Ernie Hudson

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Ernie Hudson:
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The years started to go by.

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Ernie Hudson: Five years, people were still yelling who

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Ernie Hudson: you're going to call.

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Ernie Hudson: And ten years and fifteen years and twenty

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Ernie Hudson: years, and I'm seeing people dressed up in

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Ernie Hudson: their jumpsuits and turning their cars into

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Ernie Hudson: ectomobiles.

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Ernie Hudson: That was really surprising.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: All right, here we go.

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Marc Preston: Another episode of Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: Welcome back.

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Marc Preston: Glad to have you.

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Marc Preston: If this is your first time, of course,

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Marc Preston: welcome, appreciate you stopping by.

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Marc Preston: Today we are chatting with veteran actor

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Marc Preston: Ernie Hudson.

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Marc Preston: Over the last 50 plus years he has been in

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Marc Preston: just a ton of stuff, most notably, probably

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Marc Preston: to kids of the 80s like me Ghostbusters.

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Marc Preston: Of course, he is in the NBC reboot of the

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Marc Preston: show Quantum Leap.

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Marc Preston: It just came out, so make sure to check

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Marc Preston: that out.

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Marc Preston: Great conversation with Ernie.

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Marc Preston: I think you'll enjoy it.

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Marc Preston: Quite a bit.

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Marc Preston: let's get after it.

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Marc Preston: Today is Ernie Hudson Day, right here on

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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: So where are you joining me from today?

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Ernie Hudson: I'm in Lake Arrowhead, California.

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Ernie Hudson: Where is that exactly?

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Ernie Hudson: It's just above San Bernardino, about 100

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Ernie Hudson: miles east of Los Angeles, up in the

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Ernie Hudson: mountains.

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Marc Preston: Oh, okay, okay, A little bit more scenic of

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Marc Preston: an area than the greater Los Angeles, i

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Marc Preston: suppose.

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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, I'm in LA when I'm working, but when

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Ernie Hudson: I'm not, I'm up here.

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Marc Preston: Has that been where you've been located for

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Marc Preston: quite some time, or is this just kind of a

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Marc Preston: new move for you?

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Ernie Hudson: Well, it's sort of a new move.

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Ernie Hudson: We were here during the 80s up until about

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Ernie Hudson: 2002, and then we moved off the mountain,

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Ernie Hudson: moved to Minnesota for a while, but just

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Ernie Hudson: came back up here about a year ago.

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Marc Preston: Going from Southern California weather to

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Marc Preston: Minnesota has got to be a culture shock, at

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Marc Preston: least a little bit.

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Ernie Hudson: Well, that's you know.

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Ernie Hudson: You marry someone and you know.

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Ernie Hudson: My wife said wherever you go, i'll go.

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Ernie Hudson: It's been the other way around.

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Ernie Hudson: Wherever she goes, that's where I am.

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Ernie Hudson: Her parents were in their 90s and needed

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Ernie Hudson: her, and so that's what we were for about

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Ernie Hudson: six years.

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Marc Preston: They've transitioned on since but you say

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Marc Preston: you know kind of the way it traditionally

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Marc Preston: works where you go, i go kind of a thing,

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Marc Preston: and I live in New Orleans.

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Marc Preston: I'm from Texas originally but I live in New

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Marc Preston: Orleans now, no longer married.

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Marc Preston: But the rule is, if you marry somebody from

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Marc Preston: New Orleans you end up living in New

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Marc Preston: Orleans, at least for a period of time, and

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Marc Preston: that's kind of the joke.

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Marc Preston: It's rare.

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Marc Preston: It's almost like this little tribe of

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Marc Preston: expats.

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Marc Preston: You're like wait, you're from somewhere

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Marc Preston: else, also You must have married somebody.

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Marc Preston: They're like yeah, yeah.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, you got your MFA at Yale, correct?

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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, i went to Yale.

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Ernie Hudson: I was there for a year.

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Ernie Hudson: I didn't get the MFA, but I was a year in

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Ernie Hudson: drama school, got married very early.

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Ernie Hudson: I'm from Michigan and was having marital

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Ernie Hudson: difficulties.

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Ernie Hudson: Left school, got possession of the kids,

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Ernie Hudson: came out to California.

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Ernie Hudson: I've been mostly based in Los Angeles

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Ernie Hudson: because I've worked all over the years, so

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Ernie Hudson: what?

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Marc Preston: was that like?

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Marc Preston: I'm very curious.

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Marc Preston: I was in a very similar situation.

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Marc Preston: What is it like working Because the actor's

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Marc Preston: life back in the day you can't self-tape.

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Marc Preston: You've got to go to auditions and you're

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Marc Preston: Yeah.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, you had a couple of boys, i think, at

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Marc Preston: that age right, yeah, four sons but two

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Marc Preston: older boys.

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Ernie Hudson: It was just the three of us And you know

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Ernie Hudson: kids bring out the best in you.

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Ernie Hudson: I think I went to California, i suppose in

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Ernie Hudson: New York, because I have a brother who was

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Ernie Hudson: in LA and I knew he would always have my

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Ernie Hudson: back in case I needed someone to check on

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Ernie Hudson: the kids.

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Ernie Hudson: But the boys were really.

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Ernie Hudson: They probably helped raise me as much as I

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Ernie Hudson: raised them.

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Ernie Hudson: So it was the three of us And we, as they

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Ernie Hudson: say, we got by.

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Marc Preston: Isn't that funny, the way that works.

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Marc Preston: I saw a quote once that said with kids

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Marc Preston: don't realize.

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Marc Preston: You don't realize, as your parents are

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Marc Preston: growing up with you at the same time.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah.

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Ernie Hudson: My oldest son was born when I was 19.

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Ernie Hudson: I never had a dad or a mom, so it was kind

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Ernie Hudson: of discovering that whole parental thing,

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Ernie Hudson: sort of winging it, and I always say it was

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Ernie Hudson: the best thing ever happened to me, but it

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Ernie Hudson: also was very difficult at the time.

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Marc Preston: I had a somewhat similar.

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Marc Preston: Let's say I didn't have quite the modeling

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Marc Preston: that you would.

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Marc Preston: You know, june award Cleaver, my parents

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Marc Preston: were not.

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Marc Preston: So it's kind of when you kind of have to

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Marc Preston: get that you registered a certain age.

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Marc Preston: I got to kind of figure some things out on

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Marc Preston: my own And I think there's kind of a

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Marc Preston: liberty to that because you get to craft

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Marc Preston: your own thing on your own terms and make

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Marc Preston: your own mistakes and hopefully learn from

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Marc Preston: them.

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Marc Preston: But just kind of going to origin story

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Marc Preston: going, you said you're from Michigan, are

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Marc Preston: you from?

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Ernie Hudson: around Detroit, no, the opposite side of

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Ernie Hudson: the state.

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Ernie Hudson: I'm from Benton Harbor, which is right on

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Ernie Hudson: the coast of Lake Michigan, directly across

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Ernie Hudson: from Chicago, went to college in Detroit

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Ernie Hudson: and kind of discovered theater in Detroit.

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Ernie Hudson: So Detroit was really, really important.

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Ernie Hudson: But that was after high school, getting

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Ernie Hudson: married, and we decided to head to Detroit.

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Marc Preston: What was the theater thing part of your

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Marc Preston: high school Was that.

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Marc Preston: Were you in athletics or was theater kind

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Marc Preston: of this thing?

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Marc Preston: like I'll try this out, why not?

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Ernie Hudson: You know, i grew up in this very.

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Ernie Hudson: my grandmother who raised me was really

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Ernie Hudson: religious, very much involved with the

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Ernie Hudson: church, and I grew up in the church.

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Ernie Hudson: People say you know, you're from the hood,

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Ernie Hudson: i go.

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Ernie Hudson: no, no, it was school and church.

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Ernie Hudson: I lived mostly at church but and I didn't

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Ernie Hudson: play sports because the church didn't

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Ernie Hudson: believe in sports.

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Ernie Hudson: It was sort of against their rules.

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Ernie Hudson: I took some acting or some theater classes

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Ernie Hudson: a couple times in high school but I really

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Ernie Hudson: didn't discover theater until I got to

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Ernie Hudson: Detroit and by accident stumbled into a

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Ernie Hudson: theater and was just just mesmerized by

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Ernie Hudson: this production and just thought that it

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Ernie Hudson: had to be the greatest thing in the world

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Ernie Hudson: to be to be in theater.

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Marc Preston: You know what was your trajectory like?

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Marc Preston: Were you looking at people on film and TV

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Marc Preston: and going that's where I want to go, that's

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Marc Preston: the end game?

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Marc Preston: Or was it just readjust a theater guy?

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Marc Preston: It just happened into the on camera?

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Ernie Hudson: Yeah Well, you know, growing up you watch

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Ernie Hudson: CB.

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Ernie Hudson: You think it would be something really very

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Ernie Hudson: cool, but I didn't know any actors So it

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Ernie Hudson: was never a part of my psyche.

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Ernie Hudson: Once I discovered a theater, it was after

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Ernie Hudson: having a family trying every job possible,

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Ernie Hudson: being very bad at everything, that by the

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Ernie Hudson: time I walked on stage I just felt at home

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Ernie Hudson: and I felt like this is something I got, i

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Ernie Hudson: can do, and that was in, whatever it took

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Ernie Hudson: to be good at it and to be able to make a

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Ernie Hudson: living.

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Ernie Hudson: That's where I was.

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Ernie Hudson: I just wanted to be a working actor.

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Ernie Hudson: Didn't think too much about the whole star

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Ernie Hudson: thing or, but I just wanted to to be able

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Ernie Hudson: to work.

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Marc Preston: My kids and I.

