It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

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.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

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

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.

Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.