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Speaker 1: This is This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy, our host Ari is in New York at the moment working on Saturday Night Live. Yes, that's right. In the meantime, we're replaying some of my favorite interviews that we've had from guest contributors thus far. This week we've got Max Cook, Philip Willburn, and John Millheiser. Let's start with the incredibly talented Mr Max Cook. Enjoy let's get to know this week's especially against contributor Max Cook. Hi X, how's it going already? Any day? I'm very well? Thanks? Hi Max? Hi? Hi Andy? How are you doing? I'm all right? Thank you? Brother. Have you been listening to the show for a long time? Yes? How long have you been listening? Um? One episode? Okay, so you're a man, that's a long time. So tell us about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do? What are your favorite things to watch? Oh? I was born in Lansing, Michigan, and I'm a I'm merrily a voice actor and I love to watch the sopranos. Oh, nice, Um is your favorite character in the You know, the soprano? The fucking make are It's pretty good? Yeah? Is that? A is that. Yeah, that's pretty good Opporcino impression. Thank you. And here is my Jack Nicholson. That's pretty good. How do you like it? Sounds a little bit more like right, here's my Robert de Niro? Yeah, how do you like it? So far? Very on on on on the money is what they say. Yeah, they said that. So do you remember the first time that you did radio? Yeah? When was that? Oh? Gosh, maybe, Um, so you don't remember two thousand, it's been about eighteen years. Who and um, did you start radio here? Do you start radio? No? Uh, not Michigan. I'm I was born in Michigan, but I lived in California since House seven and radio has been a big deal. And uh, I did work here. I still work here. I've worked here for about fifteen years, there being Los Angeles. But did you always wanted to be in radio when you were a kid? Uh? No, I wanted to act. I didn't want anything to do with radio, but it just worked out that way. Okay, class, let's find out what we want to do when we grow up, when we when we become adults. What do you want to do? Chris? And I'm a big boy. I want to be a police chief. Okay, police chief, that's right, thank you, thank you. Your doctor's speaking a lot of lawyers, but for now I'll have to wait because I'm this many. Max, I want to be an actor. I'm gonna have a totin greatest Max. Um. I'm not saying that you can't be an actor, but do you ever thought about like maybe something like I don't know, you sound just like the guy on the radio. That might that might on the radio station my dad listens to on the way to school, becoming act like a radio No, neveryone thought about it. Haven't been on the radio. I haven't heard the radio. I don't even listen to the radio. So what do you think should still take an acting class? I don't know any actors who sound tricks Chris, Chris. Listen a few people I know who sound like Chris. What if you want to pursue your dream, you should do it. So Max, if that's what you want to be as an actor, then then so be it. You can make anything happen. We actually got a tape of one of Max's early auditions. Um, okay, so tell me your name and what you're reading for and how tall you work. My name is Max. Comes five nine, and I'm reading for the glass. Okay, so in the scene, um, your family has died. I don't really know the glass. I'm just I'm just a casting associate. Okay. So in the scene, uh, your partners died and then you have to deal with that. You have to unpack that. So um, so just have fun with it. Okay, here we go. My partner has died and we are rolling one to three. Excuse me, Look, if we're going to rant you this software space, do you have to be this loud going on down here? This? We get a lot of actors, but this is the only one that's kind of yelling out really loud. People keep complaining that can hear you because you're being so loud asport I'm trying to tell and if you keep word up, we're going to lose it over kicking. Yeah, look route over space. BA. Sorry that was our landlord. What was the first radio job you ever had? I'm not in radio, really. I I do voice over, I do animation, I work. I worked hard time in radio and a half for years just doing morning pits for shows. Very nice. Um do you ever do were you ever a big pan prank? Calls? Crank calls. Sure, crank calls are a lot of fun. Did you ever do them yourself? Or? Okay, have you ever been the recipient of a prank calls? Anybody ever called you? Uh? No? But um, I've been a recipient of a prank on a famous show and I saw right through the prank. And really tell us more about that. Well, I was going to my dry cleaners and some guy came out, not my usual dry cleaner, and he had I brought my clothes and I set my clothes in the counter and he comes out with chicken sauce all over his fingers, like wing sauce, and starts touching all my clothes with wing sauce. And I said, uh, this is this is a This is a prank, isn't it? And and they had to stop production. It was for the Jimmy Kimmel Show. And I guess he has a cousin who would prank people. And you know, I'm a huge Jackass fan and like instantly, so it's the wrong mark. Uh, welcome to Grace and Cafe. Uh just for one table for one? Yeah? What what's so fun? Let me take you back to your table. Come on, let's go what what's going. We're going to bring you to the table. Not that's going. Why would anything? We are got you? All right, yeah, we take you back to the table. Just here's some menus? Good? Why do you want to take a look at this venue? All right? I don't know what's going on here. Look at the venue, Look at the menue. I'm looking at the menu. Yeah, noticed anything, noticed anything weird about it? Human body parts are on the menu? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yeah we have but right there, that's pretty weird. You do you want to order? The calf was a little rare? Ye? Oh boy? Is this? This is this a joke? Damn it? Bit guys. I mean, it's really transparent that you have body part I go to this restaurant all the time. You know, it's look and then the fact that you guys are snickering like maniacs when I just we were laughing. That's something else that we were thinking before we were we were laughing at this. We were all loving at the joke and we're talking about But I love pranks, and you guys have the potential. I mean, the ideas are good. It's just you you're a little too obvious, that's all. You just need to be a little more subtle in some dude. So, um, just the regular basic car wash. H yeah, just the basic car wash. Why don't you by the way, Oh, let's see that. Oh that that's yeah, a lot a lot of money off. And then did you want the barbecue saucewax? Yeah, that that's our Let me talk to best selling Jim Jim dead, Jim Dad Jim killed. Yeah, Jim Jim Jim died. Yeah, we killed him. Jim married my sister when we killed you sister too? Hey, what is the meaning of all this nonsound? You just got light too, We got we got it, we got it. There's no barbecue. You're on your light too. Yeah, so you guys, but really, I don't tell anybody we killed your sister. No wait, wait, why are you laughing? Why would we kill her sisters for production? Now you said you said to you said, why would you do that? Sorry, if we have a private meeting, this is a real car watching and go ahead, But your sister is dead. Yeah, sorry what you looked at me? And you see? Now I gotta deal with his crying and then we gotta deal with the legal implications. She didn't killed somebody for production. I'm involved. I'm involved now. I took care of her. I raised her practically on my own because my mom our mom worked two jobs and my dad died before I was born. Look, this was his idea. How could you whose idea? This is your idea? Said Snicker, Like how you did? How could you laugh my sorrow? And how could you broadly? I was laughing murder for a prime. I was laughing at something that we talked about earlier. But he said he looked me in the show one right now, I don't want what I got. These two idiots over here at the car one I pulled up just like Jim's not here. O down, okay, slow down? Oh god, so so Jim slower? Jim's not here slower at the car was okay, slower, slow down. He's too good, slow down. I'm sorry. I'm also on the line. What are the two good? Slow slow down? There? Jasper and Joseph for something I don't even know where. We're sending units out right now. You can speak to m Mr Jasper, please please. Mr Jasper was my father's name. You can call me Jasper. So we got a report that you murdered someone's sister. Uh, yeah, but it was Frank show. He do you do you do you realize that you have to go to jail for the rest of your life? No? Do you realize? Right? Because it really I didn't really kill it. You just wait, you lied to up me? Yeah? You we pray yourk you we No, we prayed do you? Brak mean you and you and you've been lied to. So you have a really good way of seeing through pranks. That's great. Um, we had I had a conversation earlier. You had said mentioned that you were a big wine guy. Yeah, I love wine. What's your what's your favorite varietal? I think my favorite varietal is a for white, I love a Savignon blanc. And for red, I love a peanut oar. I find a peanut peanut oars that. Really there's not a body might wrong. No, you're absolutely right. I know you're a cabman, so that's that's good. Body is good. But pinot red red affects my libido. So if it's too oh excellent, But if I have too much red, I become very very uh saucy. And so I think if I do a hard cab, I'm definitely gonna go the distance or try to get something going. Um, I think we just want to see the wine list here you are? What can I get you guys to drink? No cab? Thrip? No no for me please, no cab. What would you like a drink? Uh? God, do you have any? Just sorry, my apologies. Let me get the ladies order first, my apologies. What would you like a drinking? Um? I would like a salmonlanc um. But just make sure you don't bring him a cab. Seriously, what vintage do you want? She keeps looking at me because she's trying to learn about wine. Understand. Yeah, what will you help? Just tell? Do you want to save our blamors? Yes? From seventies? She doesn't like it, she likes it? Sweet? Sweet, Just to be honest with you, I really don't care what I have as long as he does not have cows. Gotcha. I have took care of myself twice this morning. I think I'll be all I know. I've heard a lot about the cab. The cab. Just um, this sounds like there's a lot of insight info here that I'm not pretty to. You don't want him to have a cab. I get that. There's no need to say it again. Cann you want you want some camp seven? Yes, okay, great from and then what would you like, sir? Not a cab Yeah, maybe just a Randy Port. Okay, Randy, be right back with your drinks. God, why do you always got to be like this every time you go into a tasting room. Stop bringing up my problems with cabernets