The Sound of Young America Podcast
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The Sound of Young America is the meeting point between Conan O'Brien and Terry Gross. Respectful of your intelligence like NPR, respectful of your sense of fun, like a bounce house. In-depth interviews with important figures in pop culture, literature, comedy and the arts, commentary and banter, and original comedy.
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cajkkw, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: cajkkw
from Los Angeles, California
Jesse Thorn's show is quite entertaining. Although the show is not restricted to any one subject, most of the shows revolve around entertainment and pop culture in general. The guests that Jesse interviews are not the A-list celeberties but that actually makes the show a lot more entertaining than interviews that you see on mainstream TV. The conversations are funny and honest. And if you want to know what or who is the next big thing, especially in comedy, I recommend this show.
If I remember correctly from one of the shows, Jesse is only twenty four years old. Although he is young, he is very intelligent and articulate. And despite the title, the show is much more counter culture and indie than it is Brittney Spears. Sound quality is great.
LOLDavid, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: LOLDavid
from Los Angeles, California
I was pleasantly impressed by this podcast and there's nothing else out there really like it. Jesse Thorn is a funny host and he interviews people from a lot of different back routes in American popular culture. People like comedians, quirky musicians, B list actors, TV writers, and more. For the most part he focuses on people that deal in humor. And don't be fooled by the name. This isn't a kids show really. It's just that our pop culture is a youth culture so I guess that's why it's the Sound of Young America, but there's usually no fkids or teens involved. It's a fun listen and if you follow comedy you'll probably find some funny interviews here with people from your favorite comedy outlets.
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Tig Notaro & Greg Behrendt at Bumbershoot
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Wed, Oct 8, 2008
Comedy from Greg Behrendt and Tig Notaro, plus a bonus interview with Behrendt.
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Janeane Garofalo at Bumbershoot
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Mon, Oct 6, 2008
Janeane Garofalo is an actress and standup comic. She's currently a co-star on the FOX series 24, and is working the road as a standup as part of the "Satiristas."
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Sandra Tsing Loh
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Thu, Oct 2, 2008
Sandra Tsing Loh is a performer, commentator and writer based in Los Angeles. Her most recent book, about sending her daughter to school, is Mother On Fire: A True Mother*#$(ing Story About Parenting.
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Louis CK
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Mon, Sep 29, 2008
Louis CK is a comedian, writer and director. His new Showtime comedy special is Louis CK: Chewed Up. He created and starred in the HBO series Lucky Louie and wrote and directed the cult film Pootie Tang.
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Andy Daly
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Fri, Sep 26, 2008
Andy Daly is an actor and comedian. He's probably best known as a former cast member on Mad TV, or as a mad announcer in last summer's Semi-Pro. He's just released his first CD, Nine Sweaters.
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Ratatat
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Wed, Sep 24, 2008
Ratatat are an instrumental music duo whose their album, LP3, was recently released. Their sound combines elements of rock, hip-hop and dance music.
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Chip Kidd at Bumbershoot
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Mon, Sep 22, 2008
Chip Kidd is one of the world's best-known designers; he's designed book covers for innumerable authors. He's also a comic novelist. His most recent novel is The Learners.
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Human Giant at Bumbershoot
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Wed, Sep 17, 2008
The Human Giant are a sketch group whose eponymous series airs on MTV. We talked with them live on stage at Bumbershoot.
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Adrian Tomine
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Sat, Sep 13, 2008
Comics artist Adrian Tomine is the creator of the series Optic Nerve. His most recent book is "Shortcomings."
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The Submarines
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Thu, Sep 4, 2008
Chris Bowman interviews the Los Angeles indie pop group The Submarines. Their most recent album is Honeysuckle Weeks.
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Robert Popper
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Fri, Aug 29, 2008
Robert Popper was co-creator of the British comedy series "Look Around You." He's also the author, as "Robin Cooper" of "The Timewaster Letters," which are smash bestsellers in the UK, and have just been released in the US.
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Seun Kuti
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Mon, Aug 25, 2008
Seun Kuti is the leader of the band Egypt 80, which was founded by his father, the legendary creator of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti.
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Bob Powers
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Fri, Aug 22, 2008
Bob Powers is the author of the new choose-your-own-adventure-style book "You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero."
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The Hold Steady
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Tue, Aug 19, 2008
The Hold Steady are a Brooklyn-based, Minneapolis-bred rock and roll band. They're known for grand songs about teenagers and tough times.
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Chris Parnell
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Thu, Jul 31, 2008
Chris Parnell is an actor best known for his long stint on Saturday Night Live. He's also appeared in films like Anchorman and recently, Kabluey.
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Camp Camp
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Thu, Jul 24, 2008
Roger Bennett is co-author of "Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies." It's a collection of reminiscences and ephemera related to summer camp.
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Explorers Club
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Mon, Jul 21, 2008
The Explorers Club are a South Carolina-based rock band, whose music recalls the Southern California rock of the 1960s and the melodramatic pop of Phil Spector.
