Welcome to The Story & Craft Podcast!
June 30, 2023

Nathan Kress | Full Circle Freddie

Nathan Kress | Full Circle Freddie

On this episode of The Story & Craft Podcast, we sit down with actor, Nathan Kress!  Nathan is a former child actor who has matured into a successful adult actor, director, and producer. Nathan shares his journey from his breakout role on Nickelodeon's "iCarly" to working on the show's reboot on Paramount Plus. He opens up about the challenges of transitioning from a child to an adult actor.  

Nathan also gives us a peek into his personal life - balancing family, career, and the demanding schedule of TV production. We touch on the importance of his family's support in his career.  We also talk about the joy of working with old friends on the new iCarly, as well as the creative process behind making a multi-cam sitcom.  We also get into Nathan's love for directing and his interest in producing.

We take a moment to our mutual love of BBQ, as well as his surprise engagement present to his wife - and how he and his daughter’s continue to enjoy that gift (a 1965 Mustang convertible).  This is a great chat about acting, family, and what’s next for Nathan Kress.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

0:09:21 - Parenting

0:12:49 - Reconnecting With Old Co-Stars

0:19:47 - Making the Transition from Child to Adult Actor

0:21:49 - Future of iCarly and Career Goals

0:23:23 - The Challenges of Multicam Directing

0:36:16 - Parental Sacrifice for Child's Entertainment Career

0:48:45 - Bonding Through Car Rides With Daughters

0:51:46 - Reflecting on Life's Challenges and Lessons

Listen and subscribe on your favorite podcast app.  Also, check out the show and sign up for the newsletter at  www.storyandcraftpod.com.

.

.

.

#podcast #interview #NathanKress #OfficialNathanKress #iCarly #Nickelodeon #ParamountPlus #Freddie #actor #childactor #acting #actorslife #parenting #parents #children #storyandcraft #voiceover #voiceactor #voiceovercoach

Don’t forget to like, subscribe and follow!

Show Site: https://www.StoryAndCraftPod.com/rate

Show Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/storyandcraftpod

Show Instagram: @StoryAndCraftPod

Show Bluesky: @storyandcraftpod.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@storyandcraft 

Marc’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/marcpreston

Marc’s Instagram: @airpreston

Marc's Bluesky: @marcpreston.com 

Transcript

Nathan Kress:

I see how my path and the decisions that I

 

2

 

00:00:04,750 --> 00:00:06,634

 

Nathan Kress: made and that my parents helped me to make,

 

 

 

3

 

00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:08,624

 

Nathan Kress: especially in my young life, all of it's

 

 

 

4

 

00:00:08,644 --> 00:00:11,710

 

Nathan Kress: contributed to this and I'm so thrilled

 

 

 

5

 

00:00:11,751 --> 00:00:12,713

 

Nathan Kress: with it, you know.

 

 

 

6

 

00:00:14,022 --> 00:00:15,746

 

Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

 

 

 

7

 

00:00:16,307 --> 00:00:18,372

 

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

 

 

 

8

 

00:00:18,660 --> 00:00:19,642

 

Marc Preston: Well, hello there.

 

 

 

9

 

00:00:20,203 --> 00:00:23,008

 

Marc Preston: Welcome back to the show Story and Craft.

 

 

 

10

 

00:00:23,569 --> 00:00:24,590

 

Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston.

 

 

 

11

 

00:00:24,650 --> 00:00:27,035

 

Marc Preston: If this is your first time here, welcome.

 

 

 

12

 

00:00:27,601 --> 00:00:29,706

 

Marc Preston: Thanks so much for taking part of your day

 

 

 

13

 

00:00:29,726 --> 00:00:32,661

 

Marc Preston: to check in and check out the show And, of

 

 

 

14

 

00:00:32,721 --> 00:00:34,305

 

Marc Preston: course, if you've been here before, thank

 

 

 

15

 

00:00:34,345 --> 00:00:36,269

 

Marc Preston: you so much for coming back by.

 

 

 

16

 

00:00:36,530 --> 00:00:37,833

 

Marc Preston: I certainly appreciate it.

 

 

 

17

 

00:00:38,541 --> 00:00:40,907

 

Marc Preston: Today we are chatting with a gentleman

 

 

 

18

 

00:00:40,987 --> 00:00:42,632

 

Marc Preston: named Nathan Kress.

 

 

 

19

 

00:00:43,521 --> 00:00:46,307

 

Marc Preston: Now, for many people, they know him most

 

 

 

20

 

00:00:46,367 --> 00:00:49,533

 

Marc Preston: notably as Freddy on the Nickelodeon show I

 

 

 

21

 

00:00:49,573 --> 00:00:49,994

 

Marc Preston: Carly.

 

 

 

22

 

00:00:50,801 --> 00:00:52,425

 

Marc Preston: He is a really intriguing guy.

 

 

 

23

 

00:00:52,645 --> 00:00:54,068

 

Marc Preston: It's really interesting to sit down and

 

 

 

24

 

00:00:54,088 --> 00:00:56,633

 

Marc Preston: chat with someone who grew up as a child

 

 

 

25

 

00:00:56,713 --> 00:01:00,046

 

Marc Preston: actor and now, at 30 years old, he's doing

 

 

 

26

 

00:01:00,126 --> 00:01:02,331

 

Marc Preston: other roles, but yet he's coming back to do

 

 

 

27

 

00:01:02,451 --> 00:01:03,393

 

Marc Preston: I Carly again.

 

 

 

28

 

00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,686

 

Marc Preston: The reboot is currently on Paramount Plus.

 

 

 

29

 

00:01:06,827 --> 00:01:08,751

 

Marc Preston: You can check it out right there, of course.

 

 

 

30

 

00:01:09,132 --> 00:01:09,953

 

Marc Preston: A very nice chat.

 

 

 

31

 

00:01:10,020 --> 00:01:11,766

 

Marc Preston: Really enjoyed the opportunity to spend

 

 

 

32

 

00:01:11,806 --> 00:01:13,541

 

Marc Preston: time with Nathan, as always.

 

 

 

33

 

00:01:13,822 --> 00:01:17,247

 

Marc Preston: If you don't mind, of course, like the show

 

 

 

34

 

00:01:17,427 --> 00:01:18,850

 

Marc Preston: if you would Subscribe.

 

 

 

35

 

00:01:18,890 --> 00:01:20,372

 

Marc Preston: That way you get notified every time

 

 

 

36

 

00:01:20,392 --> 00:01:23,303

 

Marc Preston: there's a new episode And you know, leave a

 

 

 

37

 

00:01:23,343 --> 00:01:25,167

 

Marc Preston: review, whatever you feel like doing, but

 

 

 

38

 

00:01:25,207 --> 00:01:27,171

 

Marc Preston: definitely want you to come back by, so do

 

 

 

39

 

00:01:27,191 --> 00:01:28,153

 

Marc Preston: the subscribe thing.

 

 

 

40

 

00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,224

 

Marc Preston: I don't know, do you smash the bell button?

 

 

 

41

 

00:01:30,244 --> 00:01:30,545

 

Marc Preston: I don't know.

 

 

 

42

 

00:01:30,565 --> 00:01:33,531

 

Marc Preston: We're on YouTube as well, so you smash

 

 

 

43

 

00:01:33,571 --> 00:01:35,262

 

Marc Preston: something, you press buttons, but basically

 

 

 

44

 

00:01:35,302 --> 00:01:36,886

 

Marc Preston: you're just coming back by every time

 

 

 

45

 

00:01:36,906 --> 00:01:37,709

 

Marc Preston: there's new episode.

 

 

 

46

 

00:01:38,070 --> 00:01:40,083

 

Marc Preston: That's all OK, so let's get after it.

 

 

 

47

 

00:01:40,143 --> 00:01:44,151

 

Marc Preston: Today is Nathan Kress Day, right here on

 

 

 

48

 

00:01:44,212 --> 00:01:45,114

 

Marc Preston: Story and Craft.

 

 

 

49

 

00:01:47,140 --> 00:01:48,484

 

Marc Preston: So have you been doing the day?

 

 

 

50

 

00:01:48,605 --> 00:01:50,410

 

Marc Preston: You're in the LA area, correct?

 

 

 

51

 

00:01:50,620 --> 00:01:51,442

 

Nathan Kress: Yes, i am.

 

 

 

52

 

00:01:51,502 --> 00:01:54,127

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, we just finished, jerry and I, one of

 

 

 

53

 

00:01:54,167 --> 00:01:56,652

 

Nathan Kress: my castmates, we just finished a satellite

 

 

 

54

 

00:01:56,913 --> 00:01:59,524

 

Nathan Kress: media tour So we were doing, you know,

 

 

 

55

 

00:01:59,945 --> 00:02:02,049

 

Nathan Kress: starting on the East Coast morning local

 

 

 

56

 

00:02:02,109 --> 00:02:04,453

 

Nathan Kress: news shows and then working our way to the

 

 

 

57

 

00:02:04,493 --> 00:02:04,914

 

Nathan Kress: West Coast.

 

 

 

58

 

00:02:04,940 --> 00:02:07,967

 

Nathan Kress: So we've been up pretty early So I'm, but

 

 

 

59

 

00:02:08,007 --> 00:02:10,393

 

Nathan Kress: I'm, i'm very warmed up for interviews.

 

 

 

60

 

00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,625

 

Nathan Kress: So this this time's out, perfectly, i've

 

 

 

61

 

00:02:12,665 --> 00:02:14,369

 

Nathan Kress: gotten all my willies out and I've said my

 

 

 

62

 

00:02:14,429 --> 00:02:15,852

 

Nathan Kress: stupid answers already, i think.

 

 

 

63

 

00:02:16,401 --> 00:02:18,586

 

Marc Preston: I greatly admire folks that could stay as

 

 

 

64

 

00:02:18,647 --> 00:02:20,211

 

Marc Preston: fresh for the last interview as they did

 

 

 

65

 

00:02:20,251 --> 00:02:20,732

 

Marc Preston: for the first.

 

 

 

66

 

00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:22,484

 

Marc Preston: So you know that's wonderful.

 

 

 

67

 

00:02:22,544 --> 00:02:25,131

 

Nathan Kress: It's a lot easier when I'm doing it with

 

 

 

68

 

00:02:25,171 --> 00:02:26,802

 

Nathan Kress: Jerry, though, too, because I think we, at

 

 

 

69

 

00:02:26,822 --> 00:02:29,109

 

Nathan Kress: this point, we've just known each other for

 

 

 

70

 

00:02:29,189 --> 00:02:32,598

 

Nathan Kress: so long that we just we know how to work

 

 

 

71

 

00:02:32,718 --> 00:02:34,483

 

Nathan Kress: off of like oh, jerry is about to start

 

 

 

72

 

00:02:34,523 --> 00:02:35,065

 

Nathan Kress: doing a bit.

 

 

 

73

 

00:02:35,245 --> 00:02:37,632

 

Nathan Kress: here is how I'm going to lean into that,

 

 

 

74

 

00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:37,981

 

Nathan Kress: you know.

 

 

 

75

 

00:02:38,361 --> 00:02:40,366

 

Nathan Kress: so I think we we make a pretty good team

 

 

 

76

 

00:02:40,386 --> 00:02:42,370

 

Nathan Kress: when it comes to this, this press stuff,

 

 

 

77

 

00:02:42,450 --> 00:02:44,073

 

Nathan Kress: after years of practice.

 

 

 

78

 

00:02:44,501 --> 00:02:47,350

 

Marc Preston: Obviously I'm a little young for I car.

 

 

 

79

 

00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,107

 

Marc Preston: No, I was kidding, I'm a little old for I

 

 

 

80

 

00:02:49,147 --> 00:02:49,288

 

Marc Preston: car.

 

 

 

81

 

00:02:49,581 --> 00:02:50,784

 

Nathan Kress: Quite the demographic.

 

 

 

82

 

00:02:50,965 --> 00:02:52,630

 

Nathan Kress: You're one of those real fresh Gen Zers I

 

 

 

83

 

00:02:52,670 --> 00:02:53,942

 

Nathan Kress: can tell I'll go with that.

 

 

 

84

 

00:02:54,724 --> 00:02:56,869

 

Marc Preston: But my, my kids were a little on the young

 

 

 

85

 

00:02:56,929 --> 00:03:00,003

 

Marc Preston: side to the dial in And they knew they

 

 

 

86

 

00:03:00,323 --> 00:03:01,886

 

Marc Preston: didn't watch it as much because they, i

 

 

 

87

 

00:03:01,906 --> 00:03:04,351

 

Marc Preston: think, were just like kids a couple of

 

 

 

88

 

00:03:04,391 --> 00:03:06,762

 

Marc Preston: years older would be watching it, and so

 

 

 

89

 

00:03:06,822 --> 00:03:07,082

 

Marc Preston: it's funny.

 

 

 

90

 

00:03:07,102 --> 00:03:08,165

 

Marc Preston: I was talking to a friend of mine's

 

 

 

91

 

00:03:08,186 --> 00:03:09,269

 

Marc Preston: daughter last night.

 

 

 

92

 

00:03:09,329 --> 00:03:10,945

 

Marc Preston: Her name is Kayla, i have to give her a

 

 

 

93

 

00:03:11,025 --> 00:03:12,979

 

Marc Preston: producer credit because I stopped speaking

 

 

 

94

 

00:03:12,999 --> 00:03:13,160

 

Marc Preston: with you.

 

 

 

95

 

00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:15,405

 

Marc Preston: She's like, oh my God, i loved him on, i

 

 

 

96

 

00:03:15,425 --> 00:03:17,771

 

Marc Preston: carly, and the funny thing is she was she

 

 

 

97

 

00:03:17,811 --> 00:03:19,909

 

Marc Preston: was only, i think, eight years old And it

 

 

 

98

 

00:03:19,929 --> 00:03:20,331

 

Marc Preston: was funny.

 

 

 

99

 

00:03:20,371 --> 00:03:21,759

 

Marc Preston: I said, well, what was it at eight that you

 

 

 

100

 

00:03:21,819 --> 00:03:21,940

 

Marc Preston: like?

 

 

 

101

 

00:03:22,020 --> 00:03:24,526

 

Marc Preston: She said that's the way I viewed, or I

 

 

 

102

 

00:03:24,607 --> 00:03:26,913

 

Marc Preston: thought, teenage life would be.

 

 

 

103

 

00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,506

 

Marc Preston: It was sort of like her window to teenage

 

 

 

104

 

00:03:29,566 --> 00:03:30,670

 

Marc Preston: life as an eight year old.

 

 

 

105

 

00:03:30,790 --> 00:03:31,361

 

Marc Preston: You know So.

 

 

 

106

 

00:03:31,822 --> 00:03:34,048

 

Marc Preston: But she has a much, much love for you and

 

 

 

107

 

00:03:34,129 --> 00:03:36,284

 

Marc Preston: is all kinds of giddy, so she's looking

 

 

 

108

 

00:03:36,324 --> 00:03:37,388

 

Marc Preston: forward to hearing this episode.

 

 

 

109

 

00:03:37,921 --> 00:03:39,786

 

Marc Preston: I spoke with somebody the other day who was

 

 

 

110

 

00:03:40,026 --> 00:03:41,410

 

Marc Preston: pretty well known back in the 80s.

 

 

 

111

 

00:03:42,100 --> 00:03:43,644

 

Marc Preston: Now they're doing something, so she was

 

 

 

112

 

00:03:43,684 --> 00:03:45,930

 

Marc Preston: known as, like, a teen actor, but here she

 

 

 

113

 

00:03:45,990 --> 00:03:46,792

 

Marc Preston: is in her 50s.

 

 

 

114

 

00:03:48,522 --> 00:03:49,807

 

Marc Preston: I've always been curious about that

 

 

 

115

 

00:03:49,847 --> 00:03:50,369

 

Marc Preston: transition.

 

 

 

116

 

00:03:50,429 --> 00:03:53,099

 

Marc Preston: What, when is that line of demarcation

 

 

 

117

 

00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,228

 

Marc Preston: where you're not known as a kid actor

 

 

 

118

 

00:03:55,308 --> 00:03:57,437

 

Marc Preston: anymore, and you're you know, or is that a

 

 

 

119

 

00:03:57,477 --> 00:03:59,303

 

Marc Preston: kind of a sliding line, depending on the

 

 

 

120

 

00:03:59,363 --> 00:04:02,712

 

Marc Preston: project, or when did you become cognizant

 

 

 

121

 

00:04:02,772 --> 00:04:03,153

 

Marc Preston: of that?

 

 

 

122

 

00:04:04,601 --> 00:04:06,409

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, it probably, like you said, is a

 

 

 

123

 

00:04:06,449 --> 00:04:08,177

 

Nathan Kress: sliding scale And it probably depends on

 

 

 

124

 

00:04:08,237 --> 00:04:10,204

 

Nathan Kress: the projects that you take on.

 

 

 

125

 

00:04:10,384 --> 00:04:13,514

 

Nathan Kress: I feel like if you linger in kid worlds,

 

 

 

126

 

00:04:14,055 --> 00:04:15,781

 

Nathan Kress: you know, especially past, whatever the

 

 

 

127

 

00:04:15,841 --> 00:04:18,187

 

Nathan Kress: initial show was, that made you, you know,

 

 

 

128

 

00:04:18,468 --> 00:04:21,421

 

Nathan Kress: that set you off and was your platform, i

 

 

 

129

 

00:04:21,441 --> 00:04:23,385

 

Nathan Kress: could see how you could feel a little bit

 

 

 

130

 

00:04:23,566 --> 00:04:25,812

 

Nathan Kress: cornered into that Marcet for a little bit

 

 

 

131

 

00:04:25,852 --> 00:04:26,172

 

Nathan Kress: longer.

 

 

 

132

 

00:04:26,340 --> 00:04:29,027

 

Nathan Kress: But it's it's just probably the first time

 

 

 

133

 

00:04:29,067 --> 00:04:31,233

 

Nathan Kress: you have a project where you say a bad word.

 

 

 

134

 

00:04:32,703 --> 00:04:34,911

 

Nathan Kress: You know, or you're in you know, a more

 

 

 

135

 

00:04:35,151 --> 00:04:37,198

 

Nathan Kress: adult situation, i guess.

 

 

 

136

 

00:04:37,258 --> 00:04:38,984

 

Nathan Kress: Or you know you transition from the

 

 

 

137

 

00:04:39,044 --> 00:04:40,509

 

Nathan Kress: Nickelodeon to the MTV.

 

 

 

138

 

00:04:41,070 --> 00:04:42,334

 

Nathan Kress: You know, right, right.

 

 

 

139

 

00:04:43,077 --> 00:04:44,982

 

Nathan Kress: But for me it's always hard because I have

 

 

 

140

 

00:04:45,062 --> 00:04:46,525

 

Nathan Kress: such a baby face.

 

 

 

141

 

00:04:47,066 --> 00:04:50,132

 

Nathan Kress: It's really been tough for me to play my

 

 

 

142

 

00:04:50,292 --> 00:04:51,314

 

Nathan Kress: own age.

 

 

 

143

 

00:04:52,180 --> 00:04:52,942

 

Nathan Kress: Hold on, are you now?

 

 

 

144

 

00:04:52,962 --> 00:04:54,205

 

Nathan Kress: by the way, i'm 30.

 

 

 

145

 

00:04:54,405 --> 00:04:55,307

 

Marc Preston: I just 30.

 

 

 

146

 

00:04:55,909 --> 00:04:58,093

 

Marc Preston: Man give me some of your genetic material

 

 

 

147

 

00:04:58,220 --> 00:04:58,441

 

Marc Preston: man.

 

 

 

148

 

00:04:58,964 --> 00:04:59,687

 

Marc Preston: I'm thinking.

 

 

 

149

 

00:04:59,727 --> 00:05:01,776

 

Marc Preston: I'm thinking of what I looked like when I

 

 

 

150

 

00:05:01,817 --> 00:05:04,868

 

Marc Preston: was 30, you know to be fair, this is the

 

 

 

151

 

00:05:04,908 --> 00:05:05,872

 

Marc Preston: team of professionals.

 

 

 

152

 

00:05:05,932 --> 00:05:07,959

 

Nathan Kress: What you, what you don't see, is what

 

 

 

153

 

00:05:07,999 --> 00:05:09,883

 

Nathan Kress: happens when my five year old and my two

 

 

 

154

 

00:05:09,943 --> 00:05:12,969

 

Nathan Kress: year old occur on this face, and how

 

 

 

155

 

00:05:13,029 --> 00:05:16,283

 

Nathan Kress: everything starts to sag and wear out and

 

 

 

156

 

00:05:16,343 --> 00:05:18,189

 

Nathan Kress: get puffy and, you know, exhausted.

 

 

 

157

 

00:05:18,270 --> 00:05:20,839

 

Nathan Kress: So you know, i got I got a lot of people

 

 

 

158

 

00:05:20,939 --> 00:05:23,265

 

Nathan Kress: backing me up and they were there at four

 

 

 

159

 

00:05:23,305 --> 00:05:25,370

 

Nathan Kress: o'clock this morning before that media tour.

 

 

 

160

 

00:05:25,511 --> 00:05:27,643

 

Nathan Kress: I can guarantee that.

 

 

 

161

 

00:05:28,224 --> 00:05:30,409

 

Nathan Kress: But but yeah, i think for me it has been a

 

 

 

162

 

00:05:30,449 --> 00:05:32,781

 

Nathan Kress: particular challenge, just because I'm only

 

 

 

163

 

00:05:33,162 --> 00:05:35,448

 

Nathan Kress: maybe just starting to grow into my own

 

 

 

164

 

00:05:35,548 --> 00:05:39,558

 

Nathan Kress: face, if I have some facial hair And so I.

