Bullseye With Jesse Thorn
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Sinopse
Bullseye from NPR is your curated guide to culture. Jesse Thorn hosts in-depth interviews with brilliant creators, culture picks from our favorite critics and irreverent original comedy. Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney's, which called it "the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world." (Formerly known as The Sound of Young America.)
Episódios
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The Bullseye Holiday Special with Jennifer Hudson, Judy Greer and more!
10/12/2024 Duração: 01h27minWe're celebrating the holidays this week in a big, exciting way. It's the Bullseye Holiday Special! We've got Jennifer Hudson, Judy Greer, Zach Cherry, Tower of Power and Jesse's mom! So much holiday cheer it'll make you flip out.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Rachel Bloom
06/12/2024 Duração: 41minRachel Bloom is a comedian and songwriter. She created and starred in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. The spring of 2020 was a tough time for a lot of us. It took Bloom a few years to process all that, and now we have the result: Death, Let Me Do My Special on Netflix. Bloom joins us to talk about her special. We get into what it was like to see the world grieve the loss of his writing partner, Adam Schlesingler, so publicly. Plus, we talk about Bobi, a dog who lived to be over thirty years old!Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Ken Burns
03/12/2024 Duração: 37minKen Burns is one of the greatest documentary filmmakers of all time. He's dedicated much of his life to covering the story of America through his works: The Civil War, Country Music, Jackie Robinson, just to name a few. His recent work ventures outside of The United States to record one of the greatest minds in history: Leonardo da Vinci. Ken Burns comes to Bullseye to discuss the renaissance man, quilts, and so much more.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Tom Hanks
26/11/2024 Duração: 58minCome to the table and join us, as we celebrate "Hanksgiving." That's right, our guest this week is Tom Hanks! He joins the show to talk about the limits of charm, shares driving etiquette tips and his shift from comedy acting to working in drama.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Why MF Doom's 'Operation: Doomsday' is one of the greatest albums of all time
22/11/2024 Duração: 16minCanonball is a segment that takes a closer look at albums that should be considered classics. This time, MC Skiz Fernando joins Bullseye to discuss the game changing album Operation: Doomsday by MF Doom. Skiz just released a book that records the life and death of the hip-hop legend. It's called The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast. Skiz stops by to key us into the classic album, including songs like: "Tick Tick" and "Rhymes Like Dimes."Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Paul Williams
19/11/2024 Duração: 49minPaul Williams has lived an extraordinary life. He's a songwriter who's written songs performed by Three Dog Night, Tiny Tim, The Carpenters, and David Bowie. On the latest episode of Bullseye we get into it all: Falling out of airplanes. Dressing as an Orangutan from Planet of the Apes on Carson. The simple genius of Kermit the Frog's Rainbow Connection, which was surprisingly complicated to write.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Tavi Gevinson
15/11/2024 Duração: 31minTavi Gevinson is a very talented actor and writer. She was just fifteen years old when she founded the fashion magazine Rookie, a smash success that is still beloved today. She returns to the show to talk about some of her new projects, what impacts social media has had on her career and how she dealt with the pressure of being called a wunderkind.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Connie Chung
12/11/2024 Duração: 45minConnie Chung is a TV legend. She is an Emmy-winning newscaster and interviewer, and the first Asian American to host a major network news show. She chronicles her life and career in her new book Connie: A Memoir. Connie joins Bullseye to talk all about her memoir, what she misses the most about reporting the news, and the wonder of the modern standing desk.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Food writer and chef J. Kenji López-Alt
08/11/2024 Duração: 26minJ. Kenji López-Alt is a food writer and chef. He wrote the books The Food Lab and The Wok: Recipes and Techniques. The holidays are coming up – if you're looking for some new recipes to try, some of our favorites at Bullseye include López-Alt's roasted potatoes, chocolate chip cookies and standing prime rib. Making your own mayonnaise the López-Alt way only takes two minutes! A version of this interview originally aired in March of 2022. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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"Weird Al" Yankovic
05/11/2024 Duração: 43min"Weird Al" Yankovic is the undisputed king of parody music. He's been recording music for over four decades and sold millions of records. Al just turned sixty-five, and we're celebrating with a look back at our conversation with the music icon!Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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James Adomian
