Padma Lakshmi & Laurie Kilmartin

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Two more classics from the Bullseye archives, y'all. First: pack your knives and listen up! Padma Lakshmi, host of TV's Top Chef, stops for a chat. She literally wrote an Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs - like, literally that's the title of the book. She's got spice recommendations for Jesse, plus she talks about her fascinating childhood spent bouncing between New York and Chennai. Then: how do you make a joke about death? How about an entire standup special? Well, you just do it. Conan writer and comedian Laurie Kilmartin made a show (and later, album) called 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad, which is about exactly what the title suggests it is. She's also the author of the new book "Dead People Suck: A Guide for Survivors of the Newly Departed." Finally, Jesse recommends a Simpsons episode that tells you everything you need know about the Bay Area tech boom.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.7	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.9	Lori Kilmartin is a stand-up comedian.
0:17.1	She writes on Conan.
0:18.8	She was on the road when she got the call that her dad was really, really sick.
0:25.1	Things weren't looking good.
0:26.6	She got on a plane.
0:28.0	She took time off of work.
0:29.6	She did everything that adult children are supposed to do in those situations.
0:34.2	But even as his health got worse, she started to realize.
0:38.7	Sometimes even when you're staring death right in the eye, funny stuff can happen.
0:43.9	We have this one piece of hospice video where my sister and I are sitting next to my dad
0:49.9	and she asks my dad, you know, what do you want your grandchildren to know?
0:55.6	My dad was sort of, you know, I look at that video and I'm like, did he just realize
1:01.2	then that he's dying?
1:03.6	It was very awkward and yet we wanted to hear what he had to say.
1:09.2	And then he was about to talk and it was hard for him to talk.
1:12.8	And then my mom just burst into the frame and starts picking up like a candy wrapper that's
1:17.9	on the ground in front of my dad on the carpet and she just ruins it.
1:23.2	It's Bullseye.
1:32.0	Coming up, more jokes about death from Laurie Kilmarton.
1:34.9	She's got a book about it and a special too.
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