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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Mark Frauenfelder

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of BoingBoing, the editor of Make Magazine, and the author of the new book Made By Hand, about the pleasure of making things yourself.​

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Aaron from Austin.

0:01.5

I'm Ben from Boliviana.

0:03.2

I'm Cara from Burlington from A.

0:05.2

The Sound of Young America is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.

0:09.4

Do you like to support the show like I did?

0:11.2

Visit MaximumFun.org and click on Donate.

0:15.3

I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from My House in Los Angeles.

0:18.6

It's the Sound of Young America from MaximumFun.org and PRI, public radio, international.

0:30.6

It's The Sound of Young America.

0:32.0

I'm Jesse Thorne.

0:33.1

My guest on the program is an old friend of our show.

0:36.2

He's the editor of boingboing.net, one of the world's most popular web blogs, blogs.

0:44.8

I guess we have called them for roughly the last 10 years.

0:48.9

He's also the editor of Make magazine and the author of a brand new book called Made by Hand,

0:54.5

searching for meaning in a throwaway world.

0:57.4

It's about his embrace of DIY, do it yourself, culture, despite the fact that he wasn't exactly

1:06.4

born into it.

1:08.4

Welcome back to The Sound of Young America.

1:10.4

Thanks a lot, Jesse.

1:11.4

It's been a while.

1:12.4

So I want to know whether you were handy or good at cooking or grew up on a farm or any

1:21.7

of those things before you were, say, you know, 30 years old.

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