caused me to want you more like your entire he's coming, he's coming. Okay, here is your I shouted out after you had a cab okay, and then here is your Randy Port. Did you want to taste them first before we actually pour the bottle? Give chocolate, Chuckolate, I'd like a little chocolate to put on my tongue, just doing to there's no cabin there right, Oh my god, cabernet chocolate. M God, why did you do that? Why did you give me? Honestly, man, come here? You said cabernet so many times, and then if you would have just said at once right, continuously repeating get off me, get off me, get off me, get off? All right? What about you buddy? Come here? Yeah, yeah, give him his medicine. Trump, Thanks to our especially guests contributor Max Cook. Thanks, coming up our interview with Philip Wilburn. But first a few words from our sponsors. Welcome back to this As Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for Ari while he is in New York City working on Saturday Night Live. We're playing some of our favorite interviews from this season so far. Up next, here's Philip Wilburn. And now let's get to know especially guys. Contreeter for this week, Philip Wilburn. So, Philip, tell us little about yourself. Um, my name is Philip Holburn. I'm I'm from Texas. Originally I'm a comedian and I do a lot of impressions and do a lot of sketch comedy. And uh yeah, I've watched a lot of videos in the past and um, you have, hands down some of the best impressions side I've seen. Um, can we hear one of them? Let's hear some, you know what, I'm doing. A lot of President Trump a little bit pretty good. I got a lot of them. And then in the old days, I used to do a lot of bal and thick, but there's not a lot of goal for that anymore. It's pretty good. How do you get into impressions? You know, when I was a little kid, I started doing uh impressions right away. The first two sadly weird impressions I did were so cliche. One was my dad. I would just do whatever I was watching on TV. And the two that I remember, my dad always watched Western, so we did a lot of John Wayne and then also Uncle Arthur from Bewitched, And what a dynamic duo those would be. You know, it's just so weird. You know, we actually have some of that in the archives. All right, kids, is after five o'clock. I want everybody to sit down in front of the TV. And I don't want anybody to talk because I'm gonna watch my Western's. But that can we talk about like what I did at school? I don't want to hear any words out of either one of you. Alright, you love Philip way more than me, that's true. But now it's not the time to unpack that. Well, Dad, why don't we watch a little of your favorite show, maybe True Grid or maybe The Son's at Katie Elder is so good? It is so good to watch Adam twelve? Can we watch I thought I seem to recall asking you not to speak even here, Adam, my brother, Adam, You're just total losers. You're just sitting over there doing anohing one. You just keep it sucking on Wi the oldest Gregs the spotlight here you doom good. I love you, Daddy, I love you too. He just gets away with everything. Dad, My show is coming on, My show is coming on. I love this character, Dad, It's so funny. It's such a funny character. Oh, samanth I love it. I love it so much. Honey. I went to my purse just now and I'm missing I'm missing thirty. But missing thirty's such a penny pure. I saw, I saw Philip got It was you who took your money. It was Philip, Daddy. Look at my new ball Live. I love it. I love it, and I like how for me thirty dollars again? Great, it's great that put tune two together. He stole it from mom's purse. Man, why don't you just shut up? You Philip, be a deer and ask your brother to walk up there and turn down the Hey, Adam, why didn't you got turn down? Then went the knob because we don't have a remote control. When did you discover that you wanted to do this in front of other people, Like, would you started to stand up or was it just I did a lot of improv in Dallas, and I worked with a guy named Randy Bennett, one of the founders of the ground Links. He taught kind of the ground Links program in Texas and Pocket s Imwage Theater. It was not Pokistanwich Theater. It was called Upstage Smart Comedy Smart Cocktails, which was a horrible name, but it was part of Lone Star Comedy. And then when when did you decide you wanted to make it a thing? You know what, I've always wanted to do it. When I was a little kid, I broke our television and the frame came off and that was my favorite toy and I always wanted to be on TV and do that kind of stuff. So i've since since I was a little kid. I did it. But when I started doing improv, it was weird because that kind of and sketch comedy really kind of made it where I was like, Oh, this is this is really what I want to do, and uh, I kind of was floundering a lot until my teacher found out that I did impressions in the moment he found out idea impressions, he was like, Oh, this is right, this is the goal mine. I can do something with this and so so yeah, that was that was kind of my forte in and it was a weird transition because then started things started blossoming from that. You know, you'd meet a bunch of improv people and you would get to do some weird things. A lot of one of my first professional vo gigs was from improv because a lot of the improv guys in Dallas were um directors and cast members on Dragon ball Z. And so I got a part on Dragon ball Z because I was in this group of people, and I got one of the most hated characters of all of Dragon ball Z, this character called Android nineteen. It was a fat android who uh would try to kill people and but he had this really weird, squeaky, high pitched voice, and uh yeah, it was one of the most hated characters. His name is his name is, His name is Andrey named Keen, and he talks like this and he says, Hi, are we to steal energy? I guess what we have some of that in the archives steel alright, Uh, Dragon ball Z of the character is android. I'm sorry to think this night in my auditioning. First you go ahead, give me the breakdown first to the character. Um, he's a a fat character and he's uh, he's not very well liked, so you can help try to overcome the charter fat and not very well liked. Alight, I got it. There you go, he's gonna book me right away. This guy's and I don't even know why he's here because it was an open call. All right, well whatever, there we go. Thank you. Yeah, damn, we are your energy freaking kid black. I think it's pretty good. That matches your your breakdown. Yeah, if you ask me. Um, okay, so let's my phone. Really that was really great. I really felt like he was. So then I'll come back and record that I got the No, you do not have the job. I don't know. I just said that was okay. Do you want to slate? Do you want to? Yes? Please you? Yeah. I'm Philip Bulborn with the Campbell Agency Dallas. Uh, and I just want to say I'm excited about this opportunity. Uh. And I do a lot of voices, So if you need other androids like hello, oh oh, thank the make up dear, you know good warnings, you know all those kids. Great, Yeah, it's great. So I was thinking he's fat, so I want to play against time, you know. And uh so instead of playing him like that guy, I was thinking very high like this, and I could creeping out by people like doing this. Hello the chica, I'm in steel all the energy. Oh my, you're not hiring that guy for sure. I don't even know why. I'm we are going to build a wall. This is going to be huge, bigly energy. I'm going to steal all your energy, so bigly, it's going to be huge, huge energy. I don't know. I just think that could be a character that people might hate. I'm really sorry. I When you did characters, do you find it very difficult to be friends with people who were not comedians? Or when you went on dates, like, did you find it a bit challenging? I? You know, I do think that a funny voice can open up, you know, a world of dating. But after a while they get tired of it. So that's that's definitely a definitely, But there are definitely some girls that maybe like the voice. It's someone worked and then someone didn't work right, right, Hey, let's check the archives. Come on, come on, I was I just I just saw her three days ago, and now she's she's gone. What happened? Tell me what happened? A car A car drove by, and she looked at the car are and then she fell into a man who oh, my cosins. Manholes are so bad. Just be serious, help me tell me everything. Everything will be okay. I have a very particular skill. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Whoa hey, cover discovery. That's not bad. That's not good. Everything we can to save people with manho covers. It's very true. It's very true. It's something we're working on. Tremendous, tremendous manhole covers. They say, say, I alone can fix it. I alone can fix the mano problem. It's good, it's good now, Dudel. Hello, I'm sorry I have to tell you this. But when your friends fell into the manhole, you're their friend, Alice was already in the manhole, and they landed out of each other contect. Both of your friends died. Yes, at the same time. You know who can fix that? Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, pick show me the same show with the money show. Read the money Show, Read the Money everything's gonna be fine. Let's have sex with each other. You complete me, and so does your friend. Now is each other? They complete each other. They became each other because they hit each other but their body. So. Um, did you ever have any um jobs before you landed doing voice work and acting? And yeah, I one of my weird side gigs is I um, I can operate a Doppler radar. I have been a weather producer for many t V stations and I do that on the side, is I you know I do that occasionally. I'm a weather producer. Do they have a hard time taking you seriously when there's like serious weather conditions coming because they think maybe you're joking about it? Yeah? I mean sometimes sometimes there there have been moments when I've I've been too jokey in a serious situation. You know. You know, we actually have some of that in the archives. All right, tell me about what's going on here, Philip. I mean, my car just flipped over the wind just flipped my car over me. Those maps on the wall, it's just like Twister. You know the movie Twister where they had the cows and stuff like that. Damn it, would you be fucking real, please, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, it looks like there's a tornado warning for Dallas County. I just it's good. There is a tornado warning Foras County. It be serious. Please, this is not the time. It's not the time. Tornado all day, Donos County. Who m okay, Well, I'm just trying to make sure you know. Come on seriously, it says there's hail the size of golf balls. We want to thank our special guest contributor, billisville Burn. Coming up our interview with John mill Heiser, But first a few words from our sponsors. Stay with us, Welcome back to