The Directors of "Doin' It In The Park" and Mary Roach

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2013

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Delve into the culture of pickup basketball this week, and find out why each of the hundreds of courts in New York City is a unique experience. Jesse will talk with Bobbito Garcia and his co-director Kevin Couliau about their new documentary 'Doin' It In The Park'. Then writer Mary Roach, author of the new book 'Gulp', takes us on a rollicking tour of the human digestive system. [The podcast version of this interview is featured UNCUT and UNCENSORED] Plus Sean O'Neal and Alex Dowd from the A.V. Club suggest a couple of new releases worth checking out, Jesse talks about the album where Prince really became Prince, and gospel singer Shirley Caesar shares the song that changed her life.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Holly from Massachusetts.
0:02.0	I'm James from Salt Lake City.
0:03.6	I'm Jason R. Wallace from America's Georgia,
0:06.4	and these United States.
0:07.9	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is produced independently
0:10.3	and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:12.1	You should support the show like I did.
0:13.9	Just visit MaximumFong.org slash donate.
0:18.4	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:19.6	With the heat fresh off of an NBA championship,
0:22.2	Miami might be the center of the professional basketball world right now.
0:25.9	But if you're looking to play street ball,
0:28.4	filmmaker Kevin Cullio says you should head to the big apple.
0:32.0	New York City is, first of all, the maker of the sport.
0:35.2	You don't have any other city in the world with 700 playgrounds
0:39.2	that are all unique with that special architecture and colors
0:45.8	and difference of backboards, nets, rims,
0:49.0	double rims, single rims.
0:51.0	You can go to Chicago, to Miami, to LA,
0:54.0	and you don't feel the same basketball culture.
0:56.9	It's different.
0:58.0	There is a basketball culture in those cities,
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