 

 

 

165

 

00:05:39,799 --> 00:05:43,087

 

Nathan Kress: a lot of the roles that I covet in the

 

 

 

166

 

00:05:43,247 --> 00:05:44,310

 

Nathan Kress: adult world are.

 

 

 

167

 

00:05:44,631 --> 00:05:47,879

 

Nathan Kress: I'm only just now starting to approach the

 

 

 

168

 

00:05:47,919 --> 00:05:49,885

 

Nathan Kress: threshold of being able to pull them off

 

 

 

169

 

00:05:49,925 --> 00:05:51,289

 

Nathan Kress: and have the audience believe it, and that

 

 

 

170

 

00:05:51,329 --> 00:05:51,951

 

Nathan Kress: was kind of nice.

 

 

 

171

 

00:05:52,260 --> 00:05:54,629

 

Nathan Kress: you know, with this new Icarly, as an adult

 

 

 

172

 

00:05:54,669 --> 00:05:57,178

 

Nathan Kress: show we're supposed to be just about our

 

 

 

173

 

00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,285

 

Nathan Kress: ages, like late twenties, early thirties.

 

 

 

174

 

00:05:59,365 --> 00:06:02,475

 

Nathan Kress: So you know, whether or not the world is

 

 

 

175

 

00:06:02,516 --> 00:06:04,663

 

Nathan Kress: willing to accept it, i have a television

 

 

 

176

 

00:06:04,703 --> 00:06:06,810

 

Nathan Kress: show that's telling people that I can play

 

 

 

177

 

00:06:07,091 --> 00:06:08,556

 

Nathan Kress: a role this age.

 

 

 

178

 

00:06:08,576 --> 00:06:09,600

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, Well, it's funny.

 

 

 

179

 

00:06:10,102 --> 00:06:11,768

 

Marc Preston: You, you were in the movie Into the Storm

 

 

 

180

 

00:06:12,451 --> 00:06:14,158

 

Marc Preston: and just coincidentally, I spoke with Matt

 

 

 

181

 

00:06:14,198 --> 00:06:16,287

 

Marc Preston: Walsh last week, No kidding, And the name

 

 

 

182

 

00:06:16,307 --> 00:06:17,191

 

Marc Preston: of the movie escaped me.

 

 

 

183

 

00:06:17,231 --> 00:06:19,400

 

Marc Preston: I said you're in that tournée, the movie

 

 

 

184

 

00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:19,941

 

Marc Preston: the tournée.

 

 

 

185

 

00:06:19,961 --> 00:06:20,382

 

Marc Preston: he said yeah.

 

 

 

186

 

00:06:20,422 --> 00:06:22,005

 

Marc Preston: he said yeah, it's one of the top three

 

 

 

187

 

00:06:22,045 --> 00:06:22,866

 

Marc Preston: tornado movies.

 

 

 

188

 

00:06:23,086 --> 00:06:25,591

 

Marc Preston: You know he's being funny, but uh, I did

 

 

 

189

 

00:06:25,631 --> 00:06:27,517

 

Marc Preston: see that with my kids, I think last year,

 

 

 

190

 

00:06:27,637 --> 00:06:28,941

 

Marc Preston: sometime, Really.

 

 

 

191

 

00:06:29,712 --> 00:06:31,618

 

Marc Preston: But as far as your kids, kind of going back

 

 

 

192

 

00:06:31,638 --> 00:06:33,713

 

Marc Preston: to that real quick, you said you got a five

 

 

 

193

 

00:06:33,753 --> 00:06:34,456

 

Marc Preston: and a two year old.

 

 

 

194

 

00:06:34,676 --> 00:06:38,299

 

Nathan Kress: Yes, So yeah, Rosie and Evie, they're

 

 

 

195

 

00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,577

 

Nathan Kress: awesome, And actually my wife I met on into

 

 

 

196

 

00:06:41,597 --> 00:06:43,201

 

Nathan Kress: the storm, Oh, really.

 

 

 

197

 

00:06:43,410 --> 00:06:47,752

 

Nathan Kress: She was yeah, she was on the stunt team And

 

 

 

198

 

00:06:47,852 --> 00:06:50,340

 

Nathan Kress: we met in the last few weeks of production

 

 

 

199

 

00:06:50,651 --> 00:06:52,504

 

Nathan Kress: And if you look really, really close in the

 

 

 

200

 

00:06:52,605 --> 00:06:54,293

 

Nathan Kress: climax of it, where we're down in that

 

 

 

201

 

00:06:54,373 --> 00:06:57,712

 

Nathan Kress: storm drain and the big tornado is coming

 

 

 

202

 

00:06:57,752 --> 00:06:59,924

 

Nathan Kress: and going like right over us, we were

 

 

 

203

 

00:07:00,568 --> 00:07:03,012

 

Nathan Kress: positioned together by the director So we

 

 

 

204

 

00:07:03,052 --> 00:07:06,683

 

Nathan Kress: spent three weeks in a whole soaking wet

 

 

 

205

 

00:07:07,185 --> 00:07:09,656

 

Nathan Kress: with 100 mile an hour winds blowing past us

 

 

 

206

 

00:07:09,716 --> 00:07:13,353

 

Nathan Kress: just an absolute misery, and you know

 

 

 

207

 

00:07:13,394 --> 00:07:14,598

 

Nathan Kress: that's a bonding experience.

 

 

 

208

 

00:07:14,831 --> 00:07:16,316

 

Marc Preston: I was about to say that's, that's something

 

 

 

209

 

00:07:16,356 --> 00:07:18,073

 

Marc Preston: that kind of forges a bond that you can't

 

 

 

210

 

00:07:18,113 --> 00:07:19,658

 

Marc Preston: really get in any other way.

 

 

 

211

 

00:07:19,759 --> 00:07:20,120

 

Marc Preston: You know.

 

 

 

212

 

00:07:20,350 --> 00:07:22,117

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, yeah, there was a group of probably

 

 

 

213

 

00:07:22,237 --> 00:07:25,198

 

Nathan Kress: 20 of us, a mix of actors and stunt people,

 

 

 

214

 

00:07:25,511 --> 00:07:28,247

 

Nathan Kress: and you know we all got pretty close after

 

 

 

215

 

00:07:28,307 --> 00:07:30,356

 

Nathan Kress: a shared traumatic experience like that.

 

 

 

216

 

00:07:31,190 --> 00:07:32,977

 

Nathan Kress: But I didn't at the time nothing really

 

 

 

217

 

00:07:32,997 --> 00:07:33,358

 

Nathan Kress: because I was.

 

 

 

218

 

00:07:33,510 --> 00:07:34,931

 

Nathan Kress: I was dating somebody else at the time, so

 

 

 

219

 

00:07:34,951 --> 00:07:37,759

 

Nathan Kress: she was just a co-worker who you know I got

 

 

 

220

 

00:07:37,799 --> 00:07:38,913

 

Nathan Kress: along with, but she got along with

 

 

 

221

 

00:07:38,953 --> 00:07:42,658

 

Nathan Kress: everybody else too, and so we we met on

 

 

 

222

 

00:07:42,698 --> 00:07:42,878

 

Nathan Kress: that.

 

 

 

223

 

00:07:42,919 --> 00:07:44,652

 

Nathan Kress: But we didn't really reconnect and become

 

 

 

224

 

00:07:44,692 --> 00:07:47,120

 

Nathan Kress: good friends until two years later, after

 

 

 

225

 

00:07:47,130 --> 00:07:48,617

 

Nathan Kress: because we should we film that in Michigan.

 

 

 

226

 

00:07:48,730 --> 00:07:50,897

 

Nathan Kress: She moved out to LA shortly after that

 

 

 

227

 

00:07:50,918 --> 00:07:52,796

 

Nathan Kress: movie was done and was working in the stunt

 

 

 

228

 

00:07:52,836 --> 00:07:53,057

 

Nathan Kress: world.

 

 

 

229

 

00:07:54,230 --> 00:07:55,254

 

Marc Preston: Is she still doing that now?

 

 

 

230

 

00:07:56,250 --> 00:07:58,738

 

Nathan Kress: No, after we got married and had kids we

 

 

 

231

 

00:07:58,779 --> 00:08:01,717

 

Nathan Kress: kind of thought maybe stunts is not the

 

 

 

232

 

00:08:01,778 --> 00:08:02,660

 

Nathan Kress: best field.

 

 

 

233

 

00:08:02,930 --> 00:08:04,656

 

Nathan Kress: You know it's hard to be a mom with like a

 

 

 

234

 

00:08:04,736 --> 00:08:05,900

 

Nathan Kress: broken neck, you know.

 

 

 

235

 

00:08:07,591 --> 00:08:08,916

 

Nathan Kress: And you know she didn't really do anything

 

 

 

236

 

00:08:08,956 --> 00:08:10,293

 

Nathan Kress: too intense, but even the stuff that she

 

 

 

237

 

00:08:10,353 --> 00:08:12,091

 

Nathan Kress: did she was getting pretty banged up, you

 

 

 

238

 

00:08:12,111 --> 00:08:12,291

 

Nathan Kress: know.

 

 

 

239

 

00:08:12,372 --> 00:08:15,080

 

Nathan Kress: and she'd come home and I'd say she had

 

 

 

240

 

00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:17,100

 

Nathan Kress: like a big goose egg on her forehead and

 

 

 

241

 

00:08:17,181 --> 00:08:18,530

 

Nathan Kress: bruises everywhere and stuff.

 

 

 

242

 

00:08:18,650 --> 00:08:20,637

 

Nathan Kress: So she was getting, she was getting pretty

 

 

 

243

 

00:08:20,678 --> 00:08:23,986

 

Nathan Kress: beat up And she really liked doing it but

 

 

 

244

 

00:08:24,026 --> 00:08:26,115

 

Nathan Kress: she didn't really feel that it was a career

 

 

 

245

 

00:08:26,196 --> 00:08:26,617

 

Nathan Kress: calling.

 

 

 

246

 

00:08:27,030 --> 00:08:28,595

 

Nathan Kress: And I feel like you really have to feel

 

 

 

247

 

00:08:28,615 --> 00:08:31,252

 

Nathan Kress: like stunt work is a calling, to want to

 

 

 

248

 

00:08:31,292 --> 00:08:33,940

 

Nathan Kress: commit to what toll that takes on your body.

 

 

 

249

 

00:08:34,271 --> 00:08:35,175

 

Nathan Kress: You know I would assume.

 

 

 

250

 

00:08:35,215 --> 00:08:37,236

 

Marc Preston: So I would assume that you really you know

 

 

 

251

 

00:08:37,417 --> 00:08:40,274

 

Marc Preston: for you to commit to doing it and doing it

 

 

 

252

 

00:08:40,375 --> 00:08:41,559

 

Marc Preston: right and being safe.

 

 

 

253

 

00:08:41,672 --> 00:08:42,710

 

Marc Preston: It's you really got to be into.

 

 

 

254

 

00:08:42,790 --> 00:08:44,455

 

Marc Preston: I think it takes a certain personality type.

 

 

 

255

 

00:08:44,516 --> 00:08:46,535

 

Marc Preston: But but the little ones you talk about

 

 

 

256

 

00:08:46,575 --> 00:08:48,090

 

Marc Preston: broken neck, i know, depending on you know,

 

 

 

257

 

00:08:48,211 --> 00:08:50,129

 

Marc Preston: when you have little ones, the younger they

 

 

 

258

 

00:08:50,149 --> 00:08:52,626

 

Marc Preston: are, the more stuff you have to carry, you

 

 

 

259

 

00:08:52,646 --> 00:08:54,132

 

Marc Preston: know, and you get older they don't have to

 

 

 

260

 

00:08:54,313 --> 00:08:56,779

 

Marc Preston: have so much stuff, you know, or you make

 

 

 

261

 

00:08:56,799 --> 00:08:57,682

 

Marc Preston: them carry it themselves.

 

 

 

262

 

00:08:58,112 --> 00:08:59,405

 

Marc Preston: Your five year olds I guess they're getting

 

 

 

263

 

00:08:59,425 --> 00:09:00,793

 

Marc Preston: to that age now, but you talk about the car

 

 

 

264

 

00:09:00,853 --> 00:09:02,740

 

Marc Preston: seats and all that and traveling is so, so

 

 

 

265

 

00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:03,061

 

Marc Preston: dynamic.

 

 

 

266

 

00:09:03,831 --> 00:09:04,052

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah.

 

 

 

267

 

00:09:04,092 --> 00:09:07,141

 

Marc Preston: My kids are twenty eighteen and seventeen

 

 

 

268

 

00:09:07,633 --> 00:09:09,429

 

Marc Preston: And my youngest just graduated from high

 

 

 

269

 

00:09:09,449 --> 00:09:09,570

 

Marc Preston: school.

 

 

 

270

 

00:09:09,691 --> 00:09:11,540

 

Marc Preston: So it's for me it's a little weird, because

 

 

 

271

 

00:09:11,962 --> 00:09:14,273

 

Marc Preston: they were that age two seconds ago for me,

 

 

 

272

 

00:09:14,574 --> 00:09:14,855

 

Marc Preston: you know.

 

 

 

273

 

00:09:15,613 --> 00:09:16,970

 

Marc Preston: So you have two girls, right.

 

 

 

274

 

00:09:17,090 --> 00:09:20,215

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, yeah, two girls, and yeah, i keep

 

 

 

275

 

00:09:20,275 --> 00:09:20,898

 

Nathan Kress: hearing you.

 

 

 

276

 

00:09:21,050 --> 00:09:22,355

 

Nathan Kress: You've said the same thing that everybody

 

 

 

277

 

00:09:22,395 --> 00:09:24,353

 

Nathan Kress: else says, like just, you know, don't blank,

 

 

 

278

 

00:09:24,373 --> 00:09:26,312

 

Nathan Kress: because it's going to be over, but we're

 

 

 

279

 

00:09:26,352 --> 00:09:27,635

 

Nathan Kress: very much in the.

 

 

 

280

 

00:09:28,377 --> 00:09:30,803

 

Nathan Kress: The days are long, but the years are short.

 

 

 

281

 

00:09:30,991 --> 00:09:32,738

 

Nathan Kress: And boy, the days are long right now.

 

 

 

282

 

00:09:33,011 --> 00:09:35,826

 

Nathan Kress: You know it's and and that's it's so, it's

 

 

 

283

 

00:09:35,867 --> 00:09:37,433

 

Nathan Kress: so worth it, and I don't want to seem

 

 

 

284

 

00:09:37,714 --> 00:09:39,520

 

Nathan Kress: flippant and to take that for granted.

 

 

 

285

 

00:09:39,630 --> 00:09:40,673

 

Nathan Kress: It's just it's.

 

 

 

286

 

00:09:40,893 --> 00:09:44,401

 

Nathan Kress: It's because right now, especially in those

 

 

 

287

 

00:09:44,481 --> 00:09:47,695

 

Nathan Kress: first five years, we're just trying to put

 

 

 

288

 

00:09:47,735 --> 00:09:51,062

 

Nathan Kress: a lot of intentionality and effort into

 

 

 

289

 

00:09:51,143 --> 00:09:53,456

 

Nathan Kress: being present for them and and teaching

 

 

 

290

 

00:09:53,476 --> 00:09:55,321

 

Nathan Kress: them and giving them a good foundation

 

 

 

291

 

00:09:55,731 --> 00:09:58,260

 

Nathan Kress: right now to kickstart them off.

 

 

 

292

 

00:09:58,693 --> 00:09:59,944

 

Marc Preston: I was just about to say that word.

 

 

 

293

 

00:09:59,984 --> 00:10:00,610

 

Marc Preston: I said be present.

 

 

 

294

 

00:10:00,691 --> 00:10:02,703

 

Marc Preston: I mean, i was a single father when they

 

 

 

295

 

00:10:02,743 --> 00:10:03,810

 

Marc Preston: were very young, you know.

 

 

 

296

 

00:10:03,951 --> 00:10:05,809

 

Marc Preston: So they're all three diapers at the same

 

 

 

297

 

00:10:05,849 --> 00:10:07,174

 

Marc Preston: time And I think you can sympathize with

 

 

 

298

 

00:10:07,214 --> 00:10:09,821

 

Marc Preston: that, you know, because diaper diaper, age

 

 

 

299

 

00:10:10,010 --> 00:10:11,535

 

Marc Preston: does change the dynamic of how you move

 

 

 

300

 

00:10:11,555 --> 00:10:13,801

 

Marc Preston: through life, how you travel, all kinds of

 

 

 

301

 

00:10:13,841 --> 00:10:16,278

 

Marc Preston: things, and I remember thinking God.

 

 

 

302

 

00:10:16,358 --> 00:10:18,766

 

Marc Preston: You know, the one of them was crying and I

 

 

 

303

 

00:10:18,786 --> 00:10:21,966

 

Marc Preston: can look back on this And this kind of

 

 

 

304

 

00:10:21,987 --> 00:10:23,262

 

Marc Preston: sucks in a moment, but I know I'm going to

 

 

 

305

 

00:10:23,282 --> 00:10:23,526

 

Marc Preston: look back.

 

 

 

306

 

00:10:23,546 --> 00:10:25,130

 

Marc Preston: Finally, it's one thing I know I got right.

 

 

 

307

 

00:10:25,894 --> 00:10:27,423

 

Marc Preston: I said 10 years from now, i mean I'm going

 

 

 

308

 

00:10:27,443 --> 00:10:28,569

 

Marc Preston: to want one of these moments back, and I

 

 

 

309

 

00:10:28,589 --> 00:10:28,770

 

Marc Preston: was right.

 

 

 

310

 

00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:29,728

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, absolutely.

 

 

 

311

 

00:10:30,614 --> 00:10:31,981

 

Nathan Kress: I think we learned a lot.

 

 

 

312

 

00:10:32,042 --> 00:10:33,288

 

Nathan Kress: Just just like everybody else is so

 

 

 

313

 

00:10:33,308 --> 00:10:35,625

 

Nathan Kress: stereotypical How much you learn between

 

 

 

314

 

00:10:35,645 --> 00:10:37,995

 

Nathan Kress: the first and the second kid And with the

 

 

 

315

 

00:10:38,035 --> 00:10:39,902

 

Nathan Kress: first one, how personally you take

 

 

 

316

 

00:10:40,163 --> 00:10:41,930

 

Nathan Kress: everything and how you just nitpick

 

 

 

317

 

00:10:42,652 --> 00:10:45,280

 

Nathan Kress: yourself and you micromanage everything and

 

 

 

318

 

00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:48,589

 

Nathan Kress: you just try to nail down every aspect of

 

 

 

319

 

00:10:48,609 --> 00:10:51,118

 

Nathan Kress: your life And then once the second one

 

 

 

320

 

00:10:51,158 --> 00:10:53,568

 

Nathan Kress: shows up, you just kind of throw it all to

 

 

 

321

 

00:10:53,608 --> 00:10:55,530

 

Nathan Kress: the wind and whatever happens happens.

 

 

 

322

 

00:10:55,530 --> 00:10:57,929

 

Nathan Kress: And I think I used to be so stressed with

 

 

 

323

 

00:10:58,044 --> 00:10:59,671

 

Nathan Kress: the first one And, granted, she had just

 

 

 

324

 

00:10:59,750 --> 00:11:00,290

 

Nathan Kress: kind of some.

 

 

 

325

 

00:11:00,370 --> 00:11:02,716

 

Nathan Kress: She was a tough baby, she had a lot of

 

 

 

326

 

00:11:02,797 --> 00:11:04,925

 

Nathan Kress: colicky and reflux and just a lot of

 

 

 

327

 

00:11:04,986 --> 00:11:06,355

 

Nathan Kress: challenges that made the baby phase really

 

 

 

328

 

00:11:06,436 --> 00:11:08,140

 

Nathan Kress: hard and sleep, did you?

 

 

 

329

 

00:11:08,180 --> 00:11:08,929

 

Marc Preston: did you have to use that?

 

 

 

330

 

00:11:09,855 --> 00:11:11,405

 

Marc Preston: I think it's called newtramogen, that

 

 

 

331

 

00:11:11,505 --> 00:11:12,250

 

Marc Preston: special formula.

 

 

 

332

 

00:11:12,531 --> 00:11:15,559

 

Marc Preston: It's kind of pre digested proteins or

 

 

 

333

 

00:11:15,579 --> 00:11:15,760

 

Marc Preston: something.

 

 

 

334

 

00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,013

 

Marc Preston: It smells Well.

 

 

 

335

 

00:11:17,033 --> 00:11:19,290

 

Marc Preston: The babies drink it and they burp.

 

 

 

336

 

00:11:19,857 --> 00:11:20,790

 

Marc Preston: It smells God awful.

 

 

 

337

 

00:11:21,437 --> 00:11:23,677

 

Marc Preston: It's easier on their stomach And I remember

 

 

 

338

 

00:11:23,718 --> 00:11:24,645

 

Marc Preston: my daughter was on that.

 

 

 

339

 

00:11:24,685 --> 00:11:25,370

 

Marc Preston: She had the same thing.

 

 

 

340

 

00:11:25,410 --> 00:11:27,678

 

Marc Preston: I was like, oh, I cannot wait till we get

 

 

 

341

 

00:11:27,698 --> 00:11:29,223

 

Marc Preston: her off this formula because the smell was

 

 

 

342

 

00:11:29,264 --> 00:11:30,247

 

Marc Preston: just terrible.

 

 

 

343

 

00:11:30,648 --> 00:11:31,110

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, formula.

 

 

 

344

 

00:11:31,311 --> 00:11:32,982

 

Nathan Kress: I don't know what they put in formula but

 

 

 

345

 

00:11:33,063 --> 00:11:34,190

 

Nathan Kress: it is gnarly.

 

 

 

346

 

00:11:34,351 --> 00:11:36,150

 

Nathan Kress: And we only did formula with our second one.

