Tim Heidecker: The Craziest Day of My Career

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The Craziest Day Of My Entire Career is a segment where we let some of our favorite people tell us the wildest stories from their long and storied time in showbiz. This time it's Tim Heidecker, a comedian, actor and creator of intricate worlds in which he often plays a fictionalized version of himself. One of these alter-Tim's is Special Agent Jack Decker, a spy that could easily be the illegitimate spawn of Trump and Chuck Norris. He'll tell us about a time when this character for his show Decker was just a little too on the nose, just a little too close for comfort.

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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, it's Bullseye.
0:22.0	Time now for a segment that we call the craziest f*** day of my entire career, where we let
0:26.7	some of our favorite people tell us the wildest stories from their long careers in show
0:31.0	business.
0:32.0	Next up, Tim Heideker.
0:34.7	Tim is, of course, half of the very funny comedy duo Tim and Eric, a partnership that
0:38.8	has spawned four television shows, countless tours and a feature film.
0:43.1	Also, this song, which they proposed as a commercial jingle for Rolos.
0:56.5	Tim is also kept himself busy with other pursuits.
0:59.7	As an actor, he appeared in bridesmaids and Jordan Peel's Us, among others.
1:04.9	He also hosts Adult Swims on Cinema at the Cinema alongside Greg Turkington.
1:10.6	It's ostensibly a movie review show where he and Greg play kind of a low-budget, fictionalized
1:15.9	version of themselves, reviewing the week's latest movies.
1:20.2	Only in its 11 seasons, Tim has nearly killed himself with new age medicine overdosed on
1:25.6	nutritional vaping systems, performed in corny, rock, and electronic music acts, and
1:31.8	done all kinds of other crazy stuff.
1:34.2	His character is also the star and creator of another show called Decker, kind of a 24-style
1:40.7	spy thriller with a much lower budget.
1:43.6	You'll hear more about that later.
1:45.7	Most recently, on on Cinema, Tim ran for district attorney in the county of San Bernardino,
1:52.4	California.
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