Welcome to the Friendly Atheist podcast. This is Jessica. I am recording from LA with special guest

Jesse Thorne.

Hi.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

Um, Jesse, would you like to describe who you are to

to listeners who may not know.

Oh man I have the problem with the describing who I am is I have so many jobs

that none of which mean anything.

I own the podcasting company Maximum Fund,

which distributes, makes and distributes

several dozen podcasts at this point, including my brother, my brother and me. and

I also host a dozen podcasts at this point, including my brother and me and Judge Sean Hodgman.

And I also host a show for that's distributed by NPR

called Bullseye, that I've been doing since I was 19 every week for coming

up on 20 years.

And besides that I own a menswear blog called put this on and a little shop associated with the menswear blog

excellent also dog enthusiast and bearded fellow I would say all true. I'm six foot three

210 uh-h huh go about two ten yeah somewhere in there it's a little huskier than I used to be so I'm actually a big

fan of maximum fun might like you know how children everything that's like in the future

is tomorrow my husband thinks everything that's a podcast is max fun.

Good for your husband. Yeah he's he's real fan of mine. So I kind of wanted to start a little bit by talking about the Max Fun sort of philosophy. I feel like Max Fun is kind of known for having really inclusive and generally positive and

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