Chuck's pal Jesse Thorn is a public radio broadcaster and heads up the Maximum Fun podcast network. He joins Chuck today to chat up the business and dive deep on his movie crush, A Thousand Clowns.

We finally invited the boss over for dinner, so we'd better hide all those staplers we stole! Noted dog lover and the head of Maximum Fun himself, Jesse Thorn, joins us to discuss The Call of the Wild, based on that one book you probably read in middle school.

Wikipedia synopsis of The Call of the Wild

Movies recommended in this episode:

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

Host

Ah Wilderness!

A Thousand Clowns

Here’s my conversaion from back in February (2020), aka a zillion lifetimes ago, with podcaster, Maximum Fun creator, and, perhaps most publicly, Judge John Hodgman bailiff Jesse Thorn. That's him with the glorious facial hair, above. (photo: Ibarionex Perello)

It’s nice, you’ll like it.

Re: my callout to you all in the intro, you can reach me at info@15minutesjamieberger.com or find me on Insta or twitter at @15minsjamieb.

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On this episode we chat with Jesse Thorn (host of Bullseye and podcast pioneer) about running a podcast empire, interviewing celebrities, and getting Marc Maron to start WTF.

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This week we welcome the incomparable Jesse Thorn to the show. Jesse discusses Star Wars fandom, "descent into" films, and how middle school challenges led to his cultural awakening before he introduces us to a lighthouse inspector from the world of The Lighthouse.

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Jesse Thorn is the host of Bullseye, the NPR show and podcast, as well as the founder of Maximum Fun, a podcast/radio show production network. He also does the podcasts Jordan, Jesse, Go! and Judge John Hodgman. We talked about tacos, Bruce Willis, Mark Wahlberg, John Mulaney, Big Boi, Terry Gross, how to do remote interviews, DJ Quik, and much more.

This week’s guest is Put This On founder Jesse Thorn. You also
might recognize Jesse’s voice from his podcasts “Bullseye” and
“Jordan, Jesse, Go!” as well as “Judge John Hodgman.”

My talk with Jesse covers everything from his days as a
boombox-carrying college kid to his lifelong passion for vintage
clothing. We even tackle the big topics, like why men are culturally
conditioned to not care about clothes.

Be sure to check out Put This On and the Put This On
shop. Follow @enlightenmyloafers on Instagram for show
notes and the responses to Jesse’s challenge.