I'm Not The Betting Kind.

I've Never Seen Radio As The Minor Leagues, Where I'm Just Really Preparing To Be In The Show That Really Counts, Namely, Television, Which Is, I Think, What People Often Assume. I've Never Felt That Way.

I Have To Match Wits With The Ads. Like, There's Pop-ups That, Like, Move Around And You Have To Chase Them Like It Was A Video Game Or Something. And Then There's Ads Where, Like, You Know, The X To, Like, Close The Ad Screen Is So Kind Of Small That You Can't Find It And You Have To Actually Go Looking For It. And So I Spend All My Energy - Instead Of, Like, Absorbing What The Advertiser Wants To Communicate To Me, I Spend My Energy Trying To Figure Out How To Defeat The Ad.

I Think In Particularly With Young Kids Who Don't Have A Lot Of Positive Influences, Pop Culture Almost Becomes A Larger Part Of That Self-discovery And How You Define Yourself.

You Know, How Am I Leading My Own Life? What Am I Denying? Since I Brought Such Great Powers Of Denial Into My Adult Life, What Am I Not Doing As A Husband? What Am I Not Doing As A Father? The Whole Thing Started Unraveling With Me That Once I Kept It Up Close To The Chest, I Could Hold It All In, But Once I Started Letting It Out, It All Started Coming Out.

It Bothers Me When People, Say, You Know, Write For, You Know, A Web Publication And Get Paid Little Or Nothing Or, You Know, Expecting To, Like, Read The Best Newspapers In The World And Not Pay A Cent For It. Those Newspapers Need Money In Order To Operate.