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#197 - Travis Lee Eller - Actor · The Chris and Mike Show

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We're there live right now with the one and only, the legendary,
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soon to be Oscar winning performer, Travis Lee Eller.
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Welcome to the show, Travis. Wow, no.
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Pressure. No pressure, man.
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That's what you call an opening. That was an intro right there
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man. Wow, I like it.
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No pressure at all. Thanks for being here man.
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Yeah. Thanks for having me.
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Joining us? Yeah.
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We're excited to have you on the show.
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Another thespian. We like thespian because you
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think outside the box and you know, there's there's there's
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nothing like then I can't, you know, because then you have No
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Fear or anything. There's the ghost again.
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There's the ghost again. Stop the ghost.
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Stop the ghost. Speaking of ghosts, man, Nick
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and I were sitting on the couch the other day.
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Shit you not, our door was locked.
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It unlocked, open and shut. My.
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Parents, stuff like that happened.
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I know. Oh, yeah, I know.
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But we're not here to talk about ghosts.
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We're here to talk about Travis Lee Eller.
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So we're stepping into an elevator.
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Man, you got 30 floors. Tell us who you are, what you're
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all about, brother. Oh, man, there's so many things,
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dude. Don't even know where to begin.
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And Travis, Travis Lee Eller, that's my name.
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I do. I do many things, man.
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I'm a handyman by day. I I make hats.
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I'm actually in my studio here. I've got a, a hat business
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called Ugly Outlaw Hats. Yeah, I made this one and I'm,
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I'm just surrounded by them. So that's the kind of my, one of
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my expensive hobbies. And yeah, yeah.
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Along along with the acting, you know, I've been acting for a
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number of years now. Started out in television.
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And what 4 are we on 21/20? Two but.
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OK, Yeah, that's basically it in a nutshell, you know?
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OK, OK, OK, so let's talk a little bit about you started out
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on TV. What did you do on TV?
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Where would we find you? Oh my God, you know what man,
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let me take it back. I actually, I actually started
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before, before that in music, I was a DJ for a while, like a hip
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hop DJ and I used to perform with bands.
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I went through the Art Institute of Atlanta to for a music
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business degree. And I see you guys are very
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sweet musical, you know, so So yeah, I did that for a long time
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and I thought forever that I wanted to be a musician.
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And it just and I and I, I did it all, man.
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I was fortunate enough to tour with an artist on who was signed
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Virgin Records. Went around, I went around the
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world and did, you know, a lot of gigs, some solo, some with
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other people. And I think that I think that's
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where being on stage kind of that entertainment part of me,
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that's where the acting came from.
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So I kind of went into that from that.
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I got a a job as a, as a, an intern, a stagehand on the Game
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Show Network on a show there called.
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Yeah, yeah. It was like an interstitial show
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where you could call in and win prizes.
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And I was behind the camera. But eventually they wanted me to
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be in front of camera. And that's where I kind of
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caught the bug. You know, I started like doing
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characters and it was, it was kind of like an SNL sketch
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comedy kind of thing to begin with.
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And then from from there, I just, you know, if it just went
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crazy into other things. Right on, man.
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OK, while time out real, real quick here.
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Are you on your cell signal? Are you on a Wi-Fi?
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What are you using to upload? Really behind?
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Oh, am I? Let's see.
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Well, I'm just like out and about on 5G right now.
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I'm just like in my studio. I don't have a Wi-Fi or anything
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in here. I'm just outside because this is
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the only place where I could kind of have some privacy.
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Privacy, you know. Yeah, if you need me to the.
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Only caveat, the only caveat, Travis, is it's going to take a
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while. Sorry, I know this is what you
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want to hear, but. It'll get like an.
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Hour to upload the rest of it. Do you want me to walk away,
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move and try to go back inside somewhere or?
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If, if, I mean, I'm cool with that, you all you gotta do is
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log back on if you want to, if you want to hop back out and,
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and find a spot where you can pick up your Wi-Fi.
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That'll just, it'll make the end product that much better for
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you. Let me do it.
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And we won't be, we won't be because the other caveat is
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you'd have to, we'd have to close the show when we close it.
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You'd have to sit and leave your phone open for an hour.
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Right, right, right, hop, hop away and come right back.
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We'll we'll cover you while you're gone.
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OK, we got you, brother. Yeah, OK.
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Thanks. Travis has to take a pee break.
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Exit stage left. Yeah, after you, that's a.
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Sent me that message. I looked at it and I was like,
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man, that's going to take forever.
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Yeah, he's and I, ironically enough, I'm styling.
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I'm like 98%, so I don't want to jinx this shit, man.
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No, I'm golden, baby. I'm golden.
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It's like the outsiders say. Gold, pony boy.
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Gold. It's gold, baby.
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It's gold. And you're not fuzzy or
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anything. No, it's a.
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Red letter day. It's a red letter day, man.
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One ghost incident. Yeah, so no shit the door was
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locked because I got up to check the door because I thought maybe
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it wasn't locked. And then the air cushioner came
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on, you know, and made the door shut.
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But no, it legit was locked. And Nick and he were sitting on
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the couch and you can see the you can see the door now, watch
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and see when we heard it. And you can hear our door shut.
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It's a heavy metal door. Yeah, there's a big wood door.
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They'll go to bed and lock the door and they'll wake up and the
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door will be wide open. There's only that.
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Was weird, ma'am. Well, the the caveat too, we
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have that ironwood tree out front, you know, Satan's tree,
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that if you touch the ironwood tree, you'll get pricked like
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1000 times in your hand. Like I won't let, I never let
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the kids touch it because the little man entry it because they
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will hurt themselves. Oh yeah, it's dead.
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It died right after, right after we did the whole Easter Vigil
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thing. And then we got some because the
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ghosts, you put some crucifixes over some of the doorways.
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I'm not kidding you. We got the palm, the Palm Sunday
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palms, couple places to the house Fucking tree died, dude.
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Like it's it's dead, like it's like shit.
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It's. Crazy Where's?
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Right there, and I don't know if the picture will come through
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the window or not. Let's try this live on TV, boys
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and girls. So right after you did that,
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this tree died it. Died.
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That's not usually. This tree is, is super green by
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now. I'm going to send it to you.
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And it's it's just not like the, the, the corner tree we have in
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the front yard is usually the last one to turn green.
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This one should have been green for a month now and it's not.
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It's so much so that one of the branches over the over the
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walkway last week, it was well above my head.
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I hit my head on it today. Damn.
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Yeah. I got AI, got a guy coming out
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next this weekend. Time to cut it down.
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Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. Dude, it's straight up dead.
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It's a dead tree. Yeah, Oh yeah, Every bit of it.
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Yeah, so we think that that we've, we've, we've pissed off
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the ghost. Well, I mean, if we believe in
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such things, then it's not a ghost.
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It would have been a demon. Well, it has to be something
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man, because we've legit we, we, we've labeled that Satan's tree.
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Just, I kid you not, if you the first, the first weekend we
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moved in, I went to trim it because it was out of whack,
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right. So I'm trimming with my little
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trimmer and I, I was cutting a branch and I went to grab the
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branch with my hand. Mind you, I had gloves on and I
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went and I clamped like a normal tree would.
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You just reached and right to grab the branch.
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What the hell? I pulled off my glove.
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I had like little pin marks. Oh yeah, that thing would be cut
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down so fast it's head would spin.
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Right. But see, there's the close skin,
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but the problem is it provided so much shade.
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So now it's got to, you know, stop it.
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And knows we're talking about. It.
