#197 - Travis Lee Eller - Actor

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Unknown Speaker (1:10): We're there live right now with the one and only the legendary soon to be Oscar winning performer, Travis Lee Eller. Welcome to the show. No pressure. No pressure, man.

Unknown Speaker (1:22): That's what you call an opening.

Unknown Speaker (1:24): That was an intro right there, man. Wow. I like it.

Unknown Speaker (1:29): No pressure at all. For being here, man.

Unknown Speaker (1:35): Thanks for having me,

Chris (1:37): We're excited to have you on the show. Another thespian. We like thespians because you think outside the box and, you know, there's there's there's nothing like the I can't. You know? Because then you have no fear or anything.

Chris (1:50): There's the ghost again. There's the ghost again. Stop the ghost. Stop the ghost. Speaking of ghosts, man, Nick and I were sitting on the couch the other day.

Chris (1:56): Shit you not. Our door was locked. It unlocked, opened, and shut.

Unknown Speaker (2:01): Parents Really?

Unknown Speaker (2:01): Stuff like that happened. I know.

Unknown Speaker (2:03): Oh, yeah. I know. But we're not here to talk about ghosts. We're here to talk about Travis Lee Eller. So we're stepping into an elevator, man.

Unknown Speaker (2:09): You got 30 floors. Tell us who you are, what you're all about, brother.

Travis Lee Eller (2:12): Oh man. There's so many things, dude. I don't even know where to begin, man. Travis, Travis Lieler. That's my name.

Unknown Speaker (2:18): I do, I do many things, man. I'm a handyman by day. I, I make hats. I'm actually in my studio here. I've got a, a hat business called Hugly Yeah, Outlaw made this one and I'm just surrounded by them.

Travis Lee Eller (2:33): So that's kind of my, one of my expensive hobbies. Weird.

Unknown Speaker (2:36): -:

Travis Lee Eller (2:37): Yeah. Yeah. Along with the acting. I've been acting for a number of years now. Started out in television.

Unknown Speaker (2:45): And what four are

Unknown Speaker (2:46): we on?

Unknown Speaker (2:47): 21, 22. But,

Unknown Speaker (2:51): Okay. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (2:54): That's basically it in a nutshell, Okay. You

Unknown Speaker (2:57): Okay. So let's talk a little bit about, you started out on TV. What did you do on TV? Where would we find you?

Travis Lee Eller (3:03): Oh my God. You know what, man? Let me take it back. Actually started before that I in was a DJ for a while. Like a hip hop DJ, I used to perform with bands.

Travis Lee Eller (3:17): I went to the Art Institute of Atlanta for a music business degree. And I see you guys are very musical. Yeah, I did that for a long time, I thought forever that I wanted to be a musician. I did it all, man. Was fortunate enough to tour with an artist who was signed to Virgin Records.

Travis Lee Eller (3:41): Went around the world and did, you know, a lot of gigs, some solo, some with other people.

Unknown Speaker (3:50): And

Travis Lee Eller (3:51): I think that's where being on stage, of that entertainment part of me, that's where the acting came from. So I kind of went into that. From that, I got a job as an intern, a stagehand on the Game Show Network on a show there called Really? Wow. Yeah.

Travis Lee Eller (4:16): Yeah, it was like an interstitial show where you could call in and win prizes. And I was behind the camera, but eventually they wanted me to be in front of camera. That's where I kind of caught the bug. You know, I started like doing characters and it was, it was kind of like an SNL sketch comedy kind of thing to begin with. Then from, from there, I just, you know, it just went crazy into other things.

Unknown Speaker (4:44): Right on, man.

Mike (4:46): We're gonna time out real quick here. Are you on your cell signal? Are you on a Wi Fi? What are you using to upload?

Unknown Speaker (4:56): You're really behind.

Unknown Speaker (4:59): Oh, am I? Let's see. Well, I'm just, like, out and about on five gs right now. I'm just, like, in my studio. I don't have a Wi Fi or anything in here.

Unknown Speaker (5:09): I'm just outside because this is the only place where I could kinda have some privacy, Yeah. You if you need me to pull The only caveat,

Mike (5:24): Travis, is it's going to take a while. Sorry, ladies and I know this is not what you want to hear, it'll but Do be like an hour to upload the rest of

Travis Lee Eller (5:35): you want me to walk away, move and, try to go back inside somewhere or?

Unknown Speaker (5:42): If, if, I mean, I'm cool with that. All you gotta do is log back on. If you wanna, if you wanna hop back out and find a spot where you can pick up your wifi, that'll just, it'll make the end product that much better for you. Let me do it. And we won't be, we won't be, because the other caveat is you'd have to, have to close the show.

Unknown Speaker (5:57): When we close it, you'd have to sit and leave your phone open for an hour.

Unknown Speaker (6:00): Exactly. Right.

Unknown Speaker (6:02): Hop away and come right back. We'll cover you while you're gone.

Unknown Speaker (6:05): Okay.

Unknown Speaker (6:06): Got you, brother.

Unknown Speaker (6:06): Okay. Thanks, man.

Unknown Speaker (6:07): Travis has to

Unknown Speaker (6:08): take a pee break.

Unknown Speaker (6:10): Exist stage left.

Mike (6:14): Yeah. After you sent me that message, looked at it and I was like, man, that's gonna take forever.

Chris (6:19): Yeah. He's and ironically enough, I'm styling. I'm like 98%. So I don't wanna jinx this shit, man. No, I'm golden baby.

Chris (6:25): I'm golden. It's like the Alstair say gold pony boy. Gold. It's gold baby. It's gold.

Chris (6:32): And you're not fuzzy or anything. No, it's red letter day. It's a red letter day, man.

Unknown Speaker (6:38): Ghost incident.

Chris (6:40): Yeah. So no shit. The door was locked. Cause I got up to check the door. Cause I thought maybe it wasn't locked.

Unknown Speaker (6:47): And then the, the air history came on, know, and made the door shut, but no, it legit was locked and Nick and I were sitting on couch and you can see the, well, you can see the door. I watched and see when we heard it and you can hear our door shut. It's a heavy metal door.

Mike (7:04): Yeah. There's just a big wood door. Go to bed and lock the door and they'll wake up and the door will be

Chris (7:08): wide open. There's only time we have them. Well, the the caveat too, we have that ironwood tree out front. You know, Satan's tree, that if you touch the ironwood tree, you'll get pricked, like, a thousand times in your hand. Like, I won't let I'm never let the kids touch it because the little man and and trip because they will hurt themselves.

Unknown Speaker (7:28): Oh, yeah. It's dead. It died. The truth died? After we did the whole Easter vigil thing.

Chris (7:37): Yeah. And then we got some because the ghost, he put some crucifixes over some of the doorways. I'm not kidding you. We got the palm the palm Sunday palms, couple places of the house. Fucking tree died, dude.

Unknown Speaker (7:50): Like, it's it's dead. It's legit. It's it's Where's my thing? And I don't know if the picture will come through the window or not. Let's try this live on TV, boys and girls.

Unknown Speaker (8:03): So right after you did that, this tree died? It died. That's nuts.

Chris (8:09): Usually, this tree is super green by now. I'm gonna send it to you. And it's just not. Like, the corner tree we have in the front yard is usually the last one to turn green. This one should have been green for a month now, and it's not.

Chris (8:25): It's so much so that one of the branches over the over the walkway last week, it was well above my head. I hit my head on it today. Damn. Yeah. I got a guy, I got a guy coming out next, this weekend to, Yeah.

Chris (8:46): To cut it Man, that's crazy. It's shredded dead. A dead tree. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (8:52): Oh yeah. Every bit of it.

Chris (8:53): Yeah. So we think that, that we've, we've, we've pissed off the ghost.

Mike (9:00): Well, I mean, if we believe in such things, then it's not a ghost. It would have been an a demon.

Chris (9:09): It was well, it has to be something, man. Because we legit we've we've labeled that Satanist. Just I kid you not. If you, the first, the first week when we moved in, I went to trim it because it was out of whack. Right?

Chris (9:20): So I'm trimming it with my little trimmer and I, I was cutting a branch and I went to grab the branch with my hand. Mind you, I had gloves on and I clamped like a normal tree. Would you just reach and right to grab the branch? Like, what the hell? I pulled off my glove.