 

 

 

347

 

00:11:36,370 --> 00:11:38,213

 

Nathan Kress: The first one, she was able to breastfeed

 

 

 

348

 

00:11:38,313 --> 00:11:40,496

 

Nathan Kress: all the way, all the way through, but still

 

 

 

349

 

00:11:40,556 --> 00:11:42,779

 

Nathan Kress: had all that reflux stuff because she had,

 

 

 

350

 

00:11:42,839 --> 00:11:45,021

 

Nathan Kress: like you know, in in vitro.

 

 

 

351

 

00:11:45,102 --> 00:11:46,904

 

Nathan Kress: She was pretty underdeveloped in, her

 

 

 

352

 

00:11:47,104 --> 00:11:49,107

 

Nathan Kress: abdomen was very small and she had to be

 

 

 

353

 

00:11:49,167 --> 00:11:51,169

 

Nathan Kress: induced because she just wasn't growing the

 

 

 

354

 

00:11:51,210 --> 00:11:51,530

 

Nathan Kress: right way.

 

 

 

355

 

00:11:51,771 --> 00:11:53,255

 

Nathan Kress: So we're assuming it all just kind of came

 

 

 

356

 

00:11:53,275 --> 00:11:54,740

 

Nathan Kress: from and she just grew out of it eventually.

 

 

 

357

 

00:11:55,211 --> 00:11:57,002

 

Nathan Kress: But man, the first part of it was so hard,

 

 

 

358

 

00:11:57,525 --> 00:11:58,410

 

Nathan Kress: like the first several months.

 

 

 

359

 

00:11:58,590 --> 00:12:00,314

 

Nathan Kress: But now it's gotten to the point where my

 

 

 

360

 

00:12:00,354 --> 00:12:02,638

 

Nathan Kress: wife and I think we're getting better at,

 

 

 

361

 

00:12:03,459 --> 00:12:05,503

 

Nathan Kress: when madness and chaos is happening around

 

 

 

362

 

00:12:05,583 --> 00:12:09,735

 

Nathan Kress: us, laughing, which I don't know if that's

 

 

 

363

 

00:12:09,775 --> 00:12:11,457

 

Nathan Kress: good or not, but there's just a certain,

 

 

 

364

 

00:12:11,477 --> 00:12:12,999

 

Nathan Kress: there's a certain point when everything

 

 

 

365

 

00:12:13,039 --> 00:12:16,484

 

Nathan Kress: gets so insane that you can actually have a

 

 

 

366

 

00:12:16,644 --> 00:12:19,495

 

Nathan Kress: decent laugh about it, just how ridiculous

 

 

 

367

 

00:12:20,297 --> 00:12:20,980

 

Nathan Kress: it all is.

 

 

 

368

 

00:12:21,711 --> 00:12:24,578

 

Nathan Kress: And you know, laugh instead of cry, i guess,

 

 

 

369

 

00:12:24,598 --> 00:12:26,081

 

Nathan Kress: because otherwise it would just be too

 

 

 

370

 

00:12:26,262 --> 00:12:26,823

 

Nathan Kress: overwhelming.

 

 

 

371

 

00:12:26,950 --> 00:12:28,635

 

Nathan Kress: But yeah, i think we've just gotten to the

 

 

 

372

 

00:12:28,675 --> 00:12:30,540

 

Nathan Kress: point where we just don't take it so

 

 

 

373

 

00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,140

 

Nathan Kress: seriously, we don't take ourselves so

 

 

 

374

 

00:12:32,201 --> 00:12:32,706

 

Nathan Kress: seriously.

 

 

 

375

 

00:12:32,726 --> 00:12:34,693

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, Once they start elementary school it

 

 

 

376

 

00:12:34,754 --> 00:12:37,680

 

Marc Preston: kind of dials the storm, kind of calms a

 

 

 

377

 

00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:38,522

 

Marc Preston: little bit, you know.

 

 

 

378

 

00:12:39,150 --> 00:12:40,775

 

Marc Preston: But at least you've got both y'all both

 

 

 

379

 

00:12:40,915 --> 00:12:41,216

 

Marc Preston: kind of.

 

 

 

380

 

00:12:41,718 --> 00:12:43,051

 

Marc Preston: you know it's a team effort, you know

 

 

 

381

 

00:12:43,092 --> 00:12:44,451

 

Marc Preston: that's always good to hear, you know.

 

 

 

382

 

00:12:44,552 --> 00:12:46,558

 

Marc Preston: so that's that makes life for both y'all a

 

 

 

383

 

00:12:46,578 --> 00:12:47,120

 

Marc Preston: lot easier.

 

 

 

384

 

00:12:47,170 --> 00:12:48,034

 

Marc Preston: You know, are y'all living?

 

 

 

385

 

00:12:48,970 --> 00:12:50,817

 

Marc Preston: Do you have family out out in California as

 

 

 

386

 

00:12:50,857 --> 00:12:51,098

 

Marc Preston: well?

 

 

 

387

 

00:12:51,730 --> 00:12:53,877

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, my side of the family is basically

 

 

 

388

 

00:12:53,957 --> 00:12:56,432

 

Nathan Kress: all in California, so my parents are, you

 

 

 

389

 

00:12:56,452 --> 00:13:00,638

 

Nathan Kress: know, an hour away, close enough to come by

 

 

 

390

 

00:13:00,698 --> 00:13:03,623

 

Nathan Kress: if something crazy is happening, you know,

 

 

 

391

 

00:13:03,643 --> 00:13:05,085

 

Nathan Kress: and we need them in a pinch.

 

 

 

392

 

00:13:05,150 --> 00:13:09,361

 

Nathan Kress: And then my wife's dad flies for an airline

 

 

 

393

 

00:13:09,770 --> 00:13:12,659

 

Nathan Kress: So they fly, you know, on standby for free

 

 

 

394

 

00:13:12,699 --> 00:13:15,917

 

Nathan Kress: all the time So they're able to just come

 

 

 

395

 

00:13:16,017 --> 00:13:17,502

 

Nathan Kress: out, stay as long as they want.

 

 

 

396

 

00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:21,258

 

Nathan Kress: He can make LA his home base temporarily so

 

 

 

397

 

00:13:21,318 --> 00:13:23,683

 

Nathan Kress: he can keep working while they're here.

 

 

 

398

 

00:13:23,850 --> 00:13:25,938

 

Nathan Kress: And it's an amazing situation.

 

 

 

399

 

00:13:26,250 --> 00:13:27,133

 

Nathan Kress: Where is your family from?

 

 

 

400

 

00:13:27,174 --> 00:13:28,679

 

Nathan Kress: originally Michigan, michigan.

 

 

 

401

 

00:13:28,810 --> 00:13:29,895

 

Marc Preston: That's where we started this film.

 

 

 

402

 

00:13:29,950 --> 00:13:31,295

 

Nathan Kress: That's yeah, that's where they're all from

 

 

 

403

 

00:13:31,335 --> 00:13:32,358

 

Nathan Kress: and they're still based out of.

 

 

 

404

 

00:13:32,850 --> 00:13:35,337

 

Nathan Kress: She's the oldest of four sisters, and all

 

 

 

405

 

00:13:35,357 --> 00:13:36,900

 

Nathan Kress: of the sisters are in different states

 

 

 

406

 

00:13:37,101 --> 00:13:39,895

 

Nathan Kress: right now, and then they go from Michigan

 

 

 

407

 

00:13:39,935 --> 00:13:42,661

 

Nathan Kress: and just fly around to wherever any of the

 

 

 

408

 

00:13:42,842 --> 00:13:43,623

 

Nathan Kress: the siblings are.

 

 

 

409

 

00:13:43,750 --> 00:13:46,199

 

Nathan Kress: So we're we're the only ones with kids

 

 

 

410

 

00:13:46,239 --> 00:13:48,434

 

Nathan Kress: right now, so we get to monopolize a little

 

 

 

411

 

00:13:48,454 --> 00:13:50,118

 

Nathan Kress: bit of the grandparents support, which is

 

 

 

412

 

00:13:50,859 --> 00:13:51,140

 

Nathan Kress: awesome.

 

 

 

413

 

00:13:52,730 --> 00:13:55,017

 

Nathan Kress: So, yeah, we great family support, great

 

 

 

414

 

00:13:55,137 --> 00:13:58,056

 

Nathan Kress: neighbors, friends We're very, very lucky.

 

 

 

415

 

00:13:58,351 --> 00:14:01,230

 

Nathan Kress: We're definitely not on an island, that's

 

 

 

416

 

00:14:01,271 --> 00:14:01,631

 

Nathan Kress: for sure.

 

 

 

417

 

00:14:08,907 --> 00:14:10,350

 

Marc Preston: What were your days like when you were

 

 

 

418

 

00:14:10,390 --> 00:14:10,651

 

Marc Preston: filming?

 

 

 

419

 

00:14:10,731 --> 00:14:13,998

 

Nathan Kress: I, carly As a kid on the original or now.

 

 

 

420

 

00:14:15,082 --> 00:14:16,506

 

Marc Preston: Oh, no, no, no, i'm sorry, like right now

 

 

 

421

 

00:14:17,127 --> 00:14:19,172

 

Marc Preston: the recent episodes, because your

 

 

 

422

 

00:14:19,212 --> 00:14:20,856

 

Marc Preston: production schedule when you're doing TV

 

 

 

423

 

00:14:21,398 --> 00:14:23,103

 

Marc Preston: that's a big chunk of your day, and when

 

 

 

424

 

00:14:23,123 --> 00:14:25,413

 

Marc Preston: you come home you're wanting to decompress.

 

 

 

425

 

00:14:25,433 --> 00:14:26,678

 

Marc Preston: But you're coming home and you're right in

 

 

 

426

 

00:14:26,718 --> 00:14:27,079

 

Marc Preston: it again.

 

 

 

427

 

00:14:27,099 --> 00:14:27,280

 

Marc Preston: You know.

 

 

 

428

 

00:14:27,601 --> 00:14:28,344

 

Announcer: So, was it taxing?

 

 

 

429

 

00:14:28,404 --> 00:14:30,031

 

Marc Preston: at all Having small children at home while

 

 

 

430

 

00:14:30,091 --> 00:14:31,216

 

Marc Preston: you're filming a show.

 

 

 

431

 

00:14:33,341 --> 00:14:34,283

 

Nathan Kress: Yes, it is.

 

 

 

432

 

00:14:34,523 --> 00:14:40,311

 

Nathan Kress: It juggling the desire to want to disengage

 

 

 

433

 

00:14:40,631 --> 00:14:43,054

 

Nathan Kress: and be fully present with them and not

 

 

 

434

 

00:14:43,094 --> 00:14:45,317

 

Nathan Kress: distracted in the midst of a production

 

 

 

435

 

00:14:45,357 --> 00:14:48,082

 

Nathan Kress: cycle is a constant struggle, and

 

 

 

436

 

00:14:48,402 --> 00:14:49,365

 

Nathan Kress: especially when they're young.

 

 

 

437

 

00:14:49,505 --> 00:14:50,988

 

Nathan Kress: A lot of the time they were going to bed

 

 

 

438

 

00:14:51,129 --> 00:14:52,993

 

Nathan Kress: before I even got home.

 

 

 

439

 

00:14:53,621 --> 00:14:55,584

 

Nathan Kress: But I will say the massive ups.

 

 

 

440

 

00:14:55,724 --> 00:14:59,010

 

Nathan Kress: I'm so grateful that right now my career

 

 

 

441

 

00:14:59,070 --> 00:15:00,532

 

Nathan Kress: has me at a place where I'm doing a

 

 

 

442

 

00:15:00,752 --> 00:15:04,422

 

Nathan Kress: multi-cam sitcom, because if you know

 

 

 

443

 

00:15:04,782 --> 00:15:08,646

 

Nathan Kress: production schedules at all, it is the best,

 

 

 

444

 

00:15:08,947 --> 00:15:12,070

 

Nathan Kress: most relaxed, most consistent and most

 

 

 

445

 

00:15:12,290 --> 00:15:15,874

 

Nathan Kress: normal work schedule of any television

 

 

 

446

 

00:15:16,034 --> 00:15:18,296

 

Nathan Kress: project or movie for that matter that you

 

 

 

447

 

00:15:18,336 --> 00:15:21,645

 

Nathan Kress: could ever do, because you're only

 

 

 

448

 

00:15:21,765 --> 00:15:24,070

 

Nathan Kress: rehearsing two to three days a week and

 

 

 

449

 

00:15:24,110 --> 00:15:26,274

 

Nathan Kress: then shooting the other two or three days.

 

 

 

450

 

00:15:26,541 --> 00:15:29,207

 

Nathan Kress: So rehearsals are maybe eight hours long.

 

 

 

451

 

00:15:29,348 --> 00:15:31,613

 

Nathan Kress: So I have kind of a typical nine to five,

 

 

 

452

 

00:15:31,814 --> 00:15:33,719

 

Nathan Kress: and then my last two days of the week are

 

 

 

453

 

00:15:33,739 --> 00:15:34,280

 

Nathan Kress: longer.

 

 

 

454

 

00:15:34,967 --> 00:15:36,280

 

Nathan Kress: And how many episodes did y'all shoot?

 

 

 

455

 

00:15:37,362 --> 00:15:40,086

 

Nathan Kress: We did 13 in the first season and then,

 

 

 

456

 

00:15:40,927 --> 00:15:42,650

 

Nathan Kress: right after that, i think, paramount made

 

 

 

457

 

00:15:42,670 --> 00:15:44,212

 

Nathan Kress: the call that all of their shows were going

 

 

 

458

 

00:15:44,232 --> 00:15:46,135

 

Nathan Kress: to be capped at 10 episodes per season.

 

 

 

459

 

00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:46,601

 

Marc Preston: Really.

 

 

 

460

 

00:15:46,641 --> 00:15:49,147

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, I know some shows have bumped down to

 

 

 

461

 

00:15:49,267 --> 00:15:51,453

 

Marc Preston: eight and I think my son and I just got

 

 

 

462

 

00:15:51,473 --> 00:15:53,618

 

Marc Preston: done watching a series that was even just

 

 

 

463

 

00:15:53,658 --> 00:15:54,280

 

Marc Preston: six episodes.

 

 

 

464

 

00:15:55,027 --> 00:15:56,280

 

Marc Preston: That wasn't really satisfying enough.

 

 

 

465

 

00:15:56,621 --> 00:16:00,189

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, it's a difficult casualty from the

 

 

 

466

 

00:16:00,289 --> 00:16:03,863

 

Nathan Kress: streaming service model You used to, even

 

 

 

467

 

00:16:03,903 --> 00:16:05,045

 

Nathan Kress: for multi-cam sitcoms.

 

 

 

468

 

00:16:05,085 --> 00:16:10,073

 

Nathan Kress: You had a 22, 26 episode run and you got to

 

 

 

469

 

00:16:10,113 --> 00:16:11,736

 

Nathan Kress: really flesh out the stories and do

 

 

 

470

 

00:16:11,756 --> 00:16:12,898

 

Nathan Kress: different stuff with the characters and

 

 

 

471

 

00:16:12,938 --> 00:16:15,882

 

Nathan Kress: have longer arcs And we've had to really

 

 

 

472

 

00:16:16,023 --> 00:16:21,671

 

Nathan Kress: truncate these characters and do things a

 

 

 

473

 

00:16:21,731 --> 00:16:23,674

 

Nathan Kress: little bit faster than maybe we would have

 

 

 

474

 

00:16:23,694 --> 00:16:24,135

 

Nathan Kress: wanted to.

 

 

 

475

 

00:16:25,081 --> 00:16:26,364

 

Nathan Kress: You really hit your groove at around

 

 

 

476

 

00:16:26,444 --> 00:16:30,071

 

Nathan Kress: episode nine or ten and it stinks that.

 

 

 

477

 

00:16:30,091 --> 00:16:31,874

 

Nathan Kress: That's now right when the season ends.

 

 

 

478

 

00:16:33,223 --> 00:16:35,029

 

Nathan Kress: So it's a little bit of a bummer.

 

 

 

479

 

00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:37,365

 

Nathan Kress: But fortunately we had the benefit of an

 

 

 

480

 

00:16:37,445 --> 00:16:41,235

 

Nathan Kress: entire show's worth of lore and character

 

 

 

481

 

00:16:41,295 --> 00:16:42,859

 

Nathan Kress: development to build off of something, and

 

 

 

482

 

00:16:42,879 --> 00:16:44,553

 

Nathan Kress: it already existed, so we didn't have to

 

 

 

483

 

00:16:44,613 --> 00:16:45,280

 

Nathan Kress: start completely fresh.

 

 

 

484

 

00:16:47,726 --> 00:16:49,150

 

Nathan Kress: So we had something going for us where we

 

 

 

485

 

00:16:49,170 --> 00:16:51,115

 

Nathan Kress: could hit the ground running, maybe more

 

 

 

486

 

00:16:51,155 --> 00:16:53,280

 

Nathan Kress: than a brand new show with totally new IP.

 

 

 

487

 

00:16:54,062 --> 00:16:56,707

 

Marc Preston: Well, that brings up the question of here

 

 

 

488

 

00:16:56,767 --> 00:16:59,492

 

Marc Preston: you are doing a show with folks you have

 

 

 

489

 

00:16:59,553 --> 00:17:00,855

 

Marc Preston: acted with before.

 

 

 

490

 

00:17:01,296 --> 00:17:02,538

 

Marc Preston: Was there a shorthand, was there an ease?

 

 

 

491

 

00:17:02,559 --> 00:17:03,260

 

Marc Preston: Could you ease back into it?

 

 

 

492

 

00:17:03,803 --> 00:17:07,240

 

Marc Preston: Or was everybody's life in your 2023?

 

 

 

493

 

00:17:08,229 --> 00:17:09,280

 

Marc Preston: Was their life so different?

 

 

 

494

 

00:17:09,802 --> 00:17:11,429

 

Marc Preston: Was it kind of like meeting them for the

 

 

 

495

 

00:17:11,449 --> 00:17:13,176

 

Marc Preston: first time again or working with them for

 

 

 

496

 

00:17:13,196 --> 00:17:14,240

 

Marc Preston: the first time again, in a way?

 

 

 

497

 

00:17:17,031 --> 00:17:19,059

 

Nathan Kress: I was a little nervous about that at the

 

 

 

498

 

00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:19,280

 

Nathan Kress: beginning.

 

 

 

499

 

00:17:20,082 --> 00:17:21,746

 

Nathan Kress: I wasn't sure if it would be like riding a

 

 

 

500

 

00:17:21,766 --> 00:17:23,390

 

Nathan Kress: bike or if it was going to be very awkward

 

 

 

501

 

00:17:23,450 --> 00:17:23,952

 

Nathan Kress: and clunky.

 

 

 

502

 

00:17:24,822 --> 00:17:25,203

 

Nathan Kress: Then it was.

 

 

 

503

 

00:17:25,303 --> 00:17:26,909

 

Nathan Kress: You know what is the expectation?

 

 

 

504

 

00:17:27,701 --> 00:17:30,166

 

Nathan Kress: Is the network going to be disappointed in

 

 

 

505

 

00:17:30,267 --> 00:17:34,376

 

Nathan Kress: us if it's not the same kind of snappy

 

 

 

506

 

00:17:34,476 --> 00:17:36,260

 

Nathan Kress: chemistry and magic that there was before,

 

 

 

507

 

00:17:36,841 --> 00:17:42,168

 

Nathan Kress: but luckily I mean other than the kind of

 

 

 

508

 

00:17:42,248 --> 00:17:44,671

 

Nathan Kress: understandable freshman jitters of figuring

 

 

 

509

 

00:17:44,851 --> 00:17:47,255

 

Nathan Kress: out, you know, are we taking our characters

 

 

 

510

 

00:17:47,295 --> 00:17:48,136

 

Nathan Kress: in the right direction?

 

 

 

511

 

00:17:48,380 --> 00:17:50,044

 

Nathan Kress: I think the nerves were more on the

 

 

 

512

 

00:17:50,124 --> 00:17:52,549

 

Nathan Kress: individual of you know.

 

 

 

513

 

00:17:52,690 --> 00:17:54,073

 

Nathan Kress: Are we doing the right thing?

 

 

 

514

 

00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:55,947

 

Nathan Kress: Are we doing our characters justice?

 

 

 

515

 

00:17:56,922 --> 00:17:59,420

 

Nathan Kress: Is it enough like how it used to be, but is

 

 

 

516

 

00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,526

 

Nathan Kress: it also new enough at the same time?

 

 

 

517

 

00:18:01,667 --> 00:18:04,303

 

Nathan Kress: finding that balance, that was the part

 

 

 

518

 

00:18:04,344 --> 00:18:05,447

 

Nathan Kress: that was more nerve-wracking.

 

 

 

519

 

00:18:06,340 --> 00:18:09,325

 

Nathan Kress: But once we all got in the same room by the

 

 

 

520

 

00:18:09,365 --> 00:18:10,988

 

Nathan Kress: end of the first day, it was just.

 

 

 

521

 

00:18:11,969 --> 00:18:14,834

 

Nathan Kress: It just felt exactly like how it felt.

 

 

 

522

 

00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:18,389

 

Nathan Kress: It was like putting on a cozy blanket.

 

 

 

523

 

00:18:18,910 --> 00:18:23,011

 

Nathan Kress: You know It's a safe place for me, honestly,

 

 

 

524

 

00:18:23,460 --> 00:18:25,303

 

Nathan Kress: it's just a place with people that I know

 

 

 

525

 

00:18:25,343 --> 00:18:29,569

 

Nathan Kress: and love, who we all care so much about the

 

 

 

526

 

00:18:29,629 --> 00:18:32,854

 

Nathan Kress: show and are so collaborative in the

 

 

 

527

 

00:18:32,894 --> 00:18:33,374

 

Nathan Kress: process.

