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Concerned about you, and i really need to know where you grew up and what your father did. so that's really the basis of how the thing evolved, was just, i had a real -- a lot of people i had ideas about who they were. a lot of people, i'd known for 20 years, but i'd never really talked to. most of the interviews are first encounters with people that i'm familiar with. and i just sit there, and i assume something about them, and i slowly let them deconstruct my assumptions and i get to know them as people. >> you started this thing, and it relates, i think, in some way, to the pathos that's at...

Really need to know where you grew up and what your father did. so that's really the basis of how the thing evolved, was just i had a real -- a lot of people i had ideas about who they were. a lot of people i'd known for 20 years, but i'd never really talked to. most of the interviews are first encounters with people that i'm familiar with. and i just sit there, and i assume something about them and i slowly let them deconstruct my assumptions and i get to know them as people. >> you started this thing, and it relates, i think, in some way, to the pathos that's at the core of a lot of these in...

Now become massively successful. >> well, wait. is side project code for hail mary pass? >> yes. >> because it wasn't a side project. i was really at a loss of where to go next with my own career. you know, i was respected as a comic, i had a good comedy career, kind of, but i didn't really sell tickets, i didn't have a lot going on. after the last job at air america, i didn't know what i was going to do. i had just gotten out of a horrible divorce. had no expectations. it saved me in a lot of ways. i reconnected with my peers, and it was a profound experience. >> i'm like a very obsessive pod...