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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.

I Didnt Have Any Particular Talent For Fiction. I Took A Class In College.

But Sadly, One Of The Problems With Being On Public Radio Is That People Tend To Think You're Being Sincere All The Time.

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.

What Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners… Is That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work, We Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste. But There Is This Gap. For The First Couple Years You Make Stuff, And It’s Just Not That Good. It’s Trying To Be Good, It Has Potential, But It’s Not… Your Taste Is Why Your Work Disappoints You… We Know Our Work Doesn’t Have This Special Thing That We Want It To Have. We All Go Through This… It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That You Will Close That Gap, And Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions.