Ilse Will Say
Ilse Will Say
Podcast Description
Ilse Will Say is an EVERYTHING podcast with a core focus on the entertainment field. Expect Ilse’s takes on TV shows, pizza, nostalgia, bigfoot, butterbeer, the weird little S we all drew in middle school—literally everything. If it lives in your group chat, it lives here too.
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The podcast covers a wide range of themes including pop culture, nostalgia, and quirky phenomena, with episodes that dive into TV talk, short films, and reality TV, as well as humorous takes on topics like Taco Bell and the 'Gringo Meter' vibe check.
Welcome to My Brain. I’m Ilse, and every Wednesday I sit down with actors, filmmakers, comedians, and storycreators to talk about the stuff that doesn’t make the press kit. How they actually got here, the project that almost didn’t happen, the festival story they can’t believe they’re telling me, and whatever weird detour we end up on. Haunted sets, folklore they secretly believe in, the best taco in town. It’s part industry real talk, part group chat, and I promise I’m more curious than qualified.
Tommy Martin is a Chicago based actor, filmmaker, and musician who has basically worked every job on a set at some point, and honestly it kind of exhausted me just hearing about it. We start with an unreasonable amount of hair talk (his, not mine) before getting into how a random DIY filmmaker workshop years ago quietly kicked off both our careers, his very unexpected path from a music business degree to Second City to booking his first web series, and what it's like acting in a scene while also being the AD on the same movie (he did this on Haunt Season, insane).
Then Hot Cakes happens, and things get weird fast. We're talking two genuinely unsettling ghost stories, a tarot reading that predicted an actual job loss, and a very serious conversation about whether Bigfoot is real (yes). Tommy also gives updates on Grilled Cheese, the horror comedy short he co-directed that's currently making the festival rounds.
Follow Tommy at @actortommymartin.
In this episode:
- 00:00 – An unreasonable amount of hair talk
- 02:45 – How we actually met (a DIY filmmaker workshop, years ago)
- 06:03 – Music business major to filmmaker, a whole journey
- 12:10 – Acting in a scene and being the AD on the same movie, at the same time
- 13:05 – Hot Cakes
- 15:06 – Ghost story #1, the haunted house by our high school
- 17:22 – Ghost story #2, the crouched thing in the corner
- 21:15 – The tarot reading that actually came true
- 23:29 – Bigfoot, aliens, and my skinwalker era
- 26:02 – What's next: Grilled Cheese, Morning Moon, Haunt Season, and The Knot Job
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Thank you to our sponsor, Joel Maisonet Photography: maisonetphotography.com
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Ilse Will Say is an Intrepida Entertainment podcast, hosted by Ilse Zacharias Rivera. Produced and edited by Jacob Cagle. Music by Eric Backus. Photography by Joel Maisonet.
The views and opinions expressed on Ilse Will Say are entirely those of the host and guests, and do not reflect the views of any employers, sponsors, or innocent bystanders. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. Nothing said here is professional advice. We're here for the laughs, y'all.
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