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Dead Eyes

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Dead Eyes, Band Of Brothers, Fired, Personal Journals, Connor Ratliff, Casting, Auditioning, Tv & Film, Tom Hanks, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Connor investigates two high school productions of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific: one that took place in 1990 during his freshman year at Jefferson City High in Missouri, and the other in 1974 at Skyline High in Oakland, California, where a high school senior named Thom Hanks played a coveted role.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum original.
0:04.0	A few years ago.
0:09.0	A few years ago when I was developing this podcast,
0:12.0	there were two pieces of negative feedback that I received.
0:16.0	One of them was, this concept won't stretch beyond four or five episodes.
0:21.3	You're going to run out of ideas. My response to that was to immediately
0:26.7	jot down 20 ideas for episodes just off the top of my head. Maybe they found that
0:32.2	more annoying than impressive since most places still rejected it
0:37.1	and here we are at episode 30
0:45.0	Okay what about 30. Okay, what do we got? What do we got?
0:46.0	What do we got?
0:48.0	Tom Hanks in the new Elvis movie trailer.
0:52.0	Still got to do a marvelous Mrs Maisel episode that's on the back burner.
0:57.0	Oh, Tom Hanks cameo in the Simpsons movie. I could talk to people who've been in the Simpsons
1:08.3	High School musical episode great okay for this one, I'm going to travel back in time.
1:16.5	To 1990, 1974, and 1949.
1:23.9	But we're going to start out in the present with me talking to the songwriting duo perhaps best
1:28.8	known for writing the Oscar-winning song from frozen, Let It Go, which is a phrase that people sometimes say about
1:36.4	this podcast.
1:37.4	Can I ask when you were 24 and this whole dead eyes moment went down.
1:47.0	Like had you...
1:48.0	This is Kristen Anderson Lopez, Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Award Winning,
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