- Fuse an indigenous folk music with hip-hop
- Start a program giving ipods to migrant workers
- Become a famous actor, then play a cheeky, self-referential version of myself
- Feel torn between two worlds by having parents from two different cultures, then realize that they're not as different as I thought.
- Be Neil Young, or a Neil Young archivist.
- Create a flash game aimed at teaching children about the UN
- Give inner-city kids some tape recorders and ask them to document the sounds of a local organic farm
- Do a "mash-up" of Obama speeches, free jazz and the soundtrack to Slumdog Millionaire
- Something something folksy grandma
Comments
- how about reclaiming or
- how about reclaiming or preserving a lost or dying quirky custom from a now fully assimilated Euro-centric heritage.
- something something yiddish theater is back!
- appropriate and dilute something that was until very recently inaccessible to white people
- go crazy and write profoundly moving lo-fi pop songs championed by david byrne, but still kind of creep out your wife and kids. (its an album, a this american life and maybe even a documentary and subsequent fresh air interview.)
- be charmingly neurotic and self-deprecating and then write about it
Path to NPR
You could always get on Wait..Wait... by committing a felony and leaving ID at the scene of the crime.
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Start a photo series from the perspective of a very small creature (ant, little person, etc.) or from the perspective of an inanimate object that we all take for granted.
Be the guy that wrote an entire book about toothpicks.
Get cancer and write a book about it.
Have a family member get cancer and write about it.
Land a plane on a body of water after geese cause mechanical difficulties.
- Leanne
How To Get Myself on Jordan Jesse GO!
- Have a number of failed television projects, but a good deal of respect in the comedy community. While being male.
- Write a book. And be male.
- Be a funny rapper. A male funny rapper.
- Be a comedian. And male.
- Have an public radio show. Which you host, while you're a male.
- Have a penis.
Umm...
I hope you have a dick, and I didn't just read that for nothin'.
Something something tits and masturbating.
I'm pretty sure
I'm pretty sure you're saying Amy Rhodes is some sort of dick-girl.
No
I would never. I was brainstorming COMMON ways to get on the show, not the crazy fluke ways. Amy's hilarious and all woman.
Use your (tax deductible) money maker
Lakshmi Singh Boy Toy.
What happened to doing things
What happened to doing things the old fashioned way? Grafting Carl Kassell's face on to your head and your face on to his head and then gun-fu battling Terry Gross in slow motion.
Open a roaming hamburger
Open a roaming hamburger truck that fuses Angus patties with Ethiopian condiments; all while keeping fans in the loop via some obscure web-based messaging service.
how to get on NPR
Start assembling a "civilian" nuclear program while hinting that you might just be interested in actually getting military nukes that might just get aimed at a certain little country that plays a disproportionate role in American politics.
Or, become a dissident poet and then get elected president in an emerging democracy/developing nation.
hahahaha awesome. I would
hahahaha awesome.
I would think that a story about birds in someone's backyard would also help.
Oh Jordan, you is so funny!
Oh Jordan, you is so funny!
Shit: everything sounds sarcastic when written in a comments section on the internet.
Nice haircut.
-Introduce homeless people to
-Introduce homeless people to high culture
Also
- Be from New York and tell a weirdly self-congratulatory story about your various neuroses.
Or
Tell a fascinating story from an interesting perspective... using an extremely irritating voice. (This is how to get on This American Life, specifically.)
and maybe
a little set-piece on surfing workshops for refugee stay-at-home moms