Kids & Wake-Up Calls (w/ Andy Richter)

Summary

Staying Alive with Jon Gabrus & Adam Pally
Episode: Kids & Wake-Up Calls (w/ Andy Richter)
Release Date: July 10, 2025

Hosted by Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally, "Staying Alive" dives deep into health, wellness, and the personal journeys of its guests. In this engaging episode, they welcome comedian and actor Andy Richter to discuss his experiences with health challenges, the impact of parenting on wellness, and maintaining a balanced lifestyle amidst the pressures of fame and responsibility.

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Introduction and Guest Introduction

The episode kicks off with light-hearted banter between Jon, Adam, and Andy Richter, establishing a warm and humorous rapport. Andy shares amusing anecdotes from his recent trip to Kansas City, where he experienced a sneezing fit at a children's hospital, highlighting his down-to-earth nature despite his public persona.

Andy Richter [00:00]: "I did this big slick. And I had a sneezing fit at the children's hospital, visiting sick kids."

Navigating Friendship and Professional Relationships

Jon and Adam reminisce about their experiences meeting Andy, emphasizing the mutual respect and camaraderie shared among comedians. They discuss the ease of improvisation with seasoned actors like Andy, drawing parallels to other beloved performers such as Tim Meadows.

Adam Pally [02:20]: "You don't have to worry about [Andy] ruining it."

Mental Health and Medication

A significant portion of the conversation centers on mental health. Andy opens up about his long-term use of antidepressants, detailing his regimen of Wellbutrin and Trintellix, and the challenges he faced with side effects that impacted his personal life.

Andy Richter [03:39]: "What do you do to stay alive? Oh, my God. Antidepressants."

He candidly discusses experiencing premature ejaculation as a side effect, attributing it to his medication, and the subsequent adjustments made under his psychiatrist's guidance.

Andy Richter [04:15]: "I've been on Prozac for about 15 years. Well, there's some, there are different things that I've tried."

Supplements and Physical Health

The trio delves into the use of supplements like fish oil (Vascepa) and glucosamine chondroitin, sharing personal experiences and opinions on their efficacy. Andy highlights the importance of managing triglycerides and the role of dietary choices in maintaining cardiovascular health.

Andy Richter [06:20]: "I do take vascepa or vascepa, depending on which doctor says it, which is been explained to me as like pharmaceutical grade fish oil."

Exercise Habits and Challenges

Andy discusses his complex relationship with exercise, expressing a preference for activities like walking, biking, and playing softball over cardio machines, which he finds existentially draining. The conversation touches on the physical toll of exercise, with both Adam and Jon sharing their struggles with injuries and motivational barriers.

Andy Richter [11:14]: "My knees are terrible. So I stopped playing tennis because it was just so hard on my knees."

Impact of Urban Living on Health

Living in bustling cities like New York and Chicago inherently keeps them more active, with Jon sharing childhood memories of walking and taking public transportation. Adam contrasts this with his current life in Los Angeles, where he consciously incorporates walking into his routine despite the challenges.

Adam Pally [16:01]: "I'm walking like two and a half miles a day at minimum without any exercise."

Overcoming Health Crises: Andy's Stroke

A poignant segment features Andy recounting his stroke in 2009, detailing the misdiagnosis of labyrinthitis and the subsequent realization of his condition. He speaks openly about the personal and professional repercussions, including the impact on his work-life balance.

Andy Richter [26:32]: "I had a stroke. It was a kind of a confluence of different things."

Parenting and Structure

Both hosts explore how parenting instills structure into their lives, countering the "rudderless" feeling that can accompany freelance or unconventional careers. Andy emphasizes the fulfillment he finds in fatherhood, despite the added responsibilities and challenges.

Andy Richter [38:06]: "I really like being a dad. I need structure and I'm terrible at finding my own because..."

Jon echoes similar sentiments, discussing the necessity of feeling responsible and the grounding effect it has on his lifestyle.

Jon Gabris [40:11]: "I really... I need people. I need to feel responsible to people."

Balancing Professional Life and Family

The conversation shifts to the delicate balance between career demands and family life. Andy shares stories from his time on set with his children, illustrating the complexities of being present as a parent while maintaining a successful career in entertainment.

Andy Richter [52:59]: "How's... How's he gonna learn?"

The Role of Community and Relationships

Jon, Adam, and Andy discuss the importance of surrounding themselves with supportive and like-minded individuals. They touch upon the dynamics of friendships, especially those formed through the entertainment industry, and how these relationships contribute to their overall well-being.

Andy Richter [69:07]: "I always do...telling the producer...they'll have fun."

Concluding Insights

Wrapping up, Andy reflects on his journey towards better health and the lessons learned from his experiences. He emphasizes the value of making workplaces enjoyable and fostering a positive environment for everyone involved.

Andy Richter [68:41]: "I make sure that I'm having fun. Odds are I'm going to be doing as much as I possibly can to commit myself to making this a really good product."

Jon and Adam commend Andy for his openness and the insightful conversation, highlighting the episode's focus on real, honest discussions about health and personal growth.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Andy Richter [03:39]: "Oh, my God. Antidepressants."
• Andy Richter [04:15]: "I've been on Prozac for about 15 years."
• Andy Richter [16:01]: "I'm walking like two and a half miles a day at minimum without any exercise."
• Andy Richter [26:32]: "I had a stroke. It was a kind of a confluence of different things."
• Jon Gabris [40:11]: "I really... I need people. I need to feel responsible to people."

Conclusion

In this heartfelt and candid episode, Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally, alongside Andy Richter, explore the multifaceted aspects of staying healthy—physically, mentally, and emotionally. Through personal stories and expert insights, they provide listeners with relatable content that underscores the importance of balance, responsibility, and self-care in maintaining a fulfilling life.

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Transcript

[Andy Richter]

Smart. Bless me. I was this weekend. You know that thing in Kansas City, they do the.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, big.

[Andy Richter]

The big slick. I did this big slick. And I had a sneezing fit at the children's hospital, visiting sick kids. It's like. And I know when they come, it's like at least four.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

You know, And I got. So there's the one. I step out in the hallway, and there's like, you know, a helper there, you know, and she's like, you okay? You ready? And I'm like, no. You know.

[John Gabris]

Oh, my God.

[Andy Richter]

Five of them.

[John Gabris]

A kid hooked up to machines.

[Andy Richter]

He's like, I thought I was gonna meet Andy Richter. God bless you, Andy Richter.

[Adam Pally]

No, God bless you.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, man.

[Adam Pally]

We got. We got a big one.

[John Gabris]

We got a whale.

[Adam Pally]

We got a big. He doesn't want to be called that anymore.

[John Gabris]

All right, no problem. We got a bull.

[Adam Pally]

We got a real bull in the middle.

[John Gabris]

Bull in the net.

[Adam Pally]

We're reeling in a big one today. An ahi tuna and a guy. Andy Richter. Let's just say his name so I don't have to keep. Andy Richter, a dude who we've been watching on TV since we were the.

[John Gabris]

Quickest draw in the West.

[Adam Pally]

Guys. Legendary improviser. The Conan show was so important growing up. Insanely funny.

[John Gabris]

I met Andy 15 years ago when he was on Happy Endings. And he was there because our head writer, Jonathan Groff, who's a legend, was the first showrunner head writer of the Conan Show. And I think that I was so. I was so excited. I could not, like, control myself that day when I met Andy, and I was, like, recounting bits to him, and I think that that kept me in his good graces for a long time.

[Adam Pally]

I. That's awesome. And that's really fun because I had a very similar experience where you get to meet a guy you look up to when you're on the same level. Yeah, Because I met Andy doing Ass Cat.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Pally]

With him, you know, like, the Besser invited me down.

[John Gabris]

He's like.

[Adam Pally]

And Richter's doing it. And I'm like, andy Richter?

[John Gabris]

Yes.

[Adam Pally]

And I'm like, fuck, I get to do improv with Andy Richter. And it was fucking.

[John Gabris]

And then he's.

[Andy Richter]

He.

[John Gabris]

And he feels that way. He's one of those old school improvisers to me that I love doing scenes with, too. Cause, like, you can't make a wrong move with Andy in the scene. Like. Like, he's like Tim Meadows to me, too.

[Andy Richter]

Right?

[John Gabris]

Tim Meadows. Like, got to get Tim on The pod. We got to get Meadows. Meadows, maybe my favorite person to do a scene with in the world. Because he's.

[Adam Pally]

He's unflappable.

[John Gabris]

Unflappable and unjudgmental and just there. And it's like, it's going to work.

[Adam Pally]

And they will make it work. Like, it'll.

[John Gabris]

Tim's going to make it work. He's going to make it work.

[Adam Pally]

There's a person you can sit across from and just feel absolutely confident you're taken care of. And sometimes you have a little bit of a fear with these veteran funny guys that you are going to ruin it for them.

[John Gabris]

Right.

[Adam Pally]

And we're confident good improvisers. But you'll go like, I hope they don't hate working with me. But Andy will never let you feel that way.

