Guy Branum & Emily Lordi

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

A favorite from the Bullseye archives this week. First up: Comedian, writer, and podcast host Guy Branum recently wrote a book called "My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture." It's a collection of personal essays. Kind of a combination of memoir and manifesto that covers his childhood, college, his early days as comic. It's also got his opinions on football movies, politics, and which city has the hottest guys (It's Los Angeles, btw). We're revisiting our conversation with Guy from last year where he sat down with Jesse to discuss his truTV series Talk Show The Game Show. Then, academic and writer Emily Lordi, author of the 33 ⅓ book Donny Hathaway's Live tells us why she thinks the classic Hathaway live performance deserves to be added to the canon of all time great albums. Then, Jesse tells us about why he loves the Errol Morris ESPN documentaries: It's Not Crazy, It's Sports.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.8	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:15.9	Here's some career advice for you.
0:17.3	I'm not going to charge.
0:19.0	You're going to have dumb ideas, no matter what you do.
0:21.8	When you do, you're probably going to hear a voice telling you that the idea is so dumb
0:25.5	you should definitely not do it.
0:28.2	Anyway, here's my two cents.
0:29.8	If you love your dumb idea enough, ignore that voice.
0:34.8	Do the stupid idea.
0:37.4	Guy Brandham, the comedian and host of the podcast, Pop Rocket has his own TV show.
0:42.8	It's called Talk Show, The Game Show.
0:45.2	And when the show first started, he went through that exact same kind of doubt.
0:49.4	He had a great guest lined up, Moby, the electronic musician.
0:53.4	He wanted to take Moby hunting.
0:55.7	And since Moby is an outspoken vegan, why not make him hunt tofu?
1:01.2	My executive producer was essentially like, Guy, I don't know about this.
1:05.5	Maybe we should just do some music trivia thing with him.
1:08.2	We're putting an entire segment on Moby's comedy skills.
1:11.4	Do you really think we should?
1:13.5	And I was like, but we put so much effort into it.
1:17.0	We hung satan and tempeh and bushes.
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