October 25, 2021 • 50 mins
This week, our host Ari is still away working on “Saturday Night Live,” but don’t worry…Producer Andy is here to keep cranking out the magic until he returns. Please enjoy our interviews with special guest contributors Max Koch (“Kung Fu Panda: Legends Of Awesomeness”), Phillip Wilburn (“Conan,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,”) John Milhiser (“SNL,” “Drama Club”).
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy, our
host Ari is in New York at the moment working
on Saturday Night Live. Yes, that's right. In the meantime,
we're replaying some of my favorite interviews that we've had
from guest contributors thus far. This week we've got Max Cook,
Philip Willburn, and John Millheiser. Let's start with the incredibly
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talented Mr Max Cook. Enjoy let's get to know this
week's especially against contributor Max Cook. Hi X, how's it
going already? Any day? I'm very well? Thanks? Hi Max? Hi?
Hi Andy? How are you doing? I'm all right? Thank you? Brother.
Have you been listening to the show for a long time? Yes?
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How long have you been listening? Um? One episode? Okay,
so you're a man, that's a long time. So tell
us about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do?
What are your favorite things to watch? Oh? I was
born in Lansing, Michigan, and I'm a I'm merrily a
voice actor and I love to watch the sopranos. Oh, nice,
Um is your favorite character in the You know, the soprano?
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The fucking make are It's pretty good? Yeah? Is that?
A is that. Yeah, that's pretty good Opporcino impression. Thank you.
And here is my Jack Nicholson. That's pretty good. How
do you like it? Sounds a little bit more like right,
here's my Robert de Niro? Yeah, how do you like it?
So far? Very on on on on the money is
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what they say. Yeah, they said that. So do you
remember the first time that you did radio? Yeah? When
was that? Oh? Gosh, maybe, Um, so you don't remember
two thousand, it's been about eighteen years. Who and um,
did you start radio here? Do you start radio? No? Uh,
not Michigan. I'm I was born in Michigan, but I
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lived in California since House seven and radio has been
a big deal. And uh, I did work here. I
still work here. I've worked here for about fifteen years,
there being Los Angeles. But did you always wanted to
be in radio when you were a kid? Uh? No,
I wanted to act. I didn't want anything to do
with radio, but it just worked out that way. Okay, class,
let's find out what we want to do when we
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grow up, when we when we become adults. What do
you want to do? Chris? And I'm a big boy.
I want to be a police chief. Okay, police chief,
that's right, thank you, thank you. Your doctor's speaking a
lot of lawyers, but for now I'll have to wait
because I'm this many. Max, I want to be an actor.
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I'm gonna have a totin greatest Max. Um. I'm not
saying that you can't be an actor, but do you
ever thought about like maybe something like I don't know,
you sound just like the guy on the radio. That
might that might on the radio station my dad listens
to on the way to school, becoming act like a
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radio No, neveryone thought about it. Haven't been on the radio.
I haven't heard the radio. I don't even listen to
the radio. So what do you think should still take
an acting class? I don't know any actors who sound
tricks Chris, Chris. Listen a few people I know who
sound like Chris. What if you want to pursue your dream,
you should do it. So Max, if that's what you
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want to be as an actor, then then so be it.
You can make anything happen. We actually got a tape
of one of Max's early auditions. Um, okay, so tell
me your name and what you're reading for and how
tall you work. My name is Max. Comes five nine,
and I'm reading for the glass. Okay, so in the scene, um,
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your family has died. I don't really know the glass.
I'm just I'm just a casting associate. Okay. So in
the scene, uh, your partners died and then you have
to deal with that. You have to unpack that. So um,
so just have fun with it. Okay, here we go.
My partner has died and we are rolling one to three.
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Excuse me, Look, if we're going to rant you this
software space, do you have to be this loud going
on down here? This? We get a lot of actors,
but this is the only one that's kind of yelling
out really loud. People keep complaining that can hear you
because you're being so loud asport I'm trying to tell
and if you keep word up, we're going to lose
it over kicking. Yeah, look route over space. BA. Sorry
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that was our landlord. What was the first radio job
you ever had? I'm not in radio, really. I I
do voice over, I do animation, I work. I worked
hard time in radio and a half for years just
doing morning pits for shows. Very nice. Um do you
ever do were you ever a big pan prank? Calls?
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Crank calls. Sure, crank calls are a lot of fun.
Did you ever do them yourself? Or? Okay, have you
ever been the recipient of a prank calls? Anybody ever
called you? Uh? No? But um, I've been a recipient
of a prank on a famous show and I saw
right through the prank. And really tell us more about that. Well,
I was going to my dry cleaners and some guy
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came out, not my usual dry cleaner, and he had
I brought my clothes and I set my clothes in
the counter and he comes out with chicken sauce all
over his fingers, like wing sauce, and starts touching all
my clothes with wing sauce. And I said, uh, this
is this is a This is a prank, isn't it?
And and they had to stop production. It was for
the Jimmy Kimmel Show. And I guess he has a
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cousin who would prank people. And you know, I'm a
huge Jackass fan and like instantly, so it's the wrong mark. Uh,
welcome to Grace and Cafe. Uh just for one table
for one? Yeah? What what's so fun? Let me take
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you back to your table. Come on, let's go what
what's going. We're going to bring you to the table.
Not that's going. Why would anything? We are got you?
All right, yeah, we take you back to the table.
Just here's some menus? Good? Why do you want to
take a look at this venue? All right? I don't
know what's going on here. Look at the venue, Look
at the menue. I'm looking at the menu. Yeah, noticed anything,
noticed anything weird about it? Human body parts are on
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the menu? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yeah we have but right there,
that's pretty weird. You do you want to order? The
calf was a little rare? Ye? Oh boy? Is this?
This is this a joke? Damn it? Bit guys. I mean,
it's really transparent that you have body part I go
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to this restaurant all the time. You know, it's look
and then the fact that you guys are snickering like
maniacs when I just we were laughing. That's something else
that we were thinking before we were we were laughing
at this. We were all loving at the joke and
we're talking about But I love pranks, and you guys
have the potential. I mean, the ideas are good. It's
just you you're a little too obvious, that's all. You
just need to be a little more subtle in some dude. So, um,
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just the regular basic car wash. H yeah, just the
basic car wash. Why don't you by the way, Oh,
let's see that. Oh that that's yeah, a lot a
lot of money off. And then did you want the
barbecue saucewax? Yeah, that that's our Let me talk to
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best selling Jim Jim dead, Jim Dad Jim killed. Yeah,
Jim Jim Jim died. Yeah, we killed him. Jim married
my sister when we killed you sister too? Hey, what
is the meaning of all this nonsound? You just got
light too, We got we got it, we got it.
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There's no barbecue. You're on your light too. Yeah, so
you guys, but really, I don't tell anybody we killed
your sister. No wait, wait, why are you laughing? Why
would we kill her sisters for production? Now you said
you said to you said, why would you do that? Sorry,
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if we have a private meeting, this is a real
car watching and go ahead, But your sister is dead. Yeah,
sorry what you looked at me? And you see? Now
I gotta deal with his crying and then we gotta
deal with the legal implications. She didn't killed somebody for production.
I'm involved. I'm involved now. I took care of her.
I raised her practically on my own because my mom
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our mom worked two jobs and my dad died before
I was born. Look, this was his idea. How could
you whose idea? This is your idea? Said Snicker, Like
how you did? How could you laugh my sorrow? And
how could you broadly? I was laughing murder for a prime.
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I was laughing at something that we talked about earlier.
But he said he looked me in the show one
right now, I don't want what I got. These two
idiots over here at the car one I pulled up
just like Jim's not here. O down, okay, slow down?
Oh god, so so Jim slower? Jim's not here slower
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at the car was okay, slower, slow down. He's too good,
slow down. I'm sorry. I'm also on the line. What
are the two good? Slow slow down? There? Jasper and
Joseph for something I don't even know where. We're sending
units out right now. You can speak to m Mr Jasper,
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please please. Mr Jasper was my father's name. You can
call me Jasper. So we got a report that you
murdered someone's sister. Uh, yeah, but it was Frank show.
He do you do you do you realize that you
have to go to jail for the rest of your life? No?
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Do you realize? Right? Because it really I didn't really
kill it. You just wait, you lied to up me? Yeah?
You we pray yourk you we No, we prayed do you?
Brak mean you and you and you've been lied to.
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So you have a really good way of seeing through pranks.
That's great. Um, we had I had a conversation earlier.
You had said mentioned that you were a big wine guy. Yeah,
I love wine. What's your what's your favorite varietal? I
think my favorite varietal is a for white, I love
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a Savignon blanc. And for red, I love a peanut oar.
I find a peanut peanut oars that. Really there's not
a body might wrong. No, you're absolutely right. I know
you're a cabman, so that's that's good. Body is good.
But pinot red red affects my libido. So if it's
too oh excellent, But if I have too much red,
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I become very very uh saucy. And so I think
if I do a hard cab, I'm definitely gonna go
the distance or try to get something going. Um, I
think we just want to see the wine list here
you are? What can I get you guys to drink?
No cab? Thrip? No no for me please, no cab.
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What would you like a drink? Uh? God, do you
have any? Just sorry, my apologies. Let me get the
ladies order first, my apologies. What would you like a drinking? Um?
I would like a salmonlanc um. But just make sure
you don't bring him a cab. Seriously, what vintage do
you want? She keeps looking at me because she's trying
to learn about wine. Understand. Yeah, what will you help?
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Just tell? Do you want to save our blamors? Yes?
From seventies? She doesn't like it, she likes it? Sweet? Sweet,
Just to be honest with you, I really don't care
what I have as long as he does not have cows. Gotcha.
I have took care of myself twice this morning. I
think I'll be all I know. I've heard a lot
about the cab. The cab. Just um, this sounds like
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there's a lot of insight info here that I'm not
pretty to. You don't want him to have a cab.
I get that. There's no need to say it again.
