I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

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.

If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.

When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

When I was younger, my parents used to say, "Trust us on this. We have more experience than you." And I was like, "Shut up, you don't know anything!" But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they'd experienced more things.