Actor LaMonica Garrett from "Sons of Anarchy" and Paramount+'s "1883" joins us on Story & Craft.
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Actor LaMonica Garrett from “Sons of Anarchy” and Paramount+’s “1883” joins us on Story & Craft.
LaMonica traded a football career for acting, with roles in “Sons of Anarchy,” “Designated Survivor,” “The Last Ship” and as The Monitor in the DC Arrowverse. We talk about playing Thomas in “1883” and co-starring with Chris Pratt in Prime Video’s “The Terminal List.”
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
LaMonica Garrett joins Story & Craft
Terminalist Release and Plot Discussion
Introduction to Country Music and Fitness
Journey From Football to Acting
The Impact of Sam Elliott
Slamball and Transition to Acting
Filming in Puerto Rico With Fantasy Island
Maintaining Energy and Work Schedule
Seven Questions
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Full Transcript
Part 1
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It's been the first time I've had my
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LaMonica Garrett: parents come to a premiere and you know
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LaMonica Garrett: it's been a lot.
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LaMonica Garrett: It's been a lot for me, for them and for a
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LaMonica Garrett: lot of people like Cowboy that were across
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LaMonica Garrett: the country.
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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.
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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston hey
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Announcer: welcome back to Story and Craft.
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Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston.
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Marc Preston: If this is your first time, welcome.
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Marc Preston: Thank you very much for just checking it
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Marc Preston: out, being a part of the show here today.
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Marc Preston: You're really going to like this
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Marc Preston: conversation.
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Marc Preston: La Monica Garrett, you know I've been
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Marc Preston: keeping an eye on him for a while.
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Marc Preston: Really enjoy his work.
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Marc Preston: I think what he did in the Paramount Plus
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Marc Preston: show 1883, he played Thomas.
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Marc Preston: He just knocked it out of the park.
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Marc Preston: He is truly a talented actor the dynamic
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Marc Preston: with him alongside Sam Elliott, tv magic,
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Marc Preston: right there.
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Marc Preston: He's been in a lot of other stuff.
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Marc Preston: I mean he's been in Sons of Anarchy,
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Marc Preston: designated survivor, the last ship.
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Marc Preston: My son even reminded me he was in the DC
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Marc Preston: Universe as the monitor and anti-monitor.
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Marc Preston: Now the big screen, transformers, dark of
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Marc Preston: the Moon he's done that.
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Marc Preston: The Netflix movie XOXO, daddy's Home and
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Marc Preston: more Coming up July 1st.
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Marc Preston: He's going to be in the Amazon Prime show,
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Marc Preston: the Terminal List.
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Marc Preston: He's co-starring with Chris Pratt and this
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Marc Preston: is going to be a great show.
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Marc Preston: Okay, let's get after it.
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Marc Preston: It's La Monica Garrett Day right here on
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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.
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Marc Preston: So how are you doing today, my friend?
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Marc Preston: I'm pretty good.
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LaMonica Garrett: The weather's kind of nice.
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LaMonica Garrett: The heat kind of subsided a little bit, got
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LaMonica Garrett: a little rain.
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Marc Preston: Now, where are you located?
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Marc Preston: Are you on the?
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Marc Preston: You're in LA, yeah, Okay.
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Marc Preston: Okay, Now I see you're a West Coast guy
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Marc Preston: from the get-go.
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Marc Preston: You're from San Francisco, right?
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LaMonica Garrett: Oh, yeah, yeah, Cali kid.
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Marc Preston: You know it's so funny.
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Marc Preston: I was, you know, my son and I always
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Marc Preston: watched Designator Survivor.
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Marc Preston: And I know Reed Diamond.
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Marc Preston: I was like, and I was just like.
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Marc Preston: I was like I'm going to make a note, let
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Marc Preston: you know.
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Marc Preston: It's like, oh, what's it like working with
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Marc Preston: Reed?
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Marc Preston: Literally that same moment I get an email
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Marc Preston: from him.
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Marc Preston: I'm like dude, the universe man.
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Marc Preston: It's ponderous.
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Marc Preston: And I will read you his email.
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Marc Preston: He says well, monica is one of my most
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Marc Preston: favorite people on the planet.
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Marc Preston: Please give him my love.
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Marc Preston: So I'm giving you his love.
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LaMonica Garrett: That's awesome.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, Reed, that was my partner.
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LaMonica Garrett: We had such a good time out in Toronto
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LaMonica Garrett: working.
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LaMonica Garrett: He's awesome.
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Marc Preston: Is that where y'all shot?
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Marc Preston: Designator Survivor in Toronto.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah.
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Marc Preston: We'll definitely get to 1883, without a
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Marc Preston: doubt.
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Marc Preston: That's another show.
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Marc Preston: My son and I.
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Marc Preston: He was jazzed that I was talking to you
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Marc Preston: today because we watched Designator
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Marc Preston: Survivor, both Incarnations, you know, and
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Marc Preston: it was, I think, on ABC, then Netflix and
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Marc Preston: 1883, which is just just on point.
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Marc Preston: What a great show.
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Marc Preston: But what have you been up to since then?
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Marc Preston: Since that's wrapped up?
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LaMonica Garrett: Since I got back, I worked on a short film.
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LaMonica Garrett: It'll hit the film circuit like the.
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Announcer: You know the like sun dances and all that
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Announcer: kind of stuff.
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LaMonica Garrett: So we'll see how that goes, and just doing
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LaMonica Garrett: PR for Terminalists you know, I told my
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LaMonica Garrett: reps that I just want to.
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LaMonica Garrett: I want to chill out for a little bit.
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LaMonica Garrett: I want to take some time off right from
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LaMonica Garrett: Terminalists.
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LaMonica Garrett: We shot that a few days later I'm in Texas
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LaMonica Garrett: and I was there for six months straight.
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LaMonica Garrett: Didn't really get home.
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Marc Preston: Oh, so you all shot that before 1883?.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, yeah, we shot that beforehand, and it
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LaMonica Garrett: was when I found out, I got 1883, it was
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LaMonica Garrett: like three days.
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LaMonica Garrett: Hey, they need you in Texas.
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Marc Preston: So I didn't have time to do anything.
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Marc Preston: When is Terminalist set to come out?
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Marc Preston: July 1st, july 1st, okay, yeah, so that's
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Marc Preston: you, chris Pratt.
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Marc Preston: It's a military based show and, if I read
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Marc Preston: the premise correct, it's basically him
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Marc Preston: reminiscing or it's the start thinking back
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Marc Preston: to some events or event that happened when
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Marc Preston: he was in the military and is that kind of
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Marc Preston: where you fall into the cast.
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Marc Preston: There you were part of his unit or whatever.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, I was part of the unit.
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LaMonica Garrett: At home I'm pretty much his commanding
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LaMonica Garrett: officer, you know like a mentor to him and
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LaMonica Garrett: he went out on a mission and his team got
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LaMonica Garrett: ambushed.
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LaMonica Garrett: So he's trying to put the pieces together
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LaMonica Garrett: and that's where we, that's where we pick
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LaMonica Garrett: up from in episode one.
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Marc Preston: Well, that's very cool.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, definitely a chat about that in a
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Marc Preston: moment.
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Marc Preston: 1883, man, what a really well executed show.
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Marc Preston: I mean I have so many questions.
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Marc Preston: The first one is I was literally just
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Marc Preston: It's like you know what I'm going to tell
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Marc Preston: You need to make a.
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Marc Preston: There needs to be a prequel to the prequel
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Marc Preston: of the genesis of the relationship with you
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Marc Preston: and Sam Elliott.
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Marc Preston: I need to know more about that.
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Marc Preston: It's.
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Marc Preston: It was almost like there's this whole
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Marc Preston: unspoken relationship between the two of
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Marc Preston: y'all and or, or there's a lot of stuff
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Marc Preston: that you know didn't come up.
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Marc Preston: And then Taylor Sheridan did he sit down
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Marc Preston: and say, okay, here's the backstory between
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Marc Preston: the two of y'all, though it may not come up
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Marc Preston: Or did y'all just sit down and kind of hash
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LaMonica Garrett: Taylor came up to us individually and he
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LaMonica Garrett: told me pretty much what Thomas was and you
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LaMonica Garrett: know where it came from and what his story
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LaMonica Garrett: was.
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Announcer: He told me a lot of that during the casting
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Announcer: process during my last audition to get the
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Announcer: job.
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LaMonica Garrett: And when I got to Texas he filled me in a
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LaMonica Garrett: little bit more, and me and Sam as soon as
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LaMonica Garrett: we met, we just we hit it off.
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Announcer: But me and Sam never really had to sit down
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Announcer: about Thomas and Sher and where they came
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Announcer: from.
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LaMonica Garrett: We just.
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LaMonica Garrett: Taylor's writing is real, in depth and real
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LaMonica Garrett: it's you know it's all on the page.
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Marc Preston: So if we stick the landing on our side, you
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Marc Preston: know it would sing and yeah, One of the
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Marc Preston: things I loved about the show is that it
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Marc Preston: wasn't trying to say, oh, the old West was
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Marc Preston: It was right down the middle is just kind
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Marc Preston: of as close to it's.
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Marc Preston: This is what it was, you know, and I
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Marc Preston: thought it was just again really well
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Marc Preston: executed.
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Marc Preston: And I heard an interview with Sam Elliott
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Marc Preston: talking about how, in terms of wardrobe,
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Marc Preston: how important the hat is, and he said that
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Marc Preston: he was going to wear a hat that he was
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Marc Preston: It's got to fit, it's got to, it's an
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Marc Preston: extension of you or something, but
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Marc Preston: apparently the hat he they got him didn't
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Marc Preston: fit quite right, so he had, but he was
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Marc Preston: locked in having to wear it every thing.
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Marc Preston: How did your hat fit?
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Marc Preston: Were you happy with it?
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LaMonica Garrett: I mean, my hat was more of a, it was part
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LaMonica Garrett: of his soldier hat, it was part of his
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LaMonica Garrett: Buffalo soldier the jacket.
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LaMonica Garrett: So it was.
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LaMonica Garrett: I was good with it, but Cowboys in general.
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Marc Preston: I learned that when I was down in Texas.
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LaMonica Garrett: The hat is very important and it starts
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LaMonica Garrett: with the hat, and then you start dressing
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LaMonica Garrett: down from that.
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Marc Preston: And I had no idea of hat etiquette, but I
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Marc Preston: know now.
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Marc Preston: Well, a couple of questions.
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Marc Preston: They're both based on your appearance.
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Marc Preston: It was at your choice.
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Marc Preston: Did you say, okay, this is how I feel I
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Marc Preston: would have looked back then, or was this
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Marc Preston: again, you know, more, of a production
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Marc Preston: decision?
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LaMonica Garrett: It was more of a we're on the trail Like
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LaMonica Garrett: we're.
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LaMonica Garrett: You know you're on this Oregon trail that
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LaMonica Garrett: started off with kind of thing cut.