[John Gabris]

No.

[Adam Pally]

Because he's just glad he's a legit, sweet guy.

[John Gabris]

He's glad you're doing something, too.

[Adam Pally]

He might bring up being Midwestern.

[John Gabris]

I bet he does. I bet that almost defines him.

[Adam Pally]

Well, it's only one way to find out.

[John Gabris]

Ladies and gentlemen, Richter.

[Adam Pally]

Richter. We have even let you host a podcast called Three Questions.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, I do.

[Adam Pally]

We really only even asked one question on this podcast. Yeah. And that question we're kicking off right now with. What do you do to stay alive?

[Andy Richter]

Oh, my God. Antidepressants.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, that's a good one.

[John Gabris]

Join the club.

[Andy Richter]

Let's get specific. A couple of them.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. What's your cocktail? Because we can go through ours, respectively. But I've been on Prozac for about 15 years.

[Andy Richter]

Wellbutrin. I'm on Wellbutrin. And then it is augmented with Trintellix.

[John Gabris]

Okay.

[Andy Richter]

And I don't even remember. There wasn't. There was one called Vibrid that was added in. And then I. You know, I've been on them for so long that I don't even remember what. What was the problem?

[John Gabris]

Right.

[Andy Richter]

You know, the only specific. I mean, I think. I think sometimes they just. The efficacy just kind of stopped. But there was definitely one time where. And I can't even remember which one it was on. It might. It might have just been the Wellbutrin. But I've told this before, and I. You know, I don't think my kids are going to listen to this. But, like, I. And this.

[Adam Pally]

I don't think anyone's listening to this.

[John Gabris]

I can. I can promise you no one is listening to this.

[Andy Richter]

But it was like. I bet you it was probably almost 15 years ago, and I just became. And I mean, I was never a real performer, but just became a premature ejaculator. Like just kind of seemingly.

[John Gabris]

With your wife?

[Andy Richter]

Yes, yes. Like out of blue. Yeah. And I mean. And like I say it wasn't, but it was just like. And I, of course, as I'm want to do if there's something physically wrong, I immediately think, well, it's my fault. I've done something to deserve this. I'm just a piece of shit.

[Adam Pally]

This is wild.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah. And. And I just. No, not even Catholic. I don't know what. Just Midwestern and fat. But I. So I was like, oh, no, it's my fault. And then I talked to my shrink about it, actually. I think my wife, even my ex wife might have even said like, maybe it's your medication. And I asked my shrink and he's like, yeah, you know what, let's try a scope. And he like gave me a Scotia something else and it like fixed it. So I've been, I've been blending, doing a hybrid blend for a few years.

[Adam Pally]

Well, that's. But even like someone says like, oh, you should take fish oil, you add it in and then you like, now you just for the next 15 years are taking fish.

[Andy Richter]

You know what I mean? It's like. Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

I don't know if it's helping, hurting, but I know since I've added it, it's not worse.

[Andy Richter]

Yes. Well, there's some, there are different things that I've tried. Like I, I used to take some kind of like, I can't remember the name of it, but it's some over the counter kind of glucosamine chondroitin thing.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

Like my mother swears by. I can't read. It's. It's like motion flex or something like that. And I took it for a while and then I stopped taking it. I'm just, you know, same. Yeah, yeah. It's still achy and sore when I wake up and achy and sore when I go to bed. It could just be, or it could be old. But I, I do take vascepa or vascepa, depending on which doctor says it, which is it's been explained to me as like pharmaceutical grade fish oil and it fucking obliterated my high triglycerides because that's what I. That was like. I don't have like a lot of cholesterol issues. And the only cholesterol issue I have is that I have higher bad to good. And apparently that's kind of hereditary. Like you can't even really kind of change that much. But high triglycerides, which is like sugar and booze and I don't even drink that much booze anymore. But you know, I don't eat a lot of fucking sweets that much. When it's not Easter and my daughter has an Easter basket to read. But outside out of mind insight.

[John Gabris]

I mean it's, it's June now. That basket came last.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, yes. It makes me think but back to my childhood because it was when my. Because I have a 24 year old, a 19 year old and a 5 year old and when the older kids. Yeah, yeah. When the older kids like their candy like half of it would just like right after they went to sleep, Halloween night would go in the trash, right? Would just be like fuck this, go in the trash. And then it would be sort of doled out. But even then like two months later, sometimes up in the cupboard where the candy would like there'd be like two month old Halloween candy because they just kind of forgot about it. Which I. Well now that I look like my brother and I used to. There was no control mechanism. It was just, it was just sit and shove as much fucking grocery store candy into your face as you possibly.

[Adam Pally]

I'm one of three boys and we were animals. And the only thing that ever controlled our consumption was mom's grocery shopping. She'd be like, she started just being like all that's in the cabinet is mega boxes of Cheez. Its because they are like self limiting and how disgusting.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Adam Pally]

Like you're eventually like okay, no more.

[Andy Richter]

You know.

[Adam Pally]

He's like hi you like if we got like noose.

[Andy Richter]

I'm so dehydrated.

[John Gabris]

I said this before. Your house was like a jet blue flight.

[Adam Pally]

It, it really was. If, if, if my mom bought cinnamon toast crunch or something. Me and the older brother, me and my middle brother. But just so my youngest brother couldn't get in on it. We would make bowls that were dis, like finish it in like two meals no one else can have.

[Andy Richter]

My older brother, well he's, he's a very large man. He's like six. Six. Jesus. And. And now he's sort of more my build. But he was more slight when he was younger and played basketball through in through junior college. And so he used to eat like an entire box of cereal, 25 pancakes. Like just like just carb the out and always be real thinny. Real real skinny. Thinny skinny. Always be really, really skinny and make fun of me, you know and call me fatso or whatever and Then as soon as the basketball stopped, like, ha, ha.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. Yeah, Right now.

[Andy Richter]

Sticking right up. Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

I had a few friends that played NCAA sports, and when we all graduated and I was the fat party animal in the crew, they were all jacked. But one year after graduation, I was like, you've lost all your hair, put on £40. You're 23. Guys.

[Andy Richter]

Welcome to fat town.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, I mean, we all do thicken. We just. There's just like a natural thickening that happens where he.

[Andy Richter]

Case in point, Alec Baldwin. Well, Alec Baldwin, watch. Watch Beetlejuice and then look at hilarious Instagram. It's shocking.

[Adam Pally]

He didn't. He doesn't have, like a. He has a belly. But it's not like he's all belly.

[Andy Richter]

I mean, his head. Yes, his head.

[John Gabris]

Well, the guilt of manslaughter will run you ragged.

[Andy Richter]

You mean hilarious.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, and I'm talking about marrying hilar.

[Adam Pally]

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[Andy Richter]

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[John Gabris]

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[Andy Richter]

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[John Gabris]

Healthcare just got less painful. So what's your relationship with exercise? Are you.

[Andy Richter]

That's terrible. Really terrible. Yeah, I mean, I like. I like walking, I like riding bikes. I like. You know. Although I haven't done it in a long time, but I used to play tennis, and if I, you know, people play basketball, I would kind of like that. I like playing softball, but I just don't. It's.

[John Gabris]

You don't make the time for it.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. Doesn't have a place in my life anymore. And also, I have. My knees are terrible. So I stopped playing tennis because it was just so hard on my knees. And I found when I stopped playing tennis, I didn't have to think, oh, shit, I'm six months away from getting a knee replacement.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, right. And I always think, personally, I'm one injury away from cardiac arrest.

[Andy Richter]

Yes.

[John Gabris]

Because it won't be like the injury that gets me, but it'll be what happens six months after when I'm like, well, I guess I can't run.

[Adam Pally]

So now my mind so much, because I'm, like, just on the precipice of being disgustingly unhealthy. And, yeah, if I, like, hurt my leg and I'm laid up for six weeks, I'm fucking like, well, yeah, because then forget that.

[John Gabris]

Because, I mean, like, I exercise to eat and drink. It's the only reason I go to the gym is because, like, in my head, that there's a weird, like, justification of the behavior. So it's like, I can eat whatever and drink whatever because I'm putting in the. The time. But if that were to go away, I doubt the other behavior would change. Yeah, I feel like that would just.

[Adam Pally]

Well, now, not exercising. Better not drink.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, I feel like that's not gonna happen. It would just take up more. It'd be like, well, it's three in the afternoon and I'm not gonna exercise. I might as well drink.

[Adam Pally]

I'm sitting here with my crutches fucking smash a few burbies.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

And I, I. For. For the longest time, and I mean, when I, you know, I was. When I was gainfully employed, I had a trainer, and that was the system that worked for me because a. I was spending some money and it's like, hey, I'm paying for this responsibility. And also, there was another human being waiting for me.

[Adam Pally]

Like, you didn't want to let.

[Andy Richter]

I didn't want to let them down.

[Adam Pally]

Midwestern.

[Andy Richter]

Whereas. Whereas, like, like letting myself down. Like that guy. Yeah, that fucking guy. I know what he's about. I don't. I'm not going to worry about him.

