they go.

[Sufi]

Yeah. It's a fair question, and I don't think Curry's got an answer for it.

[Bashi]

No, we. The future. Based on genetics, the future of our toes are not good. Yeah. I'm gonna start wearing, like, metal. I'm gonna try to get. Do they do invisalign for feet? I should do that now. Just, like, protect, you know, preventative.

[Sufi]

Yeah. Like the equivalent of, like, Forrest Gump leg braces, but for your toes.

[Bashi]

Yeah, Mom's toes. It's like somebody ran in and said, everybody scramble.

[Sufi]

Well, yeah, she's like the scene from Forrest Gump where they fall off. The braces fall off, and then the toes just.

[Bashi]

Yeah, they wouldn't. Yeah. No braces could hold her feet. Well, I guess this has been a little side pod called foot talk, if.

[Sufi]

You'Re into that sort of thing.

[Bashi]

You're welcome. Apologies to this week's sponsors.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

Get right up against some pretty bad visuals. But then, yeah, Addie flight home. Great. She was so good. Also, she took two things. There was a Muppets baby. These aren't from our youth. I feel like mom just still buys chintzy things at garage sales and stuff. There was a little Roadrunner toy and a little, like, Kermit Muppet baby toy.

[Sufi]

Okay.

[Bashi]

And Addie brought. Mom said she could have them and the entirety of the flight home. Addie was just talking to them and playing with them, and it was so great because I was fully cooked.

[Sufi]

Yeah. Well, that's great. I'm glad you guys got up there.

[Bashi]

I'm glad, too. And, yeah, it's wonderful. And now, of course, both boys want to go, and they both want to go on their own. So this is. All. This backfired. But they might go together. I would like to get them there together. I think they'd have fun.

[Sufi]

You could just send them on their own, too. You could unaccompanied minor them.

[Bashi]

Yeah. All right, dude. We got a podcast for people to listen to.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

The guest is Andy Richter. Delightful fella.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

And we hope you enjoy him.

[Andy Richter]

Family trips with the Myest Brothers Family chips with. Hello, hello.

[Sufi]

Hey, fellas.

[Andy Richter]

Hi, fellas.

[Bashi]

Nice to see you.

[Andy Richter]

Good to see you guys. Sorry I'm late.

[Bashi]

Oh, that's fine.

[Andy Richter]

I was just telling Samantha I was on the way to school and got a call that I had forgotten the kids lunch.

[Sufi]

So that's better than for getting the kids flat out. That's.

[Andy Richter]

No, no, that I can't. That I couldn't do. She. She's too noisy.

[Bashi]

How noisy? How young is this noisy child?

[Andy Richter]

She's going to be five. I am back in the baby business cuz I.

[Bashi]

Second round, right?

[Andy Richter]

Second round. Yeah, I'm a la cliche. Although, although, the, the only difference is, is that my wife is like a grown up. She's 48, you know.

[Bashi]

Oh yeah, that's. Yeah, you've broken out of the cliche with that.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, but I am, I am like, there's a lot of old dads in LA and like people online will be like, wait, why do you have a five year old? Aren't you like 60? I'm like, yeah, but it's, it's LA and I'm only 58. God damn it.

[Sufi]

I don't know if I mentioned this on the podcast before, but I have a friend who's in a similar situation and someone gave him a shirt that says dad or grandpa. Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Richter]

I have not gotten that except from like little kids in her. There's this one little girl that's just fucking got it out for me who's just like, are you her grandpa? Fuck you. How dare you.

[Bashi]

I'm one of the older dads in my boy's class as well.

[Andy Richter]

How old are your kids?

[Bashi]

My kids are 8, 6 and 3 and I'm 51. And my son the other day said, he goes, hey, I think you look good for 50. And I was like, I don't know what to even do with that. I don't know what, I don't know why, what you thought you were.

[Andy Richter]

Thank you. Yeah, I'm like, all right, eight year old.

[Bashi]

By the way, how is the second round? Do you feel like a completely different parent or are you cognizant of things you're doing differently that are an improvement?

[Andy Richter]

I am a different parent. Yes. It actually feels like in some ways like pre grandparenting because, you know, like my kids, my older kids are adults, you know, they're 19 and 24. And so it feels like that thing of where you get kids but you don't have all the sort of like worry of it. And I mean, I'm still her father, but I don't have the worry that I like on the playground, I see a 32 year old dad with a 5 year old and this thousand yard stare and I just want to tell him it's okay, you know, A. They're hard to kill, these things, these kids. They stay alive whether you want them to or not. So relax. And yeah, so, I mean, there's just. I don't sweat a lot of this stuff. And if she doesn't, you know, it's like feeding her, it's like, well, all right, you know, if she eats a hard boiled egg and an apple, like, okay, that's kind of a meal, you know?

[Bashi]

I mean.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, it's like, it's just. If you can piece it together, it's fine.

[Bashi]

Is part of it that your first two turned out to be like good adults, good young adults and that gives you a bit more confidence to say.

[Andy Richter]

All right, yes, somewhat. Although, you know, there's still anxiety I have I. In terms of like, how's it gonna turn out? I have more anxiety for my older kids because they're closer to adulthood, they're closer to being out on their own. And it's a. I wouldn't wanna be 19 or 24 in this particular world, you know. And I also remember what it was like to, you know, my daughter's a freshman in college and I just remember what that was like.

[Bashi]

That's the truth. Cause I don't remember what it's like to be 5, but I do remember what it was like to be 19. And of course it sucked.

[Andy Richter]

It was not. There was no sort of like salad days. It just fucking sucked.

[Bashi]

You know, I, that my. A lot of my friends, most of my friends, you know, had kids 15 years earlier than me. And the amount when I had babies, like little babies, and I wasn't sleeping and I was saying, oh, why didn't you guys tell me how bad it was? They were all. They all told me it's. Oh, it's so much worse when they're out of the house. Like when they're in the world and you don't. They would give anything to have him crying in a crib next door just to be like, they're here.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, I think that's another aspect of it too. Is that like, it is much simpler, it's more simple and the stakes are kind of lower. It's like, all right, you're training them to. They're teething. Okay. They're teething. You're training them to sleep. Okay. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's not like.

[Bashi]

It'S not like the sleep training's funny, because, you know, eventually they're gonna figure it out.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, everybody does.

[Sufi]

Some people. Some people don't.

[Bashi]

Yeah, some people.

[Sufi]

My wife's not a great sleeper, and neither is yours, Suf.

[Bashi]

Yeah, that's true. My wife's not a great sleeper.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. But, you know, but still, they can do it on their own, you know? Yeah, true. They don't cry if you leave them alone in a bed, you know?

[Sufi]

Yeah, that's.

[Andy Richter]

I mean, as far as I know. I don't know.

[Bashi]

You're right.

[Sufi]

You're right, Andy.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

So Yorkville, Illinois.

[Andy Richter]

Yes.

[Bashi]

But then where is that?

[Andy Richter]

That is about 60 miles straight west of Chicago. Okay. But it was a. It's more sort of been swallowed up by the suburban sprawl of the Chicagoland area, which is what it's called, Which I never even questioned until, like, I got out of Chicago, and they're like, wait, Chicagoland? Like. Yeah, that's what it's called. Yeah. And it used to be a small town kind of unto itself. A little island out there, you know, like all the little kind of farm islands in Illinois. But now it's, you know, like, it's got big box stores and, you know, big strip malls and stuff. But, like, I remember half the town turned out when we got McDonald's and was there at 6am when it opened up, you know, it was very exciting to get a McDonald's, you know.

[Sufi]

Yeah. Do you have any idea what the population was when you were growing up there?

