Omar J. Dorsey | From “Queen Sugar” to HBO Max’s “Bookie” | Betting on Laughs

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Omar J Dorsey: Like I said, man, when we

got into that room together, especially

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at that room, the chemistry was dynamic.

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It was one of the best chemistry

meetings I've ever had.

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And we just kept making each other laugh.

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You know, we're making everybody else

laugh, making all the studio execs laugh.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story Craft.

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Now, here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: All right, here we go.

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Another episode of Story Craft.

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Welcome back.

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Glad to have you.

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If this is your first episode, thanks

so much for checking out the show.

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Today, sitting down with actor Omar J.

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Dorsey.

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New show on HBO Max.

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I think they just call it Max.

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I'm still calling it HBO Max.

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Uh, it is called Bookie.

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Omar co stars with Sebastian Maniscalco.

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Uh, it is funny.

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Really enjoyed it.

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It is out now.

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I think it came out

just a couple days ago.

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Now, Omar's also been in shows kind

of like Queen Sugar and Ray Donovan.

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Films kind of like Halloween

and Django Unchained.

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Very talented guy, great chat,

just kind of a fun, funny guy.

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Really enjoyed the opportunity

to sit down with Omar.

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So let's jump right into it.

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Today is Omar J Dorsey day,

right here on story and craft.

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Where are you joining me from today?

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Omar J Dorsey: From the great state of

Georgia in a small city called Atlanta.

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Marc Preston: I, uh,

was there with my kids.

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Not too long ago.

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I said not too long ago, but it's

literally like five years ago.

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I remember we went someplace

called the varsity.

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That's all I remember.

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I, that, that stuck with me.

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Are you, uh, are you an Atlanta boy?

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I'm Atlanta born and raised, man.

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Yeah, very good.

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Very good.

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I'm assuming, uh, I'm assuming

you're there for the holiday.

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Omar J Dorsey: I am definitely there.

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And my wife is also working here.

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So we just decided to keep

staying for the rest of the year.

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Um, we're both from here.

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She's a director, so she's

directing will Trent, I think.

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Marc Preston: It's kind of nice to

have somebody in the family who's,

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uh, who's also doing the gig.

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No doubt about it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Cause it could be kind of a foreign

idea to somebody who's like a,

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we call a civilian or whatever.

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Exactly.

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You're like, why

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Omar J Dorsey: do you have

to be at work 12 hours a day?

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Marc Preston: It is the varsity.

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That's that big.

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It's the varsity.

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Omar J Dorsey: It's over

there in the Georgia Tech.

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Yeah.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, my daughter,

there's some orange drink.

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My daughter really likes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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I haven't had a

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Omar J Dorsey: varsity in 20

and third, 20th, 25 years.

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I was about to say, there's some

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Marc Preston: chili dogs.

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My stomach did not like as much.

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I know it's

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Omar J Dorsey: exactly

why it's so greasy, man.

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Marc Preston: You know, the, my young,

my 20 something year old self, you

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know, who could just eat up, you

know, large pizza and go to sleep.

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Right afterwards, you know that version

of me could handle it, but the older

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version with teenage kids not so much

But but no, so that's that's great.

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You're able to get back into town.

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Uh now do you live full

time in la or yeah?

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We do we live full time in la we we

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Omar J Dorsey: have this house.

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We Um, you know, out here, but

yeah, our full time is Los Angeles.

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Marc Preston: Are you, uh, working

right now at all, or you got a

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little hammock of time where you can?

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I got

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Omar J Dorsey: a little,

yes, the holidays.

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I try to take the holidays

off as much as I can.

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If I don't have a gig, I don't try to

pursue anything this late in the year.

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I want to get my mind set and get

everything together, uh, to try to jump

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in real fast, uh, to the top of the year.

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But with all the stuff with booking,

man, I feel like I have a job.

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I got to do all.

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Go here and I gotta go to New

York and I gotta go back to L.

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A.

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Uh, but not next week

for the following week.

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Uh, the premier is on the 12th.

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So we're having, um, we're

having the premier night is

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on, we're doing it on the 11th.

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So, yeah, very good.

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Marc Preston: Well, did you have

any, y'all have any kids or we have

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Omar J Dorsey: a, we have a six

month old and we also have prom kids.

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I have 25 20 year old and

that we just had our baby.

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Uh, congratulations.

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Marc Preston: Thank you, man.

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Yeah.

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So you're rocking that diaper genie, huh?

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Omar J Dorsey: Listen,

man, goodness gracious.

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I did not know I was going to

be back here, but it's all good.

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And you know, so the thing

about it is this, right?

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You know, we have the nursery

and everything set up in L.

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A.

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And, you know, diaper genies and white

nose machine and all of this stuff.

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And we come here, we don't have anything.

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So I had to buy a crib, I had to buy

a diaper genie, white nose machine, a

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high chair, and all of that stuff, man.

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So, we have two different nurseries,

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Marc Preston: man.

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It's like a, it's like a

military operation, you know.

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The people don't realize

they don't have kids.

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The smaller they are, the more

crap you gotta travel with.

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Omar J Dorsey: You got to travel

with all this stuff, man, these

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car seats and, uh, you know, the

strollers and all of that stuff.

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Well,

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Marc Preston: I just mentioned the diver

genie because that was a godsend for me.

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I was, uh, it's all those little

conveniences that really help out.

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And we didn't even

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Omar J Dorsey: realize how convenient

it was until we got here to Atlanta.

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And we didn't have a diaper, Jamie.

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So the diaper was going in somewhere

else and it made the room smell bad.

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Marc Preston: My kids are

21, 20 and next week at 19.

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I'm just realizing I'm about,

I'm staying the same age.

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I don't know how that happens, but yeah,

I, a friend of mine just had a two.

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She's a, she's in her forties,

but she just had two little boys.

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I'm like, I mean, having three kids in

diapers as a single dad at one point

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in time, I was like, you know, I don't

know how y'all do it, but good on you.

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Good on you.

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So, so I was curious.

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So when did you make the move

out from Atlanta to Los Angeles?

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Omar J Dorsey: Man, it might've

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Marc Preston: been like,

uh, it was 21 years ago.

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Oh, okay.

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So you've been there a minute.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Omar J Dorsey: But I, I'm here a lot,

you know, um, especially when I was doing

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queen sugar, cause it was in new Orleans.

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So I'd come here, I'd

be here a lot of times.

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And then I wanted to spend

more time with my parents.

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Um, you know, um, and, and especially

when my daughters started going to

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college, I just, I just came out.

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I just was going back and forth

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Marc Preston: now when you were shooting,

uh, it was a queen sugar, right?

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That's what you were there for.

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Now.

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Where were you staying in new orleans?

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Omar J Dorsey: I was staying

in mid city I was staying.

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I was staying all through the city.

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I was staying uptown.

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I stayed downtown.

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I stayed across the street from

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Marc Preston: the casino

Yeah, I I spent 20.

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God.

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I'm a dallas boy originally, but uh,

mike's wife I spent about just over

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20 years living in mentry You know,

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Omar J Dorsey: that's why we shot

our studios in metric airline.

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Marc Preston: So wait,

were your studios a matter?

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Real?

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I didn't know there was a studio.

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Omar J Dorsey: I'm right there.

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I'm trying to try to offer the airline.

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Marc Preston: Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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I got, yeah.

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There was a, when they were shooting,

uh, um, NCIS, New Orleans, they had

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a whole bunch of cars, you know, all

their vehicles for different and they

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had them all parked in one place.

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So it was the most bizarre

looking parking lot.

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You had like an ambulance and a

hearse and a, you know, all this.

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All this other, well, all this kind

of other kind of stuff, but yeah,

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Omar J Dorsey: which at the same

time because Vanessa, who's on

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bookie was on the CISR New Orleans.

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Okay.

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So

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Marc Preston: you got to tell me, I

mean, if food always comes up at some

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point in time and then my show, but

where, where, where, where, where

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is like maybe your top three places

that you'd like to hit to go eat?

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You know, maybe did you find,

uh, did you find any places that

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were like, okay, this is my jam.

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Omar J Dorsey: Man, you know what?

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I just went to so many.

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I used to, uh, I used to party

at Bar Acadia all the time.

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The food was all right.

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But, um, it's like different places.

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Uh, I'm not, I'm forgetting right now.

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Let me think.

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Um, of course I like, um, everybody has,

uh, uh, superior seafood was really good.

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Oh, yeah.

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

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Omar J Dorsey: Down on St.

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Marc Preston: Charles.

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St.

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Charles is

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Omar J Dorsey: uptown.

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I used to live down there also.

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My friend was the GM, so I used

to go there and eat for free.

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Marc Preston: But he said that that

place that was always my go to when

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people came into town down, uh, down

in a place in Bucktown called Dini's.

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If you ever made your

way down there, I did

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Omar J Dorsey: go to James.

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I've been to Dini's.

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Yep.

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These are going there.

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Um, I'm trying to think where

else, uh, what's the place

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that's in the, um, in the hotel?

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They had really good cry.

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They had a good, um, so then their

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Marc Preston: roof, Chris You know, I love

like deenies and stuff, but it's, it's

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too easy to get that cholesterol level up.

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You know, I was always trying

to eat a little healthy.

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Then I got to a point.

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I was like, you know, if I'm going to go

there, I'm just going to do the thing.

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Yeah, I do it, man.

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Omar J Dorsey: I used to go, my

favorite burger was port a call on.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

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Okay.

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So, so you got, you got in

touch with a couple of locals.

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They told you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Omar J Dorsey: was there for seven years.

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So I was just mad.

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And look, I gained.

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50 pounds living there, bro.

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Marc Preston: You know, now

I'm now living in Texas.

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Now I'm living on the coast.

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I got fresh seafood and, you know,

trying to live that little more

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healthy lifestyle, you know, we'll

see, we'll see how that goes though.

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But so you grew up in Atlanta.

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Were you, were you always angling towards

the acting thing when you were younger?

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Was that something on the agenda or

did you kind of come into it later on?

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Omar J Dorsey: No, it

was always on the agenda.

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My mother was a theater director.

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So since she was, since I was a baby,

I was going to the, um, rehearsals

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and I'll be in the theater, just

watching these people on stage.

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And I was like, that's what I want to do.

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So she trained me, you know, then I

went to perform in our high school,

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uh, the cap school for the arts over

here in, um, in Indicator, Georgia.

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And, uh, then, so it was

always on the agenda.

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That's the only thing I got.

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That's very

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Marc Preston: cool.

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Well, you came up with a,

uh, creative household.

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So that was a, uh, so obviously you

weren't probably getting that resistance.

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Like, really?

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You want to do this thing?

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It was no,

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Omar J Dorsey: no, I got it.

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It was no resistance.

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And it was always, you know, just trying

to push, push me to get better and better.

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Um, and, and, and, you know, just.

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Uplifting me, you know, how, you know,

how this industry can be, or this, you

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know, it's like somebody knows, right.

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And my father used to always say, just

throw stuff, just throw enough stuff

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against the wall and something to stick.

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So he's just always, you

know, just uplifting me.

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And I appreciated that

because it can be daunting.

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Marc Preston: No.

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What kind of work did

your, uh, does your dad do?

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Omar J Dorsey: Well, my

father, he made rest in peace.

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He was a pastor of a church.

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Um, he passed away last year, but

he's a pastor, a great man, Dr.

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Oliver Dorsey.

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Um, but yeah, he's, um, before that he

was, uh, he was a jeweler, but yeah,

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he was a pastor for the last 25 years.

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Marc Preston: Uh, those jewelries,

you know, they got that some

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artistic skill as well, you know,

it's a little bit different.

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Omar J Dorsey: Yeah, man, he's um,

and this is very public speaker.

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He used to like to watch me

when I speak public speeches.

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So he, he thought I was

going to be a preacher.

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Oh, I don't know about that.

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Marc Preston: Was it, was it, was

it, who's a, is Raphael Warnock?

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That's your, uh, that's your rep.

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Up in your neck of the woods, right?

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No doubt about it.

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Yeah.

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He's, he's a reverend also.

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Okay.

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Yeah, he's a pastor

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Omar J Dorsey: at, uh, at, um, geez,

Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Avenue.

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I did a couple of, uh,

fundraisers for him.

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Yeah, good guy.

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Very cool.

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Yeah.

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Marc Preston: So when you,

uh, made your way to L.

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A., was it, uh, was stage

the thing you were doing?

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Uh, or were you always an on camera guy?

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You know what?

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I was,

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Omar J Dorsey: I was doing stage forever,

but, um, by the time I went to L.

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A., I, I had already

done a couple of movies.

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I did, uh, Road A couple of

movies with, uh, Todd Phillips.

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I did a lot of movies with Todd Phillips,

you know, but, um, I started out with

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him and I did, uh, I did road trips.

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The first one I did, and the second

film I did was, uh, Drumline.

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So I was getting all of these

different things in Atlanta and my

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mom was like, yeah, you got to go.