01/11/2024 Duração: 37minJames Adomian is a comedian with a foot in two worlds. He's a stand-up comedian and impressionist who's performed on the Late Late Show, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel Live and many more. He's got a brand new stand-up special out now called James Adomian: Path of Most Resistance. He joins us to talk about the new special and even does a few impressions.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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DeMar DeRozan
29/10/2024 Duração: 44minDeMar DeRozan is a basketball player for the Sacramento Kings. He's a six time NBA All-Star and an Olympic gold medalist. DeRozan just released a memoir: Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm. He joins us to talk about some tough subjects covered in the book like his struggle with depression. He also gets into what it was like to be named dropped in one of the hottest songs of summer – Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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The Bullseye Halloween Spooktacular: R.L. Stine, Andy Daly, and Elvira
22/10/2024 Duração: 01h25minGood gourd! It's a very special Halloween Spooktacular edition of Bullseye, where we're revisiting some of our best Halloween interviews. First up: R.L. Stine, creator of the Goosebumps series. Then, a very special visit from comedian Andy Daly with the song that changed his life: The Monster Mash! Finally, the "damned" finale: Cassandra Peterson, the woman behind Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Music producer Nicolay on the Prince song that changed his life
18/10/2024 Duração: 18minNicolay of the Foreign Exchange joins us to talk about the song that changed his life. A Prince track that, honestly, we were very surprised hadn't been picked yet.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Rapper MAVI on his latest album 'Shadowbox'
15/10/2024 Duração: 51minMAVI is a rapper from Charlotte, North Carolina. In recent years, he's become one to watch. On his latest album Shadowbox his flow teems with self doubt and anxiety. The melodies and samples linger long after the record's finished. MAVI joins us on the latest episode of Bullseye to discuss the record. The themes in his albums are often filled with pain and loneliness, so get into how he's been doing lately to handle those feelings.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Jordan Morris
11/10/2024 Duração: 41minJordan Morris is a comedy writer, podcast host, and author. His new graphic novel Youth Group follows a teen who apprehensively joins a Christian youth group and comes to find that demons are real! Fear not, as the youth group is intent on exorcising the demons from whence they came. We get into Jordan's graphic novel and so much more on Bullseye.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Barry Sonnenfeld
08/10/2024 Duração: 39minWhat do the films Men in Black, The Addams Family and Raising Arizona all have in common? They were all shot by cinematographer and director Barry Sonnenfeld. He's responsible for filming and directing some of the biggest movies from the 20th century. He joins us to talk about his new memoir and reflect on his many years in show business.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Remembering Sérgio Mendes
04/10/2024 Duração: 23minSérgio Mendes died last month. He was 83 and had been dealing with long COVID for several months. His band Brasil '66 was at the forefront of a bossa nova explosion that introduced the genre to listeners across the world. When Mendes joined us nearly a decade ago, he talked about how his music evolved over the years and he got into the show at Carnegie Hall that changed music history forever.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Herb Alpert
01/10/2024 Duração: 36minHerb Alpert is most famous for the music he created with his band, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass. His career as a musician and producer has spanned over six decades, breaking ground on artists like The Police and Janet Jackson. In the nine years since Herb was last on Bullseye, he's dropped nine more records. We revisit our conversation with the music legend in honor of the recent release of his 50th studio album, 50.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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André 3000
24/09/2024 Duração: 51minAndré 3000 is one of the greatest rappers to ever grace a microphone. He is, of course, one half of the Grammy winning rap group Outkast. Between the years of 1995 and 2006, he and his partner Big Boi released some of the most iconic rap records of all time. Late last year André released an album called New Blue Sun. It's an ambient spiritual jazz record where André plays the flute. He just kicked off a Fall tour in support of the album. We are beyond thrilled to have André 3000 join us on the show to talk about his recent album. He also gets into where he currently stands on rapping. Plus, he shares with us what his time working in the fashion world was like.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy