When you make a living online and a big part of your job is to spend the entire day surfing around a hundred web sites, you begin to think that you've seen everything there is to see on the web. At least the good stuff. But sometimes you come across a site that makes you smile and say to yourself, "this is great!"
That's what I thought when I found the Sound of Young America podcast.
Host Jesse Thorn interviews various actors and writers (and not just young ones!) about their life and career, and there are many TV personalities on the list: the creators of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, ex-Daily Show/Colbert Report executive producer Ben Karlin, Arrested Development's Michael Cera, MST3K's (and now Cinematic Titanic) Joel Hodgson, 30 Rock's Jack McBrayer, comic Patton Oswalt, This American Life's Ira Glass, and Tim and Eric. These aren't quick, uninteresting interviews, these are in-depth, real conversations that reveal a lot about these people you've probably never heard before.
Note: the podcasts don't seem to work for me in Internet Explorer. I'm not sure if that's an IE problem (they work fine in Firefox) or I just don't know what the hell I'm doing.
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6-12-2008 @ 7:35PM
Kellie said...
It's Jesse Thorn, not Jesse Thom.
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6-12-2008 @ 8:24PM
Derek said...
His recent interview with the creators of Reno 911! wa pretty funny
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6-12-2008 @ 9:37PM
Jesse Thorn said...
Thanks for posting this! I'm Jesse *and* I read the blog.
Sorry about the player not working in IE. That's annoying... every show has a free download link, though, so you can always use that, or get the show in iTunes.
I'm also distributed on the radio by Public Radio International, so you can hear me on your local public radio station in a lot of places as well!
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6-13-2008 @ 4:12AM
DMD said...
Nice article Bob, you should also check out the
'Jordan, Jessie Go' Podcast...
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6-13-2008 @ 7:58AM
Ed said...
David Mitchell from Peep Show? Day, you've just been made!!
And Michael Cera makes it a doubley good day.
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6-13-2008 @ 11:25PM
jeff stiefer said...
wow! Impressive list. If the interviewed TMBG, they are ok with me. Not to mention all the others on the list. jeez. looking forward from heaing from Ira Glass, Michael cera and Patton Oswalt, for sure.
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