Corin Tucker & Tom Arnold

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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[r] Jesse sits down with guitarist and singer Corin Tucker to talk about Sleater-Kinney, anxiety dreams, and having to work a second job while on tour. He'll also talk to to the veteran comic and actor Tom Arnold. Arnold will tell Thorn about working with Roseanne Barr, and how he's coped with the ups and downs of his career.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.4	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.1	Corn Tucker's in Slater Kinney.
0:16.6	There may be the most influential rock band in the last 20 years or so.
0:20.2	Definitely Top 10.
0:22.2	Being in a band is important to Corn.
0:24.9	There always has been.
0:26.5	She started her first band when she was a teenager.
0:29.3	I actually started telling people that I was in a band before I had written a single song.
0:36.3	Like a band at another high school?
0:38.8	No, in Olympia.
0:40.8	I was like, everyone in Olympia was like, well, my band is playing the show.
0:45.4	And I was like, yeah, I'm going to start a band too.
0:47.8	We're going to be called Heavens to Betsy and we're going to be great.
0:51.2	And then my bluff was totally called because the International Pop Underground Convention
0:57.3	was happening in Olympia.
0:59.2	And my friend Michelle Noel was like, well, we're going to organize a girl night.
1:03.8	And she called me at my parents' house and was like, we want you to play a girl night.
1:09.8	I was like, okay, I'll be there.
1:12.2	You feel like not having written a single piece of music.
1:15.8	So no music, no band, no bandmates.
1:20.2	She was about to go up on stage in front of her idol.
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