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Jordan Morris (left), Jesse Thorn (middle), Gene O’Neil (right) at Maximum Fun HQ
(Photo: Daniel Speer)
This whole month, we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of Bullseye! On this episode, we’re going back. Way back to the year 2000, when Bullseye went by a completely different name.
When the show first aired, it was called The Sound of Young America. Jesse started it alongside his friends Jordan Morris and Gene O’Neil at KZSC, their campus radio station.
Well, twenty-five years later, the gang is back together again to reminisce about those early days. Get ready to laugh, smile fondly, cringe a little, and hopefully get a sense of how Bullseye came to be the show that it is today. We’ll have vintage interviews with Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Matt Besser and Dick Dale, The King of the Surf Guitar!
In this episode...
Guests
- Jordan Morris
- Gene O'Neil
- David Cross
- Patton Oswalt
- Dick Dale
- Matt Besser
- A whale
About the show
Bullseye is a celebration of the best of arts and culture in public radio form. Host Jesse Thorn sifts the wheat from the chaff to bring you in-depth interviews with the most revered and revolutionary minds in our culture.
Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney’s, which called it “the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world.” Since April 2013, the show has been distributed by NPR.
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