This is a headgum original.

Have I told you this story before?

Dude, you have built your life around this.

This is one of the, this is one of like the five things about you.

I've known you, how long have I known you?

A decade almost.

I've known you close to a decade.

And what I love about you and your approach to

comedy is the way that you find like literally just four or five facts about yourself and then your comedic

approach is to continually chew them up, regurgitate them, and then swallow them back into it over and over again.

I hope that didn't come off like an insult.

Not at all.

Not at all.

There was a period in the middle of what you were saying that for a second I thought this could be an insult

when you said that I take four things and repeatedly regurgitate them

This is dead eyes a podcast about one actor's quest to find out why Tom Hanks fired him from a small role in the 2001 HBO mini, Band of Brothers.

My name is Connor Ratliff.

I'm an actor and comedian.

20 years ago, I was fired by Tom Hanks.

I was told that the reason...

I've heard you say, Tom Hanks told me I have dead eyes countless times on

countless stages this is your voice this is what you do so I am thrilled to be here

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