For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

I was a chubby, unathletic kid and conformed to every possible stereotype you could imagine of someone who would end up in public broadcasting.