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Marc Preston: By the way and this is a little tiny bit of

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Marc Preston: a spoiler for anybody that hasn't seen the

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Marc Preston: most recent Ghostbusters after life You do

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Marc Preston: show up in it.

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Marc Preston: I was like what a great thing it was to see

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Marc Preston: you show up in that.

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Marc Preston: I was like that was just cool.

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Marc Preston: But going back to the original Ghostbusters

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Marc Preston: leading up to that, you were kind of like

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Marc Preston: what I consider to be one of my favorite

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Marc Preston: people, which is just a working actor, and

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Marc Preston: either I had to actually write this down

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Marc Preston: Fantasy Island, black Sheep Squadron,

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Marc Preston: incredible Hulk, one day, at a time too

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Marc Preston: close to come for different strokes, a

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Marc Preston: Little House in the Prairie Buzzing Buddies.

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Marc Preston: You know, episode, episode That's like

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Marc Preston: Murderer's Row of, like what was going on

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Marc Preston: back in the day.

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Marc Preston: Were you that guy who was just getting one

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Marc Preston: episodes on all these different shows

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Marc Preston: hustling?

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Marc Preston: Yeah, if the timeline registers correctly.

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Marc Preston: But when you got to Ghostbusters, that was

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Marc Preston: a real big turning point for you.

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Marc Preston: Is that correct?

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Ernie Hudson: Well it should have been.

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Ernie Hudson: I mean, i've always worked And, being a

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Ernie Hudson: single dad, i'd go in.

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Ernie Hudson: I had to get the job.

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Ernie Hudson: I worked.

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Ernie Hudson: I went from show to show.

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Ernie Hudson: Ghostbusters came out.

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Ernie Hudson: It was a huge hit.

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Ernie Hudson: It did not change Suddenly.

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Ernie Hudson: I felt like I was blocked out for about

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Ernie Hudson: three years.

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Ernie Hudson: I couldn't get another film, but I did.

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Ernie Hudson: I kept working TV.

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Marc Preston: Why do you think that was?

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Marc Preston: Do you think it was because people were too

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Marc Preston: closely identifying you with and the

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Marc Preston: character?

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Marc Preston: people said the name two different ways

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Marc Preston: Zedmore and Zedamore Yeah.

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Ernie Hudson: I would write I say Zedamore, but I'm sure

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Ernie Hudson: actors never know why they're working and

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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, no, we no escape me.

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Ernie Hudson: Ray Lance Hendrickson.

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Ernie Hudson: It was a great little movie and that's

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Ernie Hudson: He was a pro, you know, completely, and I

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Ernie Hudson: I'm more interested in working with people

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Ernie Hudson: I don't audition anymore.

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Ernie Hudson: But I really appreciate people.

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Ernie Hudson: That goes a long way with me.

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Marc Preston: I was like what a cool show to bring back.

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Marc Preston: Is it structurally going to be the same as

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Marc Preston: before, or is it more of a reimagined

493

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Marc Preston: version of it?

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Ernie Hudson: Well, it's more of an updated well, it

495

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Ernie Hudson: takes place 30 years.

496

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Ernie Hudson: That was done in the 90s, so we're in the

497

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Ernie Hudson: 20s, so it's modern day and it's based on

498

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Ernie Hudson: the original, so paying homage and respect

499

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Ernie Hudson: to that one, but it's in the same world, in

500

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Ernie Hudson: the same universe.

501

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Ernie Hudson: it's just here.

502

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Ernie Hudson: we are now X number of years later And the

503

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Ernie Hudson: show is similar, but there are obviously

504

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Ernie Hudson: some modern changes.

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Ernie Hudson: I think the fans who love that show will

506

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Ernie Hudson: love what we're doing with it now.

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Marc Preston: It's one of those ones that think why

508

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Marc Preston: haven't they rebooted the show yet?

509

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Marc Preston: It has such a cool premise to it because it

510

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Marc Preston: seems like now, if you're for somebody like

511

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Marc Preston: me, as a kid of the 80s, i don't remember

512

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Marc Preston: being a kid of the 80s and seeing them

513

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Marc Preston: reboot stuff from the 50s, 60s, 70s, but

514

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Marc Preston: man, all the stuff from the 80s and 90s are

515

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Marc Preston: showing up and it's kind of cool because

516

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Marc Preston: they have the special effects that they can

517

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Marc Preston: do now that they couldn't do back then, but

518

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Marc Preston: real quick, i was going to ask you.

519

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Marc Preston: You mentioned your sons.

520

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Marc Preston: Any of your sons go into writing acting.

521

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Marc Preston: Did they follow dad's lead at all?

522

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Ernie Hudson: Well, my oldest son.

523

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Ernie Hudson: He was acting for a while, in fact.

524

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Ernie Hudson: He did a season of Oz.

525

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Ernie Hudson: I did the HBO series Oz.

526

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Ernie Hudson: We did a number of movies together.

527

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Ernie Hudson: I think he was in Candy Man, so he was

528

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Ernie Hudson: working a bit.

529

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Ernie Hudson: He got into corporate work, so now that's

530

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Ernie Hudson: kind of what he does.

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Ernie Hudson: He has produced some films, but not doing

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Ernie Hudson: the acting anymore.

533

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Ernie Hudson: My second son is a musician, still doing

534

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Ernie Hudson: his thing.

535

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Ernie Hudson: My third son is a writer, still waiting to

536

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Ernie Hudson: land something significant.

537

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Ernie Hudson: And my youngest son is a watchmaker.

538

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Ernie Hudson: Really, yeah, we have this love of watches,

539

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Ernie Hudson: so they're all pretty amazing.

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Ernie Hudson: Nobody wanted to be just an actor, except

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Ernie Hudson: my oldest son.

542

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Ernie Hudson: Like I said, he was acting for a while.

543

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Marc Preston: Now you mentioned Oz.

544

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Marc Preston: I have to admit there's so much great stuff

545

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Marc Preston: out there I haven't watched yet.

546

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Marc Preston: I saw a couple of episodes of it, but it's

547

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Marc Preston: one of those things there's so much

548

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Marc Preston: compared to a couple decades ago that's

549

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Marc Preston: available.

550

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Marc Preston: I'm like, yeah, well, that's going to be a

551

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Marc Preston: weekend of binging for me at some point in

552

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Marc Preston: time, you know.

553

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Marc Preston: but what was I know?

554

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Marc Preston: Oz is really just.

555

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Marc Preston: everybody on that show really is just yet a

556

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Marc Preston: lot of great acting.

557

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Marc Preston: The episodes I watched really well seem

558

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Marc Preston: like to be a very intense show.

559

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Marc Preston: What was shooting that?

560

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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, it was.

561

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Ernie Hudson: I mean I was the warden.

562

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Ernie Hudson: I remember you know I'd come to the set,

563

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Ernie Hudson: greet everybody.

564

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Ernie Hudson: Everybody's friendly, they're all open and

565

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Ernie Hudson: fun.

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Ernie Hudson: Then I'd go in and dress on my suit and

567

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Ernie Hudson: always shine my shoes.

568

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Ernie Hudson: By the time I come out in character nobody

569

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Ernie Hudson: would speak to me.

570

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Ernie Hudson: But it was a great group of actors I think

571

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Ernie Hudson: the best cast I've probably ever worked

572

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Ernie Hudson: with These guys and everybody was there to

573

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Ernie Hudson: bring their best.

574

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Ernie Hudson: It was just a wonderful time.

575

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Ernie Hudson: Tom Fontana, who his company, barry

576

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Ernie Hudson: Levinson they do City on the Hill I just

577

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Ernie Hudson: did a recurring thing for that show

578

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Ernie Hudson: recently.

579

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Ernie Hudson: It was great to be back and work with them,

580

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Ernie Hudson: but it was just a great show.

581

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Ernie Hudson: Great group of actors, a lot of guys.

582

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Ernie Hudson: Jk Simmons Just a lot of guys came out of

583

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Ernie Hudson: that and are doing Chris Maloney.

584

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Ernie Hudson: It was just some good group of people.

585

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Marc Preston: That is such an amazing cast.

586

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Marc Preston: You mentioned something a moment ago

587

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Marc Preston: reminds me something that I believe it was.

588

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Marc Preston: Tom Hanks said that before he fully feels

589

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Marc Preston: in the character, it's when he puts the

590

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Marc Preston: shoes on.

591

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Marc Preston: That's just for him.

592

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Marc Preston: That's what it is.

593

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Marc Preston: What is it like for you before you really

594

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Marc Preston: feel I'm a big fan of?

595

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Marc Preston: I do a lot of voice over, but I always kind

596

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Marc Preston: of really even in my head, imagination wise

597

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Marc Preston: think wardrobe, because you carry yourself

598

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Marc Preston: differently.

599

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Marc Preston: What is it for you before you're fully

600

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Marc Preston: dialed into a character?

601

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Marc Preston: Is it wardrobe, is it the set?

602

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Marc Preston: What is it for you?

603

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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, it's well, it changes.

604

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Ernie Hudson: Sometimes it's wardrobe, Sometimes it's

605

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Ernie Hudson: something that informs you, Sometimes it's

606

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Ernie Hudson: the set, It's the surrounding, Sometimes

607

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Ernie Hudson: it's acting is believing.

608

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Ernie Hudson: So, however, I can get to that place where

609

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Ernie Hudson: I really believe this story, this person,

610

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Ernie Hudson: this situation.

611

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Ernie Hudson: This is truly where I am.

612

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Ernie Hudson: Sometimes you can read a script and you

613

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Ernie Hudson: just know.

614

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Ernie Hudson: Sometimes it seems like it just takes

615

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Ernie Hudson: forever to try to sink into something.

616

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Ernie Hudson: So it it um.