this As Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for Ari while he is in New York City working on Saturday Night Live. We're playing some of our favorite interviews from our guest contributors over the course of the past season. Up next, here is our interview with John Millheiser. Enjoy. A special guest contributor is John Miller? Good? How are you you? Did I pence that quickly? John? Realize you Yeah. It's both the correct So it tells you about yourself from I guess I grew up in New Jersey. Nice. All parts of New Jersey. You know then, like you're from New Jersey. Yeah, I get that. I have been told. I say, yeah a lot, yeah, yeah, and that's my most Jersey accident. I think you miss anything from Jersey. No, I just got back, so it's nice. I haven't been in two years because of the indulge me or do you leaving after a two year? I hate? Is? Was there anything you missed? I missed the hogies, I missed the boardwalk. There's a there's a boardwalk. And I explained to me what a uh is. Well, hoogie is like a sub like subway, but hoogi. Um, it's like very I guess Jersey and probably like Pennsylvania term. Um. Is there anything that makes it different? Yeah, what's the same? Same same thing? Yeah, it's a bad same For some reason, we like calling it hoogie. And I'm not familiar with the term hero. You explained what that is. It's like it's like a hog exactly. It's like a hog, yeah, or a sub or like a sandwich. No, No, he's not sandwich. Not even do you know what a hero is. It's like that. Um. I went to a very school, so I've had any of these, probably had a HOGI They're totally not is the sandwich right? Because if I've never had one of those, that's saying right. I do very very very meticulous, particulously made backers and then some short COOTI do you have any other questions for our I'm sorry? So did you enjoy your trip to New Jersey? Oh? I enjoyed my trip so much. Yeah, rejuvenated me. I haven't seen some family members in a while, and yeah, it was just nice. Did you ever have any friends or family in the mafia. In the mafia, well, the Coasta Nostra, the Coasta Nostra growing up in I grew up in Bergen County, North Jersey and Parano's Country. Yeah, I was too young to know what was happening, but I was told that the mob guy was arrested down the street like him and his wife. Yeah, oh that's pretty you know, we actually have that, we have that in the archivet that arrest one. You alright, don't get an you shut up. You are under arrest, underrest for what don't you arrest? My sweet look lady, what you under arrest? Why did I freaking do to you know? I didn't do nothing. Nobody everybody knows. I didn't do nothing. Nobody, I'd never doing the same thing. What exactly is it? Do you think that we are freaking doing over here? Where do I begin? Do you recketeer? That's a very serious charge. I run a very respectable business. I don't know what you think I do on a normal day basis. Your business might be a lot of things, very respectable. I make a very honest, good living living. Yeah, good, look at you? Look at your yard? Okay, what about it? I got gnomes like everybody else. Listen your work. Nomes in the yard. That's not a very serious crime. But that's seriously that the racket hearing, that's a pretty freaking serious crime. Did it side? Marie? Stay out it? She didn't. She needs to hear all this because she's coming down to the prestinct. But what she didn't do? Nothing? She got him? God, say what do you? What are you saying? Do nothing? Tell us what we did? Tell us what you think we did? What I Loretta he k Marie did? What did I? Marietta get it? Side? I'm not going to stay out. I feel like I should listen to the freaking cops. But also I should listen to my freaking maid, squeeze over. I don't know what to want between two people. Also, you and I were very much same guys. You well, we grew up in the same neighborhood, down the street from each other. You went one way, I went to the other. You became a copet became a respectable businessman. Ward what you can do? And you got Loretta a Diguloretta war. Well, you're gonna do it. Try to arrest me because I got the girl. Do you really wanted you go in boys? You know what shoot boys? Boys? Fellis there's plenty of me to go freaking around. Way. I want to stay outside and break this up and also figure out what what what? What proof do you have with the recketeering. By the way, it's my freaking prerogative. Where what I do with my d You don't, don't. I don't tell her what to do? You do whatever she wants? What is prerogative? Mean? What's google four? Sorry? He's four, big brother? What is prerogative? Big blood? I don't even look run over? He doesn't freak either. Goats All right, let's get back to the fucking breast text. He you're just sucking jealous I really think that he's going to arrest you because he has some serious evidence about the recketeering. I don't think it really has m should do with jealousy. I mean, what do you you have tapes or something? You got an informant? What do you have? You got nothing? You got a garage full of tennis rackets? Yeah? And whose looks to play? Fucking Tannis? Look at me, I'm a fucking I'm Andres. Oh we ever do pcampers? Also? He's also it's you love Mack and remember freaking never tolover overheat Billy Jean King. Okay, okay, now we've established go back to watch you watch your evidence. Tennis rackets? Yeah, what are you gonna doing? All those tennis rackets, all those stolen? What makes you think the stolen? I like to buy things in Molk. I gotta talk to the cop for a second real quick. Hey, honey, sugar, hold on my second. I'm gonna talk to this cop alright. I'm gonna try to set him straight. Listen, why are you mentioning informants? You gonna put my coffee? I didn't think you don't. I don't even think about telling him that. I keep you guys off to the freaking tennis rackets. I know you're doing a great job. He didn't you playing undercover? Really well, what did you say? He? Did you know about the tennis rackets. I'm the only person who could have been freak impossibly you don't want to there's tennis rackets missing all around town, and they're all in your garage. All right, people asking questions. I thought that's what racketeering meant. Also, can you do me a quick Also? Can you do me a quick favor? Can you stop calling me by my code name Loretta and call me Marie? Please? This freaking I think that my name is Marie and you call me Loretta right off the bed. You gotta blow my freaking cover. Please, all right, let's do Oh my god, this cop just call shit. Yeah Marie, hold on, I say, I gotta talk to it is freaking you call me Loretta again. I'm pretty sure I didn't know you did the first words out of your mount after I walked back from my baby here, my sweet cheeks, my honey bunch, what's Loretta? I just highly doubt that I don't screw up a lot. I think the fans have that in the allchives. Why don't we go back? All right? Yeah, guys in the fan, can you play that back? The one rom with it forty seconds ago? Wait? You want to do me a favorite and not call me? You just hit it again? See? Oh? Can you do me another favor? Can you not yell out? Hey? Guys in the FBI truck, can you run back? You gotta whisper it into yellow pel don't just willy nilly freaking Lovetta. Guys in the FBI truck, can you check your eyes from ten seconds and go to Proton? Is freaking a coach that he freaking said Loretta? Please yeah, play another one? Yes, thank you. This is the FBI playing tape number seven forty and boys just want to have no that was that was the wrong tape. Let me in forman you along and talking about I like that? So that's really good? Have you had the whole album? I like it? Do you want to play another tracker? Phimissions? But I husband didn't really know what to make about this relationship between the cop and his nudity with life. It seemed little fishy. Still, he had to go talk to his capos and his uh, his underbuss what's the problem. I don't know, Like there's something going on between me, my my, my wife and the you know his cop with Marie. Marie would never do nothing. I don't know she would never, would you think come here to do a good permission from you to have to do something. I don't know what You're all right? You know what? Can I talk to the other on the boards? Please? Somebody's not gonna be starting all over the words? You know my problem? So what should I do? Do I do I take action? Or do I just let it go? Do you love this woman? You know that I love it? But you know I almost got pinched over these fucking these tennis racket the tennis racket racket. Somebody's feeding the cops information. I don't know who it is. Are you accusing us ware exactly? What do you do? Mind? If you think they were reds? No, don't think I'm just red you out and your racket, right, I'm never Why would we would just be shooting their own cells in the foots. I don't know what I'm saying this. There might be some like you know, the inn informance, you know, would give me a second. I'm gonna talk. I think my wife's an informant. This one's wanna get in. Marie would never do something like that. I'm gonna confer with the under boys here for a second to school over there for a second. By the clock, I think that he's on the effected the redder. It's an informant and thus me and you because we we we we are also informants over How do you like the clock? Oh? That's pretty nice? Huh like that especially made from the from Johnny Clocks. I don't know what the first thing that good? You came up with that? Because Johnny clocks a place I would assume that he that's his nickname, because he made clocks. I don't know. I don't know. I really don't know what I get the Johnny Clocks says the clocks. What Johnny Clocks got out of the clock business? He did he does pools now. I didn't get the binder the defense gave us to get us up to speed them don't want us in the community. Did nobody tell me the meeting? I'm sorry, Like you know, aupt very important, you know on the boss meeting? What can I get like some kind of direction or maybe like get more rackets? Yeah, you need to get more rackets and dumni deep in this racket. Rackets. Definitely, don't kill Marie. Do not kill Marie. She's a decorated woman, civilian, she's wired tapped. I mean, she is good cook, she is an FBI, she's a teacher. She teaches kids how to make for a cheni polonaise. That's what bi. Are you even Italian? What are you talking about? Blogne? But what you see I'm saying that a cheni. It was clear that everybody in the family was an infloyment except for Joe. It was a purist throwing up and it's amazing about being made and only when he got there, you know that. But of lifestyle was being an employment and everybody was doing a bit in I feel like, you know, I don't know, I'm not understood by everybody. You know, some of the somethings different. It's not the same. But I think you're talking about it's just not the same Italian I know, But you know, it's it's like it feels like maybe