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.

When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

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 remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put the baby into some lady's stomach, right? And, at some point, I learned how it really happened, and really that was the beginning of the end of my belief in God. Up until that point, it had always been a really weird act of intervention on God's part.

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.

You just have to fight your way through.

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