617

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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, it changes, but wardrobe is certainly

618

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Ernie Hudson: a real important part of it.

619

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Marc Preston: Well, as far as what you've done, all the

620

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Marc Preston: projects you've worked on, what's the one

621

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Marc Preston: you probably identified the closest with

622

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Marc Preston: that?

623

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Marc Preston: maybe you know, even when you were done

624

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Marc Preston: filming it'd be a show or a movie What kind

625

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Marc Preston: of stuck with you, what role was really

626

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Marc Preston: resonant.

627

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Ernie Hudson: Well, you know I can say I just love

628

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Ernie Hudson: working, so they all have special meaning.

629

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Ernie Hudson: There are certain ones.

630

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Ernie Hudson: I was talking to someone recently about the

631

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Ernie Hudson: hand that rocks the cradle.

632

00:23:13,410 --> 00:23:16,376

Ernie Hudson: I love that character because he was I

633

00:23:16,416 --> 00:23:18,961

Ernie Hudson: always said he was sort of the best part of

634

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Ernie Hudson: who I am.

635

00:23:20,450 --> 00:23:22,822

Ernie Hudson: But you know, obviously the Ghostbusters

636

00:23:22,842 --> 00:23:24,329

Ernie Hudson: character I love the fact that families

637

00:23:24,349 --> 00:23:26,197

Ernie Hudson: sort of you know respond to it.

638

00:23:26,430 --> 00:23:29,597

Ernie Hudson: Congo was a lot of fun because it reminded

639

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Ernie Hudson: me so much of the movies I watched as a kid

640

00:23:32,870 --> 00:23:35,238

Ernie Hudson: and that character being the safari leader,

641

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Ernie Hudson: grace and Frankie I felt was probably

642

00:23:37,894 --> 00:23:39,478

Ernie Hudson: closer to me as a person.

643

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Ernie Hudson: So they're all a little bit different.

644

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Ernie Hudson: You hope they are, you know.

645

00:23:48,110 --> 00:23:50,515

Ernie Hudson: Now maybe I'm not sure how sometimes it's

646

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Ernie Hudson: very subtle how much people see, but for me

647

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Ernie Hudson: they're all a little bit different.

648

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Marc Preston: What do people mostly is it really

649

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Marc Preston: generational?

650

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Marc Preston: whenever they meet you, it's like oh,

651

00:24:00,392 --> 00:24:02,477

Marc Preston: ghostbusters or us, or what are people

652

00:24:02,597 --> 00:24:04,401

Marc Preston: usually mostly identifying you with?

653

00:24:05,130 --> 00:24:05,771

Ernie Hudson: Well, you know it's.

654

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Ernie Hudson: I've been fortunate that my work sort of

655

00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,090

Ernie Hudson: appealed to different audiences, so

656

00:24:12,110 --> 00:24:14,636

Ernie Hudson: different people will come, older people,

657

00:24:15,137 --> 00:24:18,023

Ernie Hudson: women, will come up and say, remember the

658

00:24:18,043 --> 00:24:19,192

Ernie Hudson: hand that rocks the cradle?

659

00:24:20,636 --> 00:24:21,999

Ernie Hudson: because it had to do, i think, with

660

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Ernie Hudson: children or whatever Obviously the

661

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Ernie Hudson: Ghostbusters not just with people who kids,

662

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Ernie Hudson: who saw it first time in the movie theater,

663

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Ernie Hudson: but now they're kids and they're grandkids,

664

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Ernie Hudson: of being introduced to the movie and those

665

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Ernie Hudson: kids love it.

666

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Ernie Hudson: So it's something that families sort of you

667

00:24:38,356 --> 00:24:40,380

Ernie Hudson: know, enjoy together.

668

00:24:41,850 --> 00:24:43,193

Ernie Hudson: You know Grace and Frankie, again

669

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Ernie Hudson: middle-aged women, responded very much to

670

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Ernie Hudson: that character.

671

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Ernie Hudson: I do a show called Family Business on BET.

672

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Ernie Hudson: There's an inner city audience that loves

673

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Ernie Hudson: that show and that character and sort of so

674

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Ernie Hudson: the crow.

675

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Ernie Hudson: a lot of kids who are going through their

676

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Ernie Hudson: teenage angst respond to that character.

677

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Ernie Hudson: So yeah, it kind of depends on, but they

678

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Ernie Hudson: come for a variety of reasons.

679

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Ernie Hudson: but over and above probably Ghostbusters,

680

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Ernie Hudson: more than but all the other ones, someone

681

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Ernie Hudson: will come up and bring up something that

682

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Ernie Hudson: I've almost forgotten I did, you know, yeah.

683

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Marc Preston: It must be a great career.

684

00:25:26,014 --> 00:25:27,230

Marc Preston: We're like oh yeah, i did do that didn't I.

685

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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, no, I had almost an argument with the

686

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Ernie Hudson: guy and he said, yeah, i saw you in this

687

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Ernie Hudson: movie and said, no, it wasn't me.

688

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Ernie Hudson: And then he started describing the

689

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Ernie Hudson: character and I'm like, oh my God, i did do

690

00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:36,521

Ernie Hudson: that.

691

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Ernie Hudson: So, yeah, it's been.

692

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Ernie Hudson: Like I said, it's been over 50 years.

693

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Marc Preston: Yeah, well, you know it's funny without

694

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Marc Preston: mentioning numbers.

695

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Marc Preston: I notice you're actually a little older

696

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Marc Preston: than Bill Murray, but you look

697

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Marc Preston: exponentially younger than Bill Murray and

698

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Marc Preston: I've got to know, as fitness and I mean

699

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Marc Preston: just taking care of yourself just been part

700

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Marc Preston: of the program over the years or because

701

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Marc Preston: it's like I'm sitting there going to, this

702

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Marc Preston: guy looks like I mean I got to get to the

703

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Marc Preston: gym because you're, like you know, making

704

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Marc Preston: me feel bad about, like how lazy I bet.

705

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Ernie Hudson: Well, you know I never really got much into

706

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Ernie Hudson: a lot of working out, you know, i just

707

00:26:09,421 --> 00:26:10,363

Ernie Hudson: think you got to be aware.

708

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Ernie Hudson: So I never let the weight get too far out

709

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Ernie Hudson: of control because once it does it's so

710

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Ernie Hudson: hard to get back, watching the vital signs,

711

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Ernie Hudson: making sure your blood pressure and all

712

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Ernie Hudson: those things stay.

713

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Ernie Hudson: You know I'm going through two bouts of

714

00:26:23,033 --> 00:26:27,333

Ernie Hudson: cancer and thankfully cancer free, yeah.

715

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Ernie Hudson: But yeah, you know, and try not to stress

716

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Ernie Hudson: over stuff.

717

00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,303

Ernie Hudson: You know, and I've been in a relationship.

718

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Ernie Hudson: My wife and I have been together for 46

719

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Ernie Hudson: years And I really believe.

720

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Ernie Hudson: I think I'm not a religious person my

721

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Ernie Hudson: grandmother was but I do believe in

722

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Ernie Hudson: universal divine guidance.

723

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Ernie Hudson: I believe in God, whatever that.

724

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Ernie Hudson: You know I'm not.

725

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Ernie Hudson: I don't believe anybody telling me what

726

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Ernie Hudson: that is, but so I've been very, very

727

00:26:54,635 --> 00:26:55,116

Ernie Hudson: blessed.

728

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Ernie Hudson: And not just trust.

729

00:26:57,450 --> 00:27:00,099

Ernie Hudson: I've never trusted my grandmother would say,

730

00:27:00,220 --> 00:27:03,190

Ernie Hudson: putting out your trust in man, but that the

731

00:27:03,391 --> 00:27:05,659

Ernie Hudson: universe hears and will respond to you.

732

00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:07,734

Ernie Hudson: So I've always trusted that things will

733

00:27:07,794 --> 00:27:11,322

Ernie Hudson: come, and not necessarily from where and

734

00:27:11,362 --> 00:27:11,823

Ernie Hudson: the people.

735

00:27:12,010 --> 00:27:14,313

Ernie Hudson: I think they will, but I've always known

736

00:27:15,155 --> 00:27:17,902

Ernie Hudson: that if I ask, it would be given.

737

00:27:18,411 --> 00:27:20,599

Marc Preston: I very closely identify with that idea.

738

00:27:20,710 --> 00:27:22,616

Marc Preston: I think that it's it's no matter what faith

739

00:27:22,636 --> 00:27:23,639

Marc Preston: somebody's brought up in.

740

00:27:24,020 --> 00:27:25,833

Marc Preston: There's a moment and they decide, man, i'm

741

00:27:25,853 --> 00:27:27,357

Marc Preston: going to buy in 100% or this.

742

00:27:27,538 --> 00:27:29,102

Marc Preston: They become curious and they start

743

00:27:29,350 --> 00:27:30,913

Marc Preston: exploring and they start you know they

744

00:27:30,934 --> 00:27:31,274

Marc Preston: don't.

745

00:27:31,334 --> 00:27:33,338

Marc Preston: They're not as much trying to put labels on

746

00:27:33,418 --> 00:27:33,779

Marc Preston: things.

747

00:27:33,899 --> 00:27:34,701

Marc Preston: How do you define this?

748

00:27:34,721 --> 00:27:36,531

Marc Preston: What do you call it Which?

749

00:27:36,612 --> 00:27:38,843

Marc Preston: living in America in 2022 is kind of an

750

00:27:38,883 --> 00:27:40,310

Marc Preston: interesting time because you got a little

751

00:27:40,410 --> 00:27:43,893

Marc Preston: tug of war going on there, but I think it's

752

00:27:43,913 --> 00:27:45,374

Marc Preston: about energy You put out in the world.

