Jonathan Gold & Beth Ditto

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week, we'll remember Jonathan Gold by revisiting our conversation with him. Jonathan's work in food criticism was legendary. In 2007, his work earned him a Pulitzer. To this date, he's still the only food critic to ever earn that honor. When he joined us in 2011, he discussed the one food fear he just couldn't overcome, and how he discovered Los Angeles and the world – one meal at a time. Plus, he threw shade at the burritos from the Mission District in San Francisco. We'll also revisit our conversation with Beth Ditto from last year. Beth is singer of the band Gossip. Beth talks about the process of creating her solo album, and about her time fronting Gossip. She'll also open up about her queer identity and what it was like setting up punk shows in her small Arkansan town. You can catch her on the road this summer opening for Sam Smith. And finally, Jesse explains how Sly and the Family Stone made a perfect album, even as they slowly disintegrated as a group.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.8	It's Bullseye.
0:13.8	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.8	You know the singer Beth Ditto, right?
0:17.6	She used to front the band The Gossip, also called Gossip.
0:21.2	She's got a new solo album out.
0:23.4	She lives in Portland right now.
0:25.5	She grew up in Cersei, Arkansas.
0:28.1	Pretty small town.
0:29.1	It's about an hour outside Little Rock.
0:31.4	There was no MTV, just a handful of punk rock shows.
0:35.8	After high school, she did the thing a lot of punk kids do.
0:38.5	She packed everything up and moved to a cooler, bigger city.
0:42.8	For Beth, that city was Olympia Washington, a place that couldn't be more different than Cersei.
0:50.1	You know, listen, you take that bus downtown.
0:52.8	You go to the Capitol Theater.
0:54.0	You go to Homo Go-Go.
0:56.1	There's this kissing booths.
0:57.6	I mean, there were like queer kissing booths where you could pay a dollar to kiss another
1:01.3	girl.
1:02.3	That was my first kiss.
1:03.3	And there's a first time I kissed a girl.
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