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Ze Frank
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Thu, Jul 17, 2008
Ze Frank is an internet super-celebrity, and the principal of zefrank.com. His year-long daily video blog project, The Show, was one of the first great successes of the video blog world.
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Jay Smooth
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Tue, Jul 15, 2008
Jay Smooth is a hip-hop radio host, blogger and vlogger. This interview was recorded live at Sketchfest NYC at the UCB Theater in New York.
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Live in NYC: Music & Comedy
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Sat, Jul 12, 2008
Comedy from Michael Showalter and Pangea 3000, music from Dawn Landes. Recorded live in New York.
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Kabluey
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Mon, Jul 7, 2008
Scott Prendergast is the writer, director and star of the indie comedy Kabluey. The film, which also stars Lisa Kudrow, concerns a young man helping tend to his brother's children while his brother is serving in Iraq.
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Blu of Blu & Exile
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Thu, Jul 3, 2008
Blu is the MC half of the hip-hop duo Blu & Exile. They released their critically-acclaimed first album, "Below the Heavens," last year.
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Bomb It
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Mon, Jun 30, 2008
John Reiss is the director of the documentary film "Bomb It". The film focuses on the world wide phenomenon of graffiti.
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The Pixar Touch
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Thu, Jun 26, 2008
David A. Price is the author of The Pixar Touch: The Making Of A
Company. The book traces the history of Pixar from technology company to entertainment behemoth.
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American Nerd
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Mon, Jun 23, 2008
Benjamin Nugent is the author of "American Nerd: The Story of My People," a combination of memoir, sociology and reportage on the nerd in American life.
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Ariel Schrag
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Fri, Jun 20, 2008
Ariel Schrag wrote the autobiographical comics Definition, Awkward and Potential while still in high school in the late 90s. The books were just re-published.
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The Eels
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Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Mark Oliver Everett, sometimes known as E, joins us. He's the frontman of the rotating cast that makes up the rock band The Eels.
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Comedy At The Edge
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Thu, 1,
2 2008 Jun, 17:29:00
Richard Zoglin is the author of "Comedy at the Edge: How stand-up comedy in the 1970's changed America".
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The Chris Farley Show
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Mon, Jun 9, 2008
Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby talk about their book "The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts."
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TSOYA is Live in NY June 14th!
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Mon, Jun 9, 2008
TSOYA is live at Sketchfest NYC at the UCB Theater in New York on June 14th, with guests Ze Frank, Jay Smooth, Pangea 3000 and Dawn Landes.
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The Grouch
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Tue, Jun 3, 2008
The Grouch is a fixture in the West Coast independent hip-hop scene, as a solo artist and as a member of The Living Legends. The group help blaze the trail for independent, underground hip-hop in the early to mid 1990s.
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Jack Handey
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Fri, May 30, 2008
Jack Handey is the creator of "Deep Thoughts," and now the author of "What I'd Say To The Martians (and Other Veiled Threats)."
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Kenny Mayne
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Tue, May 27, 2008
Kenny Mayne is a long-time ESPN personality. He's now also an author, with "An Incomplete & Innacurate History of Sport."
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Reno 911 Creators
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Fri, May 23, 2008
Guests Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and Kerri Kenney-Silver are the co-creators and stars of Reno 911. The Comedy Central series, which spoofs COPS-style reality shows, is entering the second half of its fifth season. The trio also collaborated on the series "Viva Variety," and first worked together as members of the MTV sketch series The State.
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Nellie McKay
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Tue, May 20, 2008
Nellie McKay is a singer-songwriter who's garnered broad acclaim for her spectacular singing voice and her wry, funny songs.
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Mike Birbiglia
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Fri, May 16, 2008
Mike Birbiglia is a standup comedian. His new special "What I Should Have Said Was Nothing: My Secret Public Journal Live" adapts stories from his popular online diary.
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Kirby: King of Comics
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Thu, May 8, 2008
Mark Evanier is that author of Kirby: King of Comics, a lavishly illustrated biography of comic book legend Jack Kirby. He also worked with Kirby in the 1960s and 70s.
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The Ten-Cent Plague
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Fri, May 2, 2008
David Hajdu is an award-winning cultural historian. His book The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America, about the censorship of comics in the mid-1950s.
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Bill James
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Tue, Apr 29, 2008
Bill James is the father of sabermetrics, that objective analysis and study of baseball. His bright, funny writing brought baseball analysis to the masses in the 1980s, and helped revolutionize the management of baseball teams in the 21st century. Today, he works for the Boston Red Sox.
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Sloane Crosley
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Thu, Apr 24, 2008
Sloane Crosley is author of the humorous essay collection "I Was Told There'd Be Cake." It recently debuted on the New York Times bestseller list.
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Ego Trip
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Mon, Apr 21, 2008
Gaberiel Alvarez and Brent Rollins are members of the hip-hop media collective Ego Trip. The group produced the acclaimed magazine Ego Trip in the 1990s, and has since written two books and created several series and specials for VH1, the most recent of which is Ego Trip's Miss Rap Supreme.
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