Ethan Phillips

The Delta Flyers

Tv Reviews, Science Fiction, Fiction, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Delta Flyers is a weekly podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. This week’s episode is an interview with Ethan Phillips.

We want to thank everyone who makes this podcast possible, starting with our Executive producers Megan Elise & Rebecca McNeill

And a special thanks to our Ambassadors, the guests who keep coming back, giving their time and energy into making this podcast better and better with their thoughts, input, and inside knowledge: Lisa Klink, Martha Hackett, Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, Robert Beltran, Tim Russ, Roxann Dawson, Kate Mulgrew, Brannon Braga, Bryan Fuller, John Espinosa, & Ariana Delbar

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Delta Flyers. Robbie and I are super excited to have none other than
0:14.6	our good old friend from the show that we all worked on. Ethan Phillips, Ethan, welcome.
0:19.8	Once again, Robby. Thank you so much. How you doing? We're great. Pleasure to be here.
0:26.5	Starting off right off the bat, we know Long Island, New York is your home, your original home.
0:32.3	You grew up there. And at that time, your father was running a restaurant that his father started,
0:39.7	Frankie and Johnny. So can you just tell us a little bit about, you know, just bring us into it
0:44.4	when you were a kid. What was it like? Did you go to the restaurant a lot? You know, just
0:48.0	give you guys either you ever been to Long Island? Yes. Yes. I've spent a bunch of time in Long Island.
0:54.4	I didn't know Garrett had been there. Yeah, I grew up there in the 50s and in a middle class
1:00.8	neighborhood. What part of Long Island exactly? In Nassau County. So you know,
1:06.4	around there, after World War II, Nassau County had a sort of exploded. Levittown was out and
1:11.7	maybe was it Nassau's Suffolk? That was Nassau County. It was. It just was exploding with
1:18.7	people that were working in Manhattan and wanted to live in the suburbs. My dad commuted to work
1:22.7	every day. He went to his favorite night. He had started there as a bartender when he was
1:28.4	a young man. When your grandfather ran the restaurant? Yeah. And when my granddad died,
1:33.4	my dad took it over and he had it till the late 80s until he sold it. It had been a
1:38.5	speakeasy when it was first founded by my grandfather. And Frankie was Johnny was my granddad.
1:46.4	Frankie. Frankie was his partner. Okay. And Frankie. Okay. So your Irish American or your
1:54.4	grandfather? Yeah. I wish. I break down because my did the DNA thing and I'm mostly Irish. I'm 24.2
2:02.4	percent Jewish and a certain amount of Scottish. Okay. Okay. So Johnny was your grandfather.
2:12.4	Who was Frankie? Frankie was your partner. Yeah. Frankie was another waiter there. So the guy
2:17.6	who had owned it, apparently this is where my dad remembered that to me. He fell down the stairs
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