My Brother, My Brother and Me & Gina Prince-Bythewood

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week, NPR's Linda Holmes sits in for Jesse Thorn. We kick things off with Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy. The three brothers have a brand new TV show called My Brother, My Brother and Me based on their podcast of the same name. Then, Gina Prince-Bythewood the writer/director behind Love and Basketball and The Secret Life of Bee's talks about her newest project - Shots Fired, a fascinating, poignant TV drama on Fox she co-created with her husband. Finally, don't ever, not for one second, think you can't carry a tune. Linda tells you all you have to do is listen to the crowds at a Pete Seeger show and everyone there can sing like angels.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.0	It's Bullseye.
0:13.0	I'm Linda Holmes in for Jesse Thorn.
0:15.4	I want to take you to a city you've probably never been to.
0:19.1	Huntington, West Virginia.
0:21.0	Population just under 50,000.
0:23.7	Every fall there's a chili fest and there's an anime convention in the summer and if you
0:28.5	scroll down to the notable people page on Wikipedia, you see names like NBA Legend, How Greer,
0:34.8	and Suppy Sales, and Three Brothers.
0:37.3	Griffin, Travis, and Justin McElroy.
0:39.9	Together, the McElroy's host my brother and my brother in me.
0:43.5	It's a comedy podcast.
0:44.5	It usually cracks the top 100 on iTunes.
0:47.4	It just got turned into a TV show too.
0:49.5	I'll set in Huntington where Justin still lives.
0:53.0	How'd they do it, you ask?
0:54.7	Take it from Justin.
0:56.3	It's easy.
0:57.3	My message to people who live in smaller towns who have creative ambitions would be this.
1:02.2	It's something I tell people a lot.
1:04.4	If you stay in your hometown and you work and you give it your all and you try your best
1:11.4	in your creative work, eventually someone will pay a bunch of money to come shoot a TV
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