Steven Yeun & Sawbones

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

First up this week: Steven Yeun! Fans of The Walking Dead know and love Steven for his time on the show as the beloved Glenn Rhee. Lately, though, he's taken on some even more thrilling roles. Last year, he starred in the Netflix hit Okja. Earlier this year he played Squeeze, the union organizing rabble rouser in the hit Sorry To Bother You. And now Steven's starring in a beautiful, engrossing new film called Burning - it's South Korea's entry into the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar this year. Then, join Jesse as he embarks on a gross, strange and hilarious overview of weird medical history: Trepanation! Humors! Bad surgery! The guides on our tour? Justin and Dr. Sydnee McElroy, husband and wife hosts of the MaxFun podcast Sawbones. They just wrote a new book based on the podcast and have loads of great, gory info. Just in time for Halloween! Finally: Jesse tells you about the person who inspired him to take up radio.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.8	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.2	Stephen Young is an actor.
0:16.2	If you're a fan of the Walking Dead, he played Glenn.
0:19.1	He was in sorry to bother you and he's in the new film Burning as well.
0:23.8	He was born in Seoul, South Korea, grew up in the Detroit area and as a kid, he was pretty
0:29.2	active at his local Korean American church.
0:32.1	One time he went to this big Christian youth conference.
0:35.6	Tons of kids were there from churches all over, but Stephen's was the only Korean American
0:40.2	one.
0:41.2	And honestly, it kind of stunk at first.
0:43.9	Some of the kids were awkward with him.
0:46.4	Other ones were mean.
0:47.6	The funniest part of that was like we did distinctly feel out of place and then it all culminated
0:55.4	to winning the Brunball Championship.
0:59.4	And we won that.
1:00.4	Like we won it.
1:02.9	We went, lost our first game, got dropped down to the loser tier and then worked our way
1:07.0	back up to a final penalty hit, penalty shot.
1:10.2	One of my friends at church, Danny Kim, he hit this amazing shot that like, he chipped
1:18.2	it so it went over the goalkeeper and right over his shoulder into the goal and we went
1:22.3	ballistic.
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