I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

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.

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.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.