Jonathan Goldstein

Yeah, laugh is like a really nice thing.

Yeah.

Three.

I think in some ways not a lot because, you know, hearkening back to that story about trying to get into a writer's program when I was 18, for a very long time,

I mean, I was writing and no one was buying what I was selling.

And I was getting rejections.

And I'm not talking like big magazines, but like zines and chapbooks.

And no one would – I just couldn't get anywhere.

And I just kept doing it because I felt compelled to do it, like a spider spinning a web.

And in that sense, I think I was kind of like free of needing any validation whatsoever.

And maybe that's just the cockiness of youth or not knowing any better.

But I think I still have that.

I think I would still be doing what I'm doing regardless of whether anyone liked it.

That being said, I do like to know what people are thinking.

I think laughter, you know, getting a laugh or something is a form of validation.

And I like that.

I can't believe I'm doing something healthy.

All right.

Oh, the red cards.

I'll take one.