With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

I'm fascinated by people's process. Everyone's process is a little bit different, and just to see the different paths that people take to get where they are is really interesting to me.

If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.

Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well.

My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.

You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.