Scratch The Surface With Ej Scott

Derek Miller was one of my very first improv coaches in 2004 in Los Angeles. He and his family are moving to London, England and I wanted to have a chat before he left. We talk acting, Chicago, family, ups and downs of the business, improv, improvising on the set of Transformers: Dark of the Moon for Michael Bay with Shia LaBeouf, and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 Website www.ejscott.com www.curechm.org www.fightblindness.org RUNNING BLIND available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play

Chris Claremont has been writing comic books for around 50 years!! He has written some of the most influential and memorable X-Men comics ever!! He had me over to his home where we talked about his long history and influence in comics. We talked a few other things too but mostly comics!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 Website www.ejscott.com www.curechm.org www.fightblindness.org RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play

Bryan and Bradford Manning were told they were going blind from an eye disease called Stargardt Disease when they were kids. I met up with them in NYC and talked with them about learning at an early age about their disease, what it was like growing up knowing you are losing eye sight, an attempt at driving, going on the Ellen Degeneres Show, dating, starting a clothing company designing clothes for the blind in mind and raising money for the Foundation Fighting Blindness and much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast website www.ejscott.com INSTAGRAM @ejscott1106 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon  Please review and rate the podcast on Twitter!

Brian Stack was kind enough to talk with me at his office in NYC where he writes for the Stephen Colbert Late Show on CBS. We talk about a lot of things including working for Conan O'Brien for 20 years and what was it like to leave him, the Chicago improv scene, meeting and marrying his wife, quitting drinking three years ago, Trump and so much more!!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!! My website www.ejscott.com Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 RUNNING BLIND Documentary on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play Please leave a review and a rating so the podcast gets moire attention. thank you!!

John Lutz was very kind in letting me interview him while I was visiting New York at his work in 30 Rockefeller Plaza. We talk about a lot of stuff including working on SNL, what it was like dealing with host Donald J Trump several years before he ran for President, Tina Fey asking him to be in 30 Rock, working for Seth Meyers, meeting and proposing to his wife, Chicago improv scene, his religious upbringing, and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy!   Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 Website  www.ejscott.com Donate to charitry www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Subscribe to Scratch the Surface on iTunes and/or iheartradio

Taran Killam and Paul Brittain make their triumphant return to Scratch the Surface, but this time they come in together to promote the film Killing Gunther available on iTunes and Amazon Prime Video. We talk about what it was like for Taran to write, direct and star in a movie, working with Arnold Schwarzenegger, some stories from Saturday Night Live, Taran being in Hamilton on Broadway, comics, improv, Ryan Gaul and so much more!! PLEASE LISTEN! PLEASE SHARE! PLEASE ENJOY! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities www.curechm.orgwww.crowdrise.com/7on7  RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play.

Matt Marr and I met many years ago at an improv theater called iO West. We knew each other a little bit and then lost touch after I moved to Chicago and then back to LA. Anyway in that time we both started podcasts. And he was kind enough to invite me on his. I also recorded the interview and turned the table on him a few times. We talk about me going blind, podcasting, Matt coming out of the closet, family stuff, relationships and much much more!!! PLEASE LISTEN, PLEASE SHARE, PLEASE ENJOY!  Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charity www.curechm.org www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play!

Michael Ausiello is use to writing and critiquing television shows about fictional drama. But in his book writing debut Michale opens up about his relationship with his husband and the cancer that took him away. I highly recommend reading or listening to the audio version of the book. Its a funny, moving, heartbreaking, relatable, incredibly well written story of love and loss... and Smurfs. He was on once before and could not talk in great detail about the book, but here we talk about quite a bit. Plus, I predict Jim Parsons playing him in the movie adaptation before it was even announced. Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 @scratrchthesurfacepodcast My website www.ejscott.com RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play

Beth Dover and I first met in class at Second City Los Angeles in 2003. She joins me in my kitchen to catch up and talk about finding love with a actor/comedian Joe LoTruglio, marriage, motherhood, family, losing a brother, not being close with other members of her family, working on Orange is the New Black on Netflix, Another Period on Comedy Central, Children's Hospital on Adult Swim, living all over the country, living in South Korea, studying acting at Lesley Kahn, and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Choroideremia Research Foundation www.curechm.org RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play.

Marc Evan Jackson is recognizable from dozens of different things ranging from commercials, television, film and voice over. Marc and I talk about everything this episode! Including, being born and raised in Buffalo, NY, losing a sibling to SIDS before he was even born, the death of his parents, meeting his wife and their decision not to have kids, how he got hooked on improv, performing at The Second City in Detroit, MI, working on projects like Kong: Skull Island, The Good Place, Transformers, The Thrilling Adventure Hour Podcast, Parks and Recreation, DuckTales, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Spoils Before Dying. And working with the likes of Will Ferrell, John Goodman, Kristen Wiig, John C. Reilly, Samuel L Jackson, Brie Larson, Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Michael Bay, Keegan Michael-Key, Andy Samberg, Amy Poehler and much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com The Choroideremia Research Foundation www.curechm.org RUNNING BLI

Amy Acker joins me in the kitchen to talk about her amazing life and career. Including growing up in Dallas, Texas, being the oldest of four kids, being bit by a spider that caused her to be paralyzed for two weeks, later that would affect her as a dancer and thats how she started acting instead, we talk about meeting her husband and his proposal to her and having two children, celebrating her 40th birthday, working with Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Richard Jenkins, Michael Emerson, Nathan Fillion, Stephen Moyer, her new show The Gifted on Fox, working on Alias, Person of Interest, Angel and becoming Illyria, and so much more! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play