[Andy Richter]

I want to say, like, about 7,500. Yeah, I think that was it. I'm not exactly sure. I could be wrong, but. And I don't. I have no idea what it is now.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

But I do know that there's more people there now because people, you know, it's not just, like, into the city and out of the city now. Everybody works everywhere. So it's, you know, there's no sort of, like, flow of rush hour. It's just at rush hour, it's busy because people are going in all directions. Yeah, right.

[Bashi]

It is funny, that Chicagoland thing, that it does stretch 60 miles in some directions because obviously New York is a gigantic city. But I feel like once you get out of New York, you're out of New York.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, yeah. I'm amazed at how woodsy it is. Like five minutes out of New York. That was a total surprise to me. I just figured it would be, you know, it would just keep going. Like, everything would be Yonkers all the way to Vermont.

[Sufi]

But, well, they just build vertically in New York.

[Bashi]

It helps. And you have three other siblings?

[Andy Richter]

I do.

[Bashi]

Or three siblings.

[Andy Richter]

I have an older brother who is three years older than me, and then I have a younger brother and sister who are twins. And they're actually my, they have a different dad, so they're half, they're nine years younger.

[Bashi]

Gotcha. Close with your brother?

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, pretty close. I mean, pretty close. I'm closest to my sister, my younger sister, she's. I don't know, she. And I just, I also too, I was raised by women. I like, I end up talking. I have an easier time talking to women than to men.

[Bashi]

I think you with a nine year age gap. When did that friend. When do you believe that there was a time where you're like, oh, this is, I'm close with this person as a friend. That's a big difference.

[Andy Richter]

Like, it got to be into adulthood because I was, you know, I was, when I think about it, you know, I was gone. I was out of the house at like 21. And they were, you know, they're still whatever, you know. Was that 12?

[Bashi]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Richter]

Way to go, math brain. They were 12. And so like, I didn't like their whole high school years, I didn't really know very much. And they, you know, and they were little kids when I left. So, yeah, it was definitely into adulthood. And especially, you know, also then I was on television by that time too, so it was, it was sort of.

[Bashi]

Right.

[Andy Richter]

I mean, I don't know, you know, it just was like, it was a good excuse for them to come visit me in New York, you know.

[Bashi]

How young were you when you first were on television?

[Andy Richter]

27.

[Bashi]

That's amazing. Well, that's how old I was when I started in SNL. I think 27's a good, I think too young is hard. Yeah, 27 is just about right.

[Andy Richter]

I think so too. Yeah.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

I mean, I, yeah, it, it's, it's the, the, the, the, the abuse that you were opening yourself up to, especially in comedy. And I mean, you, you know, it was different because you were. It is, there is a difference. It's, it's similar, but like you were going on to an already established institution 100% and we were starting out new and we were like such an easy target and I read such mean shit about me and like I've said many times, it's like I never knew there were so many ways to call a person fat until my dream came true and I got on television. Oh, hooray.

[Bashi]

You yeah. And also when you started snl, the stress is, am I even gonna get on?

[Andy Richter]

Yes. Yes.

[Bashi]

Whereas your sk.

[Andy Richter]

Different thing. Yeah.

[Bashi]

Your stress was that you were on every single night.

[Andy Richter]

Yes.

[Bashi]

There was nowhere to hide.

[Andy Richter]

Yes. And are they gonna. Are. Is it gonna last? Although, honestly, I was old enough to kind of handle it, but I was also still sort of young enough and inexperienced enough and also possibly just haven't have, like, a. A mechanism in my head of compartmentalization that is just a survival mechanism that I learned from dysfunctional, you know, where it was just like, oh, there's all kinds of hostility and weirdness and anxiety and stress because this could all go away. And I don't know what the fuck would happen to me if it all went away, but I'm just gonna shove that in a box and just show up to work and be like, hey, guys, what kind of funny stuff are we doing today? You know, that's good.

[Bashi]

That was nice. We built those boxes for ourselves.

[Andy Richter]

Yes. And Conan. Conan was very good about not letting us know. Conan and Jeff Ross were not. They were good about not letting us know how bad it was. Cause it was. You know, I think there was even one point we were actually canceled on, like, a Friday, and so he had to sort of sit with that all weekend. And then Monday, they're like, no, all right, we'll give you another couple of weeks. But we were getting renewed, like, week to week.

[Bashi]

I know it's the craziest. I mean, I. Even when I. You know, again, it's the. It's the same franchise, right. And it was very stressful when I started the show. But I remember running into Conan at Comic Con, and he's like, how's it going? And I was like, you know, it's not easy. He's like, you think it's not easy for you?

[Sufi]

And I'm like, all right.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bashi]

Whole different thing.

[Andy Richter]

You don't want to start with that. Yeah.

[Sufi]

Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

Yes, Sufi?

[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

Absolutely. That's the one.

[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Andy Richter]

Yep.

[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

Posh, I did do some dipping. We were there for a long tour and we dipped our own bottles, which was very exciting.

[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

Yes, Sufi?

[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

I really am. They're very comfortable pants and they look good. That's like, sometimes you sacrifice looks when you dial up the comfort. But that's not the case with public rec pants. And I like them so much that I bought a pair for my father in law, and then I bought a pair for our father, and just yesterday he was like, these are the pants you bought me.

[Bashi]

Great.

[Sufi]

I said, do you like them? He says, I love them. I wear them all the time. And last time we talked about public rec pants, I was saying, you know, they almost feel like sweatpants, but they look nicer. But they've got a whole array of pants over a public rec, varying degrees of stretch, but all that look great. And moving up to, I think, you know, the sort of the high end is the VIP chinos.

[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

And can you get me in on these? You obviously gotta connect over there. Can you get me into this vip? All right, all right. Good, good, good.

[Sufi]

Yeah, I mean, we got a hookup that we'll tell you about later. But those are like, those are pants you would feel comfortable wearing to, like, a wedding. They've got, you know, pants that are great to play golf in.

[Bashi]

Posh. Would you tell me some of the colors they got?

[Sufi]

I mean, they're classics. Navy, dark, olive, stone gray. You know, not nonsense colors of pants. Yeah, you're gonna look like an adult when you're wearing these pants. Also, you know, sometimes you want to wear a super comfy pair of pants to, like, get on an airplane. And sometimes people will wear pajamas. And you know what I think of those people?

[Bashi]

You don't care for them.

[Sufi]

I do not care for them. Yeah, you don't have to look terrible to be comfortable.

[Bashi]

Yeah, yeah. You, I think, probably look better than most people on airplanes. Posh.

[Sufi]

Yep.

[Bashi]

You dress like a pilot.

[Sufi]

Yeah, well, that's because I want to get that second bag of pretzels.

[Bashi]

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[Andy Richter]

Not clearly, although I think I was happy about. I don't remember being unhappy about it. And I remember because they were twins and also too, because there wasn't a lot of room for. In our household for, like, men to be like, I'm gonna watch the game. It was like, fuck that. You're doing dishes, you know, so from an early age, I was taking care of babies, you know, it was like.

[Sufi]

Yeah, I was gonna say, were you a babysitter?

[Andy Richter]

Absolutely. And a diaper changer and a kid bather and, you know, all of that. So, I mean, I've been. I've been, you know, I started taking care of little kids when I was nine years old. Gotcha. And that's like, all of it, you know, like I say, changing diapers, getting them dressed, putting them to bed, waking them up in the morning, getting them ready for school.

[Sufi]

Were you good at those things or was it sort of like, what did you put these kids in today, Andy?

[Andy Richter]

Like, I think I was pretty good at it, you know, I mean, was.