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Yeah. Those who know we're talking
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about it because it's pissed now, Yeah, well, no.
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OK, so we're going to tell people.
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You think you can get mean? Yeah.
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We're still going to rough it out for the summer and put a
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couple airs on my ash trees in there in the fall and shade the
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hell out of the side of the house side of the yard and the
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driveway and stuff. But yeah, that's crazy, man.
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I'm a tree murderer. I have no tree.
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Totally property. Well, I didn't.
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I didn't murder it. Cut them all down.
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No, I cut them all down. We cut one down, we cut a pine
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tree down, but that was to piss off the neighbors.
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Oh, Speaking of neighbors, check their shit out.
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Crazy cat lady. OK, about a week ago, I go out
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front the dozer out this dusk dozer takes off like a bat out
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of hell into the yard because they have their 40 cats, right?
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And I got bat of hell and I'm like dozer, dozer, dozer, stop
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dozer, dozer, dozer. He's, you know, being a dog,
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right? Chasing them all down and shit.
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Then he finally chills out, comes back to me.
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I'm like, get back over here, right?
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So taking the garbage out as I come back and taking the garbage
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out, the the two of the crazy cat ladies are standing there
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like they want to fight me, right?
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You got to keep your dog out of my yard.
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I'm like, go keep your cats out of my yard.
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They're not new yard. Yes, they are all the time.
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Well, that's all on film. So I was pissed.
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I'm like, you know what, I won't say her name, but you know what
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blank you've been a bitch since the day we moved in.
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So do you really think I care? Because I don't.
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See, and here's how my life works.
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My neighbor mows my yard. He tills it up for me.
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He knows that I'm too busy. Just zip the Bower through
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there. One neighbor mowed the neighbor
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behind me. He tilled up my yard so I could
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plant some grass seed and come home.
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And he already planted grass seed for me.
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I. Was like, damn, that's awesome.
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Yeah, yeah. So they're pissed off because my
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dog chased their cats in their yard, but their cats are always
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in my yard and I need to control my dog and I'm like, OK, yeah,
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there was more said, but I it's been it's been enough time past.
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I don't remember, but she just they just pissed me off to that
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to the I just. Don't understand why people have
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to be that way. I don't either and it's just.
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Especially when you have to live next to someone, right?
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Yeah, there, there's a couple people on the street I either
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don't know or for whatever reason, we're never going to get
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along right? But right, I don't go out of my
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way to make their life miserable.
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I just don't. Associate with them.
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Right. And the fact that they think
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they purposely we let we take Dozier out front all the time.
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Why? Because the skunks.
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We don't trust Dojo in the backyard at night because of
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skunks. Sure, we have a nice green
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backyard. Skunks love that, unfortunately,
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so once the. Last thing you want is your dog
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getting sprayed by a fucking skunk.
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For the eighth time, yes, 7 Been there, done that.
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Yeah. So we let him out the front
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door. He usually just goes to a couple
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different spots, pees and comes back inside.
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But he went out and peed and apparently he saw a cat and
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like, shit. And my first thinking when he
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tore, tore off across, she was like, shit, I hope there's not a
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car coming right, because I had no idea they were outside and
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not like I was doing it on purpose.
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A dog was being a dog. And then all of a sudden it's my
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fault and I'm, I'm making the dog go over there.
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And oh, the other thing I brought up were with her about
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being the bitch is that, you know, like being a bitch since
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we moved in. Like you fucking call the cops
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on me. Well, you shot a gun.
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I didn't shoot a gun. I, I, I, I aimed A pellet.
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I mean, it was a gun, but it was a pellet BB gun at A at a pile
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of of wood down on the ground. It wasn't a gun.
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It wasn't a 9mm or a 45 or 30. There was no gun explosion
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everywhere. And what I should have said, but
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you told the cops I'm killing and skinning cats and burying
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them in my backyard. So really, did you just say I I
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shot a gun? No, you said all this crap, so I
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don't care. What?
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There it is again, man. Fucking.
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I know I was doing that. There you go.
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So, yeah. So that's.
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Are you touching that when you do that or you just?
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I just moved my hand to my camera.
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I'm trying to, I don't know. I don't know.
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Somewhere between here and me is the ghost.
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That makes zero sense. It does make zero sense, you
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know. It has something to do with the
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refresh rate that's. What it must, it must.
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But I all I know is I'm 98 percent, 99%.
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And just so you know, boys and girls, I tell all our guests to
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make sure you're on dedicated Wi-Fi.
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Oh, look at that. You're crisp and clean.
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There's some hats. I can see your face.
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You got a beard. The elder of the tribe going on
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like, OK. We're good.
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And we're good. And you know the other thing
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about you, dude, your name is a total.
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Don't take this the wrong way. It's a total serial killer name.
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Like thank you, you know, like a total, right?
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Like, it's like tonight on Fox News 10, serial killer Travis
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Lee Eller was arrested. It's like it's like you.
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Know. It's like Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie
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Lee Curtis, Darth Lee Vader, you know what I mean?
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Same. Same kind of.
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Thing, Yeah, yeah, yeah. So now are you on?
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Are you on a on a dedicated Wi-Fi this time?
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Yeah, I am. Mm.
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Hmm. OK, cool.
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Cool. Because yeah, you're up.
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You're already you're. Yeah.
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So you're already climbing up there.
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You start at 18, now you're then you're 28, now you're 34.
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So yeah. OK.
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Much better, much better. And you're not.
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You're still a little blurry, but that's OK though, you know
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we can take. That over the final product
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won't look like that at all. Travis, don't worry.
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Yeah. The product looks crisp and
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clean, so it'll. Be 4K.
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Yeah, so where we were, where we left off as you were you, you
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had gone on the road with, you were DJ music, you did all that.
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Then you ended up being on the game show behind the scenes and
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they wanted you in front of the camera kind of like an SNL skit,
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your character actor, things like that.
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So, so if you want, you can, you can pick it up from there and,
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and we'll just continue down the path of the Travis Eller life
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story, Travis Leonard life story.
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Well, yeah, then I guess basically after that I just got
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into, like, wanting to do more film work, not sketch comedy.
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I was starting to get pigeonholed with the comedy.
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Like, in other words, if I try to do anything serious at all,
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as soon as I would come on camera and people would laugh,
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I'm like, hey, I mean, I haven't even said anything yet, you
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know? And I just wanted to get into a
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more serious mode and started started writing my own things.
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And I thought, hey, why not do Western?
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Cool. Nice.
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Yeah. So I fell in love with the
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Western lands. What Westerns?
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Like western, Western shows,
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western movies and shit. Yeah, that's my thing.
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I I've done so many. Oh.
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Nice. Yeah, yeah, that's my favorite.
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So that's kind of what I. Nice man.
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That kind of got me into making these actually.
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So. I was going to ask you that.
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Did that lead into making the wet the hats?
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Because yeah, OK. Yeah, actually, I was on set one
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day on a on a film, and I was supposed to be this outlaw that
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had been like out in the desert, stranded and no horse, you know,
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been out there for a few days. It's hot, sweaty.
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And I remember they gave me my wardrobe and it was just clean,
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spic and span. And I was like, oh, this isn't
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like the spaghetti Westerns I grew up with, you know?
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So I wanted the rough, the rough look.
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So I started by making my own hats.
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And from there just kind of grew into the into the business now.
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Now let me ask you a question here.
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So you get this, this prim and properly cleaned out for for
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this roll that was terrible. So did you just go ahead and go
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roll around in the dirt to mess it up?
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Yes, yes. Good, good job.