Brian Huskey is an improviser, writer, actor who started out on a very different path. He's from North Carolina where he thought he'd probably be a photographer until he met Rob Corddry in New York City. Taking improv at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater changed everything. We talk about growing up in North Carolina, not knowing his biological father until he was 17 then losing him a few years later, how horrible Trump is, getting divorced, having a daughter, working on Veep, Bob's Burgers, People of Earth on TBS, Children's Hospital, his Adult Swim Special "Mr Neighbors House", he tells me the biggest jerk he ever worked with (spoiler alert: Tom Brokaw), Curb Your Enthusiasm, This is the End, Land of the Lost and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play

Anson Mount was kind enough to let me meet up with him at his hotel while he was in Los Angeles promoting the upcoming Marvel's Inhumans TV show on ABC. He plays the iconic character: Black Bolt. Black Bolt is mostly a mute because of his vocal powers. his voice can destroy. We talk about the challenges of playing a character that doesn't speak and the sign language he created to use on the show, we also talk about the possibility of life on other planets, his lead role as Cullen Bohannon on AMC's hit show, Hell on Wheels, reading comics as kid, vaping, developing his own podcast, working with Robert DeNiro in City by the Sea, working with Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana and Taryn Manning in Crossroads, getting engaged, having the same name as his brother and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play

Danielle MacDonald is the lead in a great new independent film called Patti Cake$ (out August 18th in NY and LA). I got to go to an early screening of the film and meet Danielle. I loved the film and her performance in it. I was very impressed that an actress from Australia could play a rapper from New Jersey. Silly me. Well I thought she did such a great job I wanted to talk to her about it and her life. We talk about growing up in Australia, her decision to pop into acting and how she transitioned into moving to America, training and practicing the rapping for months before she filmed the movie, working on other projects with actors like Alexander Skarsgard (who got naked in front of her), playing Diane Lanes daughter and how Diane really took Danielle under her wing, doing an episode of American Horror Story, how she lost a lead role on a TV show because her VISA ran out, being on Glee, working with Clark Gregg, meeting Amy Schumer and so much more!!! Please listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejs

Gabriel Luna is the new GHOST RIDER!!! And I couldn't be happier! Last season on Agents of SHIELD on ABC he did a fantastic job playing Robbie Reyes a man that made a deal with a demon and now his head bursts into flames and does bad things to bad people. Gabriel talks with me about getting to play Ghost Rider, his own history and love of comic books, doing his father in an accident before he was born, being raised by a teenage mother, how his fathers death had an influence into getting into acting, starting a theater in Austin, Texas, getting a lead role of the show Matador, meeting and marrying his wife, and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play

Elizabeth Lucas-Smith and I met in San Francisco back in 2007. 10 years later we meet up (outside of San Fran) and continue a talk we started a decade ago. We talk about  the hereditary and degenerative eye disease - Choroideremia. Its a disease that hits both of our lives and families very hard. She is a carrier of it and I am going blind from it. Liz recently had twin girls who will likely be carriers of the gene and she recently had her son tested and was found to have Choroideremia. We talk about being a carrier, being raised by a blind father, having blind uncles, her feelings of passing on the gene, we also talk about her love of her husband, and how she struggled with postpartum depression, and so much more!!! We were able to have a lot of laughs along the way as well. Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, google play and Amazon

Arthur Adams and Joyce Chin are legendary comic book artists that have been around for a long time. They met up with me in San Francisco to talk comics, love, family, art and so much more!!! Special appearance by their 6 year old daughter Alex. Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com?7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play

Peter Chelsom is a writer and director of many films and has worked with some of the all time greats. He was kind enough to come and talk with me about his impressive life and career and talk about some of the highs and lows of a career in movies. We talk about critics and how they are hurting the industry, his childhood in northern England, the loss of both his parents at a young age, studying acting, his transition from acting to directing, having children, getting married twice, working with acting greats like Jerry Lewis, Garry Shandling, John Cusack, Jennifer Lopez, Molly Shannon, Eugene Levy, Richard Gere, Miley Cyrus, Lee Evans, Kate Beckinsale, Ned Beatty, Warrens Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Gary Oldman, and many more!! Plus showing one of his movies to Princess Diana, removing images of the Twin Towers from a film after 9/11, the many problems filming Town and Country, his want to go into television, his friendship with Anthony Hopkins, Bret Ratner, Harvey Weinstein and so much more!!!! Please

Tyler Bates took a couple of hours out of his busy schedule to talk with me about growing up in a haunted house, losing his mother in a car accident, music, composing, how he joined Marilyn Manson, working with Zack Snyder, James Gunn, Emilio Estevez, Chad Stahelski, meeting his wife, having kids, working own the upcoming Matrvel's The Punisher for Netflix, the pressures of his job and much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available iTunes, Amazon, Google Play

Adrian Wenner and Ethan Sandler are guys I know from performing live comedy on the iOWest stage in Hollywood in the early and mid 2000's. They were kind enough to come to the house and talk with me about their partnership and friendship, comedy, improv, Chicago, New York, Adrian attempt to get Trump to resign, each being married to hugely successful women (Adrian to producer and showrunner Betsy Thomas and Ethan to actress Kathryn Hahn). we talk about love and marriage and children and so much more!!! Please Listen! Please Share! Please Enjoy! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 My website www.ejscott.com Charities to donate to www.crowdrise.com/7on7 RUNNING BLIND Documentary available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play