[Sufi]

Your brother much help? Your older brother, was he doing the same thing? Was everyone sort of fall into action?

[Andy Richter]

I don't. I mean. And this could just totally be my memory, but it's like, I think I did a lot more, but I mean, that could just be because I'm the hero of every story I tell, you know, But I don't. Yeah, no, we both were expected. And I mean, it was like there was. We had a lot of chores to do, which, like, that's one thing I was not good at assigning my older kids chores, you know, like, they didn't have to do a lot of chores. And so now they're helpful and they're, you know, but it's like, it's not the same. Like, they don't understand just, like how much of life is eating shit and doing and doing just like drudgery kind of work, you know?

[Sufi]

And it's amazing that no one's created a machine that will fold your laundry. Yeah, it's just amazing.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, and folding laundry is the one. It's the worst. Oh, my God, I will clean out a toilet all day compared to fucking folding laundry. I don't know what it is about it. It just. I think I just, like, get. I'm like a bear with a violin, you know? Like, it's like I just. I don't know how to do this, you know?

[Bashi]

Also, my wife Alexi, as Josh will attest very particular about how you fold laundry. So it's not enough just to fold it.

[Andy Richter]

Right.

[Bashi]

That's the most heartbreaking thing is when you try to do a solid and you fold the laundry and then you just watch them refold it and then you sort of. You sort of want to say, well, look, I mean, if I'm just going to do it so you do it again. I feel like I probably just shouldn't do it.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. It's like. And then. Well, and then they will accuse you of a learned helplessness. Like my ex wife used to do that because like, if I fucked up the laundry and you know, did the classic put an orange sock in with the white, you know, and it's like, no, I'm not. I'm not that calculated. You know, I just didn't. I just have a terribly short attention span. And, you know, and there probably is some like, passive aggressive. Like, you know, just throw it all in the wash and then start it and not notice that there's an orange sock in with all the whites.

[Bashi]

Was Chicago a early beacon for you? Did you feel the pull to Chicago? Was that a place that you would go with your family from Yorkville?

[Andy Richter]

We wouldn't. Well, first of all, we were too small town and the city was scary and I was, you know, and so no, we'd go there for, you know, Bears games and Cubs games and occasional museum trips. And then there was a Christmas tradition of getting on the train and going in and going to Marshall Fields, the big department store for Christmas time.

[Sufi]

Was that on Michigan Ave?

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's still there. It's a Macy's now, but it's like. It's this big, beautiful old department store and they had this giant Christmas tree and you'd eat lunch underneath it. And my aunt would take me or my grandma would take me, but. Yeah, no, it wasn't until I was a teenager and started going to concerts that we actually started to, you know, use the city the way that a city should be used. And even then it was fucking terrifying, you know, and it wasn't until I started. Cause I started out at University of Illinois and then I transferred to. I just happened to be wearing Columbia.

[Bashi]

Yeah, I noticed.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, Columbia College, Chicago for film school. And that was when I really started getting to know the city. Cause I was commuting in to school and then really just kind of wandering around in a way that I had never done before.

[Sufi]

Would you take the L in? Could you take the L or The Metro?

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. There's a Burlington Northern. It's a commuter train that you could take in. And that's what I did. I did that a lot. But then I would also drive. My mom had a van for her business that I used to drive and for film school. That makes you very popular.

[Bashi]

Yeah, to have a van is a van, you know.

[Andy Richter]

Cause there's lots of gear and stuff.

[Bashi]

Were you a road trip family? Were you an airplane family when you guys took trips?

[Andy Richter]

We were a little bit of both. A lot of my travel, a lot of like, any sort of like vacation travel was like, had the underlying sadness of a broken home because my, you know, my mom and dad were divorced and my dad lived in Bloomington, Indiana, and we lived.

[Bashi]

How far was that from Yorkville?

[Andy Richter]

It's about, I want to say it's about a four and a half, five hour drive.

[Bashi]

Okay, so that's no small thing.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, it's no small thing. But I will say, like, I used to see my dad like twice a year, I think. And I can't imagine being four hours away from my kids and only seeing them twice a year.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

Never die.

[Andy Richter]

I will say that.

[Bashi]

Nor can I. Can I ask, did you need to have kids to know that was weird or were you as a child, did you think that was strange?

[Andy Richter]

No, I needed to have kids. When I had kids, there were a lot of things. And not just, you know, there was a lot of things where I was like, wait a minute, that seems fucked up. Wait a minute. Like, you know, how old were you.

[Sufi]

When your parents got divorced?

[Andy Richter]

I was, I think seven. Okay, I think seven. No, wait, no, no, I was four. I was like four or five. Because I started kindergarten in Yorkville, which was where my grandparents lived, because my mom left Bloomington and went to Yorkville to live with her parents. So we were, you know, we moved back in with my grandparents. And I remember not understanding it at all and like, wondering where my dad was. But most of the travel then ended up being either driving halfway to, like, this town, kind of halfway between Bloomington, Indiana and Yorkville, Illinois. Like just at a truck stop and doing a swap off at a truck stop or taking the train, just my brother and I taking the Amtrak from Joliet, Illinois to Bloomington, Indiana and spending, you know, doing that a lot throughout my childhood.

[Bashi]

How young were you, do you think, the first time you took the train by yourself?

[Andy Richter]

Oh, I bet you probably eight, you know.

[Bashi]

And my brother was like 11.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah. I think that they were like, you know. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, that's I mean, I don't know that I would do that, but it kind of seems like, yeah, you know.

[Bashi]

Yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense in that era to be.

[Sufi]

Like, yeah, well, maybe in Illinois, Indiana. Like.

[Bashi]

Yeah, the conductor's gonna tell you it's time to get off.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. And I mean, and it's not an unusual thing. Like you still do kind of see it, you know, occasionally when you're somewhere, you know, like, although I can't remember the last time I saw a little kid flying alone, which I have seen in my life.

[Sufi]

Yeah, I've seen that. Those unaccompanied minors.

[Bashi]

Yeah, it used to happen more, I think.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, I think it probably did happen more. But it was. I mean, I look at it too. Like, my grandmother was born in China. Her parents were missionaries and she was sent to like boarding school like age five with her seven year old brother. They put him on a boat for like a one week trip like up the Yangtze or something. I don't know, you know, so that's like. It is a different thing. You know, people used to mail their kids. Have you seen those pictures on an old book? So like just put a tag on them and like, how much? $0.50 to go to Cheyenne. Here you go.

[Sufi]

That's.

[Bashi]

Yeah, that's true. We got. They're all too, they're all too sheltered now. Did you, when you were on the train, were you excited? Was that a thing you were like, oh, we're gonna go see dad, or did it feel more like duty? Okay.

[Andy Richter]

I was always. No, I was always very excited to see my dad. And it was really, you know, and I used to, when I knew he was coming to get us. Cause I mean, occasionally he would come all the way up to get us and when I knew he was coming, I would like be waiting outside in the cold sometimes for him to get there. So definitely there was. I missed having my dad around and I, you know, and it definitely was a deficit.

[Bashi]

Did he. Do you feel like he understood it was incumbent upon him to be like a best dad in the time that he had you guys?

[Andy Richter]

I, I think, yeah, I think that intellectually he would think that, but I.

[Bashi]

Right.

[Andy Richter]

He didn't.

[Bashi]

Wasn't like, it wasn't like a 24 hour party once you were hanging out?