[John Gabris]

You care more. You truly care more about someone else's day than your own.

[Andy Richter]

Absolutely agree. 100 relatable. And. And, and I also, too. And like, like, because I also, you know, like, I've been on, like, I've said antidepressants for years and years, and really, I mean, I wish there was a better phrase than struggled with depression, but, I mean, I've been fucking sad for a long, long time. And I had this kind of amorphous sadness that was following me around forever. So I always. The notion of exercise, like, I liked. I liked, you know, core strength kind of training, but, like, cardio. Fucking loathe it. Just fucking loathe it. And feel like there's just something so existentially sad about staying in one place. Hamster on a wheel and. Yeah, hamster on a wheel or on some sort of, like, elliptical machine. And just like, just thinking of all the thousands of people just standing in one place, just moving.

[John Gabris]

I always feel when I'm doing cardio, like, that the. And I don't know why, and I don't quite know how to, like, attach it to a. To an emotion, but it is that same thing. I always get this image of, like, zooming out of the city like, Charlie Kaufman style. And it's like me, sadly, on a peloton. And you know, and then you zoom out more. It's like 10 people in the building on treadmill or peloton, each one in different degrees. And then you zoom as like a hundred people in the scene. It's like a million people and no one going anywhere. Nothing's changed.

[Andy Richter]

And you're just like people going like this. It's.

[Adam Pally]

It's crazy. The difference, like being on elliptical for 40 minutes and going outside and walking in the fresh air for like 40 minutes.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

The. The ladder feels like a treat. And being on a machine, 40 minutes on a treadmill at a slower pace than you walk outside feels like a science experiment.

[John Gabris]

And I think that you. You also live a lot of your life in Chicago and New York and those cities inherently, just even when you're drinking, you're moving more because.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Just like you're.

[Andy Richter]

You're New York especially.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, but I had it in Chicago too. I mean, like, you, you. We didn't have a car when I was a kid in Chicago, so I always felt like amongst where you were walking, you're walking or getting on the train, like, you were just like, yeah, New York amongst the city, you know, and New York, obviously New York City.

[Adam Pally]

Will like accidentally keep you in shape for like the 8. I happen to be there in my 20s and 30s, so it's a little helpful.

[John Gabris]

But. But it does it. The idea of like, if you have a job that has. Where your commute facilitates. Three avenue blocks, that's half a mile.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

And you gotta do it twice.

[John Gabris]

You gotta do it twice.

[Adam Pally]

And then you gotta do the subway by your house. Right.

[John Gabris]

So it's like, that is just.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

I'm walking like two and a half miles a day at minimum without any exercise.

[Andy Richter]

Right.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, you're right.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

And you don't realize how important that is. And trying to inject that into my LA life in the last few years has been really difficult. I have to make a conscious. I bought like a special sling for a yeti so I could put like cold brew in a straw and have my morning coffee like on. On a walk.

[Andy Richter]

Wow.

[Adam Pally]

But then I get like a half mile away from my house and I have to absolutely kind of like.

[Andy Richter]

Well, then it's just. You get a tube at the other end too.

[Adam Pally]

Hook it up to a different bed.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Don't confuse those yetis.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, boy.

[Adam Pally]

Oops, wrong straw.

[Andy Richter]

Well, and also too, in New York, you are distracted while you're walking. There's nothing to look at here, most of the places, it's tedious and it. And it's honest. Honestly, I feel like, as a pedestrian in. In. In around cars. It's more dangerous here because nobody's looking out for you. No way.

[John Gabris]

There's no place to walk.

[Andy Richter]

I have there. How many times I've, like, almost hit somebody. Because you're just not. I don't expect there to be somebody walking on Wilshire Boulevard, you know?

[John Gabris]

Oh, yeah. And I'm always. Anytime I've been walking and I don't have a. Didn't rent a car this week, so I've been like, a little bit walking from my hotel to the restaurant to Duane Reade. I always am, like, thinking in my head, what friend or what? Who am I gonna see that's gonna roll down their window and yell at me?

[Andy Richter]

Right.

[John Gabris]

For walking.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

You know, because. And it's not like. That's an isolated incident that has happened to me so many times in Los Angeles.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Where someone will be like, do you have a car? You know, and it's like, it'll be your friend or something, you know? And you're like, I don't know. I was walking.

[Adam Pally]

The Los Angeles thing, too, is like, instead of walking around your neighborhood, you go on a hike.

[Andy Richter]

Right.

[Adam Pally]

But going on a hike also means you have to hear how your friend's script hasn't been read by his agent yet. This is fucking annoying, too.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, I. The notion of, like, going on a hike with someone. Like, no, I don't need people to. To not be able to notice that I can't speak.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

You know our future guest of the pod, Pat Walsh, I go on a hike with him every week. And there's a point in the hike at Griffith where I go like, okay, man, if you have a story started now, because I can't. I'm going to just be listening.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Richter]

I'm not talking.

[John Gabris]

And then at the end of the.

[Adam Pally]

Hike, we both just kind of like, say goodbye and go nowhere near each other. Because we're like, absolutely.

[John Gabris]

But that's good. That means that you both have an understanding that this is exercise and not socializing. Because we're getting asked on a hike where it's going to be a conversation to me, and I don't know, like, three fit guys.

[Adam Pally]

And they're like. And they're like, we always do this road. And they're like.

[John Gabris]

Because, like, you show up with, like, you know, you're a basketball with your, like, fanny pack that has an eighth in it. You Know what I mean? And then. Yeah, but. And then they're like, all right, 15 minutes to the top. You're like, wrong friend. Group that up.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam Pally]

We gotta hike more together.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, yeah. I gotta call Gabrius.

[Andy Richter]

I was on a podcast. This guy that. It was a very nice guy, but he was starting this podcast about like taking a walk with somebody. Ellen McLeod. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he was like, he was like, let's walk from the bottom of Griffith park to the. To the observatory. I was like, no way.

[Adam Pally]

No.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

He's like, it looks like it should only take about a half an hour. And I'm like, if you wanted me.

[Adam Pally]

To die, maybe how about we take a car up?

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Skateboard now.

[John Gabris]

A couple of days.

[Adam Pally]

I'm like a bulldog on a skateboard, wearing sunglasses on all fours.

[John Gabris]

I went, have you done bit recently? I did a bit on stage recently where I was like, high energy and in the bit got lightheaded and. And was like, oh, my God, I'm gonna die.

[Adam Pally]

I got out of breath in an improv show doing like a. A guy who kept falling.

[John Gabris]

Right.

[Adam Pally]

You know, I just was like, I'm getting beat. And they were like, are you okay, sir? I was like, I'm actually really okay. Yeah, I'm fine in character. Being like, thank God. The character should be out of.

[John Gabris]

I did this bit that was like a long buildup where nothing happens. And then music kicks in and I do this like really high energy dance. It's like the gist of the bit. And I did it and then. And went off stage. And like, as I was walking off stage, I was like, holy. Like, really? And I was sweating, like profusely. Sweating, like so much. And then I was like, got to that physical place where I was like, I can't catch my breath. Like, oh my God. And then I. I had to sit down in the green room and take my shirt off and just like sweat on the ground, thinking I was like, recover. Like, recover.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Gabris]

And then I had to shit immediately.

[Adam Pally]

Your body was in full fight or flight.

[John Gabris]

Full fight or flight. And I went and I took like the worst shit I had ever taken in a green room.

[Andy Richter]

Never shitting again. Get nude. Like, just.

[John Gabris]

Yes, it was just like sweaty was awful. And I was like sitting like shitting. 43 year old man sweating naked. Shitting in the UCB green room in New York. I was like, this is hell. This is. I'm never leaving my house again. Meanwhile, people are like knocking. There's like, there's Only one bathroom room. And you're like, oh, you don't want.

[Andy Richter]

To come in here.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

That new UCB green room bathroom, too, at the 14th street one is like, upstairs in, like, a janitor's closet.

[John Gabris]

It's a janitor. It is a janitor.

[Adam Pally]

There's, like, stacks of paper towels on it. Thank God.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, I needed a. I needed all of them. Every last one.

[Adam Pally]

I love waking up in the morning, taking off my, whatever nasty underwear I slept and throwing, slapping on fresh Voris and then hitting the gym.

[Andy Richter]

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[John Gabris]

You know that I only want to look good. Because if you look good, you feel.

[Adam Pally]

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[John Gabris]

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[Adam Pally]

Oh, okay. I wasn't even. I went full all, like, performance shorts.

[John Gabris]

I like to exercise in a hoodie.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, you do.

[Andy Richter]

Because.

[John Gabris]

Well, I also. I. This is dumb, but it reminds me of, like, high school football, like, where it's like, you're getting that extra sweat.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Like having the hoodie tied tight and.

[Adam Pally]

You'Re like, you know what the gymnasts call wearing that big hoodie over? Call it the pump cover.

[John Gabris]

The pump cover.

[Adam Pally]

So then when you're lifting weights, you don't get to see until you're ready to reveal the pump to yourself.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, hell.

