Jello Biafra Live in SF

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2009

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Jello Biafra is a legendary free speech advocate and punk rock vocalist. We talked with him at our live show in San Francisco.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael from Orange County, California. The Sound of Young America has an independent
0:03.8	production, supported by listeners like you and me. If you'd like to donate to support
0:07.5	the show, visit MaximumFun.org and click Donate. Thank you.
0:11.4	Live on tape from my house in Los Angeles. I'm Jesse Thorn and this is the Sound of
0:15.8	Young America from MaximumFun.org.
0:18.7	This week on the Sound of Young America podcast, selections from our program recorded live
0:43.8	on stage at San Francisco Sketchfest. The Sketchfest was kind enough to host us for a second
0:49.2	time and it was a pleasure, as always, to appear there. We had a great house at Cobbs Comedy
0:55.3	Club in San Francisco with some amazing guests. Let's get down to this stage and my interview
1:00.7	with Jell-O-B off-ra.
1:02.3	My next guest on the program is not only a punk rock legend, but also a Bay Area legend.
1:10.1	He's the founder of Alternative Tentacles Records, was the front man of the Seminole
1:16.1	punk rock group, The Dead Kennedys. For many years, he's been a lecturer and speaker on
1:22.4	free speech issues among many others. Please welcome to the stage Mr. Jell-O-B off-ra.
1:39.2	This is a San Francisco show. Obviously, we're here in San Francisco.
1:44.1	You thought it was about farming. Hey, one of my grandfathers is from Iowa. You are, he
1:52.0	left the farm and went to college. You're not a native Californian, so why did you come
1:59.8	to California? What was it that you wanted?
2:01.9	I didn't want to be a farmer.
2:05.6	How old were you when you decided that you were getting out of town? Was there a point
2:11.0	when you said, um, I think it was about 11. Although we went on a family car trip and
2:16.7	between bickering with my parents and my sister, I got to see San Francisco for the first
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