 

 

 

528

 

00:18:35,763 --> 00:18:38,970

 

Nathan Kress: Miranda is an executive producer and holds

 

 

 

529

 

00:18:39,071 --> 00:18:41,917

 

Nathan Kress: a ton of creative control, but she doesn't

 

 

 

530

 

00:18:42,478 --> 00:18:43,240

 

Nathan Kress: hold that over anyone.

 

 

 

531

 

00:18:44,083 --> 00:18:45,808

 

Nathan Kress: It's very much a team effort and we have a

 

 

 

532

 

00:18:45,969 --> 00:18:48,939

 

Nathan Kress: lot of conversations about the best ways

 

 

 

533

 

00:18:48,959 --> 00:18:51,424

 

Nathan Kress: forward And everybody's opinion is welcome.

 

 

 

534

 

00:18:51,565 --> 00:18:55,272

 

Nathan Kress: Our writers are so, so collaborative and

 

 

 

535

 

00:18:55,312 --> 00:18:56,962

 

Nathan Kress: welcoming to that And we're so thankful for

 

 

 

536

 

00:18:57,002 --> 00:18:58,507

 

Nathan Kress: that, because a lot of shows are not that

 

 

 

537

 

00:18:58,568 --> 00:18:59,190

 

Nathan Kress: way, you know.

 

 

 

538

 

00:18:59,701 --> 00:19:01,204

 

Nathan Kress: But I think they have some trust in us

 

 

 

539

 

00:19:01,344 --> 00:19:04,070

 

Nathan Kress: being the voices of those characters for so

 

 

 

540

 

00:19:04,130 --> 00:19:06,582

 

Nathan Kress: long and knowing what Well, that's the

 

 

 

541

 

00:19:06,602 --> 00:19:08,273

 

Nathan Kress: beauty of TV, you know.

 

 

 

542

 

00:19:08,454 --> 00:19:10,143

 

Marc Preston: Especially with series, You're rotating

 

 

 

543

 

00:19:10,184 --> 00:19:11,167

 

Marc Preston: directors regularly.

 

 

 

544

 

00:19:11,501 --> 00:19:14,409

 

Marc Preston: You really take ownership of the character

 

 

 

545

 

00:19:14,489 --> 00:19:15,091

 

Marc Preston: after a while.

 

 

 

546

 

00:19:15,983 --> 00:19:17,460

 

Nathan Kress: Right, and it's all new director And

 

 

 

547

 

00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,566

 

Nathan Kress: basically the only people who came over,

 

 

 

548

 

00:19:21,367 --> 00:19:23,952

 

Nathan Kress: even on the creative side, were Miranda,

 

 

 

549

 

00:19:23,992 --> 00:19:27,304

 

Nathan Kress: Jerry and I, The showrunner, the writers,

 

 

 

550

 

00:19:28,166 --> 00:19:30,791

 

Nathan Kress: everybody is brand new.

 

 

 

551

 

00:19:33,542 --> 00:19:36,948

 

Nathan Kress: So that is where I think they relied on us

 

 

 

552

 

00:19:37,028 --> 00:19:40,333

 

Nathan Kress: a little bit and trusted us to sort of

 

 

 

553

 

00:19:40,474 --> 00:19:42,103

 

Nathan Kress: steer the ship, at least for ourselves

 

 

 

554

 

00:19:42,203 --> 00:19:44,330

 

Nathan Kress: individually and then together as a whole,

 

 

 

555

 

00:19:44,410 --> 00:19:45,996

 

Nathan Kress: when we would put our heads together and

 

 

 

556

 

00:19:46,056 --> 00:19:46,758

 

Nathan Kress: collaborate on.

 

 

 

557

 

00:19:46,778 --> 00:19:49,394

 

Nathan Kress: You know, does this feel like I, Carly, or

 

 

 

558

 

00:19:49,434 --> 00:19:49,978

 

Nathan Kress: not, you know?

 

 

 

559

 

00:19:50,941 --> 00:19:54,847

 

Nathan Kress: So we're again, just I'm so, so grateful

 

 

 

560

 

00:19:54,907 --> 00:19:57,872

 

Nathan Kress: for our writing team just being willing to

 

 

 

561

 

00:19:58,473 --> 00:19:59,674

 

Nathan Kress: have that conversation.

 

 

 

562

 

00:19:59,875 --> 00:20:01,603

 

Nathan Kress: You know, Because we're in a very unique

 

 

 

563

 

00:20:02,224 --> 00:20:04,929

 

Nathan Kress: spot where no other show has really done

 

 

 

564

 

00:20:04,949 --> 00:20:06,452

 

Nathan Kress: this, where it's an honest to goodness,

 

 

 

565

 

00:20:06,492 --> 00:20:09,966

 

Nathan Kress: kids show that transition to an adult show

 

 

 

566

 

00:20:10,086 --> 00:20:12,852

 

Nathan Kress: with a lot of the same characters and not

 

 

 

567

 

00:20:12,932 --> 00:20:15,627

 

Nathan Kress: just oh, we're rebooting it and they're old

 

 

 

568

 

00:20:15,687 --> 00:20:17,742

 

Nathan Kress: now, but it's about the kids, It's the next

 

 

 

569

 

00:20:17,802 --> 00:20:18,905

 

Nathan Kress: generation, you know.

 

 

 

570

 

00:20:20,641 --> 00:20:23,529

 

Nathan Kress: That, I feel like, is the traditional model,

 

 

 

571

 

00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:26,708

 

Nathan Kress: But we just kept going.

 

 

 

572

 

00:20:27,641 --> 00:20:29,806

 

Nathan Kress: So there's different needs.

 

 

 

573

 

00:20:30,327 --> 00:20:32,732

 

Nathan Kress: I think, creatively in a show like that,

 

 

 

574

 

00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,423

 

Nathan Kress: Being able to help out and kind of be at

 

 

 

575

 

00:20:35,463 --> 00:20:39,028

 

Nathan Kress: the forefront has been just so, so great

 

 

 

576

 

00:20:39,188 --> 00:20:43,794

 

Nathan Kress: and fulfilling to be able to be involved in

 

 

 

577

 

00:20:43,874 --> 00:20:44,855

 

Nathan Kress: bringing this to the fans.

 

 

 

578

 

00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:47,280

 

Marc Preston: Now, which streamer is this going to be on?

 

 

 

579

 

00:20:47,581 --> 00:20:50,728

 

Nathan Kress: This is on Paramount Plus, which also has

 

 

 

580

 

00:20:50,928 --> 00:20:52,892

 

Nathan Kress: all of the episodes of the old show as well

 

 

 

581

 

00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,017

 

Nathan Kress: 2007,.

 

 

 

582

 

00:20:55,139 --> 00:20:55,260

 

Marc Preston: Right?

 

 

 

583

 

00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,963

 

Marc Preston: Was that the original air Doing this?

 

 

 

584

 

00:21:00,326 --> 00:21:00,567

 

Marc Preston: is it?

 

 

 

585

 

00:21:00,967 --> 00:21:02,370

 

Marc Preston: do you have this kind of sensation where

 

 

 

586

 

00:21:02,390 --> 00:21:04,735

 

Marc Preston: you want to bounce back into something new,

 

 

 

587

 

00:21:04,855 --> 00:21:06,679

 

Marc Preston: something adult, something you know, or

 

 

 

588

 

00:21:06,719 --> 00:21:08,629

 

Marc Preston: more adult, let's say, or are you kind of

 

 

 

589

 

00:21:08,689 --> 00:21:09,978

 

Marc Preston: enjoying this moment and kind of want to

 

 

 

590

 

00:21:09,998 --> 00:21:10,280

 

Marc Preston: stick with it?

 

 

 

591

 

00:21:11,182 --> 00:21:12,504

 

Marc Preston: You mentioned creatively?

 

 

 

592

 

00:21:12,565 --> 00:21:13,827

 

Marc Preston: is this something where you want to be

 

 

 

593

 

00:21:13,867 --> 00:21:15,290

 

Marc Preston: doing this for a while, or are you kind of

 

 

 

594

 

00:21:15,310 --> 00:21:16,873

 

Marc Preston: want to put something different in the mix?

 

 

 

595

 

00:21:18,642 --> 00:21:22,507

 

Nathan Kress: It's so hard to say because, again, I love

 

 

 

596

 

00:21:22,588 --> 00:21:25,792

 

Nathan Kress: this show so much and I love that we're

 

 

 

597

 

00:21:25,892 --> 00:21:28,861

 

Nathan Kress: able to keep these characters going And I

 

 

 

598

 

00:21:28,901 --> 00:21:30,524

 

Nathan Kress: think there's a lot of story left,

 

 

 

599

 

00:21:30,585 --> 00:21:32,308

 

Nathan Kress: especially with how things are going to

 

 

 

600

 

00:21:32,328 --> 00:21:34,292

 

Nathan Kress: change for the characters in the third

 

 

 

601

 

00:21:34,372 --> 00:21:40,765

 

Nathan Kress: season, For the fact that it's something

 

 

 

602

 

00:21:41,005 --> 00:21:47,670

 

Nathan Kress: that people loved as kids and I would like

 

 

 

603

 

00:21:47,931 --> 00:21:49,312

 

Nathan Kress: nine times out of ten.

 

 

 

604

 

00:21:49,472 --> 00:21:51,574

 

Nathan Kress: The reaction for people who have actually

 

 

 

605

 

00:21:51,674 --> 00:21:55,177

 

Nathan Kress: seen the new show is that they feel that

 

 

 

606

 

00:21:55,217 --> 00:21:56,157

 

Nathan Kress: we've done it justice.

 

 

 

607

 

00:21:57,101 --> 00:21:58,865

 

Nathan Kress: It's the same enough but different enough

 

 

 

608

 

00:21:58,945 --> 00:22:00,127

 

Nathan Kress: to keep them engaged.

 

 

 

609

 

00:22:00,588 --> 00:22:02,712

 

Nathan Kress: We want to keep that going and keep telling

 

 

 

610

 

00:22:02,732 --> 00:22:04,675

 

Nathan Kress: that story for essentially as long as we're

 

 

 

611

 

00:22:04,715 --> 00:22:06,979

 

Nathan Kress: welcome, you know, and as long as people

 

 

 

612

 

00:22:06,999 --> 00:22:07,280

 

Nathan Kress: keep liking it.

 

 

 

613

 

00:22:07,882 --> 00:22:10,048

 

Nathan Kress: So I could see doing this for a long time

 

 

 

614

 

00:22:10,148 --> 00:22:12,154

 

Nathan Kress: and then, selfishly, like I said before,

 

 

 

615

 

00:22:12,455 --> 00:22:13,999

 

Nathan Kress: it's the best schedule ever if you want to

 

 

 

616

 

00:22:14,019 --> 00:22:14,280

 

Nathan Kress: have a family.

 

 

 

617

 

00:22:15,041 --> 00:22:17,365

 

Nathan Kress: So while the kids are young, I can have

 

 

 

618

 

00:22:17,425 --> 00:22:19,388

 

Nathan Kress: consistent hours and I'm not in Vancouver

 

 

 

619

 

00:22:19,428 --> 00:22:22,593

 

Nathan Kress: doing night shoots in spandex, you know, as

 

 

 

620

 

00:22:22,773 --> 00:22:26,462

 

Nathan Kress: a superhero, And that would be so cool in

 

 

 

621

 

00:22:26,502 --> 00:22:27,083

 

Nathan Kress: its own way.

 

 

 

622

 

00:22:27,283 --> 00:22:30,787

 

Nathan Kress: But in the real life Nathan Kress phase

 

 

 

623

 

00:22:30,807 --> 00:22:33,450

 

Nathan Kress: that I'm in right now with young kids, this

 

 

 

624

 

00:22:33,570 --> 00:22:37,034

 

Nathan Kress: is the best balance for a work life

 

 

 

625

 

00:22:37,494 --> 00:22:38,035

 

Nathan Kress: engagement.

 

 

 

626

 

00:22:38,235 --> 00:22:39,981

 

Marc Preston: Icarly was originally a Nickelodeon show,

 

 

 

627

 

00:22:40,001 --> 00:22:40,362

 

Marc Preston: correct?

 

 

 

628

 

00:22:40,863 --> 00:22:41,044

 

Nathan Kress: Yes.

 

 

 

629

 

00:22:41,445 --> 00:22:42,921

 

Nathan Kress: OK, And technically they're still involved

 

 

 

630

 

00:22:43,156 --> 00:22:44,020

 

Nathan Kress: at the studio level.

 

 

 

631

 

00:22:44,155 --> 00:22:45,561

 

Nathan Kress: So the executives and stuff that we're

 

 

 

632

 

00:22:45,581 --> 00:22:48,381

 

Nathan Kress: working with are people that I've known for

 

 

 

633

 

00:22:48,963 --> 00:22:51,278

 

Nathan Kress: years and years, including just being a

 

 

 

634

 

00:22:51,338 --> 00:22:54,036

 

Nathan Kress: director on other Nickelodeon shows after

 

 

 

635

 

00:22:54,096 --> 00:22:56,162

 

Nathan Kress: Icarly ended, where those are people that I

 

 

 

636

 

00:22:56,283 --> 00:22:57,526

 

Nathan Kress: interacted with frequently.

 

 

 

637

 

00:22:57,978 --> 00:23:00,115

 

Marc Preston: What creatively do you want to if you're

 

 

 

638

 

00:23:00,175 --> 00:23:01,622

 

Marc Preston: looking five years down the road?

 

 

 

639

 

00:23:01,655 --> 00:23:02,980

 

Marc Preston: what kind of things would you like to be

 

 

 

640

 

00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,120

 

Marc Preston: doing if it's different than this?

 

 

 

641

 

00:23:05,315 --> 00:23:07,824

 

Marc Preston: What kind of film are you more directing,

 

 

 

642

 

00:23:07,915 --> 00:23:08,518

 

Marc Preston: or maybe writing?

 

 

 

643

 

00:23:09,221 --> 00:23:09,442

 

Nathan Kress: Right.

 

 

 

644

 

00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:13,326

 

Nathan Kress: So first off, yeah, on the directing side,

 

 

 

645

 

00:23:13,415 --> 00:23:15,503

 

Nathan Kress: i've been directing since 2014.

 

 

 

646

 

00:23:15,555 --> 00:23:17,904

 

Nathan Kress: So I've done about 20 episodes of TV,

 

 

 

647

 

00:23:18,095 --> 00:23:19,600

 

Nathan Kress: including several episodes of the new

 

 

 

648

 

00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:20,443

 

Nathan Kress: Icarly.

 

 

 

649

 

00:23:21,335 --> 00:23:23,002

 

Nathan Kress: So I definitely want to keep doing that.

 

 

 

650

 

00:23:23,095 --> 00:23:25,398

 

Nathan Kress: I love directing Multicam, growing up on it.

 

 

 

651

 

00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,466

 

Nathan Kress: It's really difficult to learn how to do.

 

 

 

652

 

00:23:28,675 --> 00:23:31,315

 

Nathan Kress: You kind of have to just be around it and

 

 

 

653

 

00:23:31,355 --> 00:23:32,841

 

Nathan Kress: have experience with it to know how.

 

 

 

654

 

00:23:32,881 --> 00:23:34,618

 

Nathan Kress: There's no class, there's no film school

 

 

 

655

 

00:23:34,658 --> 00:23:35,220

 

Nathan Kress: you can go to.

 

 

 

656

 

00:23:35,260 --> 00:23:37,499

 

Nathan Kress: for Multicam, is that easier or more

 

 

 

657

 

00:23:37,519 --> 00:23:37,940

 

Nathan Kress: difficult?

 

 

 

658

 

00:23:37,981 --> 00:23:38,262

 

Nathan Kress: for you?

 

 

 

659

 

00:23:39,177 --> 00:23:42,180

 

Nathan Kress: It's a lot more difficult Because with

 

 

 

660

 

00:23:42,341 --> 00:23:44,878

 

Nathan Kress: Singlecam you just know I'm going to get my

 

 

 

661

 

00:23:45,018 --> 00:23:47,036

 

Nathan Kress: wides, my tights, my mediums and maybe a

 

 

 

662

 

00:23:47,097 --> 00:23:47,760

 

Nathan Kress: couple crosses.

 

 

 

663

 

00:23:48,415 --> 00:23:53,618

 

Nathan Kress: With Multicam, it's a dialect, it's like a

 

 

 

664

 

00:23:53,779 --> 00:23:56,053

 

Nathan Kress: language, and you're not totally by

 

 

 

665

 

00:23:56,073 --> 00:23:56,235

 

Nathan Kress: yourself.

 

 

 

666

 

00:23:56,476 --> 00:23:57,841

 

Nathan Kress: You're working with an associate director,

 

 

 

667

 

00:23:57,862 --> 00:24:00,342

 

Nathan Kress: a camera coordinator, who will sit down

 

 

 

668

 

00:24:00,362 --> 00:24:03,141

 

Nathan Kress: with you and say OK, so a B camera is going

 

 

 

669

 

00:24:03,161 --> 00:24:05,260

 

Nathan Kress: to have a single here, but after this actor

 

 

 

670

 

00:24:05,300 --> 00:24:06,798

 

Nathan Kress: says this line, it's going to pan over here

 

 

 

671

 

00:24:06,818 --> 00:24:10,122

 

Nathan Kress: and get this two shot, while X goes to that

 

 

 

672

 

00:24:10,222 --> 00:24:11,577

 

Nathan Kress: character because they're going to cross

 

 

 

673

 

00:24:11,657 --> 00:24:12,099

 

Nathan Kress: over here.

 

 

 

674

 

00:24:12,675 --> 00:24:16,986

 

Nathan Kress: So Multicam has this hybrid of television

 

 

 

675

 

00:24:17,026 --> 00:24:20,022

 

Nathan Kress: and theater where you're staging it on a

 

 

 

676

 

00:24:20,082 --> 00:24:21,957

 

Nathan Kress: set with a proscenium where you only have

 

 

 

677

 

00:24:22,118 --> 00:24:24,336

 

Nathan Kress: three walls and then the audience is the

 

 

 

678

 

00:24:24,356 --> 00:24:25,862

 

Nathan Kress: fourth wall, like a theater set.

 

 

 

679

 

00:24:26,375 --> 00:24:28,843

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, it sounds like have a visual ballet a

 

 

 

680

 

00:24:28,903 --> 00:24:29,245

 

Marc Preston: little bit.

 

 

 

681

 

00:24:29,375 --> 00:24:30,701

 

Marc Preston: Yes absolutely.

 

 

 

682

 

00:24:31,116 --> 00:24:33,997

 

Nathan Kress: It's very, very intricate Because the

 

 

 

683

 

00:24:34,138 --> 00:24:36,505

 

Nathan Kress: audience if you're one person with one pair

 

 

 

684

 

00:24:36,545 --> 00:24:38,161

 

Nathan Kress: of eyes, you can see the whole stage at one

 

 

 

685

 

00:24:38,201 --> 00:24:38,381

 

Nathan Kress: time.

 

 

 

686

 

00:24:38,435 --> 00:24:39,580

 

Nathan Kress: You're able to watch whatever you want to

 

 

 

687

 

00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,682

 

Nathan Kress: watch, but you basically have four

 

 

 

688

 

00:24:42,742 --> 00:24:45,601

 

Nathan Kress: perspectives that you can take at any given

 

 

 

689

 

00:24:45,662 --> 00:24:45,943

 

Nathan Kress: time.

 

 

 

690

 

00:24:46,115 --> 00:24:48,142

 

Nathan Kress: But if you have a scene with nine people in

 

 

 

691

 

00:24:48,182 --> 00:24:50,395

 

Nathan Kress: it, you can't just put them all together.

 

 

 

692

 

00:24:50,475 --> 00:24:51,921

 

Nathan Kress: They're going to be all on different sides

 

 

 

693

 

00:24:51,961 --> 00:24:52,343

 

Nathan Kress: of the room.

 

 

 

694

 

00:24:52,555 --> 00:24:58,307

 

Nathan Kress: So there is a lot of math that has to be

 

 

 

695

 

00:24:58,367 --> 00:25:01,143

 

Nathan Kress: done And it's a really tough skill to learn.

 

 

 

696

 

00:25:01,416 --> 00:25:03,062

 

Nathan Kress: And those guys those camera coordinators

 

 

 

697

 

00:25:03,082 --> 00:25:06,042

 

Nathan Kress: and associate directors they've been camera

 

 

 

698

 

00:25:06,122 --> 00:25:09,081

 

Nathan Kress: operators since the 90s on home improvement

 

 

 

699

 

00:25:09,656 --> 00:25:11,201

 

Nathan Kress: And they're the audience switchers for a

 

 

 

700

 

00:25:11,281 --> 00:25:12,305

 

Nathan Kress: live audience show.

 

 

 

701

 

00:25:12,615 --> 00:25:14,496

 

Nathan Kress: So they've been doing live edits And they

 

 

 

702

 

00:25:14,596 --> 00:25:16,459

 

Nathan Kress: know the language, they know what needs to

 

 

 

703

 

00:25:16,519 --> 00:25:17,041

 

Nathan Kress: happen when.

 

 

 

704

 

00:25:17,175 --> 00:25:19,343

 

Nathan Kress: So there's various ways into the field.

 

 

 

705

 

00:25:19,515 --> 00:25:23,566

 

Nathan Kress: There are pretty few pure actors who

 

 

 

706

 

00:25:23,835 --> 00:25:25,775

 

Nathan Kress: transition into Multicam directing, but

 

 

 

707

 

00:25:25,795 --> 00:25:28,877

 

Nathan Kress: there are several And I've really really

 

 

 

708

 

00:25:28,958 --> 00:25:32,499

 

Nathan Kress: enjoyed learning from them Because we share

 

 

 

709

 

00:25:32,519 --> 00:25:34,980

 

Nathan Kress: similar perspectives as the actors director,

 

 

 

710

 

00:25:35,895 --> 00:25:37,280

 

Nathan Kress: so I definitely wanted to do that.