[Adam Pally]

And then you pop your pump cover off and you're like, oh, yeah, the buys are flowing.

[John Gabris]

It is really dramatic tracks for me.

[Adam Pally]

It does feel like, you know, you turn your head around, it's your. And it's a switch or whatever.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, I like that.

[Adam Pally]

That's.

[John Gabris]

I can't wait for it to get here.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, I'm. I'm stoked. I. I'm in New York now, but I have ordered shorts to my LA apartment. So I'm going to arrive to some. Some course best.

[John Gabris]

When I'm leaving on a plane from my house, like when I'm on the Runway, will order something to be delivered to my home so that I know when I get back from my trip, there's just a little treat for myself.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, hell, yeah. I cannot wait. And also when I need to jumpstart my fitness, like, a little gear is inspirational. Yeah. So when I get home and I have my fresh pair of core shorts waiting for me, that's going to make me want to go for a jog or make me hit the gym.

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[Adam Pally]

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[Andy Richter]

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[Adam Pally]

See experian.com for details. That's like the scary thing a little bit is when you're like, I'm not a fucking ditch digger or like a. My job is not that physical. But when you're in your, your health gets in the way of your comedian. Like, I'm like, this is bad. Am I too out of shape to do improv? I have to be in good enough.

[John Gabris]

Shape to do improv at least.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Have you had a wake up call like that? Have you had, like, have you had something that was like, oh, I gotta change something I'm doing? Or like.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, but I've had, well, I've, I've had a wake up call. But that I, that, I mean, I obviously, I obviously still need to lose weight.

[John Gabris]

Right.

[Andy Richter]

I don't move around as much as I have. But I mean, I had, I mean I had a huge wake up call in 2009. I had a stroke. Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. And it was. Yeah. And I mean, and I was, you know, I wasn't in, like, I was in better shape then than I was now. And it was, but it was like, it was a kind of a confluence of different things. And one of them is that I had been working out of the country and it was incredibly stressful, family wise and everything I had started and I wasn't abusing it in any way, but I was using ADDERALL to write a script. And like I say not abusing it. Cause like there was like maybe once or twice where I, I'm such a scatterbrain that I didn't remember I took it. So I ended up doubling up and I felt so shitty that I was like, I cannot understand how anyone could abuse this stuff because this is just, I feel awful. But. So I was taking amphetamines literally every day and just I woke up one morning and was super dizzy, went to the bathroom, violently threw up, couldn't even get back to the bed. Like crawled back to the bed and, and was, you know, like nowadays I look back, I'm like, I didn't call an ambulance. I was just like, I'm gonna get back in bed. Like I couldn't walk, I was, the room was spinning so bad.

[Adam Pally]

This is crazy. I know the feeling of just like, well, this will pass. Right?

[Andy Richter]

Right.

[Adam Pally]

Try to wait this out. Then I'll go to work a little late.

[Andy Richter]

But so I, I got back into bed and I, you know, and I, I told my ex wife, I'm like, I'm sick. And then around 9 o' clock I got up and I called, I woke up and I called my doctor who was at a funeral, but I talked to his nurse and she said, what's going on? I described it, she says, it sounds like labyrinthitis, which is a inner ear infection. I said, okay. She said, do you have an ent? And I was like, yeah, I do because I have all kinds of sinus bullshit. So I call him, talk to him, same thing. He goes, yeah, it sounds like labyrinth. She goes, I, you could come down there. He goes, but there's not really anything I can do for you. You just kind of got to let pass. This is on a Friday. And I went through the weekend and slowly, you know, just kind of stayed in bed and got better. Although I did, I did host a fundraiser for my kids school.

[John Gabris]

Mid stroke.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, the day after, the night after I had a stroke.

[Adam Pally]

That's because the show must go on.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

No, no, no. It's because my ex wife was like, I was like, I can't do this. And she's like, we have, you have to, we've already committed. I'm like, there's other people that could do this. She's like, we have to. I'm like, all right, fine. I was like, but if I do this, just let me sleep, just leave me, let me be in bed. Don't, you know, like, okay. So I like, well. And I was supposed to like wander through the audience and pimp the, the, you know, silent auction things while people are eating dinner. It was like a black tie special year. I don't. Anniversary thing. But I just woke up, put on my tuxedo, got in my car, drove over to the E. Bell Theater, like sat in the auditorium on a chair waiting. They all filed in. I hosted the, you know, auction. Got back in my car, drove home and that night was the first night that I actually ate something. Like I got home from there and I was. And I sat down and I had a bowl of Cheerios and I. The spoon, the first spoon, I missed my mouth. I hit my, like my cheek with the spoon. This labyrinthitis is really something. Slept through Sunday. Monday morning, got up, drove my son to school. And as I came, as I was driving home, I had this like feeling of like, you know, when the registration slips in a film. Yeah, the frame slips up. I was driving up Highland Avenue and there's the palm trees and I had that feeling. It looked like the registration flipped out again. And I was like, I gotta go. You know, I'm calling the doctor. So I first go to the ENT in the afternoon. He can see me in the afternoon. I go in, he looks in my ears and he's. And I could tell, he's like, yeah, this is not laryngitis. What's going on here? And he said, you should go see your regular doctor. So I went to my regular doctor. It was about 4pm and I came in and he saw me walk. He was a really good doctor, but he's too far away. So I don't go in there anymore. But I was walking towards him and he went, I want to get an MRI of your brain. Because he stopped just from seeing me walk.

[John Gabris]

Did you panic?

[Andy Richter]

You know, not, you know.

[Adam Pally]

Are you already lightly panicking because of the last 48 hours?

[Andy Richter]

I mean. No, I actually, I don't like get too, I don't get too anxious in situations like that. I'm like, you know, I'm worried, but Midwestern. Yeah. It doesn't freak me out. I'm like, well, we'll see. You know, no sense in getting worried until we know what we're worried about, you know. So at 6am I went in and had an MRI and about nine got a call that I had had a stroke and, and I, my, my ex wife was out in the garage and I went out and I was like, you have to take me to the hospital because I had a stroke and because, you know, she had like, guilted me into the doing the charity thing. That was like three months of just goodwill. Like, you know, like, you fucking made me do a charity auction. When I had a stroke. She felt terrible.

[John Gabris]

Surprising marriage didn't work out.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, it's later. It was after, right? Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Nothing was bubbling.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, it was after. It was after my brain cancer that I realized, no. But she was crying, you know, and I. So we took me into the hospital.

[Adam Pally]

What do they do for a stroke after the fact?

[Andy Richter]

They run all kinds of tests. I was in there for two days, just overnight, but two days. Every kind of test you could think of. And it was kind of. And I mean, and I kept. Cause it was not intensive care. Like a step below intensive care.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

And people would come in to do a test and they'd be like, wait. Because I'd be just like sitting up watching TV or looking at my phone, and they'd be like. They're like, wait, wait. Because everybody else has got fucking tubes in their nose. Like, what's going on? I'm like, yeah, I had a stroke Friday. Tuxedo Monday afternoon. I had a stroke Friday. And they're like, oh, wow, okay.

[John Gabris]

At the Friars Club.

[Andy Richter]

But after all of the tests and they found nothing. And in fact, it was kind of like. It had the benefit of like this. The cardiologist who ran all the tests, he said your cardiovascular system is pristine. He said there isn't plaque anywhere. He said, so we don't know what happened, but there was a blood vessel that just collapsed in your head and it was in the motor area. So I still. For months afterwards, I had like. Like, I couldn't walk along like a little balance beam on a playground. But then after a year or so.

[Adam Pally]

She had to change your whole stand up act.

[Andy Richter]

Absolutely.

[John Gabris]

How did you get to your bed?

[Andy Richter]

And Roy fired me.

[John Gabris]

You mauled them?

[Andy Richter]

But then. And then I did. And then they did like further sort of like outpatient tests over the next couple months. And then I got a sleep study and I had sleep apnea so bad that I was stopping sleeping for over a minute, like 60 times a night. So I just was like, being ox. Every time I fell asleep, I was being terribly oxygen. Oxygen deprived. And they can't say that's why you had a stroke, but they're kind of.

[Adam Pally]

Like, yeah, this didn't set up a stroke, like, environment.

[Andy Richter]

This is very bad. And this can cause stroke, but they can't really say that.

[Adam Pally]

So you're pap in these days.

[Andy Richter]

So I've been on a CPAP since. Yeah. 2019. And don't. And for a moment, I mean, that has, that is one thing because, like, I have relatives that are supposed to sleep with them and they're like, I don't like it. And having had a stroke with it, that was an area where it was like, I'm not around with it. I'm, I have to wear this thing. And also, too, my quality of life was so much better once I was cpap. Was. Yeah. I wasn't like, you know, if I had to sit in afternoon traffic, I would fall asleep at the wheel, like, really struggle with it. Right.

[Adam Pally]

Because you're barely sleeping the night before.