[Andy Richter]

No, no, no, it was not. It was. I mean. And in fact he, he, he would still. He was, he was an instructor at iu in Russian. He's. The Russian language. He taught Russian and. But he Never finished his PhD work so he never got on tenure track. So he was always paid less than, like a real professor. And so he waited tables on Friday and Saturday nights. And that would be sort of his walking around money. And so he always. That was always. The story was, well, I have to work. I have to do this. Cause I need the money. And, you know, and then that was like another thing when I became an adult, and I was like, well, why didn't you just get your tenure? Like, why didn't, like, you know, because when I was younger, I used to think like, yeah, because he had. You know, I didn't want to. It's seven years of continuous publishing, and I just didn't want it. And I was like, oh, cool. My dad didn't want to write a bunch of papers. Like, dad, I get it, I get it, dad. And then when I had kids, I was like, wait a minute. I don't get it. I do not get. Wait. If you had just written some papers for seven years, you would have been, I mean, wealthy. Those guys, you know, like professors, when they. In a small town, they make a good living, you know.

[Sufi]

Yeah, yeah. When your dad was waiting tables, if you were visiting him, would you and your brother hang out at the restaurant?

[Andy Richter]

Yes, we would. We would. Sometimes I don't know why this would happen. Like, I imagine. I think that. Cause I do remember he would have babysitters kind of watch us. And. But there were times when we would go to the restaurant at the end of his shift and wait for him to get off. And I don't remember, like, how we got there. Like, I feel like maybe like somebody would watch us and then drop us off there, you know, at like 10 or whatever. But I do remember sitting there and it was a. It was a restaurant called Sully's Oaken Bucket. Like, and it had a big old oaken bucket. And in fact, in the movie Breaking Away, you see, because that was shot in Bloomington, Indiana, you see the Oaken Bucket in one of the scenes downtown, which was very thrilling for us when we were young. But we used to sit there and it was kind of an Irish. You know, it was like a fancy restaurant and it was Irish and they used to play Irish music. And it imprinted on me a distaste for Irish music for the rest of my life. Cause then living in Chicago, too, Irish music was around all. Everywhere. You know, it was like deedle dee dee dee dee dee dee. And I just. And I'm. You know, I still, to this day, I'm like, oh, my God. So Maudlin and all this, you know.

[Bashi]

And then when they said you have a chance to work with someone named Conan O'Brien was just instinct.

[Andy Richter]

I was like, all right, well, you know what I mean, he actually, he's not, you know. Yeah, yeah, you know, he. He's Irish, but, you know, it's like. It's. Everyone's like, oh, Harvard guy. It's like, he does not. He's not like, crowing about being. Going to Harvard, you know.

[Bashi]

No.

[Andy Richter]

You know, it's like, he's not. It's almost embarrassing because of the way people bring it up. And I think Irishness can be that way to it too. It's like, oh, let's talk about the Emerald Isle. It's like, oh, really? Do we have to.

[Bashi]

I will say the I Sully's Oaken Bucket is magnetic to me. I feel very drawn. If I was in town and I saw a place called Sully's Oak and.

[Andy Richter]

Bucket, I would want to go there. Oh, oh. 100% if I today. I mean, it's not there anymore, but yeah, that would be like, I cannot, like, you know, my wife is used to it, but. And my ex wife was used to it too, but, like, just a shitty old diner. I'm like, ooh, I gotta go check that place out, you know, like, where everyone is thirsty. 30 years older than me. Oh, yeah, I gotta go there.

[Bashi]

You know, there was a place. There was an Irish bar that Josh. I dragged Josh to plenty of times on. On Hudson called Dublin 6. And it was just like a classic Irish pub. And like, it used to be the place that Polar and I would go get drinks and it would became like the SNL bar. And when new people would join the cast, you'll be like, oh, meet us here. And I remember Sandberg being like, I thought the bars the SNL people went to would be so much cooler than this. I can't believe. Again, he's like, I can't believe you're taking me to a bar where, like, older people are.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bashi]

Like, we should be on top of the world in New York City. And you're like, oh, yeah. No, the best thing. No doorman.

[Sufi]

Yeah, no doorman. Half a block from my apartment.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, the music isn't, like, deafening, you know, you don't have to.

[Bashi]

You can talk.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, you can talk. You can wear whatever you want. No, I never like, the notion of standing in line to get into a place where the drinks are too expensive was always insane to me.

[Bashi]

And now we're going to take A quick break to hear from one of our sponsors. Hi, everybody. I'm Seth Meyers.

[Sufi]

And I'm Josh Meyers.

[Bashi]

And I'm sorry, ma'am, we haven't met.

[Sufi]

And you are?

[Bashi]

This is our mom, Hilary Myers. And you might be wondering why we're sitting with our mother on the front steps of a home. Well, we're happy to tell you we are partnering with Maker's Mark on family trips to celebrate iconic women like the Maker's Mark co founder Margie Samuels in honor of Women's History Month. And let me just say, mom, you are also iconic to us.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, thank you.

[Bashi]

Yeah, thank you.

[Sufi]

Be part of our history.

[Bashi]

Yeah. And I should say one of the ways that you're very impressive to us is you weren't just a key part of our lives. As an educator, our mother was a key part of many people's lives. She taught French to middle schoolers who have taken that French to many of Paris's finest bibliotechs.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, indeed.

[Bashi]

I've heard that history is full of stories of women like you, mom, who challenged the status quo with the idea of making something better. And a lot of us wouldn't be where we are today without the efforts of those amazing women. Margie Samuels is one of those women. She was the original designer behind the iconic red wax diploma, the label, and even the Maker's Mark name.

[Sufi]

Without the impact of Margie Samuel's vision, Maker's Mark wouldn't be the brand that it is today. She was a pioneer in the whiskey industry who inspired those who worked alongside her and paved the way for those who came after her. Her mark can still be felt on the Maker's Mark that we all know and love today.

[Bashi]

And it's really special for us during Women's History Month to be with someone who is the key to our history. And if we could share a few special moments. I remember you were the most supportive audience I could ever have, our comedy careers. And I remember when I was doing Weekend Update, you and dad were in the audience one night and I told a joke. It was not a good joke on weekend update and 280 people in the audience, and the only person who laughed was you. Now, I'm sure that's because you laughed at every joke before and after it, but it was a very piercing realization that you were the only person who liked the joke. And I thought, well, at least I'm the only one who noticed. And then the next day, I called Josh, and the first thing he said was, well, at least mom liked it.

[Sufi]

Also, anytime we've ever had any surgery, no matter how minor. I had a small knee thing. Seth had something in Amsterdam, but my mother. You've never missed a single surgery?

[Andy Richter]

Oh, no. If my boys are being cut into.

[Bashi]

I'm there, she's there.

[Sufi]

And she came out to LA once, and I had a very minor knee thing, and she had scheduled four days there. I was walking the same day, and then we just hung out for four days.

[Bashi]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

Which was great. Yeah.

[Bashi]

I think that says a lot about how much you love us and how little you like hanging out with dad. He's right behind the camera, by the way.

[Sufi]

And based on a lot of these things we've said, I think you all understand that we love you so much. And we know a thing or two about the impact that spirited women have had on our world. We are two of the luckiest men I know. And it's only because there is a woman like you in our lives. And we are so excited to be able to raise a glass of Maker's Mark to the woman who made us who we are today. Cheers.

[Bashi]

Let me just say, I think Josh is a little bit luckier because he's your favorite. Oh, don't say that just right. Well, then maybe you should stop thinking it.

[Sufi]

Cheers, Mom.

[Andy Richter]

Cheers.

[Bashi]

You, too can celebrate the spirit of women in your life with a free personalized label to go with a bottle of Maker's Mark. Head to makersmark personalized.com and fill in the details in order to create and mail your custom label. Don't forget to grab a bottle of Maker's Mark to go with it. And, mom, real quick, but without looking at the label, we chose one of your sons who had the best handwriting. Who did we choose?

