Matt Walsh

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Matt Walsh:
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Yes, i did a movie called Into the Storm.

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Matt Walsh: It was I think it's the third best tornado

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Matt Walsh: movie ever.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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

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Marc Preston: Alright, welcome back.

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Marc Preston: Another episode of Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: Glad to have you back If this is your first

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Marc Preston: episode.

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Marc Preston: Thank you so much for checking in.

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Marc Preston: We'll have some fun chatting with comedic

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Marc Preston: actor Matt Walsh today.

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Marc Preston: You know him, you love him.

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Marc Preston: You've seen him in plenty of films, like

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Marc Preston: Old School, keeping Up with the Joneses,

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Marc Preston: ted, the Hangover.

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Marc Preston: You may even know him from his

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Marc Preston: Emmy-nominated role as Mike McClintock on

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Marc Preston: the TV show Veep.

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Marc Preston: He's got a new movie.

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Marc Preston: It is called Flamin' Hot.

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Marc Preston: It's on Hulu.

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Marc Preston: Checked it out with my daughter the other

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Marc Preston: night.

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Marc Preston: Fun movie to watch, kind of a spicy

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Marc Preston: underdog story.

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Marc Preston: You'll have to check it out.

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Marc Preston: Matt was a real pleasure.

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Marc Preston: Had a chance to talk about his career.

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Marc Preston: Also he is one of the founding members of

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Marc Preston: the UCB or the Upright Citizens Brigade,

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Marc Preston: both in New York and Los Angeles, and a

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Marc Preston: great chat.

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Marc Preston: Really enjoyed the opportunity to sit down

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Marc Preston: with Matt.

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Marc Preston: If you enjoy the show, by all means give it

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Marc Preston: a little love.

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Marc Preston: It is always appreciated And I appreciate

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Marc Preston: you being here right now because it is Matt

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Marc Preston: Walsh Day right here on Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: So how are you doing today, sir?

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Marc Preston: Doing great.

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Marc Preston: So what kind of cookie were you eating

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Marc Preston: today?

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Matt Walsh: It was slightly healthier Marcet.

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Matt Walsh: It was like a Nature Valley peanut butter

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Matt Walsh: biscuit on granola cracker, that's no fun.

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Marc Preston: You know, i limited my friend.

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Marc Preston: His daughter was my dealer for Girl Scout

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Marc Preston: cookies, but she aged out of the Girl Scout

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Marc Preston: things.

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Marc Preston: Now it's like, where do I get my Girl Scout

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Marc Preston: cookies from?

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Marc Preston: It's one time a year, i just and it's.

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Marc Preston: There's so much shame involved in Girl

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Marc Preston: Scout cookies that nobody talks about, you

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Marc Preston: know, because you finish the whole box.

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Marc Preston: I have to look at my kids and, like you

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Marc Preston: know, yes, dad did that My daughter, emma,

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Marc Preston: and I were watching Life of the Party last

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Marc Preston: night.

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Marc Preston: We were trying to find something to watch.

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Marc Preston: I was like, well, hey, this gentleman I'm

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Marc Preston: talking to tomorrow is going to be on, he's

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Marc Preston: in this movie with Melissa McCarthy, so

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Marc Preston: we're going to watch this.

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Marc Preston: And she dug it.

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Marc Preston: She's 17,.

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Marc Preston: You know, i was kind of going down, kind of

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Marc Preston: doing a little bit of cursory prep for our

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Marc Preston: chat here And I'm like, man, you've, you're

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Marc Preston: one of those guys I love.

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Marc Preston: You've been working nonstop, you're always

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Marc Preston: working.

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Marc Preston: Are you not a guy that likes to take a lot

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Marc Preston: of long vacations and hiatuses?

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Marc Preston: You always seem to be doing something, are

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Marc Preston: you?

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Marc Preston: are you working pretty consistently from

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Marc Preston: your point of view?

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, i guess I.

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Matt Walsh: I guess I do probably enjoy working and

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Matt Walsh: staying busy And I love, obviously, comedy.

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Matt Walsh: It brings me great joy to make things funny

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Matt Walsh: or help create things that are funny, so I

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Matt Walsh: guess I do enjoy being busy, yeah, yeah

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Matt Walsh: kind of always in a state of creation.

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Marc Preston: You know, seems like is that?

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Marc Preston: do you write also, or are you focusing

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Marc Preston: mostly just on acting?

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Matt Walsh: No, i do write, i write a lot actually.

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Matt Walsh: I started in, you know, sketch in Chicago

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Matt Walsh: And so I've always been like a writer,

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Matt Walsh: performer, and then, you know, we had a

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Matt Walsh: show on Comedy Central and we all we were

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Matt Walsh: the writers, and then various I do a lot of

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Matt Walsh: improv, which is sort of writing but not

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Matt Walsh: putting it on paper, it's sort of writing

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Matt Walsh: on your feet.

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Matt Walsh: So I have always kind of written and then

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Matt Walsh: recently, or the last five, 10 years, i

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Matt Walsh: feel like I've written several things, some

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Matt Walsh: of them gotten made, some of them are

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Matt Walsh: waiting to get made.

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Matt Walsh: A couple of movies, a few movies.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, it kind of remind me a little bit of

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Marc Preston: like one of the guys I would love to talk

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Marc Preston: to you one day, nat Faxon.

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Marc Preston: Y'all have y'all kind of run in similar

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Marc Preston: circles.

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Marc Preston: He's very talented.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, he's written some really just some

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Marc Preston: kind of obscure stuff that I really enjoyed

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Marc Preston: quite a bit, you know, and whenever he

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Marc Preston: shows up it's always kind of as a small

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Marc Preston: little role in it, but he wrote the

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Marc Preston: screenplay, you know.

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Marc Preston: So, yeah, kind of go back, origin story,

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Marc Preston: chicago.

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Marc Preston: Were you coming from a family that was

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Marc Preston: creative?

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Marc Preston: I mean, were these folks, were your folks,

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Marc Preston: doing something theatrical at all, or were

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Marc Preston: you kind of the oddball out?

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, i don't think traditionally nobody

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Matt Walsh: was in theater.

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Matt Walsh: My dad was like a salesman, my mom kind of.

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Matt Walsh: We had seven kids so my mom kept the house

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Matt Walsh: running and everything organized, so but my

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Matt Walsh: dad was very performative, he was in and

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Matt Walsh: everybody had a sense of humor.

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Matt Walsh: So I guess in that way I probably learned

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Matt Walsh: that you know storytelling, joke telling,

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Matt Walsh: that kind of thing, attention getting.

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Matt Walsh: I learned all that inside my own family.

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Matt Walsh: But I didn't really do anything

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Matt Walsh: professional or professional.

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Matt Walsh: Until like my last year of high school I

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Matt Walsh: did like a variety show.

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Matt Walsh: That was kind of my first taste of like

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Matt Walsh: stage performance.

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Marc Preston: Are you seeing seven, seven kids?

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Marc Preston: Where did you fall in the birth order in

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Marc Preston: your family?

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Marc Preston: I was the fourth, i was right in the middle.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, see, i grew up as an only child.

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Marc Preston: So I get lived vicariously through people

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Marc Preston: when they say you know, they came from a

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Marc Preston: big family and I've got three kids.

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Marc Preston: So I'm kind of like watching what it's like

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Marc Preston: to have siblings through them.

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Marc Preston: But was that?

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Marc Preston: were you the only one out of the out of the

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Marc Preston: troop who ended up going into entertainment,

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Marc Preston: or do you have any brothers or sisters that

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Marc Preston: followed you in?

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Matt Walsh: I have an older brother who acted and still

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Matt Walsh: does some acting, but he's has a real job.

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Matt Walsh: He's like in the construction game and

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Matt Walsh: things like that, but he's also funny or he

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Matt Walsh: also performs and does bit parts

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Matt Walsh: occasionally.

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Matt Walsh: So I would say the two of us are probably

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Matt Walsh: the most interested in it.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, well, in Chicago that was sort of the

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Marc Preston: epicenter with Second City and all that You

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Marc Preston: had that in your backyard.

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Marc Preston: Did you have any of that kind of influence

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Marc Preston: Did you go see their comedy shows or improv

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Marc Preston: shows or what have you, when you were a kid?

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Matt Walsh: No, not when I was a kid, but I think I saw

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Matt Walsh: Second City when I was in college.

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Matt Walsh: They came through and did one of their

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Matt Walsh: touring company shows and it was really

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Matt Walsh: captivating and fun And I'm like it was

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Matt Walsh: almost magical, Like I'd never seen

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Matt Walsh: anything like that.

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Matt Walsh: I of course watched kids in the hall

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Matt Walsh: perhaps, or Second City TV by that point,

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Matt Walsh: and certainly a center at life, but the

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Matt Walsh: live stuff I'd never seen.

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Matt Walsh: And then I got involved doing improv.

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Matt Walsh: My last year of college I was going into

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Matt Walsh: Chicago to study improv and then driving

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Matt Walsh: back to my college, which was like an hour

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Matt Walsh: and a half outside of the city.

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Matt Walsh: I was doing that like once a week and then

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Matt Walsh: when I graduated I was doing psychology.

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Matt Walsh: I was going to be a psychologist, i studied

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Matt Walsh: psychology in college and then at night I

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Matt Walsh: was doing sketch and exploring theater and

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Marc Preston: When was the decision and how did you make

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Marc Preston: that a decision to diverge off the

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Marc Preston: psychotherapy path on to working on stage?

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Marc Preston: Was there a conscious decision or did just

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Marc Preston: kind of just find yourself more and more

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Marc Preston: spending time doing stuff on stage?

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Matt Walsh: I think I liked them both equally.

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Matt Walsh: at some point I really did appreciate like

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Matt Walsh: the potential of like guiding people

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Matt Walsh: through pathology or, you know, depression

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Matt Walsh: etc.

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Matt Walsh: But working on an adolescent psych ward in

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Matt Walsh: Chicago at Northwestern, it was very taxing

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Matt Walsh: and those people who can do it well are

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Matt Walsh: saints and I realized that I don't think I

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Matt Walsh: could handle the pressure.

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Matt Walsh: So at some point I took a little walkabout.

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Matt Walsh: I went to Europe for like three or four

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Matt Walsh: months in the middle of my psychology

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Matt Walsh: career and then I came back and I just

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Matt Walsh: committed to being poor, willing to be poor,

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Matt Walsh: and just started hustling.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, i just knew I couldn't do psychology,

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Matt Walsh: so I guess I'd better figure out this

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Matt Walsh: comedy thing or performing thing.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's kind of what I did.

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Marc Preston: I went to the.

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Marc Preston: My first school was University of North

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Marc Preston: Texas, which was known as a big psychology

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Marc Preston: school.

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Marc Preston: You know all different kinds of paths.

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Marc Preston: You know some people do Industrial

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Marc Preston: psychology and things like that, and I was

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Marc Preston: just kind of interested in it and I think I

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Marc Preston: was doing well, until I hit one class that

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Marc Preston: actually involved some aspect of math and I

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Marc Preston: was like, oh no, no, no, it's some kind of

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Marc Preston: my daughter who's at too.

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Marc Preston: I'm sorry, i don't want to do it.

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Marc Preston: Loyola, which is right next door to Tulane

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Marc Preston: in New Orleans.