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Yeah, but sometimes you can't do that because I've had people say
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Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't do that.
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No, don't do that. And it's like, you know,
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rookies. No, but yeah.
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I mean so from then on out I just wanted to like make my own
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thing and at least bring options when I would show up on a a set,
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especially the Western sets. That's awesome.
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That's awesome. And how many questions have you
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done? A few, a few you'll never see.
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A few you can see, You know, right now I'm.
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I just finished wrapping season 2 of a show called Elkhorn.
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It's on the Insp network. Insp.
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Have you OK? Yeah.
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So I've just seen. I've seen the title as I'm
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scrolling through the. Yeah, so ready for this look at.
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That there he is. There's Travis Lee Eller right
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there. The the actor.
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Dude, you're you're born a day before my wife's birthday, OK?
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Nice. Yeah, there.
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OK, now we're going down the rabbit hole now, dude.
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There we go once. You drop that now I'm going to
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now I'm going to now I'm. That's a good shot right there.
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Now I'm. Going to go down the rabbit.
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Check this out. There he is right there.
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He's got a demo reel. Oh, get out of there, cocks.
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Oh yeah, there's a few. Why did it do that?
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What is it doing? Why is it doing this?
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I don't want Cox, I just want Travis Eller.
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It's not I hate. When I hate when it does this
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crap, it's not sharing it. Damn it.
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OK, well I'm going to figure it out before I you guys keep
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talking. There, Yeah, so.
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Here we go. Here we go.
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Well, I'll keep keep going, Keep going, keep talking.
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Oh yeah, yeah. So anyway, I mean, I was I able,
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I was, I got on this show, I play Joe Farris, the shopkeeper
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on the Insp show. And so that's been like 2 years
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of my life. And then in between just been
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making movies. I'm currently filming a western
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in Texas actually called Lonesome or the Wicked, and I go
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back in June to complete that from June 1st to June 12th.
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So Oh yeah, there's a bunch of stuff.
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What's that going to be on? We don't know.
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It's an independent feature. Stuff right there.
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And it's going to be a. Movie.
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Yeah, it's a movie. It's a movie, Yeah.
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And I finished another film in October in Arizona as well, so
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waiting on that to come. Out dude, I'm I'm in Arizona.
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So next time you come to Arizona, reach out.
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That's where I live. Yeah, definitely.
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Mike lives in Illinois. MM lives in, I'm in.
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I'm in the Gilbert Queen Creek area.
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Mike lives in Pontiac, IL I live in.
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I live in Arizona. OK, OK.
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Yeah, I was in like the Tucson area, like Yep, where they.
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You're 2 hours away from me. OK, I went to the set where they
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shot Tombstone actually and it was.
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Yep, I was just going to ask you Tombstone.
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Yep. I've seen that movie 100 times.
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Oh yeah? Who hasn't?
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Yeah, that movie's great. My grandson because he's only 6.
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That actually that image that that image, that image there is,
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well, there, that image is actually from this current film
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that I'm I'm working on. The lonesome of the witches are
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so awesome. So yeah.
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But yeah, it's definitely a bad guy role and see what happens.
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Is is that your hat it? Is did you make?
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That hat. I did.
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Right on, dudes, right on. That image is actually.
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I'm. Impressed the the the film I
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shot in Arizona, which is coming out.
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Actually, I don't know, but that one's called Make the Devil Pay.
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I have a small. Part that is true.
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Oh look at you shooting a guy without looking at him no look
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shooting bangs dead. So, so when you get a release
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date for some of your stuff, let us know and we'll get you back
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on and we can talk about it. For sure.
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OK, Yeah, that's a cool. Picture right that.
21:46
That's a cool picture. That's a cool picture right
21:48
there, Travis. Now, did the guy you shoot at,
21:54
did he die? OK.
21:56
Oh yeah, they all do. Just for the movie.
22:03
Right, just for the. Movie.
22:06
Oh, right on. May the fourth be with you.
22:08
Yes. So that's that's that's from a.
22:12
Short film. Yeah, so that's a short film
22:15
that actually that played yesterday in Ireland at the May
22:19
the Fourth Be With You Film Festival.
22:23
It's a story of what if, Star Wars What if on Earth.
22:29
At the time Star Wars was happening, the year was actually
22:32
the 1870s and so this is a story of a Jedi that goes back to
22:37
Earth and encounter some of the local folk.
22:42
There, right now. Nice.
22:45
That's you, the Jedi. That's all that is.
22:48
That's great, man. You got, you have a, you have a
22:52
Great Western look, dude, like you have a Great Western look.
22:54
Like I could see how Westerns are your Forte.
22:57
Just, I mean, now you're being typecast obviously, because you
23:00
have the look and then once you get, is that from the show
23:03
Elkhorn? That is from Elkhorn, yeah.
23:07
OK, cool. Yeah, Now how many of those hats
23:09
did you provide for the show? All of them are just yours.
23:13
Oh no, a few I also nice. I did a lot of shaping and
23:20
distressing of some of the hats to.
23:23
I didn't make them entirely from scratch.
23:26
I did a couple of them, but a lot of times they would have me
23:28
like take some home and rework, you know?
23:33
Cool. Oh, there it is.
23:34
So cool, man. Yeah, I've seen that title for
23:37
sure. Nice dude.
23:38
I'm going to check it out. Yeah.
23:40
Yeah, I'm, I'm going to put it on my DVR now that I know
23:42
you're. Yeah, start with you can start
23:44
with Season 2. Is that where Travis shows the
23:51
second season man? Yeah.
23:53
I mean, are we just as a whole, I think everybody thinks that
23:56
the second season came out a whole lot better than the first
23:59
season, so. OK, Fair enough.
24:02
Yeah. No, obviously this isn't western
24:05
because you have metal door knobs.
24:07
Yeah, no, that was from a a short film I did years ago as
24:12
just one of those stills from that same, same with that image
24:15
there, right. Right on.
24:17
How long have you been? At this Travis.
24:20
Too long, man. I, I think it's kind of one of
24:24
those things that just happened. I didn't expect it to.
24:29
And yeah, I just kind of. So like, at what age did you get
24:32
started? Would you?
24:33
Say oh God, in my twin mid 20s, I would say and then and you
24:38
know, it's only and you're. Born in 73. 272, Yeah.
24:45
So yeah. I'm two.
24:48
No wait, I was born in 70s so I'm two years older than you.
24:51
He's a year older than me. Yeah.
24:53
You're our age. Yeah, yeah.
24:56
So this is obviously not some of those were non western things.
24:59
So anybody, anybody that that you've worked with that we would
25:03
know if you name dropped? Oh God.
25:06
I mean, you're. Pretty you're obviously a pretty
25:08
big star because look at all the stuff you've been in, man.
25:10
I mean, that's just, you know, you're fucking your mother.
25:12
I gotta say, just changes the motherfucking Travis.
25:14
It's Lee Ellard. Like before you just service Lee
25:16
Ellard. You know, you know, you totally
25:19
downplayed yourself, man. Like like you totally downplayed
25:22
yourself. He's it's mind boggling how how
25:25
much you downplayed who you are dude.
25:28
No, man, it's trust me, I'm just.
25:30
I think he's a friend on on Facebook.
25:34
Yeah. Yeah, I just, I just added you
25:36
as a friend on Facebook. So when you see that, you know.
25:39
OK, I'll, I'll make sure to accept that.
25:41
Yeah. I've worked with the Rex Lynn.
25:45
Do you guys, do you guys know Rex Lynn?
25:48
Who? Who he is?
25:49
What? Does that name sound familiar?
