Show: The Sound of Young America Guests: Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg joins us to talk about nerd rants, his philosophy on zombies, and his close-knit relationship with colloborator and friend Nick Frost.
He’s best known as the actor, writer, and director whose guiding hands have been involved in British TV comedy Spaced and films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Paul.
His new memoir follows his own journey as the nerdy everyman; Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy’s Journey to Becoming a Big Kid is out now.
Jesse Thorn joins us from "the Sound of Young America" and "Jordan, Jesse, Go!" to tell us just what makes a good pair of Jeans, and much much more!
This week on Comedy and Everything Else:
Special guest, Jesse Thorn! Jesse goes blue right out of the box Ira Glass takes a nice liking to Jesse Thorn Jimmy likes to say words funny Stef is not a friend of Dorothy Jesse Thorn is a big fan of Hip Hop Jesse’s new series Put This On is about fashion and it’s for real Jesse’s obsessed with being a contrarian Jesse tells the truth about Edmonton in Canada Smooth jazz moves Check out Jesse’s fun-time summer getaway MaxFunCon
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Jesse Thorn Jesse Thorn was gracious enough to let me bring the BuckTrain to the ThornManor for this sixth installment of The Buckshot Boogaloo Podcast. Jesse Thorn made jokes. Jesse Thorn made…
In honor of our 100th episode, we welcome podcasting impresario and public radio host Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America and MaximumFun.org. We discuss the differences between Northern and Southern California burritos, as well as burrito construction techniques, and Jesse tells us about facing down a judgmental butcher.
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