753

00:27:45,394 --> 00:27:45,897

Marc Preston: How you feel.

754

00:27:45,917 --> 00:27:47,586

Marc Preston: You know, just being my.

755

00:27:47,747 --> 00:27:48,892

Marc Preston: I was speaking with some of the other day.

756

00:27:48,952 --> 00:27:50,156

Marc Preston: They said the first thing they do when they

757

00:27:50,196 --> 00:27:51,379

Marc Preston: wake up in the morning is meditate.

758

00:27:52,473 --> 00:27:53,793

Marc Preston: I should do that, but, knowing me, I just

759

00:27:53,833 --> 00:27:54,817

Marc Preston: fall right back to sleep.

760

00:27:55,030 --> 00:27:56,115

Marc Preston: Fall right back to sleep, i think.

761

00:27:56,751 --> 00:27:57,994

Marc Preston: Well, actually, you know just one other

762

00:27:58,034 --> 00:28:00,239

Marc Preston: question about Ghostbusters.

763

00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,891

Marc Preston: When you were doing that, did you have a

764

00:28:02,971 --> 00:28:06,480

Marc Preston: sense that it was going to be what it

765

00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:07,322

Marc Preston: turned into?

766

00:28:07,790 --> 00:28:08,854

Marc Preston: Did you have a sense, okay, this is going

767

00:28:08,874 --> 00:28:10,399

Marc Preston: to be a big movie?

768

00:28:10,810 --> 00:28:11,031

Marc Preston: How did you?

769

00:28:11,051 --> 00:28:12,336

Marc Preston: what did you feel like when you were, when

770

00:28:12,356 --> 00:28:13,038

Marc Preston: you're making the film?

771

00:28:13,110 --> 00:28:14,274

Marc Preston: Did you know this was something special?

772

00:28:15,057 --> 00:28:17,376

Ernie Hudson: Yeah, i mean I knew that it would be.

773

00:28:18,030 --> 00:28:20,918

Ernie Hudson: I mean back in those back in the 80s, a

774

00:28:20,959 --> 00:28:21,841

Ernie Hudson: movie would come out.

775

00:28:21,990 --> 00:28:22,251

Ernie Hudson: It would.

776

00:28:22,352 --> 00:28:24,821

Ernie Hudson: If it hopefully it was in the top 10, if

777

00:28:24,862 --> 00:28:27,351

Ernie Hudson: it's number one, it'll last for a few weeks

778

00:28:27,391 --> 00:28:29,816

Ernie Hudson: and then it something else will come along

779

00:28:29,836 --> 00:28:31,459

Ernie Hudson: and replace it and that's how things went.

780

00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:32,863

Ernie Hudson: But I knew it would be number one.

781

00:28:33,550 --> 00:28:35,575

Ernie Hudson: I didn't how long it lasts, it that's.

782

00:28:35,755 --> 00:28:38,702

Ernie Hudson: But when it just stayed at the top, you

783

00:28:38,722 --> 00:28:40,977

Ernie Hudson: know, week after week after week, that was

784

00:28:41,017 --> 00:28:41,559

Ernie Hudson: surprising.

785

00:28:41,810 --> 00:28:44,519

Ernie Hudson: And then, after the years started to go by,

786

00:28:44,740 --> 00:28:47,510

Ernie Hudson: five years, people were still yelling who

787

00:28:47,550 --> 00:28:49,980

Ernie Hudson: are you going to call in 10 years, in 15

788

00:28:50,020 --> 00:28:51,245

Ernie Hudson: years, in 20 years?

789

00:28:51,305 --> 00:28:53,012

Ernie Hudson: and I'm seeing people dressed up in their

790

00:28:53,092 --> 00:28:55,559

Ernie Hudson: jumpsuits and and turning their cars in

791

00:28:55,659 --> 00:28:56,321

Ernie Hudson: ectomobiles.

792

00:28:56,610 --> 00:28:57,836

Ernie Hudson: That was really surprising.

793

00:28:58,270 --> 00:29:01,280

Ernie Hudson: And then 30 years and their Ghostbusters

794

00:29:01,300 --> 00:29:02,624

Ernie Hudson: chapters all over the world.

795

00:29:02,724 --> 00:29:05,313

Ernie Hudson: That that part I could never imagine.

796

00:29:07,394 --> 00:29:07,655

Ernie Hudson: That.

797

00:29:07,815 --> 00:29:09,822

Ernie Hudson: Yeah, the fact that it's sustained in the

798

00:29:09,882 --> 00:29:10,825

Ernie Hudson: way that it has.

799

00:29:11,548 --> 00:29:13,112

Ernie Hudson: I knew it would be a big movie, but I

800

00:29:13,172 --> 00:29:16,260

Ernie Hudson: didn't realize that it would become what it

801

00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:16,841

Ernie Hudson: has become.

802

00:29:23,830 --> 00:29:24,713

Marc Preston: I mean the Marceting.

803

00:29:25,194 --> 00:29:26,958

Marc Preston: it took a page right out of Star Wars.

804

00:29:27,025 --> 00:29:30,154

Marc Preston: I mean there was literally food and toys

805

00:29:30,294 --> 00:29:30,876

Marc Preston: and everything.

806

00:29:30,945 --> 00:29:32,549

Marc Preston: It was just like one of those things that

807

00:29:33,151 --> 00:29:35,617

Marc Preston: how did you I'd say young actor, you and

808

00:29:35,705 --> 00:29:37,512

Marc Preston: your thirties, i guess when you made that?

809

00:29:38,388 --> 00:29:40,274

Ernie Hudson: Yeah, probably close to 40.

810

00:29:40,305 --> 00:29:42,511

Ernie Hudson: I mean, I was well into my thirties when we

811

00:29:42,551 --> 00:29:42,852

Ernie Hudson: did it.

812

00:29:42,933 --> 00:29:43,173

Ernie Hudson: Yeah.

813

00:29:44,666 --> 00:29:46,132

Marc Preston: But it was it it had been kind of a heady

814

00:29:46,232 --> 00:29:49,525

Marc Preston: thing for you to have everybody know who

815

00:29:49,625 --> 00:29:50,851

Marc Preston: you were suddenly.

816

00:29:52,429 --> 00:29:54,406

Ernie Hudson: Well, I used to tell a joke back then I

817

00:29:54,466 --> 00:29:56,333

Ernie Hudson: came to Hollywood to be rich and famous.

818

00:29:56,505 --> 00:29:58,031

Ernie Hudson: I never realized you could be poor and

819

00:29:58,091 --> 00:29:58,572

Ernie Hudson: popular.

820

00:29:59,526 --> 00:30:03,416

Ernie Hudson: So when Ghostbusters came out it was huge,

821

00:30:03,805 --> 00:30:06,392

Ernie Hudson: But of course I didn't get paid the kind of

822

00:30:06,492 --> 00:30:08,557

Ernie Hudson: money that a lot of people were paid.

823

00:30:08,705 --> 00:30:11,754

Ernie Hudson: So it didn't change my life in terms of

824

00:30:11,854 --> 00:30:14,431

Ernie Hudson: money, But people were coming to my front

825

00:30:14,511 --> 00:30:16,267

Ernie Hudson: door And so that was.

826

00:30:17,770 --> 00:30:20,356

Marc Preston: That was a little surprising and unsettling,

827

00:30:21,446 --> 00:30:24,232

Marc Preston: And yeah, you know you're mentioning that

828

00:30:24,352 --> 00:30:27,038

Marc Preston: it just kind of follows the decades.

829

00:30:27,125 --> 00:30:28,110

Marc Preston: You know it's just showing up with

830

00:30:28,150 --> 00:30:29,979

Marc Preston: different generations and stranger things

831

00:30:30,843 --> 00:30:32,569

Marc Preston: really kind of leaned in in the early, you

832

00:30:32,589 --> 00:30:34,134

Marc Preston: know, because that with my kids is real

833

00:30:34,174 --> 00:30:34,796

Marc Preston: popular now.

834

00:30:34,965 --> 00:30:37,136

Marc Preston: But for me growing up in the 80s I don't

835

00:30:37,157 --> 00:30:38,624

Marc Preston: know how these two guys are much younger

836

00:30:38,645 --> 00:30:40,613

Marc Preston: than me the producer, the Duffer brothers,

837

00:30:41,035 --> 00:30:42,903

Marc Preston: hit the nail on the head so well on the

838

00:30:42,923 --> 00:30:43,767

Marc Preston: vibe of the 80s.

839

00:30:44,505 --> 00:30:45,691

Marc Preston: But what was it like when you saw that?

840

00:30:45,845 --> 00:30:47,251

Marc Preston: I don't know if you'd, i'm assuming you'd

841

00:30:47,311 --> 00:30:48,848

Marc Preston: seen it And then they really leaned in on

842

00:30:48,868 --> 00:30:51,374

Marc Preston: the Ghostbusters thing as far as being a

843

00:30:51,394 --> 00:30:52,697

Marc Preston: big cultural note of the 80s.

844

00:30:53,125 --> 00:30:53,447

Marc Preston: Was that kind of?

845

00:30:53,467 --> 00:30:54,795

Marc Preston: is this still kind of cool for you to see

846

00:30:54,815 --> 00:30:56,505

Marc Preston: that it still is resonating?

847

00:30:57,127 --> 00:30:58,391

Ernie Hudson: Yeah, to see people shows.

848

00:30:59,225 --> 00:31:00,448

Ernie Hudson: I've done a number of shows where they

849

00:31:00,489 --> 00:31:02,855

Ernie Hudson: wanted me to do something, to throw a line

850

00:31:02,935 --> 00:31:03,035

Ernie Hudson: in.

851

00:31:03,196 --> 00:31:05,933

Ernie Hudson: Or you know the show I do family business.

