Actor Matt Walsh from "Veep" and Hulu's "Flamin' Hot" joins us on Story & Craft.
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Actor Matt Walsh from “Veep” and Hulu’s “Flamin’ Hot” joins us on Story & Craft.
Matt earned an Emmy nomination as Mike McLintock on “Veep” and is a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade. We talk about growing up in Chicago, his work on “The Daily Show” and “Saturday Night Live,” his podcast “Second in Command,” how his kids react to his work, and his new Hulu movie, “Flamin’ Hot.”
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Matt Walsh joins Story & Craft
UCB and Its Founding Members
UCB Legacy and Growth
Navigating Life’s Challenges With Age
Parenting and Entertainment Industry
Comedy, Acting, and Future Projects
Acting Career Aspirations
Collaborating With Eva Longoria
Future and Finding Interests
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Full Transcript
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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: 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: 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: 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: when you were growing up?
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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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Matt Walsh: comedy.
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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: Where'd you go?
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Matt Walsh: school like Northwestern or No, i went to
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Matt Walsh: Northern Illinois, which is just outside of
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Matt Walsh: it's, in DeKalb, which is like an hour and
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Matt Walsh: a half west of Chicago.
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Marc Preston: Now this is jumping a little bit ahead, but
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Marc Preston: you're one of the founding members of UCB
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Marc Preston: right, which I don't know how.
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Marc Preston: I didn't know that, but that's.
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Marc Preston: I've had a few guests on that have been
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Marc Preston: there.
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Marc Preston: That seems to have been almost like the
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Marc Preston: California second city.
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Marc Preston: You know, you have a lot of people, don't?
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Marc Preston: you have like Lorne Michaels and his crew
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Marc Preston: come there to scout for a Saturday night
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Marc Preston: live.
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Marc Preston: I mean, that's a pretty profound thing.
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Marc Preston: Now, who are the co-founders with you of
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Marc Preston: UCB?
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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: We were teaching and doing shows in New
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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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Marc Preston: But what a great legacy though.
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Marc Preston: I mean, how cool is that that you created
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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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Marc Preston: once, or?
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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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Matt Walsh: Yeah, A lot of emails, a lot of meetings, a
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Marc Preston: So, And part of it's like I got into acting
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Marc Preston: to not have to do homework for a living you
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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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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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Matt Walsh: then I worked on the Daily Show for almost
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Matt Walsh: two years And then after that I knocked
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Matt Walsh: I don't know a couple years And then I got
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Marc Preston: As far as building your career.
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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: If we got any kind of luck, we'd commit to
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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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Matt Walsh: So I had experience in LA and friends.
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Marc Preston: So it seemed like a simpler jump you know
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Marc Preston: What era of the Daily Show were you working?
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Marc Preston: Was it back in Colbert?
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Matt Walsh: Yeah, 2000, 2001,.
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Matt Walsh: John Stewart Colbert Mo Rocco was doing.
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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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Matt Walsh: yeah, yeah, they were second city guys,
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Matt Walsh: Carell and Colbert, and I knew Colbert in
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Matt Walsh: Chicago.
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Matt Walsh: I didn't know Steven until I got to New
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Marc Preston: Is it cool or is it odd, or what's that
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Marc Preston: when everybody was poor and you're just
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Marc Preston: kind of floating around there, there's, but
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Marc Preston: Is it ever kind of surreal to look at your
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Marc Preston: and trying to make people laugh, you know,
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Marc Preston: Is that ever surreal for you, or is it kind
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Marc Preston: how does that hit?
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Matt Walsh: I don't know that I like have looked at it
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Matt Walsh: I can only speak to my wife, who's very
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Matt Walsh: sweet has hung up some of the things you
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Matt Walsh: When you do a show or a movie, you collect
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Matt Walsh: a poster here and there and she's hung up a
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Matt Walsh: bit of an area of our house to sort of
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Matt Walsh: celebrate some accomplishments And I can't
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Matt Walsh: even enjoy looking at that.
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Matt Walsh: So I don't know if that's unhealthy or
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Matt Walsh: healthy, but that's kind of how I operate.
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Matt Walsh: I don't tend to look back, like I hopefully
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Matt Walsh: keep relationships, like I enjoy a lot of
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Matt Walsh: the people I've worked with.
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Matt Walsh: But as far as like taking stock and you
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Matt Walsh: know understanding it, it doesn't appeal to
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Matt Walsh: I'm older than you so I probably should.
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Matt Walsh: But yeah, Yeah.
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Marc Preston: It's funny I look back at the very bad.
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Marc Preston: when I was 17, i started working in radio
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Marc Preston: in Dallas, texas, 90, and the path is
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Marc Preston: syndicated, shown, and my ex-wife would be
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Marc Preston: like why are you carting all these boxes
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Marc Preston: around all my old?
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Marc Preston: well, when you had to record on tape I was
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Marc Preston: like that's all my stuff.
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Marc Preston: And then I made the mistake of going and
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Marc Preston: listening to some of it some few years ago
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Marc Preston: and like oh good God, you know.
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Marc Preston: so I'm like that needs to stay in the past.
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Marc Preston: I mean I can appreciate the experiences,
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Marc Preston: then.
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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: scrapbooking of the things we do is to sort
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Matt Walsh: of prove our identity, that we're, that
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Matt Walsh: we're getting somewhere.