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You can't, it's, it's, it's, you want to

keep hitting your head on the ceiling.

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You can't break through, you know, um, you

can't get the roles that you want to get.

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So you're going to do that.

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You have to go to New York.

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You gotta go to LA.

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I chose LA because I did want to

concentrate on the film and television.

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Um, I probably, I don't know about

in retrospect if I should have

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went to New York, um, because

I do love theater so much.

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And, uh, but you know, it was, that

was the choice that I made at the time.

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Well, I

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Marc Preston: would say that

you get your training in New

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York, then you go to LA to work.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So you say, so you did road trip.

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Wait, wait, was that, were you

on members of the fraternity?

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I was the head of the fraternity.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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That's, that's one of those classic

nineties movies of just, you know,

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I wish they'd make more of those.

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You know, I'm a fan of those kinds

of movies, more Judd Apatow movies.

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We need, we need that.

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We need that right now.

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Omar J Dorsey: It's so funny.

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Cause I got like, uh, three of my other,

three of my really great friends, we're,

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um, we're trying to do a film like that.

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We just want some more comedy, man.

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Like, that's what I'm

so glad about booking.

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Right.

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Um, I did.

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Cause I started out with, with,

like I said, with Todd Felton at

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school for scoundrels or whatever.

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I did, uh, Starsky and Hutch with him.

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I did Road Trip with him.

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I was doing all these comedies.

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And, um, over the last, I guess, decade

or so, it's not, I'm not mad about it.

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I've been in the four Oscar

winning movies and all of these,

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uh, you know, heavy dramas.

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But I was like, I want to have some fun.

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And that's what Bookie was so good for me

because I was like, I just want to laugh.

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I want to make people laugh again.

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So, yeah, we do some

more comedy like that.

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Uh,

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Marc Preston: I'm not gonna pretend

like I'm an expert, but after

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talking to different folks, it's,

it's kind of, we're kind of in an

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interesting phase of, uh, budget.

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You know, like where, do they

have the budgets for like,

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there's this 20 million benchMarc?

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Yes.

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You know, where they used to

have these much bigger budget.

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Comedies, you know, I think

that's something missing.

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We need, we need this stuff where you

can kind of shut your brain off and laugh

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at just like, you know, dirty jokes.

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But, um, but now I caught bookie, uh,

the new season and I didn't have a

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chance to check out the first season.

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Now I want to go back and kind

of, kind of school up on that.

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So you're, you're showing up as a,

the best I can describe it is you're

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kind of the heavy, you're kind of the.

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of a guy, or is that kind

of a way of putting it?

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You're also a friend.

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Omar J Dorsey: Yeah.

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I look like the heavy, right.

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But like in season one, I said,

I'm more of a visual deterrent.

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You know, it's like, I'm

not going to hurt anybody.

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I look like I'm going to hurt

somebody, you know, and Bucky's

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really don't hurt anybody, you

know, it's like the old school, you

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know, Hollywood way of doing it.

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Just cut you off.

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Like you can't make any more best.

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You can't make any more

better than anybody.

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Cause I called everybody.

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So you might

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Marc Preston: as well.

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Well, I'm curious.

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What's it like, you know, uh,

you're, you're talking about,

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I want to do funny stuff and

you're with Sebastian Menescalco.

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What's it like being on set and working

with somebody whose whole gig up to

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that point, up to this point has been

a pretty great actor, but you know,

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this guy can get on stage and riff,

you know, he didn't kind of find it.

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Is it, does it keep you

on your toes at all?

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As far as the funny goes, or,

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Omar J Dorsey: you know, the thing about

it, you wouldn't even realize this.

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Sebastian is one of the.

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quietest people in the

world I've ever met.

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I'm the loud mouth talking to everybody.

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And Sebastian is like, and

is, you know, we talk all day,

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but he doesn't, he's funny.

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He's just hilarious.

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He's one of the funniest men on earth.

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Right.

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But it's Chuck Lorre and Nick Makai.

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Who are the hoot and they just

have you laughing all day.

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You know, it's like, I don't know if

Chuck was a stand up comic or not,

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but he's just, he's unreal funny.

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Really?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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I just saw him at the children's hospital

of Los Angeles, get receiving award.

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And he gave a speech that was 30

minutes and somebody should have

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recorded it and put it on HBO

because it was like a stand up.

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He had everybody in a lesson.

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My wife was like, I know

Chuck was that funny.

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I said, I listen to him

all day, every day, man.

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It's a menace.

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So yeah, man, he's funny, but, um, yeah.

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And they give us so much, you know,

they give me a Sebastian so much,

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uh, leeway, even though Chuck is

one of the great writers, right.

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But he did give us.

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Time to play in the space.

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And that's what makes it so much fun.

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Cause no,

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Marc Preston: this is in a TV, you know,

you get to know who your character is and

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you start taking more and more ownership

and you kind of know the rhythm and the

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vernacular and kind of the, who you are.

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Yeah.

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So it's kind of cool when you

finally kind of dial in and just.

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Kind of riff and improv, you know doubt

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Omar J Dorsey: about it.

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Yeah.

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Yes, exactly.

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How it is.

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Marc Preston: No, no coming

up Were you a comedy guy or

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did you like watching comedy?

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Were you like Eddie Murphy guy?

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Yes No doubt about

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Omar J Dorsey: it.

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I love Eddie Murphy.

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I love Gene Wilder I love I love the

stuff with him and Rick and Richard Pryor

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Marc Preston: one was a kid I'm a

blazing saddles one of the first movies.

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I remember seeing what was

it was a silver streak.

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Was that the one?

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Yeah.

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Silver

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Omar J Dorsey: Street, uh, stir crazy.

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Um, I love writing danger film a lot, man.

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Like, um, you know, all of his stuff

and I love Saturday night live as a kid.

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So, but I gotta,

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Marc Preston: I gotta ask

what era Saturday night live.

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Omar J Dorsey: I like the, um, well,

going back and looking at it now, like the

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original not ready for primetime players.

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And I liked a little bit, I like Eddie

Murphy and Joe Piscopo in that era.

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And then when they got to like,

uh, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey.

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I love that era.

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And I also just love, uh, what was,

um, amazing actor, but news radio,

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Marc Preston: news radio,

uh, uh, Oh, Phil Hartman.

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I

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Omar J Dorsey: thought he,

I think him, Eddie Murphy.

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And Will Ferrell and maybe Mike Myers

are the greatest of the other four.

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

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Omar J Dorsey: And Bill Murray too.

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Yeah, Bill Murray.

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Marc Preston: But it was, well, I think

there was a little different eras and

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a little different style of comedy.

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But these are guys that kind of, in my

mind, I don't know about you, but they

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kind of defined like before Eddie Murphy,

uh, and like Eddie Murphy raw or, you

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know, that, that, that there was a.

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Nothing like that existed, you know?

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Right.

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But I was a big Carlin guy also.

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I loved

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Omar J Dorsey: him.

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I love Carlin.

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I love Carlin on Saturday Night Live.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Like, I, I loved him when he was hosting

the show, but Carlin is just so smart man.

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Like, and I don't think any

anybody's done it like that.

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I also love Bernie Mac, but I just,

I don't think anybody's done it.

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Like Carlin.

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Marc Preston: Oh yeah.

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One of my favorite quotes is

one of Bernie Max is, it's not

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what you do, it's how you do it.

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It's not what you say,

it's how you say it.

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That's a quote that always sticks with

me, but coming up, what was inspiring you?

506

17:12 ,685 --> 00:17:16,454

And we're not inspiring, but what was,

what were you consuming movie wise?

507

17:16 ,494 --> 00:17:20,585

Uh, comedy or what, what was it that

was like, you know, that thing you see

508

17:20 ,585 --> 00:17:23,264

it or you hear it and you're like, I

want to get on stage or I want to riff.

509

17:23 ,264 --> 00:17:24,084

I want to do a thing.

510

17:24 ,085 --> 00:17:25,645

What was the thing that

kind of set setting you up?

511

17:26 ,145 --> 00:17:27,765

Omar J Dorsey: It was a lot

of Eddie Murphy movies, man.

512

17:27 ,795 --> 00:17:32,145

It was like coming to America and

it was trading places and it was,

513

17:32 ,175 --> 00:17:37,980

um, boomerang, everything that

Eddie did, even Harlem nights, man.

514

17:37 ,980 --> 00:17:41,720

I just love watching Eddie, you

know, and it was just magnetic.

515

17:41 ,760 --> 00:17:46,110

Just everything that he did

48 hours and all of these, you

516

17:46 ,110 --> 00:17:47,520

know, Beverly Hills cop, man.

517

17:47 ,860 --> 00:17:50,929

Um, I wanted to be Eddie Murphy when

I grew up, you know, it's crazy.

518

17:50 ,969 --> 00:17:54,059

Cause, um, I remember

like last year I was.

519

17:54 ,690 --> 00:17:57,490

I was going to do this Eddie

Murphy film and I couldn't do it.

520

17:57 ,550 --> 00:18:00,380

And then the person at Amazon

was like, man, Omar, Eddie

521

18:00 ,390 --> 00:18:01,390

really wanted to work with you.

522

18:01 ,440 --> 00:18:02,290

I said, really?

523

18:02 ,630 --> 00:18:03,659

Oh, no way.

524

18:03 ,670 --> 00:18:04,419

He really likes you.

525

18:04 ,440 --> 00:18:06,129

He really wants to work, work with you.

526

18:06 ,410 --> 00:18:09,590

And they like did something to

me because I really love Eddie.

527

18:09 ,639 --> 00:18:14,450

Um, uh, so that was the main guy who

I was really looking to, you know,

528

18:14 ,450 --> 00:18:17,870

as a kid, but I also just like, you

know, if you say this fun films,

529

18:17 ,870 --> 00:18:22,970

this, I just remember like watching,

um, like what is the last dragon?

530

18:23 ,030 --> 00:18:27,230

And, um, And it was the legend

of Billie Jean, the karate

531

18:27 ,230 --> 00:18:28,160

kid, all that type of stuff.

532

18:28 ,160 --> 00:18:31,280

Just watch the kid and

like, man, this is what it

533

18:31 ,280 --> 00:18:31,750

Marc Preston: sounds like.

534

18:31 ,750 --> 00:18:32,250

You're a Meyer.

535

18:32 ,250 --> 00:18:33,399

I graduated high school.

536

18:33 ,399 --> 00:18:34,669

Uh, 91.

537

18:34 ,760 --> 00:18:35,456

I graduated 94.

538

18:35 ,456 --> 00:18:36,063

So yeah.

539

18:36 ,063 --> 00:18:36,366

Okay.

540

18:36 ,366 --> 00:18:36,669

Okay.

541

18:36 ,669 --> 00:18:38,280

So we're in the same zone.

542

18:38 ,629 --> 00:18:38,820

Yeah.

543

18:38 ,850 --> 00:18:39,789

Omar J Dorsey: So I was

watching the same thing.

544

18:39 ,789 --> 00:18:40,679

My brother was watching you.

545

18:40 ,689 --> 00:18:41,629

My brother, the same age.

546

18:41 ,649 --> 00:18:41,939

Yeah.

547

18:42 ,199 --> 00:18:44,260

Marc Preston: Oh, I, I had a greatest

babysitter when I was, when I,

548

18:44 ,290 --> 00:18:46,689

before I was old, I should have

been watching Saturday night live.

549

18:46 ,699 --> 00:18:50,280

My parents had gone on a Saturday night

and my babysitter, she was like, Fine.

550

18:50 ,280 --> 00:18:50,620

Whatever.

551

18:50 ,620 --> 00:18:53,030

Let's watch, you know, and

I was like eight or nine.

552

18:53 ,030 --> 00:18:55,879

I was like, that was back even

when Billy Crystal was on.

553

18:55 ,899 --> 00:18:56,950

And it's so funny.

554

18:57 ,100 --> 00:18:57,760

Marvelous.

555

18:57 ,780 --> 00:18:58,250

Yeah.

556

18:58 ,379 --> 00:19:00,750

I don't know what's out there

right now for a young kid.

557

19:00 ,750 --> 00:19:01,599

What's inspiring him.

558

19:01 ,599 --> 00:19:02,969

That's why I like talking to young actors.

559

19:02 ,969 --> 00:19:04,040

Like, what do you like?

560

19:04 ,049 --> 00:19:05,060

You know, it's funny.

561

19:05 ,060 --> 00:19:08,719

A lot of them will reach back into

the archive of stuff we watched,

562

19:08 ,720 --> 00:19:11,290

you know, they'll find it, you know,

which is kind of, kind of cool.

563

19:11 ,580 --> 00:19:13,320

So this is kind of where you're at.

564

19:13 ,320 --> 00:19:14,840

You were kind of getting

inspired by this stuff.

