Halloween Special with Elvira, Andy Daly & more!

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Good October to you, boys and ghouls! It's a very special Halloween Spooktacular edition of Bullseye! First we have Cassandra Peterson, the woman behind Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She'll talk with Jesse about where her iconic character came from, her childhood growing up in the midwest and what it's like to have a pinball game bearing your likeness. Then, a very special visit from comedian Andy Daly (Review, Reno 911, Silicon Valley), with the song that changed his life: the Monster Mash. Plus spooky and ooky movie recommendations from the team at Maximum Fun's Who Shot Ya podcast, and Jesse recommends a Halloween song that's so good... it'll give you chills! Mwahahahaha!

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0:00.0	In 2014, we all heard this.
0:01.9	The United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba.
0:05.6	But Cubans heard something else.
0:07.0	A closing door, an end to their special status, and the race was on.
0:12.7	How a 90 mile journey by sea became a 3000 mile trip by land.
0:16.2	Find Radean Wulente on the NPR-1 app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:21.4	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:31.0	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:33.1	Elvira, mistress of the dark.
0:36.3	It's one of those characters that I mean, you hear the word iconic all the time,
0:42.3	but she literally is an icon of Halloween.
0:46.4	I mean, she is like pumpkins or fake cobwebs or candy corn.
0:52.4	Part of that is her personality.
0:54.2	Cassandra Peterson, the woman who plays Elvira, is funny.
0:57.8	She's weird.
0:58.5	She's got great timing, but also it's that look.
1:02.2	The low cut black dress, the crazy nails, the wig, how'd she throw it together?
1:07.2	Well, basically she and a friend of hers, an artist named Robert Redding,
1:11.7	got a bunch of black fabric, some safety pins.
1:14.8	They kind of put together an 80s golf look.
1:17.9	And then when it came to the hair, well, Robert had her covered.
1:22.0	And then he happened to be the world's biggest fan of Ronnie Specter from the Ronettes.
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