[Andy Richter]

Or go to any meeting or any doctor's office and have to sit for 10 minutes. I'd be out just sitting there because I was so sleep deprived and, and it, so it made a huge difference in just like, how I felt. And, and, and so, like, for the wake up, like, yeah, I, I, I, I, you know, continued to exercise and stuff, but, like, in terms of the weight loss, which is the main thing, you know, I kind of watch it. I don't, I'm not a, you know, I'm not like a monster of just like, where it's just cheeseburgers all the time. But the, I'm healthy, you know, Like, I go to the cardio, I go to the cardio. I, I'm not one. I'm. Once I got health care, I'm like, I'm, I don't, I don't understand. Not going to the doctor. I don't understand.

[Adam Pally]

Like, it's a hard hump to get over.

[Andy Richter]

Yes.

[Adam Pally]

And once you do it, you're like, I can't believe I wasn't going to the doctor.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Because once you go like a year without going.

[Andy Richter]

Yes.

[Adam Pally]

It's scarier to go than it is to not go.

[Andy Richter]

And I understand if you don't have the money for it. Like, I understand that because I, I had, I just, just told this story somewhere. I had a lump on my testicle before I got, like, for a few years when I was young and I was just convinced I had testicular cancer. And it was all awful. I got on the Conan show, got, you know, inch health insurance, got after insurance and went to a urologist and found out, oh, it's just like a, like a football injury. It was like, it was like, you know, it was like, like, that's actually.

[John Gabris]

Kevin Dortmund.

[Andy Richter]

On my knife.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, he's been there the whole time.

[Andy Richter]

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[John Gabris]

You are the father of a young baby.

[Andy Richter]

A five year old.

[John Gabris]

Yes, a five year old. I have an eight year old who was five once. And then I have older kids who are also five once. But like, how is that? Are you tired or are you finding that it's like, because there's a gap between your older kids and this one, that you're reinvigorated.

[Andy Richter]

You know, I don't, I honestly, and I don't mean to be like Pollyanna, but like, I really like being a dad. And I, I, I need structure and I'm terrible at finding my own because that's like when I, because my wife and I very soon will be, it'll be two years that we've been married. We've been together about four. I adopt. She's my adopted daughter. She was not two, not yet two when I met my wife. And people treated me as a man in my mid, now late 50s as like me willfully taking on the responsibility of raising a toddler again after having two older kids. Like I was doing something heroic and which is like silly. It's like, well, first of all, I'm the dad. You know, it's the mom that I still. The mom does the psychic hero. Exactly.

[Adam Pally]

I'm at best robbing.

[John Gabris]

I'm still traveling for work.

[Andy Richter]

Right. And, but what I felt was like, nobody understands it. Like, I have gotten another like 14 to 15 years of not having to make a decision about what I'm going to do like I. I have now, you know, like, because one of my kids got older.

[Adam Pally]

For listeners, you're talking to people who don't have a scheduled job.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

So like, if you're not in, like I have to be here Monday through Friday and do this, you start to lose any semblance of structure.

[Andy Richter]

Absolutely.

[Adam Pally]

But if a kid needs to eat at this time and be here at that time.

[Andy Richter]

Yes.

[Adam Pally]

All of a sudden you got to struggle.

[Andy Richter]

And especially like when I was in between, you know, after I. After I got divorced and when I was single and I would have. There would be days where I would be like, I don't have anything to do. And that was. That's like, I'm just not very good at that. I got better at it as time went on, but I'm just not very good at it. So now it's like get, like, I wake up in the morning and there's a kid that's gotta get to school and she's gotta, like, you know, she's, she's regressed. You know, it's like there's a good chance that she wet the bed. So then we got to do all that work and then it's like get her dressed and then get. And my, you know, and my wife is. Is sort of. She usually goes to the gym in the morning, so she's like part of this. But it's like there's all these tasks that need to get done, you know? You know? Yeah. To get them out the door. And. And I don't. I don't even think about it. It's just like that's. That's life and that's what living is. And it kind of is now the vessel that I am carried in.

[John Gabris]

You know, I equate it. People. Whenever people ask me about it because I've been married for a while and have kids and then I also in Hollywood. So sometimes people are like, what's that? Like I always say the thing that I learned through it and I had to learn it because I was young and went through ups and downs and stuff, was that I really. In order for me to survive, I need people. I need to feel responsible to people.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Like, I can't be rudderless.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[John Gabris]

I need, I enjoy having a child that needs to get to school that.

[Adam Pally]

I king a drop off.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. I'm the king of like, I enjoy that schedule. I enjoy knowing that tomorrow I have to get them to school.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

And like. And, and I think what it does is it keeps the, the other stuff at Bay of like, like you're saying nothing to do. Or like, for me it would be like, why, why aren't I doing something bigger?

[Andy Richter]

You know what I mean?

[Adam Pally]

It keeps all that stuff another day with no auditions. Instead of like, I gotta get.

[John Gabris]

I still have like 15 things to do.

[Adam Pally]

Right, right.

[Andy Richter]

And it's like not only. I mean, our lives, like you say, you know, it's a very loosey goosey schedule, like that's unique into, in sort of our modern society, but also like the things we're talking about. This is human existence forever. It's like 100 years ago. People are like, what do I do with my free time? Like, no, there's no free time.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. You have to survive.

[Andy Richter]

You have. Yeah, you have duties, you have chores, have, you know, like tasks that need to be performed as part of being alive. So this is just, you know, but.

[John Gabris]

There are, there are some people, and I have friends like this. There are some people who's like, they don't prescribe to that. To that, to that use of time. Like, their use of time is their own.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

And that's how they've go through the world. And you could say, like, maybe they lack empathy or maybe they're narcissists or maybe they're just different.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[John Gabris]

But like, I do have people in my life also who like, they just float.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

And, and that's. They've always just floated and they're just gonna float.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

And like, that's okay.

[Andy Richter]

Yep.

[John Gabris]

You know, but I don't have any.

[Adam Pally]

Official, like, family responsibilities.

[John Gabris]

But you do.

[Adam Pally]

But my schedule is full. Like, I do. I seek out like, you know, you're.

[John Gabris]

Also attached to your family, your brother. Like, like we're making plans. Like, I gotta be here for my brother. Like, there are people who. That doesn't matter. Right. It's not about relationship or child. It's just about what I'm doing is the schedule.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

And I feel like when you get into that, that's when most times those people are like assholes. Most.

[Andy Richter]

Well, you know, there's a lot of, A lot of people choose not to have kids. And I can, I, that's fine too. I can understand that. Intellectually, I cannot relate to it.

[John Gabris]

Right.

[Andy Richter]

I cannot. There definitely was a point in my life and I didn't have. I had my first kid when I was 27. So that's kind of, that's young. Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Late for, Late for normal people.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, Late for normal people.

[John Gabris]

Young for Hollywood.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. And. And you know, I, I, I, I, that Was like a year of, like, I'm kind of getting bored with this life, you know, with this, like. And my ex wife and I used to refer to our time before, because we were married for seven years before we had a kid. And we refer to those seven years as when we were single. Like, but as a couple. Yeah, we were single, you know. Yes. Like, we were a couple, but we didn't have, you know, we could do whatever we want. We could do whatever we wanted. And we just found, like, especially living in New York City and I had a regular job, and it was just like, do you want to go out to dinner? Like, I don't want to go out to dinner. You know, like. Or somebody would have a dinner thing and be like, you want to go to that? Like, no, I don't, because it's like, it's. What are we going to talk about? Like, you know, so we just, we definitely started to nest, you know, and then a kid just kind of came through that sort of naturally.

[Adam Pally]

Eventually you lay an egg in the nest.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, that's right. You don't make a nest.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

I put stereo equipment in it.

[John Gabris]

I don't fantasize about not having children. I fantasize about not being in charge the most. Like, I think that's the thing that, that stresses me out the most about being a dad.

[Andy Richter]

Is that the responsibility of, like.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, it's like, it just, it just. It's just overwhelming to me sometimes that there's no one above me.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Because I am.

[Andy Richter]

You don't trust your leadership?

[John Gabris]

I trust my leadership. I don't trust my knowledge, and I don't trust. And I'm a good enough leader to, like, know what I don't know and figure it out and stuff. Like, I know that, but I. It scares me.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

That. That, like, I'm in charge of these kids and, and like, sometimes I don't want to be. And, and you know what I mean? And, like, then I question, like, is that okay?

[Andy Richter]

And, like, yeah.

[John Gabris]

You know, so that's where I get. That's where my, like, where it tips to me. The responsibility is that sometimes I am, like, truly scared.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Of being the last voice to make the call.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

That's too much. It's a lot of pressure.

[John Gabris]

It's a lot of pressure. And it's. And it's, it's. There's a lot of people involved.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

You know, there's a lot of, like, I, I. Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

And like, you guys mentioned, you understand people don't have this this conversation right here is making me feel solidified in my decision.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Well, I know it's not like a sound. I'm thinking I'm getting overwhelmed hearing about I, I, I.

