Dead Eyes

About Dead Eyes

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.

Publisher

Headgum

Category

comedy · society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jan 2020

Latest episode

7 May 2024

Latest episodes

9 of 36 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   7 May 2024

   Introducing: Tiny Dinos

   A brief hello from Connor including an audiobook recommendation and a preview of his new podcast, Tiny Dinos... Listen to Tiny Dinos here: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/tinydinos (https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/tinydinos) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy (https://art19.com/privacy) and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info (https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info).

2. 

   17 Apr 2023TRANSCRIPT

   The Making of Dead Eyes (Live in Belgium)

   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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy (https://art19.com/privacy) and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info (https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info).

3. 

   10 Mar 2022TRANSCRIPT

   31 - Tom

   Connor talks with Tom Hanks. Episode Transcript (https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQgSZfYdB06RhBGPOPt8hknTjAnMrfMwgU3g9IXQMfDaWeilZMUMLneIADwTgkz-QYcvGyKeebS_T-d/pub) Follow the show @deadeyespodcast (https://twitter.com/DeadEyespodcast) Advertise on Dead Eyes (https://gumball.fm/shows/dead-eyes/5e2f156c00a51900276cbfa3) via Gumball.fm (http://gumball.fm/) See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy (https://art19.com/privacy) and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info (https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info).

Inside a recent episode

The Making of Dead Eyes (Live in Belgium)

Published 17 Apr 2023 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But in a framing device at the beginning of it, Tom Hanks plays Elijah Wood's, the adult version of Elijah Wood's character. And we're like, well, that's not really enough, and not that many people really know the movie Radio Flyer. It's not like it was a huge hit movie. They didn't have any scenes together. Yeah, they didn't work together. And then we're like, oh, well... There's a couple of other movies where someone plays young Tom Hanks. So there's Forrest Gump. And there's big where you have like we can't talk to Tom Hanks, but we can talk to the actor, Michael Humphreys, who played young Forrest Gump in the first scenes of that movie. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

1,972 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

1,349 ratings

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