it's a different in generation. Maybe it's different part of Italy, maybe it's part of definitely he guys from I don't know. I don't know what you laugh so much? That sounds like a very a very tough particamentarian. You know what, I'm going to confer with my fellow Italian quin quin National, and now we're going to going to discuss it. I think that's onto the fact that we are in farmers fould work. We've ben filtrated the Yeah, thank you, thanks for a farm and don't be a favorite cut, You're not, You're it's allowed one and whisper what do you do it? It's the way I speak? Is that what I was like when the when the guy got arrested. Yeah, it was all over town, all over the papers, everything, every gay it was, uh yeah, that's what it was a nice Uh So theere's what you do on your your comedian, comedian, actor, writer, teacher since the pandemic started doing some zoom character classes and stuff of everything that you do would gives you most satisfaction performing? Yes, yeah, right now we're kind of in a performing stalemate, right do you do shows at home? Friends? Um? I've tried a few zoom stand up shows and I they weren't fun to do. But I do like shooting videos, you know, and then posting them wherever, just to get some comedy out there. And you're currently on a show you play a teacher. Yes, I play a drama teacher on the show Drama Club on Nickelodeon. I thought it was very funny. Can you tell us to do about it? Sure? It's um a show Nickelodeon called Drama Club about the middle school drama club and just you know that you got the rock, you got the influencer girl, you got the real drama rama kid. And they all just like a mismatch group of kids that are trying to put on a production of Minnesota the Musical and it's just they get into hi drinks and it's created by Maddy Whitby and Monica Sharer. Oh, it's like The Office. It's a mockumentary but for like a middle school. Yeah, they took it's like baking a fourth Well. They talked to the people professionals. Yeah yeah yeah. Uh pop watch like I've been say by the bell maybe that guy time out Zack. Yes, and you just talk to the audience and you felt like you was getting a window into his life. Yeah like that. I remember that. Were you in drama but when you were younger? Yes, I was in all the My middle school was inside the high school. So in seventh grade I was in like the music and but I was always playing the townsperson. And then um, it wasn't until like senior year that I got Marcus likes and a funny thing having the way the form. But like, yeah, I was never given good roles. I was always extra. We actually have the your your production of the music Man. Yeah, we have the audition for that and you play it. Yeah. Oh the Wells Fargo Wagon is coming down the street. Oh please let it be fun me thank you, John. So um, you do this every time you wait around. You need to let us, you know, deliberate. Well, you know that's happened before, and and you're on every play you audition. Yeah I think so. Yeah, I do have a quick note. I take great notes. Yeah, I love notes. I would love your feedback. Just a slight problem with your with your select show. Um, the audition was actually for the song we Got Trouble my Friends right here, right here in River City City play. I exactly did you not choose the same time. I wanted to like stand out, like I wanted to like go against the green. I wanted you know you we probably were getting sick of that song, right, shake your head, Yes, you're getting sick of that. Well, we just part the part that you're auditioning for sings that song. Yeah, so that's why it's important for you to sing the song, because you'll be doing that in the place if we gave you the part, you understand. Now, look, I appreciate your zealousness. A word? Is that a word? Zealousness? A word zealous nous z e A l O U n e s s zealousness. Well, can you look up zealousness please? Gil if the word indeed? Alright, good, we got that settled. I don't want to punish you for really singing your heart out. So I'm going to give you the role of that bush. I was gonna say tree bush is more appropriate. Yeah, so you got the crouch. I didn't even know there was a bush in the script. Let me just find that we created the part. Just we couldn't let you go without having you know, Yeah, I just I felt like you wanted what he said, Well, the Wells Fargo Wagon. Actually we came up with an original song for the bushes, like did you get Yeah, you want to try that? So the very front part that you start with. I don't need that, So you don't need that, don't need it. Just go right to the me me me me me you you you you you. You know, why don't we give him the role of Bush number two? Because that one doesn't have a mouths. You just kept through do whoever you need to get. I wanted that Bush part, and you know I I got it. Two questions to have first one after you probably the most successful actor out of your group of people that you into drama Drama club with. Right do you do you? I mean, do you like? I think, like, look those guys, we're not giving me the parts that I want. I was on the biggest show on the earth, and I'm on another show. It's pretty great because they do like that show. Actually, yeah, well I kept in touch with my drama teacher who never gave me any of the parts. Mrs Hanshon. We used to call our hands on gin, you know, to get out of her um. But I kind of just kept in touch with her over the years. And then when I was on us and now I was like, hey, my mom reached out to her. She's like, Johnsontown, do you want him? To speak to your drama club. So they had me come in and speak to the current drama club at my old high school. And then nobody knew about the show I was on. And then nobody knew any of the celebrities I brought up, and nobody was interested. And it was a big, I feel like failure. They didn't care what nobody knew? What did nobody knew? What sla We just watch the tape? Yeah, I brought the tape class. I am proud to Please don't call me miss hands in chin. Guys, be nice. I am proud. I thought that if I proactively said it, you wouldn't do it. All right, Who's who? I'm just okay, let's get through it. I'm proudly. I'm proud to welcome former student John Millis. Am I pronouncing that correctly? Yes? John? Yeah? Robert Jr? No, John Millheiser? Iron man? Or were you in? Oh? No, I was not an iron Man. You're thinking tell him what you do? Wouldn't America? No? No, no, no, I am not in those that Marvel movie. No. I'm on a fun show called Saturday Night Live. Oh come on, Oh when is it on? It's on Saturdays. In the mornings. No, no, no, no at night? And you know I could have gotten there. You know, if it wasn't for miss hands On, he almost did it. This thing I hate, I hate it with you. I have a question, Yes, Garrett, have you ever met Robert Downey Jr? Are you asking me or you asking him him? Well, you said you had a question. You were looking at me. I called on you. I know, but I had I had a question for him. Oh have you member Robert down a junior? Garrett wasn't Garrett? No, I haven't, but I I can't imagine him hosting at some point? WHOA Come? Do you play sport? Scarrett? Stop disrupting, No, I don't play sports. Any questions about sketch comedy? Is that where you do like a dance with the song and then and then you make everybody else and everybody else do the same. It's like an improv exercise. Any other questions for John? Please have a lot of kids in a your drama club? Anymore? Miss Hanston, something like you kind of called me Miss hands On shin again. I thought you know, I would never you just kind of breathe through it, and you thought I wouldn't catch it, but it's okay, you're sorry. I'm volunteering to be here, so let's not get into it a little okay, how we won't. Don't do it? Garrett, What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to have a lot of money, and then I want to be able to invest in technology, and then I want to build a suit made of metal. I'd care you're cut off. I have a question, and I want to I want to be able to fly when I want to shoot beams of stuff out of my hands and my chest. It's a big fan of iron Man. Iron Man. Have a question, John, I have a question. What was the name of the show you're on? Account wasn't what you thought it would be. No, I thought they were going to ask for autographs or photos. They didn't seen that life. Do you have any fun memories of Yeah, there was a lots of fun memories. I remember I did a sketch with Lady Gaga, and right before our sketch, right before the camera went live, I leaned over to her and I was like, I'm a little monster, and she's like I had no idea, and I was like, yeah, I didn't want to like seem like a super fan. But that's just like one of many things after that. Did she Demond? I thought so? Yeah, yeah, I think she still remembers me. I hope. So are there any guests the hosts that were taller than you realized when you saw it in person, taller than you realize you'd be nice Charlie, they're on she still? Oh yeah you gold Blue? Once? He was very tall, yeah, Tim Robin, Tim Robinson, Tim Robbins, uh, Susan Surrandon Sex Yes, yes, very tall. He seems tall. I met Squill Neil once. He's pretty tall, is he? Although you know to getting Sean Bradley. I met him once. He's a tall guy. Patrick, I'm not him one time. He's taller than you would think. These all people who professionally tall. So I don't know if you cut that professionally tall. Yes, being tall is not a job, Yes it is. Are you talking about? All right? Leap that out? I leave what out? Ari? Is he anything you want to talk about? Something you're working on now that you want to leg pump to this. I'm trying to like learning new crazy Yeah, plump, I'll try to pump something. I just I did pump plump works too. I'm gonna plump has this Drama Club and I just remember my first question and then stop asking. You know, we want to move move on and stuff. Uh, he's getting very impatient. Uh. Talking to both you guys, Uh in the show Drama Club and you were in Drama Club when you were younger? Do you feel that there's some pair of those between the the character tropes if you will, you feel like because obviously the new version the class the show has like an influencer. You know that clearly what didn't exist when we were young. I think cross generations. I think Drama Club has always remained like the same, the same heart and soul as it always has been. Like you go into the auditorium and you kind of like disappear from the rest of the school, right and Uh, it's still yeah, just the fun to play and get weird with other artsy FARTSI people who can't play sports. All right, Jemidia, thank you so much for coming. Four special guest contributors Max Cook, Philip Wilburn, and John mill Heizer and our host Ari. I'm producer Andy and this was This is Americans Live. Join us next actor. This is Americans Live can be found wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review. You can also find this is Americans Live on Instagram at this is americans Live and on Twitter at americans Live.
