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Publisher |: Headgum

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Comedy,; Mystery,; Personal Journals

Categories Via RSS |: Comedy,; Personal Journals,; Society & Culture,; TV & Film

Actor/comedian Connor Ratliff (The Chris Gethard Show, UCB, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) embarks upon a quest to solve a very stupid mystery that has haunted him for two decades: why Tom Hanks fired him from a small role in the 2001 HBO mini-series, Band Of Brothers.

People |: Connor Ratliff (@connorratliff)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: New York, NY
Premiere Date |: 2020-01-10
Related Hashtags |: #DeadEyesPodcast,; #ElvisMovie,; #FINCH,; #TomHanks
Frequency |: Periodic
Explicit |: No

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36 Available Episodes (36 Total) / Average duration: 00:40:33

Date Duration Most Reviewed Highest Rated

36 Available Episodes (36 Total)Average duration: 00:40:33

Apr 17, 2023

01:24:06

Connor takes producers Mike and Harry to Ostend, Belgium for the first DS Podcast Festival to give a keynote presentation on the making of Dead Eyes.

Recorded in Ostend, Belgium on April 2nd, 2022.

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Mar 10, 2022

01:21:16

Connor talks with Tom Hanks.

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Mar 03, 2022

00:56:11

Connor investigates two high school productions of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific: one that took place in 1990 during his freshman year at Jefferson City High in Missouri, and the other in 1974 at Skyline High in Oakland, California, where a high school senior named Thom Hanks played a coveted role.

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Feb 17, 2022

00:49:24

Connor talks with six actors who were cast in roles on NBC's The Blacklist that he also auditioned for.

The Blacklist List

#410 - "Rafa" (Jimmie Saito)
#417 - "Bobby J" (Bruce Faulk)
#501 - "Hawkins" (Aida Turturro)
#513 - "Forensics Investigator Muncie" (Neal Lerner)
#521 - Julius Hannelore (Jeffrey Bean)
#603 - Reggie Deeks (Alex Breaux)

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Feb 03, 2022

00:47:19

When Connor learns of the existence of Tom Hanks' Electric City, he starts asking questions of anyone who will talk to him about it, including Paul Scheer (The League, How Did This Get Made), Tara Jayne Sands (Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh!), Jason Antoon (NCIS: Hawaii, Minority Report), supervising producer Samantha Scharff (SNL, The Colbert Report), and former Playtone creative exec Joshua Feldman.

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Jan 20, 2022

00:42:33

Connor talks with actor Colin Hanks (Mad Men, Life In Pieces, American Crime Story: Impeachment) about his 2015 Tower Records documentary and also other topics.

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Jan 06, 2022

00:46:15

Connor talks with Zach Braff (Scrubs, Garden State), Adam Scott (Parks & Recreation, Party Down) and David Krumholtz (Numb3rs, The Deuce) about how they all auditioned for Band of Brothers and were not cast.

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Dec 23, 2021

00:42:24

Connor talks with comedian Nikki Glaser (FBoy Island) along with an array of experts in hope of discovering "the true meaning of 'dead eyes.'"

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Dec 09, 2021

00:52:18

Connor talks with actors and executives about how he almost became “Colonel Sanders,” and the ups and downs of an ad campaign where re-casting the lead role is its defining feature.

Watch Connor's re-audition for Colonel Sanders on The Chris Gethard Show

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Nov 25, 2021

00:45:11

Connor talks with Nicole Byer (Nailed It!), Johnathan Fernandez (Gossip Girl), Ann Carr (Red Oaks) and Molly Lloyd (Pinkalicious & Peterrific) about the strange and sometimes treacherous world of acting in commercials.

Connor doing car dealership ads as a kid.

Connor's New York Lottery Ad

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Apr 17 | 01:24:06

The Making of Dead Eyes (Live in Belgium)

Mar 10 | 01:21:16

31 - Tom

Mar 03 | 00:56:11

30 - Buzz & Billis