The Freshman Circus is a show premiering on YouTube and Amazon Prime on January 20th about 4 college students and their teacher navigating the world of online classes.
Gary Miceli is an actor, writer, New York native and an avid film lover. He is a graduate of Five Towns College where he earned a BFA in film and video studies. Early on, Gary had developed a great skill for mimicry, allowing him a talent for switching from one character to another in rapid succession. He took this rare ability to the stage in his one-man show based on STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE, playing over 30 characters. He eventually would like to bring his voiceover talents to animation. Gary is also the author of Collecting Hollywood, a guide to film memorabilia (available through Amazon).
Gary McKee is an Actor, Writer, and Director that got his start in Theatre from High School, where he was a part of productions ranging from Classical Pieces to Modern Comedy. Gary graduated from CSU Long Beach with a Bachelors in Performance. Known for his adaptability on Stage and Film. Gary has been in plays such as: The Boys Next Door (Lucien Smith), Cymbeline (Pisanio), A Raisin In The Sun (Joseph Asagai), and Of Mice and Men (Crooks). Gary has trained at places such as: The Actors’ Gang, Chekhov Studio International, Groundlings, and Steppenwolf West. In his spare time, Gary enjoys practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in which he currently holds a Blue Belt, Learning to Speak German, Hang out at the Beach (Manhattan on weekdays, Santa Monica on Weekends), and Ear-Wiggling.
welcome to this episode of the wolf and
the shepherd today we have with us a
couple of guys
from the freshman circus a new show that
has debuted i think we're on
episode two right now as it's dropped uh
and it's gonna be fun because we have
gary
and gary with us we actually have gary
mckee
and gary maseli so during this interview
i'm actually going to use their last
names uh so we can keep all this square
and everything
but uh gary and gary thanks for joining
us
thank you so much for having me thank
you yeah likewise thank you for having
us
yeah so uh yeah i've got a couple of
questions
that i'm gonna direct towards gary
maseli to begin with so
uh uh gary mckee if you can just you
know hang out
and you know get some beer and you know
kind of sit back and enjoy yourself
while we're talking about this
uh yeah i'd appreciate that and then
we'll we'll get into some of that but
uh i i gotta ask
gary miceli yeah
we just released a podcast episode the
other day
and uh my co-host and i and our co-host
uh
he he couldn't arrive today he he had
some stuff going on
but we're huge star wars fans and
i'm reading up about you and you have
this one-man show
that you do a lot of characters from
star wars a new hope
and honestly you would think we planned
this but our
last podcast episode we talked about
star wars a new hope i need you to walk
me
through how you created this one-man
show
about star wars a new hope and what you
did
right so what i did basically is i
condensed the two hour movie down to
about
45 50 minutes i took some things out
and put some new characters in and i did
this
show just by myself i did all the voices
i did all the characters on
on stage just me no props no sets it was
just me with
khakis and a blue shirt and i just ran
through the entire movie
i did that i did that a bunch of times
at different different places and
it was really really fun so
yeah so you did all the voices yourself
uh give me your r2d2 voice
so before you i know you probably got to
get ready for it but
r2d2 is my absolute favorite star wars
character
so i i gotta hear what you did for r2d2
that's good i mean i mean that's better
than i can do i i mean he
he's tough i i always said that r2d2 was
the most
vulgar character of all time and so
george lucas yeah you don't know what
he's saying
yeah well george lucas basically had to
bleep out everything the guy
said i mean it doesn't that make sense
right so so good deal well uh
sounds like a lot of fun and that shows
kind of your creativity i mean to be
able to take a movie like that that
has you know so much it in and out with
that that
uh you got to go through i mean
i would have loved to sing the show
hopefully maybe you can revamp it
something like that you know
maybe have us out to see it but the
other thing i wanted to ask you about
is your book on collecting hollywood
so yeah so you have this book about uh
collectibles in hollywood what
what got you interested into that
okay so i have been collecting
memorabilia ever since
i was i think the first thing i got i
was about six years old
a little batman statue i still have it
to this day
um so i've been collecting for about 20
to 23 years
um i've worked with different companies
i've i've consulted a bunch for
hollywood memorabilia
and yeah it's just all about collecting
your favorite hollywood treasure
preserving it and keeping it for the
future
i just got um just got in my collection
recently two scripts
from the dick van dyke show given to me
by someone that knew a producer on that
show and i said well
if you don't want these scripts i'll
take them i mean this is this is part of
american history this is part of
american television so
