Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Dec 10 2024 1486 ep. 43 mins 53.9k

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Jesse Thorn hosts in-depth interviews with brilliant creators. Bullseye is your guide to what's good in culture and 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." (Formerly known as The Sound of Young America.) From MaximumFun.org and NPR.

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