This is a headgum original.

In the first season of Dead Eyes, we set out to find out why Tom Hanks fired me from that small speaking role in Band of Brothers.

Got some theories on what really happened from some friends in show business.

Even my mom and dad. I talked to the actor who replaced me and even

acted out the scene I was supposed to be in with members of the original cast.

For season two I'll be talking to some people who did not fire me, even though they could have.

I figure I've spent so much time trying to understand how things went wrong, why not analyze a few instances

when things went right?

It's still the same investigation.

We're just expanding the scope of it.

We're solving for X, if I remember correctly how algebra works.

I'm not sure that I do.

There's still plenty more to learn about why Tom Hanks fired me.

And to get ready for our second season,

I turn to someone whose instincts are always on the mark,

podcast-wise, someone who's been in the storytelling game for a long time,

and knows how to cut right to the heart of what's important.

Well, it's so nice to talk to you, Aria.

So I'm nice to talk to you.

I literally have no idea what we're about to do.

Well, I think I had run into you quite a while ago

and I had told you I was working on this idea for a

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