Chet Waterhouse

And this is an upper middle class or lower upper class woman going through a terrible divorce.

And she takes that job.

And so one summer –

I watched every comedian in that club all summer long.

Paul Provenza came in and Leno and I think Harry Anderson, people like that in the early 80s.

And then I said, oh, I want to talk to these people.

How can I talk to these people?

And my high school had a radio station.

And I said, maybe I could do it.

my own talk show, and I would go out with a little tape recorder and beg Seinfeld and Leno to talk to me.

And before the internet and podcasts, they were all bored.

No one wanted to talk to Jerry Seinfeld in 1983.

I mean, other than maybe some morning radio, they weren't doing long-form interviews about the craft.

So I was able to get everyone, and then that became college.

Even when I was at USC, I thought I kind of learned most of the stuff

from the 50 interviews about what I wanted to do.

And I started when I was 17.

And when I stopped, I was 24, and I started writing for television.

But I was pretty obsessed with it.

And it is an escape pod.