Jesse Thorn
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| Born |
April 24, 1981 San Francisco, California, United States |
| Show | Bullseye with Jesse Thorn |
| Station(s) | Maximum Fun |
| Network | Public Radio International (formerly) |
| Style | Interview |
| Country | United States |
| Website | Official website |
Jesse Thorn (born April 24, 1981) is an American public radio show host/creator. He is the host and producer of the radio show and podcast Bullseye (formerly The Sound of Young America), which is distributed by National Public Radio to 25 public terrestrial radio stations in 13 states and is also broadcast weekly on XM Radio's "XM Public Radio" channel. He also hosts the podcasts Judge John Hodgman and Jordan, Jesse, Go!, as well as the television program The Grid, which formerly aired on IFC. Jesse Thorn also runs Put This On, a blog and web video series devoted to men's fashion.
Thorn grew up in San Francisco, California, where he attended The Nueva School and Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. He attended University of California, Santa Cruz, where he cofounded The Sound of Young America and worked for the campus radio station KZSC.The Sound of Young America began as a college radio variety show featuring Thorn and two other cohosts, Jordan Morris and Gene O'Neill.
Near the end of 2004 Thorn began to make the show available as a podcast. Thorn and the show were mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine and Salon.com, with Salon describing Thorn's interviewing style as combining "the civility and preparedness of [Terry] Gross leavened with the good humor of [Conan] O'Brien." A few months later, Thorn received a call from the director of programming at PRI, who had heard one of the podcasts and expressed interest in distributing the show. In 2006 WNYC-FM, a public radio station in New York City, picked up the show, and PRI decided to distribute it. By September 2008 the show was carried on 18 public radio stations, in addition to the podcast.
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