i so yeah memorabilia is my the
humongous humongous thing for me
yeah look what what are some of the
things that you've collected memorabilia
that you know other than those scripts
from dick van dyke what what are some of
those home runs that maybe you
grabbed hold of right so right right now
as it's standing
i have the biggest collection of
inspected gadget
movie memorabilia in in the world and
that includes the us
uk and and uh other places overseas
uh collection with um matthew
broderick's uh two of his hats his badge
his code his shirt and a bunch of dr
claw stuff and some production artwork
and some autographs
and yeah that that was amazing that was
basically my friend george because i
remember seeing that in
1990 98 or 99 when it came out of the
movie theaters and i said
i i need that stuff and over time you
know you talk to the right people
and and try my hardest and i was able to
find some of the items that were used in
the film
gotcha and what's that one
elusive item that you would just
absolutely
love to get a hold of that maybe you've
been hunting around for
and you haven't found or you had you
know the
untold amount of money that somebody
could just cut the check for
what what's that one item that you say
hey this is that piece of hollywood
memorabilia that i
absolutely want right
um so my thing was i always wanted
to see the ruby slippers judy garland's
ruby slippers from the wizard of oz to
me that is
that item is priceless you can never
really put an accurate assessment on
that thing
i went to washington not too long before
the virus and i was able to see them in
person i said
if i had these i would put them in a
museum as well because i think everyone
around the world should see them
right well well and i've seen them too i
mean i remember
going to the smithsonian and everything
and seeing that
and i mean that that's something you
can't get a hold of right or
maybe if you're nicholas cage and you're
stealing the declaration of independence
and at the same time oh and i'll grab
the ruby slippers also
uh is there something that is
kind of floating out there that you
would say is attainable
and and you've been trying to hunt it
down and and maybe trying to
figure out a way that you can grab a
hold of that or
at least maybe help somebody else grab a
hold of
yeah so i've done a lot of consulting
work um today i was talking to someone
that wanted
some original production scripts from
like child's play
american horror story and i kind of
walked through the process of where to
get them
and i showed her some stuff that is
available on the market and showing
some real stuff because we know there's
a lot of fakes out there but um
yeah but the thing that i would really
really want from my collection as a holy
grail
um okay so um
i would love to find inspector gadget's
ty
and his pants so then i can complete my
costume
so that i can one day have a mannequin
with the entire costume on it
and put it you know archiving behind
glass like that would be really really
good
i've been seeing those items uh for sale
but
the thing that i saw for sale that i'm
trying to get is i'm trying to get uh
some original scripts from the
tv shows that i love happy days um
gilligan's island those the shows from
the 60s
um those are what i'm trying to hunt for
right now so
how do you differentiate between the
fake stuff and the real stuff i mean
that's got to be tough
especially with scripts that are on
paper so how do you
how do you validate the fact that this
is a real script and not something that
somebody printed off on old paper or
something
and made try to look original
right you're absolutely right i can go
online and type in mesh season pilot pdf
and i can get a match script
print it out and i can sell it to you
and say yep i got a real but it all
comes down to provenance um
know who you're buying from knowing
knowing where it came from um
luckily i've i've i think in this field
we've all gotten burned at some point
but you know you live and you learn
and uh yeah i think providence is
probably the best thing where you're
getting it from
if they're getting it from a source
where are they getting from maybe a
producer was in the family maybe their
grandpa was on the show and
you got us he got an episode or he was
on an episode he got a script
it really all comes down to who it is um
if you could trust them
how their record is how their history is
um
yeah like you said i i always say unless
you know
unless you were there you cannot confirm
100
of that item was used in the film or the
television show
you cannot say 100 because simply you
weren't there
yeah it no that totally makes sense and
and that's got to be tough with a lot of
hollywood memorabilia and
you get into some films that are famous
films and i mean people make replicas
all the time
you know especially going back to star
wars right it you know there
there's a whole uh genre
of people that make fake lightsabers or
or fake han solo guns
in all that stuff and they're the
replicas
are so great that it's hard to say that
this wasn't actual film used and
i think there's a term for that right
that uh whether or not it was film used
or
or something else like that uh like
hero cars i've always heard that you
know this was a hero card
that was in a movie or in a tv show or