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Marc Preston: She took that same class and got an A in it

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Marc Preston: and I'm like, okay, well, my kids are

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Marc Preston: clearly smarter than me, but that may be a

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Marc Preston: direction she goes.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, i similarly would never have become a

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Matt Walsh: psychiatrist because the science and the

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Matt Walsh: math of it all would have defeated me, but

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Matt Walsh: I felt like a psychologist.

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Matt Walsh: I could maybe have figured out.

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Marc Preston: Now, who are the co-founders with you of

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Matt Walsh: I started that we came out of Chicago and

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Marc Preston: What was the impetus for that?

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Matt Walsh: We didn't have that much foresight or

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Matt Walsh: We went to New York with a suitcase full of

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Matt Walsh: You always had to move your props out every

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Matt Walsh: And at some point we had enough students

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Marc Preston: So you've got.

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Marc Preston: How many locations do you have a UCB right

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Matt Walsh: There's nothing in New York anymore.

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Matt Walsh: I'm currently no longer involved.

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Matt Walsh: We all stepped away from it.

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Matt Walsh: We all sold it over a year ago.

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Marc Preston: But what a great legacy though.

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Marc Preston: i got to go check that out.

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Marc Preston: I want to be part of that.

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Marc Preston: You know, i don't know how you can maintain

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Marc Preston: That kind of seemed to get really big and

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Marc Preston: I mean, it was just did you just not have

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, It was hard after a while.

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Matt Walsh: We, you know, I think we'd done it for 20,

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Matt Walsh: it was a lot of work and it was a lot of

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Marc Preston: So, And part of it's like I got into acting

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, And it was.

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Matt Walsh: In some ways it was easier when we were

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Matt Walsh: You know, it was just like a little

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Matt Walsh: then when it got bigger, it was, it was.

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Matt Walsh: It was more, you know, more challenge, more

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Marc Preston: When did the moved LA happen for you?

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Matt Walsh: I did a sketch show on Comedy Central and

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Marc Preston: As far as building your career.

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Marc Preston: were you knowing the road was going to take

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Matt Walsh: Again, i never really can give myself

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Matt Walsh: I think going to New York was we're going

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Matt Walsh: We're going to stay here for six months and

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Matt Walsh: So I and I'd already had a lot of time in

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Matt Walsh: I'd gone out there for, you know, pilot

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Marc Preston: So it seemed like a simpler jump you know

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Marc Preston: Was it back in Colbert?

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Marc Preston: Steve Carell was on it.

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Marc Preston: They came out of Chicago as well right,

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Marc Preston: yeah, i knew I.

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Marc Preston: Is it cool or is it odd, or what's that

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Matt Walsh: I don't know that I like have looked at it

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Matt Walsh: So I don't know if that's unhealthy or

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Matt Walsh: I don't tend to look back, like I hopefully

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Matt Walsh: I'm older than you so I probably should.

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Marc Preston: It's funny I look back at the very bad.

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Marc Preston: I mean I can appreciate the experiences,

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Marc Preston: No, i was just going to share.

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Matt Walsh: Like, i think a lot of that sort of

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Matt Walsh: I had to let the release the hounds, but I

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Matt Walsh: That warms me And that's like, wow, we all

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Marc Preston: I feel like I'm perpetually this kind of

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Matt Walsh: We have two moths that were just in here.

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Marc Preston: They're doing DNA on dogs now also.

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Matt Walsh: And then I talked to the vet when I took

497

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Matt Walsh: her in and he thinks she's more of a

498

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Matt Walsh: spaniel, but she's like a mutt, like a mutt

499

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Matt Walsh: rescue.

500

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Matt Walsh: And then the little guy that's Penny, and

501

00:18:06,856 --> 00:18:10,008

Matt Walsh: then the little guy JJ is like I don't know

502

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Matt Walsh: what, you.

503

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Matt Walsh: He's got a fat kind of corgi body, but he's

504

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Matt Walsh: also white spaniel.

505

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Matt Walsh: This could be going on for a while.

506

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Matt Walsh: I apologize, it's okay, come on in, chill

507

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Matt Walsh: out, come on, come on.

508

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Marc Preston: This is bad radio, as they say but Oh, no,

509

00:18:26,319 --> 00:18:28,246

Marc Preston: no, no, yes, it's all good.

510

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Marc Preston: I'm a big dog lover.

511

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Marc Preston: In fact we had a golden retriever and

512

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Marc Preston: Marlowe guy passed a few weeks back and

513

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Marc Preston: we're missing him And so he was and so I'm

514

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Marc Preston: moving down to an island down in South

515

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Marc Preston: Texas here, probably in October.

516

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Marc Preston: So I told my daughter I said when we go

517

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Marc Preston: down she's going to take her gap year and

518

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Marc Preston: she's going to come down with me And I said

519

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Marc Preston: we got to get another golden retriever

520

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Marc Preston: puppy And I'm like going, i forgot about

521

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Marc Preston: those puppy years, you know, and how much

522

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Marc Preston: attention you got to give them.

523

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Marc Preston: But you know I'm missing having a pooch

524

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Marc Preston: around here.

525

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Marc Preston: I always love them And I see some talking

526

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Marc Preston: with someone and they've got a dog.

527

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Marc Preston: So it's a big dog.

528

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Matt Walsh: Well, that's hard, Is it?

529

00:19:02,919 --> 00:19:04,717

Matt Walsh: are you taking time off Because it's hard

530

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Matt Walsh: to lose a dog?

531

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Matt Walsh: I mean, I'm sorry to hear that It's really

532

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Matt Walsh: hard.

533

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Marc Preston: It went on hot.

534

00:19:09,060 --> 00:19:09,622

Marc Preston: I'm looking over here.

535

00:19:10,035 --> 00:19:11,179

Marc Preston: He's got a little urn over here, you know,

536

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Marc Preston: on my shelf.

537

00:19:12,775 --> 00:19:13,537

Marc Preston: But no, he he was.

538

00:19:13,598 --> 00:19:15,122

Marc Preston: We got him when he was a puppy and my kids

539

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Marc Preston: grew up with him.

540

00:19:15,724 --> 00:19:16,325

Marc Preston: He was 10.

541

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Marc Preston: And the hard part was I thought, you know,

542

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Marc Preston: my other dogs had lived.

543

00:19:20,926 --> 00:19:23,241

Marc Preston: My other golden, my previous dog, 13, 14

544

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Marc Preston: years old.

545

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Marc Preston: So you know that phrase man plans, god

546

00:19:25,981 --> 00:19:26,322

Marc Preston: laughs.

547

00:19:26,403 --> 00:19:27,325

Marc Preston: You know something.

548

00:19:27,355 --> 00:19:28,795

Marc Preston: We've got a few more years with him And

549

00:19:28,815 --> 00:19:31,216

Marc Preston: then he, he was sick, sick, and about two,

550

00:19:31,236 --> 00:19:32,442

Marc Preston: three weeks later he passed.

551

00:19:32,615 --> 00:19:34,171

Marc Preston: And yeah, i actually took a little bit of a

552

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Marc Preston: hiatus.

553

00:19:34,535 --> 00:19:35,799

Marc Preston: I was like I don't think I'm going to be

554

00:19:35,839 --> 00:19:37,664

Marc Preston: very good sitting down talking with people

555

00:19:38,065 --> 00:19:39,981

Marc Preston: and stuff, but it's been a little while.

556

00:19:40,195 --> 00:19:42,182

Marc Preston: So you know it's, it's, you get a little

557

00:19:42,202 --> 00:19:42,584

Marc Preston: bit older.

558

00:19:42,795 --> 00:19:44,821

Marc Preston: It doesn't get easier, but you can, you,

559

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Marc Preston: you navigate it better.

560

00:19:46,575 --> 00:19:47,939

Marc Preston: That's one of those things I think age kind

561

00:19:47,959 --> 00:19:50,386

Marc Preston: of gives you is harder for me to talk to,

562

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Marc Preston: to address it with my kids.

563

00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:53,063

Marc Preston: That's the hard part.

564

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Marc Preston: I was like, wait a minute, i got to be the

565

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Marc Preston: adult here and actually help them out and

566

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Marc Preston: make sure that they're handling it so much

567

00:19:58,941 --> 00:20:00,805

Marc Preston: better than I did, though, which is so

568

00:20:00,885 --> 00:20:01,106

Marc Preston: funny.

569

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Marc Preston: Um, do you have?

570

00:20:03,541 --> 00:20:05,386

Marc Preston: uh, you got kids as well.

571

00:20:05,715 --> 00:20:09,222

Matt Walsh: Yeah, we have, uh, three kids and they're

572

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Matt Walsh: not in college at.

573

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Matt Walsh: My son just turned 16 yesterday.

574

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Matt Walsh: And, speaking of gap year, how did that

575

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Matt Walsh: come?

576

00:20:15,408 --> 00:20:17,015

Matt Walsh: because I told my son, you know, because

577

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Matt Walsh: he's starting to think about colleges and I

578

00:20:19,366 --> 00:20:20,874

Matt Walsh: I introduced the idea and like, well,

579

00:20:20,894 --> 00:20:23,227

Matt Walsh: there's also this thing where, like, cause

580

00:20:23,268 --> 00:20:25,057

Matt Walsh: he wanted to learn Portuguese, I'm like you

581

00:20:25,077 --> 00:20:26,765

Matt Walsh: could spend three months in, you know,

582

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Matt Walsh: Brazil and work for a company or live with

583

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Matt Walsh: a family and come back with a language

584

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Matt Walsh: before you go to college.

585

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Matt Walsh: You know things like that.

586

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Marc Preston: That's funny.

587

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Marc Preston: You say that that's what it my daughter

588

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Marc Preston: Emma's doing.

589

00:20:36,944 --> 00:20:39,379

Marc Preston: She graduated, she, she's one of the same

590

00:20:39,399 --> 00:20:41,023

Marc Preston: thing with your son, uh, covid.

591

00:20:41,846 --> 00:20:44,161

Marc Preston: Yeah, probably threw off what school was

592

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Marc Preston: like for him And she uh, went back to a

593

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Marc Preston: nice school and she's like she just got so

594

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Marc Preston: used to online learning.

595

00:20:52,507 --> 00:20:54,797

Marc Preston: She's a self starter, she gets A's and she

596

00:20:54,837 --> 00:20:56,081

Marc Preston: just that's.

597

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Marc Preston: She said I just want to finish school like

598

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Marc Preston: that.

599

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Marc Preston: So she finished her junior and senior year

600

00:21:00,355 --> 00:21:00,916

Marc Preston: This last year.

601

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Marc Preston: She did both years together and she got A's

602

00:21:03,002 --> 00:21:03,924

Marc Preston: and did just great.

603

00:21:04,855 --> 00:21:05,860

Marc Preston: So she's taken the gap year.

604

00:21:06,035 --> 00:21:09,585

Marc Preston: She's still just 17 and she's got a program.

605

00:21:09,895 --> 00:21:10,900

Marc Preston: She's and I can find out about it.

606

00:21:11,035 --> 00:21:13,200

Marc Preston: It's actually a really neat program in

607

00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,706

Marc Preston: Barcelona, uh, where she goes for, i think,

608

00:21:15,786 --> 00:21:17,378

Marc Preston: four weeks, but if she does a six week

609

00:21:17,438 --> 00:21:19,284

Marc Preston: program she gets college credit for it.

610

00:21:19,877 --> 00:21:21,103

Marc Preston: Uh, but she's going to go there and it's a

611

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Marc Preston: immersive language thing and they have

612

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Marc Preston: these really beautiful dorms.

613

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Marc Preston: Before we go, i'll get the name of the

614

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Marc Preston: organization that does it.

