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Jordan, Jesse, GO!

Herdin' Around, with Kai Ryssdal

Jordan, Jesse, GO!

Jesse Thorn

Comedy, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re joined by public radio host and journalist Kai Ryssdal for a conversation about referee culture, iguana inflation, Wile E. Coyote rules and regulations, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Give a little time for the child within you. Don't be afraid to be young and free.

0:06.0

Unto the locks and throw away the keys and take off your shoes and sex and run you.

0:11.3

It's Jordan Jesse Go. I am Jesse Thorne America's Radio, sweetheart.

0:14.3

Jordan Morris, boy detective. Man, Jordan, you know how, you know I had very briefly this lifestyle

0:20.3

where I was taking my daughter, Scarlett, to go see concerts? Yes. What old did you guys see? Oh, we went to some... We went to some rap concerts. It started when we went to see Kendrick Lamar. Yes. And that was really fun. And then I was like, maybe she would like to go to see Dan Deakin. Okay.'d like to go see the Mountain Goats. Maybe she'd like to go see some rappers that I like. Not that I don't like Kendrick Lamar. No. That's a young person. Except for Drake. He doesn't like Kendrick Lamar. Okay. So we went to a variety of different concerts. And some people who watched the Super Bowl

0:55.2

halftime show that didn't quite get it. Yeah, exactly. I feel like I, I didn't know what

1:01.7

concerts she would like maybe. Maybe her interest just move around a lot because she's a young person.

1:06.3

Sure. Yeah. At this point, we're at a sort of detente where she will only go to more concerts with me if they are Weird Al-Yankovic concerts, which I'm glad to go to. Okay. I'm glad to go to a Weird Al concert. I mean, that's a pretty good gap to be at. I have his email address. Okay. You don't have to have his email address to go to the concert. I really, I'm just bragging about the fact that I have Weird Al's email address. It's a good brag. If I had it, I would probably randomly cram it into conversation too. Thank you very much. I've also heard you're in the podcast Hall of Fame. That's also correct. That is also correct. Pause. I love, I just love that when kids get to that age, they just start liking Weird Al. I think that's just the age I was when I started liking Weird Al. There's a whole generation before us who got to that age. Yeah, totally. We're not even the oldest people that like Weird Al. There was another set of 13-year-olds. Incredible stuff. Like, I think we got, I think I got my first Weird Al tape from the oft-mentioned Matthew Dudley's brother.

2:03.8

Yeah.

2:04.4

Who, like, was, I think by the time I met him, a scumbag metal head.

2:09.5

Yeah.

2:10.0

Who, like, smoked cloves in the yard.

2:12.1

Sure.

2:12.5

But I think he was.

2:14.0

You can't smoke those inside.

2:15.1

No, you can't.

2:15.5

I think he was a teen who got into Weird Al and then handed the tapes down to me and Matthew

2:21.0

Dudley.

2:21.6

I think I bought my tapes at a used bookstore.

2:23.7

Nice.

2:24.2

Good place to get a Word Al tape.

2:25.8

So my concert going lifestyle, which was briefly abundant because I could take my child.

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