Cann you want you want some camp seven? Yes, okay,
great from and then what would you like, sir? Not
a cab Yeah, maybe just a Randy Port. Okay, Randy,
be right back with your drinks. God, why do you
always got to be like this every time you go
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into a tasting room. Stop bringing up my problems with
cabernets caused me to want you more like your entire
he's coming, he's coming. Okay, here is your I shouted
out after you had a cab okay, and then here
is your Randy Port. Did you want to taste them
first before we actually pour the bottle? Give chocolate, Chuckolate,
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I'd like a little chocolate to put on my tongue,
just doing to there's no cabin there right, Oh my god,
cabernet chocolate. M God, why did you do that? Why
did you give me? Honestly, man, come here? You said
cabernet so many times, and then if you would have
just said at once right, continuously repeating get off me,
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get off me, get off me, get off? All right?
What about you buddy? Come here? Yeah, yeah, give him
his medicine. Trump, Thanks to our especially guests contributor Max Cook. Thanks,
coming up our interview with Philip Wilburn. But first a
few words from our sponsors. Welcome back to this As
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Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for Ari while
he is in New York City working on Saturday Night Live.
We're playing some of our favorite interviews from this season
so far. Up next, here's Philip Wilburn. And now let's
get to know especially guys. Contreeter for this week, Philip Wilburn. So, Philip,
tell us little about yourself. Um, my name is Philip Holburn.
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I'm I'm from Texas. Originally I'm a comedian and I
do a lot of impressions and do a lot of
sketch comedy. And uh yeah, I've watched a lot of
videos in the past and um, you have, hands down
some of the best impressions side I've seen. Um, can
we hear one of them? Let's hear some, you know what,
(14:33):
I'm doing. A lot of President Trump a little bit
pretty good. I got a lot of them. And then
in the old days, I used to do a lot
of bal and thick, but there's not a lot of
goal for that anymore. It's pretty good. How do you
get into impressions? You know, when I was a little kid,
I started doing uh impressions right away. The first two
sadly weird impressions I did were so cliche. One was
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my dad. I would just do whatever I was watching
on TV. And the two that I remember, my dad
always watched Western, so we did a lot of John
Wayne and then also Uncle Arthur from Bewitched, And what
a dynamic duo those would be. You know, it's just
so weird. You know, we actually have some of that
in the archives. All right, kids, is after five o'clock.
I want everybody to sit down in front of the TV.
And I don't want anybody to talk because I'm gonna
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watch my Western's. But that can we talk about like
what I did at school? I don't want to hear
any words out of either one of you. Alright, you
love Philip way more than me, that's true. But now
it's not the time to unpack that. Well, Dad, why
don't we watch a little of your favorite show, maybe
True Grid or maybe The Son's at Katie Elder is
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so good? It is so good to watch Adam twelve?
Can we watch I thought I seem to recall asking
you not to speak even here, Adam, my brother, Adam,
You're just total losers. You're just sitting over there doing
anohing one. You just keep it sucking on Wi the
oldest Gregs the spotlight here you doom good. I love you, Daddy,
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I love you too. He just gets away with everything. Dad,
My show is coming on, My show is coming on.
I love this character, Dad, It's so funny. It's such
a funny character. Oh, samanth I love it. I love
it so much. Honey. I went to my purse just
now and I'm missing I'm missing thirty. But missing thirty's
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such a penny pure. I saw, I saw Philip got
It was you who took your money. It was Philip, Daddy.
Look at my new ball Live. I love it. I
love it, and I like how for me thirty dollars again? Great,
it's great that put tune two together. He stole it
from mom's purse. Man, why don't you just shut up?
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You Philip, be a deer and ask your brother to
walk up there and turn down the Hey, Adam, why
didn't you got turn down? Then went the knob because
we don't have a remote control. When did you discover
that you wanted to do this in front of other people, Like,
would you started to stand up or was it just
I did a lot of improv in Dallas, and I
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worked with a guy named Randy Bennett, one of the
founders of the ground Links. He taught kind of the
ground Links program in Texas and Pocket s Imwage Theater.
It was not Pokistanwich Theater. It was called Upstage Smart
Comedy Smart Cocktails, which was a horrible name, but it
was part of Lone Star Comedy. And then when when
did you decide you wanted to make it a thing?
You know what, I've always wanted to do it. When
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I was a little kid, I broke our television and
the frame came off and that was my favorite toy
and I always wanted to be on TV and do
that kind of stuff. So i've since since I was
a little kid. I did it. But when I started
doing improv, it was weird because that kind of and
sketch comedy really kind of made it where I was like, Oh,
this is this is really what I want to do,
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and uh, I kind of was floundering a lot until
my teacher found out that I did impressions in the
moment he found out idea impressions, he was like, Oh,
this is right, this is the goal mine. I can
do something with this and so so yeah, that was
that was kind of my forte in and it was
a weird transition because then started things started blossoming from that.
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You know, you'd meet a bunch of improv people and
you would get to do some weird things. A lot
of one of my first professional vo gigs was from
improv because a lot of the improv guys in Dallas
were um directors and cast members on Dragon ball Z.
And so I got a part on Dragon ball Z
because I was in this group of people, and I
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got one of the most hated characters of all of
Dragon ball Z, this character called Android nineteen. It was
a fat android who uh would try to kill people
and but he had this really weird, squeaky, high pitched voice,
and uh yeah, it was one of the most hated characters.
His name is his name is, His name is Andrey
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named Keen, and he talks like this and he says, Hi,
are we to steal energy? I guess what we have
some of that in the archives steel alright, Uh, Dragon
ball Z of the character is android. I'm sorry to
think this night in my auditioning. First you go ahead,
give me the breakdown first to the character. Um, he's
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a a fat character and he's uh, he's not very
well liked, so you can help try to overcome the
charter fat and not very well liked. Alight, I got it.
There you go, he's gonna book me right away. This
guy's and I don't even know why he's here because
it was an open call. All right, well whatever, there
we go. Thank you. Yeah, damn, we are your energy
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freaking kid black. I think it's pretty good. That matches
your your breakdown. Yeah, if you ask me. Um, okay,
so let's my phone. Really that was really great. I
really felt like he was. So then I'll come back
and record that I got the No, you do not
have the job. I don't know. I just said that
was okay. Do you want to slate? Do you want to? Yes?
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Please you? Yeah. I'm Philip Bulborn with the Campbell Agency Dallas. Uh,
and I just want to say I'm excited about this opportunity. Uh.
And I do a lot of voices, So if you
need other androids like hello, oh oh, thank the make
up dear, you know good warnings, you know all those kids. Great, Yeah,
it's great. So I was thinking he's fat, so I
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want to play against time, you know. And uh so
instead of playing him like that guy, I was thinking
very high like this, and I could creeping out by
people like doing this. Hello the chica, I'm in steel
all the energy. Oh my, you're not hiring that guy
for sure. I don't even know why. I'm we are
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going to build a wall. This is going to be huge,
bigly energy. I'm going to steal all your energy, so bigly,
it's going to be huge, huge energy. I don't know.
I just think that could be a character that people
might hate. I'm really sorry. I When you did characters,
do you find it very difficult to be friends with
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people who were not comedians? Or when you went on dates, like,
did you find it a bit challenging? I? You know,
I do think that a funny voice can open up,
you know, a world of dating. But after a while
they get tired of it. So that's that's definitely a definitely,
But there are definitely some girls that maybe like the voice.
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It's someone worked and then someone didn't work right, right, Hey,
let's check the archives. Come on, come on, I was
I just I just saw her three days ago, and
now she's she's gone. What happened? Tell me what happened?
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A car A car drove by, and she looked at
the car are and then she fell into a man
who oh, my cosins. Manholes are so bad. Just be serious,
help me tell me everything. Everything will be okay. I
have a very particular skill. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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Whoa hey, cover discovery. That's not bad. That's not good.
Everything we can to save people with manho covers. It's
very true. It's very true. It's something we're working on. Tremendous,
tremendous manhole covers. They say, say, I alone can fix it.
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I alone can fix the mano problem. It's good, it's
good now, Dudel. Hello, I'm sorry I have to tell
you this. But when your friends fell into the manhole,
you're their friend, Alice was already in the manhole, and
they landed out of each other contect. Both of your
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friends died. Yes, at the same time. You know who
can fix that? Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, pick show me
the same show with the money show. Read the money Show,
Read the Money everything's gonna be fine. Let's have sex
with each other. You complete me, and so does your friend.
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Now is each other? They complete each other. They became
each other because they hit each other but their body. So. Um,
did you ever have any um jobs before you landed
doing voice work and acting? And yeah, I one of
my weird side gigs is I um, I can operate
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a Doppler radar. I have been a weather producer for
many t V stations and I do that on the side,
is I you know I do that occasionally. I'm a
weather producer. Do they have a hard time taking you
seriously when there's like serious weather conditions coming because they
think maybe you're joking about it? Yeah? I mean sometimes
sometimes there there have been moments when I've I've been
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too jokey in a serious situation. You know. You know,
we actually have some of that in the archives. All right,
tell me about what's going on here, Philip. I mean,
my car just flipped over the wind just flipped my
car over me. Those maps on the wall, it's just
like Twister. You know the movie Twister where they had
the cows and stuff like that. Damn it, would you
be fucking real, please, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, it
(24:38):
looks like there's a tornado warning for Dallas County. I
just it's good. There is a tornado warning Foras County.
It be serious. Please, this is not the time. It's
not the time. Tornado all day, Donos County. Who m okay, Well,
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I'm just trying to make sure you know. Come on seriously,
it says there's hail the size of golf balls. We
want to thank our special guest contributor, billisville Burn. Coming
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up our interview with John mill Heiser, But first a
few words from our sponsors. Stay with us, Welcome back
to this As Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in
for Ari while he is in New York City working
on Saturday Night Live. We're playing some of our favorite
interviews from our guest contributors over the course of the
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past season. Up next, here is our interview with John Millheiser. Enjoy.
A special guest contributor is John Miller? Good? How are
you you? Did I pence that quickly? John? Realize you Yeah.
