Daniel Wheeler
Daniel Wheeler is a Los Angeles-based 3D artist and sculptor (wheelerMADE) known for memorial and funerary sculpture, who also works as a filmmaker and comedian, with the short film "Daniel Needs to Leave" and the upcoming "My Brother & Bigfoot."
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PODCASTS
Jul 12, 2026
Daniel WheelerGUEST
From a historical standpoint, the beginning of sculpture is memorial objects.
Daniel WheelerGUEST
People have been making vessels for death and or celebration of people's lives sculpturally for thousands of years.
Daniel WheelerGUEST
The pyramids, really everything that we know of in terms of great sculpture has one way or another related to the passing of people.
37 MINS LATER
Lili PierpontHOST
And so even though you've got that humor interspersed, underneath it all is this very tender and powerful what I think, easy access to a conversation that a lot of people, like you said, don't like to have.
Daniel WheelerGUEST
So I'm, uh, it's all around going snow tubing with my son this winter break at Nordic mountain.
Daniel WheelerGUEST
Um, but some of the ones I did at plank road, the second one I did, the challenge was to see how much I could swear.
Daniel WheelerGUEST
I made a paper bag puppet and he and I were supposed to do a routine together, but he was, he wasn't talking and I got into with them and it turned, I found out that he had tried to sleep with my wife.
10 MINS LATER
Pete SchwabaHOST
reluctant actor but a very fine actor i would say and now he has added stand-up comedy to his repertoire so uh when do you think you'll be done with uh the bigfoot movie my brother and bigfoot and tell us about daniel needs to leave where we can