Beth Ditto & Ernest Dickerson

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Hey y'all! This week, we have Beth Ditto joining us. The former lead singer with Gossip, talks about growing up gay and punk rock in Searcy, Arkansas, and paying a dollar for her first kiss with a girl in a lesbian kissing booth called Homo-A-Gogo in Olympia Washington. Plus, Ernest Dickerson, who directed Juice, maybe Tupac's best film, and also was director of photography on all of Spike Lee's movies up through Malcolm X. Finally, we're here to say it because it's true: Car Talk was the best public radio show ever. Don't @ us.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, Sam Sanders here.
0:02.5	These days I feel like I can't make sense of the news until I've talked it out with my
0:05.9	friends.
0:06.9	So I made a new show where we do that every week.
0:10.1	It's called It's Been A Minute.
0:12.8	That's my way of saying let's catch up.
0:15.0	Find It's Been A Minute Now on the NPR One app or wherever you get your podcast.
0:20.1	Thanks.
0:30.2	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:41.4	It's Bullseye.
0:42.4	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:43.6	You know this singer Beth Ditto, right?
0:46.2	She used to front the band The Gossip.
0:48.4	Also called Gossip.
0:49.4	She's got a new solo album out.
0:52.2	She lives in Portland right now.
0:54.3	She grew up in Cersei, Arkansas.
0:56.9	Pretty small town.
0:57.9	It's about an hour outside Little Rock.
1:00.3	There was no MTV, just a handful of punk rock shows.
1:04.9	After high school, she did the thing a lot of punk kids do.
1:07.5	She packed everything up and moved to a cooler, bigger city.
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