25:51
He was. He's in the Reba show.
25:53
He's also he's in. Why that name sounds familiar?
25:57
There you go. He's in the Wyatt Earp movie as
26:00
well with Kevin Costner. I've had a scene with him on
26:04
Lethal Weapon on Fox. I did a a guest star appearance
26:08
on there. OK, so the so I'm a huge Lethal
26:11
Weapon fan. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover movie.
26:13
So that was the TV show. Correct that.
26:15
Right. I was just clarifying.
26:17
I was, I was clarifying because I saw that and I was like, wait
26:19
a minute, like just hold on a minute.
26:22
Yeah, the TV show. Came out.
26:26
Yeah. I just, I just had to make sure
26:28
of that. So now we're on your Facebook
26:29
page, as I like to do. So let me just scroll through
26:31
pictures while you might have conversations.
26:33
So keep talking. Don't worry about me.
26:35
Let me do my thing. Who, who else have you acted
26:39
with that you really enjoyed that We would know.
26:42
Oh. Man, Oh my God.
26:45
Oh, I mean, not really any. I mean, I can't think of any
26:50
really big names yet that I've got a.
26:53
Chance to OK, let's just stop you right there.
26:56
Best actor in western mini short film winner.
26:59
Nice job dude. Congratulations.
27:02
Congratulations. We have we actually have an
27:05
acting who wins awards an award-winning actor on the show.
27:08
Now that's bad ass like like check box I'm we're done.
27:13
Have a nice day. Kidding.
27:18
I tried, it's awesome. Did you?
27:19
Did you Co? Did you Co?
27:21
Did you Co direct this with him? I did.
27:23
Mm, Hmm, yeah. OK, dude, I got I got something
27:26
I'm going to send you when we're done that let's make a movie.
27:29
Dude, you when you read it, you'll be like, OK, let's make a
27:31
movie. I'm going to send it to you.
27:32
It's going to be right up your alley.
27:34
I wrote it. I wrote it.
27:36
It's I'm not going to I'm just going to send it.
27:38
I'm going to send it to you before we leave the show.
27:40
You're going to give me your address.
27:41
If you want to give me your address, then I will.
27:43
I will, I will, I will send you a copy.
27:45
You can read it and you can tell me what you're thinking.
27:47
I think it would be a great movie.
27:48
Everybody has read it, thought it would be a great movie
27:49
because you need it and it's a it's an original idea.
27:52
To Western. Is it a Oh, it is.
27:54
Oh, yeah. Send it on.
27:57
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Hold on.
28:05
Well then, are you are you shuffling?
28:11
He's going to. He's going to show you his book.
28:15
I can't you're I only see. Can you make yourself larger
28:20
again? Because we're we're super small,
28:22
dude. Yeah, I I can't hold on.
28:27
Now we're full size. OK.
28:30
Yeah. Is that you?
28:34
You'll dig. No, it's that's that's Chuck.
28:37
It's it's a story of a friendship I used to short.
28:40
He wrote it. Yeah, the real quick thing is,
28:42
is I used to go up every January for several years and I played
28:46
cowboy. It's a, it's a friend of mine's
28:48
brother-in-law. I always want to be a cowboy and
28:49
I was growing up. Awesome SO.
28:53
I one day I asked him, he's like, yeah, come on up.
28:55
So everything you can do, cowboy and I've done.
28:57
And then he'd ask me. One time we were riding out one
29:01
morning. He didn't want to be buried in
29:04
the cemetery. So the whole book wraps around
29:07
the fact that he didn't want to be buried in the cemetery in the
29:09
adventure that it goes on from there.
29:10
It's a real quick, easy read. It's 100, maybe almost 100
29:15
pages. But anybody that's read it like
29:17
dude, I could see this being a movie so I'll send it to you.
29:21
That sounds great. Yeah, what you think, and you're
29:23
not going to and and you're not going to hurt my feelings if you
29:26
don't think it should be. So understand that I have really
29:28
broad shoulders. I'm a big boy.
29:30
No. No, I'm very.
29:31
Definitely going to respect your opinion or he wouldn't send it
29:34
to you. No, I will.
29:36
I'm, I'm very open to reading new material, man.
29:39
Absolutely. I'll look forward to it.
29:40
Yeah, absolutely. I'll give you my address when
29:42
we're when we're done here. Cool.
29:43
Yeah. When we're done, yeah, yeah.
29:46
Don't give it over here because you're famous.
29:48
No, no, you know. Yeah, right.
29:51
And you're going out to almost 100 countries.
29:53
Yeah, 100 countries. You could use all kinds of shit
29:56
going on in 100 countries. Let's see.
29:58
And there, there it is on, on the Amazon world right there.
30:02
OK. So.
30:04
Nice, go get yourself a. Copy, ladies and gentlemen.
30:06
Well, I'm going to send you. I'm going to send you one when
30:08
we're done. When we're done, ladies and
30:09
gentlemen, I'll buy a copy. Yeah.
30:12
Everybody else, go buy a copy. Stop being a slacker.
30:14
Go buy a copy, it'll be there tomorrow If you order within 7
30:17
minutes, 7 minutes people, you get it tomorrow.
30:20
That's. Something I can read on the
30:21
plane? Yes, absolutely.
30:25
So now we're going to go back to Travis's stuff because, you
30:28
know, I told you a squirrel moment.
30:29
Sorry, my bad. It's all good.
30:33
You can play the portion of the show brought to you by Charles
30:36
Lee Lang. By the legend of Charles Elaine.
30:38
Yeah, legend of. Charleston, you can play Chris
30:40
Dunham. Yeah, you can play me.
30:43
Travis, I'll play. He's not in there very much.
30:46
He's dead. So I'll be the corpse.
30:48
I'll be like Kevin Costner's first role in In the Big Chill.
30:51
I'll be the corpse. OK.
30:54
But yes, we're back on, we're back on Travis's Facebook photo,
30:57
photos winding around. So continue the conversation,
31:00
man, this is fun. I like this.
31:02
I like that you fixed your phone and came back and and we could
31:04
have go further down the rabbit hole because you were totally
31:06
holding out on us, man, Totally holding out on us.
31:09
I still. Know for a little bit.
31:11
I didn't know what to talk about.
31:12
Yeah. So you got a whole half.
31:14
Yeah. Well, you, you're here to talk
31:16
about you. I mean, I know it's
31:17
narcissistic, but that's the whole point of the show is we
31:19
bring our guests on to talk about our guests and then to get
31:22
our guests out there even more so in the world.
31:26
So these are obviously all your hats that you make.
31:28
This is. Kind of, yeah.
31:29
That that that was from an in store that I did where they
31:32
invited me out to kind of display the hats and people
31:36
would come by. You could purchase if you
31:38
wanted. So yeah.
31:39
Is is that what you call them? Ugly outlaw hats.
31:42
So that's my, that's the name of my brand.
31:45
And yeah, that's, and that and that came from that whole onset
31:50
movie experience basically where, you know, it just what it
31:54
wasn't ugly enough to be the character that I was playing.
31:57
So I decided to make ugly outlaw hats.
32:01
And so that's where it came from.
32:02
Yeah. I ship all over the world, man.
32:05
I forget that people in the West didn't, I think they forget
32:09
people didn't bathe five times a day like we do now, you know?
32:13
Exactly. Exactly.
32:14
So here's another, here's another film.
32:16
Here's another film that you did, a film by Travis Lee
32:19
Ellertriat standing. So you're an astronaut?
32:22
Yeah, and that one I am. Yeah.