615

00:21:28,417 --> 00:21:29,160

Marc Preston: Um and uh.

616

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Marc Preston: But but she's going to uh, uh, we're Jewish

617

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Marc Preston: and there are some kind of a Jewish thing

618

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Marc Preston: that she's doing where she's going to

619

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Marc Preston: Europe, uh, going to, uh, amsterdam and

620

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Marc Preston: four countries and then Israel on the back

621

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Marc Preston: end, and then she's doing that this summer

622

00:21:44,180 --> 00:21:46,446

Marc Preston: and then in the fall, uh, she's going to do

623

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Marc Preston: and I think she said there's a date where

624

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Marc Preston: most of the kids are there and it's going

625

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Marc Preston: to be sometime early fall when they get the

626

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Marc Preston: biggest group of kids.

627

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Marc Preston: It sounds like a really wonderful program

628

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Marc Preston: in Barcelona.

629

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Marc Preston: But these, this language thing, uh, she did,

630

00:21:59,097 --> 00:22:00,683

Marc Preston: um, she did, uh, uh.

631

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Marc Preston: Her elementary was, uh, what they call it

632

00:22:02,850 --> 00:22:03,332

Marc Preston: immersion.

633

00:22:03,633 --> 00:22:04,315

Marc Preston: Is that what they call it?

634

00:22:04,395 --> 00:22:04,957

Marc Preston: What I think?

635

00:22:04,998 --> 00:22:06,805

Marc Preston: immersion, where they are learning in both

636

00:22:06,865 --> 00:22:09,697

Marc Preston: languages, you know so my kids are so much

637

00:22:09,737 --> 00:22:11,718

Marc Preston: smarter than me, so, like looking at him

638

00:22:11,738 --> 00:22:13,082

Marc Preston: going, you know they're like dad.

639

00:22:13,102 --> 00:22:14,706

Marc Preston: are you not saying that right when I speak

640

00:22:14,746 --> 00:22:15,087

Marc Preston: Spanish?

641

00:22:15,455 --> 00:22:17,441

Marc Preston: Yes, honey, but I'm, i'm speaking Texas

642

00:22:17,461 --> 00:22:19,065

Marc Preston: Spanish you know, I ever seen George Bush

643

00:22:19,085 --> 00:22:19,125

Marc Preston: Jr.

644

00:22:20,196 --> 00:22:22,121

Marc Preston: Um, but uh, but anyway.

645

00:22:22,161 --> 00:22:23,665

Marc Preston: but yeah, i'll find out about that, but I

646

00:22:23,705 --> 00:22:24,447

Marc Preston: think it's a great thing.

647

00:22:24,555 --> 00:22:25,478

Marc Preston: You know, it's not like when we were

648

00:22:25,538 --> 00:22:27,965

Marc Preston: younger, it's like graduate high school, go

649

00:22:28,005 --> 00:22:29,518

Marc Preston: to college, you know, and I think,

650

00:22:29,578 --> 00:22:31,765

Marc Preston: especially with, i think it helped.

651

00:22:32,376 --> 00:22:34,704

Marc Preston: I'm a big fan of letting kids calibrate to

652

00:22:34,805 --> 00:22:38,036

Marc Preston: what where their passions are and adjust as

653

00:22:38,076 --> 00:22:40,383

Marc Preston: they go, not have to be like, well, i'm on

654

00:22:40,404 --> 00:22:42,141

Marc Preston: this path, i'm going to, i got to do it.

655

00:22:42,375 --> 00:22:43,619

Marc Preston: You know, i always thought it was odd that

656

00:22:43,639 --> 00:22:44,942

Marc Preston: they have to do uh.

657

00:22:44,982 --> 00:22:47,058

Marc Preston: they did their uh internship their last

658

00:22:47,118 --> 00:22:48,949

Marc Preston: year and then discover, oh, this isn't

659

00:22:48,989 --> 00:22:50,115

Marc Preston: really what I want to do, but they're

660

00:22:50,276 --> 00:22:51,361

Marc Preston: already in their senior years.

661

00:22:51,655 --> 00:22:54,905

Matt Walsh: So yeah, no, I, I, I completely agree.

662

00:22:54,995 --> 00:22:58,162

Matt Walsh: And it's also like, yeah, who knows what?

663

00:22:59,225 --> 00:23:01,197

Matt Walsh: I think it's great experience, Like you can

664

00:23:01,257 --> 00:23:03,567

Matt Walsh: take a year, like you said, instead of

665

00:23:03,607 --> 00:23:05,355

Matt Walsh: doing the internship on the back end, go

666

00:23:05,535 --> 00:23:08,323

Matt Walsh: experiment or like learn a language, like

667

00:23:08,423 --> 00:23:12,393

Matt Walsh: live in a country, and then, uh, it's

668

00:23:12,474 --> 00:23:12,975

Matt Walsh: creative.

669

00:23:13,156 --> 00:23:15,915

Matt Walsh: And it's also like there's no plan, Like

670

00:23:15,935 --> 00:23:16,337

Matt Walsh: you said.

671

00:23:16,417 --> 00:23:18,505

Matt Walsh: You know you, man makes plan.

672

00:23:18,545 --> 00:23:20,995

Matt Walsh: And God laughs because I similarly thought,

673

00:23:21,396 --> 00:23:22,902

Matt Walsh: oh, I'm going to be a psychologist and

674

00:23:23,022 --> 00:23:23,704

Matt Walsh: everybody does it.

675

00:23:23,795 --> 00:23:26,064

Matt Walsh: They go to college for accounting or

676

00:23:26,144 --> 00:23:28,433

Matt Walsh: bookkeeping or teaching, and then they do

677

00:23:28,474 --> 00:23:29,738

Matt Walsh: it for a year and they're like, Oh my God,

678

00:23:29,758 --> 00:23:30,581

Matt Walsh: what was I thinking?

679

00:23:31,435 --> 00:23:33,960

Matt Walsh: So any kind of rounding out of, or

680

00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,404

Matt Walsh: obviously travel is the best education

681

00:23:36,444 --> 00:23:36,945

Matt Walsh: there is.

682

00:23:37,767 --> 00:23:39,169

Marc Preston: It's really beneficial Yeah.

683

00:23:39,235 --> 00:23:42,500

Matt Walsh: Meeting people and seeing lives and uh,

684

00:23:42,901 --> 00:23:45,525

Matt Walsh: yeah, it's, it's just eye opening in every

685

00:23:45,565 --> 00:23:45,766

Matt Walsh: way.

686

00:23:46,567 --> 00:23:47,488

Marc Preston: How old are your other kids?

687

00:23:47,549 --> 00:23:48,350

Marc Preston: Are they 18?

688

00:23:48,695 --> 00:23:52,839

Matt Walsh: Uh 13, going to be 14 in a week, and then

689

00:23:53,079 --> 00:23:53,600

Matt Walsh: uh, 11.

690

00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:56,266

Marc Preston: You're still doing that, that phase of life

691

00:23:56,306 --> 00:23:58,672

Marc Preston: where you're kind of the Uber driver also.

692

00:23:58,780 --> 00:23:59,322

Marc Preston: Oh my god you.

693

00:23:59,362 --> 00:24:01,089

Matt Walsh: So we have a lot in common.

694

00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:02,667

Matt Walsh: Yeah, we have a lot.

695

00:24:02,780 --> 00:24:02,981

Matt Walsh: I was.

696

00:24:03,141 --> 00:24:06,610

Matt Walsh: I got excited because next year two of them

697

00:24:06,650 --> 00:24:08,061

Matt Walsh: are going to be at the same school, so that

698

00:24:08,222 --> 00:24:10,449

Matt Walsh: goes from three drop offs to two drop offs.

699

00:24:10,961 --> 00:24:11,643

Marc Preston: One point in time.

700

00:24:11,804 --> 00:24:13,208

Marc Preston: All three in mind were three separate

701

00:24:13,248 --> 00:24:13,670

Marc Preston: schools.

702

00:24:14,181 --> 00:24:14,863

Marc Preston: I had to.

703

00:24:15,968 --> 00:24:17,875

Marc Preston: I don't know, like I'm trying to be a

704

00:24:17,915 --> 00:24:19,441

Marc Preston: responsible driver, but I'm like I don't

705

00:24:19,461 --> 00:24:20,225

Marc Preston: know how we do this.

706

00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:21,545

Marc Preston: I don't know, you know, then they're all

707

00:24:21,605 --> 00:24:23,585

Marc Preston: start times, so, yeah, so it was the single

708

00:24:23,605 --> 00:24:23,826

Marc Preston: dad.

709

00:24:23,866 --> 00:24:25,250

Marc Preston: Life was interesting for a while.

710

00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:27,747

Marc Preston: But when they see you, do they have, do

711

00:24:27,768 --> 00:24:29,321

Marc Preston: they register you as like, oh, that's dad

712

00:24:29,361 --> 00:24:30,485

Marc Preston: doing the work thing, or do they?

713

00:24:31,066 --> 00:24:32,089

Marc Preston: we did Melissa McCarthy.

714

00:24:32,109 --> 00:24:34,365

Marc Preston: Did they watch that And do they get into it,

715

00:24:34,425 --> 00:24:35,389

Marc Preston: or do they just see dad?

716

00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,487

Marc Preston: Or you know what's the feedback you get

717

00:24:37,507 --> 00:24:38,109

Marc Preston: from your kids.

718

00:24:38,540 --> 00:24:41,949

Matt Walsh: I think they they like to see me in things,

719

00:24:42,009 --> 00:24:43,212

Matt Walsh: but I think it's just dad.

720

00:24:43,420 --> 00:24:46,647

Matt Walsh: But I think what tickles them or makes it

721

00:24:46,727 --> 00:24:50,122

Matt Walsh: more magical is when their friends go oh my

722

00:24:50,142 --> 00:24:52,272

Matt Walsh: God, like I'll pick up a kid and then the

723

00:24:52,312 --> 00:24:54,601

Matt Walsh: kid has just watched Life of the Party.

724

00:24:55,283 --> 00:24:58,851

Matt Walsh: So when other people see like oh my God,

725

00:24:58,871 --> 00:25:00,542

Matt Walsh: your dad's in that thing, i think that's

726

00:25:00,602 --> 00:25:02,148

Matt Walsh: cool for them somehow.

727

00:25:02,208 --> 00:25:02,770

Matt Walsh: You know what I mean.

728

00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:04,324

Matt Walsh: Like it's like.

729

00:25:04,464 --> 00:25:06,369

Matt Walsh: But if we're in the living room like they

730

00:25:06,510 --> 00:25:08,424

Matt Walsh: never I don't ask them to watch anything

731

00:25:08,484 --> 00:25:08,745

Matt Walsh: I'm in.

732

00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,806

Matt Walsh: They're never interested in watching

733

00:25:10,866 --> 00:25:12,843

Matt Walsh: anything I'm in And I occasionally, you

734

00:25:12,863 --> 00:25:15,170

Matt Walsh: know, because I write and produce I've

735

00:25:15,230 --> 00:25:17,085

Matt Walsh: plugged them into things because it's all

736

00:25:17,265 --> 00:25:18,830

Matt Walsh: you know, low budget often.

737

00:25:18,980 --> 00:25:21,566

Matt Walsh: So why don't you go be a kid in this movie

738

00:25:21,586 --> 00:25:22,729

Matt Walsh: I'm making or whatever?

739

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Announcer: But they're not.

740

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Announcer: That's fun.