565

19:14 ,840 --> 00:19:15,620

And

566

19:15 Growing Up in a Creative Household

19:15 ,620 --> 00:19:19,725

Omar J Dorsey: I was also getting

inspired by My mother, like I said,

567

19:19 ,725 --> 00:19:23,565

once again, she's a director, but she

always take me to see plays and take me

568

19:23 ,575 --> 00:19:28,454

to the opera and take me to, uh, puppet

shows, you know, center of puppetry arts.

569

19:28 ,804 --> 00:19:31,034

So all of that, man,

that's just inspired me.

570

19:31 ,034 --> 00:19:32,414

And it just, it did something to me.

571

19:32 ,514 --> 00:19:34,849

I played sports, but it didn't.

572

19:35 ,060 --> 00:19:39,220

Get inside of me the way that I,

you know, that watching somebody act

573

19:39 ,720 --> 00:19:44,520

and I did so many plays when I was

doing it, I would never stop doing

574

19:44 ,520 --> 00:19:46,050

plays until I started doing movies.

575

19:46 ,090 --> 00:19:49,729

So from the time I was like five

or six, I was probably in a play

576

19:50 ,650 --> 00:19:52,679

until I turned to about 22 or 23.

577

19:53 ,235 --> 00:19:55,985

Marc Preston: Did your mother ever

write anything or is she just directing?

578

19:56 ,585 --> 00:19:58,035

So she was creating her own style.

579

19:58 ,045 --> 00:19:58,225

Okay.

580

19:58 ,285 --> 00:19:59,035

No doubt about it.

581

19:59 ,035 --> 00:19:59,715

Omar J Dorsey: Yeah, man.

582

19:59 ,715 --> 00:20:00,745

She, she, she was a writer.

583

20:00 ,985 --> 00:20:01,724

She's still a writer.

584

20:02 ,094 --> 00:20:03,045

82 years old, still writing.

585

20:03 ,545 --> 00:20:04,095

Marc Preston: Really?

586

20:04 ,165 --> 00:20:04,455

Yeah.

587

20:04 ,504 --> 00:20:04,935

There you go.

588

20:04 ,955 --> 00:20:05,425

There you go.

589

20:05 ,615 --> 00:20:09,025

So do you're, you're, uh, you're, you

had an older brother, the elder brother.

590

20:09 ,025 --> 00:20:10,364

Was that your only

sibling or did you have?

591

20:10 ,365 --> 00:20:11,474

That's the only sibling I had.

592

20:11 ,485 --> 00:20:11,715

Omar J Dorsey: Yeah.

593

20:12 ,265 --> 00:20:13,165

Marc Preston: Oh, very cool.

594

20:13 ,195 --> 00:20:14,965

Okay, so what did he

end up, uh, going into?

595

20:15 ,115 --> 00:20:16,885

Omar J Dorsey: Uh, you know what,

he was a public speaker, but then

596

20:16 ,885 --> 00:20:21,935

he ended up, uh, becoming, uh, he,

he was A-C-C-F-O of the Boys and

597

20:21 ,935 --> 00:20:22,955

Girls Club or something like that.

598

20:22 ,955 --> 00:20:25,955

He passed away, uh, four years ago, but

he was like, oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

599

20:25 ,955 --> 00:20:26,435

Yeah, man.

600

20:26 ,495 --> 00:20:30,504

Um, but he was, uh, yeah, he was

pretty big wig for, for, for the

601

20:30 ,504 --> 00:20:34,725

Boys and Girls Club and, um, uh, and

for, and he had his own business too.

602

20:35 ,295 --> 00:20:38,535

He was a, he was, uh, a

consultant for, uh, nonprofits.

603

20:39 ,280 --> 00:20:39,600

Yeah.

604

20:39 ,600 --> 00:20:44,339

So

605

20:46 Atlanta's Impact on Omar's Career

20:46 ,919 --> 00:20:50,050

Marc Preston: growing up in Atlanta,

uh, now you, of course you're, you know,

606

20:50 ,060 --> 00:20:55,430

been in LA for like 20 years, but how did

Atlanta in any way kind of imprint on you?

607

20:55 ,460 --> 00:20:59,649

Uh, kind of, did it affect as far as

the choices of style you chose, the

608

20:59 ,870 --> 00:21:03,129

influences, anything else once you've

had enough time away from Atlanta

609

21:03 ,139 --> 00:21:06,149

go, Oh, I'm kind of doing this thing

because this is kind of where I'm from.

610

21:06 ,149 --> 00:21:07,899

These are my people, you

know what I'm saying?

611

21:08 ,165 --> 00:21:11,165

Omar J Dorsey: The thing is, um,

there's a, there were especially in my

612

21:11 ,165 --> 00:21:15,635

age, uh, during my, during this time

when I was Teenager, it was an amazing

613

21:15 ,705 --> 00:21:20,855

art scene, amazing theater scene, um,

for people who are in their teams.

614

21:20 ,865 --> 00:21:24,695

We had people like Saad Galjou,

who's a Broadway star, been I think

615

21:24 ,695 --> 00:21:26,645

three or four Tony nominations.

616

21:26 ,655 --> 00:21:30,524

We had Dorian Missick, we had

Erica Ashe, we had Ronrico

617

21:30 ,534 --> 00:21:32,285

Lee, we had Charles Giambino.

618

21:32 ,285 --> 00:21:33,285

It's all these people.

619

21:33 ,295 --> 00:21:34,405

We all went to the same high school.

620

21:34 ,794 --> 00:21:36,465

We all went to the same high school.

621

21:36 ,644 --> 00:21:38,364

Marc Preston: Oh, the

creative arts, arts, arts,

622

21:38 ,364 --> 00:21:38,904

Omar J Dorsey: high school.

623

21:38 ,995 --> 00:21:43,625

And so, but it's like, when we go to

like this, the area in Atlanta called

624

21:43 ,625 --> 00:21:49,524

little five points, it's just a booming

era area of creativity, whether it's

625

21:49 ,524 --> 00:21:54,524

people who were making, you know, uh,

jewelry or people who are singing on

626

21:54 ,554 --> 00:21:56,715

the corner or these beautiful theaters.

627

21:56 ,745 --> 00:21:59,154

Uh, I come from seven stages

theater in little five points,

628

21:59 ,535 --> 00:22:00,855

the neighborhood play house.

629

22:01 ,145 --> 00:22:03,725

Um, they're just, it's just this street.

630

22:03 ,725 --> 00:22:04,884

It's not a long street either.

631

22:05 ,364 --> 00:22:07,975

of just creativity everywhere you look.

632

22:08 ,364 --> 00:22:11,415

And so that was just a

part of my everyday life.

633

22:11 ,415 --> 00:22:14,264

I get off school and go

straight to level five points.

634

22:14 ,504 --> 00:22:17,464

Well, all of these amazing singers,

people were platinum artists now,

635

22:17 ,464 --> 00:22:21,764

and all of these great, uh, you know,

artists would just hang and just chill.

636

22:21 ,774 --> 00:22:22,749

And that was, that was it.

637

22:23 ,230 --> 00:22:25,820

Marc Preston: Now, you said you were

doing sports at the same time, or

638

22:25 ,820 --> 00:22:28,760

was that kind of peter out after

a period of time, or did you do it

639

22:28 ,760 --> 00:22:29,720

all the way through high school?

640

22:29 ,860 --> 00:22:32,360

Omar J Dorsey: I did it all the way

through, but it just was not my passion.

641

22:32 ,420 --> 00:22:36,180

You know, um, I played ball,

but, uh, because I could,

642

22:36 ,470 --> 00:22:38,240

but not like hitting people.

643

22:39 ,969 --> 00:22:43,685

So, but, um, You know, uh, but just

like I said, it wasn't my passion.

644

22:43 ,705 --> 00:22:46,675

My passion was always being

on the state, making people.

645

22:46 ,685 --> 00:22:47,175

So was there

646

22:47 ,175 --> 00:22:48,225

Marc Preston: ever kind of like a divide?

647

22:48 ,225 --> 00:22:50,115

Like, were there guys like,

why are you doing this?

648

22:50 ,115 --> 00:22:52,165

You know, why are you, you know,

why are you doing this arts thing?

649

22:52 ,175 --> 00:22:54,084

Or did you have all of my friends were

650

22:54 ,084 --> 00:22:54,604

Omar J Dorsey: artists?

651

22:54 ,845 --> 00:22:55,515

Well, that's true.

652

22:55 ,555 --> 00:22:55,775

Yes.

653

22:55 ,775 --> 00:22:56,035

Yeah.

654

22:56 ,105 --> 00:22:58,344

And like even people in my

neighborhood who didn't go to the

655

22:58 ,344 --> 00:23:00,044

art school, they were musicians.

656

23:00 ,260 --> 00:23:02,090

They, you know, when they were

in the band, we were all, you

657

23:02 ,090 --> 00:23:03,810

know, we all played instruments.

658

23:04 ,110 --> 00:23:06,150

So that was just what we did.

659

23:06 ,320 --> 00:23:10,790

You know, and I, and anybody who I

surrounded myself with were artists.

660

23:10 ,830 --> 00:23:14,280

They, nobody looked at us any

different or any, any, any kind of way.

661

23:14 ,670 --> 00:23:18,290

But I think that's a really good,

uh, thing about growing up in, in

662

23:18 ,310 --> 00:23:19,889

Decatur, Georgia, where I grew up at.

663

23:20 ,110 --> 00:23:24,379

Um, at that time, it's a lot of people

who might, who weren't from Atlanta.

664

23:24 ,379 --> 00:23:28,450

There's these middle class homes, these

middle class black people who were

665

23:28 ,460 --> 00:23:32,820

probably first generation of people who

were educated, educated, moved all their

666

23:32 ,820 --> 00:23:34,720

children into this beautiful enclave.

667

23:35 ,240 --> 00:23:37,629

And, you know, just from different places.

668

23:37 ,629 --> 00:23:39,160

My dad might've been from Detroit.

669

23:39 ,209 --> 00:23:43,210

My mom was from, um, you know, from

South Georgia, uh, but it's all these

670

23:43 ,210 --> 00:23:44,640

different people from different places.

671

23:44 ,900 --> 00:23:46,530

And it was a really

nice Nelson Black, man.

672

23:46 ,830 --> 00:23:47,300

Marc Preston: Atlanta.

673

23:47 ,300 --> 00:23:48,770

I think I am so glad it.

674

23:49 ,070 --> 00:23:51,519

It did what it did in terms of

like the Hollywood South vibe,

675

23:51 ,529 --> 00:23:56,149

because I know when I was down

in New Orleans, uh, 20, I was 26.

676

23:56 ,430 --> 00:23:58,340

No, I was, I was about 2016.

677

23:58 ,440 --> 00:24:01,560

I remember, um, the, uh, what's the

name of the guy was running for, uh,

678

24:01 ,590 --> 00:24:03,899

governor Bobby Jindal tax credit.

679

24:03 ,899 --> 00:24:04,949

Yeah, he just killed it, man.

680

24:05 ,349 --> 00:24:07,780

And what happened was all

the stuff went up to Atlanta.

681

24:08 ,249 --> 00:24:10,480

It was really disappointing because

there was so much great stuff.

682

24:10 ,480 --> 00:24:13,260

And yeah, I was able to

be in a few cool projects.

683

24:14 ,150 --> 00:24:16,520

I mean, I auditioned for two

Academy Award-winning movies.

684

24:16 ,520 --> 00:24:19,460

Got called back, didn't get cast,

and I started realizing, Hey, if you

685

24:19 ,460 --> 00:24:22,280

want to win an Academy Award, get

me on a callback, but don't cast me.

686

24:22 ,280 --> 00:24:26,720

You know, . But, uh, but it was, uh,

which, which, which movies were they?

687

24:26 ,960 --> 00:24:29,240

It was, uh, Dallas Buyers Club, uh, okay.

688

24:29 ,240 --> 00:24:32,120

With Matthew McConaughey and

uh, uh, the Green Book, which I

689

24:32 ,120 --> 00:24:33,440

really wanted to get in on that.

690

24:33 ,440 --> 00:24:35,750

But, uh, not just being able

to audition for Peter Fairly,

691

24:35 ,750 --> 00:24:36,860

that was like, you know, yeah.

692

24:36 ,860 --> 00:24:37,455

That was like my jam.

693

24:37 ,905 --> 00:24:40,515

I was like, I was like, and he, he

was really, he was giving me a couple

694

24:40 ,515 --> 00:24:41,985

different scripts, different characters.

695

24:41 ,985 --> 00:24:44,475

He was trying to work it, you know,

and I was like, yeah, you know,

696

24:44 ,475 --> 00:24:45,615

that, that was, that was the fun.

697

24:45 ,615 --> 00:24:47,565

I could say audition for

Peter Fairy and Right.

698

24:47 ,565 --> 00:24:50,655

Got close, uh, you know, all the

stuff that went up to Atlanta.

699

24:50 ,655 --> 00:24:53,175

They got Tyler Perry built

that big studio up there.

