If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

We will continue to address things, but in as much as I want to talk about politics as they are related to social media, I don't necessarily want to be a political show. I want it to cover everything, everything in our culture through social media, politics, pop culture, entertainment, science, everything.

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

When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.

There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.