Unknown Speaker (9:35): I had like little pin marks.

Unknown Speaker (9:39): Oh, yeah. That thing would cut down so fast. It's head would spin.

Chris (9:43): Right. But see, there's the glow skin, but the problem is it provided so much shade. Now it's gotta, you know, stop it.

Unknown Speaker (9:49): It knows we're talking about it.

Chris (9:51): Stop. Yeah. It knows we know we're talking about it because it's pissed now. Man, well. Nope.

Unknown Speaker (9:56): Okay. So we're gonna I always tell

Unknown Speaker (9:59): people you think you can get mean.

Chris (10:02): Yeah. Well, my No. We're still gonna rough it out for the summer and put a couple Arizona ash trees in there in the fall and shade the hell out of the side of the house, side of the yard and driveway and stuff. Yeah, it was crazy, man. I'm a tree murderer.

Unknown Speaker (10:19): I have no trees

Unknown Speaker (10:19): on Well, my I didn't I didn't murder it.

Unknown Speaker (10:22): Cut them

Unknown Speaker (10:22): all down.

Unknown Speaker (10:23): I cut them all down.

Chris (10:24): We cut one down. We cut a pine tree down, but that was to piss off the neighbors. Oh, of neighbors, check this shit out. Crazy cat lady. Okay.

Chris (10:31): About a week ago, I go out front and let Dozier out this dusk. Dozier takes off like a bat of hell into the yard because they have their 40 cats. Right? And like a bat of hell. I'm like, Dozier, Dozier, Dozier, stop Dozier, Dozier, Dozier.

Chris (10:45): He's, you know, being a dog, right? Chasing them all down and shit. He finally chills out, comes back to me. I'm like, back over here. You're right.

Chris (10:52): So taking garbage out. As I come back from taking the garbage out, the two of the crazy cat ladies are standing there like they want to fight me. Right? You got to keep your dog out of my yard. I'm like, well, keep your cats out of my yard.

Chris (11:07): They're not in your yard. Yes, they are. All the time. Well, that's all on film. So I was pissed.

Chris (11:11): I'm like, you know what? I won't say her name, but you know what? Blank. You've been a bitch since the day we moved in. So do you really think I care?

Chris (11:19): Cause I don't.

Mike (11:20): See, here's how my life works. Neighbor mows my yard. He tilts it up for me. If he knows that I'm too busy, he just zips the bower through there. Neighbor mowed, the neighbor behind me, he tilled up my yard so I could plant some

Unknown Speaker (11:34): grass seed and come home

Unknown Speaker (11:36): and he already planted grass seed for me. I was like, dang.

Chris (11:39): Gee, that's awesome. Yeah. Yeah, so they're pissed off because my dog chased their cats in their yard, but their cats are always in my yard and I need to control my dog. I'm like, okay, yeah. There was more said, but I, it's been, it's been enough time past.

Chris (11:54): I don't remember, but she just, they just pissed me off that, to the point

Unknown Speaker (11:58): I just like to don't understand why people have to be that I don't either.

Unknown Speaker (12:01): And it's just Especially when you

Mike (12:03): have to live next to someone, Yeah. There's a couple people on the street I either don't know or for whatever reason, we're never gonna get along, right? But I don't go out of my way to make their life miserable. I just don't associate with them.

Chris (12:18): And the fact that they think that they purposely, we let, we take dojo out front all the time. Why? Because the skunks. We don't trust dojo in the backyard at night because of skunks. Sure.

Chris (12:27): We have a nice green backyard. Skunks love that unfortunately. So one thing

Mike (12:32): you want is your dog getting sprayed by a fucking skunk.

Chris (12:35): For the eighth time. Yes. Seven been there done that. Yeah. So we let him out the front door.

Chris (12:40): He usually just goes to a couple of different spots, pees and comes back inside, but he went out and peed and apparently he saw a cat and like shit. And my first thinking when he tore tore off across the street, was like, hope there's not a car coming. Right. Because I had no idea they were outside and not like I was doing it on purpose. The dog was being a dog.

Chris (12:59): And then all of sudden it's my fault and I'm I'm making the dog over there and oh, other thing I brought up were with her about being the bitch is that, you know, you like, well, being a bitch since we moved them. Like, you fucking called the cops on me. Well, you shot a gun. I didn't shoot a gun. I I I aimed a pellet.

Chris (13:15): I mean, it was a gun, but as a pellet BB gun at a at a pile of of wood down on the ground. It wasn't a gun. It wasn't a nine millimeter or 45 or 30. There was no gun explosion everywhere. And what I should have said, but you told the cops I'm killing and skinning cats and burying them out of my backyard.

Chris (13:35): Really did you just say I I shot a gun? No. You said all this crap. So I don't care what there it is again, man. Fucking how do I still that?

Chris (13:46): There you go. So yeah. So that was Are you touching

Mike (13:52): that when you do that? Or are you just

Unknown Speaker (13:53): I just move my hand to my camera. I'm trying to, I don't know. I don't know. Somewhere between here and me is the ghost.

Unknown Speaker (14:01): Makes zero sense.

Chris (14:02): It does make zero sense. Know?

Unknown Speaker (14:04): Has something to do with the refresh rate. That's what it is.

Chris (14:06): It must. It must. But I, all I know is I'm 98%, 99%. And just so you know, boys and girls, I tell all our guests to make sure you're on dedicated Wi Fi. They're oh, look at that.

Chris (14:16): You're crisp and clean. There's some hats. I can see your face. You got a beard. The elder of the tribe going on.

Chris (14:22): Like, okay.

Unknown Speaker (14:24): Are we good now? We're

Unknown Speaker (14:27): good. And we're good. And you know, the other thing about you, dude, your name is a total, don't take this the wrong way. It's a total serial killer name.

Unknown Speaker (14:35): Like, you

Chris (14:35): know, like a total, right? Like, it's like tonight on Fox News ten, a serial killer Travis Lee Eller was arrested

Unknown Speaker (14:43): for It's like, it's like, it's like Tommy Lee Jones, Jamie Lee Curtis, Darth Lee Vader. You know what I mean? Same, same kind of thing.

Unknown Speaker (14:54): Yeah. Yeah. So now are you on, are you on a, on a dedicated wifi this time?

Unknown Speaker (14:59): Yeah, I am.

Unknown Speaker (15:01): Okay, cool. Cool. Cause yeah, you're up. You're already you're. Yeah.

Chris (15:03): So you're already climbing up there. You started eighteen. Now you're in your 28 now you're 34. So yeah. Okay.

Chris (15:09): Much better, much better. And you're not, you're still a little blurry, but that's okay though. Know, we can take that over.

Mike (15:15): The final product won't look like that at all. Travis. Don't worry. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (15:18): Oh, Looks crisp and clean. It'll be four ks. Yeah. So where we were, where we left off as you were, you, you had gone on the road with the, you were DJ music. You did all that.

Chris (15:27): Then you ended up being on the game show behind the scenes and they wanted you in front of the camera, like an SNL skit. You're playing character actor, things like that. So, so if you want, you can, you can pick it up from there and we'll just continue down the path of the Travis Eller life story. Travis Eller life story.

Travis Lee Eller (15:42): Well, yeah. Then I guess basically after that, I just got into like wanting to do more film work, not sketch comedy. I was starting to get pigeonholed with, comedy. Like, in other words, if I tried to do anything serious at all, as soon as I would come on camera, people would laugh. I'm like, hey.

Unknown Speaker (16:00): I haven't even I haven't even said anything yet, you know? And I just wanted to get into a more serious

Unknown Speaker (16:05): mode and

Travis Lee Eller (16:06): started, started writing my own things. I thought, Hey, why not do Western?

Unknown Speaker (16:11): Oh cool. Nice.

Unknown Speaker (16:12): Yeah. So I fell in love with the Western landscape out here. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Chris (16:17): Yeah. Western, Western shows, Western movies and shit?

Travis Lee Eller (16:21): Yeah. That's my thing. I I've done so many. Nice. Yeah.