It's both the correct So it tells you about yourself
from I guess I grew up in New Jersey. Nice.
All parts of New Jersey. You know then, like you're
(26:11):
from New Jersey. Yeah, I get that. I have been told.
I say, yeah a lot, yeah, yeah, and that's my
most Jersey accident. I think you miss anything from Jersey. No,
I just got back, so it's nice. I haven't been
in two years because of the indulge me or do
you leaving after a two year? I hate? Is? Was
there anything you missed? I missed the hogies, I missed
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the boardwalk. There's a there's a boardwalk. And I explained
to me what a uh is. Well, hoogie is like
a sub like subway, but hoogi. Um, it's like very
I guess Jersey and probably like Pennsylvania term. Um. Is
there anything that makes it different? Yeah, what's the same?
(26:53):
Same same thing? Yeah, it's a bad same For some reason,
we like calling it hoogie. And I'm not familiar with
the term hero. You explained what that is. It's like
it's like a hog exactly. It's like a hog, yeah,
or a sub or like a sandwich. No, No, he's
not sandwich. Not even do you know what a hero is.
It's like that. Um. I went to a very school,
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so I've had any of these, probably had a HOGI
They're totally not is the sandwich right? Because if I've
never had one of those, that's saying right. I do
very very very meticulous, particulously made backers and then some
short COOTI do you have any other questions for our
I'm sorry? So did you enjoy your trip to New Jersey? Oh?
(27:37):
I enjoyed my trip so much. Yeah, rejuvenated me. I
haven't seen some family members in a while, and yeah,
it was just nice. Did you ever have any friends
or family in the mafia. In the mafia, well, the
Coasta Nostra, the Coasta Nostra growing up in I grew
up in Bergen County, North Jersey and Parano's Country. Yeah,
(27:58):
I was too young to know what was happening, but
I was told that the mob guy was arrested down
the street like him and his wife. Yeah, oh that's
pretty you know, we actually have that, we have that
in the archivet that arrest one. You alright, don't get
an you shut up. You are under arrest, underrest for
(28:18):
what don't you arrest? My sweet look lady, what you
under arrest? Why did I freaking do to you know?
I didn't do nothing. Nobody everybody knows. I didn't do nothing. Nobody,
I'd never doing the same thing. What exactly is it?
Do you think that we are freaking doing over here?
Where do I begin? Do you recketeer? That's a very
(28:40):
serious charge. I run a very respectable business. I don't
know what you think I do on a normal day basis.
Your business might be a lot of things, very respectable.
I make a very honest, good living living. Yeah, good,
look at you? Look at your yard? Okay, what about it?
I got gnomes like everybody else. Listen your work. Nomes
in the yard. That's not a very serious crime. But
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that's seriously that the racket hearing, that's a pretty freaking
serious crime. Did it side? Marie? Stay out it? She didn't.
She needs to hear all this because she's coming down
to the prestinct. But what she didn't do? Nothing? She
got him? God, say what do you? What are you saying?
Do nothing? Tell us what we did? Tell us what
you think we did? What I Loretta he k Marie did?
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What did I? Marietta get it? Side? I'm not going
to stay out. I feel like I should listen to
the freaking cops. But also I should listen to my
freaking maid, squeeze over. I don't know what to want
between two people. Also, you and I were very much
same guys. You well, we grew up in the same neighborhood,
down the street from each other. You went one way,
(29:46):
I went to the other. You became a copet became
a respectable businessman. Ward what you can do? And you
got Loretta a Diguloretta war. Well, you're gonna do it.
Try to arrest me because I got the girl. Do
you really wanted you go in boys? You know what
shoot boys? Boys? Fellis there's plenty of me to go
(30:06):
freaking around. Way. I want to stay outside and break
this up and also figure out what what what? What
proof do you have with the recketeering. By the way,
it's my freaking prerogative. Where what I do with my
d You don't, don't. I don't tell her what to do?
You do whatever she wants? What is prerogative? Mean? What's
(30:27):
google four? Sorry? He's four, big brother? What is prerogative?
Big blood? I don't even look run over? He doesn't
freak either. Goats All right, let's get back to the
fucking breast text. He you're just sucking jealous I really
(30:49):
think that he's going to arrest you because he has
some serious evidence about the recketeering. I don't think it
really has m should do with jealousy. I mean, what
do you you have tapes or something? You got an informant?
What do you have? You got nothing? You got a
garage full of tennis rackets? Yeah? And whose looks to play?
Fucking Tannis? Look at me, I'm a fucking I'm Andres.
Oh we ever do pcampers? Also? He's also it's you
(31:13):
love Mack and remember freaking never tolover overheat Billy Jean King. Okay, okay,
now we've established go back to watch you watch your evidence.
Tennis rackets? Yeah, what are you gonna doing? All those
tennis rackets, all those stolen? What makes you think the stolen?
I like to buy things in Molk. I gotta talk
to the cop for a second real quick. Hey, honey, sugar,
(31:37):
hold on my second. I'm gonna talk to this cop alright.
I'm gonna try to set him straight. Listen, why are
you mentioning informants? You gonna put my coffee? I didn't
think you don't. I don't even think about telling him that.
I keep you guys off to the freaking tennis rackets.
I know you're doing a great job. He didn't you
playing undercover? Really well, what did you say? He? Did
you know about the tennis rackets. I'm the only person
(31:58):
who could have been freak impossibly you don't want to
there's tennis rackets missing all around town, and they're all
in your garage. All right, people asking questions. I thought
that's what racketeering meant. Also, can you do me a
quick Also? Can you do me a quick favor? Can
you stop calling me by my code name Loretta and
call me Marie? Please? This freaking I think that my
(32:20):
name is Marie and you call me Loretta right off
the bed. You gotta blow my freaking cover. Please, all right,
let's do Oh my god, this cop just call shit.
Yeah Marie, hold on, I say, I gotta talk to
it is freaking you call me Loretta again. I'm pretty
(32:40):
sure I didn't know you did the first words out
of your mount after I walked back from my baby here,
my sweet cheeks, my honey bunch, what's Loretta? I just
highly doubt that I don't screw up a lot. I
think the fans have that in the allchives. Why don't
we go back? All right? Yeah, guys in the fan,
can you play that back? The one rom with it
(33:01):
forty seconds ago? Wait? You want to do me a
favorite and not call me? You just hit it again? See? Oh?
Can you do me another favor? Can you not yell out? Hey?
Guys in the FBI truck, can you run back? You
gotta whisper it into yellow pel don't just willy nilly
(33:22):
freaking Lovetta. Guys in the FBI truck, can you check
your eyes from ten seconds and go to Proton? Is
freaking a coach that he freaking said Loretta? Please yeah,
play another one? Yes, thank you. This is the FBI
playing tape number seven forty and boys just want to
have no that was that was the wrong tape. Let
me in forman you along and talking about I like that?
(33:51):
So that's really good? Have you had the whole album?
I like it? Do you want to play another tracker? Phimissions?
But I husband didn't really know what to make about
this relationship between the cop and his nudity with life.
It seemed little fishy. Still, he had to go talk
to his capos and his uh, his underbuss what's the problem.
I don't know, Like there's something going on between me,
(34:12):
my my, my wife and the you know his cop
with Marie. Marie would never do nothing. I don't know
she would never, would you think come here to do
a good permission from you to have to do something.
I don't know what You're all right? You know what?
Can I talk to the other on the boards? Please?
Somebody's not gonna be starting all over the words? You
know my problem? So what should I do? Do I
(34:34):
do I take action? Or do I just let it go?
Do you love this woman? You know that I love it?
But you know I almost got pinched over these fucking
these tennis racket the tennis racket racket. Somebody's feeding the
cops information. I don't know who it is. Are you
accusing us ware exactly? What do you do? Mind? If
you think they were reds? No, don't think I'm just
(34:55):
red you out and your racket, right, I'm never Why
would we would just be shooting their own cells in
the foots. I don't know what I'm saying this. There
might be some like you know, the inn informance, you know,
would give me a second. I'm gonna talk. I think
my wife's an informant. This one's wanna get in. Marie
would never do something like that. I'm gonna confer with
the under boys here for a second to school over
(35:17):
there for a second. By the clock, I think that
he's on the effected the redder. It's an informant and
thus me and you because we we we we are
also informants over How do you like the clock? Oh?
That's pretty nice? Huh like that especially made from the
from Johnny Clocks. I don't know what the first thing
(35:42):
that good? You came up with that? Because Johnny clocks
a place I would assume that he that's his nickname,
because he made clocks. I don't know. I don't know.
I really don't know what I get the Johnny Clocks
says the clocks. What Johnny Clocks got out of the
clock business? He did he does pools now. I didn't
get the binder the defense gave us to get us
up to speed them don't want us in the community.
(36:02):
Did nobody tell me the meeting? I'm sorry, Like you know,
aupt very important, you know on the boss meeting? What
can I get like some kind of direction or maybe
like get more rackets? Yeah, you need to get more
rackets and dumni deep in this racket. Rackets. Definitely, don't
kill Marie. Do not kill Marie. She's a decorated woman, civilian,
(36:25):
she's wired tapped. I mean, she is good cook, she
is an FBI, she's a teacher. She teaches kids how
to make for a cheni polonaise. That's what bi. Are
you even Italian? What are you talking about? Blogne? But
(36:47):
what you see I'm saying that a cheni. It was
clear that everybody in the family was an infloyment except
for Joe. It was a purist throwing up and it's
amazing about being made and only when he got there,
you know that. But of lifestyle was being an employment
and everybody was doing a bit in I feel like,
you know, I don't know, I'm not understood by everybody.
(37:09):
You know, some of the somethings different. It's not the same.
