Dane Cook | Breathe & Believe

Don Pardo with that amazing, unique voice,

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Dane Cook: and hearing him say, ladies and gentlemen,

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Dane Cook: Dane Cook, it was like the goosebumps

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Dane Cook: almost came right off my skin.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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

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Marc Preston: Hey, hey, welcome back Another episode of

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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: I am Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Thank you so much for being here today.

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Marc Preston: Comedian actor Dane Cook.

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Marc Preston: Well, as a member of Gen X, let me say

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Marc Preston: legendary comedian Dane Cook.

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Marc Preston: I mean he reached rock star status when it

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Marc Preston: came to being a comedian.

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Marc Preston: I mean he is one of my favorite comedians,

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Marc Preston: really cool guy.

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Marc Preston: You're going to enjoy the chat.

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Marc Preston: We cover his career in comedy, his time on

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Marc Preston: film.

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Marc Preston: He's been in movies kind of like Waiting,

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Marc Preston: which I think is the quintessential movie

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Marc Preston: for any of us who have ever worked in a

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Marc Preston: restaurant.

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Marc Preston: It's spot on.

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Marc Preston: Also, dan in Real Life Good luck, chuck,

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Marc Preston: employee of the Month, my best friend's

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Marc Preston: girl.

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Marc Preston: He's been in a lot of cool films.

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Marc Preston: Now also he has a brand new comedy special

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Marc Preston: called Above It All.

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Marc Preston: Got to check it out.

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Marc Preston: Good stuff.

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Marc Preston: I was checking it out a little bit before

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Marc Preston: and it's funny, but of course it's going to

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Marc Preston: be funny.

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Marc Preston: It's Dane Cook We talk about his first time

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Marc Preston: on Saturday Night Live.

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Marc Preston: He lived in John Belushi's old apartment.

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Marc Preston: That's random.

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Marc Preston: Kind of a cool thing to learn about, Dane.

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Marc Preston: Also, he worked with Betty White and he

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Marc Preston: shares a secret Betty White shared with him,

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Marc Preston: which that alone makes this super cool for

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Marc Preston: me.

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Marc Preston: So I mean, who doesn't love Betty White?

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Marc Preston: And, as always, if you want to know

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Marc Preston: anything about the show, just head to

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Marc Preston: storyandcraftpod.com, and that's where you

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Marc Preston: find out everything about the show, past

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Marc Preston: guests, pretty much anything.

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Marc Preston: It's all there, so check it out.

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Marc Preston: Also, if you would.

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Marc Preston: I always ask this as a humble request No

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Marc Preston: matter what podcast platform or app you are

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Marc Preston: And also, if you would leave a review, give

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Marc Preston: some stars Five or ten or hundred, i don't

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Marc Preston: know However many you can give just throw

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Marc Preston: some love, why not?

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Marc Preston: Okay, let's get after it.

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Marc Preston: Today it's Dane Cook Day on Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: Alright, mr Cook.

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Dane Cook: Yo, what's up, man.

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Marc Preston: Hey, thanks on a Friday for connecting with

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Marc Preston: me.

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Marc Preston: I most certainly appreciate it, man.

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Marc Preston: This is a cool opportunity, so I certainly

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Marc Preston: appreciate it.

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Dane Cook: This is a privilege and a pleasure because

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Dane Cook: I love talking shop, so you got me at a

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Dane Cook: very celebratory time, man.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, it's kind of funny.

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Marc Preston: I told a friend of mine, my good friend

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Marc Preston: Sarah, i've known for years.

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Marc Preston: Yes, and listen, i got an interview I got

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Marc Preston: to do here in a section Like who is it

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Marc Preston: today?

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Marc Preston: I said Dane Cook.

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Marc Preston: She's like, oh my God, tell him I think

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Marc Preston: he's sexy.

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Marc Preston: So my friend Sarah says, yes, i didn't know

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Marc Preston: this about her.

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Marc Preston: She's like I can almost hear the purring of

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Marc Preston: the text message you know.

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Marc Preston: So it was.

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Dane Cook: You tell her, i tell your maid, she made my

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Dane Cook: day, thank you.

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Marc Preston: Very good, very good.

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Marc Preston: So you're in LA now, right?

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Dane Cook: That is correct.

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Dane Cook: I'm in my office here in my home, where I

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Dane Cook: also shopped this special.

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Dane Cook: But we'll probably talk about.

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Marc Preston: I like how your AHS you're giving a shout

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Marc Preston: out to your high school and your name on

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Marc Preston: the screen.

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Marc Preston: I like that.

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Marc Preston: That's good.

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Dane Cook: I try to keep it interesting, even the

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Dane Cook: minute details.

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Dane Cook: There's always room for some comedy, I

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Dane Cook: think.

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Marc Preston: Indeed, absolutely, it's the little things

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Marc Preston: in life.

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Marc Preston: It's so funny.

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Marc Preston: I was just thinking about it the other day

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Marc Preston: and I The things I've seen in the

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Marc Preston: interviews, have heard I've never heard

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Marc Preston: anybody say that, something which I think

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Marc Preston: is really unique about you, that I think,

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Marc Preston: as far as you were kind of the first

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Marc Preston: comedic voice in my mind for like Gen X

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Marc Preston: Kind of like, in that I'm trying to think

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Marc Preston: it was the.

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Marc Preston: You did it in the round.

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Marc Preston: Was it Madison Square Garden?

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Dane Cook: Was that the arena show you did Yeah the

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Dane Cook: first one that I did was Boston Garden for

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Dane Cook: Vicious.

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Marc Preston: Circle, That's right, Boston Garden.

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Marc Preston: And I remember you talking about laying in

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Marc Preston: bed and just like how uncomfortable it was

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Marc Preston: or something, laying next to somebody who's

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Marc Preston: sleeping.

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Marc Preston: I was like you capture the awkwardness of

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Marc Preston: being Gen X in your 20s better than anybody

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Marc Preston: ever did.

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Marc Preston: But no, I know a lot of people came out of

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Marc Preston: that generation but you kind of like I was

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Marc Preston: thinking I was like man.

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Marc Preston: He really nailed the awkwardness And this

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Marc Preston: is a compliment.

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Marc Preston: It sure as shit's not sounding like it, But

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Marc Preston: seriously, you really You kind of captured

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Marc Preston: the experience of what's like to be in your

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Marc Preston: 20s back in the 90s.

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Dane Cook: It felt like in that era there was some

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Dane Cook: prime real estate in terms of communicating

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Dane Cook: to a modern group of humans what comedy can

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Dane Cook: and should be for our generation.

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Dane Cook: So I do feel like I was, i guess, the bell

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Dane Cook: curve there for Zeitgeist.

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Dane Cook: I was like, okay, i'm going to start

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Dane Cook: talking to the next group of college kids

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Dane Cook: coming up the ranks and hopefully entertain

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Dane Cook: them and maybe that'll provide me more of a

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Dane Cook: long form career as well as some long form

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Dane Cook: stories that we're talking about.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, i dug it, man.

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Marc Preston: That's something I wanted to tell you that

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Marc Preston: I just As I watched you in that era, i

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Marc Preston: thought, god, this guy.

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Marc Preston: Because I came, i'm a George Carlin guy and

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Marc Preston: I came out of The first guy that I can

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Marc Preston: Just, i mean, i know there are other people

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Marc Preston: who did it, but Eddie Murphy, raw, and here

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Marc Preston: you are in an arena, kind of setting.

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Marc Preston: I was like, okay, this guy is kind of

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Marc Preston: capturing that lightning in a bottle, that

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Marc Preston: rarified air.

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Dane Cook: You know, carlin had a special in 1978

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Dane Cook: called On Location.

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Dane Cook: that was actually directed by Marty

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Dane Cook: Culliner, who not only directed Vicious

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Dane Cook: Circle but then directed above it all with

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Dane Cook: me for the most recent release and growing

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Dane Cook: up as a student of comedy and loving George

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Dane Cook: Carlin and also appreciating aesthetically

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Dane Cook: what he brought to stand up by performing

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Dane Cook: in the round It was certainly one of the

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Dane Cook: comedy architects that I looked to Carlin

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Dane Cook: and said, man, if I could figure out a way

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Dane Cook: to build a reputation in the comedy world

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Dane Cook: and with my fans that I'm growing up with

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Dane Cook: you, i'm not just going to be derivative in

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Dane Cook: rinse and repeat, if you'll allow me I'm

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Dane Cook: going to fail and succeed right before your

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Dane Cook: eyes that I knew that I might be able to.

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Dane Cook: you know, one day look at my family and say

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Dane Cook: I'm glad you supported me on this because

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Dane Cook: we done good.

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Marc Preston: You have four or five sisters.

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Dane Cook: I have one full sister and then the rest of

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Dane Cook: the family is all.

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Dane Cook: It's a little Brady Bunch.

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Marc Preston: Oh, i got you.

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Marc Preston: I got you As far as like origin story.

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Marc Preston: Now I know you're a I'm a North Dallas kid,

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Marc Preston: so you know East Coast and a little fuzzy,

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Marc Preston: but it is basically Boston was where you

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Marc Preston: grew up Suburban Boston area.

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Dane Cook: Ten minutes north of Boston.

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Dane Cook: Yes, arlington Massachusetts.

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Marc Preston: Oh God shit, I'm drawn a blank.

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Marc Preston: I beat comedian Boston redheaded guy.

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Marc Preston: Why is he drawn?

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Marc Preston: I mean, whatever my, I'm sorry, Bill Burr.

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Marc Preston: Bill Burr, Yeah, I'm at that age now where

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Marc Preston: my brain tries to access a name and it just

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Marc Preston: goes like that.

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Dane Cook: Yeah, bill Burr was in my graduating class.

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Dane Cook: We both started while I started in 90.

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Dane Cook: And I think he came in right around 91, but

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Dane Cook: myself, bill Burr, a comedian who sadly

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Dane Cook: passed away, the great Patrice O'Neill,

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Dane Cook: gary Goldman and several other cohorts, but

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Dane Cook: that was our motley crew coming up out of

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Dane Cook: that.

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Dane Cook: that region, in a time when standup was

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Dane Cook: really at the tail end of its Boom, the 80s

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Dane Cook: comedy boom, was ending when we were

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Dane Cook: starting.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, every there were comedy clubs like

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Marc Preston: everywhere and they always they I know they

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Marc Preston: all serve the same food, the same

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Marc Preston: Atmosphere, same kind of vibe, and then

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Marc Preston: they just started kind of petering out.

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Marc Preston: But yeah, doing that a little bit of origin

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Marc Preston: story is Boston and You had, you had family,

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Marc Preston: you know siblings of stuff, but you had one

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Marc Preston: full sister.

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Marc Preston: Was it an older, younger sister?

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Dane Cook: Yeah, my younger sister, courtney, who's a

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Dane Cook: very talented photographer in our own right,

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Dane Cook: and it was really.

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Dane Cook: It's funny because Courtney and I Were the

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Dane Cook: most like our, are the most like our

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Dane Cook: parents, which was the perfect blend.

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Dane Cook: As a comedian of my dad had Swagger my dad

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Dane Cook: had, he was very, he was pretty intense.

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Dane Cook: He was old school, he was a little, he was

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Dane Cook: a little.

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Dane Cook: There's some dark corners there that were

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Dane Cook: that always kept him interesting In a bit

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Dane Cook: of a ham.

