Open Mike Eagle

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Arts, Performing Arts, Music

5.0 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Open Mike Eagle—Los Angeles-based emcee, musician, comedian, and podcaster—joins Rhett to talk about his latest projects and the creative process behind his work. He shares how discovering hip hop in the mid-90s and a supportive creative community helped him kickstart his career. The two discuss music’s shifting landscape, navigating the TV industry, and finding new strategies to tackle imposter syndrome. Open Mike Eagle website Follow Open Mike @open_mike_eagle Rhett Miller website Follow Rhett @rhettmiller Wheels Off is hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Executive producer Kirsten Cluthe. Editing by Matt Dwyer. Music by Old 97’s. Episode artwork by Mark Dowd. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Distributed in partnership with Osiris Media. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with guests Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Jeff Tweedy, The Milk Carton Kids, and more. If you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIMUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.3	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.7	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.7	We started ugly ain't gonna stop.
0:16.4	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.5	That's when it got wheels off. Open micle is a musician, actor, comedian.
0:27.3	I know him through the thrilling adventure hour, work juice players crew,
0:35.2	of which I've been so fortunate to be a part all these years or over at least the last
0:41.2	decade or so.
0:43.3	He's great.
0:44.5	His music's great.
0:45.6	His lyrics are great.
0:46.7	This interview is so great.
0:50.0	I'm, you know, I love, I've never disliked one of these 200 plus interviews that I've done.
0:58.2	But some of them stand out.
1:00.5	This one to me for sure stands out.
1:03.6	I just felt like he was speaking my mind.
1:07.3	So many of the things he said resonated with me.
1:14.3	And I just, what a, what a brilliant guy. What a vulnerable interview he was willing to give me. And it's just really cool. I'm really
1:20.8	grateful that I was able to get open Mike Eagle onto the podcast. Oh, I wanted to make a note.
1:27.4	At a certain point, we talk about the
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