852

00:31:07,689 --> 00:31:10,019

Ernie Hudson: There's a line where I'm the.

853

00:31:10,119 --> 00:31:11,545

Ernie Hudson: I say I'm the original Ghostbusters.

854

00:31:11,625 --> 00:31:14,733

Ernie Hudson: I mean somehow it they the young man and I

855

00:31:14,813 --> 00:31:16,377

Ernie Hudson: can't think of his name off top of my head,

856

00:31:16,605 --> 00:31:19,634

Ernie Hudson: but on Stranger Things, the black kid who

857

00:31:20,216 --> 00:31:22,985

Ernie Hudson: they dress up, and I think there's in this

858

00:31:23,145 --> 00:31:23,527

Ernie Hudson: show.

859

00:31:24,069 --> 00:31:26,697

Ernie Hudson: They expect him to be Winston Zedmore and

860

00:31:26,798 --> 00:31:28,985

Ernie Hudson: he says why do I have to be Winston Zedmore?

861

00:31:29,065 --> 00:31:30,070

Ernie Hudson: I want to be something else.

862

00:31:31,727 --> 00:31:34,212

Ernie Hudson: So when I met him and he came up and he

863

00:31:34,272 --> 00:31:37,057

Ernie Hudson: just apologized, he said I'm sorry, it

864

00:31:37,097 --> 00:31:39,168

Ernie Hudson: wasn't me, it was like they just wrote it

865

00:31:39,208 --> 00:31:39,609

Ernie Hudson: that way.

866

00:31:39,670 --> 00:31:41,495

Ernie Hudson: And I'm like, dude, it's okay, it's all

867

00:31:41,535 --> 00:31:41,735

Ernie Hudson: right.

868

00:31:42,245 --> 00:31:47,588

Ernie Hudson: You know it's not personal, but yeah, no, i

869

00:31:47,628 --> 00:31:50,254

Ernie Hudson: think it's great that people still love the

870

00:31:50,274 --> 00:31:52,278

Ernie Hudson: movie and Bill Murray.

871

00:31:52,318 --> 00:31:54,932

Ernie Hudson: I mean he's a genius and that was Bill

872

00:31:54,972 --> 00:31:55,855

Ernie Hudson: Murray at his best.

873

00:31:56,005 --> 00:31:58,754

Marc Preston: So yeah, i heard something that it was a

874

00:31:58,814 --> 00:32:02,184

Marc Preston: little they weren't sure if he was even

875

00:32:02,204 --> 00:32:04,289

Marc Preston: going to show up to film necessarily,

876

00:32:04,349 --> 00:32:06,995

Marc Preston: because even now if you want to cast him,

877

00:32:07,015 --> 00:32:08,197

Marc Preston: he's got his 1-800 number.

878

00:32:09,266 --> 00:32:12,173

Marc Preston: So they said he's always been very I don't

879

00:32:12,193 --> 00:32:12,313

Marc Preston: know.

880

00:32:12,374 --> 00:32:13,885

Marc Preston: Flighty is not the word, but he's got his

881

00:32:13,926 --> 00:32:15,672

Marc Preston: Bill Murray way of doing things.

882

00:32:15,885 --> 00:32:17,772

Marc Preston: But they said they have showed up at 8 am.

883

00:32:17,885 --> 00:32:19,249

Marc Preston: He was there on set ready to go.

884

00:32:19,310 --> 00:32:24,256

Marc Preston: Yeah, Now improvisation wise, where you

885

00:32:24,296 --> 00:32:25,922

Marc Preston: said that you came from an acting tradition,

886

00:32:26,624 --> 00:32:27,588

Marc Preston: they're more improv.

887

00:32:29,205 --> 00:32:31,114

Marc Preston: What was it like when you see Bill Murray

888

00:32:31,134 --> 00:32:32,722

Marc Preston: just riffing and you got to go.

889

00:32:32,822 --> 00:32:35,111

Marc Preston: I got to keep up with this, or what was

890

00:32:35,131 --> 00:32:36,094

Marc Preston: that like for you?

891

00:32:37,146 --> 00:32:38,649

Ernie Hudson: Yeah, i mean, of course, coming up in

892

00:32:38,749 --> 00:32:42,537

Ernie Hudson: theater and in college you do a little bit

893

00:32:42,577 --> 00:32:43,078

Ernie Hudson: of all of it.

894

00:32:43,765 --> 00:32:45,450

Ernie Hudson: Like I said, i believe in pride myself on

895

00:32:45,510 --> 00:32:47,255

Ernie Hudson: being prepared for whatever comes out.

896

00:32:47,865 --> 00:32:50,035

Ernie Hudson: But yeah, if you've learned your lines, you

897

00:32:50,075 --> 00:32:52,305

Ernie Hudson: expect the guy to say the exact line that

898

00:32:52,466 --> 00:32:53,108

Ernie Hudson: you've studied.

899

00:32:54,165 --> 00:32:56,783

Ernie Hudson: So you've got to be flexible and I think,

900

00:32:56,887 --> 00:32:58,992

Ernie Hudson: surviving, especially in this business, you

901

00:32:59,096 --> 00:33:00,831

Ernie Hudson: need to be able to go with the flow.

902

00:33:03,030 --> 00:33:05,596

Ernie Hudson: And yeah, i mean it was fun.

903

00:33:06,165 --> 00:33:08,131

Ernie Hudson: I did a movie called Air Heads and Chris

904

00:33:08,191 --> 00:33:11,549

Ernie Hudson: Farley And the director had this scene

905

00:33:11,670 --> 00:33:15,807

Ernie Hudson: where we were just to riff And sometimes

906

00:33:15,847 --> 00:33:17,733

Ernie Hudson: you're in the moment and sometimes it just

907

00:33:17,753 --> 00:33:20,592

Ernie Hudson: doesn't come, and being Chris was kind of

908

00:33:20,652 --> 00:33:22,587

Ernie Hudson: going at it And then he kind of looked at

909

00:33:22,627 --> 00:33:27,028

Ernie Hudson: me like Ernie, come on, sometimes you're

910

00:33:28,031 --> 00:33:29,505

Ernie Hudson: there and sometimes you're not, but it's

911

00:33:29,526 --> 00:33:31,271

Ernie Hudson: always fun to see these really creative

912

00:33:31,291 --> 00:33:32,515

Ernie Hudson: people at their best.

913

00:33:32,965 --> 00:33:34,774

Marc Preston: Be ever just kind of switch accidentally

914

00:33:34,814 --> 00:33:36,643

Marc Preston: into observer mode and watching them do

915

00:33:36,663 --> 00:33:37,727

Marc Preston: their thing and really like, well, that's

916

00:33:37,747 --> 00:33:38,509

Marc Preston: kind of funny Yeah.

917

00:33:39,432 --> 00:33:43,150

Ernie Hudson: Yeah, yeah, i like to kind of, you know, i

918

00:33:43,210 --> 00:33:43,711

Ernie Hudson: like to.

919

00:33:44,674 --> 00:33:46,608

Ernie Hudson: I'm going to be there And if I need to take

920

00:33:46,628 --> 00:33:47,451

Ernie Hudson: the lead, i will.

921

00:33:47,925 --> 00:33:50,830

Ernie Hudson: I'd like to run together, but sometimes

922

00:33:51,533 --> 00:33:53,058

Ernie Hudson: someone will take off and you kind of go

923

00:33:53,159 --> 00:33:54,062

Ernie Hudson: okay, oh, this is.

924

00:33:54,223 --> 00:33:56,411

Ernie Hudson: You know, it takes a moment to you know,

925

00:33:56,631 --> 00:33:58,307

Ernie Hudson: this is where we're going, let's go with it,

926

00:33:58,849 --> 00:33:59,712

Ernie Hudson: but it's always fun.

927

00:33:59,965 --> 00:34:01,412

Ernie Hudson: It's always fun when people show up,

928

00:34:02,075 --> 00:34:03,904

Ernie Hudson: whatever that is, but they're showing up

929

00:34:03,924 --> 00:34:06,772

Ernie Hudson: with their best and then we can play.

930

00:34:07,635 --> 00:34:10,210

Marc Preston: Yeah, that's that's when I teach voiceover

931

00:34:10,250 --> 00:34:11,714

Marc Preston: and I'm like that's that's when I said you

932

00:34:11,734 --> 00:34:13,326

Marc Preston: got to play, you got to be okay, make a

933

00:34:13,346 --> 00:34:14,469

Marc Preston: mistake, just kind of get into it and just

934

00:34:14,489 --> 00:34:14,750

Marc Preston: go.

935

00:34:14,970 --> 00:34:16,334

Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, just, you know, don't be so

936

00:34:16,374 --> 00:34:16,815

Marc Preston: self-conscious.

937

00:34:18,146 --> 00:34:19,173

Marc Preston: Well, one of the last questions got for you.

938

00:34:19,455 --> 00:34:20,985

Marc Preston: You know, i do notice you've done a lot of

939

00:34:21,045 --> 00:34:23,012

Marc Preston: voiceover actually in the animation.

940

00:34:23,805 --> 00:34:26,832

Marc Preston: Is it something that is kind of equally fun

941

00:34:26,872 --> 00:34:28,576

Marc Preston: for you as being on film.

942

00:34:29,318 --> 00:34:30,749

Ernie Hudson: Yeah, you know I'd love to do more of it.

943

00:34:32,505 --> 00:34:35,050

Ernie Hudson: I was doing, i think, a couple of animated

944

00:34:35,090 --> 00:34:37,876

Ernie Hudson: series of superheroes back in the 80s.