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Matt Walsh: And sometimes you have to do it to make a
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Matt Walsh: So you collect things, so you have samples
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Matt Walsh: But yeah, i don't look at the boxes, i
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Matt Walsh: don't open them up, i just try to like keep
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Matt Walsh: moving, you know but I do like when friends
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Matt Walsh: I had to let the release the hounds, but I
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Matt Walsh: do love it when friends send me a picture
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Matt Walsh: That warms me And that's like, wow, we all
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Matt Walsh: look so young, so but you don't really feel
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Marc Preston: I feel like I'm perpetually this kind of
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Marc Preston: hanging at 25, you know, kind of my no, my
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Marc Preston: back will remind me I'm not 25 anymore, but
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Matt Walsh: We have two moths that were just in here.
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Matt Walsh: did that DNA thing and the DNA thing said
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Matt Walsh: Chihuahua and something else And it doesn't
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Matt Walsh: look like a Chihuahua.
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Marc Preston: They're doing DNA on dogs now also.
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Matt Walsh: Yeah, you can do that, you can like send it
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Matt Walsh: And then I talked to the vet when I took
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Matt Walsh: And then the little guy that's Penny, and
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Matt Walsh: then the little guy JJ is like I don't know
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Matt Walsh: He's got a fat kind of corgi body, but he's
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Matt Walsh: This could be going on for a while.
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Matt Walsh: I apologize, it's okay, come on in, chill
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Marc Preston: This is bad radio, as they say but Oh, no,
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Marc Preston: no, no, yes, it's all good.
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Marc Preston: I'm a big dog lover.
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Marc Preston: we're missing him And so he was and so I'm
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Marc Preston: moving down to an island down in South
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Marc Preston: So I told my daughter I said when we go
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Marc Preston: she's going to come down with me And I said
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Marc Preston: puppy And I'm like going, i forgot about
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Marc Preston: those puppy years, you know, and how much
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Marc Preston: attention you got to give them.
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Marc Preston: But you know I'm missing having a pooch
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Marc Preston: around here.
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Marc Preston: I always love them And I see some talking
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Marc Preston: with someone and they've got a dog.
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Marc Preston: So it's a big dog.
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Matt Walsh: Well, that's hard, Is it?
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Matt Walsh: are you taking time off Because it's hard
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Matt Walsh: to lose a dog?
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Matt Walsh: I mean, I'm sorry to hear that It's really
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Matt Walsh: hard.
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Marc Preston: It went on hot.
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Marc Preston: I'm looking over here.
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Marc Preston: He's got a little urn over here, you know,
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Marc Preston: on my shelf.
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Marc Preston: But no, he he was.
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Marc Preston: We got him when he was a puppy and my kids
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Marc Preston: grew up with him.
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Marc Preston: He was 10.
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Marc Preston: And the hard part was I thought, you know,
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Marc Preston: my other dogs had lived.
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Marc Preston: My other golden, my previous dog, 13, 14
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Marc Preston: years old.
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Marc Preston: So you know that phrase man plans, god
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Marc Preston: laughs.
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Marc Preston: You know something.
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Marc Preston: We've got a few more years with him And
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Marc Preston: then he, he was sick, sick, and about two,
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Marc Preston: three weeks later he passed.
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Marc Preston: And yeah, i actually took a little bit of a
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Marc Preston: hiatus.
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Marc Preston: I was like I don't think I'm going to be
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Marc Preston: very good sitting down talking with people
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Marc Preston: and stuff, but it's been a little while.
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Marc Preston: So you know it's, it's, you get a little
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Marc Preston: bit older.
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Marc Preston: It doesn't get easier, but you can, you,
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Marc Preston: you navigate it better.
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Marc Preston: That's one of those things I think age kind
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Marc Preston: of gives you is harder for me to talk to,
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Marc Preston: to address it with my kids.
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Marc Preston: That's the hard part.
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Marc Preston: I was like, wait a minute, i got to be the
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Marc Preston: adult here and actually help them out and
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Marc Preston: make sure that they're handling it so much
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Marc Preston: better than I did, though, which is so
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Marc Preston: funny.
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Marc Preston: Um, do you have?
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Marc Preston: uh, you got kids as well.
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Matt Walsh: Yeah, we have, uh, three kids and they're
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Matt Walsh: not in college at.
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Matt Walsh: My son just turned 16 yesterday.
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Matt Walsh: And, speaking of gap year, how did that
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Matt Walsh: come?
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Matt Walsh: because I told my son, you know, because
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Matt Walsh: he's starting to think about colleges and I
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Matt Walsh: I introduced the idea and like, well,
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Matt Walsh: there's also this thing where, like, cause
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Matt Walsh: he wanted to learn Portuguese, I'm like you
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Matt Walsh: could spend three months in, you know,
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Matt Walsh: Brazil and work for a company or live with
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Matt Walsh: a family and come back with a language
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Matt Walsh: before you go to college.
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Matt Walsh: You know things like that.
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Marc Preston: That's funny.
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Marc Preston: You say that that's what it my daughter
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Marc Preston: Emma's doing.
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Marc Preston: She graduated, she, she's one of the same
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Marc Preston: thing with your son, uh, covid.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, probably threw off what school was
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Marc Preston: like for him And she uh, went back to a
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Marc Preston: nice school and she's like she just got so
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Marc Preston: used to online learning.
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Marc Preston: She's a self starter, she gets A's and she
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Marc Preston: just that's.
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Marc Preston: She said I just want to finish school like
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Marc Preston: that.
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Marc Preston: So she finished her junior and senior year
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Marc Preston: This last year.
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Marc Preston: She did both years together and she got A's
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Marc Preston: and did just great.
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Marc Preston: So she's taken the gap year.
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Marc Preston: She's still just 17 and she's got a program.
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Marc Preston: She's and I can find out about it.
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Marc Preston: It's actually a really neat program in
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Marc Preston: Barcelona, uh, where she goes for, i think,
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Marc Preston: four weeks, but if she does a six week
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Marc Preston: program she gets college credit for it.
