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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Daniel Handler, The Sklar Brothers, Nico Muhly, Mark Frauenfelder

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 β€’ 2.6K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 14 February 2012

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Handler delves into his memories of young love to pen the novel "Why We Broke Up" β€” the twist? He writes the girl's side of the story. The Sklar Brothers talk about their new comedy album – from performing as identical twins to broadening their sports-nerd base. Plus Jesse suggests the Canadian TV show The Newsoom, Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing brings his recommendations and American composer Nico Muhly shares the song that changed his life.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Jay from San Diego. I'm Chase from Seattle. I'm Jamie from New York City

0:05.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me

0:09.6

You should support the show like I did. It's easy. Just visit maximumfund.org

0:14.4

slash donate. I'm Jesse Thorne

0:17.4

There's something really to be said and I say this as someone who fell into this category for being a

0:25.5

Sissy hetero sexual in high school. It can really work out for you

0:31.4

Well, I mean, I think your your scene is non-threatening by females and

0:37.5

As long as you're in an environment where you're not seen as threatening by males you can really you can really thrive

0:43.6

It depends on your ability to sort of make the pivot so to speak

0:48.8

You mean the pivot from friendship to romance? Yeah, well, you just got a pounce

0:56.5

You know, and then you know, you can't pounce so much that you get a reputation as a pouncer

1:04.2

You just got a pounce enough me and Daniel Handler Romantics at Hard this week on Bullseye

1:17.2

On this week's show Daniel Handler delves into his memories of young love to pen the novel why we broke up

1:23.6

The twist he writes from the girl's perspective and the squad brothers talk about their new comedy album from

1:30.0

Performing as identical twins to broadening their sports nerd fan base

1:34.6

Plus I suggest the Canadian sitcom the newsroom and composer Niko Mulee shares the song that changed his life stick around for Bullseye. Let's go

1:44.4

Every week on Bullseye. We like to start things off with a couple of picks from some of our favorite culture critics and this week

1:57.6

I am joined by Mark Fraunfelder the founder and editor of

2:02.4

Boeing Boeing dot net. Hey mark. How are you doing great? How are you doing Jesse? I am doing fantastic. Well, let's start with this

2:11.3

Online game called depict

2:15.6

It tell me a little bit about what depict is

2:18.4

All right, it's a game that you play on your your iPhone or iPad and it's like

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