Another Period & The Egyptian Lover

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard of Another Period? It's a series on Comedy Central with a brilliant, simple premise: it's a reality show set in the gilded age - like the Keeping up with the Kardashians meets Downton Abbey. It's really fun to watch - over the top, subversive, weird and chock full of absinthe references! Its stars and co-creators are Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome and they talk with Jesse about the show, which is entering its third season this week. Then, the one and only Egyptian Lover. Born Greg Broussard he's a DJ, a producer, a rapper sometimes, too. He came up with Uncle Jamm's Army, a hip-hop crew that featured promoter and DJ Rodger Clayton, Ice - T, and shared the bill with acts as big as Run-DMC back in the day. As a solo artist he's released 9 albums, mixing Kraftwerk, Prince, a little bit of G-Funk every now and then, too. He's about to kick off on a world tour with dates in Berlin, Cape Town and Long Beach. He talks with Jesse about the early days of LA hip hop and electro, what a 10,000 person dance party looks like and how he bonded with his future wife over a Kraftwerk record. The ultimate meet cute!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.0	I'm Jesse Thorn. We're supposed to feel kind of bad for watching reality TV, especially
0:18.4	those shows where super duper rich people get into year-long grudge fights over fancy
0:24.3	cakes or pink dog food. Reality TV isn't rich in intrigue and allegory, like Game of Thrones
0:31.8	or Downton Naby, and it isn't subversive and brilliant like Veeper, the good place. It's
0:37.6	dumb, and the people in it do dumb stuff sometimes. Ricky Lindholm, the comedian and singer-songwriter
0:45.2	watches a lot of reality TV. Partly because it's her job, she stars alongside Natasha
0:52.2	Legero on a sort of fake reality show that's set in the gilded age, another period. But
0:58.4	also Ricky likes it pretty much because it's dumb and she doesn't feel bad about it either.
1:04.4	It's almost because the people on it are rich and they have everything and they're just
1:08.3	on there to be famous. I don't feel like they're getting exploited. They're not un-American
1:11.5	idol, they're not being humiliated, there's no contests. They're like, they have, they're
1:15.6	millionaires and they have all this agency and they can say whatever they want and they
1:18.2	still choose to do this. And so I'm like, well, then it's your fault that you're on a
1:21.9	yacht grabbing this woman's hair. It's bullseye.
1:33.1	Coming up, Ricky and Natasha talk about creating and starring on another period. A show
1:38.3	about some of the most wealthy and unlikable people in late 19th century and early 20th century
1:45.6	New England. Two roles that they love playing, by the way.
1:48.6	We're both 100% ignorant. We always try to figure out who's the worst person on the
1:54.6	show. I think it might be my husband. Because at least I like my dog.
2:00.3	Then get ready for one of the founding fathers of L.A. Hip Hop, the Egyptian lover, DJ, producer,
2:07.8	dancer, plus, you know, the man's got bars.
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