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Dane Cook: But on the other side our mom was very

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Dane Cook: physical, very silly, loved language, loved

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Dane Cook: painting verbal pictures physically, and I

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Dane Cook: So the out of the jump.

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Marc Preston: I'm in that kind of phase.

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Dane Cook: I'll tell you why because my dad, who was

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Dane Cook: very difficult time in her illness was One

483

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Dane Cook: that I will never not see for the rest of

484

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Dane Cook: my life one of the things I always admired

485

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Dane Cook: about you is that it kind of That tails

486

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Dane Cook: into a question.

487

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Marc Preston: But it's like, you know, if I knew my

488

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Marc Preston: parents were sitting out in in the audience

489

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Marc Preston: and be like I almost want to feel the need

490

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Marc Preston: to kind of meet her.

491

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Marc Preston: What I was talking about, i mean you,

492

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Marc Preston: there's nothing you're holding back.

493

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Marc Preston: I mean, was it the content?

494

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Marc Preston: and it was nothing Bad at all.

495

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Marc Preston: But it's not normal Dinner time

496

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Marc Preston: conversation with your parents.

497

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Marc Preston: You know, how did she receive the content?

498

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Marc Preston: I mean, did she ever give you commentary

499

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Marc Preston: like, were they, were they seeing that,

500

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Marc Preston: seeing you in a new way, And were they

501

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Marc Preston: enjoying that like a different side of you?

502

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Dane Cook: Yeah, they loved irreverence.

503

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Dane Cook: They were reverent people themselves,

504

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Dane Cook: especially my mom.

505

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Dane Cook: She could have a, you know it could turn

506

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Dane Cook: into a bit of a pirate's den in the house

507

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Dane Cook: from time to time.

508

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Dane Cook: So we were.

509

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Dane Cook: We were cavalier with the language, but we

510

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Dane Cook: were also lovers of language, so it could

511

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Dane Cook: be an F bomb coupled with, you know, a 15

512

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Dane Cook: point Scrabble word.

513

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Dane Cook: So the content was never an issue.

514

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Dane Cook: My mom was always just very adamant about

515

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Dane Cook: let people know that there's not a modicum

516

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Dane Cook: of Malice in you and you can get away with

517

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Dane Cook: anything, and I don't.

518

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Dane Cook: I'm a person who lives in a positive state

519

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Dane Cook: of mind whenever Possible, and because I

520

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Dane Cook: never take anything negative to the stage,

521

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Dane Cook: i knew I could probably get away with.

522

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Dane Cook: Some topics that were, you know, pretty

523

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Dane Cook: low-brow Sometimes are out there because

524

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Dane Cook: people knew that I wasn't trying to be

525

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Dane Cook: vulgar for the sake of shock value.

526

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Marc Preston: Who is this kind of your disposition as a

527

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Marc Preston: kid, like in school?

528

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Marc Preston: or are you more reserved, you more Gagari

529

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Marc Preston: is what?

530

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Marc Preston: the more you know going back to high school

531

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Marc Preston: or things like junior, junior high, because

532

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Marc Preston: that's usually when the Stuff starts

533

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Marc Preston: happening.

534

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Dane Cook: Yeah, no, junior high for me was a

535

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Dane Cook: introvert, very wallflower very much, so

536

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Dane Cook: more of more of an observer Didn't really

537

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Dane Cook: participate very much, just because of

538

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Dane Cook: social anxiety.

539

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Dane Cook: But I do believe that all those elements

540

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Dane Cook: actually led to me being a more nuanced

541

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Dane Cook: Storyteller because I could see little

542

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Dane Cook: things in human behavior, probably because

543

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Dane Cook: I was only listening you know, my, my

544

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Dane Cook: Daughter, my 17 year old, has always been

545

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Dane Cook: the same way.

546

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Marc Preston: She can.

547

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Marc Preston: She can walk into a room And I used to do a

548

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Marc Preston: PA announcing for a baseball team, just for

549

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Marc Preston: fun, because kids love baseball And I

550

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Marc Preston: thought be fun to do for a summer or two.

551

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Marc Preston: And she could walk into the press box and

552

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Marc Preston: bunch of other people, she could read the

553

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Marc Preston: room, she people would look at her and say,

554

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Marc Preston: gosh, she's so shy.

555

00:19:06,159 --> 00:19:07,863

Marc Preston: It's like no, no, she's studying you right

556

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Marc Preston: now.

557

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Marc Preston: So I totally get that now.

558

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Marc Preston: Now, but when did you feel like Cliche

559

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Marc Preston: phrase came out of your shell?

560

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Marc Preston: when?

561

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Marc Preston: when did you feel that Kind of like when

562

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Marc Preston: you got your feet underneath you and you,

563

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Marc Preston: you were making some choices that you were

564

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Marc Preston: sticking to.

565

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Dane Cook: Yeah it.

566

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Dane Cook: It took a while.

567

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Dane Cook: It certainly even though the first time I

568

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Dane Cook: performed I felt Exhilarated and I felt

569

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Dane Cook: some purpose almost immediately.

570

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Dane Cook: I knew that it I was in the right place,

571

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Dane Cook: right time.

572

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Dane Cook: But it took me probably about three or four

573

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Dane Cook: years Before I could confidently look

574

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Dane Cook: somebody in the eyes and say I'm a

575

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Dane Cook: performer, i'm a comedian.

576

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Dane Cook: I didn't.

577

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Dane Cook: I was, i wasn't ashamed of it, but I didn't

578

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Dane Cook: know how to Present myself.

579

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Dane Cook: I think I was bashful still and I was

580

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Dane Cook: certainly just afraid of my own voice for a

581

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Dane Cook: long time.

582

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Dane Cook: You know, unless I had the mic in my hand,

583

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Dane Cook: i didn't.

584

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Dane Cook: I felt more like the Clark Kent, but on

585

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Dane Cook: stage I had a bit of a Superman moment and

586

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Dane Cook: it took me probably about four or five

587

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Dane Cook: years before I realized, in an aha moment,

588

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Dane Cook: i Am the person I become on stage.

589

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Dane Cook: I am that guy.

590

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Dane Cook: I just need to allow myself to love myself

591

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Dane Cook: a little more and be confident and let go

592

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Dane Cook: with some of the fear.

593

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Marc Preston: And that we're the way that happens,

594

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Marc Preston: because you think you're going and putting

595

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Marc Preston: on a show, but really what you're doing is

596

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Marc Preston: you're stripping things away more than

597

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Marc Preston: anything.

598

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Dane Cook: Yeah, yeah, it's funny.

599

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Dane Cook: My whole philosophy is life is, you know,

600

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Dane Cook: removing the obstacles and the hurdles that

601

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Dane Cook: you probably already have set in front of

602

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Dane Cook: you.

603

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Dane Cook: You know, those things sometimes aren't

604

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Dane Cook: things that appear, it's actually obstacles

605

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Dane Cook: We run towards and and maybe the sole

606

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Dane Cook: purpose isn't be what's beyond it, but for

607

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Dane Cook: you to work on removing that element so

608

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Dane Cook: that you can enjoy everything beyond it.

609

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Marc Preston: No, when did you start touring?

610

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Marc Preston: How old were you?

611

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Marc Preston: Oh?

612

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Dane Cook: Boy touring.

613

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Dane Cook: Well, i started touring around New England,

614

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Dane Cook: you know, tooling around in my little Chevy

615

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Dane Cook: Cavalier in 90, 91, 92, and then I wasn't.

616

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Marc Preston: wasn't Marc Marin kind of bouncing around

617

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Marc Preston: up there as well right about that same time?

618

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Marc Preston: I know he went school up there, yeah.

619

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Dane Cook: Yeah, marin was the graduating class ahead

620

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Dane Cook: of us So he didn't pal around with us

621

00:21:12,535 --> 00:21:13,057

Dane Cook: because we were.

622

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Dane Cook: You know we were the noobs, but he was

623

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Dane Cook: already kind of staking his claim, i think,

624

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Dane Cook: outside of Boston in New York.

625

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Dane Cook: But I was just roaming around New England

626

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Dane Cook: looking for college gigs, looking for Heaps

627

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Dane Cook: of places or Chinese food restaurants that

628

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Dane Cook: we're offering open mics for me to.

629

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Dane Cook: You know, get better.

630

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Marc Preston: When it comes to the lifestyle of touring,

631

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Marc Preston: i've always been kind of like that seems

632

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Marc Preston: like it's really cool, but then I like I

633

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Marc Preston: don't know if I could live that lifestyle.

634

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Marc Preston: What was that like when you're actually out

635

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Marc Preston: on the road and it's?

636

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Marc Preston: you know?

637

00:21:49,487 --> 00:21:51,414

Marc Preston: I hear that the, the owners of some of the

638

00:21:51,454 --> 00:21:53,539

Marc Preston: clubs can be their own, like peculiar

639

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Marc Preston: ecosystem.

640

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Marc Preston: And what was that like early on for you

641

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Marc Preston: when you were kind of getting some momentum?

642

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Dane Cook: Yeah, it was lonely, it was hard because

643

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Dane Cook: there was a lot of yeah, there was a lot of

644

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Dane Cook: people and kind of in power that would not

645

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Dane Cook: always pay you or, you know, would try to

646

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Dane Cook: kind of take advantage of your time or

647

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Dane Cook: efforts.

648

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Dane Cook: So you're kind of learning in a very small

649

00:22:13,761 --> 00:22:16,049

Dane Cook: pond, like what the business itself is,

650

00:22:16,109 --> 00:22:18,100

Dane Cook: which is, you know, you got to, you got a

651

00:22:18,140 --> 00:22:19,709

Dane Cook: load of the legalese and you got to be able

652

00:22:19,729 --> 00:22:21,255

Dane Cook: to know how to you know protect yourself in

653

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Dane Cook: those moments.

654

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Dane Cook: But I think that before the internet

655

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Dane Cook: because I'm the old bull I can talk about

656

00:22:28,409 --> 00:22:30,797

Dane Cook: that, you know, transfer moment it was very

657

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Dane Cook: lonely.

658

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Dane Cook: And then, once the computer came in and

659

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Dane Cook: there was a bit more of a closeness to even

660

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Dane Cook: the people that were back home, that

661

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Dane Cook: alleviated a lot of that stress.

662

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Dane Cook: But the first five to seven years was

663

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Dane Cook: really really lonely, really hard out there.

664

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Marc Preston: I don't know.

665

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Marc Preston: Like I said, it seems like it would be cool

666

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Marc Preston: to be in different cities, meet different

667

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Marc Preston: people, but it's I don't know, it could be

668

00:22:51,495 --> 00:22:52,792

Marc Preston: rough also, but it's funny.

669

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Marc Preston: you mentioned the internet.

670

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Marc Preston: I'm sitting there, going like I.

671

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Marc Preston: you know I'll prepare sometimes for for

672

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Marc Preston: folks like Dan Cook.

673

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Marc Preston: I know Dan Cook, but I saw something that

674

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Marc Preston: you're one of the first people to really

675

00:23:02,937 --> 00:23:05,973

Marc Preston: embrace MySpace, if we're going OG, as a

676

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Marc Preston: means of kind of, you know, forging direct

677

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Marc Preston: connections for folks.

678

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Marc Preston: Was that just some?

679

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Marc Preston: were you just immediately when you saw

680

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Marc Preston: MySpace and internet like I'm going to

681

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Marc Preston: embrace this?