 

 

 

711

 

00:25:38,355 --> 00:25:40,196

 

Nathan Kress: I'm producing on the show now too, which

 

 

 

712

 

00:25:40,216 --> 00:25:42,738

 

Nathan Kress: has given me a really good look at the nuts

 

 

 

713

 

00:25:42,778 --> 00:25:46,716

 

Nathan Kress: and bolts of how a production is done, and

 

 

 

714

 

00:25:46,797 --> 00:25:48,235

 

Nathan Kress: being involved in that has been awesome And

 

 

 

715

 

00:25:48,296 --> 00:25:50,237

 

Nathan Kress: that's something that I would want to do on

 

 

 

716

 

00:25:50,318 --> 00:25:51,803

 

Nathan Kress: any show that I act on.

 

 

 

717

 

00:25:52,575 --> 00:25:54,476

 

Nathan Kress: But as far as the acting stuff goes, i

 

 

 

718

 

00:25:54,756 --> 00:25:56,922

 

Nathan Kress: honestly would love to take a completely

 

 

 

719

 

00:25:57,643 --> 00:25:58,706

 

Nathan Kress: different approach.

 

 

 

720

 

00:25:59,737 --> 00:26:00,560

 

Nathan Kress: I love comedy.

 

 

 

721

 

00:26:01,015 --> 00:26:01,940

 

Nathan Kress: I love Multicam.

 

 

 

722

 

00:26:02,938 --> 00:26:05,396

 

Nathan Kress: If you could tell me right now you could be

 

 

 

723

 

00:26:05,517 --> 00:26:07,323

 

Nathan Kress: on a Multicam show for the rest of your

 

 

 

724

 

00:26:07,363 --> 00:26:09,296

 

Nathan Kress: life And everyone would just love it And it

 

 

 

725

 

00:26:09,336 --> 00:26:11,457

 

Nathan Kress: would be a rating smash And no one would

 

 

 

726

 

00:26:11,477 --> 00:26:12,501

 

Nathan Kress: ever get tired of it.

 

 

 

727

 

00:26:13,755 --> 00:26:14,840

 

Nathan Kress: I wouldn't get tired of it either.

 

 

 

728

 

00:26:14,955 --> 00:26:16,320

 

Nathan Kress: I would do it for the rest of my life.

 

 

 

729

 

00:26:17,075 --> 00:26:20,144

 

Nathan Kress: But at the same time and this is also where

 

 

 

730

 

00:26:20,164 --> 00:26:22,080

 

Nathan Kress: Multicam is nice you get big, long hiatuses

 

 

 

731

 

00:26:22,201 --> 00:26:23,479

 

Nathan Kress: usually And that's where you can go off and

 

 

 

732

 

00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:24,121

 

Nathan Kress: do other stuff.

 

 

 

733

 

00:26:24,555 --> 00:26:27,063

 

Nathan Kress: So if I could do anything other than this,

 

 

 

734

 

00:26:28,175 --> 00:26:30,463

 

Nathan Kress: it would be completely the other direction.

 

 

 

735

 

00:26:30,675 --> 00:26:35,747

 

Nathan Kress: Like gritty military drama, the Hurt Locker

 

 

 

736

 

00:26:36,575 --> 00:26:40,725

 

Nathan Kress: Saving Private Ryan, a cockmoot training

 

 

 

737

 

00:26:40,786 --> 00:26:44,483

 

Nathan Kress: day, anything in the police military vein.

 

 

 

738

 

00:26:46,135 --> 00:26:47,320

 

Nathan Kress: That's just been one of my interests since

 

 

 

739

 

00:26:47,380 --> 00:26:49,618

 

Nathan Kress: I was a really, really young kid and

 

 

 

740

 

00:26:49,699 --> 00:26:52,907

 

Nathan Kress: portraying that has always been something

 

 

 

741

 

00:26:52,955 --> 00:26:55,595

 

Nathan Kress: that I've been really interested in And

 

 

 

742

 

00:26:55,996 --> 00:27:01,579

 

Nathan Kress: there's always just so much story there And,

 

 

 

743

 

00:27:01,739 --> 00:27:05,895

 

Nathan Kress: again, tough with the face that I've had, i

 

 

 

744

 

00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:08,621

 

Nathan Kress: would be pretty much relegated to the

 

 

 

745

 

00:27:09,283 --> 00:27:11,808

 

Nathan Kress: private storming D-Day.

 

 

 

746

 

00:27:12,396 --> 00:27:15,164

 

Nathan Kress: Who gets brought down in the first five

 

 

 

747

 

00:27:15,204 --> 00:27:16,026

 

Nathan Kress: seconds of the movie.

 

 

 

748

 

00:27:16,537 --> 00:27:18,442

 

Nathan Kress: That was kind of where I feel like I've

 

 

 

749

 

00:27:18,482 --> 00:27:19,445

 

Nathan Kress: been sort of locked.

 

 

 

750

 

00:27:19,695 --> 00:27:22,187

 

Nathan Kress: But I'm hoping that as I've gotten older

 

 

 

751

 

00:27:22,970 --> 00:27:23,995

 

Nathan Kress: and I see, it.

 

 

 

752

 

00:27:24,115 --> 00:27:24,818

 

Marc Preston: You can start trek.

 

 

 

753

 

00:27:24,838 --> 00:27:26,558

 

Marc Preston: you'd be in the red shirt, Was that the one

 

 

 

754

 

00:27:26,578 --> 00:27:27,421

 

Marc Preston: that always get killed?

 

 

 

755

 

00:27:28,075 --> 00:27:29,681

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, the really young ensign.

 

 

 

756

 

00:27:30,215 --> 00:27:32,022

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, his first day on the Enterprise.

 

 

 

757

 

00:27:32,255 --> 00:27:33,541

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, that would have been me.

 

 

 

758

 

00:27:33,655 --> 00:27:37,239

 

Nathan Kress: So I'm hoping getting into my 30s, that I

 

 

 

759

 

00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:39,796

 

Nathan Kress: can broaden out and get into more the

 

 

 

760

 

00:27:40,077 --> 00:27:44,707

 

Nathan Kress: action adventure, espionage, intrigue,

 

 

 

761

 

00:27:44,887 --> 00:27:47,981

 

Nathan Kress: combat, all that fun stuff would just be

 

 

 

762

 

00:27:48,202 --> 00:27:49,125

 

Nathan Kress: really, really cool.

 

 

 

763

 

00:27:49,835 --> 00:27:50,880

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, stuff blowing up.

 

 

 

764

 

00:27:51,578 --> 00:27:53,184

 

Nathan Kress: And that to me would be, fun.

 

 

 

765

 

00:27:53,295 --> 00:27:54,981

 

Marc Preston: I think when you're a kid that stuff sounds

 

 

 

766

 

00:27:55,041 --> 00:27:56,799

 

Marc Preston: fantastic, to be honest, something like

 

 

 

767

 

00:27:56,839 --> 00:27:56,980

 

Marc Preston: that.

 

 

 

768

 

00:27:57,475 --> 00:27:58,860

 

Marc Preston: But that even begs the question to hit

 

 

 

769

 

00:27:59,141 --> 00:28:01,679

 

Marc Preston: Rewind, even back when you were filming

 

 

 

770

 

00:28:01,939 --> 00:28:03,263

 

Marc Preston: Icarly, the original version.

 

 

 

771

 

00:28:04,438 --> 00:28:05,287

 

Marc Preston: What were you into?

 

 

 

772

 

00:28:05,327 --> 00:28:07,073

 

Marc Preston: What were you watching, what was inspiring

 

 

 

773

 

00:28:07,094 --> 00:28:07,155

 

Marc Preston: you?

 

 

 

774

 

00:28:07,215 --> 00:28:08,259

 

Marc Preston: What were you looking at going?

 

 

 

775

 

00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:09,584

 

Marc Preston: that's my group.

 

 

 

776

 

00:28:09,675 --> 00:28:10,921

 

Marc Preston: That's where I want to see myself.

 

 

 

777

 

00:28:11,436 --> 00:28:12,840

 

Marc Preston: What kind of movies and shows.

 

 

 

778

 

00:28:14,875 --> 00:28:15,939

 

Nathan Kress: Well, kind of a mix.

 

 

 

779

 

00:28:18,375 --> 00:28:21,545

 

Nathan Kress: So I had a very small run of acting from

 

 

 

780

 

00:28:21,565 --> 00:28:23,300

 

Nathan Kress: like three to six years old and then lost

 

 

 

781

 

00:28:23,340 --> 00:28:24,504

 

Nathan Kress: interest and decided to quit.

 

 

 

782

 

00:28:24,575 --> 00:28:27,276

 

Nathan Kress: But when I got back into it at around 11, i

 

 

 

783

 

00:28:27,517 --> 00:28:29,865

 

Nathan Kress: homeschooled from sixth to 12th grade.

 

 

 

784

 

00:28:30,095 --> 00:28:31,220

 

Nathan Kress: So starting in sixth and all the way

 

 

 

785

 

00:28:31,260 --> 00:28:32,638

 

Nathan Kress: through my high school career, when I was

 

 

 

786

 

00:28:32,738 --> 00:28:35,038

 

Nathan Kress: on set doing Icarly And when I was

 

 

 

787

 

00:28:35,078 --> 00:28:36,623

 

Nathan Kress: homeschooling and when I was actually at

 

 

 

788

 

00:28:36,684 --> 00:28:39,443

 

Nathan Kress: home I would try to finish my school by

 

 

 

789

 

00:28:39,603 --> 00:28:42,883

 

Nathan Kress: noon so I could take lunch and watch I Love

 

 

 

790

 

00:28:42,903 --> 00:28:45,040

 

Nathan Kress: Lucy on Daytime TV.

 

 

 

791

 

00:28:46,275 --> 00:28:49,139

 

Nathan Kress: I grew up on that show, i love it, still

 

 

 

792

 

00:28:49,179 --> 00:28:52,013

 

Nathan Kress: love it, and I think that was the first

 

 

 

793

 

00:28:52,034 --> 00:28:54,521

 

Nathan Kress: show where my love of multi-cam really kind

 

 

 

794

 

00:28:54,581 --> 00:28:55,744

 

Nathan Kress: of took off.

 

 

 

795

 

00:28:57,676 --> 00:29:02,477

 

Nathan Kress: As I got older it was a lot of like JAG

 

 

 

796

 

00:29:03,579 --> 00:29:06,285

 

Nathan Kress: NCIS stuff that I was.

 

 

 

797

 

00:29:06,385 --> 00:29:09,902

 

Nathan Kress: Probably I was not the demographic for it,

 

 

 

798

 

00:29:09,995 --> 00:29:13,183

 

Nathan Kress: but I just loved crime, procedurals, law

 

 

 

799

 

00:29:13,203 --> 00:29:13,603

 

Nathan Kress: and order.

 

 

 

800

 

00:29:15,675 --> 00:29:18,905

 

Nathan Kress: But then on the comedy side, how I met your

 

 

 

801

 

00:29:18,925 --> 00:29:20,975

 

Nathan Kress: mother, that was one of my favorite shows.

 

 

 

802

 

00:29:21,055 --> 00:29:23,818

 

Nathan Kress: That was my go to the gym And while I'm on

 

 

 

803

 

00:29:23,858 --> 00:29:26,255

 

Nathan Kress: the elliptical I was plowing through how I

 

 

 

804

 

00:29:26,275 --> 00:29:26,757

 

Nathan Kress: met your mother.

 

 

 

805

 

00:29:28,235 --> 00:29:30,248

 

Nathan Kress: But then, like all the way on, doctor Who,

 

 

 

806

 

00:29:30,691 --> 00:29:33,882

 

Nathan Kress: loved just like quirky sci-fi and the

 

 

 

807

 

00:29:33,962 --> 00:29:35,246

 

Nathan Kress: Britishness of it all.

 

 

 

808

 

00:29:35,656 --> 00:29:36,841

 

Nathan Kress: I was all over the place.

 

 

 

809

 

00:29:37,215 --> 00:29:40,396

 

Nathan Kress: There was no one specific vein, and I think

 

 

 

810

 

00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,256

 

Nathan Kress: that's why there's really not much that I

 

 

 

811

 

00:29:44,276 --> 00:29:48,044

 

Nathan Kress: would say no to as far as like oh, i don't

 

 

 

812

 

00:29:48,125 --> 00:29:52,720

 

Nathan Kress: do sci-fi, i don't do action, i don't do

 

 

 

813

 

00:29:53,181 --> 00:29:57,281

 

Nathan Kress: really human drama, i don't do whatever.

 

 

 

814

 

00:29:58,416 --> 00:30:00,322

 

Nathan Kress: I'm up for it all as long as it's a great

 

 

 

815

 

00:30:00,422 --> 00:30:04,535

 

Nathan Kress: story And really just like I just want to

 

 

 

816

 

00:30:04,575 --> 00:30:08,545

 

Nathan Kress: be a part of something that's eternal in

 

 

 

817

 

00:30:08,986 --> 00:30:09,868

 

Nathan Kress: the entertainment world.

 

 

 

818

 

00:30:10,055 --> 00:30:11,935

 

Marc Preston: Again, going back to the inception, leigh

 

 

 

819

 

00:30:11,955 --> 00:30:12,638

 

Marc Preston: Mead got going.

 

 

 

820

 

00:30:12,758 --> 00:30:14,925

 

Marc Preston: Was this something that was what you wanted

 

 

 

821

 

00:30:14,945 --> 00:30:15,185

 

Marc Preston: to do?

 

 

 

822

 

00:30:15,516 --> 00:30:17,593

 

Marc Preston: Or did somebody see and say this kid ought

 

 

 

823

 

00:30:17,613 --> 00:30:20,218

 

Marc Preston: to, let's get him in for an audition, let's

 

 

 

824

 

00:30:20,399 --> 00:30:20,579

 

Marc Preston: see what.

 

 

 

825

 

00:30:20,619 --> 00:30:20,960

 

Marc Preston: How did?

 

 

 

826

 

00:30:21,001 --> 00:30:23,216

 

Marc Preston: what was the genesis when you kicked off

 

 

 

827

 

00:30:23,256 --> 00:30:24,561

 

Marc Preston: your acting career?

 

 

 

828

 

00:30:24,815 --> 00:30:26,378

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, it was basically that When I was

 

 

 

829

 

00:30:26,439 --> 00:30:28,051

 

Nathan Kress: three, i had no understanding of what

 

 

 

830

 

00:30:28,172 --> 00:30:28,495

 

Nathan Kress: acting was.

 

 

 

831

 

00:30:31,966 --> 00:30:34,614

 

Nathan Kress: I just watched Mr Rogers and Barney and

 

 

 

832

 

00:30:34,634 --> 00:30:37,413

 

Nathan Kress: Veggie Tales and memorized what I was

 

 

 

833

 

00:30:37,433 --> 00:30:41,792

 

Nathan Kress: hearing And I would perform it back for my

 

 

 

834

 

00:30:41,852 --> 00:30:43,248

 

Nathan Kress: family on camera with a microphone.

 

 

 

835

 

00:30:43,918 --> 00:30:46,188

 

Nathan Kress: And I didn't realize what that was, i just

 

 

 

836

 

00:30:46,208 --> 00:30:46,695

 

Nathan Kress: knew I liked it.

 

 

 

837

 

00:30:49,142 --> 00:30:50,065

 

Nathan Kress: And my parents.

 

 

 

838

 

00:30:50,466 --> 00:30:53,294

 

Nathan Kress: I'm so forever grateful for how they

 

 

 

839

 

00:30:53,314 --> 00:30:55,568

 

Nathan Kress: approached this whole thing, because they

 

 

 

840

 

00:30:55,790 --> 00:30:56,474

 

Nathan Kress: never, ever forced me.

 

 

 

841

 

00:30:57,818 --> 00:31:00,666

 

Nathan Kress: In fact they dragged their heels most of

 

 

 

842

 

00:31:00,706 --> 00:31:06,812

 

Nathan Kress: the time because they knew the common

 

 

 

843

 

00:31:06,852 --> 00:31:07,875

 

Nathan Kress: trajectory for child actors.

 

 

 

844

 

00:31:09,785 --> 00:31:11,153

 

Nathan Kress: They knew that the industry can chew you up

 

 

 

845

 

00:31:11,173 --> 00:31:13,083

 

Nathan Kress: and spit you out and that you can have a

 

 

 

846

 

00:31:13,305 --> 00:31:16,362

 

Nathan Kress: real mess on your hands if you don't handle

 

 

 

847

 

00:31:16,382 --> 00:31:18,475

 

Nathan Kress: it very gingerly and carefully.

 

 

 

848

 

00:31:18,475 --> 00:31:22,021

 

Nathan Kress: So they didn't really want me doing it, but

 

 

 

849

 

00:31:22,061 --> 00:31:23,793

 

Nathan Kress: I think enough of their friends and people

 

 

 

850

 

00:31:23,813 --> 00:31:27,188

 

Nathan Kress: who just saw me doing my thing, just being

 

 

 

851

 

00:31:27,228 --> 00:31:28,835

 

Nathan Kress: a giant ham and talking all the time.

 

 

 

852

 

00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,133

 

Nathan Kress: And my mom swears my first word was

 

 

 

853

 

00:31:32,153 --> 00:31:32,415

 

Nathan Kress: construction.

 

 

 

854

 

00:31:33,141 --> 00:31:34,534

 

Nathan Kress: At nine months old I don't see how that's

 

 

 

855

 

00:31:34,554 --> 00:31:36,382

 

Nathan Kress: true She swears by it.

 

 

 

856

 

00:31:38,045 --> 00:31:41,582

 

Nathan Kress: I was just a chatterbox And all of their

 

 

 

857

 

00:31:41,623 --> 00:31:43,644

 

Nathan Kress: friends were like you know, you should

 

 

 

858

 

00:31:43,684 --> 00:31:46,971

 

Nathan Kress: probably at least give this a try and see

 

 

 

859

 

00:31:47,011 --> 00:31:47,435

 

Nathan Kress: if it works out.

 

 

 

860

 

00:31:48,220 --> 00:31:50,113

 

Nathan Kress: If he does some stuff as a kid, there's

 

 

 

861

 

00:31:50,153 --> 00:31:52,835

 

Nathan Kress: college money, just see.

 

 

 

862

 

00:31:53,599 --> 00:31:55,470

 

Nathan Kress: And so they took me to a cattle call and

 

 

 

863

 

00:31:55,630 --> 00:31:58,840

 

Nathan Kress: add in the newspaper at a park And a

 

 

 

864

 

00:31:58,940 --> 00:32:01,611

 

Nathan Kress: bazillion kids showed up and I sat in an

 

 

 

865

 

00:32:01,691 --> 00:32:03,906

 

Nathan Kress: agent's lap and sang him a song And they

 

 

 

866

 

00:32:03,926 --> 00:32:04,430

 

Nathan Kress: could just tell.

 

 

 

867

 

00:32:04,490 --> 00:32:05,015

 

Nathan Kress: I just had no fear.

 

 

 

868

 

00:32:05,777 --> 00:32:07,902

 

Nathan Kress: You know, i was just social and was willing

 

 

 

869

 

00:32:07,962 --> 00:32:12,046

 

Nathan Kress: to do whatever And I wasn't going to clam

 

 

 

870

 

00:32:12,107 --> 00:32:14,524

 

Nathan Kress: up and be really shy and, you know, just be

 

 

 

871

 

00:32:14,544 --> 00:32:15,835

 

Nathan Kress: kind of outward facing at all times.

 

 

 

872

 

00:32:16,577 --> 00:32:19,548

 

Nathan Kress: So I got an agent out of that, started

 

 

 

873

 

00:32:19,728 --> 00:32:21,635

 

Nathan Kress: auditioning for various stuff.

 

 

 

874

 

00:32:22,157 --> 00:32:23,518

 

Nathan Kress: Didn't really do a ton, it's just kind of

 

 

 

875

 

00:32:23,558 --> 00:32:26,196

 

Nathan Kress: print work and some voiceover stuff, which

 

 

 

876

 

00:32:26,236 --> 00:32:28,163

 

Nathan Kress: was very bizarre to do at four years old.

 

 

 

877

 

00:32:28,255 --> 00:32:30,996

 

Nathan Kress: I didn't understand it at all, but it was

 

 

 

878

 

00:32:31,016 --> 00:32:32,883

 

Nathan Kress: interesting because I got close on some

 

 

 

879

 

00:32:32,943 --> 00:32:33,204

 

Nathan Kress: stuff.

 

 

 

880

 

00:32:33,335 --> 00:32:36,264

 

Nathan Kress: I know that it was between me and Johnny

 

 

 

881

 

00:32:36,304 --> 00:32:37,577

 

Nathan Kress: Lipnicki for Jerry McGuire.

 

 

 

882

 

00:32:38,895 --> 00:32:41,224

 

Nathan Kress: We were like taking turns, you know, in the

 

 

 

883

 

00:32:41,264 --> 00:32:41,424

 

Nathan Kress: room.

 

 

 

884

 

00:32:41,556 --> 00:32:42,621

 

Nathan Kress: I don't remember any of it.

 

 

 

885

 

00:32:42,675 --> 00:32:44,442

 

Nathan Kress: This is just what my parents told me.

 

 

 

886

 

00:32:44,975 --> 00:32:47,243

 

Nathan Kress: But it was funny because the reason why I

 

 

 

887

 

00:32:47,323 --> 00:32:48,842

 

Nathan Kress: loved it so much was because I didn't

 

 

 

888

 

00:32:48,963 --> 00:32:50,515

 

Nathan Kress: understand the audition process.

 

 

 

889

 

00:32:50,636 --> 00:32:51,949

 

Nathan Kress: I thought the audition was the job.