[Andy Richter]

And it's not any sort of like conscious philosophy that I have, but I have a name for it, which is just. I'm a relist, relativist, which is, it's just like, it's just been a lifetime of like, look, if that guy can do it. I, yeah, everybody has that parenting. It's that way. It's like, oh my God, the absolute mouth breathing. Re breathing morons have children that like, get to an adult age where they' taxpayers and they vote and, you know.

[Adam Pally]

Or I always think to myself, my parents were parents. That was. And crazy.

[Andy Richter]

You know, my daughter, my daughter's 19. She still doesn't have her driver's license. And I'm always telling her absolute morons drive cars. Like, you know, like, because she's like, I'm nervous about it. It's like, no, you're, you're like, that.

[Adam Pally]

Should make you more afraid that there are morons on the road.

[Andy Richter]

But you're an incredibly capable person, you know, like, the reason to be insecure about this thing that is like such a base level adult behavior. You can do it, you know, and with, yeah, with parenting, it's definitely, you know, you definitely, you know, there's mistakes that you make. And I found, you know, and I also too, like, I used to think, like, oh, I have very few regrets. And as I've gotten older, I found like, no, no, there's a few things I regret and there's things I regret about parenting, but it's usually like, it's stuff like, like I feel like my kids, because, like, my kids, not that they're like coddled or something, but just like, I was, I had it. I had a paper route when I was like 12 years old. And if you count that as work, I have worked since that point. I, you know, I had jobs, 40.

[Adam Pally]

Something years of work, and I've just.

[Andy Richter]

Always worked and my kids just don't know that kind of like, well, if you want to buy stuff, you gotta get a job at the, you know, the grocery stor or, you know, a paper route. And they don't know that, but they also, you know, they're also like, much better students than I was. Than I was. Yeah, there's a trade off. Yeah, they have a lot more knowledge of just general stuff than I do. And when they get to be old and Adults, you know, they get into adulthood. That's when you really feel powerless and you just are crossing your fingers and just hope that like, like it's like, oh my God, you're like through the.

[Adam Pally]

Paper airplane and you're like, just, sorry.

[Andy Richter]

There's nothing. I can really.

[Adam Pally]

I can't refold this thing at all.

[Andy Richter]

And I can't. And even though I. There's times when I feel like my kids want me to tell them what to do, I just know that that is not a kindness to them. It, you know, like, even if they want me to tell them what to do, it's like, I cannot tell you what to. I can tell you what I think, but I can't tell you what to do. And I'm also like projecting my own. Like when my parents told me what to do. Those people, you know, what the fuck? What are you telling me what to do?

[John Gabris]

Yeah, but your parents weren't you either.

[Andy Richter]

I know, I know, but I just, I just still do have that, like, I don't want, like, let me figure it out myself, you know, And I, And I also just, I don't feel like they've had as much of that as I did. They didn't have as much figuring it out themselves as I did.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. I don't think any, any.

[Adam Pally]

And that's like a, that's a. In, in some cases a good thing.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

That you were so much more there. You know what I mean? Or more present or more involved. Because like there's a touch of what you're describing from a non parent's perspective is. But with tons of peers who are parents and having been parented, it's also a little bit more generational too.

[Andy Richter]

Yes.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Where, you know, I think I wouldn't necessarily want my kid to have to get a job at 30.

[Andy Richter]

Right. Right.

[Adam Pally]

Like, you know what I mean? Like, I, I had to lifeguard because my parents didn't have money for me. But if I had money for my kids, I'd be like, you should do activities, you know what I mean?

[John Gabris]

Like, or get a tutor.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Or maybe we'll, you know, like.

[Andy Richter]

Even absent of more financial security, just the general notion of what a parent is supposed to date, they do today is so much deeper and more involved than it used to be. Like the notion of like my parents doing anything other than going to the one PTA meeting a semester and then like the Christmas pageant.

[John Gabris]

Right.

[Andy Richter]

They didn't know what the. Was going on with my school.

[Adam Pally]

The amount of sports games my brother and his kid he's my brother and sister in law are going to. On a weekend is insane. My dad was, My dad was at like one football game a year.

[John Gabris]

I'm hitting the bar, I'm doing the bar mitzvah circuit, the volleyball circuit, the football circuit, and now the soccer circuit.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

And. And it's just, it's, it's relentless. And.

[Adam Pally]

And other parents are there too. Right.

[John Gabris]

That's the thing. I was gonna say that the thing that is slightly. Not to like complain because I don't. It's not like I'm complaining about it, but there is slightly in these new parents that are there all the time. There is the other side of it, which really sucks, which I'm sure a lot. Mostly like working moms can talk about. But like you are judged harshly as a parent now for your involvement and lack there.

[Andy Richter]

Yes, yes, lack thereof.

[John Gabris]

And not just in the school. Like my kids go to sleepaway camp. And last year I was shooting in San Francisco when they were leaving from New York. And so I had to say goodbye to the day before because I had to leave. And at the bus stop, one of the other parents asked Danielle if everything was okay because Adam's not there. And like, she was like, yeah, he's working. She's like, okay, you sure? He's like, yeah, he's working. She's like, well, this is kind of a big moment.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, he had a big moment yesterday.

[John Gabris]

It's like. And it's like, well, yeah, it's a big moment.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I, you know what I mean? One thing of having the old, the first wave of kids and now this one. My. Those people is much stronger.

[John Gabris]

Those people you have.

[Adam Pally]

No, I will go as far to say there is another loop all the way around to. Those people are like, back in the day, those people would be judged. Like, you're gonna go to your kids practice.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, I guess you don't have a job.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, like get a job or like, or let your kid be at practice without their.

[Andy Richter]

Right, right. How's. How's he gonna learn? Right. Exactly.

[Adam Pally]

So there was that element too. Like all of a sudden, like, you know, they got to be at. You got to be at everything. And then it's like. But there's some. Like, you don't want your kid to always look over and be like, thank God my dad's here. You know what I mean? Like, it feels good as a dad to do that, but you also can't be there forever. You know what I mean? So you want them to Be like.

[John Gabris]

Were your, how were your kids with you being on television?

[Andy Richter]

Oh, they didn't give a. They didn't give a. Forever. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no. They, I mean it was, they understood that it was fun and they liked like my son when I was doing Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Hell yeah.

[John Gabris]

With the great John Groff.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah. And there was an episode and Amy Sedaris was on doing a guest spot and we were shooting in like, like the Van Nuys airport or something. There was like, like people getting on a plane kind of, you know, like a private plane. Like a big ending. And my son was there and he was maybe four and, and my ex wife and he came out because Amy and my ex wife are old, old friends and they'd work together and so they came out to be there and it was my son's first time on set and they put him on. They were doing a really like fast running shot on the Runway on the dolly. And they put a stool on and strapped him into it and let him like be on the dolly. And he was like, he was like. Had a juice box and I think a piece. Some kind of snack in his hand and it's just like being zoomed up and down. And when I, because I didn't, I put him in the car to leave and he said me said, dad, you have a real fun job. I was like, yeah, I do kind of.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. When I get to do it.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adam Pally]

This had 359 days out of the year that are heavy.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah. But they, but they like just recently, you know, I just recently did Celebrity Family Feud and I asked, I asked my 19 year old daughter, my 24 year old son and my son said I would rather be boiled alive than to be on Celebrity Family Feud. Just. And my daughter's like, no, she. She texted back lol.

[John Gabris]

No way.

[Adam Pally]

I want to say here, good inability to mind my own business. I think you did a good job. Your kids are like, yeah, yeah.

[John Gabris]

You guys seem like good parents.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, thank you.

[Adam Pally]

Kids are like, I'm not doing that.

[John Gabris]

Because my son, my son is, is the lead of the play two years in a row.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John Gabris]

Last year.

[Adam Pally]

And a fitness and a, and a fashion. Fashion influencer.

[John Gabris]

Influencer has an Instagram account followed by like real people for his fashion. He's the lead of the play last year. He's. He goes, dad, like how old is he? He's 13.

[Andy Richter]

Okay.

[John Gabris]

Dad. The director. Because I'm like really like in it mostly like my character is Mostly in the second act. In the first act, they want me to, like, wear all black and just, like, move the stage furniture besides my one scene. And I was like, I don't really want to do that, you know, because, like, it's hard. I'm, like, doing the thing, and I'm like, well, you know, Cole, like, it's. It's not. That's part of being in an ensemble. You know, it's like every. Everybody in an ensemble has different things.

[Andy Richter]

Right.

[Adam Pally]

To do.

[John Gabris]

And. And there's a. There's a saying that's like, you know, there are no small parts, just small actors. And he's like, yeah, but my director said that. And I said, that's not true. My dad only does small parts.

[Adam Pally]

Big actor, small parts.

[John Gabris]

I was like, yeah, yeah, small parts. Built that townhouse.

[Andy Richter]

All of a sudden, you're Tony Soprano. You'll know what I gotta do. Put this food on the table.

[John Gabris]

We don't understand how many Jimmy John sandwiches I gotta throw. Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Well, it's where my kids. My kids would say, my dad has small parts. My mommy says, my dad has. Has small parts.

