Roy Wood Jr., Jason Mantzoukas, Rebecca Sugar – Live at LAist

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This whole month, we’re ringing in 25 years of Bullseye being on the airwaves. If you’ve heard our archives you might have heard Bullseye referred to as The Sound of Young America. That was the show’s original name when it started as a college radio show back at Santa Cruz’s KZSC.

To kick off our 25th anniversary, we’re bringing you the first of many celebrations: a spectacular live show recorded at LAist 89.3 in Pasadena at their Crawford Family Forum.

We’ll have interviews with Roy Wood Jr., Jason Mantzoukas, music from Rebecca Sugar. Plus, standup comedy from Al Madrigal.

Roy Wood Jr. joined us to talk about his book – The Man of Many Fathers: Life Lessons Disguised as a Memoir. Jason Mantzoukas talked about being known as an improv guy and his time on Taskmaster. You can check out Rebecca Sugar’s latest EP Lonely Magic on Bandcamp. More info on live show dates for Al Madrigal on his website.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
0:05.4	RWJF is a national philanthropy, working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right.
0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:16.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:35.6	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. This month we are doing something really special. We're
0:40.9	ringing in 25 years of Bullseye being on the air. 25 years! It's true. We started as a college
0:50.5	radio show back at Santa Cruz's KZSC, the heavyweight 88.
0:55.5	This week, we are bringing you the first of many celebrations.
0:59.4	A spectacular live show we just taped at LAS 88.3 in greater Los Angeles, California,
1:06.0	which of course is our hometown.
1:08.2	We'll have interviews with Roy Wood Jr., Jason Manzoukis, music from Rebecca
1:12.7	Sugar, who created Stephen Universe. But first, we've got one of my favorite stand-up comics,
1:18.1	Al Madrigal. He's a comedian and writer. You've seen him on The Daily Show, where he was a correspondent
1:23.4	on Conan and the Tonight Show. He was a series regular on Lopez versus Lopez.
1:28.3	He's also a good friend of mine who, this is a true story 20 years ago when my co-host
1:34.4	graduated from college and moved to Southern California.
1:37.8	Al was nice enough to drive down to Santa Cruz from San Francisco to help me host this very
1:42.9	show.
1:44.0	And he was nice enough to come over from his house in Pasadena to LA-Ust in Pasadena to do some
1:49.5	stand-up.
1:50.2	Let's get into it.
1:55.2	So I have known Jesse for an incredible amount of time.
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