August 18, 2026 • 5 mins
Skeery pranks an aspiring actor by posing as a casting director and offering him a very questionable role that’s definitely not the big break he was promised!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't answer the phone, Elvis durand Elvis Duran's phone tappened?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Who does the phone tap? Today's scary? I do?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
What's it all about?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
So?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
DeShawn is an actor and his agent, Dirk, has had
trouble getting him work right now. So Dirk thought it
would be funny if I called the Sean from the
big production that his agent finally got him work on. Unfortunately,
this is probably not the kind of acting gig that
the Sewan had in mind.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hello, Hi, I'm looking for Deshaun Phillidon Please.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hey, this is him, DeShawn.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
What's up? It's Chase Price from Type Casting Agency. What
are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hey? Hey, what's going on? Man? I'm working apart time
and let me step out real quick.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Did Dirk talk to you about the film?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
He told me a little bit about it, but not much.
I was expecting the script, you know, I want to
read the script. So when I get THEMN ready, just.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Make sure you bring your bulletproof vest and we'll see
you at eight o'clock tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
A bulletproof as so. I don't own a bulletproof ass Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know what, we have a couple of them that
we've used in that last couple of films.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Because I'm confused, man, So you just want me to
show up tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So the gunman is gonna take seven shots.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Right at you, gunment GM and then you're gonna fall
to the floor. But I thought I had speaking lines.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You do You do have a line in here?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's can you tell me what the line is?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So I'm just gonna die in the movie. There's no
speaking lines.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
There's a dramatic moment in the film.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
The camera's gonna zoom out as far back as possible,
about one hundred feet and way in the distance. From behind,
We're gonna see your silhouette, and the gunman's gonna take
seven shots at you, and you're you're gonna scream and
fall to the floor.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I need to give my agent on the phone, man,
because that's not what I was told. I was told
I had a speaking.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Role, and you do speak, you do speak.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm not speaking. I'm screaming. That's there's two different things, man.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But that's a line. It is a line.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
A line. That's not a line. Man. You're in the shot, man, No,
I'm getting shot. I'm not in the shot. I need
to speak to my agent and possibly get the castin director.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Get him on the phone. Hold on one second on
the phone, hold on, let me dial him.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And why would I need a bulletproof vest? Hollywood? It's
not like you were using real bullets.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We're going to be using real bullets, so we want
to make sure that you're set safe.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Man. Isn't there something law in Hollywood that you can't
use real bullets?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
This is dirt, Hi, Dirk, this is Chase Price from
Type Casting Agency. Have your client, DeShawn.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Rolling on the phone with me, Oh, you need to
talk able man? What Dirk? There's no speaking line. I'm
not saying anything. I'm getting shot from one hundred feet
away with my back to the camera, and they want
me to bring a damn bulletproof vest because they're using
real bullets. Dirt, What did you get me into? DeShawn?
Come on, man, you know you're my guy, and you
told me I was in two scenes and I had
(02:45):
speaking lines. I'm not even speaking you know. The talnel
direct say that's my speaking line.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You are in two scenes.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The second scene, We're gonna put you in a casket,
drop you down six feet, and I'm gonna put dirt
over you.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Dude. Dude, that's against the law. You can't do that.
That's the We don't have a stunt double.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's only going to be for four hours.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
DeShawn. This is your break, man, This is just get
you there, brother. They want to bury me. Man, how
I'm going to breathe if I'm six feet under?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
We have the technology. We're going to have tubes up
your nose. And that's going on.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
At the cast and director. You shot the government talking
to you. I'm talking to my age, Dirk. This is
industry standards to shun. I don't know why. It's nothing
else is standing for me to be shot by gun?
There is six feet under. How do I get you work?
If you don't take the work, I guess you this
is where you are. I think it's took a door months.
