This is a headgum original.

How are you doing?

I'm doing good.

Yeah? Yeah, what about you?

I'm doing all right. Have you been listening to the hearings?

I watched a little bit this morning. Amy Mann is one of my favorite singer-songwriters and

she has been since I first heard her album I'm with Stupid back in the mid-1990s.

She's one of a very small handful of artists who, when they put on a record, I buy it the second

it comes out, and I usually can't listen to anything else for months.

You may be wondering, wait, what does any of this have to do with you getting fired

from Band of Brothers?

Well, believe it or not, there is a connection. And Amy didn't even know about it when I asked her to talk to me for this. She was just a fan of the podcast. I'm so happy that you like this.

I need to have the question answered, what are dead eyes? What does that mean?

I'm very certain that it was not intended to be passed along that way.

This is an example of a message that

Tom Hanks said it, someone else said it to someone else, someone said it to my

agent and then it got spread to me. This was an English person right? Yes.

Could it be some kind of This was an English person, right? Yes.

Could it be some kind of Britishism?

Cockney rhyming slang?

Dead eyes, it's a surprise.

That's right. Dead Eyes, it's a surprise. Um, maybe you misheard it, so maybe it sounds like, what sounds like dead eyes?

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