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Marc Preston: Uh, but she's going to go there and it's a
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Marc Preston: immersive language thing and they have
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Marc Preston: these really beautiful dorms.
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Marc Preston: Before we go, i'll get the name of the
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Marc Preston: organization that does it.
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Marc Preston: Um and uh.
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Marc Preston: But but she's going to uh, uh, we're Jewish
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Marc Preston: and there are some kind of a Jewish thing
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Marc Preston: that she's doing where she's going to
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Marc Preston: Europe, uh, going to, uh, amsterdam and
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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
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Marc Preston: and then in the fall, uh, she's going to do
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Marc Preston: and I think she said there's a date where
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Marc Preston: most of the kids are there and it's going
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Marc Preston: to be sometime early fall when they get the
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Marc Preston: biggest group of kids.
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Marc Preston: It sounds like a really wonderful program
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Marc Preston: in Barcelona.
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Marc Preston: But these, this language thing, uh, she did,
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Marc Preston: um, she did, uh, uh.
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Marc Preston: Her elementary was, uh, what they call it
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Marc Preston: immersion.
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Marc Preston: Is that what they call it?
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Marc Preston: What I think?
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Marc Preston: immersion, where they are learning in both
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Marc Preston: languages, you know so my kids are so much
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Marc Preston: smarter than me, so, like looking at him
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Marc Preston: going, you know they're like dad.
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Marc Preston: are you not saying that right when I speak
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Marc Preston: Spanish?
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Marc Preston: Yes, honey, but I'm, i'm speaking Texas
642
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Marc Preston: Spanish you know, I ever seen George Bush
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Marc Preston: Jr.
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Marc Preston: Um, but uh, but anyway.
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Marc Preston: but yeah, i'll find out about that, but I
646
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Marc Preston: think it's a great thing.
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Marc Preston: You know, it's not like when we were
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Marc Preston: younger, it's like graduate high school, go
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Marc Preston: to college, you know, and I think,
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Marc Preston: especially with, i think it helped.
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Marc Preston: I'm a big fan of letting kids calibrate to
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Marc Preston: what where their passions are and adjust as
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Marc Preston: they go, not have to be like, well, i'm on
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Marc Preston: this path, i'm going to, i got to do it.
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Marc Preston: You know, i always thought it was odd that
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Marc Preston: they have to do uh.
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Marc Preston: they did their uh internship their last
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Marc Preston: year and then discover, oh, this isn't
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Marc Preston: really what I want to do, but they're
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Marc Preston: already in their senior years.
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Matt Walsh: So yeah, no, I, I, I completely agree.
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Matt Walsh: And it's also like, yeah, who knows what?
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Matt Walsh: I think it's great experience, Like you can
664
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Matt Walsh: take a year, like you said, instead of
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Matt Walsh: doing the internship on the back end, go
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Matt Walsh: experiment or like learn a language, like
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Matt Walsh: live in a country, and then, uh, it's
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Matt Walsh: creative.
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Matt Walsh: And it's also like there's no plan, Like
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Matt Walsh: you said.
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Matt Walsh: You know you, man makes plan.
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Matt Walsh: And God laughs because I similarly thought,
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Matt Walsh: oh, I'm going to be a psychologist and
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Matt Walsh: everybody does it.
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Matt Walsh: They go to college for accounting or
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Matt Walsh: bookkeeping or teaching, and then they do
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Matt Walsh: it for a year and they're like, Oh my God,
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Matt Walsh: what was I thinking?
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Matt Walsh: So any kind of rounding out of, or
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Matt Walsh: obviously travel is the best education
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Matt Walsh: there is.
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Marc Preston: It's really beneficial Yeah.
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Matt Walsh: Meeting people and seeing lives and uh,
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Matt Walsh: yeah, it's, it's just eye opening in every
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Matt Walsh: way.
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Marc Preston: How old are your other kids?
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Parenting and Entertainment Industry
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Marc Preston: Are they 18?
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Matt Walsh: Uh 13, going to be 14 in a week, and then
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Matt Walsh: uh, 11.
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Marc Preston: You're still doing that, that phase of life
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Marc Preston: where you're kind of the Uber driver also.
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Marc Preston: Oh my god you.
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Matt Walsh: So we have a lot in common.
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Matt Walsh: Yeah, we have a lot.
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Matt Walsh: I was.
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Matt Walsh: I got excited because next year two of them
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Matt Walsh: are going to be at the same school, so that
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Matt Walsh: goes from three drop offs to two drop offs.
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Marc Preston: One point in time.
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Marc Preston: All three in mind were three separate
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Marc Preston: schools.
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Marc Preston: I had to.
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Marc Preston: I don't know, like I'm trying to be a
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Marc Preston: responsible driver, but I'm like I don't
705
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Marc Preston: know how we do this.
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Marc Preston: I don't know, you know, then they're all
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Marc Preston: start times, so, yeah, so it was the single
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Marc Preston: dad.
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Marc Preston: Life was interesting for a while.
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Marc Preston: But when they see you, do they have, do
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Marc Preston: they register you as like, oh, that's dad
712
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Marc Preston: doing the work thing, or do they?
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Marc Preston: we did Melissa McCarthy.
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Marc Preston: Did they watch that And do they get into it,
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Marc Preston: or do they just see dad?
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Marc Preston: Or you know what's the feedback you get
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Marc Preston: from your kids.
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Matt Walsh: I think they they like to see me in things,
719
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Matt Walsh: but I think it's just dad.
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Matt Walsh: But I think what tickles them or makes it
721
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Matt Walsh: more magical is when their friends go oh my
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Matt Walsh: God, like I'll pick up a kid and then the
723
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Matt Walsh: kid has just watched Life of the Party.