Travis Lee Eller (16:26): Yeah. That's my favorite. So that's kind of what I,

Unknown Speaker (16:29): nice man. -:

Unknown Speaker (16:30): That kind of got me into making these actually. So,

Unknown Speaker (16:34): I was gonna ask you that. Did that lead into making the hat? Because yeah. Okay.

Travis Lee Eller (16:39): Yeah. Actually, was on set one day on a, on a film and, I was supposed to be this outlaw that had been like, out in the desert stranded and no horse, you know, been out there for a few days. It's hot, sweaty. And I remember they gave me my wardrobe and it was just clean, spic and span. And I was like,

Unknown Speaker (17:02): oh, this

Travis Lee Eller (17:05): isn't like the spaghetti westerns I grew up with. So I wanted the rough look. So I started by making my own hats. From there, it just kind of grew into the, into the business.

Chris (17:17): Now, me ask you a question here. So you get this, this prim and properly cleaned outfit for this role that was terrible. So did you just go ahead and go roll around in the dirt to mess it up?

Travis Lee Eller (17:28): Yes. You know, rookies, no. But, yeah, I mean, so from then on out, I just wanted to like make my own thing and at least bring options when I would show up on a set, especially the Western sets.

Chris (17:59): That's awesome. That's awesome. And how many Westerns have you done?

Travis Lee Eller (18:04): A few. A few you'll never see. A few you can see, you know? Right now I just finished wrapping season two of a show called Elkhorn. It's on the INSP network.

Unknown Speaker (18:16): I NSP.

Unknown Speaker (18:18): Oh, I've it.

Unknown Speaker (18:18): Have you?

Unknown Speaker (18:19): Oh, okay. Yeah. So

Unknown Speaker (18:20): I've just seen, I've seen the title as I'm scrolling through the.

Unknown Speaker (18:25): Yeah. So get

Unknown Speaker (18:26): ready for this, Mike. Uh-oh, what? Look at that. There he is. There's Travis Lee Eller right there.

Chris (18:33): The actor. Dude, you're born a day before my wife's birthday.

Unknown Speaker (18:38): That's awesome, man.

Unknown Speaker (18:40): Nice. Yeah. Okay. Now we're going down the rabbit hole now, dude.

Unknown Speaker (18:44): Uh-oh. There we go.

Chris (18:45): Once she dropped that, now I'm gonna now I'm gonna now I'm gonna go down the and check this out. There he is right there. He's got a demo reel. Oh, get out of there, Cox.

Unknown Speaker (18:55): Oh yeah. There's a few.

Chris (18:57): What, why did you have? Is it doing? Why is it doing this? I don't want Cox. I just want Travis Eller.

Chris (19:05): It's not sharing your name anymore. I hate when it does this crap. It's not sharing it. Damn it. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (19:10): Well, I'm gonna figure it out before I you guys keep talking. There. -:

Unknown Speaker (19:14): Yeah, Okay. So Here we go.

Chris (19:16): Here we go. No, I'll Keep going. Keep going. Keep talking.

Unknown Speaker (19:20): Uh-oh. Yeah. So anyway, I mean Keep talking.

Unknown Speaker (19:23): -:

Travis Lee Eller (19:23): I was I able I was I got on this show. I play Joe Ferris, the shopkeeper on the INSP show. And so that's been like two years of my life. And then in between, just been making movies, I'm currently filming a western in Texas, actually, called, Lonesome Are The Wicked. And I go back in June to complete that from June 1 to June 12.

Unknown Speaker (19:48): Oh, yeah, there's a bunch of stuff.

Unknown Speaker (19:50): What's that gonna be on?

Unknown Speaker (19:52): -:

Unknown Speaker (19:52): We don't know. It's an independent

Unknown Speaker (19:53): feature There's a bunch of stuff right there. Okay. -:

Unknown Speaker (19:56): And it's going to be Oh,

Unknown Speaker (19:57): okay. A movie.

Travis Lee Eller (19:59): Yeah, it's a movie. It's a movie. Yeah. And I finished another film in October in Arizona as well. So waiting on that to come Dude,

Unknown Speaker (20:10): I'm I'm in Arizona. So next time you come to Arizona, reach out.

Unknown Speaker (20:15): Oh, okay.

Unknown Speaker (20:15): That's where I live.

Unknown Speaker (20:16): Yeah, definitely.

Unknown Speaker (20:17): Where are you? Mike lives in Illinois. Mike, Mike lives in, I'm in, I'm in the Gilbert, Queen Creek area. Mike lives in Pontiac, Illinois. I live in, I live in Arizona.

Unknown Speaker (20:25): Okay. Okay. Yeah. I was in like the Tucson area, like, where they shoot.

Unknown Speaker (20:32): You're too agile for me. -:

Travis Lee Eller (20:33): Okay. I went to the set where they shot Tombstone actually, and it was amazing.

Chris (20:38): Yep. I was just gonna ask you, Tombstone? Yep.

Mike (20:41): I've seen that movie a 100 times. I love that.

Unknown Speaker (20:43): Oh yeah. Who hasn't? Yeah, that movie's great.

Chris (20:47): My grandson, because he's only six.

Travis Lee Eller (20:51): That image there is, well, image is actually from this current film that I'm working on, The Lonesome or the Wicked So

Unknown Speaker (21:03): yeah.

Travis Lee Eller (21:05): Yeah, it's definitely a bad guy role. We'll see what happens. -GRETA:

Unknown Speaker (21:10): that your hat? -It is. You make that did. Right on, dudes. Right on.

Travis Lee Eller (21:17): That image is actually Yeah. The film I shot in Arizona, which is coming out. Actually, I don't know, but that one's called make the devil pay. I have a

Unknown Speaker (21:30): small part of sweet. That That's cool. Part

Unknown Speaker (21:32): of Oh, the

Chris (21:33): look at you shooting a guy without looking at him. No look shooting. Bangs. Dead. So so when you get a release date for some of your stuff, let us know, and we'll get you back on, and we can talk about it for sure.

Unknown Speaker (21:44): Okay. Yeah.

Chris (21:45): Absolutely. A cool picture. That's a cool picture right there, Travis.

Unknown Speaker (21:49): It is.

Unknown Speaker (21:49): That's badass. Now did the guy you shoot at, did he die? Okay.

Unknown Speaker (21:56): Oh yeah, they all do. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (22:02): You better be right. Just for

Chris (22:04): the You gotta, oh, right on. May the fourth be with you.

Unknown Speaker (22:08): Yeah. That's a that's

Unknown Speaker (22:10): I love it.

Unknown Speaker (22:11): That's from a short That's what's this

Unknown Speaker (22:13): about, man.

Travis Lee Eller (22:14): Yeah. So that's a short film that actually, that played yesterday in Ireland at the May the fourth Be With You film festival. It's a story of, what if Star Wars what if on Earth, at the time Star Wars was happening, the year was actually the eighteen seventies. And so this is a story of a Jedi that goes back to Earth and, encounters some of the -GREG: local folk Right

Unknown Speaker (22:42): on. Yeah. Nice. That's you, the Jedi. That's all that is.

Unknown Speaker (22:48): That's great, man. You got, you have a, you have a great Western look, dude. Like you have a great Western look. Like I could see how Westerns are your forte. I mean, now you're being typecast, obviously, because you have the look.

Chris (23:01): And then once you get, is that from the show Elkhorn?

Travis Lee Eller (23:04): That is from Elkhorn. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (23:06): -: Okay, cool. Yeah. -:

Mike (23:08): Now, how many of those hats did you provide for the show? All of them or Oh, just yours?

Unknown Speaker (23:13): A few. I also Nice.

Unknown Speaker (23:16): -:

Travis Lee Eller (23:17): I did a lot of, shaping and, distressing of some of the hats, too. I didn't make them entirely from scratch. Did a couple of them, but a lot of times, they would have me, like, take some home and rework, you know?

Unknown Speaker (23:32): -: Cool. -: Oh, there it is.

Unknown Speaker (23:34): It looks so cool, man. Yeah, I've

Chris (23:36): seen that title for sure. Nice, dude. I'm gonna have to

Unknown Speaker (23:38): check it out. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna put it on my DVR now that I know you're in.

Unknown Speaker (23:43): Yeah, start You can start with season two.

Unknown Speaker (23:50): Is that where

Unknown Speaker (23:51): Travis Yeah, I shows up?