 

 

 

890

 

00:32:52,391 --> 00:32:53,634

 

Marc Preston: You know in a very real sense.

 

 

 

891

 

00:32:53,674 --> 00:32:55,279

 

Marc Preston: You know I coach voiceover and I tell my

 

 

 

892

 

00:32:55,319 --> 00:32:57,575

 

Marc Preston: students the audition is the job.

 

 

 

893

 

00:32:57,830 --> 00:32:59,296

 

Marc Preston: If you get the job, that's just gravy.

 

 

 

894

 

00:32:59,470 --> 00:33:00,715

 

Marc Preston: You know you got to look at the audition as

 

 

 

895

 

00:33:00,735 --> 00:33:03,958

 

Marc Preston: the job, so you know that's that for a kid.

 

 

 

896

 

00:33:03,998 --> 00:33:07,508

 

Marc Preston: That's not knowing everything probably

 

 

 

897

 

00:33:07,829 --> 00:33:09,715

 

Marc Preston: helps you to not be so nervous, you know.

 

 

 

898

 

00:33:10,016 --> 00:33:10,418

 

Nathan Kress: Exactly.

 

 

 

899

 

00:33:11,110 --> 00:33:12,474

 

Nathan Kress: My parents did a good job of making sure

 

 

 

900

 

00:33:12,494 --> 00:33:14,138

 

Nathan Kress: that I didn't know how the sausage got made,

 

 

 

901

 

00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:16,632

 

Nathan Kress: because I don't think.

 

 

 

902

 

00:33:16,732 --> 00:33:18,897

 

Nathan Kress: And they were right because as soon as the

 

 

 

903

 

00:33:18,958 --> 00:33:21,612

 

Nathan Kress: reason why I got out of acting at that age

 

 

 

904

 

00:33:21,652 --> 00:33:23,658

 

Nathan Kress: was because I went to a voiceover audition

 

 

 

905

 

00:33:23,678 --> 00:33:27,991

 

Nathan Kress: to do ADR for the Dudley Do-Right movie,

 

 

 

906

 

00:33:28,472 --> 00:33:32,001

 

Nathan Kress: brendan Fraser, and it was a flashback

 

 

 

907

 

00:33:32,382 --> 00:33:35,390

 

Nathan Kress: where it was his younger self talking and

 

 

 

908

 

00:33:35,470 --> 00:33:38,235

 

Nathan Kress: he used very intricate words, had a very

 

 

 

909

 

00:33:38,295 --> 00:33:40,660

 

Nathan Kress: elaborate vocabulary and spoke very fast

 

 

 

910

 

00:33:40,740 --> 00:33:42,323

 

Nathan Kress: and I couldn't do it, i couldn't match it.

 

 

 

911

 

00:33:43,150 --> 00:33:45,114

 

Nathan Kress: And so in that audition, for the first time

 

 

 

912

 

00:33:45,175 --> 00:33:47,760

 

Nathan Kress: ever, they did live cuts and said these

 

 

 

913

 

00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,130

 

Nathan Kress: people can go, these people can stay, and

 

 

 

914

 

00:33:50,190 --> 00:33:50,672

 

Nathan Kress: it clicked.

 

 

 

915

 

00:33:50,713 --> 00:33:54,796

 

Nathan Kress: In that moment I have been rejected and I

 

 

 

916

 

00:33:54,876 --> 00:33:58,450

 

Nathan Kress: didn't do as good as other kids did And for

 

 

 

917

 

00:33:58,491 --> 00:34:00,777

 

Nathan Kress: that reason I've been sent home and I

 

 

 

918

 

00:34:00,938 --> 00:34:02,831

 

Nathan Kress: walked out of the parking lot I remember

 

 

 

919

 

00:34:02,872 --> 00:34:05,418

 

Nathan Kress: this part so clearly just saying I'm not

 

 

 

920

 

00:34:05,558 --> 00:34:08,554

 

Nathan Kress: having fun anymore, i don't want to do this

 

 

 

921

 

00:34:08,614 --> 00:34:08,935

 

Nathan Kress: anymore.

 

 

 

922

 

00:34:09,370 --> 00:34:11,292

 

Nathan Kress: And it wasn't just that, i was also just

 

 

 

923

 

00:34:11,372 --> 00:34:13,378

 

Nathan Kress: missing out on being a kid and playing

 

 

 

924

 

00:34:13,418 --> 00:34:15,392

 

Nathan Kress: T-ball and going to school and hanging out

 

 

 

925

 

00:34:15,412 --> 00:34:16,014

 

Nathan Kress: with my brothers.

 

 

 

926

 

00:34:16,630 --> 00:34:18,138

 

Nathan Kress: But that was just the icing on the cake.

 

 

 

927

 

00:34:18,158 --> 00:34:20,048

 

Nathan Kress: That, finally, was the last straw that sent

 

 

 

928

 

00:34:20,089 --> 00:34:21,854

 

Nathan Kress: me over was oh wait a minute.

 

 

 

929

 

00:34:22,435 --> 00:34:25,772

 

Nathan Kress: Part of this is rejection, because I don't

 

 

 

930

 

00:34:25,812 --> 00:34:27,417

 

Nathan Kress: like that at six years old.

 

 

 

931

 

00:34:28,630 --> 00:34:31,242

 

Nathan Kress: So that kind of shattered the illusion for

 

 

 

932

 

00:34:31,282 --> 00:34:33,130

 

Nathan Kress: me a little bit, where I finally understood

 

 

 

933

 

00:34:33,270 --> 00:34:35,658

 

Nathan Kress: what an audition was, that it was not the

 

 

 

934

 

00:34:35,698 --> 00:34:36,019

 

Nathan Kress: job.

 

 

 

935

 

00:34:36,270 --> 00:34:39,339

 

Nathan Kress: So that got me out of it and I didn't want

 

 

 

936

 

00:34:39,359 --> 00:34:42,428

 

Nathan Kress: to get back in until I was 11 and had

 

 

 

937

 

00:34:42,489 --> 00:34:44,913

 

Nathan Kress: auditioned for school plays, had to face

 

 

 

938

 

00:34:44,973 --> 00:34:50,602

 

Nathan Kress: that rejection, got roles fair and square,

 

 

 

939

 

00:34:51,303 --> 00:34:53,813

 

Nathan Kress: rather than someone just handing it to me

 

 

 

940

 

00:34:54,616 --> 00:34:56,462

 

Nathan Kress: and being willing to accept the fact that

 

 

 

941

 

00:34:57,626 --> 00:34:59,993

 

Nathan Kress: most of this industry is just being told no

 

 

 

942

 

00:35:00,214 --> 00:35:01,758

 

Nathan Kress: over and over and over again and beating

 

 

 

943

 

00:35:01,778 --> 00:35:04,734

 

Nathan Kress: your head against that wall and waiting for

 

 

 

944

 

00:35:04,834 --> 00:35:09,274

 

Nathan Kress: someone to say yes, which sounds insane,

 

 

 

945

 

00:35:09,855 --> 00:35:13,022

 

Nathan Kress: that we do that voluntarily, but you have

 

 

 

946

 

00:35:13,062 --> 00:35:14,104

 

Nathan Kress: to because you love it so much.

 

 

 

947

 

00:35:14,370 --> 00:35:16,356

 

Marc Preston: But going back to your folks, what kind of

 

 

 

948

 

00:35:17,218 --> 00:35:17,820

 

Marc Preston: work did they do?

 

 

 

949

 

00:35:18,431 --> 00:35:19,314

 

Marc Preston: What kind of work do they do?

 

 

 

950

 

00:35:20,090 --> 00:35:22,876

 

Nathan Kress: So my mom, luckily, was able to stay home

 

 

 

951

 

00:35:23,057 --> 00:35:25,863

 

Nathan Kress: with us, but my dad was a police officer.

 

 

 

952

 

00:35:26,210 --> 00:35:29,298

 

Nathan Kress: So, yeah, that's probably where a lot of

 

 

 

953

 

00:35:29,338 --> 00:35:33,148

 

Nathan Kress: that the sense of duty and service and

 

 

 

954

 

00:35:33,329 --> 00:35:34,472

 

Nathan Kress: sacrifice came from.

 

 

 

955

 

00:35:34,954 --> 00:35:37,403

 

Nathan Kress: Because he was just, he did a little bit of

 

 

 

956

 

00:35:37,544 --> 00:35:39,611

 

Nathan Kress: everything at his department and was a

 

 

 

957

 

00:35:39,912 --> 00:35:44,143

 

Nathan Kress: massively commended officer who never got a

 

 

 

958

 

00:35:44,244 --> 00:35:47,297

 

Nathan Kress: single civilian complaint in his entire 35

 

 

 

959

 

00:35:47,357 --> 00:35:47,962

 

Nathan Kress: year career.

 

 

 

960

 

00:35:47,982 --> 00:35:50,415

 

Marc Preston: Wow, 35 years, so you retired from being a

 

 

 

961

 

00:35:50,456 --> 00:35:50,837

 

Marc Preston: policeman.

 

 

 

962

 

00:35:51,431 --> 00:35:52,676

 

Nathan Kress: Yes, so he retired.

 

 

 

963

 

00:35:53,791 --> 00:35:55,455

 

Nathan Kress: He still volunteers because he just can't

 

 

 

964

 

00:35:55,495 --> 00:35:56,778

 

Nathan Kress: quit.

 

 

 

965

 

00:35:57,099 --> 00:35:59,152

 

Nathan Kress: He loved flying, that was always his

 

 

 

966

 

00:35:59,172 --> 00:36:01,320

 

Nathan Kress: favorite assignment, so he works at the

 

 

 

967

 

00:36:01,420 --> 00:36:01,884

 

Nathan Kress: heliport.

 

 

 

968

 

00:36:02,467 --> 00:36:02,789

 

Nathan Kress: Oh, very cool.

 

 

 

969

 

00:36:03,051 --> 00:36:06,260

 

Nathan Kress: So he does air operation stuff and he loves

 

 

 

970

 

00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:06,420

 

Nathan Kress: it.

 

 

 

971

 

00:36:06,910 --> 00:36:09,617

 

Nathan Kress: He'll probably stop eventually because now

 

 

 

972

 

00:36:09,637 --> 00:36:11,342

 

Nathan Kress: he's got grandparent duties and stuff so

 

 

 

973

 

00:36:11,390 --> 00:36:13,095

 

Nathan Kress: that's going to be keeping him busier and

 

 

 

974

 

00:36:13,135 --> 00:36:13,497

 

Nathan Kress: busier.

 

 

 

975

 

00:36:15,552 --> 00:36:18,942

 

Nathan Kress: But yeah, so that was my life, that I grew

 

 

 

976

 

00:36:19,042 --> 00:36:21,710

 

Nathan Kress: up watching that, and I don't know how we

 

 

 

977

 

00:36:21,730 --> 00:36:23,638

 

Nathan Kress: would have done it if my mom was working,

 

 

 

978

 

00:36:23,659 --> 00:36:25,527

 

Nathan Kress: because I was a full time job for her,

 

 

 

979

 

00:36:25,708 --> 00:36:28,416

 

Nathan Kress: driving me from the Boonies of Los Angeles

 

 

 

980

 

00:36:28,456 --> 00:36:29,640

 

Nathan Kress: County to Santa Monica every day.

 

 

 

981

 

00:36:30,851 --> 00:36:33,017

 

Marc Preston: That's off to them, because it's not easy

 

 

 

982

 

00:36:33,057 --> 00:36:34,501

 

Marc Preston: for a parent to navigate that.

 

 

 

983

 

00:36:35,070 --> 00:36:37,539

 

Marc Preston: I will say that, having coached young

 

 

 

984

 

00:36:37,660 --> 00:36:39,607

 

Marc Preston: children I'm not young young children, but

 

 

 

985

 

00:36:39,989 --> 00:36:42,217

 

Marc Preston: some kids who actually were on some Disney

 

 

 

986

 

00:36:42,237 --> 00:36:42,819

 

Marc Preston: Channel shows.

 

 

 

987

 

00:36:44,003 --> 00:36:45,849

 

Marc Preston: there are some really talented kids and

 

 

 

988

 

00:36:45,870 --> 00:36:47,353

 

Marc Preston: some parents that really support them go

 

 

 

989

 

00:36:47,393 --> 00:36:49,016

 

Marc Preston: back especially I forgot the name of the

 

 

 

990

 

00:36:49,037 --> 00:36:51,161

 

Marc Preston: apartment complex They always go out to LA.

 

 

 

991

 

00:36:51,181 --> 00:36:51,582

 

Nathan Kress: The whole woods.

 

 

 

992

 

00:36:52,430 --> 00:36:53,856

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, well, it's got a different name now I

 

 

 

993

 

00:36:53,896 --> 00:36:54,077

 

Marc Preston: think.

 

 

 

994

 

00:36:54,591 --> 00:36:55,935

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, I don't remember what it is now, but

 

 

 

995

 

00:36:55,955 --> 00:36:58,495

 

Marc Preston: that's what it was And that sounds like

 

 

 

996

 

00:36:58,796 --> 00:37:00,443

 

Marc Preston: really fun for a kid, but still for a

 

 

 

997

 

00:37:00,503 --> 00:37:02,371

 

Marc Preston: parent that's a lot of navigation within a

 

 

 

998

 

00:37:02,451 --> 00:37:04,815

 

Marc Preston: family, a lot of sacrifice, so that's off

 

 

 

999

 

00:37:04,835 --> 00:37:05,176

 

Marc Preston: to them.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:12,314 --> 00:37:14,120

 

Marc Preston: Well, before we wrap up, one of the things

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:14,140 --> 00:37:15,585

 

Marc Preston: I like to do is ask my seven questions.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:15,645 --> 00:37:17,331

 

Marc Preston: It's just kind of an additional get to know

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:17,371 --> 00:37:19,167

 

Marc Preston: you, just kind of fun.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:19,428 --> 00:37:23,013

 

Marc Preston: You know What is your favorite comfort food,

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:23,165 --> 00:37:25,192

 

Marc Preston: that thing that, end of the day, like God,

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:25,232 --> 00:37:25,914

 

Marc Preston: just give me some of that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:25,985 --> 00:37:27,569

 

Marc Preston: I don't care if it's got a lot of bad

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:27,669 --> 00:37:29,033

 

Marc Preston: cholesterol or whatever, or it could be

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:29,073 --> 00:37:30,256

 

Marc Preston: really healthy, doesn't make a difference

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:30,585 --> 00:37:32,470

 

Marc Preston: But that thing that makes you feel good and

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:32,751 --> 00:37:33,272

 

Marc Preston: kind of chill.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:34,054 --> 00:37:35,987

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, i was.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:36,007 --> 00:37:38,954

 

Nathan Kress: My top comfort food is probably barbecue.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:41,969 --> 00:37:43,193

 

Nathan Kress: It's just perfect.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:44,145 --> 00:37:46,493

 

Nathan Kress: It's sweet, it's savory, it's tangy.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:46,705 --> 00:37:48,651

 

Nathan Kress: You got all the different textures, got the

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:49,233 --> 00:37:49,635

 

Nathan Kress: smoky.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:49,785 --> 00:37:51,050

 

Nathan Kress: There's so many different ways you can go

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:51,110 --> 00:37:51,411

 

Nathan Kress: with it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:52,086 --> 00:37:54,749

 

Nathan Kress: It's just, i don't know, it's I feel like

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:54,769 --> 00:37:55,833

 

Nathan Kress: you're seducing me right now.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:56,005 --> 00:37:58,413

 

Marc Preston: I'm so tangy and smoky.

 

 


Speaker:

00:37:59,245 --> 00:38:01,205

 

Nathan Kress: I just had barbecue, last night too, so

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:01,245 --> 00:38:04,595

 

Nathan Kress: it's still like lingering in my senses.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:05,646 --> 00:38:08,515

 

Nathan Kress: That and whiskey, not in an excessive way,

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:08,756 --> 00:38:11,345

 

Nathan Kress: but that's also the comfort that my wife

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:11,365 --> 00:38:12,711

 

Nathan Kress: and I, at the end of the night after a long

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:12,752 --> 00:38:15,064

 

Nathan Kress: day of parenting, will sit down to a couple

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:15,084 --> 00:38:17,656

 

Nathan Kress: ounces of something brown that burns Brown

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:17,676 --> 00:38:19,866

 

Nathan Kress: that burns, that's all right Now

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:19,886 --> 00:38:20,367

 

Nathan Kress: barbecue-wise.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:20,387 --> 00:38:22,473

 

Marc Preston: have you ever been to Dallas or Austin to

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:22,513 --> 00:38:23,135

 

Marc Preston: have barbecue?

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:23,725 --> 00:38:28,477

 

Nathan Kress: We went to actually I, Carly and Victoria,

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:28,497 --> 00:38:31,825

 

Nathan Kress: the cast came together for this event that

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:31,905 --> 00:38:35,526

 

Nathan Kress: we did for a benefit at St Jude's And while

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:35,546 --> 00:38:37,491

 

Nathan Kress: we were there, we did a barbecue fest in

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:37,612 --> 00:38:43,414

 

Nathan Kress: Memphis And that was definitely some of the

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:43,434 --> 00:38:45,398

 

Nathan Kress: best barbecue I've ever had in my life.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:46,185 --> 00:38:49,455

 

Nathan Kress: They just slapped a pig on a table and

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:49,676 --> 00:38:51,662

 

Nathan Kress: pulled out what they claimed to be bacon,

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:52,204 --> 00:38:54,330

 

Nathan Kress: which I've never seen, but it was like

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:54,650 --> 00:38:57,417

 

Nathan Kress: stringing apart and odd looking.

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:57,585 --> 00:38:59,610

 

Nathan Kress: So I don't know what kind of bacon that was,

 

 


Speaker:

00:38:59,670 --> 00:39:01,073

 

Nathan Kress: but that was one of the best things.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:02,865 --> 00:39:06,026

 

Nathan Kress: See, now I'm suggesting myself with it That

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:06,066 --> 00:39:09,024

 

Nathan Kress: was some of the best stuff I have ever had.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:09,125 --> 00:39:11,009

 

Marc Preston: Well, if you're having an Austin down in

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:11,050 --> 00:39:12,593

 

Marc Preston: Austin, go to Franklin Barbecue.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:12,613 --> 00:39:13,515

 

Marc Preston: You got to check it out.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:14,117 --> 00:39:14,437

 

Nathan Kress: Good stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:14,765 --> 00:39:15,368

 

Nathan Kress: I've heard of that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:15,489 --> 00:39:17,309

 

Nathan Kress: actually They're on some show or something

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:17,369 --> 00:39:19,014

 

Nathan Kress: that I've seen for sure.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:19,074 --> 00:39:19,635

 

Nathan Kress: That sounds good.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:20,626 --> 00:39:23,133

 

Marc Preston: Everybody stops in there to check it out,

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:23,213 --> 00:39:23,755

 

Marc Preston: without a doubt.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:24,485 --> 00:39:26,352

 

Marc Preston: So now my next thing is lunch.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:26,625 --> 00:39:27,690

 

Marc Preston: I'm dying over here now.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:28,968 --> 00:39:30,112

 

Announcer: You made the barbecue sound so good.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:30,625 --> 00:39:31,910

 

Marc Preston: You literally changed what I'm doing for

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:31,970 --> 00:39:32,412

 

Marc Preston: lunch today.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:33,006 --> 00:39:34,311

 

Nathan Kress: You mailed me a picture.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:34,505 --> 00:39:36,232

 

Nathan Kress: I want to live vicariously through you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:36,725 --> 00:39:38,651

 

Marc Preston: Now the next question I got for you if

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:38,671 --> 00:39:39,654

 

Marc Preston: you're going to sit down and have a cup of

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:39,694 --> 00:39:41,349

 

Marc Preston: coffee three people you're just going to

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:41,389 --> 00:39:43,787

 

Marc Preston: talk story Living or not?

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:43,827 --> 00:39:45,671

 

Marc Preston: who would you like to sit down with and

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:45,731 --> 00:39:47,675

 

Marc Preston: have a cup of coffee for an hour or two?

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:49,105 --> 00:39:51,432

 

Nathan Kress: Oh man, i love me some historical figures,

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:52,705 --> 00:39:56,973

 

Nathan Kress: And especially, i think, american colonial

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:57,013 --> 00:39:58,696

 

Nathan Kress: history is one of the ones that I'm most

 

 


Speaker:

00:39:58,797 --> 00:39:59,478

 

Nathan Kress: fascinated by.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:00,265 --> 00:40:02,048

 

Nathan Kress: So George Washington would probably be a

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:02,109 --> 00:40:03,932

 

Nathan Kress: pretty safe bet.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:07,805 --> 00:40:18,915

 

Nathan Kress: Gosh, i think my mom's side of the family

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:18,936 --> 00:40:23,029

 

Nathan Kress: is from Mississippi, so my grandparents

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:23,290 --> 00:40:23,591

 

Nathan Kress: lived there.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:23,805 --> 00:40:27,568

 

Nathan Kress: We would go on cop salary You can only fly

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:27,609 --> 00:40:29,394

 

Nathan Kress: there with a family of five so many times

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:29,705 --> 00:40:30,969

 

Nathan Kress: But we went as often as we could.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:32,686 --> 00:40:35,757

 

Nathan Kress: I really wish, especially now, that I had

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:35,777 --> 00:40:37,804

 

Nathan Kress: had a little bit more time to talk with my

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:38,125 --> 00:40:41,172

 

Nathan Kress: granddaddy, because he passed away when I

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:41,232 --> 00:40:43,738

 

Nathan Kress: was granted in my early 20s.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:43,865 --> 00:40:46,235

 

Nathan Kress: So I did get some experiences with him, but

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:46,416 --> 00:40:48,505

 

Nathan Kress: I would love to have just sat with him to

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:48,665 --> 00:40:50,611

 

Nathan Kress: the extent that I sat with my grandpa that

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:50,651 --> 00:40:53,589

 

Nathan Kress: lives here in California And he just passed

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:53,629 --> 00:40:54,833

 

Nathan Kress: away last year.