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Matt Walsh: So when other people see like oh my God,
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Matt Walsh: your dad's in that thing, i think that's
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Matt Walsh: cool for them somehow.
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Matt Walsh: You know what I mean.
728
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Matt Walsh: Like it's like.
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Matt Walsh: But if we're in the living room like they
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Matt Walsh: never I don't ask them to watch anything
731
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Matt Walsh: I'm in.
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Matt Walsh: They're never interested in watching
733
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Matt Walsh: anything I'm in And I occasionally, you
734
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Matt Walsh: know, because I write and produce I've
735
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Matt Walsh: plugged them into things because it's all
736
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Matt Walsh: you know, low budget often.
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Matt Walsh: So why don't you go be a kid in this movie
738
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Matt Walsh: I'm making or whatever?
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Announcer: But they're not.
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Announcer: That's fun.
741
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Announcer: It is fun, i agree.
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Matt Walsh: Yeah.
743
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Marc Preston: You get to that point where with your kid,
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Marc Preston: with my kids it's not that they don't think
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Marc Preston: it's cool.
746
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Marc Preston: I think that they grew up having me having
747
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Marc Preston: a recording studio here and they know, they
748
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Marc Preston: know my deal.
749
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Matt Walsh: Yeah.
750
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Marc Preston: But when their friends say, oh, i heard
751
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Marc Preston: your dad or my, my, my couple of my son's
752
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Marc Preston: friends like, yeah, i'm listening to dad's
753
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Marc Preston: podcast, i swear to God, my, my daughter,
754
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Marc Preston: who is my youngest, actually is she does
755
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Marc Preston: the voice of the podcast the opening and
756
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Marc Preston: closing.
757
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Marc Preston: She's never heard an episode.
758
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Marc Preston: I had Neil deGrasse Tyson on in here and
759
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Marc Preston: she was like, do you want to come say hi to
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Marc Preston: him?
761
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Marc Preston: She's like nah, so it's kind of hard to get
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Marc Preston: her.
763
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Marc Preston: I was like you like his show?
764
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Marc Preston: She's like you want to come meet him, are
765
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Marc Preston: you sure?
766
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Marc Preston: Nah, you know, so it's nothing impresses my
767
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Marc Preston: kids.
768
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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.
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Marc Preston: I need to hire her as a producer and do
771
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Marc Preston: research for me, because she's way sharper
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Marc Preston: at picking up on stuff quickly.
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Matt Walsh: But I bet it was slightly more interesting
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Matt Walsh: when her friend said oh, I heard your dad's
775
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Matt Walsh: podcast.
776
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Matt Walsh: It sort of validates you in a way that she
777
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Matt Walsh: doesn't see you, Right?
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Marc Preston: Yeah, well, i told him.
779
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Marc Preston: I said dad used to be cool at one point in
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Marc Preston: time.
781
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Marc Preston: I mean I was one.
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Marc Preston: I used to be used to have a syndicated show.
783
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Marc Preston: And the only thing they remember when I
784
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Marc Preston: worked at ABC radio network is the security
785
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Marc Preston: guard when they were very little.
786
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Marc Preston: He would always bring them really cool
787
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Marc Preston: colored coloring books And they remember
788
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Marc Preston: the lobby because we had like a little
789
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Marc Preston: creek in the lobby or something.
790
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Marc Preston: And but they don't remember, like you know,
791
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Marc Preston: when, like you or I grew up being on the
792
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Marc Preston: radio, like the loop in Chicago.
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Announcer: Yeah.
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Matt Walsh: Sister stations Yeah.
795
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Marc Preston: And I was working in a station in Dallas,
796
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Marc Preston: at top 40 station, And our sister was
797
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Marc Preston: stationed as a loop It's like you hear
798
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Marc Preston: about.
799
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Marc Preston: it is almost this mystical, like, ooh, the
800
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Marc Preston: loop in Chicago, you know, and what radio
801
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Marc Preston: was.
802
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Marc Preston: now it's not like that anymore And I think
803
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Marc Preston: that, well, podcasts can have that DNA of
804
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Marc Preston: what radio was.
805
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Marc Preston: but you got a podcast too as well, don't
806
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Marc Preston: you?
807
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Marc Preston: Oh, nice transition.
808
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Matt Walsh: Uh, I have totally unintentional, by the
809
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Matt Walsh: way, I just got just my memory the way it
810
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Matt Walsh: works Um the uh podcast is called second in
811
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Matt Walsh: command and me and Tim Simons, uh, both of
812
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Matt Walsh: us were in a show called Veep and we're
813
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Matt Walsh: going through, we've committed to going
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Matt Walsh: through every episode of the seven seasons,
815
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Matt Walsh: uh, and bringing on people you know Julia,
816
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Matt Walsh: sam Richardson, all the actors, uh to talk
817
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Matt Walsh: about each episode.
818
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Matt Walsh: So it's called second in command, yeah.
819
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Marc Preston: I will admittedly say that that is one
820
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Marc Preston: series I haven't yet seen, but there's so
821
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Marc Preston: much stuff I haven't seen.
822
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Marc Preston: Um, there's a few things I haven't seen.
823
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Marc Preston: I'm kind of glad because I'm going to sit
824
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Marc Preston: down and, just, like power, watch it, just
825
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Marc Preston: with just the ebb and flow of how much
826
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Marc Preston: content's out there and what I.
827
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Marc Preston: you know what I'm watching for this show
828
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Marc Preston: And I was like but I want to watch Veep and
829
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Marc Preston: I have never seen Game of Thrones.