But I think you're talking about it's just not the
same Italian I know, But you know, it's it's like
it feels like maybe it's a different in generation. Maybe
it's different part of Italy, maybe it's part of definitely
he guys from I don't know. I don't know what
you laugh so much? That sounds like a very a
very tough particamentarian. You know what, I'm going to confer
(37:30):
with my fellow Italian quin quin National, and now we're
going to going to discuss it. I think that's onto
the fact that we are in farmers fould work. We've
ben filtrated the Yeah, thank you, thanks for a farm
and don't be a favorite cut, You're not, You're it's
allowed one and whisper what do you do it? It's
the way I speak? Is that what I was like
(37:53):
when the when the guy got arrested. Yeah, it was
all over town, all over the papers, everything, every gay
it was, uh yeah, that's what it was a nice
Uh So theere's what you do on your your comedian, comedian, actor, writer,
(38:13):
teacher since the pandemic started doing some zoom character classes
and stuff of everything that you do would gives you
most satisfaction performing? Yes, yeah, right now we're kind of
in a performing stalemate, right do you do shows at home? Friends? Um?
I've tried a few zoom stand up shows and I
they weren't fun to do. But I do like shooting videos,
(38:36):
you know, and then posting them wherever, just to get
some comedy out there. And you're currently on a show
you play a teacher. Yes, I play a drama teacher
on the show Drama Club on Nickelodeon. I thought it
was very funny. Can you tell us to do about it? Sure?
It's um a show Nickelodeon called Drama Club about the
middle school drama club and just you know that you
(38:59):
got the rock, you got the influencer girl, you got
the real drama rama kid. And they all just like
a mismatch group of kids that are trying to put
on a production of Minnesota the Musical and it's just
they get into hi drinks and it's created by Maddy
Whitby and Monica Sharer. Oh, it's like The Office. It's
(39:22):
a mockumentary but for like a middle school. Yeah, they
took it's like baking a fourth Well. They talked to
the people professionals. Yeah yeah yeah. Uh pop watch like
I've been say by the bell maybe that guy time
out Zack. Yes, and you just talk to the audience
(39:44):
and you felt like you was getting a window into
his life. Yeah like that. I remember that. Were you
in drama but when you were younger? Yes, I was
in all the My middle school was inside the high school.
So in seventh grade I was in like the music
and but I was always playing the townsperson. And then um,
it wasn't until like senior year that I got Marcus
(40:07):
likes and a funny thing having the way the form.
But like, yeah, I was never given good roles. I
was always extra. We actually have the your your production
of the music Man. Yeah, we have the audition for
that and you play it. Yeah. Oh the Wells Fargo
Wagon is coming down the street. Oh please let it
(40:27):
be fun me thank you, John. So um, you do
this every time you wait around. You need to let us,
you know, deliberate. Well, you know that's happened before, and
and you're on every play you audition. Yeah I think so. Yeah,
(40:51):
I do have a quick note. I take great notes. Yeah,
I love notes. I would love your feedback. Just a
slight problem with your with your select show. Um, the
audition was actually for the song we Got Trouble my
Friends right here, right here in River City City play.
I exactly did you not choose the same time. I
(41:12):
wanted to like stand out, like I wanted to like
go against the green. I wanted you know you we
probably were getting sick of that song, right, shake your head, Yes,
you're getting sick of that. Well, we just part the
part that you're auditioning for sings that song. Yeah, so
that's why it's important for you to sing the song,
because you'll be doing that in the place if we
gave you the part, you understand. Now, look, I appreciate
(41:33):
your zealousness. A word? Is that a word? Zealousness? A
word zealous nous z e A l O U n
e s s zealousness. Well, can you look up zealousness please?
Gil if the word indeed? Alright, good, we got that settled.
I don't want to punish you for really singing your
(41:54):
heart out. So I'm going to give you the role
of that bush. I was gonna say tree bush is
more appropriate. Yeah, so you got the crouch. I didn't
even know there was a bush in the script. Let
me just find that we created the part. Just we
couldn't let you go without having you know, Yeah, I
just I felt like you wanted what he said, Well,
(42:15):
the Wells Fargo Wagon. Actually we came up with an
original song for the bushes, like did you get Yeah,
you want to try that? So the very front part
(42:35):
that you start with. I don't need that, So you
don't need that, don't need it. Just go right to
the me me me me me you you you you you.
You know, why don't we give him the role of
Bush number two? Because that one doesn't have a mouths.
(42:59):
You just kept through do whoever you need to get.
I wanted that Bush part, and you know I I
got it. Two questions to have first one after you
probably the most successful actor out of your group of
people that you into drama Drama club with. Right do
you do you? I mean, do you like? I think, like,
look those guys, we're not giving me the parts that
(43:21):
I want. I was on the biggest show on the earth,
and I'm on another show. It's pretty great because they
do like that show. Actually, yeah, well I kept in
touch with my drama teacher who never gave me any
of the parts. Mrs Hanshon. We used to call our
hands on gin, you know, to get out of her um.
But I kind of just kept in touch with her
(43:43):
over the years. And then when I was on us
and now I was like, hey, my mom reached out
to her. She's like, Johnsontown, do you want him? To
speak to your drama club. So they had me come
in and speak to the current drama club at my
old high school. And then nobody knew about the show
I was on. And then nobody knew any of the
celebrities I brought up, and nobody was interested. And it
(44:05):
was a big, I feel like failure. They didn't care
what nobody knew? What did nobody knew? What sla We
just watch the tape? Yeah, I brought the tape class.
I am proud to Please don't call me miss hands
in chin. Guys, be nice. I am proud. I thought
(44:26):
that if I proactively said it, you wouldn't do it.
All right, Who's who? I'm just okay, let's get through it.
I'm proudly. I'm proud to welcome former student John Millis.
Am I pronouncing that correctly? Yes? John? Yeah? Robert Jr? No,
(44:49):
John Millheiser? Iron man? Or were you in? Oh? No,
I was not an iron Man. You're thinking tell him
what you do? Wouldn't America? No? No, no, no, I
am not in those that Marvel movie. No. I'm on
a fun show called Saturday Night Live. Oh come on,
(45:13):
Oh when is it on? It's on Saturdays. In the mornings. No, no, no,
no at night? And you know I could have gotten there.
You know, if it wasn't for miss hands On, he
almost did it. This thing I hate, I hate it
(45:33):
with you. I have a question, Yes, Garrett, have you
ever met Robert Downey Jr? Are you asking me or
you asking him him? Well, you said you had a question.
You were looking at me. I called on you. I know,
but I had I had a question for him. Oh
have you member Robert down a junior? Garrett wasn't Garrett? No,
I haven't, but I I can't imagine him hosting at
(45:53):
some point? WHOA Come? Do you play sport? Scarrett? Stop disrupting, No,
I don't play sports. Any questions about sketch comedy? Is
that where you do like a dance with the song
and then and then you make everybody else and everybody
else do the same. It's like an improv exercise. Any
(46:15):
other questions for John? Please have a lot of kids
in a your drama club? Anymore? Miss Hanston, something like
you kind of called me Miss hands On shin again.
I thought you know, I would never you just kind
of breathe through it, and you thought I wouldn't catch it,
but it's okay, you're sorry. I'm volunteering to be here,
so let's not get into it a little okay, how
we won't. Don't do it? Garrett, What do you want
(46:35):
to be when you grow up? I want to have
a lot of money, and then I want to be
able to invest in technology, and then I want to
build a suit made of metal. I'd care you're cut off.
I have a question, and I want to I want
to be able to fly when I want to shoot
beams of stuff out of my hands and my chest.
(46:57):
It's a big fan of iron Man. Iron Man. Have
a question, John, I have a question. What was the
name of the show you're on? Account wasn't what you
thought it would be. No, I thought they were going
to ask for autographs or photos. They didn't seen that life.
Do you have any fun memories of Yeah, there was
(47:19):
a lots of fun memories. I remember I did a
sketch with Lady Gaga, and right before our sketch, right
before the camera went live, I leaned over to her
and I was like, I'm a little monster, and she's
like I had no idea, and I was like, yeah,
I didn't want to like seem like a super fan.
But that's just like one of many things after that.
(47:41):
Did she Demond? I thought so? Yeah, yeah, I think
she still remembers me. I hope. So are there any
guests the hosts that were taller than you realized when
you saw it in person, taller than you realize you'd
be nice Charlie, they're on she still? Oh yeah you
gold Blue? Once? He was very tall, yeah, Tim Robin,
(48:02):
Tim Robinson, Tim Robbins, uh, Susan Surrandon Sex Yes, yes,
very tall. He seems tall. I met Squill Neil once.
He's pretty tall, is he? Although you know to getting
Sean Bradley. I met him once. He's a tall guy. Patrick,
I'm not him one time. He's taller than you would think.
These all people who professionally tall. So I don't know
if you cut that professionally tall. Yes, being tall is
(48:25):
not a job, Yes it is. Are you talking about?
All right? Leap that out? I leave what out? Ari?
Is he anything you want to talk about? Something you're
working on now that you want to leg pump to this.
I'm trying to like learning new crazy Yeah, plump, I'll
try to pump something. I just I did pump plump
works too. I'm gonna plump has this Drama Club and
(48:49):
I just remember my first question and then stop asking.
You know, we want to move move on and stuff. Uh,
he's getting very impatient. Uh. Talking to both you guys,
Uh in the show Drama Club and you were in
Drama Club when you were younger? Do you feel that
there's some pair of those between the the character tropes
(49:13):
if you will, you feel like because obviously the new
version the class the show has like an influencer. You
know that clearly what didn't exist when we were young.
I think cross generations. I think Drama Club has always
remained like the same, the same heart and soul as
it always has been. Like you go into the auditorium
and you kind of like disappear from the rest of
the school, right and Uh, it's still yeah, just the
(49:36):
fun to play and get weird with other artsy FARTSI
people who can't play sports. All right, Jemidia, thank you
so much for coming. Four special guest contributors Max Cook,
Philip Wilburn, and John mill Heizer and our host Ari.
I'm producer Andy and this was This is Americans Live.
