Not too long after I started listening to podcasts, I noticed a few of them using the phrase 'yes-and' as a verb - they used it in Idle Thumbs #197 with Justin McElroy during the advertising segment for the chocolate-coated strawberries - and I learned not long after that the principle of responding to any joke setup with 'yes, and-' is a foundational element of improv comedy. Not surprisingly, many of the podcasts I enjoy listening to most are hosted by people who have some kind of comedy or stage background where they've been explicitly taught to keep a conversation moving with yes-and. (And the podcasts I wind up losing interest in immediately are produced by pedantic computer nerds who have that awful one-upmanship habit of shutting down other people with 'well-actually')
