Moshe Kasher, Felicia Day & Brother Ali

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jesse talks with standup and author Moshe Kasher about his new TV show: Problematic. Like a lot of shows nowadays it's got a comedian taking on issues of the day, interviews with newsmakers, plenty of snarky jokes. But instead of John Oliver style polemic takedowns, Kasher takes a cue from legends like Phil Donahue - exploring uncomfortable issues with a genuine inquisitiveness. Then, Felicia Day of the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 tells us about the inspirational power of The Mighty Boosh - the surreal British TV comedy. Finally, Brother Ali. He's a rapper based out of Minnesota. There, he's part of the Rhymesayers collective - a label he shares with Aesop Rock, Dilated Peoples, and Atmosphere. For the first part of his career, he focused a lot on making protest rap - speaking truth to power, that kind of thing. His latest record is called All The Beauty In This Whole Life. On it, he takes a refreshing, positive spin on life.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to Bullseye. Have you heard up first the Morning News podcast from NPR?
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0:22.1	is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:32.0	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorn. Look, it's just one of those things. You're living a big city long
0:36.9	enough, pretty much any big city. You are somebody you know it's going to get jumped.
0:41.6	Moshe cashers been jumped. He grew up in Oakland just across the bay from where I grew up.
0:46.3	He's the kind of where it is a badge of pride. Going through something like that sort of built
0:51.2	character. It actually took him a pretty long time to realize that wasn't true.
0:56.2	These kids moved to the area from San Diego like I don't know 15 years ago. There was some friends
1:01.2	of mine and they got robbed at gunpoint and they were like uh uh we're out of here and they
1:05.3	moved back to San Diego the next day. I don't remember me and all my friends, my Oakland friends were
1:09.2	like laughing at these like dorky cowardly white boys like these pathetic punks. They moved back
1:16.4	because of a robbery at gunpoint. It's like welcome to the game dude and then I realize now as a
1:22.6	37 year old man like uh nope they were right. Getting robbed at gunpoint is a very bad thing and
1:29.4	it should frighten you and it's not okay to not to be into that. It's Bullseye.
1:41.1	Coming up I'll talk with Moshe about his life growing up in Oakland. He's got a new TV show too
1:46.0	it's called Problematic. On it Moshe takes on current controversial and sometimes uncomfortable
1:51.6	issues in front of a live audience and I'm seeing this as a totally sincere compliment. The show is
1:57.6	basically a 2017 version of Donna here and like Phil Donna here Moshe isn't afraid to stir the
2:04.7	pot a little bit. I don't like orthodoxy. I don't care for fundamentalism in even when it agrees
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