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Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

What podcasts can do in order to liven up the talk show area of TV is bring new personalities and unique worldviews into the fray in a way that's not going to be filtered through the whole Q-rating thing. I think there's a whole new layer of doing things that TV is behind the Internet in figuring out.

I don't make money doing my podcast. I've learned that people want to hire creative people who are already doing something when they approach them.

The power of podcasting is pretty remarkable. It is such an amazing way to mobilize fans. It's almost like they're part of your family. They probably listen to you more than they listen to their own families. I know that's true for me. So there is a real bond there.

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 love podcasts! I wish I had my own, although I think there are already too many podcasts, so I don't know how I would create a new one.

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?'