That's why I'm working my part time job. Man. You
(03:37):
promise me speaking line? Man, Bosh you ten years five
years signing you. Man, you promise me to figure out
all those white actors that you are. You managed, you
get those guys speaking line. You can't get me a
speaking line.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Everything here in the contract that Dirk signed on your
behalf is here.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Okay, it signed them behalf yeah, sign forging my name? Now, man,
you know what and your movie. I'm an actor that
went to school for years for this, Man.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I have to act dead. Do you know how to
act that?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That's the way I got a degree acting? Man, Not
to get shot and buried. Man, there's no I'm suffocate.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Man, not gonna suffocate. Our tubes have been tested on.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
A summer cake. There's no ventilation down there.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Man, it's only failed twice.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
This is so disrespectful for me as an actor. Man,
four years of school and you want to shoot me
and bury me. Do I'm a die for real.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We're doing you a favor. We're gonna make you a star.
You're an undiscovered You're.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Gonna be sorry. They won't even see me at.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The end of this.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
We're gonna put the project up on YouTube and maybe
we can know toube.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
This is a big budget movie. I thought, you.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Know, we need a big budget. So we're filming a
raw version of it. We're putting it on Kickstarter.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
No, so you call me it for YouTube video? You're
gonna tape on your iPhone?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
No, we got cameras. I gotta go problem.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
No, man's my favorite YouTube video. Man, Derk, I'm not
doing it. If this movie makes money, you get paid.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's a good thing. Man, it's on YouTube. But movie, man,
it's a it's a YouTube clip. Man. You never know,
go viral.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's right now.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Justin Biebers started on YouTube. Look what it did for
his music.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Man, I'm not just I'm an active man.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
How about you be the star of a phone tap?
Can we work on that one? Because I think that
you already are.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
What what's up?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
This is scary.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Jones smells Strand in the Morning Show and Dirk is
playing a phone tap.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So this is a joke.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, to radio, the whole film is a joke. There's
no there is no movie. No, there is no gig.
You are going nowhere tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You need directors out there hiring me. And hey, I
need a new agent too.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I met Elvis Duran's phone tap.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
This phone tap was pre recorded with permission granted by
all participates
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The Elvis Terran phone tap only on Elvis Duran in
the Morning Show
Don't answer the phone, Elvis durand Elvis Duran's phone tappened?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Who does the phone tap? Today's scary? I do?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
What's it all about?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
So?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
DeShawn is an actor and his agent, Dirk, has had
trouble getting him work right now. So Dirk thought it
would be funny if I called the Sean from the
big production that his agent finally got him work on. Unfortunately,
this is probably not the kind of acting gig that
the Sewan had in mind.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hello, Hi, I'm looking for Deshaun Phillidon Please.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hey, this is him, DeShawn.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
What's up? It's Chase Price from Type Casting Agency. What
are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hey? Hey, what's going on? Man? I'm working apart time
and let me step out real quick.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Did Dirk talk to you about the film?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
He told me a little bit about it, but not much.
I was expecting the script, you know, I want to
read the script. So when I get THEMN ready, just.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Make sure you bring your bulletproof vest and we'll see
you at eight o'clock tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
A bulletproof as so. I don't own a bulletproof ass Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know what, we have a couple of them that
we've used in that last couple of films.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Because I'm confused, man, So you just want me to
show up tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So the gunman is gonna take seven shots.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Right at you, gunment GM and then you're gonna fall
to the floor. But I thought I had speaking lines.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You do You do have a line in here?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's can you tell me what the line is?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So I'm just gonna die in the movie. There's no
speaking lines.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
There's a dramatic moment in the film.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
The camera's gonna zoom out as far back as possible,
about one hundred feet and way in the distance. From behind,
We're gonna see your silhouette, and the gunman's gonna take
seven shots at you, and you're you're gonna scream and
fall to the floor.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I need to give my agent on the phone, man,
because that's not what I was told. I was told
I had a speaking.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Role, and you do speak, you do speak.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm not speaking. I'm screaming. That's there's two different things, man.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But that's a line. It is a line.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
A line. That's not a line. Man. You're in the shot, man, No,
I'm getting shot. I'm not in the shot. I need
to speak to my agent and possibly get the castin director.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Get him on the phone. Hold on one second on
the phone, hold on, let me dial him.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And why would I need a bulletproof vest? Hollywood? It's
not like you were using real bullets.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
We're going to be using real bullets, so we want
to make sure that you're set safe.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Man. Isn't there something law in Hollywood that you can't
use real bullets?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
This is dirt, Hi, Dirk, this is Chase Price from
Type Casting Agency. Have your client, DeShawn.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Rolling on the phone with me, Oh, you need to
talk able man? What Dirk? There's no speaking line. I'm
not saying anything. I'm getting shot from one hundred feet
away with my back to the camera, and they want
me to bring a damn bulletproof vest because they're using
real bullets. Dirt, What did you get me into? DeShawn?
