Entry Level with Brooks Wheelan

Conner O'Malley (Late Night w/ Seth Meyers, Joe Pera talks to you, chill bro) is on to discuss being fired by his dad, working for 1-800-gotjunk, hanging out in garbage dumps way too much, and walking dogs. Watch Conner's videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDIJ45Bba6nzrGL5v8b7fMw   See Brooks live: www.brookswheelan.com

Chris Garcia (great stand up and fun neighbor) talks about taking his first job only to save enough money to get a hotel to lose his virginity, taking too much acid and not being able to work at a bookstore, being beaten down emotionally by the students he taught, and being a suspect for a robbery at a Blockbuster he worked at. Check out Chris live: http://chrisgarciacomedy.com/ Check out Brooks l...

Jonah Ray (Mystery Science Theater 3000 and fun dude) is on to talk about failing a music test to work at a local Hawaiian record store, how he's stolen from almost every job he's ever worked at (and Brooks approves), and how his final job was sewing buttons on jeans in an LA sweat shop with cool Russian ladies. Brooks also goes off on a tirade about James Cook and Jonah allows it. Listen to Jonah...

Dwayne Perkins (amazing stand up and great dude) is on to discuss growing up in Brooklyn having trouble cashing his first checks without getting them stolen, being fired from Toys-R-Us but NOT deserving it, spending time working at a Sizzler rip off called "For Goodness Steaks", and his professional life in the the corporate world before his career took off. Check out Dwayne live: dwayneperkins.co...

Paul Scheer (rad dude, tons of tv and movies) joins Brooks to discuss delivering medicine for his dad as a little kid, the perks of Blockbuster, rollerblading around new york handing out AOL cds, being a fake pro wrestler for money, and doing so little at an office job that they took his desk away.  Check out Paul's podcast here: https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/ Get tix to see B...

Nick Rutherford (Good Neighbor, SNL, Friend) is on to discuss being doing a voice as a child actor in Kindergarten Cop, quitting Cold Stone Creamery for not winning a best employee award, scamming his way through a New York temp job, and falling in mud one time to try and get out of waiting tables.   To see Brooks live: www.brookswheelan.com

Paul Brittain (rad dude and did SNL) swings by to talk about growing up in the suburbs doing child labor before moving on to a "Lord of the Flies" style painting operation and then finally joining the corporate world in Chicago while moving his way up in the Improv world. He also clears up my misunderstanding of Chicago pizza (thank God). See Brooks live: www.brookswheelan.com

Dave Waite (stand up and nice ass dude) swings by to discuss giving college an honest one month chance and living at home for probably way too long. He's worked in all types of service industries and given them all the same level of "I guess this is ok?" He also talks about being he was a kicker in high school because he hated being tackled.  Too see Brooks live go to : www.brookswheelan.com

Johnny Pemberton (Lots of tv and movie shit) discusses his first job as a doll house painter plus all the perks that come from having a laminator and no supervision. He also talks about being a telemarketer and they type of people who buy stuff off the phone. Stay tuned for the end of the episode where he releases the first track off his new prank calls album. See Brooks' upcoming tour dates: broo...

Kurt Braunohler (tons of comedy stuff) talks about being fired from his first job at Jersey Mikes during a smoke break when he was 14, selling acid in college, tricking a company into letting him be an IT guy for 8 years, and how the movie Fight Club changed his life (not in the way you would think). Check out Kurt live: www.kurtbraunohler.com/ Check out Brooks live: www.brookswheelan.com

John Roy discusses growing up wanting to be in band and attending song writing sessions from Billy Corgan and Jeff Tweedy before starting stand up in Chicago. He's also had every type of bad manager possible and goes through the list defining each one. This was all before he WON STAR SEARCH IN 2003!?! To see Brooks live this summer get tickets here: brookswheelan.com/shows

Wheeler Walker Jr. has been around for a while, but he just recently started taking over Nashville by doing things his own way. He talks about growing up in Kentucky and working as a farm hand before heading to Nashville where he had a hiccup in his early music career by doing what he thought the "suits" wanted. He also plays his new single at the end of the episode and just a heads up it's explic...

