W. Kamau Bell, Mike Birbiglia, Eleni Mandell

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2012

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

W. Kamau Bell, host of Totally Biased, calculates the gentrification sweet spot. Singer-songwriter Eleni Mandell's life is changed by a Tom Waits song, even though it wasn't the one she meant to hear. And comedian Mike Birbigilia makes a movie. He says it's the hardest thing he's EVER DONE — but he's down to do it all again.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm D.W. from Houston.
0:01.7	Hi, I'm Kristen from San Francisco.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm Graham from Vancouver, Canada.
0:08.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is produced independently and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:12.6	You should support the show like I did. It's easy.
0:15.2	Just visit MaximumFun.org-flash-donate.
0:19.0	Yes.
0:20.6	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:21.7	Comedian W. Kamau Bell just moved to New York to do a new TV show called Totally Bias.
0:27.3	But he's originally from Chicago and he spent most of his comedy career in the Bay Area.
0:32.4	There are really weird racial politics in San Francisco.
0:39.1	Yes. I mean, the show was written, I feel like it was written the way it was written because I was in
0:43.4	San Francisco because I felt like coming from Chicago, Chicago is very segregated and very open
0:49.0	about its segregation. There's kind of a sense in Chicago that you could walk into a place and
0:53.0	be like, oh no, we don't let black people in here. And you'd be like, oh, I'm sorry.
0:57.0	And you would just walk out and be like, oh, I'm glad they told me. That would have been a horrible
1:00.4	evening. That would have been a really waste of all of our time. But in the Bay Area,
1:07.2	there's oftentimes you walk into a place and you feel like, huh, I kind of get the impression
1:11.6	they would rather I wasn't here. You know, there's a weird sense of I'm 6 foot 4 and 250 pounds,
1:16.3	and often in San Francisco, I would feel invisible in a weird way.
1:19.8	It's Bullseye.
1:27.4	This week, W. Kamau Bell calculates the gentrification sweet spot.
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