Reed Diamond | From ABC’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” to “Drop” | Multi-Faceted Family Man

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Reed Diamond: Kid and I were walking

down Hollywood, not Hollywood, sunset

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Boulevard a couple weeks ago and we

passed the Roxy fans were lying down

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the street and I go look at all these

old people and my kid turns and be

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like, you're the same age as them.

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I'm like, oh man, you're right.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story Craft.

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Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Alright, here we go.

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Marc Preston: Back again.

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Another episode of Story and Craft.

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Uh, good to have you back.

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If this is your first

time here, well welcome.

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My name is Marc Preston.

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Uh, today we are sitting down and

having a great conversation with

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the very talented I. Reed Diamond,

new movie in theaters right now.

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It is called Drop With Brandon Snar.

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Megan Fahe.

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Uh, but of course Reed's been just

on the scene for a long time doing

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a lot of great stuff, uh, all the

way back to the movie Memphis Bell.

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Uh, he's been in homicide life on

the streets, designated survivor,

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uh, agents of Shield, Moneyball.

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Uh, just a very talented guy.

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Had a long career in the industry.

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Uh, kind of a, just a

fun cool dude to talk to.

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Really enjoyed sitting down with Reed.

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He's a fun guy.

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You'll enjoy it.

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Appreciate hearing from you.

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Uh, okay.

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So let's go ahead and jump right into it.

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Uh, great chat today with a very

talented actor and musician.

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We will talk about that.

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It is Reed Diamond Day right

here on Story and Craft.

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So how you doing today?

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I'm good, buddy.

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I'm so happy to be here.

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I'm glad we, uh, we made it all happen.

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Very sweet.

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Very sweet.

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Now are you, last time we chatted you

were, uh, in ca you were living in Canada.

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Are you still up there?

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Reed Diamond: Yeah, I'm trying not to.

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I'm trying to be full-time

in Maine right now.

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Really?

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And where are you?

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Are you in Chicago?

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Marc Preston: Uh, no, I'm, uh,

I am in, uh, south Padre Island.

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Very tip of south Texas

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Reed Diamond: coast.

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Oh, nice.

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Okay.

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'cause it said,

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Marc Preston: it said central

time zone, south Padre Island.

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Yeah.

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That's nice.

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I love Texas.

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I was kind of envious, you

know, doing the Canada thing.

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I was like, well, that kind of sounds like

a good place to be for the next few years.

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Reed Diamond: There's lovely,

lovely people up here in Canada.

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But yeah, we went back to the States.

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Uh, uh, we're living on the coast

of Maine right now, which I love.

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Okay, well, how'd you wait, how'd

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Marc Preston: you end up there?

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Do you or your wife have a, uh, uh,

like family connection or has, it

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just sounded like a great place to be?

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Reed Diamond: I'll tell you how,

I'll tell you how it is, Marc.

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It's like I always, we keep looking for

the one place, but we're the peripatetic,

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sort of gypsy esque, uh, diamond family.

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So we were in California forever, and I

left Los Angeles a long, long time ago.

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We moved up to Los Olivos, which

is the wine country, about two

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and half hours north of la.

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So did you ever see

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Marc Preston: the movie sideways?

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I literally, literally just

rewatched it like three nights ago.

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So that's, that's where

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Reed Diamond: that takes place.

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So we were just at the

hitching post, uh, last month.

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And so we, uh, oh wait, so

that's like a real place.

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The hitching post is a real deal.

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Uh oh, yeah.

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It's Oh, so yeah, we're,

we're Virginia Madson works.

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That's, that's, that is like

one of the best stakes you'll

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ever have in your entire life.

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It's real.

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Okay.

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Oh, yeah.

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The whole place.

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Everything's real.

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Everyone's real.

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But then, like, you know, Frank Sini,

who owns the hitching post, he's in the,

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he's in there, he's wearing the pith

helmet and, uh, some of the wine, the

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winemakers are real, uh, that they visit.

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But yeah, so that movie inspired us and

we started going up there all the time.

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And then.

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Made tons of friends.

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It's an amazing small town.

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And then when our daughter was

well, did you ever, well, the

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Marc Preston: question is, did you

ever do the Paul Giamatti thing

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where you're just like, I just need

a drink, and you grab the spit bucket

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and just like pour it on yourself?

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Reed Diamond: Well, let me tell you, you

don't need to do that, Marc, because, um,

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everyone who lives, well, not everyone,

but a lot of people who live up there,

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either wine makers or wine enthusiasts,

and there's no shortage of wine.

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In fact, my wife and I just

went back to drinking wine like.

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Just in the last year.

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Mm-hmm.

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'cause we got so much wine up there that

we were like, I can't drink any more wine.

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And there is no, when you live in a wine

growing region with, uh, wine makers

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and, uh, wine enthusiasts, there is no

occasion where wine is not appropriate.

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So my, I my wife once hosted a child

CPR class, uh, and I think they

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hosted it, it happened with the, the

Episcopal church and every, uh, mom

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showed up with her own private bottle

of wine, you know, because you're not

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gonna be able to get through a child's

CPR class without a bottle of wine.

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So, um.

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Yes, it's a good place to go drinking.

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Uh, but we left, we,

we were there forever.

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Raised our daughter there and then

we thought we'd try Canada out, which

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was great because my wife had retired

Marnie McPhail Diamond, the, the, the

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more talented diamond in the family.

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She had had a storied career and

then retired when, um, we had our kid

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and then she was ready to go back.

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And so we came up here 'cause she'd

had, her career was based up here

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in Toronto and came up to Toronto

and she got right back into it.

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Be better than ever.

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Oh, okay.

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Marc Preston: So, so it was the, the, the

Canadian destination was because of work,

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not because that's where she had her fa

her family was for like, like not for no,

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Reed Diamond: yeah, there

was no family in Canada.

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And so we were like, uh, and we thought

I'd grown up in Manhattan and my wife

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had grown up here, and now we, we'd

raised our daughter in Los Olivos.

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Literally her school was at

the base of a national forest.

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So she'd grown up outdoors in the

country and we thought, oh, maybe

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we'll give her a little city life.

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Maybe we all want a little city life.

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And then as soon as we got to

the city, we all realized that

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no one wanted to be in the city.

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And, but then, then Covid hit

and the lockdowns happened.

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So we were sort of, we, we were here.

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And, but in that time when I would

work, because the first year of

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Covid, I went off to shoot a show in

New Orleans, and I was in la These

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were like the first two shows back.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I got separated them for like,

I got separated from them for about

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six months and that was not cool.

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So, um, the next year when I got

a show out in Portland, Oregon.

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I just said, everyone's

getting in the car.

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So everyone jumped into the Chevy

Tahoe, the dog, the whole family.

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And we drove across the country

and at that point we knew

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we wanted to leave Toronto.

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So we were looking for places to live.

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So we, we'd stop in every single state.

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And 'cause I'd visited most of them and

the ones we hadn't, we hid on the way.

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And, uh, and we contemplated everywhere.

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South Dakota for a little while.

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Idaho, really?

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Arizona.

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There's, 'cause there's, I mean, America's

so beautiful and I drive it, I almost

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drive it ev back and forth every year.

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I really love doing it.

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Really?

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Marc Preston: No kidding.

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That's, I, my, my daughter to

boyfriend just drove from El Paso, uh,

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down here, which is just a mammoth.

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Anything from or to El

Paso is always crazy.

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I don't know.

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I love driving, but you

gotta stop intermittently.

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'cause when you're really, really

fatigued, it's not fun, you know?

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So I guess a cross country trip where

you see a bunch of stuff and stop's.

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Gotta be fun.

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Reed Diamond: You definitely have to stop.

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It's interesting when it's just me

and the dog, we can go pretty much

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just whenever you gotta pee, that's

the only time we're gonna stop.

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But when, when, when you're, when you're

traveling with the ladies, you wanna make

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sure everyone, it's, it's comfortable.

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'cause I can go, as long as

there's daylight I'll drive.

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So in the summertime I'll drive 13

hours without thinking about it.

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Mm-hmm.

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But I love it.

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I think it's also because I grew up

in New York City and I grew up, I I, I

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grew up right on the Upper West Side.

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I lived there.

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Yeah.

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So you didn't do a whole lot

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Marc Preston: of driving growing up.

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So this whole idea of road trips?

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Yeah,

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Reed Diamond: no dude, it was so romantic.

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And I remember reading like, you

know, Sam Shepherd's Motel Chronicles

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because he was afraid of flying,

so he drove to every location.

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Mm-hmm.

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I said, that's what I want to do.

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And I started doing it when I was

doing homicide life on the street

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when we were shooting in Baltimore

and I lived in LA at the time.

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I would drive back and forth

and it was just so, I love the,

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it's just everything's here.

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It's, and it's so wild how it

changes and, and the landscapes

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and, and I just love it.

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I love being in the car.

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And now especially as.

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Air travel has become less and less.

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Um, uh, uh, fun.

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Uh, it's, it really,

sometimes it's just easier.

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It's in that

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Marc Preston: roulette

wheel now it seems like.

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Yeah.

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Um,

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Reed Diamond: I'll just drive,

but the main thing to answer your

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original question, 'cause I am, I

tend to be long-winded, is that was

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the only state we hadn't gone to.

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It was the only state we

hadn't driven through.

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It was the only state that in the

lower 48 that I hadn't been to.

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And then our, our daughter, uh, start,

wanted to go to this camp that had

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been featured on the Disney Channel.

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And uh, and I think I know what you

talked talking about, about it, about Yes.

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I think it's called, I don't know, I

can't remember what the show was called,

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but she, she got, she got to this camp

and it was in Maine and we, uh, we, so

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it was our first, I think, I think it was

the first time I'd ever been to Maine.

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And then I had a buddy who

said, go to this town and where,

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that's where my family's from.

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And we went to this town.

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We go, oh yeah, this

is where we're living.

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This is the place.

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Mm-hmm.

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We've been looking for,

for the last six years.

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So we've been in Maine pretty much off and

on for the last two years, and about to.

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We're, we're just, we've

been traveling around.

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We've been on the West coast, but

we're about to go back to Maine

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right now for the summer and the,

I guess the rest of the year.

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'cause she's gonna go, my daughter's

now gonna be a counselor at that camp.

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I was to say Baby

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Marc Preston: Diamond's

gonna be a teenager now.

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Right?

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She's, uh, baby

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Reed Diamond: diamond's a year

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Marc Preston: away from college

right now, which is Wow.

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Six.

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Yeah.

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My oldest just, uh, graduated, uh,

last year in his teaching school now.

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Uh, and my, my, my son's

gonna graduate in May.

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It's just like, wait, wait.

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This is, it starts speeding up.

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Yeah.

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And that's the reason why when my youngest

graduated, she came down here with me.

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We did.

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Oh.

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'cause you remember I was in New Orleans.

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I'm a Dallas boy, but I lived in New

Orleans and my ex-wife's from there.

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Right.

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My youngest came down here,

did a gap year with me.

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Then she, uh, uh, you know, she's gonna go

study in Europe again and again, you know,

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like, it'd be great, great to be 19 again.

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Um, but anyway, so it was kind of

a, um, like you, I thought about

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where in the world could I live?

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And I was like, I'm kind of down with

the whole tropical Mayberry thing.

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You know, total population

here is like 3000 or something.

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So

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Reed Diamond: your daughter, does she

know where she wants to go to school?

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She does.

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We've been looking at colleges and

she's much more serious 'cause she could

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easily go into the family business.

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'cause she's incredibly

talented and hilarious.

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She was in the second city troop

for teenagers in here in Toronto.

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Really?

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And, but Wow.

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Yeah, but she, you know, she has two

actors for parents, so she actually

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wants to go into something real.

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So she's looking at being a, uh,

going into developmental psychology,

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working with, uh, teenagers.

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So she's, she's, she's actually

quite serious and she's much

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smarter than, uh, I am for sure.

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So she's, in fact, she's studying

right now as we, as we speak.

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I'm trying, remember you went, you went to

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Marc Preston: Julliard, right?

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I did go to Juilliard.

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Yeah, I, I talked to

somebody the other day.

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Well, the, uh, we're at that age,

you, I say the other day, literally

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too many a year ago, uh, I think I

started talking to Michael Beach.

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I

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Reed Diamond: think

Michael Beach went there.

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Yeah.

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Michael, of course.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Michael went there.

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In fact, Michael was hilarious

because my first year.

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At, uh, Julliard, they, they would

often have alumni come back and

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speak to you about what it's like

to be a, a young actor out in the

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world once you leave the nest.

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And, um, Michael Beach was a re

he and Bradley Whitford, I don't

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know if they were in the same

class, but they both, they both

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came back together to speak to us.

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And I remember Mike, uh, Bradley

Whitford was like, oh, it's

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really bad out there, man.

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It's really bad.

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I don't know what to tell you.

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It's just, it's really rough.

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And then of course, you know, then he

got a few good men and he was fine.

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But Michael Beach, he was really sweet.

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'cause I connected him.

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He's like, don't worry, man,

it's not that bad out there.

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And then Michael and I have been pals,

you know, just from just meeting that day.

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Julliard, you know, every

time I see him, damn.

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He's such a talented dude.

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But yeah.

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Yeah.

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Julliard guy.

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There's a few of us out there.

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Marc Preston: I think y'all are the

only, uh, Julliard crew I've had

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an opportunity to, to chat with.

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Yeah.

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But, uh, but yeah, you know, I heard, uh,

or saw you've got a, you've got a podcast

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Reed Diamond: now, right?

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Yes, we're on a, a bit of a hiatus now.

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We're about to record against,

I think, record again.

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This at the end of

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Marc Preston: this week.

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You got a nice little rig set up there.

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And I, it's funny 'cause I talked

to Christie Montopolis and he's

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got, uh, he does a lot of voiceover.

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I always get excited when somebody's

got a proper microphone and, uh, it's,

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it's always nice for the audio quality,

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Reed Diamond: you

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Marc Preston: know.

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Reed Diamond: Well, I love the, this

is my, this is actually, I'm literally

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right before I was speaking to you,

I was doing a bunch of voiceovers.

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So this is my voiceover Mike.

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This is my nice one.

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And then I inve I invested in

one of those podcast mics, just

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'cause it, it seemed fun and cute.

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But, uh, this is my favorite mic.

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I record everything on this.

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I do vocals for music on this.

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And then it's, is

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Marc Preston: this like, um,

just for fun or you, are you kind

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of in a Oh, a band, uh, online.

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You know where guys

kinda like back in the.

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Covid

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Reed Diamond: era.

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I had a band, I made a decision in,

I guess at the end of eighth grade.

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It was either music or acting.

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And I chose acting because I had

bands all through junior high school.

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And, and then acting was the,

was ended up becoming my career

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and, and the pla path to go on.

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But I always loved playing music.

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I'm guitar player, so I'm not really, I

don't consider myself a very good singer.

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But then my wife and I had a

band, uh, before we had a kid, so.

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Late thirties, early forties,

we had a really cool band.

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And it was funny because I was in a punk

cover band, so I was basically doing like

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post-punk new wave song cover stuff and

with a bunch of friends, uh, all actors,

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but all people who love to play music.

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And we rehearse every weekend.

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And she came to one of the

rehearsals and and I said, Hey,

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get up there and sing this song.

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And she got up there and my wife

is an amazing vocalist and we go,

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well, you should sing for the band.

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'cause I was the default singer

and I hated being the singer.

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And she's like, well, I hate

the songs you're playing.

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Why, why don't we do some originals?

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I was like, great.

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Let's do some originals.

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Yeah.

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Because I had a ton of music written,

but she and I, you know, I liked

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to write music, but she had written

a, she was writing a ton of vocals,

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so then she became the singer.

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And we did that basically until,

you know, we, she got pregnant.

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In fact, when she was initially pregnant,

we built like a beautiful isolation

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booth because we like to play loud.

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And so we had a nice sort of

lockout studio in North Hollywood

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and we rehearse all the time.

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So we put her in there.

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So the, so the baby, 'cause the

baby couldn't put on earphones

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or ear, you know, earmuffs.

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Mm-hmm.

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And um, so yeah.

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And then we stopped that, but I still

play and now I got a band with my kid.

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Really?

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Okay.

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So my teenager, yeah.

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So I took her, I was taking her to

a music shop one day 'cause I wanted

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to buy a new amp 'cause I'm a bit,

'cause I'm a bit of a gear nerd.

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Look at this sucker.

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Look at this 1970s, uh oh yeah.

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Music Master bass amp, but

sounds great with guitar.

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So I took her to go buy an amp

and I wasn't looking at this amp.

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Then the, uh, the guy who ran this great

little boutique music store, one of the

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few, you know, ones that are still holding

on, he's like, you gotta try this amp.

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These were, these were like

student amps in the seventies.

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Kids would take 'em to college.

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And it's so lightweight.

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I don't know if you've ever lugged

a amp 'cause I also have a fender

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twin reverb, which is my main one.

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But that's like 80 pounds it feels like.

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And uh, going from gig

to gig is never fun.

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But this thing sounds amazing.

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And my kid's like, oh, you gotta buy that.

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And as we're walking home,

she goes, you know what?

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I wanna play bass.

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I'm like, great.

