Author, journalist, comedian, and founder/editor of The Realist
In a 2009 interview with David Kupfer of Sun Magazine, Paul named Shep as one of his influences:
"Another of my mentors was Jean Shepherd, the radio humorist. In the middle of the night he’d talk about how you might explain an amusement park to a Venusian, or about a man who could taste an ice cube and tell you the make and model of the refrigerator it came from."