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LaMonica Garrett: You know, mustache was a little lower, it
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LaMonica Garrett: was more groomed in the beginning and as
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LaMonica Garrett: you go, you know.
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LaMonica Garrett: I have barbers with you that you travel
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LaMonica Garrett: with.
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LaMonica Garrett: You know like it's not like we're going to
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LaMonica Garrett: go to a salon somewhere and take care of so
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LaMonica Garrett: it's just gradually over that time period
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LaMonica Garrett: in the Oregon trail your hair just grows
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LaMonica Garrett: and I think that was part of the
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LaMonica Garrett: authenticity.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, again, there was a lot in my mind.
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Marc Preston: It was one of more honest or more authentic
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Marc Preston: depictions of what I, what I imagine the
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Marc Preston: old West was like.
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Marc Preston: Having grown up in Texas, you know, it's
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Marc Preston: sort of like it's just in the ethos.
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Marc Preston: You know, where did y'all shoot, by the way,
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Marc Preston: in Texas?
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LaMonica Garrett: We shot in a handful of places in Texas.
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LaMonica Garrett: We shot in Fort Worth, we shot in
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LaMonica Garrett: Wetherford, we shot in Mineral Wells, Dixon,
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LaMonica Garrett: Guthrie.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, we traveled.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, y'all are really keeping it true to
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Marc Preston: the story.
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Marc Preston: Then A good friend of mine back in Dallas
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Marc Preston: named Chris, he first got me turned on to
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Marc Preston: Yellowstone.
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Marc Preston: I really didn't have a chance to get into
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Marc Preston: Yellowstone yet but I got.
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Marc Preston: But I started with 1883.
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Marc Preston: Really he was watching roughly the same
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Marc Preston: time as a man they're tracking right west
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Marc Preston: of Fort Worth heading towards the Red River.
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Marc Preston: You know y'all were pretty much shooting
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Marc Preston: ballpark where it was technically set and
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Marc Preston: how almost never happens, it seems like you
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Marc Preston: know yeah, we were.
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LaMonica Garrett: We were going from ranch to ranch and we
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LaMonica Garrett: I think for me and me and Taylor talked
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Marc Preston: you country music fan to begin with?
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LaMonica Garrett: I was in you know on this cast and down in
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LaMonica Garrett: Tim McGraw and Faith are the ones you want
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Marc Preston: Yeah, he's kind of sitting on the Mount
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Marc Preston: I'm like you know he's making all of us
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Marc Preston: I mean, you know like I'm like, but I know
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Marc Preston: So they have a little like mobile gym setup
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, Taylor had something set up.
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LaMonica Garrett: He had a gym at the ranch.
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LaMonica Garrett: We were staying at it first and they put
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LaMonica Garrett: Meet us where we were at in his gym, like
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LaMonica Garrett: know, 270 is screen TV, a sauna, cold
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Marc Preston: It's funny I was.
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Marc Preston: When he shows up on set, you know, here's a
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Marc Preston: Now you know because he's been in Tombstone.
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Marc Preston: When Billy Bob Thornton shows up on set,
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Marc Preston: what was that they like?
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LaMonica Garrett: It was, it was real, it was he's real
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LaMonica Garrett: gracious with his time.
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LaMonica Garrett: He was taking pictures.
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LaMonica Garrett: You know, all of us were saying before we
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LaMonica Garrett: forever and there's we had like 400
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LaMonica Garrett: Billy, you know, and he was just he was
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LaMonica Garrett: talking to everybody, he was real, just
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LaMonica Garrett: personable and just we were working late.
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LaMonica Garrett: We're working all night, a couple nights,
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LaMonica Garrett: no one's complaining.
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LaMonica Garrett: Everyone's just happy to be there, knowing
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LaMonica Garrett: the magnitude of the project you know
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LaMonica Garrett: you're just looking around at the people
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LaMonica Garrett: involved in this.
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LaMonica Garrett: We were just we all knew it was going to be
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Marc Preston: I didn't know what to think of it, I just
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Marc Preston: Honestly, I found Sam Melliot.
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Marc Preston: He's one of those guys that drink his
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Marc Preston: Kool-Aid Whatever he's in.
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Marc Preston: I'm going to check him out.
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Marc Preston: I'll be back to Big Lebowski.
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Marc Preston: Before you know, he just always brings
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Marc Preston: much about Isabel May beforehand, but man,
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Marc Preston: what a little force of nature, man.
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Marc Preston: That was the fact that she was kind of
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Marc Preston: I can't imagine the show being the same if
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Marc Preston: any one of the characters wasn't there and
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Marc Preston: yours was just like.
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Marc Preston: You know, you're always leveling, even I
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Marc Preston: I just it's very rare I watch a show and go
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Marc Preston: damn, that was damn good.
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Marc Preston: I wish there's some more of that, but it's
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Marc Preston: It's kind of self contained.
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Marc Preston: You really can't have to have a sequel to
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Marc Preston: that, I guess.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, leave on a high note, I guess.
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Marc Preston: I'm curious about a origin story on you
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Marc Preston: from San Francisco.
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Marc Preston: But was acting always on the radar for you,
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Marc Preston: or was this something that just kind of you
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Marc Preston: kind of evolved into?
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LaMonica Garrett: I played football.
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LaMonica Garrett: That was my first passion and I always knew
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LaMonica Garrett: I couldn't say I wrapped a little bit but
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LaMonica Garrett: you know, I didn't know where that was
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LaMonica Garrett: I was a dancer break, dancing back in, you
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LaMonica Garrett: know, San Francisco in the 80s.
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Marc Preston: that you fold up.
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LaMonica Garrett: And cardboard everywhere.
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LaMonica Garrett: We were looking for the local wrecks.
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LaMonica Garrett: We were looking for battles.
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LaMonica Garrett: You know we had a crew.
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LaMonica Garrett: Cardboard was your like.
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LaMonica Garrett: That was your staple when you're
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I don't think my kids would
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LaMonica Garrett: Those were the glory days, yeah.
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Marc Preston: So you, were you growing up as an only
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LaMonica Garrett: I had a little child.
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LaMonica Garrett: I had an older brother, younger sister, so
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LaMonica Garrett: I had a lot of me time.
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LaMonica Garrett: You know I was a latchkey kid.
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Marc Preston: I can't imagine I got a 19 to 17 and a 16
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Marc Preston: But man, I'd be like okay, lights come on.
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LaMonica Garrett: It's time to go home.
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LaMonica Garrett: You could be gone all day, but you know,
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LaMonica Garrett: That was the unwritten rule, or it was the
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Marc Preston: As long as I was cool making my own dinner,
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Marc Preston: So you started off here in San Francisco
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Marc Preston: your break dancing, your.
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Marc Preston: But you're an athlete through high school
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, and you know it was like I'm.
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LaMonica Garrett: My dream was to get in the NFL.
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LaMonica Garrett: I got pretty close but I didn't make it and
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LaMonica Garrett: What do you do now?
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LaMonica Garrett: Cause I gave football my everything.
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LaMonica Garrett: Where were you playing?
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LaMonica Garrett: You know in the back of my head and central
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LaMonica Garrett: Small school in Wilbur Forrest, ohio, right
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LaMonica Garrett: For me, it was like all right well, move to.
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LaMonica Garrett: There's no structure, there's no you know.
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LaMonica Garrett: Go to go to school this many years and then
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LaMonica Garrett: you, you got to do an internship here and
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LaMonica Garrett: there's no rhyme or reason and you just go
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LaMonica Garrett: out there and try to make it happen, and
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LaMonica Garrett: that's what I didn't.
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Marc Preston: Yeah.
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Marc Preston: So you went from one job or one one
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Marc Preston: The odds are just stacked against.
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Marc Preston: Anybody wants to do it, just the numbers
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Marc Preston: Then you got into another gig.
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Marc Preston: That the odds are stacked against you, but
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Marc Preston: you clearly you thrived.
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Marc Preston: I'm glad it's a punishment.
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Marc Preston: So what kind of what kind of gig were your
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LaMonica Garrett: They were both in the medical field.
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LaMonica Garrett: They're both in my mom as a nurse she was a
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LaMonica Garrett: at home nurse, and she worked in the
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LaMonica Garrett: My dad did he was a medic in.
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LaMonica Garrett: Vietnam and he came back and he picked up
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LaMonica Garrett: that where he left off when he got back.
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LaMonica Garrett: My dad had a job but it took a lot of time.
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LaMonica Garrett: So you know you see him when you see him.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah.
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Marc Preston: So you're really carving out your own space
548
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Marc Preston: back in the day.
549
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I guess kind of we all were those
550
,417 --> 00:17:20,502
Marc Preston: latchkey kids, that whole thing.
551
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Marc Preston: So there was no like there were no
552
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Marc Preston: Thespians in your family going acting, it's
553
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Marc Preston: a thing you know.
554
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Marc Preston: So how did they feel when you said, you
555
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Marc Preston: know this acting thing, I've been doing the
556
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Marc Preston: football thing now on a do this thing.
557
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Marc Preston: What was the?
558
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Marc Preston: What was the reaction that you got?
559
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LaMonica Garrett: I had the most support from my family.
560
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LaMonica Garrett: They they left Mississippi the way they
561
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LaMonica Garrett: grew up in the sixties out in.
562
,986 --> 00:17:45,040
LaMonica Garrett: You know that civil rights kind of that era.
563
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LaMonica Garrett: They wanted us to have a different shot at
564
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LaMonica Garrett: life.
565
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LaMonica Garrett: So they sacrificed, they left everything
566
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LaMonica Garrett: they knew and moved to San Francisco.
567
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LaMonica Garrett: We didn't have any really friends or family
568
,923 --> 00:17:58,636
LaMonica Garrett: when you know we made some, but summers we
569
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LaMonica Garrett: would drive back to Mississippi so I would
570
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LaMonica Garrett: spend time with my family.
571
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Marc Preston: We're about to.
572
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Marc Preston: We're about to Mississippi, to the is your
573
,462 --> 00:18:04,144
Marc Preston: are, your folks from.
574
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Marc Preston: In Canton, canton, jackson, and uh, let's
575
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Marc Preston: um big difference between camp Mississippi
576
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Marc Preston: and San Francisco.
577
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Marc Preston: It is a uh cultural, sociological,
578
,825 --> 00:18:15,278
Marc Preston: everywhere, every other way of looking at.
579
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Marc Preston: You can still get good food, though, so
580
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Marc Preston: that's kind of nice thing about Mississippi,
581
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Marc Preston: but but you still have your roots uh, some
582
,715 --> 00:18:21,979
Marc Preston: extended family down there, right?
583
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, everybody's still down there.
584
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LaMonica Garrett: They're Chicago and my family whatever I
585
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LaMonica Garrett: decided to do, they, just they, just they
586
,816 --> 00:18:31,003
LaMonica Garrett: wanted me to be better than what they were,
587
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LaMonica Garrett: and that's every parent's goal is for the
588
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LaMonica Garrett: next generation to have more opportunities
589
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LaMonica Garrett: and just live, have a better life and they
590
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LaMonica Garrett: did that, so it was like I owe it to them.