whatever versus
a car that was just used for pictures
and for marketing stuff so carries
a a different amount of value
behind that so great yeah but uh yeah
so good to catch up on that but hey
we're here to talk about
your new show uh freshman circus and
so uh you know now now we got gary mckee
now he's waking up now it's like okay
now now you're actually gonna start
asking me questions right so
uh but glad you all are here to talk
about this so
let's talk a little bit about freshman
circus so
how did you all come up with the idea of
freshman circus
well um i think i'll take this one
so i was actually miss ellie and i
met through facebook of all places
um i think he was putting out a like a
search like hey i'm interested in
finding new actors
and i was like you know i wasn't doing
anything at the time we were stuck at
home
so i was like sure i mean what's what's
the age range on this character what are
you looking for
so then he looked at my my stuff like i
think he said he loved my comedy reel
and
i was like oh yep okay great i'll i'll
do this so
from there it was just originally it was
me and miceli
and um our our miss josephine
jessica and two other people and
we were trying to figure it out you know
like all good things are trying to
figure out like
how to feel people like okay i like you
i don't like you
and so something came up with the other
two people they
had other commitments so i said hey
um how about we just keep going and i
could probably help you write something
because i just felt the idea was too
simple to pass up
so i just felt like hey let's just let's
keep doing this like
there's i can find those people so i
reached out to
to my colleagues who um
noelle who's doing in grid and jesse is
doing kevin
and from there i think everything
started to take
shape and it's like you know it's kind
of like creating that souffle it's like
oh my god it's rising it's rising
yeah no totally makes sense totally
makes sense so
when you're trying to you know turn out
this idea
of you know the these freshmen
especially
in this age of covid that we're in right
now
and and that's kind of what you're
basing this off of
it was there something that happened
that you said hey
here's a great idea for a show because
of what
what's going on is that kind of the the
genesis of the project
right well i was finishing college at
the time i finished and i finished i
just finished in august 2020.
so i was so i originally had this idea
in about june and july because
when i s when we first got blessed with
covet
my school was saying stay home we'll do
online i was like alright you know
no drive for me no half an hour drive so
when we
logged on to zoom we saw people's real
personalities
you saw somebody was in a bathrobe you
saw someone with like their mom people
walking back and forth
you saw people's bedrooms and you saw
you saw your
the people that you went to school with
you really saw who they were and i said
there
i think there could be something with
this but i want to make it
as silly yet relatable as i can
all the characters in the show i went to
school with
like kevin i went to school with um
gary gary mckee's character i went to
school with so i wanted to base all of
it in reality
because i wanted people to say i know
these people
yeah no that that totally makes sense
and so
it as you're trying to fill in the other
cast
you say you went to school with all
these people right
oh yeah yeah i went to school with all
these people all these people were
inspired um like kevin was inspired by
someone i want to um
i i forgot the class but i i went i had
a class that
there was literally a person exactly
like kevin in my
class and i said maybe i'll use him one
day you know kind of thing but um
now it's i never thought freshman circus
would be this
big beast right right now in
and that's good but of course what we're
dealing with right now with the whole
covet thing
everybody's on zoom everybody's kind of
held up everywhere depending on what
part of the country you're in
do you think the show would have worked
without the zoom aspect
like if you actually filmed it
normally it do you think you could have
spun it
into a show that would have worked like
a normal show
and i use the term normal you know what
i mean but
a a regular show that was filmed or or
would this
just be kind of a zoom type show
so i think um everything that has to do
with the show
um all the writing in it all the the
zoom aspect
i think it would only work for
now um like i think
i think i told gary mckee um this i said
if we do this we have to do this now
because in a year and a half we're
probably not going to be quarantined so
i don't know if
it's going to be something relevant and
that's the thing i also thought of this
like kind of like a time capsule
where people can go back to it and say
why are they doing
oh that's why they were doing zoom
right yeah well it's kind of like it if
you said to anybody in 2019
hey i'm gonna go buy the drive-by
birthday party today
and after that you know then i'm i'm
gonna go get another mask
you know it you'd be looked at as crazy
with all this that's going on so
it it makes total sense so it
going into what you're trying to put
together
with this show could you see some kind
of
