Sam Richardson & Syd of The Internet

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 March 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week, comic Wyatt Cenac sits in for Jesse Thorn, and it's a hell of a lineup: Sam Richardson of HBO's Veep stops by to talk about his new Comedy Central show Detroiters. Plus, Syd tha Kyd of the bands The Internet and Odd Future has her first ever solo album - it's called "Fin" and it just came out last month. She tells Wyatt about how the record got made, and why she is in no rush to meet her idols. Finally, for this week's Outshot, Wyatt recommends the weird, hilarious and profound Blaxploitation film "The Thing with Two Heads."

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.5	It's Bullseye, I'm Wise Sannack in for Jesse Thorn. Sam Richardson is one of the funniest
0:18.7	people on TV right now. If you've seen HBO's VEEP, you probably know him for his role as
0:23.8	the weird kind of lovable Richard Splett. He's starring in a new show called Detroiters.
0:29.4	He was set in Detroit obviously. Sam was born and raised there and if you ask him for
0:33.7	a favorite memory, he might tell you about the time he turned 21. It was at his favorite
0:38.4	bar where he'd already been going for years.
0:41.1	It would go to this one bar in Detroit and I became a regular there when I was 19 and
0:49.5	then I had my 21st birthday at this bar and the owner was like, oh Sam, happy birthday.
0:57.0	How old are you? I was like, I'm 21 George. He's like, he was son of a f***. He was so mad
1:02.8	at me. He didn't talk to me for two months. It's Bullseye.
1:14.8	Coming up, I'll talk with Sam about Detroiters, how it came together and what he remembers
1:18.7	from growing up there. Plus, you know, the rest of his childhood. Like when he spent his
1:23.3	summers in Ghana. In Africa, everybody's black. In Detroit, 70% 80% are black but like they're
1:31.2	not at the head of everything. You know, in Ghana, all the politicians, business owners
1:37.5	and from the highest class to lowest are black. You have this confidence, I can be king,
1:42.9	I can be president, I can be whatever.
1:44.9	Then I'll talk with Sid, the singer who got her start without future, created her own
1:48.7	sound with the internet and has a new record out. She'll talk to me about how weird it feels
1:53.7	hanging out with the singers and artists she grew up listening to and how she tries to avoid
1:58.1	it when she can.
1:59.2	I'd rather like just admire somebody from afar than hey, I'm Sid and I'm a huge fan of
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