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