When he first started them, he said he always thought of being an AM radio personality. I think of our local radio chud and hope one day Matt aspires to greater things than all these talk show psychos. The theories of parasocial attached stuff seems a little sus. If you live in a big city and spend time in the public eye, strangers will get to know you and wanna chat you up at a bar. Noam Chomsky answers random emails for christ sakes.