Join us next actor. This is Americans Live can be
(49:57):
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This is This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy, our
host Ari is in New York at the moment working
on Saturday Night Live. Yes, that's right. In the meantime,
we're replaying some of my favorite interviews that we've had
from guest contributors thus far. This week we've got Max Cook,
Philip Willburn, and John Millheiser. Let's start with the incredibly
(00:24):
talented Mr Max Cook. Enjoy let's get to know this
week's especially against contributor Max Cook. Hi X, how's it
going already? Any day? I'm very well? Thanks? Hi Max? Hi?
Hi Andy? How are you doing? I'm all right? Thank you? Brother.
Have you been listening to the show for a long time? Yes?
(00:45):
How long have you been listening? Um? One episode? Okay,
so you're a man, that's a long time. So tell
us about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do?
What are your favorite things to watch? Oh? I was
born in Lansing, Michigan, and I'm a I'm merrily a
voice actor and I love to watch the sopranos. Oh, nice,
Um is your favorite character in the You know, the soprano?
(01:08):
The fucking make are It's pretty good? Yeah? Is that?
A is that. Yeah, that's pretty good Opporcino impression. Thank you.
And here is my Jack Nicholson. That's pretty good. How
do you like it? Sounds a little bit more like right,
here's my Robert de Niro? Yeah, how do you like it?
So far? Very on on on on the money is
(01:32):
what they say. Yeah, they said that. So do you
remember the first time that you did radio? Yeah? When
was that? Oh? Gosh, maybe, Um, so you don't remember
two thousand, it's been about eighteen years. Who and um,
did you start radio here? Do you start radio? No? Uh,
not Michigan. I'm I was born in Michigan, but I
(01:52):
lived in California since House seven and radio has been
a big deal. And uh, I did work here. I
still work here. I've worked here for about fifteen years,
there being Los Angeles. But did you always wanted to
be in radio when you were a kid? Uh? No,
I wanted to act. I didn't want anything to do
with radio, but it just worked out that way. Okay, class,
let's find out what we want to do when we
(02:13):
grow up, when we when we become adults. What do
you want to do? Chris? And I'm a big boy.
I want to be a police chief. Okay, police chief,
that's right, thank you, thank you. Your doctor's speaking a
lot of lawyers, but for now I'll have to wait
because I'm this many. Max, I want to be an actor.
(02:37):
I'm gonna have a totin greatest Max. Um. I'm not
saying that you can't be an actor, but do you
ever thought about like maybe something like I don't know,
you sound just like the guy on the radio. That
might that might on the radio station my dad listens
to on the way to school, becoming act like a
(02:59):
radio No, neveryone thought about it. Haven't been on the radio.
I haven't heard the radio. I don't even listen to
the radio. So what do you think should still take
an acting class? I don't know any actors who sound
tricks Chris, Chris. Listen a few people I know who
sound like Chris. What if you want to pursue your dream,
you should do it. So Max, if that's what you
(03:19):
want to be as an actor, then then so be it.
You can make anything happen. We actually got a tape
of one of Max's early auditions. Um, okay, so tell
me your name and what you're reading for and how
tall you work. My name is Max. Comes five nine,
and I'm reading for the glass. Okay, so in the scene, um,
(03:41):
your family has died. I don't really know the glass.
I'm just I'm just a casting associate. Okay. So in
the scene, uh, your partners died and then you have
to deal with that. You have to unpack that. So um,
so just have fun with it. Okay, here we go.
My partner has died and we are rolling one to three.
(04:05):
Excuse me, Look, if we're going to rant you this
software space, do you have to be this loud going
on down here? This? We get a lot of actors,
but this is the only one that's kind of yelling
out really loud. People keep complaining that can hear you
because you're being so loud asport I'm trying to tell
and if you keep word up, we're going to lose
it over kicking. Yeah, look route over space. BA. Sorry
(04:31):
that was our landlord. What was the first radio job
you ever had? I'm not in radio, really. I I
do voice over, I do animation, I work. I worked
hard time in radio and a half for years just
doing morning pits for shows. Very nice. Um do you
ever do were you ever a big pan prank? Calls?
(04:51):
Crank calls. Sure, crank calls are a lot of fun.
Did you ever do them yourself? Or? Okay, have you
ever been the recipient of a prank calls? Anybody ever
called you? Uh? No? But um, I've been a recipient
of a prank on a famous show and I saw
right through the prank. And really tell us more about that. Well,
I was going to my dry cleaners and some guy
(05:14):
came out, not my usual dry cleaner, and he had
I brought my clothes and I set my clothes in
the counter and he comes out with chicken sauce all
over his fingers, like wing sauce, and starts touching all
my clothes with wing sauce. And I said, uh, this
is this is a This is a prank, isn't it?
And and they had to stop production. It was for
the Jimmy Kimmel Show. And I guess he has a
(05:34):
cousin who would prank people. And you know, I'm a
huge Jackass fan and like instantly, so it's the wrong mark. Uh,
welcome to Grace and Cafe. Uh just for one table
for one? Yeah? What what's so fun? Let me take
(05:57):
you back to your table. Come on, let's go what
what's going. We're going to bring you to the table.
Not that's going. Why would anything? We are got you?
All right, yeah, we take you back to the table.
Just here's some menus? Good? Why do you want to
take a look at this venue? All right? I don't
know what's going on here. Look at the venue, Look
at the menue. I'm looking at the menu. Yeah, noticed anything,
noticed anything weird about it? Human body parts are on
(06:19):
the menu? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yeah we have but right there,
that's pretty weird. You do you want to order? The
calf was a little rare? Ye? Oh boy? Is this?
This is this a joke? Damn it? Bit guys. I mean,
it's really transparent that you have body part I go
(06:40):
to this restaurant all the time. You know, it's look
and then the fact that you guys are snickering like
maniacs when I just we were laughing. That's something else
that we were thinking before we were we were laughing
at this. We were all loving at the joke and
we're talking about But I love pranks, and you guys
have the potential. I mean, the ideas are good. It's
just you you're a little too obvious, that's all. You
just need to be a little more subtle in some dude. So, um,
(07:03):
just the regular basic car wash. H yeah, just the
basic car wash. Why don't you by the way, Oh,
let's see that. Oh that that's yeah, a lot a
lot of money off. And then did you want the
barbecue saucewax? Yeah, that that's our Let me talk to
(07:27):
best selling Jim Jim dead, Jim Dad Jim killed. Yeah,
Jim Jim Jim died. Yeah, we killed him. Jim married
my sister when we killed you sister too? Hey, what
is the meaning of all this nonsound? You just got
light too, We got we got it, we got it.
(07:49):
There's no barbecue. You're on your light too. Yeah, so
you guys, but really, I don't tell anybody we killed
your sister. No wait, wait, why are you laughing? Why
would we kill her sisters for production? Now you said
you said to you said, why would you do that? Sorry,
(08:10):
if we have a private meeting, this is a real
car watching and go ahead, But your sister is dead. Yeah,
sorry what you looked at me? And you see? Now
I gotta deal with his crying and then we gotta
deal with the legal implications. She didn't killed somebody for production.
I'm involved. I'm involved now. I took care of her.
I raised her practically on my own because my mom
(08:32):
our mom worked two jobs and my dad died before
I was born. Look, this was his idea. How could
you whose idea? This is your idea? Said Snicker, Like
how you did? How could you laugh my sorrow? And
how could you broadly? I was laughing murder for a prime.
(08:55):
I was laughing at something that we talked about earlier.
But he said he looked me in the show one
right now, I don't want what I got. These two
idiots over here at the car one I pulled up
just like Jim's not here. O down, okay, slow down?
Oh god, so so Jim slower? Jim's not here slower
(09:19):
at the car was okay, slower, slow down. He's too good,
slow down. I'm sorry. I'm also on the line. What
are the two good? Slow slow down? There? Jasper and
Joseph for something I don't even know where. We're sending
units out right now. You can speak to m Mr Jasper,
(09:39):
please please. Mr Jasper was my father's name. You can
call me Jasper. So we got a report that you
murdered someone's sister. Uh, yeah, but it was Frank show.
He do you do you do you realize that you
have to go to jail for the rest of your life? No?
(10:00):
Do you realize? Right? Because it really I didn't really
kill it. You just wait, you lied to up me? Yeah?
You we pray yourk you we No, we prayed do you?
Brak mean you and you and you've been lied to.
(10:27):
So you have a really good way of seeing through pranks.
That's great. Um, we had I had a conversation earlier.
You had said mentioned that you were a big wine guy. Yeah,
I love wine. What's your what's your favorite varietal? I
think my favorite varietal is a for white, I love
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a Savignon blanc. And for red, I love a peanut oar.
I find a peanut peanut oars that. Really there's not
a body might wrong. No, you're absolutely right. I know
you're a cabman, so that's that's good. Body is good.
But pinot red red affects my libido. So if it's
too oh excellent, But if I have too much red,
(11:12):
I become very very uh saucy. And so I think
if I do a hard cab, I'm definitely gonna go
the distance or try to get something going. Um, I
think we just want to see the wine list here
you are? What can I get you guys to drink?
No cab? Thrip? No no for me please, no cab.
(11:35):
What would you like a drink? Uh? God, do you
have any? Just sorry, my apologies. Let me get the
ladies order first, my apologies. What would you like a drinking? Um?
I would like a salmonlanc um. But just make sure
you don't bring him a cab. Seriously, what vintage do
you want? She keeps looking at me because she's trying
to learn about wine. Understand. Yeah, what will you help?
(11:57):
Just tell? Do you want to save our blamors? Yes?
From seventies? She doesn't like it, she likes it? Sweet? Sweet,
Just to be honest with you, I really don't care
what I have as long as he does not have cows. Gotcha.
I have took care of myself twice this morning. I
think I'll be all I know. I've heard a lot
about the cab. The cab. Just um, this sounds like
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there's a lot of insight info here that I'm not
pretty to. You don't want him to have a cab.
I get that. There's no need to say it again.