Speaker 1: This is This is Americans Live. I'm producer Andy, our host Ari is in New York at the moment working on Saturday Night Live. Yes, that's right. In the meantime, we're replaying some of my favorite interviews that we've had from guest contributors thus far. This week we've got Max Cook, Philip Willburn, and John Millheiser. Let's start with the incredibly talented Mr Max Cook. Enjoy let's get to know this week's especially against contributor Max Cook. Hi X, how's it going already? Any day? I'm very well? Thanks? Hi Max? Hi? Hi Andy? How are you doing? I'm all right? Thank you? Brother. Have you been listening to the show for a long time? Yes? How long have you been listening? Um? One episode? Okay, so you're a man, that's a long time. So tell us about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do? What are your favorite things to watch? Oh? I was born in Lansing, Michigan, and I'm a I'm merrily a voice actor and I love to watch the sopranos. Oh, nice, Um is your favorite character in the You know, the soprano? The fucking make are It's pretty good? Yeah? Is that? A is that. Yeah, that's pretty good Opporcino impression. Thank you. And here is my Jack Nicholson. That's pretty good. How do you like it? Sounds a little bit more like right, here's my Robert de Niro? Yeah, how do you like it? So far? Very on on on on the money is what they say. Yeah, they said that. So do you remember the first time that you did radio? Yeah? When was that? Oh? Gosh, maybe, Um, so you don't remember two thousand, it's been about eighteen years. Who and um, did you start radio here? Do you start radio? No? Uh, not Michigan. I'm I was born in Michigan, but I lived in California since House seven and radio has been a big deal. And uh, I did work here. I still work here. I've worked here for about fifteen years, there being Los Angeles. But did you always wanted to be in radio when you were a kid? Uh? No, I wanted to act. I didn't want anything to do with radio, but it just worked out that way. Okay, class, let's find out what we want to do when we grow up, when we when we become adults. What do you want to do? Chris? And I'm a big boy. I want to be a police chief. Okay, police chief, that's right, thank you, thank you. Your doctor's speaking a lot of lawyers, but for now I'll have to wait because I'm this many. Max, I want to be an actor. I'm gonna have a totin greatest Max. Um. I'm not saying that you can't be an actor, but do you ever thought about like maybe something like I don't know, you sound just like the guy on the radio. That might that might on the radio station my dad listens to on the way to school, becoming act like a radio No, neveryone thought about it. Haven't been on the radio. I haven't heard the radio. I don't even listen to the radio. So what do you think should still take an acting class? I don't know any actors who sound tricks Chris, Chris. Listen a few people I know who sound like Chris. What if you want to pursue your dream, you should do it. So Max, if that's what you want to be as an actor, then then so be it. You can make anything happen. We actually got a tape of one of Max's early auditions. Um, okay, so tell me your name and what you're reading for and how tall you work. My name is Max. Comes five nine, and I'm reading for the glass. Okay, so in the scene, um, your family has died. I don't really know the glass. I'm just I'm just a casting associate. Okay. So in the scene, uh, your partners died and then you have to deal with that. You have to unpack that. So um, so just have fun with it. Okay, here we go. My partner has died and we are rolling one to three. Excuse me, Look, if we're going to rant you this software space, do you have to be this loud going on down here? This? We get a lot of actors, but this is the only one that's kind of yelling out really loud. People keep complaining that can hear you because you're being so loud asport I'm trying to tell and if you keep word up, we're going to lose it over kicking. Yeah, look route over space. BA. Sorry that was our landlord. What was the first radio job you ever had? I'm not in radio, really. I I do voice over, I do animation, I work. I worked hard time in radio and a half for years just doing morning pits for shows. Very nice. Um do you ever do were you ever a big pan prank? Calls? Crank calls. Sure, crank calls are a lot of fun. Did you ever do them yourself? Or? Okay, have you ever been the recipient of a prank calls? Anybody ever called you? Uh? No? But um, I've been a recipient of a prank on a famous show and I saw right through the prank. And really tell us more about that. Well, I was going to my dry cleaners and some guy came out, not my usual dry cleaner, and he had I brought my clothes and I set my clothes in the counter and he comes out with chicken sauce all over his fingers, like wing sauce, and starts touching all my clothes with wing sauce. And I said, uh, this is this is a This is a prank, isn't it? And and they had to stop production. It was for the Jimmy Kimmel Show. And I guess he has a cousin who would prank people. And you know, I'm a huge Jackass fan and like instantly, so it's the wrong mark. Uh, welcome to Grace and Cafe. Uh just for one table for one? Yeah? What what's so fun? Let me take you back to your table. Come on, let's go what what's going. We're going to bring you to the table. Not that's going. Why would anything? We are got you? All right, yeah, we take you back to the table. Just here's some menus? Good? Why do you want to take a look at this venue? All right? I don't know what's going on here. Look at the venue, Look at the menue. I'm looking at the menu. Yeah, noticed anything, noticed anything weird about it? Human body parts are on the menu? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yeah we have but right there, that's pretty weird. You do you want to order? The calf was a little rare? Ye? Oh boy? Is this? This is this a joke? Damn it? Bit guys. I mean, it's really transparent that you have body part I go to this restaurant all the time. You know, it's look and then the fact that you guys are snickering like maniacs when I just we were laughing. That's something else that we were thinking before we were we were laughing at this. We were all loving at the joke and we're talking about But I love pranks, and you guys have the potential. I mean, the ideas are good. It's just you you're a little too obvious, that's all. You just need to be a little more subtle in some dude. So, um, just the regular basic car wash. H yeah, just the basic car wash. Why don't you by the way, Oh, let's see that. Oh that that's yeah, a lot a lot of money off. And then did you want the barbecue saucewax? Yeah, that that's our Let me talk to best selling Jim Jim dead, Jim Dad Jim killed. Yeah, Jim Jim Jim died. Yeah, we killed him. Jim married my sister when we killed you sister too? Hey, what is the meaning of all this nonsound? You just got light too, We got we got it, we got it. There's no barbecue. You're on your light too. Yeah, so you guys, but really, I don't tell anybody we killed your sister. No wait, wait, why are you laughing? Why would we kill her sisters for production? Now you said you said to you said, why would you do that? Sorry, if we have a private meeting, this is a real car watching and go ahead, But your sister is dead. Yeah, sorry what you looked at me? And you see? Now I gotta deal with his crying and then we gotta deal with the legal implications. She didn't killed somebody for production. I'm involved. I'm involved now. I took care of her. I raised her practically on my own because my mom our mom worked two jobs and my dad died before I was born. Look, this was his idea. How could you whose idea? This is your idea? Said Snicker, Like how you did? How could you laugh my sorrow? And how could you broadly? I was laughing murder for a prime. I was laughing at something that we talked about earlier. But he said he looked me in the show one right now, I don't want what I got. These two idiots over here at the car one I pulled up just like Jim's not here. O down, okay, slow down? Oh god, so so Jim slower? Jim's not here slower at the car was okay, slower, slow down. He's too good, slow down. I'm sorry. I'm also on the line. What are the two good? Slow slow down? There? Jasper and Joseph for something I don't even know where. We're sending units out right now. You can speak to m Mr Jasper, please please. Mr Jasper was my father's name. You can call me Jasper. So we got a report that you murdered someone's sister. Uh, yeah, but it was Frank show. He do you do you do you realize that you have to go to jail for the rest of your life? No? Do you realize? Right? Because it really I didn't really kill it. You just wait, you lied to up me? Yeah? You we pray yourk you we No, we prayed do you? Brak mean you and you and you've been lied to. So you have a really good way of seeing through pranks. That's great. Um, we had I had a conversation earlier. You had said mentioned that you were a big wine guy. Yeah, I love wine. What's your what's your favorite varietal? I think my favorite varietal is a for white, I love a Savignon blanc. And for red, I love a peanut oar. I find a peanut peanut oars that. Really there's not a body might wrong. No, you're absolutely right. I know you're a cabman, so that's that's good. Body is good. But pinot red red affects my libido. So if it's too oh excellent, But if I have too much red, I become very very uh saucy. And so I think if I do a hard cab, I'm definitely gonna go the distance or try to get something going. Um, I think we just want to see the wine list here you are? What can I get you guys to drink? No cab? Thrip? No no for me please, no cab. What would you like a drink? Uh? God, do you have any? Just sorry, my apologies. Let me get the ladies order first, my apologies. What would you like a drinking? Um? I would like a salmonlanc um. But just make sure you don't bring him a cab. Seriously, what vintage do you want? She keeps looking at me because she's trying to learn about wine. Understand. Yeah, what will you help? Just tell? Do you want to save our blamors? Yes? From seventies? She doesn't like it, she likes it? Sweet? Sweet, Just to be honest with you, I really don't care what I have as long as he does not have cows. Gotcha. I have took care of myself twice this morning. I think I'll be all I know. I've heard a lot about the cab. The cab. Just um, this sounds like there's a lot of insight info here that I'm not pretty to. You don't want him to have a cab. I get that. There's no need to say it again. Cann you want you want some camp seven? Yes, okay, great from and then what would you like, sir? Not a cab Yeah, maybe just a Randy Port. Okay, Randy, be right back with your drinks. God, why do you always got to be like this every time you go into a tasting room. Stop bringing up my problems with cabernets caused me to want you more like