“Why did we stop? Why did we stop watching things that are comforting, or joyful? You have to have a little joy or a little bit of escape, otherwise you’ll just want to walk into the ocean — more than you already do!”

Dan hosts the award-winning Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids podcast and live event, where adults read their childhood writing of all kinds.

Paul Bae co-created the popular fictional paranormal podcast The Black Tapes. He also created, writes, and produces The Big Loop, an anthology podcast series that tells “Stories of finite beings in an infinite universe.”