Open Mike Eagle & Paula Poundstone

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

A dynamite pairing this week! First, Rapper Open Mike Eagle talks about growing up in Chicago, his slow and steady rise to success and his undying love for professional wrestling. Then, Paula Poundstone. You know her as a legendary standup, as a voice actor, too, probably. But I mean, this is NPR. So you know her as Paula Poundstone from Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, right? We brought her on to talk about the movie she loves so much she wishes she made it: 2011's Bridesmaids. Finally: an outshot about a baseball card and a word we can't say on NPR.

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0:00.0	I'm Ophira Eisberg from Ask Me Another. Every week we play nerdy games with contestants
0:06.0	and celebrities. Hear Patrick Stewart dramatically read Taylor Swift lyrics or learn how many
0:11.2	quills there are on a porcupine. Find Ask Me Another on the NPR1 app or wherever you
0:16.1	get podcasts. Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed
0:25.7	by NPR.
0:55.7	Open Mike Eagle is a rapper and for him it was all that and more. He remembers the low point
1:02.4	on his first tour too. He just rolled up to Vancouver. He didn't really know anybody and
1:07.9	he needed a place to stay. I like got a hotel in hotels.com and I was in the street
1:11.9	called Hastings Street in Vancouver. Do you know about that place? You couldn't have
1:16.1	told me it wasn't the meth capital of the world. These hotel rooms were not used for
1:21.1	people sleeping. They were used for people to rent and do meth. Hotels.com didn't want
1:25.1	to tell me that though. They wanted me to give my money to this person. You want to sleep
1:29.4	here? He was surprised. It's Bullseye.
1:40.9	Coming up my conversation with Open Mike Eagle. He's done pretty well for himself since
1:45.0	then. He's put out six records. He's been featured on a bunch more. He's got his own
1:48.8	Comedy Central show coming up. The person who convinced him to go for it? His wife,
1:54.1	dummy. But yes, she was like, no, you should just get on unemployment and try out the music
2:00.0	thing. For real? And take it from Mike. Don't be afraid to dream big. I had a small goal.
2:08.5	I had actually lofty goal of a television show getting it on NPR and that happened. Yeah,
2:16.2	Bullseye's where dreams come true. Then we've got comedian writer and NPR favorite Paula
2:21.2	Poundstone on the movie that she wishes she'd made. That's all coming up on Bullseye.
2:26.7	Let's go.
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