32:26
OK. Yeah, that's just a little
32:27
comedy. Comedy short film.
32:31
Yeah. I think I'm.
32:32
I think I'm I'm done with the short film side of things.
32:37
I I, I just, I've done so many of those now I want to do just
32:42
more features, independent features, TV, OK.
32:46
You know when you're starting when you're starting.
32:48
Your first feature, yeah. Yeah.
32:50
Well, when you're starting out, you're, you're creating as much
32:55
as you can to try to get out there.
32:59
And now I feel like. Another one.
33:04
Oh yeah, dude, you're a warning actor.
33:06
Man, you so held out on us. Dude.
33:08
Oh, that is an actor. Like what the hell, man?
33:12
That's actually a script that I wrote.
33:13
That's a screenplay feature film Western called No Man Was
33:17
Civilized. Yeah, I I see that by Travis Lee
33:22
Eller. It's a lot of stuff.
33:23
Film Festival. Yeah, 1/4 finalist.
33:27
Red Rock Film Festival. Like dude.
33:29
That's impressive, too. Oh, I like that Only God
33:31
Forgives. Nice, nice you.
33:33
Can see that on Amazon. You can see it on Amazon Prime,
33:36
Yeah. OK, OK, now what is is that a
33:39
short film or is a feature or what is it?
33:42
That's a short film. It's like a 15 minute long film,
33:45
yeah. Cool.
33:46
Right on. Right on.
33:47
I'm on it. Heck yeah.
33:50
Hats ugly. Another guy hat.
33:53
Oh, that's a cool hat. I like that hat.
33:56
Yeah, that's a nice. Yeah, I like that one.
33:58
I actually made that for one of the guys, Red.
34:01
You were on red, red you. No, there's a there was a rumor,
34:06
there was a rumor going around that they want to do that movie.
34:09
And so I was like, yeah, I would love to play Bill Williamson.
34:14
Yeah, I would love to play that character if that movie ever
34:17
happened. Yeah, yeah, right.
34:20
That would be cool. Oh yeah, you do a great job at
34:22
that. Yeah, oh, Trevor, Travis,
34:28
Beverly says. Hey there, my man.
34:29
Travis, you look awesome. Beverly just wanting the
34:36
obligatory shout out. Hey, Bev.
34:38
Yeah, she texted me. You should text me.
34:41
She's awesome. We love Beverly.
34:44
Yeah, yeah, she is. She's good.
34:46
I was poking at her for a while to come on the show and yeah,
34:51
that's what I like about doing this Is is I don't, We don't.
34:53
We don't pre interview anybody, it's just we want to know your
34:57
life resume while you're on the show because this is genuine
34:59
reaction with Mike and I like legit.
35:01
Yeah, we're learning about you right along with you.
35:03
You're holding out, stubborn, just holding out.
35:06
You were totally just not. You were under selling yourself,
35:09
which was cool, but so is this. Is this when you're going
35:13
through an editing or is this when you're doing sound or what?
35:16
Can you see that? Yeah, that right there.
35:18
Before the lighthouse do not distribute.
35:21
Yeah, so that's in editing. Before the Lighthouse is a film
35:24
by director Gary Hub that just opened up on the East Coast and
35:27
it's playing in a limited theaters out there.
35:31
That's a feature film about the store, the story of the the area
35:36
of Chincoteague, VA, where they have a lot of wild ponies.
35:39
There's legends of pirates and all kinds of things there and
35:43
that and that's that movie just kind of goes through the story
35:47
and I play one of the characters within one of the stories of of
35:51
the place, Yeah. Nice.
35:59
Yeah, fun times. You're shooting a gun again.
36:03
There's another Elkhorn I'll blow.
36:06
You away, It'll blow you away, yeah.
36:09
It's kind of cool that you're the you're the face on on the
36:11
posters, man. That is really cool.
36:14
You said there's two seasons of that.
36:16
There's two seasons, yeah. Before the guy gets drug behind
36:20
on the horse? No this before or after guy gets
36:23
drug drug along behind the horse.
36:25
Now that is actually in Moscow, in Arizona, and that's the the
36:30
film Make the Devil Pay. It's being edited right now.
36:33
That is a feature film. That'll be out.
36:35
That'll be out. I don't know when, but it's
36:38
getting edited now. So it's in post.
36:40
Yeah. So.
36:41
Cool. Yeah.
36:43
And when you know, yeah, when you know that's being released,
36:45
come back on the show. Let's talk.
36:47
Absolutely, Yeah, Yeah, those are just all screen grabs from
36:53
from Elkhorn that's make the devil pay and.
36:56
Yep, I see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:59
That's all. That's awesome.
37:02
Yeah. I guess the thing that that I
37:04
like about the Western, though, man, is that, you know, you can
37:07
kind of create folklore in your own kind of ales and tell your
37:12
own stories that could have possibly happened.
37:16
You know, they didn't have any fingerprints, no cell phones.
37:20
No, you can just create a story and go with it.
37:24
So that's one of the reasons that I'm intrigued by it so
37:27
much. Yeah.
37:30
There's your, there's your other award.
37:32
That's the trophy. Actor Travis Lee Heller, right?
37:36
Actor, director, writer. Outstanding.
37:41
That's so cool man. That is very cool.
37:46
Thank you guys. So.
37:47
Now where you live, do you have, do you have, do you have, do you
37:50
have horses and stuff or horses a part of your everyday life?
37:54
No, no. Not at all, however.
37:58
No. I love that picture.
38:01
That's a great picture. Too.
38:04
Look where her guns. Look where her guns aimed at.
38:08
Yeah, classic. Yeah.
38:14
And you know that that's interesting.
38:15
That you don't have forces, but obviously, I mean, yeah, go
38:18
ahead. Yeah, well, I'll just say a lot
38:20
of these people that you're you're seeing there have
38:23
remained friends and and contacts, you know, for for a
38:27
couple of years now. I'm like, if we ever, you know,
38:30
there are also other actors and, and film makers and so.
38:34
Yeah. That's the thing about this
38:36
businessman. You get to meet these people and
38:38
possibly work with them again. And it's, you know, for me,
38:40
those friendships are great. But.
38:42
But yeah, no, no horses. Actually, I was just having a
38:44
conversation with somebody the other day.
38:46
I was a couple weeks ago, I was in Tech, Texas, shooting a film.
38:51
And horses are always different, You know, man, they're, they
38:55
have such a. It's like.
38:57
I mean, one goes, if you give it a little kick, the other, the
39:01
others don't go. If you kick them, you got to
39:03
just use the reins. And so, and then they all have
39:06
their own personalities and they do their own thing.
39:08
And it's like getting to know the horses.
39:10
Sometimes it's like, oh man, just it's frustrating a lot of
39:15
times too. They only got one or two good
39:17
takes in them. Then after that, they're like,
39:19
no, I'm out of here or I'm going to just go around in circles or,
39:23
or, you know, it's it's dealing with horses can be taxing a
39:28
little bit, but we got to. Agreed.
39:33
So you got to write up in your your hometown newspaper or
39:35
something to that effect. S Caldwell, grad on 2nd season
39:38
of Elkhorn. Yeah, North Carolina.
39:41
That's my home state. Cool, Bruce.
39:48
See, there you go, reflects on his actor.
39:49
I just sort of fell into it. That's nice, dude.
39:51
That's that's, you know, the humility.
39:53
The humility is very nice. Where's that show filmed at,
39:57
Travis? It's filmed here in California.
40:01
It's in a place called Acton, CA.
40:03
They build a little western town out there.