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I got a bass in the closet.

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Let's do it.

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So we went home and started a band and

then she started writing right away.

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And we were, we started as a,

'cause she likes, she likes all

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kinds of music, but she, she was

playing joy division stuff with me.

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'cause it was a great

place to start on Facebook.

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Yeah.

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You know, that's

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Marc Preston: the hard part, you

know, writing it conceiving, you know.

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But, uh, it's funny because you mentioned

that, uh, the, the genre of music.

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I was in the grocery the other day.

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I think I finally reached that age.

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Sure.

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You know, you're in the grocery and

you're like, they're playing new order.

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It's, it's kinda like, you know,

you start hearing all the music and

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then the other day it was Beastie

Boys like, wait a minute, am I at

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that age where grocery store music?

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'cause they, I guess they're

appealing to a demographic.

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I'm like, wow, this is just, yes,

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Reed Diamond: Marc, you are that age.

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We are that

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Marc Preston: age.

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Reed Diamond: I mean, this is the

thing, like, I always think about this.

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When you, when you, when we were

younger and you'd see like bands

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from the, you know, like singers

and groups from the thirties and the

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forties, you know, big band guys doing

their tours and they're quite old.

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And, and we go, oh wow, that's,

that, that's interesting.

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And now it's, now it's the

Gogos doing that right there.

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We've all, I was, I got my kid and I were

walking down Hollywood, not Hollywood,

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sunset Boulevard a couple weeks ago,

going to get some dinner and we passed

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the Roxy, you know, right next to, uh,

the Rainbow right there where the, and

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the Gogos were playing, like, I guess

probably a warmup show for Coachella.

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And the, the, the fans were lying

down the street and I'm like.

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And I go look at all these old

people and my kid turns to be,

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you're the same age as them.

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I'm

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Marc Preston: like, oh

man, it's, you're right.

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I was thinking about this, thinking

about this the other day, right.

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The music that we listened to.

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Our kids don't necessarily

perceive it as being old, but

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respectively, like, you know?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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When we were young, fifties and

sixties music, you definitely could

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tell it was from a different era.

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You know?

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My, uh, sure.

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My daughter, my youngest, uh, used

to like, you know, Def Leopard

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pour some sugar on me whenever

we were driving in the car.

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I'm like, you know, yeah.

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You know, I, I, I was like, okay,

well they're into some of this stuff.

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And, uh, although she's, she's gone

full country now that she's the only one

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in the family and, you know, living in

Texas got her cowboy boots now, so she's

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got the whole country thing happening.

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That's so, yeah.

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Yeah.

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But are you working on anything right now?

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Now, now you got the, uh, the

film drop is out right now.

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Right?

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Drop

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Reed Diamond: is out right now.

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You can still see it in the theaters,

which is the best place to see it,

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but it is also for sale at home if

you're gonna do that, or rent at home.

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But, uh, it's, it's

definitely a movie theater.

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Theater.

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Of course, in this day and age,

it's so funny as, as I prepare to talk

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to you, talk to you, anytime I do a

podcast, you can't talk about anything.

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So I've got something coming up

that I'm about to start working

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on, but I can't tell you.

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But it's very exciting.

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I had to keep drop secret for a year and

I couldn't even say that I was in it.

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I didn't even tell my parents or my

father, um, until, uh, until like a

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couple of weeks before it premiered

when they're like, okay, you can tell

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people that you're in the movie now.

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Um, so we, what, what is

the, what's the general like?

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Premise of the film.

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I mean, this is a modern sort

of Hitchcockian thriller.

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It's just 90 minute, uh, thrill ride.

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So you've got, and this actually based on

something that actually happened to some

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of the producers, but this woman goes on

a date, she's going back into the, she's

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got a young son and she's had a traumatic

past with, uh, her son's father, and

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she's now ready to enter the dating world.

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And she meets at the top, at

this restaurant, fancy restaurant

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at the top of a skyscraper.

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And she immediately starts

getting these, uh, airdrops, but

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we, we call them digit drops.

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And she gets these drops on her phone

that are getting increasingly threatening.

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And basically, as you can see,

I'm not giving anything away.

497

16:55 ,645 --> 00:16:57,564

It's in, it's, it's, it's in the preview.

498

16:57 ,595 --> 00:17:01,285

Um, she's told to kill her

date, and so she's being

499

17:01 ,285 --> 00:17:03,355

manipulated through these drops.

500

17:03 ,355 --> 00:17:06,595

It's, it's a, and

basically the second she.

501

17:07 ,755 --> 00:17:10,485

The way Christopher Landon, the

director, described it, and it's so true.

502

17:10 ,845 --> 00:17:12,255

It's, it's a rollercoaster ride.

503

17:12 ,255 --> 00:17:16,035

So you're preparing, preparing, preparing,

getting to the date, and as soon as those

504

17:16 ,035 --> 00:17:17,955

drops start, boom, you're on the ride.

505

17:17 ,955 --> 00:17:19,005

And it, and it moves.

506

17:19 ,005 --> 00:17:22,755

I mean, it's 90 minutes in the theater

and, and it's, it's an intense ride.

507

17:22 ,755 --> 00:17:26,475

And it's an incredible script and

beautiful, incredibly talented.

508

17:26 ,475 --> 00:17:32,505

Meghan Fahey and the beautiful

Brandon's ssar, uh, two gorgeous

509

17:32 ,595 --> 00:17:36,735

awesomely talented movie stars

are the, um, the co-leads of this.

510

17:36 ,740 --> 00:17:40,275

And, and I play, I play a small

part in this film, um, that I

511

17:40 ,275 --> 00:17:41,565

can tell you nothing about, but,

512

17:41 ,625 --> 00:17:43,605

Marc Preston: um, which I

appreciate that there's nothing

513

17:43 ,635 --> 00:17:45,345

worse than listening to, to a chat.

514

17:45 ,345 --> 00:17:48,075

And they're like, look,

well, I can reverse engineer

515

17:48 ,075 --> 00:17:48,945

what's going on in the movie.

516

17:48 ,945 --> 00:17:50,025

I like knowing nothing.

517

17:50 ,085 --> 00:17:53,985

You know, me too, because I have this

philosophy that anytime anybody says,

518

17:54 ,045 --> 00:17:57,285

uh, I don't wanna spoil anything,

but anything that follows, but will

519

17:57 ,285 --> 00:17:58,815

be a spoiler, you know, that's of

520

17:58 ,815 --> 00:17:59,205

Reed Diamond: course.

521

17:59 ,205 --> 00:18:02,310

And I know I, it's funny 'cause

it's, they've really changed.

522

18:02 ,310 --> 00:18:03,630

I mean, you've, I'm sure

you've noticed this.

523

18:03 ,630 --> 00:18:07,230

I mean, they've really changed what movie

previews are where, where you're, the

524

18:07 ,230 --> 00:18:12,065

trailers now reveal a lot, which I am,

I guess someone's figured out that pe

525

18:12 ,065 --> 00:18:13,500

that tests well and people want that.

526

18:13 ,500 --> 00:18:16,890

But I, I'm like you, I wanna

know as little as possible.

527

18:17 ,400 --> 00:18:21,930

And it's, it's the worst too when

you say there's some sort of a show

528

18:21 ,930 --> 00:18:24,870

that's streaming that you're binge

watching with your, say your spouse

529

18:25 ,080 --> 00:18:27,840

that I'm watching with my wife, but

I'm, we're away so we can't watch it.

530

18:27 ,840 --> 00:18:30,990

So they're airing, you know, where

say White Lotus or Severance or

531

18:30 ,990 --> 00:18:33,780

whatever those shows, and it's already

airing and it's in the zeitgeist

532

18:33 ,780 --> 00:18:34,680

and people are talking about it.

533

18:34 ,680 --> 00:18:38,640

I'm like, I, you have to do everything you

can not to know anything right about it.

534

18:38 ,640 --> 00:18:40,620

'cause I don't like it being spoiled

because that's the fun of it.

535

18:40 ,620 --> 00:18:42,330

And that's why I do think this

is a great movie to see in the

536

18:42 ,330 --> 00:18:45,510

movie theater because some movies,

yeah, you don't need to see there.

537

18:45 ,510 --> 00:18:47,910

It's, but there's something

about not being able to leave.

538

18:48 ,314 --> 00:18:50,625

There's something about watching something

in your house where it makes, you know,

539

18:50 ,625 --> 00:18:52,695

you can get up, you can check your

phone, you can get something to eat.

540

18:52 ,695 --> 00:18:55,514

You can go for multiple bathroom

trips and not miss anything.

541

18:55 ,514 --> 00:18:58,064

But when you're seeing something in

the movie, in the movie theaters that's

542

18:58 ,064 --> 00:19:01,485

meant to be in the movie theaters,

whether it's a great film or it's a, a

543

19:01 ,485 --> 00:19:05,475

thrill ride like this, there's something

special about seeing it in the dark,

544

19:05 ,475 --> 00:19:09,885

seeing it that big and seeing it with

other people and, and having that.

545

19:10 ,290 --> 00:19:12,540

Experience in that finite amount of time.

546

19:13 ,050 --> 00:19:15,960

'cause I'd gotten, obviously we'd

all gotten really sort of away

547

19:15 ,960 --> 00:19:19,440

from seeing movies in the movie

theater during, you know, COVID.

548

19:19 ,920 --> 00:19:23,220

And, and I remember when I first

went back to the movie theaters and

549

19:23 ,220 --> 00:19:25,170

I'm seeing a film at Tiff, right?

550

19:25 ,170 --> 00:19:26,910

At the, at the Toronto Film Festival.

551

19:27 ,450 --> 00:19:31,350

And it was so exciting to see

it in a beautiful movie palace

552

19:31 ,350 --> 00:19:33,090

with people who love movies.

553

19:33 ,150 --> 00:19:34,710

And I realized, oh wow.

554

19:34 ,710 --> 00:19:37,530

Of course this is the way

it was meant to be seen.

555

19:37 ,530 --> 00:19:37,590

Marc Preston: Yeah.

556

19:37 ,650 --> 00:19:40,290

There is something to be said about

the communal experience as well.

557

19:40 ,290 --> 00:19:42,389

You know, when you're in a room

experiencing everything, there

558

19:42 ,389 --> 00:19:43,860

is something to that, you know?

559

19:43 ,860 --> 00:19:44,520

Oh, yeah.

560

19:44 ,940 --> 00:19:47,940

But there's some movies like,

like if it's just like a romantic

561

19:47 ,940 --> 00:19:50,910

comedy or something like that, you

know, so there's some things like,

562

19:50 ,910 --> 00:19:51,900

I wanna see this in the theater.

563

19:51 ,900 --> 00:19:53,580

Other things I'm like,

oh, I want it at home.

564

19:53 ,790 --> 00:19:54,720

Reed Diamond: You know?

565

19:54 ,725 --> 00:19:56,250

No, and that's, that's the economy.

566

19:56 ,250 --> 00:19:59,730

I mean, that's what's interesting too,

because right now I, I know with, with

567

19:59 ,730 --> 00:20:02,550

all films, you're going to, what's

the future of the film industry?

568

20:02 ,550 --> 00:20:05,730

Is it just Marvel movies and,

and Star Wars movies or, and, um.

569

20:05 ,889 --> 00:20:09,790

And, and video game movies or

is, is there room for cinema?

570

20:09 ,790 --> 00:20:12,490

Because it's interesting because all

of my favorite films that I saw this

571

20:12 ,490 --> 00:20:16,750

year, I haven't seen in the theater I

saw on screeners and I saw them at home.

572

20:17 ,139 --> 00:20:20,110

And like my favorite movie

this year was Andorra.

573

20:20 ,200 --> 00:20:21,250

Um, and Nora, sorry.

574

20:21 ,340 --> 00:20:22,629

And Dora, I'm thinking of Andorra.

575

20:22 ,629 --> 00:20:23,050

And Andorra.

576

20:23 ,260 --> 00:20:26,290

It was an Nora, but Nora, you

know, uh, the Sean Baker film.

577

20:26 ,620 --> 00:20:31,570

And, uh, and I, I wanna see it

in the theater and uh, 'cause it.

578

20:31 ,780 --> 00:20:33,850

Because when you're looking at a

filmmaker's movie, you, you know,

579

20:33 ,850 --> 00:20:35,910

you wanna see Goodfellas for the

first time in a movie theater,

580

20:35 ,910 --> 00:20:36,820

you don't wanna see it on tv.

581

20:36 ,820 --> 00:20:37,090

Right?

582

20:37 ,120 --> 00:20:38,710

You wanna see those kinds of movies there.

583

20:38 ,920 --> 00:20:40,990

So I think it's valuable,

but I agree with you.

584

20:40 ,990 --> 00:20:41,260

Yeah.

585

20:41 ,590 --> 00:20:43,705

I, we all have really nice,

you know what I think should do

586

20:44 ,080 --> 00:20:46,780

Marc Preston: to re reinvigorate

the theatrical experiences is start

587

20:46 ,780 --> 00:20:50,200

re-releasing some older movies, like

you said, like Goodfellas, there's

588

20:50 ,290 --> 00:20:53,770

rerelease it to Goes even if you have

seen it, you know, there's some movies

589

20:53 ,770 --> 00:20:56,230

we've been watching since they've been

on videotape, but how cool would it

590

20:56 ,305 --> 00:20:59,530

be to like close Encounters back in

the theater or something like that?

591

20:59 ,590 --> 00:20:59,860

Um, oh

592

20:59 ,860 --> 00:21:00,190

Reed Diamond: dude.

593

21:00 ,220 --> 00:21:03,250

'cause they do real, you know, it's

funny, I had never seen Clockwork

594

21:03 ,250 --> 00:21:04,690

Orange in the movie theater.

595

21:04 ,690 --> 00:21:06,220

I'd only seen it on like the first time.

596

21:06 ,220 --> 00:21:08,290

I thought I saw it on VHS in the eighties.

597

21:08 ,590 --> 00:21:10,510

And then I was friends with

Malcolm McDowell 'cause he and I

598

21:10 ,510 --> 00:21:12,220

did a sh show together for years.

599

21:12 ,370 --> 00:21:15,640

And, and they just come out with

a new print and I saw it at the

600

21:15 ,640 --> 00:21:18,340

Egyptian and I'm going, oh, I've

never seen this movie before.

601

21:18 ,340 --> 00:21:20,980

'cause when you see it that way in

the way it was meant to be seen.

602

21:20 ,980 --> 00:21:24,580

And, and there are, I mean, there

are less and less art house theaters.

603

21:24 ,580 --> 00:21:25,930

I mean, there's no, there's none.

604

21:26 ,594 --> 00:21:30,314

I think Toronto's last ones all

disappeared and in LA obviously Tarantino

605

21:30 ,314 --> 00:21:34,425

bought the new Beverly, so that was great

to like have that place to go see movies.

606

21:34 ,425 --> 00:21:37,604

But yeah, if, if they were shot

that way, and I mean, God, you know,

607

21:37 ,604 --> 00:21:41,114

seeing, I saw Once Upon a Time in

Hollywood at the Arc Light, right?

608

21:41 ,175 --> 00:21:43,274

And, and the CAMA Dome on 70 Oh really?

609

21:43 ,274 --> 00:21:44,294

70 millimeter, which

610

21:44 ,294 --> 00:21:45,465

Marc Preston: is just wow, amazing.

611

21:45 ,469 --> 00:21:50,294

I I still say that that movie had so,

like, it paid homage so well to, uh,

612

21:50 ,294 --> 00:21:54,014

radio circa 1960 something, because every

time they got into that car Oh yeah.

613

21:54 ,014 --> 00:21:55,965

Kicking on K HJ in LA or whatever.

614

21:55 ,965 --> 00:21:56,445

Oh yeah.

615

21:56 ,625 --> 00:21:59,594

I always love it when they were just

driving, you know, and the perspective.

616

21:59 ,594 --> 00:21:59,655

Yeah.

617

21:59 ,685 --> 00:22:01,965

That's one of those movies

that's entered into my list.

618

22:01 ,965 --> 00:22:04,125

Like, if it's on, I'm gonna

go ahead and watch it.

619

22:04 ,185 --> 00:22:06,975

You know, it's like one of those things,

I just don't tire up that much, you know?

620

22:07 ,304 --> 00:22:09,014

Reed Diamond: But what is, uh,

it's funny that movie holds up.

621

22:09 ,014 --> 00:22:12,584

I mean, we, I think my wife and I have

seen it five times maybe, or we watch it

622

22:12 ,584 --> 00:22:14,445

all the time and it's, it's never not.

623

22:14 ,804 --> 00:22:15,495

Amazing.

624

22:15 ,675 --> 00:22:16,574

One of my favorite, I agree with you.

625

22:16 ,665 --> 00:22:20,205

Marc Preston: What his, uh, it was with,

uh, Brad Pitt going to that, uh, you

626

22:20 ,205 --> 00:22:22,754

know, uh, ranch, the, uh, uh, uh, yeah.

627

22:22 ,754 --> 00:22:23,564

Spawn Ranch.

628

22:23 ,625 --> 00:22:24,014

Yeah.

629

22:24 ,105 --> 00:22:24,375

Yeah.