591
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LaMonica Garrett: That's why whenever I talk about my parents
592
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LaMonica Garrett: my mom when I'm doing these interviews, I
593
,295 --> 00:18:46,859
LaMonica Garrett: get choked up a little bit because I know
594
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LaMonica Garrett: how much they sacrificed for me to just
595
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LaMonica Garrett: live a dream.
596
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Marc Preston: And that's all I'm doing right now.
597
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LaMonica Garrett: I'm living a dream, you know, taking
598
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LaMonica Garrett: chances.
599
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Marc Preston: Well, playing, being in 1883 and playing
600
,589 --> 00:18:59,035
Marc Preston: who you were playing, I mean that that had
601
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Marc Preston: to be.
602
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Marc Preston: That had to really resonate at some level.
603
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Marc Preston: I mean that that had to be a special thing
604
,307 --> 00:19:07,152
Marc Preston: for you to get cast in.
605
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Marc Preston: You know, when you're going through the
606
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Marc Preston: audition process, I mean that had to been
607
,165 --> 00:19:11,987
Marc Preston: bouncing around your brain.
608
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Marc Preston: You know what this would mean if you got
609
,242 --> 00:19:15,235
Marc Preston: this and who you'd be playing and what that
610
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Marc Preston: would inject into the overall story of the
611
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Marc Preston: West and the Oregon Trail and stuff.
612
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Marc Preston: I mean what, what were your folks saying to
613
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Marc Preston: you about that when you, when you landed
614
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Marc Preston: the role, you know, a Buffalo soldier?
615
,783 --> 00:19:26,268
Marc Preston: What was kind of their feedback?
616
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LaMonica Garrett: They knew the significance of it and I put
617
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LaMonica Garrett: a lot of weight on myself because I know
618
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LaMonica Garrett: the genre and I know the lack of
619
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LaMonica Garrett: representation.
620
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LaMonica Garrett: That's been there over the years and my
621
,138 --> 00:19:36,323
LaMonica Garrett: mom's a huge Western fan.
622
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LaMonica Garrett: She's an aficionado of all things Western,
623
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LaMonica Garrett: if you ask so.
624
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LaMonica Garrett: She knows that there weren't a lot of black
625
,584 --> 00:19:44,610
LaMonica Garrett: cowboys growing up, especially on the
626
,630 --> 00:19:45,457
LaMonica Garrett: television side.
627
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Announcer: So when I told her I got this role.
628
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LaMonica Garrett: She was just so excited and you know.
629
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Announcer: I really don't tell them much.
630
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LaMonica Garrett: Until it's about the air, you know whether
631
,396 --> 00:19:55,741
LaMonica Garrett: it's a film or whether it's on.
632
,761 --> 00:19:58,600
LaMonica Garrett: Tv, but my mom, I walked her through the
633
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LaMonica Garrett: whole process of everything that was going
634
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LaMonica Garrett: on Like and she just I had.
635
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LaMonica Garrett: This is the first time I've had my parents
636
,432 --> 00:20:05,780
LaMonica Garrett: come to a premiere that I was doing.
637
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Announcer: And you know it.
638
,670 --> 00:20:08,573
Announcer: Just it's been a lot.
639
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LaMonica Garrett: It's been a lot for me for them and for a
640
,332 --> 00:20:14,009
LaMonica Garrett: lot of people, you know black cowboy across
641
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LaMonica Garrett: the country.
642
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LaMonica Garrett: Present day, black cowboy.
643
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Marc Preston: That's the reason why I want to saw you
644
,977 --> 00:20:19,927
Marc Preston: wear the uniform the entire time but I
645
,967 --> 00:20:21,611
Marc Preston: gleaned that it was a sense of pride that
646
,652 --> 00:20:24,167
Marc Preston: kept the uniform on the entire time, and
647
,207 --> 00:20:25,868
Marc Preston: pride in what you know, because you'd seen
648
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Marc Preston: some.
649
,088 --> 00:20:28,134
Marc Preston: You know a character had seen some things
650
,255 --> 00:20:28,556
Marc Preston: you know.
651
,725 --> 00:20:29,868
LaMonica Garrett: That's the first thing he had.
652
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LaMonica Garrett: That was his and that he earned and that he
653
,034 --> 00:20:32,756
LaMonica Garrett: could be proud of.
654
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LaMonica Garrett: Everything else in his life you know who
655
,031 --> 00:20:38,677
LaMonica Garrett: knows what he did from the age 12 on,
656
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LaMonica Garrett: before he got there, and even being a slave
657
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LaMonica Garrett: living on a plantation, nothing is yours.
658
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LaMonica Garrett: You know you don't have the sense of pride
659
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LaMonica Garrett: you have when you someone gives you a gun,
660
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LaMonica Garrett: someone gives you a horse even though it's
661
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LaMonica Garrett: an old, beat down horse and it's probably a
662
,987 --> 00:20:55,593
LaMonica Garrett: second hand gun and someone gives you a
663
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LaMonica Garrett: uniform and you have a territory to protect.
664
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LaMonica Garrett: They're entrusting you to do a job and he's
665
,137 --> 00:21:03,589
LaMonica Garrett: never had that before, and that's just
666
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LaMonica Garrett: significant.
667
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Marc Preston: Yeah, and, like I said, the relationship
668
The Impact of Sam Elliott
,310 --> 00:21:07,473
Marc Preston: with you and Sam Elliott.
669
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Marc Preston: Again, his character looking, sounding, the
670
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Marc Preston: presence, everything about Sam Elliott, but
671
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Marc Preston: yet you come and provide him some wisdom.
672
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Marc Preston: One of my favorite scenes and the whole
673
,550 --> 00:21:20,179
Marc Preston: thing is, is walk up, there's this.
674
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Marc Preston: I could hang a phrase.
675
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Marc Preston: It'd just be pure common, unadulterated
676
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Marc Preston: common sense.
677
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Marc Preston: You walk up to him.
678
,048 --> 00:21:27,251
Marc Preston: He's sitting there, he's got his gun, he's
679
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Marc Preston: like all right, I need to dig a hole
680
,425 --> 00:21:30,810
Marc Preston: Because you're like thinking what time is
681
,870 --> 00:21:31,692
Marc Preston: it I got to get some stuff done?
682
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Marc Preston: Do I need to dig a hole?
683
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Marc Preston: I was like is this some real deal stuff
684
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Marc Preston: here.
685
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Marc Preston: This is not again trying to say to West
686
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Marc Preston: it's a really hard place, it was just like
687
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Marc Preston: it was what it was.
688
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LaMonica Garrett: It was a matter of factly yeah, and it set
689
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LaMonica Garrett: the tone for who they are and who they are
690
,615 --> 00:21:50,489
LaMonica Garrett: as people together and that opening scene
691
,529 --> 00:21:53,193
LaMonica Garrett: when we read it, sam said the same thing.
692
,213 --> 00:21:57,308
LaMonica Garrett: It was like wow, that's impactful, like you
693
,348 --> 00:21:58,958
LaMonica Garrett: know who these guys are, right out the gate.
694
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Marc Preston: I could just spend the whole time talking
695
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Marc Preston: 1883 in there.
696
,165 --> 00:22:03,490
Marc Preston: Some people may be listening who haven't
697
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Marc Preston: seen it yet.
698
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Marc Preston: They need to.
699
,613 --> 00:22:05,035
Marc Preston: They need to.
700
,611 --> 00:22:06,825
Marc Preston: But your body worked, man.
701
,108 --> 00:22:09,190
Marc Preston: I was just talking to my son in the car
702
,210 --> 00:22:10,794
Marc Preston: when we got picked up lunch and I saw you
703
,814 --> 00:22:12,538
Marc Preston: done the superhero thing.
704
,687 --> 00:22:13,745
Marc Preston: I didn't know about that.
705
,825 --> 00:22:15,149
Marc Preston: My son's like yeah, he was in, he played.
706
,730 --> 00:22:17,114
Marc Preston: I forgot the character he said you played,
707
,134 --> 00:22:19,352
Marc Preston: but I see the monitor, the monitor and the
708
,493 --> 00:22:20,259
Marc Preston: anti-monitor.
709
,582 --> 00:22:20,804
LaMonica Garrett: yeah.
710
,386 --> 00:22:21,566
Marc Preston: Yeah.
711
,586 --> 00:22:23,471
Marc Preston: So that's got to be kind of wild, because I
712
,491 --> 00:22:25,816
Marc Preston: mean to say from that to 1883, that's some
713
,876 --> 00:22:26,858
Marc Preston: range right there, man.
714
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LaMonica Garrett: I jump around a little bit.
715
,426 --> 00:22:30,052
Marc Preston: Now, where did they shoot the last ship?
716
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Marc Preston: That was.
717
,929 --> 00:22:31,754
Marc Preston: I enjoyed that show.
718
,136 --> 00:22:33,804
Marc Preston: The premise and concept of it was pretty
719
,844 --> 00:22:33,985
Marc Preston: cool.
720
,065 --> 00:22:34,829
Marc Preston: Where was that made?
721
,265 --> 00:22:37,426
LaMonica Garrett: That was Culver Studios and we went down to
722
,467 --> 00:22:38,028
LaMonica Garrett: San Diego.
723
,068 --> 00:22:40,452
LaMonica Garrett: We actually filmed at the Naval Base on one
724
,552 --> 00:22:43,658
LaMonica Garrett: of the carriers a couple times and that was
725
,699 --> 00:22:43,939
LaMonica Garrett: amazing.
726
,266 --> 00:22:46,753
LaMonica Garrett: And before Terminalist, that was the last
727
,834 --> 00:22:49,007
LaMonica Garrett: job I had in Los Angeles, like everything
728
,047 --> 00:22:51,152
LaMonica Garrett: since then has been in different states
729
,214 --> 00:22:53,057
LaMonica Garrett: different countries.
730
,526 --> 00:22:54,033
Marc Preston: You know, it's funny.
731
,053 --> 00:22:54,905
Marc Preston: I had a friend in the Coast Guard.
732
,025 --> 00:22:56,869
Marc Preston: I would sometimes drive them down to their
733
,909 --> 00:22:59,214
Marc Preston: ship which departed out of the, let's say,
734
,234 --> 00:23:01,117
Marc Preston: the home of the US Pacific Surface Fleet or
735
,158 --> 00:23:03,051
Marc Preston: whatever, and you don't realize how big
736
,072 --> 00:23:04,941
Marc Preston: these ships are unless you're driving right
737
,982 --> 00:23:05,605
Marc Preston: next to them in a car.
738
,665 --> 00:23:06,870
Marc Preston: It's like holy crap, these things are
739
,910 --> 00:23:07,914
Marc Preston: enormous Magic.
740
,356 --> 00:23:09,690
Marc Preston: Yeah, that was such a great show.
741
,805 --> 00:23:10,690
Marc Preston: I mean, it was just kind of cool.
742
,067 --> 00:23:12,261
LaMonica Garrett: I love working with those guys.