Travis Lee Eller (23:53): Mean, we just as a whole, I think everybody thinks that the second season came out a whole lot better than the first season. So

Chris (24:01): Okay. Fair enough. Yeah. Now, obviously this isn't western because you have metal doorknobs.

Travis Lee Eller (24:07): Yeah. No, that was from a short film I did years ago. It's just one of the stills from that. Same with that image there.

Chris (24:15): Right. Right on. How long have you been at this Travis?

Travis Lee Eller (24:20): Too long, man. I think it's kind of one of those things that just happened. I didn't expect it And yeah, I just kind of-

Unknown Speaker (24:31): So like at what age did you get started? Would you say?

Travis Lee Eller (24:33): Oh God. In my twin, mid twenties, I would say. Okay. And then, and you know, it's

Unknown Speaker (24:39): And always born in '73?

Unknown Speaker (24:41): '2, '72. Yeah. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (24:47): Eight years old. I'm two no, wait, I was born in '70. So I'm two years older

Unknown Speaker (24:50): than you. He's a year

Unknown Speaker (24:51): older than me. Yeah. You're our age. Yeah. Yeah.

Chris (24:56): So this is obviously not some of those were non Western things. So anybody, anybody that, that you've worked with that we would know if you name dropped?

Unknown Speaker (25:06): Oh God. I mean, you're pretty,

Chris (25:07): you're obviously a pretty big star because look at all the stuff you've been in, man. I mean, that's just, you know, you're fucking, know, I gotta say this changes the motherfucking Travis Lee Eller, like before you just Travis Lee Eller, you know, you know, you totally downplayed yourself, man. Like, like you totally downplayed yourself. It's mind boggling how much you downplayed who you are, dude.

Travis Lee Eller (25:28): No, man. It's trust me.

Unknown Speaker (25:30): Had you as a friend on Facebook. Yeah. Yeah. I just, I just added you as a friend on Facebook. So when you see that, you know,

Travis Lee Eller (25:39): Okay. I'll make sure to accept that. Yeah. I've worked with Rex land. Guys, do you guys know Rex land who, who he is?

Unknown Speaker (25:49): He was a,

Travis Lee Eller (25:52): he's in the Reba show. He's also,

Unknown Speaker (25:55): he's in the Wyatt

Unknown Speaker (25:59): Earp movie, as well with Kevin Costner. I've had a scene with him on lethal weapon on Fox. I did a guest star appearance on there.

Chris (26:10): So, so I'm a huge lethal weapon fan, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover movie. So that was a TV show. Correct.

Unknown Speaker (26:15): That right.

Unknown Speaker (26:16): Was just clarifying. I was clear. I was clarifying that because I saw that and I was like, wait a minute, like, just hold on a minute.

Unknown Speaker (26:23): The TV show came out.

Chris (26:26): Yeah. I just I just had to make sure of that. So now we're on your Facebook page as I like to do. So let me just scroll through pictures while you might have conversations. So keep talking.

Unknown Speaker (26:34): Don't worry about me. Let me do my thing.

Mike (26:37): Who else have you acted with that you've really enjoyed that we would know?

Travis Lee Eller (26:43): Oh, man. Oh, my God. Oh, I mean, not really any I mean, I can't think of any really big names yet that I've got a

Chris (26:53): chance Let's just stop you right there. Best Actor in Western mini short film winner. Nice job, dude. Congratulations. Congratulations.

Chris (27:02): We have, we especially have an acting who wins awards, an award winning actor on the show now. That's badass. Like, like checkbox. I'm we're done. Have a nice day.

Chris (27:15): Kidding.

Unknown Speaker (27:17): I tried. That's awesome.

Unknown Speaker (27:19): Did you, did you co, did you co direct this with him?

Unknown Speaker (27:23): I did. Yeah.

Chris (27:25): Okay. Dude, I got something I'm gonna send you when we're done that let's make a movie, dude. When you read it, you're be like, Okay, let's make a movie. I'm gonna send it to you. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (27:32): It's gonna be right up your alley. I wrote it. I wrote it.

Unknown Speaker (27:36): Okay.

Chris (27:36): It's I'm not gonna I'm just gonna send it. I'm gonna send it to you. Okay. Before we leave the show, gotta give me your address. If you wanna give me your address, then I will send you a copy.

Chris (27:45): You can read it and you can tell me what you're thinking. I think it would be a great movie. Everybody else read it thought it'd be a great movie because it's unique, and it's a and it's an original idea. It's a western

Unknown Speaker (27:53): Is it a oh, it is. Oh, yeah. Send it on. Mhmm. Mhmm.

Unknown Speaker (27:57): Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

Unknown Speaker (27:59): Hold on.

Unknown Speaker (28:05): What what are you are you shuffling?

Unknown Speaker (28:11): He's gonna he's gonna show you his book.

Unknown Speaker (28:15): Oh, I can't you're I only see can you make yourself larger again?

Unknown Speaker (28:20): It's because we're,

Unknown Speaker (28:21): we're super small, dude. Yeah, I can't. Hold on.

Unknown Speaker (28:25): Now we're full size.

Unknown Speaker (28:29): Ah, okay. Yeah. Is that you?

Chris (28:34): You'll dig. No, it's that's that's Chuck. It's it's a story of a friendship. I used to those short and He wrote it. Yeah.

Chris (28:41): The real quick thing is is I used to go up every January for several years and I played cowboy. It's a friend of mine's brother-in-law. Always want to be a cowboy and I was growing up. Awesome. So I have one day I asked him, he's like, yeah, come on up.

Chris (28:55): Everything you can do cowboy and I've done. And then he'd asked me one time when we were riding out, one morning, he didn't want to be buried in the cemetery. The whole book wraps around the fact that he didn't want to be buried in the cemetery and the adventure that it goes on from there. It's a real quick, easy read. It's a 100, almost a 100 pages.

Chris (29:16): But anybody that's read it, Dude, I could see this being a movie. So I'll send it to you.

Unknown Speaker (29:21): That sounds great.

Chris (29:22): Yeah. See what you think. And you're not gonna and you're not gonna hurt my feelings if you don't think it should be. So understand that. I have really broad shoulders.

Unknown Speaker (29:29): I'm a big boy.

Unknown Speaker (29:30): No, no. I'm

Unknown Speaker (29:31): very You're

Unknown Speaker (29:32): definitely open gonna

Mike (29:32): respect your opinion. Or he wouldn't No, send to

Travis Lee Eller (29:36): I will. I'm very open to reading new material, man. Absolutely. I look forward to it. Yeah, absolutely.

Unknown Speaker (29:41): I'll give you my address when we're, when we're done here.

Unknown Speaker (29:43): Cool. Yeah. When we're done. Yeah. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (29:46): Don't give it on me here because you're a famous actor, Yeah. You

Unknown Speaker (29:50): Right. And you're going out to almost a 100 countries. Man.

Chris (29:54): 100 countries. You could get all kinds of shit going on in a 100 countries. Let's see. And there, there it is on, on the Amazon world right there. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (30:04): So, go get your

Unknown Speaker (30:05): official copy, ladies and gentlemen.

Unknown Speaker (30:07): Well, I'm gonna send you, I'm gonna send you one when we're done. When we're done. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll buy a copy. -GARY: Everybody else go buy a copy. Yes.

Unknown Speaker (30:13): Stop being a slacker. Go buy a copy. Yeah. Yeah. You'd be there tomorrow if you order within seven minutes.

Chris (30:18): Seven minutes, people. Get it tomorrow.

Unknown Speaker (30:19): Yep. That's something I can, see it on the plane.

Chris (30:23): Yes, absolutely. So now we're gonna go back to Travis's stuff because, you know, I told you a squirrel moment. Sorry, my bad. It's all good. Can play me.

Unknown Speaker (30:33): This portion

Mike (30:34): of the show brought to you by Charles Lee Lang.

Unknown Speaker (30:37): The legend of Charles Lee Lang. Yeah. Legend of Charles Lee You play Chris Dunham. Yeah. You can play me.

Chris (30:43): Travis, I'll play I'll play Chuck because he's he's not in there very much. He's dead. So I'll be the corpse. I'll be like Kevin Kosher's first role in in the big chill. I'll be the corpse.