630

22:24 ,375 --> 00:22:27,975

And, uh, that, just, that whole getting

that guy to change his tie, I don't know.

631

22:27 ,975 --> 00:22:31,185

I mean, Brad Pitt, you know, if,

you know, I could've gotten somebody

632

22:31 ,185 --> 00:22:33,044

a little more attractive than

him would do that movie, though.

633

22:33 ,044 --> 00:22:35,955

But I mean, it's like, you know, you, you

get who you can get, I guess, you know?

634

22:36 ,105 --> 00:22:36,764

Reed Diamond: Oh my God.

635

22:36 ,764 --> 00:22:37,725

He's the ultimate man.

636

22:37 ,814 --> 00:22:39,524

He's, there's no one who

could play that behavior.

637

22:39 ,524 --> 00:22:40,965

You're just like, oh, I

want to be his friend.

638

22:40 ,965 --> 00:22:41,804

I want to be like him.

639

22:41 ,865 --> 00:22:44,175

And then of course, everyone at

that Spawn Ranch is a movie star.

640

22:44 ,175 --> 00:22:47,445

I mean, you've got Mikey Madison and Nor

you, Nora, you've got, you know, Austin

641

22:47 ,445 --> 00:22:50,534

Butler, you've got everyone, everyone

in there is like, is a huge star.

642

22:50 ,534 --> 00:22:53,895

You've got, uh, uh, I

mean, it's Marc Quigley.

643

22:53 ,895 --> 00:22:55,215

It's just like, uh, quality.

644

22:55 ,215 --> 00:22:57,524

It's like, um, so everyone's there.

645

22:57 ,524 --> 00:22:58,544

It's fantastic.

646

23:05 ,655 --> 00:23:07,695

Marc Preston: But with your daughter,

have you found, have you gotten to

647

23:07 ,695 --> 00:23:11,115

the point yet of saying, you know, I

really want you to see this film, like,

648

23:11 ,115 --> 00:23:14,745

you're curating some of her theatrical

stuff, or do you find that, or does

649

23:14 ,745 --> 00:23:16,034

she just have her own interests?

650

23:16 ,034 --> 00:23:16,485

You know?

651

23:16 ,725 --> 00:23:17,625

Reed Diamond: No, she's great.

652

23:17 ,625 --> 00:23:22,485

I mean, we've, it's, we, I, I remember

not, I mean, probably 10 years ago now, I

653

23:22 ,485 --> 00:23:25,725

mean, we were really, my wife and I would

try to show her things that we'd loved,

654

23:25 ,725 --> 00:23:27,105

and also you wanna see what holds up.

655

23:27 ,105 --> 00:23:29,115

So it's interesting to see

what movies that we love that

656

23:29 ,115 --> 00:23:31,215

are really still amazing.

657

23:31 ,485 --> 00:23:31,635

Mm-hmm.

658

23:31 ,935 --> 00:23:32,804

Like Dog Day Afternoon is.

659

23:33 ,280 --> 00:23:34,179

Always good, right?

660

23:34 ,179 --> 00:23:35,439

Tootsie is always good.

661

23:35 ,439 --> 00:23:37,419

And then there's some movies from

the eighties that just don't hold up.

662

23:37 ,419 --> 00:23:40,629

So we would show them as, as

they became age appropriate, and

663

23:40 ,629 --> 00:23:41,530

we would show them over again.

664

23:41 ,530 --> 00:23:43,719

And most of my favorite movies

were from the seventies.

665

23:43 ,719 --> 00:23:45,159

And, and she, and she loves them.

666

23:45 ,159 --> 00:23:46,000

She loves dog.

667

23:46 ,000 --> 00:23:47,290

I mean, she's got a really good taste.

668

23:47 ,290 --> 00:23:48,669

But it's same thing with music.

669

23:48 ,730 --> 00:23:51,520

It, it wasn't like, you have to

see this, you have to like this.

670

23:51 ,520 --> 00:23:52,449

It's just like, what do you think?

671

23:52 ,449 --> 00:23:57,189

And, and sometimes through her eyes, I, I

would re because she's highly intelligent

672

23:57 ,195 --> 00:24:02,469

and, and, and smart and, and, and, and

creative and, and so her insights are.

673

24:02 ,675 --> 00:24:03,875

Are are profound.

674

24:03 ,875 --> 00:24:06,364

And I'm always like, oh yeah, oh

yeah, I see exactly why you see it.

675

24:06 ,514 --> 00:24:08,645

But music, we just exposed her to it.

676

24:09 ,245 --> 00:24:11,915

So her, it's a panoply

of what she listens to.

677

24:11 ,915 --> 00:24:13,235

I mean, she's, she'll make a mix.

678

24:13 ,235 --> 00:24:15,274

She, she makes mix, you know, playlist.

679

24:15 ,280 --> 00:24:15,340

Mm-hmm.

680

24:15 ,419 --> 00:24:17,165

Now, 'cause we don't make mix

tapes like we used to, but she

681

24:17 ,165 --> 00:24:18,155

makes a playlist all the time.

682

24:18 ,485 --> 00:24:23,254

And you can go from a K-pop song to a

Joy Division song to a Dean Martin song,

683

24:23 ,254 --> 00:24:26,014

to, um, an Eno Morone Italian pop song.

684

24:26 ,014 --> 00:24:28,054

Like she's, because she's

been exposed to all that.

685

24:28 ,054 --> 00:24:29,314

And it's certainly a, a, well see that.

686

24:29 ,314 --> 00:24:29,645

See that's

687

24:29 ,645 --> 00:24:30,064

Marc Preston: very cool.

688

24:30 ,064 --> 00:24:30,125

Yeah.

689

24:30 ,125 --> 00:24:30,485

I think,

690

24:30 ,485 --> 00:24:30,935

Reed Diamond: you know, the

691

24:30 ,935 --> 00:24:33,725

Marc Preston: same thing with food,

you know, expose your kids, you know.

692

24:33 ,784 --> 00:24:34,084

Yeah.

693

24:34 ,770 --> 00:24:36,480

My, my daughter though,

she drives me nuts.

694

24:36 ,480 --> 00:24:38,730

She'll, what she'll do is

I have different playlists.

695

24:38 ,730 --> 00:24:40,530

I'll have a country or

I'll have a Sure, sure.

696

24:40 ,530 --> 00:24:41,700

Whatever different playlist.

697

24:41 ,700 --> 00:24:41,760

Yeah.

698

24:42 ,090 --> 00:24:44,700

Uh, you know, maybe it's based

around whatever I'm up to.

699

24:44 ,700 --> 00:24:45,930

Maybe I'm cr driving in the car.

700

24:45 ,930 --> 00:24:46,320

I don't know.

701

24:46 ,680 --> 00:24:46,740

Yeah.

702

24:46 ,740 --> 00:24:49,770

But she just, all she does is Spotify

is just put everything in her likes.

703

24:49 ,770 --> 00:24:54,480

So she has bazillions of just likes songs

and so when we're driving she started

704

24:54 ,480 --> 00:24:56,610

trying to do that with my Spotify.

705

24:56 ,610 --> 00:24:57,241

I'm like, no, no, no.

706

24:57 ,246 --> 00:24:58,740

Daddy's too anal reten for that.

707

24:58 ,770 --> 00:25:01,080

You know, we, we gotta organize, you know?

708

25:01 ,080 --> 00:25:01,980

Does she, uh, well it's funny you

709

25:01 ,980 --> 00:25:05,550

Reed Diamond: say that because it's

like, I do my, when, when a, when my

710

25:05 ,550 --> 00:25:08,670

daughter and I are driving anywhere

and we do a lot of long trips

711

25:08 ,670 --> 00:25:09,900

'cause I love to drive and we drive.

712

25:09 ,935 --> 00:25:11,855

From Maine to wherever we're

going, blah, blah, blah.

713

25:11 ,855 --> 00:25:13,054

I go, it's your playlist.

714

25:13 ,054 --> 00:25:15,754

We only play your

playlist, so you get to dj.

715

25:15 ,905 --> 00:25:18,815

So, and she does, and they're,

they're incredibly eclectic and

716

25:18 ,815 --> 00:25:21,245

they're more like this, like you're

saying, like, it's all the like songs.

717

25:21 ,245 --> 00:25:23,945

It's a, it's a, it's a huge,

it could be hours and hours

718

25:23 ,945 --> 00:25:25,175

and hours, but I love that.

719

25:25 ,175 --> 00:25:26,105

I'm like, you're the dj.

720

25:26 ,105 --> 00:25:26,990

When we got, I think's a great insight

721

25:27 ,100 --> 00:25:30,095

Marc Preston: into, it's a fun, like, I

interviewed, uh, uh, ours chatting with,

722

25:30 ,095 --> 00:25:31,655

uh, uh, Jordan Bridges, BOE Bridge's son.

723

25:31 ,955 --> 00:25:35,915

And he, what he does is he just makes up

playlists and shares him with friends.

724

25:35 ,915 --> 00:25:36,784

Like something that, yeah.

725

25:37 ,205 --> 00:25:40,205

And so we were talking, uh, and

he's like, oh, you know, I need

726

25:40 ,205 --> 00:25:41,855

to make a beach playlist for you.

727

25:41 ,945 --> 00:25:44,554

And he made a playlist and,

and then the fires hit.

728

25:45 ,075 --> 00:25:49,635

Then he, I, I, I like, you know, my

poor guy's like wrapped up doing stuff

729

25:49 ,635 --> 00:25:53,265

and, uh, but he ends up sending me this,

this play, which is up on the site.

730

25:53 ,265 --> 00:25:56,265

And I was like, that's kind of fun to

me it's sort of like, like, it's almost

731

25:56 ,265 --> 00:25:59,387

like sharing recipes or something

like that, you know, you get insight.

732

25:59 ,392 --> 00:25:59,865

Something I do, I'm gonna

733

25:59 ,865 --> 00:26:01,335

Reed Diamond: share you, I'm

gonna share something with you.

734

26:01 ,335 --> 00:26:04,215

'cause I'm obsessed with playlists,

so I have, I mean, I have a Christmas

735

26:04 ,215 --> 00:26:05,840

playlist that's like eight days, right.

736

26:06 ,220 --> 00:26:07,880

Of music and then eight days.

737

26:07 ,905 --> 00:26:09,915

But we, we just, we have an Easter one.

738

26:09 ,915 --> 00:26:14,085

'cause I found every single sort of

fifties and sixties pop Easter songs.

739

26:14 ,085 --> 00:26:16,485

There's very few, you know, and, you

know, there were so many Halloween songs.

740

26:16 ,485 --> 00:26:20,835

I'm mean, I have a, I've got like a eight

day or three day Halloween playlist.

741

26:20 ,865 --> 00:26:23,955

But, uh, I love doing that and

I'm making them for, because I'm

742

26:23 ,955 --> 00:26:26,925

like you, I make 'em for special

occasions and, and different moods.

743

26:26 ,925 --> 00:26:29,355

I have like, my, my

reading a script playlist.

744

26:29 ,355 --> 00:26:31,245

I make a playlist for every part I play.

745

26:31 ,485 --> 00:26:33,645

And then I have like new,

oh see, that would be cool.

746

26:33 ,645 --> 00:26:35,925

You get, you get the moon

dialed in for the character.

747

26:35 ,925 --> 00:26:37,095

What does a character listen to?

748

26:37 ,095 --> 00:26:37,785

That is kind of cool.

749

26:37 ,785 --> 00:26:38,385

A hundred percent.

750

26:38 ,700 --> 00:26:39,030

Oh yes.

751

26:39 ,030 --> 00:26:42,630

Have my drop playlist because it was like,

what would get me into Richard's mind?

752

26:42 ,960 --> 00:26:43,230

I know.

753

26:43 ,230 --> 00:26:45,060

I love because music's so important.

754

26:45 ,060 --> 00:26:47,340

I, I've done that from the beginning,

like back, you know, it was still

755

26:47 ,340 --> 00:26:50,670

like, just when you're making

tapes, before you burning CDs, I

756

26:50 ,700 --> 00:26:52,140

always made a character playlist.

757

26:52 ,170 --> 00:26:52,800

'cause it's nice.

758

26:52 ,950 --> 00:26:53,790

It gets you.

759

26:54 ,060 --> 00:26:55,200

'cause it just depends.

760

26:55 ,200 --> 00:26:58,710

I mean, you know, you, you obviously

love music, but music is one of those

761

26:58 ,710 --> 00:27:00,270

things where it can just like a smell.

762

27:00 ,270 --> 00:27:01,230

It can just take you somewhere.

763

27:01 ,230 --> 00:27:01,925

It can transport you.

764

27:02 ,155 --> 00:27:02,645

Marc Preston: Exactly.

765

27:02 ,645 --> 00:27:03,685

That's, that's, yeah.

766

27:03 ,685 --> 00:27:03,845

Reed Diamond: Uh,

767

27:03 ,915 --> 00:27:04,605

Marc Preston: puts you Exactly.

768

27:05 ,190 --> 00:27:06,485

It makes it real for you, you know?

769

27:06 ,485 --> 00:27:06,725

Yeah.

770

27:06 ,725 --> 00:27:06,925

Uh,

771

27:07 ,195 --> 00:27:07,485

Reed Diamond: yeah.

772

27:07 ,485 --> 00:27:07,685

You

773

27:07 ,690 --> 00:27:09,810

Marc Preston: know, one of the things

I always liked growing up and my son

774

27:09 ,810 --> 00:27:13,710

ended up liking, he always liked, he,

he, when he was young, he developed

775

27:13 ,710 --> 00:27:15,270

an appreciation of soundtracks.

776

27:15 ,600 --> 00:27:15,870

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

777

27:15 ,870 --> 00:27:16,380

So that,

778

27:16 ,385 --> 00:27:18,030

Marc Preston: that, that

kind of begets a question.

779

27:18 The Magic of Movie Soundtracks

27:18 ,720 --> 00:27:22,710

What, what movie or movies do you

think had just a killer soundtrack?

780

27:22 ,920 --> 00:27:23,160

Yeah.

781

27:23 ,370 --> 00:27:24,300

Do you have any in mind?

782

27:24 ,300 --> 00:27:26,580

You're like, oh yeah, that

was, that was a rockstar.

783

27:26 ,610 --> 00:27:28,620

Reed Diamond: Well, are you,

now are you talking about their.

784

27:29 ,010 --> 00:27:32,160

Song choices where they're using pop

songs or just the soundtrack itself?

785

27:32 ,160 --> 00:27:35,460

Like not, not the scoring, if you will,

you know, just the, uh, not the scoring.

786

27:35 ,550 --> 00:27:36,390

Oh my gosh.

787

27:36 ,630 --> 00:27:37,650

Oh, so many movies.

788

27:37 ,680 --> 00:27:41,310

'cause I mean, that's in fact now, I

mean, TV has obviously taken that to

789

27:41 ,310 --> 00:27:43,260

the next level because TV Oh yeah.

790

27:43 ,260 --> 00:27:44,040

Spends more money.

791

27:44 ,220 --> 00:27:47,730

They spend more money sometimes just on

the song that they'll, they'll do the

792

27:47 ,760 --> 00:27:51,780

ending montage in for each episode than

they do probably on some of the actors.

793

27:52 ,350 --> 00:27:54,780

Um, you know, so you

get so many great songs.

794

27:54 ,780 --> 00:28:00,900

Like, um, when The Watchmen was on HBO,

they had so many cool, like, covers

795

28:00 ,900 --> 00:28:03,780

of songs and that made me, and that

in fact, Watchmen inspired me to make

796

28:03 ,780 --> 00:28:05,820

a whole playlist of obscure covers.

797

28:05 ,820 --> 00:28:10,080

'cause they were, I didn't realize that

how many like motowny or staxy type

798

28:10 ,080 --> 00:28:15,510

groups would do covers of like British

New Wave, uh, or, or you know, British

799

28:15 ,510 --> 00:28:17,550

invasion, sorry, British invasion songs.

800

28:17 ,550 --> 00:28:22,200

So it's really interesting to hear a soul

take on day tripper or whatever like that.

801

28:22 ,200 --> 00:28:23,340

So it's always fun to hear.

802

28:23 ,640 --> 00:28:25,860

But yeah, the, I mean, so

many, I mean, obviously.

803

28:26 ,670 --> 00:28:28,710

What's so funny, Scorsese always

has great soundtracks, right?

804

28:28 ,710 --> 00:28:31,260

He always uses great songs, and then

sometimes he uses this, how many

805

28:31 ,260 --> 00:28:32,880

times does he use Layla in a movie?

806

28:32 ,880 --> 00:28:33,060

Right?

807

28:33 ,420 --> 00:28:37,680

So, but it always sounds great and, uh,

those stone songs, but I mean, what's your

808

28:37 ,680 --> 00:28:39,960

favorite movie of with songs recently?

809

28:40 ,290 --> 00:28:43,921

Marc Preston: You know, I, there was a,

there was a, there was a few, uh, right.

810

28:44 ,285 --> 00:28:46,830

What I like is something like,

wow, that kinda came outta nowhere.

811

28:46 ,980 --> 00:28:48,270

What was that song with, uh, uh.

812

28:49 ,135 --> 00:28:49,885

God, what's his name?