945

00:34:39,525 --> 00:34:41,834

Ernie Hudson: Ghostbusters came up and, for whatever

946

00:34:41,934 --> 00:34:44,142

Ernie Hudson: reason, they said it was because I was

947

00:34:44,403 --> 00:34:46,429

Ernie Hudson: doing another movie, but I didn't do the

948

00:34:46,589 --> 00:34:48,394

Ernie Hudson: animated Ghostbusters series, which was

949

00:34:48,454 --> 00:34:49,316

Ernie Hudson: very annoying to me.

950

00:34:49,925 --> 00:34:51,611

Ernie Hudson: But but I was doing a lot of work and then

951

00:34:51,651 --> 00:34:55,305

Ernie Hudson: I moved to the mountains and and I didn't

952

00:34:55,385 --> 00:34:56,891

Ernie Hudson: want to travel to audition.

953

00:34:57,385 --> 00:34:58,569

Ernie Hudson: Now, of course, you can do a lot of stuff

954

00:34:58,609 --> 00:35:00,154

Ernie Hudson: at home, you can audition from your own

955

00:35:00,194 --> 00:35:02,090

Ernie Hudson: house, but back in those days you had to go

956

00:35:02,291 --> 00:35:06,093

Ernie Hudson: in And so I stopped doing it for a number

957

00:35:06,134 --> 00:35:08,008

Ernie Hudson: of years, i think, lost those contacts.

958

00:35:08,690 --> 00:35:12,337

Ernie Hudson: But I get asked to do, you know, and I and

959

00:35:12,377 --> 00:35:12,938

Ernie Hudson: I enjoy it.

960

00:35:13,125 --> 00:35:16,755

Ernie Hudson: It's just that I don't again go out looking

961

00:35:16,855 --> 00:35:20,084

Ernie Hudson: for sometimes I'll get auditions and

962

00:35:20,184 --> 00:35:21,810

Ernie Hudson: honestly don't have time to deal with it.

963

00:35:23,005 --> 00:35:25,071

Ernie Hudson: So you know it's not like.

964

00:35:25,432 --> 00:35:28,028

Ernie Hudson: But if, yeah, once again, if someone likes

965

00:35:28,088 --> 00:35:31,356

Ernie Hudson: my work and want to work with me, i'm I'm

966

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Ernie Hudson: not hard to find.

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Marc Preston: Now, when you do the video, are you doing

968

00:35:34,194 --> 00:35:36,045

Marc Preston: it from home, or are you since you, since

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Marc Preston: you are a bit out of LA, or do you go to a

970

00:35:38,892 --> 00:35:39,634

Marc Preston: local studio?

971

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Ernie Hudson: Normally I'll go to a local studio.

972

00:35:42,585 --> 00:35:44,369

Ernie Hudson: I have a little setup at the house, but

973

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Ernie Hudson: actually I'm getting one of those sound

974

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Ernie Hudson: whisper rooms.

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Ernie Hudson: but yeah, creating maybe something to do

976

00:35:53,934 --> 00:35:55,991

Ernie Hudson: more of it, and just once again I'm just

977

00:35:56,071 --> 00:35:56,392

Ernie Hudson: focused.

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Ernie Hudson: I'm doing a couple of series right now.

979

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Ernie Hudson: I just finished shooting three movies back

980

00:36:01,473 --> 00:36:01,894

Ernie Hudson: to back.

981

00:36:03,506 --> 00:36:06,055

Ernie Hudson: It's not at the top of my priority but now,

982

00:36:06,156 --> 00:36:08,083

Ernie Hudson: when you're not doing what you're doing.

983

00:36:08,445 --> 00:36:09,689

Marc Preston: like you said, you just wrapped up three

984

00:36:09,769 --> 00:36:10,251

Marc Preston: films.

985

00:36:11,134 --> 00:36:12,548

Marc Preston: Yeah, What are you doing?

986

00:36:12,568 --> 00:36:14,574

Marc Preston: to kind of passing the time is not a good

987

00:36:14,594 --> 00:36:15,035

Marc Preston: way to put it.

988

00:36:15,465 --> 00:36:15,906

Marc Preston: What are you?

989

00:36:15,926 --> 00:36:16,789

Marc Preston: how are you occupying your time?

990

00:36:16,809 --> 00:36:17,953

Marc Preston: doing the things you really want to do?

991

00:36:17,993 --> 00:36:18,534

Marc Preston: What are you up to?

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00:36:19,466 --> 00:36:23,935

Ernie Hudson: Well, you know we were trying, my wife and

993

00:36:23,995 --> 00:36:26,019

Ernie Hudson: I, trying to settle into the perfect home

994

00:36:26,647 --> 00:36:28,554

Ernie Hudson: We were actually looking to buy now.

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00:36:28,594 --> 00:36:31,103

Ernie Hudson: with the interest rates, the changes were

996

00:36:31,143 --> 00:36:32,989

Ernie Hudson: sort of waiting a few months and seeing how

997

00:36:33,029 --> 00:36:34,213

Ernie Hudson: this is all going to settle out.

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Ernie Hudson: But but it's so much work to do around the

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00:36:37,193 --> 00:36:37,494

Ernie Hudson: house.

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Ernie Hudson: you know the property is always something

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00:36:40,685 --> 00:36:45,831

Ernie Hudson: to be done And just trying to learn how to

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00:36:45,872 --> 00:36:47,015

Ernie Hudson: relax and take it easy.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, And in shopping for a house right now

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Marc Preston: it was not a very relaxing thing.

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Marc Preston: I stopped as well, because I was looking at

Speaker:
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Marc Preston: a house getting built and the guys like,

Speaker:
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00:36:55,652 --> 00:36:56,514

Marc Preston: okay, we're taking bids.

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Marc Preston: I said you're taking bids, what do you mean?

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1009

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Marc Preston: It's like, yeah.

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Marc Preston: It's like, well, how much are you asking?

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Marc Preston: Well, depends how much you're offering.

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00:37:01,185 --> 00:37:02,610

Marc Preston: It's like, oh, i'm going to hold off on

Speaker:
1013

00:37:02,651 --> 00:37:05,471

Marc Preston: buying a home real quick, But yeah, yeah,

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1014

00:37:05,492 --> 00:37:06,234

Marc Preston: we'll tell you what I want to do.

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Marc Preston: I have my seven questions Kind of a fun

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Marc Preston: thing I do with everybody.

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Marc Preston: First question I always ask everybody is

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00:37:10,849 --> 00:37:12,193

Marc Preston: what's your favorite comfort food?

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1019

00:37:12,605 --> 00:37:14,171

Marc Preston: That thing that you really look forward to.

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Marc Preston: It may not be the healthiest thing, it may

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1021

00:37:16,482 --> 00:37:17,920

Marc Preston: be healthy, but something you really look

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1022

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Marc Preston: forward to, just sitting down and relaxing

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Marc Preston: with.

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Ernie Hudson: I love salmon.

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Ernie Hudson: I know that's probably a strange answer,

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1026

00:37:23,349 --> 00:37:24,611

Ernie Hudson: but salmon I could.

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00:37:25,112 --> 00:37:28,259

Ernie Hudson: I feel, yeah, maybe I was a bear at one

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1028

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Ernie Hudson: time.

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Marc Preston: Now, do you like cured salmon, like locks,

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1030

00:37:30,971 --> 00:37:32,616

Marc Preston: that kind of salmon, or are you more like

Speaker:
1031

00:37:33,025 --> 00:37:34,050

Marc Preston: grilled salmon, kind of?

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00:37:34,245 --> 00:37:36,949

Ernie Hudson: More like grilled, but but yeah, i like

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1033

00:37:37,170 --> 00:37:37,631

Ernie Hudson: salmon.

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00:37:37,731 --> 00:37:39,975

Ernie Hudson: You know it's various forms.

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00:37:40,696 --> 00:37:41,858

Ernie Hudson: Yeah, very good, yeah.

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00:37:43,165 --> 00:37:44,288

Marc Preston: Now, if you were to sit down?

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1037

00:37:44,328 --> 00:37:46,074

Marc Preston: next question three people going to have a

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1038

00:37:46,114 --> 00:37:48,469

Marc Preston: cup of coffee, talk story for a few hours,

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1039

00:37:48,529 --> 00:37:49,793

Marc Preston: three people that you would love to sit

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1040

00:37:49,833 --> 00:37:52,008

Marc Preston: down with, Living or not, actually, who

Speaker:
1041

00:37:52,048 --> 00:37:53,493

Marc Preston: would you like to sit down and chat with?

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1042

00:37:54,645 --> 00:37:56,671

Ernie Hudson: You know Tom Hanks I worked with years ago

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00:37:56,752 --> 00:37:57,855

Ernie Hudson: on a show called Buzzing Buddies.

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00:37:57,945 --> 00:37:59,896

Ernie Hudson: I'd love to just sit and have a

Speaker:
1045

00:37:59,936 --> 00:38:01,263

Ernie Hudson: conversation with Tom Denzel.

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00:38:02,388 --> 00:38:03,372

Marc Preston: Well, you were on Buzzing Buddies.

Speaker:
1047

00:38:03,545 --> 00:38:05,146

Marc Preston: How did I, how did I miss that Yeah?

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1048

00:38:05,166 --> 00:38:05,687

Ernie Hudson: yeah, it was.

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1049

00:38:06,028 --> 00:38:07,553

Ernie Hudson: we've been friends ever since, haven't

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1050

00:38:07,593 --> 00:38:09,888

Ernie Hudson: worked together since, but it was a great,

Speaker:
1051

00:38:10,450 --> 00:38:11,011

Ernie Hudson: a fun show.

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1052

00:38:13,165 --> 00:38:15,269

Ernie Hudson: In fact, donna Dixon, danny Aykroyd's wife

Speaker:
1053

00:38:15,911 --> 00:38:17,815

Ernie Hudson: we met there before I actually met Danny

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1054

00:38:17,895 --> 00:38:24,256

Ernie Hudson: Aykroyd Denzel I've really grown to admire

Speaker:
1055

00:38:24,356 --> 00:38:24,958

Ernie Hudson: his career.