700

24:53 ,235 --> 00:24:53,865

Beautiful studio too.

701

24:54 ,075 --> 00:24:57,435

Uh, is is, is it, is it

still Hamman the way it was?

702

24:57 ,465 --> 00:24:57,945

Yes, it

703

24:57 ,945 --> 00:24:58,545

Omar J Dorsey: definitely is.

704

24:58 ,605 --> 00:25:00,525

Um, you know, there so many shows.

705

25:00 ,795 --> 00:25:01,425

It's humming.

706

25:01 ,515 --> 00:25:02,475

I would say even more even.

707

25:02 ,475 --> 00:25:04,155

It's been a slow year coming the strike.

708

25:04 ,155 --> 00:25:04,425

Right.

709

25:05 ,840 --> 00:25:10,030

Uh, it's it's humbling like

Los Angeles is sort of very

710

25:10 ,030 --> 00:25:11,500

expensive place to shoot, right?

711

25:11 The Shift to Atlanta's Film Industry

25:11 ,890 --> 00:25:16,299

Yeah, so a lot of things moved out

of Los Angeles and they might have

712

25:16 ,300 --> 00:25:20,710

gone to canada Um, but a lot of it

came to atlanta because they just

713

25:20 ,719 --> 00:25:22,389

because tyler built that big studio

714

25:22 ,715 --> 00:25:24,995

Marc Preston: Oh, plus you got so many

different locations you can shoot.

715

25:25 ,015 --> 00:25:27,815

Plus, if you need to shoot it on the

coast, it's a little bit of a drive,

716

25:27 ,845 --> 00:25:29,225

but you got, you can get out there.

717

25:29 ,225 --> 00:25:29,515

Yeah.

718

25:30 ,035 --> 00:25:33,305

Um, but yeah, I, I haven't spent

that much time up there, but I know

719

25:33 ,305 --> 00:25:34,624

everybody who is doing their thing.

720

25:34 ,635 --> 00:25:34,815

Yeah.

721

25:34 ,815 --> 00:25:37,445

You know, they pretty much were bouncing

between new Orleans and Atlanta.

722

25:37 ,454 --> 00:25:38,684

It was like a whole thing, you know?

723

25:39 Film vs. TV: Preferences and Experiences

25:39 ,034 --> 00:25:43,095

Uh, now as far as, uh, you talk about

the films you've done in TV, is there a

724

25:43 ,095 --> 00:25:46,935

preference you've got as far as workflow,

do you, do you like doing the thing you're

725

25:46 ,935 --> 00:25:50,485

working on a film couple, you know, three

months or something, or do you, or do

726

25:50 ,485 --> 00:25:52,474

you like doing TV as it is, you know?

727

25:54 ,310 --> 00:25:57,100

Omar J Dorsey: I like the, uh,

the shortness of a film, right?

728

25:57 ,100 --> 00:25:59,060

You can create a character,

you get in, you get out.

729

25:59 ,480 --> 00:26:01,440

I like the stability of television.

730

26:02 ,740 --> 00:26:04,140

Yeah, that consists of paychecks.

731

26:04 ,140 --> 00:26:04,420

Nice.

732

26:04 ,620 --> 00:26:06,289

I've done a show for seven years.

733

26:06 ,329 --> 00:26:07,680

This has been two years.

734

26:07 ,680 --> 00:26:09,930

It's like I, for a decade,

I've had a really good job.

735

26:10 ,230 --> 00:26:11,009

You know what I'm saying?

736

26:11 ,009 --> 00:26:13,970

So, um, I do like that a lot.

737

26:14 ,010 --> 00:26:17,890

Um, and I do like to expound on the

character, expand it a little bit more.

738

26:17 ,890 --> 00:26:19,160

It's like, okay, this is really cool.

739

26:19 ,170 --> 00:26:22,110

But you do a film, like what

would happen the next day?

740

26:23 ,479 --> 00:26:24,840

You know, after the film is over.

741

26:24 ,840 --> 00:26:25,999

So I do like that.

742

26:26 ,009 --> 00:26:30,629

Now I don't know about, uh, a 10 year

run, do a 10 year run on a little TV.

743

26:30 ,629 --> 00:26:31,409

So I do 10 years.

744

26:31 ,409 --> 00:26:36,079

I do 10 years on books easy because

it's like, it's, it's a fun, uh,

745

26:36 ,139 --> 00:26:38,179

atmosphere and it's a great subject.

746

26:38 ,579 --> 00:26:39,589

Um, you know.

747

26:39 ,850 --> 00:26:40,739

To, to explore.

748

26:41 ,090 --> 00:26:43,639

And I think those stories can just

keep going and going and going.

749

26:43 ,640 --> 00:26:49,460

Um, but yeah, I do like the, um,

the tightness of, uh, of film.

750

26:49 ,500 --> 00:26:50,820

I love stage.

751

26:51 ,150 --> 00:26:52,109

Things don't pay you no money.

752

26:52 ,290 --> 00:26:54,849

Marc Preston: Stage always intimidated

me because I'm not good at memorizing.

753

26:54 ,850 --> 00:26:57,059

And I always, I always had this

like thing of like, okay, what if

754

26:57 ,059 --> 00:26:58,360

I get up there and forget my lines?

755

26:58 ,630 --> 00:27:01,139

I can go, I can go, I can work

a couple of pages at a time.

756

27:01 ,310 --> 00:27:03,080

You know, that's not a problem for me.

757

27:03 Landing the Role in “Bookie”

27:03 ,340 --> 00:27:06,960

But how did the, uh, how did

a bookie come along for you?

758

27:07 ,105 --> 00:27:08,025

So, um, I

759

27:08 ,245 --> 00:27:13,905

Omar J Dorsey: was just finishing up

Queen Sugar, uh, and in my mind I said,

760

27:13 ,905 --> 00:27:15,145

I don't know what I want to do next.

761

27:15 ,145 --> 00:27:16,704

I said, I do want to do a comedy.

762

27:17 ,145 --> 00:27:19,555

So this fell, this

script fell to me, right?

763

27:20 ,140 --> 00:27:22,120

And I read it and I

couldn't stop laughing.

764

27:22 ,190 --> 00:27:23,730

I just laughed and laughed and laughed.

765

27:24 ,180 --> 00:27:28,930

And so I auditioned for it and it's

funny because I auditioned for it the

766

27:28 ,930 --> 00:27:31,889

same day as I think Halloween 3 or

Halloween 2, one of the Halloweens.

767

27:31 ,890 --> 00:27:32,679

The last Halloween though.

768

27:32 ,919 --> 00:27:34,830

I mean all three of them

but the last one came out.

769

27:35 ,169 --> 00:27:36,239

I auditioned for it that day.

770

27:36 ,240 --> 00:27:40,810

I went to the uh, To the opening

night, uh, and then my agent was

771

27:40 ,810 --> 00:27:41,866

like, we got some good news, man.

772

27:41 ,866 --> 00:27:42,497

We got some good news.

773

27:42 ,497 --> 00:27:43,710

And I was like, what is it?

774

27:43 ,710 --> 00:27:45,029

Uh, they really liked you for this role.

775

27:45 ,110 --> 00:27:48,690

So, um, you got to meet with Chuck

Lorre and Sebastian and Nick.

776

27:48 ,760 --> 00:27:50,000

And I was like, oh, that's awesome.

777

27:50 ,010 --> 00:27:51,950

So I had to come back to meet with them.

778

27:52 ,360 --> 00:27:55,210

But it was just, like I said, man,

when we got into that room together,

779

27:55 ,210 --> 00:27:59,040

me and Sebastian got in that room,

the chemistry was dynamic, you know?

780

28:00 ,175 --> 00:28:02,915

It was one of the best

chemistry reads I've ever had.

781

28:03 ,355 --> 00:28:05,215

And we just kept making each other laugh.

782

28:05 ,275 --> 00:28:06,565

You know, we're making

everybody else laugh.

783

28:06 ,575 --> 00:28:09,754

I think in the office of the studio

execs laugh, but man, it was,

784

28:09 ,824 --> 00:28:11,205

it was, that's how it came up.

785

28:11 ,235 --> 00:28:12,174

That's gotta be such a great

786

28:12 ,175 --> 00:28:12,605

Marc Preston: feeling.

787

28:12 ,614 --> 00:28:14,225

You know, that's gonna

be a real cool feeling.

788

28:14 ,284 --> 00:28:15,134

Omar J Dorsey: It is very cool.

789

28:15 ,135 --> 00:28:17,765

You know, the thing about it, Marc

is like, I really hadn't auditioned

790

28:18 ,155 --> 00:28:21,095

in a long time, in a long time.

791

28:21 ,155 --> 00:28:22,995

I probably hadn't had

auditioned in 10 years.

792

28:23 ,275 --> 00:28:25,125

I was getting offered

roles left and right.

793

28:25 ,590 --> 00:28:28,010

Um, but they just, they were

like, we want to see if you

794

28:28 ,010 --> 00:28:29,850

can do, um, you know, comedy.

795

28:30 ,400 --> 00:28:36,510

And so it felt good to be able to, uh, Go

to an audition and to be able to book an

796

28:36 ,510 --> 00:28:37,939

audition because I just didn't have one.

797

28:37 ,939 --> 00:28:38,520

So yeah.

798

28:38 ,599 --> 00:28:42,149

Marc Preston: Yeah I always thought that'd

be cool to be in a situation where uh,

799

28:42 ,159 --> 00:28:45,100

You have the opportunity where people

know your work and they're like, all right

800

28:45 ,365 --> 00:28:50,325

You can do this thing we want to, uh, but

at the same time, and it's, uh, I forgot

801

28:50 ,325 --> 00:28:51,725

who I was talking to a little while back.

802

28:52 ,004 --> 00:28:54,905

They said, not only do I miss

auditioning, I miss auditioning in person.

803

28:54 ,915 --> 00:28:57,615

You know, there was that whole

thing of taping and sending it in.

804

28:58 ,875 --> 00:29:00,355

You said that y'all immediately clicked.

805

29:00 ,364 --> 00:29:01,965

That's something you can't force.

806

29:02 ,155 --> 00:29:02,545

So.

807

29:02 ,935 --> 00:29:06,405

Was it just when you, when you were kind

of there, were you like, you know, they

808

29:06 ,405 --> 00:29:09,125

say you audition, you kind of leave it

there and you move on to the next thing.

809

29:09 ,125 --> 00:29:09,885

And yeah, that's great.

810

29:10 ,274 --> 00:29:12,725

Or is it like, man, I really

hope I get this thing.

811

29:12 ,725 --> 00:29:15,054

Were you, were you really like

feeling like that on this?

812

29:15 ,114 --> 00:29:16,105

Omar J Dorsey: I'll be real Marc.

813

29:16 ,135 --> 00:29:18,655

When I did it, I was

like, all you got is roll.

814

29:19 ,274 --> 00:29:23,075

And so I was leaving LA,

I was flying to Atlanta.

815

29:23 ,975 --> 00:29:26,315

And then like that,

the same, the next day.

816

29:26 ,795 --> 00:29:27,715

That was the same day.

817

29:27 ,825 --> 00:29:31,665

And as soon as I landed, my agent, my

manager called, and I already knew.

818

29:31 ,955 --> 00:29:32,705

I said, I'm getting this.

819

29:32 ,835 --> 00:29:34,745

I said, I'm getting this

because it felt so good.

820

29:35 ,115 --> 00:29:37,735

I've never felt that good

walking into like an audition,

821

29:37 ,735 --> 00:29:38,895

especially a chemistry test.

822

29:39 ,425 --> 00:29:40,185

It felt good.

823

29:40 ,235 --> 00:29:42,045

So I, I was like, man, I got this.

824

29:42 ,045 --> 00:29:43,455

I just felt the confidence that I had.

825

29:45 ,215 --> 00:29:48,335

Marc Preston: Get, of course, as a

thousand batting average, basically, you

826

29:48 ,335 --> 00:29:52,685

know, uh, so you're, so when you, was

that intimidating at all to kind of step

827

29:52 ,685 --> 00:29:55,651

into a project where you're like, this

is a guy that's whatever he's going to

828

29:55 ,651 --> 00:29:57,235

touch is going to, it's going to work.

829

29:57 ,285 --> 00:29:57,865

It's going to fly.

830

29:57 ,865 --> 00:29:58,215

Omar J Dorsey: Yeah.

831

29:58 ,335 --> 00:30:01,285

It was, uh, it was a very,

I was very excited about it.

832

30:01 Working with Hollywood's Best

30:01 ,285 --> 00:30:01,595

Right.

833

30:01 ,635 --> 00:30:05,655

I was like that, but yeah, also I've

worked with, I feel like I've worked

834

30:05 ,655 --> 00:30:07,545

with the best of the best from Quentin.

835

30:08 ,425 --> 00:30:10,735

To Ava, to Steven Spielberg.

836

30:10 ,735 --> 00:30:12,425

I worked with the best.