Unknown Speaker (30:52): Okay.

Chris (30:54): But yeah, so we're back on we're back on Travis's Facebook photo photos winding around. Continue the conversation, man. This is fun. I like this. I like that you fixed your phone and came back and and we could have go further down the rabbit hole because you were totally holding out on us, man.

Unknown Speaker (31:08): Totally holding out on us. I You're didn't still gonna be here

Unknown Speaker (31:10): for a little bit. I didn't know what to talk about. So Yeah.

Chris (31:13): You got a whole half Yeah. Well, you're here to talk about you. I mean, I know it's narcissistic, but that's the whole point of the show is we bring our guests on to talk about our guests and then to get our guests out there even more so in the world. So these are obviously all your hats that you make. This is kind of

Travis Lee Eller (31:29): Yeah, that was from an in store that I did where, they invited me out to kind of display the hats and people would come by, you could purchase if you wanted. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (31:39): Is that what you call them, ugly outlaw hats?

Travis Lee Eller (31:42): So that's my, that's the name of my brand and yeah, that, that's, and that, and that came from that whole onset movie experience, basically, where, you know, it just it wasn't ugly enough to be the character that I was playing. So I decided to make ugly outlaw hats, and so that's where it came from. Yeah. I ship all I over the think they forget

Mike (32:06): that people in the West didn't I think they forget people didn't bathe five times -KEVIN: a day like we do Right.

Chris (32:14): Exactly. So here's another here's another film. Here's another film that you did a film by Travis Lee Ehler. Try it standing. So you're an astronaut?

Unknown Speaker (32:22): Yeah. In that one I am. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (32:25): Okay.

Travis Lee Eller (32:26): Yeah. That's just a little comedy, comedy short film. I think done with the short film side of things. I've done so many of those now. I want to do just more features, independent features, TV.

Unknown Speaker (32:44): Okay.

Unknown Speaker (32:46): You know, you're starting, when

Unknown Speaker (32:47): you're starting- first feature. Yeah.

Travis Lee Eller (32:50): Yeah. Well, when you're starting out, you're, you're creating as much as you can to try to get out there. -And now I feel Another like one.

Unknown Speaker (33:04): One. Dude, you're a award winning actor, man. You so held out on us, dude.

Unknown Speaker (33:08): -JULIE: is an And he held out

Unknown Speaker (33:10): on us. Like, what the hell, man?

Travis Lee Eller (33:11): That's actually a script that I wrote. That's a screenplay, a feature film Western called No Man Was Civilized. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (33:20): I see that by Travis Lee Ehler. It's a win for Wild Lunch Film Festival. Yeah. A quarter finalist, Red Rock Film Festival. Like, dude.

Unknown Speaker (33:29): That's impressive too. Oh, I like that.

Chris (33:31): Only God forgives. Nice. Nice.

Unknown Speaker (33:33): You can see that on Amazon. You can see that on Amazon Prime. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (33:36): Okay. Okay. Now what is is that a short film or is it a feature or what is it?

Travis Lee Eller (33:42): That's a short film. It's like a fifteen minute long film. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (33:46): Cool. Right on. Right on. I'm on it. Heck yeah.

Chris (33:50): Hats? Ugly Another hat. Ugly guy Oh, that's a cool hat. I like that hat. Yeah, that's a nice hat.

Chris (33:57): I like that one.

Unknown Speaker (33:58): I actually made that for one of the guys.

Unknown Speaker (34:00): Oh, Red

Unknown Speaker (34:00): Dead Redemption. You were on Red Dead Redemption. You?

Travis Lee Eller (34:04): There's a a there rumor going around that they wanna do that movie. And so I was like, I would love to play Bill Williamson. Yeah, I would love to play that character if that movie ever happened.

Unknown Speaker (34:18): Yeah. Yeah. Right. That would be cool.

Unknown Speaker (34:20): Oh yeah. You do a great job at that. Yeah.

Chris (34:25): Oh, Trevly, Travis Beverly says, Hey there, my man, Travis, you look awesome.

Travis Lee Eller (34:34): Beverly just wanting the obligatory Hey shout Bev.

Unknown Speaker (34:39): Yeah, she texts me. She texts me. She's awesome.

Unknown Speaker (34:42): We love Beverly.

Chris (34:44): Yeah. Yeah. She is. She's good. I was poking at her for a while to come on the show and We had someone Yeah.

Chris (34:51): That's what I like about doing this is, is I don't, we don't, we don't pre interview anybody. It's just, we want to know your life resume while you're on the show. Cause this is genuine reaction with Mike and I like legit. Yeah. We're learning about you right along with you.

Chris (35:03): You're holding out. Yeah. Stubborn, just holding out. You were totally just not, you were underselling yourself, which was cool. But so is this, is this when you're going through an editing or is this when you're doing sound or what?

Chris (35:16): Can you see Yeah,

Unknown Speaker (35:18): that right there

Unknown Speaker (35:18): is Before

Unknown Speaker (35:19): the Lighthouse

Unknown Speaker (35:19): do not distribute.

Travis Lee Eller (35:21): Yeah, so that's in editing. Before the Lighthouse is a film by director Gary Hub that just opened up on the East Coast, it's playing in limited theaters out there. That's a feature film, about the store the story of Cool. The the area of Schenkel Teague, Virginia, where they have a lot of wild ponies. There's legends of pirates and all kinds of things there.

Travis Lee Eller (35:43): And that and that's that movie just kinda goes through the story. And I play one of

Unknown Speaker (35:47): the

Travis Lee Eller (35:47): characters within one of the stories of the place. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (35:55): Nice.

Unknown Speaker (35:59): Yeah, fun times.

Chris (36:00): You're shooting a gun again. There's another Elkhorn. Blow you It'll blow you away. Yeah. She's that's kinda cool that you're the face on the posters, man.

Chris (36:12): That is really cool.

Travis Lee Eller (36:28): The film, Make the Devil Pay. It's being edited right now. That is a feature film. That'll be out. That'll be out.

Travis Lee Eller (36:36): I don't know when, but it's getting edited now. So it's in post.

Unknown Speaker (36:41): So. Cool. Yeah. When you that's being released, come back on the show. Let's talk.

Travis Lee Eller (36:47): Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Those are just all screen grabs from, from Elkhorn that's make the devil pay and,

Unknown Speaker (36:56): Yep. I see it. Yeah. Yep.

Unknown Speaker (36:57): Yep.

Unknown Speaker (36:59): Yep. That's all. That's awesome.

Travis Lee Eller (37:02): Yeah. I guess the thing that, that I like about the Western though, man, is that, you know, you can kind of create folklore and your own kind of tales and tell your own stories that could have possibly happened.

Unknown Speaker (37:15): Yeah.

Travis Lee Eller (37:15): You know, they didn't have any fingerprints, no cell phones, no you can just create a story and go with it. So that's one of the reasons that I'm intrigued by it so much.

Chris (37:29): Yep. There's your other award.

Unknown Speaker (37:32): That's the trophy. I'm awarding

Chris (37:33): actor, Travis Lee Heller. Right? Actor, director, writer, outstanding.

Unknown Speaker (37:41): That's so cool, man.

Unknown Speaker (37:43): That is very cool.

Unknown Speaker (37:46): Thank you guys.

Chris (37:47): So now where you live, do you have, do you have, do you have, do you have horses and stuff? Are horses a part of your everyday life?

Unknown Speaker (37:53): No. No, not at all.

Unknown Speaker (37:59): I love that picture. That's a great picture. I do too. Look where her guns, look where her guns aimed at. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (38:09): Classic. Yeah. And you know, the good

Unknown Speaker (38:15): That's thing is interesting is you don't have horses, but obviously, I mean, yeah, go ahead.

Travis Lee Eller (38:19): Yeah. Was gonna say a lot of these people that you're seeing there have remained friends and contacts, you know, for a couple of years now. And like, if we ever you know, there are also other actors and filmmakers, and so

Unknown Speaker (38:34): -PAUL: Yeah.

Travis Lee Eller (38:35): -PAUL: That's the thing about this business, man. You get to meet these people and possibly work with them again, and forming those friendships are great. But yeah, no horses. Actually, I was just having a conversation with somebody the other day. A couple weeks ago, I was in Texas shooting a film.

