What is the point of a two-minute podcast? Seriously, it shouldn’t take me longer to find the podcast than it does to listen to it. Sorry, Grammar girl, you’re gonna need about 22 additional minutes of your dirty tricks to get past my playlist bouncer and into the cool kids club.
In a desperate search for some storytelling/interviewing that was of a suitable length and ranked high on the entertainment factor, I came across The Sound of Young America. Well hey, I’m young (comparatively), American, and I have ears. Sweet! Turns out, not only are the interviews as long as your average sitcom, but they actually book genuinely cool people who talk about their craft and their career trajectory in really interesting ways. The Jeffrey Tambor interview in particular was quite good and spawned a Hulu.com-hosted Arrested Development marathon at casa de Fisher.
Jeffrey Tambor is a veteran actor best known for his role as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show and as the patriarch of the Bluth family on Arrested Development.
Mp3 download available via iTunes or The Sound of Young America.
In related news, season one of The Larry Sanders show is available via Netflix. It’s old, but not a bad way to relive the 90s, if for no other reason than to appreciate how much better the picture quality is today. It’s also fascinating to see how much the show influenced the more groundbreaking stuff that’s on now (Curb Your Enthusiasm, anyone?).