Entry Level with Brooks Wheelan

Alex Cameron (rad musician) talks about working at Foot Locker in Sydney, spending his summers in Deep Water, Australia, and how he got into making some of the coolest music out there. Check out Alex's first band Seekae here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2klcVENrEnQ See Brooks on tour: brookswheelan.com/dates

Rob Sand (Democratic Nominee for The Governor of Iowa) talks with Brooks about growing in Iowa at the same time only about 30 miles apart. Rob talks about catching chickens when he was 14, working at the McDonalds in Decorah, IA, and becoming an overseas male model almost on accident. It's a great conversation. Rob rocks. You can look more into Rob and donate to his campaign here:  https://ro...

Amy Miller (comic and friend) talks about growing up religious outside San Francisco and what it was like to work in video rental stores. Check out her podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whos-your-god-a-comedy-and-religion-podcast/id1247629653

Mike Bridenstine (great pal and author) comes on to talk about his new book where he writes about the MidWest comedy scene in the mid 2000s. Get his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Kansas-City-Comedy-Unbelievable-Stanford/dp/146717016X

Mike Mitchell (Birthday Boys/The Doughboys Podcast) talks about getting into sketch comedy, what UCB was like when it first opened, and discusses his "holy trinity" of fast food restaurants. Listen to The Doughboys here: https://headgum.com/doughboys Subscribe to Brooks' travel substack here: https://brookswheelan.substack.com/

Barry Rothbart (Wolf of Wall street/stand up comic/Brooks' neighbor for a long time) talks about his new podcast "Searching for Allan Rothbart." Brooks and Barry also talk about doing comedy together for almost 20 years. Check out Barry's new podcast: https://www.audible.com/pd/Searching-for-Allan-Rothbart-Audiobook/B0FH5LVKYC?srsltid=AfmBOoo2uY0fe5y6-4Bj9q6LqdiJlI6rEQCWATfu0ysqS55-MxvcjQ0x See Br...

Whitmer Thomas (friend and currently in the #1 movie in the world) talks about being in Weapons and also just other movie junk. Also Brooks talks about his European adventure. Its a fun episode! Check out Whit's new music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK5Ax6M7vcI

Ryan Rosenberg (UCB/One of Brooks' first friends in LA) talks about taking UCB classes, scooping ice cream in high school, and crushing it at The Cheesecake Factory. Check Ryan's sketch group Big Grande here: https://biggrandewebsite.com/

Carmen Christopher (The Bear/Joe Pera Talks with You/English Teacher) comes back to talk about going to the University of Iowa the same time as Brooks, being killer salesman in Chicago, and almost joining the military. Check out Carmen's new special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoHTvTrfB2g Check out Carmen's old special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-HUeu0QjLY See Brooks on tour: brookswhe...

Charlotte McKinney (model/acrtess/comedian) talks about growing up outside Orlando and modeling for her dad's car dealership, dropping out of high school and moving to Miami to pursue modeling, and ending up in a viral Carl's Jr. Super Bowl commercial. Check out Charlotte's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-do-they-know-with-lovitz-mckinney/id1783673107

Mike Hanford (Birthday Boys/Sloppy Boys/Comedy Bang Bang!) talks about finding rooms to hide in at work, living with a bunch of other comics, and getting a sketch show made on IFC. See Mike live: https://www.instagram.com/mikehanford/?hl=en See Brooks live: brookswheelan.com/dates watch pool jumpers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GIZ3cN4JwA

Karl Hess and Brooks went and made a proof of concept episode of a new podcast they're working on where they go to every national park and get in way over their heads. It's Earth Day so I felt like we might as well share it!    

Chris Estrada (This Fool, Comedy Central) joins Brooks to talk about growing up in Los Angeles, working at Dominoes, a movie theater, and construction sites. All before deciding to start stand up when he was 30. Check out This Fool on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/series/18ea1265-5978-41d7-b619-2ad23e075a71

Katherine Blanford (The Tonight Show) talks about running on top of porta-pottys at the Kentucky Derby, going to school for sports management, and what it was like getting ready to do her first late night spot on The Tonight Show. Katherine's Don't Tell set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7ahpmEYs0 Katherine's 1st Tonight Show set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riQyWhMClJA Katherine's 2nd Ton...

James Pumphrey (Key and Peele/Arrested Development/old roomamte) talks about growing up in Kentucky, joining UCB, and getting into the car game!   Check out Jame's new channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@SpeeedCo

Boosh (rad friend/rad skater) joins Brooks to talk about what happened during their 18 day trip through The Grand Canyon.   For info on how to enter the lottery to raft the colorado go here: https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/noncommercial-riv-docs.htm

Liam Cullagh (Almost Friday) is on to talk about working at a gas station, growing up next to the Patriots dynasty, and moving to LA to make sketches. Check out Almost Friday here: https://www.youtube.com/@AlmostFridayTV  

Whitmer Thomas (HBO/FOX/BROOKS' FRIEND) hops on to discuss selling Brooks his car, hating parades, and making a special.   Check out whit's Auto Talk video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2psW-Em2Ow

Brooks talks to the director (Isaac Rentz) and director of photography (Martin Vielma) about the making of his upcoming special, Alive in Alaska.

Dan Licata (Seth Meyers/Joe Pera Talks with You) discusses growing up on Jackass and Tom Green. We also find out about the origins of Joe Pera's show on Adult Swim, and overall have a nice hang. Check out Dan's new special HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrCb9rntbv0

Chris Fairbanks (Comedy Central/Conan/Last Comic Standing/Jimmy Kimmel) and Brooks are about to do some shows in Brooks' favorite state that happens to be Chris' home state so they talk about it! Get tickets to the shows here: brookswheelan.com/dates

Shane Torres (Comedy Central/New special out now) talks to Brooks about growing up the son of an Irish mom and a Hispanic dad in Texas.   Check out Shane's new special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9mHurqZh_0

Joe Pera (Joe Pera talks to you) comes on to discuss being a paperboy, becoming welcomed into the world of brick laying, and working on advertising for Dog The Bounty Hunter.  Check out Joe's new special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_97zE4GRZk Check out Joe's MTV pancake show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDI8ULxJYOU&t=50s See Brooks on the road here: brookswheelan.com/dates

Karl and Brooks ramble. That's about it.

Caitlin Cook (Off Broadway play "The Writing on the Stall") talks about going to kindergarten with Nic Cage's son, being a camp counselor, and wanting to leave LA for a small city. Check out Caitlin's play: http://www.thecaitlincook.com/ Join the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/entrylevelwithbrookswheelan