Cann you want you want some camp seven? Yes, okay,
great from and then what would you like, sir? Not
a cab Yeah, maybe just a Randy Port. Okay, Randy,
be right back with your drinks. God, why do you
always got to be like this every time you go
(12:42):
into a tasting room. Stop bringing up my problems with
cabernets caused me to want you more like your entire
he's coming, he's coming. Okay, here is your I shouted
out after you had a cab okay, and then here
is your Randy Port. Did you want to taste them
first before we actually pour the bottle? Give chocolate, Chuckolate,
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I'd like a little chocolate to put on my tongue,
just doing to there's no cabin there right, Oh my god,
cabernet chocolate. M God, why did you do that? Why
did you give me? Honestly, man, come here? You said
cabernet so many times, and then if you would have
just said at once right, continuously repeating get off me,
(13:26):
get off me, get off me, get off? All right?
What about you buddy? Come here? Yeah, yeah, give him
his medicine. Trump, Thanks to our especially guests contributor Max Cook. Thanks,
coming up our interview with Philip Wilburn. But first a
few words from our sponsors. Welcome back to this As
(13:49):
Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for Ari while
he is in New York City working on Saturday Night Live.
We're playing some of our favorite interviews from this season
so far. Up next, here's Philip Wilburn. And now let's
get to know especially guys. Contreeter for this week, Philip Wilburn. So, Philip,
tell us little about yourself. Um, my name is Philip Holburn.
(14:11):
I'm I'm from Texas. Originally I'm a comedian and I
do a lot of impressions and do a lot of
sketch comedy. And uh yeah, I've watched a lot of
videos in the past and um, you have, hands down
some of the best impressions side I've seen. Um, can
we hear one of them? Let's hear some, you know what,
(14:33):
I'm doing. A lot of President Trump a little bit
pretty good. I got a lot of them. And then
in the old days, I used to do a lot
of bal and thick, but there's not a lot of
goal for that anymore. It's pretty good. How do you
get into impressions? You know, when I was a little kid,
I started doing uh impressions right away. The first two
sadly weird impressions I did were so cliche. One was
(14:56):
my dad. I would just do whatever I was watching
on TV. And the two that I remember, my dad
always watched Western, so we did a lot of John
Wayne and then also Uncle Arthur from Bewitched, And what
a dynamic duo those would be. You know, it's just
so weird. You know, we actually have some of that
in the archives. All right, kids, is after five o'clock.
I want everybody to sit down in front of the TV.
And I don't want anybody to talk because I'm gonna
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watch my Western's. But that can we talk about like
what I did at school? I don't want to hear
any words out of either one of you. Alright, you
love Philip way more than me, that's true. But now
it's not the time to unpack that. Well, Dad, why
don't we watch a little of your favorite show, maybe
True Grid or maybe The Son's at Katie Elder is
(15:38):
so good? It is so good to watch Adam twelve?
Can we watch I thought I seem to recall asking
you not to speak even here, Adam, my brother, Adam,
You're just total losers. You're just sitting over there doing
anohing one. You just keep it sucking on Wi the
oldest Gregs the spotlight here you doom good. I love you, Daddy,
(16:03):
I love you too. He just gets away with everything. Dad,
My show is coming on, My show is coming on.
I love this character, Dad, It's so funny. It's such
a funny character. Oh, samanth I love it. I love
it so much. Honey. I went to my purse just
now and I'm missing I'm missing thirty. But missing thirty's
(16:29):
such a penny pure. I saw, I saw Philip got
It was you who took your money. It was Philip, Daddy.
Look at my new ball Live. I love it. I
love it, and I like how for me thirty dollars again? Great,
it's great that put tune two together. He stole it
from mom's purse. Man, why don't you just shut up?
(16:52):
You Philip, be a deer and ask your brother to
walk up there and turn down the Hey, Adam, why
didn't you got turn down? Then went the knob because
we don't have a remote control. When did you discover
that you wanted to do this in front of other people, Like,
would you started to stand up or was it just
I did a lot of improv in Dallas, and I
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worked with a guy named Randy Bennett, one of the
founders of the ground Links. He taught kind of the
ground Links program in Texas and Pocket s Imwage Theater.
It was not Pokistanwich Theater. It was called Upstage Smart
Comedy Smart Cocktails, which was a horrible name, but it
was part of Lone Star Comedy. And then when when
did you decide you wanted to make it a thing?
You know what, I've always wanted to do it. When
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I was a little kid, I broke our television and
the frame came off and that was my favorite toy
and I always wanted to be on TV and do
that kind of stuff. So i've since since I was
a little kid. I did it. But when I started
doing improv, it was weird because that kind of and
sketch comedy really kind of made it where I was like, Oh,
this is this is really what I want to do,
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and uh, I kind of was floundering a lot until
my teacher found out that I did impressions in the
moment he found out idea impressions, he was like, Oh,
this is right, this is the goal mine. I can
do something with this and so so yeah, that was
that was kind of my forte in and it was
a weird transition because then started things started blossoming from that.
(18:18):
You know, you'd meet a bunch of improv people and
you would get to do some weird things. A lot
of one of my first professional vo gigs was from
improv because a lot of the improv guys in Dallas
were um directors and cast members on Dragon ball Z.
And so I got a part on Dragon ball Z
because I was in this group of people, and I
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got one of the most hated characters of all of
Dragon ball Z, this character called Android nineteen. It was
a fat android who uh would try to kill people
and but he had this really weird, squeaky, high pitched voice,
and uh yeah, it was one of the most hated characters.
His name is his name is, His name is Andrey
(19:01):
named Keen, and he talks like this and he says, Hi,
are we to steal energy? I guess what we have
some of that in the archives steel alright, Uh, Dragon
ball Z of the character is android. I'm sorry to
think this night in my auditioning. First you go ahead,
give me the breakdown first to the character. Um, he's
(19:23):
a a fat character and he's uh, he's not very
well liked, so you can help try to overcome the
charter fat and not very well liked. Alight, I got it.
There you go, he's gonna book me right away. This
guy's and I don't even know why he's here because
it was an open call. All right, well whatever, there
we go. Thank you. Yeah, damn, we are your energy
(19:44):
freaking kid black. I think it's pretty good. That matches
your your breakdown. Yeah, if you ask me. Um, okay,
so let's my phone. Really that was really great. I
really felt like he was. So then I'll come back
and record that I got the No, you do not
have the job. I don't know. I just said that
was okay. Do you want to slate? Do you want to? Yes?
(20:05):
Please you? Yeah. I'm Philip Bulborn with the Campbell Agency Dallas. Uh,
and I just want to say I'm excited about this opportunity. Uh.
And I do a lot of voices, So if you
need other androids like hello, oh oh, thank the make
up dear, you know good warnings, you know all those kids. Great, Yeah,
it's great. So I was thinking he's fat, so I
(20:27):
want to play against time, you know. And uh so
instead of playing him like that guy, I was thinking
very high like this, and I could creeping out by
people like doing this. Hello the chica, I'm in steel
all the energy. Oh my, you're not hiring that guy
for sure. I don't even know why. I'm we are
(20:49):
going to build a wall. This is going to be huge,
bigly energy. I'm going to steal all your energy, so bigly,
it's going to be huge, huge energy. I don't know.
I just think that could be a character that people
might hate. I'm really sorry. I When you did characters,
do you find it very difficult to be friends with
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people who were not comedians? Or when you went on dates, like,
did you find it a bit challenging? I? You know,
I do think that a funny voice can open up,
you know, a world of dating. But after a while
they get tired of it. So that's that's definitely a definitely,
But there are definitely some girls that maybe like the voice.
(21:33):
It's someone worked and then someone didn't work right, right, Hey,
let's check the archives. Come on, come on, I was
I just I just saw her three days ago, and
now she's she's gone. What happened? Tell me what happened?
(21:53):
A car A car drove by, and she looked at
the car are and then she fell into a man
who oh, my cosins. Manholes are so bad. Just be serious,
help me tell me everything. Everything will be okay. I
have a very particular skill. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
(22:21):
Whoa hey, cover discovery. That's not bad. That's not good.
Everything we can to save people with manho covers. It's
very true. It's very true. It's something we're working on. Tremendous,
tremendous manhole covers. They say, say, I alone can fix it.
(22:45):
I alone can fix the mano problem. It's good, it's
good now, Dudel. Hello, I'm sorry I have to tell
you this. But when your friends fell into the manhole,
you're their friend, Alice was already in the manhole, and
they landed out of each other contect. Both of your
(23:09):
friends died. Yes, at the same time. You know who
can fix that? Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, pick show me
the same show with the money show. Read the money Show,
Read the Money everything's gonna be fine. Let's have sex
with each other. You complete me, and so does your friend.
(23:32):
Now is each other? They complete each other. They became
each other because they hit each other but their body. So. Um,
did you ever have any um jobs before you landed
doing voice work and acting? And yeah, I one of
my weird side gigs is I um, I can operate
(23:56):
a Doppler radar. I have been a weather producer for
many t V stations and I do that on the side,
is I you know I do that occasionally. I'm a
weather producer. Do they have a hard time taking you
seriously when there's like serious weather conditions coming because they
think maybe you're joking about it? Yeah? I mean sometimes
sometimes there there have been moments when I've I've been
(24:17):
too jokey in a serious situation. You know. You know,
we actually have some of that in the archives. All right,
tell me about what's going on here, Philip. I mean,
my car just flipped over the wind just flipped my
car over me. Those maps on the wall, it's just
like Twister. You know the movie Twister where they had
the cows and stuff like that. Damn it, would you
be fucking real, please, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, it
(24:38):
looks like there's a tornado warning for Dallas County. I
just it's good. There is a tornado warning Foras County.
It be serious. Please, this is not the time. It's
not the time. Tornado all day, Donos County. Who m okay, Well,
(25:06):
I'm just trying to make sure you know. Come on seriously,
it says there's hail the size of golf balls. We
want to thank our special guest contributor, billisville Burn. Coming
(25:27):
up our interview with John mill Heiser, But first a
few words from our sponsors. Stay with us, Welcome back
to this As Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in
for Ari while he is in New York City working
on Saturday Night Live. We're playing some of our favorite
interviews from our guest contributors over the course of the
(25:49):
past season. Up next, here is our interview with John Millheiser. Enjoy.