40:06
And that's, that's basically our set for the show.
40:08
Oh. Right Hon.
40:11
OK. Have you been renewed for a
40:14
season 3 or what's on the horizon?
40:17
We have not been notified of any yay or nay for season 3 yet of
40:24
Elkhorn, so it's kind of like everyone's just waiting to see
40:28
if that happens. There are.
40:31
Rumors. Circulating, but we don't know.
40:37
Send them, send them this episode and then they'll renew
40:40
you. We we got we got a musician
40:43
named Dave Noodle. We got, we got his management
40:46
company to agree to rerecord what Mike and I feel is is an
40:49
amazing song that would be just a massive hit if it got thrown
40:53
out into the public. It's called the Lord of the
40:54
Devil. And kid you not, they rerecorded
40:57
the song because Mike and I just kept bugging Dave.
40:59
Like, dude, this song needs to be out there.
41:00
Like it needs to be out there. So we get done.
41:02
Google Dave Noodle, Lord of the Devil and you'll from a Western
41:06
standpoint, you'll totally agree with it.
41:08
OK, It would totally fit and and and and yeah, I like the the
41:13
geography photos here at the landscaping is nice.
41:16
Oh yeah, That's one of my favorite areas to visit.
41:18
That is like in Lone Pine, CA, the Alabama Hills.
41:23
If you guys ever get a chance to go there, I highly recommend it.
41:26
Yeah. OK.
41:30
That's a nice little spread we had in Cowboys and Indians
41:34
Magazine. I see that.
41:37
That's cool. Yes, Oh, that is a gift of of
41:42
from exactly from a fellow that I made a hat for and not, you
41:46
know, at the best cure for congestion or a cough.
41:51
Man, that stuff right there knocks it out.
41:53
Use that right now. It's a spark plugs inside of
41:57
moonshine OK. Yeah, he sits.
42:01
He sits at it for. About four days.
42:03
Oh, man, yeah, that's what you need, man.
42:05
Yeah, he sent that spark plug in a box with that.
42:08
I don't know why, but I was like OK I'd.
42:14
Say you know. So what are you working on right
42:18
now? Well, right now I fly back out
42:22
to Texas June 1st through the 12th to work on the feature film
42:27
Western Lonesome or the Wicked. I play the outlaw in that.
42:35
And that story is basically a lawman seeking revenge captures
42:39
me, wants to get back at my family members for killing his
42:46
his wife and son or his son. And yeah, that's been real fun.
42:52
A friend of mine, the who's making the movie, Eric Heisner,
42:56
he he owns this amazing land in Texas.
43:00
It's it's just, it's beautiful. And we just go out there and we
43:04
hook up all the cameras and we just go at it, man.
43:06
It's yeah, it's perfect. That's awesome.
43:12
Yeah, that right there is one of the theaters showing before the
43:16
Lighthouse that was in Schenkoteague, Virginia.
43:22
Yeah. And it was a sold out show and.
43:26
Well, yeah, 'cause you're 'cause you're motherfucking Travis Lee
43:28
Lee Eller, man. I mean, come on, we know now.
43:32
Forward. Just thought this Travis Elder's
43:33
coming on. Beverly calls me this morning.
43:35
Hey, Travis is waiting for the link.
43:36
I said I don't send a link to Tintel Beverly.
43:39
He's like, oh, let him know. If I would have realized I would
43:41
like, oh, shit, I would have called Travis Leela.
43:42
Hey, man, I'm sorry. The link's coming soon.
43:46
I'm just fucking with you now. You know, this is cool, dude.
43:52
This is, you know. Yeah.
43:54
So there was a lot of we. Do our we do our best.
43:56
And yeah. And there's a lot of film
43:59
festivals that those films were entered in.
44:02
So what you're seeing now are a lot of photos of how it how it
44:06
did, you know? So yeah.
44:12
You got to enter them. You got to put them in things,
44:14
you know? Yeah, the more the more the more
44:17
things you submit, the more chances you have to win.
44:19
The more chance, the more times you win, the more notoriety you
44:21
get. Then they start realizing, OK,
44:23
who is they keep seeing your name over and over again.
44:25
OK, well, who is Travis Leo? Let's get let's just skip the
44:27
production with this guy. Let's go make someone with this
44:29
guy because he's everywhere. Exactly.
44:31
You got to get noticed. That's got to get this guy in
44:33
our next big Western. Yeah, yeah.
44:36
And we got your next big feature.
44:38
Do you know it's just, it's epic.
44:41
Well, your lunch is outstanding man.
44:43
Like I said earlier, I can see why you keep getting cast in
44:46
these roles because if I was making a western and I saw you
44:49
come across my, you know, your headshot come across my desk, I,
44:53
I would hire you for sure. Oh, thanks man.
44:57
That's why I said you can play me amazing.
44:59
Yeah, that's why I said, that's why I said you can play me.
45:01
I'll let you play me, Travis. OK.
45:03
And I love it. I love.
45:04
It that's a big deal, you know? Oh, I know, I know.
45:12
Yeah, it's been a while. Take the road right on.
45:15
Right. Yeah, that was the start of the
45:17
season. So good, exciting time.
45:19
Oh yeah. So that's an example of a hat
45:21
that worn, you know, obviously in the Searchers by John Wayne.
45:24
I do that as well, like. That's awesome A.
45:27
Lot a lot of guys will hit me up and say, hey, can you make a
45:29
certain hat from a movie? And I will, I love a challenge
45:33
so. So I will sometimes try to
45:35
recreate the hat worn. You'll make a hat from the
45:38
movie. Yeah.
45:41
That reminds me of kind of what Dwayne Parker was wearing that
45:44
day he was on the show. Yeah, yeah.
45:46
We had this fun. We had this fun country singer
45:49
man named Dwayne Parker, like Appalachian Mountains, you know,
45:53
he debuted one of his songs. My truck's on crack.
45:56
Great, great guy. Just hilarious.
45:59
Yeah, See, that's the area that that's the, that's the area I'm
46:03
from, man. I'm from the that part of North
46:06
Carolina, like the Blue Ridge meets this Smokey Mesa
46:09
Appalachian. Yeah.
46:13
Nice, nice. I think he was in West Virginia
46:17
at the time, right? Yeah.
46:18
Oh, maybe it was West. Yeah, West Virginia.
46:20
He's from Alabama, but he happened to be in West Virginia
46:23
when he was on the show. OK, that's just another
46:30
recreated. Yeah.
46:35
That's cool too. I like.
46:37
Those that is cool kind of look like like a magician there, like
46:42
you know you're going to pull a rabbit out of the hat or
46:43
something. I would agree with that.
46:45
Thanks man that's what I was going for.
46:47
Like what can I do to look like a magician?
46:50
That's good. That's good.
46:53
OK, so is this This is a movie 2179?
46:57
AD Oh no no, that's just something dumb I did for
47:00
Halloween. That's just you.
47:01
Being silly, Yeah. It's just ridiculous, I guess.
47:04
Because yeah. Yeah, it's all good.
47:07
Yeah, I was. Well, that's why I commented,
47:09
just you being silly, so. OK.
47:11
There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a lot
47:15
of. So what's?
47:16
Darling, I keep seeing Darling. What's what's what's?
47:18
Yeah, what's? Yeah.
47:19
So what's the movie Darling about?
47:21
That was a short film, super short actually.
47:24
And we, I shot that in Utah and it's about a girl travelling
47:29
across the desert. We shot this great.
47:33
I don't know if you could see there, obviously all the sand
47:35
dunes there and it was amazing out there.