813

28:49 ,885 --> 00:28:51,085

He was, he was in Barbie.

814

28:51 ,175 --> 00:28:52,075

Good looking dude.

815

28:52 ,075 --> 00:28:52,435

Always.

816

28:52 ,435 --> 00:28:53,095

Brian Gosling.

817

28:53 ,155 --> 00:28:53,785

Brian Gosling.

818

28:53 ,785 --> 00:28:53,875

Yeah.

819

28:53 ,875 --> 00:28:55,254

He was in, was it Drive?

820

28:55 ,495 --> 00:28:56,905

I think that was a, yeah, yeah, yeah.

821

28:56 ,965 --> 00:29:00,895

That was a cool, that was a cool, but

also, uh, there was a, uh, film that came

822

29:00 ,895 --> 00:29:02,905

out that was, God, this is really bad.

823

29:02 ,905 --> 00:29:05,245

I I, if I try to remember

names, my brain goes, huh.

824

29:05 ,425 --> 00:29:05,725

No, you're not.

825

29:05 ,725 --> 00:29:06,625

That's what I'm here for, Marc.

826

29:06 ,625 --> 00:29:07,195

That's what I'm here for.

827

29:07 ,195 --> 00:29:07,795

Well, well, thank you.

828

29:07 ,855 --> 00:29:08,065

Yeah.

829

29:08 ,070 --> 00:29:10,615

It was, um, I, I'm gonna

come back to you on that.

830

29:10 ,645 --> 00:29:14,155

'cause I gotta remember, uh, you know,

actually, I'm, I've got my computer here.

831

29:14 ,155 --> 00:29:17,125

I, I'm like, I, I've got the Weber

net at my, at my disposal here.

832

29:17 ,125 --> 00:29:18,025

Heck yeah, you do.

833

29:18 ,255 --> 00:29:20,895

Uh, I think I got an

Academy Award for this.

834

29:20 ,895 --> 00:29:24,705

Let's see, it was with, uh,

Natalie Portman and, uh, oh

835

29:24 ,855 --> 00:29:27,495

God, it came out about 2004.

836

29:27 ,675 --> 00:29:30,195

This is, this is driving me nuts.

837

29:30 ,945 --> 00:29:31,995

Oh, are you thinking Garden State?

838

29:32 ,115 --> 00:29:32,895

Garden State,

839

29:32 ,895 --> 00:29:33,375

Reed Diamond: yes.

840

29:33 ,375 --> 00:29:34,095

Yeah, garden State.

841

29:34 ,095 --> 00:29:34,575

Yeah, of course.

842

29:34 ,575 --> 00:29:35,805

Garden State had great music.

843

29:35 ,805 --> 00:29:36,345

Of course.

844

29:36 ,345 --> 00:29:37,905

'cause he was using Zach Bra, right.

845

29:37 ,905 --> 00:29:41,175

He was using all that cool

music from that period and like

846

29:41 ,175 --> 00:29:42,375

all these like indie bands.

847

29:42 ,405 --> 00:29:42,975

Oh yeah.

848

29:42 ,980 --> 00:29:43,030

Yeah.

849

29:43 ,065 --> 00:29:43,965

It's like you'd hear it and go,

850

29:43 ,965 --> 00:29:45,915

Marc Preston: God, that it's just

something that catches like, how

851

29:45 ,915 --> 00:29:48,285

did I not know this was out there?

852

29:48 ,285 --> 00:29:51,285

Which is always, 'cause you'd get a

certain age and you're like, you kind

853

29:51 ,285 --> 00:29:54,405

of feel like you've sampled or tasted

just about everything that is available.

854

29:54 ,405 --> 00:29:55,395

At least you know, a little bit.

855

29:55 ,395 --> 00:29:55,455

Yeah.

856

29:55 ,815 --> 00:29:56,655

But that was like, wow.

857

29:56 ,655 --> 00:29:57,825

That was a, that was a fun one.

858

29:57 ,825 --> 00:30:00,670

So, yeah, that was a long trip to answer

that question for you, so I apologize.

859

30:00 ,670 --> 00:30:01,215

Well, we got there,

860

30:01 ,215 --> 00:30:01,485

Reed Diamond: Dennis.

861

30:01 ,935 --> 00:30:03,645

I knew we, I knew we'd

get there together, buddy.

862

30:03 ,705 --> 00:30:04,875

But that's the fun thing about.

863

30:05 ,235 --> 00:30:09,495

Some of the musical streaming things,

you know, like 'em or Hate 'em, is that

864

30:09 ,495 --> 00:30:12,525

you can, instead of purchasing music,

'cause you know when, when you and I

865

30:12 ,525 --> 00:30:16,635

were a kid at 5 99 for that album, that

was, I held onto that for a long time and

866

30:16 ,820 --> 00:30:18,975

you, you, you wanted to choose wisely.

867

30:18 ,975 --> 00:30:19,965

But sometimes, do

868

30:19 ,965 --> 00:30:21,555

Marc Preston: you remember

those old Maxi singles?

869

30:21 ,555 --> 00:30:24,105

They would sell, like, you could

course, like the whole album wasn't

870

30:24 ,105 --> 00:30:26,085

out, but you can go get the single

and they had a, like a, yeah.

871

30:26 ,495 --> 00:30:29,195

Uh, you know, back when you could,

again, this is going off the deep

872

30:29 ,195 --> 00:30:32,314

end here, but uh, you can get the

European, there are the imports.

873

30:32 ,314 --> 00:30:35,405

Like there is a version of like,

with all the different mixes and uh,

874

30:35 ,435 --> 00:30:36,004

Reed Diamond: sure.

875

30:36 ,095 --> 00:30:38,044

Marc Preston: I remember

getting a level 42 1 like that.

876

30:38 ,044 --> 00:30:38,794

I was so excited.

877

30:38 ,794 --> 00:30:40,865

All it was is one song,

but done a four by four

878

30:40 ,865 --> 00:30:41,825

Reed Diamond: different ways, I think.

879

30:42 ,365 --> 00:30:44,794

Well, you get those Japanese imports

and they'd be like on the pink,

880

30:44 ,885 --> 00:30:46,355

uh, vinyl or a different color.

881

30:46 ,355 --> 00:30:48,665

Vinyl, red or yellow for

those, for the, yeah.

882

30:48 ,669 --> 00:30:48,720

Yeah.

883

30:48 ,740 --> 00:30:50,135

Is is the kid into vinyl?

884

30:50 ,375 --> 00:30:51,520

Is uh, she in the band?

885

30:51 ,520 --> 00:30:52,564

She's, she's in fact, that's so funny.

886

30:52 ,564 --> 00:30:54,665

You're saying like she was,

I literally was adjusting the

887

30:54 ,665 --> 00:30:56,405

pitch on her turntable yesterday.

888

30:56 ,405 --> 00:30:58,024

She's like, dad, can you come

here and adjust the pitch?

889

30:58 ,355 --> 00:31:00,520

Um, and, and she's got, uh, she's got.

890

31:01 ,480 --> 00:31:04,510

She received it for, I can't

remember if it was a birthday

891

31:04 ,510 --> 00:31:06,700

or a another special occasion.

892

31:06 ,760 --> 00:31:09,310

Uh, but she's got a, she's got

a vintage 'cause I think I, I

893

31:09 ,310 --> 00:31:10,600

don't, I'm not into the new gear.

894

31:10 ,600 --> 00:31:14,530

So she's got an old amp, she's

got old, um, speakers and, and old

895

31:14 ,530 --> 00:31:15,940

turntable techniques, turntable.

896

31:15 ,940 --> 00:31:16,306

Oh, I, oh yeah.

897

31:16 ,330 --> 00:31:19,720

Marc Preston: I'm, I'm og Everybody

wants to do everything on the screen,

898

31:19 ,780 --> 00:31:21,430

on the, uh, yeah, on the interface.

899

31:21 ,430 --> 00:31:24,610

I'm like, I like buttons,

I like knobs, I like Sure.

900

31:24 ,640 --> 00:31:26,980

You know, uh, analog, uh, stuff.

901

31:26 ,980 --> 00:31:30,910

So I got my, uh, that's my solid state

logic mixer, you know, so, exactly.

902

31:31 ,000 --> 00:31:33,490

Those are, I'm, I wish

I still had my mixer.

903

31:33 ,550 --> 00:31:33,880

I see.

904

31:33 ,880 --> 00:31:34,120

Yeah.

905

31:34 ,360 --> 00:31:34,480

Yeah.

906

31:34 ,480 --> 00:31:37,720

I just, I love the gear, the, the analog.

907

31:37 ,720 --> 00:31:42,160

I mean, there's a place, uh, Jack

White in Nashville at his Yeah.

908

31:42 ,190 --> 00:31:43,120

Recording studio.

909

31:43 ,450 --> 00:31:46,810

They have a, a live room that

they record right to acetate.

910

31:47 ,205 --> 00:31:47,445

It.

911

31:47 ,445 --> 00:31:50,025

Like, in other words, it's like,

that's gotta be so cool to have it.

912

31:50 ,295 --> 00:31:53,325

Not multi-track, but the band just

playing, goes straight to vinyl.

913

31:53 ,325 --> 00:31:56,175

And that's about as close as you can

get to being there, I guess, you know?

914

31:56 ,235 --> 00:31:57,675

Reed Diamond: Well, that's, and,

and there's something, you know,

915

31:57 ,675 --> 00:32:01,215

I mean, obviously everyone's

into analog stuff for music.

916

32:01 ,215 --> 00:32:04,125

I mean, obviously the, the interfaces

and recording digitally is great,

917

32:04 ,125 --> 00:32:06,435

but recording the tape was so

forgiving and it's an instrument

918

32:06 ,435 --> 00:32:07,755

as well, and that analog stuff.

919

32:07 ,755 --> 00:32:11,085

And I have only, you know, I only have

two amps for guitar and stuff like that.

920

32:11 ,085 --> 00:32:15,795

And, but I, but I, it's interesting,

uh, how you miss that stuff.

921

32:15 ,795 --> 00:32:17,895

And it's funny 'cause I thought,

I remember when I sold my last

922

32:17 ,895 --> 00:32:20,505

stereo, um, set, I'm like, well,

it's just gonna get better.

923

32:20 ,505 --> 00:32:21,165

I'll get rid of this.

924

32:21 ,165 --> 00:32:22,185

And they never got better.

925

32:22 ,185 --> 00:32:23,505

They just got smaller and worse.

926

32:23 ,510 --> 00:32:23,600

Mm-hmm.

927

32:23 ,835 --> 00:32:26,235

And every, there's, it's so funny

when you show me that mixer, like

928

32:26 ,235 --> 00:32:29,325

there's not one piece of gear that

I've ever gotten rid of that I.

929

32:29 ,500 --> 00:32:33,730

I wish I had, like I'm, I, I've regretted

every time I've sold, because you know,

930

32:33 ,730 --> 00:32:36,310

when you're, especially as a musician,

you're trading gear for new gear.

931

32:36 ,580 --> 00:32:38,860

Every guitar pedal, I'm like,

I don't need that guitar pedal.

932

32:38 ,860 --> 00:32:40,090

I'll trade it for another guitar pedal.

933

32:40 ,090 --> 00:32:41,530

And you're like, oh,

I wish I still had it.

934

32:41 ,530 --> 00:32:41,860

God, you,

935

32:42 ,190 --> 00:32:43,750

Marc Preston: my ex-wife would

say to me, he's like, why do you

936

32:43 ,750 --> 00:32:46,390

need all these old tapes from,

and you on the radio or all this?

937

32:46 ,390 --> 00:32:47,505

I mean, I go, oh yeah, boxes is of reels.

938

32:47 ,505 --> 00:32:51,400

I'm like, you understand that's,

that's, that's a catalog, you know?

939

32:51 ,910 --> 00:32:52,030

Yeah.

940

32:52 ,060 --> 00:32:54,130

But it's so funny you

mentioned that tube thing.

941

32:54 ,130 --> 00:32:57,070

I, I've always used solid state,

you know, logically preamps.

942

32:57 ,075 --> 00:32:57,105

Sure.

943

32:57 ,105 --> 00:33:01,510

I've got a Sure, you know, grace Design,

uh, preamp here, which is excellent.

944

33:01 ,600 --> 00:33:07,360

But I had a, uh, and she makes wonderful

gear, uh, manly, uh, out California.

945

33:07 ,390 --> 00:33:10,870

She makes a tube pre

everything's tube that they make.

946

33:10 ,870 --> 00:33:11,345

Yeah, yeah.

947

33:11 ,350 --> 00:33:14,290

And I got one and I was like, oh,

I'm so excited to get tube gear.

948

33:14 ,680 --> 00:33:15,340

And there is that.

949

33:15 ,530 --> 00:33:20,149

That just barely that taste in the

background of, you know, that thing.

950

33:20 ,179 --> 00:33:22,189

I'm like, it was driving me nuts.

951

33:22 ,189 --> 00:33:24,649

'cause for voiceover

voice, I, I could Oh yeah.

952

33:24 ,649 --> 00:33:25,550

Hear it was driving bonkers.

953

33:25 ,550 --> 00:33:28,399

But for music, I think it's, it

would be a whole different thing.

954

33:28 ,399 --> 00:33:30,320

So I, I, I moved back over to solid state.

955

33:30 ,320 --> 00:33:31,610

That's, uh, I don't know.

956

33:31 ,610 --> 00:33:31,790

Not dude,

957

33:32 ,209 --> 00:33:34,550

Reed Diamond: there's literally

software for record, you know, for

958

33:34 ,550 --> 00:33:36,980

musicians where you add that his, to it.

959

33:36 ,985 --> 00:33:37,064

Mm-hmm.

960

33:37 ,145 --> 00:33:38,179

Where you add those, right.

961

33:38 ,179 --> 00:33:40,010

That you add those

frequencies and that noise.

962

33:40 ,010 --> 00:33:42,439

You, you know, you, they

call it lo-fi now, right?

963

33:42 ,439 --> 00:33:43,939

You're gonna lo-fi it up, but yeah.

964

33:43 ,939 --> 00:33:45,290

It 'cause it's character.

965

33:45 Juilliard Experience

33:45 ,560 --> 00:33:45,740

Now.

966

33:45 ,830 --> 00:33:49,265

Marc Preston: When you were Julliard

Yeah, buddy, were you, was it a. Th 360

967

33:49 ,265 --> 00:33:52,715

degree study where, or you know, where

you're touching on music, touching on

968

33:52 ,715 --> 00:33:56,375

voice, or were you on a focus track

of, of acting when you were there?

969

33:56 ,675 --> 00:33:57,400

I'm not sure how they, yeah.

970

33:57 ,400 --> 00:33:57,640

Beau.

971

33:58 ,055 --> 00:33:58,235

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

972

33:58 ,235 --> 00:34:01,955

The beauty of the, of the conservatory

program there at Julliard was that you

973

34:01 ,955 --> 00:34:03,605

just get to focus on what you want to do.

974

34:03 ,605 --> 00:34:07,235

'cause if you're an, I had gone to college

and I was an undergraduate drama major,

975

34:07 ,235 --> 00:34:10,685

but then what they wanted you to do is

basically you're working for the graduate

976

34:10 ,685 --> 00:34:13,715

program, so you're, you're building

costumes and you're building sets.

977

34:13 ,715 --> 00:34:14,735

And I just wanted to be an actor.

978

34:14 ,735 --> 00:34:15,875

I knew I was already an actor.

979

34:15 ,875 --> 00:34:18,485

I was paying for college by

acting in the summers at doing

980

34:18 ,485 --> 00:34:19,415

commercials and stuff like that.

981

34:19 ,445 --> 00:34:22,205

And I'd already done a whole

summer of summer stock at

982

34:22 ,205 --> 00:34:24,065

Williamstown building sets.

983

34:24 ,065 --> 00:34:26,645

And I was like, I'm not gonna

be, I, I, I'm not interested in,

984

34:26 ,645 --> 00:34:29,705

in, in working in the costume

department for a year to build.

985

34:29 ,960 --> 00:34:31,025

I, I wanna do this.

986

34:31 ,025 --> 00:34:31,925

And so I was like, I gotta go.

987

34:31 ,925 --> 00:34:33,335

I gotta go to a conservatory program.

988

34:33 ,425 --> 00:34:34,175

And that's the beauty of it.

989

34:34 ,205 --> 00:34:37,055

All you do at Julliard is, is

acting and acting related stuff.

990

34:37 ,055 --> 00:34:38,195

So you're surrounded by all those people.

991

34:38 ,195 --> 00:34:40,025

You know, your friends are

musicians and they're dancers

992

34:40 ,025 --> 00:34:41,975

and, and opera singers, but.

993

34:42 ,675 --> 00:34:44,355

The acting program was

a set when I was there.

994

34:44 ,355 --> 00:34:45,795

It was a set four year program.

995

34:45 ,855 --> 00:34:47,595

And, uh, that's all you're doing.

996

34:47 ,595 --> 00:34:49,725

You're, you're there, you know,

eight, nine o'clock in the

997

34:49 ,725 --> 00:34:51,045

morning till late at night.

