Comments on: 21: Jesse Thorn Interview

21: Jesse Thorn Interview

mathowie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:06:41 -0800

Show #21 of the podcast is our return from a long holiday break. We've got an interview with Jesse Thorn followed by recaps from the best of the last six weeks of MetaFilter. It was recorded on January 16, 2008 and runs 1 hour 10 minutes long.

Helpful links Podcast Feed MeFi Podcast on iTunes Direct mp3 download (65Mb) Jesse Thorn Interview YoungAmerican's mefi profile The Sound of Young America site (blog, podcast) The Pee Wee Herman thread Misc Links mentioned Kaycee Nichole FAQ (archive.org link) Givewell wiki summary, NYT piece on it. Ask MeFi Collections: featuring Best Of lists like this one for books and this one for cooking. MeFi users share shots of their desks MeFi Jobs Cool job at the Guggenheim Museum MeFi Projects Bike Hacks Alvy's MeFi Music Podcast MeFi Music played in this podcast Janie in the Lake by Baby_Balrog At The Airport by scottandrew Nothing to Say by not_on_display Political Science by BrnP894 MetaTalk carsonb's exhaustive post about one-off pages on the MetaFilter server MetaFilter posts Which Solid Gold dancer are you? Awesome photos from Olan Mills/Sears portrait studios Live action Garfield strips The Sonderkommando Revolt Ask MeFi posts Going to rock shows alone? Cheap but bombproof products Slightly morbid question about cremations and atoms being passed around (related: no smells at the crematorium) How far can go when making Pizza from scratch? (which reminded me of the kids book Pancakes Pancakes also: mefi pancakes joke image) Games to play while in line (Set game) Porn for girls that isn't gross? (Violet Blue's guide) Bunk and Bubs on The Sound of Young America

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:24:23 -0800

I feel weirdly validated.

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:35:19 -0800

Only one good MetaTalk post in the last month or so? That sounds about right.

By: steef

steef — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:10:07 -0800

You were sooooo gonna get an incoherent, ranting MeMail if there was no podcast this weekend. Thank you thank you!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:29:45 -0800

I feel weirdly ~~validated~~ violated.

Fixed that for you.

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:31:24 -0800

Sidebarred and mentioned in the podcast in the same day?

I. Have. Arrived.

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:33:48 -0800

Well, my post anyway. I'll take it.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:46:03 -0800

I was drunk drunk drunk when I posted in that Solid Gold Dancers thread. So drunk that when I awoke the next morning I got an email confirming my purchase of thesolidgolddancers.com domain.

WTF, me?

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:55:47 -0800

Jesse doing Peewee and Charo? That's gettin' sampled.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:56:24 -0800

Jessie Thorn is certainly my radio sweetheart.

Jordan Jessie Go, is his other podcast by the way, it's very funny.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:57:09 -0800

Sorry Jesse, I forgot you eschew the I.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:58:20 -0800

dobbs, I think everybody has, once or twice, gone to bed at 2 with a 10 and woken up at 10 with a receipt for a domain name.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:15:53 -0800

What was yours, cortex?

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:17:40 -0800

What else?

By: pjern

pjern — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:22:22 -0800

I. Have. Arrived.

I'm still sitting out in the harbor.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:27:18 -0800

cortex, you have way too much damned time on your hands.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:30:15 -0800

My favorite part of this one so far is when mathowie makes a snickery sound when asked whether he has an amazing grand vision for Metafilter.

The podcasts seriously rock, by the way. And the volume levels are much better in this one.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:31:14 -0800

Jessamyn's ebullient "when you fart, your poop goes into somebody else's nose" is also damned quotable.

By: pjern

pjern — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:38:27 -0800

Whoa. I got called out by my real name by both Matt and jessamyn.

I'm like awed. Humbled. Warm and fuzzy. Now, I. have, arrived. :)

But it was Berlin, not Vietnam. Just to set the record straight. I'm still working on the memoir with links.

At least I know jessamyn reads my Flickr comments. :)

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:47:21 -0800

But it was Berlin, not Vietnam.

My memory banks for "wartime places" are horribly disorganized, so I'm just as likely to swap Gettysburg with Guadalcanal.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:58:30 -0800

that's my first podcast I've listened to. very good. and Mat, you sound exactly as I thought you might.

top stuff.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:03:33 -0800

Both my song and my FPP?! And that my FPP caused someone to rent a domain name? Holy crapoly, thank you! (I'm about to listen.)

By: dobbs

dobbs — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:06:20 -0800

Hmm. Well, at least mine can be used on a business card.

By: ericb

ericb — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:15:13 -0800

Having listened to the podcast and never really known the Kaycee Nicole hoax story, I read the Kaycee Nichole FAQ mentioned above and decided to learn more. I spent the past hour reading through how the "unmasking" unfolded (from May 18 - 21, 2001). Fascinating how the story evolved, how individuals reacted (and their thoughts/feelings evolved) and how an online community worked through the affair.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:29:08 -0800

What else?

cortex, does your wife know?

By: desjardins

desjardins — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:33:59 -0800

dersins, don't turn this into the bi sluts thread.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:40:22 -0800

I'm totally secure in my gluteus maxulenity, dersins. And she helped with the google image searches.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:45:57 -0800

Hmm. Well, at least mine can be used on a business card.

Did you get a package deal?

By: dobbs

dobbs — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:39:13 -0800

Did you get a package deal?

No. Even in my drunken state I somehow managed to avoid Godaddy's insane "upgrades".

By: desjardins

desjardins — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:15:12 -0800

I'm drunk now. What domain name should I buy?