682

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Marc Preston: or did somebody give you some advice and

683

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Marc Preston: say, dude, you need to jump on this?

684

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Dane Cook: Yeah, it was like I now I like to call

685

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Dane Cook: MySpace TikTok 1.0.

686

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Dane Cook: Myspace was the very first place where, you

687

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Dane Cook: know, ideas were culminated.

688

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Dane Cook: But I looked at as a immediately as hey,

689

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Dane Cook: people are congregating here.

690

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Dane Cook: This is like comedy in the park.

691

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Dane Cook: This is like when I used to walk through

692

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Dane Cook: Fanguil Hall in Boston and somebody could

693

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Dane Cook: be performing there their actor, you know

694

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Dane Cook: magic or comedy or music and gathering a

695

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Dane Cook: little crowd on the street.

696

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Dane Cook: And I looked at the internet as man, that

697

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Dane Cook: is one big crowd on the street that you

698

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Dane Cook: have the opportunity to to, you know, pal

699

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Dane Cook: around with and hopefully build up your

700

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Dane Cook: clientele.

701

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Dane Cook: You know your fans, your business, and I

702

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Dane Cook: would say within the first month and I mean

703

00:24:02,997 --> 00:24:05,511

Dane Cook: this, this is going to sound flowery and a

704

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Dane Cook: little bit like a bad movie scene I was

705

00:24:09,071 --> 00:24:12,941

Dane Cook: languishing in LA on my computer finding

706

00:24:12,981 --> 00:24:15,654

Dane Cook: MySpace And within a month I went from that

707

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Dane Cook: that guy who was doing this a lot Hmm, How

708

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Dane Cook: do I make my career to a month later saying

709

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Dane Cook: I'm about to take over the world with this.

710

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Marc Preston: Really.

711

00:24:25,922 --> 00:24:28,513

Dane Cook: Oh, a month, A month later after I started,

712

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Dane Cook: i had my first 2,500 followers from zero,

713

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Dane Cook: from sharing links of my comedy.

714

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Dane Cook: And when I hit that 2,500 and then I hit

715

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Dane Cook: 5,000 within six weeks I sat at that

716

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Dane Cook: computer and I said I'm going to sit here

717

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Dane Cook: 23 hours a day until that number is 5

718

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Dane Cook: million people.

719

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Dane Cook: And we got there within about two years I

720

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Dane Cook: had 5 million people and I didn't have to

721

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Dane Cook: wait for Hollywood or industry or anybody

722

00:24:53,980 --> 00:24:54,300

Dane Cook: anymore.

723

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Dane Cook: I could do it myself.

724

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Marc Preston: And one of the things that is so

725

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Marc Preston: fascinating to me.

726

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Marc Preston: there is a young lady.

727

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Marc Preston: I say young lady, she's 23.

728

00:25:01,770 --> 00:25:04,652

Marc Preston: She's one of the superhero people And I

729

00:25:05,013 --> 00:25:07,378

Marc Preston: look just kind of generally looking around,

730

00:25:07,418 --> 00:25:09,923

Marc Preston: i'm like, oh, instagram, 1.5 million.

731

00:25:10,010 --> 00:25:12,838

Marc Preston: I'm like, gee, many Christmas, are you

732

00:25:12,859 --> 00:25:13,220

Marc Preston: kidding me?

733

00:25:13,690 --> 00:25:14,573

Marc Preston: I was like, how is that even?

734

00:25:15,196 --> 00:25:16,340

Marc Preston: what would I do with that?

735

00:25:16,842 --> 00:25:19,792

Marc Preston: you know, that is I was already working

736

00:25:19,812 --> 00:25:21,736

Marc Preston: successful in radio in Dallas, you know.

737

00:25:22,218 --> 00:25:23,621

Marc Preston: but I'm making 1.5 million.

738

00:25:24,190 --> 00:25:26,272

Marc Preston: That's a pretty big thing And that, those

739

00:25:26,312 --> 00:25:29,780

Marc Preston: kind of numbers back circa my space days,

740

00:25:29,980 --> 00:25:31,992

Marc Preston: that's a big, that's even bigger of a deal,

741

00:25:32,092 --> 00:25:34,338

Marc Preston: because people really hadn't embraced it

742

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Marc Preston: quite the same way.

743

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Dane Cook: You would think of it almost like I

744

00:25:37,775 --> 00:25:39,901

Dane Cook: describe it when I, when I mentor young

745

00:25:40,081 --> 00:25:43,117

Dane Cook: people that are building their you know,

746

00:25:43,157 --> 00:25:44,340

Dane Cook: building their online presence.

747

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Dane Cook: Even today, i tell them think of it like

748

00:25:46,335 --> 00:25:48,994

Dane Cook: this If you had a brick and mortar and

749

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Dane Cook: suddenly on day, one ribbon cut, a thousand

750

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Dane Cook: people walked into your widget shop, you

751

00:25:55,901 --> 00:25:58,669

Dane Cook: would say I need to do anything and

752

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Dane Cook: everything possible to make sure the

753

00:26:00,513 --> 00:26:03,728

Dane Cook: experience for these thousand people that

754

00:26:03,768 --> 00:26:05,972

Dane Cook: they go and tell one or two or three other

755

00:26:06,032 --> 00:26:08,698

Dane Cook: people this is the shop you want to come to.

756

00:26:09,245 --> 00:26:11,031

Dane Cook: I looked at it and I still, to this day,

757

00:26:11,432 --> 00:26:12,194

Dane Cook: look at it like this.

758

00:26:12,485 --> 00:26:15,272

Dane Cook: If you have 20, 50 people that come in, are

759

00:26:15,353 --> 00:26:17,366

Dane Cook: interested in what you do, if you can get

760

00:26:17,607 --> 00:26:19,834

Dane Cook: 50 people onto your page, guess what?

761

00:26:20,365 --> 00:26:22,653

Dane Cook: You can get 50,000 people.

762

00:26:22,965 --> 00:26:26,208

Dane Cook: You can get 5 million people, it's all the

763

00:26:26,268 --> 00:26:26,670

Dane Cook: same.

764

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Dane Cook: It's really the response to what it is that

765

00:26:29,551 --> 00:26:31,216

Dane Cook: you're putting the effort, the heart and

766

00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:33,552

Dane Cook: soul you put into your digital brick and

767

00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:33,893

Dane Cook: mortar.

768

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Marc Preston: That's so funny to say mentor.

769

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Marc Preston: It's kind of being at that age.

770

00:26:37,525 --> 00:26:39,572

Marc Preston: I think you literally are only a few months

771

00:26:39,692 --> 00:26:40,415

Marc Preston: older than I am.

772

00:26:40,485 --> 00:26:42,874

Marc Preston: I think I was born February 73.

773

00:26:42,945 --> 00:26:44,271

Marc Preston: I think you're just a few months older.

774

00:26:45,166 --> 00:26:47,774

Marc Preston: I'm at that phase where the mentoring thing

775

00:26:48,918 --> 00:26:51,345

Marc Preston: it's cool because I look back at the people

776

00:26:51,566 --> 00:26:52,410

Marc Preston: that I looked at.

777

00:26:52,450 --> 00:26:54,620

Marc Preston: these old radio dudes who were rocking in

778

00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,327

Marc Preston: the 60s and 70s had the good stories to

779

00:26:56,367 --> 00:26:58,888

Marc Preston: tell When it came to mentoring.

780

00:26:59,149 --> 00:27:03,922

Marc Preston: Who were you looking at, either just from

781

00:27:03,982 --> 00:27:06,108

Marc Preston: afar or people directly that were saying,

782

00:27:06,168 --> 00:27:08,435

Marc Preston: okay, Dane, let's check it.

783

00:27:08,565 --> 00:27:09,629

Marc Preston: Here's what we need to be thinking about.

784

00:27:10,845 --> 00:27:11,807

Marc Preston: Who are some of those people?

785

00:27:12,228 --> 00:27:14,815

Marc Preston: comedy, even outside of comedy, early on.

786

00:27:16,006 --> 00:27:16,608

Dane Cook: Well, i had.

787

00:27:16,669 --> 00:27:19,097

Dane Cook: My first and probably most influential

788

00:27:19,358 --> 00:27:21,405

Dane Cook: person in my life was my high school drama

789

00:27:21,525 --> 00:27:22,489

Dane Cook: teacher, frank Roberts.

790

00:27:23,565 --> 00:27:25,515

Dane Cook: Frank was the first person outside of my

791

00:27:25,575 --> 00:27:27,444

Dane Cook: home to look at me and say something that I

792

00:27:27,505 --> 00:27:29,612

Dane Cook: never thought I'd hear, which is you have

793

00:27:29,692 --> 00:27:30,073

Dane Cook: talent.

794

00:27:31,227 --> 00:27:32,452

Dane Cook: I didn't even know what to do with that.

795

00:27:33,267 --> 00:27:35,693

Dane Cook: I was thrilled and terrified.

796

00:27:36,175 --> 00:27:36,796

Dane Cook: I said I do.

797

00:27:37,085 --> 00:27:39,271

Dane Cook: He said I've been teaching class here for

798

00:27:39,352 --> 00:27:40,254

Dane Cook: 20-some odd years.

799

00:27:40,925 --> 00:27:42,509

Dane Cook: I tell you, when you took that stage today

800

00:27:42,549 --> 00:27:44,895

Dane Cook: and did A, b and C, he said you have

801

00:27:44,975 --> 00:27:45,897

Dane Cook: natural ability.

802

00:27:46,325 --> 00:27:47,409

Dane Cook: Then he said something which I really

803

00:27:47,450 --> 00:27:47,911

Dane Cook: needed to hear.

804

00:27:48,245 --> 00:27:49,852

Dane Cook: He said but you have a lot of fear in you.

805

00:27:50,506 --> 00:27:52,594

Dane Cook: I'd like to help you to understand your

806

00:27:52,635 --> 00:27:55,084

Dane Cook: fear, but I really want to help you to get

807

00:27:55,144 --> 00:27:57,531

Dane Cook: on that stage and to be able to expand upon

808

00:27:57,571 --> 00:27:59,836

Dane Cook: what I'm seeing when you stand up there.

809

00:28:00,586 --> 00:28:02,629

Dane Cook: I could not have asked for a better angel

810

00:28:03,211 --> 00:28:06,777

Dane Cook: to come down and help me on my way.

811

00:28:06,837 --> 00:28:07,839

Dane Cook: In terms of the arts.

812

00:28:08,165 --> 00:28:09,448

Dane Cook: My family could be supportive, but they

813

00:28:09,469 --> 00:28:11,815

Dane Cook: didn't understand the business side of

814

00:28:11,855 --> 00:28:12,176

Dane Cook: things.

815

00:28:12,605 --> 00:28:14,349

Dane Cook: I mean, frank really instilled a lot of

816

00:28:14,409 --> 00:28:16,414

Dane Cook: values in me that I use to this day.

817

00:28:17,885 --> 00:28:19,369

Marc Preston: That is something when somebody that you

818

00:28:19,409 --> 00:28:21,154

Marc Preston: respect, that you think actually is in the

819

00:28:21,194 --> 00:28:23,205

Marc Preston: game, or they just know something, when

820

00:28:23,368 --> 00:28:26,395

Marc Preston: they recognize and say you can do this, or

821

00:28:26,558 --> 00:28:27,265

Marc Preston: just kind of.

