Set Your Radio Dial to Maximum Fun with Jesse Thorn

The New Disruptors

Jesse Thorn is a polycast — a polymath of podcasts. He helped define the form by taking a show that he developed with others on a college radio station and making it into a podcast in 2004. That show, the Sound of Young America, now called Bullseye, focuses on interesting cultural trends and sports in-depth interviews, and is distributed by NPR as of last year. He also hosts and produces Jordan, Jesse, Go with Jordan Morris, co-hosts and produces Judge John Hodgman, owns the site Maximumfun.org, produces and contributes to the men's style site Put This On, run a cruise and a conference (MaxFunCon).

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Show notes

We talked about a number of things, of which here are some:

• Personal Audio
• 99% invisible
• A Prairie Home Companion
• Bootsy Collins
• Andrew W K and his Village Voice advice column
• Museum of Jurassic Technology
• The New Sincerity
• Saved by the Bell
• Vulture
• Pop Culture Happy Hour
• Stephen Soderbergh
• Steve Albini
• Make Your Thing talk
• Seth Godin
• Grantland
• Boing Boing
• Adam Lisagor
• Intervention
• Brooklyn Beta