998

34:51 ,105 --> 00:34:53,655

'cause you're rehearsing plays

and you're just in voice class and

999

34:53 ,655 --> 00:34:57,975

Alexander class and movement class

and, and scene study class and improv

1000

34:57 ,975 --> 00:34:59,415

and whatever is coming that year.

1001

34:59 Deciding to Pursue Acting at Julliard

34:59 ,415 --> 00:35:01,515

And so, um, it, it.

1002

35:01 ,890 --> 00:35:06,930

I, I'd gone there too, because like I

say, I was already acting and my, my

1003

35:06 ,930 --> 00:35:09,630

agents at the time, my managers at the

time, like, please drop outta school.

1004

35:09 ,630 --> 00:35:10,590

We just want you to be full-time.

1005

35:10 ,680 --> 00:35:14,610

I, but I, uh, I, I, I had wanted to go

to college and then Julliard, I just,

1006

35:14 ,880 --> 00:35:18,420

I remember I was sitting in University

of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where

1007

35:18 ,420 --> 00:35:22,260

I'd gone for undergraduate my freshman

year, and I go, ah, you know, everyone

1008

35:22 ,260 --> 00:35:25,140

says I'm good, but I don't, I think

I could be a lot better, and I think

1009

35:25 ,140 --> 00:35:26,730

I need to be around the best people.

1010

35:26 ,790 --> 00:35:29,370

And, and I just said, I

want to be comfortable doing

1011

35:29 ,370 --> 00:35:30,360

Shakespeare and Checkoff.

1012

35:30 ,360 --> 00:35:32,880

I want to be comfortable

doing whatever's handed to me.

1013

35:32 ,970 --> 00:35:36,810

And then that weekend in the New York

Times, the Sunday New York Times cover

1014

35:36 ,810 --> 00:35:39,150

story was about Julliard and Yale.

1015

35:39 ,855 --> 00:35:40,575

Drama school.

1016

35:40 ,580 --> 00:35:40,790

Mm-hmm.

1017

35:40 ,965 --> 00:35:45,195

And all the people who'd gone there and

I go, oh, I'm gonna go to, I'm gonna,

1018

35:45 ,195 --> 00:35:46,395

I'm gonna go to Julliard or Yale.

1019

35:46 ,395 --> 00:35:49,215

But Yale was a graduate school

and I, I was only beginning of

1020

35:49 ,215 --> 00:35:50,415

my sophomore year of college.

1021

35:50 ,415 --> 00:35:52,365

So I go, okay, I'll,

I'll apply to Julliard.

1022

35:52 ,695 --> 00:35:54,765

And so I didn't know that it was

hard to get into or the people

1023

35:54 ,765 --> 00:35:55,395

really wanted to go there.

1024

35:55 ,395 --> 00:35:57,495

And also at the time, my

favorite actor was William Hurt.

1025

35:57 ,884 --> 00:36:00,015

There was a bunch of actors going

ju who were my, who I liked.

1026

36:00 ,015 --> 00:36:01,185

And I was like, oh, I'll get in there.

1027

36:01 ,485 --> 00:36:04,725

And then I called them up and I said,

Hey, can I, can I get an audition for Ju?

1028

36:04 ,725 --> 00:36:06,435

I like, oh, the deadline was last week.

1029

36:06 ,435 --> 00:36:07,245

I'm like, oh man.

1030

36:07 ,485 --> 00:36:09,645

Well there's this new thing

called Federal Express.

1031

36:09 ,735 --> 00:36:11,985

If I FedEx you this application.

1032

36:12 ,345 --> 00:36:13,935

Marc Preston: Well, back then,

they didn't even call it FedEx yet.

1033

36:13 ,935 --> 00:36:15,285

It was still Federal Express.

1034

36:15 ,285 --> 00:36:15,735

It was still

1035

36:15 ,735 --> 00:36:16,365

Reed Diamond: Federal Express.

1036

36:16 ,485 --> 00:36:18,855

And I go, I can get this to you tomorrow.

1037

36:18 ,855 --> 00:36:19,815

Will you still consider it?

1038

36:20 ,205 --> 00:36:21,075

And they said, sure, sure.

1039

36:21 ,075 --> 00:36:24,225

And I got the audition and then, you

know, I got in and, and, and I worked

1040

36:24 ,225 --> 00:36:27,855

while I was there every summer, I'd have

to get a job so that I could pay for that

1041

36:27 ,855 --> 00:36:31,245

year of, of Juilliard, because it was

expensive and I was paying it my myself.

1042

36:31 ,560 --> 00:36:32,130

Well, that's,

1043

36:32 Early Influences and Family Background

36:32 ,130 --> 00:36:34,380

Marc Preston: that's something I really

wish I had, had the opportunity to do.

1044

36:34 ,380 --> 00:36:35,460

I mean, when I was in high school Yeah.

1045

36:35 ,460 --> 00:36:36,210

I would've been mortified.

1046

36:36 ,210 --> 00:36:36,270

Yeah.

1047

36:36 ,270 --> 00:36:39,090

Tell me to come on stage because

it would be a, uh, first of all,

1048

36:39 ,090 --> 00:36:42,330

memorizing a whole script for me

was always an intimidating right.

1049

36:42 ,330 --> 00:36:42,900

Concept.

1050

36:43 ,259 --> 00:36:47,610

Uh, but I, I, I never really considered

myself to be a, a theater kid.

1051

36:47 ,610 --> 00:36:48,120

I don't know why.

1052

36:48 ,120 --> 00:36:50,550

If we had a really wonderful

theater program at my school,

1053

36:50 ,550 --> 00:36:53,880

in fact, I think they did a

documentary, a short one about the.

1054

36:54 ,275 --> 00:36:56,975

The head of the theater department,

but I was like, you know, when I

1055

36:56 ,975 --> 00:36:59,650

got to college, when I was working

in radio, I was like, right.

1056

36:59 ,750 --> 00:37:03,305

You know, it's cool when you can be

around people who are equally kind of

1057

37:03 ,305 --> 00:37:05,134

wired like you, but a little different.

1058

37:05 ,134 --> 00:37:06,515

Like you can kind of see their journey.

1059

37:06 ,515 --> 00:37:07,475

You're kind of, yeah.

1060

37:07 ,595 --> 00:37:10,535

Kinda seeing a mirror of like, okay,

this thing I'm doing is not odd.

1061

37:10 ,595 --> 00:37:11,585

You know, like my family.

1062

37:11 ,585 --> 00:37:11,645

Yeah.

1063

37:11 ,795 --> 00:37:13,145

Nobody had done this.

1064

37:13 ,445 --> 00:37:14,045

Um, right.

1065

37:14 ,105 --> 00:37:17,585

Did you come from a family of

anybody that did performance or did

1066

37:17 ,585 --> 00:37:19,715

they have civilian jobs as it were?

1067

37:20 ,285 --> 00:37:21,845

Reed Diamond: Well, here's the

thing, like, it's funny you said

1068

37:21 ,845 --> 00:37:25,115

like, I, I always did theater,

but I was never a theater kid.

1069

37:25 ,175 --> 00:37:29,735

And so I was very lucky 'cause I grew

up in New York City and when I, when I,

1070

37:29 ,975 --> 00:37:34,535

my, I went to a a k through 12 school,

but when I got into ninth grade, uh,

1071

37:34 ,685 --> 00:37:37,654

when I started high school, they, there

was a new head of the theater pro, uh,

1072

37:37 ,654 --> 00:37:42,395

program, this guy named Michael Gilbert,

and he took over and he created this

1073

37:42 ,395 --> 00:37:46,565

incredible program and I got involved

right away and a bunch of actors who were

1074

37:46 ,565 --> 00:37:50,315

still working to this day, we were all

in our, you know, we went to this, this

1075

37:50 ,315 --> 00:37:51,665

high school in New York City together.

1076

37:52 ,175 --> 00:37:53,555

We got the best training I'd ever gotten.

1077

37:53 ,555 --> 00:37:56,075

Everything I learned, I learned in high

school, but I, I was exposed to it.

1078

37:56 ,075 --> 00:38:00,335

So it was, my dad was a, a local

television director in New York City.

1079

38:00 ,335 --> 00:38:01,415

He worked for Channel nine.

1080

38:01 ,415 --> 00:38:02,285

He directed the news.

1081

38:02 ,285 --> 00:38:03,875

He directed the Joe Franklin show.

1082

38:03 ,935 --> 00:38:08,105

My mother had come to New York to be an

actor, but then had became an astrologer.

1083

38:08 ,105 --> 00:38:09,305

So I grew up on the Upper West Side.

1084

38:09 ,335 --> 00:38:10,925

My whole building was filled with actors.

1085

38:10 ,925 --> 00:38:12,575

Malachi McCort lived next door.

1086

38:12 ,845 --> 00:38:15,425

The whole building was theater, you know,

in the theater, writing for the theater.

1087

38:15 ,425 --> 00:38:15,725

So.

1088

38:16 ,440 --> 00:38:18,300

It wasn't an odd career choice.

1089

38:18 ,690 --> 00:38:23,490

And, uh, so when I decided that's what I

wanted to do, and people, you know, people

1090

38:23 ,490 --> 00:38:24,930

recognized that I had the talent for it.

1091

38:24 ,930 --> 00:38:25,770

I remember when it happened.

1092

38:25 ,770 --> 00:38:30,210

I remember just when my, when adults

came up to me in the sixth grade

1093

38:30 ,210 --> 00:38:33,270

production of Oklahoma, and they're

like, oh, you should do this.

1094

38:33 ,270 --> 00:38:33,990

And I was like, oh, really?

1095

38:34 ,170 --> 00:38:35,430

Because I, I loved doing it

1096

38:35 ,580 --> 00:38:38,885

Marc Preston: for like a 12, 13-year-old

in that range, you know, like I was 11.

1097

38:38 ,885 --> 00:38:39,045

Yeah.

1098

38:39 ,045 --> 00:38:43,470

Getting, getting affirmation from adults,

like, oh, okay, cool, I can do this.

1099

38:43 ,830 --> 00:38:46,800

Reed Diamond: Well, you do crazier,

like what I told my grandmother, because

1100

38:46 ,860 --> 00:38:48,990

for a while, then when I got into

junior high school, I was like, oh, I

1101

38:48 ,990 --> 00:38:51,210

better, I was surrounded by all these

kids we're gonna be doctors or lawyers.

1102

38:51 ,210 --> 00:38:52,500

I was like, oh, maybe I'll be a lawyer.

1103

38:52 ,500 --> 00:38:53,940

That's like being a, an actor.

1104

38:54 ,270 --> 00:38:55,470

And I was sort of saying that.

1105

38:55 ,470 --> 00:38:59,430

And then when I said I was gonna be an

actor, my grandmother was so relieved,

1106

38:59 ,430 --> 00:39:02,610

and she's, and she's came, you know, they

all came from a very conservative sort

1107

39:02 ,610 --> 00:39:04,530

of, you know, east coasty sort of mindset.

1108

39:04 ,560 --> 00:39:05,700

She's like, yeah, yeah, that's

what you're meant to do.

1109

39:05 ,700 --> 00:39:06,420

You're supposed to do that.

1110

39:06 ,420 --> 00:39:07,470

So there was no resistance.

1111

39:07 First Big Break and Career Beginnings

39:07 ,470 --> 00:39:10,620

And also, but I was very

lucky, so I, because.

1112

39:11 ,175 --> 00:39:12,195

I was in New York City.

1113

39:12 ,465 --> 00:39:16,605

I'm doing Diary Van Frank in my

senior year of high school, and

1114

39:16 ,605 --> 00:39:17,925

there's a manager in the audience.

1115

39:17 ,925 --> 00:39:20,685

And because they knew one of the

kids in the, in the play, so they, I

1116

39:20 ,685 --> 00:39:24,675

got signed that day and then I went

to my first audition, uh, you know,

1117

39:24 ,675 --> 00:39:27,075

when I signed them, signed with 'em,

I signed with 'em in the morning.

1118

39:27 ,075 --> 00:39:30,195

I went to my first audition in

the afternoon and got that job.

1119

39:30 ,195 --> 00:39:33,195

I got, the first thing I ever went

up for was a huge national commercial

1120

39:33 ,195 --> 00:39:37,515

that aired during live aid and paid

for my first year of, of college.

1121

39:37 ,875 --> 00:39:41,505

And so I was, uh, so I had this

sort of affirmation and I knew

1122

39:41 ,505 --> 00:39:42,525

I could make a living at it.

1123

39:42 ,615 --> 00:39:45,915

And so that, that was, um,

it was wind in my sail.

1124

39:45 ,915 --> 00:39:47,115

'cause I was a very practical kid.

1125

39:47 ,115 --> 00:39:47,600

Like if mm-hmm.

1126

39:47 ,680 --> 00:39:50,025

If, if I hadn't been able to work

1127

39:50 ,025 --> 00:39:52,365

Marc Preston: because I, I, well

I think early on that probably

1128

39:52 ,365 --> 00:39:54,585

like, like you said, is an

affirmation, so it was sort of like.

1129

39:55 ,230 --> 00:39:56,730

This can be a real thing.

1130

39:56 ,730 --> 00:40:00,360

Now, if he had gone a long time before

it hit, maybe it would, you know, the

1131

40:00 ,360 --> 00:40:01,590

trajectory would've been different.

1132

40:01 ,590 --> 00:40:02,070

You know,

1133

40:02 ,430 --> 00:40:03,450

Reed Diamond: it would've

been very different.

1134

40:03 ,450 --> 00:40:06,030

'cause that was a, you know, because

the thing is like, because I wasn't,

1135

40:06 ,030 --> 00:40:08,940

when we were in high school, we were

just regular kids who loved to act.

1136

40:08 ,940 --> 00:40:09,360

You know, we were.

1137

40:09 ,360 --> 00:40:11,760

And so even when I got to

Julliard, I was the least sort

1138

40:11 ,760 --> 00:40:13,230

of theater kitty thing, you know?

1139

40:13 ,230 --> 00:40:16,320

And it was, it was a hard sort of, it was

a slightly cultural adjustment for me.

1140

40:16 ,320 --> 00:40:19,260

But I remember on my first day of

Julliard, there was an orientation.

1141

40:19 ,770 --> 00:40:20,910

Um, they were like, it was the first day.

1142

40:20 ,910 --> 00:40:24,600

And I, and I, and I, I went, I went to the

head of the school and I go, I can't be

1143

40:24 ,600 --> 00:40:27,810

here on the first day 'cause I just got

this commercial, then I need to shoot.

1144

40:28 ,410 --> 00:40:32,070

And he's like, well, we really frown

on people missing anything but fine.

1145

40:32 ,070 --> 00:40:33,960

And thank God, 'cause it paid,

it literally paid for the

1146

40:33 ,960 --> 00:40:34,740

first two years of school.

1147

40:34 ,740 --> 00:40:34,800

Yeah.

1148

40:35 ,070 --> 00:40:36,270

Like that one day missing.

1149

40:36 ,540 --> 00:40:40,320

But I was, I was very lucky

and I learned a lot, um, there.

1150

40:40 ,380 --> 00:40:45,810

But, uh, but acting is, I wasn't

a theater kid, but it is my tribe.

1151

40:45 ,810 --> 00:40:46,920

Like I love performance.

1152

40:46 ,920 --> 00:40:48,810

I think, you know, when we're

talking about my wife earlier and

1153

40:48 ,810 --> 00:40:53,280

her missing the business, the thing

she missed most was being around.

1154

40:54 ,705 --> 00:40:55,335

Show people.

1155

40:55 ,425 --> 00:40:55,635

'cause

1156

40:55 ,635 --> 00:40:56,325

Marc Preston: there's something, yeah.

1157

40:56 ,505 --> 00:41:00,915

To me that was like the, you know,

my, my resume's exponentially

1158

41:00 ,915 --> 00:41:05,085

smaller than yours, but one of the

things I always enjoy is when a,

1159

41:05 ,085 --> 00:41:06,440

when a show comes to life, you know?

1160

41:06 ,440 --> 00:41:06,600

Yeah.

1161

41:06 ,600 --> 00:41:10,215

And you got crew and everything and

you're kind of in this like tribe of

1162

41:10 ,215 --> 00:41:13,425

people who are all kind of gonna get

it and you're all there to do a thing.

1163

41:13 ,845 --> 00:41:16,995

And then it's always like, when it

ends, it's just like everybody just kind

1164

41:16 ,995 --> 00:41:18,225

of goes off into the wind, you know?

1165

41:18 ,225 --> 00:41:19,845

It's like kind of a sad thing, you know?

1166

41:20 ,145 --> 00:41:20,625

It's sad.

1167

41:20 ,775 --> 00:41:21,075

Yeah.

1168

41:21 ,135 --> 00:41:25,815

But you know, the thing is the

most memorable to me was not when

1169

41:25 ,815 --> 00:41:28,665

it ends up on screen, it's the

making of the thing, you know?

1170

41:28 ,665 --> 00:41:29,265

A hundred percent.