you know when we exit this you know
quarantine or whatever you want to call
it
could you see some kind of a reunion
type
show of hey now we don't have to be on
zoom we don't have to
do all this stuff and kind of
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you know push it into the next level
i would say yes
and solely for the reason that the
characters
can transcend this medium of zoom
because they as misselli was saying
they're very relatable people we
worked hard to ground them in reality
while also
exaggerating certain features about
themselves i think it could even
work as a as a
as a i'm trying not to spoil stuff from
like as a
dual like drop like a dramedy almost
sure like a little bit of you know saved
by the bell
with with the little taste of 13 reasons
why
maybe gotcha so uh walk us through the
characters
um so i'll
start with mine um i play noah beckett
uh he's a gamer hacktivist
future like probably anarchists making
he's very guarded and
and is very skeptical of his classmates
he thinks highly i would say thinks
highly of himself
and not so much of other people until he
gets to know
them towards the end and then there's uh
there's ingrid who's played by noel
gibson she's this
super hippie vegan girl who's
into nature flowers and peace
and then we have kevin jones who's this
wannabe muscle head who's into
any everything joe rogan like if joe
rogan says
jump off the lake that's what kevin's
doing
and yeah we have zeke you want to take
that one miss ellie
so zeke is something and someone i think
everyone
should inspire to be um right now
season two you really don't know much
about them but
i'm sure everyone knows when they go to
class and they go to college and
whatever class they're going to there's
always that one kid that's in the corner
that's sleeping
and that's z but um
little by little you start to see why he
sleeps and
and uh and you start to learn more about
him
so it is we haven't missed oh sorry go
ahead there you go
well i i was just gonna ask so is zeke
one of those guys
that kind of like i did in college where
i had eight o'clock classes and i
realized that was a huge mistake
to actually have an eight o'clock class
because it was very hard to get there
and
so that's why he's sleeping
um
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i i'm gonna say this i'm gonna say he
sleeps in class because of
actually a legitimate reason um
it's not like it's not like he's bored
of class or anything but he's just
he's sleeping for a reason gotcha
no it makes sense now go ahead and fill
us in with the
the other character oh yeah that's our
there's the teacher miss uh alana
josephine
played by jessica darderian and she's
she's a young ish teacher who's
in over her head i believe she
feels like she can make a difference but
she's not quite
prepared as most teachers during this
pandemic weren't prepared for
the zoom teaching life so she finds
herself
usually in an odds with her
students and trying to maintain order
hence why we called it like freshman
circus
she's the the unyielding
ring ring leader yeah
no no totally i i get that and that
makes sense
so what what separates
this show from any other kind of
uh let's say you know
teen comedy or or almost post teen
comedy dramedy what it whatever you want
to call it it what
what's the big difference other other
than the obvious fact of
you know the uh quarantine and being on
zoom
why would somebody say oh yeah yeah you
know here's why i want to watch this
what
what is that hook that you all have
i would say the hook is really
in the it's in
the interwoven storyline that we came up
with
where it's not
although the characters may be cliche
the story
and the things that these
individuals have gone through aren't so
it's very much
them dealing with real issues you know
as
noah says at one time during series like
real issues not
you know what protein shake not you know
the superficial things that we
that often hollywood tries to glamorize
so
it's real real freshmen dealing with
real issues of
well how how am i going to get through
this
you know they're essentially on their
own it's a whole new
world and i i think that's what's
going to be the drawing factor in
getting people to look at it that
they're experiencing these new
hopes and hurdles with the characters
yeah
gotcha so why did y'all decide to
release it like on a weekly basis so uh
so you got two schools of thought here
right and especially with
you know netflix and hulu and amazon
prime you've got one of two choices
either the entire season drops
and then you can binge watch it or you
have shows like the mandalorian for
instance on disney plus
where they do that traditional you know
once a week
you get an episode dropping and y'all
chosen to go ahead and go with that
once a week we'll drop an episode wait
was there any thought
put behind to that you know where did
you figure out that hey
we're not gonna drop this so you can
binge watch it
we're gonna do it you know one episode a
week
um uh when we
initially we were talking about you know
doing the whole
drop as in hey let's just drop the
entire season all eight episodes you
know they're
manageable it's not like you're watching
a
like you on netflix or even brooklyn
nine-nine on peacock
um what it was mainly to
build up the audience like to get them