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:56,447 --> 00:40:58,411

 

Nathan Kress: But I felt good about some of the time that

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:58,431 --> 00:40:59,654

 

Nathan Kress: I was able to get with him, especially

 

 


Speaker:

00:40:59,694 --> 00:41:00,596

 

Nathan Kress: toward the end.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:00,616 --> 00:41:01,518

 

Marc Preston: There's never enough time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:02,447 --> 00:41:04,565

 

Marc Preston: That's one of those things that There are

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:04,646 --> 00:41:06,751

 

Marc Preston: moments and no joke that I occasionally

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:06,771 --> 00:41:08,255

 

Marc Preston: have a life experience, something with a

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:08,295 --> 00:41:08,455

 

Marc Preston: kid.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:09,285 --> 00:41:11,571

 

Marc Preston: For a fraction of a second, I'm thinking I

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:11,591 --> 00:41:12,774

 

Marc Preston: talked to my grandfather about that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:13,745 --> 00:41:15,771

 

Marc Preston: It's obviously been oh, he's passed away

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:15,811 --> 00:41:18,889

 

Marc Preston: almost 19 years ago, But I was very close

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:18,929 --> 00:41:20,809

 

Marc Preston: with him as well, So I bet there's never

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:20,849 --> 00:41:21,331

 

Marc Preston: enough time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:21,551 --> 00:41:23,088

 

Marc Preston: That's the rough thing When you get a

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:23,108 --> 00:41:24,116

 

Marc Preston: little bit older, you kind of want to go to

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:24,216 --> 00:41:25,987

 

Marc Preston: the folks with more gray hair and say what

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:26,027 --> 00:41:26,849

 

Marc Preston: do you think about this?

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:29,105 --> 00:41:30,368

 

Marc Preston: But we're in Mississippi, by the way, Are

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:30,388 --> 00:41:30,729

 

Marc Preston: they from?

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:31,852 --> 00:41:33,315

 

Nathan Kress: Jackson area Okay.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:33,576 --> 00:41:34,037

 

Marc Preston: I'm just right.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:34,325 --> 00:41:36,631

 

Marc Preston: I'm from New Orleans right over, close to,

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:37,092 --> 00:41:38,255

 

Marc Preston: not too far from Mississippi.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:39,045 --> 00:41:40,691

 

Nathan Kress: My father-in-law's side of the family is

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:40,731 --> 00:41:42,408

 

Nathan Kress: from the Baton Rouge area, so we go to

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:42,428 --> 00:41:45,219

 

Nathan Kress: Louisiana a decent bit And I miss it

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:45,279 --> 00:41:45,581

 

Nathan Kress: already.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:45,842 --> 00:41:46,625

 

Marc Preston: You haven't had a lot of credit for it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:46,625 --> 00:41:47,631

 

Marc Preston: Well, there's a lot of filming down here,

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:47,845 --> 00:41:50,531

 

Marc Preston: so if I find a reason to come down, you can

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:50,571 --> 00:41:52,154

 

Marc Preston: put on some pounds of some pretty good food,

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:52,174 --> 00:41:52,415

 

Marc Preston: oh yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:52,475 --> 00:41:53,016

 

Nathan Kress: No, i did.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:54,025 --> 00:41:57,214

 

Nathan Kress: I've had enough budan and cracklins to last

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:57,254 --> 00:41:57,815

 

Nathan Kress: a lifetime.

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:58,385 --> 00:41:59,752

 

Nathan Kress: It's probably for the best that I don't go

 

 


Speaker:

00:41:59,813 --> 00:42:02,085

 

Nathan Kress: down there because I gain absurd amounts of

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:02,185 --> 00:42:04,947

 

Nathan Kress: weight circling back around My third person

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:05,068 --> 00:42:06,713

 

Nathan Kress: I got to go with the, i'd say Denis

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:06,733 --> 00:42:07,114

 

Nathan Kress: Villeneuve.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:08,388 --> 00:42:09,050

 

Nathan Kress: Oh very good.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:09,765 --> 00:42:11,730

 

Nathan Kress: I have a massive director crush on that man,

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:13,114 --> 00:42:14,667

 

Nathan Kress: his style We just.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:14,748 --> 00:42:15,854

 

Marc Preston: I just saw a movie.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:15,874 --> 00:42:18,407

 

Marc Preston: He directed God.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:18,447 --> 00:42:19,450

 

Marc Preston: What did he direct?

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:21,085 --> 00:42:22,248

 

Marc Preston: I want to say, did he direct?

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:23,171 --> 00:42:24,294

 

Marc Preston: I watched it with my son the other day.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:25,773 --> 00:42:26,705

 

Marc Preston: I said his name popped up.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:26,725 --> 00:42:27,388

 

Marc Preston: I was like wait a minute.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:27,845 --> 00:42:29,791

 

Marc Preston: He directed Dune.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:30,694 --> 00:42:32,789

 

Marc Preston: Yes, but it may have been I don't know if

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:32,829 --> 00:42:34,894

 

Marc Preston: it was, was it shit?

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:35,295 --> 00:42:36,426

 

Marc Preston: I'll remember in a moment but it was

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:36,446 --> 00:42:40,225

 

Marc Preston: something from the early 2000s, late 1990s.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:40,265 --> 00:42:41,811

 

Marc Preston: It was something I was kind of surprised

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:41,851 --> 00:42:42,333

 

Marc Preston: that he did.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:42,485 --> 00:42:43,789

 

Marc Preston: I was like, wait a minute, that's seeing

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:43,829 --> 00:42:45,473

 

Marc Preston: his name pop up, but it'll come to me in a

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:45,493 --> 00:42:45,734

 

Marc Preston: moment.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:46,945 --> 00:42:48,449

 

Marc Preston: But now, next question, real quick, is if

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:49,232 --> 00:42:50,455

 

Marc Preston: you're going to be living on an island

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:50,495 --> 00:42:52,351

 

Marc Preston: actually an island you really like you want

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:52,371 --> 00:42:52,732

 

Marc Preston: to be there.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:52,825 --> 00:42:54,370

 

Marc Preston: You're not stranded or anything, but there

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:54,430 --> 00:42:55,053

 

Marc Preston: is no internet.

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:55,725 --> 00:42:57,576

 

Marc Preston: So you know, if you want to listen to music

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:58,239 --> 00:42:59,084

 

Marc Preston: or if you want to watch a movie, you're

 

 


Speaker:

00:42:59,104 --> 00:43:00,971

 

Marc Preston: going to have to bring a CD or bring a DVD

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:01,031 --> 00:43:01,312

 

Marc Preston: with you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:02,025 --> 00:43:04,357

 

Marc Preston: What would that DVD or CD be for that one

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:04,397 --> 00:43:05,905

 

Marc Preston: year you're going to be on this island with

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:05,965 --> 00:43:06,386

 

Marc Preston: your family.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:09,105 --> 00:43:10,167

 

Nathan Kress: For a movie for sure.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:10,307 --> 00:43:14,054

 

Nathan Kress: Lord of the Rings, the extended editions.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:14,295 --> 00:43:18,069

 

Nathan Kress: I'll give myself that for one, just because

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:18,871 --> 00:43:20,696

 

Nathan Kress: you know that's a lot of hours of content

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:21,045 --> 00:43:23,050

 

Nathan Kress: So you can cycle through that and you

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:23,070 --> 00:43:24,695

 

Nathan Kress: wouldn't get as tired of it as you would

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:24,755 --> 00:43:27,711

 

Nathan Kress: from maybe an hour and a half animated

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:27,791 --> 00:43:28,152

 

Nathan Kress: feature.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:29,365 --> 00:43:31,172

 

Nathan Kress: But those are hands down my favorite movies.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:31,325 --> 00:43:34,071

 

Nathan Kress: My wife and I bonded massively over the

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:34,112 --> 00:43:35,395

 

Nathan Kress: Lord of the Rings when we were just

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:35,435 --> 00:43:36,517

 

Nathan Kress: starting out in our relationship.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:36,785 --> 00:43:37,869

 

Nathan Kress: Our whole wedding was Lord of the Rings

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:37,889 --> 00:43:38,612

 

Nathan Kress: themed, really.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:39,386 --> 00:43:40,390

 

Marc Preston: I got a sign right there.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:41,145 --> 00:43:43,107

 

Nathan Kress: People had to walk into the wedding It's no

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:43,147 --> 00:43:45,846

 

Nathan Kress: admittance except on party business And it

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:45,886 --> 00:43:48,891

 

Nathan Kress: was like probably a borderline amount of

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:48,931 --> 00:43:49,492

 

Nathan Kress: cringe.

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:49,553 --> 00:43:54,612

 

Nathan Kress: Lord of the Rings for a wedding, but hands

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:54,712 --> 00:43:56,540

 

Nathan Kress: down, i will go to my grave saying those

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:57,986

 

Nathan Kress: are the best movies of all time and I will

 

 


Speaker:

00:43:58,066 --> 00:43:59,612

 

Nathan Kress: fight anybody who disagrees with me.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:00,286 --> 00:44:02,232

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, you and Stephen Colbert have a thing

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:02,333 --> 00:44:02,694

 

Marc Preston: for that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:03,727 --> 00:44:05,652

 

Marc Preston: Honestly, I think I've seen just one of the

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:05,692 --> 00:44:08,648

 

Marc Preston: movies and I know shame on me And I was

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:08,668 --> 00:44:09,926

 

Marc Preston: talking to Matt Walsh, the other day I said

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:09,986 --> 00:44:10,810

 

Marc Preston: I haven't seen VP.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:11,385 --> 00:44:12,609

 

Marc Preston: So many great things I haven't seen yet

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:12,629 --> 00:44:13,953

 

Marc Preston: because there's so much out there, There's

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:13,973 --> 00:44:14,434

 

Marc Preston: a bazillion.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:14,905 --> 00:44:15,890

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, i don't blame you on that part.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:16,065 --> 00:44:18,829

 

Nathan Kress: There is a dearth or just like massive,

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:19,109 --> 00:44:23,256

 

Nathan Kress: massive crush of content that you can drown

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:23,336 --> 00:44:24,097

 

Nathan Kress: under now.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:24,197 --> 00:44:24,658

 

Nathan Kress: So it is.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:24,878 --> 00:44:26,260

 

Nathan Kress: It is hard, but I definitely recommend that

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:26,340 --> 00:44:26,400

 

Nathan Kress: one.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:26,665 --> 00:44:28,771

 

Nathan Kress: That is just an absolute classic that will

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:28,791 --> 00:44:29,693

 

Nathan Kress: stand the test of time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:29,773 --> 00:44:32,308

 

Nathan Kress: That, visually, even that was from the 90s

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:32,328 --> 00:44:33,231

 

Nathan Kress: and early 2000s.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:33,331 --> 00:44:35,236

 

Nathan Kress: Those visuals still hold up today.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:35,425 --> 00:44:37,951

 

Nathan Kress: It was just incredible what they did, even

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:37,971 --> 00:44:40,485

 

Nathan Kress: just with the technology back then, and

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:40,505 --> 00:44:42,813

 

Nathan Kress: just one of the best stories truly of all

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:42,853 --> 00:44:44,388

 

Nathan Kress: time As far as I'm concerned.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:44,468 --> 00:44:46,193

 

Nathan Kress: Just like the depiction of the Battle of

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:46,233 --> 00:44:47,786

 

Nathan Kress: Good and Evil is so quintessential in that

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:47,806 --> 00:44:49,252

 

Nathan Kress: movie or set of movies.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:50,868 --> 00:44:52,873

 

Marc Preston: But as far as music, the music side of

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:52,913 --> 00:44:53,635

 

Marc Preston: things, where would you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:53,655 --> 00:44:53,735

 

Nathan Kress: be.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:54,825 --> 00:44:55,247

 

Nathan Kress: That's tough.

 

 


Speaker:

00:44:56,885 --> 00:45:01,392

 

Nathan Kress: I've really gotten into just non, non

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:01,552 --> 00:45:04,877

 

Nathan Kress: lyrical, almost atmospheric and

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:04,937 --> 00:45:08,669

 

Nathan Kress: environmental type, just like background

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:08,850 --> 00:45:09,271

 

Nathan Kress: music.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:10,845 --> 00:45:13,654

 

Nathan Kress: I know that one that, especially just when

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:13,714 --> 00:45:16,723

 

Nathan Kress: I'm stressed or if we're having a weird

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:16,884 --> 00:45:19,972

 

Nathan Kress: family dinner, i'll just say like let's put

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:20,052 --> 00:45:20,653

 

Nathan Kress: on a lo-fi.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:22,625 --> 00:45:25,172

 

Nathan Kress: And we put on a lo-fi and everyone pretty

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:25,192 --> 00:45:26,236

 

Nathan Kress: much just calms down.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:26,425 --> 00:45:28,393

 

Nathan Kress: It's kind of lo-fi like low fidelity.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:28,545 --> 00:45:33,356

 

Nathan Kress: It's basically like a combination of jazz,

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:34,097 --> 00:45:37,445

 

Nathan Kress: hip hop with this like desyncopated rhythm,

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:37,605 --> 00:45:40,814

 

Nathan Kress: with like record crackle overlaid on top of

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:40,914 --> 00:45:44,652

 

Nathan Kress: it, and it's just so relaxing and it's a

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:44,732 --> 00:45:47,485

 

Nathan Kress: little bit kind of off beat sometimes And

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:47,505 --> 00:45:50,293

 

Nathan Kress: it just it just clicks in your brain very

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:50,454 --> 00:45:52,369

 

Nathan Kress: differently And I feel like if we were

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:52,409 --> 00:45:54,802

 

Nathan Kress: stuck on an island I might need to unwind

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:54,842 --> 00:45:56,770

 

Nathan Kress: and relax a little bit and lo-fi does it

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:56,951 --> 00:45:57,352

 

Nathan Kress: the best.

 

 


Speaker:

00:45:57,725 --> 00:45:59,010

 

Marc Preston: Now over to the next question here

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:00,285 --> 00:46:02,353

 

Marc Preston: Definition of a perfect day for you.

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:02,585 --> 00:46:03,889

 

Marc Preston: You're going to get up in the morning all

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:03,909 --> 00:46:05,654

 

Marc Preston: the way till you go to fall asleep.

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:06,385 --> 00:46:08,049

 

Marc Preston: What are the component parts of a perfect

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:08,149 --> 00:46:09,553

 

Marc Preston: day that's on point for you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:11,305 --> 00:46:15,549

 

Nathan Kress: I slept in, for sure, and somehow my

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:15,589 --> 00:46:18,515

 

Nathan Kress: children slept in so that I woke up like an

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:18,696 --> 00:46:21,130

 

Nathan Kress: hour before they did, but also so did my

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:21,190 --> 00:46:24,193

 

Nathan Kress: wife, and so we could just like lay there

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:24,273 --> 00:46:27,524

 

Nathan Kress: and talk for a good half hour and just hang

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:27,604 --> 00:46:30,270

 

Nathan Kress: out and have some completely quiet alone

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:30,310 --> 00:46:31,894

 

Nathan Kress: time together, which just sounds like

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:32,054 --> 00:46:34,406

 

Nathan Kress: magical and unobtainable now.

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:36,605 --> 00:46:40,373

 

Nathan Kress: And then a quality French press coffee in

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:40,393 --> 00:46:45,429

 

Nathan Kress: the morning, some time to just like go off

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:45,529 --> 00:46:49,537

 

Nathan Kress: and be quiet, be by myself, do some, do

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:49,577 --> 00:46:52,429

 

Nathan Kress: some devotions, have some quiet time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:52,449 --> 00:46:57,031

 

Nathan Kress: Because I'm it's weird, i adore my wife and

 

 


Speaker:

00:46:57,071 --> 00:46:59,857

 

Nathan Kress: my children, but I'm pretty introverted.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:00,165 --> 00:47:01,910

 

Nathan Kress: I'm a very introverted extrovert,

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:02,071 --> 00:47:03,114

 

Nathan Kress: extroverted introvert.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:03,745 --> 00:47:05,810

 

Nathan Kress: And I've learned about myself that I

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:05,870 --> 00:47:07,634

 

Nathan Kress: actually need a little bit more alone time

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:07,654 --> 00:47:08,576

 

Nathan Kress: to recharge time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:09,185 --> 00:47:12,692

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, i, i just run out of juice, you know,

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:12,872 --> 00:47:16,659

 

Nathan Kress: even even in a close knit family setting,

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:17,086 --> 00:47:19,592

 

Nathan Kress: i've just found like I recharge so much

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:19,633 --> 00:47:20,916

 

Nathan Kress: when I just get that little bit of alone

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:20,956 --> 00:47:21,137

 

Nathan Kress: time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:21,265 --> 00:47:25,706

 

Nathan Kress: So probably a little bit of that And

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:25,726 --> 00:47:29,413

 

Nathan Kress: honestly, like it's as hard as it is and

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:29,474 --> 00:47:32,626

 

Nathan Kress: how crazy and chaotic it can be, the rest

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:32,666 --> 00:47:35,527

 

Nathan Kress: of that day is just family time, like I'm

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:35,567 --> 00:47:38,305

 

Nathan Kress: just I'm so addicted to it right now And I

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:38,345 --> 00:47:43,238

 

Nathan Kress: just I see how it's paying off with our

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:43,399 --> 00:47:45,123

 

Nathan Kress: bond and relationship.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:45,163 --> 00:47:47,128

 

Nathan Kress: The way that these kids are growing up and

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:47,168 --> 00:47:51,196

 

Nathan Kress: just getting to imprint the smiles that are

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:51,236 --> 00:47:53,589

 

Nathan Kress: on their faces and just try to lock that

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:53,629 --> 00:47:55,770

 

Nathan Kress: into my brain, i'm just like soaking it up

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:55,811 --> 00:47:56,373

 

Nathan Kress: like a sponge.

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:56,393 --> 00:47:59,350

 

Nathan Kress: Right now It's hard to really imagine doing

 

 


Speaker:

00:47:59,871 --> 00:48:00,773

 

Nathan Kress: doing something else.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:03,305 --> 00:48:04,869

 

Nathan Kress: But, but shortly, part of that family time

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:05,751 --> 00:48:07,636

 

Nathan Kress: is taking the girls for a Mustang ride.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:08,505 --> 00:48:11,653

 

Nathan Kress: We have a 1965 Mustang convertible that

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:11,693 --> 00:48:13,617

 

Nathan Kress: really both of my girls.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:13,906 --> 00:48:16,013

 

Nathan Kress: So it was my wife's grandfather's car.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:16,585 --> 00:48:18,866

 

Nathan Kress: It was her dream car as a kid And to

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:18,906 --> 00:48:21,234

 

Nathan Kress: surprise her, when I was going to propose,

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:21,435 --> 00:48:24,465

 

Nathan Kress: my dad and I drove out to Colorado to pick

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:24,565 --> 00:48:25,669

 

Nathan Kress: it up and drive it back.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:25,749 --> 00:48:27,936

 

Nathan Kress: So I bought it from him.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:28,727 --> 00:48:30,592

 

Nathan Kress: It was like half bought it, half wedding

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:30,632 --> 00:48:33,460

 

Nathan Kress: present, and then worked on fixing it up

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:33,902 --> 00:48:36,710

 

Nathan Kress: and then kind of gave it to her as a as an

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:36,871 --> 00:48:37,954

 

Nathan Kress: engagement gift.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:39,287 --> 00:48:41,412

 

Marc Preston: So I didn't realize you could make an old

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:41,492 --> 00:48:43,857

 

Marc Preston: car seems so incredibly romantic as you

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:43,877 --> 00:48:44,613

 

Marc Preston: just did.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:45,302 --> 00:48:47,280

 

Nathan Kress: I bonded with my girls over it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:47,420 --> 00:48:50,368

 

Nathan Kress: They just love going for rides, having that

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:50,448 --> 00:48:53,030

 

Nathan Kress: alone date time, you know, just taking them

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:53,090 --> 00:48:54,661

 

Nathan Kress: out for breakfast or something, or even

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:54,681 --> 00:48:56,789

 

Nathan Kress: just picking my oldest one up from school.

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:57,301 --> 00:48:59,386

 

Nathan Kress: There's just something about it that just

 

 


Speaker:

00:48:59,807 --> 00:49:03,371

 

Nathan Kress: changes the monotony of the day.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:03,702 --> 00:49:04,447

 

Nathan Kress: And I don't know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:04,487 --> 00:49:06,862

 

Nathan Kress: we just go, we just drive around and listen

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:06,882 --> 00:49:07,385

 

Nathan Kress: to Beach Boys.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:07,702 --> 00:49:09,200

 

Nathan Kress: That's like their number one thing.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:09,341 --> 00:49:10,104

 

Nathan Kress: I don't have to say it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:10,423 --> 00:49:11,338

 

Nathan Kress: We pull out of the driveway and they're

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:11,379 --> 00:49:12,384

 

Nathan Kress: like where's the Beach Boys?

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:17,109

 

Nathan Kress: So I put together a playlist of Timeline

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:17,190 --> 00:49:20,744

 

Nathan Kress: Correct music for that car And we just

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:20,925 --> 00:49:24,282

 

Nathan Kress: shuffle through it and just pretend like we

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:24,322 --> 00:49:27,036

 

Nathan Kress: live in a different era for a little while.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:27,216 --> 00:49:27,940

 

Marc Preston: Yeah, it's kind of funny.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:28,343 --> 00:49:30,078

 

Marc Preston: My 17-year-old daughter is like getting the

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:30,098 --> 00:49:32,228

 

Marc Preston: truck and listen to country music And I

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:32,248 --> 00:49:32,999

 

Marc Preston: mean that's her thing.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:33,263 --> 00:49:34,457

 

Marc Preston: She does it like do we have to go home

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:34,478 --> 00:49:34,660

 

Marc Preston: right now?