741

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Announcer: It is fun, i agree.

742

00:25:26,067 --> 00:25:26,268

Matt Walsh: Yeah.

743

00:25:27,781 --> 00:25:29,329

Marc Preston: You get to that point where with your kid,

744

00:25:29,470 --> 00:25:31,681

Marc Preston: with my kids it's not that they don't think

745

00:25:31,721 --> 00:25:32,063

Marc Preston: it's cool.

746

00:25:32,083 --> 00:25:33,768

Marc Preston: I think that they grew up having me having

747

00:25:33,788 --> 00:25:35,966

Marc Preston: a recording studio here and they know, they

748

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Marc Preston: know my deal.

749

00:25:36,820 --> 00:25:37,262

Matt Walsh: Yeah.

750

00:25:37,664 --> 00:25:39,150

Marc Preston: But when their friends say, oh, i heard

751

00:25:39,170 --> 00:25:41,802

Marc Preston: your dad or my, my, my couple of my son's

752

00:25:41,842 --> 00:25:42,886

Marc Preston: friends like, yeah, i'm listening to dad's

753

00:25:42,926 --> 00:25:44,744

Marc Preston: podcast, i swear to God, my, my daughter,

754

00:25:44,804 --> 00:25:47,150

Marc Preston: who is my youngest, actually is she does

755

00:25:47,210 --> 00:25:49,265

Marc Preston: the voice of the podcast the opening and

756

00:25:49,305 --> 00:25:49,687

Marc Preston: closing.

757

00:25:49,860 --> 00:25:50,946

Marc Preston: She's never heard an episode.

758

00:25:51,501 --> 00:25:53,113

Marc Preston: I had Neil deGrasse Tyson on in here and

759

00:25:53,134 --> 00:25:54,221

Marc Preston: she was like, do you want to come say hi to

760

00:25:54,241 --> 00:25:54,322

Marc Preston: him?

761

00:25:54,342 --> 00:25:57,446

Marc Preston: She's like nah, so it's kind of hard to get

762

00:25:57,486 --> 00:25:57,627

Marc Preston: her.

763

00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:59,266

Marc Preston: I was like you like his show?

764

00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:00,264

Marc Preston: She's like you want to come meet him, are

765

00:26:00,305 --> 00:26:00,546

Marc Preston: you sure?

766

00:26:01,061 --> 00:26:04,150

Marc Preston: Nah, you know, so it's nothing impresses my

767

00:26:04,210 --> 00:26:04,471

Marc Preston: kids.

768

00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,688

Marc Preston: She's, but she's, you know she is pretty

769

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Marc Preston: hip to what's going on.

770

00:26:09,762 --> 00:26:11,286

Marc Preston: I need to hire her as a producer and do

771

00:26:11,306 --> 00:26:13,401

Marc Preston: research for me, because she's way sharper

772

00:26:13,422 --> 00:26:14,807

Marc Preston: at picking up on stuff quickly.

773

00:26:14,980 --> 00:26:16,986

Matt Walsh: But I bet it was slightly more interesting

774

00:26:17,086 --> 00:26:20,143

Matt Walsh: when her friend said oh, I heard your dad's

775

00:26:20,183 --> 00:26:20,746

Matt Walsh: podcast.

776

00:26:21,380 --> 00:26:23,407

Matt Walsh: It sort of validates you in a way that she

777

00:26:23,447 --> 00:26:24,663

Matt Walsh: doesn't see you, Right?

778

00:26:25,246 --> 00:26:26,123

Marc Preston: Yeah, well, i told him.

779

00:26:26,163 --> 00:26:27,790

Marc Preston: I said dad used to be cool at one point in

780

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Marc Preston: time.

781

00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:29,305

Marc Preston: I mean I was one.

782

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Marc Preston: I used to be used to have a syndicated show.

783

00:26:31,820 --> 00:26:33,004

Marc Preston: And the only thing they remember when I

784

00:26:33,024 --> 00:26:35,322

Marc Preston: worked at ABC radio network is the security

785

00:26:35,382 --> 00:26:36,626

Marc Preston: guard when they were very little.

786

00:26:36,867 --> 00:26:38,121

Marc Preston: He would always bring them really cool

787

00:26:38,181 --> 00:26:40,262

Marc Preston: colored coloring books And they remember

788

00:26:40,282 --> 00:26:41,426

Marc Preston: the lobby because we had like a little

789

00:26:41,486 --> 00:26:42,801

Marc Preston: creek in the lobby or something.

790

00:26:42,861 --> 00:26:45,208

Marc Preston: And but they don't remember, like you know,

791

00:26:46,050 --> 00:26:47,523

Marc Preston: when, like you or I grew up being on the

792

00:26:47,564 --> 00:26:49,109

Marc Preston: radio, like the loop in Chicago.

793

00:26:49,300 --> 00:26:49,843

Announcer: Yeah.

794

00:26:49,923 --> 00:26:51,001

Matt Walsh: Sister stations Yeah.

795

00:26:51,582 --> 00:26:56,271

Marc Preston: And I was working in a station in Dallas,

796

00:26:56,332 --> 00:26:58,644

Marc Preston: at top 40 station, And our sister was

797

00:26:58,704 --> 00:26:59,862

Marc Preston: stationed as a loop It's like you hear

798

00:26:59,882 --> 00:27:00,042

Marc Preston: about.

799

00:27:00,062 --> 00:27:01,748

Marc Preston: it is almost this mystical, like, ooh, the

800

00:27:01,828 --> 00:27:05,188

Marc Preston: loop in Chicago, you know, and what radio

801

00:27:05,248 --> 00:27:05,489

Marc Preston: was.

802

00:27:05,549 --> 00:27:07,702

Marc Preston: now it's not like that anymore And I think

803

00:27:07,742 --> 00:27:09,988

Marc Preston: that, well, podcasts can have that DNA of

804

00:27:10,028 --> 00:27:10,730

Marc Preston: what radio was.

805

00:27:10,830 --> 00:27:12,946

Marc Preston: but you got a podcast too as well, don't

806

00:27:12,986 --> 00:27:13,066

Marc Preston: you?

807

00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,006

Marc Preston: Oh, nice transition.

808

00:27:15,561 --> 00:27:17,967

Matt Walsh: Uh, I have totally unintentional, by the

809

00:27:17,987 --> 00:27:19,932

Matt Walsh: way, I just got just my memory the way it

810

00:27:19,952 --> 00:27:23,447

Matt Walsh: works Um the uh podcast is called second in

811

00:27:23,487 --> 00:27:25,960

Matt Walsh: command and me and Tim Simons, uh, both of

812

00:27:26,020 --> 00:27:27,605

Matt Walsh: us were in a show called Veep and we're

813

00:27:27,645 --> 00:27:30,160

Matt Walsh: going through, we've committed to going

814

00:27:30,180 --> 00:27:32,566

Matt Walsh: through every episode of the seven seasons,

815

00:27:33,208 --> 00:27:35,601

Matt Walsh: uh, and bringing on people you know Julia,

816

00:27:35,682 --> 00:27:39,210

Matt Walsh: sam Richardson, all the actors, uh to talk

817

00:27:39,230 --> 00:27:40,052

Matt Walsh: about each episode.

818

00:27:40,180 --> 00:27:41,580

Matt Walsh: So it's called second in command, yeah.

819

00:27:41,861 --> 00:27:44,447

Marc Preston: I will admittedly say that that is one

820

00:27:44,528 --> 00:27:46,842

Marc Preston: series I haven't yet seen, but there's so

821

00:27:46,882 --> 00:27:47,826

Marc Preston: much stuff I haven't seen.

822

00:27:48,361 --> 00:27:50,529

Marc Preston: Um, there's a few things I haven't seen.

823

00:27:50,620 --> 00:27:51,784

Marc Preston: I'm kind of glad because I'm going to sit

824

00:27:51,845 --> 00:27:53,461

Marc Preston: down and, just, like power, watch it, just

825

00:27:53,802 --> 00:27:56,188

Marc Preston: with just the ebb and flow of how much

826

00:27:56,228 --> 00:27:57,371

Marc Preston: content's out there and what I.

827

00:27:57,580 --> 00:27:59,307

Marc Preston: you know what I'm watching for this show

828

00:27:59,420 --> 00:28:01,746

Marc Preston: And I was like but I want to watch Veep and

829

00:28:01,786 --> 00:28:03,309

Marc Preston: I have never seen Game of Thrones.

830

00:28:03,570 --> 00:28:03,911

Matt Walsh: Oh, my God.

831

00:28:03,931 --> 00:28:04,753

Matt Walsh: So there's a whole thing.

832

00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:06,481

Marc Preston: I know I'm one of those people I haven't

833

00:28:06,501 --> 00:28:09,149

Marc Preston: said I watched lost literally the last

834

00:28:09,189 --> 00:28:09,470

Marc Preston: season.

835

00:28:09,490 --> 00:28:09,951

Marc Preston: It was on the air.

836

00:28:10,020 --> 00:28:12,126

Marc Preston: I started watching and catching up and I'm

837

00:28:12,146 --> 00:28:13,208

Marc Preston: like why did I miss this?

838

00:28:13,329 --> 00:28:13,630

Marc Preston: You know.

839

00:28:13,990 --> 00:28:16,527

Matt Walsh: Yeah, well, you have two good shows.

840

00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:19,208

Matt Walsh: Uh, i'm envious, and not just cause I'm on

841

00:28:19,228 --> 00:28:19,288

Matt Walsh: it.

842

00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:20,984

Matt Walsh: Veep is a wonderful show and Game of

843

00:28:21,004 --> 00:28:23,752

Matt Walsh: Thrones is one of the best shows ever.

844

00:28:24,162 --> 00:28:26,837

Marc Preston: It's it's epic, so I think you're going to

845

00:28:26,858 --> 00:28:28,605

Marc Preston: like them There's so many things that I

846

00:28:28,645 --> 00:28:30,290

Marc Preston: just there's so much stuff out there and

847

00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,583

Marc Preston: equality stuff And, like I, just the other

848

00:28:32,603 --> 00:28:35,451

Marc Preston: day I was watching um Tulsa King on on

849

00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,369

Marc Preston: Paramount and uh, with Stallone and he's

850

00:28:38,409 --> 00:28:39,191

Marc Preston: got a reality show.

851

00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:40,263

Marc Preston: I'm going, you know Stallone doesn't need

852

00:28:40,284 --> 00:28:42,281

Marc Preston: to do a reality or unscripted show, but I

853

00:28:42,341 --> 00:28:43,504

Marc Preston: have to watch this now.

854

00:28:43,986 --> 00:28:44,888

Matt Walsh: He has a reality.

855

00:28:45,350 --> 00:28:47,564

Marc Preston: Really He and his three daughters and his

856

00:28:47,624 --> 00:28:49,850

Marc Preston: wife and it's it's uh, it's all in

857

00:28:49,890 --> 00:28:50,511

Marc Preston: Paramount plus.

858

00:28:50,712 --> 00:28:52,305

Marc Preston: Really I was like I had to watch it.

859

00:28:52,821 --> 00:28:54,680

Marc Preston: He had one of the best pieces of advice I

860

00:28:54,901 --> 00:28:56,206

Marc Preston: he was talking with his daughter doing a

861

00:28:56,246 --> 00:28:57,640

Marc Preston: long distance relationship, and it's

862

00:28:57,681 --> 00:28:59,620

Marc Preston: something I teach voiceover also, and I

863

00:28:59,661 --> 00:29:01,506

Marc Preston: teach my students the value of investing

864

00:29:01,546 --> 00:29:03,091

Marc Preston: their time properly.

