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I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.

I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.

My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we launched saying podcasts were going to really grow. But I remember so many conversations at the beginning where people would say, 'How are you going to make money with this?'

It's the worst noise in the world: me analyzing the reasons for making a podcast about U2.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

I couldn't tell you what the standing is in radio, I'm in the streaming world. I'm in the podcasting world. Radio just sounds archaic almost. It's a never-ending battle. I'm so glad I'm retired so I don't have to see the nonsense.

I tend to listen to podcasts while running. I don't like to listen to music because my brain would try to get me to run in time with it.

I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I right? Not to be a tease, but the format is different from anything else I've seen out there, and the subject matter is hopefully boundless, eye-opening, and a little cathartic.

The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have with you - they could be just sitting there, chuckling and listening... there's nothing like that.

I listen every day to the VOA.

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.

For magazines seeking to extend their reach into podcasting, half the battle is finding members of staff who don't sound like the kind of people you wouldn't care to be stuck in a lift with.

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life.

Anyone can put up a podcast, any application can locate and download it. It's a decentralized, hacked together, open system and, as podcaster and a listener, I think it works perfectly.

I think podcasting is here to stay.

I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.

I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

Podcasts are a lovely corner of the Internet.

I don't listen to that many podcasts when I fly.

A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.