your entire he's coming, he's coming. Okay, here is your I shouted out after you had a cab okay, and then here is your Randy Port. Did you want to taste them first before we actually pour the bottle? Give chocolate, Chuckolate, I'd like a little chocolate to put on my tongue, just doing to there's no cabin there right, Oh my god, cabernet chocolate. M God, why did you do that? Why did you give me? Honestly, man, come here? You said cabernet so many times, and then if you would have just said at once right, continuously repeating get off me, get off me, get off me, get off? All right? What about you buddy? Come here? Yeah, yeah, give him his medicine. Trump, Thanks to our especially guests contributor Max Cook. Thanks, coming up our interview with Philip Wilburn. But first a few words from our sponsors. Welcome back to this As Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for Ari while he is in New York City working on Saturday Night Live. We're playing some of our favorite interviews from this season so far. Up next, here's Philip Wilburn. And now let's get to know especially guys. Contreeter for this week, Philip Wilburn. So, Philip, tell us little about yourself. Um, my name is Philip Holburn. I'm I'm from Texas. Originally I'm a comedian and I do a lot of impressions and do a lot of sketch comedy. And uh yeah, I've watched a lot of videos in the past and um, you have, hands down some of the best impressions side I've seen. Um, can we hear one of them? Let's hear some, you know what, I'm doing. A lot of President Trump a little bit pretty good. I got a lot of them. And then in the old days, I used to do a lot of bal and thick, but there's not a lot of goal for that anymore. It's pretty good. How do you get into impressions? You know, when I was a little kid, I started doing uh impressions right away. The first two sadly weird impressions I did were so cliche. One was my dad. I would just do whatever I was watching on TV. And the two that I remember, my dad always watched Western, so we did a lot of John Wayne and then also Uncle Arthur from Bewitched, And what a dynamic duo those would be. You know, it's just so weird. You know, we actually have some of that in the archives. All right, kids, is after five o'clock. I want everybody to sit down in front of the TV. And I don't want anybody to talk because I'm gonna watch my Western's. But that can we talk about like what I did at school? I don't want to hear any words out of either one of you. Alright, you love Philip way more than me, that's true. But now it's not the time to unpack that. Well, Dad, why don't we watch a little of your favorite show, maybe True Grid or maybe The Son's at Katie Elder is so good? It is so good to watch Adam twelve? Can we watch I thought I seem to recall asking you not to speak even here, Adam, my brother, Adam, You're just total losers. You're just sitting over there doing anohing one. You just keep it sucking on Wi the oldest Gregs the spotlight here you doom good. I love you, Daddy, I love you too. He just gets away with everything. Dad, My show is coming on, My show is coming on. I love this character, Dad, It's so funny. It's such a funny character. Oh, samanth I love it. I love it so much. Honey. I went to my purse just now and I'm missing I'm missing thirty. But missing thirty's such a penny pure. I saw, I saw Philip got It was you who took your money. It was Philip, Daddy. Look at my new ball Live. I love it. I love it, and I like how for me thirty dollars again? Great, it's great that put tune two together. He stole it from mom's purse. Man, why don't you just shut up? You Philip, be a deer and ask your brother to walk up there and turn down the Hey, Adam, why didn't you got turn down? Then went the knob because we don't have a remote control. When did you discover that you wanted to do this in front of other people, Like, would you started to stand up or was it just I did a lot of improv in Dallas, and I worked with a guy named Randy Bennett, one of the founders of the ground Links. He taught kind of the ground Links program in Texas and Pocket s Imwage Theater. It was not Pokistanwich Theater. It was called Upstage Smart Comedy Smart Cocktails, which was a horrible name, but it was part of Lone Star Comedy. And then when when did you decide you wanted to make it a thing? You know what, I've always wanted to do it. When I was a little kid, I broke our television and the frame came off and that was my favorite toy and I always wanted to be on TV and do that kind of stuff. So i've since since I was a little kid. I did it. But when I started doing improv, it was weird because that kind of and sketch comedy really kind of made it where I was like, Oh, this is this is really what I want to do, and uh, I kind of was floundering a lot until my teacher found out that I did impressions in the moment he found out idea impressions, he was like, Oh, this is right, this is the goal mine. I can do something with this and so so yeah, that was that was kind of my forte in and it was a weird transition because then started things started blossoming from that. You know, you'd meet a bunch of improv people and you would get to do some weird things. A lot of one of my first professional vo gigs was from improv because a lot of the improv guys in Dallas were um directors and cast members on Dragon ball Z. And so I got a part on Dragon ball Z because I was in this group of people, and I got one of the most hated characters of all of Dragon ball Z, this character called Android nineteen. It was a fat android who uh would try to kill people and but he had this really weird, squeaky, high pitched voice, and uh yeah, it was one of the most hated characters. His name is his name is, His name is Andrey named Keen, and he talks like this and he says, Hi, are we to steal energy? I guess what we have some of that in the archives steel alright, Uh, Dragon ball Z of the character is android. I'm sorry to think this night in my auditioning. First you go ahead, give me the breakdown first to the character. Um, he's a a fat character and he's uh, he's not very well liked, so you can help try to overcome the charter fat and not very well liked. Alight, I got it. There you go, he's gonna book me right away. This guy's and I don't even know why he's here because it was an open call. All right, well whatever, there we go. Thank you. Yeah, damn, we are your energy freaking kid black. I think it's pretty good. That matches your your breakdown. Yeah, if you ask me. Um, okay, so let's my phone. Really that was really great. I really felt like he was. So then I'll come back and record that I got the No, you do not have the job. I don't know. I just said that was okay. Do you want to slate? Do you want to? Yes? Please you? Yeah. I'm Philip Bulborn with the Campbell Agency Dallas. Uh, and I just want to say I'm excited about this opportunity. Uh. And I do a lot of voices, So if you need other androids like hello, oh oh, thank the make up dear, you know good warnings, you know all those kids. Great, Yeah, it's great. So I was thinking he's fat, so I want to play against time, you know. And uh so instead of playing him like that guy, I was thinking very high like this, and I could creeping out by people like doing this. Hello the chica, I'm in steel all the energy. Oh my, you're not hiring that guy for sure. I don't even know why. I'm we are going to build a wall. This is going to be huge, bigly energy. I'm going to steal all your energy, so bigly, it's going to be huge, huge energy. I don't know. I just think that could be a character that people might hate. I'm really sorry. I When you did characters, do you find it very difficult to be friends with people who were not comedians? Or when you went on dates, like, did you find it a bit challenging? I? You know, I do think that a funny voice can open up, you know, a world of dating. But after a while they get tired of it. So that's that's definitely a definitely, But there are definitely some girls that maybe like the voice. It's someone worked and then someone didn't work right, right, Hey, let's check the archives. Come on, come on, I was I just I just saw her three days ago, and now she's she's gone. What happened? Tell me what happened? A car A car drove by, and she looked at the car are and then she fell into a man who oh, my cosins. Manholes are so bad. Just be serious, help me tell me everything. Everything will be okay. I have a very particular skill. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Whoa hey, cover discovery. That's not bad. That's not good. Everything we can to save people with manho covers. It's very true. It's very true. It's something we're working on. Tremendous, tremendous manhole covers. They say, say, I alone can fix it. I alone can fix the mano problem. It's good, it's good now, Dudel. Hello, I'm sorry I have to tell you this. But when your friends fell into the manhole, you're their friend, Alice was already in the manhole, and they landed out of each other contect. Both of your friends died. Yes, at the same time. You know who can fix that? Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, pick show me the same show with the money show. Read the money Show, Read the Money everything's gonna be fine. Let's have sex with each other. You complete me, and so does your friend. Now is each other? They complete each other. They became each other because they hit each other but their body. So. Um, did you ever have any um jobs before you landed doing voice work and acting? And yeah, I one of my weird side gigs is I um, I can operate a Doppler radar. I have been a weather producer for many t V stations and I do that on the side, is I you know I do that occasionally. I'm a weather producer. Do they have a hard time taking you seriously when there's like serious weather conditions coming because they think maybe you're joking about it? Yeah? I mean sometimes sometimes there there have been moments when I've I've been too jokey in a serious situation. You know. You know, we actually have some of that in the archives. All right, tell me about what's going on here, Philip. I mean, my car just flipped over the wind just flipped my car over me. Those maps on the wall, it's just like Twister. You know the movie Twister where they had the cows and stuff like that. Damn it, would you be fucking real, please, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, it looks like there's a tornado warning for Dallas County. I just it's good. There is a tornado warning Foras County. It be serious. Please, this is not the time. It's not the time. Tornado all day, Donos County. Who m okay, Well, I'm just trying to make sure you know. Come on seriously, it says there's hail the size of golf balls. We want to thank our special guest contributor, billisville Burn. Coming up our interview with John mill Heiser, But first a few words from our sponsors. Stay with us, Welcome back to this As Americans Live. I'm