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

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua.

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 dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

I remember when I first got married, there was a certain amount of internet traffic on the subject of, "Who is this beard who is allegedly married to Ira Glass? Obviously, he's gay."