[Andy Richter]

I think it's you, Seth.

[Bashi]

That really speaks to how bad Josh's handwriting is. Because it kills her to say. It kills her to save me. By the way, mine's not even that good.

[Andy Richter]

Here we go.

[Bashi]

Do you remember first time you guys were on a plane?

[Andy Richter]

I don't remember. Not specifically. But I do know that it would have been to go visit my Aunt Pat, my mom's older sister, who was my favorite person in the whole world, who was really, really fun. And she lived. It would have. I think it probably would have been in Atlanta. She lived in Atlanta. And I think we flew down to Atlanta shortly after my mom got remarried, and we drove to her house. And her husband, he was like, some financial guy, and they had this beautiful house kind of in a very woodsy area. And they had a Doberman that wouldn't let us out of the car. Cause when we got there, my aunt was at the grocery store, and the dog wouldn't let us out of the car. So we had to sit in the car and wait until she got home. And then it's just funny. Cause it's like. It's just. I have a big dog now that's the same way that probably wouldn't let you out of your car if you came to my house. And then the second it's like, I get home, she's like, oh, hi, guys. You know, and so this Doberman, you know, she got home and she's like, stop it. You know, cut it out. And then from that point on, the dog was glued to me the entire time that I was there. Like, just the sweetest, sweetest.

[Bashi]

I feel like every Midwesterner, at least 80% of them have an Aunt Pat with a big dog.

[Sufi]

Yes, yes.

[Bashi]

Probably that's their favorite. Everybody.

[Andy Richter]

Or an Uncle Pat with a big dog. Yeah, one or the other.

[Bashi]

Yeah. Yeah. The other 20% get uncle.

[Andy Richter]

Exactly.

[Bashi]

So you're getting a Pat.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, exactly. So, yeah, those were usually the trips. I mean, I can't even. I don't know, like, the first flight that I would have had that would have been something that wasn't like, to go visit my aunt. And I mean, and those were always kind of like, attached visiting. Pat was always attached to our vacations in some way, except for I did go once. I went once with my grandmother, because, as I told you, my grandma was the child of missionaries. And so there's like, religious fervor is very deeply. Runs through these dour old Swedes. And a lot of them ended up in Canada. A lot of my grandmother's siblings ended up in Canada. And so there was one trip where I went with my grandmother and my great aunt and I. I think we were maybe picking her up from a long visit with one of her brothers or sisters in Canada. And we drove up there, and it was just like. Just even at. Even at the age I was, which was probably five or six, Like, I just was like, this is so boring. Like, just. We didn't do anything good. We went to Niagara Falls, and there was like, you know, you can walk under the falls and then see, like, the water coming down. And my grandma was going to take me, and we got down, we put on slickers and boots, you know, that they give you. And we're walking through the tunnel, and she said, oh, these vibe. The vibrations are Too much for me. I can't take it. I can't take it. So we turned around and came back. So I never got to get to the. Behind the waterfalls. And I was saying a boat.

[Bashi]

She took a two day boat to.

[Sufi]

School seven just to get.

[Andy Richter]

I know, Just to get out of the. And I remember saying like, I'll just go look myself. And she's like, no, no, I can't let you do that. And I was like, it's just, you can see it's just down there. No, no, no. The vibrations, it's too much for me. Which you probably just, you know, she probably was just scared. You know, I've never, I haven't thought about it in years, but it's like, yeah, she was just nervous operations.

[Bashi]

So that your grandparents are a huge part of your upbringing.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, yes.

[Bashi]

Gotcha.

[Andy Richter]

My grandmother was. My grandfather was 18 years older than her and died.

[Bashi]

So he's the La Cliche.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, yes. Well, no, he was, he was a very sweet man that was like very established in our town and he had been married to a woman that was a. What do you call it? A Christian Scientist.

[Bashi]

Okay.

[Andy Richter]

You know, and didn't believe in medicine and stuff. And they had like three kids that died and then she was institutionalized.

[Sufi]

Oh my God.

[Andy Richter]

And then he met my grandmother and I actually found in my aunt's stuff a whole like trove of their love letters, which are incredibly tame and typed. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, he kind of, you know, and my typing a love letter in.

[Bashi]

That era is really funny because it's. I don't want to get too messed up with passionate script.

[Andy Richter]

Right, exactly. And I got the typewriter right here. It'll just be more legible. I might as well clickety clack. And my grandmother at the time too, she had been, and this was a huge scandal. She had been going. Her parents, when they left China, then started to tour the world and she was left with a sort of spinster cousin in Lincoln, Nebraska. She attended a teacher's college, had an affair with the dashing principal or, you know, head of the teachers college, got pregnant, wired her and the guy took off. And her dad came down from Chicago on the train, tracked the guy down, brought him back, made him merrier. And then the next day he was off again. And so he just took her back to Chicago and she was an unwed mother, you know, with a, with a new little baby and that, which was very much a stigma. And you know, and my grandfather, my kindly, wonderful grandfather, that didn't bother him. And you know, and so he married her and they. Yeah. And they actually.

[Bashi]

Did she have more kids? Was that. Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

Than she had. And she had four more kids or. No, three more kids. She had three more daughters. Cause my Uncle Bill is the one. He was, you know, the half brother to all of my mom and her three sisters. Her two sisters.

[Sufi]

Gotcha.

[Bashi]

You know, it's funny because I think we talk about in this Internet age, how impossible it is, you know, to disappear. The fact that before that your grandfather could track someone down. Yeah, it's just so. It's so impressive.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. I don't know how. I mean, it probably was just like he found out, like, his brother's got a farm 100 miles away, you know, and then went like, oh, there he is. You know.

[Bashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

And then just like grab him by the scruff of his shirt and bring up an altar.

[Andy Richter]

Sure. Or there may have been a gun involved. Who knows? You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bashi]

Unbelievable.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

Did you. Were they. Did they live very close to you in Yorkville?

[Andy Richter]

Oh, we lived with them.

[Bashi]

Oh, right.

[Andy Richter]

We lived with them. Yeah. Until my mom remarried. And then we moved to a city that was Aurora, which was five, six miles away. And then when my grandfather died, we took over that house and my grandmother moved into a smaller place. And so that I grew up in the house that, you know, pretty much grew up in the house that my. My great grandfather built. The house. So it. Yeah, it was our family homestead.

[Sufi]

Still stand still in the family?

[Andy Richter]

It's still there, but it is not in the family. And it just. Recently the family we sold it to in like, oh, I want to say 85, they just sold it. So it just. It just changed hands again.

[Sufi]

Did any part of you, like, hear that that was for sale and were like, oh, should we buy that house?

[Andy Richter]

No, no, there's just. There's just nothing, you know? You know, it's like I still. I'm as. I'm as bad as anyone at looking at like these Zillow things of like, you know, Jefferson, Missouri. A 10 room, beautiful, intact 1912 mansion for $7. And I'm like, oh. But then I'm like, no, I'm not moving to Missouri or Illinois or wherever.

[Bashi]

You know, they love when people from LA come. Cause their nice things are cheap. They're so neighborly to that.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm here because you people don't know the value of things.

[Bashi]

Speaking of values, I have some thoughts about equality.

[Sufi]

Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

[Bashi]

Support for family trips comes from Airbnb. Hey, Bashi.

[Sufi]

Yes, Ufi?

[Bashi]

You know, some trips are better in an Airbnb. Let me tell you what I liked most about the last trip we took with you and mom and dad. We didn't have one bathroom.

