Todd Glass & Raffi

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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[r] Jesse Thorn talks to comedian Todd Glass, about his memoir The Todd Glass Situation and with the beloved children's performer, Raffi. Plus author Ariel Schrag talks about the novel, September Girls and Jesse remembers the album of songs that Van Morrison made out of spite.

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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	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:15.0	Comedian Todd Glass kept a very important secret until he was well into his 40s.
0:21.9	Sarah Silverman was out back.
0:23.5	I was getting into the ambulance and I remember this, I'm having a heart attack.
0:26.4	I know I'm having a heart attack.
0:27.6	I was just told Todd you're having a heart attack from the paramedic and I yelled out to
0:31.6	her, I'm like, call Andrea, which was code for Chris.
0:36.7	And I really remembered that moment, I used the word a lot, pathetic.
0:39.4	I thought this is pathetic.
0:41.0	I'm having a heart attack and I'm still trying to cover here really.
0:44.8	We'll talk about why.
0:46.4	It's Bullseye.
0:55.5	Coming up, I'll sit down and talk with Todd Glass.
0:58.9	He's been a comic for 30 years but he's only been out of the closet for four.
1:04.7	No one really knows what it means.
1:06.1	You just hear it.
1:07.1	Oh, in the closet.
1:08.1	But you don't know the plate spinning that goes on.
1:10.0	Who knows?
1:11.0	Who doesn't know?
1:12.4	Uh, oh, I know that they know because I was told they know but I'm too uncomfortable
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