Unknown Speaker (38:52): Horses are always different, know, man. They have such a -Yeah. -It's like, I mean, one goes if you give it a little kick. The others don't go if you kick them. You gotta just use the reins.

Travis Lee Eller (39:04): So and then they all have their own personalities and they do their own thing. And it's like getting to know the horses, sometimes it's like, oh man, just, it's frustrating. A lot of times too, they only got one or two good takes in them. Then after that, they're like, No, I'm out of here, or I'm gonna just go around in circles. You know, it's dealing with horses can be taxing a little bit, but you got to.

Unknown Speaker (39:30): Agreed.

Chris (39:33): So you got a write up in your your hometown newspaper or something to that effect, South Caldwell Grad on second season of Elkhorn.

Travis Lee Eller (39:40): North Carolina. That's my home state.

Chris (39:46): Cool. See, there you go. Reflects on his accent where I just sort of fell into it. That's nice, dude. That's that's, you know, the humility is, the humility is very nice.

Chris (39:56): That show filmed at Travis?

Travis Lee Eller (39:58): It's filmed here in California. It's in a place called Acton, California. They built a little western town out there and that's, that's basically our set for the show.

Unknown Speaker (40:08): Oh, right on. Okay.

Mike (40:13): Have you been renewed for a season three, or what's on the horizon?

Travis Lee Eller (40:17): We have not been notified of any yay or nay for season three yet of Elkhorn. So it's kind of like everyone's just waiting to see if that happens. There are rumors circulating, but we don't know.

Chris (40:38): Send them send them this episode, and then they'll renew you. We we got we got a a musician named Dave Nudo. We got we got his management company to agree to rerecord what Mike and I feel is is an amazing song that would be just a massive hit if it got thrown out into the public. It's called the Lord of the Devil. And kid you not, they rerecorded the song because Mike and I just kept bugging Dave like, dude, this song needs to be out there.

Chris (41:00): Like it needs to be out there. So we get done Google Dave Noodle, Lord of the Devil and you'll from a western standpoint, you'll totally agree with it.

Unknown Speaker (41:08): Okay.

Chris (41:08): Because it would totally fit And, and, and, and yeah, I like the, the geography photos here. The landscaping is nice.

Travis Lee Eller (41:16): Oh yeah. That's one of my favorite areas to visit. That is like in, Lone Pine, California, the Alabama Hills. If you guys ever get a chance to go there, I highly recommend it.

Unknown Speaker (41:26): Yeah. Okay.

Travis Lee Eller (41:30): That's a nice little spread we had in Cowboys and Indians magazines.

Unknown Speaker (41:34): I see that. That's cool.

Unknown Speaker (41:38): Yes. Oh, that is a gift of, of, from a, exactly. From a fellow that I made a hat for and I, you know, at the best cure for a congestion or a cough, man, that stuff right there knocks it out.

Mike (41:53): I can use that right now.

Chris (41:56): Is the spark plugs inside of moonshine. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (41:59): I could use

Unknown Speaker (42:00): that right now, Travis. I've been fighting for

Unknown Speaker (42:02): about four days.

Unknown Speaker (42:03): Oh man. Yeah. That's what you need, man. Yeah. He sent that spark plug in a box with that.

Unknown Speaker (42:08): I don't know why, but I was like, okay.

Unknown Speaker (42:14): That's safe, you know.

Mike (42:17): What are you working on right now?

Travis Lee Eller (42:20): Right now, I fly back out to Texas June to work on the feature film, western Lonesome or the Wicked. I play, the outlaw in that. And that story is basically a lawman seeking revenge, captures me, wants to get back at my family members for killing his, his wife and son or his son. And, yeah, that's been real fun. A friend of mine, who's making the movie, Eric Heisner, he owns this amazing land in Texas.

Travis Lee Eller (43:00): It's just it's beautiful. And we just go out there, and we hook up all the cameras, and we just go at it,

Unknown Speaker (43:06): It's man. Gorgeous.

Unknown Speaker (43:07): Yeah, it's perfect.

Unknown Speaker (43:10): -ROGER: That's awesome.

Travis Lee Eller (43:12): Yeah, that right there is one of the theaters showing, before the lighthouse. That was in Schenkel Teague, Virginia. Yeah. And it was a sold out show, and,

Chris (43:26): Well, yeah, because you're because you're motherfucking Travis Lee Eller, man. I mean, come on. We know now. Before we just thought this Travis Eller's coming on. Beverly calls me this morning.

Chris (43:35): Hey, Travis is waiting for the link. I said, I don't send a link till ten tell Beverly. He's like, Oh, I'll let him know. If I would have realized, would have called Travis Lee Eller. Hey, I'm sorry.

Unknown Speaker (43:45): The link's coming soon. I'm just fucking with you

Unknown Speaker (43:47): now. You

Chris (43:49): know? This is cool, dude. This is, you know?

Unknown Speaker (43:53): Yeah. So there was a lot of

Chris (43:55): We do our best in yeah. -:

Travis Lee Eller (43:58): And there's a lot of film festivals that those films were entered in. So what you're seeing now are a lot of photos of how it did, you know?

Chris (44:09): -: Yeah. You gotta enter them. You gotta put them in things, you know?

Unknown Speaker (44:15): Yeah. It's

Unknown Speaker (44:16): the more the more the more things you submit, the more chances you have to win, the more chance the more times you win, the more notoriety you get. Then they start realizing, okay, who is they keep seeing your name over and over again. Okay, well, is Travis Lee? Oh, let's get, let's get the production with this guy. Let's go make some noise with this guy because he's everywhere.

Travis Lee Eller (44:30): Exactly. You gotta get noticed.

Unknown Speaker (44:32): Gotta get this guy on our next big Western.

Chris (44:35): Yeah. Yeah. And we got your next big feature, you know, it's just, it's epic.

Mike (44:41): Luck is outstanding, man. Like Chris said earlier, I can see why you keep getting cast in these roles. Yeah. Because if I was making a Western and I saw you come across my, you know, your headshot come across my desk, I would hire you for sure.

Unknown Speaker (44:55): Oh, thanks man.

Unknown Speaker (44:57): That's why I

Unknown Speaker (44:57): said, I was amazing.

Unknown Speaker (44:59): Yeah, that's why I said, can play me. I'll let you play me, Travis, okay?

Unknown Speaker (45:03): I love

Chris (45:03): it. I love it. That's a big deal, you know?

Unknown Speaker (45:06): Oh, know. I know. Yeah, it's been a while.

Unknown Speaker (45:13): Taper raids right on.

Travis Lee Eller (45:15): Right. Yeah, that was the start of the season. So good, exciting time. Oh yeah. So that's an example of a hat that worn, you know, obviously in the searchers by John Wayne.

Travis Lee Eller (45:24): I do that as well. A lot, a lot of guys will hit me up and say, Hey, can you make a certain hat from a movie? And I will, I love a challenge. So I will sometimes try to recreate the hat worn.

Unknown Speaker (45:38): You'll make a hat from the movie.

Mike (45:39): Yeah. Reminds me of kind of what Dwayne Parker was wearing that day he was on the show.

Chris (45:45): Yeah. Yeah. We We this fun country singer man named Dwayne Parker, like Appalachian Mountains. You know, he debuted one of his songs, My Truck's On Crack. Great, great guy.

Unknown Speaker (45:57): Just hilarious.

Unknown Speaker (45:59): Yeah. See, that's the area that's

Unknown Speaker (46:00): the Oh

Travis Lee Eller (46:01): yeah. That's the area I'm from, man. I'm from the that part of North Carolina. Like the Blue Ridge meets the Smoky meets the Appalachian. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (46:13): Nice. Nice. Think he was in

Mike (46:16): West Virginia at the time. Right?

Chris (46:18): Yeah. Oh, maybe it was West Virginia. West Virginia. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (46:20): He's from Alabama, but he happened to be in West Virginia when he was on the show. Okay.

Travis Lee Eller (46:29): That's just another Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (46:36): Cool too. I like those.

Unknown Speaker (46:37): It is cool. Kinda look like a like a magician there. Like, you know, you're gonna pull a rabbit out of the hat or something.