behind each episode
and hopefully our our goal is that once
we
build up enough you know viewership and
audience that
eventually we made down the road like
start releasing
the entire season just for them so that
way they
we can get more word of mouth more eyes
more viewership
we're fans we're we really do doing this
for them
not for not so much for us yeah well
yeah i think that's
now go ahead go ahead i was gonna say
i said i think that was what really
inspired me to do the show is
i said i wanna do something that's
light-hearted that's funny
that can help people go through this
thing right now because
kova doesn't care who the hell you are
it doesn't care if you're rich doesn't
care if you
it doesn't care everyone is going
through this people around the world are
going through this so i think if
if we're able to take someone
some kid out there that's like 15 or 16
and take him out of his problems and
just to focus on us and to make him
laugh for eight minutes and
not i mean that's that's that's
everything i mean
the fact that so many kids now are
missing their friends and
missing people and don't have that
opportunity is really important
and i think that for me especially i
just really wanted to help people forget
what they're going through and how
people forget
no i think that's uh very important you
know i
i'm not going to mention the name of the
show because i don't want to drag him
through the mud
but there's a show that my wife and i
used to watch and i say used to watch i
think she still watches it but
i refuse to watch it because they went
from the normal
aspects of life to now it's all about
covet it's all about
wearing a mask and this that and the
other and i said
we deal with this every day
entertainment
is supposed to be an escape and if i
have to watch this
on some show and see that virtue
signaling
about you know oh wait we're going to do
a virtual hug
you know let let me give you a virtual
high five or whatever
we we're doing that every day i we don't
need to see that
on tv and what y'all are doing is
basically saying hey
here's what's really going on it right
in here because you didn't have your
show
before this happened so i i do see that
difference
and i think it is important but
there could be a argument said
how do we get out of this i mean it let
me ask you all that
how do we get out of this
that's what it is for dr faushi
um are you talking about like out of you
know the zoom
type like how it's taking over
our interpersonal relationships
yeah whatever you're aiming at yeah if
you stop and think about it
there's there's a lot of people um my
son included who has a lot of friends on
xbox live right and it's
it's to have the friends i mean i i've
never met
youtube guys but you know we're sitting
here we're talking on video chat
right and if we were doing a normal
everyday interview or whatever you'd
probably be in our studio
and we'd be sitting around you'd be
drinking alien ale beer with me
out of our tap and and everything else
and i'm sure you'd probably enjoy that
but then we've got to get past that
we we've got to look forward to say you
know hey this
this is going to be over eventually
you know let's hope right
so where where are we going to be
are we going to still be stuck are are
there still going to be people that
based off of the fact that you can hide
behind the computer screen
and you can put a fake background like i
have right now
i mean like like when we started this i
still had my star wars background on
right
i mean you you know you could you can
hide behind
all this so so do you all see that as
kind of a
factor in what y'all are trying to
communicate
okay so i i see two things um
gary mckee i would love to have your
input in this as well after but
i definitely think that
when the covet boom hit when they first
went on tv and said
quarantine no one knew what the hell
that meant and
so three weeks has turned into can i
remember it was originally three weeks
quarantine
now we're turning into almost a year of
staying home um
so i think that as soon as the covet
boom hit where
stay home social media
elevated to such a high level
like that's when really social media
boom tick tock
instagram facebook everything because
they all said well
now what do we do especially for the
people that are like 18 and under
even 21 and under still going to college
i think for them it's really really big
to still have that interaction with
people
and i think that as soon as covet ends
i think covet i think social media might
dip again
because everyone wants to go out and hug
their friends and be with their friends
and
go experience life and experience the
world but i think that
i think that social media will still be
there and films online will still be
online because now
now that we have no other option or
filming online now we're saying to
ourselves
we could still do this i mean we could
still work from home
we could still make a tv show from on
the computer so it just
broadened our our horizon of what we can
do
and can accomplish at home and i think
we'll take that with us
so yeah and i'm going to piggyback and
say that um
there's been a lot of generosity from
people um this past year
like there have been people i've
communicated with that i
otherwise wouldn't have been able to
