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Aug 24th, 2006, 07:12 AM
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Interview with Jesse Thorn, host of The Sound of Young America, a radio show and podcast about things that are awesome.

We discuss why he and his girlfriend moved to Los Angeles and how it effects his radio show; does doing the radio program from his home change the dynamic of the show; the format of The Sound of Young America; his love for NPR’s All Things Considered and Fresh Air; why NPR is sometimes so unhip; Benjamin Walker’s Theory of Everything and Love and Radio on alt.NPR; Morning Edition; Howard Stern; Idi Amin; how he slipped through program manager’s radars on the radio stations his show appears on; how he decides and finds the guests that appear on his show; what he is looking for in his interviews; keeping the interviews fresh; his favorite radio broadcast moment; his brother’s band, Total Annihilation; Andrew WK and Monty Python’s Terry Jones; Fairy Tales; Mister Show’s Bob Odenkirk; Jordan Morris “Boy Detective”; Fuel TV; Bob Newhart; Randy Newman; Bob Edwards; Paul Reubens; advice for toasts at weddings; Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting.

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