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Welcome to the Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorn. This week on the show, the authors of Holy Headshot, a celebration of America's undiscovered talent.

Now, we did not want to share this interview with you without you being able to see the headshots in the book.

So this is our first ever enhanced podcast. If you're using an iPod and unfortunately only if you're using an iPod, you'll be able to see the photographs that we're talking about on your iPod screen as they come up.

We're also going to try and post some of them on our website and you can get an MP3 version of the show there. That's it. Enjoy.

It's the Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorn, America's radio sweetheart. My guests on the program are Patrick Barrelli and Douglas Gorenstein.

They've created Holy Headshot, a celebration of America's undiscovered talent. It is a compilation of quite a number of the most spectacular actors' headshots you've ever seen in your entire life.

They're ranging from people who are a little too old to be in swimwear, to people in an almost astonishing variety of different character modes, to people in an almost astonishing lack of variety of character modes in headshots where there are multiple pictures of them.

To many, many other bizarre and amazing things, including as I flip to the book, a woman who for some reason is sitting on a toilet on a beach while smiling in a sincerely friendly way, the sincerely pleasant smile.

Gentlemen, welcome to the Sound of Young America. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us today.

So tell me, Douglas, you're actually a photographer. Was this born out of professional jealousy of some kind? That's a project.

I wish I could say I was that jealous, but it was born out of inspiration from Patrick, actually. We were playing Street Hockey together and Patrick was using an old worn out headshot and finally decided that he needed new ones.

Wait, now this is a Street Hockey headshot? I wish actually it would have been better. The one Doug took of me looks great, but my true essence is that of someone who likes to play Street Hockey, a scrapper, a skinny guy who likes to fight on the streets.

But anyway, Doug was taking my headshot as a stand-up comic and I had this headshot I had taken in Boston in 1998 and it was just incredibly old. I had a lot more hair in my head and I was younger.

I like how you looked up when I said that. If you talk about a part of your body, people watch people's eyes because they'll move there.

So I had a massive chest back in 1998. Why are you looking at your chest?

That was my cue to say who got right?

Jesse, my eyes are up here.

But anyway, so Doug took my headshot and while we were doing it, I had this idea for the book for a couple of years and I said, this is the perfect guy to suggest it to.

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