producer Andy filling in for Ari while he is in New York City working on Saturday Night Live. We're playing some of our favorite interviews from our guest contributors over the course of the past season. Up next, here is our interview with John Millheiser. Enjoy. A special guest contributor is John Miller? Good? How are you you? Did I pence that quickly? John? Realize you Yeah. It's both the correct So it tells you about yourself from I guess I grew up in New Jersey. Nice. All parts of New Jersey. You know then, like you're from New Jersey. Yeah, I get that. I have been told. I say, yeah a lot, yeah, yeah, and that's my most Jersey accident. I think you miss anything from Jersey. No, I just got back, so it's nice. I haven't been in two years because of the indulge me or do you leaving after a two year? I hate? Is? Was there anything you missed? I missed the hogies, I missed the boardwalk. There's a there's a boardwalk. And I explained to me what a uh is. Well, hoogie is like a sub like subway, but hoogi. Um, it's like very I guess Jersey and probably like Pennsylvania term. Um. Is there anything that makes it different? Yeah, what's the same? Same same thing? Yeah, it's a bad same For some reason, we like calling it hoogie. And I'm not familiar with the term hero. You explained what that is. It's like it's like a hog exactly. It's like a hog, yeah, or a sub or like a sandwich. No, No, he's not sandwich. Not even do you know what a hero is. It's like that. Um. I went to a very school, so I've had any of these, probably had a HOGI They're totally not is the sandwich right? Because if I've never had one of those, that's saying right. I do very very very meticulous, particulously made backers and then some short COOTI do you have any other questions for our I'm sorry? So did you enjoy your trip to New Jersey? Oh? I enjoyed my trip so much. Yeah, rejuvenated me. I haven't seen some family members in a while, and yeah, it was just nice. Did you ever have any friends or family in the mafia. In the mafia, well, the Coasta Nostra, the Coasta Nostra growing up in I grew up in Bergen County, North Jersey and Parano's Country. Yeah, I was too young to know what was happening, but I was told that the mob guy was arrested down the street like him and his wife. Yeah, oh that's pretty you know, we actually have that, we have that in the archivet that arrest one. You alright, don't get an you shut up. You are under arrest, underrest for what don't you arrest? My sweet look lady, what you under arrest? Why did I freaking do to you know? I didn't do nothing. Nobody everybody knows. I didn't do nothing. Nobody, I'd never doing the same thing. What exactly is it? Do you think that we are freaking doing over here? Where do I begin? Do you recketeer? That's a very serious charge. I run a very respectable business. I don't know what you think I do on a normal day basis. Your business might be a lot of things, very respectable. I make a very honest, good living living. Yeah, good, look at you? Look at your yard? Okay, what about it? I got gnomes like everybody else. Listen your work. Nomes in the yard. That's not a very serious crime. But that's seriously that the racket hearing, that's a pretty freaking serious crime. Did it side? Marie? Stay out it? She didn't. She needs to hear all this because she's coming down to the prestinct. But what she didn't do? Nothing? She got him? God, say what do you? What are you saying? Do nothing? Tell us what we did? Tell us what you think we did? What I Loretta he k Marie did? What did I? Marietta get it? Side? I'm not going to stay out. I feel like I should listen to the freaking cops. But also I should listen to my freaking maid, squeeze over. I don't know what to want between two people. Also, you and I were very much same guys. You well, we grew up in the same neighborhood, down the street from each other. You went one way, I went to the other. You became a copet became a respectable businessman. Ward what you can do? And you got Loretta a Diguloretta war. Well, you're gonna do it. Try to arrest me because I got the girl. Do you really wanted you go in boys? You know what shoot boys? Boys? Fellis there's plenty of me to go freaking around. Way. I want to stay outside and break this up and also figure out what what what? What proof do you have with the recketeering. By the way, it's my freaking prerogative. Where what I do with my d You don't, don't. I don't tell her what to do? You do whatever she wants? What is prerogative? Mean? What's google four? Sorry? He's four, big brother? What is prerogative? Big blood? I don't even look run over? He doesn't freak either. Goats All right, let's get back to the fucking breast text. He you're just sucking jealous I really think that he's going to arrest you because he has some serious evidence about the recketeering. I don't think it really has m should do with jealousy. I mean, what do you you have tapes or something? You got an informant? What do you have? You got nothing? You got a garage full of tennis rackets? Yeah? And whose looks to play? Fucking Tannis? Look at me, I'm a fucking I'm Andres. Oh we ever do pcampers? Also? He's also it's you love Mack and remember freaking never tolover overheat Billy Jean King. Okay, okay, now we've established go back to watch you watch your evidence. Tennis rackets? Yeah, what are you gonna doing? All those tennis rackets, all those stolen? What makes you think the stolen? I like to buy things in Molk. I gotta talk to the cop for a second real quick. Hey, honey, sugar, hold on my second. I'm gonna talk to this cop alright. I'm gonna try to set him straight. Listen, why are you mentioning informants? You gonna put my coffee? I didn't think you don't. I don't even think about telling him that. I keep you guys off to the freaking tennis rackets. I know you're doing a great job. He didn't you playing undercover? Really well, what did you say? He? Did you know about the tennis rackets. I'm the only person who could have been freak impossibly you don't want to there's tennis rackets missing all around town, and they're all in your garage. All right, people asking questions. I thought that's what racketeering meant. Also, can you do me a quick Also? Can you do me a quick favor? Can you stop calling me by my code name Loretta and call me Marie? Please? This freaking I think that my name is Marie and you call me Loretta right off the bed. You gotta blow my freaking cover. Please, all right, let's do Oh my god, this cop just call shit. Yeah Marie, hold on, I say, I gotta talk to it is freaking you call me Loretta again. I'm pretty sure I didn't know you did the first words out of your mount after I walked back from my baby here, my sweet cheeks, my honey bunch, what's Loretta? I just highly doubt that I don't screw up a lot. I think the fans have that in the allchives. Why don't we go back? All right? Yeah, guys in the fan, can you play that back? The one rom with it forty seconds ago? Wait? You want to do me a favorite and not call me? You just hit it again? See? Oh? Can you do me another favor? Can you not yell out? Hey? Guys in the FBI truck, can you run back? You gotta whisper it into yellow pel don't just willy nilly freaking Lovetta. Guys in the FBI truck, can you check your eyes from ten seconds and go to Proton? Is freaking a coach that he freaking said Loretta? Please yeah, play another one? Yes, thank you. This is the FBI playing tape number seven forty and boys just want to have no that was that was the wrong tape. Let me in forman you along and talking about I like that? So that's really good? Have you had the whole album? I like it? Do you want to play another tracker? Phimissions? But I husband didn't really know what to make about this relationship between the cop and his nudity with life. It seemed little fishy. Still, he had to go talk to his capos and his uh, his underbuss what's the problem. I don't know, Like there's something going on between me, my my, my wife and the you know his cop with Marie. Marie would never do nothing. I don't know she would never, would you think come here to do a good permission from you to have to do something. I don't know what You're all right? You know what? Can I talk to the other on the boards? Please? Somebody's not gonna be starting all over the words? You know my problem? So what should I do? Do I do I take action? Or do I just let it go? Do you love this woman? You know that I love it? But you know I almost got pinched over these fucking these tennis racket the tennis racket racket. Somebody's feeding the cops information. I don't know who it is. Are you accusing us ware exactly? What do you do? Mind? If you think they were reds? No, don't think I'm just red you out and your racket, right, I'm never Why would we would just be shooting their own cells in the foots. I don't know what I'm saying this. There might be some like you know, the inn informance, you know, would give me a second. I'm gonna talk. I think my wife's an informant. This one's wanna get in. Marie would never do something like that. I'm gonna confer with the under boys here for a second to school over there for a second. By the clock, I think that he's on the effected the redder. It's an informant and thus me and you because we we we we are also informants over How do you like the clock? Oh? That's pretty nice? Huh like that especially made from the from Johnny Clocks. I don't know what the first thing that good? You came up with that? Because Johnny clocks a place I would assume that he that's his nickname, because he made clocks. I don't know. I don't know. I really don't know what I get the Johnny Clocks says the clocks. What Johnny Clocks got out of the clock business? He did he does pools now. I didn't get the binder the defense gave us to get us up to speed them don't want us in the community. Did nobody tell me the meeting? I'm sorry, Like you know, aupt very important, you know on the boss meeting? What can I get like some kind of direction or maybe like get more rackets? Yeah, you need to get more rackets and dumni deep in this racket. Rackets. Definitely, don't kill Marie. Do not kill Marie. She's a decorated woman, civilian, she's wired tapped. I mean, she is good cook, she is an FBI, she's a teacher. She teaches kids how to make for a cheni polonaise. That's what bi. Are you even Italian? What are you talking about? Blogne? But what you see I'm saying that a cheni. It was clear that everybody in the family was an infloyment except for Joe. It was a purist throwing up and it's amazing about being made and only when he got there, you know that. But of lifestyle was being an employment and everybody was doing a bit in I feel like, you know, I don't know, I'm not understood by everybody. You know, some of the somethings different. It's not the same. But I think you're talking about it's just not the same Italian I know, But you know, it's it's like it feels like maybe it's a different in generation. Maybe