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It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. This month we're doing something really special. We are ringing in 25 years of Bullseye being on the air. Twenty-five years, we started as a college

radio show on KZSC in Santa Cruz, California, the heavyweight 88.

Every morning, just as the sun was rising, my co-hosts and I would trudge through the woods to the station to make jokes, do interviews, and raffle off tickets to local flamenco shows.

And this week, we return from whence we came.

That's right, we're back in Santa Cruz. This week's bullseye

was recorded live at the Cumbua Jazz Center on Cedar Street. What does that mean? Well,

you are going to hear interviews with Glenn Washington from Snap Judgment, Boots Riley of the coup

and the filmmaker behind Sorry to Bother You, Adam Scott from Severanceance and music from Santa Cruz surf legends,

The Merman. But first, we will kick things off with some stand-up comedy from Scott Simpson.

Scott runs and hosts the stand-up show cheaper than therapy, which is the most popular

independent comedy show in San Francisco. That's where he's based. He also co-created

the legendary comedy podcast. You look nice today, which they called a Journal of Emotional

Hygiene. And he's a good pal of mine. You're about to hear. Very, very funny.

Thank you so much.

One more time for Jesse Thorne.

What a... I can't believe he's been doing the show

for over 25 years, and he's been 35 the whole time.

I'm not 35. I just turned 51 years old.

Okay, thank you. I'll take that micro-woo. That feels okay.

I feel great about it. I love middle age. I love, don't, we love it being middle-aged.

We remember the 80s and the 90s. You remember, you remember the 90s? The 90s were

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