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:21:02 -0800

I'm drunk now. What domain name should I buy?

seemedlikeagoodideaatthetime.org

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:55:06 -0800

jessamyn: ...when we redesign the header

What.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:57:15 -0800

shit Shit SHIT! I always forget that I'm streaming this and listening to it in the thread and then comment. Bah, I'll just download the damn thing...

By: carsonb

carsonb — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:25:22 -0800

OK, great show! I loved the interview with Jesse and will have to check out his podcast(s) to see what is the what. And as usual jessamyn is a total riot.

I'm glad everyone enjoyed that crazy MeTa thread. There's a little more room in the noggin having vomited that cluttered mass of ephemera out. Now I need to go to bed before I get sucked into the next previous coupla thou.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:55:46 -0800

"...who, all of a sudden, like, showed up in my, like, universe, out of nowhere, with this awesome post and this awesome music..."

Glad you appreciated it. Three possible responses:

Please type your choice on your keyboard, or simply say your choice now.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:01:01 -0800

(BTW, it's the first podcast I've ever listened to in full, too [aside from WFMU's warez]. Good everything.)

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:23:04 -0800

Yo, Feliz Naviblah, everybody

By: geoff.

geoff. — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:29:47 -0800

I like the desk threads, but for different reasons. If it was in the NYT, it'd price tag everything out and say that the "basic" desk with accessories will cost you something like $15,000 but if you spend the weekend antique hunting in Maine, you may get it for $12,000. Then they show me opulent desks that are $30,000 by someone with a much cooler job than me. Metafilter has regular people desks and suddenly I don't feel like a loser for not having a coherent "design style," nor designer colors on the wall.

By: chrismear

chrismear — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:52:16 -0800

Whatever, loser.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:29:52 -0800

jessamyn: ...when we redesign the header

We just want to get coherent headers across every page so things are called the same thing and there's decent prominence for the FAQ and wiki. Nothing fancy, promise.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:36:25 -0800

^ Chris Mear's desk.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:46:04 -0800

I cannot believe that a professional podcaster thinks Northern Ireland is part of Great Britain!!! Or that Donegal is part of Northern Ireland (as opposed to in the north of Ireland), for that matter.
Ooh, I do love a bit of geographical pedantry. And hyperbole too, obv.

By: mullacc

mullacc — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:48:46 -0800

I'm glad to hear that the Travel subsite is getting official soon.

By: dw

dw — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:41:45 -0800

You don't know how to pronounce my NAME?

Sigh.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:13:51 -0800

It's "dwuh", for the record.

By: dw

dw — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:17:30 -0800

The q is silent and invisible.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:23:59 -0800

We just want to get coherent headers across every page so things are called the same thing and there's decent prominence for the FAQ and wiki. Nothing fancy, promise.

Boy, that fandango_matt's redesign idea sure was nifty, mmm hmm. Yep. Liked it. Good logo, everything.

*whistles tunelessly*

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:52:27 -0800

Okay, Jesus, I just saw the MeTa thread where you got your asshole handed to you for daring to actually change things. For fuck's sake. Previous comment hastily retracted.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:16:57 -0800

Yet another fantastic podcast. With Jesse on the MetaFilter podcast and the "Never Not Funny" group on "Jordan, Jesse, Go" recently, it's like someone took my iTunes and shook it all up until everything gets squished together.

*waiting patiently for Matt or Jessamyn to appear on either "This American Life" or "A Prairie Home Companion."

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:14:06 -0800

And the volume levels are much better in this one.

Indeed, what's your recording set up, mathowie?

And thanks for mentioning the podcast again!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:28:42 -0800

I think we've fixed the volume level set up. Now we record both sides of the convo and I upload my side to mathowie and he combines them. A bit more labor intensive but definitely better quality and no latency issues or dealing with CPU overload when scrolling etc. I listened to this on my drive home last night and I was really impressed with the whole thing from a production standpoint. Can we use Jesse's signoff from now on?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:05:50 -0800

Can we use Jesse's signoff from now on?

Where he says bye and thanks for mefi? Or do you mean the sign-off I did in the TSOYA style? I was going to do another take on it to clean it up and use it as the out-tro from now on.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:15:03 -0800

Where Jesse says "MetaFilter is vital in the life of every public radio personality" or whatever at about 27:45 or so.

Your outro is nice and professional-sounding, but it's not really "TSOYA style", it sounds plain old NPR-ish to me with the piano and everything. Your call certainly, but I'd think we could do something more interesting with the same information.

By: YoungAmerican

YoungAmerican — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:59:28 -0800

The last time I was in Donegal I was 9, which coincidentally was the last time I was in Ireland. I'm sorry I misspoke and said "Great Britain" when I meant "United Kingdom." I guess.

My stepmother is from Belfast, and grew up in the thick of the troubles. Does that count for anything?

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:11:27 -0800

Just joshin' you, YoungAmerican. We deliberately made it complex just so we could be smug about mis-speakings.

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:48:34 -0800

It is essential that Matt, Jess and Cortex all know that with every single MeFi podcast, ever, I sing along to the intro, and occasionally sing just the "welcome to the metafilter... poooooooooodcast" bit to the dog at random for no reason at all.

That is all.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:41:55 -0800

Warms my dang heart, Bri.

By: mogget

mogget — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:40:00 -0800

Very entertaining. I signed up for the Sound of Young America podcast, and look forward to listening. Matt & Jessamyn were both very funny this week; "The long tail of tail" made me laugh out loud and scare my fellow passengers on the bus.