Rick Moranis and Booker T. Jones

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2013

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Rick Moranis was a movie star. Strange Brew, Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Honey I Shrunk the Kids. And then he quit. We'll talk about why he doesn't regret leaving show business to raise his children. And find out why he's returning to the public eye with an album of Jewish songs called My Mother's Brisket & Other Love Songs. Then, hear Jesse's interview with a true soul music icon — Booker T Jones. Plus, Carolyn Kellogg offers up a couple of great new books you should read this summer, we play a little bit from Doug Benson's new comedy album, and Jesse talks about Chance The Rapper's free mixtape Acid Rap.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Morgan from Seattle.
0:01.9	I'm Matt from Essex, Ontario.
0:03.4	Hey, I'm Dan from Dayton, Mass.
0:05.6	Both I was Jesse Thorn is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:10.6	You should support the show like I did.
0:12.4	This is at MaximumFund.org slash Donate.
0:15.9	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:17.0	Rick Moranis' first job was selling programs at hockey games for $0.75 a pop.
0:23.0	I would do anything that I could to try and coax that $0.25 tip out of the $0.75.
0:29.2	To be able to get somebody to say, keep the change, which is really hard in Canada to get somebody to say, keep the change.
0:35.7	So I started doing stick.
0:37.5	You know, I started doing souvenir hot dogs, get your souvenir hot dogs, ice cold programs, hot Coca-Cola.
0:44.9	Who wants a hot Coca-Cola?
0:46.4	You know, stuff like that.
0:47.4	It wasn't working.
0:48.0	I didn't make any money.
0:49.1	But we did get to stay for the games if there were empty seats.
0:53.3	It's Bullseye.
0:59.3	Coming up, Rick Moranis was a movie star.
1:04.8	Strange brew, ghost busters, space balls, honey, I shrunk the kids, and then he quit.
1:10.6	We'll talk about why he doesn't regret leaving show business to raise his children.
1:15.7	I applied all my creativity to my home life, to my kids, to my family.
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