743
,665 --> 00:23:15,293
LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, that was such a fun role and such a
744
,313 --> 00:23:17,126
LaMonica Garrett: fun experience being like that it was a
745
,146 --> 00:23:18,831
LaMonica Garrett: locker room environment and it was just.
746
,573 --> 00:23:19,934
LaMonica Garrett: It was great.
747
,886 --> 00:23:21,287
Marc Preston: I was about to say.
748
,307 --> 00:23:22,812
Marc Preston: It seems like there was a lot testosterone
749
,832 --> 00:23:23,294
Marc Preston: on that set.
750
,606 --> 00:23:26,213
LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, I was a former football player, so I
751
,233 --> 00:23:28,225
LaMonica Garrett: kind of I invited that a little bit, but we
752
,266 --> 00:23:30,451
LaMonica Garrett: were shooting at the base and we were all
753
,511 --> 00:23:33,046
LaMonica Garrett: in our, you know fatigue and everything and
754
,066 --> 00:23:35,469
LaMonica Garrett: I was lieutenant, so when you're walking to
755
,549 --> 00:23:35,870
LaMonica Garrett: set.
756
,352 --> 00:23:38,328
LaMonica Garrett: It was an active base, so people were
757
,368 --> 00:23:39,332
LaMonica Garrett: stopping what they're doing.
758
,845 --> 00:23:41,230
LaMonica Garrett: You're like no, no, no, no, no, no, we're
759
,250 --> 00:23:41,832
LaMonica Garrett: just acting.
760
,445 --> 00:23:43,349
LaMonica Garrett: They couldn't tell the difference.
761
,810 --> 00:23:44,413
LaMonica Garrett: I felt guilty.
762
,606 --> 00:23:45,530
LaMonica Garrett: I'm like, you guys earned it.
763
,686 --> 00:23:47,629
LaMonica Garrett: You guys are the heroes we're just playing.
764
,649 --> 00:23:48,171
LaMonica Garrett: Make believe.
765
,529 --> 00:23:51,334
Marc Preston: But yeah, that was a different experience
766
,785 --> 00:23:54,317
Marc Preston: you segwayed out of that into, or are you
767
,401 --> 00:23:56,158
Marc Preston: doing that concurrently with designated
768
,241 --> 00:23:56,742
Marc Preston: survivor?
769
,742 --> 00:23:59,108
Marc Preston: At the same time I got designated right
770
,169 --> 00:24:01,536
Marc Preston: after the first season I did with last ship
771
,865 --> 00:24:03,210
Marc Preston: and then that took me to.
772
,832 --> 00:24:05,829
Announcer: Toronto, and then I came back to kind of
773
,470 --> 00:24:08,034
Announcer: give my character an outro.
774
,476 --> 00:24:08,957
LaMonica Garrett: You know what I mean.
775
,085 --> 00:24:11,412
LaMonica Garrett: So we just something where my character had
776
,612 --> 00:24:13,710
LaMonica Garrett: he just disappeared, so they wrote
777
,750 --> 00:24:15,182
LaMonica Garrett: something in to say what happened to him.
778
,705 --> 00:24:16,968
Marc Preston: Going into designated survivor.
779
,988 --> 00:24:17,810
Marc Preston: That was again.
780
,851 --> 00:24:19,535
Marc Preston: That's kind of another one of those what if
781
,855 --> 00:24:22,370
Marc Preston: shows, and there it's kind of funny that
782
,410 --> 00:24:23,654
Marc Preston: it's sort of the same thing you do with Sam
783
,715 --> 00:24:23,935
Marc Preston: Elliott.
784
,965 --> 00:24:25,050
Marc Preston: You're kind of there to provide a little
785
,090 --> 00:24:25,351
Marc Preston: wisdom.
786
,605 --> 00:24:27,332
Marc Preston: It seems like a common theme that starts
787
,352 --> 00:24:27,673
Marc Preston: showing up.
788
,745 --> 00:24:29,069
Marc Preston: People look to you for a little bit of
789
,150 --> 00:24:29,511
Marc Preston: insight.
790
,765 --> 00:24:33,809
LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, I guess Terminalist on the opposite,
791
,512 --> 00:24:36,810
LaMonica Garrett: but not really I didn't, you know a?
792
,930 --> 00:24:39,490
Announcer: lot of insight in that too, but I guess
793
,510 --> 00:24:40,313
Announcer: that's what I project.
794
,825 --> 00:24:42,670
LaMonica Garrett: I better got to call my agent up and see
795
,691 --> 00:24:44,686
LaMonica Garrett: what else how we can expand on this Take
796
,726 --> 00:24:46,232
LaMonica Garrett: over for that whole Morgan Freeman God
797
,272 --> 00:24:46,513
LaMonica Garrett: thing.
798
,906 --> 00:24:48,451
Marc Preston: You know, it's like downtown to pass a
799
,471 --> 00:24:48,953
Marc Preston: baton.
800
,053 --> 00:24:51,229
Marc Preston: You know, reed Diamond, just he did it,
801
,289 --> 00:24:53,295
Marc Preston: just knocked it out of the park there as
802
,335 --> 00:24:53,556
Marc Preston: well.
803
,705 --> 00:24:55,632
Marc Preston: So it's cool that y'all you know, connected
804
,672 --> 00:24:56,073
Marc Preston: y'all both.
805
,565 --> 00:24:58,073
Marc Preston: What I love about Reed the same thing with
806
,113 --> 00:25:00,726
Marc Preston: you is I have a great admiration for what I
807
,766 --> 00:25:02,172
Marc Preston: call just great working actors.
808
,305 --> 00:25:03,910
Marc Preston: They show up and whatever they're doing,
809
,930 --> 00:25:04,873
Marc Preston: they knock it out of the park.
810
,994 --> 00:25:06,247
Marc Preston: You know, and I really that's what I've
811
,268 --> 00:25:07,491
Marc Preston: always admired about what you do.
812
,534 --> 00:25:08,875
Marc Preston: Thank you.
813
,466 --> 00:25:11,393
Marc Preston: Now, moving kind of hit rewind a little bit,
814
,785 --> 00:25:14,853
Marc Preston: when you were, you know, football, you kind
815
,894 --> 00:25:15,776
Marc Preston: of closed that chapter.
816
,005 --> 00:25:18,691
Marc Preston: You're in LA, but generally, what was that
817
,731 --> 00:25:20,400
Marc Preston: progression that got you in where you?
818
,461 --> 00:25:22,115
Marc Preston: You know you're taking some classes, you're
819
,150 --> 00:25:23,231
Marc Preston: kind of doing the same, you know, getting
820
,265 --> 00:25:24,753
Marc Preston: your headshots doing the auditions.
821
,765 --> 00:25:27,910
Marc Preston: How did that progress to you know?
822
,970 --> 00:25:29,975
Marc Preston: Was it pretty quick for you or was it kind
823
,995 --> 00:25:30,697
Marc Preston: of a slow roll?
824
,908 --> 00:25:32,951
Marc Preston: It was a slow burn.
825
,227 --> 00:25:37,065
LaMonica Garrett: My roommate at the time he needed a ride.
826
,206 --> 00:25:39,182
LaMonica Garrett: His car broke down and it was a commercial
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LaMonica Garrett: audition.
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LaMonica Garrett: It was a pretty big commercial.
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Announcer: Joe.
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LaMonica Garrett: Pichka directing was for IBM, it was like
831
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LaMonica Garrett: 10 spots.
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Announcer: And I didn't have an agent.
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LaMonica Garrett: I didn't have anything else working at
834
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LaMonica Garrett: FedEx at the time I take him to this park
835
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LaMonica Garrett: and I see a bunch of basketball players.
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LaMonica Garrett: And I'm like I can do that you think they
837
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LaMonica Garrett: would let me audition.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, I did my try, you know, and I got
839
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LaMonica Garrett: that job.
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LaMonica Garrett: And with that job helped me to get in the
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LaMonica Garrett: class.
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LaMonica Garrett: You know, the money was good.
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LaMonica Garrett: It was the first job I ever had.
844
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LaMonica Garrett: It helped me get my SAG credentials and all
845
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LaMonica Garrett: that stuff and I thought it was going to be
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LaMonica Garrett: easy, like why isn't everyone doing this?
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LaMonica Garrett: And then years.
848
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LaMonica Garrett: I didn't book any other commercials, but
849
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LaMonica Garrett: that's what that was, but I stayed in class
850
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LaMonica Garrett: and then I started playing this sport
851
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LaMonica Garrett: called Slamball.
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Announcer: And.
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LaMonica Garrett: Slamball took me to different countries,
854
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LaMonica Garrett: different states and ultimately there was a
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LaMonica Garrett: one tree hill three episode arc where James
856
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LaMonica Garrett: Lafferty and Joe Manganiello were the leads
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LaMonica Garrett: and they were Slamball players, so they
858
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LaMonica Garrett: needed a real.
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LaMonica Garrett: Slamball player to go against them in this
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LaMonica Garrett: three episode arc, and I was telling the
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LaMonica Garrett: guys like hey.
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LaMonica Garrett: I've been in acting classes for years.
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LaMonica Garrett: I can do this and I got the part and that
864
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LaMonica Garrett: was my first real TV credit.
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Announcer: And when I got back home, from there.
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LaMonica Garrett: it was one of those things where I quit
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LaMonica Garrett: Slamball.
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LaMonica Garrett: I quit everything I was doing, just acting
869
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LaMonica Garrett: classes and like at that high I got from
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LaMonica Garrett: being on set.
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Marc Preston: How long had you done Slamball after that
872
Slamball and Transition to Acting
,150 --> 00:27:05,371
Marc Preston: time?
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LaMonica Garrett: Like six years, six, seven years.
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Marc Preston: I know it's with trampolines a little bit
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Marc Preston: smaller ball and it's basketball leveled
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Marc Preston: out a little bit, but you know, is it a big
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Marc Preston: televised sport back in the day.
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LaMonica Garrett: It was?
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Marc Preston: It was on CBS, it was on TNT, T&N.
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LaMonica Garrett: They did some stuff on ESPN.
881
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LaMonica Garrett: We were in Italy right now they're big in
882
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LaMonica Garrett: China we were in Atlanta for Final Four.
883
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LaMonica Garrett: Like we just we got around and it was like,
884
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LaMonica Garrett: you know, watching a live video game.
885
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LaMonica Garrett: So it was still fun to me and I still had
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LaMonica Garrett: that energy of, you know, wanting to play
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LaMonica Garrett: football, so that was like an outlet for me.
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Marc Preston: So really your athleticism is what got you
889
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Marc Preston: indirectly in acting.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, you know that's pretty much so.
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Marc Preston: There was a.
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Marc Preston: There was a direct kind of a link there.
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Marc Preston: So now you're on One Tree Hill and were you
894
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Marc Preston: just progressing on TV from there, or are
895
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Marc Preston: you, I guess?
