Patton Oswalt

And they would just go up and talk.

And so now it doesn't really feel like I'm nervous when I'm on stage because I've become so comfortable just being up there and going,

This is what's going on in here.

You know, and I've also got over the whole let me point out what's stupid about the world.

And here's my cool take.

Now, my my point of view is so much more.

Listen to this idiotic thing I did.

You're not going to believe this.

Like it like it's more insightful that way.

But it's weird.

I had to get over that by first embracing that out of nervousness.

And then I can just kind of be myself.

That's one of the things, on the one hand, I'm so glad with a lot of the new online media and cell phones and social media that

People have way easier access to, the gatekeepers don't quite have the power that they used to have.

I don't think there are gatekeepers.

Really, there's not really anymore.

But the one bad thing about it is what you just talked about, the years that it takes for you to get through that persona sometimes and become yourself.

A lot of people, because they're immediately filming themselves as they start, they don't have those years in the wilderness that people like my generation had where you figure out who you are

And a lot of people are getting stuck in a very early persona that they're comfortable with.

But as they grow and mature and evolve, they're like, I don't want to do that anymore.