[Sufi]

Oh, yeah. We had three or maybe even four.

[Bashi]

You know what? We had a bathroom situation. Dad was so impressed with the master bathroom that he kept telling us we should go take a shower in his room.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

Which I didn't.

[Sufi]

I never did.

[Bashi]

I never did. He kept saying, you gotta. It was really good. You know what? When dad visits us, you know what he does with the kids that Alexei's not crazy about?

[Sufi]

What's that?

[Bashi]

He lets him eat toothpaste right out of the tube. So that's why I didn't take a shower at his Airbnb bathroom.

[Sufi]

Is.

[Bashi]

I didn't know if I. I could resist that sweet, sweet toothpaste snack. Yeah, look, it's really nice. I love our proximity to mom and dad when we're with them, but I also enjoy. There's a little bit of space that a hotel room does not provide.

[Sufi]

And then, you know, it's great to have a living room, because a living room is yours and it feels like home and it's not a lobby.

[Bashi]

Yeah. Also, dad is prone to sprawl.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

He's the original manspreader.

[Bashi]

He's the original manspreader. If he was getting residuals every time somebody manspread, the guy would be a billionaire. So it's nice the way dad sits on a couch in a lobby, I think would be sort of unbecoming of a gentleman his age, but, you know, get him in an Airbnb living room. Go nuts, dad. Yeah, and the other thing is, sometimes you might, you know, hey, does this Airbnb look as good as it seems to look in the pictures? Why not try a guest favorite? Those are the most loved homes on Airbnb that can give you that extra sense of confidence. Book your next awesome trip [e-mail] Support for family trips comes from Ira Store. Hey, Paji.

[Sufi]

Yeah, Sufi.

[Bashi]

You know when I think people are the most jealous of your head of hair?

[Sufi]

When's that?

[Bashi]

When you feel the summer coming in. Because, look, Pasha, you got that head of hair. You can just see you shaking it back and forth in a Mazda Miata with the top down on your way to the beach.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

And then you get to the beach and you go swimming in the beach, and then you come out and you just sort of shake your head back and forth and it's like a sheepdog after a bath. And I think that for those of us who are not blessed the way you were blessed, Irestore is a very helpful aid to have by your side.

[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

What's that?

[Bashi]

Eye remove. Oh, yeah. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna make it look like an eye restorer and you're.

[Sufi]

Not gonna know that you're just gonna be losing hair.

[Bashi]

You're ahead of idea. I guess the problem with this plan is that why would I get give you an April fool's gift? Like I feel like you'll immediately be wary of it.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

Trips is brought to you by Nissan.

[Sufi]

Hey, Sufi.

[Bashi]

Yeah, Paschi?

[Sufi]

What's that thing I always say about going big and it never going out of style?

[Bashi]

Oh, I remember. Going big never goes out of style.

[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Bashi]

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[Andy Richter]

Here we go.

[Bashi]

Were you close with your stepfather?

[Andy Richter]

Not really. Okay.

[Bashi]

How old were you when your mom remarried?

[Andy Richter]

I think eight. I think eight because she had my brother and sister very quickly after that, and they were born in 1976.

[Sufi]

Okay, gotcha. Or would you do any. Any. Like, once you had those, you know, younger siblings, would you guys do any, like, road trips? Would you go to. I feel like it's very Midwestern to go to like the Wisconsin Dells or you'd go to the Great Lakes or any, any kind.

[Andy Richter]

No, we didn't do. We. My mom planned a couple. Like I said, we would go visit my aunt and she lived in Atlanta or she lived in Dallas and so we would go there and just kind of stay near her. But we did do. We did a couple of big vacations oh, we did go. We did. You're reminding me. We went on a driving trip to Mackinac island in Michigan, which is this beautiful island that doesn't allow cars. And it has this grand old hotel called maybe called the Grand Hotel. For Christ's sake.

[Bashi]

It's called the Grand Old Hotel.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, there's. It's a big old wooden hotel with a giant like 200 yard long front porch. And it's just, it's really, you know, it's like just a gorgeous little place up in Michigan. They did the movie Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeves.

[Bashi]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy Richter]

Is shot there. It's like a time travel movie. And they were actually shooting it while we were there. So that was very exciting because we got to see Christopher Plummer working on a scene outside. And so we did that. And that was nice. And we did do. Oh yeah. And I'm. Now I am remembering we did a Michigan trip and with some Wisconsin thrown in there because we took a ferry across Lake Michigan. We drove up into Michigan, I don't remember exactly where, and then came back across because, you know, there's like a lot of touristy things on the shores of the Great Lakes. Yeah. And then as you, you know, you get up into Canada and stuff. But our big, big family trip that I remember was when my little brother and sister were there, probably about four or five. We took the train from Joliet, Illinois to Oakland and then a bus to San Francisco from Oakland, which is where my Aunt Pat was living again. Wow.

[Bashi]

Aunt Pat got around going to America's capital.

[Andy Richter]

Her house, you know, with this finance thing, would move around, but they didn't. She loved living in San Francisco and wanted to stay in San Francisco, but it meant that he had to get up super early because when you're a financial guy, you gotta get. You gotta. You're on New York time. So, you know, he hated it. But she lived in this beautiful apartment that overlooked the bay. And, and my brother and I, it was like voyeur, dirty minded kid, voyeur paradise. Because you had perfect views into like 12 different apartments. And we stayed up until all hours just watching people. Like there was a couple across the way that they were like this little penthouse kind of structure on top. And they would get home, this guy and his wife, they would get home and the second they got home, they were nude. And then just like I would walk around outside like, you know, watering plants and stuff. Nude. Which my aunt told me that she. One time that she, you know, she'd see them all the Time, because they're right there across the way. And then one time she was in the grocery store and was getting something on a shelf and turned and, like, face to face with them and went, oh, my God, I'm sorry. Like, and scurried away. She's like, I didn't have anything to apologize for, except for the fact that I'd seen them nude 3,000 times. Yeah.

[Bashi]

Why is it on her if anybody should be apologizing?

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, so we got to be peeping Toms, which, I mean, I know that's bad, but I just, I don't know how you peep. Someone can. Yeah. How you kind of.

[Bashi]

They're begging for the peep. I think at that point they might, they might be doing it for the peeps. And.

[Andy Richter]

Well, they, they especially. But, I mean, but like, we were seeing also, too. Like, we saw people having sex, you know, like, and, and I just feel like I, I don't. Whenever I lived where I would have sex and someone could see, I would get curtains, you know, I, I, I mean, you know, but I'm not saying, you know, I'm not blaming the victim of my voyeurism, but I'm just saying, I, I mean, you know, it's like how that, you know, because people having sex is always interesting.

[Bashi]

It is always interesting. I do like that San Francisco fell right into the stereotype of probably what people in the Midwest.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, absolutely.

[Bashi]

I almost feel like at the Joliet train station, they were like, let me guess. You're gonna go watch people have sex.

[Andy Richter]

Open windows, you're gonna go see people fornicate. And then we drove down the coast from there and we stopped, like, in Carmel, Monterey area.

[Bashi]

How old were you in this one, did you say?

[Andy Richter]

I'm sorry, I think I was about 13, maybe. 13.

[Bashi]

Cool time. Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

And then we drove down the coast, and then we went to la and we went to Universal City, and then we ended up at Disneyland, stayed in the Disneyland hotel and then flew home. So. Yeah, that was a big one. That was a big shebang kind of trip that my mom did.

[Sufi]

Was the peeping the highlight of that whole trip, do you think?