Unknown Speaker (46:44): I would agree with that.

Unknown Speaker (46:45): Thanks, man. That's what I was going for. What can I do to look like a magician?

Unknown Speaker (46:50): That's good. That's good. Okay. So is this this is a movie twenty one seventy nine AD?

Travis Lee Eller (46:57): Oh, no. No. That's just something dumb I did for Halloween.

Unknown Speaker (47:00): Don't play

Unknown Speaker (47:01): any shit.

Unknown Speaker (47:02): Yeah. It's just ridiculous. Okay. I guess because of

Chris (47:04): the background. Yeah. It's all good. Yeah. Well, that's why I commented just you being silly.

Chris (47:10): So, okay. There

Unknown Speaker (47:11): you go. Yeah, yeah. -MICHAEL: -MICHAEL: Yeah, there's a lot of So what's Darling the

Unknown Speaker (47:19): movie Darling about?

Travis Lee Eller (47:21): That was a short film, super short actually. And we, I shot that in Utah and it's about, a girl, traveling across the desert. We shot in this great, I don't know if you could see there, obviously all the sand dunes there and it was amazing out there, but, it's her land and she's kind of surrounded by outlaws. And then what happens next is she basically ends up killing all of us, but it's, -MICHAEL: kind of action packed. There's a lot of movement Oh, shit.

Unknown Speaker (47:52): Yeah. In

Unknown Speaker (47:55): -MICHAEL: Cool.

Unknown Speaker (47:56): Yeah. That one did So what pretty

Unknown Speaker (47:59): constitutes a short?

Unknown Speaker (48:01): Oh, anything from

Chris (48:02): Okay. What constitutes a short? Is there a specific time?

Travis Lee Eller (48:07): Go ahead. Yeah. Anything from like two minutes to ten minutes, fifteen minutes, even twenty minutes is considered a short.

Unknown Speaker (48:15): Okay. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (48:17): I mean, anything under an hour,

Unknown Speaker (48:19): Only unless they're

Unknown Speaker (48:21): like five minutes.

Chris (48:23): Okay. So, so how? Yeah. Really?

Unknown Speaker (48:27): Yeah.

Chris (48:27): Okay. How long does it take you to shoot something that ends up being five minutes?

Unknown Speaker (48:32): Pretty much a whole day, sometimes two, depending on what you have to get, you know, what kind of shots you need.

Unknown Speaker (48:41): Yeah. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (48:45): Yeah, that's just kind of an idea of what it looked like out need

Unknown Speaker (48:48): a lot of shots in five minutes.

Unknown Speaker (48:50): Yeah. Lot. A lot.

Mike (48:53): Otherwise it's not going to be very interesting.

Unknown Speaker (48:56): That's right.

Mike (49:00): Unless that's the intention. I've seen some shorts that are just a feather floating down a stream that ends up being, you know, the point of the movie. Right.

Unknown Speaker (49:11): Right.

Mike (49:11): Otherwise, like you're saying, you got to shoot a bunch of stuff and edit it together to keep it moving.

Travis Lee Eller (49:16): Yeah. And then even afterwards, you know, it takes time to do all that editing. Gotta add the music, you gotta add the you know, make sure the sound is okay and at the right levels. You gotta add, like, make sure the vocals and every, like all the dialogue is at the right level. It's work.

Unknown Speaker (49:35): Yep.

Mike (49:38): Oh yeah. Editing is so time consuming.

Unknown Speaker (49:41): Oh yeah. That's a great picture. I like that picture. That's beautiful. That's a great picture, man.

Unknown Speaker (49:47): Yeah. That's what it was like out there.

Unknown Speaker (49:49): Good memories

Unknown Speaker (49:51): out there.

Chris (49:54): Yeah. I imagine, man. Yeah. I mean, waking up to that every day.

Unknown Speaker (49:58): Exactly. It's just

Chris (50:00): beautiful. At Vince hip hop from DJ T rock to Western star and hatmaker. Look at that. Boom.

Unknown Speaker (50:11): Yeah. The DJ

Unknown Speaker (50:13): That explains your email. That explains your email. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (50:17): That explains your email. Now I get it. I was like, what? What? Yeah.

Chris (50:20): I get it now. I get it now.

Travis Lee Eller (50:24): Yeah. The DJ world just seems like so long ago now. It was just it's like a whole other life, man. Know how everybody changes.

Unknown Speaker (50:32): Yeah. Mhmm. Yep. Very cool. So you got a, you got a feature film you're shooting coming up.

Unknown Speaker (50:48): Yep. Feature film

Chris (50:49): coming What's on the horizon after that?

Travis Lee Eller (50:52): One coming out, the Make the Devil Pay. Should be no word I on that just know it's in post production. Waiting to hear if Elkhorn season three happens. Then just after that, I really just, just looking at, breakdowns to see if there's anything to audition for. See if the phone rings for anything.

Chris (51:19): Or, or to start a brand new project that is a unique idea, an original idea that will, that will change the world. Right?

Unknown Speaker (51:27): Yeah. Send it to me, man. Hint.

Unknown Speaker (51:29): Hint. Hint.

Unknown Speaker (51:30): Yeah. I will. Exactly.

Chris (51:32): We'll get Beverly behind it. Come on, Beverly. You know, you got some money you can throw at this thing. Let's make Travis' first feature film and make it all encompassing. Chris, Mike can do some soundtrack shit.

Chris (51:43): You know? I got the whole vision, man. I got you, Brad.

Unknown Speaker (51:47): Oh man.

Unknown Speaker (51:50): Would No be my pressure, Travis. No pressure at

Unknown Speaker (51:52): all.

Unknown Speaker (51:52): It wouldn't be my first feature film, but it would be a feature film for sure.

Unknown Speaker (51:57): Well, this will be, this, this will, this will be like an hour and ninety minutes, you know, all theaters all across America. You know, it's gonna put you on the roadmap. You're gonna win an off. This was the Oscar. This was the Oscar I talked about, dude.

Unknown Speaker (52:09): I see.

Unknown Speaker (52:09): This was the Oscar. This is what's gonna get you an Oscar, man. He's gonna make you give a speech. I am, dude. You're you're gonna just, this is it, bro.

Chris (52:17): This is why you came on the show today to meet us, to find out about this, because this came up organically. And then this is gonna be your Oscar winning performance. I just, I feel it, man. I feel it. I feel it in my bones, Travis.

Unknown Speaker (52:28): I'm going to remember

Unknown Speaker (52:30): it. Okay.

Unknown Speaker (52:31): I got you. I got you, man.

Unknown Speaker (52:34): I'd like to thank Chris I'll for giving me all the

Mike (52:38): start coughing uncontrollably. That, Mike? I said, normally I'd be laughing my ass off at you, but I'd start laughing or coughing uncontrollably.

Chris (52:47): Oh, gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah. Right on. Dude, you're awesome, Travis.

Chris (52:55): This has been fun, dude.

Unknown Speaker (52:56): Oh, You still have thanks to be up

Unknown Speaker (52:57): about five, five minutes or so.

Unknown Speaker (53:00): Know, I hope this whole vision happens

Unknown Speaker (53:05): wouldn't be funny, wouldn't it? It'd be awesome. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (53:09): It'd be awesome. Stranger Things Yeah. Could Obviously that would have to be broken down into a script form, but you said it's what only seventy, seventy pages?

Unknown Speaker (53:19): About a 100. About About a a 100.

Unknown Speaker (53:22): Okay.

Chris (53:22): About a 100 pages. A really easy read. Like I, you know, so, you know, you read it, you let me know what you're thinking. If it's something that you want to play with and, you know, we'll iron out all the, cross the T's and dot the I's and have some fun.

Unknown Speaker (53:37): Okay. Yeah. Sounds good, man.

Chris (53:40): It is. I will say this. It's a very, it's a very original idea. I have not come across anything that has that the idea of this house.

Unknown Speaker (53:48): Okay.

Unknown Speaker (53:49): And that's what, to me, that's what Hollywood's missing is originality.

Mike (53:53): Remember when you laid out your idea, it was very original.

Unknown Speaker (53:57): Yeah. Thank you.

Unknown Speaker (53:58): Modern, modern Western. That what it is? You would say?