1171

41:29 Memorable Projects and Experiences

41:29 ,670 --> 00:41:32,820

Like for you, like of all the projects

you've worked on, what was probably

1172

41:32 ,880 --> 00:41:36,540

form, I don't wanna say formative,

but like a, a set you ended up on with

1173

41:36 ,540 --> 00:41:39,720

different, with the people, the maybe

where it was shot that you were like,

1174

41:39 ,720 --> 00:41:43,620

that was a badass experience and I I

would do that a million times over.

1175

41:43 ,740 --> 00:41:44,190

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

1176

41:44 ,190 --> 00:41:47,040

No, I, I, I, that I, I can

say that with, I know exactly

1177

41:47 ,040 --> 00:41:47,970

what it is without hesitation.

1178

41:47 ,970 --> 00:41:48,870

It was my first movie.

1179

41:48 ,870 --> 00:41:53,100

So I, I'm I, my second year at Julliard,

I got this movie in Memphis Bell about a

1180

41:53 ,100 --> 00:41:54,750

B 17 bomber crew in the Second World War.

1181

41:55 ,170 --> 00:41:59,460

And so we spent four months in

England preparing and shooting

1182

41:59 ,460 --> 00:42:00,630

this movie, and I got to work with.

1183

42:01 ,290 --> 00:42:05,040

Eric Stoltz and Matthew Modine and DB

Sweeney and Tate Donovan, Sean Aston,

1184

42:05 ,040 --> 00:42:06,930

Billy Zain actors, Harry Connick Jr.

1185

42:06 ,930 --> 00:42:09,120

Actors who I, I adored,

who were my heroes.

1186

42:09 ,570 --> 00:42:11,880

And we, I, I, John

1187

42:12 ,060 --> 00:42:13,260

Marc Preston: John

Lithgow was in that also.

1188

42:13 ,260 --> 00:42:13,890

Wasn't John Lithgow

1189

42:14 ,160 --> 00:42:14,730

Reed Diamond: David Strat?

1190

42:15 ,330 --> 00:42:19,230

It was just, it, it was Courtney Gaines,

Neil Gen. I could tell you all, 'cause

1191

42:19 ,230 --> 00:42:22,440

we, I fell in love and it was the most

amazing experience right out the gate.

1192

42:22 ,440 --> 00:42:24,270

We went over to England,

we went to bootcamp.

1193

42:24 ,270 --> 00:42:26,040

We were the only second

movie to go to bootcamp.

1194

42:26 ,040 --> 00:42:27,150

Like Platoon had done it first.

1195

42:27 ,150 --> 00:42:27,240

Mm-hmm.

1196

42:27 ,480 --> 00:42:28,440

And then we did the second one.

1197

42:28 ,860 --> 00:42:32,610

And so I'm, I'm bonding with these

guys in the woods of Dartmore

1198

42:32 ,910 --> 00:42:36,630

and, uh, as we're being trained

by a Royal Marines and SSAS guys.

1199

42:36 ,690 --> 00:42:40,020

And my, and in a weird way,

it ruined me because I, I made

1200

42:40 ,020 --> 00:42:41,310

friends for life from that movie.

1201

42:41 ,310 --> 00:42:44,245

In fact, bootcamp, I'm still friends

with Eric St. Stills and t Donvan.

1202

42:44 ,250 --> 00:42:47,040

'cause we were out on maneuvers

one night and we, the three of

1203

42:47 ,040 --> 00:42:50,160

us shared a one man tent and then

we've been buddies ever since.

1204

42:50 ,370 --> 00:42:50,490

Yeah.

1205

42:51 ,030 --> 00:42:51,120

Then

1206

42:51 ,120 --> 00:42:51,165

Marc Preston: last time

1207

42:51 ,170 --> 00:42:51,990

Reed Diamond: we talked to you said even

1208

42:52 ,650 --> 00:42:54,420

Marc Preston: you'll stay in touch

with the uh, uh, Matthew Modine.

1209

42:54 ,600 --> 00:42:55,049

You know.

1210

42:55 ,049 --> 00:42:55,440

Oh yeah.

1211

42:55 ,440 --> 00:42:56,339

He said to saw Matthew.

1212

42:56 ,339 --> 00:42:56,880

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

1213

42:57 ,900 --> 00:43:00,990

Marc Preston: But that, that, I guess

folks are a little younger, may not get

1214

43:00 ,990 --> 00:43:05,400

it, but at that era, at that time, these

were all of the, I wanna say they were.

1215

43:06 ,870 --> 00:43:09,839

They weren't teen actors necessarily,

but it was kind of, that next stage was

1216

43:09 ,839 --> 00:43:12,210

maybe their first more adult-ish role.

1217

43:12 ,359 --> 00:43:12,779

Wasn't it?

1218

43:12 ,779 --> 00:43:15,210

Kind of like for a lot of those

guys, if I remember correct, it was

1219

43:15 ,210 --> 00:43:17,527

about 1991, I think is what it was.

1220

43:17 ,819 --> 00:43:18,120

We

1221

43:18 ,120 --> 00:43:20,460

Reed Diamond: shot it in 89,

I think it came out in 90.

1222

43:20 ,879 --> 00:43:22,200

Um, but yeah, no, you're right.

1223

43:22 ,230 --> 00:43:24,810

They, they were all, 'cause they'd

all started as young actors and

1224

43:24 ,810 --> 00:43:28,770

they, and it's interesting because

it was a great way to enter into the

1225

43:28 ,859 --> 00:43:29,940

business because all, oh, maybe one

1226

43:29 ,940 --> 00:43:30,480

Marc Preston: split second.

1227

43:30 ,480 --> 00:43:32,700

I've got a teenager who's done suntanning.

1228

43:32 ,700 --> 00:43:33,569

I gotta let her in the door.

1229

43:33 ,629 --> 00:43:33,930

Whoa.

1230

43:34 ,140 --> 00:43:34,440

Reed Diamond: Alright.

1231

43:34 ,770 --> 00:43:35,399

Marc Preston: Hello.

1232

43:37 ,470 --> 00:43:38,339

Oh my apologies.

1233

43:38 ,339 --> 00:43:39,750

My, uh, not at all.

1234

43:39 ,750 --> 00:43:43,259

At she, she takes this time to go to

her sun tanning, so that's fantastic.

1235

43:43 ,620 --> 00:43:44,910

Living that 19-year-old life.

1236

43:45 ,240 --> 00:43:45,600

Jealous.

1237

43:45 ,930 --> 00:43:47,339

But I just love that movie.

1238

43:47 ,339 --> 00:43:49,710

I tried to watch it the other

night when my son was in town.

1239

43:49 ,799 --> 00:43:52,649

Uh, it's, it's one of the few

things that's not streaming.

1240

43:53 ,040 --> 00:43:53,160

Oh.

1241

43:53 ,160 --> 00:43:53,879

I mean, you can get it.

1242

43:53 ,879 --> 00:43:54,569

You gotta pay for it.

1243

43:54 ,569 --> 00:43:57,480

I'm like, I, I just don't hear anybody

talk about it that much anymore.

1244

43:57 ,480 --> 00:43:58,920

Is one of the movies of the era.

1245

43:58 ,920 --> 00:44:00,899

But I think it's a wonderful

movie is well done.

1246

44:00 ,899 --> 00:44:03,899

It was like, I can remember certain

scenes, like somebody was carving a

1247

44:03 ,899 --> 00:44:05,879

plane out of wood and then Oh yeah, yeah.

1248

44:05 ,879 --> 00:44:07,620

When the battle was going

on, they sat on it, bro.

1249

44:07 ,649 --> 00:44:10,379

It was just all these like little

things that there was a, seemed

1250

44:10 ,379 --> 00:44:12,690

to be a lot of attention to

the little minutiae in detail.

1251

44:12 ,690 --> 00:44:15,120

This the way it was directed and

put, I dunno, it was a great movie.

1252

44:15 ,180 --> 00:44:15,865

I don't mean to all over.

1253

44:15 ,930 --> 00:44:16,230

You know what's

1254

44:16 ,230 --> 00:44:17,399

Reed Diamond: exciting

about that movie too, Marc?

1255

44:17 ,400 --> 00:44:22,590

Is like, uh, it was shot before CGI,

so there's no, it's all real planes.

1256

44:22 ,620 --> 00:44:22,680

Yeah.

1257

44:23 ,100 --> 00:44:27,630

So when we were doing the, the aerial

photography was, they got five real

1258

44:27 ,630 --> 00:44:29,790

B seventeens and they got a bunch

of master schmitz and they got a

1259

44:29 ,790 --> 00:44:33,210

bunch of Mustangs or P 30 eights,

and we were up there shooting.

1260

44:33 ,210 --> 00:44:35,550

So like I went up there one day while

they were shooting aerial stuff, and

1261

44:35 ,550 --> 00:44:38,820

I got in my top tour and I'm firing

50 caliber blanks at an incoming me.

1262

44:38 ,820 --> 00:44:39,570

Really?

1263

44:39 ,630 --> 00:44:40,205

No kidding.

1264

44:40 ,225 --> 00:44:43,710

So, and, and they got the, the,

the Memphis Bell itself, the actual

1265

44:43 ,710 --> 00:44:47,190

plane is in Memphis on an island,

well, whatever is it, mud Island,

1266

44:47 ,190 --> 00:44:48,630

wherever it is there in, in the river.

1267

44:48 ,900 --> 00:44:51,960

But the guy who helped curate that,

he came over and they built a whole

1268

44:52 ,020 --> 00:44:54,330

B 17 from scratch in the studio too.

1269

44:54 ,330 --> 00:44:57,780

So we shot at Pinewood Studios, which is

the only studio I ever wanted to shoot at.

1270

44:57 ,810 --> 00:44:59,370

'cause that's where they made

all the James Bond movies.

1271

44:59 ,700 --> 00:45:04,470

And so my, it was iconic for me, like,

and, uh, and it, and it proved to be.

1272

45:05 ,090 --> 00:45:08,570

Beyond iconic when we shot there,

but we got to make a movie and, and

1273

45:08 ,570 --> 00:45:09,770

have this incredible experience.

1274

45:09 ,770 --> 00:45:11,270

It ruined me for a long time afterwards.

1275

45:11 ,300 --> 00:45:15,200

'cause it, and that's the thing about

having a, now I, I, I joined sag.

1276

45:15 ,320 --> 00:45:18,290

I got my first commercial 40

years ago this month, I, I think

1277

45:18 ,290 --> 00:45:19,790

almost 40 years ago to today.

1278

45:20 ,210 --> 00:45:20,840

So, oh,

1279

45:20 ,840 --> 00:45:21,470

Marc Preston: muzzle tough.

1280

45:21 ,500 --> 00:45:21,800

Yeah.

1281

45:21 ,800 --> 00:45:22,355

That's mov.

1282

45:22 ,625 --> 00:45:22,915

Yeah.

1283

45:22 ,920 --> 00:45:23,150

Thank

1284

45:23 ,150 --> 00:45:23,330

Reed Diamond: you.

1285

45:23 ,510 --> 00:45:23,870

Marc Preston: Thank you.

1286

45:23 ,875 --> 00:45:24,710

40, 40 years.

1287

45:24 ,710 --> 00:45:25,580

Isn't that crazy?

1288

45:26 ,270 --> 00:45:27,650

30 years ago, 40 years ago.

1289

45:27 ,650 --> 00:45:31,400

It's like, and you start thinking

about, for you the trail from then to

1290

45:31 ,400 --> 00:45:34,190

now and all the different people you've

met, the films you've done, the shows.

1291

45:35 ,205 --> 00:45:38,295

And in looking back at all that, I

mean, if you were to say, Hey, listen,

1292

45:38 ,295 --> 00:45:44,295

this is, this is where my happy place

is, we TV or film or a genre, have you

1293

45:44 ,295 --> 00:45:47,295

kind of settled into that or is there

anything that you're like, this, this

1294

45:47 ,295 --> 00:45:50,745

is something that you just easy peasy

for you, you enjoy it every time?

1295

45:50 The Joy of Acting and Future Aspirations

45:50 ,835 --> 00:45:52,845

Reed Diamond: Well, the thing that's

so excited about this life and,

1296

45:53 ,325 --> 00:45:57,165

and, and you ask like what was the,

the experience that really, you

1297

45:57 ,165 --> 00:45:58,725

know, affected you and spell it.

1298

45:58 ,755 --> 00:46:01,125

There's just something, it's

like, it's like, uh, you know,

1299

46:01 ,125 --> 00:46:02,625

the first hit is free, right?

1300

46:02 ,625 --> 00:46:03,495

So it's the Dragon Novis case.

1301

46:04 ,755 --> 00:46:08,415

And my wife and I joke about this all

the time because it's a job and, and

1302

46:08 ,415 --> 00:46:11,145

the reason that you have professionals

do it, I think lots of people can act.

1303

46:11 ,145 --> 00:46:13,065

I think it's, it's not

the most complicated.

1304

46:13 ,070 --> 00:46:15,195

That, that part of it is not

the most complicated part.

1305

46:15 ,195 --> 00:46:17,565

The most complicated part is doing

it under, always doing it under the

1306

46:17 ,565 --> 00:46:19,575

worst possible circumstances, right?

1307

46:19 ,575 --> 00:46:20,325

At a time and place.

1308

46:20 ,325 --> 00:46:23,085

None of your own choosing at the worst,

under the worst possible circumstances.

1309

46:23 ,415 --> 00:46:26,895

So you have a lot of experiences

that are, that are good, right?

1310

46:26 ,895 --> 00:46:28,995

That you're, you're, you know,

you're, this is how I earn a living.

1311

46:28 ,995 --> 00:46:30,345

That's how I've paid

the bills for 40 years.

1312

46:30 ,345 --> 00:46:32,925

So, but every few years.

1313

46:33 ,105 --> 00:46:36,735

You have that experience where

you're like, oh, this is why I do it.

1314

46:36 ,740 --> 00:46:36,860

Mm-hmm.

1315

46:36 ,940 --> 00:46:37,875

And it keeps you going.

1316

46:38 ,145 --> 00:46:41,625

My wife had just, she was having

some, she was having a co repeated

1317

46:41 ,625 --> 00:46:44,175

like, you know, rough shows where

you're just, maybe the scripts aren't

1318

46:44 ,175 --> 00:46:46,245

there, or you're working with somebody

you're not really crazy about.

1319

46:46 ,245 --> 00:46:49,515

And then she has one of these ones where

everyone in the cast, all, you know,

1320

46:49 ,515 --> 00:46:53,565

all big stars and they're like, oh yeah,

we, we know how lucky we are to be here.

1321

46:53 ,565 --> 00:46:54,615

This is a special experience.

1322

46:55 ,125 --> 00:46:55,605

Isn't that great

1323

46:55 ,605 --> 00:46:58,605

Marc Preston: to still be this age and

go, you know, you still get that hit,

1324

46:58 ,605 --> 00:47:00,945

you still get that jazz, you know, from

1325

47:00 ,945 --> 00:47:01,065

Reed Diamond: it.

1326

47:01 ,560 --> 00:47:04,290

You better because, and I think

people don't, but I think why, what,

1327

47:04 ,320 --> 00:47:05,190

that's the whole point of life.

1328

47:05 ,190 --> 00:47:08,370

Like that's the thing, it's like a kid's

game played in adult level and Yeah.

1329

47:08 ,640 --> 00:47:11,880

You know, it's not the most financially

secure job and you can have rough years

1330

47:11 ,880 --> 00:47:15,840

and great years and you never know,

but it keeps you young and it's, and

1331

47:15 ,840 --> 00:47:17,100

you never know what you're gonna do.

1332

47:17 ,100 --> 00:47:18,390

And every time is the first time.

1333

47:18 ,390 --> 00:47:21,150

So my happy place, I don't

know, it's just, you never know.

1334

47:21 ,450 --> 00:47:24,990

When I was a young actor, people would

be like, what, what do you wanna do?

1335

47:24 ,990 --> 00:47:26,370

What kind of characters do you wanna play?

1336

47:26 ,370 --> 00:47:27,780

What, what are you most interested in?

1337

47:27 ,780 --> 00:47:28,920

I'm like, I don't know.

1338

47:28 ,920 --> 00:47:29,490

I'm not interested.

1339

47:29 ,490 --> 00:47:29,940

You wanna work?

1340

47:30 ,565 --> 00:47:32,010

Well, it's also like,

I wanna do the thing.

1341

47:32 ,010 --> 00:47:35,160

I never thought of, like, I, I didn't

know about B 17 bombers and then I

1342

47:35 ,160 --> 00:47:36,600

become an expert on B 17 bombers.

1343

47:36 ,600 --> 00:47:39,450

You know, like, it's like, you, you,

every you, you learn, because that's

1344

47:39 ,450 --> 00:47:42,330

the thing too, is like, you get

to learn a new thing all the time.

1345

47:42 ,540 --> 00:47:47,520

So you, you, you're gonna, you, you're

gonna dive into late 19th century Russia

1346

47:47 ,520 --> 00:47:49,830

if you're doing a checkoff play or

you're gonna, whatever you're doing, you

1347

47:49 ,830 --> 00:47:51,120

be, you get to learn about something.

1348

47:51 ,120 --> 00:47:54,540

And I love that, that you're, you're

constantly with exciting, intelligent

1349

47:54 ,540 --> 00:47:56,850

people and, and, and fun people.