[Andy Richter]

Yes, the peeping was the highlight. And, you know, and now that you're saying it, there was a point at which we stopped along, like, in Monterey, where it's so beautiful, whatever that 27 mile drive or whatever it's called, you know, like the. And there was a man standing on a guardrail. We stopped to just take pictures and look at this beautiful vista over the ocean and there's a man standing, looking down with a camera, taking pictures. And I walked over and looked down. It's like there was someone nude, there was a woman nude, sunbathing down on the beach.

[Bashi]

They're everywhere. This was an incredible disservice to, you know, Disneyland because I feel like for a 13 year old boy, yes, you should have done Disneyland first and then all the naked ladies.

[Andy Richter]

No, honestly, Disneyland, Disneyland was the best part of it, I will say. Yeah, we did, we did. While waiting in at Universal Studios, while waiting in line for the monster show. Do you remember they used to do a monster show. Like it was amazing. A musical show. But it was like. Because all the Universal monster was Frankenstein, the wolf Man, Dracula, you know, and it was a musical show with all the monsters that we had. I was like, I'm. There's fucking monsters I'm going to see, you know. And we saw a old Japanese tourist man get pickpocketed. And then a white lady grabbed the pickpocket's hand as he was pulling the wallet out and screamed like, what do you think you're doing? You know? And the guy went, I don't know. And then pulled his hand away and dropped the wallet and ran away. And the old man seemed very kind of like, it didn't seem like he appreciated what she. Because his wallet was fat with bills. It's like I don't feel like he appreciated what this woman did for him. And I feel like she didn't feel like he appreciated it either. She's like, he was going to take your money. Oh, okay. Thank you.

[Bashi]

I just think it's a non confrontational culture.

[Andy Richter]

Exactly. It's like, maybe that's what I wanted. Maybe.

[Bashi]

Meanwhile, the monster people in monster suit backstage are gonna be like, oh, this is super lame compared to the drama that just happened out there. When you're 13 and you're like, oh, I love monsters. And then you go see a musical monster show at Universal City. It must be. I'm so disappointing.

[Andy Richter]

I don't think so. I don't think I questioned it that much. I think, you know, I think, yeah, I knew it was corny and stuff, but still I was like into it. Because I will tell you too. At Disneyland on the same trip there was, we stayed at the Disneyland hotel. And it's all very different now. I mean, I've taken my kids to Disneyland a million times and you know, we still go a lot. But there was like a shopping village by the Disneyland hotel and there was a mask store A store that just sold fancy masks, and there was a werewolf mask that was like, I don't know, 50 bucks or something, which was just not gonna happen. That I went in every day and tried on and looked in the mirror and was like, to this day, remember, just like. And, like, trying to tell my mom. Like, it just would be so. I mean, I know it's expensive. No, I'm not getting you a $50 werewolf.

[Sufi]

I'll get married in this. It's a mess.

[Bashi]

It's not the money that. Yeah, there's no selling point to appearance. Like, I'll use it every day.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

[Bashi]

Which is a disaster for a parent. They don't want you using a wolf man mask every day.

[Andy Richter]

Well, good. You're going to be that weird kid that always has the werewolf mask.

[Bashi]

I have a question because, again, age 6 and 3, Andy, what's the right age to bring kids to Disneyland or Disney World?

[Andy Richter]

It all works.

[Bashi]

It all works.

[Andy Richter]

It all works. Yeah. Yeah. Cause with the littlest kid, and this is the first time that we took my son, who's now 24, to Disneyland, you start to realize, because your life is defined by how far you can let your child get from you without freaking out. Like, out in public, you know, and at Disneyland, you can let your kid get, like, 70 yards away from you because you start to realize everything's baby proof. Like, there's no railings that they can get their head stuck in. You know, there's, like, they can't fall into open water. They're, you know, there. You don't have to worry about a car hitting them or something. Even, like on Main street, you know, it's. You know, it's just. It's a very. You feel very safe. And you also get such a contact high from them because they can't believe it. And my son, when we took him there, he was probably about three, I think three or four the first time we took him. And he just innately understood these characters in costumes, they need to be hugged. Like, he wasn't freaked out. Cause I was kind of like, what's he gonna think about Mickey Mouse or Pluto? Like, Like, I would think, what the fuck is that? You know? And I don't even know that he was that aware of them. And, you know, like, I don't feel like he'd watched a lot of Mickey Mouse cartoons. Cause they weren't that available then, you know, but he just understood immediately, like, well, that thing needs a hug, you know, and just would walk up, like, interrupt other People's photo sessions, like just to go hug Minnie's leg, you know, but then. And then as they get older, they. They do reach an age 13 ish, 14 ish, where they will all over the idea of going and then go and have really have fun. And then there will be a span where they don't want to go unless they, you know, and then there's the time. And then they start going with their friends. So they can do drugs, I'm assuming, you know.

[Bashi]

Yeah, that's one where you just want like sort of willful ignorance.

[Andy Richter]

Right? Exactly.

[Bashi]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

I mean, you know, if they're not.

[Sufi]

Doing drugs, you're wondering, why are you still going at Disney?

[Andy Richter]

Honestly, it's like, I know When I was 22, when I was in my 20s, Disneyland was much better when I was on acid, you know, much more interesting. You know, the lines were less. Less intolerable.

[Bashi]

You know, again, in the same way that it's baby proof for a child, they're also really safe places to be on acid.

[Andy Richter]

Exactly, exactly.

[Sufi]

And they say that in the literature.

[Bashi]

Yeah, they're like, look. Cause again, you don't want to be on acid somewhere where there's traffic.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, no. And I love. Honestly, you know, I've known a lot of like, kind of hipster parents who are like, man, I would never. And it's like, what are you talking about? It's like it is literally the happiest place on earth. Like, just, just go. Just like they've been thinking about. They've been thinking about this stuff for, you know, 70 years. They've been thinking about how to do this stuff. I. I'm not thrilled with like all this Star Wars a vacation of it, you know, like. But then when I think about it, like, you know, it's always been about product, you know, there's always been like some kind of, you know, whatever. Tom Sawyer's island or whatever that, you know, that was. That they had Tom Sawyer shit that they were selling, you know, but it is like, like they turned, you know, like a whole thing being Star wars. And I just. Because I don't. Star wars is like, oh, it's all right, you know, But I mean, I don't care that much.

[Sufi]

Yeah. More people are looking for the Star Wars Merchant merch.

[Andy Richter]

Right? Exactly. Or there's like, you know, all the Marvel stuff now is they have all that stuff.

[Bashi]

My son says Star wars. And I feel like he thinks it's more like a rhyme than it. Star Wars, Star Wars.

[Andy Richter]

I love that.

[Bashi]

And we watched the first two together, we finally, you know, and very sweet thing happened where he was away this weekend on a sleepover with his friends. And he came back and he said, I have to tell you something. They started watching Return of the Jedi, but I asked them to stop because I. I said I wanted to watch it with my dad. And they kept watching it until the parents came in. And then I told them and they finally made him stop, which makes my kids seem so lame that he's like telling kids, like, I need to watch my dad, and then he like. Then he like narcs them out.

[Andy Richter]

Right, right, right.

[Bashi]

But he goes, I did watch the beginning and I was, you know, I remember Return of the Jedi. And I was like, it's really, the. The beginning's really good. Right. When they, like, save Han for. From Jabba the Hutt. And he said the funniest thing. He goes, yeah. He goes, it was really satisfying. And it was just like an 8 year old saying that the beginning of Return of the Jedi was satisfying. I was like, you know what? That might be the perfect way to describe it.

[Andy Richter]

It's very sad. It had everything I wanted out of it was vengeful. Yeah. Out of a Star War.

