Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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.)

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On the latest episode, R&B singer SiR joins us to talk about his new record Heavy, growing up in Inglewood and his musical family. Plus, he gets vulnerable and frank about his path to sobriety.

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Actor and comedian Jenny Slate has starred in films like Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Obvious Child and Everything Everywhere All at Once. She just released her second comedy special, Jenny Slate: Seasoned Professional , and joins us to talk all about it. The MaxFunDrive is still going strong – right now is the best time to support Bullseye and the Max Fun podcasts you love by starting a monthly membership or upgrading your existing one! Learn more at https://maximumfun.org/join.

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There aren’t many actors who can straddle the worlds of high art and blockbusters as deftly as John Malkovich. His latest project is The New Look, a TV show on Apple TV +. The series takes place in Nazi-occupied France and tells the story of how France’s fashion industry navigated a terrifying, inhuman reality. John Malkovich joins us to chat about The New Look and his love of fashion. He also talks to us about his upbringing and early years as a performer. Plus, we also get into one of our most favorite scenes of his from the film Burn After Reading.

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Peter Dinklage joins us on the latest episode to talk about his new film American Dreamer and working alongside Shirley MacLaine. We also get into Game of Thrones and his time breaking into the industry. Plus, he talks about his time as a singer in a pop-punk band and getting a scar at the legendary venue CBGB’s!

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Kali Reis is one of the greatest boxers in the world. She currently has a record of 19-7-1 and has two championships in two weight classes. Recently, she’s made a pivot from boxing to acting. She first starred in the indie film Catch the Fair One, and her latest role is in HBO’s True Detective: Night Country . Kali Reis joins the show to talk about the new season of True Detective, what it’s been like to break into acting and more.

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Bill Bradley has lived many lives. He’s a two-time NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist, and former U.S. Senator. He recounts all of this and more in his one-man show, Rolling Along: An American Story. Bill joins Bullseye to talk about his theatrical performance, his 2000 run for President of the United States, and so much more.

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Musician Laura Jane Grace fronts the punk band Against Me. On the latest , episode Jordan Morris chats with Laura about her early days playing shows in laundromats, her love of Guns N’ Roses, and what it’s like to record an album while in quarantine. Laura Jane Grace’s latest album Hole in my Head is out now and available on her Bandcamp. Jordan Morris co-hosts a new podcast with Emily Fleming on Maximum Fun called Free with Ads. A version of this interview originally aired in November of 2020.

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Bob Edwards died last month. He was 76. A radio legend and a pioneer of public radio, Edwards was the original host of Morning Edition when the program launched in 1979 – a position he held for nearly 25 years. In that time he won a Peabody award and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.

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Corb Lund is a country and western musician from Alberta, Canada. He’s been recording music since the nineties and just released a new record called El Viejo. Like his earlier work, it’s clever, plain spoken and beautifully produced.When Jesse first talked to Lund, back in 2010, it was at a folk festival up in Calgary – his hometown. Now, he joins us in the studio with his guitar to talk about the new album and play a few songs.

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