822

00:28:27,428 --> 00:28:29,964

Marc Preston: I know my grandfather, always with a wink

823

00:28:29,984 --> 00:28:31,147

Marc Preston: in his eye, would say you're the most

824

00:28:31,248 --> 00:28:33,686

Marc Preston: hardheaded person I've ever met, because he

825

00:28:33,706 --> 00:28:35,373

Marc Preston: knew fundamentally you got to be hardheaded,

826

00:28:35,445 --> 00:28:37,612

Marc Preston: you got to be just have that torque and

827

00:28:37,652 --> 00:28:38,415

Marc Preston: push through things.

828

00:28:38,585 --> 00:28:40,008

Marc Preston: He knew that's what it was going to take

829

00:28:40,029 --> 00:28:41,512

Marc Preston: for me to achieve whatever I did.

830

00:28:41,592 --> 00:28:43,718

Marc Preston: I think I I'm sorry, go ahead.

831

00:28:44,026 --> 00:28:45,249

Dane Cook: No, i was going to say, i think what I took

832

00:28:45,289 --> 00:28:47,234

Dane Cook: from Frank and probably a little bit of my

833

00:28:48,165 --> 00:28:52,437

Dane Cook: dad and mom and put all these assembled,

834

00:28:52,497 --> 00:28:54,583

Dane Cook: all these traits, what you would call a

835

00:28:54,784 --> 00:28:57,269

Dane Cook: person's character, and I think what I

836

00:28:57,410 --> 00:28:59,459

Dane Cook: realized and what I continue to try to grow

837

00:28:59,660 --> 00:29:01,366

Dane Cook: on and what I really like to share with

838

00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:04,032

Dane Cook: young people that I talk to, is it was the

839

00:29:04,072 --> 00:29:10,186

Dane Cook: ability to be no bullshit, tough as nails,

840

00:29:10,246 --> 00:29:12,852

Dane Cook: assertive, with as much tenderness and

841

00:29:12,912 --> 00:29:15,417

Dane Cook: heart as you could ever expect or want from

842

00:29:15,477 --> 00:29:15,798

Dane Cook: somebody.

843

00:29:16,225 --> 00:29:19,191

Dane Cook: And if you can find that ability to be that

844

00:29:19,512 --> 00:29:21,977

Dane Cook: honest and give people your power in some

845

00:29:22,057 --> 00:29:23,952

Dane Cook: sense, because you know you're tough enough

846

00:29:23,992 --> 00:29:26,284

Dane Cook: to take it back or stand up for it, i think

847

00:29:26,324 --> 00:29:28,390

Dane Cook: that's a nice way to be able to pivot and

848

00:29:28,430 --> 00:29:30,876

Dane Cook: move with the world that's ever changing

849

00:29:30,936 --> 00:29:31,317

Dane Cook: around you.

850

00:29:31,405 --> 00:29:33,490

Dane Cook: You got to be tough, but you got to have a

851

00:29:33,531 --> 00:29:35,496

Dane Cook: lot of love in you and a lot of heart.

852

00:29:38,011 --> 00:29:39,114

Marc Preston: I could not agree more.

853

00:29:39,745 --> 00:29:40,628

Marc Preston: I saw there's this quote.

854

00:29:40,729 --> 00:29:43,248

Marc Preston: I like I'm mangling it, but it says you

855

00:29:43,368 --> 00:29:45,995

Marc Preston: know, basically make decisions from love,

856

00:29:46,115 --> 00:29:46,556

Marc Preston: not fear.

857

00:29:47,325 --> 00:29:48,550

Marc Preston: One of the things that's funny when Emma

858

00:29:48,631 --> 00:29:51,785

Marc Preston: I'm sorry, my daughter, my 17, almost 17

859

00:29:51,805 --> 00:29:53,646

Marc Preston: year old was in her appointment, i'm

860

00:29:53,666 --> 00:29:55,291

Marc Preston: sitting there just where's Dane showing up,

861

00:29:56,045 --> 00:29:59,931

Marc Preston: like in a podcast, and how cool it was that

862

00:30:00,011 --> 00:30:02,417

Marc Preston: you were Bob Saget's last interview on his

863

00:30:02,457 --> 00:30:07,119

Marc Preston: podcast And I'm like that was such a great

864

00:30:07,159 --> 00:30:08,644

Marc Preston: thing to hear because nobody said anything

865

00:30:08,665 --> 00:30:09,945

Marc Preston: ever bad about Bob Saget.

866

00:30:10,166 --> 00:30:11,933

Marc Preston: You know, i mean to have that reputation.

867

00:30:13,398 --> 00:30:14,683

Marc Preston: Just touching on that for a moment.

868

00:30:14,764 --> 00:30:17,588

Marc Preston: I spoke right after he passed away Another

869

00:30:17,608 --> 00:30:19,435

Marc Preston: comedian, craig Shoemaker.

870

00:30:19,455 --> 00:30:21,804

Marc Preston: I spoke with him and because it was right

871

00:30:21,844 --> 00:30:23,626

Marc Preston: after he had passed away, what was your

872

00:30:23,766 --> 00:30:26,272

Marc Preston: feeling sitting down talking with him and

873

00:30:26,292 --> 00:30:28,177

Marc Preston: just your opinion of Bob Saget, just in

874

00:30:28,237 --> 00:30:28,598

Marc Preston: general.

875

00:30:29,286 --> 00:30:31,449

Dane Cook: Well, the conversation working back from

876

00:30:31,469 --> 00:30:37,058

Dane Cook: there was spirited and unbridled and very

877

00:30:37,138 --> 00:30:41,673

Dane Cook: loving And he shared stories with his

878

00:30:41,893 --> 00:30:45,141

Dane Cook: viewers and myself that I thought were so I

879

00:30:45,201 --> 00:30:45,422

Dane Cook: would.

880

00:30:45,622 --> 00:30:47,813

Dane Cook: I would even say poetic, beautiful

881

00:30:48,294 --> 00:30:50,884

Dane Cook: sentiment about Robin Williams, stories

882

00:30:50,904 --> 00:30:53,247

Dane Cook: that he never shared before And it really

883

00:30:53,507 --> 00:30:54,952

Dane Cook: touched my heart that he was, you know,

884

00:30:54,972 --> 00:30:55,554

Dane Cook: sharing those stories.

885

00:30:55,605 --> 00:30:56,748

Marc Preston: Yeah, it was, by the way.

886

00:30:56,768 --> 00:30:58,593

Marc Preston: For those who haven't heard it yet, by all

887

00:30:58,633 --> 00:30:59,476

Marc Preston: means go listen to it.

888

00:30:59,945 --> 00:31:01,811

Marc Preston: But he's talked about he was on the set of

889

00:31:02,212 --> 00:31:02,733

Marc Preston: what was the movie.

890

00:31:02,773 --> 00:31:03,756

Marc Preston: It was a big ship.

891

00:31:04,779 --> 00:31:05,140

Marc Preston: What was that?

892

00:31:05,461 --> 00:31:08,169

Marc Preston: Hook, hook, yeah, and then Steven Spielberg,

893

00:31:08,189 --> 00:31:09,855

Marc Preston: of course, and so he just played around.

894

00:31:10,727 --> 00:31:12,594

Marc Preston: I'm like that was such a cool story.

895

00:31:12,765 --> 00:31:14,009

Marc Preston: It's cool whenever somebody's like you know,

896

00:31:14,029 --> 00:31:15,273

Marc Preston: i've never told the story of him before,

897

00:31:15,373 --> 00:31:18,032

Marc Preston: but and like you know to have Bob Saget

898

00:31:18,052 --> 00:31:20,712

Marc Preston: tell you that, but had you spent time with

899

00:31:20,752 --> 00:31:22,468

Marc Preston: him before, i mean leading up to that, or

900

00:31:22,488 --> 00:31:24,173

Marc Preston: had he been in your ecosystem?

901

00:31:24,414 --> 00:31:26,621

Dane Cook: Yeah, he's been in my life for so many

902

00:31:26,662 --> 00:31:28,068

Dane Cook: years And he was actually.

903

00:31:28,168 --> 00:31:31,056

Dane Cook: I met him in Boston in the mid-90s when I

904

00:31:31,096 --> 00:31:32,889

Dane Cook: was coming up, and I actually got to say to

905

00:31:32,949 --> 00:31:36,803

Dane Cook: him when he was on top of the entertainment

906

00:31:36,843 --> 00:31:38,588

Dane Cook: world in terms of Full House and he had

907

00:31:38,628 --> 00:31:41,094

Dane Cook: America's Funniest Videos and we all knew

908

00:31:41,194 --> 00:31:43,667

Dane Cook: that as a stand-up he'd not only broken

909

00:31:43,687 --> 00:31:48,010

Dane Cook: through but he was wealthy, he was popular,

910

00:31:48,485 --> 00:31:50,072

Dane Cook: he had taken comedy to this place.

911

00:31:50,165 --> 00:31:51,390

Dane Cook: We all wanted to be.

912

00:31:52,105 --> 00:31:53,449

Dane Cook: And I remember saying to him you know,

913

00:31:53,489 --> 00:31:55,516

Dane Cook: you're a real inspiration to me.

914

00:31:55,605 --> 00:31:57,390

Dane Cook: And this is when I was, just you know, wet

915

00:31:57,430 --> 00:32:00,225

Dane Cook: behind the ears back in Beantown When I

916

00:32:00,245 --> 00:32:03,393

Dane Cook: finally landed in LA at 98, we bumped into

917

00:32:03,413 --> 00:32:05,318

Dane Cook: each other at the Comedy Club Live Factory,

918

00:32:05,465 --> 00:32:08,153

Dane Cook: probably two weeks later and he just became

919

00:32:08,193 --> 00:32:10,568

Dane Cook: a fast friend And we just continued over

920

00:32:10,589 --> 00:32:12,955

Dane Cook: the years to have that rapport.

921

00:32:13,405 --> 00:32:16,312

Dane Cook: He was nice enough to invite me to this

922

00:32:16,352 --> 00:32:19,507

Dane Cook: Sclerodorm charity events And I would try

923

00:32:19,527 --> 00:32:21,411

Dane Cook: to help him out and do some shows with him

924

00:32:21,491 --> 00:32:24,157

Dane Cook: to bring some attention to that.

925

00:32:25,105 --> 00:32:28,256

Dane Cook: I mean, i was so proud to be able to help

926

00:32:28,337 --> 00:32:30,665

Dane Cook: him when he needed me, but even more so to

927

00:32:30,765 --> 00:32:33,830

Dane Cook: say he was my buddy and that after he'd

928

00:32:33,890 --> 00:32:37,256

Dane Cook: passed, of course, i was so like gobsmacked

929

00:32:37,296 --> 00:32:40,427

Dane Cook: and shocked, but to have had that last

930

00:32:40,488 --> 00:32:42,754

Dane Cook: conversation was such a beautiful gift.

931

00:32:43,516 --> 00:32:45,289

Marc Preston: Yeah, it was in fact.

932

00:32:45,309 --> 00:32:46,893

Marc Preston: I think Bill Burr did the intro to it.

933

00:32:46,933 --> 00:32:49,170

Marc Preston: if I'm not mistaken, it was kind of the

934

00:32:49,190 --> 00:32:49,612

Marc Preston: intro to the show.