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:34,841 --> 00:49:36,025

 

Marc Preston: She just wants to drive around.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:37,841 --> 00:49:38,623

 

Marc Preston: But we'll tell you what.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:38,663 --> 00:49:41,061

 

Marc Preston: the last couple of questions Now.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:41,081 --> 00:49:42,920

 

Marc Preston: if you weren't doing this right now and

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:42,940 --> 00:49:45,622

 

Marc Preston: this was not your vocation, what would be

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:45,703 --> 00:49:47,469

 

Marc Preston: the thing that you did for a living that

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:47,540 --> 00:49:49,287

 

Marc Preston: would bring you satisfaction?

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:49,940 --> 00:49:52,860

 

Nathan Kress: For a while I thought that it was going to

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:52,900 --> 00:49:56,668

 

Nathan Kress: be some kind of police, military, public

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:56,748 --> 00:49:58,411

 

Nathan Kress: service thing.

 

 


Speaker:

00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,908

 

Nathan Kress: I got kind of sidelined from that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,428

 

Nathan Kress: I had a lot of back pain in my late teens,

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:05,528 --> 00:50:08,084

 

Nathan Kress: early 20s, Found out that I had a birth

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:08,145 --> 00:50:09,810

 

Nathan Kress: defect in my spinal cord.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,865

 

Nathan Kress: That I corrected, But then the surgery from

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:12,905 --> 00:50:16,307

 

Nathan Kress: it kind of messed me up more than the pain

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:16,327 --> 00:50:17,209

 

Nathan Kress: that I was in before.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:18,420 --> 00:50:21,308

 

Nathan Kress: So I knew that I'd pretty much wash out of

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:21,789 --> 00:50:24,404

 

Nathan Kress: anything that was in that vein because I

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:24,424 --> 00:50:25,969

 

Nathan Kress: just wouldn't be able to physically hack it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:31,091

 

Nathan Kress: But over time I think what I've found is in

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:31,111 --> 00:50:33,744

 

Nathan Kress: life and in my experiences.

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:35,107 --> 00:50:39,848

 

Nathan Kress: I'm a salesman, I think in some quadrant of

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:39,908 --> 00:50:43,889

 

Nathan Kress: my mind, So doing something in real estate

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:44,130 --> 00:50:47,006

 

Nathan Kress: or sales where it's forward, facing and

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:47,427 --> 00:50:49,702

 

Nathan Kress: interfacing with small groups of people and

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:49,742 --> 00:50:51,760

 

Nathan Kress: establishing rapport and relationship and

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:52,181 --> 00:50:54,447

 

Nathan Kress: just being human with them, but also

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:54,547 --> 00:50:58,705

 

Nathan Kress: providing a service and encouraging them by

 

 


Speaker:

00:50:58,866 --> 00:51:01,632

 

Nathan Kress: being excited about whatever it is that I'm

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:01,692 --> 00:51:02,253

 

Nathan Kress: excited about.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:02,300 --> 00:51:05,329

 

Nathan Kress: Because once I go all in on something I'm

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:05,509 --> 00:51:10,191

 

Nathan Kress: so in And I'm so excited about it that when

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,249

 

Nathan Kress: I go to a car dealership and I'm talking

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:13,269 --> 00:51:15,925

 

Nathan Kress: about a car to my wife and talking about

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:15,946 --> 00:51:18,723

 

Nathan Kress: all the things about the car, the sales guy

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:18,763 --> 00:51:21,270

 

Nathan Kress: goes let me give you my car.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:22,180 --> 00:51:24,167

 

Nathan Kress: If you ever want to start selling cars, let

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:24,188 --> 00:51:24,469

 

Nathan Kress: me know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:24,701 --> 00:51:26,341

 

Nathan Kress: Or when we were looking for a house, or I

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:26,361 --> 00:51:29,283

 

Nathan Kress: would show a friend around a house, the

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:29,463 --> 00:51:30,768

 

Nathan Kress: agent representing the house would be like

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:30,808 --> 00:51:33,320

 

Nathan Kress: sorry, you're their agent, right, And we're

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:33,340 --> 00:51:38,172

 

Nathan Kress: like, no, I just know how to get a person

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:38,212 --> 00:51:39,584

 

Nathan Kress: excited about it, I guess.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:39,900 --> 00:51:41,206

 

Marc Preston: But no, hey, that's like what you're

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:41,226 --> 00:51:41,547

 

Marc Preston: talking about.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,807

 

Marc Preston: Sounds like a really good producer, excited

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:43,827 --> 00:51:45,202

 

Marc Preston: about your project You're pitching.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:47,002

 

Marc Preston: Now, real quick.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:47,022 --> 00:51:50,431

 

Marc Preston: The last question if you had a DeLorean you

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:50,451 --> 00:51:51,072

 

Marc Preston: could pop back.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:51,641 --> 00:51:53,247

 

Marc Preston: Let's rewind back to when you were 16.

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:54,281 --> 00:51:56,422

 

Marc Preston: And you've got a couple of minutes to

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:56,482 --> 00:51:58,348

 

Marc Preston: convey a piece of advice, either in the

 

 


Speaker:

00:51:58,429 --> 00:52:01,468

 

Marc Preston: moment, to make that time in your life

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:01,609 --> 00:52:04,849

 

Marc Preston: better or put you on a track to better

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:04,889 --> 00:52:05,130

 

Marc Preston: track.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:05,220 --> 00:52:06,584

 

Marc Preston: Whatever, what would that piece of advice

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:06,644 --> 00:52:07,708

 

Marc Preston: be to 16-year-old you?

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:13,021

 

Nathan Kress: This sounds awful, but I don't know if I

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:13,061 --> 00:52:14,365

 

Nathan Kress: would tell myself anything.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:16,300 --> 00:52:21,570

 

Nathan Kress: I'm really genuinely happy with how my life

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:21,630 --> 00:52:26,867

 

Nathan Kress: turned out And I think that's not to say we

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:26,947 --> 00:52:29,453

 

Nathan Kress: haven't faced a lot of adversity,

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:29,500 --> 00:52:31,481

 

Nathan Kress: especially since becoming married, and a

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:31,521 --> 00:52:34,108

 

Nathan Kress: lot of just physical challenges and just

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:34,249 --> 00:52:34,530

 

Nathan Kress: stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,170

 

Nathan Kress: We're just incredibly unlucky people to the

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:38,210 --> 00:52:40,265

 

Nathan Kress: point that now we are able to laugh about

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:40,306 --> 00:52:41,248

 

Nathan Kress: it because it's not like.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:43,545

 

Nathan Kress: It's not like, oh, i wonder if something

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:43,626 --> 00:52:44,469

 

Nathan Kress: bad is going to happen.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:44,580 --> 00:52:45,765

 

Nathan Kress: It's like, oh, i wonder what it's going to

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:45,785 --> 00:52:46,367

 

Nathan Kress: be this time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:46,780 --> 00:52:49,060

 

Nathan Kress: That's just sort of how we operate and

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,048

 

Nathan Kress: we've just become so jaded by it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,005

 

Nathan Kress: So it's not that it's just been this super

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:53,105 --> 00:52:54,649

 

Nathan Kress: glitzy life.

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:55,780 --> 00:52:57,980

 

Nathan Kress: I've learned a lot from those things And I

 

 


Speaker:

00:52:58,041 --> 00:53:02,021

 

Nathan Kress: think as a team my wife and my family we've

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:02,061 --> 00:53:04,983

 

Nathan Kress: come out better because of it And all of

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:05,043 --> 00:53:05,584

 

Nathan Kress: the things.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:06,086 --> 00:53:08,981

 

Nathan Kress: I see how my path and the decisions that I

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:09,342 --> 00:53:11,229

 

Nathan Kress: made and that my parents helped me to make,

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,606

 

Nathan Kress: especially in my young life, all of it's

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:13,626 --> 00:53:17,363

 

Nathan Kress: contributed to this And I'm so thrilled

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:17,403 --> 00:53:17,684

 

Nathan Kress: with it.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:20,481 --> 00:53:24,960

 

Nathan Kress: I guess, if anything, i would just say I

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,089

 

Nathan Kress: would have saved myself probably from a

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:28,230 --> 00:53:30,164

 

Nathan Kress: phase of being really uncomfortable with my

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:30,244 --> 00:53:32,651

 

Nathan Kress: body right after I moved out of my house.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:32,740 --> 00:53:35,348

 

Nathan Kress: I just didn't know anything about taking

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:35,388 --> 00:53:38,725

 

Nathan Kress: care of myself or cooking healthy meals or

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:39,267 --> 00:53:41,291

 

Nathan Kress: having a regular exercise schedule.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:43,524 --> 00:53:46,391

 

Nathan Kress: So I probably would just say start cooking

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:46,471 --> 00:53:49,006

 

Nathan Kress: sooner, because I could have saved myself a

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:49,066 --> 00:53:49,668

 

Nathan Kress: lot of agony.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:51,185

 

Marc Preston: I wish I'd done the same thing.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:51,285 --> 00:53:53,225

 

Marc Preston: actually, i'm big in the cooking now and my

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:53,285 --> 00:53:54,409

 

Marc Preston: kids have grown up cooking.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:54,690 --> 00:53:54,870

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:55,020 --> 00:53:55,944

 

Marc Preston: And that's another thing I've heard.

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:55,984 --> 00:53:58,464

 

Marc Preston: by the way, If you cook with your kids,

 

 


Speaker:

00:53:58,484 --> 00:54:00,542

 

Marc Preston: especially shop with your kids, they tend

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:00,562 --> 00:54:01,225

 

Marc Preston: to be healthier.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:01,486 --> 00:54:03,787

 

Nathan Kress: Yes, yeah, that's something that I talk

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:03,807 --> 00:54:06,702

 

Nathan Kress: with my kids about macronutrients When

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:06,722 --> 00:54:07,667

 

Nathan Kress: we're having breakfast it's like, ok,

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:07,820 --> 00:54:08,865

 

Nathan Kress: there's your protein, there's your fat,

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:09,220 --> 00:54:12,001

 

Nathan Kress: let's find a good, healthy carb for you And

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:12,382 --> 00:54:14,088

 

Nathan Kress: just teach them that food is a science,

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:14,901 --> 00:54:16,426

 

Nathan Kress: it's a math equation and you've got to have

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:16,546 --> 00:54:19,786

 

Nathan Kress: balance in what you're doing, what you're

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:19,826 --> 00:54:20,007

 

Nathan Kress: eating.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:20,087 --> 00:54:20,910

 

Nathan Kress: And I did not have that.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:20,980 --> 00:54:21,944

 

Nathan Kress: I had to learn that the hard way.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:22,380 --> 00:54:24,422

 

Nathan Kress: I literally lost out on a roll I probably

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:24,442 --> 00:54:25,721

 

Nathan Kress: shouldn't say which one, but it would have

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:25,741 --> 00:54:27,860

 

Nathan Kress: been a really fun one where it was down to

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,503

 

Nathan Kress: me and two other guys And they said so,

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:31,366 --> 00:54:35,384

 

Nathan Kress: acting wise, he was the best, but he's just

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:35,484 --> 00:54:36,587

 

Nathan Kress: not physically.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:37,209 --> 00:54:39,743

 

Nathan Kress: What we're looking for And what that was

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:39,803 --> 00:54:43,022

 

Nathan Kress: was that I was 30 pounds heavier than I

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:43,162 --> 00:54:47,381

 

Nathan Kress: should have been for my height and BMI And

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:47,482 --> 00:54:49,248

 

Nathan Kress: the other guys did not look that way.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,969

 

Nathan Kress: So I definitely lost out because I wasn't

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:53,009 --> 00:54:55,645

 

Nathan Kress: taking care of myself And that was a big.

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:56,307 --> 00:54:57,961

 

Nathan Kress: That snapped something for me And that was

 

 


Speaker:

00:54:58,022 --> 00:55:00,405

 

Nathan Kress: what kind of kicked me off on starting to

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:00,465 --> 00:55:01,388

 

Nathan Kress: take better care of myself.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:01,460 --> 00:55:02,800

 

Nathan Kress: So if I would have done that sooner, i

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:05,227

 

Nathan Kress: probably would have dealt with a little bit

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:05,287 --> 00:55:05,969

 

Nathan Kress: less anguish.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:06,169 --> 00:55:07,032

 

Marc Preston: Well, that's fantastic.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:07,060 --> 00:55:08,865

 

Marc Preston: Well, hey, before I go work, you do have a

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:08,905 --> 00:55:10,389

 

Marc Preston: podcast, correct?

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:10,670 --> 00:55:10,990

 

Nathan Kress: I do.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:11,091 --> 00:55:14,485

 

Nathan Kress: Yeah, it's funny, It's called Radioactive

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:14,525 --> 00:55:14,826

 

Nathan Kress: Dads.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:16,527

 

Nathan Kress: I do it with my buddy, brett Davern, who's

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:16,580 --> 00:55:19,248

 

Nathan Kress: another fellow young actor friend who's got

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:19,288 --> 00:55:19,790

 

Nathan Kress: young kids.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:20,240 --> 00:55:21,499

 

Nathan Kress: We've been doing it since 2019.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:21,580 --> 00:55:23,426

 

Nathan Kress: We've actually been kind of on an

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:23,606 --> 00:55:26,504

 

Nathan Kress: accidental hiatus where he does so many

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:26,585 --> 00:55:29,051

 

Nathan Kress: other podcasts for local Seattle sports

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:29,091 --> 00:55:29,332

 

Nathan Kress: teams.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:29,380 --> 00:55:31,805

 

Nathan Kress: He's a big sports guy And he's been so busy

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:31,845 --> 00:55:35,487

 

Nathan Kress: with that And I've been so busy at home and

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:36,229 --> 00:55:38,542

 

Nathan Kress: with some other work stuff that's been

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:38,582 --> 00:55:40,261

 

Nathan Kress: going on in the background that we just

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:40,322 --> 00:55:42,909

 

Nathan Kress: haven't been able to do it in the last

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:42,930 --> 00:55:43,250

 

Nathan Kress: little bit.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:43,380 --> 00:55:45,226

 

Nathan Kress: I expect that we'll be able to come back at

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:45,266 --> 00:55:47,445

 

Nathan Kress: some point, but for now there's three years

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:47,485 --> 00:55:50,187

 

Nathan Kress: of episodes that people can catch up on.

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:50,368 --> 00:55:52,285

 

Nathan Kress: In the meantime We were there weekly on

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:52,345 --> 00:55:55,167

 

Nathan Kress: Adobe Radio And we just kind of we cover a

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:55,207 --> 00:55:56,502

 

Nathan Kress: lot of parenting stuff, but it's mostly

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:56,542 --> 00:55:58,281

 

Nathan Kress: just sort of catharsis to each other and

 

 


Speaker:

00:55:58,382 --> 00:55:59,728

 

Nathan Kress: therapy about what we're dealing with.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,168

 

Marc Preston: It's kind of cool to commiserate, if you

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:03,188 --> 00:56:04,662

 

Marc Preston: will, with other parents About the good,

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:05,023 --> 00:56:06,161

 

Marc Preston: about the things that are rough, but the

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:06,201 --> 00:56:07,024

 

Marc Preston: things are really good.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:09,987

 

Marc Preston: They're doing a dumpster out there, But no,

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:10,310 --> 00:56:14,349

 

Marc Preston: i so appreciate your time By the way, I

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:14,369 --> 00:56:14,910

 

Marc Preston: apologize.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:15,060 --> 00:56:16,547

 

Nathan Kress: I got the lawnmower this whole time.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:16,641 --> 00:56:18,039

 

Nathan Kress: So what are you saying?

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:19,606

 

Marc Preston: Oh, by the way, the movie I was thinking of,

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:19,646 --> 00:56:21,966

 

Marc Preston: the Dillinove, i came to see Denis

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:22,147 --> 00:56:23,463

 

Marc Preston: Villeneuve Villeneuve, is that what he say,

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:23,504 --> 00:56:23,785

 

Marc Preston: his name.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:24,500 --> 00:56:25,204

 

Marc Preston: It's Sicario.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:25,460 --> 00:56:26,765

 

Announcer: That's what I was watching the other day.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:27,380 --> 00:56:28,625

 

Marc Preston: But my friend, have a great rest of your

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:28,685 --> 00:56:30,365

 

Marc Preston: day and hopefully we'll catch up down the

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:30,405 --> 00:56:31,522

 

Marc Preston: line, my friend, All right, Marc.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:31,602 --> 00:56:32,606

 

Nathan Kress: thank you for having me Have a good one.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:34,706 --> 00:56:35,449

 

Marc Preston: All right, there you go.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:35,841 --> 00:56:38,789

 

Marc Preston: Mr Nathan Kress really enjoyed that chat.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:39,170 --> 00:56:39,872

 

Marc Preston: Intriguing guy.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:43,350

 

Marc Preston: He's had a long career, started young in

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:43,370 --> 00:56:45,645

 

Marc Preston: the industry and came back to where he was

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:45,906 --> 00:56:47,110

 

Marc Preston: probably most well known.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:47,240 --> 00:56:50,289

 

Marc Preston: That's, of course, i, carly, which is right

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:50,350 --> 00:56:52,085

 

Marc Preston: now on PureMount Plus.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:52,940 --> 00:56:54,245

 

Marc Preston: That's it for me for today.

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:56,285

 

Marc Preston: Please, if you would don't forget to

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:56,506 --> 00:56:59,004

 

Marc Preston: subscribe and like this show, no matter

 

 


Speaker:

00:56:59,065 --> 00:57:02,643

 

Marc Preston: what podcast platform or YouTube or

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:02,703 --> 00:57:04,669

 

Marc Preston: wherever you're checking out the show.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:06,940

 

Marc Preston: Definitely want you to come back by, get

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:07,001 --> 00:57:08,948

 

Marc Preston: notified every time there is a new episode.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:10,745

 

Marc Preston: So, like, follow, do all that kind of stuff.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:11,346 --> 00:57:12,169

 

Marc Preston: Okay, that's it for me.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:12,209 --> 00:57:12,750

 

Marc Preston: I'm out of here.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:13,260 --> 00:57:15,468

 

Marc Preston: You have yourself a great, safe, awesome,

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:17,885

 

Marc Preston: whatever you got planned for the rest of

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:17,925 --> 00:57:21,265

 

Marc Preston: your day or evening, i hope you are safe,

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:21,927 --> 00:57:23,903

 

Marc Preston: have a great time and I will talk to you

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:23,943 --> 00:57:26,747

 

Marc Preston: next time Right here on Story and Craft.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:27,140 --> 00:57:29,328

 

Announcer: That's it for this episode of Story and

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:29,368 --> 00:57:29,669

 

Announcer: Craft.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:29,940 --> 00:57:32,288

 

Announcer: Join Marc next week for more conversation

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:32,620 --> 00:57:34,227

 

Announcer: Right here on Story and Craft.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,161

 

Announcer: Story and Craft is a presentation of Marc

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:37,201 --> 00:57:38,205

 

Announcer: Preston Productions LLC.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:41,828

 

Announcer: Executive Producer is Marc Preston.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:44,628

 

Announcer: Associate Producer is Zachary Holden.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:45,180 --> 00:57:47,447

 

Announcer: Please rate and review Story and Craft on

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:47,587 --> 00:57:48,470

 

Announcer: Apple Podcasts.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:50,740

 

Announcer: Don't forget to subscribe to this show on

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:50,881 --> 00:57:53,608

 

Announcer: Apple Podcasts, spotify or your favorite

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:53,628 --> 00:57:54,411

 

Announcer: podcast app.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:54,860 --> 00:57:57,308

 

Announcer: You can subscribe to show updates and stay

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:57,328 --> 00:57:57,729

 

Announcer: in the know.

 

 


Speaker:

00:57:57,980 --> 00:58:01,102

 

Announcer: Just head to storyandcraftpod.com and sign

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:01,162 --> 00:58:02,005

 

Announcer: up for the newsletter.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:03,424

 

Announcer: I'm Emma Dylan.

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:06,042

 

Announcer: See you next time and remember, keep

 

 


Speaker:

00:58:06,082 --> 00:58:07,223

 

Announcer: telling your story.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nathan Kress Profile Photo

Nathan Kress

Actor | Director

Best known worldwide for his supporting role co-starring on the hit ratings-smash Nickelodeon teen sitcom "iCarly" (TV Series; 2007-12), Nathan portrays the nerdy, tech-savvy Freddie Benson (Carly's smitten next-door neighbor, childhood crush, cameraman and technical producer of her web show), a role which he reprises in the 2021 Paramount+ revival as well as guest starring on a special 44-minute 2-part episode of the crossover spin-off "Sam & Cat" in February 2014. After "iCarly" ended on Thanksgiving Day 2012, Nathan broke out into feature films and new media, with New Line Cinema's "Into the Storm", and RocketJump's hit YouTube series, "Video Game High School".

Born and raised in Glendale, California, Nathan began his acting career as a child actor at the age of 3 in the mid-1990s, gaining recognition in the early 2000s after appearing in television commercials, and quickly landed a feature film role as the voice of Easy the Chimp in "Babe: Pig in the City." By fifth grade, he had landed a recurring role as a sketch performer on "The Jimmy Kimmel Show" playing various characters; one of his favorite being a young Simon Cowell of "American Idol."

Shortly thereafter, Nathan began to book guest-starring roles on such shows as "Without a Trace," "Standoff," "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody," "House MD," and "Notes from the Underbelly." Kress began gaining recognition in February 2006 after appearing in the li… Read More