In this historic 25th episode Brooks interviews his life partner Mike Burns (AKA @dadboner). This is a special episode because Brooks was party responsible for getting Mike fired one time. Mike's lived a life of trash growing up scamming grocery stores in Michigan before he worked designing baby clothes for over a decade. Brooks and Mike also talk about their shared opinion that if you pay someone...

Sean Patton is on to talk about growing up in New Orleans doing child labor for his family catering business. He's seen an adult man break down at a wedding, been fired from dog walking because of a dog murder, and had to pretend to be Dr. Evil at a car dealership for three days (which now holds the record for funniest job told on this podcast). He also talks about living in New Orleans through Hu...

Mike O'Brien (SNL, AP Bio) is on to talk about growing up outside Toledo before making the jump to Chicago where held many prestigious jobs such as: cleaning up The Second City for free, upsetting fathers by selling expensive tickets at an ill-fated indoors only DisneyLand Park, and allowing the same person to keep stealing from him at Blockbuster. Plus he has a bunch of other fun stories about co...

In probably one of the funniest episodes yet, Brooks' favorite comedian, Candy Lawrence, is on to discuss selling water off the highway as a 12 year old, being tricked into becoming a full time baby sitter with no benefits, distributing an apartment newsletter where people wanted their money back, working almost half a decade for The Blue Man Group, and a ton of other weird jobs before she landed...

Steelo Brim (Ridiculousness) is on to discuss his path from growing up in Chicago to becoming 1/3rd of one of the most popular MTV shows of all time. He started off as a child extra in the movie "Hardball" where he talked his way into a bigger role. Then he navigated his way through the music industry during the MySpace era and ended up out in LA. But after failing Carl's Jr. interviews with his b...

Kyle Mooney is this week's guest where he talks about working as a baseball umpire for one game, filing papers at his dad's work, being too nervous to work the popcorn machine at DisneyLand, and how he grew up wanting to be an underground hip hop artist. He had a rap group in high school called "Instruments of Intelligence" and we have a tiny snippet of their work at the end of the episode. He als...

Beth Stelling joins the podcast and this is a special episode because Brooks and Beth have known each other for 10 years and at one point they each worked shitty jobs down the street from each other. They remember the good old days when they would eat at Subway and be sad together. Beth also talks about always wanting to be a good employee and how she quit track to work at an ice cream shop in hig...

James Adomian stops by to talk about growing up doing odd jobs. He was fired from the first Quizno's in Los Angeles for weirding out customers and once helped drop a priceless fossil in an art warehouse. He's also one of the best impressionists in the world and throws down a few fun ones for this episode. Music by Drennon Davis Art by Barry Blankenship Follow Brooks for future Entry Level informat...

Reggie Watts is on to discuss growing up in Montana and winning a stand up comedy contest while he was still in high school. He left stand up behind to move Seattle in the early 90s to pursue music before ending up in New York City 12 years later during the emergence of the alternative comedy scene. He holds the prestigious records for least jobs bad jobs held so far as an Entry Level guest, but t...

Taran Killam is on to discuss starting out as a child actor. His resume includes non union commercials as a 10 year old, getting his only line in Naked Gun 33 1/3 cut, being on MADTV when he was 19, and much more. Taran explains most of his life decisions were based on what got him out of going to school which makes sense. He also talks about what it was like the week Trump hosted SNL and the sket...

Keith and Kenny Lucas are on this week to discuss only accepting jobs as a team. Somehow, lots of places were ok with this. They don't handle being told what to do well so none of these jobs lasted that long. From McDonalds (inside the hospital) to tricking people in a boiler room scam to living in their car in Brooklyn they've gone through a ton of shit to get where they are today.

Jay Mohr is on this weeks episode to talk about growing up in "The Soprano's" part of New Jersey. He started stand up at 15, but that didn't keep him from being terrible at a few jobs before he was a touring professional comic at 19. Jay and Brooks also talk way too much about Iowa wrestling, just a heads up.   Music by Drennon Davis Art by Barry Blankenship

Brendon Walsh is on to talk about pranking his co-workers until one of them got arrested and also explains how much fun The Price is Right is. Please no one steal his movie rental store tv show idea either.   Music by Drennon Davis Arty by Barry Blankenship