1350

47:57 ,180 --> 00:47:58,200

And, uh, so.

1351

47:58 ,775 --> 00:48:00,904

The, you know, I always say

my favorite job is the job I

1352

48:00 ,904 --> 00:48:02,170

haven't done yet and mm-hmm.

1353

48:02 ,255 --> 00:48:03,545

And it's great to have great surprise.

1354

48:03 ,545 --> 00:48:04,715

Like Drop was just that.

1355

48:04 ,715 --> 00:48:06,035

It was an amazing cast.

1356

48:06 ,395 --> 00:48:08,825

We were all overshooting in Ireland

and it worked out perfectly.

1357

48:08 ,825 --> 00:48:12,005

'cause I'd gotten married in Ireland

20 years before and we were gonna

1358

48:12 ,005 --> 00:48:13,265

bring our kid over there anyway.

1359

48:13 ,265 --> 00:48:17,525

And now here I, I got a Universal pays

for us to pop over to on our, during our,

1360

48:17 ,525 --> 00:48:20,165

you know, and we can go back to where we

got married on the west coast of Ireland.

1361

48:20 ,165 --> 00:48:23,525

And I'm working with an amazing cast

and it felt like the old days, 'cause,

1362

48:24 ,154 --> 00:48:26,285

'cause things have changed, you know,

there's a lot of money, you know,

1363

48:26 ,285 --> 00:48:30,005

involved in and a lot of corporate

sort of mentality sometimes with shows.

1364

48:30 ,005 --> 00:48:31,145

But ev in the old days.

1365

48:31 ,545 --> 00:48:32,475

It was a lot of money.

1366

48:32 ,835 --> 00:48:33,045

Mm-hmm.

1367

48:33 ,285 --> 00:48:35,715

They just bring everyone over and

you'd always have that opening night

1368

48:35 ,715 --> 00:48:38,924

dinner where you'd all get together

and drink and get to know each other.

1369

48:38 ,924 --> 00:48:43,185

And there was a period of, of of, of

that comradery, which I really missed.

1370

48:43 ,185 --> 00:48:46,185

And Covid brought that back because

everyone had to be quarantined together.

1371

48:46 ,185 --> 00:48:47,355

So that was really nice.

1372

48:47 ,924 --> 00:48:50,654

Um, but then being on

location, it's just magical.

1373

48:50 ,654 --> 00:48:52,125

So you're over in a wonderful place.

1374

48:52 ,154 --> 00:48:54,134

'cause that was the thing, like

my first movie, I get to be live

1375

48:54 ,134 --> 00:48:56,985

in London and, you know, uh, yeah.

1376

48:56 ,985 --> 00:48:59,205

And, and then this getting back be

in Ireland and then now, you know,

1377

48:59 ,205 --> 00:49:02,535

40 years later coming with my family

and working with such a great group.

1378

49:02 ,535 --> 00:49:05,355

And it's just a, it's

a, it's a magical life.

1379

49:05 ,445 --> 00:49:08,055

Um, and I I'm very lucky that, um,

1380

49:08 Personal Life and Family Dynamics

49:08 ,290 --> 00:49:09,945

Marc Preston: well, I mean, you, you,

you've had a chance to work with,

1381

49:09 ,945 --> 00:49:12,705

I think there's been a nice collage

of different stuff you've done.

1382

49:12 ,705 --> 00:49:12,765

Yeah.

1383

49:12 ,765 --> 00:49:13,154

And I like that.

1384

49:13 ,154 --> 00:49:14,955

You know, is there anything like.

1385

49:15 ,285 --> 00:49:18,105

If you, if you were to kind of like

say, okay, in the next few years I

1386

49:18 ,105 --> 00:49:23,205

would like be at directing or maybe

writing a screenplay or, or a certain

1387

49:23 ,205 --> 00:49:26,235

role, is there something you're like,

okay, this is still on the bucket list?

1388

49:26 ,295 --> 00:49:26,955

Reed Diamond: Well, a hundred percent.

1389

49:26 ,955 --> 00:49:29,295

I mean, to answer the question

you just previously asked,

1390

49:29 ,295 --> 00:49:30,285

like, where's my happy place?

1391

49:30 ,285 --> 00:49:33,045

I, I started in the theater

and I love the theater.

1392

49:33 ,225 --> 00:49:34,335

I miss the theater.

1393

49:34 ,365 --> 00:49:35,535

I just have a family.

1394

49:35 ,535 --> 00:49:39,825

So the theater isn't necessarily,

uh, the place that I can spend the

1395

49:39 ,825 --> 00:49:43,335

most time in because I, we got, we

got rent to pay and, and food deep.

1396

49:43 ,335 --> 00:49:48,975

But I, I miss, I miss the theater and I, I

can't wait to go back and, and do a play.

1397

49:48 ,975 --> 00:49:52,095

It's interesting 'cause I have

friends who, who maybe have other

1398

49:52 ,095 --> 00:49:54,555

careers and they work in their

community theater and they're like,

1399

49:54 ,585 --> 00:49:55,605

oh, I wanna get into your job.

1400

49:55 ,605 --> 00:49:56,205

I'm like, no, no, no.

1401

49:56 ,205 --> 00:49:57,314

This is my, it's a job.

1402

49:57 ,529 --> 00:49:57,950

Mm-hmm.

1403

49:58 ,029 --> 00:50:00,915

Like, you, you're playing the great

roles and you have, you know, you're an

1404

50:00 ,915 --> 00:50:04,634

investment banker by day or whatever,

and, you know, you're, you trading stocks

1405

50:04 ,964 --> 00:50:05,984

and you get to play, you know, the lead.

1406

50:06 ,194 --> 00:50:06,524

Yeah.

1407

50:06 ,529 --> 00:50:08,174

The, the lead in our town.

1408

50:08 ,294 --> 00:50:11,234

I go, you know, I'm, I'm just

taking whatever comes because

1409

50:11 ,535 --> 00:50:12,944

this is what I do for a living.

1410

50:12 ,944 --> 00:50:13,995

But I miss the theater.

1411

50:14 ,055 --> 00:50:17,564

I mean, I got that hit for a long

time when I was doing a lot of improv.

1412

50:17 ,564 --> 00:50:21,044

So I'd at least be on stage a

couple of nights a week improvising

1413

50:21 ,044 --> 00:50:22,004

a show in front of an audience.

1414

50:22 ,004 --> 00:50:22,424

And I love that.

1415

50:22 ,424 --> 00:50:23,205

And I still do it all the time.

1416

50:23 ,205 --> 00:50:27,455

Like I. I, I ho I just came back

from hosting an, uh, an event for

1417

50:27 ,455 --> 00:50:30,754

my daughter's old school and raising

money, and I, and I love to improvise

1418

50:30 ,754 --> 00:50:32,375

and get on stage as often as possible.

1419

50:32 ,404 --> 00:50:32,495

Mm-hmm.

1420

50:32 ,734 --> 00:50:33,665

But I would love to do a play.

1421

50:33 ,995 --> 00:50:35,045

I'd love to do a play.

1422

50:35 ,375 --> 00:50:36,754

I miss, I miss doing Shakespeare.

1423

50:36 ,754 --> 00:50:40,355

I was so lucky to get to do it with

Joss doing on screen because about

1424

50:40 ,355 --> 00:50:43,325

two weeks, I think before Jos called

me to do much, to do about nothing.

1425

50:43 ,950 --> 00:50:48,000

I said to my wife, I said, I don't

know why the FI went to Julliard.

1426

50:48 ,210 --> 00:50:49,830

'cause I'm never gonna use

this classical trainer.

1427

50:50 ,280 --> 00:50:51,150

I'm never gonna use it.

1428

50:51 ,150 --> 00:50:51,840

I don't know, you know?

1429

50:51 ,840 --> 00:50:53,610

And then he's like, do you wanna

be in my Shakespeare movie?

1430

50:53 ,610 --> 00:50:54,630

I'm like, heck yeah, I do.

1431

50:55 ,110 --> 00:50:58,920

Um, so I love the theater, but also

what I love, I, I chose not to be in the

1432

50:58 ,920 --> 00:51:02,220

theater also because what I do love about

what we do is it's always different.

1433

51:02 ,220 --> 00:51:04,590

And that's how, you know, we were

talking about this just right before,

1434

51:04 ,590 --> 00:51:06,600

it's, I never know what I'm gonna do.

1435

51:06 ,660 --> 00:51:10,560

And it's, it's different every day because

if you, have you ever been in a bad play?

1436

51:10 ,740 --> 00:51:11,940

Did you don't or you don't do much?

1437

51:12 ,210 --> 00:51:13,320

I, I've never, you know what?

1438

51:13 ,320 --> 00:51:14,130

Marc Preston: I've never done it.

1439

51:14 ,130 --> 00:51:17,490

I, I mean, maybe I think in junior

high, but, uh, never done a play.

1440

51:17 ,550 --> 00:51:17,850

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

1441

51:18 ,030 --> 00:51:18,330

Okay.

1442

51:18 ,335 --> 00:51:20,670

So, so a good play is a ton of fun.

1443

51:20 ,670 --> 00:51:21,900

You know, you're like, oh, this is great.

1444

51:21 ,900 --> 00:51:25,530

I did a, one of the last plays, I did

this Richard Greenberg play Three Days of

1445

51:25 ,530 --> 00:51:27,180

Rain down at the Old Globe in San Diego.

1446

51:27 ,180 --> 00:51:28,560

It was amazing, amazing cast.

1447

51:28 ,560 --> 00:51:30,720

One of those perf one of those

productions that keeps you in the

1448

51:30 ,720 --> 00:51:31,620

business for the rest of your life.

1449

51:32 ,190 --> 00:51:35,790

But, uh, so that was a joy to go to the

theater every night and explore that play.

1450

51:35 ,790 --> 00:51:40,470

But I've also been in bad plays on

in very, you know, August venues

1451

51:40 ,470 --> 00:51:42,210

where you have to show up and do it.

1452

51:42 ,640 --> 00:51:43,270

Every day.

1453

51:44 ,140 --> 00:51:44,620

Donut.

1454

51:44 ,620 --> 00:51:44,622

Gotta donut.

1455

51:44 ,627 --> 00:51:45,015

Good donut.

1456

51:45 ,015 --> 00:51:45,136

Marc Preston: Yeah, donut.

1457

51:45 ,136 --> 00:51:45,137

Yeah.

1458

51:45 ,310 --> 00:51:45,910

Reed Diamond: You gotta make the donut.

1459

51:45 ,910 --> 00:51:48,790

So at least if you have a bad day on set,

you're never gonna do that scene again.

1460

51:49 ,120 --> 00:51:51,130

And you're probably gonna move

on to another show anyway.

1461

51:51 ,220 --> 00:51:52,570

Uh, it's pretty soon thereafter.

1462

51:52 ,570 --> 00:51:53,890

So see, that's the thing

for me, I could only

1463

51:53 ,890 --> 00:51:54,850

Marc Preston: memorize like,

1464

51:54 ,940 --> 00:51:55,180

Reed Diamond: uh,

1465

51:55 ,360 --> 00:51:57,790

Marc Preston: a few pages

in a, uh, screenplay, right?

1466

51:57 ,790 --> 00:52:01,060

And then inevitably, and, uh, you feel

like you got it, you gotta locked in.

1467

52:01 ,060 --> 00:52:02,230

I've gone and done highlighting.

1468

52:02 ,230 --> 00:52:04,990

I've rer, I've memorizing

is not my strong suit.

1469

52:05 ,350 --> 00:52:05,440

Right?

1470

52:05 ,440 --> 00:52:07,510

And then the director goes,

here, let me throw you some other

1471

52:07 ,510 --> 00:52:09,100

stuff to say, just to play with.

1472

52:09 ,100 --> 00:52:09,670

I'm like, oh shit.

1473

52:09 ,790 --> 00:52:10,360

Can I remember?

1474

52:10 ,360 --> 00:52:10,660

You know?

1475

52:10 ,715 --> 00:52:11,535

And, and, mm-hmm.

1476

52:11 ,615 --> 00:52:15,160

And, and suddenly, you know, everything

kind of still gels, but like you said,

1477

52:15 ,160 --> 00:52:18,010

the, the, the, your favorite thing,

the thing you have yet to do, you know?

1478

52:18 ,010 --> 00:52:19,330

So it's just kind, that's

what had me thinking.

1479

52:19 ,330 --> 00:52:22,150

It's like, well, what is it that, you

know, was on the, the, the agenda?

1480

52:22 ,150 --> 00:52:23,560

Maybe a family project.

1481

52:23 ,560 --> 00:52:25,390

Have you ever thought about

getting the wife, the daughter?

1482

52:25 ,390 --> 00:52:26,680

You put something together?

1483

52:26 ,800 --> 00:52:29,080

Reed Diamond: Well, we, yeah, we,

we think about things all the time.

1484

52:29 ,080 --> 00:52:31,090

And I would definitely love

to work with my wife again.

1485

52:31 ,090 --> 00:52:31,660

That's how we met.

1486

52:31 ,660 --> 00:52:32,380

We met on a movie.

1487

52:32 ,380 --> 00:52:34,780

But it's interesting you say that

because that's how Drop came around.

1488

52:35 ,200 --> 00:52:38,380

'cause I, I, I actually, and I

had, I'd never done this really,

1489

52:38 ,380 --> 00:52:39,400

but I called my manager up.

1490

52:39 ,400 --> 00:52:40,810

I just come off doing, um.

1491

52:41 ,580 --> 00:52:44,339

Series and I was like playing

the same character, which I love,

1492

52:44 ,399 --> 00:52:48,270

but playing sort of the, the

well-dressed, uh, douchey bad guy.

1493

52:48 ,270 --> 00:52:51,930

Like basically I always, I've been

playing some sort of hybrid of, you

1494

52:51 ,930 --> 00:52:53,819

know, Jeffrey Epstein, Bernie Madoff.

1495

52:53 ,939 --> 00:52:55,709

Oh, I was about to say somebody

that, we mean the Trump

1496

52:55 ,709 --> 00:52:56,759

Marc Preston: administration basically.

1497

52:56 ,879 --> 00:52:57,540

Reed Diamond: Yeah, exactly.

1498

52:57 ,540 --> 00:53:00,959

So I, I'm playing like guys who

look good in Hugo Boss suits and our

1499

53:00 ,959 --> 00:53:04,439

dickheads, and, and I, and I call

my manager, I go, this is great.

1500

53:04 ,439 --> 00:53:07,169

You know, I love, I love the check,

and, and I, and you know, it, it's

1501

53:07 ,169 --> 00:53:10,709

fun to play this, but I, I feel

like I'm using 10% of who I am.

1502

53:10 ,980 --> 00:53:14,310

I, I go, I'd love to play somebody

like me, or maybe not even someone

1503

53:14 ,310 --> 00:53:17,279

like me, like somebody just like

vulnerable like me and, and maybe like.

1504

53:17 ,285 --> 00:53:20,345

Not cool schlubby, whatever it is,

because I'm not cool in real life.

1505

53:20 ,345 --> 00:53:21,274

That's why I started acting.

1506

53:21 ,274 --> 00:53:24,665

I was like, oh, I can be dorky

on stage and I get you, you can

1507

53:24 ,665 --> 00:53:26,165

get, uh, attention for that.

1508

53:26 ,165 --> 00:53:27,065

People like you for that.

1509

53:27 ,305 --> 00:53:30,095

So, um, and I, and she's

like, hold on a second.

1510

53:30 ,154 --> 00:53:31,774

And she goes, I think I've

got something for you.

1511

53:32 ,134 --> 00:53:36,004

And she hand, she brought me the

audition for drop the next day.

1512

53:36 ,305 --> 00:53:38,285

And the people that dropped didn't

want, they wouldn't wanna see me.

1513

53:38 ,285 --> 00:53:39,065

They're like, that's not Reid.

1514

53:39 ,065 --> 00:53:40,625

Reid doesn't play this schlubby guy.

1515

53:40 ,955 --> 00:53:41,045

Mm-hmm.

1516

53:41 ,285 --> 00:53:46,325

And, uh, I, I auditioned for it, uh,

um, two days later, and I had the job

1517

53:46 ,325 --> 00:53:48,875

the next, I had the job before the

end of the week, so I called her on a

1518

53:48 ,875 --> 00:53:50,464

Monday, and by Friday I was doing drop.

1519

53:50 ,464 --> 00:53:51,335

I was headed to Ireland.

1520

53:51 ,424 --> 00:53:51,665

Well, that's,

1521

53:52 ,024 --> 00:53:54,785

Marc Preston: so you got something,

you, you went out, you cast your

1522

53:54 ,785 --> 00:53:58,024

line, you pull something back in

that worked perfectly for you.

1523

53:58 ,355 --> 00:53:58,895

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

1524

54:05 The Seven Questions

54:05 ,720 --> 00:54:07,995

Marc Preston: So before we get going,

I always like to do something I call my

1525

54:07 ,995 --> 00:54:09,825

seven questions a little extra thought.

1526

54:09 ,825 --> 00:54:09,827

Okay, Marc.

1527

54:09 ,832 --> 00:54:10,485

I'm ready, buddy.