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Marc Preston: Hey, everybody, you're auditioning for
897
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Marc Preston: everything, I'm sure.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, one line here, two lines on Eastwick,
899
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LaMonica Garrett: you know three lines on Hawthorne, just you
900
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LaMonica Garrett: know, giving to no casting directors and
901
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LaMonica Garrett: really starting from the bottom, just
902
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LaMonica Garrett: figuring it out having bad auditions like
903
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LaMonica Garrett: okay that doesn't work.
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Announcer: Let me try it this way.
905
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LaMonica Garrett: You know, meeting with different acting
906
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LaMonica Garrett: coaches trying to figure out my voice who I
907
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LaMonica Garrett: am as an actor, you know what I bring to
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LaMonica Garrett: the table and it just takes years to figure
909
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LaMonica Garrett: that kind of stuff out, and once you start
910
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LaMonica Garrett: putting it all together, you're like I can
911
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LaMonica Garrett: do this and that's you know it was gradual,
912
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LaMonica Garrett: but it happened.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, with age comes that confidence plus
914
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Marc Preston: you'd know yourself better and you, it's a
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Marc Preston: thing, that classic idea of if you knew
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Marc Preston: then what you know now, kind of a thing.
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Marc Preston: It's like if I could start over again, man,
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Marc Preston: I'd be a lot more efficient, you know, with
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Marc Preston: what I did or what I would be doing
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Marc Preston: Absolutely.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah.
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Marc Preston: Of course, you know you manage to land,
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Marc Preston: like on multiple series or multiple
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Marc Preston: episodes.
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Marc Preston: You know you've rolled everything you've
926
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Marc Preston: done up and go.
927
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Marc Preston: Okay, I've done this.
928
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Marc Preston: What is something you'd like to put in a
929
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Marc Preston: bucket list of what you would like to do?
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Marc Preston: Either actors you would like to work with,
931
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Marc Preston: director, a kind of project that you would
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Marc Preston: like to kind of scoot into, be the movie or
933
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Marc Preston: TV show.
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LaMonica Garrett: My next goal is to to lead something, to
935
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LaMonica Garrett: lead like an action project, whether it's
936
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LaMonica Garrett: television or film like a Jason.
937
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LaMonica Garrett: Bourne kind of thing.
938
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LaMonica Garrett: Or like if we go back to comic books like a
939
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LaMonica Garrett: Green Lantern, john Stewart kind of thing,
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LaMonica Garrett: but to be a lead and to carry the load.
941
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LaMonica Garrett: I've been.
942
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LaMonica Garrett: You know the guy that I'm there and I'm
943
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LaMonica Garrett: like you said, is wisdom and you have a
944
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LaMonica Garrett: strong presence and you're there and you're
945
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LaMonica Garrett: holding your own, but I haven't let that
946
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LaMonica Garrett: ship yet.
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Announcer: And I think, whether it's television or
948
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Announcer: film, I love action and I love sci-fi, so
949
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Announcer: to be a lead in one of those genres.
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LaMonica Garrett: you know, we'll see where it goes.
951
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Marc Preston: Well, sci-fi.
952
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Marc Preston: What were you growing up with?
953
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Marc Preston: What was your go-to movies as kid 80s, 90s?
954
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Marc Preston: What were you like all about back in the
955
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Marc Preston: day?
956
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LaMonica Garrett: The Return of the Jedi was the first film I
957
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LaMonica Garrett: went and saw without my parents at Tampere
958
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LaMonica Garrett: Inn Theater in San Francisco.
959
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LaMonica Garrett: I grew up quantum leap, the greatest
960
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LaMonica Garrett: American hero, night writer.
961
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LaMonica Garrett: Like, I believe, 80s TV to me was the best
962
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LaMonica Garrett: TV ever.
963
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LaMonica Garrett: And that's why it's being remade.
964
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, 80s television to me was just.
965
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LaMonica Garrett: It was all there, Alph.
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Marc Preston: Oh, and what was it like being on Fantasy
967
Filming in Puerto Rico With Fantasy Island
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Marc Preston: Island?
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Marc Preston: Then you know you're on an episode of the
969
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Marc Preston: new Fantasy Island, was that?
970
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Marc Preston: What kind of like?
971
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LaMonica Garrett: That was a flashback.
972
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Marc Preston: Yeah, my daughter's into that show and I
973
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Marc Preston: was trying to tell her that back in the day,
974
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Marc Preston: man, I was like Saturday night got in Love
975
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Marc Preston: Boat and Fantasy Island.
976
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Marc Preston: That was the jam.
977
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, we didn't have a lot of options and
978
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LaMonica Garrett: that was it.
979
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LaMonica Garrett: Right, it was, this is what you're watching
980
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LaMonica Garrett: tonight.
981
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Marc Preston: That should do Kind of a cool spin on that
982
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Marc Preston: show.
983
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Marc Preston: It's important with shooting Puerto Rico.
984
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Marc Preston: Is that correct, or?
985
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, and that's what I was filming
986
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LaMonica Garrett: actually when I got the call that I got in
987
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LaMonica Garrett: 1883.
988
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LaMonica Garrett: So I got the call when I was out on the
989
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LaMonica Garrett: beach in Puerto Rico like rain coming down.
990
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LaMonica Garrett: I'm drinking in my tie.
991
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LaMonica Garrett: And like yeah, so soon as you get back home,
992
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LaMonica Garrett: you have to be in.
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LaMonica Garrett: Texas in three days.
994
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LaMonica Garrett: Wow, okay, yeah let me get back home.
995
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LaMonica Garrett: I'm back and I thought I was going to Texas
996
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LaMonica Garrett: just for you know cowboy camp and I'd be
997
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LaMonica Garrett: flying back and forth for work.
998
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Announcer: I didn't know when.
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LaMonica Garrett: I got there, I wasn't going to come home
Speaker:1000
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LaMonica Garrett: again for five months.
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Marc Preston: Like I grossly underprepared you said
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Marc Preston: cowboy camp.
Speaker:1003
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Marc Preston: They put you all through kind of a
Speaker:1004
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Marc Preston: schooling you up on how to be.
Speaker:1005
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LaMonica Garrett: How to be cowboys.
Speaker:1006
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Marc Preston: Yeah, what are some of the notes they hit
Speaker:1007
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Marc Preston: on, like how to ride a horse?
Speaker:1008
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Marc Preston: I'm supposed.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, riding a horse.
Speaker:1010
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LaMonica Garrett: If you're nervous, the horse is nervous
Speaker:1011
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LaMonica Garrett: heels down.
Speaker:1012
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LaMonica Garrett: You got to look to see where you're going,
Speaker:1013
,391 --> 00:31:38,435
LaMonica Garrett: Don't look at the horse's head.
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LaMonica Garrett: That's pretty common Steering cattle riding
Speaker:1015
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LaMonica Garrett: wagon.
Speaker:1016
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LaMonica Garrett: You know just the whole everything you can
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LaMonica Garrett: imagine Like we had to herd one group of
Speaker:1018
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LaMonica Garrett: cows from one side of the ranch to the
Speaker:1019
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LaMonica Garrett: other and that was like nine, 10 miles.
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Announcer: We did it.
Speaker:1021
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LaMonica Garrett: Like, we figured it out and it was all of
Speaker:1022
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LaMonica Garrett: us together, so it was a bonding process as
Speaker:1023
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LaMonica Garrett: well, and that's how we all came together
Speaker:1024
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LaMonica Garrett: and seeing so close.
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LaMonica Garrett: When we started filming, we went right into
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LaMonica Garrett: filming from cowboy camp.
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Marc Preston: Well, you know I got to ask because I'm a
Speaker:1028
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Marc Preston: native Texan where was your favorite
Speaker:1029
,548 --> 00:32:09,134
Marc Preston: barbecue joint when you were in the Dallas
Speaker:1030
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Marc Preston: Fort Worth area?
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LaMonica Garrett: We were kind of in a bubble because of
Speaker:1032
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LaMonica Garrett: COVID, so we kind of stayed on Taylor's
Speaker:1033
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LaMonica Garrett: ranch.
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LaMonica Garrett: Oh, true, true.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, but we had great barbecue at the
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Marc Preston: ranch.
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LaMonica Garrett: We stayed at the Steiner ranch Steiner is
Speaker:1038
,034 --> 00:32:23,598
LaMonica Garrett: one of the biggest steakhouses in the
Speaker:1039
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LaMonica Garrett: country.
Speaker:1040
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LaMonica Garrett: So we were getting the best meat you could
Speaker:1041
,832 --> 00:32:29,378
LaMonica Garrett: imagine that was the best like brisket I've
Speaker:1042
,438 --> 00:32:32,163
LaMonica Garrett: ever had was on that ranch multiple nights.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, we were taken care of.
Speaker:1044
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Marc Preston: I think it's going to be.
Speaker:1045
,594 --> 00:32:37,185
Marc Preston: Honestly, I think that's putting you on the
Speaker:1046
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Marc Preston: radar for some folks that maybe weren't
Speaker:1047
,632 --> 00:32:41,258
Marc Preston: introduced to you before or maybe they knew
Speaker:1048
,298 --> 00:32:43,892
Marc Preston: about you just doing sci-fi, so maybe that
Speaker:1049
,032 --> 00:32:45,857
Marc Preston: that lead, that thing you're looking for,
Speaker:1050
,997 --> 00:32:47,842
Marc Preston: is definitely it's out there.
Speaker:1051
,230 --> 00:32:49,516
Marc Preston: It's kind of it's just a matter of when.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, this is introduced.
Speaker:1053
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, this introduced me to a whole new
Speaker:1054
,241 --> 00:32:56,948
LaMonica Garrett: audience of people that weren't familiar
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LaMonica Garrett: with me before and just showed range from
Speaker:1056
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LaMonica Garrett: what I was doing before to you know, being
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LaMonica Garrett: in the 1800s- Sam.
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LaMonica Garrett: Elliott, you know it's a character.
Speaker:1059
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LaMonica Garrett: You know it's going to help my career.
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,990 --> 00:33:11,255
Marc Preston: Where are you pulling your inspiration from?
Speaker:1061
,690 --> 00:33:14,676
Marc Preston: I love that when I talk with actors and
Speaker:1062
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Marc Preston: creatives, you know where is the
Speaker:1063
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Marc Preston: inspiration coming from.
Speaker:1064
,281 --> 00:33:18,143
Marc Preston: Is it music?
Speaker:1065
,712 --> 00:33:19,873
Marc Preston: Is it?
Speaker:1066
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Marc Preston: Are you going to theater or just other
Speaker:1067
,177 --> 00:33:21,960
Marc Preston: movies and TV shows?
Speaker:1068
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Marc Preston: Where do you kind of pull your inspiration
Speaker:1069
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Marc Preston: from?
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LaMonica Garrett: I do go to theater.
Speaker:1071
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LaMonica Garrett: I'm a member at Gessin over here in
Speaker:1072
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LaMonica Garrett: Westwood.
Speaker:1073
,710 --> 00:33:31,497
LaMonica Garrett: They do some great, great shows over there.
