I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.

Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

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

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

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.

Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.

Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.