Swamp Dogg, John Mulaney, Comic Book Picks and Kasper Hauser

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2012

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Unsung soul maverick Swamp Dogg reflects on his long and storied recording career, with hits ranging from R&B, to psychedelic to country. John Mulaney debuts a second stand-up comedy special and continues his meteoric rise. Plus, Alex Zalben and Brian Heater offer up their recent comic book recommendations, a new Kasper Hauser News Update and Jesse shares his pick for the best live recording ever.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jamie from New York City.
0:02.2	I'm Chase from Seattle.
0:03.6	Hi, I'm David from Santa Monica.
0:05.6	Both I with Jesse Thorn is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:10.9	You should support the show like I did.
0:12.4	Just visit maximumfund.org slash donate.
0:15.5	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:16.6	In 1969, the R&B singer-songwriter Jerry Williams was looking for a change.
0:22.4	I no longer wanted to be Jerry Williams because it sounds so generic.
0:29.1	He started to record a really weird album called Total Destruction to Your Mind.
0:35.6	And I found myself quite by accident.
0:39.4	I put something together and it came out great.
0:43.6	And I decided on Swamp Dog.
0:47.0	A psychedelic soul maverick was born.
0:50.1	It's Bullseye.
0:50.9	This week, Swamp Dog, the unsung hero of psychedelic soul reflects on his career,
1:03.2	one that found him winning awards for the among other things country and western hits.
1:09.0	The babyface comedian John Mulaney talks about getting blackout drunk and earning money.
1:14.8	How?
1:16.0	To be honest, he doesn't remember.
1:18.2	And the comedy group Casper Houser brings us the news that they made up.
1:23.3	All that and more.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jesse Thorn, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jesse Thorn and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.