Boz Scaggs and Maeve Higgins

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week: Boz Scaggs. The one and only! The hitmaker behind "Lido Shuffle" and "Lowdown" and so much more talks with Jesse about his more than five decade career in music. Lately, like a lot of rockers his age, his work has steered more towards the basics: some blues, some covers here and there, lots of stripped down instrumentation. But behind all that has been a commitment to atmosphere and production - music with an aesthetic that's dark and unsettling in one moment, then in another tender and loving. You know, the kind of thing that makes Boz Scaggs... Boz Scaggs. It's all on his latest record - "Out of the Blues" - which is out now. Then, Maeve Higgins. She's a comic, a podcast host and a memoirist, very well known back home in Ireland. She moved to the New York City in her early 30s. And, yes, like a lot of comics, she worked her observations about America and New York into her set. But she probed deeper. She thought about what lead her to make the move. What it says about her. What it's like being in this strange, amazing city thousands of miles away from home.

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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.
0:14.1	Mave Hagen's is a comic and writer and a really great one.
0:17.8	You'll hear more about that in a little bit, but first a story from her.
0:21.0	She's from Ireland.
0:22.2	She moved out to New York about five years ago.
0:24.7	One night she was hanging out at a friend's house.
0:27.1	I was at one of these parties that I'm sure you're familiar with, which is a kids' party,
0:32.2	but all the adults go to and it kind of blends into the evening time and people are drinking
0:37.4	and the kids are all playing.
0:39.7	I got chatting to this one guy and he said to me, with the first minute of meeting him,
0:45.1	you know what people don't tell you is you're not always going to like your kids.
0:49.3	Sometimes you're not going to like your kids.
0:51.5	And I was like, whoa, because I just asked like, was he online for the bouncy castle?
0:56.8	It's Bullseye.
0:57.8	Coming up, Mave Hagen's.
1:06.7	She'll talk about moving to the United States.
1:08.8	How it impacted her act, her personal life and more.
1:12.1	Plus, she's no she hosts a podcast with a former president of Ireland.
1:17.9	She's hugely into climate justice and she's so passionate about it and really wants to
1:23.0	spread the word.
1:24.6	So I think in ancient age she was like, I need to make a film about this and then people
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