Ep 29: Stephen Merchant

Walking Dead star Emily Kinney is our guest on the podcast this week. You know Emily from her role as Beth Greene on the biggest show in the world, The Walking Dead, and for her beautiful music. We start off by discussing what it was like growing up in Nebraska and how she always wanted to be a singer, her relationship with her parents and how it’s changed today, and working at the Red Lobster in Time Square. Then we get into her career - her big break getting cast as Beth in the Walking Dead, how Steven Yeun invited her to brunch the first weekend to help her feel like a part of the family, plus stories from Masters of Sex and The Knick. Listen to this week’s episode as I get into the incredibly talented and beautiful, Emily Kinney! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

18 Touko 20181h 18min

Film director Eli Roth joins us this week on the podcast, you know...Hostel, Cabin Fever, Inglourious Basterds. Eli opens up about his childhood, his career as a cybersex sex operator, and what it was like to work alongside his idol, Quentin Tarantino. He lets me in on growing up with a Freudian-trained psychoanalyst as a father and how that shaped him into a weird freaky little kid who loved the Alien movies as an eight-year-old. Listen as Eli and I talk about his career - from making over 100 short films before finishing high school to his Student Academy Award winning film featuring Ronald McDonald on a killing spree. Oh, and we talk about how we both masturbated to the same scene in Cannibal Holocaust. Join me as we get inside of the legendary, horrific, Eli Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

18 Touko 20181h 16min

At last, Clark Kent and Lex Luthor are reunited - this week my old cohort, Tom Welling, joins me on the podcast. Tom and I spent ten years working together on Smallville - he’s like family. We reminisce about old days on the set together...how the cast all came together to get him a driver so he didn’t kill himself driving to set at 4:30am for an 18-hour day, the time I yelled at him when I was directing an episode, and how much we both enjoyed making out with Kristin Kreuk. We also talk about his high school years, working construction, getting into modeling, and his career before Smallville, plus what it was like to marry and divorce at such a young age. Get ready for the episode everyone has been asking me for...getting inside of Tom felt so natural, just like old times. So come listen, just keep quiet so you don’t ruin the mood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

18 Touko 20181h 17min