935

00:32:49,685 --> 00:32:51,328

Marc Preston: Hey, by the way, i guess that's a spot

936

00:32:51,448 --> 00:32:55,797

Marc Preston: normally where Bob Saga would have done his

937

00:32:55,857 --> 00:32:56,478

Marc Preston: intro to the show.

938

00:32:57,526 --> 00:33:00,352

Dane Cook: I think Bill's company was running the

939

00:33:00,453 --> 00:33:02,257

Dane Cook: podcast at the time.

940

00:33:03,488 --> 00:33:05,937

Dane Cook: I never saw the intro, but that would make

941

00:33:06,037 --> 00:33:06,318

Dane Cook: sense.

942

00:33:06,358 --> 00:33:09,548

Dane Cook: That maybe Bill had recorded something for

943

00:33:09,748 --> 00:33:12,473

Dane Cook: his comedy podcast company is to say we're

944

00:33:12,493 --> 00:33:13,115

Dane Cook: presenting this.

945

00:33:13,475 --> 00:33:14,698

Marc Preston: Yeah, i mean it was a wonder.

946

00:33:15,325 --> 00:33:16,233

Marc Preston: I still haven't had a chance to hear the

947

00:33:16,273 --> 00:33:17,565

Marc Preston: whole thing because my daughter got in the

948

00:33:17,625 --> 00:33:19,271

Marc Preston: car and she of course wants music on.

949

00:33:20,005 --> 00:33:21,510

Marc Preston: Just one more note on the comedy thing in

950

00:33:21,530 --> 00:33:24,409

Marc Preston: the background Who are the guys that you

951

00:33:24,449 --> 00:33:25,654

Marc Preston: were when you started?

952

00:33:26,467 --> 00:33:28,331

Marc Preston: Okay, when you put it in fifth gear and

953

00:33:28,351 --> 00:33:29,834

Marc Preston: you're really going, who are the guys that

954

00:33:29,854 --> 00:33:31,338

Marc Preston: you were checking in with?

955

00:33:31,565 --> 00:33:34,192

Marc Preston: Who was kind of your tribe that you were

956

00:33:34,232 --> 00:33:35,936

Marc Preston: either looking up to, or guys that you were

957

00:33:35,956 --> 00:33:37,268

Marc Preston: like you know you wanted to go see their

958

00:33:37,288 --> 00:33:37,629

Marc Preston: shows?

959

00:33:39,034 --> 00:33:39,355

Dane Cook: Wow.

960

00:33:39,525 --> 00:33:42,775

Dane Cook: Well, there was absolutely a lot of comics.

961

00:33:43,005 --> 00:33:45,109

Dane Cook: Once I landed in New York City that I was

962

00:33:45,189 --> 00:33:48,636

Dane Cook: seeing around me in real time were fast

963

00:33:48,697 --> 00:33:52,974

Dane Cook: becoming the next superstars in comedy.

964

00:33:53,685 --> 00:33:56,111

Dane Cook: You name a comic, whether it's Dice or

965

00:33:56,192 --> 00:33:59,179

Dane Cook: Seinfeld or Roseanne.

966

00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,767

Dane Cook: Everybody from that era that really 80s,

967

00:34:01,867 --> 00:34:03,072

Dane Cook: 90s was blowing up.

968

00:34:04,088 --> 00:34:04,991

Marc Preston: It wasn't that amazing.

969

00:34:05,925 --> 00:34:07,241

Marc Preston: Do you think we're going to get an era like

970

00:34:07,282 --> 00:34:07,565

Marc Preston: that again?

971

00:34:07,565 --> 00:34:08,809

Marc Preston: I don't mean to cut you off, but you

972

00:34:08,830 --> 00:34:09,432

Marc Preston: mentioned something.

973

00:34:10,125 --> 00:34:11,350

Marc Preston: Do you think that's going to take a swing

974

00:34:12,153 --> 00:34:12,373

Marc Preston: back?

975

00:34:12,525 --> 00:34:13,548

Marc Preston: We're going to see an era like that in

976

00:34:13,588 --> 00:34:14,351

Marc Preston: comedy come back?

977

00:34:15,153 --> 00:34:15,755

Dane Cook: I think we will.

978

00:34:16,085 --> 00:34:17,810

Dane Cook: I just think it's probably going to be in

979

00:34:17,830 --> 00:34:20,525

Dane Cook: that kind of newfangled tech way And I

980

00:34:20,565 --> 00:34:22,470

Dane Cook: think in some regards we're seeing it now

981

00:34:22,510 --> 00:34:24,134

Dane Cook: because comics are so much more

982

00:34:24,254 --> 00:34:27,049

Dane Cook: entrepreneurial, they're more 24 hour a day,

983

00:34:27,770 --> 00:34:31,607

Dane Cook: multi hyphenated business people, and so I

984

00:34:31,647 --> 00:34:34,698

Dane Cook: think that the era of comedy meeting

985

00:34:34,758 --> 00:34:36,504

Dane Cook: whatever the next version of what we're

986

00:34:36,525 --> 00:34:39,751

Dane Cook: doing here is probably going to have its

987

00:34:39,891 --> 00:34:42,096

Dane Cook: moment again in terms of changing the

988

00:34:42,136 --> 00:34:43,158

Dane Cook: landscape of stand up.

989

00:34:44,427 --> 00:34:45,891

Marc Preston: And those guys that you're watching, like

990

00:34:46,613 --> 00:34:49,089

Marc Preston: Karlin was still around back then, and yet

991

00:34:49,149 --> 00:34:50,634

Marc Preston: who are people that you wanted to go see?

992

00:34:50,725 --> 00:34:52,169

Marc Preston: Who are people like I want to be in the

993

00:34:52,229 --> 00:34:54,034

Marc Preston: audience watching and picking up on that

994

00:34:54,074 --> 00:34:54,415

Marc Preston: energy.

995

00:34:54,515 --> 00:34:55,993

Dane Cook: Oh, yeah, well, karlin.

996

00:34:56,020 --> 00:34:57,732

Dane Cook: I saw Karlin at the South Shore Music

997

00:34:57,759 --> 00:34:59,478

Dane Cook: Center and a week later, after I was at the

998

00:34:59,518 --> 00:35:01,300

Dane Cook: Hampton Beach Casino, he was there.

999

00:35:02,425 --> 00:35:05,654

Dane Cook: Karlin was just a major contributor to the

00:35:05,694 --> 00:35:06,777

Dane Cook: kind of comedy I wanted to do.

00:35:06,925 --> 00:35:09,527

Dane Cook: When I got to LA, pryor was still here And

00:35:09,547 --> 00:35:10,970

Dane Cook: he was still doing some shows, even though

00:35:10,991 --> 00:35:11,973

Dane Cook: he'd been dealing with MS.

00:35:13,365 --> 00:35:14,490

Dane Cook: He was around Los Angeles.

00:35:15,066 --> 00:35:16,850

Dane Cook: I was desperately waiting for Eddie Murphy

00:35:16,910 --> 00:35:18,915

Dane Cook: to perform stand up again.

00:35:18,975 --> 00:35:21,446

Dane Cook: We all were, we all still are, but he was

00:35:21,486 --> 00:35:23,553

Dane Cook: somebody that I definitely looked up to.

00:35:24,125 --> 00:35:26,213

Dane Cook: But if I'm going to be very transparent,

00:35:26,474 --> 00:35:28,603

Dane Cook: Marc, the thing that was probably

00:35:28,703 --> 00:35:31,870

Dane Cook: interesting and difficult was there wasn't

00:35:32,030 --> 00:35:35,116

Dane Cook: anybody from my era.

00:35:35,436 --> 00:35:37,767

Dane Cook: That was that I was the one at the front of

00:35:37,807 --> 00:35:39,272

Dane Cook: that moment, except for, maybe.

00:35:41,549 --> 00:35:41,889

Marc Preston: Yeah, that's.

00:35:42,491 --> 00:35:43,774

Marc Preston: That's kind of where I was getting at,

00:35:43,794 --> 00:35:45,558

Marc Preston: because there was no template.

00:35:45,805 --> 00:35:48,351

Dane Cook: There was no contemporary template.

00:35:48,392 --> 00:35:49,635

Marc Preston: Yeah, no, you were doing something.

00:35:49,795 --> 00:35:50,397

Marc Preston: I saw you on stage.

00:35:50,765 --> 00:35:53,511

Dane Cook: I would say dice in a way a little bit

00:35:53,611 --> 00:35:55,575

Dane Cook: earlier because he could command that big

00:35:56,036 --> 00:35:58,648

Dane Cook: arena thing, But I don't want to say stick,

00:35:58,668 --> 00:36:00,753

Dane Cook: because that demeans what I think even dice

00:36:00,833 --> 00:36:05,506

Dane Cook: was in the pre Internet realm, so that was

00:36:05,586 --> 00:36:07,973

Dane Cook: all kind of like the old standard network

00:36:08,033 --> 00:36:10,848

Dane Cook: or HBO, but nobody had done this thing

00:36:10,928 --> 00:36:14,255

Dane Cook: where it was completely outside of the

00:36:14,396 --> 00:36:16,547

Dane Cook: industry, you know, putting the sword on

00:36:16,567 --> 00:36:17,832

Dane Cook: you and saying you've been christened,

00:36:17,852 --> 00:36:18,233

Dane Cook: you're in.

00:36:19,407 --> 00:36:22,809

Dane Cook: It was like the self made era I was really

00:36:22,849 --> 00:36:25,279

Dane Cook: at the precipice of, but I was watching

00:36:25,339 --> 00:36:27,086

Dane Cook: Chappelle next to me, because we both came

00:36:27,146 --> 00:36:29,286

Dane Cook: up together out of New York And I was

00:36:29,326 --> 00:36:34,198

Dane Cook: seeing this incredibly gifted comedian

00:36:34,438 --> 00:36:36,343

Dane Cook: saying all right, him and I seem to be

00:36:36,944 --> 00:36:39,371

Dane Cook: having the experience of leading the charge

00:36:39,431 --> 00:36:41,516

Dane Cook: of the next generation of standups.

00:36:41,905 --> 00:36:46,495

Marc Preston: I think comedy is so it is very digestible

00:36:46,535 --> 00:36:47,958

Marc Preston: and important social commentary.

00:36:48,105 --> 00:36:49,995

Marc Preston: I'd say, like if I was to say, if I was to

00:36:50,015 --> 00:36:51,944

Marc Preston: put on a sociologist hat and pretend like I

00:36:51,965 --> 00:36:52,827

Marc Preston: was one for a moment.

00:36:52,867 --> 00:36:55,293

Marc Preston: I'm like, if you look back over, i mean man

00:36:55,334 --> 00:36:57,448

Marc Preston: Karlin, like right now did he not get it

00:36:57,508 --> 00:36:58,466

Marc Preston: right or what You know?

00:36:58,486 --> 00:36:59,794

Marc Preston: if you look at her current era, we're

00:36:59,834 --> 00:37:01,745

Marc Preston: living in things he was commenting on a

00:37:01,765 --> 00:37:03,571

Marc Preston: really kind of on point right now.

00:37:05,546 --> 00:37:07,958

Marc Preston: But now the transition though I don't call

00:37:07,998 --> 00:37:09,224

Marc Preston: it transition because I think you were

00:37:09,264 --> 00:37:11,631

Marc Preston: doing two things in tandem be both on stage

00:37:11,711 --> 00:37:12,574

Marc Preston: and acting.