830
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Matt Walsh: Oh, my God.
831
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Matt Walsh: So there's a whole thing.
832
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Marc Preston: I know I'm one of those people I haven't
833
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Marc Preston: said I watched lost literally the last
834
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Marc Preston: season.
835
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Marc Preston: It was on the air.
836
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Marc Preston: I started watching and catching up and I'm
837
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Marc Preston: like why did I miss this?
838
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Marc Preston: You know.
839
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Matt Walsh: Yeah, well, you have two good shows.
840
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Matt Walsh: Uh, i'm envious, and not just cause I'm on
841
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Matt Walsh: it.
842
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Matt Walsh: Veep is a wonderful show and Game of
843
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Matt Walsh: Thrones is one of the best shows ever.
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Marc Preston: It's it's epic, so I think you're going to
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Marc Preston: like them There's so many things that I
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Marc Preston: just there's so much stuff out there and
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Marc Preston: equality stuff And, like I, just the other
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Marc Preston: day I was watching um Tulsa King on on
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Marc Preston: Paramount and uh, with Stallone and he's
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Marc Preston: got a reality show.
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Marc Preston: I'm going, you know Stallone doesn't need
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Marc Preston: to do a reality or unscripted show, but I
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Marc Preston: have to watch this now.
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Matt Walsh: He has a reality.
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Marc Preston: Really He and his three daughters and his
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Marc Preston: wife and it's it's uh, it's all in
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Marc Preston: Paramount plus.
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Marc Preston: Really I was like I had to watch it.
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Marc Preston: He had one of the best pieces of advice I
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Marc Preston: he was talking with his daughter doing a
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Marc Preston: long distance relationship, and it's
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Marc Preston: something I teach voiceover also, and I
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Marc Preston: teach my students the value of investing
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Marc Preston: their time properly.
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Marc Preston: You may not have a lot of money, but you
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Marc Preston: can be careful about how you invest your
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Marc Preston: time And he talked about your time bank and
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Marc Preston: the way you invest from your time bank And
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Marc Preston: like I am stealing that from Stallone.
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Announcer: You know, he's one of those guys.
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Marc Preston: That's just.
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Marc Preston: He cracked the code on just having a great
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Marc Preston: attitude, and you know.
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Marc Preston: But anyway, he doesn't need to do it, but
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Marc Preston: it was kind of fun to watch, you know.
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Marc Preston: And uh, and you mentioned Sam Richardson.
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Marc Preston: He's one of those guys that you know when
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Marc Preston: you see him shop, you're very much the same
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Marc Preston: way.
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Marc Preston: You see him shop.
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Marc Preston: Okay, this is going to be a funny scene
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Marc Preston: like Ted, just you and your.
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Marc Preston: You know you and that relationship to Tom
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Marc Preston: Scare.
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Marc Preston: It just the most random thing.
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Marc Preston: It was just your, your fun to watch.
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Marc Preston: You know Sam Richardson the same way.
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Marc Preston: Uh, yeah, a lot of talent there.
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Marc Preston: And, and I don't know how I missed VEEP,
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Marc Preston: but it's one of those things.
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Marc Preston: I've got it.
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Marc Preston: I've got a lot of stuff queued up And then,
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Marc Preston: whenever the kids aren't here though, i'm
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Marc Preston: just sitting on my laptop, working power,
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Marc Preston: watching all these shows.
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Marc Preston: I can't.
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Marc Preston: I mean, it's almost embarrassing how many
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Marc Preston: things I haven't seen yet.
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Matt Walsh: So yeah, i tend to catch up.
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Matt Walsh: Well, yeah, i tend to catch up on uh TV,
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Matt Walsh: like yourself.
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Matt Walsh: Uh, i have huge gaps or I'm culturally
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Matt Walsh: irrelevant on shows Like I haven't seen
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Matt Walsh: Tulsa King It's.
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Matt Walsh: I'm never on top of what's uh important to
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Matt Walsh: watch, let's say Um, but when I'm out of
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Matt Walsh: town working on a show or a project, that's
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Matt Walsh: when I get to like finish shows that have
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Matt Walsh: been meaning to watch And cause, if I'm
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Matt Walsh: home, i'm driving children around,
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Matt Walsh: seemingly.
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Marc Preston: When you were growing up, what was it that
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Marc Preston: you were consuming?
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Marc Preston: either comedy wise or I loved with my
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Marc Preston: parents, went out Saturday night.
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Marc Preston: I had a babysitter who would let me watch
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Marc Preston: Saturday night live.
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Marc Preston: You know, that's awesome, um, but that was
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Marc Preston: when I was a kid.
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Marc Preston: It was the you know Billy Crystal.
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Marc Preston: Uh, eddie Murphy, you know, in that kind of
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Marc Preston: I'm a little younger than you.
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Marc Preston: So that was kind of my thing.
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Marc Preston: But I remember the old school Like what was
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Marc Preston: your entertainment?
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Marc Preston: uh, diet, like back then.
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Matt Walsh: Yeah, i think the things that excited me,
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Matt Walsh: you know, obviously network TV, i, i, i
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Matt Walsh: watched probably everything that you did on
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Matt Walsh: network TV but like SNL was a big thing, uh,
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Matt Walsh: sec, uh, second city TV Python Uh, i was a
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Matt Walsh: big fan.
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Marc Preston: Do you remember something that just popped
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Marc Preston: into my head?
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Marc Preston: Do you remember something called not
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Marc Preston: necessarily the news, do you?
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Matt Walsh: remember that.
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Matt Walsh: Yeah, that was a brief.
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Matt Walsh: Yeah, i do remember that.
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Matt Walsh: Yeah, that was on.