Speaker:1074
,891 --> 00:33:33,336
LaMonica Garrett: I love watching old movies.
Speaker:1075
,750 --> 00:33:35,237
LaMonica Garrett: I still read a lot of comic books.
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LaMonica Garrett: I'm a comic book guy and I just yeah, I
Speaker:1077
,073 --> 00:33:39,314
LaMonica Garrett: just.
Speaker:1078
,374 --> 00:33:42,620
LaMonica Garrett: I love the craft and I love just older
Speaker:1079
,241 --> 00:33:44,804
LaMonica Garrett: older projects that I still watch.
Speaker:1080
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Marc Preston: I'm like that way with my music too, like
Speaker:1081
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Marc Preston: 90s hip hop I listen to a lot of 90s hip
Speaker:1082
,653 --> 00:33:51,316
Marc Preston: hop, and I still, when I'm working out, I
Speaker:1083
,336 --> 00:33:54,042
Marc Preston: get shit that gets me going 90s hip hop
Speaker:1084
,751 --> 00:33:55,072
Marc Preston: that was.
Speaker:1085
,092 --> 00:33:55,353
Marc Preston: That was a.
Speaker:1086
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Marc Preston: It was a different vibe back then.
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Marc Preston: I know every generation says it, but 80s,
Speaker:1088
,316 --> 00:34:01,070
Marc Preston: 90s music, okay, we.
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Marc Preston: I don't know anything now that people are
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Marc Preston: going to go 20 years from like oh yeah,
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Marc Preston: that was the 20 twenties.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, no, it was.
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LaMonica Garrett: 80s and 90s were special Like.
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LaMonica Garrett: That's why all these remakes are happening
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LaMonica Garrett: for those two decades, whether it's film,
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LaMonica Garrett: whether they're remixing songs and bringing
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LaMonica Garrett: hooks from the back in the day.
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LaMonica Garrett: Like it was, it was game changing for
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LaMonica Garrett: everyone involved.
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LaMonica Garrett: And it's not just nostalgia.
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LaMonica Garrett: Like it was, it was some good television
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LaMonica Garrett: and film and music back in the 80s and 90s,
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LaMonica Garrett: prince, you know, back to like, come on,
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LaMonica Garrett: the artists from the 80s and the 90s.
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LaMonica Garrett: It's unreal.
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Marc Preston: It was.
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Marc Preston: It was kind of everything you know when you
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Marc Preston: think about comedy.
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Marc Preston: You had, like Eddie Murphy doing stadium
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Marc Preston: tours.
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Marc Preston: It seems like you know all these you know.
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Marc Preston: So comedy was real big.
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Marc Preston: You had these big personalities, everything
Speaker:1114
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Marc Preston: was vibrant and you got Prince and purple
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Marc Preston: rain and all this stuff is like it is
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Marc Preston: different and I try to appreciate what's
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Marc Preston: now.
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Marc Preston: And I'm leaning in because my 16 year olds
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Marc Preston: really into country music.
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Marc Preston: She's the only one, she's a city girl but
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Marc Preston: she, she, I think she loves the fact she's
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Marc Preston: got Texas DNA even though we're in New
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Marc Preston: Orleans.
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Marc Preston: So I'm paying more attention to country.
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Marc Preston: You know, I said kicked on a little Tim
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Marc Preston: McGraw for it, you know, gonna educate her
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Marc Preston: properly.
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Marc Preston: But yeah, they'll play a song and I'll hear
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Marc Preston: a hook and I'll hear a sample.
Speaker:1130
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Marc Preston: I'm like, no, that's from.
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LaMonica Garrett: That's all the notes.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, Like yeah.
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Marc Preston: Exactly Now is your wife now?
Speaker:1134
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Marc Preston: Is she anywhere in the, is she in the
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Marc Preston: industry, or is she just not even remotely
Speaker:1136
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Marc Preston: even messing with it?
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LaMonica Garrett: Not at all.
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LaMonica Garrett: She does real estate.
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LaMonica Garrett: She's a real big real estate agent out here
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LaMonica Garrett: in Southern California and that did work
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LaMonica Garrett: for us.
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Announcer: I did it in actress before and it wasn't my
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Announcer: thing, but I have buddies that are married
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Announcer: actors and actresses, and it works for them.
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Marc Preston: Either it works or it doesn't it didn't
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Marc Preston: work out for me.
Speaker:1147
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Marc Preston: Yeah, there's no in between it either.
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Marc Preston: Like is is the yeah, need say no more.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, been there Now you got little people
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Marc Preston: bouncing our little per.
Speaker:1151
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Marc Preston: How many kids you got.
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LaMonica Garrett: I have a 17 year old that's about to
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LaMonica Garrett: graduate in the two two and a half year old.
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Announcer: That you're probably hearing the background.
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LaMonica Garrett: Now he's back there cutting up, but yeah,
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LaMonica Garrett: we got to get.
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Marc Preston: I kind of remember back those diaper days
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Marc Preston: as those Disney channel days.
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Marc Preston: You know you kind of reminisce now you got,
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Marc Preston: you got a little 2.0.
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Marc Preston: You get to experience it again.
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Marc Preston: But you're 17 year old.
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Marc Preston: They, they, they.
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Marc Preston: My son's about to graduate also is is the
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Marc Preston: entertainment thing anywhere on the radar?
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Marc Preston: I?
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LaMonica Garrett: don't know yet.
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LaMonica Garrett: She's still figuring it out at the terminal
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LaMonica Garrett: list.
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LaMonica Garrett: We have our premiere coming up around mid
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LaMonica Garrett: June and I'm going to bring her to that to
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LaMonica Garrett: see if that sparks anything.
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Announcer: And you know.
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Announcer: And then she came out to set and we had one
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Announcer: of our direction.
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LaMonica Garrett: One of our directors was Christina and she
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LaMonica Garrett: was amazing and they hit it off, so maybe
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LaMonica Garrett: she might want to be a director, I don't
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LaMonica Garrett: know.
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LaMonica Garrett: Like you know, she's around it when I'm
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LaMonica Garrett: around it, so if she gets influenced by it,
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LaMonica Garrett: I don't think she really knows what she
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LaMonica Garrett: wants to do yet, but yeah, they got plenty
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LaMonica Garrett: of time to figure it out, but we'll see.
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Marc Preston: You know what I tell my kids?
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Marc Preston: You don't have to decide what you want to
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Marc Preston: do right now.
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Marc Preston: Just find what you're passionate about.
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Marc Preston: What turns you on.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, what things do you grab?
Speaker:1191
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Marc Preston: What do you grab from what you end up doing?
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Marc Preston: You know, not a fancy title on a business
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Marc Preston: card, you know right Get.
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LaMonica Garrett: You want to get through out of bed the
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LaMonica Garrett: morning.
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Marc Preston: Absolutely.
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Marc Preston: So you got a built in babysitter right
Speaker:1198
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Marc Preston: there a little bit.
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Marc Preston: She wants to babysit everybody else's kids
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Marc Preston: but her little brother like she'll take
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Marc Preston: care of the whole neighborhood and we'll
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Marc Preston: pay her.
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LaMonica Garrett: But she still wants to.
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Announcer: I don't know.
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LaMonica Garrett: It doesn't feel like she's babysitting if
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LaMonica Garrett: it's here on her couch.
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Marc Preston: I don't get it.
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Marc Preston: Now, she already kind of committed to a
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Marc Preston: college, she already kind of made her
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Marc Preston: choice.
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LaMonica Garrett: She has a few different options.
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LaMonica Garrett: I don't know where she's going yet.
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LaMonica Garrett: She has prom this Saturday, so that's all
Speaker:1214
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LaMonica Garrett: we've been hearing about.
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Marc Preston: That's going to be.
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Marc Preston: That's going to be blowing your mind a
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Marc Preston: little bit.
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Marc Preston: Huh, like your baby's going to prom, I'm
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Marc Preston: still getting my head around some stuff
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Marc Preston: myself.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, whatever the reason that to force,
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LaMonica Garrett: yeah, you better be ready like it's
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LaMonica Garrett: happening.
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Marc Preston: I'd tell you I think you're lucky.
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Marc Preston: You've got kids with a head screwed on
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Marc Preston: straight.
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Marc Preston: But I'm like I don't worry about my kids, I
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Marc Preston: worry about other people's kids.
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Marc Preston: You know, influences or whatever have you.
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Marc Preston: But you know, and my daughter goes school
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Marc Preston: Aloy Loyola, new Orleans, which is just 15
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Marc Preston: minutes from Nathan, but of course in
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Marc Preston: college I got to pretend like she's cross
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Marc Preston: country.
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Marc Preston: I'm not gonna be rolling up and bugging her
Speaker:1236
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Marc Preston: at college and but it's just yeah, I might
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Marc Preston: be that dude.
Speaker:1238
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Marc Preston: You negotiate.
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Marc Preston: I have that life 360 thing on my phone.
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Marc Preston: I'm like you know, it's like just case I
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Marc Preston: say hey, anything, anything sideways not
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Marc Preston: good, I will be there like miss, end up
Speaker:1243
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Marc Preston: that bat signal.
Speaker:1244
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Marc Preston: I'm there, man, they're not heartbeat.
Speaker:1245
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LaMonica Garrett: But it is.
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Marc Preston: It is weird and you kind of realize, okay,
Speaker:1247
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Marc Preston: this is a, she's 19, I'm like, okay, I
Speaker:1248
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Marc Preston: trust her, she makes great decisions.
Speaker:1249
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Marc Preston: But it is kind of weird because you know we
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Marc Preston: have that perspective that we remember them
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Marc Preston: in diapers.
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Marc Preston: You know, it's good.
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Marc Preston: It's just a weird kind of I feel like I'm
Speaker:1254
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Marc Preston: going through daddy puberty or something I
Speaker:1255
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Marc Preston: don't know.
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LaMonica Garrett: I'm with you.
Speaker:1257
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LaMonica Garrett: You know the right in the wall she's about.
Speaker:1258
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LaMonica Garrett: You know she's leaving not long from now
Speaker:1259
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LaMonica Garrett: and that bird's flying the coop You're used
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LaMonica Garrett: to that bird being in the coop for as long
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LaMonica Garrett: as you can remember, and it's just
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LaMonica Garrett: different going back to 1883.
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Marc Preston: Last Question on that is you know, yeah,
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Marc Preston: tim and Grandfay Phil.
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Marc Preston: No, they just had, I think all their kids
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Marc Preston: are now off to college, or they got
Speaker:1267
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Marc Preston: emptiness where they were.
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Marc Preston: You like picking the brain or anything, or
Speaker:1269
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Marc Preston: is it discussion about like here's, how you
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Marc Preston: transition into a parent when your kids are
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Marc Preston: somewhere else?
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, they have three amazing stars like
Speaker:1273
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LaMonica Garrett: they did such a great job with them and.
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Announcer: Now that they're you know empty nesters.