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1056

00:38:25,045 --> 00:38:25,807

Ernie Hudson: I'd love to sort of.

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1057

00:38:26,368 --> 00:38:28,613

Ernie Hudson: you know I see him from time to time, but

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1058

00:38:28,653 --> 00:38:30,677

Ernie Hudson: not on a regular basis.

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1059

00:38:31,706 --> 00:38:34,014

Ernie Hudson: And who else would I?

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1060

00:38:36,463 --> 00:38:38,629

Ernie Hudson: You know I like Jeff Bridges.

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1061

00:38:39,020 --> 00:38:42,330

Ernie Hudson: Jeff is his brother, beau is one of my best

Speaker:
1062

00:38:42,370 --> 00:38:45,329

Ernie Hudson: friends, but I really admire Jeff's career

Speaker:
1063

00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,330

Ernie Hudson: and how he's managed to stay relevant all

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1064

00:38:49,370 --> 00:38:50,132

Ernie Hudson: these many years.

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1065

00:38:51,202 --> 00:38:52,307

Marc Preston: Yeah, I think both of them are.

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1066

00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:53,926

Marc Preston: It's so funny because Beau is really the

Speaker:
1067

00:38:53,987 --> 00:38:55,626

Marc Preston: one who started with acting first of an

Speaker:
1068

00:38:55,646 --> 00:38:56,068

Marc Preston: unsteak.

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1069

00:38:56,169 --> 00:38:57,080

Ernie Hudson: Yeah, yeah, yeah And.

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1070

00:38:57,140 --> 00:38:57,863

Marc Preston: I had an opportunity.

Speaker:
1071

00:38:57,883 --> 00:39:00,571

Marc Preston: This is going back 18, 17, 18 years ago.

Speaker:
1072

00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,249

Marc Preston: He was gonna be filming without going into

Speaker:
1073

00:39:03,269 --> 00:39:03,610

Marc Preston: the weeds.

Speaker:
1074

00:39:03,660 --> 00:39:05,623

Marc Preston: But he's gonna be filming something and

Speaker:
1075

00:39:05,703 --> 00:39:07,481

Marc Preston: they're casting somebody to play his son or

Speaker:
1076

00:39:07,501 --> 00:39:08,304

Marc Preston: he has a few sons.

Speaker:
1077

00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,107

Marc Preston: It was my first experience of something

Speaker:
1078

00:39:11,127 --> 00:39:12,390

Marc Preston: getting so close.

Speaker:
1079

00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:13,985

Marc Preston: And then he got a TV show.

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1080

00:39:14,260 --> 00:39:16,287

Marc Preston: Of course he was the big name on the call

Speaker:
1081

00:39:16,347 --> 00:39:19,561

Marc Preston: list, so whole project fellow part, i was

Speaker:
1082

00:39:19,581 --> 00:39:20,786

Marc Preston: like, oh, i really wanted to act with Beau

Speaker:
1083

00:39:20,806 --> 00:39:22,184

Marc Preston: Bridges, that would have been wonderful.

Speaker:
1084

00:39:23,743 --> 00:39:26,490

Marc Preston: But so those three guys, i think that would

Speaker:
1085

00:39:26,510 --> 00:39:27,252

Marc Preston: be fantastic.

Speaker:
1086

00:39:28,061 --> 00:39:29,727

Marc Preston: Now I do wanna go hit rewind.

Speaker:
1087

00:39:29,827 --> 00:39:31,063

Marc Preston: When you were a kid, who was your first

Speaker:
1088

00:39:31,163 --> 00:39:34,668

Marc Preston: celebrity crush, first one you saw like oh

Speaker:
1089

00:39:34,688 --> 00:39:37,183

Marc Preston: my God, movie star, whoever had Loretta

Speaker:
1090

00:39:37,224 --> 00:39:37,485

Marc Preston: Young.

Speaker:
1091

00:39:38,181 --> 00:39:40,689

Ernie Hudson: Loretta Young I was in fact.

Speaker:
1092

00:39:40,749 --> 00:39:42,404

Ernie Hudson: I was so small I didn't know what a crush

Speaker:
1093

00:39:42,464 --> 00:39:44,561

Ernie Hudson: was, i just knew that I really I was

Speaker:
1094

00:39:44,621 --> 00:39:47,008

Ernie Hudson: mesmerized by her and that staircase she'd

Speaker:
1095

00:39:47,049 --> 00:39:50,126

Ernie Hudson: walked down, That's like you know.

Speaker:
1096

00:39:50,928 --> 00:39:52,552

Ernie Hudson: She was stunning.

Speaker:
1097

00:39:53,060 --> 00:39:54,702

Ernie Hudson: I don't know what she'd look like if I saw

Speaker:
1098

00:39:54,722 --> 00:39:58,867

Ernie Hudson: a picture of her now, but I was really

Speaker:
1099

00:39:58,887 --> 00:39:59,830

Ernie Hudson: impressed with Loretta Young.

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1100

00:40:00,140 --> 00:40:01,386

Marc Preston: There's something about old Hollywood.

Speaker:
1101

00:40:01,540 --> 00:40:04,134

Ernie Hudson: There's just something about black and

Speaker:
1102

00:40:04,174 --> 00:40:05,621

Ernie Hudson: white and just kinda, i don't know It was

Speaker:
1103

00:40:05,661 --> 00:40:06,203

Ernie Hudson: grand.

Speaker:
1104

00:40:06,363 --> 00:40:09,002

Ernie Hudson: You know she was Exactly Yeah, from another

Speaker:
1105

00:40:09,062 --> 00:40:09,464

Ernie Hudson: world.

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00:40:09,845 --> 00:40:11,187

Marc Preston: Now next question if you're gonna be forced

Speaker:
1107

00:40:11,247 --> 00:40:13,143

Marc Preston: to live on an exotic island not forced, but

Speaker:
1108

00:40:13,183 --> 00:40:14,982

Marc Preston: beautiful exotic island that's not

Speaker:
1109

00:40:15,042 --> 00:40:17,043

Marc Preston: uncomfortable living, but you don't have

Speaker:
1110

00:40:17,083 --> 00:40:18,207

Marc Preston: internet, you have no streaming.

Speaker:
1111

00:40:18,380 --> 00:40:20,581

Marc Preston: You can really bring one DVD of a movie and

Speaker:
1112

00:40:20,701 --> 00:40:23,887

Marc Preston: one album with you, and you can also throw

Speaker:
1113

00:40:23,927 --> 00:40:24,729

Marc Preston: in a book if you'd like.

Speaker:
1114

00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:25,925

Marc Preston: Some people are more into books.

Speaker:
1115

00:40:26,420 --> 00:40:27,965

Marc Preston: But what would you bring with you to that

Speaker:
1116

00:40:28,026 --> 00:40:28,688

Marc Preston: island for a year?

Speaker:
1117

00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:31,205

Ernie Hudson: Oh, geez, for a year.

Speaker:
1118

00:40:33,170 --> 00:40:39,368

Ernie Hudson: Wow, geez, that's kind of interesting.

Speaker:
1119

00:40:42,929 --> 00:40:46,425

Ernie Hudson: I don't know, i'd have to think about that

Speaker:
1120

00:40:46,486 --> 00:40:46,566

Ernie Hudson: one.

Speaker:
1121

00:40:47,282 --> 00:40:49,088

Ernie Hudson: I don't know why the Godfather comes to

Speaker:
1122

00:40:49,129 --> 00:40:51,107

Ernie Hudson: mind, but somehow, maybe because it was fun.

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1123

00:40:51,420 --> 00:40:58,167

Ernie Hudson: And a book The Invisible Man's Always Been

Speaker:
1124

00:40:58,227 --> 00:40:59,926

Ernie Hudson: Fun to kind of re-go back.

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1125

00:41:00,943 --> 00:41:01,506

Ernie Hudson: Or there's a.

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1126

00:41:04,942 --> 00:41:06,241

Ernie Hudson: well, okay, if it was a book, it would be a

Speaker:
1127

00:41:06,281 --> 00:41:08,141

Ernie Hudson: book called A Course in Miracles, which

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00:41:08,302 --> 00:41:10,162

Ernie Hudson: I've always found fascinating for the past

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1129

00:41:10,202 --> 00:41:11,206

Ernie Hudson: 30 or 40 years.

Speaker:
1130

00:41:13,281 --> 00:41:14,305

Ernie Hudson: And what was the other book?

Speaker:
1131

00:41:15,820 --> 00:41:16,743

Ernie Hudson: A Soundtrack.

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1132

00:41:17,787 --> 00:41:20,012

Ernie Hudson: Yeah, or a Soundtrack or any kind of album,

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1133

00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:25,721

Ernie Hudson: any kind of album I don't know, something

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1134

00:41:25,801 --> 00:41:31,722

Ernie Hudson: from probably Marvin Gaye's let's get it on

Speaker:
1135

00:41:31,843 --> 00:41:32,124

Ernie Hudson: album.

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1136

00:41:32,204 --> 00:41:34,009

Ernie Hudson: I'm not sure, i don't know.

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1137

00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:38,005

Ernie Hudson: You know I, yeah, i would you know, because

Speaker:
1138

00:41:38,045 --> 00:41:41,147

Ernie Hudson: I've gotten past making decisions that

Speaker:
1139

00:41:41,187 --> 00:41:41,488

Ernie Hudson: happen.

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1140

00:41:41,621 --> 00:41:44,020

Ernie Hudson: It'll be to you know, to my wife going

Speaker:
1141

00:41:44,140 --> 00:41:45,885

Ernie Hudson: honey, what do you think I should?

