Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

I think some of what makes it a good podcast is that it's organic. It doesn't feel forced. If we can say anything about ours, it's that we're not faking it at all. We're genuinely interested in the people that we're talking to.

Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

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

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.

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