Ani DiFranco & Game of Thrones' Aidan Gillen

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week Jesse talks with the great singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco about her new album Binary, and how it's changed her writing process. What you might not know is that she also jammed with Prince. Also, a conversation with actor Aidan Gillen, who you might know as Littlefinger on Game of Thrones and Tommy Carcetti on The Wire. He plays a lot of ambitious, sometimes cagey characters. Finally, Jesse recommends a classic Randy Newman song that reveals the empty promises of fame and adulation.

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0:00.0	Gregory Warner here to tell you about NPR's new international podcast called Rough Translation.
0:06.8	Each week we're going to take you to a different country to hear a story that reflects back
0:09.9	on something that we are talking about here in the United States.
0:13.4	Maybe get a perspective shift.
0:15.5	Travel with us.
0:16.8	Rough translation is on NPR1 or wherever you get your podcast.
0:20.3	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:34.8	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:41.3	Oni DeFranco is a great songwriter.
0:44.0	She runs her own label.
0:45.4	She's fiercely political to you.
0:46.8	You probably knew all of those things about her.
0:48.8	But guess what?
0:50.1	She's also jammed with prints.
0:52.1	Like more than once, she was buddies with prints.
0:55.4	She'll never forget the first time she met him.
0:57.2	I showed up in Minneapolis one summer and I had the wonderful Macio Parker on tour with
1:02.8	me and we were doing shows out and we were playing out in a ball park in Minneapolis
1:09.2	and up drove this white limo.
1:11.8	And there was a tizzy backstage and everybody was like, honey, honey, come now, come now.
1:16.9	And I go over in the window.
1:20.3	And there he is.
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