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Marc Preston: I do remember that one And the Canadian
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Marc Preston: stuff come out.
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Marc Preston: You know kids in the hall it was like what
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Marc Preston: is this?
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Marc Preston: I don't get this kind of sense of humor
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Marc Preston: thing.
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Marc Preston: You know the uh, but it was.
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Marc Preston: It was magnetic for me because it was so
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Marc Preston: different.
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Matt Walsh: And then I got into Carlin uh, because you
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Matt Walsh: know, I just kind of start following him
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Matt Walsh: and Robin Williams, so who were, like how
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Matt Walsh: the let's say, you're, you're Mount
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Matt Walsh: Rushmore comedians, uh, or comedic actors,
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Matt Walsh: when you, when you were coming up, that you
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Matt Walsh: followed, and I'm not saying to emulate,
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Matt Walsh: but this kind of turned yawn Well, as far
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Matt Walsh: as sketch, like kids in the hall were doing
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Matt Walsh: exactly what I wanted to be doing, like
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Matt Walsh: they had a group of friends and they had a
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Matt Walsh: signature voice and they were doing it
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Matt Walsh: their own way and they had an identity, so
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Matt Walsh: they really uh captured me as a young man.
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Matt Walsh: Uh, i thought they were the ideal in many
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Matt Walsh: ways.
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Matt Walsh: And then, like you know, people who were
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Matt Walsh: hilarious, you know I love Robin Williams,
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Matt Walsh: uh, i think I was saying earlier, i as a
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Matt Walsh: younger person, probably cause my dad liked
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Matt Walsh: him too.
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Matt Walsh: Peter Sellers was somebody I was like so
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Matt Walsh: impressed with And you know, i think I had
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Matt Walsh: like a a Woody Allen phase where I was like
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Matt Walsh: sort of you know, uh, obviously just deep
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Matt Walsh: into Woody Allen or trying to see
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Matt Walsh: everything he'd ever made, and then, uh,
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Matt Walsh: yeah, those are the, those are the ones
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Matt Walsh: that come out and they like standups.
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Matt Walsh: There was a lot of standup when I got out
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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?
Speaker:1023
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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
Speaker:1034
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Matt Walsh: a show called Dogbite's Man and then I
Speaker:1035
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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
Speaker:1041
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Marc Preston: working with, yeah, that's good springboard,
Speaker:1042
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Marc Preston: but were you, were you really kind of
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Marc Preston: getting invigorated?
Speaker:1044
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Marc Preston: I mean you had a lot of energy for it, like,
Speaker:1045
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Marc Preston: was that like, okay, this is my thing, i'm
Speaker:1046
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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
Speaker:1049
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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
Speaker:1051
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Matt Walsh: you know, like getting another movie, I
Speaker:1052
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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.
Speaker:1057
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Marc Preston: I see the thing is it's everybody has
Speaker:1058
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Marc Preston: different path, and that's what fascinates
Speaker:1059
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Marc Preston: me is how somebody finds their way in and
Speaker:1060
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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
Speaker:1079
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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.
Speaker:1092
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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
Speaker:1095
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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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Acting Career Aspirations
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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?
Speaker:1101
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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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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
Speaker:1129
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Matt Walsh: down in Georgia And I played Dr Mudd who
Speaker:1130
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Matt Walsh: fixed John Wilkes Booth's ankle And it was
Speaker:1131
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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
Speaker:1133
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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.
Speaker:1136
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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
Speaker:1138
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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,
Speaker:1146
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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
Speaker:1148
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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
Speaker:1150
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Matt Walsh: is in Eugene and then we're going to go to
Speaker:1151
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Matt Walsh: the coast, see the Oregon coast, and we're
Speaker:1152
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Matt Walsh: going to try to get up to like Big Sur,
Speaker:1153
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Matt Walsh: which we've never done, and maybe Northern
Speaker:1154
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Matt Walsh: California coast.
Speaker:1155
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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
Speaker:1157
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Matt Walsh: camper and just maybe park on a couple
Speaker:1158
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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
Speaker:1162
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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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Collaborating With Eva Longoria
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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,
Speaker:1175
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Matt Walsh: no phones, no cell service for a weekend to
Speaker:1176
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Matt Walsh: kind of rescue the marriage because they're
Speaker:1177
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Matt Walsh: having some problems And then the minute
Speaker:1178
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Matt Walsh: they put their screens down they start
Speaker:1179
,752 --> 00:40:00,376
Matt Walsh: getting paranoid that the world's ending.
Speaker:1180
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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
Speaker:1182
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Matt Walsh: we became friends making that movie playing
Speaker:1183
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Matt Walsh: a couple together.
Speaker:1184
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Matt Walsh: And she was directing a movie the next year
Speaker:1185
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Matt Walsh: and she asked me to come in and she said
Speaker:1186
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Matt Walsh: would you come into my movie and play an
Speaker:1187
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Matt Walsh: old white racist?
Speaker:1188
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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
Speaker:1205
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Matt Walsh: America, his parents were picking fruit and
Speaker:1206
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Matt Walsh: vineyards and then he got a job and learned
Speaker:1207
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Matt Walsh: everything and then they were threatening
Speaker:1208
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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.
Speaker:1210
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Matt Walsh: There was no Marcet yet, nobody had like,
Speaker:1211
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Matt Walsh: and he was living and looking around
Speaker:1212
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Matt Walsh: America and he's like there's tons of
Speaker:1213
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Matt Walsh: people who will buy this.
Speaker:1214
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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,
Speaker:1216
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Matt Walsh: they'll come down.
