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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Fab 5 Freddy

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Fab 5 Freddy stops by to talk with us about his new memoir: Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture. Freddy, who was the original host of Yo! MTV Raps, takes us on a journey through hip-hop, from his early years attending DJ parties in the Bronx to tagging subway trains. He also chats with us about his friendship with Andy Warhol and much more.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, Jesse here. We got a great interview with Fab Five Freddie coming up. But before we do that,

0:05.8

I have something cool that I want to talk to you about. So basically, I need your help. This is the deal.

0:11.1

The Max Fund Drive is around the corner of the 2026 Max Fund Drive. And the staff of Bullseye came up with

0:19.1

this idea, which is, we are used to Bullseye being me interviewing famous people in a studio.

0:25.6

But what if we sent me out into the world to interview not famous people?

0:31.3

And to spice it up a little bit, they were like, what if we sent Jesse into the world to interview not famous people at a ridiculous event? So we looked at what ridiculous events are going on in

0:43.0

Southern California between now and the Max Fund Drive. And we came up with three choices that will

0:47.4

let us, you know, bring a microphone and stuff. And you get to decide which of those three

0:52.9

you send me to. These are your choices. The Renaissance

0:57.3

Fair, a Lego convention, or the paper and stationary trade show. Honestly, all three of them

1:07.4

sound like a lot of fun to me, but also a little weird and embarrassing.

1:11.9

So the Renaissance Fair, Lego Convention, paper and stationary trade show.

1:17.7

Those are your three choices.

1:18.8

We need you to vote because we need to know which one you want me to have to go to.

1:23.4

Go to bit.ly slash send Jesse to all lowercase. So that's bit. That's bit.ly slash send jesse to all lowercase so that's bit dot ly slash send d jesseto and vote there uh we will also

1:37.4

have links on the bull's eye pages on instagram and tic talk um so you can find them there they'll be

1:42.8

in the show description, whatever.

1:49.2

And cast the vote now because some of these things are like right around the corner. So bit.ly slash send Jesse to make a vote. Send me packing.

1:57.7

Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.

2:04.1

It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.

2:19.8

So a quick preface before we get into my next interview.

2:23.2

A preface that is about hip-hop.

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