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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26 - Band of Others

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.

Personal Journals

Society & Culture

History

Philosophy

Places & Travel

TV & Film

Comedy

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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The Making of Dead Eyes (Live in Belgium)

Connor talks with Tom Hanks.

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31 - Tom

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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30 - Buzz & Billis

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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29 - The Blacklist List

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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26 - Band of Others

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