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LaMonica Garrett: they're both going back on tour gate, so
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LaMonica Garrett: they're busy, you know really yeah, they're
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LaMonica Garrett: both getting back at it and Tim, even when
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LaMonica Garrett: we were shooting.
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LaMonica Garrett: You know once every three or four weeks he
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Maintaining Energy and Work Schedule
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LaMonica Garrett: flies Saturday night down to somewhere to
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LaMonica Garrett: do a show, come back Sunday and be ready to
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LaMonica Garrett: work by Monday, which is an insane schedule,
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LaMonica Garrett: and I had zero energy during that old shoot
Speaker:1284
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LaMonica Garrett: for him to muster up energy to go do that
Speaker:1285
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LaMonica Garrett: and Be back Monday morning at like 5 am In
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LaMonica Garrett: the gym with me like you're.
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LaMonica Garrett: You're a superhero.
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Marc Preston: There's no way so working out is a big
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Marc Preston: thing for him, I guess.
Speaker:1290
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Marc Preston: I guess that's how you maintain that energy,
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Marc Preston: because on you can't, you can't tour at
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Marc Preston: Anywhere around this age and have that much
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Marc Preston: energy without having a real solid workout
Speaker:1294
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Marc Preston: program and take care of yourself, you know,
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Marc Preston: yeah, and the work schedule we had, we shot
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Marc Preston: six days a week pretty much throughout and
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Marc Preston: these are long days and you're outside.
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LaMonica Garrett: You're not the studio with a.
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LaMonica Garrett: Ceo, when it's cold out, like you're
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LaMonica Garrett: weathering the storm and the elements.
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LaMonica Garrett: We're shooting in the rain.
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LaMonica Garrett: You're shooting at 10 degree weather.
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LaMonica Garrett: You're shooting in 115 degree weather, with
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LaMonica Garrett: humidity in Texas Like we're doing it.
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Announcer: So it's a, and then you know, you're
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Announcer: getting on a flight.
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Announcer: It you work all day on.
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LaMonica Garrett: Saturday from being on set at 5 am.
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LaMonica Garrett: And flying the Port Lauderdale to do a show
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LaMonica Garrett: and you come back that night and you're
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LaMonica Garrett: ready to go.
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LaMonica Garrett: Monday morning was like I don't know where
Speaker:1313
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LaMonica Garrett: he gets that energy.
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Marc Preston: I mean I remember when he was king and then
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Marc Preston: you had Faith Hill, who is crossing over
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Marc Preston: country, and contemporary, I mean you had
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Marc Preston: the king and queen of country.
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Marc Preston: Basically, you know, that's a like a
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Marc Preston: superpower.
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LaMonica Garrett: One thing of advice don't go behind them on
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LaMonica Garrett: karaoke night.
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LaMonica Garrett: You learn that fast.
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LaMonica Garrett: We're all singing.
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Announcer: Don't go behind them.
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Announcer: You got it.
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LaMonica Garrett: You feel like you want to get up there and
Speaker:1327
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LaMonica Garrett: just and belt something out.
Speaker:1328
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LaMonica Garrett: Make sure you do it early.
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LaMonica Garrett: Don't go behind Timmy's face.
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Marc Preston: Well, you can say, okay, You're allowed to
Speaker:1331
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Marc Preston: do karaoke with us, tim faith, but you got
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Marc Preston: a drink a lot first.
Speaker:1333
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Marc Preston: Yeah, you got to make a little bit of a
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Marc Preston: fool out of yourself.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, Exactly but no that that had to be
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Marc Preston: just again, just a great experience.
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Marc Preston: I mean, like I said, it's just really it is
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Marc Preston: an introduction to what else?
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Marc Preston: What kind of special things you're capable
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Marc Preston: of, man.
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Marc Preston: That that it was a great.
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Marc Preston: I mean, just again you knocked it out of
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Marc Preston: the park.
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Marc Preston: I mean I was, you know, it was a great cast,
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Marc Preston: but you always resonated and Certainly the
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Marc Preston: terminal list is you can be your next
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Marc Preston: project that's coming out, which is, which
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Marc Preston: is July.
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LaMonica Garrett: You say right, yeah, july 1st on and it's,
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LaMonica Garrett: it's, it's an Amazon Prime, correct.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, it's gonna be a big one really good
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LaMonica Garrett: cast great writing yeah and Chris Pratt.
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Marc Preston: One.
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Marc Preston: One last thing I forgot.
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Marc Preston: He was in some Western and I heard an
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Marc Preston: interview.
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Marc Preston: Somebody had Said something about him that
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Marc Preston: it was on a Western.
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Marc Preston: He bring out the gun and to do it.
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Marc Preston: You know he, he walks on set knowing
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Marc Preston: exactly what he's doing now he's a
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Marc Preston: professional professional it was fun being
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Marc Preston: opposite Chris and it's just he's so warm
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Marc Preston: and giving as a person and as an actor, but
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Marc Preston: it's just.
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LaMonica Garrett: It's the same qualities that Sam asked me
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LaMonica Garrett: like he just brings the tension down all
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LaMonica Garrett: around you any anxiety that you might have
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LaMonica Garrett: from working with these.
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LaMonica Garrett: You know level of actors, that it just
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LaMonica Garrett: creates a fun environment and you could
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LaMonica Garrett: produce magic in that environment.
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LaMonica Garrett: And when Chris is, you know, no matter what
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LaMonica Garrett: show you're on, the one on the show, the
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LaMonica Garrett: main person on that cast kind of dictates
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LaMonica Garrett: the energy of the rest of the casting crew
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LaMonica Garrett: to set and Well, they put this, they, you
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LaMonica Garrett: know, they put the whole show on their
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LaMonica Garrett: shoulders, more or less.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, they set the tone and then they set a
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Marc Preston: great tone, so both those projects were
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Marc Preston: really amazing to work on now I know when
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Marc Preston: you get your next lead man, you're gonna be
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Marc Preston: doing that, you're gonna be doing that and
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Marc Preston: kind of you're gonna be educating others
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Marc Preston: and how it's done.
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Marc Preston: I'm sure, yeah, I've had some good examples.
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Marc Preston: But before we get going, man, I again I
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Marc Preston: appreciate your time, but I always got my
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Marc Preston: seven questions like to kind of throw out.
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Marc Preston: It's just a little fun, little insight,
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Marc Preston: something I like to do.
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Marc Preston: The first question what is your favorite
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Marc Preston: Comfort food?
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Marc Preston: That thing if you see it on the craft food
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Marc Preston: table, or maybe something you just need to
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Marc Preston: bring you right back home?
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Marc Preston: French fries Any, any particular Brand or
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Marc Preston: just kind of any good french fries a good
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Marc Preston: french fry.
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LaMonica Garrett: I think I'm a connoisseur french fries,
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LaMonica Garrett: whether they're curly, shoe, screen
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LaMonica Garrett: straight, you know I'm.
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Marc Preston: I love my you know man, no matter what diet,
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Marc Preston: I'm on french fries has to be in that
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Marc Preston: somehow, and we'll figure it out after that,
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Marc Preston: but I'm a french fry guy now next question
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Marc Preston: if you could Sit down, you can have coffee,
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Marc Preston: spend a few hours talking story with three
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Marc Preston: people.
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Marc Preston: Anybody, who would those three people be
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Marc Preston: from your bucket list to sit down and have
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Marc Preston: a conversation with?
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LaMonica Garrett: all alive or dead, or alive, either either
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LaMonica Garrett: one.
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LaMonica Garrett: Muhammad Ali Uh two pop and who and then
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LaMonica Garrett: they'll watch.
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Marc Preston: What's amazing is people forget how young
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Marc Preston: he was.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, he passed, you know.
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Marc Preston: He was only like he was when he early 20s.
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LaMonica Garrett: He was like no more than 25 was it 24, 25?,
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LaMonica Garrett: and he had just so much wisdom and so much.
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Marc Preston: I was about to say.
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Marc Preston: You still see quotes from him showing up.
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Marc Preston: Yeah now moving on to the next question is
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Seven Questions
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Marc Preston: who was your celebrity crush when you were
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Marc Preston: growing up?
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LaMonica Garrett: Jamie Lee Curtis.
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LaMonica Garrett: Vanity and probably.
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Marc Preston: Kelly.
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Marc Preston: Lebrock vanity got it.
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Marc Preston: I've heard that name in forever and tell
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Marc Preston: you we're rocking back to the movies.
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LaMonica Garrett: I love.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah, kelly LeBrock, weird science vanity
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LaMonica Garrett: Jamie.
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LaMonica Garrett: Lee Curtis two lives trading places.
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LaMonica Garrett: Yeah.
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Marc Preston: Oh god, oh yeah.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, it was funny.
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Marc Preston: Because you're kid of the 80s also, you'll
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Marc Preston: appreciate this.
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Marc Preston: Total side note.
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Marc Preston: But you mentioned Kelly LeBrock and one of
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Marc Preston: my syndicated shows was I focused on you
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Marc Preston: know the genre of music we like retro, and
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Marc Preston: every week I'm talking to somebody actors
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Marc Preston: or singers and stuff and uh, indirectly I'd
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Marc Preston: gotten this connection and this little kind
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Marc Preston: of back and forth texting thing or you know,
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Marc Preston: messaging back and forth with Tony Cattain.
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Marc Preston: I was like she's like, oh god, I'm gonna
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Marc Preston: have her on the show and I know she passed
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Marc Preston: not too long ago and I said her going man,
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Marc Preston: 14 year old me, is so proud of me right now.
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Marc Preston: You know, is that that white snake dancing
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Marc Preston: on the car's hood?
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Marc Preston: I'm like man, it's like 14, 15 year old me
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Marc Preston: is like high-fiving me, you know yeah,
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Marc Preston: you're killing life right now, 14 year old,
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Marc Preston: living at you like you're doing it indeed,
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Marc Preston: yeah.
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Marc Preston: So now, if you were going to be going let's
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Marc Preston: say you're going to go find you and the
Speaker:1466
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Marc Preston: wife, kids are going to be camped out on a
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Marc Preston: beautiful island a year, though You're
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Marc Preston: gonna be gone.
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Marc Preston: No streaming, no nothing.
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Marc Preston: You can bring a dvd and you bring a cd, uh,
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Marc Preston: any album, any uh, and any movie.
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Marc Preston: What would you be bringing?
Speaker:1473
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Marc Preston: You know, like you choose one of each.
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Marc Preston: What would you bring to the island for a
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Marc Preston: year?
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LaMonica Garrett: Uh, it would probably be the off the wall
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LaMonica Garrett: album uh, from migo jackson.
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LaMonica Garrett: Uh and and film if I could only bring one
Speaker:1479
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LaMonica Garrett: film, it would be for me not the family.
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LaMonica Garrett: They wouldn't want to see it, but it
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LaMonica Garrett: probably would be unforgiven Clint Eastwood,
Speaker:1482
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LaMonica Garrett: Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman.
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Marc Preston: It's so funny.
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Marc Preston: When this interview I'd heard with Sam
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Marc Preston: Elliott, he said something.
