I met with this agent.

She had asked for a reel, and I didn't really have much. I had like two things on a VHS tape. And I gave her this tape, and she said, I'm going to be gone for a couple weeks. When I get back, we'll look at your reel, and then we'll take it from there. And so a couple weeks later, I called, and they said, I haven't had a chance to look at you're real yet. Call back in a week. So I call back week later,

I said, I haven't had a chance

to look you your real yet. Call back in a week.

So I called back a week later.

She said, I haven't had a chance to look at your real yet. Call back in a week. I thought, you know what? I'm going to leave it two weeks. So I called back two weeks later. And she said, yeah, I haven't had a chance to look at your real. So I'm thinking maybe you can just like come pick it up

and then you can own that.

That is the voice of the great Connor Ratliff.

Connor Ratliff is here after all these years.

One of my favorite actors, writers,

improvisers, you may know him from his podcast Dead Eyes,

which is one of Time Magazine's top 100 podcasts of all time.

It was an exploration of being hired and then fired on a production that was produced by Tom Hanks for the show Band of Brothers.

And the reasoning was that he had, quote, dead eyes.

We explore that today.

You might know him from his live show,

the George Lucas Talk Show at UCB and other places at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

He was also in Don't Think Twice.

He was an improv student in my movie Don't Think Twice.

He's really, really funny.

He has so much insight into improv and acting.

I think you're going to love this conversation today,

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