Tenacious D & José James

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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So, y'all: Tenacious D. Tenacious D! We spend 40 minutes with Tenacious D this week. We talk with Jack Black and Kyle Glass about the band's early days in clubs and making quick cameos in films. We talk about their new animated series - Post Apocalypto - which is hilarious. We talk about Jesse's fandom of the band - which spans decades and even led him to put up a show poster for the band in the MaxFun Bathroom. This is easily one of our favorite conversations of 2018. But then: even more great stuff! Jazz singer José James will go deep on the life-changing power of Al Green's Love & Happiness. And instead of the outshot, you'll hear a really affecting, compelling bit of standup from comic Ted Alexandro.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.7	I'm Jesse Thorn. Jack Black and Kyle Gas have literally brought the band back together.
0:18.7	Tanasia Stee are releasing their first album in six years, putting together an animated
0:24.1	series pretty much by themselves. It is truly two craftsmen doing their best work yet.
0:30.1	This time it's like we don't have Bob Odenkirk and David Cross of Mr. Show there to hand
0:35.7	hold us and carry us across the finish line. We wrote this and directed it ourselves
0:39.9	and it feels like we're, hey you know what? It feels like we've finally grown up. Yeah,
0:43.3	we're finally all grown up. It's a Bullseye.
0:54.4	This week Tanasia Stee they'll talk with me about their new animated series Post-apocalyptic
0:59.6	and more. The band has been around for over 20 years going from playing tiny clubs in Hollywood
1:06.5	to playing 85,000 seat stadiums. You know what's more alarming is that it's almost feels normal now
1:14.3	to do that because we've done it so many times. Yeah, but in fairness we they didn't all they came
1:21.9	to see Metallica. Yeah, that one we were on right before Metallica. I don't know that we could
1:27.4	have pulled that crowd. Also, did you know that Jack Black got his first acting gig at 13?
1:33.5	I went to school. I was so stoked to be able to go to school and like some kids are,
1:37.7	I saw you on TV. Thank you, thank you. I just, I celebrity it for like, it lasted for a couple
1:43.9	weeks where I had some superhuman powers but then I went back to being in the Dweeb.
1:48.0	Plus, Jazz Singer Jose James will tell you about the song that changed his life.
1:52.8	That's all coming up on Bullseye. Let's go.
2:02.8	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. My guests this week are the two members of a band
2:08.0	that I love so deeply. I once sent a check in the mail to a theater company to buy their t-shirt.
2:15.9	There is literally a poster of theirs in our bathroom. It's for a show I went to in 2001.
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