Yeardley Smith on the Craziest Day of her Entire Career

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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For over 30 years now, Yeardley Smith has voiced Lisa Simpson, one of the most iconic characters of all time. She is also an on-screen actor and a co-host on the true crime podcast Small Town Dicks. When we asked Yeardley about the craziest day of her career, she took us back to 1986, before podcasts and before the Simpsons. It was a big part in a Stephen King film that she couldn't turn down, even if it meant a giant crazy truck might run her over.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.5	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:22.1	It's time for the craziest f***ing day of my entire career.
0:26.4	This is a regular segment where we talk with some of our people in pop culture and ask
0:31.1	them about, well we ask them about the craziest f***ing day of their entire careers.
0:37.0	This time it's Yardley Smith for over 30 years.
0:41.7	Yardley has voiced Lisa Simpson, one of the most iconic characters in all of television.
1:06.0	Yardley Smith is also a podcaster.
1:08.6	Since 2017 she's co-hosted Small Town Dicks, a true crime podcast that just finished
1:14.1	up its ninth season, and she's an on-screen actor.
1:18.6	When we asked Yardley about the craziest day of her entire career, she took us back to
1:23.4	1986.
1:24.4	That was before podcasts, before the Simpsons.
1:27.9	She got offered a big part in a horror movie that she couldn't turn down, even if
1:32.3	it meant a giant crazy truck might run her over.
1:36.8	Anyway, I'll let Yardley Smith take it from here.
1:40.4	I'm Yardley Smith.
1:44.1	And this is the craziest f***ing day of my whole career.
1:51.1	What's funny is when this thing happened while I was shooting a movie, I think it was
1:58.7	the third film I did called Maximum Overdrive.
2:02.3	I mean now it's a cult classic, but I can tell you when it came out, it was a bomb.
2:06.8	Like it was barely out long enough to run the end credit.
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