837

30:12 ,825 --> 00:30:15,735

So it's like, all right, now I'm

getting to work with the greatest

838

30:15 ,745 --> 00:30:17,775

comedy television guy there is.

839

30:18 ,125 --> 00:30:18,765

You know what I'm saying?

840

30:18 ,765 --> 00:30:21,755

He and Norman Lear is them too, you know?

841

30:21 ,905 --> 00:30:22,905

So I said, all right.

842

30:23 ,345 --> 00:30:24,885

Um, it wasn't intimidating.

843

30:25 ,005 --> 00:30:27,005

It was, I was just so, I was so excited.

844

30:27 ,195 --> 00:30:27,845

I was so excited.

845

30:27 ,925 --> 00:30:29,985

I feel like I've done my work.

846

30:30 ,015 --> 00:30:33,735

I've done my 000 hours.

847

30:33 ,995 --> 00:30:36,255

Now let me see what I

can do in this space.

848

30:37 ,720 --> 00:30:38,900

Oh, I love, I love those.

849

30:39 ,110 --> 00:30:41,059

I was just with Chuck last

week and I love that dude.

850

30:41 ,440 --> 00:30:44,310

Marc Preston: So which, uh, which project

did you work on with, uh, Spielberg?

851

30:44 ,560 --> 00:30:44,970

I did.

852

30:45 ,000 --> 00:30:45,310

Uh,

853

30:45 ,320 --> 00:30:46,070

Omar J Dorsey: thank you for your service.

854

30:46 ,300 --> 00:30:47,480

He was the executive producer on that one.

855

30:47 ,820 --> 00:30:49,819

Marc Preston: So, so I know

you're a Django Unchained.

856

30:49 ,820 --> 00:30:53,670

What, what was, I got, I was curious with

that, what that shoot was like, you know,

857

30:53 ,670 --> 00:30:57,420

with, uh, Quentin Tarantino, what that

experience was like kind of doing, doing

858

30:57 ,420 --> 00:31:01,060

your thing, that, that seemed like a, I

knew a guy who, I know somebody who was,

859

31:01 ,060 --> 00:31:03,340

um, I'll think of his name in a moment.

860

31:03 ,340 --> 00:31:07,480

I know somebody who was uh, on that

project, but what was that film like?

861

31:07 ,650 --> 00:31:08,230

Omar J Dorsey: It was so much.

862

31:08 ,230 --> 00:31:11,022

It's the first time I ever spent a

lot of time in New Orleans, right?

863

31:11 ,022 --> 00:31:11,298

And

864

31:11 ,298 --> 00:31:11,574

Marc Preston: I

865

31:11 ,574 --> 00:31:14,470

Omar J Dorsey: was like, man, I really

love the city, but more than anything

866

31:14 ,480 --> 00:31:19,340

man, it was the It was a camaraderie,

man, you know, like we have this either

867

31:19 ,460 --> 00:31:24,180

go to Leonardo's house or we go to

Jamie Foxx's house and like just watch

868

31:24 ,180 --> 00:31:27,410

the games or what and, you know, we

get the set and it's the set, it's

869

31:27 ,430 --> 00:31:31,990

intense, it's that other, but it's,

it's, it's outside of that, man, going

870

31:32 ,000 --> 00:31:35,780

out, kicking it with, uh, Quentin,

hanging out with him, you know, um,

871

31:36 ,100 --> 00:31:37,990

Marc Preston: yeah, I heard,

I heard Jamie like Harris.

872

31:38 ,250 --> 00:31:40,410

You know, yeah, he's the face of errors.

873

31:40 ,440 --> 00:31:40,760

No,

874

31:42 ,510 --> 00:31:43,240

Omar J Dorsey: no, yeah,

875

31:44 ,050 --> 00:31:44,870

Marc Preston: I coach voiceover.

876

31:44 ,870 --> 00:31:48,510

One of my students was in, I can't, for

some reason, his name is not coming to me.

877

31:48 ,510 --> 00:31:52,130

He was one of the, um, he's one

of the slaves and one last scenes.

878

31:52 ,130 --> 00:31:55,150

And they were, they were, they

had them in the, uh, they're being

879

31:55 ,150 --> 00:31:56,300

pulled by the horse and that little.

880

31:57 ,250 --> 00:31:58,070

Oh yeah, I was in that,

881

31:58 ,080 --> 00:32:00,759

Omar J Dorsey: that scene, I was in, that

was mine, it was in Escalante, was it?

882

32:00 ,760 --> 00:32:02,450

Marc Preston: Escalante, yeah,

London, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

883

32:03 ,460 --> 00:32:06,820

That's, thanks for helping me remember,

you know, but that was, I mean, if it's

884

32:06 ,820 --> 00:32:08,880

Omar J Dorsey: New Orleans, it

Escalante, yeah, because I was,

885

32:10 ,360 --> 00:32:12,450

Marc Preston: Yeah, that guy, that guy

needs to work out a little bit more.

886

32:14 ,860 --> 00:32:16,930

I look at him going, God,

I need to get to the gym.

887

32:16 ,980 --> 00:32:17,440

I know.

888

32:17 ,520 --> 00:32:19,400

But I was just kind of curious what

it's like working on Quentin Tarantino.

889

32:19 ,400 --> 00:32:20,110

It was just so much

890

32:20 ,190 --> 00:32:22,590

Omar J Dorsey: fun, man, like, because,

you know what, I was supposed to work

891

32:22 ,600 --> 00:32:26,690

on that film for six weeks, I ended up

working on that film for Four months.

892

32:27 ,210 --> 00:32:28,100

Money to burn.

893

32:28 ,110 --> 00:32:28,790

He just had it.

894

32:28 ,820 --> 00:32:30,430

They just gave him whatever, man.

895

32:30 ,510 --> 00:32:33,190

I was like, I'm having a ball here, man.

896

32:33 ,190 --> 00:32:35,260

So yeah, it was, we had big fun, man.

897

32:35 ,260 --> 00:32:37,880

I was, it was so excited, you

know, during that project, man.

898

32:37 ,930 --> 00:32:39,820

Marc Preston: Well, well, you

mentioned, of course, that's more, a

899

32:39 ,820 --> 00:32:42,680

little more serious, although there

was some comedy in there without, you

900

32:42 ,680 --> 00:32:44,140

know, there was, uh, well, that's,

901

32:44 ,430 --> 00:32:45,180

Omar J Dorsey: that's Quentin anyway.

902

32:45 ,180 --> 00:32:45,960

He's going to have a little

903

32:46 ,370 --> 00:32:47,130

Marc Preston: bit of cheekiness

904

32:47 ,130 --> 00:32:47,600

Omar J Dorsey: and everything.

905

32:47 ,740 --> 00:32:48,040

Yeah.

906

32:48 ,480 --> 00:32:49,060

Marc Preston: Looking forward.

907

32:49 ,070 --> 00:32:51,590

Now, you mentioned before the

comedy thing is something you'd

908

32:51 ,590 --> 00:32:52,590

like to put some things together.

909

32:52 ,590 --> 00:32:54,640

But what's next on the horizon for you?

910

32:54 ,650 --> 00:32:57,810

What are you kind of locked into

or what do you want to do next?

911

32:57 Current Projects and Future Plans

32:57 ,820 --> 00:32:59,500

Omar J Dorsey: Well, next

thing is just producing them.

912

32:59 ,560 --> 00:33:01,850

Um, you know, my wife just

sold her show to Amazon.

913

33:02 ,560 --> 00:33:05,200

We have two films that

we're pitching right now.

914

33:05 ,590 --> 00:33:08,680

And I'm working with, like

I said, like my friends.

915

33:08 ,920 --> 00:33:13,710

We have so many projects that

we want to do in the next.

916

33:14 ,650 --> 00:33:18,260

Three years, we just got to figure out

which one we want to do first, man.

917

33:18 ,300 --> 00:33:22,290

Um, and this was some really, uh, really

great writers and really amazing actors.

918

33:22 ,350 --> 00:33:27,030

Um, so, you know, I just got finished,

um, shooting a concept, uh, for a pilot

919

33:27 ,040 --> 00:33:29,060

that I'm, um, that I'm trying to sell.

920

33:29 ,260 --> 00:33:30,560

So doc, it's a new take on Dr.

921

33:30 ,930 --> 00:33:31,170

Dr.

922

33:31 ,170 --> 00:33:31,680

Jekyll, Mr.

923

33:31 ,680 --> 00:33:35,209

Hyde, but a pop star

who's a serial killer.

924

33:35 ,360 --> 00:33:35,920

And he doesn't know it.

925

33:35 ,940 --> 00:33:36,960

He has a split personality.

926

33:38 ,230 --> 00:33:39,050

Marc Preston: You already got me hooked.

927

33:39 ,100 --> 00:33:40,040

You already got me hooked on

928

33:40 ,040 --> 00:33:40,210

Omar J Dorsey: it.

929

33:40 ,390 --> 00:33:40,690

Yeah.

930

33:40 ,690 --> 00:33:44,160

So we just, um, we just shot

that, uh, this past weekend.

931

33:44 ,260 --> 00:33:48,150

Um, so, uh, yeah, we're just,

we're just working on so many

932

33:48 ,160 --> 00:33:49,270

different things right now.

933

33:50 ,220 --> 00:33:52,610

Marc Preston: Does the directing

thing, uh, you need to take a page

934

33:52 ,610 --> 00:33:53,830

from your, what your wife's up to?

935

33:53 ,830 --> 00:33:54,390

Not my bad.

936

33:54 ,390 --> 00:33:55,060

Does that interest you?

937

33:55 ,060 --> 00:33:55,900

Or are you just gonna No, sir.

938

33:56 ,030 --> 00:33:56,900

Omar J Dorsey: No, sir.

939

33:56 ,930 --> 00:33:57,260

I see.

940

33:57 ,360 --> 00:33:57,820

You know what?

941

33:58 ,240 --> 00:33:59,330

I, I, I'm producing.

942

33:59 ,330 --> 00:33:59,820

Yes, man.

943

33:59 ,840 --> 00:34:00,890

I just see my wife.

944

34:00 ,900 --> 00:34:02,500

I see all of the worksheets.

945

34:02 ,860 --> 00:34:07,970

Does from rooted from the time she wakes

up to the time she goes to sleep and I'm

946

34:07 ,970 --> 00:34:09,750

like, man, just let me learn my lines.

947

34:10 ,030 --> 00:34:13,990

You know, I don't want to think about

shots and that type of stuff, man.

948

34:14 ,260 --> 00:34:17,150

Like I, cause I was directing for,

when I first met her, I was directing,

949

34:17 ,740 --> 00:34:21,010

um, a directing like a music videos

and I was directing shorts and

950

34:21 ,010 --> 00:34:22,380

I was like, man, I don't know.

951

34:22 ,380 --> 00:34:23,170

I just had my bag.

952

34:23 ,380 --> 00:34:24,020

I said, it's yours.

953

34:24 ,320 --> 00:34:25,030

You're a good director.

954

34:25 ,040 --> 00:34:26,320

I was like, no, this is your bag.

955

34:26 ,320 --> 00:34:28,620

One thing I've learned is it

956

34:28 ,630 --> 00:34:31,450

Marc Preston: just because the

directors, they pick it up.

957

34:31 ,715 --> 00:34:35,375

And they're, you know, months before

the thing starts and then project

958

34:35 ,375 --> 00:34:38,015

and afterwards, I'm like, that's,

you're at least making a year

959

34:38 ,015 --> 00:34:40,311

commitment to, you know, it's a two

year, it's a two year commitment.

960

34:40 ,311 --> 00:34:41,304

It's a two year commitment.

961

34:41 ,305 --> 00:34:41,605

Yeah.

962

34:41 ,645 --> 00:34:41,865

Omar J Dorsey: Yeah.

963

34:41 ,865 --> 00:34:43,045

For, for, for, for a film.

964

34:43 ,325 --> 00:34:45,915

You're talking about, you know,

like you said, the time before the

965

34:45 ,965 --> 00:34:48,565

pre production, the production,

which is probably the easy part.

966

34:48 ,845 --> 00:34:51,015

And it's that post man,

it's that editing dude.

967

34:51 ,355 --> 00:34:52,735

I just look at my wife.

968

34:53 ,155 --> 00:34:54,685

Like she just lays in bed.

969

34:54 ,685 --> 00:34:56,225

It feels like she works so much.

970

34:56 ,675 --> 00:34:58,315

She's always editing.

971

34:58 ,335 --> 00:34:59,545

I feel so bad for her.

972

34:59 ,545 --> 00:35:01,615

I was like, you know, I

can't do it right now.

973

35:01 ,625 --> 00:35:02,075

I got to edit.

974

35:02 ,495 --> 00:35:02,885

Yeah, man.

975

35:03 ,485 --> 00:35:06,975

Marc Preston: You look at the

process that it would take to get

976

35:06 ,975 --> 00:35:09,825

it, you know, it just, it's a, you

know, it makes you realize it's an

977

35:09 ,825 --> 00:35:11,295

actor, you know, it's its own craft.