865

00:29:03,180 --> 00:29:04,304

Marc Preston: You may not have a lot of money, but you

866

00:29:04,324 --> 00:29:06,430

Marc Preston: can be careful about how you invest your

867

00:29:06,470 --> 00:29:07,904

Marc Preston: time And he talked about your time bank and

868

00:29:07,924 --> 00:29:10,000

Marc Preston: the way you invest from your time bank And

869

00:29:10,020 --> 00:29:11,768

Marc Preston: like I am stealing that from Stallone.

870

00:29:13,364 --> 00:29:14,266

Announcer: You know, he's one of those guys.

871

00:29:14,286 --> 00:29:14,728

Marc Preston: That's just.

872

00:29:14,988 --> 00:29:17,103

Marc Preston: He cracked the code on just having a great

873

00:29:17,183 --> 00:29:17,961

Marc Preston: attitude, and you know.

874

00:29:18,082 --> 00:29:19,487

Marc Preston: But anyway, he doesn't need to do it, but

875

00:29:19,507 --> 00:29:20,923

Marc Preston: it was kind of fun to watch, you know.

876

00:29:21,024 --> 00:29:23,134

Marc Preston: And uh, and you mentioned Sam Richardson.

877

00:29:23,174 --> 00:29:24,827

Marc Preston: He's one of those guys that you know when

878

00:29:24,848 --> 00:29:26,215

Marc Preston: you see him shop, you're very much the same

879

00:29:26,235 --> 00:29:26,356

Marc Preston: way.

880

00:29:26,376 --> 00:29:26,919

Marc Preston: You see him shop.

881

00:29:26,939 --> 00:29:28,404

Marc Preston: Okay, this is going to be a funny scene

882

00:29:28,484 --> 00:29:30,210

Marc Preston: like Ted, just you and your.

883

00:29:30,270 --> 00:29:31,755

Marc Preston: You know you and that relationship to Tom

884

00:29:31,796 --> 00:29:32,039

Marc Preston: Scare.

885

00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,567

Marc Preston: It just the most random thing.

886

00:29:33,620 --> 00:29:35,548

Marc Preston: It was just your, your fun to watch.

887

00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,648

Marc Preston: You know Sam Richardson the same way.

888

00:29:38,081 --> 00:29:39,648

Marc Preston: Uh, yeah, a lot of talent there.

889

00:29:39,921 --> 00:29:41,987

Marc Preston: And, and I don't know how I missed VEEP,

890

00:29:42,287 --> 00:29:43,210

Marc Preston: but it's one of those things.

891

00:29:43,250 --> 00:29:43,651

Marc Preston: I've got it.

892

00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,681

Marc Preston: I've got a lot of stuff queued up And then,

893

00:29:45,761 --> 00:29:47,888

Marc Preston: whenever the kids aren't here though, i'm

894

00:29:47,908 --> 00:29:49,803

Marc Preston: just sitting on my laptop, working power,

895

00:29:49,844 --> 00:29:50,868

Marc Preston: watching all these shows.

896

00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:51,221

Marc Preston: I can't.

897

00:29:51,261 --> 00:29:52,546

Marc Preston: I mean, it's almost embarrassing how many

898

00:29:52,586 --> 00:29:53,669

Marc Preston: things I haven't seen yet.

899

00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,487

Matt Walsh: So yeah, i tend to catch up.

900

00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,889

Matt Walsh: Well, yeah, i tend to catch up on uh TV,

901

00:29:58,969 --> 00:29:59,631

Matt Walsh: like yourself.

902

00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,289

Matt Walsh: Uh, i have huge gaps or I'm culturally

903

00:30:03,369 --> 00:30:05,504

Matt Walsh: irrelevant on shows Like I haven't seen

904

00:30:05,544 --> 00:30:06,581

Matt Walsh: Tulsa King It's.

905

00:30:06,681 --> 00:30:10,070

Matt Walsh: I'm never on top of what's uh important to

906

00:30:10,110 --> 00:30:12,927

Matt Walsh: watch, let's say Um, but when I'm out of

907

00:30:12,987 --> 00:30:15,898

Matt Walsh: town working on a show or a project, that's

908

00:30:15,939 --> 00:30:18,587

Matt Walsh: when I get to like finish shows that have

909

00:30:18,607 --> 00:30:20,503

Matt Walsh: been meaning to watch And cause, if I'm

910

00:30:20,543 --> 00:30:22,429

Matt Walsh: home, i'm driving children around,

911

00:30:22,589 --> 00:30:23,011

Matt Walsh: seemingly.

912

00:30:23,261 --> 00:30:24,945

Marc Preston: When you were growing up, what was it that

913

00:30:25,005 --> 00:30:26,007

Marc Preston: you were consuming?

914

00:30:26,088 --> 00:30:28,768

Marc Preston: either comedy wise or I loved with my

915

00:30:28,809 --> 00:30:29,840

Marc Preston: parents, went out Saturday night.

916

00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,429

Marc Preston: I had a babysitter who would let me watch

917

00:30:31,469 --> 00:30:32,293

Marc Preston: Saturday night live.

918

00:30:32,575 --> 00:30:34,422

Marc Preston: You know, that's awesome, um, but that was

919

00:30:34,442 --> 00:30:35,003

Marc Preston: when I was a kid.

920

00:30:35,043 --> 00:30:37,529

Marc Preston: It was the you know Billy Crystal.

921

00:30:38,270 --> 00:30:40,684

Marc Preston: Uh, eddie Murphy, you know, in that kind of

922

00:30:40,725 --> 00:30:41,488

Marc Preston: I'm a little younger than you.

923

00:30:41,701 --> 00:30:43,180

Marc Preston: So that was kind of my thing.

924

00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,862

Marc Preston: But I remember the old school Like what was

925

00:30:44,902 --> 00:30:45,725

Marc Preston: your entertainment?

926

00:30:45,865 --> 00:30:46,949

Marc Preston: uh, diet, like back then.

927

00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,965

Matt Walsh: Yeah, i think the things that excited me,

928

00:30:49,126 --> 00:30:51,112

Matt Walsh: you know, obviously network TV, i, i, i

929

00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:52,985

Matt Walsh: watched probably everything that you did on

930

00:30:53,045 --> 00:30:57,003

Matt Walsh: network TV but like SNL was a big thing, uh,

931

00:30:57,124 --> 00:31:02,405

Matt Walsh: sec, uh, second city TV Python Uh, i was a

932

00:31:02,445 --> 00:31:02,726

Matt Walsh: big fan.

933

00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,246

Marc Preston: Do you remember something that just popped

934

00:31:04,286 --> 00:31:04,708

Marc Preston: into my head?

935

00:31:05,380 --> 00:31:06,463

Marc Preston: Do you remember something called not

936

00:31:06,503 --> 00:31:07,966

Marc Preston: necessarily the news, do you?

937

00:31:07,986 --> 00:31:08,327

Matt Walsh: remember that.

938

00:31:08,347 --> 00:31:09,349

Matt Walsh: Yeah, that was a brief.

939

00:31:09,389 --> 00:31:10,772

Matt Walsh: Yeah, i do remember that.

940

00:31:10,832 --> 00:31:11,842

Matt Walsh: Yeah, that was on.

941

00:31:12,444 --> 00:31:14,762

Marc Preston: I do remember that one And the Canadian

942

00:31:14,802 --> 00:31:15,283

Marc Preston: stuff come out.

943

00:31:15,384 --> 00:31:18,011

Marc Preston: You know kids in the hall it was like what

944

00:31:18,171 --> 00:31:18,512

Marc Preston: is this?

945

00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,485

Marc Preston: I don't get this kind of sense of humor

946

00:31:20,525 --> 00:31:20,806

Marc Preston: thing.

947

00:31:20,826 --> 00:31:22,571

Marc Preston: You know the uh, but it was.

948

00:31:22,591 --> 00:31:24,647

Marc Preston: It was magnetic for me because it was so

949

00:31:24,727 --> 00:31:25,068

Marc Preston: different.

950

00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,746

Matt Walsh: And then I got into Carlin uh, because you

951

00:31:27,787 --> 00:31:29,631

Matt Walsh: know, I just kind of start following him

952

00:31:29,671 --> 00:31:31,185

Matt Walsh: and Robin Williams, so who were, like how

953

00:31:31,205 --> 00:31:32,512

Matt Walsh: the let's say, you're, you're Mount

954

00:31:32,552 --> 00:31:35,303

Matt Walsh: Rushmore comedians, uh, or comedic actors,

955

00:31:35,323 --> 00:31:37,088

Matt Walsh: when you, when you were coming up, that you

956

00:31:37,750 --> 00:31:39,244

Matt Walsh: followed, and I'm not saying to emulate,

957

00:31:39,284 --> 00:31:41,321

Matt Walsh: but this kind of turned yawn Well, as far

958

00:31:41,361 --> 00:31:44,309

Matt Walsh: as sketch, like kids in the hall were doing

959

00:31:44,409 --> 00:31:46,302

Matt Walsh: exactly what I wanted to be doing, like

960

00:31:46,322 --> 00:31:48,728

Matt Walsh: they had a group of friends and they had a

961

00:31:48,809 --> 00:31:50,642

Matt Walsh: signature voice and they were doing it

962

00:31:50,682 --> 00:31:53,501

Matt Walsh: their own way and they had an identity, so

963

00:31:53,541 --> 00:31:56,069

Matt Walsh: they really uh captured me as a young man.

964

00:31:57,041 --> 00:31:58,767

Matt Walsh: Uh, i thought they were the ideal in many

965

00:31:58,807 --> 00:31:59,048

Matt Walsh: ways.

966

00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,347

Matt Walsh: And then, like you know, people who were

967

00:32:02,387 --> 00:32:04,653

Matt Walsh: hilarious, you know I love Robin Williams,

968

00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,187

Matt Walsh: uh, i think I was saying earlier, i as a

969

00:32:08,405 --> 00:32:10,365

Matt Walsh: younger person, probably cause my dad liked

970

00:32:10,406 --> 00:32:10,586

Matt Walsh: him too.

971

00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,709

Matt Walsh: Peter Sellers was somebody I was like so

972

00:32:13,989 --> 00:32:16,905

Matt Walsh: impressed with And you know, i think I had

973

00:32:16,945 --> 00:32:19,250

Matt Walsh: like a a Woody Allen phase where I was like

974

00:32:20,212 --> 00:32:23,590

Matt Walsh: sort of you know, uh, obviously just deep

975

00:32:23,630 --> 00:32:25,799

Matt Walsh: into Woody Allen or trying to see

976

00:32:25,859 --> 00:32:28,747

Matt Walsh: everything he'd ever made, and then, uh,

977

00:32:29,389 --> 00:32:30,471

Matt Walsh: yeah, those are the, those are the ones

978

00:32:30,491 --> 00:32:31,905

Matt Walsh: that come out and they like standups.

979

00:32:33,620 --> 00:32:35,466

Matt Walsh: There was a lot of standup when I got out

980

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Matt Walsh: of college.

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Matt Walsh: A lot of the standups I liked were the guys

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Matt Walsh: in the clubs that were just, you know,

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Matt Walsh: getting going themselves.

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Matt Walsh: It was like this boom of standup happening

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Matt Walsh: everywhere.

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Matt Walsh: So I, a lot of the people I liked I was

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Matt Walsh: seeing live that hadn't broke yet.