Speaker:1217
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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
Speaker:1219
,305 --> 00:41:31,808
Matt Walsh: made it happen and that guy helped launch
Speaker:1220
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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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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
Speaker:1227
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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
Speaker:1231
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Matt Walsh: dream And, against all odds, this guy, like
Speaker:1232
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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.
Speaker:1235
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Matt Walsh: It's one of those movies I always watch,
Speaker:1236
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Matt Walsh: like somebody with a dream making a car
Speaker:1237
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Matt Walsh: like Tucker, or like getting five minutes
Speaker:1238
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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
Speaker:1241
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Matt Walsh: it's beautiful and it was fun to be, you
Speaker:1242
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Matt Walsh: know, around all these people And my
Speaker:1243
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Matt Walsh: Spanish got sharper too because they were
Speaker:1244
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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.
Speaker:1246
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Marc Preston: I'm going down to this.
Speaker:1247
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Marc Preston: I just figure I can work from anywhere and
Speaker:1248
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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.
Speaker:1250
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Marc Preston: I've done my Southern California thing.
Speaker:1251
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Marc Preston: But going down to South Padre Island in
Speaker:1252
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Marc Preston: Texas and to get a place set up, nice, and
Speaker:1253
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Marc Preston: I told my daughter, it's like baby.
Speaker:1254
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Marc Preston: I said, you know you're Spanish, you're
Speaker:1255
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Marc Preston: going to have to help me out here.
Speaker:1256
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Marc Preston: I mean, am I?
Speaker:1257
,498 --> 00:42:49,450
Marc Preston: it's okay, i can get by, yeah, but it's
Speaker:1258
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Marc Preston: like here's the thing you give me a corona,
Speaker:1259
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Marc Preston: you let me sit, post up somewhere near the
Speaker:1260
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Marc Preston: beach.
Speaker:1261
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Marc Preston: It will just come back to me, yeah, or at
Speaker:1262
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Marc Preston: least I feel.
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Marc Preston: The more coronas I'll feel like more of
Speaker:1264
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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.
Speaker:1267
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Matt Walsh: Do you have the boat dialed in or you can
Speaker: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
Speaker:1272
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Marc Preston: across the bay is where SpaceX has their
Speaker:1273
,698 --> 00:43:17,071
Marc Preston: launch facility, oh, wow, But.
Speaker:1274
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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
Speaker:1276
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Marc Preston: daughter's gap year.
Speaker:1277
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Marc Preston: The first part shall be in Barcelona,
Speaker:1278
,579 --> 00:43:27,469
Marc Preston: learning Spanish, spanish, spain Spanish,
Speaker:1279
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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
Speaker:1282
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Marc Preston: got my what I call my seven questions that
Speaker:1283
,760 --> 00:43:36,382
Marc Preston: I like to ask.
Speaker:1284
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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.
Speaker:1288
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Marc Preston: I can talk food day in, day in, day out.
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Marc Preston: But what is your favorite comfort food?
Speaker:1290
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Marc Preston: Something that it's like craft service
Speaker:1291
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Marc Preston: tables like this is nothing.
Speaker:1292
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Marc Preston: I just want this thing.
Speaker:1293
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Marc Preston: This is going to be comforting.
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Matt Walsh: You know what would that be?
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Matt Walsh: Um, i guess snack.
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,878 --> 00:44:01,161
Matt Walsh: my mind goes to snack food.
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Matt Walsh: Like I'm a sucker for caramel corn, like
Speaker:1298
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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
Speaker:1302
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Matt Walsh: caramel corn, forget it.
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Marc Preston: We one time I you know, during COVID, we're
Speaker:1304
,179 --> 00:44:20,829
Marc Preston: getting deliveries from Costco and they
Speaker:1305
,849 --> 00:44:22,093
Marc Preston: messed up something in my order and
Speaker:1306
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Marc Preston: accidentally brought me this big bag of
Speaker:1307
,678 --> 00:44:26,152
Marc Preston: things called creeders, caramel, corn and
Speaker:1308
,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
Speaker:1311
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Marc Preston: what Chicago.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's what's dangerous, oh yeah.
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,880 --> 00:44:36,463
Matt Walsh: Exactly 100%, 100%.
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Marc Preston: When you look at it, this big bag and half
Speaker:1315
,319 --> 00:44:41,509
Marc Preston: of it's gone is like I can't not be doing
Speaker:1316
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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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Marc Preston: I mean, it's just pop See that's the way I
Speaker:1319
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Marc Preston: think about it.
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Marc Preston: See, you're on the same page as me, though,
Speaker:1321
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Marc Preston: It's like, although my cholesterol level
Speaker:1322
,716 --> 00:44:50,459
Marc Preston: says otherwise.
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Marc Preston: Now, the second question I got for you is
Speaker:1324
,956 --> 00:44:54,741
Marc Preston: if you were to take three people sit down,
Speaker:1325
,890 --> 00:44:55,959
Marc Preston: you're going to have a cup of coffee with
Speaker:1326
,979 --> 00:44:57,209
Marc Preston: them and you're going to have, you know,
Speaker:1327
,229 --> 00:44:58,735
Marc Preston: talk for a few hours, have conversation.
Speaker:1328
,337 --> 00:45:00,320
Marc Preston: Who would those three people be?
Speaker:1329
,410 --> 00:45:02,877
Marc Preston: I mean living or not, who would you enjoy
Speaker:1330
,917 --> 00:45:03,719
Marc Preston: talking story with?
Speaker:1331
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Matt Walsh: Oh my gosh, living or dead.
Speaker:1332
,712 --> 00:45:08,515
Matt Walsh: You said right.
