.connorratliff's DeadEyespodcast interview with tomhanks pulled off a podcast rarity: a truly satisfying conclusion. nwquah writes
This week, Connor Ratliff, the actor and comedian whose Dead Eyes podcast — now two years old and 30 episodes deep — is built on the premise of once being rejected by Tom Hanks in a manner that’s frankly pretty brutal, was finally joined by the man himself. If this is the first time you’re hearing about the show, it might come as a surprise when I say: The resulting conversation is one of the most delightful things you’ll listen to.
Hanks with Ratliff. Photo: Courtesy of Headgum There are ways that Dead Eyes could have been … shall we say, saltier. If conceived by someone with more vengeful tendencies, or perhaps less therapy, we might’ve gotten a show that was more hard-edged in its ploy for attention. Such a project would have likely just been ignored, buried in the stormy seas of the podcast charts as an angry peculiarity.
It was never a given that Ratliff would ever get his man, and for a long while, Dead Eyes seemed like a show that could have simply continued in perpetuity. This wouldn’t have been a bad thing, though perhaps the Tom Hanks–centric premise would’ve been stretched deeper into absurdism the longer the show goes. In any case, the point is now moot: This week, Hanks appeared on the podcast and Ratliff got his answers.
There’s a compelling tension that has always stood out to me about Dead Eyes.
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