The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.
I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.
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.
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 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.
I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.
Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.
I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.
Brad Pitt is really game to talk about whatever and is really fun to talk to and was totally up for discussing anything.
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."
I don't think I've ever stolen anything.
I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.
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.
I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua.
Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.
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.
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.
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