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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Tom Green

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Tom Green Show was ahead of its time. Its surreal stunts and pranks influenced a number of TV shows over the past twenty five years in that genre. In recent years, Tom Green kind of took a break. But Tom Green fans can rejoice – he's the star of three new projects. The projects come at a reflective time of his life and he gets real about starting a new chapter in his life. Plus, he brought his dog into the studio. You're going to want to hear about this dog.

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0:00.0

Singapore is one of the busiest cities in the world.

0:03.1

But biologist Philip Johns is fascinated by a different inhabitant on the island.

0:09.0

Otters.

0:09.8

At rush hour downtown, the otters would swim toward each other and they're literally tens of thousands of people who are on their way to work.

0:16.9

How ideas, emotions, and creatures coexist.

0:20.9

That's next time on the TED Radio Hour from NPR.

0:24.4

Bullseye listeners, it's Max Fun Drive time.

0:26.9

That means this is the time of year when we ask you to support the production of our show

0:30.7

by going to Maximumfund.org slash join and becoming a member of Max Fun.

0:36.5

That's the worker-owned cooperative that produces Bullseye with Jesse Thorne.

0:40.8

We have a really, really cool interview with Tom Green that you're about to hear.

0:46.4

But if you're a bullseye lover, if you're somebody that listens to every episode who waits for it to show up in your podcast player,

0:52.8

I hope that you are also a bullseye

0:54.5

supporter at maximumfund.org slash join.

0:59.5

Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR.

1:05.9

Hey! Hey! It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.

1:20.3

Imagine you're a pizza guy.

1:22.2

You show up at someone's house with the pizza thing ordered.

1:25.0

You ring the doorbell.

1:26.4

But just as that customer opens the door,

1:30.0

there's this wild-eyed guy coming up behind you. He's yelling to your customer that he'll sell

1:36.4

them the same pizza for half price. And to prove it, he brings out a plain pizza and a toolbox

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