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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

How's Your News

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2009

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

How's Your News is a new series on MTV which follows a group of reporters with disabilities across the country. Arthur Bradford created How's Your News many ten years ago at a summer camp for the disabled, and Jeremy Vest is a member of the reporting team.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Graham Lizarne from Richmond, Virginia. The Sound of Young America is an independent

0:04.4

production supported by listeners like you and me. If you'd like to donate,

0:08.0

support the show, visit MaximumFun.org and click on Donate.

0:12.3

Live on tape from my house in Los Angeles, I'm Jesse Thorn, and this is the Sound of Young

0:17.0

America from MaximumFun.org.

0:19.8

Radio sweetheart, on the airways, it's the Sound of Young America.

0:29.8

MaximumFun.

0:33.6

MaximumFun.

0:37.3

MaximumFun.

0:40.3

Before I talk with two of the guys behind the new MTV show How's Your News,

0:44.1

here's one of them, Jeremy Vast, a reporter with the developmental disability,

0:48.1

William Syndrome, interviewing people on the street at Venice Beach.

1:18.2

You might say in the world again, that was funny.

1:22.0

It's the Sound of Young America. I'm Jesse Thorn. My guests on the program are Jeremy Vast

1:26.8

and Arthur Bradford. Jeremy is a reporter and Arthur the producer on the new MTV series How's Your

1:34.0

News, in which a group of disabled people travel the country on a bus interacting with

1:42.0

reporting on various stories. I should have ended the phrase interacting with, and basically just

1:49.0

generally having a lot of cool, reportorial type adventures. Guys, welcome to the Sound of Young

1:54.5

America. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's great to have you. Now, Arthur, you're a little bit more

1:59.6

of a veteran of this effort than Jeremy is. You've been there since the very beginning.

2:06.4

You started this when you were a counselor at a camp for disabled people a long time ago.

2:12.3

What was the genesis of it? Right. I was working as a summer camp counselor at a camp for

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