00:37:13,605 --> 00:37:14,749

Marc Preston: When did you, did you just go?

00:37:15,030 --> 00:37:15,772

Marc Preston: I'm doing a comedy thing.

00:37:15,812 --> 00:37:16,575

Marc Preston: I want to do some acting.

00:37:16,845 --> 00:37:19,212

Marc Preston: I mean, how did the whole being on camera

00:37:19,252 --> 00:37:20,255

Marc Preston: thing manifest for you?

00:37:20,626 --> 00:37:22,591

Dane Cook: Well, Marc, a lot of that really just came

00:37:22,671 --> 00:37:23,875

Dane Cook: from people who are fans.

00:37:23,935 --> 00:37:25,207

Dane Cook: you know, some of these producers and

00:37:25,247 --> 00:37:27,012

Dane Cook: directors were kind of coming up the ranks

00:37:27,072 --> 00:37:29,827

Dane Cook: in their own right And some of them had

00:37:29,887 --> 00:37:32,713

Dane Cook: been watching me for since their, their

00:37:32,733 --> 00:37:33,836

Dane Cook: college years, you know.

00:37:35,125 --> 00:37:36,950

Dane Cook: So I started getting phone calls when I was

00:37:37,071 --> 00:37:38,936

Dane Cook: putting, you know, putting asses in seats

00:37:39,005 --> 00:37:41,050

Dane Cook: that that was the early version of what you

00:37:41,070 --> 00:37:43,176

Dane Cook: would say today like algorithm data, like

00:37:43,665 --> 00:37:45,670

Dane Cook: how many, how many asses in seats you got.

00:37:45,791 --> 00:37:47,636

Dane Cook: once you start filling those rooms up, well,

00:37:48,165 --> 00:37:50,130

Dane Cook: producers and directors and people outside

00:37:50,190 --> 00:37:52,816

Dane Cook: of the normal, normal comedy club spectrum

00:37:53,385 --> 00:37:54,710

Dane Cook: start hitting you up and saying you want to

00:37:54,730 --> 00:37:57,346

Dane Cook: have some fun in our sandbox over here, and

00:37:57,366 --> 00:37:58,179

Dane Cook: I was very game.

00:37:58,987 --> 00:38:00,717

Marc Preston: Just it is a side note because I've

00:38:00,737 --> 00:38:02,045

Marc Preston: forgotten you've done Saturday Night Live

00:38:02,486 --> 00:38:05,016

Marc Preston: And I know you know of course that was kind

00:38:05,056 --> 00:38:07,344

Marc Preston: of before you were doing a lot of stuff on

00:38:07,384 --> 00:38:07,585

Marc Preston: camera.

00:38:07,685 --> 00:38:09,793

Marc Preston: But what is the Saturday generally?

00:38:09,813 --> 00:38:11,500

Marc Preston: What's a Saturday night live experience?

00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,533

Marc Preston: because for me as a kid I don't know about

00:38:13,593 --> 00:38:15,209

Marc Preston: you, but I was watching that I mean, my

00:38:15,350 --> 00:38:17,161

Marc Preston: babysitter when I was real little was cool,

00:38:17,201 --> 00:38:17,805

Marc Preston: let me watch it.

00:38:18,287 --> 00:38:20,012

Marc Preston: Yeah, that was an incredibly influential,

00:38:20,313 --> 00:38:21,076

Marc Preston: like it was.

00:38:21,638 --> 00:38:22,962

Marc Preston: You know, i remember all the way back to

00:38:23,023 --> 00:38:23,685

Marc Preston: Billy Crystal.

00:38:23,986 --> 00:38:25,253

Marc Preston: You know it's kind of like that first

00:38:25,333 --> 00:38:25,574

Marc Preston: general.

00:38:26,037 --> 00:38:27,685

Marc Preston: What was it like actually doing the show?

00:38:28,608 --> 00:38:30,435

Dane Cook: Okay, so a couple interesting thing, great

00:38:30,475 --> 00:38:30,876

Dane Cook: question.

00:38:30,896 --> 00:38:33,265

Dane Cook: A couple interesting things were in LA.

00:38:34,207 --> 00:38:37,734

Dane Cook: I was living in Belushi's last apartment

00:38:38,154 --> 00:38:39,938

Dane Cook: that he lived in till he passed away up the

00:38:39,998 --> 00:38:40,739

Dane Cook: street at the Chateau.

00:38:41,426 --> 00:38:43,914

Dane Cook: So I had Belushi's apartment and what I

00:38:43,954 --> 00:38:46,181

Dane Cook: tell you, really an incredible with the

00:38:46,361 --> 00:38:47,625

Dane Cook: actual apartment or a complex.

00:38:47,966 --> 00:38:50,478

Dane Cook: I was in the actual apartment that he lived

00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:51,805

Dane Cook: in several years.

00:38:52,246 --> 00:38:55,094

Dane Cook: In fact it was still painted the color he

00:38:55,154 --> 00:38:57,541

Dane Cook: had painted it when he had lived there,

00:38:57,581 --> 00:39:00,248

Dane Cook: which was blueberry black, if that's even a

00:39:00,328 --> 00:39:01,472

Dane Cook: color that you can picture.

00:39:01,973 --> 00:39:06,527

Dane Cook: It was the coolest, funkiest wall paint In

00:39:06,547 --> 00:39:08,675

Dane Cook: this really old, historic, built, 90 year

00:39:08,735 --> 00:39:10,963

Dane Cook: old building, original architecture.

00:39:11,003 --> 00:39:12,988

Dane Cook: On the ceilings It was just like a, an

00:39:13,128 --> 00:39:15,233

Dane Cook: edifice unlike anything you'd seen before.

00:39:16,155 --> 00:39:17,758

Dane Cook: And so I'm living there and I'm playing

00:39:17,838 --> 00:39:18,199

Dane Cook: music.

00:39:18,265 --> 00:39:21,036

Dane Cook: I'm playing a lot of, you know, blues music

00:39:21,056 --> 00:39:22,502

Dane Cook: and I'm kind of feeling like oh wow, this

00:39:22,522 --> 00:39:23,185

Dane Cook: whole Belushi thing.

00:39:23,245 --> 00:39:24,269

Dane Cook: It's kind of flowing through me.

00:39:24,951 --> 00:39:26,317

Dane Cook: And when I finally got the opportunity and

00:39:26,337 --> 00:39:28,344

Dane Cook: got the phone call after the success of

00:39:28,364 --> 00:39:32,041

Dane Cook: retaliation, my, my sophomore album, i I

00:39:32,081 --> 00:39:32,865

Dane Cook: was in New York City.

00:39:33,627 --> 00:39:36,134

Dane Cook: I was at Rockefeller Plaza and the very

00:39:36,274 --> 00:39:39,523

Dane Cook: first night that they invited me to work on

00:39:39,543 --> 00:39:40,709

Dane Cook: the show, to write, you know, with the

00:39:40,749 --> 00:39:42,179

Dane Cook: writers, i took a break.

00:39:42,199 --> 00:39:44,809

Dane Cook: At about midnight I left everybody's office

00:39:45,351 --> 00:39:47,797

Dane Cook: and by myself I walked down the corridors

00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:51,451

Dane Cook: of Rockefeller Plaza on that Saturday night,

00:39:51,491 --> 00:39:53,576

Dane Cook: live stage, walk through the stage, walk

00:39:53,596 --> 00:39:55,708

Dane Cook: through the hallways, looked at every

00:39:55,788 --> 00:39:57,773

Dane Cook: picture as close as I could Chevy Chase,

00:39:58,275 --> 00:40:01,972

Dane Cook: gilda Radner, dan Ackroyd, eddie Murphy,

00:40:02,353 --> 00:40:05,389

Dane Cook: steve Martin, carlin and I just remember

00:40:05,449 --> 00:40:07,132

Dane Cook: feeling that moment of standing in the hall

00:40:07,252 --> 00:40:09,056

Dane Cook: looking at these thousands of pictures and

00:40:09,116 --> 00:40:11,188

Dane Cook: saying now my picture Is going to be on the

00:40:11,228 --> 00:40:13,277

Dane Cook: wall here with some of these incredibly

00:40:13,357 --> 00:40:15,767

Dane Cook: gifted people that have entertained me, and

00:40:15,827 --> 00:40:17,452

Dane Cook: I can hope that maybe someday somebody else

00:40:17,472 --> 00:40:20,079

Dane Cook: will stand in that hall and go oh shit, oh,

00:40:21,787 --> 00:40:22,831

Dane Cook: like Dane, that's great.

00:40:23,867 --> 00:40:24,570

Marc Preston: That is I.

00:40:24,611 --> 00:40:25,917

Marc Preston: Just it's so funny because you say those

00:40:25,998 --> 00:40:27,826

Marc Preston: names and I think just because of age, i

00:40:27,846 --> 00:40:29,975

Marc Preston: think there could be some younger people

00:40:29,995 --> 00:40:32,344

Marc Preston: listening who aren't as familiar that you

00:40:32,425 --> 00:40:32,866

Marc Preston: know They're.

00:40:32,987 --> 00:40:35,115

Marc Preston: Their OG is maybe will Ferrell days or

00:40:35,155 --> 00:40:37,303

Marc Preston: something right to say those names and

00:40:37,323 --> 00:40:39,048

Marc Preston: they're like just That.

00:40:39,510 --> 00:40:41,295

Marc Preston: I you know, being a real little kid

00:40:41,335 --> 00:40:42,839

Marc Preston: watching that, that was almost just

00:40:42,959 --> 00:40:43,862

Marc Preston: transformative.

00:40:43,905 --> 00:40:46,115

Marc Preston: I'm like nothing on TV is I should have

00:40:46,135 --> 00:40:46,718

Marc Preston: been watching it.

00:40:46,758 --> 00:40:49,653

Dane Cook: I was doing when I was there, not only was

00:40:49,753 --> 00:40:52,307

Dane Cook: it still that feeling of yes, we had the,

00:40:52,810 --> 00:40:54,738

Dane Cook: the will Ferrell's and you had the Kristen

00:40:54,778 --> 00:40:56,445

Dane Cook: Wiig's, amy Polar was there.

00:40:56,746 --> 00:40:58,570

Dane Cook: Bill Hader was brand new when I was there.

00:40:58,831 --> 00:41:00,395

Dane Cook: But I'll tell you something when I stood

00:41:00,516 --> 00:41:03,454

Dane Cook: backstage Waiting for them to call my name

00:41:03,977 --> 00:41:06,608

Dane Cook: the first time I did the show, but he was

00:41:06,648 --> 00:41:08,735

Dane Cook: gone by the time I did the second, next

00:41:08,755 --> 00:41:09,096

Dane Cook: season.

00:41:09,446 --> 00:41:11,571

Dane Cook: But the first time I did the show Don Pardo,

00:41:11,912 --> 00:41:13,796

Dane Cook: the voice of the original pattern in life

00:41:13,836 --> 00:41:14,658

Dane Cook: He was still there.

00:41:15,667 --> 00:41:19,890

Dane Cook: So meeting him, chatting with him my dad

00:41:19,910 --> 00:41:21,335

Dane Cook: was in broadcasting for a year.

