Then one day I was driving home.They were running a tape of one of my shows. I heard myself talking
to someone who had called up. Someone in real pain. I have listened to them for about 45 seconds. And I’m talking like I know them and understand and have something useful to say about their lives. The worst part was they believed me. I quit the next day.
Robert Gordon’s It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) in Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill (1983).