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.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

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.

I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.