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Marc Preston: Now, was this, uh, was this in Chicago?

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Marc Preston: Are you talking about where, like when you

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Marc Preston: were in New York, chicago?

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Matt Walsh: No, this is in Chicago.

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Matt Walsh: There were guys like, uh, you know this guy,

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Matt Walsh: jimmy Pardo?

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Matt Walsh: uh, some of these people don't do it

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Matt Walsh: anymore, but there was like, uh, brian

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Matt Walsh: McCann, who became a writer for Conan and

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Matt Walsh: various things.

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Matt Walsh: He was a great, funny guy.

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Matt Walsh: Uh, what's the other guys?

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Matt Walsh: I'll think of his name, but he's really

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Matt Walsh: fine, he's still in Chicago.

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Marc Preston: Anyways, Now you're talking about SNL.

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Marc Preston: Uh, did you by chance do any work with SNL?

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Marc Preston: or did you do any writing ever, Or did you

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Marc Preston: I?

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Matt Walsh: did some short films.

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Matt Walsh: They do those like commercials or weird

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Matt Walsh: short films, Yeah.

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Matt Walsh: So when I landed in New York, uh, a couple

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Matt Walsh: of my buddies were writers on that show so

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Matt Walsh: they were often suggesting me for like

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Matt Walsh: weird films that they had written.

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Matt Walsh: So I appeared in SNL probably a couple of

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Matt Walsh: times in like weird commercials or weird

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Matt Walsh: short films.

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Marc Preston: As you came out to LA.

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Marc Preston: that's really the genesis in kind, of when

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Marc Preston: you started kicking off doing stuff on

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Marc Preston: camera, I mean, what was, what were some of

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Marc Preston: the first things you were working on?

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Marc Preston: How do you feel like what was the momentum

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Marc Preston: builder?

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Marc Preston: What really kind of kicked things off for

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Marc Preston: you?

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Matt Walsh: I think for me, like New York, getting my

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Matt Walsh: feet on the ground and starting UCB we were

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Matt Walsh: kind of known in New York in the comedy

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Matt Walsh: scene And then being on the Daily Show was

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Matt Walsh: really for me a moment of feeling like I'd

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Matt Walsh: been launched or people knew me because

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Matt Walsh: they knew your name now and I wasn't just

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Matt Walsh: in a sketch group.

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Matt Walsh: And then I think landing in LA was I was on

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Matt Walsh: a show called Dogbite's Man and then I

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Matt Walsh: started popping up in movies like Road Trip

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Matt Walsh: or Old School.

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Matt Walsh: So those were kind of like moments that I

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Matt Walsh: felt like propelled me perhaps.

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Marc Preston: You had Comedy Central was sort of like I

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Marc Preston: mean, considering the talent you were

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Marc Preston: working with, yeah, that's good springboard,

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Marc Preston: but were you, were you really kind of

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Marc Preston: getting invigorated?

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Marc Preston: I mean you had a lot of energy for it, like,

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Marc Preston: was that like, okay, this is my thing, i'm

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Marc Preston: going to be doing comedy movies.

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Matt Walsh: I think I always felt like maybe similar to

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Matt Walsh: you, Like I was happy if I was creating and

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Matt Walsh: performing comedy and I didn't know

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Matt Walsh: necessarily like what's the steps to like

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Matt Walsh: you know, like getting another movie, I

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Matt Walsh: would just keep working at it, keep doing

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Matt Walsh: things.

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Matt Walsh: That's probably not a good interview, Marc.

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Matt Walsh: I don't have a good answer.

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Marc Preston: No, no, no.

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Marc Preston: I see the thing is it's everybody has

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Marc Preston: different path, and that's what fascinates

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Marc Preston: me is how somebody finds their way in and

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Marc Preston: then they make some friends and that you

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Marc Preston: start like just finding yourself in

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Marc Preston: different situations, like, yeah, i'm an

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Marc Preston: improviser, like truly, one of the biggest

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Marc Preston: skills I learned was improv.

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Matt Walsh: I studied improv in Chicago.

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Matt Walsh: I studied, you know.

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Matt Walsh: I taught it in New York, i taught it in LA.

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Matt Walsh: I have my 10,000 hours on stage doing

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Matt Walsh: improv, you know.

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Matt Walsh: so that's probably one of my skills And I

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Matt Walsh: probably approach life that way too much

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Matt Walsh: where I don't have a plan, but that's the

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Matt Walsh: truth of it.

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Matt Walsh: So, inside comedy and inside acting, that's

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Matt Walsh: a great skill to have because you teach.

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Marc Preston: Well being.

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Marc Preston: The ability to adapt keeps you, gives you a

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Marc Preston: career with longevity, and you've gotten

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Marc Preston: that.

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Marc Preston: Most certainly, you know, you've, you know.

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Marc Preston: Is there something you haven't done though

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Marc Preston: that you know, i think?

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Marc Preston: oh, it's drawn.

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Marc Preston: I'm drawing a blank on what it was.

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Marc Preston: It was a movie.

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Marc Preston: You were a storm chaser.

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Matt Walsh: Yes, i did a movie called Into the Storm.

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Matt Walsh: It was.

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Matt Walsh: I think it's the third best tornado movie

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Matt Walsh: ever, but but yeah, it was a blast Action.

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Matt Walsh: I would love to do another action movie.

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Matt Walsh: That was action.

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Matt Walsh: That was like driving crazy vehicles,

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Matt Walsh: running through fire, getting soaked in

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Matt Walsh: rain, you know, explosions, all of that It

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Matt Walsh: was.

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Matt Walsh: it was really fun and really challenging.

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Matt Walsh: So I would love to do another action movie.

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Marc Preston: Is there something you're wanting to do

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Marc Preston: that just hasn't shown up?

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Marc Preston: as far as your agent hasn't handed you the

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Marc Preston: script just yet, you know that you would

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Marc Preston: like to do something you would like to do.

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Matt Walsh: Well, I think, like you talk about action,

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Matt Walsh: I think like an action comedy I think would

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Matt Walsh: be really fun.

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Matt Walsh: I think also like kind of like these are

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Matt Walsh: things I haven't done, but kind of like

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Matt Walsh: either an unraveling mystery or an

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Matt Walsh: unraveling sort of dramatic show, that sort

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Matt Walsh: of unfolds, if you will like that.

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Matt Walsh: That's very interesting to me.

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Matt Walsh: I haven't done those, those sort of things.

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Marc Preston: Well, we see a lot of guys with comedy

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Marc Preston: background that are stepping into doing

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00:37:42,417 --> 00:37:43,086

Marc Preston: those kind of things.

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Marc Preston: You know it's pretty common, but you are, i

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Marc Preston: mean, without a doubt you're one of those

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Marc Preston: guys that's busy, you know, and that's in

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Marc Preston: Hollywood.

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Marc Preston: I guess that's a blessing, you know,

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Marc Preston: because you're always Yeah, i did.

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Matt Walsh: I did something like I'm grateful for all

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Matt Walsh: you know, all the things I've been able to

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Matt Walsh: get into.

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Matt Walsh: I did an Apple limited series about the

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Matt Walsh: assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the

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Matt Walsh: capturing of John Wilkes Booth last year

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Matt Walsh: down in Georgia And I played Dr Mudd who

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Matt Walsh: fixed John Wilkes Booth's ankle And it was

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Matt Walsh: completely a drama and it was a complete

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Matt Walsh: period piece And it was like heavy beers

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Matt Walsh: and sweaty clothing and Georgia in the

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Matt Walsh: summer and dim lighting And it was really

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Matt Walsh: challenging and good It was.

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Matt Walsh: It was a really neat experience.

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Marc Preston: So as far as the summer goes, kids out of

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Marc Preston: school, you planning any kind of family

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Marc Preston: vacation and they kind of get away a little

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Marc Preston: break from work, or you got stuff lined up

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Marc Preston: in the next couple of months here.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, we have a plan to was just discussing

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Matt Walsh: it with my wife.

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Matt Walsh: We're going to get up to the Northwest.

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Matt Walsh: She's from the Northwest, i'm from Chicago,

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Matt Walsh: so we've gone to Chicago a fair amount.

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Matt Walsh: She's always like we don't get to Northwest

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Matt Walsh: enough.

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Matt Walsh: So we're going to go up to like her her mom

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Matt Walsh: is in Eugene and then we're going to go to

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Matt Walsh: the coast, see the Oregon coast, and we're

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Matt Walsh: going to try to get up to like Big Sur,

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Matt Walsh: which we've never done, and maybe Northern

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Matt Walsh: California coast.

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Matt Walsh: So that's the plan and that's exciting.

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Matt Walsh: We're probably going to rent a little mini

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Matt Walsh: camper and just maybe park on a couple

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Matt Walsh: beaches and get into nature.

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Marc Preston: That's exciting.

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Marc Preston: I would love that.

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Marc Preston: When I was younger I was really younger, my

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Marc Preston: kids were young I always thought getting a

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Marc Preston: like a big motor home doing like the go

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Marc Preston: full grisly.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, yeah.

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Marc Preston: I thought that would be a blast.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, now, as far as flame and hot, the new

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Marc Preston: project.

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Marc Preston: Now, how did that come across, eva?

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Matt Walsh: so Eva Longoria.

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Matt Walsh: I wrote a movie with a friend of mine

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Matt Walsh: called Unplugging and Eva signed on to do

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Matt Walsh: it And so me and her were co-stars in this

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Matt Walsh: story about a couple who agrees to no Wi-Fi,

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Matt Walsh: no phones, no cell service for a weekend to

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Matt Walsh: kind of rescue the marriage because they're

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Matt Walsh: having some problems And then the minute

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Matt Walsh: they put their screens down they start

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Matt Walsh: getting paranoid that the world's ending.

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Matt Walsh: So that was the story that I wrote with a

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Matt Walsh: buddy and she was great She's the best And

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Matt Walsh: we became friends making that movie playing

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Matt Walsh: a couple together.

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Matt Walsh: And she was directing a movie the next year

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Matt Walsh: and she asked me to come in and she said

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Matt Walsh: would you come into my movie and play an

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Matt Walsh: old white racist?

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Matt Walsh: And I said I'll play a.

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Matt Walsh: I said no, but I'll play a middle-aged

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Matt Walsh: racist.

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Marc Preston: Very nice Now if I was just watching her on

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Marc Preston: her CNN her new, i think it's called

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Marc Preston: Searching for Mexico.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, it's awesome.

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Marc Preston: She's a wonderful fellow Texan.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah.

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Marc Preston: From what I gather from the trailer, it's

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Marc Preston: addressing Marcets that hadn't previously

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Marc Preston: been tapped into by the fast food folks.

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Marc Preston: Is that kind of the gist of it, more or

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Marc Preston: less?

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, i think it's really about a Mexican

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Matt Walsh: American tale.

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Matt Walsh: Like a guy who's a janitor grew up in

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Matt Walsh: America, his parents were picking fruit and

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Matt Walsh: vineyards and then he got a job and learned

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Matt Walsh: everything and then they were threatening

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Matt Walsh: to close the factory down and he had the

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Matt Walsh: idea to basically create food for Latinos.

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Matt Walsh: There was no Marcet yet, nobody had like,

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Matt Walsh: and he was living and looking around

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Matt Walsh: America and he's like there's tons of

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Matt Walsh: people who will buy this.

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Matt Walsh: So he came up with the idea and called the

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Matt Walsh: head of the company and he's like all right,

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Matt Walsh: they'll come down.