A special guest contributor is John Miller? Good? How are
you you? Did I pence that quickly? John? Realize you Yeah.
It's both the correct So it tells you about yourself
from I guess I grew up in New Jersey. Nice.
All parts of New Jersey. You know then, like you're
(26:11):
from New Jersey. Yeah, I get that. I have been told.
I say, yeah a lot, yeah, yeah, and that's my
most Jersey accident. I think you miss anything from Jersey. No,
I just got back, so it's nice. I haven't been
in two years because of the indulge me or do
you leaving after a two year? I hate? Is? Was
there anything you missed? I missed the hogies, I missed
(26:33):
the boardwalk. There's a there's a boardwalk. And I explained
to me what a uh is. Well, hoogie is like
a sub like subway, but hoogi. Um, it's like very
I guess Jersey and probably like Pennsylvania term. Um. Is
there anything that makes it different? Yeah, what's the same?
(26:53):
Same same thing? Yeah, it's a bad same For some reason,
we like calling it hoogie. And I'm not familiar with
the term hero. You explained what that is. It's like
it's like a hog exactly. It's like a hog, yeah,
or a sub or like a sandwich. No, No, he's
not sandwich. Not even do you know what a hero is.
It's like that. Um. I went to a very school,
(27:15):
so I've had any of these, probably had a HOGI
They're totally not is the sandwich right? Because if I've
never had one of those, that's saying right. I do
very very very meticulous, particulously made backers and then some
short COOTI do you have any other questions for our
I'm sorry? So did you enjoy your trip to New Jersey? Oh?
(27:37):
I enjoyed my trip so much. Yeah, rejuvenated me. I
haven't seen some family members in a while, and yeah,
it was just nice. Did you ever have any friends
or family in the mafia. In the mafia, well, the
Coasta Nostra, the Coasta Nostra growing up in I grew
up in Bergen County, North Jersey and Parano's Country. Yeah,
(27:58):
I was too young to know what was happening, but
I was told that the mob guy was arrested down
the street like him and his wife. Yeah, oh that's
pretty you know, we actually have that, we have that
in the archivet that arrest one. You alright, don't get
an you shut up. You are under arrest, underrest for
(28:18):
what don't you arrest? My sweet look lady, what you
under arrest? Why did I freaking do to you know?
I didn't do nothing. Nobody everybody knows. I didn't do nothing. Nobody,
I'd never doing the same thing. What exactly is it?
Do you think that we are freaking doing over here?
Where do I begin? Do you recketeer? That's a very
(28:40):
serious charge. I run a very respectable business. I don't
know what you think I do on a normal day basis.
Your business might be a lot of things, very respectable.
I make a very honest, good living living. Yeah, good,
look at you? Look at your yard? Okay, what about it?
I got gnomes like everybody else. Listen your work. Nomes
in the yard. That's not a very serious crime. But
(29:02):
that's seriously that the racket hearing, that's a pretty freaking
serious crime. Did it side? Marie? Stay out it? She didn't.
She needs to hear all this because she's coming down
to the prestinct. But what she didn't do? Nothing? She
got him? God, say what do you? What are you saying?
Do nothing? Tell us what we did? Tell us what
you think we did? What I Loretta he k Marie did?
(29:23):
What did I? Marietta get it? Side? I'm not going
to stay out. I feel like I should listen to
the freaking cops. But also I should listen to my
freaking maid, squeeze over. I don't know what to want
between two people. Also, you and I were very much
same guys. You well, we grew up in the same neighborhood,
down the street from each other. You went one way,
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I went to the other. You became a copet became
a respectable businessman. Ward what you can do? And you
got Loretta a Diguloretta war. Well, you're gonna do it.
Try to arrest me because I got the girl. Do
you really wanted you go in boys? You know what
shoot boys? Boys? Fellis there's plenty of me to go
(30:06):
freaking around. Way. I want to stay outside and break
this up and also figure out what what what? What
proof do you have with the recketeering. By the way,
it's my freaking prerogative. Where what I do with my
d You don't, don't. I don't tell her what to do?
You do whatever she wants? What is prerogative? Mean? What's
(30:27):
google four? Sorry? He's four, big brother? What is prerogative?
Big blood? I don't even look run over? He doesn't
freak either. Goats All right, let's get back to the
fucking breast text. He you're just sucking jealous I really
(30:49):
think that he's going to arrest you because he has
some serious evidence about the recketeering. I don't think it
really has m should do with jealousy. I mean, what
do you you have tapes or something? You got an informant?
What do you have? You got nothing? You got a
garage full of tennis rackets? Yeah? And whose looks to play?
Fucking Tannis? Look at me, I'm a fucking I'm Andres.
Oh we ever do pcampers? Also? He's also it's you
(31:13):
love Mack and remember freaking never tolover overheat Billy Jean King. Okay, okay,
now we've established go back to watch you watch your evidence.
Tennis rackets? Yeah, what are you gonna doing? All those
tennis rackets, all those stolen? What makes you think the stolen?
I like to buy things in Molk. I gotta talk
to the cop for a second real quick. Hey, honey, sugar,
(31:37):
hold on my second. I'm gonna talk to this cop alright.
I'm gonna try to set him straight. Listen, why are
you mentioning informants? You gonna put my coffee? I didn't
think you don't. I don't even think about telling him that.
I keep you guys off to the freaking tennis rackets.
I know you're doing a great job. He didn't you
playing undercover? Really well, what did you say? He? Did
you know about the tennis rackets. I'm the only person
(31:58):
who could have been freak impossibly you don't want to
there's tennis rackets missing all around town, and they're all
in your garage. All right, people asking questions. I thought
that's what racketeering meant. Also, can you do me a
quick Also? Can you do me a quick favor? Can
you stop calling me by my code name Loretta and
call me Marie? Please? This freaking I think that my
(32:20):
name is Marie and you call me Loretta right off
the bed. You gotta blow my freaking cover. Please, all right,
let's do Oh my god, this cop just call shit.
Yeah Marie, hold on, I say, I gotta talk to
it is freaking you call me Loretta again. I'm pretty
(32:40):
sure I didn't know you did the first words out
of your mount after I walked back from my baby here,
my sweet cheeks, my honey bunch, what's Loretta? I just
highly doubt that I don't screw up a lot. I
think the fans have that in the allchives. Why don't
we go back? All right? Yeah, guys in the fan,
can you play that back? The one rom with it
(33:01):
forty seconds ago? Wait? You want to do me a
favorite and not call me? You just hit it again? See? Oh?
Can you do me another favor? Can you not yell out? Hey?
Guys in the FBI truck, can you run back? You
gotta whisper it into yellow pel don't just willy nilly
(33:22):
freaking Lovetta. Guys in the FBI truck, can you check
your eyes from ten seconds and go to Proton? Is
freaking a coach that he freaking said Loretta? Please yeah,
play another one? Yes, thank you. This is the FBI
playing tape number seven forty and boys just want to
have no that was that was the wrong tape. Let
me in forman you along and talking about I like that?
(33:51):
So that's really good? Have you had the whole album?
I like it? Do you want to play another tracker? Phimissions?
But I husband didn't really know what to make about
this relationship between the cop and his nudity with life.
It seemed little fishy. Still, he had to go talk
to his capos and his uh, his underbuss what's the problem.
I don't know, Like there's something going on between me,
(34:12):
my my, my wife and the you know his cop
with Marie. Marie would never do nothing. I don't know
she would never, would you think come here to do
a good permission from you to have to do something.
I don't know what You're all right? You know what?
Can I talk to the other on the boards? Please?
Somebody's not gonna be starting all over the words? You
know my problem? So what should I do? Do I
(34:34):
do I take action? Or do I just let it go?
Do you love this woman? You know that I love it?
But you know I almost got pinched over these fucking
these tennis racket the tennis racket racket. Somebody's feeding the
cops information. I don't know who it is. Are you
accusing us ware exactly? What do you do? Mind? If
you think they were reds? No, don't think I'm just
(34:55):
red you out and your racket, right, I'm never Why
would we would just be shooting their own cells in
the foots. I don't know what I'm saying this. There
might be some like you know, the inn informance, you know,
would give me a second. I'm gonna talk. I think
my wife's an informant. This one's wanna get in. Marie
would never do something like that. I'm gonna confer with
the under boys here for a second to school over
(35:17):
there for a second. By the clock, I think that
he's on the effected the redder. It's an informant and
thus me and you because we we we we are
also informants over How do you like the clock? Oh?
That's pretty nice? Huh like that especially made from the
from Johnny Clocks. I don't know what the first thing
(35:42):
that good? You came up with that? Because Johnny clocks
a place I would assume that he that's his nickname,
because he made clocks. I don't know. I don't know.
I really don't know what I get the Johnny Clocks
says the clocks. What Johnny Clocks got out of the
clock business? He did he does pools now. I didn't
get the binder the defense gave us to get us
up to speed them don't want us in the community.
(36:02):
Did nobody tell me the meeting? I'm sorry, Like you know,
aupt very important, you know on the boss meeting? What
can I get like some kind of direction or maybe
like get more rackets? Yeah, you need to get more
rackets and dumni deep in this racket. Rackets. Definitely, don't
kill Marie. Do not kill Marie. She's a decorated woman, civilian,
(36:25):
she's wired tapped. I mean, she is good cook, she
is an FBI, she's a teacher. She teaches kids how
to make for a cheni polonaise. That's what bi. Are
you even Italian? What are you talking about? Blogne? But
(36:47):
what you see I'm saying that a cheni. It was
clear that everybody in the family was an infloyment except
for Joe. It was a purist throwing up and it's
amazing about being made and only when he got there,
you know that. But of lifestyle was being an employment
and everybody was doing a bit in I feel like,
you know, I don't know, I'm not understood by everybody.
(37:09):
You know, some of the somethings different. It's not the same.
