Many people have had an unusual interview. For author Marina Mularz (“Welcome to Freedom Point”), she had a quirky job interview that she’s never shared until now, and it deals with morbid feelings and signs of the universe.
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A turning point in many romantic relationships is the moment when someone first says, “I love you.” Actress Ashley Dulaney (The House Sitter, Days of Our Lives, Justified) unveils the time she first said the big “L-Word” to her significant other, which she did in an unexpected way.
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TV producer Damian X has gone through stints in his life where he wouldn’t know where his brother was due to his sibling’s struggles with addiction. Damian reveals for the first time one of these stints, which lasted seven years, where he decides to look for his brother on Thanksgiving after learning that he was homeless somewhere in Los Angeles.
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Filmmaker Paloma Martinez confesses her untold high school story about studying abroad in Spain and meeting a stranger in a world with no parental supervision, the perils of nightlife, and precarious chance encounters. This episode is all about assessing, anticipating, and acting on intuition.
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Actor Mark McClain Wilson shares his untold story about his life as an anguished teen in Pittsburgh, when he realized that he undervalued himself, and how he stopped doing this decades later. Mark and David discuss knowing your worth, knowing when to compromise, and knowing when to stand up for yourself.
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Stand-Up Comedian and TV Writer Julian Kiani (Marlon, I Feel Bad) chats with David about their mutual love of John Stamos, delicious food, interning at Saturday Night Live, and his reveal of an untold chain of events that led Julian to discover a celebrity burrito that would change the course of his entire life.
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David’s son, a preschool kid, interviews his dad and winds up experiencing an existential crisis on-air as he tries to make sense of the fact that his dad had a life of his own before the little prince was born.
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Television drama writer Leah Benavides (The Arrangement) unveils her past life as a singer and the most important yet unexplainable vocal performance of her life, a song for her grandma.
“To me, and I don’t think she’ll be embarrassed by me saying this publicly, but Leah is a boss. She’s that gritty coach that goes for the 2-point conversation at the end of the fourth quarter to win a game instead of just tying it. So, to catch Leah in a vulnerable moment, when talking about a song for her grandma, caught me off-guard. It was one of those moments in a conversation when you realize, “Oh snap, this is getting very personal,” and it made me appreciate Leah’s candor with her story even more. Even in that moment though, Leah powered through the story like a pro. This is a great conversation for anyone that loves their grandmothers and the unexplainable.”
(Leah’s handles: Twitter @leahbenavides, Instagram @leahbenavides)
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Pitching a feature movie to an executive is tough enough, but what if you had to do it to a Catholic Priest in rural Michigan? I Animal author and filmmaker Kevin Del Principe explains.
“Kevin is a long-time creative collaborator and friend of mine. We both know the throes of being in and out of Hollywood at the same time. It’s like that for a lot of creatives. The stars in the all the magazines are really just a small minority in the huge pool of those making content. Kevin is one of those dudes that just works to make things happen for himself, regardless of whether he is “in” or “out”. One day, he was like, “I’m making my first feature film.” And then roughly a year later, he’s on a plane to Michigan to shoot his film. It’s cool for me to hear that he had quite a memorable experience during his shoot of Up On The Glass, one that involved an unexpected Catholic priest. Kevin goes deeper into the significance of that priest in this episode. We also joke about our old web series that forecasted Putin before the 2016 election happened. We used to do a lot of Putin jokes, but now we’re scared to do more.”
(Kevin’s handles: Twitter @kevdelprincipe, Facebook @kevindelprincipe, IG: @kevdel22, www.kevindelprincipe.com)
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Actor/Director/Social Influencer/Pure Entertainer Derek Dow unearths a buried memory about dating from his college days in Chicago that involves a gold chain, and it unexpectedly impacts him during the taping of his episode.
“Derek is a born entertainer who is effortlessly engaging. He is very much an open-book person, so to learn that Derek has ripped one page away is intriguing. And once we started to peel the onion of his story, we both learned, unexpectedly, why Derek ripped this page out of his book of life, and I think it really shocked him. It was like he didn’t even realize that he tore that page away from his book until now, but that missing story speaks volumes for who he is as a person.”