Come on, man, you know you're my guy, and you
told me I was in two scenes and I had
(02:45):
speaking lines. I'm not even speaking you know. The talnel
direct say that's my speaking line.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
You are in two scenes.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The second scene, We're gonna put you in a casket,
drop you down six feet, and I'm gonna put dirt
over you.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Dude. Dude, that's against the law. You can't do that.
That's the We don't have a stunt double.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's only going to be for four hours.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
DeShawn. This is your break, man, This is just get
you there, brother. They want to bury me. Man, how
I'm going to breathe if I'm six feet under?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
We have the technology. We're going to have tubes up
your nose. And that's going on.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
At the cast and director. You shot the government talking
to you. I'm talking to my age, Dirk. This is
industry standards to shun. I don't know why. It's nothing
else is standing for me to be shot by gun?
There is six feet under. How do I get you work?
If you don't take the work, I guess you this
is where you are. I think it's took a door months.
That's why I'm working my part time job. Man. You
(03:37):
promise me speaking line? Man, Bosh you ten years five
years signing you. Man, you promise me to figure out
all those white actors that you are. You managed, you
get those guys speaking line. You can't get me a
speaking line.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Everything here in the contract that Dirk signed on your
behalf is here.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Okay, it signed them behalf yeah, sign forging my name? Now, man,
you know what and your movie. I'm an actor that
went to school for years for this, Man.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I have to act dead. Do you know how to
act that?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
That's the way I got a degree acting? Man, Not
to get shot and buried. Man, there's no I'm suffocate.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Man, not gonna suffocate. Our tubes have been tested on.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
A summer cake. There's no ventilation down there.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Man, it's only failed twice.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
This is so disrespectful for me as an actor. Man,
four years of school and you want to shoot me
and bury me. Do I'm a die for real.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
We're doing you a favor. We're gonna make you a star.
You're an undiscovered You're.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Gonna be sorry. They won't even see me at.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
The end of this.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
We're gonna put the project up on YouTube and maybe
we can know toube.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
This is a big budget movie. I thought, you.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Know, we need a big budget. So we're filming a
raw version of it. We're putting it on Kickstarter.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
No, so you call me it for YouTube video? You're
gonna tape on your iPhone?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
No, we got cameras. I gotta go problem.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
No, man's my favorite YouTube video. Man, Derk, I'm not
doing it. If this movie makes money, you get paid.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
That's a good thing. Man, it's on YouTube. But movie, man,
it's a it's a YouTube clip. Man. You never know,
go viral.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's right now.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Justin Biebers started on YouTube. Look what it did for
his music.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Man, I'm not just I'm an active man.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
How about you be the star of a phone tap?
Can we work on that one? Because I think that
you already are.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
What what's up?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
This is scary.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Jones smells Strand in the Morning Show and Dirk is
playing a phone tap.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
So this is a joke.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, to radio, the whole film is a joke. There's
no there is no movie. No, there is no gig.
You are going nowhere tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
You need directors out there hiring me. And hey, I
need a new agent too.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I met Elvis Duran's phone tap.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
This phone tap was pre recorded with permission granted by
all participates
Speaker 3 (05:44):
The Elvis Terran phone tap only on Elvis Duran in
the Morning Show
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