it's different part of Italy, maybe it's part of definitely he guys from I don't know. I don't know what you laugh so much? That sounds like a very a very tough particamentarian. You know what, I'm going to confer with my fellow Italian quin quin National, and now we're going to going to discuss it. I think that's onto the fact that we are in farmers fould work. We've ben filtrated the Yeah, thank you, thanks for a farm and don't be a favorite cut, You're not, You're it's allowed one and whisper what do you do it? It's the way I speak? Is that what I was like when the when the guy got arrested. Yeah, it was all over town, all over the papers, everything, every gay it was, uh yeah, that's what it was a nice Uh So theere's what you do on your your comedian, comedian, actor, writer, teacher since the pandemic started doing some zoom character classes and stuff of everything that you do would gives you most satisfaction performing? Yes, yeah, right now we're kind of in a performing stalemate, right do you do shows at home? Friends? Um? I've tried a few zoom stand up shows and I they weren't fun to do. But I do like shooting videos, you know, and then posting them wherever, just to get some comedy out there. And you're currently on a show you play a teacher. Yes, I play a drama teacher on the show Drama Club on Nickelodeon. I thought it was very funny. Can you tell us to do about it? Sure? It's um a show Nickelodeon called Drama Club about the middle school drama club and just you know that you got the rock, you got the influencer girl, you got the real drama rama kid. And they all just like a mismatch group of kids that are trying to put on a production of Minnesota the Musical and it's just they get into hi drinks and it's created by Maddy Whitby and Monica Sharer. Oh, it's like The Office. It's a mockumentary but for like a middle school. Yeah, they took it's like baking a fourth Well. They talked to the people professionals. Yeah yeah yeah. Uh pop watch like I've been say by the bell maybe that guy time out Zack. Yes, and you just talk to the audience and you felt like you was getting a window into his life. Yeah like that. I remember that. Were you in drama but when you were younger? Yes, I was in all the My middle school was inside the high school. So in seventh grade I was in like the music and but I was always playing the townsperson. And then um, it wasn't until like senior year that I got Marcus likes and a funny thing having the way the form. But like, yeah, I was never given good roles. I was always extra. We actually have the your your production of the music Man. Yeah, we have the audition for that and you play it. Yeah. Oh the Wells Fargo Wagon is coming down the street. Oh please let it be fun me thank you, John. So um, you do this every time you wait around. You need to let us, you know, deliberate. Well, you know that's happened before, and and you're on every play you audition. Yeah I think so. Yeah, I do have a quick note. I take great notes. Yeah, I love notes. I would love your feedback. Just a slight problem with your with your select show. Um, the audition was actually for the song we Got Trouble my Friends right here, right here in River City City play. I exactly did you not choose the same time. I wanted to like stand out, like I wanted to like go against the green. I wanted you know you we probably were getting sick of that song, right, shake your head, Yes, you're getting sick of that. Well, we just part the part that you're auditioning for sings that song. Yeah, so that's why it's important for you to sing the song, because you'll be doing that in the place if we gave you the part, you understand. Now, look, I appreciate your zealousness. A word? Is that a word? Zealousness? A word zealous nous z e A l O U n e s s zealousness. Well, can you look up zealousness please? Gil if the word indeed? Alright, good, we got that settled. I don't want to punish you for really singing your heart out. So I'm going to give you the role of that bush. I was gonna say tree bush is more appropriate. Yeah, so you got the crouch. I didn't even know there was a bush in the script. Let me just find that we created the part. Just we couldn't let you go without having you know, Yeah, I just I felt like you wanted what he said, Well, the Wells Fargo Wagon. Actually we came up with an original song for the bushes, like did you get Yeah, you want to try that? So the very front part that you start with. I don't need that, So you don't need that, don't need it. Just go right to the me me me me me you you you you you. You know, why don't we give him the role of Bush number two? Because that one doesn't have a mouths. You just kept through do whoever you need to get. I wanted that Bush part, and you know I I got it. Two questions to have first one after you probably the most successful actor out of your group of people that you into drama Drama club with. Right do you do you? I mean, do you like? I think, like, look those guys, we're not giving me the parts that I want. I was on the biggest show on the earth, and I'm on another show. It's pretty great because they do like that show. Actually, yeah, well I kept in touch with my drama teacher who never gave me any of the parts. Mrs Hanshon. We used to call our hands on gin, you know, to get out of her um. But I kind of just kept in touch with her over the years. And then when I was on us and now I was like, hey, my mom reached out to her. She's like, Johnsontown, do you want him? To speak to your drama club. So they had me come in and speak to the current drama club at my old high school. And then nobody knew about the show I was on. And then nobody knew any of the celebrities I brought up, and nobody was interested. And it was a big, I feel like failure. They didn't care what nobody knew? What did nobody knew? What sla We just watch the tape? Yeah, I brought the tape class. I am proud to Please don't call me miss hands in chin. Guys, be nice. I am proud. I thought that if I proactively said it, you wouldn't do it. All right, Who's who? I'm just okay, let's get through it. I'm proudly. I'm proud to welcome former student John Millis. Am I pronouncing that correctly? Yes? John? Yeah? Robert Jr? No, John Millheiser? Iron man? Or were you in? Oh? No, I was not an iron Man. You're thinking tell him what you do? Wouldn't America? No? No, no, no, I am not in those that Marvel movie. No. I'm on a fun show called Saturday Night Live. Oh come on, Oh when is it on? It's on Saturdays. In the mornings. No, no, no, no at night? And you know I could have gotten there. You know, if it wasn't for miss hands On, he almost did it. This thing I hate, I hate it with you. I have a question, Yes, Garrett, have you ever met Robert Downey Jr? Are you asking me or you asking him him? Well, you said you had a question. You were looking at me. I called on you. I know, but I had I had a question for him. Oh have you member Robert down a junior? Garrett wasn't Garrett? No, I haven't, but I I can't imagine him hosting at some point? WHOA Come? Do you play sport? Scarrett? Stop disrupting, No, I don't play sports. Any questions about sketch comedy? Is that where you do like a dance with the song and then and then you make everybody else and everybody else do the same. It's like an improv exercise. Any other questions for John? Please have a lot of kids in a your drama club? Anymore? Miss Hanston, something like you kind of called me Miss hands On shin again. I thought you know, I would never you just kind of breathe through it, and you thought I wouldn't catch it, but it's okay, you're sorry. I'm volunteering to be here, so let's not get into it a little okay, how we won't. Don't do it? Garrett, What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to have a lot of money, and then I want to be able to invest in technology, and then I want to build a suit made of metal. I'd care you're cut off. I have a question, and I want to I want to be able to fly when I want to shoot beams of stuff out of my hands and my chest. It's a big fan of iron Man. Iron Man. Have a question, John, I have a question. What was the name of the show you're on? Account wasn't what you thought it would be. No, I thought they were going to ask for autographs or photos. They didn't seen that life. Do you have any fun memories of Yeah, there was a lots of fun memories. I remember I did a sketch with Lady Gaga, and right before our sketch, right before the camera went live, I leaned over to her and I was like, I'm a little monster, and she's like I had no idea, and I was like, yeah, I didn't want to like seem like a super fan. But that's just like one of many things after that. Did she Demond? I thought so? Yeah, yeah, I think she still remembers me. I hope. So are there any guests the hosts that were taller than you realized when you saw it in person, taller than you realize you'd be nice Charlie, they're on she still? Oh yeah you gold Blue? Once? He was very tall, yeah, Tim Robin, Tim Robinson, Tim Robbins, uh, Susan Surrandon Sex Yes, yes, very tall. He seems tall. I met Squill Neil once. He's pretty tall, is he? Although you know to getting Sean Bradley. I met him once. He's a tall guy. Patrick, I'm not him one time. He's taller than you would think. These all people who professionally tall. So I don't know if you cut that professionally tall. Yes, being tall is not a job, Yes it is. Are you talking about? All right? Leap that out? I leave what out? Ari? Is he anything you want to talk about? Something you're working on now that you want to leg pump to this. I'm trying to like learning new crazy Yeah, plump, I'll try to pump something. I just I did pump plump works too. I'm gonna plump has this Drama Club and I just remember my first question and then stop asking. You know, we want to move move on and stuff. Uh, he's getting very impatient. Uh. Talking to both you guys, Uh in the show Drama Club and you were in Drama Club when you were younger? Do you feel that there's some pair of those between the the character tropes if you will, you feel like because obviously the new version the class the show has like an influencer. You know that clearly what didn't exist when we were young. I think cross generations. I think Drama Club has always remained like the same, the same heart and soul as it always has been. Like you go into the auditorium and you kind of like disappear from the rest of the school, right and Uh, it's still yeah, just the fun to play and get weird with other artsy FARTSI people who can't play sports. All right, Jemidia, thank you so much for coming. Four special guest contributors Max Cook, Philip Wilburn, and John mill Heizer and our host Ari. I'm producer Andy and this was This is Americans Live. Join us next actor. This is Americans Live can be found wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review. You can also find this is Americans Live on Instagram at this is americans Live and on Twitter at americans Live.
