John C. Reilly & Shamir

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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[r] Jesse Thorn talks with John C. Reilly about Reilly's open-hearted and blustery comic creation, Dr. Steve Brule. Reilly shares stories from the summer of fun he had working on the movie Boogie Nights, and outlines the duties of an actor. Check it Out with Dr Steve Brule is currently airing on Adult Swim. Reilly's new movie The Lobster is in theatres now. Later, Las Vegas born singer-songwriter Shamir joins us to explain how he constructed a remarkable creative identity in a city known for producing more entertainers than artist; how his love for country music inspired him, and how his mother's proclivity for earth magic isn't quite his thing. Shamir's latest album is called Ratchet. Plus Jesse recommends Steven Soderbergh's The Limey, a revenge movie that's really about the way we all fight with our own past.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.4	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:15.8	Before YouTube, John C. Riley's group of friends would gather at the director Paul Thomas
0:20.7	Anderson's house for a thing they called twisted video night.
0:25.1	And everyone would bring in video tapes that they'd found from just really weird commercials
0:30.5	or random samplings of cable access shows.
0:33.9	And then it seemed like the whole world became twisted video world like when YouTube hit.
0:39.6	So anyway, one time, Jonah Hill showed John C. Riley a clip from QVC.
0:44.4	The best ones I want people to really brag before they do anything.
0:48.5	And this guy was like bragging about the samurai sword that he was selling on QVC and how
0:54.4	he was indestructible and was made by Japanese masters of seven layers of steel.
1:00.0	And then he hits it on the table as hard as he can.
1:02.6	And then the sword immediately breaks in half and the end of it sticks him right in the
1:07.7	chest.
1:08.7	It doesn't go very deep into his chest, but he stops and he's like, oh, okay, it got
1:13.7	me.
1:14.7	It got me.
1:15.7	And then he starts talking to someone off camera name Odette.
1:17.7	Odette.
1:18.7	All right, Odette.
1:19.7	It got me just a tip.
1:20.9	Just a tip got me, Odette.
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