Episodes
Season 2 fast approaches. Connor seeks sage wisdom and advice from This American Life creator Ira Glass. Dead Eyes Season 2 premieres on Oct 22. Episode Transcript --- Follow the show @deadeyespodcast Advertise on Dead Eyes via Gumball.fm
Published 10/15/20
Connor connects with two of the actors he almost worked with on Band Of Brothers: Ron Livingston (Office Space, Search Party) & Stephen McCole (Rushmore, Outlander). --- Follow the show @deadeyespodcast
Published 07/09/20
Seth Rogen clears up a misunderstanding and reveals his surprising connection to Connor, sharing multiple stories of show business disappointment & failure.
Published 06/25/20
When a global pandemic hits, Connor loses another show business job and moves back in with his parents. Featuring Ryan Miller from the band Guster, plus Bill and Greta Ratliff.
Published 04/09/20
Connor chases another phantom, one that went missing from the 2019 romantic comedy Isn't It Romantic between its filming and its release. It's a self-contained casting mystery, and he only has one episode to solve it. The truth is out there.
Published 03/12/20
EPISODE VI RYAN JOHNSON'S STAR WARS PREQUEL RUMORS It is a period of hope: the late 1990s! A student at the Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts, CONNOR RATLIFF is tasked with creating a web page to promote himself as an actor. This leads to the unlikely creation of a fictional character with a name that would someday become legendary in ways that even a Jedi master could not have predicted. Meanwhile, half a world away, veteran stage actor HOLMES OSBORNE's career is ascendant, thanks...
Published 03/05/20
Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann learns how she unwittingly provided the musical soundtrack to Connor's entire Band Of Brothers experience. Listen to Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo and the rest of Aimee's catalogue on Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, or wherever else you get music. Follow Aimee on Twitter @aimeemann Watch Tom Hanks present at the Academy Awards as Toy Story's Woody.
Published 02/20/20
Connor imagines an alternate timeline with the help of Saturday Night Live alumn Bobby Moynihan, who played a major role in one of Tom Hanks's late-career triumphs: David S. Pumpkins. Watch the Haunted Elevator sketch that gave the world David S. Pumpkins.
Published 02/13/20
Connor doesn't trust his memory. Actor, comedian, and showrunner of Adam Ruins Everything Adam Conover explains that, without a doubt, Connor is misremembering the details of his experience on Band of Brothers. At least some of them. Award-winning illustrator Maëlle Doliveux critiques an autobiographical comic that Connor wrote and drew about being fired. Connor has an overdue conversation with actor Adam Sims, his replacement on Band Of Brothers. The two discover their respective stories...
Published 02/06/20
A 10-year-old Connor acts onstage in a 1985 production of Oliver! and has a seemingly disastrous first television interview. Years later, a 17-year-old Connor stars in a production of Ordinary People across from Emmy-winning actor Jon Hamm (Mad Men, The Town, Baby Driver), who was a senior in college at the time. Connor and Jon look back on their time working together and recount their highs and lows in various audition rooms. Plus, a recreation of Connor's Band of Brothers re-audition...
Published 01/30/20
In the year 2000, actor Connor Ratliff is fired by Tom Hanks from the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers for supposedly having "dead eyes". Two decades later, Connor talks about it with his friends D'Arcy Carden (The Good Place, Barry) and Zach Woods (Silicon Valley, The Office, Avenue 5).
Published 01/23/20
A quest to solve a very stupid mystery that has haunted comedian Connor Ratliff for two decades: Why Tom Hanks fired him from a small role in the 2001 HBO mini-series, Band Of Brothers. Subscribe today and catch the first episode, launching 1/23!
Published 01/10/20