I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.
Terry GrossGoogle started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.
Terry GrossThat era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.
Terry GrossMany artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
Terry Gross