[Andy Richter]

Although now. Now that they're older, too, like, my daughter and I. I. This was really sweet. She told me, and. Because, like. And then her. Their relationship to the Conan show would be, like, to be dropped off at dad's work because mom's doing something else, and. And he'll, you know. And I got to be dropped off at dad's work, and then he'll drive me home because otherwise, no one's at home. You know, no one's at home. And then everybody knows him, and it's just the green room and it's snacks and, like. And an occasional, you know, somebody they care about.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

But the actual show, they don't, you know, care. But. And also, too, my daughter at school, there's one kid, because she went K through 12 to the same school, and there's one kid that from junior high on, was, like, super impressed that I was her dad. And he was like, don't you know how cool it is that he's your dad? And he was the Republican kid. So happy about that.

[Adam Pally]

Comedy knows no aisle.

[Andy Richter]

But she told me just recently, you.

[John Gabris]

Love the masturbating bear.

[Andy Richter]

She told me just recently. Recently that she said, yeah, you know, it's. Something came. An old Conan bit came up in my YouTube. And she said. And it was pretty funny. And then she goes. And then I watched. She goes. I watched for, like, over an hour. I just watched a bunch of old. And she's like, that was a. That was a really funny show. I was like, thank you. Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Pally]

You're like, honey, who do you like as comedians?

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, they love the show.

[Adam Pally]

I mean, you're talking. You're talking to two guys who grew.

[John Gabris]

Up, changed our lives, sitting. I mean, my first big Hollywood check was getting caught from a sketch.

[Andy Richter]

Oh, really?

[Adam Pally]

I got fired from a job as a PA Because I go to the dentist. But I got booked as a. Oh, really? And I just was like, worth getting fired from my 500 a week job for a $500 day.

[John Gabris]

For us. For us. Like from. From 03 to 0 till. Till you guys went to LA.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Gabris]

If you booked like three Conan spots, you could pay your rent for a year.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

Wow. Really?

[John Gabris]

Yeah. Rent. And then you get. But you get residuals again. And then they were playing on Comedy Central for a little. So you'd get like that double kick out again. And it really would like you. You know, I just getting like, I.

[Adam Pally]

Think it was like at the time, 450. 450 a day. Like you. Yeah, for the sketch. And then you're like, even if the sketch gets cut, I guess you'll get 450. But if a sketch airs, I get like another 100 or 201.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

It was mind boggling. And it was my Cecilia Pleva shout out. Cecilia. She booked a lot of UCP guys who needed jobs and. And she saved my ass. Wedgie Bully is my first TV credit of all time on the Conan o' Brien show.

[Andy Richter]

Was that a steering contest?

[Adam Pally]

No, the premise was rejected X Men characters because one of the new X Men movies was coming out and Conan at the time had a small little assistant who was kind of dorky looking but kind of had a funny voice. And me and another actor carried him out by a pair of oversized tighty whities.

[Andy Richter]

Wow.

[Adam Pally]

And he. And Wedgie Bully was me, the superhero.

[John Gabris]

That's awesome.

[Andy Richter]

See, I think you guys came in at. After I was gone. Like I. Because I left in 2000.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, yeah, I think you were already out because mine would have been 04.05.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, I started in 03. It was my first one.

[Adam Pally]

And yeah, it was just Conan at the desk right now.

[John Gabris]

I flew over a thing in a. In a. In an American flag speedo. They called me Schwartz and Gil in to be three Jews flying over New York in American flag speedos.

[Andy Richter]

Were they specifically Jews?

[John Gabris]

Jews. That's why we got called three Jews because we were a sketch group. And so they Were like, just call those three Jews. So we get there.

[Andy Richter]

Wow.

[Adam Pally]

They were able to find a sketch group made up of all Jewish groups.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or three Jews in New York.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. Anyway, they locate a diamond in the rough. They found us. And to get the shot, they had to like, lay us down on different pieces of green screen. But in the shot, they could only get wide enough for Ben and Gil. So I got cut. But I, I came with them and we were like in the sketch group. So I sat and waited in the hallway in my Speedo while they filmed their thing. And I was still so psyched because I got 450. Yeah. But it was the first time seeing like also like the carpet in the elevator and like, you know what I mean?

[Andy Richter]

My mind was blown out. I remember, I remember people coming in and like, just like giving them a line, you know, because it means another, you know, it means another few hundred.

[John Gabris]

I mean, like, Polar was Conan's little sister.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John Gabris]

And Jack too. I feel like Jack was like, did.

[Andy Richter]

A bunch of stuff, always running around.

[John Gabris]

I mean, it was like, that was the hope thing.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. And then, and it was, well, and it was like Rob Riggle and Andy Daly.

[John Gabris]

Charlie Sanders did like, Sanders did a bunch. Moynihan, man.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Would be.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, no, it was, I, I, and I've talked about this before that when we started there, I had, you know, I, I had this provincial sort of, you know, self doubt, like, like, oh, I'm from Chicago, but this is New York and this is a big time. And there was lots of like, you know, in over your head kind of things like write a bit and then cast it, you know, like, which is now you're casting people. Right. And I just from the beginning was like, well, these are big, serious New York actors and you get, get 15 people to play like, you know, the funny delivery boy. And they all sucked. They all were just not funny at all. And I was just like, oh, my God, that's, you know. So we were in the beginning just praying if there were, if there was X amount of funny that somebody could just get to like 75% of X and it would be like, all right, that's good enough. And then UCB people came in and they were giving us 120x. Like Amy Poehler would come in and show you ways that your thing was funny that you didn't know, you know, and, you know, and Besser and Walsh and Andy Daly and, you know, all these different people.

[Adam Pally]

All legends.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, Cordry, you know, they'd come in and they'd be like, oh, well, this is easy.

[Adam Pally]

Now my sketch is like, now you're writing a sketch going like, well, this will get punched up when we get everybody.

[Andy Richter]

Or you. Somebody comes in and you're like, oh, that inspires me to, like, like, write for that person.

[John Gabris]

It's also crazy what kind of a murderer's row of a writer's room, performers Wise, was there at the time because, like, I, I, I, I do McCann stack. Yeah. I do the show with Stack once a month in, in New York.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

And. And I was with him, like, two weeks ago. The day I saw his bit on.

[Andy Richter]

The Mark Twain Prize. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

[John Gabris]

And that character, the Interrupter, is like, like one of the funniest characters. Premises, easy to write that you've ever seen. That you've ever seen.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

Like, it's amazing. And like, that dude was the right writer.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

But also performers. That, that. The talent level in that room must have been just, like, insane people pitching in character.

[Andy Richter]

Absolutely.

[Adam Pally]

McCann Dorff was.

[John Gabris]

Glazer Laser.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Blitz. These are, like, some of the funniest.

[John Gabris]

Funniest people I've ever talked to.

[Andy Richter]

Tommy Blatcher was there forever. Yeah. Yeah. No, there. No, it was. It was. It's absolutely true. It's absolutely true. There's. Yeah. And also what it made, too, is that, like, people will ask, like, what's the, like, what's the funniest thing, you know, you've ever heard Conan say? And I'll be like, I cannot tell you. If I could remember it, I'm absolutely sure I could not tell you because it would be just, like, the worst possible thing. And so when you've got, like, Brian McCann and Brian Stack and Tommy Blatch on and Brian Rich and Dino Stamatopoulos in the. You know, it's like the fun that we would have bits that would. Yeah. Andre Duboche in the Office and in, like, like, that was always. Like, that was the show. Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Like, that was like, funnier than anything.

[Andy Richter]

And it's. People spoiled me for just life in general. You know, I mean, I spent so much time around, literally the funniest. Some of the funniest people in the world. Yeah. That it's like, like, you know, like, you know, my. I mean, I love my wife, but it'd be like, my friends are having a party. I'm like, oh, really? Are they? Yeah, that'll be fun.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. You know, it can't be any more fun than that room.

[Adam Pally]

I say frequent. I say frequently to Some people like you. I think you like my friend Rick. He's like, he's really funny. And I'll be like, you understand that my current friend group are considered some of the funniest people.

[Andy Richter]

Oh yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Whenever I'm like, the guys I hang out with, not, not even working are funnier than people I've gotten in that fight.

[John Gabris]

Speaking of friends, parents. Because I don't get, I'm like so distant from friends, parents. I feel like most of my kids. Friends, parents.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John Gabris]

Think that I'm a dick. A dick.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, I think, I think they think.

[John Gabris]

That I'm like better than them.

[Andy Richter]

No, no.

[John Gabris]

It's coming up a lot.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. It's in your rap resume.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, well, I do do it well. But I, I.

[Andy Richter]

No, I have that same thing where I bet people think I'm standoffish and stuff.

[John Gabris]

But and, and truly I think it's just come from so many years of being, being put in situations that are uncomfortable to me because of my job and, and people not understanding it or.