1528

54:10 ,694 --> 00:54:13,634

I always talk food at least once on

my show, which I haven't had a chance.

1529

54:13 ,634 --> 00:54:15,975

'cause you grew up in New York,

Jewish boy over here, you know,

1530

54:16 ,035 --> 00:54:17,685

having delis, I'm very jealous.

1531

54:17 ,714 --> 00:54:19,154

Reed Diamond: You know, food's,

my food's, my life, my and

1532

54:19 ,154 --> 00:54:20,145

our, the whole family cooks.

1533

54:20 ,145 --> 00:54:23,355

And now my daughter 'cause

Italian, uh, and, and, and meat.

1534

54:23 ,355 --> 00:54:24,404

So that's my specialty.

1535

54:24 ,404 --> 00:54:27,674

But my daughter is fully into Japanese

and Korean food and she just made gazes.

1536

54:27 ,674 --> 00:54:28,005

Oh really?

1537

54:28 ,005 --> 00:54:30,525

Yesterday, like that blew my,

blew my, she's been making

1538

54:30 ,525 --> 00:54:31,545

gazes now for the last three.

1539

54:31 ,545 --> 00:54:34,455

She blew her first time.

1540

54:34 ,605 --> 00:54:35,355

They blew me away.

1541

54:35 ,355 --> 00:54:38,595

She's got a, she's got a chef's

temperament and so it's, it's fantastic.

1542

54:38 ,595 --> 00:54:40,485

She's got the, uh, she,

she eats everything.

1543

54:40 ,485 --> 00:54:41,115

She loves everything.

1544

54:41 ,115 --> 00:54:43,545

But I love that she's

exploring this cuisine.

1545

54:43 ,545 --> 00:54:44,535

But please Marc questions.

1546

54:44 ,535 --> 00:54:44,775

I'm,

1547

54:45 ,225 --> 00:54:48,045

Marc Preston: I'm envious now 'cause the

one thing I've always wanted learn how to

1548

54:48 ,045 --> 00:54:51,134

cook, uh, well, is Greek, uh, and Indian?

1549

54:51 ,134 --> 00:54:51,585

Yes.

1550

54:51 ,645 --> 00:54:54,765

But that's a very

specific kind of a thing.

1551

54:54 ,765 --> 00:54:57,165

But, uh, but now I'm getting, I'm

telling, I haven't had lunch yet,

1552

54:57 ,404 --> 00:55:01,634

but, uh, if we were to say, what

is your favorite comfort food?

1553

55:01 ,995 --> 00:55:05,205

Uh, something that just good day,

bad day doesn't make a difference.

1554

55:05 ,265 --> 00:55:05,445

Yeah.

1555

55:05 ,445 --> 00:55:05,925

My favorite

1556

55:05 ,925 --> 00:55:08,895

Reed Diamond: go-to, and it's also the

way I test any good Italian restaurant.

1557

55:08 ,955 --> 00:55:13,245

I just love a spaghetti oleo,

you know, garlic and oil and

1558

55:13 ,245 --> 00:55:14,385

maybe a little chili flake.

1559

55:14 ,385 --> 00:55:16,545

'cause it's, I love pizza.

1560

55:16 ,965 --> 00:55:20,775

Um, and I, we love to make pizzas and love

to eat pizzas, but I always like if I,

1561

55:20 ,895 --> 00:55:24,255

if I'm going to a new pizza place, right,

first time I only order a margarita.

1562

55:24 ,285 --> 00:55:26,175

'cause it's, I always want

the simplest thing 'cause.

1563

55:26 ,240 --> 00:55:27,439

That's the hardest thing to do.

1564

55:27 ,444 --> 00:55:27,845

That's,

1565

55:27 ,859 --> 00:55:29,959

Marc Preston: that's, I,

I'm, I am there with you.

1566

55:29 ,959 --> 00:55:32,839

And you know, another, another thing

that's very simple, but it is awesome.

1567

55:32 ,839 --> 00:55:33,229

Cacho, Peppe.

1568

55:33 ,649 --> 00:55:33,979

Have you ever

1569

55:33 ,979 --> 00:55:34,399

Reed Diamond: had that?

1570

55:34 ,544 --> 00:55:34,939

Of course, of course.

1571

55:35 ,359 --> 00:55:35,509

Yeah.

1572

55:35 ,689 --> 00:55:39,109

I just had one a couple weeks ago at

my, I have an Italian friend in, in Los

1573

55:39 ,109 --> 00:55:43,040

Olivas where he has got a great restaurant

called Tana, and I usually get his pizzas

1574

55:43 ,040 --> 00:55:45,020

'cause they're magnificent and wafer thin.

1575

55:45 ,049 --> 00:55:46,850

But, uh, he's from Naples.

1576

55:47 ,209 --> 00:55:50,990

Uh, but, uh, he had his Kaia

Pepe and it was like, it was

1577

55:50 ,990 --> 00:55:51,500

Marc Preston: crazy.

1578

55:51 ,500 --> 00:55:51,770

So good.

1579

55:51 ,770 --> 00:55:55,520

Oh, did you see, uh, Stanley Tucci, uh,

exploring, uh, in search of Italy or I

1580

55:55 ,520 --> 00:55:56,685

think it's, was it in search of Italy?

1581

55:56 ,685 --> 00:55:56,765

Yeah.

1582

55:56 ,870 --> 00:55:58,970

Oh, basically I'm like, every

time watch a show, I'm like,

1583

55:59 ,029 --> 00:56:00,560

oh God, see that's the gig.

1584

56:00 ,560 --> 00:56:02,509

I want travel and eat, you know, dude.

1585

56:02 ,509 --> 00:56:02,750

So

1586

56:02 ,990 --> 00:56:05,029

Reed Diamond: my daughter and I

are just, we're learning Italian,

1587

56:05 ,060 --> 00:56:05,959

we've been learning Italian.

1588

56:05 ,990 --> 00:56:07,759

'cause that's where we go.

1589

56:07 ,790 --> 00:56:08,870

'cause that's what we like to eat.

1590

56:09 ,049 --> 00:56:11,479

So, and I, and I have so many friends

who are Italian chefs, I was like,

1591

56:11 ,479 --> 00:56:12,799

we can practice this all the time.

1592

56:12 ,935 --> 00:56:13,985

And, uh, my daughter's gonna

1593

56:13 ,985 --> 00:56:16,475

Marc Preston: be studying

in, uh, Milan, uh, the fall.

1594

56:17 ,165 --> 00:56:17,315

Oh, great.

1595

56:17 ,315 --> 00:56:17,330

So I'm great.

1596

56:17 ,525 --> 00:56:18,665

So I gotta go there and bug her.

1597

56:18 ,725 --> 00:56:19,330

You know, you have to.

1598

56:19 ,330 --> 00:56:19,730

I probably will.

1599

56:20 ,029 --> 00:56:22,025

It is just gonna be restaurant

after restaurant, I'm sure.

1600

56:22 ,384 --> 00:56:25,325

But, uh, now the next question, if

you're gonna be sitting down, uh, if

1601

56:25 ,325 --> 00:56:27,665

you're gonna be having coffee, three

people, they're gonna be with you,

1602

56:27 ,665 --> 00:56:31,174

four of y'all at a table living or not,

who would those three people be that

1603

56:31 ,174 --> 00:56:33,365

would make for a perfect afternoon?

1604

56:33 ,365 --> 00:56:35,495

Si drinking coffee, talking story.

1605

56:35 ,495 --> 00:56:36,185

Who would those people

1606

56:36 ,185 --> 00:56:36,186

Reed Diamond: be?

1607

56:36 ,191 --> 00:56:37,174

It's just gonna be two people.

1608

56:37 ,174 --> 00:56:38,435

It's gonna be my wife and my daughter.

1609

56:38 ,674 --> 00:56:40,685

My wife and I meet every

morning for coffee.

1610

56:40 ,685 --> 00:56:43,445

We have, call it coffee clutch,

and sometimes Uhhuh we can

1611

56:43 ,445 --> 00:56:44,674

lose two hours of the day.

1612

56:45 ,305 --> 00:56:48,815

Um, because, uh, and, and, and if,

if I could bring someone, probably

1613

56:48 ,935 --> 00:56:51,395

it's not living, I'd just bring

my grandmother back to join us.

1614

56:51 ,424 --> 00:56:52,685

'cause she would have a really good time.

1615

56:52 ,685 --> 00:56:55,775

And then we'd probably switch

from coffee to cocktails and

1616

56:55 ,775 --> 00:56:57,275

it would be a magnificent.

1617

56:57 ,335 --> 00:57:02,015

But, uh, no, I'm a very lucky, I'm,

I'm in a little triangle of joy here.

1618

57:02 ,015 --> 00:57:04,174

We've got our only kid and

we're a very close family.

1619

57:04 ,174 --> 00:57:05,915

We, we've literally have

just come back from.

1620

57:06 ,195 --> 00:57:09,465

Two months on the West Coast where

we've, we've been the three of

1621

57:09 ,465 --> 00:57:11,745

us in one room, uh, pool houses.

1622

57:11 ,745 --> 00:57:16,035

So we've, we can, we can literally

stay in one room, uh, with one bathroom

1623

57:16 ,125 --> 00:57:20,085

and still delight in each other,

uh, by the end of every single day.

1624

57:20 ,170 --> 00:57:21,405

That, that is awesome.

1625

57:21 ,585 --> 00:57:21,765

Marc Preston: Yeah.

1626

57:21 ,915 --> 00:57:23,385

That's kind of a European way of doing it.

1627

57:23 ,385 --> 00:57:23,805

Just get up.

1628

57:23 ,805 --> 00:57:26,145

You, you'd kinda lose, uh, a

little bit of the afternoon.

1629

57:26 ,145 --> 00:57:26,895

You not lose.

1630

57:27 ,105 --> 00:57:27,225

Yeah.

1631

57:27 ,230 --> 00:57:30,015

You just spend either and there's

no real, you're not wa looking

1632

57:30 ,015 --> 00:57:32,925

at your watch or anything, uh, or

checking your phone for the time.

1633

57:32 ,955 --> 00:57:33,225

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

1634

57:33 ,495 --> 00:57:34,875

Marc Preston: Um, but that's,

that's, and I would like to meet

1635

57:34 ,875 --> 00:57:36,915

Reed Diamond: Shakespeare, Marc, I

would love to have, you know, and then

1636

57:36 ,915 --> 00:57:37,905

that's the number one answer, right.

1637

57:37 ,905 --> 00:57:38,955

To who do you want for dinner?

1638

57:38 ,955 --> 00:57:40,785

It's either Jesus Christ

or, or Shakespeare.

1639

57:40 ,785 --> 00:57:43,065

And I, I, I would love to meet

Shakespeare, but I don't know

1640

57:43 ,065 --> 00:57:45,165

that he would be well-mannered

and he might be, you know, as

1641

57:45 ,165 --> 00:57:46,215

they say, don't meet your heroes.

1642

57:46 ,245 --> 00:57:46,365

No.

1643

57:46 ,365 --> 00:57:46,785

Yeah.

1644

57:46 ,785 --> 00:57:46,995

I have to say,

1645

57:47 ,290 --> 00:57:48,705

Marc Preston: it's like, that's wonderful.

1646

57:48 ,705 --> 00:57:49,275

That's wonderful.

1647

57:49 ,275 --> 00:57:50,205

So, and you know, yeah.

1648

57:50 ,205 --> 00:57:53,260

It's, I'm lucky my kids don't tolerate

me, so I, I feel very fortunate hack.

1649

57:53 ,260 --> 00:57:53,340

Yeah.

1650

57:53 ,340 --> 00:57:54,735

That's, I feel the same way.

1651

57:54 ,855 --> 00:57:56,085

Now the next question got for you.

1652

57:56 ,085 --> 00:57:59,145

Now, going back when you're young,

who was your very first celebrity

1653

57:59 ,145 --> 00:58:01,875

crush going back to the early years?

1654

58:02 ,355 --> 00:58:04,425

Reed Diamond: Oh, I know

exactly who it was my first, my.

1655

58:04 ,960 --> 00:58:06,790

I had two first celebrity crushes.

1656

58:06 ,850 --> 00:58:11,110

Um, it was Jody Foster and Bugsy

Malone, and then Andrea McCardle, the

1657

58:11 ,110 --> 00:58:12,880

original Annie when I saw her and Annie.

1658

58:12 ,940 --> 00:58:14,800

So, uh, Annie on Broadway.

1659

58:14 ,950 --> 00:58:16,960

So Andrea McCardle originally did a role.

1660

58:17 ,230 --> 00:58:21,250

And, uh, so those, I think of, I

mean, you know, also I grew up in

1661

58:21 ,250 --> 00:58:23,020

the time of, of seventies television.

1662

58:23 ,020 --> 00:58:27,010

So I, I, and I was, I was very

smitten by lots of, we, we, we,

1663

58:27 ,100 --> 00:58:31,120

you know, we were thinking of like,

uh, all of the seventies TV shows.

1664

58:31 ,120 --> 00:58:32,230

They were Julie London.

1665

58:32 ,634 --> 00:58:33,265

Emergency.

1666

58:33 ,270 --> 00:58:33,399

Oh, yeah.

1667

58:33 ,940 --> 00:58:35,160

Oh, yes.

1668

58:35 ,995 --> 00:58:36,984

Oh, she could s now she could sing.

1669

58:36 ,984 --> 00:58:38,335

Now that's a voice right there now.

1670

58:38 ,335 --> 00:58:39,919

She, uh, oh, she could sing.

1671

58:40 ,194 --> 00:58:41,154

Oh, she could sing.

1672

58:41 ,154 --> 00:58:44,634

So yeah, Julie London on emergency,

there was a, and pretty much every

1673

58:44 ,634 --> 00:58:46,285

guest star on Wild, wild West.

1674

58:46 ,674 --> 00:58:48,265

Um, so there, there was a lot.

1675

58:48 ,265 --> 00:58:51,325

But I, I think the first one where I

was just like, uh, where I remember

1676

58:51 ,325 --> 00:58:54,355

my mother embarrassing me because

I'd come back from Bugsy Malone and I

1677

58:54 ,355 --> 00:58:55,825

confided her that I had the crush on.

1678

58:56 ,095 --> 00:58:58,495

'cause Jodi Foster played tall

Lula and that thing, and then

1679

58:58 ,495 --> 00:58:59,605

she told everyone at a party.

1680

58:59 ,605 --> 00:59:02,665

And I was, I, I remember getting up,

I'm like eight years old by the way.

1681

59:02 ,665 --> 00:59:03,595

And I go, it's at a party.

1682

59:03 ,595 --> 00:59:05,035

I go, you are a terrible host.

1683

59:05 ,095 --> 00:59:06,504

And I stormed off to my room.

1684

59:07 ,464 --> 00:59:08,035

Uh, so there

1685

59:08 ,035 --> 00:59:08,305

Marc Preston: you go.

1686

59:08 ,305 --> 00:59:12,955

Well, well, at least, at least you're

one of the good Jodi Foster fans because,

1687

59:12 ,955 --> 00:59:14,725

you know, circa 19, you know, 80.

1688

59:15 ,050 --> 00:59:16,910

Was 80 whenever the, uh, what's his name?

1689

59:16 ,910 --> 00:59:18,801

Uh, the whole, uh Oh.

1690

59:18 ,920 --> 00:59:19,640

Oh, you mean Reagan

1691

59:20 ,030 --> 00:59:20,540

Reed Diamond: Hinkley?

1692

59:20 ,545 --> 00:59:20,555

Yeah.

1693

59:20 ,555 --> 00:59:20,905

Hinkley.

1694

59:20 ,930 --> 00:59:21,800

Hinkley, yeah.

1695

59:22 ,645 --> 00:59:22,865

Marc Preston: Yes.

1696

59:22 ,975 --> 00:59:23,265

Yeah.

1697

59:23 ,510 --> 00:59:24,590

So, but you're one of the good ones.

1698

59:24 ,590 --> 00:59:24,800

Yeah.

1699

59:24 ,830 --> 00:59:25,190

There you go.

1700

59:25 ,220 --> 00:59:25,310

Yeah.

1701

59:25 ,310 --> 00:59:28,190

I remember, uh, Haley Mills

for me was one of the first,

1702

59:28 ,340 --> 00:59:30,110

and that's before I recognized.

1703

59:30 ,150 --> 00:59:30,450

Okay.

1704

59:30 ,450 --> 00:59:33,450

This was in the sixties, you know, isn't,

when I first saw it, it realized, well,

1705

59:33 ,450 --> 00:59:36,995

this came out a long time ago, you know,

and so, oh, I, I, I thought she was great.

1706

59:36 ,995 --> 00:59:37,290

I just had

1707

59:37 ,290 --> 00:59:39,660

Reed Diamond: cocktails with

Hailey Mills, uh, last summer.

1708

59:39 ,660 --> 00:59:42,450

'cause my wife did a, did the

movie Trap with her, the M Knight

1709

59:42 ,450 --> 00:59:44,790

Shaalan movie, and that was Marni.

1710

59:44 ,790 --> 00:59:46,710

My wife's so excited to

work with Hailey Mills.

1711

59:46 ,710 --> 00:59:49,680

And then we're just sitting at some,