 So you've previously said your goal as a humorist was to, quote, be weirder than everybody else and hope that no one stopped me. What sparked that ambition for you? Well, I think at first I was like, maybe I should just write sort of a straightforward column since that seems to be what this job is. And then I kept not doing that and people kept not firing me. And then gradually, because I feel like, you know, there's also the whole sort of like,