Sometimes you just feel like maybe you've figured out something that the subject isn't quite figuring out and that can be kind of uncomfortable. Some of them seem like they're going to be pretty straight ahead. And then all kinds of stuff happens in which you realize at the time it's so stressful, but then it ends up making it so much richer than if it wasn't.
Jonathan Goldstein is an audio producer and the host of Heavyweight.
“I wasn’t taking myself very seriously, initially. I liked working with my friends and family because I think I was a little more comfortable with them. Then in the second season people were writing in with real problems, and they were looking at me as a kind of expert. It was terrifying to meet with these people and see the look of hopefulness in their eyes. ... I realized I need to step it up and even if I didn’t feel like an expert—an expert in an invented field that doesn’t really exist—that I’d really have to take that on with seriousness.”
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