Speaker:
1142

00:41:48,010 --> 00:41:48,892

Marc Preston: You know it was liberating.

Speaker:
1143

00:41:48,940 --> 00:41:50,866

Marc Preston: I just took my three teenagers on a cruise

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1144

00:41:51,268 --> 00:41:53,325

Marc Preston: a few weeks ago and it was so liberating

Speaker:
1145

00:41:53,365 --> 00:41:55,505

Marc Preston: for me, single dad, three kids going.

Speaker:
1146

00:41:55,740 --> 00:41:56,182

Marc Preston: What are we doing?

Speaker:
1147

00:41:56,222 --> 00:41:57,527

Marc Preston: they did whatever y'all want to do.

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1148

00:41:57,901 --> 00:41:59,105

Announcer: I ain't making the decisions here.

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1149

00:41:59,226 --> 00:42:01,862

Marc Preston: Yeah, and I think they dug it, but it was

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1150

00:42:02,002 --> 00:42:04,162

Marc Preston: so like relaxing for me, you know, i didn't

Speaker:
1151

00:42:04,182 --> 00:42:05,601

Marc Preston: have to actually be accountable for any

Speaker:
1152

00:42:05,642 --> 00:42:07,929

Marc Preston: decisions except for what I ate that night.

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1153

00:42:08,443 --> 00:42:11,178

Ernie Hudson: I took my family on a cruise and it was

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1154

00:42:11,258 --> 00:42:13,567

Ernie Hudson: miserable, because you don't want to be the

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1155

00:42:13,627 --> 00:42:16,607

Ernie Hudson: only celebrity on a boat that people are

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1156

00:42:16,648 --> 00:42:17,229

Ernie Hudson: trapped in.

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1157

00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,729

Ernie Hudson: I could not leave the cabin.

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1158

00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:21,445

Ernie Hudson: I mean, people swarmed.

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1159

00:42:22,688 --> 00:42:25,324

Ernie Hudson: We went to dinner Oh my God, it was just,

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1160

00:42:25,745 --> 00:42:26,026

Ernie Hudson: it was.

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1161

00:42:26,968 --> 00:42:27,530

Ernie Hudson: It was awful.

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1162

00:42:27,931 --> 00:42:31,820

Ernie Hudson: It was awful, I mean, seven days of Well,

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1163

00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:32,342

Ernie Hudson: you gotta be honest.

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00:42:32,382 --> 00:42:34,501

Marc Preston: have you ever done anything to because you

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1165

00:42:34,542 --> 00:42:36,163

Marc Preston: do want to float about, go to I don't know

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1166

00:42:36,183 --> 00:42:37,801

Marc Preston: Trader Joe's or something, i don't want to

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1167

00:42:37,822 --> 00:42:39,785

Marc Preston: say costume but have you ever done anything

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1168

00:42:39,865 --> 00:42:41,765

Marc Preston: so that you would not be so recognizable?

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1169

00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,830

Ernie Hudson: No, i've thought about it, but no, i try to,

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1170

00:42:46,220 --> 00:42:47,606

Ernie Hudson: because then I feel like I'm a prisoner.

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Ernie Hudson: I mean, if I get to a point where I got to

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1172

00:42:49,045 --> 00:42:51,445

Ernie Hudson: hide, to go out, I mean normally speaking

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1173

00:42:51,506 --> 00:42:53,582

Ernie Hudson: it's not a problem, but I think because

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1174

00:42:53,683 --> 00:42:56,871

Ernie Hudson: we're on a boat and that's it.

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Ernie Hudson: It was a little difficult, but no, i try

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Ernie Hudson: not to.

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Ernie Hudson: I've had situations my wife and I 40th

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Ernie Hudson: A lady came up and sat down, would not

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Ernie Hudson: leave, just felt like she said you owe me

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Ernie Hudson: because I'm your fan and you have a.

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Ernie Hudson: So people can take things a little bit

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Ernie Hudson: But generally speaking though, people are

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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to define what is the

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Marc Preston: definition, if I could call a perfect day

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Marc Preston: from time you wake up to time you go to bed,

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Marc Preston: what kind of component things would you

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Marc Preston: like to be part of that?

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Marc Preston: having some salmon in there somewhere, i'm

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Marc Preston: sure, but what would you?

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Marc Preston: how would you define your perfect day?

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Ernie Hudson: Yeah, perfect day would be just nothing to

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Ernie Hudson: sort of stress over, knowing work was

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Ernie Hudson: coming up soon, so I don't think about that.

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Ernie Hudson: The weather's great and the kids are fine

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Ernie Hudson: and a day just set peace.

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Ernie Hudson: you know The?

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Ernie Hudson: I mean a beautiful setting, the scenery's

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Ernie Hudson: beautiful and you can just let go.

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Ernie Hudson: perfect day is being able to let go and Oh,

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Ernie Hudson: i like that You know that makes more sense

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Ernie Hudson: to me.

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Marc Preston: I've heard a lot of people answer different

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Marc Preston: ways.

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Marc Preston: It's like that because that I get it, you

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Marc Preston: know where.

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Marc Preston: You just not have to be looking at your

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Marc Preston: calendar, what you gotta do all that day.

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Marc Preston: Just kind of like, just be.

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Marc Preston: Yes, just be Now.

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Marc Preston: Last couple of questions here.

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Marc Preston: If you weren't doing what you're doing now,

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Marc Preston: or if you hadn't been an actor and hadn't

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Marc Preston: been a creative, what would you be, what

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Marc Preston: would you wanna be doing for a living, or

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Marc Preston: what would be the second choice?

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Ernie Hudson: Well, i thought I would want to be an

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Ernie Hudson: architect.

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Ernie Hudson: I've tried designing some houses that we

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Ernie Hudson: had planned to build that never got built,

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Ernie Hudson: but maybe something in design.

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Ernie Hudson: You know, i started out thinking of myself

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Ernie Hudson: as a writer.

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Ernie Hudson: I ended up acting, became sort of the.

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Ernie Hudson: You know what I fell back on.

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Ernie Hudson: Singing was something that I fantasized as

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Ernie Hudson: a kid, but if it was something out of

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Ernie Hudson: entertainment it would probably be maybe

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Ernie Hudson: something in drawing, architecture or

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Ernie Hudson: something like that.

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Marc Preston: Now last question if you had a DeLorean,

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Marc Preston: you could jump in and you're gonna go back

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Marc Preston: to when you were 16 years old and you have

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Marc Preston: a piece of advice, guidance, something to

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Marc Preston: get you on a different rail either make

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Marc Preston: your life better at the moment or, you know,

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Marc Preston: it puts you on a better trajectory.

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Marc Preston: What would that piece of advice be to

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Marc Preston: 16-year-old you?

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Ernie Hudson: Just really, i always prided myself on that.

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Ernie Hudson: I trust I know things will work out, but I

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Ernie Hudson: always felt like I had to really work hard.

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Ernie Hudson: Maybe I'm sure that was a good thing, but I

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Ernie Hudson: think just to let myself know that it's

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Ernie Hudson: gonna be okay.

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Ernie Hudson: You know what I mean, because there were

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Ernie Hudson: times when things were right against the

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Ernie Hudson: wall and you didn't know what was gonna

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Ernie Hudson: happen.

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Ernie Hudson: I always call that going through the fire.

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Ernie Hudson: You gotta go through it to get to the other

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Ernie Hudson: side, but it's a little frightening.

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Ernie Hudson: And if there was something I could say to

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Ernie Hudson: myself that you know, just trust, you're

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Ernie Hudson: gonna be just fine, you're gonna be fine.

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Marc Preston: It's so funny, it's the same thing.

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Marc Preston: Sometimes you have to tell yourself that

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Marc Preston: nowadays, occasionally.

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Marc Preston: You know that's one of the things I was

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Marc Preston: talking with my kids.

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Marc Preston: I said it's sometimes you just don't have

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Marc Preston: enough years on earth.

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Marc Preston: You have to realize this too shall pass.

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Marc Preston: You know everything's transient and it's

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Marc Preston: hard.

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Marc Preston: But you really need to know that when

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Marc Preston: You gotta know.

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Marc Preston: But yeah, that's wonderful and that's

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Marc Preston: something I still.

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Marc Preston: I still have to tell myself occasionally.

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Marc Preston: But I so appreciate you're so generous of

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Marc Preston: your time.

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Marc Preston: I appreciate it more than you know, but you

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Marc Preston: have yourself a great one again, thank you

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Marc Preston: and hopefully we'll catch up down the line,

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Marc Preston: my friend.

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Ernie Hudson: All right, take care, I look forward to it,

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Ernie Hudson: man.

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Marc Preston: All right, there you go, mr Ernie Hudson.

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Marc Preston: What a pleasure it was to sit down and chat

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Marc Preston: with him.

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Marc Preston: A trip down memory lane, ghostbusters and

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Marc Preston: everything else he's been working on, but I

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Marc Preston: mean, i'm a kid of the 80s, so Ghostbusters,

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Marc Preston: that was cool.

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Marc Preston: Don't forget, the NBC reboot of Quantum

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Marc Preston: Leap is now on, so check it out.

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Marc Preston: Another trip down memory lane for us 80s

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Marc Preston: kids.

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Marc Preston: Don't forget the website,

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Marc Preston: storyandcraftpod.com.

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Marc Preston: Once again, storyandcraftpod.com.

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Marc Preston: All right, there you go.

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Marc Preston: Thank you so much for stopping by again.

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Marc Preston: Another great episode next week.

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Marc Preston: In the meantime, have a great rest of your

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Marc Preston: to.

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Marc Preston: Enjoy it, be safe and I'll see you next

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