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Marc Preston: I think it was Marc Maron, he was on his
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Marc Preston: show.
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Marc Preston: He says so is Clint Eastwood had you in one
Speaker:1489
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Marc Preston: of his movies?
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Marc Preston: He's like no, it's like come on, clint.
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Marc Preston: He's like, if you're going to cast somebody
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Marc Preston: to be in your Western I'm talking to Mount
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Marc Preston: Rushmore I mean Sam Elliott's going to be
Speaker:1494
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Marc Preston: on it, right, you know, it's about time
Speaker:1495
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Marc Preston: that two of them got together.
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LaMonica Garrett: Absolutely.
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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to define, from the time
Speaker:1498
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Marc Preston: you get up to the time you put your head on
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Marc Preston: the pillow at night, the perfect day?
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Marc Preston: What are the component parts of a perfect
Speaker:1501
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Marc Preston: day for you?
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LaMonica Garrett: Perfect day right now, after having a
Speaker:1503
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LaMonica Garrett: screaming toddler in my ear for the past
Speaker:1504
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LaMonica Garrett: two and a half years.
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LaMonica Garrett: Get up, pray, meditate, go hit the gym,
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LaMonica Garrett: straight from the gym, go straight to hot
Speaker:1507
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LaMonica Garrett: yoga.
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LaMonica Garrett: Come back home, have some food, watch some
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LaMonica Garrett: little sports center, do something for a
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LaMonica Garrett: few hours, maybe read, maybe watch some old
Speaker:1511
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LaMonica Garrett: films and at night if there's a big fight
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LaMonica Garrett: on like a UFC fight
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LaMonica Garrett: or a big boxing match me and my wife me and
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LaMonica Garrett: some of my buddies go to a sports bar and
Speaker:1515
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LaMonica Garrett: just chill, unwind and just watch a great
Speaker:1516
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LaMonica Garrett: fight Like that's it Right now.
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LaMonica Garrett: That seems like a great day.
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Marc Preston: It does.
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Marc Preston: A lot of that's introspective me time.
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Marc Preston: I've noticed yeah, you like to kind of I
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Marc Preston: need to get more into that.
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Marc Preston: I've not done the yoga thing and I know
Speaker:1523
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Marc Preston: getting up.
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Marc Preston: You know getting up there in age but kind
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Marc Preston: of that.
Speaker:1526
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Marc Preston: You know getting up in the morning.
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Marc Preston: You feel like you know little aches here
Speaker:1528
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Marc Preston: and there and everybody's like man do yoga.
Speaker:1529
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Marc Preston: You'll feel 10 times better.
Speaker:1530
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Marc Preston: It is I got to do?
Speaker:1531
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LaMonica Garrett: that it's a game changer and I, you know,
Speaker:1532
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LaMonica Garrett: growing up being by yourself a lot.
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LaMonica Garrett: I enjoy being in my own head, in my own
Speaker:1534
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LaMonica Garrett: space and hearing myself think.
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Marc Preston: I'm a member of that tribe as well, my
Speaker:1536
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Marc Preston: friend, so I know it well.
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Marc Preston: Now I got last two questions for you.
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Marc Preston: Now, if you were not just knocking out of
Speaker:1539
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Marc Preston: the park, knocking it out of the park,
Speaker:1540
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Marc Preston: doing what you're doing now on camera, what
Speaker:1541
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Marc Preston: other vocation could you go?
Speaker:1542
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Marc Preston: I could do that, or I'd love to do that.
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LaMonica Garrett: I think something just helping out helping
Speaker:1544
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LaMonica Garrett: out, you know, youngsters, whether it's
Speaker:1545
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LaMonica Garrett: speaking at different high schools or just
Speaker:1546
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LaMonica Garrett: motivating or inspiring or having like a
Speaker:1547
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LaMonica Garrett: gym a personal gym and helping people meet
Speaker:1548
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LaMonica Garrett: their goals to a good about themselves.
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LaMonica Garrett: I know what the gym did to me when I was
Speaker:1550
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LaMonica Garrett: growing up.
Speaker:1551
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LaMonica Garrett: It gave me, you know, like some confidence.
Speaker:1552
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LaMonica Garrett: So just being the you you want to be, and
Speaker:1553
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LaMonica Garrett: the gym can help you get there, the gym to
Speaker:1554
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LaMonica Garrett: me it just.
Speaker:1555
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LaMonica Garrett: It sets the tone for everything that I do
Speaker:1556
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LaMonica Garrett: so.
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LaMonica Garrett: I would probably have a gym somewhere and
Speaker:1558
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LaMonica Garrett: help other people see what I see.
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Marc Preston: Now you're coming back around to that thing
Speaker:1560
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Marc Preston: I said before.
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Marc Preston: Now you're making me go.
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Marc Preston: God, I got to get back in the gym and work
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Marc Preston: out.
Speaker:1564
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Marc Preston: I had a car accident a number of years, not
Speaker:1565
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Marc Preston: really bad, but enough for me to kind of
Speaker:1566
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Marc Preston: really take a break.
Speaker:1567
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Marc Preston: Yeah, and you know what all gains get lost
Speaker:1568
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Marc Preston: and you just kind of fall out of the
Speaker:1569
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Marc Preston: routine and it's like restarting again is
Speaker:1570
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Marc Preston: always the task.
Speaker:1571
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Marc Preston: So you're inspiring me, man.
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Marc Preston: Last question if you could jump into a
Speaker:1573
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Marc Preston: DeLorean you're cruising back in time.
Speaker:1574
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Marc Preston: You got a couple minutes with 16 year old
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Marc Preston: you.
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Marc Preston: What is the advice and guidance that's
Speaker:1577
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Marc Preston: going to get you on a better track or just
Speaker:1578
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Marc Preston: make the road a little bit more smooth and
Speaker:1579
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Marc Preston: enjoyable?
Speaker:1580
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Marc Preston: What would that piece of advice be?
Speaker:1581
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LaMonica Garrett: Keep your humility, lose the ego and double
Speaker:1582
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LaMonica Garrett: your work ethic.
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Marc Preston: That's spot on, man, and I so appreciate it
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Marc Preston: Again for you being generous with your time.
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Marc Preston: I can't thank you enough, Most certainly,
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Marc Preston: and again, July that's when we're going to
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Marc Preston: be seeing you on the terminal list, Of
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Marc Preston: course, you and Chris Pratt LaMannica.
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Marc Preston: Thank you so much again for being generous
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Marc Preston: with your time and definitely looking
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Marc Preston: forward to July, my friend, for the release
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LaMonica Garrett: Hey, Marc, thanks for having me, man.
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LaMonica Garrett: I appreciate your time as well.
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Marc Preston: All right, that was cool, really enjoyed
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Marc Preston: I've admired LaMannica Garrett's work for a
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Marc Preston: really long time and I mean just watching
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Marc Preston: him in 1883, I mean he just knocked it out
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Marc Preston: He's a guy to keep your eye on, lamannica
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Marc Preston: Garrett, really, really enjoyed this chat.
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LaMonica Garrett
Actor
LAMONICA GARRETT
Biography
This year LaMonica Garrett can be seen starring in Paramount+’s highly-anticipated, western series “1883” opposite Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw, and Billy Bob Thornton. From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, “1883” is the prequel to the critically acclaimed mega-hit “Yellowstone,” and is a stark retelling of Western expansion. The series follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains towards the last bastion of untamed America. LaMonica shines as Thomas, a cowboy who is a former enslaved person and an American Civil War Vet – serving as a Buffalo Soldier (African American soldiers who mainly served on the Western frontier) in the war. He is now a Pinkerton Agent and has joined the journey to Montana as the right-hand man to fellow cowboy and war vet, Shea Brennan (Elliott) who is leading the group on their travels. Historically, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (founded in the 1850s) was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power and was one of the first agencies of its kind to hire people of color and women. “1883” is set to premiere on December 19, 2021.
LaMonica also recently wrapped production in the upcoming thriller drama series “The Terminal List” for Amazon. Based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel, the series follows James Reece (Chris Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. LaMonica will star as Commander Fox, a strong institutionalist who never loses sight of the greater mission. “The Terminal List” is slated to debut in 2022.
Additional television credits for LaMonica include OWN’s drama series “Delilah” (2021) and starring as The Monitor and The Anti-Monitor across The CW’s Arrowverse series: “Batwoman,” “Supergirl,” “The Flash,” “Arrow” and “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.” From 2016-2018, LaMonica starred alongside Kiefer Sutherland on ABC’s political drama series “Designated Survivor.” He is also known for his performances in Michael Bay and TNT’s “The Last Ship,” FX’s critically acclaimed series “Sons of Anarchy” and Hulu’s “The Hotwives of Las Vegas.”
In film, LaMonica was recently seen in the award winning, indie drama “Clemency” (Neon) alongside Alfre Woodard and Aldis Hodge. “Clemency” debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was a selection at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Other film credits include starring in the Tribeca Film Festival selected short film “The Duke” about an NFL player who has suffered multiple concussions, as well as roles in Paramount’s “Daddy’s Home,” Netflix’s “XOXO” and Lionsgate’s thriller feature “Primal” opposite Nicolas Cage.
Born and raised in the San Francisco area and named after football legend Daryle LaMonica, LaMonica was destined for greatness in sports. Although athletics were a huge passion of his throughout high school and college, the arts were equally fascinating to him and he would always find ways to perform. From breakdancing and rapping to singing and dancing at local parks in the bay area, LaMonica had the acting bug. His talents in football would take him to college at Central State Ohio, where he played two seasons as inside linebacker. He then made the difficult decision to leave college early to pursue a full-time career in the NFL. After training with several teams, he realized his calling was not in football, and that he had to give acting a real shot. He packed up all his belongings and made the move to Los Angeles, obtaining a job working at FedEx upon arrival. His delivery route included the Warner Bros. lot, where he delivered packages to the cast of “Friends,” “Everyone Loves Raymond” and “ER.” LaMonica immersed himself in acting classes and worked on getting his foot in the door. In 2010, he began landing guest star roles on series including “One Tree Hill,” “Eastwick,” “10 Things I Hate About You,” “Parenthood,” “CSI: Miami” and “Single Ladies.” He also did a variety of recurring work, appearing on “Dark Blue,” “NCIS” and guest starring on USA Network’s “Suits,” which would open the door to a future relationship with the network. In 2011, he made his feature film debut with a supporting role in “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” for Paramount Pictures.
Aside from his work in film and television, LaMonica also has a love for the stage and in 2012 co-starred in David E. Talbert’s play Suddenly Single opposite Garcelle Beauvais and Isaiah Washington. The business side of filmmaking has also become a passion of LaMonica’s, as he recently made his first foray into the producing world, executive producing and starring in “Mouthpiece,” an urban hangover meets entourage type of film that is currently being shopped.
When not working LaMonica loves to do yoga, he is a comic book fan and enjoys working out and staying fit. He is also dedicated to working with underprivileged youth and supports various charity organizations that provide support for kids and teens.