[Bashi]

It was Star War. It was my favorite. Star War of the Star Wars. I also. Josh is going to be deeply disappointed that of all the things I loop back to, I do want to mention something about somewhere in time, the Christopher Reed. I think it was the first time I realized just because an actor was in a movie you love doesn't mean you're gonna like that movie. Cause as a kid who fucking loved Superman.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bashi]

Like, I was like, oh, Superman. Christopher Reeve. Yeah. I begged mom to let us watch it or let me watch it, and I was just like 20 minutes in realizing, this sucks.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, this is boring.

[Bashi]

Superman. What is. What sort of choices are you making?

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. Yep. Yeah, it's true.

[Bashi]

That was where Harrison Ford did us a bunch of solids. Because Harrison Ford was like the first actor. Everything. I feel like he did Star wars and then everything after was also really good.

[Andy Richter]

Yes. You know, although he did do some grown up, like, Murdery kind of, you know, things.

[Bashi]

I feel like my. The timeline for me was really good because, like, by the time he was doing Witness, I was like, ready for that.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, he has been in, like a lot of like, like. Yeah, you know, just, you know, just movies where he's running a lot in danger and running a lot, you know?

[Bashi]

Yeah, it's good. He's good at. He's a good runner.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Bashi]

This is wonderful. It's always lovely to see you and speak to you.

[Andy Richter]

Thank you.

[Bashi]

And now, very excited for Josh to ask you our speed round questions.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, all right.

[Sufi]

All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these. What is your ideal. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational?

[Andy Richter]

Can I say, like relaxing and educational? Like a blend we let.

[Sufi]

Or does it have to be we let Josh Brolin.

[Andy Richter]

If I have to pick two. Yeah, I'm gonna say relaxing if I have to pick one, but I. But I do like a little bit of, you know, let's go look at the ruins or the bird sanctuary, that kind of thing. I enjoy that stuff.

[Sufi]

Great. What's your favorite means of transportation?

[Andy Richter]

Helicopter.

[Sufi]

Okay. You can take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional. Other than your own family. What family would you like to take a family vacation?

[Andy Richter]

Oh, you mean not someone in my family. Another.

[Bashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

Another fan. Another group.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, wow. Gosh. Probably the Adams family. They would be fine. No, I mean. I mean, that. That's kind of a joke answer, but.

[Bashi]

But a real mayor Eric Adams of New York. You'd want to go to Turkey with her in first class.

[Andy Richter]

What else would I have been? Gosh, I don't know. My own. You know, like, your own family's enough sort of combination of joy and work that it's like the idea to have to shoehorn yourself into somebody else's.

[Bashi]

I don't know. The next one will be helpful.

[Andy Richter]

Okay.

[Sufi]

Yeah. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be?

[Andy Richter]

Well, my wife. Great. You know, I mean, for sure.

[Bashi]

Second one.

[Andy Richter]

Second one.

[Sufi]

Second wife would be.

[Bashi]

Yeah, no, no, I meant second wife.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, second. Yes, second wife.

[Bashi]

Okay, good.

[Andy Richter]

Well, I thought you meant I get a second choice. No, no, no, no.

[Bashi]

Yes, you get one choice. Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

Yes.

[Bashi]

All right.

[Sufi]

You're from Yorkville, Illinois. Would you recommend Yorkville as a vacation destination?

[Andy Richter]

No, not really. I don't.

[Bashi]

Based on what you said.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Bashi]

No, it's seems like a perfectly fine place.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, it is.

[Bashi]

Nobody is ever like, you know what? I want to see some suburban sprawl.

[Andy Richter]

Well, actually, it's a big box store. It's a pretty little town. When you get to the downtown of it, it's got a kind of an old cool downtown, which I actually have. That's the last time I was there. I went to. And it now sort of has this river walk, a few restaurants and bars, kind of of, you know, it's. It. It Sort of is a nice place to go have an afternoon.

[Bashi]

I'll never look down my nose at a riverwalk. I feel like anybody who realizes that people want to be near a river. Yes, always.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, it's. Yeah, whatever. Water. Body of water.

[Bashi]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

You know.

[Sufi]

And then Seth has our final questions.

[Bashi]

Andy, have you been to the Grand Canyon?

[Andy Richter]

No.

[Bashi]

Do you want to go?

[Andy Richter]

Yes.

[Bashi]

Okay.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, I've seen it from an airplane, but I don't think. And I've driven all around it, but I don't think we ever did like it. A proper trip. I did this one thing once where as part of the integration, a Chevy ad for the Conan show when we were on tbs. I. I'm making air quotes for you listeners. I drove a little, some new. Little Chevy, I think it was called a Sonic, maybe this little Chevy. I drove it from LA to New York for our week of shows in New York, which really was just like I drove. I think I drove the thing maybe five hours. And then the rest of the time there was a three teamsters who would swap off and they would drive the car or sleep or drive the like tour bus that me and a writer and a prop guy. And then like two guys that were like uploading because they were up editing and uploading as we were going. And so we, we had a non stop kind of itinerary to do different things. Like I stopped at that steakhouse in Amarillo and had the 72 ounce steak, which was one of the most awful excuses for a piece of meat I've ever encountered. But the rest of the time it was just like me and a writer, Brian McCann, who's one of the funniest people, an old friend of mine from Chicago on this tour bus and me a lot of the time, like in my pajamas and a robe. Cause we were doing bits with me in pajamas and a robe, just smoking weed and drinking on the back of this bus as we go across the country and stopping, you know, but we didn't, we did not stay in a hotel. We, you know, we went straight through. But we did not do that. We didn't. I think the Grand Canyon was just like out of our route. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sufi]

So if you were driving to Amarillo to get that steak, then.

[Bashi]

Yeah. Are you worried anything you do with your 5 year old at any point, your older kids will be like, oh, Grand Canyon would have been nice?

[Andy Richter]

No, probably, because I'm probably not gonna have as much money with this kid as I did with the other ones.

[Bashi]

Oh, God.

[Andy Richter]

So they're like I had regular TV gigs with the other ones. They got all the sweet trips. Whereas, you know, although my daughter, my older daughter, who's 19 now, she was such an ADHD handful that we didn't go anywhere on a plane until she was like, 11 or 12. Just because we're just like. No, we are not. We're not submitting her to, you know, an airplane. I mean, we did go a couple. I worked in New Zealand, and my ex wife and my kids and her mother flew to meet me in New Zealand. But. But other than that, we were like, no, we're vacationing locally. We're going in the car. Because she was just so much.

[Bashi]

It's good to know. It's good to know the limitations.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, exactly.

[Bashi]

Well, thank you so much, Andy. It's always so nice to see you and talk to you.

[Andy Richter]

Thank you. It was really fun to see you guys.

[Bashi]

Thankfully, I'll see you soon in person.

[Andy Richter]

All righty. All right, guys.

[Sufi]

Take care.

[Andy Richter]

Bye, buddy. Bye.

[Sufi]

Bye. Yeah, you remember it, Andy.

[Andy Richter]

I know you do.

[Sufi]

And Richter, he recalls going tonight. Agra Falls cool to see but now, now we have to leave those Niagara vibrations gave grandma palpitations and he had expectations turned into aggravations and Dee took a trip with grandma who had siblings up in Canada. Clean love letters that she typed up the waterfall hat and de hyped them commission for this missionary turned out to be too, too scary Call it off to Andy's frustration. Such a freaking boring vacation.

[Bashi]

Come on, come on.

[Sufi]

Grandma, Grandma, can't you take medication? Both naya breath vibration face stare Grandma. Aw. In the techno location we're so close. Fun reservation wanted to see the voice.

[Bashi]

Total.