This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Hanna Rogers

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

Mike sits down with Hanna Rogers, a local model who served in the US Army and is also looking at getting into acting. We recorded this at a coffee shop, so please excuse the background noise.

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laughs and tales you can't ignore A journey that will leave you floor In the night or in the day Just press play we're on our way All right, buddy, welcome to the podcast. Pleased I have Hannah. Yeah, nice to meet you all. All right.

Go and introduce yourself, please. My name is Hannah. I'm 26 years old. I'm from Kansas City originally. I just moved to home last year. I was actually in the military. I lived in Europe before this, so I lived in Italy for the last three and a half years.

I was in the Army. Yeah, I just got into modeling this year. All right, great. That's pretty much like where we're like excited right now. All right, great. So thank you for your service. Yeah, of course. You're welcome.

I myself was Navy very briefly. Yeah, so was my stepdad. That's awesome. Yeah. What you go to school then if you grew up around here? Where did I go to school? Yeah. Like high school?

I graduated from Waypeg. Great Beck? Yeah. I'm from Peculiar originally. My mom still lives there, actually. All right. Cool. My dad lives in Pleasant Hill.

All right, so, yeah, cool. Shine Mission West for me. Oh, okay, yeah, so you're from here, too. Nice. Yep, very much from here. In fact, yeah, West is the closest high school to us here, so, yeah. Okay, I don't know much about, like, Shottomission or any of that. Overland Park's probably about as far as I go.

All right. 8th and Aanyak area, where the school actually is. Okay. What did you do in the Army? I was a parachute rig. So I went airborne, I packed parachutes. Really, yeah. I was attached to the 173rd infantry unit.

Good deal, good deal. I didn't stick around too long in the Navy, unfortunately. But if I did, if I made it through basic, I would have been basically doing what I'm doing right now with making movies and podcasts and all that. Stuff like that. Yeah, my job is weird. I feel like you can't really do that, like civilian side, you know.

I mean, you could, but not a lot of people jump out of planes, like regularly, you know. Well, no, there are companies that do, yeah, jumping out planes and all that stuff. That's pretty cool. So you've been out a year now, right? Yeah, just about, yeah, I think I got out March last year. So, yeah, almost. All right, awesome. And had you get into modeling and...

Oh my gosh, I know everybody always asks me this question. Honestly, so I worked with the photographer as soon as I moved back that I worked with the high school. And I did a photo shoot with him and it was great. I feel like that kind of like got my foot in the door a little bit. But I happened to go out one night and I never really like go out. But I went out one night, I went to a concert at Power and Light, you know, and I met a photographer. And when I met with him after I did a photo shoot with him, I just had one more reach out to me. And then one more reach out to me.

And then people were like, you could like really do this. I never thought, I'm like really short, so I never thought that modeling was even a thing for me. You know, people say you've got to be tall or whatever, but I gave it a try. It seems to be working out for me. So we'll see it. Good deal. Good deal. What kind of photography have you been?

What kind of photography have I done? Oh my gosh, all sorts of types. I've done a lot of boudoir. I know you saw that. I've done editorial closing lines. Fashion. I had a lot of people say that I needed to do Kansas City Fashion Week, but I have not done any sort of runway, so I don't know.

We'll see. Maybe next year. Maybe next year. I think you would probably need to be a little, I don't know the specifics behind the Fashion Week, but I think you would need to be a little bit. to do that. Yeah, like, I have done video for Fashion Week once.

A model hired me to do video for her, and that was... Like videography, that's awesome. Yeah, video and all that. That was a cool experience. Yeah, that's cool. So I went to Carpentology School after I graduated in high school and did hair for a couple years. And I used to do makeup by Kansas City Fashion Week, so it's kind of weird to be like on the other side of it. Yeah, I used to see all the behind the scenes of that, yeah.

That's awesome. And you said you were looking again in acting, or have you started acting? I have not started, no. I have had a few people reach out to me, and I have a friend, and he does this a lot. Like, he was just in the Hallmark film, the one, oh my gosh, I don't know what it's called, but it's the one with Travis Kelsey and Taylor Smith. Oh, yeah. So he was in that.

I don't know how to say this, but there's more money on the application. acting side of things like there's it's easier to make money that way than it is I don't know about that I've been an independent film for 20 years and uh and uh I'm like I've had more people reach out to me and ask to do like short films like paid short films than I do to be right you know for like taking pictures of who knows so I don't know I haven't done any acting yet no I'm like kind of shy when it comes to being on camera but I have had a few people reach out to me so we'll see good deal good deal and uh and I I think I'm one of those people, actually, so even though I don't currently have any film projects,

but I will definitely keep you in mind for any projects that do come up. I am thinking of doing one of documentary-style thing on the streetcar once both extensions are at, once both extensions are open. Yeah, I've never even taken that. Oh, you should. I know, that's what my mom said, too. She's like, it's just a cool experience. You've got to do it once.

Yeah. Yeah, fun stuff. And I do need to get back to more creative screenwriting and get behind a camera once again and all that. But I've been pretty busy the last few years, not just with this podcast, but I also teach chess and I do DoorDash. Oh, awesome. I'm really goodly chess. So no formal acting training? I'm going to make a suggestion for you.

Tell me. His name's Andy Garrison. Okay. He trains a lot of the actors. In Kansas City? In the Kansas City area. Yeah. I would dare say he's the best acting coach in Kansas City.

Oh, awesome. I'll have to look at most of it. His business is called the Actor Training School or something. No, Actor Training Studio. Okay. Where's it at? It's in Prairie Village. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.

