Terry Crews, Jessica St. Clair & Lennon Parham

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Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Two Bullseye favorites from the archives this week. First: Terry Crews. A linebacker from Flint Michigan, Terry was picked by the LA Rams in the 11th round of the 1991 NFL Draft. In 1996, he played his last season ever for the Eagles. Then he took up acting - he starred alongside Ice Cube in the Friday After Next, played Chris Rock's Dad on Everybody Hates Chris. Now he plays Sergeant Jeffords on Brooklyn Nine Nine. Lately he's been in the news for taking speaking out against sexual harassment of all kinds - he says he was a victim himself. Then, Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham, from 2014. The two co-created and starred in the show Playing House on USA, a favorite of ours here. It just wrapped up its third and final season last year. Male friendship is well represented in comedy, really, really well represented, but female friendship - not so much. And when we do see female friendships, the characters are sort of rote - there's always the same 3 or 4 characters, you know? On Playing House, Parham and St. Clair framed it differently. Their characters are less Carrie and Miranda and more Laverne and Shirley. You can actually imagine them being friends. Plus, calling all prog rock fans! This week Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell, the editors of the prog rock anthology Yes Is The Answer: (And Other Prog Rock Tales), explain why the King Crimson album In The Court of the Crimson King is a classic, and how it laid the foundation for a whole genre.

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0:25.1	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:39.3	It's Bullseye.
0:40.3	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:41.3	I talked with Terry Cruz this week.
0:43.3	He's Andy Sandberg's co-star on Brooklyn 9.9.
0:46.6	He played the president in Idiocracy.
0:48.4	He was also the screaming muscle man and all those old spice ads.
0:53.7	After all that, Terry was a football player, not just high school college football.
0:58.2	He played the NFL for five years.
1:00.2	Of course, that kind of thing can't go on forever.
1:03.2	He retired in 1996 and it's always a weird transition.
1:07.6	One day you're getting VIP parking next to the Eagles Training Center.
1:11.6	The next you're rolling up to the LA fitness by the target.
1:15.8	That's how it went for Terry Cruz.
1:17.6	I went to a gym and I was like, I'm going to work out here.
1:21.2	I was like, okay, all right, that'll be $25 a month.
1:24.8	I was like, no, no, no, you understand.
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