00:41:21,445 --> 00:41:23,009

Dane Cook: So, even though meeting all the cast was

00:41:23,049 --> 00:41:26,256

Dane Cook: amazing to me, meeting the great Don Pardo

00:41:26,276 --> 00:41:30,415

Dane Cook: with that amazing, unique voice and hearing

00:41:30,475 --> 00:41:34,792

Dane Cook: him say ladies and gentlemen, Dane, cook,

00:41:35,714 --> 00:41:38,730

Dane Cook: it was like The goosebumps almost came

00:41:38,790 --> 00:41:39,732

Dane Cook: right off my skin.

00:41:39,973 --> 00:41:41,116

Dane Cook: It was so, so that.

00:41:41,136 --> 00:41:42,919

Marc Preston: That Did you just.

00:41:43,182 --> 00:41:45,594

Marc Preston: Oh man, i'm just trying to live vicariously

00:41:45,634 --> 00:41:46,778

Marc Preston: through you in that moment, like you're

00:41:46,798 --> 00:41:48,244

Marc Preston: looking at a door and you're about to walk

00:41:48,264 --> 00:41:48,465

Marc Preston: through it.

00:41:48,546 --> 00:41:50,300

Marc Preston: You hear that and they did it live.

00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,412

Marc Preston: You know He announced and me and do stuff.

00:41:53,452 --> 00:41:55,037

Marc Preston: I've done like that every now and then.

00:41:55,257 --> 00:41:57,223

Marc Preston: It's like I always like pre-recorded,

00:41:57,243 --> 00:41:59,692

Marc Preston: because you know That when you I'm so used

00:41:59,732 --> 00:42:01,419

Marc Preston: to recording day-in-day when you're there

00:42:01,459 --> 00:42:02,323

Marc Preston: doing it live.

00:42:02,584 --> 00:42:03,309

Marc Preston: You know He's just.

00:42:03,833 --> 00:42:05,284

Marc Preston: You know I don't know how many years he did

00:42:05,305 --> 00:42:06,909

Marc Preston: it, but I think he's he's certainly set a

00:42:06,969 --> 00:42:07,269

Marc Preston: record.

00:42:07,390 --> 00:42:09,675

Marc Preston: But you said your dad was in broadcasting.

00:42:09,916 --> 00:42:10,397

Marc Preston: It was he.

00:42:10,497 --> 00:42:10,938

Marc Preston: What did he do?

00:42:11,386 --> 00:42:13,333

Dane Cook: Yeah, he did some color commentary stuff

00:42:13,434 --> 00:42:16,545

Dane Cook: and after his athletic career had was over

00:42:16,766 --> 00:42:18,702

Dane Cook: He just don't love being a part of sports

00:42:18,742 --> 00:42:21,030

Dane Cook: in any way So he did some local stuff

00:42:21,070 --> 00:42:23,637

Dane Cook: around Boston and he had an incredible

00:42:23,678 --> 00:42:26,004

Dane Cook: voice and an incredible vernacular.

00:42:26,124 --> 00:42:27,007

Dane Cook: My dad, so he was a.

00:42:27,348 --> 00:42:28,894

Dane Cook: He's a pretty good storyteller in his own

00:42:28,934 --> 00:42:29,094

Dane Cook: right.

00:42:29,967 --> 00:42:31,212

Marc Preston: Yeah, when you talk about your mother and

00:42:31,232 --> 00:42:33,782

Marc Preston: your father, i get how you got to where you

00:42:33,883 --> 00:42:34,947

Marc Preston: are, you know, and you talk about your

00:42:34,967 --> 00:42:37,595

Marc Preston: mother telling stories and but one last

00:42:37,615 --> 00:42:37,695

Marc Preston: time.

00:42:37,746 --> 00:42:38,925

Marc Preston: I'd love to talk about a couple of films,

00:42:39,085 --> 00:42:42,136

Marc Preston: but I got to know, coming from radio, one

00:42:42,156 --> 00:42:44,484

Marc Preston: of the cringiest things and I found a lot

00:42:44,504 --> 00:42:44,745

Marc Preston: of success.

00:42:45,346 --> 00:42:47,110

Marc Preston: I had a syndicated show and everything but

00:42:47,150 --> 00:42:48,333

Marc Preston: what when I was younger one of the

00:42:48,373 --> 00:42:50,057

Marc Preston: cringiest things and I'm not gonna say

00:42:50,097 --> 00:42:50,839

Marc Preston: where I was working.

00:42:51,267 --> 00:42:53,944

Marc Preston: But when comedians came by to promote their

00:42:53,984 --> 00:42:56,553

Marc Preston: thing, i got to know one of you don't have

00:42:56,573 --> 00:42:59,569

Marc Preston: to say who, but Promoting a show in a city

00:42:59,610 --> 00:43:01,515

Marc Preston: when you go to the morning shows, what's

00:43:01,595 --> 00:43:05,013

Marc Preston: one of the More peculiar stories that you

00:43:05,053 --> 00:43:05,515

Marc Preston: encountered?

00:43:06,186 --> 00:43:07,813

Marc Preston: Showing up at a radio station, them asking

00:43:07,833 --> 00:43:09,681

Marc Preston: you to do something weird, like turn it on,

00:43:09,742 --> 00:43:10,505

Marc Preston: Dane, do your thing.

00:43:10,625 --> 00:43:12,672

Marc Preston: You know what is one of those stories, if

00:43:12,712 --> 00:43:13,515

Marc Preston: you still remember.

00:43:13,585 --> 00:43:15,773

Dane Cook: Yeah, no, because a lot of radio is

00:43:15,874 --> 00:43:16,797

Dane Cook: something that they call.

00:43:17,219 --> 00:43:19,827

Dane Cook: They want good radio and that means, even

00:43:19,867 --> 00:43:21,972

Dane Cook: if you come in, i don't drink, but if you

00:43:21,992 --> 00:43:24,798

Dane Cook: came in drunk, or if you came in talking

00:43:24,818 --> 00:43:28,051

Dane Cook: out of school, they want to set you up with

00:43:28,091 --> 00:43:30,980

Dane Cook: a net to grab a story, and that's really

00:43:31,060 --> 00:43:32,445

Dane Cook: their mission statement, you know?

00:43:32,687 --> 00:43:34,041

Dane Cook: I mean, yeah, they want to plug your show

00:43:34,102 --> 00:43:35,529

Dane Cook: or whatever, but they certainly would

00:43:35,569 --> 00:43:37,255

Dane Cook: rather have you come on and say something

00:43:37,765 --> 00:43:39,611

Dane Cook: Salacious, because they know that that was

00:43:39,651 --> 00:43:41,396

Dane Cook: gonna get the clicks or back then the

00:43:41,436 --> 00:43:43,061

Dane Cook: listens, right, the tune in they can run it

00:43:43,101 --> 00:43:44,445

Dane Cook: in promos all throughout the day.

00:43:45,493 --> 00:43:49,234

Dane Cook: I was terrified of of public speaking.

00:43:50,625 --> 00:43:52,730

Dane Cook: Still, even at that point, even in like

00:43:52,790 --> 00:43:55,676

Dane Cook: early 2000s, i was so much more comfortable

00:43:55,736 --> 00:44:00,451

Dane Cook: either on stage or Online but I was still

00:44:00,611 --> 00:44:02,637

Dane Cook: not into the idea of doing more than radio.

00:44:02,678 --> 00:44:04,363

Dane Cook: So here's something that I don't think I've

00:44:04,403 --> 00:44:05,085

Dane Cook: ever told anybody.

00:44:05,205 --> 00:44:06,651

Dane Cook: You're getting an exclusive right here.

00:44:07,997 --> 00:44:11,821

Dane Cook: I Never did morning radio, except for a

00:44:11,861 --> 00:44:14,409

Dane Cook: couple of favors, because I didn't want a

00:44:14,469 --> 00:44:17,956

Dane Cook: gotcha moment and I worked extra double

00:44:18,096 --> 00:44:19,339

Dane Cook: overtime online.

00:44:19,966 --> 00:44:21,930

Dane Cook: So if I knew I was going into a specific

00:44:22,010 --> 00:44:24,756

Dane Cook: region, i was like I'm not doing radio, i

00:44:24,777 --> 00:44:25,679

Dane Cook: don't want to do radio.

00:44:26,206 --> 00:44:28,433

Dane Cook: So I would work double extra overtime

00:44:28,975 --> 00:44:32,145

Dane Cook: online to make sure my numbers were robust.

00:44:32,987 --> 00:44:35,032

Dane Cook: And I skipped for about ten years doing

00:44:35,072 --> 00:44:38,239

Dane Cook: morning radio at a time in my life where I

00:44:38,605 --> 00:44:40,157

Dane Cook: Guarantee they would have wanted a few

00:44:40,218 --> 00:44:41,145

Dane Cook: gotcha moments in there.

00:44:41,205 --> 00:44:42,990

Dane Cook: So I don't have a good bad story for you,

00:44:43,391 --> 00:44:46,661

Dane Cook: but I can tell you I worked my ass off to

00:44:46,701 --> 00:44:48,065

Dane Cook: not have to do morning radio.

00:44:48,507 --> 00:44:49,952

Marc Preston: Well, you know, one of the reasons why I

00:44:50,013 --> 00:44:52,001

Marc Preston: like doing this, the podcast, is I like it

00:44:52,021 --> 00:44:53,025

Marc Preston: better in the format of radio.

00:44:53,025 --> 00:44:54,556

Marc Preston: There's more time to really get the story

00:44:54,596 --> 00:44:55,865

Marc Preston: built in there and right.

00:44:55,865 --> 00:44:57,779

Marc Preston: I hope that folks are listening, that are I

00:44:57,852 --> 00:44:59,437

Marc Preston: don't care what they're doing to entertain

00:44:59,511 --> 00:44:59,744

Marc Preston: I mean.

00:44:59,818 --> 00:45:02,528

Marc Preston: Whatever job, i mean that Really there's a

00:45:02,588 --> 00:45:04,856

Marc Preston: work ethic and you've got to be a conscious

00:45:05,305 --> 00:45:06,791

Marc Preston: Participant in your own success and it

00:45:06,811 --> 00:45:09,121

Marc Preston: sounds like you were making choices early

00:45:09,221 --> 00:45:09,302

Marc Preston: on.

00:45:09,322 --> 00:45:11,870

Marc Preston: That's actually very cool that you know.

00:45:11,890 --> 00:45:13,455

Marc Preston: Luckily you had the internet thing going on.

00:45:13,535 --> 00:45:16,719

Marc Preston: But I I remember a guy we I mentioned,

00:45:16,907 --> 00:45:17,736

Marc Preston: craig Shoemaker.

00:45:17,756 --> 00:45:19,740

Marc Preston: He he'd come up a couple times and I

00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,844

Marc Preston: remember I was helping Brian Regan record a

00:45:21,884 --> 00:45:22,948

Marc Preston: promo And I didn't know he was.

00:45:23,269 --> 00:45:25,216

Marc Preston: He does this whole show clean as I was.

00:45:25,798 --> 00:45:27,203

Marc Preston: I was like, well, that makes my job easier,

00:45:27,223 --> 00:45:28,507

Marc Preston: because the other guys I'm trying to record

00:45:28,527 --> 00:45:29,651

Marc Preston: the promo for with them They're.

00:45:29,892 --> 00:45:34,473

Marc Preston: You know I can't air that, but but no, no,

00:45:34,654 --> 00:45:36,764

Marc Preston: you mean coming getting in the on-camera

00:45:36,804 --> 00:45:36,985

Marc Preston: thing.

