Set Lusting Bruce: The Bruce Springsteen Fan Podcast
🎙️ Set Lusting Bruce is more than a podcast—it's a celebration of connection through the music of Bruce Springsteen. Hosted by longtime contact center leader and community builder Jesse Jackson, each episode invites fans from all walks of life to share their personal stories, favorite lyrics, and the moments where Bruce’s music met them right where they were.
Whether you're a die-hard E Street devotee or someone who just discovered Thunder Road, this show is your backstage pass to heartfelt conversations, unexpected insights, and the kind of camaraderie only music can spark. From tales of redemption and resilience to laughter over setlist debates, Set Lusting Bruce is where fandom becomes family.
Because as Bruce once sang, “We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school.”
Proud Member of the Pantheon Podcast Network.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 1460
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Episode 97 SpringNuts Seaside Serenade recap - Set Lusting Bruce
There was a party happening in the Wonderbar on Sunday 5/21 where over 200 hundred Spring-Nuts got together from across the world to share some laughter, some tears, a lot of music and many, many hug…
00:48:44 |
Tue 30 May 2017
Episode 96 Favorite Live Moments - Set Lusting Bruce
On this week’s episode, Jesse shares his top live Bruce Springsteen moments and reads listeners lists as well. Hope you enjoy our thoughts and hope they bring back happy memories of you seeing Bruce…
01:22:02 |
Wed 24 May 2017
Cage Match Episode 3
As we continue to celebrate Born to Run Album week with a 2nd Jackson Cage Match episode. Today Jesse is joined by Dale Hosak and they go right to the top. They skip the many weeks of matches and g…
00:43:00 |
Fri 19 May 2017
Cage Match Episode 2
This week is the Born to Run Album Jackson Cage Match episodes. In today’s episode Jesse is joined by John Kelly from the Facebook page BruceBook and they debate Backstreets and Jungleland. They de…
00:56:17 |
Tue 16 May 2017
Episode 95 Josh Kris - Set Lusting Bruce
On this week’s episode of Set Lusting Bruce, Jesse is joined by Josh Reinitz & Kris DeBlasio. They talk their long time friendship, their Springsteen story and how Kris puts a little Bruce into his …
01:07:10 |
Tue 09 May 2017
Cage Match Episode 1
Two songs enter, one one song leaves, Bella joins Jesse in a special Seeger themed song cage off. They discuss This Land is your Land and We shall Overcome. We come to a consensus, did we get it ri…
00:46:36 |
Thu 04 May 2017
Episode 94 Craig Pony Boy Return - Set Lusting Bruce
As a small way to express his thanks for all the love and support given to Jesse when he was in the hospital and to celebrate a new month, we will be putting out a few episodes of Set Lusting Bruce t…
00:48:14 |
Tue 02 May 2017
Bonus Episode - BruceBook 2017 Convention
In September there is a party going down in Asbury Park New Jersey and you do need a ticket but we want you to come on board! John J. Kelly joins Jesse today to talk about the Official 2017 Bruceboo…
00:36:15 |
Mon 01 May 2017
B Side 15 Niki Sarah
This week on Set Lusting Bruce, Jesse is visited by a friend from the past. Niki aka Sarah Johns went to High School with Jesse and they spend some time talking about AM and Top 40 radio back in the…
00:30:32 |
Tue 25 Apr 2017
Episode 93 Jeff Calaway
As Jesse is going through his chemo treatments, he’s finding more time to record Set Lusting Bruce episodes. In this week’s episode he’s joined by Jeff Calaway who also lives in the DFW area. They …
01:13:41 |
Wed 19 Apr 2017
Bonus Episode - MaryThunder Road
With all that is going on, I thought we could use a good laugh. Ross Murray wrote a great column giving Mary’s version of the song Thunder Road. It made me laugh and I couldn’t resist mashing the s…
00:11:05 |
Fri 14 Apr 2017
WTC Hungry Heart Cookbook
One of Bruce’s passions is raising money for food banks across the country.  He’s also a big supporter of WhyHunger the charity 4 founded in 1975 by the late musician Harry Chapin and Radio DJ Bill …
00:24:49 |
Thu 13 Apr 2017
Episode 92 Peter Blogness Poll Results
After an unplanned hospital stay, Jesse is back talking Bruce Springsteen & all that implies.  In this week's episode he is joined by Peter Chianca from Blogness on the Edge of Town discussing the bl…
00:57:09 |
Tue 11 Apr 2017
Episode 91 Donna Bruce Funds 2017 update
As many of you may have read, Jesse has been diagnosed with Colon Cancer. His diagnosis is positive and he appreciates all the love and support. This episode was recorded the week before he found ou…
01:10:09 |
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Jesse Health Update 1
As you may have seen on social media, Jesse is having a little health bump in his life and wanted to send out a quick note to the listeners saying thanks for their love, well wishes and prayers. No …
00:10:40 |
Thu 16 Mar 2017
Michael Telesca part 2
In the latest episode of Set Lusting Bruce, Jesse is joined by Michael for a 2nd visit. This time the stories are less about the Springsteen middle school club but more about Michael’s personal Sprin…
01:09:54 |
Wed 15 Mar 2017
Jessica Bloom - Astrophysicist - Best Selfie Ever!
In this week’s episode Jesse talks to Astrophysicist grad student Jessica who just might have taken the greatest Bruce Springsteen selfie ever! Hope you enjoy her story of seeing her first Springstee…
00:50:08 |
Thu 09 Mar 2017
Steven “checked shirt guy” Strauss
In this week’s episode Jesse is joined by Steven “checked shirt guy” Strauss. He shares his Springsteen story. His Bruce journey started on an actual journey with his Father being forced to go to a S…
01:03:06 |
Tue 21 Feb 2017
Episode 87 Bruce Love Songs with Jay
Love is in the air on a special Valentine’s Day episode of the podcast. Jesse is joined by frequent guest Jay Armstrong discussing their 5 favorite Bruce love songs. As usual, Jay outshines Jesse i…
01:19:00 |
Tue 14 Feb 2017
Michael Telesca part 1
This week Jesse is joined by Michael Anthony a passionate Bruce fan who loves music and has an unofficial record that is pretty impressive. He’s also been the student advisor of several Bruce Springs…
01:24:07 |
Tue 07 Feb 2017
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