But I think you're talking about it's just not the
same Italian I know, But you know, it's it's like
it feels like maybe it's a different in generation. Maybe
it's different part of Italy, maybe it's part of definitely
he guys from I don't know. I don't know what
you laugh so much? That sounds like a very a
very tough particamentarian. You know what, I'm going to confer
(37:30):
with my fellow Italian quin quin National, and now we're
going to going to discuss it. I think that's onto
the fact that we are in farmers fould work. We've
ben filtrated the Yeah, thank you, thanks for a farm
and don't be a favorite cut, You're not, You're it's
allowed one and whisper what do you do it? It's
the way I speak? Is that what I was like
(37:53):
when the when the guy got arrested. Yeah, it was
all over town, all over the papers, everything, every gay
it was, uh yeah, that's what it was a nice
Uh So theere's what you do on your your comedian, comedian, actor, writer,
(38:13):
teacher since the pandemic started doing some zoom character classes
and stuff of everything that you do would gives you
most satisfaction performing? Yes, yeah, right now we're kind of
in a performing stalemate, right do you do shows at home? Friends? Um?
I've tried a few zoom stand up shows and I
they weren't fun to do. But I do like shooting videos,
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you know, and then posting them wherever, just to get
some comedy out there. And you're currently on a show
you play a teacher. Yes, I play a drama teacher
on the show Drama Club on Nickelodeon. I thought it
was very funny. Can you tell us to do about it? Sure?
It's um a show Nickelodeon called Drama Club about the
middle school drama club and just you know that you
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got the rock, you got the influencer girl, you got
the real drama rama kid. And they all just like
a mismatch group of kids that are trying to put
on a production of Minnesota the Musical and it's just
they get into hi drinks and it's created by Maddy
Whitby and Monica Sharer. Oh, it's like The Office. It's
(39:22):
a mockumentary but for like a middle school. Yeah, they
took it's like baking a fourth Well. They talked to
the people professionals. Yeah yeah yeah. Uh pop watch like
I've been say by the bell maybe that guy time
out Zack. Yes, and you just talk to the audience
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and you felt like you was getting a window into
his life. Yeah like that. I remember that. Were you
in drama but when you were younger? Yes, I was
in all the My middle school was inside the high school.
So in seventh grade I was in like the music
and but I was always playing the townsperson. And then um,
it wasn't until like senior year that I got Marcus
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likes and a funny thing having the way the form.
But like, yeah, I was never given good roles. I
was always extra. We actually have the your your production
of the music Man. Yeah, we have the audition for
that and you play it. Yeah. Oh the Wells Fargo
Wagon is coming down the street. Oh please let it
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be fun me thank you, John. So um, you do
this every time you wait around. You need to let us,
you know, deliberate. Well, you know that's happened before, and
and you're on every play you audition. Yeah I think so. Yeah,
(40:51):
I do have a quick note. I take great notes. Yeah,
I love notes. I would love your feedback. Just a
slight problem with your with your select show. Um, the
audition was actually for the song we Got Trouble my
Friends right here, right here in River City City play.
I exactly did you not choose the same time. I
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wanted to like stand out, like I wanted to like
go against the green. I wanted you know you we
probably were getting sick of that song, right, shake your head, Yes,
you're getting sick of that. Well, we just part the
part that you're auditioning for sings that song. Yeah, so
that's why it's important for you to sing the song,
because you'll be doing that in the place if we
gave you the part, you understand. Now, look, I appreciate
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your zealousness. A word? Is that a word? Zealousness? A
word zealous nous z e A l O U n
e s s zealousness. Well, can you look up zealousness please?
Gil if the word indeed? Alright, good, we got that settled.
I don't want to punish you for really singing your
(41:54):
heart out. So I'm going to give you the role
of that bush. I was gonna say tree bush is
more appropriate. Yeah, so you got the crouch. I didn't
even know there was a bush in the script. Let
me just find that we created the part. Just we
couldn't let you go without having you know, Yeah, I
just I felt like you wanted what he said, Well,
(42:15):
the Wells Fargo Wagon. Actually we came up with an
original song for the bushes, like did you get Yeah,
you want to try that? So the very front part
(42:35):
that you start with. I don't need that, So you
don't need that, don't need it. Just go right to
the me me me me me you you you you you.
You know, why don't we give him the role of
Bush number two? Because that one doesn't have a mouths.
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You just kept through do whoever you need to get.
I wanted that Bush part, and you know I I
got it. Two questions to have first one after you
probably the most successful actor out of your group of
people that you into drama Drama club with. Right do
you do you? I mean, do you like? I think, like,
look those guys, we're not giving me the parts that
(43:21):
I want. I was on the biggest show on the earth,
and I'm on another show. It's pretty great because they
do like that show. Actually, yeah, well I kept in
touch with my drama teacher who never gave me any
of the parts. Mrs Hanshon. We used to call our
hands on gin, you know, to get out of her um.
But I kind of just kept in touch with her
(43:43):
over the years. And then when I was on us
and now I was like, hey, my mom reached out
to her. She's like, Johnsontown, do you want him? To
speak to your drama club. So they had me come
in and speak to the current drama club at my
old high school. And then nobody knew about the show
I was on. And then nobody knew any of the
celebrities I brought up, and nobody was interested. And it
(44:05):
was a big, I feel like failure. They didn't care
what nobody knew? What did nobody knew? What sla We
just watch the tape? Yeah, I brought the tape class.
I am proud to Please don't call me miss hands
in chin. Guys, be nice. I am proud. I thought
(44:26):
that if I proactively said it, you wouldn't do it.
All right, Who's who? I'm just okay, let's get through it.
I'm proudly. I'm proud to welcome former student John Millis.
Am I pronouncing that correctly? Yes? John? Yeah? Robert Jr? No,
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John Millheiser? Iron man? Or were you in? Oh? No,
I was not an iron Man. You're thinking tell him
what you do? Wouldn't America? No? No, no, no, I
am not in those that Marvel movie. No. I'm on
a fun show called Saturday Night Live. Oh come on,
(45:13):
Oh when is it on? It's on Saturdays. In the mornings. No, no, no,
no at night? And you know I could have gotten there.
You know, if it wasn't for miss hands On, he
almost did it. This thing I hate, I hate it
(45:33):
with you. I have a question, Yes, Garrett, have you
ever met Robert Downey Jr? Are you asking me or
you asking him him? Well, you said you had a question.
You were looking at me. I called on you. I know,
but I had I had a question for him. Oh
have you member Robert down a junior? Garrett wasn't Garrett? No,
I haven't, but I I can't imagine him hosting at
(45:53):
some point? WHOA Come? Do you play sport? Scarrett? Stop disrupting, No,
I don't play sports. Any questions about sketch comedy? Is
that where you do like a dance with the song
and then and then you make everybody else and everybody
else do the same. It's like an improv exercise. Any
(46:15):
other questions for John? Please have a lot of kids
in a your drama club? Anymore? Miss Hanston, something like
you kind of called me Miss hands On shin again.
I thought you know, I would never you just kind
of breathe through it, and you thought I wouldn't catch it,
but it's okay, you're sorry. I'm volunteering to be here,
so let's not get into it a little okay, how
we won't. Don't do it? Garrett, What do you want
(46:35):
to be when you grow up? I want to have
a lot of money, and then I want to be
able to invest in technology, and then I want to
build a suit made of metal. I'd care you're cut off.
I have a question, and I want to I want
to be able to fly when I want to shoot
beams of stuff out of my hands and my chest.
(46:57):
It's a big fan of iron Man. Iron Man. Have
a question, John, I have a question. What was the
name of the show you're on? Account wasn't what you
thought it would be. No, I thought they were going
to ask for autographs or photos. They didn't seen that life.
Do you have any fun memories of Yeah, there was
(47:19):
a lots of fun memories. I remember I did a
sketch with Lady Gaga, and right before our sketch, right
before the camera went live, I leaned over to her
and I was like, I'm a little monster, and she's
like I had no idea, and I was like, yeah,
I didn't want to like seem like a super fan.
But that's just like one of many things after that.
(47:41):
Did she Demond? I thought so? Yeah, yeah, I think
she still remembers me. I hope. So are there any
guests the hosts that were taller than you realized when
you saw it in person, taller than you realize you'd
be nice Charlie, they're on she still? Oh yeah you
gold Blue? Once? He was very tall, yeah, Tim Robin,
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Tim Robinson, Tim Robbins, uh, Susan Surrandon Sex Yes, yes,
very tall. He seems tall. I met Squill Neil once.
He's pretty tall, is he? Although you know to getting
Sean Bradley. I met him once. He's a tall guy. Patrick,
I'm not him one time. He's taller than you would think.
These all people who professionally tall. So I don't know
if you cut that professionally tall. Yes, being tall is
(48:25):
not a job, Yes it is. Are you talking about?
All right? Leap that out? I leave what out? Ari?
Is he anything you want to talk about? Something you're
working on now that you want to leg pump to this.
I'm trying to like learning new crazy Yeah, plump, I'll
try to pump something. I just I did pump plump
works too. I'm gonna plump has this Drama Club and
(48:49):
I just remember my first question and then stop asking.
You know, we want to move move on and stuff. Uh,
he's getting very impatient. Uh. Talking to both you guys,
Uh in the show Drama Club and you were in
Drama Club when you were younger? Do you feel that
there's some pair of those between the the character tropes
(49:13):
if you will, you feel like because obviously the new
version the class the show has like an influencer. You
know that clearly what didn't exist when we were young.
I think cross generations. I think Drama Club has always
remained like the same, the same heart and soul as
it always has been. Like you go into the auditorium
and you kind of like disappear from the rest of
the school, right and Uh, it's still yeah, just the
(49:36):
fun to play and get weird with other artsy FARTSI
people who can't play sports. All right, Jemidia, thank you
so much for coming. Four special guest contributors Max Cook,
Philip Wilburn, and John mill Heizer and our host Ari.
I'm producer Andy and this was This is Americans Live.
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