Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.
Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.
I just feel like, for me personally, there's just been so much election fatigue, and while I think it was very important during the election to always be on top of everything that was going on with the election via social media, I do feel like, all right, now we need a little bit of a detox. I think people need a little bit of a break from it.
We will continue to address things, but in as much as I want to talk about politics as they are related to social media, I don't necessarily want to be a political show. I want it to cover everything, everything in our culture through social media, politics, pop culture, entertainment, science, everything.
I've seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show you how pervasive this stuff has become in our culture. It really is an ideology that you can subscribe to now.
Obviously, we went after Trump quite a bit, but I also feel like, we can't be on anyone's side, really. We need to be on comedy's side, so we need to be fairly going after everyone, because the entire political system is a circus. So it's been fun and interesting, and I hope people enjoy the evolution of the show. It'll continue to evolve because you can't do the same show forever. I feel like people would get bored with that.
I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.
A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.
Things that are viral are things that motivate people to say I have to share this with everyone I know, and that has been more politics lately, and that's completely understandable.
Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.
I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.
There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.
I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.
I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express.
I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?
When I was younger, my parents used to say, "Trust us on this. We have more experience than you." And I was like, "Shut up, you don't know anything!" But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they'd experienced more things.
I would say that nerds, as a rule, are much more sexually active than the average person. There's a lot of anxiety and stress in the nerd brain, so sex is good for that.
If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.
I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.
I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.
The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture.
I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.
There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.