(Derek’s Instagram @derekddow)
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Screenwriter, television development executive, and pizza enthusiast Dan McCarthy mirrors his triple threat identity by talking about his mysterious last name, the origin of Santa Claus, and TRL era Carson Daly.
“My buddy Dan McCarthy is gonna do what Dan McCarthy is gonna do. That’s how he rolls. That said, Dan is quite a generous guy. For the taping of this episode, he gave me a really expensive ice cream sandwich to eat as a snack. He didn’t care about the price. He just wanted me to have the experience of eating a pricy ice cream sandwich. Dan is generous. So generous, in fact, that he is the only guest thus far to tell three separate untold stories back-to-back-to-back. He three-peated like the Lakers during the Shaq/Kobe era. Swish.”
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Public servant, International Host, and Foster Youth advocate Carlos Collard pinpoints the trajectory of his professional career to one incident in fifth grade involving his mother and a textbook.
“I’ve known Carlos for a long time, and I sort of forget that he is a foster youth. We only talk about pro wrestling. Foster youth is a topic Carlos didn’t start talking about until the last few years, so there’s a lot of stories related to his youth that I’ve never heard before, especially this one. And on top of that, Carlos hasn’t revealed this particular foster youth story until now. It’s a story that certainly shatters some myths about foster youth, while also allowing us to understand how this specific experience of a fifth grade book protest was a turning point in his life.”
(Carlos’s handles: Instagram @los_collard, Facebook @carlos.collard.1)
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At a mysterious location during the post-production of small indie movie Creed 2, film producer Bernie Duran, Jr. reveals his true identity as the Walter White of East LA and a secret that has lasted over two decades.
“I can’t believe Bernie, a person I know to be a legit guy, has been living a secret life for over two decades. He is Bryan Cranston if Bryan was Latino. Bernie’s revelation about his true identity is genius, hilarious, and quite an amazing acting performance. It’s no surprise that Bernie was working on Creed 2 at the time of this episode’s taping, as Bernie delivers a Oscar-worthy performance. This is the most Hollywood episode ever.”
(Bernie’s Twitter @bernieduranjr)
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Actor and professor Allan Axibal-Cordero doesn’t talk about his father publicly, until now, and chronicles his complicated history with him in Southern California, the Phillipines, and beyond.
“You think you know someone, and then they talk about their family in a way that opens your eyes up to them. This was my conversation with Allan. He’s a fantastic, all-around guy that you think nothing can possibly affect. He’s rock solid. So, when Allan talks about his history with his father, it caught me off-guard. He goes deep into his rocky relationship with his father, one filled with all sorts of tough, funny, unexpected, and compelling moments. Now knowing about Allan’s family history, he’s an even more stand-up guy to me now.”
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In this episode, television comedy writer Alisha Cowan (South Side) delves into her childhood in Chicago to explain her mother’s unique love of attending funerals and how it has unexpectedly defined her own adult life.
“Alisha and I joke around a lot when we hang out, so I was going into this conversation thinking that there would be a lot of riffing. However, once Alisha gets into her story and tries to make sense of her mother’s love of attending funerals, the conversation gets introspective and personal. It was a surprising, but enriching experience to see Alisha determine for herself that her mother’s love of funerals was a turning point in her own life. There is revelation, death, Chicago, and dry jokes in this episode. It was truly American.”
(Alisha’s Instagram @alishawiththegoodhair)
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Volume One features some of the best storytellers I have the privilege of knowing, so for them to share a story that they’ve kept locked in their vaults is a treasure. What are they holding back? And why? It is a true honor that this podcast is the chosen platform for these storytellers to share their untold tales. You, the audience, is hearing the unveiling of these hidden experiences as I am for the very first time in these episodes. The results, as you might discover, are surprising, cathartic, hilarious, scary, bittersweet, somber, heartwarming, unexplainable, relatable, and real.
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