connect with like
i talked to a gentleman up in canada who
edited my reel
and um yeah he did it for free and
usually that costs like a couple hundred
bucks in la
um i think we're seeing that social
media is bringing people together
and giving us that and other people are
there by
giving out that generosity i feel that
in order to get through this to answer
your question
um it's going to
it's going to take more a part of us as
humans
people to not take for granted they
going to a concert anymore or that
handshake or the hug that you had from
people every day and you know
at least for me um my line of work for
like as living was you know
as an actor but i also pay the bills as
a brand ambassador i did a lot of promo
work and things at events like staples
center you name it
so i was always in front of people you
know connecting with them
talking to them and just having a good
time and
looking back there are a lot of things
that i did take for granted
that moving forward i won't
you know such as the hug and the
handshake and the you know the high
five so i think it
it starts with us not taking advantage
of the things that
are that mean the most to us sure it
i guess the one way to look at it like
you say the high five the hug the
handshake
or whatever i i shook hands with a guy
last week and
we both kind of looked at each other
funny like
when's the last time you shook hands it
it's
that used to be just a normal thing and
of course i
i know y'all aren't in texas it you know
texas we're a little bit different down
here
uh you know we we still they were like
okay yeah covets a real thing we're not
pretending it's not but
we also say hey we you know we're not
gonna
you know stop a lot of this but there's
a lot of people
that you walk up to and they're not
quite sure
do you shake hands do you fist bump
do you do all that and i think the
social interaction
is gonna still be bizarre
once we get past all this stuff
so yeah in going with that
kind of thing and especially with what
your show is trying to show
right let's say uh
everything goes away you know yeah
you've released your show you've
released all episodes and magically
you know kovitz gone could you have
season two of your show the way you're
doing it now or would you have to change
season two and say now we got to change
this
um you know what i would
i would say that it would change
and more of a it wouldn't be school
but it would just be an like uh like a
group
text almost like a like a consistently
changing group text of people still
figuring out how to um
how to communicate and how to navigate
almost like a support group
so i feel like it could work in that
sense where
we could have a coming together and then
maybe
film individual scenes like outside
and then just make it like intermix it
together
yeah i i agree i definitely agree with
gary because gary even knows that
max you know the whole video thing has
been around
for a while the whole face time i
remember i
i oovooed with someone back in 2009
you know this thing has been around for
a while but it's crazy to think that
before the pandemic no one knew what
zoom was zoom was around
no i knew how to fit but now everyone
knows how to use it
yeah and wouldn't we all have like to
have a little bit of stalking
zoom
yeah you know you're right with the
skype i mean skype's been around forever
right
you've had face time and you've had all
this and i remember way back in the day
i mean i'm obviously older than you guys
uh when cameras came out that you could
plug into the computer and actually do
some video chat
and it and it was ugly and i mean now
zoom has made it better and and we keep
progressing
farther and farther to make it smoother
and everything
but it still doesn't replace
being in person with people yeah it
never will
it never will yeah yeah and
and and i think gary will agree that um
you know the
zoom thing is great doing the tv show
everything's great but it doesn't
replace
being in front of somebody and
interacting with someone and bouncing
off of them in person
i mean that's that's a completely
different energy
exactly i mean there were times where i
just wanted to say like hey
like let's do a hype no we can't do the
high five thing or
um i think even one of the other cast
mates was saying like
we should play around with the idea that
maybe one of us breaks quarantine
if should we move on with the season two
and it's like wait what are you doing
over there
it's like um yeah about that
you know we we've been in quarantine
together it's like
wait what yeah so
all right so uh moving forward
what's else plans after this show
gary mckee can answer that for me
oh great um so
miceli is working on this um operation
fandom
thing and it's uh it's uh 50 years
if correct me if i'm wrong of movie
history
yeah it's called the project it's called
fandemic 50 fans celebrate 50 years of
cinema and what it is basically is
we're taking clips from we'll take you
we're taking reenactments from people
around the world
and they're doing reenactments of like
someone's doing spider-man from 2002
and someone's doing like dark knight
from 2008
and we're compiling these clips so it's
50 years in a row and we're doing it in
one film it's going to be a gigantic fan
film of people reenacting their favorite