[Andy Richter]

Like, and also I'm not life of the party. Yeah. I'm shy.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. I, I actually don't want to be like, yeah, talking that much, you know, but, but, but it has been come a. A problem when, when my wife or someone be like, I think you will really get along with so and so. They're so funny. It makes me hate them before I meet them.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Gabris]

And then they may be funny, but they're not going to be funny when I meet them.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

And like, and then John knows my personality. If someone tells me that I will destroy their dinner like to the point where they will question if maybe by accident, maybe by acc. Probably on purpose, subconscious, they will question why they even want it to be funny.

[Adam Pally]

I also find when someone who's a non comedy person says my friend is really funny. That is a coded word for my friend is an like the bachelor party friend who's like, you know, who's also coming that you're going to love this guy. And then you show up and I'm like, he's just doing like Rick and Morty and racism.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Like no, no, no, no. Yeah, I'm actually funny.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

This guy is.

[Andy Richter]

He just can't shut up.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. This guy just talks more than you do.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

When I have a job, when I'm, when I have a job and when I. Whether it be in the writers room or on set and I know where I'm going to be tomorrow and at what time I sleep a lot better yeah. And I feel like that because the last couple years have been so crazy.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah. Yeah.

[John Gabris]

I feel like that's contributing a lot to mine. Do you feel like that? Do you ever get like that?

[Andy Richter]

Yes. I am pretty good at compartmentalizing, though. And I just. And I do, I do have. And I also. Having a little kid keeps you busy. Yeah, it's another, it's another. I'm, you know, it's like that's another component I'm sharing of being drop off dad is that it's like, it's, that's my job.

[John Gabris]

That's right.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Three hours of not thinking about and.

[Andy Richter]

I don't have to think about it.

[John Gabris]

And I feel good and I get them something to eat.

[Andy Richter]

I'm good at it, doing something. And also too, that's the thing about raising kids too, is you're never going to do anything more important.

[John Gabris]

No.

[Andy Richter]

You know, you could be in a movie with, with Harrison Ford or whatever. It's not as important as I actually can't. What'd you do?

[Adam Pally]

They copied his earrings.

[Andy Richter]

I grabbed the stick while he was flying that little plane.

[John Gabris]

Well, you know, did you hear when he hurt himself on the Star wars set?

[Andy Richter]

That was.

[Adam Pally]

You dropped my vape.

[Andy Richter]

Dro.

[John Gabris]

My vape.

[Adam Pally]

And he tripped over it.

[John Gabris]

Got his leg caught.

[Andy Richter]

Trip. He tripped over it trying to.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, he thought it was. Is.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Gabris]

Vapes.

[Adam Pally]

Why does it have to be vapes?

[Andy Richter]

And it also too, it just, it's time. I'm 58 years old. I've been, I've said this. I, I, you know, takes a long time to get the hang of this thing, you know, of being alive. It just takes a long time. And, and I just know, like, I now kind of base everything about did I have a good time? And that started like with the Conan show. That was always my philosophy of, like, how's this show going to be the best if I protect my experience while I'm doing it right?

[Adam Pally]

As long as the best for me.

[Andy Richter]

I make sure that I'm having fun. Odds are I'm going to be doing as much as I possibly can to commit myself to making this a really good product and the best product that it can be.

[John Gabris]

I like that that's really succinct.

[Andy Richter]

And I think that I can, I, I try and take that into other things that I do because I, And I also too, have I figured out, like, I don't even give a sh. I just want to make stuff.

[Adam Pally]

But you find so much happiness. Like, I love the craft service person. I'M working with Andy.

[Andy Richter]

I've been on a set. I went to film school. I've been on a set since I was 21 years old. That's my workplace. So I know how to make that workplace nice. I take it upon myself to make that. To do everything I can to make that workplace nice. I think that's a responsibility of me as, like, one of the lucky people who has his own fucking little room and his own toilet. Right. Like, the least I can do is be nice and friendly to people and know their names, which I'm not always so good at.

[John Gabris]

I'm the worst.

[Adam Pally]

But you want to.

[Andy Richter]

But I want.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, but, I mean, that matters.

[Andy Richter]

But no, and I always, you know, and. And I, you know, like, I directed some tv, some commercials out of a company that I used to Lowell. It's all people that I used to work at with when I was in Chicago as a PA on commercial. And now I'm directing them, and I find myself. I'm directing some commercial. Like, this is as good. Like this. I'm getting. Yeah. I'm making something with people. We're having fun. I'm in. You know, and that's what I always tell the producer when he's pitching me to people. I'm like, tell them they'll have fun.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Andy Richter]

Like, they could hire another guy, but they're not going to have as much fun.

[Adam Pally]

Right.

[Andy Richter]

And then, like, because they're. Because I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be charming and witty and funny, you know?

[John Gabris]

Yeah. And that's your superpower. And that's what makes.

[Adam Pally]

That's what I could bring.

[Andy Richter]

That's what I like to do, you know? I mean, you know, like I said, I'm kind of shy, but I also do, like. I really. I. I like being funny, you know, I like cracking wise and making people laugh. Yeah. You know, Pretty good at it, you.

[John Gabris]

Know, like, some would say one of the best.

[Adam Pally]

And maybe, maybe the commercial you made for Halliburton didn't make people laugh at the end.

[Andy Richter]

Wasn' Cheney was howling with laughter.

[Adam Pally]

But the people on set enjoyed their time.

[Andy Richter]

And everyone.

[Adam Pally]

Everyone made some money and enjoyed themselves.

[John Gabris]

What was it for? Bob Dole's line of pens.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah, the clutcher. That's what it was called.

[Adam Pally]

It's got a big handle on it.

[John Gabris]

It's a pen with a huge handle.

[Adam Pally]

Andy Richter, saving the universe. You saved staying alive.

[Andy Richter]

Thank you so much.

[John Gabris]

So much for having me.

[Adam Pally]

This was a real treat for us.

[Andy Richter]

Thank you. It's a treat for me to come Talk to you guys. And this is where I call in show, too.

[John Gabris]

You're doing right. Next. We're going to.

[Andy Richter]

All right, we're just going to flip.

[John Gabris]

It around and we're going to take some calls, take some calls.

[Andy Richter]

Let's do it.

[Adam Pally]

I think I've got one on the line. Oh. Called Howard.

[Andy Richter]

B.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, man. It's very cool to talk to someone you grew up watching in a very frank, real way and feel like equals. Like, you know, like, Andy, I've been watching on TV since I was like, like 12 or 13 or whatever.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

It's just so cool to sit across from him and talk about the business and health and shit with someone who's.

[John Gabris]

He's just done it for so long and he's so. He's got such a nice way about him in his view of the industry.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

You know, he's got great.

[Adam Pally]

He's got great views on, like, parenting, the industry, health. I was happy to hear a lot of his stuff.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

When he said something to the effect of like, I've been doing this for a long time, you know, living.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

And I just try to continue. And I was like, God, that's.

[John Gabris]

But then he followed it with, it's hard to get the hang of it.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

And like, that was very, like, took a lot of guilt off my shoulders as well.

[Andy Richter]

Right.

[John Gabris]

Like, I don't, you know, I don't know if I have the hang of it yet.

[Adam Pally]

I, I know for a fact right now in my life, I do not have the 80s.

[John Gabris]

A little older than us.

[Andy Richter]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

You know, so hopefully in the next 10 to 15 years, we sort it out.

[Andy Richter]

I don't have doubt it.

[John Gabris]

I doubt it. I usually doubt it.

[Adam Pally]

All right, bud, I'll see you next week.

[John Gabris]

I hope so.

[Adam Pally]

Well, yeah.

[John Gabris]

Well, don't forget to stay alive.

[Adam Pally]

You have been listening to Staying Alive with John Gabris and Adam Pally, a smartless media production in association with Sirius xm.

[John Gabris]

Produced by Devin Tory Bryant and Anne Harris. Engineered and edited by Devin Tory Bryant, who also wrote the music.

[Adam Pally]

Associate producer and video producer is Matty McCain, social media producer Tommy Galgano, assistant engineer Kyle McGraw.

[John Gabris]

Special thanks to Jared O' Connell at SiriusXM.

[Adam Pally]

Executive producers are John Gabris.

[Andy Richter]

Ooh, me.

[Adam Pally]

Adam Pally. Ooh, you Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Richard Corson and Bernie Kaminsky. Do us a favor. Just rate and review the podcast. It actually helps.

[John Gabris]

Just so everyone knows we do not have a discord.

[Adam Pally]

Don't reach out to us.

[John Gabris]

See us on the street. Walk the other way or you'll catch chance. Shout out Neil Casey as the best person to ever have on your Torco when you get in trouble. Neil bailed me out of jail once on a Friday night so that I wouldn't have to stay the weekend by telling the police. He was my lawyer.

[Adam Pally]

Master improviser. Can really improvise himself out of any.

[Andy Richter]

Amazing.

[John Gabris]

And the thing we got that I got arrested for, we were doing together, what was it? Drugs.

[Andy Richter]

Oh. Oh, drugs. I've heard of them.

[Adam Pally]

I've tried those.

[Andy Richter]

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