28.3 Million Americans Might Be Wrong: TSOYA in USA Weekend
USA Weekend is the newspaper magazine that you get if your newspaper doesn't have a magazine. It's published by the same folks who create USA Today.
Almost a year ago, they decided to do a feature in which celebrity experts pick a favorite podcast, and Our Hero Patton Oswalt was nice enough to pick The Sound. The piece just ran this weekend.
Top podcast picks
Favorites from experts in their category.
By Dennis McCafferty
Whatever the topic, podcasts empower the masses. There are more than 24,000 podcasters listed by podcastdirectory.com, and 20 new ones are added every day. Given that it's a large pond out there, USA WEEKEND Magazine recently got together with three high-profile pros and asked them which podcasts they like to listen to on the Web:
COMEDY
Patton Oswalt, best known as Spence on CBS' "King of Queens," also is featured on Comedy Central's "Comedians of Comedy"
His pick: Jesse Thorn's "The Sound of Young America" (maximumfun.org)
"Thorn and his superlative show have already been profiled in "Time." He knows how to interview comedians and gives them endless opportunities to be funny. That's a skill."
Inside "The Sound of Young America"
Basics: It's a weekly, hour-long show with two or three interviews and often a sketch, created by Thorn, 25, an unemployed receptionist who lives in Los Angeles. Like most podcasts, it's a no-frills production. Thorn produces the show from his living room, with a couple of microphones, a mixer and a telephone-enabled broadcast machine on his desk connected to a computer, for interview call-ins.
Brushes with Fame:
Terry Jones of Monty Python was a guest. "I grew up obsessed with Python's work," Thorn says. "I was so nervous before calling him up that I was shaking."
What listeners love:
The New Sincerity segment. "It's a rejection of irony," Thorn says.
Sacrifice for art:
Thorn sold his '65 Dodge Dart Coupe to buy production equipment.
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Almost a year ago, they decided to do a feature in which celebrity experts pick a favorite podcast, and Our Hero Patton Oswalt was nice enough to pick The Sound. The piece just ran this weekend.
Top podcast picks
Favorites from experts in their category.
By Dennis McCafferty
Whatever the topic, podcasts empower the masses. There are more than 24,000 podcasters listed by podcastdirectory.com, and 20 new ones are added every day. Given that it's a large pond out there, USA WEEKEND Magazine recently got together with three high-profile pros and asked them which podcasts they like to listen to on the Web:
COMEDY
Patton Oswalt, best known as Spence on CBS' "King of Queens," also is featured on Comedy Central's "Comedians of Comedy"
His pick: Jesse Thorn's "The Sound of Young America" (maximumfun.org)
"Thorn and his superlative show have already been profiled in "Time." He knows how to interview comedians and gives them endless opportunities to be funny. That's a skill."
Inside "The Sound of Young America"
Basics: It's a weekly, hour-long show with two or three interviews and often a sketch, created by Thorn, 25, an unemployed receptionist who lives in Los Angeles. Like most podcasts, it's a no-frills production. Thorn produces the show from his living room, with a couple of microphones, a mixer and a telephone-enabled broadcast machine on his desk connected to a computer, for interview call-ins.
Brushes with Fame:
Terry Jones of Monty Python was a guest. "I grew up obsessed with Python's work," Thorn says. "I was so nervous before calling him up that I was shaking."
What listeners love:
The New Sincerity segment. "It's a rejection of irony," Thorn says.
Sacrifice for art:
Thorn sold his '65 Dodge Dart Coupe to buy production equipment.
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posted by Jesse Thorn at Monday, January 15, 2007
6 Comments:
Wow, that's great, Jesse, congratulations!!
Congratulations! However, I must note that this isn't included in my print edition, which is otherwise the same as the online version.
It's in mine, I think you missed it.
What page is it on? I looked pretty carefully.
16-17, by the elvis commemorative coins
and by the way, there's a web special bonus, a rec for the Pardcast.
I guess different papers carry different versions- mine's not that long.
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