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Matt Walsh: Lo and behold, the guy came down and they

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Matt Walsh: worked it, he pitched it and they kind of

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Matt Walsh: made it happen and that guy helped launch

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Matt Walsh: this billion dollar industry.

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Marc Preston: You're playing like a supervisor.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, Another middle-aged short sleeve

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00:41:39,298 --> 00:41:40,721

Matt Walsh: wearing office jerk.

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Marc Preston: You know, if you own it, own it.

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Matt Walsh: No, no, it's great, It was so I mean,

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Matt Walsh: honestly, it was amazing because it's

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Matt Walsh: really a story about what it is to be

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Matt Walsh: Mexican in America.

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Matt Walsh: I think It's about this Latin culture and

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Matt Walsh: like working your way up into the American

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Matt Walsh: dream And, against all odds, this guy, like

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Matt Walsh: his wife, is a big part of it.

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Matt Walsh: He reconciles some stuff with his father.

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Matt Walsh: It's a beautiful story, it's really.

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Matt Walsh: It's one of those movies I always watch,

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Matt Walsh: like somebody with a dream making a car

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Matt Walsh: like Tucker, or like getting five minutes

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Matt Walsh: to play on the Notre Dame kicking team like

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Matt Walsh: Rudy.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, like it's one of those stories and

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Matt Walsh: it's beautiful and it was fun to be, you

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Matt Walsh: know, around all these people And my

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Matt Walsh: Spanish got sharper too because they were

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Matt Walsh: often speaking Spanish to each other.

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Marc Preston: Well, no, that's what I was saying.

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Marc Preston: I'm going down to this.

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Marc Preston: I just figure I can work from anywhere and

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Marc Preston: I've always wanted to live on an island.

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Marc Preston: I don't you know.

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Marc Preston: I've done my Southern California thing.

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00:42:38,184 --> 00:42:40,053

Marc Preston: But going down to South Padre Island in

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Marc Preston: Texas and to get a place set up, nice, and

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Marc Preston: I told my daughter, it's like baby.

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Marc Preston: I said, you know you're Spanish, you're

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Marc Preston: going to have to help me out here.

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Marc Preston: I mean, am I?

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Marc Preston: it's okay, i can get by, yeah, but it's

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Marc Preston: like here's the thing you give me a corona,

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Marc Preston: you let me sit, post up somewhere near the

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Marc Preston: beach.

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Marc Preston: It will just come back to me, yeah, or at

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Marc Preston: least I feel.

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Marc Preston: The more coronas I'll feel like more of

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Marc Preston: it's come back to me than actually has.

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Marc Preston: It just gets embarrassing after a while.

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Matt Walsh: Got the boat.

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1267

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Matt Walsh: Do you have the boat dialed in or you can

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1268

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Matt Walsh: have yourself a boat?

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Marc Preston: No, no no, no, no, I actually that's the.

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Marc Preston: you know I would love to do that It's.

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Marc Preston: it's a really neat place because right

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Marc Preston: across the bay is where SpaceX has their

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Marc Preston: launch facility, oh, wow, But.

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Marc Preston: but yeah, that's.

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Marc Preston: that's going to be my the second half of my

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Marc Preston: daughter's gap year.

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00:43:21,610 --> 00:43:24,258

Marc Preston: The first part shall be in Barcelona,

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00:43:24,579 --> 00:43:27,469

Marc Preston: learning Spanish, spanish, spain Spanish,

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1279

00:43:27,569 --> 00:43:29,114

Marc Preston: and then she'll be coming down there and

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Marc Preston: kind of helping me out a little bit.

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Marc Preston: But tell you what, before we get running, i

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Marc Preston: got my what I call my seven questions that

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Marc Preston: I like to ask.

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00:43:36,810 --> 00:43:38,976

Marc Preston: It's kind of an additional little get to

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Marc Preston: know you, a little fun.

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Marc Preston: One of the things is I'm always curious

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Marc Preston: about because I'm a food guy.

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Marc Preston: I can talk food day in, day in, day out.

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1289

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Marc Preston: But what is your favorite comfort food?

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00:43:48,890 --> 00:43:50,722

Marc Preston: Something that it's like craft service

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1291

00:43:50,742 --> 00:43:51,930

Marc Preston: tables like this is nothing.

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00:43:52,131 --> 00:43:53,136

Marc Preston: I just want this thing.

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00:43:53,270 --> 00:43:54,636

Marc Preston: This is going to be comforting.

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Matt Walsh: You know what would that be?

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1295

00:43:57,210 --> 00:43:59,677

Matt Walsh: Um, i guess snack.

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Matt Walsh: my mind goes to snack food.

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Matt Walsh: Like I'm a sucker for caramel corn, like

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Matt Walsh: that's kind of an Achilles heel, like I try

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Matt Walsh: not to eat it, but it's very comforting to

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Matt Walsh: see a good.

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Matt Walsh: oh my God, if it's warm like freshly made

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00:44:14,753 --> 00:44:15,817

Matt Walsh: caramel corn, forget it.

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Marc Preston: We one time I you know, during COVID, we're

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00:44:18,179 --> 00:44:20,829

Marc Preston: getting deliveries from Costco and they

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Marc Preston: messed up something in my order and

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00:44:22,153 --> 00:44:23,638

Marc Preston: accidentally brought me this big bag of

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00:44:23,678 --> 00:44:26,152

Marc Preston: things called creeders, caramel, corn and

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00:44:26,572 --> 00:44:28,314

Marc Preston: cheese cheese Chicago.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, that's the Chicago mix, come on.

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Marc Preston: I know that's what they call it, that's

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00:44:31,357 --> 00:44:31,818

Marc Preston: what Chicago.

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00:44:31,958 --> 00:44:33,520

Marc Preston: Yeah, that's what's dangerous, oh yeah.

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Matt Walsh: Exactly 100%, 100%.

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Marc Preston: When you look at it, this big bag and half

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00:44:40,319 --> 00:44:41,509

Marc Preston: of it's gone is like I can't not be doing

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00:44:41,529 --> 00:44:42,754

Marc Preston: this Well it's made of corn.

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Matt Walsh: It's not that bad for me.

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00:44:43,917 --> 00:44:45,582

Marc Preston: I mean, it's just pop See that's the way I

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1319

00:44:45,623 --> 00:44:46,009

Marc Preston: think about it.

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00:44:46,050 --> 00:44:47,596

Marc Preston: See, you're on the same page as me, though,

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00:44:47,930 --> 00:44:49,676

Marc Preston: It's like, although my cholesterol level

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Marc Preston: says otherwise.

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Marc Preston: Now, the second question I got for you is

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00:44:52,956 --> 00:44:54,741

Marc Preston: if you were to take three people sit down,

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00:44:54,890 --> 00:44:55,959

Marc Preston: you're going to have a cup of coffee with

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00:44:55,979 --> 00:44:57,209

Marc Preston: them and you're going to have, you know,

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1327

00:44:57,229 --> 00:44:58,735

Marc Preston: talk for a few hours, have conversation.

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1328

00:44:59,337 --> 00:45:00,320

Marc Preston: Who would those three people be?

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00:45:00,410 --> 00:45:02,877

Marc Preston: I mean living or not, who would you enjoy

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1330

00:45:02,917 --> 00:45:03,719

Marc Preston: talking story with?

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00:45:04,651 --> 00:45:07,672

Matt Walsh: Oh my gosh, living or dead.

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00:45:07,712 --> 00:45:08,515

Matt Walsh: You said right.

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00:45:09,017 --> 00:45:11,453

Marc Preston: Yeah, just you know somebody, anybody that

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00:45:11,493 --> 00:45:13,878

Marc Preston: you feel like would kind of elevate your

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00:45:13,918 --> 00:45:14,820

Marc Preston: experience of life.

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00:45:14,901 --> 00:45:15,863

Matt Walsh: I'm going to go.

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00:45:17,634 --> 00:45:22,075

Matt Walsh: I'm going to go, harry Truman, because I

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1338

00:45:22,295 --> 00:45:24,820

Matt Walsh: remember really liking him as a young kid

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00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:26,122

Matt Walsh: studying presidents.

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00:45:26,423 --> 00:45:27,224

Matt Walsh: I'm going to go.

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1341

00:45:28,192 --> 00:45:31,499

Matt Walsh: I mean, you might as well go dead, right.

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1342

00:45:32,661 --> 00:45:33,543

Matt Walsh: Who else would I go?

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00:45:33,710 --> 00:45:37,316

Matt Walsh: I'd probably go with, like Da Vinci.

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1344

00:45:38,338 --> 00:45:42,164

Matt Walsh: Leonardo Da Vinci, and then because he's a

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00:45:42,504 --> 00:45:46,835

Matt Walsh: brilliant genius of a mind, and then maybe

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00:45:46,895 --> 00:45:48,359

Matt Walsh: Michael Jordan, because I never met him.

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00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:49,061

Marc Preston: Yeah, he did.

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00:45:49,650 --> 00:45:50,752

Marc Preston: He did a couple of things in Chicago, i

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00:45:50,792 --> 00:45:53,517

Marc Preston: think, didn't he Like, yeah, i think he did?

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Matt Walsh: What was the sport?

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00:45:54,418 --> 00:45:56,281

Matt Walsh: again, i forget Basketball.

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00:45:57,063 --> 00:45:58,934

Marc Preston: I think curling, no, no, no, something else,

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00:45:59,450 --> 00:45:59,891

Marc Preston: but he was.

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00:46:00,954 --> 00:46:03,320

Marc Preston: Yeah, that being Chicago back then must

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00:46:03,340 --> 00:46:04,523

Marc Preston: have been just insane.

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Marc Preston: In fact, that's another that I think air.

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00:46:08,391 --> 00:46:09,935

Marc Preston: I think that's the movie about the air

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00:46:10,035 --> 00:46:10,316

Marc Preston: Jordan.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, i need to watch it.

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Marc Preston: That's on the list Now going.

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00:46:14,512 --> 00:46:17,799

Marc Preston: Third question who was your first celebrity

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00:46:17,819 --> 00:46:19,142

Marc Preston: crush when you were young?

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00:46:19,850 --> 00:46:23,238

Matt Walsh: Crush like oh she's beautiful, like for me.

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00:46:23,358 --> 00:46:25,590

Matt Walsh: or crush like oh, that guy is amazing, that

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00:46:25,611 --> 00:46:26,475

Matt Walsh: person's amazing.

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Marc Preston: No, you know it could be either one.

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00:46:29,571 --> 00:46:30,093

Marc Preston: You know it could be.

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00:46:30,113 --> 00:46:31,921

Marc Preston: Just like you see a lady in a movie going

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00:46:32,042 --> 00:46:33,468

Marc Preston: oh my gosh, like for me, like Olivia

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00:46:33,489 --> 00:46:33,810

Marc Preston: Newton-John.

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00:46:33,971 --> 00:46:36,854

Matt Walsh: I was like oh okay, i think it was maybe

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00:46:38,097 --> 00:46:39,119

Matt Walsh: Jessica Lange.

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00:46:40,531 --> 00:46:42,914

Matt Walsh: Like that's a star Like she's so beautiful,

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00:46:43,175 --> 00:46:43,416

Matt Walsh: sure?

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00:46:44,190 --> 00:46:45,378

Marc Preston: Or you know, the second half of kind of

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00:46:45,398 --> 00:46:46,949

Marc Preston: what you brought up, who was the person you

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00:46:46,990 --> 00:46:49,238

Marc Preston: saw is like they just killed me.