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,017 --> 00:45:11,453
Marc Preston: Yeah, just you know somebody, anybody that
Speaker:1334
,493 --> 00:45:13,878
Marc Preston: you feel like would kind of elevate your
Speaker:1335
,918 --> 00:45:14,820
Marc Preston: experience of life.
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,901 --> 00:45:15,863
Matt Walsh: I'm going to go.
Speaker:1337
,634 --> 00:45:22,075
Matt Walsh: I'm going to go, harry Truman, because I
Speaker:1338
,295 --> 00:45:24,820
Matt Walsh: remember really liking him as a young kid
Speaker:1339
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Matt Walsh: studying presidents.
Speaker:1340
,423 --> 00:45:27,224
Matt Walsh: I'm going to go.
Speaker:1341
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Matt Walsh: I mean, you might as well go dead, right.
Speaker:1342
,661 --> 00:45:33,543
Matt Walsh: Who else would I go?
Speaker:1343
,710 --> 00:45:37,316
Matt Walsh: I'd probably go with, like Da Vinci.
Speaker:1344
,338 --> 00:45:42,164
Matt Walsh: Leonardo Da Vinci, and then because he's a
Speaker:1345
,504 --> 00:45:46,835
Matt Walsh: brilliant genius of a mind, and then maybe
Speaker:1346
,895 --> 00:45:48,359
Matt Walsh: Michael Jordan, because I never met him.
Speaker:1347
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Marc Preston: Yeah, he did.
Speaker:1348
,650 --> 00:45:50,752
Marc Preston: He did a couple of things in Chicago, i
Speaker:1349
,792 --> 00:45:53,517
Marc Preston: think, didn't he Like, yeah, i think he did?
Speaker:1350
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Matt Walsh: What was the sport?
Speaker:1351
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Matt Walsh: again, i forget Basketball.
Speaker:1352
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Marc Preston: I think curling, no, no, no, something else,
Speaker:1353
,450 --> 00:45:59,891
Marc Preston: but he was.
Speaker:1354
,954 --> 00:46:03,320
Marc Preston: Yeah, that being Chicago back then must
Speaker:1355
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Marc Preston: have been just insane.
Speaker:1356
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Marc Preston: In fact, that's another that I think air.
Speaker:1357
,391 --> 00:46:09,935
Marc Preston: I think that's the movie about the air
Speaker:1358
,035 --> 00:46:10,316
Marc Preston: Jordan.
Speaker:1359
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Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, i need to watch it.
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,380 --> 00:46:14,432
Marc Preston: That's on the list Now going.
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Marc Preston: Third question who was your first celebrity
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Marc Preston: crush when you were young?
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Matt Walsh: Crush like oh she's beautiful, like for me.
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Matt Walsh: or crush like oh, that guy is amazing, that
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Matt Walsh: person's amazing.
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Marc Preston: No, you know it could be either one.
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Marc Preston: You know it could be.
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Marc Preston: Just like you see a lady in a movie going
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Marc Preston: oh my gosh, like for me, like Olivia
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Marc Preston: Newton-John.
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Matt Walsh: I was like oh okay, i think it was maybe
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Matt Walsh: Jessica Lange.
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Matt Walsh: Like that's a star Like she's so beautiful,
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Matt Walsh: sure?
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Marc Preston: Or you know, the second half of kind of
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Marc Preston: what you brought up, who was the person you
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Marc Preston: saw is like they just killed me.
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Marc Preston: Magnetic or mesmerizing assembly.
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Matt Walsh: I think like for me someone from Chicago.
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Matt Walsh: I think there were people like John Belushi
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Matt Walsh: or Bill Murray who were like, because they
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Matt Walsh: were from Chicago, it was like they were
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Matt Walsh: amazing and they had it seemed connected to
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Matt Walsh: my life.
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Matt Walsh: You know, they were from my hometown.
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Marc Preston: You see, as a kid growing up in Texas I
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Marc Preston: thought everybody in Chicago lived in a big
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Marc Preston: suburban house.
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Marc Preston: Their father worked in advertising you know,
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Marc Preston: there's things that were set up.
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Marc Preston: They did the whole John Hughes thing.
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Marc Preston: You know, it's like I thought everybody did.
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Marc Preston: You know and like, but I was influenced, i
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Marc Preston: guess, as a kid, by John Hughes.
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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: diary.
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Matt Walsh: Basically He was like a Roman Yeah, he was
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Matt Walsh: a Roman emperor off in some land you know,
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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: island and catch fish, have a barbecue.
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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: Incredibles?
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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: just kind of hit.
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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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Announcer: I probably had 80 D.
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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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Future and Finding Interests
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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: 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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Matt Walsh
Actor | Writer
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Matt Walsh began his comedy career as an improvisational actor. After he finished college he performed at several improv clubs and practiced under legendary improv teacher, Del Close.
In 1990, Matt, along with friends Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and SNL alumna Amy Poehler founded the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe. The television series ran for three seasons on Comedy Central. He appeared as a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2001 to 2002 and has also featured in several sketches on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Since his improvisational days, Matt has landed several notable roles in such films as Semi-Pro (2008), Role Models (2008) and The Hangover (2009). He is known for his straight-faced, sardonic and sarcastic characters, often acting in opposition to the protagonists.
In 2010 Matt created the partially scripted comedy series Players, which aired on Spike TV in 2010 and featured Besser and Roberts from the Upright Citizens Brigade.
In the last several years Matt has had recurring roles on several television shows, such as Hung, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Outsourced. In 2012 he landed a co-starring role on the series Veep alongside comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus, for which he earned an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Matt appeared in the new reboot of Ghostbusters (2016) as well as the films Office Christmas Party (2016) and Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016). In the comedy Life of the Party (2018) he played Melissa McCarthy's ex-husband.