978

35:11 ,355 --> 00:35:13,345

Of course, it's the easy part.

979

35:13 ,405 --> 00:35:15,775

You show up, you know, your

lines, you do your thing and

980

35:15 ,775 --> 00:35:17,105

then you get to go home and not.

981

35:17 ,300 --> 00:35:20,050

Think about it if you want to,

you know, leave it right there.

982

35:20 ,060 --> 00:35:20,370

Yep.

983

35:20 ,780 --> 00:35:22,040

Now, what are you watching right now?

984

35:22 ,040 --> 00:35:24,660

What, what kind of things are

you, what's coming out right now?

985

35:24 ,660 --> 00:35:28,700

Movie, uh, TV wise, you're like,

that's kind of my jam right now.

986

35:28 ,700 --> 00:35:29,480

So you know what,

987

35:29 ,490 --> 00:35:31,160

Omar J Dorsey: I'll tell you,

I just finished the penguin,

988

35:31 ,510 --> 00:35:32,810

uh, with Colin Farrell.

989

35:32 ,880 --> 00:35:33,430

It's crazy.

990

35:33 ,430 --> 00:35:35,910

Cause when, um, we were staying

together, we were staying in the same

991

35:36 ,130 --> 00:35:39,630

place in New York when he was filming

and we'd go to the gym every morning.

992

35:39 ,630 --> 00:35:41,510

It was just me and him in the gym

at six o'clock in the morning.

993

35:42 ,050 --> 00:35:43,090

And he was telling me about it.

994

35:43 ,630 --> 00:35:46,900

Uh, and then to see the work

that he did in that, man.

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35:47 ,630 --> 00:35:49,300

Marc Preston: Oh, it's still on my list.

996

35:49 ,300 --> 00:35:49,930

I still want to watch it.

997

35:49 ,930 --> 00:35:51,370

I want to watch it when I

have time just to kind of sit.

998

35:51 ,630 --> 00:35:53,580

Actually, my kids are in

town for Thanksgiving.

999

35:53 ,580 --> 00:35:56,710

I might sit down and catch up

with my son, but the makeup alone

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35:56 ,710 --> 00:35:58,380

is like three hours every day.

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35:58 ,390 --> 00:35:59,220

It's bonkers.

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35:59 ,230 --> 00:35:59,740

Like I said, we'll

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Omar J Dorsey: be, we'll,

we'll go to the gym.

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36:01 ,030 --> 00:36:02,040

It'll be six o'clock in the morning.

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36:02 ,040 --> 00:36:03,834

You know, I want to get it over with.

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36:04 ,295 --> 00:36:07,655

He's there like five to six, which is top.

Speaker:1007

36:08 ,035 --> 00:36:11,365

And he's like, man, it makeup

takes like two, three hours to do.

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36:11 ,405 --> 00:36:14,685

It's crazy, but it doesn't

even look like him.

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36:15 ,085 --> 00:36:18,295

And he just does, when you see him argue

and be like, Oh my goodness, he and

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36:18 ,295 --> 00:36:22,235

the lady who plays, uh, his, his, his

arch rival, uh, Sophie, man, they just.

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36:22 ,645 --> 00:36:23,915

They put on a clinic.

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36:30 ,605 --> 00:36:32,105

Marc Preston: As we wrap up

here, my friend, I always

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36:32 ,105 --> 00:36:33,015

like to throw out something.

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36:33 The Seven Questions

36:33 ,015 --> 00:36:34,215

I call them a seven questions.

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36:34 ,215 --> 00:36:35,395

Just a little extra fun.

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36:35 ,395 --> 00:36:36,605

I told you we're gonna talk food.

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36:36 ,605 --> 00:36:39,945

So first questions, what's

your favorite comfort food?

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36:39 ,945 --> 00:36:42,285

I think it brings you back home.

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36:42 ,285 --> 00:36:43,975

That thing, it kind of warms

you up, makes you feel good.

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36:44 ,540 --> 00:36:48,350

Omar J Dorsey: Uh, probably,

uh, pizza, it sound crazy, but

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36:48 ,350 --> 00:36:50,050

I like a barbecue Chicken pizza

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36:50 ,560 --> 00:36:51,220

Marc Preston: Barbe bar.

Speaker:1023

36:51 ,250 --> 00:36:51,550

Okay.

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36:51 ,550 --> 00:36:52,780

See, that's something my son likes.

Speaker:1025

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Yeah.

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36:53 ,050 --> 00:36:54,250

I never got into barbecue.

Speaker:1027

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Ch I'm more of a, I don't know.

Speaker:1028

36:56 ,560 --> 00:36:59,290

I'm more of a, see, I'm one of those

weirdos that likes the anchovies.

Speaker:1029

36:59 ,350 --> 00:36:59,680

I know.

Speaker:1030

36:59 ,680 --> 00:37:00,235

I don't, I can't do

Speaker:1031

37:00 ,235 --> 00:37:00,595

Omar J Dorsey: anchovies.

Speaker:1032

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I can't do no

Speaker:1033

37:03 ,055 --> 00:37:03,435

.

Marc Preston: Oh, no.

Speaker:1034

37:03 ,550 --> 00:37:04,630

So I, no, uh.

Speaker:1035

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It was there a place in Atlanta that

was like your pizza joint like, uh,

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37:08 ,950 --> 00:37:09,810

Omar J Dorsey: yeah, you know what?

Speaker:1037

37:09 ,870 --> 00:37:11,240

And I used to go this is crazy.

Speaker:1038

37:11 ,260 --> 00:37:13,010

I used to go there whenever I landed.

Speaker:1039

37:13 ,040 --> 00:37:16,620

I'd go to a place called Anthony's

pizza And I think they closed down

Speaker:1040

37:16 ,630 --> 00:37:20,530

man last time I was here It's always

the first place I go to get to get

Speaker:1041

37:20 ,530 --> 00:37:23,440

whenever whatever I wanted to eat He

used to be called 350 pizza when I was

Speaker:1042

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a kid because Every pizza was, a whole

pizza went through Albuquerque City.

Speaker:1043

37:28 ,655 --> 00:37:30,055

But then they changed the

names to Anthony's and I

Speaker:1044

37:30 ,085 --> 00:37:31,165

think they closed down, man.

Speaker:1045

37:31 ,525 --> 00:37:34,285

Marc Preston: You know, I think there's

a thing, you got the big national chains,

Speaker:1046

37:34 ,285 --> 00:37:36,675

and then on the other end of the scale,

you got people trying to do fancy pizza.

Speaker:1047

37:36 ,675 --> 00:37:39,595

You know, my love is that good old

fashioned neighborhood mom and pop place.

Speaker:1048

37:39 ,595 --> 00:37:41,085

That's exactly where Anthony's is, yeah.

Speaker:1049

37:41 ,085 --> 00:37:44,175

Yeah, you walk in, you smell, like,

oh, this is gonna be a good pizza.

Speaker:1050

37:44 ,175 --> 00:37:47,095

You know, it's just, it's not pretentious,

it's just what it is, you know.

Speaker:1051

37:47 ,095 --> 00:37:47,425

Yeah, it's

Speaker:1052

37:47 ,425 --> 00:37:49,785

Omar J Dorsey: another

place in, um, in, in, in L.

Speaker:1053

37:49 ,785 --> 00:37:49,885

A.

Speaker:1054

37:49 ,885 --> 00:37:51,025

that I go to called Barones.

Speaker:1055

37:51 ,025 --> 00:37:54,930

And they have this Thick Chicago

stuff is always delicious

Speaker:1056

37:55 ,440 --> 00:37:56,080

Marc Preston: to my favorite.

Speaker:1057

37:56 ,080 --> 00:37:59,090

My, I'd say my favorite, my, I worked

at a place in Dallas, 13 years old.

Speaker:1058

37:59 ,260 --> 00:38:00,870

They have that Detroit style pizza.

Speaker:1059

38:00 ,870 --> 00:38:03,629

Oh yeah.

Speaker:1060

38:03 ,630 --> 00:38:04,510

It was done right now.

Speaker:1061

38:04 ,530 --> 00:38:06,610

That oil, olive, oily, crispy crust.

Speaker:1062

38:06 ,880 --> 00:38:08,740

You can tell I haven't had lunch yet.

Speaker:1063

38:08 ,740 --> 00:38:13,870

Well, the next question I got for

you, you got three, let's say you

Speaker:1064

38:13 ,870 --> 00:38:15,510

got three people living or not.

Speaker:1065

38:15 ,530 --> 00:38:18,550

You can sit down with talk story

for a few hours over some coffee.

Speaker:1066

38:18 ,930 --> 00:38:20,210

Who would those three people be?

Speaker:1067

38:20 ,240 --> 00:38:22,630

You know, it'd be four of y'all at

a table talking for a few hours.

Speaker:1068

38:22 ,640 --> 00:38:22,870

Four

Speaker:1069

38:22 ,940 --> 00:38:24,120

Omar J Dorsey: of us at a table, man.

Speaker:1070

38:24 ,160 --> 00:38:26,540

Um, let me see.

Speaker:1071

38:26 ,550 --> 00:38:30,540

Marlon Brando, uh, Jesus.

Speaker:1072

38:31 ,910 --> 00:38:33,040

Marc Preston: Jesus comes up a lot.

Speaker:1073

38:33 ,120 --> 00:38:33,500

Yeah.

Speaker:1074

38:33 ,500 --> 00:38:33,790

Richard

Speaker:1075

38:33 ,900 --> 00:38:34,600

Omar J Dorsey: Pryor.

Speaker:1076

38:35 ,335 --> 00:38:37,685

Um, let me see for, uh,

Speaker:1077

38:40 ,095 --> 00:38:40,845

I like fighters.

Speaker:1078

38:40 ,845 --> 00:38:43,144

So probably Joan of Arc, Joan

Speaker:1079

38:43 ,425 --> 00:38:44,065

Marc Preston: of Arc's coming up also.

Speaker:1080

38:44 ,065 --> 00:38:44,275

Yeah.

Speaker:1081

38:44 ,275 --> 00:38:48,445

But no, I, uh, Richard Pryor,

God, that would be, uh, I was like

Speaker:1082

38:48 ,865 --> 00:38:50,105

Omar J Dorsey: Richard and

Jesus go ahead and that'd be a,

Speaker:1083

38:50 ,165 --> 00:38:51,074

that'd be a fun conversation,

Speaker:1084

38:51 ,075 --> 00:38:52,525

Marc Preston: Richard,

Jesus and Eddie Murphy,

Speaker:1085

38:55 ,215 --> 00:38:56,755

so now next question.

Speaker:1086

38:56 ,755 --> 00:39:00,625

Now going back, uh, when you were a

kid, who, who was your first celebrity

Speaker:1087

39:00 ,625 --> 00:39:01,845

crush when you were a young man?

Speaker:1088

39:03 ,150 --> 00:39:04,230

Uh,

Speaker:1089

39:04 ,740 --> 00:39:05,610

Omar J Dorsey: Kim Fields.

Speaker:1090

39:06 ,310 --> 00:39:06,490

Oh, of

Speaker:1091

39:06 ,490 --> 00:39:06,820

Marc Preston: course.

Speaker:1092

39:06 ,820 --> 00:39:07,120

Omar J Dorsey: Yeah.

Speaker:1093

39:07 ,420 --> 00:39:08,935

Kim Fields and

Speaker:1094

39:09 ,000 --> 00:39:09,210

Marc Preston: Brook

Speaker:1095

39:09 ,210 --> 00:39:09,780

Omar J Dorsey: Shields.

Speaker:1096

39:10 ,020 --> 00:39:10,170

Marc Preston: Yeah.

Speaker:1097

39:10 ,170 --> 00:39:10,950

Wherever that same age.

Speaker:1098

39:10 ,950 --> 00:39:11,070

Yeah.

Speaker:1099

39:11 ,070 --> 00:39:13,200

Brook Shields is kinda like,

you know, that the kind of,

Speaker:1100

39:13 ,200 --> 00:39:14,790

that awakening of uh, yeah.

Speaker:1101

39:14 ,790 --> 00:39:15,390

Was that Blue Lagoon?

Speaker:1102

39:15 ,390 --> 00:39:15,510

Yeah.

Speaker:1103

39:16 ,255 --> 00:39:16,775

Blue Lagoon.

Speaker:1104

39:16 ,830 --> 00:39:17,100

Yeah.

Speaker:1105

39:17 ,100 --> 00:39:17,730

Man, that was it.

Speaker:1106

39:18 ,030 --> 00:39:18,630

You know, it's funny.

Speaker:1107

39:18 ,630 --> 00:39:21,870

There is, uh, speaking of New Orleans,

uh, she was in that, uh, pretty baby.

Speaker:1108

39:21 ,870 --> 00:39:22,530

Remember that movie?

