{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Off Off Pod - Episode 006 - Erik Van Wyck actor\/writer - Part 2","description":"This is part 2 of my talk with my good buddy, actor\/writer, Erik Van Wyck.  In this interview Erik lets it all hang out in his assessment of Los Angeles, the good, the bad, and the ugly -- why it can be intoxicating and also soul sucking to pursue the favored industry of the town.\nErik talks a bit about a movie he helped produce (and acted in) called Expecting with Radha Mitchell and Michelle Monaghan.\nHe also talks about traveling the world as the host of the reality show Getting Abroad which was on for a season on the now defunct The Mojo Network.  The show explored mating and dating rituals around the world, and basically Erik traveled to a country, and he and a local wing man went around and tried to pick up women.  He started each show by sampling an (often disgusting) local aphrodisiac.\nErik also offers up some embarrassing and\/or bizarre audition stories.\nTopics covered in the interview:\n\nMy introduction (0:00)\nWhat drew Erik to Los Angeles  (4:58)\nRyan Reynolds gets Blade Trinity (7:58)\nDouchebag is born in the movie Expecting (8:41)\nThe reality tv show Getting Abroad goes abroad (12:33)\nDisgusting aphrodisiacs of the world, sheep's face (15:45)\nHow to get lucky in Iceland (23:50)\nInterrogated by Stana Katic and the pilot Drived (29:19)\nEmbarrassing audition story, hiding crotch with script (39:48)\nBig bad casting director story (47:48)\nCasting couch - keys to the apartment (54:18)\nThe management company, "Welcome to Hollywood" (58:25)\nBeing killed with kindness in LA -- "Hope is fuel." (100:35)\nSeduced and Abandoned and The Hurt Locker party (104:58)\n","author_name":"Off Off Pod with Stephen Bittrich","author_url":"http:\/\/offoffpod.libsyn.com","html":"