Entry Level with Brooks Wheelan

Entry Level with Brooks Wheelan

This is a podcast about all those jobs we've had that sucked. Each episode Brooks will interview a guest and find out what garbage they had to put up with before they got to the position they're in now. Plus if you have any hellish jobs of your own you want to share email entrylevelwithbrookswheelan@gmail.com

Episodes

May 22, 2025 81 mins

Carmen Christopher (The Bear/Joe Pera Talks with You/English Teacher) comes back to talk about going to the University of Iowa the same time as Brooks, being killer salesman in Chicago, and almost joining the military.

Check out Carmen's new special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoHTvTrfB2g

Check out Carmen's old special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-HUeu0QjLY

See Brooks on tour: brookswheelan.com/dates

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Charlotte McKinney (model/acrtess/comedian) talks about growing up outside Orlando and modeling for her dad's car dealership, dropping out of high school and moving to Miami to pursue modeling, and ending up in a viral Carl's Jr. Super Bowl commercial.

Check out Charlotte's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-do-they-know-with-lovitz-mckinney/id1783673107

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Mike Hanford (Birthday Boys/Sloppy Boys/Comedy Bang Bang!) talks about finding rooms to hide in at work, living with a bunch of other comics, and getting a sketch show made on IFC.

See Mike live: https://www.instagram.com/mikehanford/?hl=en

See Brooks live: brookswheelan.com/dates

watch pool jumpers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GIZ3cN4JwA

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April 22, 2025 38 mins

Karl Hess and Brooks went and made a proof of concept episode of a new podcast they're working on where they go to every national park and get in way over their heads. It's Earth Day so I felt like we might as well share it!

 

 

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Chris Estrada (This Fool, Comedy Central) joins Brooks to talk about growing up in Los Angeles, working at Dominoes, a movie theater, and construction sites. All before deciding to start stand up when he was 30.

Check out This Fool on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/18ea1265-5978-41d7-b619-2ad23e075a71

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March 30, 2025 86 mins

Katherine Blanford (The Tonight Show) talks about running on top of porta-pottys at the Kentucky Derby, going to school for sports management, and what it was like getting ready to do her first late night spot on The Tonight Show.

Katherine's Don't Tell set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7ahpmEYs0

Katherine's 1st Tonight Show set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQyWhMClJA

Katherine's 2nd Tonight Show set: https://www.youtube....

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March 16, 2025 59 mins

James Pumphrey (Key and Peele/Arrested Development/old roomamte) talks about growing up in Kentucky, joining UCB, and getting into the car game!

 

Check out Jame's new channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@SpeeedCo

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Boosh (rad friend/rad skater) joins Brooks to talk about what happened during their 18 day trip through The Grand Canyon.

 

For info on how to enter the lottery to raft the colorado go here: https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/noncommercial-riv-docs.htm

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December 13, 2024 85 mins

Liam Cullagh (Almost Friday) is on to talk about working at a gas station, growing up next to the Patriots dynasty, and moving to LA to make sketches.

Check out Almost Friday here: https://www.youtube.com/@AlmostFridayTV

 

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December 5, 2024 80 mins

Whitmer Thomas (HBO/FOX/BROOKS' FRIEND) hops on to discuss selling Brooks his car, hating parades, and making a special.

 

Check out whit's Auto Talk video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2psW-Em2Ow

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October 16, 2024 50 mins

Brooks talks to the director (Isaac Rentz) and director of photography (Martin Vielma) about the making of his upcoming special, Alive in Alaska.

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Dan Licata (Seth Meyers/Joe Pera Talks with You) discusses growing up on Jackass and Tom Green. We also find out about the origins of Joe Pera's show on Adult Swim, and overall have a nice hang.

Check out Dan's new special HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrCb9rntbv0

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Chris Fairbanks (Comedy Central/Conan/Last Comic Standing/Jimmy Kimmel) and Brooks are about to do some shows in Brooks' favorite state that happens to be Chris' home state so they talk about it!

Get tickets to the shows here: brookswheelan.com/dates

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January 12, 2024 78 mins

Shane Torres (Comedy Central/New special out now) talks to Brooks about growing up the son of an Irish mom and a Hispanic dad in Texas.

 

Check out Shane's new special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9mHurqZh_0

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December 1, 2023 80 mins

Joe Pera (Joe Pera talks to you) comes on to discuss being a paperboy, becoming welcomed into the world of brick laying, and working on advertising for Dog The Bounty Hunter. 

Check out Joe's new special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_97zE4GRZk

Check out Joe's MTV pancake show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDI8ULxJYOU&t=50s

See Brooks on the road here: brookswheelan.com/dates

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September 14, 2023 47 mins

Karl and Brooks ramble. That's about it.

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September 5, 2023 41 mins

Caitlin Cook (Off Broadway play "The Writing on the Stall") talks about going to kindergarten with Nic Cage's son, being a camp counselor, and wanting to leave LA for a small city.

Check out Caitlin's play: http://www.thecaitlincook.com/

Join the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/entrylevelwithbrookswheelan

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July 20, 2023 64 mins

Will Angus (Almost Friday) talks about growing up doing nothing in Dallas, switching back and forth between business and theater, then graduating exactly as the pandemic hit giving him nothing to do but make sketches. 

Check out Almost Friday: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCgK6peZI5-FKDCWzMIFk2A

Join the patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/entrylevelwithbrookswheelan

See brooks live here: brookswheelan.com/dates

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June 26, 2023 81 mins

Kara Klenk (Comedy Central/Magic for Humans) talks about babysitting a 2 week old when she was 12, moving to Italy to teach English to Italians without knowing how to speak Italian, being an NBC page for Conan, and running into Brooks in Puerto Rico.

Check out Kara's new podcast here! https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/thats-messed-up

See Brooks on tour here: Brookswheelan.com/dates

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Bret Raybould (off-Broadway show Race: The Movie: The Play) talks about growing up in Kansas City, working at Burger King, being an intern at Conan, then going back to Burger King, and how he ended up writing a play about Race. 

Me and Karl also catch up about our adventures.

See all of Bret's things here: https://www.bretraybould.com/

Get tickets to see me on tour here: Brookswheelan.com

Join the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e...

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