I used to work in Prairie Village. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, so definitely check that out. And I cannot recommend Andy enough. What kind of film would you be interested in acting in? Oh, gosh. I have no idea.

I've never been asked that question before. I don't know. I don't know. Give me, like, categories. What's like, give me? All right. So we could start with comedy? Oh, gosh.

I feel like a lot of people think I'm funny, but I don't think I'm funny. I feel like I'm being serious. And people just think I'm being funny. I don't know. I feel like I need, like, a reality TV show. Reality TV, okay. I don't know. I never thought about that. That's something I have to think about for sure.

How about drama? I can probably do that. I feel like that's like my life. Yeah, I will say it's a lot easier to write for drama than is to write for comedy. But the way I do things, I like to do a lot of improvisation in my works. And sometimes it minds a beat. comedian comedic. Yeah. No, it could be. I could see that, but drama can be funny. I feel like for sure it can be both. Yeah. Um, sci-fi? Not really sci-fi, no. Not being in

sci-fi. Well, I will, I'll tell you, with sci-fi, it is very expensive. Yeah, I can see that. It's all like special effects, except, I'm sure. Yeah, special effects. It is possible to do it cheaply, but you have to cut back all out the special effects and focus on really, really good storytelling. Um, how about a genre I personally don't like, but I love people in K.C. do this horror. Oh, I know. I don't know. I don't know if I would do it. I mean, I guess if somebody asked, I would, but it wouldn't be like my first time. Probably not. Right. I'm trying to think whether, uh, westerns aren't really a thing anymore.

Action, I don't see anyone locally doing action films. I haven't seen that either. Not really here. Yeah. Action, another genre that's really expensive, you know. I would think, because you have to pay for the pyrotechnics somehow, and you have to, and guns as well. All that stuff, yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, if you're talking low budget type stuff, like you would, stuff like you would see an independent film you know comedy and drama seems to be the ways to go yeah but like I said a lot of filmmakers around here like to do horror yeah I can see that I mean I would do any of those I feel like all three of them but probably yeah drama or comedy but then I feel like you could do with those two together in a way mm-hmm good deal I'm good deal Do you have any questions for me?

I just turn things around a little bit. No, no. Oh yeah, do you have an Instagram page? I do not do Instagram. No, I want to see, like, little videos that you've made. I do do YouTube, so... Oh, YouTube, okay, I'll have to get on there. I never go.

Yeah. No, I don't think so. Yeah. Not like any questions, really. All right. Do you have any questions? Any more questions for me? Do I have any more questions for you?

Um. What is your dream project I get? The dream project? Yeah, if there's any one film or could be a modeling project too, any one projects that you would give anything to do, what would it be? Hmm. It probably would be more on like the modeling said, I would say, than acting for sure. I don't know.

I don't know because like again I said I never really thought that like my life would be here or I would even be doing this so I haven't given it much thought because I feel like it kind of all moved so quickly um I don't know it'd be cool to be like a victorious secret I know that's runway and stuff but I kind of that's kind of what I do is like vodora I do a lot of adroit so yeah I probably think that that would be cool more uh victorious secrets lingerie. Yeah. That type.

On the modeling side things, have you considered doing modeling for art classes? No, I haven't. I never thought about that. I don't even know how you would do that. I guess just look for those things at the local colleges, see if they're hiring models and all that. Yeah, I never thought about doing that. That's smart. Yeah.

I think probably the beginning of next year I'll probably apply to an agency too. I've been doing like research on agencies in Kansas City. Okay. There's a lot of, um, spam, like, what do you call that? Yeah, like spam. Yeah. It's like not real. They're like, you know, like fake agencies.

Yeah. You know? So I've got to do a lot of research. I just want to make sure I'd make the right decision before I do it. But hopefully by the beginning of next year I'll be with an agency. Yeah. Good deal. Good deal.

Now, I did see something doing research about you that was interesting, that you do a caterer? Is it catering? Oh, event planning. Yeah, van planning. Yeah, me and my best friend. We've been the best friends since middle school. We're both, like, really good at it.

And we were just talking about it one day, and we were like, we should try it. So, yeah, we started a little event planning business. Luncheon public picnics. It's cold right now, obviously. So, like, for Thanksgiving and Christmas, we would do it inside. Yeah, you'd have to do it inside with. Yeah, the event planning. Yeah, she's really, her name's Sloan.

She's really good at, she calls them Tablescapes. She makes like huge formal like arrangements and stuff like that. She's really good at piecing things together. So during the winter, the cold months, we'll do stuff like that. And then during summertime around Kansas City, we set up like that. Yeah, do the outdoor stuff. Yeah. So, yeah.

I guess you start this in the last year? Yeah. within, just like, the last couple of us. It was just random. We were just talking about it one day, and I was like, you know what? We might as well do it and try it, you know, so it's going to go pretty well. That's really cool. Any particular events that's come to mind that you've done so far?

No, not that we've done so far. No, just because this is also new. And we both still have full-time jobs outside of all of this, too, you know? So, no, not really. Not yet. Hopefully, go to the summer of next year, though. And that's, unfortunately, part of being a creative in the Kansas City area. You have to have a not-so-creative job.

For me, it's doing Doradash and teaching chess. Yeah, you have to have. Yeah, in between, multiple sources of income. That's how I like to look at it. Yeah. A good deal. I don't have any more questions for you for the podcast, but we could continue our discussion off camera. Yeah, I know you're, yeah, for sure.

Awesome. Why did I say off camera? Off mic. You're good. I want to look up that. Yep. All right. Well, thanks, Hannah, for showing up.

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