The Sound of Young America: The Legacy Collection is an effort to highlight some of the older shows in our vast audio archive. We were pretty much podcasting before anyone actually listened to podcasts, so I'm guessing you haven't heard these shows.

Our first guest on this show, which bears the theme "Storytellers," is Colin Meloy of The Decemberists. Jordan tells me they've got a major deal now, we interviewed Colin not long after their first record was released. We knew him when! And he didn't seem to like us too much!

Also: Harvey Pekar is the creator of the amazing comic "American Splendor." The comic tackles stories from Pekar's life as an ordinary guy in Cleveland, Ohio. It's one of my favorite things ever.

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Jen Kirkman gets the hook on Last Comic Standing

Holy crap, this is a murderer's row of comic talent they've lined up at Superdeluxe.

How rich people buy their way into elite colleges, and why poor people don't apply

Our folks at Quickstop Entertainment talk with Billy Connoly

The Reno 911 guys visit Washington DC's Georgetown

Seriously intense interview from IFC with Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan)

CB Radios are very New Sincerity.

I know Borat videos are sooo 2006, but here's Martha Stewart and Borat making a bed.

BEST FRIENDS!

Your Friend Andrew WK in the NY Times

Clint Eastwood Movie or Gay Porn?

Our pal Jackson Publick gives the rundown on what he spent the last few months doing.

Scott Storch is an idiot.

Michael Jordan was magical. Seriously un fucking believable. Even in 1984.

Speaking of SPORT, it seems that baseball legend Greg Maddux is fond of urinating on rookies in the clubhouse shower.

A recap of Brian Posehn's appearance at WonderCon from Ian Brill

As always, first person to email me with their address and the name of the genesis game above gets stickers in the mail.

This week on The Sound of Young America, a new New Yorker and an New Yorker of long standing.

First we talk with Roz Chast, long-time New Yorker cartoonist. Her cartoons have now been compiled into a stately tome called "Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected and Health Inspected Cartoons 1978-2006."

Then a chat with Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader. He talks about how he got the gig after Lorne Michaels came to see him perform in a Southern California backyard, and what it's like to be the new guy at one of television comedy's most revered institutions. He's a TSOYA listener, by the way. Be sure to check out our bonus audio for discussion of his upcoming movie projects, which involve Michael Cera of Arrested Development, the folks behind Reno 911 and Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk, among others.

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This week's Sound of Young America broadcast commemorates my recent layoff with the theme "Career Killers."

My first guest, Annabelle Gurwitch, is the former host of TBS' "Dinner and a Movie," and a comedienne. Her book, "Fired: Tales of the Canned, Cancelled, Downsized, & Dismissed" compiles stories of firings from folks like Felicity Huffman and David Cross. She herself was fired from a play by Woody Allen, who said her performance was "retarded." We talk with her about getting fired, some of the most interesting stories in the book (Jeff Garlin's is a doozy), and more. She's appearing at the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival May 19th and 20th with Robert Reich.

Our second guest, Dan Clowes, is the screenwriter for the new film Art School Confidential. More importantly, though, he's the creator of the long-running comic book title Eightball. Eightball was the birthplace of the film, as well as the home of the story which became "Ghost World." We talk with Dan about his experiences in art school, his artistic process, working with director Terry Zwigoff and more.

Also, a comedy sketch from Free Love Forum.

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