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00:46:50,855 --> 00:46:52,259

Marc Preston: Magnetic or mesmerizing assembly.

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00:46:52,830 --> 00:46:56,598

Matt Walsh: I think like for me someone from Chicago.

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00:46:56,618 --> 00:46:59,584

Matt Walsh: I think there were people like John Belushi

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00:46:59,670 --> 00:47:01,799

Matt Walsh: or Bill Murray who were like, because they

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00:47:01,819 --> 00:47:04,208

Matt Walsh: were from Chicago, it was like they were

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00:47:04,248 --> 00:47:08,300

Matt Walsh: amazing and they had it seemed connected to

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00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:08,801

Matt Walsh: my life.

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00:47:09,050 --> 00:47:10,496

Matt Walsh: You know, they were from my hometown.

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00:47:10,810 --> 00:47:12,297

Marc Preston: You see, as a kid growing up in Texas I

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00:47:12,337 --> 00:47:14,688

Marc Preston: thought everybody in Chicago lived in a big

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00:47:14,748 --> 00:47:15,431

Marc Preston: suburban house.

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00:47:15,471 --> 00:47:17,778

Marc Preston: Their father worked in advertising you know,

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00:47:17,798 --> 00:47:18,761

Marc Preston: there's things that were set up.

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00:47:18,850 --> 00:47:20,454

Marc Preston: They did the whole John Hughes thing.

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00:47:20,494 --> 00:47:23,882

Marc Preston: You know, it's like I thought everybody did.

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00:47:24,010 --> 00:47:27,217

Marc Preston: You know and like, but I was influenced, i

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00:47:27,237 --> 00:47:28,440

Marc Preston: guess, as a kid, by John Hughes.

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00:47:30,130 --> 00:47:31,138

Marc Preston: Now, if you're going to be going, next

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Marc Preston: question if you're going to be going down

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Marc Preston: to an island, it could be an exotic island,

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Marc Preston: somewhere that you're going to enjoy being.

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Marc Preston: It's not like you're, it's like deserted

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Marc Preston: island, but you don't have streaming and

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Marc Preston: you can only if you want to consume any

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Marc Preston: kind of entertainment.

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Marc Preston: It's going to be in the form of a book, an

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Marc Preston: album, if you want to.

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Marc Preston: You want to watch a movie.

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Marc Preston: It's going to be on DVD.

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Marc Preston: So what would the DVD be?

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Marc Preston: What would a CD be that you would bring

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Marc Preston: down there, an album and a movie?

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Matt Walsh: So, to be clear, it's either a book, cd

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Matt Walsh: album or DVD.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, you know some people, some people say,

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Marc Preston: well, i don't really, wouldn't really want

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Marc Preston: to bring a movie, i'd want to bring a book.

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Marc Preston: So I've now opened it up to the idea of a

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Marc Preston: book also.

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Marc Preston: but you know something to listen to music

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Marc Preston: wise, a movie to watch, maybe a book as

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Marc Preston: well, if you'd like.

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Matt Walsh: Well, just because I'm trying to make my

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Matt Walsh: way through it, i would try to either

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Matt Walsh: finally finish Moby Dick, because I've

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Matt Walsh: started that book like four times and I've

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Matt Walsh: lost it on airplanes or just quit on it,

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Matt Walsh: and or because it seems like I'm going to

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Matt Walsh: have a ton of time on my hands, So it's a

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Matt Walsh: good project, or I just started reading

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Matt Walsh: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and it's

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Matt Walsh: like bite-size things about what it is to

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Matt Walsh: be a good person or a good man.

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Matt Walsh: It's 2000.

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Marc Preston: I've been seeing a lot of his quotes.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, it's a 2000 year old collection.

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Matt Walsh: He wrote it to himself, it was just his

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Matt Walsh: Basically He was like a Roman Yeah, he was

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Matt Walsh: defending the Roman empire, and he

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Matt Walsh: basically kept a journal and somebody found

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Matt Walsh: it and published it And it's really, it's

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Matt Walsh: one of those things.

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Matt Walsh: You just you read a page and then you put

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Matt Walsh: it down for a couple of days because it

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Matt Walsh: seems built for the island life, because

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Matt Walsh: you could like you're never going to

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Matt Walsh: comprehend those dense nuggets, so you

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Matt Walsh: could read a page and then walk around the

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Matt Walsh: Two days later you come back to page two.

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Marc Preston: You know It's kind of groove on life a

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Marc Preston: little bit and to kind of let it sink in.

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Marc Preston: Yeah exactly.

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Matt Walsh: Let it sink in.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, yeah You get it.

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Marc Preston: It's almost kind of meditative in that

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Marc Preston: regard.

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Marc Preston: you know, to some degree Yeah.

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Matt Walsh: I would also have a secret.

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Matt Walsh: You know, hideout like a James Bond villain

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Matt Walsh: on my island, just so you know.

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Marc Preston: See, you got to and it's got to have some

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Marc Preston: swing mid-century furniture kind of, like

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Marc Preston: you know the what was it?

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Announcer: Yeah, exactly.

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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to define, from time to

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Marc Preston: get up to time, to get a bed the component

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Marc Preston: parts of a perfect day for you, where

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Marc Preston: something's kind of laid out, everything

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Marc Preston: you know it could be going to the coffee

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Marc Preston: shop getting the perfect cup of coffee, i

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Marc Preston: don't know.

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Marc Preston: whatever it happens to be all the way

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Marc Preston: through the day, what are those things that

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Marc Preston: would be, for you, component parts of a

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Marc Preston: perfect day?

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Matt Walsh: Coffee, bit of meditation, family, creative

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Matt Walsh: work, laughter, dynamite, dinner, nature,

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Matt Walsh: something immersing myself in nature, more

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Matt Walsh: laughter, consume some media and more

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Matt Walsh: family, i would live a very, a very similar

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Matt Walsh: life, That's very yeah.

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Marc Preston: That's, that's to me.

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Marc Preston: That's the thing is like I'm, i'm, i'm

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Marc Preston: busying myself more because I know my kids

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Marc Preston: being in college and my youngest one, i'm

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Marc Preston: like feel like all right, well, make myself

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Marc Preston: super busy, then I'm not going to notice

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Marc Preston: the fact the house is a lot emptier, you

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Marc Preston: know.

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Marc Preston: So I'm enjoying the family stuff as much as

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Marc Preston: I possibly can And they still like spending

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Marc Preston: time with me.

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Marc Preston: So I consider myself to be very fortunate

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Marc Preston: in that regard when it comes to family.

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Marc Preston: But now the last question for you.

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Marc Preston: I got, let's say you got a DeLorean.

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Marc Preston: You can pop back and travel to see 16 year

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Marc Preston: old Matt back in Chicago.

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Marc Preston: You got a piece of advice, either to make

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Marc Preston: your life better in that moment or to kind

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Marc Preston: of get yourself on a track.

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Marc Preston: You know a better track.

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Marc Preston: What would that piece of advice be for a 16

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Marc Preston: year old?

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Matt Walsh: you Don't make your friends in class laugh.

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Marc Preston: pay attention, But see if you didn't make

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Marc Preston: your friends in class laugh.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, but you, just you can still be funny

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Matt Walsh: outside of class, like you're missing out

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Matt Walsh: on learning and the discipline of learning.

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Matt Walsh: So there was that going on too, but that's

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Matt Walsh: what I would say, and I would I would have

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Matt Walsh: more to say around that, because 16 years,

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Matt Walsh: like what are you talking about?

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Matt Walsh: All right, sit down.

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Matt Walsh: Let me tell you why learning is important.

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Matt Walsh: These are fundamental skills.

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Matt Walsh: This is a discipline.

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Matt Walsh: There's cool stuff happening here That

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Matt Walsh: methodical thought that patients you're

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Matt Walsh: developing sitting in a chair in high

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Matt Walsh: school.

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Matt Walsh: You can start to grow.

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Matt Walsh: Other disciplines like that will help you

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Matt Walsh: in life.

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Matt Walsh: Focus and build a plan or not, or continue

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Matt Walsh: to make your friends laugh.

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Matt Walsh: Matt, i got to go back to the future.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, i was always.

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Marc Preston: I was very much the same way in school.

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Marc Preston: I just if something grabbed my attention, i

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Marc Preston: was full in.

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Marc Preston: If something didn't grab my attention, i

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Marc Preston: was just struggling to stay focused.

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Marc Preston: My grades weren't bad.

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Matt Walsh: That's true, you're right.

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Matt Walsh: There are classes that even if you paid

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Matt Walsh: attention, it wouldn't have permeated me.

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Matt Walsh: So I don't know, maybe I'll have to go back

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Matt Walsh: in time again off to rewrite that one.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, i think psychology for me was

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Marc Preston: interesting because a psychology teacher

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Marc Preston: was kind of an odd ball and he'd walk

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Marc Preston: around the hallways with a book balanced on

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Marc Preston: his head and it was just like he was in his

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Marc Preston: own world.

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Marc Preston: I was like, if I can be like that man,

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Marc Preston: psychology is my jam.

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Announcer: I love that.

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Marc Preston: Well, my friend, i certainly appreciate

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Marc Preston: your time.

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Marc Preston: Really I do.

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Marc Preston: I know you probably want to enjoy just

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Marc Preston: kicking back with a fam, but, my friend,

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Marc Preston: have yourself a wonderful rest of your

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Marc Preston: weekend.

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Marc Preston: We're close enough to a weekend.

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Marc Preston: Have a great weekend.

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Marc Preston: Thank you, Marc, this was fun.

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Marc Preston: Thank you very much.

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Marc Preston: Well, there you go, mr Matt Walsh.

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Marc Preston: Enjoy the chat quite a bit.

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Marc Preston: Such a talented guy, funny Everything he's

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Marc Preston: in, always a good laugh.

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Marc Preston: Great to see him show up in any project,

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Marc Preston: both on TV and film.

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Marc Preston: The new movie Don't Forget on Hulu is

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Marc Preston: called Flamin' Hot.

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Marc Preston: Checked it out the other night with my

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Marc Preston: daughter, really enjoyed the movie and I'm

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Marc Preston: sure you will as well.

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Marc Preston: I mean, it's an underdog story that

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Marc Preston: features snack food.

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Marc Preston: I mean, come on, sit down and get something

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Marc Preston: crunchy and enjoy the show.

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Marc Preston: As always, storyandcraftpod.com, everything

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Marc Preston: about the show.

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Marc Preston: Pop on by, you can follow the show.

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Marc Preston: Just remember if you would, if you don't

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Marc Preston: mind, just a little, subscribe a little

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Marc Preston: like a little comment five stars, if you

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Marc Preston: will, or have very many stars, that'll let

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Marc Preston: you give us.

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Marc Preston: That would be great.

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Marc Preston: Okay, i'm going to get on out of here.

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Marc Preston: Have a great rest of your week or weekend

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Marc Preston: or whatever you're up to.

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Marc Preston: I really do appreciate you stopping by and

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Marc Preston: I look forward to catching you next time

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Marc Preston: right here on StoryandCraft.

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Announcer: That's it for this episode of StoryandCraft.

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Announcer: Join Marc next week for more conversation

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Announcer: right here on StoryandCraft.

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Announcer: Storyandcraft is a presentation of Marc

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Announcer: Preston Productions LLC.

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Announcer: Executive producer is Marc Preston.

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Announcer: Associate producer is Zachary Holden.

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