Chris (54:02): Yeah. Could you could yeah. Yeah. Because it was I mean, the the whole premises of it is I used to go up and play cowboy with them.

Unknown Speaker (54:11): Uh-huh.

Chris (54:11): And then just, you know, leaving leaving out one morning, you know, before the sun rose, I we were going to herd cattle or something. And he just he made this statement to me and I was like, okay. And then I don't know. The last time I was up there, he had finally offered me a job and I just met what was gonna be my wife. Was like, let me go back.

Unknown Speaker (54:29): Let me go back and see what's up with this chick before I say yes to that.

Unknown Speaker (54:33): Okay.

Chris (54:34): And, he knew I was wanting to be a writer because I then I went to school for journalism and then, you know, all that kind of jazz. And so he's like, you're make me famous someday. I'm like, yeah, okay. And so there's a whole other story about how I had to find him because then I lost track of him. So then, once the book came out, people are like, well, they're asking about Chuck and what is Chuck?

Chris (54:55): I'm like, I have no idea. So then I started trying to find him and reload and locate him. And sure enough, I found him in some small ass town in Southern Arizona called Valentine. His get this story, Travis, his wife couldn't sleep. She got up at like three in the morning and was, and Googled his name out of nowhere, just Googled his name.

Chris (55:18): And the book came up. So she woke him up because the irony, this is not him on the cover, but it looks just like him, which is why when, when we, when we put the book together, that's the image they gave me for the cover. And I'm like, holy shit, that looks just like Chuck. That's crazy. So she googled his name for some unknown reason, found that.

Chris (55:40): So the next day I get a phone call and I'm like, no idea who the number is. I answered the phone, you know, good afternoon, this is Chris. He's like, Chris. I was like, yeah. He's like, this is Chuck.

Unknown Speaker (55:49): I'm like, Chuck, I heard you wrote a book about me. Like, oh, fuck, man.

Unknown Speaker (55:55): Oh, wow. Okay.

Chris (55:57): Yeah. So it's yeah. So it was pretty. It was pretty cool, man. It was one of those moments in life that you just, you know, and I had the idea forever.

Chris (56:04): And I wrote it during COVID. I wrote it in 2020 just because the world shut down and I was doing some other stuff and and I, you know and it just it just, you know know, I just started writing it one day, and my wife my wife would kind of chime in and help me do certain things because I suck at geography and, you know, we'd be going up north for something and I'd be on my, my iPad note section. I'm writing the story while she's driving and I'm bouncing ideas off her and shit and kind of making sure everything twines together. And she's in it as as as the the co, you know, the second, the main character next to me, you know, she's a supporting actor in the in the whatever you wanna call it. You know, she says some great funny lines and shit, you know, it's just, it's fun.

Chris (56:47): It's a good, I don't know. I'm tooting my own horn. You be the judge.

Unknown Speaker (56:51): Alright. Yeah. No, I can't wait. Yeah. Send

Chris (56:53): it over. But it is original. It yeah. It yeah. It is original and it's, you know who knows?

Chris (56:59): If anything will give you an idea about something else, you know, there you go. I'll be your muse.

Unknown Speaker (57:04): All right. Hey, come here. Come here. Come here. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (57:11): Hey, I got somebody who's

Chris (57:13): coming on the show.

Unknown Speaker (57:14): Wanting get on the picture here aggravating me. This is this is Dixie.

Unknown Speaker (57:19): Right on. Oh, on.

Unknown Speaker (57:20): Hey Dixie. What up Dixie?

Unknown Speaker (57:26): She's just staring at me. Think she's-

Chris (57:28): No, who watches Dixie when you're, who watches Dixie's when you're out making movies, man?

Unknown Speaker (57:35): The girl, the girlfriend.

Unknown Speaker (57:38): The better half?

Unknown Speaker (57:39): Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (57:39): Okay. Yeah. Right on. Yeah. Right on.

Unknown Speaker (57:44): You want to say hi to your girlfriend? When her name drops? Nah. Or is that too secretive?

Mike (57:54): Nah. Some people like to remain private. Yeah. That's awesome.

Unknown Speaker (58:04): Nah.

Unknown Speaker (58:05): Somebody's a good snack when the show

Unknown Speaker (58:07): ends. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (58:11): Yeah. Oh, God. That was funny. All right. So we got a movie coming out.

Unknown Speaker (58:17): You're gonna listen when that comes out. Then you're gonna go shoot another feature film. How many feature films have you been in? If if you can if you can put a number on it.

Unknown Speaker (58:24): So, I think five right now. Five films. Yeah. Some of them are a few years old now, like on Amazon or whatever, but,

Unknown Speaker (58:36): yeah. Okay.

Travis Lee Eller (58:38): And, and you know, like I said, this one that was in Arizona and the one I'm shooting now. And so we'll see the goal is to just keep going, you know?

Unknown Speaker (58:50): Yeah. Yeah. We're going to get you an Oscar, I got it. I got the vision. Got it all here.

Unknown Speaker (58:55): That'd be great.

Chris (58:57): Yeah. It would be great. It'd be great because, you know, it's based on my idea. You get an Oscar. It's a win win, man.

Unknown Speaker (59:04): Uh-huh.

Chris (59:05): You know? I hope Beverly's watching this right now thinking, what are you doing?

Unknown Speaker (59:11): Yeah. You'll get a It's

Chris (59:20): funny. All right. Well, you definitely have to come back on a show when, when, when stuff gets releases release date so we can promote that and get people to go either download it, stream it, whatever, go to the movie theaters and stuff. Cause again, we're all about helping our guests on our show get out there more and more to the world. If you give me the information with the Alcorn producers, I'll make some phone calls.

Chris (59:44): I'll make sure it gets there. Okay. Mike and I'll pull some strings for you there. You know, we do know a guy that's that went from an attic to flying private jets. We could kind of go after him for some money, get some money behind it, you know?

Unknown Speaker (59:57): Oh, wow. So we have we have connections, man. We can make things happen sometimes. Is a true story.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:03): I think they're looking for money. Yeah.

Chris (1:00:07): Everybody looks for money, man. Everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:10): A script to the table with money. How can they say no? Right?

Unknown Speaker (1:00:13): Yeah. How

Chris (1:00:13): can they say no if you have a script and money? I got the both. I got everything, Come

Unknown Speaker (1:00:18): on. Okay.

Chris (1:00:20): All right. So again, this is Travis Lee Eller. He's an amazing human being. He's got a great life resume. He's an actor.

Chris (1:00:26): Google his name, Travis Lee Eller. Go watch his stuff. Support him. You know, go download all his little flicks he's done. He's an award winning actor too, and screenwriter and director.

Chris (1:00:37): Did you win a voice for directing yet or no?

Unknown Speaker (1:00:39): Uh-huh. Yeah.

Chris (1:00:39): Okay, good. Okay, good. So, so, okay. So you could do the trifecta. You could be the award winning director, screenwriter, actor, and producer for the Legend of Charles Elaine.

Chris (1:00:49): Dude, you just can sweep the Oscars that year, Travis.

Unknown Speaker (1:00:52): That'd be great. We'll make it happen. We'll make it happen.

Chris (1:00:57): Now, It'll be if you're feeling sad and sorrow and depressed and suicidal, I don't know how you could be after an hour with Travis Lee Eller. But if you are, you know, go scream in a pillow, go journal, go write, go outside, go run, go workout, do something to change that mindset. If you can't do that, then text 988, somebody standing by to help you get out of that darkness in your soul. Tomorrow is a better day with you waking up in it. We all know that for certain.

Chris (1:01:23): You just get your mindset changed. So you tomorrow is always going to be a better day. For Chris and Mike and the Chris and Mike show. And you know, again, Travis Lee Ellerman, thank you so much for your time, dude.

Unknown Speaker (1:01:33): Thanks for having me guys.

Chris (1:01:34): We all have and I, we so appreciate you spending an hour with us. As we said, don't leave until we make sure you're all uploaded because we want to make sure this gets done proper. Thank you again Beverly for hooking up hooking us up with Travis. I'm super happy about that. Until next time everybody.

Chris (1:01:51): We'll see you. Love you brother. Thanks

Unknown Speaker (1:01:53): guys. Thanks.