Speaker:1109

39:22 ,530 --> 00:39:24,150

She was like a little

girl a long time ago.

Speaker:1110

39:24 ,450 --> 00:39:24,720

Oh, okay.

Speaker:1111

39:24 ,990 --> 00:39:27,150

That was a, that's actually

a place they shot it.

Speaker:1112

39:27 ,445 --> 00:39:28,175

Uh, it's on st.

Speaker:1113

39:28 ,175 --> 00:39:28,485

Charles.

Speaker:1114

39:28 ,485 --> 00:39:30,485

It's called the columns hotel.

Speaker:1115

39:30 ,925 --> 00:39:33,215

That's actually, that's,

they also have a bar.

Speaker:1116

39:33 ,215 --> 00:39:36,225

So a lot of, you know, that was the

first bar I went to kind of nicer place.

Speaker:1117

39:36 ,245 --> 00:39:38,105

Uh, but that's actually

where they shot the movie.

Speaker:1118

39:38 ,105 --> 00:39:39,805

So a little random history.

Speaker:1119

39:39 ,805 --> 00:39:39,965

No.

Speaker:1120

39:40 ,655 --> 00:39:43,745

Now let's say you're going to be

forced to live on an exotic Island.

Speaker:1121

39:43 ,805 --> 00:39:44,675

You know, it's somewhere you want to be.

Speaker:1122

39:44 ,675 --> 00:39:47,145

It's a beautiful Island, but you're

going to be there a whole year.

Speaker:1123

39:47 ,425 --> 00:39:47,795

Yeah.

Speaker:1124

39:47 ,875 --> 00:39:49,035

No streaming though.

Speaker:1125

39:49 ,365 --> 00:39:52,165

So if you want to listen to

music, you gotta bring one CD.

Speaker:1126

39:52 ,405 --> 00:39:55,165

And you want to watch them is something

you can listen to over and over and

Speaker:1127

39:55 ,165 --> 00:39:57,325

a movie you can watch over and over.

Speaker:1128

39:57 ,455 --> 00:39:58,385

You got a DVD.

Speaker:1129

39:58 ,385 --> 00:39:59,885

So you got a CD and a DVD.

Speaker:1130

39:59 ,905 --> 00:40:01,055

What would you bring with you?

Speaker:1131

40:02 ,355 --> 00:40:04,135

Omar J Dorsey: Uh, man.

Speaker:1132

40:04 ,185 --> 00:40:04,445

Okay.

Speaker:1133

40:04 ,445 --> 00:40:07,855

The DVD probably be

Speaker:1134

40:08 ,075 --> 00:40:09,315

Marc Preston: Godfather part two.

Speaker:1135

40:09 ,725 --> 00:40:10,045

Okay.

Speaker:1136

40:10 ,065 --> 00:40:10,245

Yeah.

Speaker:1137

40:10 ,245 --> 00:40:10,405

Yeah.

Speaker:1138

40:10 ,405 --> 00:40:10,545

Yeah.

Speaker:1139

40:10 ,605 --> 00:40:11,805

That's come up a lot.

Speaker:1140

40:11 ,805 --> 00:40:13,715

How many people go to

Godfather part three?

Speaker:1141

40:13 ,805 --> 00:40:15,725

That's not, it's always one and two.

Speaker:1142

40:15 ,775 --> 00:40:16,105

Yeah.

Speaker:1143

40:16 ,105 --> 00:40:16,365

Thank

Speaker:1144

40:16 ,365 --> 00:40:17,145

Omar J Dorsey: you for three.

Speaker:1145

40:17 ,225 --> 00:40:18,385

I mean, it was good.

Speaker:1146

40:18 ,395 --> 00:40:21,935

It's just now, um, and

the, the music, the album.

Speaker:1147

40:21 ,935 --> 00:40:23,045

Okay.

Speaker:1148

40:23 ,880 --> 00:40:26,490

It'll probably be, you

see, this is a tricky one.

Speaker:1149

40:26 ,640 --> 00:40:32,410

So it'll be Outkast, Love Below, uh,

Speakerboxx, because it's a double album.

Speaker:1150

40:32 ,840 --> 00:40:36,570

So I'll get one part of:3000

and one part of Big Boy.

Speaker:1151

40:36 ,570 --> 00:40:38,960

So it's two albums, but

it's, it was sold together.

Speaker:1152

40:39 ,360 --> 00:40:42,550

Marc Preston: That they were, that's got

some more Atlanta right there with y'all.

Speaker:1153

40:42 ,700 --> 00:40:44,159

I talked to Big Boy last night.

Speaker:1154

40:44 ,160 --> 00:40:46,890

You know, their fire

burned really, really hot.

Speaker:1155

40:46 ,900 --> 00:40:48,325

Was it late nineties is when it was.

Speaker:1156

40:48 ,325 --> 00:40:48,940

Late nineties, early

Speaker:1157

40:48 ,940 --> 00:40:49,880

Omar J Dorsey: 2000s, man.

Speaker:1158

40:49 ,880 --> 00:40:50,560

Yeah, man.

Speaker:1159

40:50 ,560 --> 00:40:54,680

And It's like, you know, 3,

001, it's like, I'm done.

Speaker:1160

40:54 ,850 --> 00:40:55,130

Yeah.

Speaker:1161

40:55 ,390 --> 00:40:57,430

Marc Preston: You know, there's

always a chance for a union, you

Speaker:1162

40:57 ,450 --> 00:41:00,800

know, because imagine if they said,

okay, we're going to go on tour.

Speaker:1163

41:00 ,910 --> 00:41:03,329

People will come out of

the woodwork for that

Speaker:1164

41:03 ,330 --> 00:41:03,560

Omar J Dorsey: tool.

Speaker:1165

41:03 ,560 --> 00:41:04,290

It makes so much money.

Speaker:1166

41:04 ,310 --> 00:41:05,320

It doesn't make sense.

Speaker:1167

41:05 ,320 --> 00:41:05,540

Do it.

Speaker:1168

41:05 ,580 --> 00:41:06,370

They can do it.

Speaker:1169

41:06 ,370 --> 00:41:07,370

They can do stadiums.

Speaker:1170

41:07 ,380 --> 00:41:07,670

Yeah.

Speaker:1171

41:07 ,880 --> 00:41:11,350

Marc Preston: Now the next question I got

is if you were to define from the time

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41:11 ,350 --> 00:41:12,720

you get up to the time you go to bed.

Speaker:1173

41:13 ,030 --> 00:41:16,060

Uh, the component parts

of a perfect day for you.

Speaker:1174

41:16 ,090 --> 00:41:19,120

What would those component

parts be for a full day?

Speaker:1175

41:19 ,140 --> 00:41:21,230

What would you say that's

a perfect day for me?

Speaker:1176

41:21 ,590 --> 00:41:22,350

Omar J Dorsey: Perfect day.

Speaker:1177

41:22 ,410 --> 00:41:29,120

Uh, wake up, uh, with, uh, go to the

nursery, pick up my son, laugh with him,

Speaker:1178

41:29 ,130 --> 00:41:35,790

play with him, then go out to my gym and

work out for like 40 minutes and go for a

Speaker:1179

41:35 ,790 --> 00:41:38,230

hike, then come home and have breakfast.

Speaker:1180

41:38 ,900 --> 00:41:42,240

And sit down and play college

football for the rest of the day and

Speaker:1181

41:42 ,240 --> 00:41:43,900

kiss my wife, make love to my wife.

Speaker:1182

41:45 ,080 --> 00:41:46,120

Marc Preston: You put

the ball in the package.

Speaker:1183

41:46 ,120 --> 00:41:46,670

That's perfect.

Speaker:1184

41:48 ,070 --> 00:41:51,250

Now, if you are not doing this

for a living, if somebody said,

Speaker:1185

41:51 ,250 --> 00:41:54,030

you know, my, this is not how

you can earn a living anymore.

Speaker:1186

41:54 ,060 --> 00:41:55,080

You got to do something else.

Speaker:1187

41:55 ,120 --> 00:41:59,354

What would, what else could you see

yourself doing to earn a living?

Speaker:1188

41:59 ,705 --> 00:42:02,425

Omar J Dorsey: Definitely running a bar

because I was a bartender, like when

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42:02 ,425 --> 00:42:05,805

I first started acting as everybody

else was, but I just love talking to

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42:05 ,805 --> 00:42:09,455

people, man, you know, and I love,

you know, even people is because the

Speaker:1191

42:09 ,455 --> 00:42:14,965

bartender is sort of like a therapist,

a bit like a comedian, sort of a, um,

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42:14 ,975 --> 00:42:16,535

you know, a teacher or whatever, man.

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42:16 ,585 --> 00:42:21,145

Um, so I just, the interaction that I had

with people, uh, when I was serving them.

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42:21 ,575 --> 00:42:24,485

You know, um, that was so much, that

was, that was, those were good times.

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42:24 ,555 --> 00:42:26,735

Marc Preston: Did you, did you have

a signature drink or something that

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42:26 ,745 --> 00:42:30,445

you would make that was just kind of

like you're, people said, go to Omar

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42:30 ,445 --> 00:42:31,565

and get him to make this for you.

Speaker:1198

42:31 ,605 --> 00:42:33,875

Omar J Dorsey: The margarita,

my margaritas are top notch.

Speaker:1199

42:34 ,035 --> 00:42:36,165

I still, my wife's like, can you

make one of those margaritas?

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42:36 ,185 --> 00:42:36,665

Marc Preston: Really?

Speaker:1201

42:36 ,705 --> 00:42:37,945

Now you're talking to a Texan here.

Speaker:1202

42:37 ,945 --> 00:42:38,555

So yeah.

Speaker:1203

42:38 ,685 --> 00:42:41,395

Pairing a good margarita with, uh.

Speaker:1204

42:41 ,590 --> 00:42:43,020

With Mexican food is my jam.

Speaker:1205

42:43 ,060 --> 00:42:43,190

Yeah.

Speaker:1206

42:43 ,250 --> 00:42:43,850

Yeah, man.

Speaker:1207

42:43 ,990 --> 00:42:47,400

But the thing is, some people try to

go real ultra top shelf on the tequila.

Speaker:1208

42:47 ,400 --> 00:42:49,910

I'm like, you don't have to

use the most expensive tequila.

Speaker:1209

42:50 ,000 --> 00:42:51,100

You don't have to because you're putting

Speaker:1210

42:51 ,100 --> 00:42:52,090

Omar J Dorsey: a whole

bunch of stuff in there.

Speaker:1211

42:52 ,250 --> 00:42:53,708

You know what I'm saying?

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42:53 ,708 --> 00:42:54,094

Yeah.

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42:54 ,094 --> 00:42:54,479

Marc Preston: Yeah.

Speaker:1214

42:54 ,480 --> 00:42:57,010

I'm not a big drinker at all,

but a good, good margarita.

Speaker:1215

42:57 ,010 --> 00:43:00,150

It's like, if we, you know, me living

right here on the coast where I can

Speaker:1216

43:00 ,150 --> 00:43:04,820

get some good seafood or Mexican food,

we're like 35 miles from Mexico here.

Speaker:1217

43:04 ,820 --> 00:43:07,260

So I'm a snob about Mexican.

Speaker:1218

43:07 ,260 --> 00:43:09,230

Everybody in new Orleans was

like, you know, I'll go here.

Speaker:1219

43:09 ,290 --> 00:43:10,120

Great Mexican food.

Speaker:1220

43:10 ,665 --> 00:43:15,115

Yeah, actually, it's funny, uh,

superior that owns a superior seafood

Speaker:1221

43:15 ,135 --> 00:43:17,882

and no superior, um, superior grill.

Speaker:1222

43:17 ,882 --> 00:43:22,645

That is, uh, they actually,

they did a good job down there.

Speaker:1223

43:22 ,805 --> 00:43:25,935

Now, last question I got for you, you

got a DeLorean, you can jump in, you

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can go back and have a few minutes

with 16 year old you and get a piece

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of advice to offer either, either

to make that moment of your life.

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Somehow better or put you on a little

bit different trajectory or whatever.

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What would a piece of advice

for 16 year old you be?

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Omar J Dorsey: Don't start smoking weed at

18 and wasting three years of your life.

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Like stay on the course,

put the weed down, man.

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Go do something, you know, go work.

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I mean, like I said,

just like don't waste.

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It's three years of my life.

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I just was high.

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Marc Preston: Well, it's, it's

only, it's only now you can

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recognize the value of time.

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And I don't know, I've gotten

to the age where I, I don't,

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I just suffer less fools.

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I'm want quality, you know, moments.

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And I just, uh, I was talking

to Neil Degrasse Tyson.

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He's like, I wouldn't change anything.

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Cause if I changed something,

I wouldn't maybe be here.

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You know, it was like.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But I'm like, you know, I, I would

go, you know, I, I think that you

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needed that moment to maybe get to

wherever you got, you never really

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know where the, you probably remember

there's that movie I watched.