47:37
But it's her land and yeah, she's kind of surrounded by
47:42
outlaws. And then what happens next is
47:45
she basically ends up killing all of us.
47:48
But it's a it's kind of action-packed.
47:51
There's a lot of movement in there.
47:53
Wow. Cool.
47:56
Yeah, it's good. Good.
47:57
Good stuff, that one did pretty well.
48:01
Oh, anything from? What?
48:03
What constitutes a short? Is there a specific time?
48:07
Yeah, anything from like 2 minutes to 10 minutes, 15
48:12
minutes, even 20 minutes is considered a short.
48:15
OK. Yeah, I mean anything under an
48:19
hour, let's just do that only like 5 minutes.
48:23
OK. So.
48:24
So how Really. Yeah, OK, Now how long does it
48:29
take you to shoot something that ends up being 5 minutes?
48:32
Pretty much a whole day, sometimes 2 depending on what
48:37
you have to get. You know what kind of shots you
48:39
need. Yeah, OK.
48:46
Yeah, that's just kind of an idea of what it looked like out
48:48
there. A lot of shots in 5 minutes.
48:50
Yeah, a lot. A lot.
48:54
Otherwise, it's not going to be very interesting.
48:56
That's right. Unless that's the intention.
49:01
I've seen some shorts that are just feather floating down a
49:06
stream that ends up being, you know, the point of the movie,
49:10
right? Right.
49:11
Otherwise, like you're saying, you got to shoot a bunch of
49:13
stuff and edit it together to keep it moving.
49:16
Yeah. And then even afterwards, you
49:18
know, it takes time to do all that editing.
49:21
You got to add the music, you got to add the, you know, make
49:24
sure the sound is OK and at the right levels.
49:26
You got to add like make sure the, the vocals and every, like
49:29
all the dialogue is at the right level.
49:32
And it's it's a, it's work. Yep.
49:38
Oh yeah, editing is so time consuming.
49:41
Oh yeah, that's. A great picture.
49:42
I like that picture. That's that's a great picture,
49:46
man. Yeah, that's what it was like
49:48
out there. Good memories out there.
49:54
Yeah, I imagine, man. Yeah, I'd.
49:57
Be mad waking up to that every day.
49:59
Exactly. It's just.
50:00
Beautiful hip hop from DJT rock to western star and hat maker.
50:04
Look at that boom. Yeah, the DJ that.
50:13
Explains your e-mail. That explains your e-mail.
50:16
Yeah, yes, yeah, that. Explains your e-mail now I get
50:18
it. I was like what?
50:19
What? Yeah, I get it now.
50:21
I get it now. Yeah, the DJ world just seems
50:26
like so long ago now. It was just, it's like a whole
50:29
other life, man. You know how everybody changes.
50:32
Yeah, Yep, very cool. So you got a, you got a feature
50:46
film you're shooting coming up. Yeah, feature film coming.
50:50
Up What's on the horizon after that?
50:52
One coming out the make the devil pay that should be no word
50:57
on that yet. I just know it's in post
50:58
production. Waiting to hear if Elkhorn
51:02
season 3 happens. And then just after that, I, I
51:09
really just just looking at breakdowns to see if there's
51:13
anything to audition for, see if the phone rings for anything.
51:19
Or or to start a brand new project that has a unique idea,
51:22
an original idea that will that will change the world.
51:27
Right. Yeah, send it to me, man.
51:29
Hint hint. Yeah, I will.
51:31
Exactly. Yeah, we'll get, we'll get
51:33
Beverly behind it. Come on, Beverly.
51:35
You know, you got some money you can throw at this thing.
51:37
Let's make, let's like Travis's first feature film and make it
51:40
all-encompassing. Chris Mike can do some
51:42
soundtrack shit. You know, it's just I got the
51:44
whole vision, man. I got your back.
51:47
You know, Oh, man, well, it wouldn't be my no.
51:51
Pressure, Travis. No pressure.
51:52
It wouldn't. It wouldn't be my first feature
51:54
film, but it would be a feature film.
51:57
Well, this will be this, this will, this will be like an hour
52:01
and 90 minutes, you know, all theaters all across America.
52:03
You know, it's put you on the road map.
52:05
You're going to win. This was the Oscar.
52:07
This was the Oscar I talked about, dude.
52:09
I see. This was the Oscar.
52:10
This is what's going to get you an Oscar, man.
52:12
He's. Going to make you give a speech.
52:14
I am. Dude, you're going to, you're
52:15
going to just, this is it, bro. This is why you came on the show
52:18
today to meet us to find out about this because this came up
52:22
organically and then this is going to be your Oscar winning
52:24
performance. I just, I feel it, man.
52:26
I feel it. I feel it in my bones.
52:29
I'm going to remember it. OK, I I got you.
52:32
I got you man. I'd like to thank Chris for
52:36
giving me all these ideas. I'll start coughing
52:39
uncontrollably. What's that, Mike?
52:42
I said normally I'd be laughing my ass off at you, but I'd start
52:45
laughing or coughing uncontrollably.
52:47
Oh, gotcha. Gotcha.
52:51
Yeah, right on, dude. You're awesome, Travis.
52:55
This has been fun, dude. Thanks, man.
52:57
About 5-5 minutes or so, you know.
53:01
Yeah, this whole vision happens and it.
53:05
Wouldn't be funny, wouldn't it? It'd be awesome, yeah.
53:08
Yeah, it'd be awesome. I mean, yeah, obviously that
53:13
would have to be broken down into a script form, but you said
53:16
it's what, only 7070 pages? Yeah. 100 by 100 by 100 by 100.
53:22
OK. About 100 pages.
53:24
It's a really, it's a really easy read.
53:26
Like I, you know, so you know, you read it, you let me know
53:30
what you're thinking. If it's something that you want
53:32
to play with and you know, we'll iron out all the cross the TS
53:35
and dot the ice and have some fun.
53:37
OK, Yeah, it sounds good, man. It is, I will say this, it's a
53:41
very, it's in a very original idea.
53:43
I have not come across anything that has that the idea of this
53:48
House. OK.
53:49
And that's what, to me, that's what Hollywood's missing is
53:52
originality. Yeah, I remember when you laid
53:54
out your idea. It was very original.
53:57
Yeah. Thank you.
53:58
Modern, modern Western. Is that what it is you would
54:02
say? Yeah, it could.
54:03
It could. Yeah.
54:04
Yeah. Because it was, I mean, the,
54:06
the, the, the, the whole premises of it is I used to go
54:09
up and play cowboy with him and then just, you know, leaving,
54:13
leaving out one morning, you know, before the sun rose, I, we
54:17
were going to herd cattle or something.
54:19
And he just, he made the statement to me.
54:21
And I was like, OK. And then I don't know, the last
54:25
time I was up there, he had finally offered me a job and I
54:27
just met what was going to be my wife was like, let me go back.
54:29
Let me go back and see what's up with this chick before I say yes
54:32
to that, OK. And he knew I was wanting to be
54:37
a writer because I then I went to school for journalism and
54:40
then, you know, all that kind of jazz.
54:42
And just so he's like, you going to make me famous someday?
54:44
I'm like, yeah, OK. And so there's a whole other
54:47
story about how I had to find him because then I, I lost track
54:50
of him. So then I'm once the book came
54:53
out, people are like, well, they're asking about Chuck.
54:55
And what is Chuck? I'm like, I have no idea.
54:56
So then I started trying to find him and reload and locate him.
54:59
And sure enough, I found him with some small ass town in the
55:03
southern Arizona called Valentine.