movie
from home and that's the only rule we
gave them
is don't leave the house use what you
have
and it's been really amazing um somebody
just
sent us a reenactment yesterday
yesterday the day before they were
finished
some girl did the little mermaid and she
used her daughters
like to get her daughters involved and
to have fun
for at least a day you know that's
that's all it's about
um i want to give people an outlet to
help people not
turn on cnn again yeah
so uh last question and
i'm gonna go with mckee first and then
miss ellie
uh best movie ever made
oh easy dark knight christopher nolan
misselli so when you say best movie
what do you think like best movie to me
or like
what i think the number one movie on the
afi list should be
uh let's go now let's go with both
and i'm sure you're going to be
incorrect because i'm going to tell you
what the
the correct answer is oh the best movie
ever made
um for me i i don't have one
there's so many amazing magical
wonderful wonderful films
but i there's too many but uh but tell
them the number one on the afi
we've had this conversation oh no
and and please don't don't say uh what
everybody else says i i can't even think
of the movie right now
uh oh what what's the name of the movie
that has a vodka oh no
that's actually the correct answer yeah
of course casablanca
is the correct answer but no i was
thinking of uh
rosebud why can't i think of the name of
the movie oh citizen kane
dennis and kane there we go yeah yeah
everybody always says citizen kane
but no casablanca to me is the best
movie ever made
but not to steal your thunder micelli
but
it now now that you know the correct
answer
what would you put up there so i think
there's one movie that i think will be
number one for me and
it should be on the list says number one
so i'm going to say this
movie hasn't inspired people and
entertain people for
80 plus years this has this movie has
inspired
kids adults everyone in between
grandparents people love this movie and
if you look at this movie
the costumes are masterpieces the sets
are masterpieces
technicolor was the masterpiece the
casting was unbelievable
has to be the wizard of oz
okay so well you would make my
wife happy with that because that would
be her
it's always wizard of oz and so every
time
i force her to watch casablanca
i have to watch wizard of oz but i can't
stand it
i i just can't stand the singing and all
that i i love a good musical
i i do when musicals are put together
well
i i do like it but uh i can't stand all
the singing
well uh gary or gary
uh please let everybody know
how they can find the show find you on
social media
all that good stuff so it's plug time so
i'll i'll let whichever gary wants to
take care of this
and make sure everybody knows how to
find you
okay well you can find the freshman
circus on youtube
just by going on freshman circus we also
have our page up on instagram and
twitter and facebook at freshman circus
just all one word and you can find me
um on instagram twitter gary underscore
mckee
too and i'm also at my actors website
garymckeeactor.net
yeah and you can find me just on imdb i
type in my name and you'll find me and
that's it
all right well great guys well uh thanks
for
thanks for joining me today uh really
appreciate it
and uh lots of luck to y'all and uh
everybody yeah everybody needs to check
out the freshman circus
and uh so one thing we didn't talk about
but i've got some signed posters from
them
and we're gonna talk about a little
contest
uh that's gonna come out here uh shortly
after we release this and we're gonna
send those to y'all
so uh thank you uh gary for sending
those
and uh we're gonna hang one up in the
studio of course so
thanks for tuning in to this episode of
the wolf and the shepherd
and we'll catch you on the next one
Actor/Producer/Writer
Gary Miceli is an actor, writer, New York native and an avid film lover. He is
a graduate of Five Towns College where he earned a BFA in film and video studies. Early on,
Gary had developed a great skill for mimicry, allowing him a talent for switching from one
character to another in rapid succession. He took this rare ability to the stage in his one-man
show based on STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE, playing over 30 characters. He eventually would
like to bring his voiceover talents to animation. Gary is also the author of Collecting
Hollywood, a guide to film memorabilia (available through Amazon).
Actor/Writer/Director
Gary McKee is an Actor, Writer, and Director that got his start in Theatre
from High School, where he was a part of productions ranging from Classical Pieces to Modern
Comedy. Gary graduated from CSU Long Beach with a Bachelors in Performance. Known for
his adaptability on Stage and Film. Gary has been in plays such as: The Boys Next Door (Lucien
Smith), Cymbeline (Pisanio), A Raisin In The Sun (Joseph Asagai), and Of Mice and Men
(Crooks). Gary has trained at places such as: The Actors’ Gang, Chekhov Studio International,
Groundlings, and Steppenwolf West. In his spare time, Gary enjoys practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
in which he currently holds a Blue Belt, Learning to Speak German, Hang out at the Beach
(Manhattan on weekdays, Santa Monica on Weekends), and Ear-Wiggling.