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It stuck with me for some reason,

Jim Belushi, uh, it's called Mr.

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Destiny.

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Yes.

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Do you remember?

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44:32 ,200 --> 00:44:34,650

And he just, and he's like,

what if I got the touchdown?

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44:34 ,650 --> 00:44:36,240

I became the football champion, you know?

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44:36 ,655 --> 00:44:38,725

And life diverge realize,

Oh, wait a minute.

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I like my original life better.

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44:40 ,345 --> 00:44:40,735

Right.

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44:40 ,795 --> 00:44:41,495

You know, this one,

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Omar J Dorsey: I'll tell you

what, you know what, this is,

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this is movie called click.

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You see that one, right.

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With, um, Adam Sandler and Chris

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Marc Preston: remote control.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And

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Omar J Dorsey: the movie is

not like Godfather two, but

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it resonated so much with me.

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44:59 ,685 --> 00:45:01,125

We can fast forward our life.

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And, and, and like, just miss out

on some of the best thing I was,

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Marc Preston: I was just about to say

that was, to me, the, the thing that

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struck me and you can miss out on

stuff if you were not kind of in that

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moment, you know, paying attention

and, and realizing it's where you're,

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you know, kind of sort of like dance

to the music that's playing right now.

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Omar J Dorsey: My wife always

tells me that she's like, man,

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you understand you do things.

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People just don't do.

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I did a commencement speech

for Southern University.

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Really?

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45:29 ,135 --> 00:45:30,085

Who does that?

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45:30 ,085 --> 00:45:32,875

Neil deGrasse Tyson does that.

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45:33 ,065 --> 00:45:33,665

You know what I'm saying?

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Not Omar Dorsey.

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But like, But you

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Marc Preston: had to feel

such a sense of weight on you.

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Like, okay, I gotta make sure

I'm saying the right thing.

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These are impressionable minds.

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Yeah, man.

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Yeah,

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Omar J Dorsey: yeah.

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Yeah, it was a lot.

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It was tough.

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45:46 ,415 --> 00:45:48,715

But I mean, that's exactly

what you're thinking.

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I can riff all day, but This is the

thing that they're going to remember

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because they did their four or five

years at this school and they deserve,

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45:57 ,795 --> 00:45:59,695

you know, a great motivational speech.

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So yeah, but it's so many things that

like I, my wife always wants me to

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just sit down and smell the roses,

you know, like you said, like I've

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been in four Oscar winning movies,

man, and I don't even think about it.

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But she was like, you understand

that's how big that is, you

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know, so yeah, I'm starting to.

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To understand now, like, okay, man, you

know, this is, this is really impressive.

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46:20 ,360 --> 00:46:21,550

Marc Preston: Well, you're

counting your blessings.

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46:21 ,550 --> 00:46:25,740

Plus also having a, having a little guy,

a little six month old that, that, because

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you know, the trajectory between that and

20 something and you know, all the things.

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46:29 ,940 --> 00:46:32,890

And so you get to, it's not

that you get it right now.

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46:32 ,900 --> 00:46:34,290

It's just, you get to download

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46:34 ,290 --> 00:46:34,980

Omar J Dorsey: as much stuff.

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46:37 ,525 --> 00:46:41,305

Man, all the things I'm just going to

like, just fill you up with the knowledge

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46:41 ,305 --> 00:46:46,335

and the joy and the beauty of, you

know, of, of this human condition, man.

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46:46 ,385 --> 00:46:47,795

Yeah, man, it's just, I'm excited.

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46:48 ,395 --> 00:46:50,665

Marc Preston: Well, man, I, I really

enjoyed sitting down with you today.

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46:50 ,665 --> 00:46:52,105

I really appreciate you taking time.

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46:52 ,105 --> 00:46:53,055

I know you're a busy guy.

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46:53 ,065 --> 00:46:54,925

You got the Thanksgiving

thing about to happen.

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46:54 ,955 --> 00:46:58,055

Uh, so they do turducken

up there, by any chance?

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46:58 ,065 --> 00:46:58,585

Yeah, I've

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46:58 ,585 --> 00:46:59,525

Omar J Dorsey: got somebody coming in.

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46:59 ,755 --> 00:47:00,805

My homeboy's coming in.

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Uh, he's a Great chef.

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47:01 ,850 --> 00:47:03,740

My boy, Grady, he's coming

to, he's making the turkey.

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47:04 ,050 --> 00:47:06,150

I got some other people,

people just bringing dishes.

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47:06 ,160 --> 00:47:07,050

So we're going to be good.

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47:07 ,170 --> 00:47:08,350

Marc Preston: You know

what we're doing down here?

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47:08 ,350 --> 00:47:11,030

There's a, on the Island, we've got

a place called Kelly's, which is a,

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47:11 ,070 --> 00:47:15,470

uh, it looks like a divy Irish bar,

but they have the most amazing food.

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And it's, it's, it's a, it's a

nice place, not a dive at all.

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47:18 ,430 --> 00:47:22,100

But my daughter who just flew, who

just came in, she was like, yeah,

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47:22 ,100 --> 00:47:24,370

you know, we're, we're going to cook

some, it's just the three of us.

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My oldest is still in new

Orleans right now in school.

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47:27 ,240 --> 00:47:31,045

And, uh, And so we're like, you

know, what we do, she's like, well,

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47:31 ,045 --> 00:47:32,225

Kelly's, you're doing this thing.

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47:32 ,225 --> 00:47:33,015

16 bucks.

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47:33 ,015 --> 00:47:34,905

It's like a, it's like a Thanksgiving.

Speaker:1335

47:35 ,115 --> 00:47:36,085

I was like, you know what?

Speaker:1336

47:36 ,825 --> 00:47:42,875

We'll say we went to an Irish bar for,

uh, because everything they do is amazing.

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47:42 ,875 --> 00:47:45,005

You know, all, all the food

they got, but I kind of figured

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47:45 ,005 --> 00:47:46,245

it'd be a fun experience there.

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47:46 ,285 --> 00:47:48,950

You know, they're, uh, 19 and 20.

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47:48 ,950 --> 00:47:50,805

So they'll think that's, that's fun.

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47:50 ,815 --> 00:47:51,705

Plus I don't have to.

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47:51 ,890 --> 00:47:52,610

Do all the cooking.

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47:53 ,900 --> 00:47:55,000

Omar J Dorsey: I'm actually

going to be in New Orleans on

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47:55 ,440 --> 00:47:55,670

Marc Preston: Friday.

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47:55 ,710 --> 00:47:56,610

Okay, okay.

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47:56 ,700 --> 00:47:57,110

A Bayou

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47:57 ,110 --> 00:47:57,560

Omar J Dorsey: Classic.

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47:57 ,620 --> 00:47:59,110

Yeah, the Bayou Classic is on Friday.

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47:59 ,660 --> 00:48:01,050

Marc Preston: Oh, that's right.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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48:01 ,920 --> 00:48:05,140

So, so, so do you have anything

on the, uh, where's one place

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48:05 ,140 --> 00:48:05,990

you're going to hit and go eat?

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48:06 ,150 --> 00:48:09,550

Omar J Dorsey: Uh, I'll

probably, man, why'd you think?

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48:09 ,900 --> 00:48:13,120

I'll probably, you know,

uh, Is it Bertha's?

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48:13 ,160 --> 00:48:14,830

It's just, man, it's just amazing.

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48:14 ,840 --> 00:48:17,500

It's a whole, it's not a

whole, it's a mom and pop spot.

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48:17 ,510 --> 00:48:18,050

It's on Esplanade.

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48:18 ,050 --> 00:48:22,300

I think it's called, is

it Bertha's or Boothy's?

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48:22 ,690 --> 00:48:24,560

Marc Preston: Thank you so much

for spending time with me today.

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It meant a lot and I wish

you nothing but the best.

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48:27 ,830 --> 00:48:30,840

And if you ever find yourself

down here on South Padre Island

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48:30 ,840 --> 00:48:32,550

in Texas, I will, I will feed you.

Speaker:1364

48:32 ,650 --> 00:48:33,690

How far are you from Dallas?

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48:34 ,175 --> 00:48:38,345

Uh, I'm, uh, literally, if you

look at state map, I'm on the tip

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48:38 ,375 --> 00:48:41,165

tip, that's where Elon Musk's fires

off his rockets, you know, for

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48:41 ,705 --> 00:48:45,255

SpaceX, you know, it's literally 30

miles from, uh, from, uh, Mexico.

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48:45 ,545 --> 00:48:48,015

Uh, it's, it's, uh, gosh, I'm gone.

Speaker:1369

48:48 ,025 --> 00:48:48,695

How far from Dallas?

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48:48 ,715 --> 00:48:50,185

It's just, well, it's really far.

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48:50 ,490 --> 00:48:50,850

It's really fun.

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48:51 ,100 --> 00:48:52,240

You know how big Texas is.

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48:52 ,240 --> 00:48:53,299

I

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48:53 ,300 --> 00:48:54,810

Omar J Dorsey: was just there

in Austin for a wedding.

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48:54 ,860 --> 00:48:55,380

So yeah,

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48:55 ,490 --> 00:48:56,370

Marc Preston: no Austin.

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48:56 ,370 --> 00:48:58,550

Hey, you got to go, uh,

Franklin barbecue down there.

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48:58 ,680 --> 00:48:59,210

Okay, cool.

Speaker:1379

48:59 ,250 --> 00:49:01,530

You got to do that, but

you take care of my friend.

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I appreciate you.

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49:06 ,430 --> 00:49:07,040

All right.

Speaker:1382

49:07 ,080 --> 00:49:11,140

Omar J Dorsey really enjoyed the

opportunity to sit down with him.

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49:11 ,380 --> 00:49:12,690

Very talented guy.

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49:12 ,720 --> 00:49:14,410

The new show is called.

Speaker:1385

49:14 ,525 --> 00:49:15,165

Bookie.

Speaker:1386

49:15 ,335 --> 00:49:17,225

Uh, it is on HBO max.

Speaker:1387

49:17 ,225 --> 00:49:18,165

I know I'm a holdout.

Speaker:1388

49:18 ,165 --> 00:49:21,115

I still call it HBO max,

even though it's just max.

Speaker:1389

49:21 ,235 --> 00:49:22,125

You can check them out.

Speaker:1390

49:22 ,135 --> 00:49:24,815

Funny show along with

Sebastian Menescalco.

Speaker:1391

49:25 ,115 --> 00:49:25,935

Uh, you'll enjoy it.

Speaker:1392

49:25 ,985 --> 00:49:28,385

I tell you what, I'm going to

jump on out of here, but don't

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49:28 ,395 --> 00:49:32,435

forget, pick up your podcast app

and make sure to follow the show.

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49:32 ,455 --> 00:49:35,335

That way you get notified every

time there's a new episode.

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49:35 ,505 --> 00:49:38,995

Uh, also, if you would just a

little favor, just leave a review,

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49:39 ,005 --> 00:49:40,745

like an episode, uh, whatever.

Speaker:1397

49:40 ,965 --> 00:49:44,425

Every bit of love you throw in my

direction, I give it right back to ya.

Speaker:1398

49:44 ,685 --> 00:49:46,305

Virtual hugs for all.

Speaker:1399

49:46 ,925 --> 00:49:47,325

I know.

Speaker:1400

49:47 ,535 --> 00:49:48,985

I like making things a little awkward.

Speaker:1401

49:48 ,985 --> 00:49:49,595

I'm a hugger.

Speaker:1402

49:49 ,735 --> 00:49:50,415

It's what I do.

Speaker:1403

49:50 ,545 --> 00:49:51,675

Okay, I'm gonna get on out of here.

Speaker:1404

49:51 ,675 --> 00:49:53,125

I got a, uh, little pooch.

Speaker:1405

49:53 ,125 --> 00:49:55,855

I don't know if you can hear him, uh,

rolling around playing with his toys.

Speaker:1406

49:56 ,205 --> 00:49:59,395

Uh, but hey, he's gotta get outside

and, uh, I gotta grab a bite to eat.

Speaker:1407

49:59 ,395 --> 00:50:03,205

So, as I always say Thank you for

making whatever I got going on here,

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50:03 ,215 --> 00:50:04,845

part of what you've got going on.

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50:05 ,095 --> 00:50:07,835

I appreciate you, uh, checking

out the show every week.

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50:07 ,995 --> 00:50:11,365

Looking forward to another opportunity

to, uh, sit down, have a conversation,

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50:11 ,365 --> 00:50:12,315

and have you be a part of it.

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50:12 ,635 --> 00:50:16,345

Have a great rest of your week, and I

look forward to connecting with you next

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50:16 ,355 --> 00:50:18,765

time, right here on Story and Craft.

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50:19 ,065 --> 00:50:19,735

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50:19 ,755 --> 00:50:24,365

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50:24 ,555 --> 00:50:28,765

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50:28 ,805 --> 00:50:30,615

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