55:06
His get this story. Travis, his wife couldn't sleep.
55:10
She got up at like 3:00 in the morning and was and Googled his
55:14
name out of nowhere. Just Googled his name and the
55:18
book came up. So she woke him up because the
55:22
irony. This is not him on the cover,
55:25
but it looks just like him. Which is why when when we when
55:27
we put the book together, that's the image they gave me for the
55:30
cover. And I'm like, holy shit, that
55:31
looks just like Chuck. That's crazy.
55:34
So she she Googled his name for some beyond unknown reason.
55:39
Found that. So the next day, I get a phone
55:41
call and I'm like, no idea who the number is.
55:43
I answered the phone, you know. Good afternoon.
55:44
This is Chris. He's like Chris.
55:46
I was like, yeah. He's like, this is Chuck.
55:49
I'm like Chuck. I heard you wrote a book about
55:52
me. Like.
55:53
Oh fuck man. Oh wow.
55:56
OK. Yeah.
55:58
So, yeah. So it was pretty.
55:59
It was pretty cool, man. It was one of those moments in
56:01
life that you just, you know, and I had the idea forever and I
56:04
wrote it during COVID. I wrote it in 2020 just because
56:08
the world shut down and I was doing some other stuff and, and
56:11
I, you know, and it just, it just, you know, you know, I just
56:15
started writing it one day and my wife, my wife would kind of
56:18
chime in and help me do certain things because I suck at
56:21
geography. And you know, we'd be going up
56:24
north for something and I'd be on my my iPad note section.
56:27
I'm writing the story while she's driving and I'm bouncing
56:30
ideas off her and shit and kind of making sure everything twins
56:32
together and she's in it as as as the the Co.
56:36
You know, the second the main character next to me, you know,
56:40
she's supporting actor in the in the what everyone call it.
56:44
You know, she says some great funny lines and shit.
56:46
You know, it's just it's fun. It's a good I don't know, I'm
56:48
toot my own horn. You be the judge.
56:51
All right. Yeah, No, I can't wait.
56:52
Yeah, send it. Over.
56:53
But it is original. It.
56:55
Yeah, it. Yeah, it is original.
56:57
And it's, you know, who knows? If anything, it'll give you an
57:00
idea about something else, you know?
57:01
There you go. I'll be your muse.
57:04
All right. Hey, come here.
57:08
Come here, Come here. Yeah.
57:11
I got somebody. Who's coming on the show?
57:14
Wanting to get on on the picture here aggravating me.
57:16
This is a This is Dixie. Oh, right now.
57:21
Hey, Dixie, what up Dixie? She's just staring at me, I
57:27
think. She's who watches Dixie when
57:29
you're who watches Dixies when you're out making movies, man.
57:36
The the girl. The girl.
57:38
Fight her half. Yeah.
57:39
OK, OK, OK, we're done. We're done.
57:44
You want to say hi to your girlfriend?
57:46
Want a name drop? Or is that too secretive?
57:54
Some people like to remain private.
57:57
Yeah. That's awesome.
58:04
Nah. So we can get smacked when the
58:07
show ends. Yeah.
58:11
Yeah. Oh, God, that was funny.
58:15
All right, so we got a movie coming out.
58:16
You're going to listen when that comes out, then you're going to
58:18
go shoot another feature film. How many feature films have you
58:20
been in? If if you can if you can put a
58:22
number on it. So I think 5 right now, 5 films.
58:30
Yeah, some of them are a few years old now, like on Amazon or
58:35
whatever, but. Yeah, OK.
58:38
And, and, you know, recently, like I said, this one that was
58:43
in Arizona and the one I'm shooting now.
58:45
And so we'll see. The goal is to just keep going,
58:49
you know? Yeah, yeah, we're going to get
58:52
you an Oscar, man. I got it.
58:54
I got the vision. I got it.
58:55
All right here, that'd be great. Yeah, it would be great.
58:59
It'd be great because, you know, it's based on my idea.
59:02
You get an Oscar, it's a win, win, man.
59:05
You know, I hope Beverly's watching this right now,
59:10
thinking, Chris, what are you doing?
59:11
Yeah. Yeah, you'll get a.
59:13
You'll get a call. That's funny.
59:22
All right, well, you definitely have to come back on the show
59:24
when when when stuff gets releases, release date.
59:26
So we can promote that and get people to go go either download
59:30
it, stream it, whatever, go to the movie theaters and stuff
59:33
because again, we're all about helping our guests on our show
59:36
get out there more and more to the world.
59:40
If you give me the information with the L corn, L corn, L corn
59:43
producers, I'll I'll make some phone calls.
59:45
I'll make sure. OK, OK, MM.
59:47
And I'll pull some strings for you there.
59:49
You know, we do know a guy that's that went from an attic
59:52
to flying private jets. We could kind of go after him
59:55
for some money, get some money behind it, you know?
59:57
Oh, wow. So we have, we have connections,
59:59
man. We can make that sometimes.
1:00:02
That is a true story. I think they're looking for
1:00:04
money, so yeah. Yeah, Everybody looks for money,
1:00:08
man. Everybody.
1:00:09
Yeah. If you bring a script to the
1:00:10
table with money, how can they say no, Right.
1:00:13
Yeah. How can they say no if you have
1:00:15
a script and money? I got the both.
1:00:17
I got everything, man. Come on.
1:00:18
Uh huh. OK.
1:00:20
All right, so again, this is Travis Lee Eller.
1:00:23
He's an amazing human being. He's got a great life resume.
1:00:26
He's an actor. Google his name, Travis Lee
1:00:27
Eller. Go watch his stuff, support him,
1:00:30
you know, go go download all his little flicks he's done.
1:00:33
He's an award-winning actor too, and screenwriter and director.
1:00:37
Did you win award for directing yet or no?
1:00:39
Yeah. OK, good.
1:00:40
OK, good. So so.
1:00:42
OK, so you could do the Tri effect.
1:00:43
You could be the award-winning director, screenwriter, actor
1:00:46
and producer for The Legend of Charles E Lang.
1:00:49
Dude, you just can't sweep the Oscars that year, Travis.
1:00:52
That'd be great. We'll make it happen.
1:00:55
We'll make it happen. It'll be phenomenal.
1:00:59
Now, if you're feeling sad and sorrow and depressed and
1:01:02
suicidal, I don't know how you could be after an hour with
1:01:05
Travis Lee Eller. But if you are, you know, go
1:01:08
scream in a pillow, go journal, go right, go outside, go run, go
1:01:11
workout, do something to change that mindset.
1:01:13
If he can't do that, then text 988 somebody standing by to help
1:01:17
you get out of that darkness in your soul.
1:01:19
Tomorrow is a better day with you waking up in it.
1:01:21
We all know that for certain. So it's just get your mindset
1:01:25
changed. So you tomorrow is always going
1:01:26
to be a better day for Chris and Mike and the Chris and Mike
1:01:30
show. And you know, again, Travis Lee
1:01:31
Ellerman, thank you so much for your time, dude.
1:01:33
Thanks for having me, guys that we all have.
1:01:35
And I, we still appreciate you spending an hour with us.
1:01:39
As we said, don't leave until we make sure you're all uploaded
1:01:42
because we want to make sure this gets done proper.
1:01:44
And thank you again, Beverly, for for hooking up, hooking us
1:01:47
up with Travis. I'm super happy about that.
1:01:50
Until next time, everybody, we'll see you love you, brother.
1:01:53
Thanks, Beverly. Thanks guys.
1:01:54
Thanks. We got to shoot Travis.