00:45:37,005 --> 00:45:38,391

Marc Preston: Now I got to tell you one of my favorite

00:45:38,411 --> 00:45:41,002

Marc Preston: movies, that just my, my son of my youngest

00:45:41,022 --> 00:45:41,705

Marc Preston: to my son of my daughter.

00:45:41,765 --> 00:45:42,669

Marc Preston: We watched it the other day.

00:45:42,749 --> 00:45:44,907

Marc Preston: But, um, employee of the month.

00:45:45,468 --> 00:45:47,192

Marc Preston: I think that you and Dax Shepherd somehow

00:45:47,232 --> 00:45:47,673

Marc Preston: that that's.

00:45:48,053 --> 00:45:50,999

Marc Preston: That was a perfect pairing of just dudes.

00:45:52,267 --> 00:45:53,210

Marc Preston: It's just one of those movies.

00:45:53,271 --> 00:45:55,198

Marc Preston: If it's on, i'm gonna watch it, and I know.

00:45:55,219 --> 00:45:56,805

Marc Preston: The other is just those 10 movies.

00:45:56,885 --> 00:45:57,950

Marc Preston: I don't care what it is, i don't care if

00:45:57,970 --> 00:45:59,026

Marc Preston: it's in the middle of the movie, i'll just.

00:45:59,468 --> 00:46:00,732

Marc Preston: Yeah, you can just start, you know,

00:46:00,833 --> 00:46:01,234

Marc Preston: watching it.

00:46:01,846 --> 00:46:03,851

Marc Preston: You are some of the height of your powers,

00:46:03,932 --> 00:46:04,273

Marc Preston: you know.

00:46:04,353 --> 00:46:05,676

Marc Preston: And and so is Jessica Simpson.

00:46:05,716 --> 00:46:06,868

Marc Preston: And there, you know what.

00:46:07,229 --> 00:46:08,835

Marc Preston: What was like kind of shooting that when

00:46:08,855 --> 00:46:10,601

Marc Preston: somebody says to you, or even going back a

00:46:10,641 --> 00:46:12,446

Marc Preston: step further, when your agent goes, we got

00:46:12,506 --> 00:46:14,210

Marc Preston: a show basically takes place in a costco.

00:46:14,891 --> 00:46:16,093

Marc Preston: You know how did that?

00:46:16,254 --> 00:46:17,757

Marc Preston: what was that experience like overall?

00:46:17,937 --> 00:46:20,211

Dane Cook: Yeah, when I think of it Is charming.

00:46:20,312 --> 00:46:21,901

Dane Cook: It was a charming film and charming

00:46:21,981 --> 00:46:22,545

Dane Cook: experience.

00:46:23,187 --> 00:46:24,431

Dane Cook: I certainly felt like I was living a

00:46:24,471 --> 00:46:26,276

Dane Cook: charmed life because my career was

00:46:26,778 --> 00:46:29,185

Dane Cook: certainly taking on, you know, new

00:46:29,767 --> 00:46:30,368

Dane Cook: Frontiers.

00:46:31,171 --> 00:46:33,819

Dane Cook: When I think about that movie, i had hoped

00:46:34,300 --> 00:46:36,807

Dane Cook: it would be one of those films And it has

00:46:36,887 --> 00:46:39,032

Dane Cook: become one of those films, like some of the

00:46:39,132 --> 00:46:41,056

Dane Cook: 80s movies that I loved growing up, that

00:46:41,096 --> 00:46:43,426

Dane Cook: they may not have been the Anything

00:46:43,466 --> 00:46:45,612

Dane Cook: critical, critical darling or anything like

00:46:45,632 --> 00:46:49,590

Dane Cook: that, but it was a feel-good movie And it's

00:46:49,671 --> 00:46:51,482

Dane Cook: nice to be able to talk about it all these

00:46:51,543 --> 00:46:52,929

Dane Cook: years later, because not everything that

00:46:52,949 --> 00:46:55,098

Dane Cook: you do ends up being talked about years

00:46:55,199 --> 00:46:57,447

Dane Cook: later to say, hey, that's one of the ones

00:46:57,467 --> 00:46:59,551

Dane Cook: that someday I can show my kids and it

00:46:59,591 --> 00:47:01,977

Dane Cook: always feels like we captured a spirit in a

00:47:02,057 --> 00:47:03,970

Dane Cook: happiness And a real joy in there and we

00:47:03,990 --> 00:47:04,613

Dane Cook: had a lot of fun.

00:47:04,874 --> 00:47:06,339

Marc Preston: Yeah, i mean Dax seems like just an

00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,207

Marc Preston: intelligent wordsmith, the guy It seems

00:47:08,247 --> 00:47:11,714

Marc Preston: like the two of you Would be, you know, if

00:47:11,734 --> 00:47:12,678

Marc Preston: y'all were talking at a party.

00:47:12,698 --> 00:47:13,803

Marc Preston: I try to find my way over in that

00:47:13,844 --> 00:47:14,165

Marc Preston: conversation.

00:47:14,631 --> 00:47:16,790

Dane Cook: Yeah, now yeah, yeah, i got to share a lot

00:47:16,811 --> 00:47:18,157

Dane Cook: of space with him over the years on a

00:47:18,197 --> 00:47:20,287

Dane Cook: couple of fronts and you know He's.

00:47:20,407 --> 00:47:22,858

Dane Cook: He's earned the success that he has today

00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:24,385

Dane Cook: because he's one of those guys.

00:47:24,505 --> 00:47:26,350

Dane Cook: He's curious, individual, curious people

00:47:26,631 --> 00:47:27,373

Dane Cook: who have talent.

00:47:27,433 --> 00:47:28,536

Dane Cook: That's a nice combination.

00:47:36,207 --> 00:47:38,633

Marc Preston: Waiting is welcome to Thunderdome.

00:47:38,653 --> 00:47:40,356

Marc Preston: Bitch is one of my is just one of those

00:47:40,898 --> 00:47:43,205

Marc Preston: phrases that you know I rattled that off to

00:47:43,245 --> 00:47:44,007

Marc Preston: one of my kids the other day.

00:47:44,309 --> 00:47:47,600

Marc Preston: They didn't get the context, but that Ryan

00:47:47,740 --> 00:47:48,443

Marc Preston: Reynolds was.

00:47:48,703 --> 00:47:50,991

Marc Preston: You know he was skyrocketing and then every

00:47:51,452 --> 00:47:53,840

Marc Preston: that had to have been a pretty fun set.

00:47:53,900 --> 00:47:56,289

Marc Preston: I know the guy, todd Volts, who, well, when

00:47:56,309 --> 00:47:58,697

Marc Preston: they ladies sent this steak back and y'all

00:47:58,717 --> 00:48:00,544

Marc Preston: were all adding your extra ingredients, you

00:48:00,564 --> 00:48:02,712

Marc Preston: know Todd was got spit on the steak.

00:48:03,656 --> 00:48:04,077

Marc Preston: What was that?

00:48:04,097 --> 00:48:05,702

Marc Preston: I got to know what it's like filming

00:48:05,742 --> 00:48:06,063

Marc Preston: Waiting.

00:48:06,404 --> 00:48:08,309

Marc Preston: You know I'll fanboy on that one, because

00:48:08,429 --> 00:48:09,331

Marc Preston: that's that.

00:48:09,351 --> 00:48:11,002

Marc Preston: That place is now Verizon, believe it or

00:48:11,042 --> 00:48:11,182

Marc Preston: not.

00:48:11,884 --> 00:48:14,409

Marc Preston: Um, what was it like making that film?

00:48:14,609 --> 00:48:16,012

Dane Cook: yeah, it was um.

00:48:16,352 --> 00:48:19,242

Dane Cook: Well, that one was like I felt like a bunch

00:48:19,283 --> 00:48:21,187

Dane Cook: of us were in the fast lane of our lives

00:48:21,228 --> 00:48:23,461

Dane Cook: and careers and then suddenly we all zoomed

00:48:23,481 --> 00:48:26,506

Dane Cook: through this one shenanigans set.

00:48:27,428 --> 00:48:29,612

Dane Cook: Everybody kind of ran in, had a bunch of

00:48:29,692 --> 00:48:30,113

Dane Cook: ideas.

00:48:30,233 --> 00:48:30,934

Dane Cook: We all worked.

00:48:31,281 --> 00:48:32,928

Dane Cook: You know, if you know anything about the

00:48:33,028 --> 00:48:35,158

Dane Cook: life of an actor or comedian, you know

00:48:35,238 --> 00:48:36,302

Dane Cook: you're working at restaurants, you're

00:48:36,322 --> 00:48:37,585

Dane Cook: slinging food, you're, you know you're

00:48:37,606 --> 00:48:38,267

Dane Cook: working in the kitchen.

00:48:38,648 --> 00:48:41,625

Dane Cook: So we all had brought a lot of character to

00:48:41,706 --> 00:48:44,075

Dane Cook: our characters and I think that Marced more

00:48:44,115 --> 00:48:44,959

Dane Cook: than anything else.

00:48:44,999 --> 00:48:46,403

Dane Cook: When I think of that movie, i think of the

00:48:46,423 --> 00:48:47,385

Dane Cook: word improvisation.

00:48:47,586 --> 00:48:49,991

Dane Cook: Improvisation, like most of those lines,

00:48:50,092 --> 00:48:51,864

Dane Cook: like the welcome to the Thunderdome that

00:48:52,666 --> 00:48:55,355

Dane Cook: I've been saying on stage from time to time,

00:48:55,375 --> 00:48:58,243

Dane Cook: and it, uh, it was a great opportunity to

00:48:58,283 --> 00:49:00,108

Dane Cook: just go in and have fun with a bunch of

00:49:00,128 --> 00:49:02,041

Dane Cook: people that were all on the come up yeah,

00:49:02,081 --> 00:49:03,425

Dane Cook: because I remember there's one scene.

00:49:03,445 --> 00:49:05,581

Marc Preston: Somebody comes in right before closing and

00:49:05,621 --> 00:49:07,807

Marc Preston: it reminded me of my brief time waiting

00:49:07,827 --> 00:49:12,319

Marc Preston: tables at 19, 19 to 20 and you take the

00:49:12,399 --> 00:49:13,805

Marc Preston: cutting board, you start slamming it up and

00:49:13,825 --> 00:49:14,207

Marc Preston: I was like dude.

00:49:14,248 --> 00:49:15,474

Marc Preston: I've seen that happen before.

00:49:15,896 --> 00:49:17,443

Marc Preston: I've actually been in the kitchen and I've

00:49:17,463 --> 00:49:19,450

Marc Preston: been in the well as a waiter and I'm

00:49:19,690 --> 00:49:20,373

Marc Preston: watching the guy.

00:49:20,955 --> 00:49:23,605

Marc Preston: I'm like I don't, if I go into the to the

00:49:23,665 --> 00:49:25,615

Marc Preston: to eat anywhere and it's somewhat close to

00:49:25,655 --> 00:49:26,740

Marc Preston: closing, i tell the waiter to tell the

00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:27,363

Marc Preston: people in the kitchen.

00:49:27,384 --> 00:49:28,268

Marc Preston: Hey, i'm so sorry.

00:49:28,309 --> 00:49:29,696

Marc Preston: I know you're about the club, right?

00:49:29,777 --> 00:49:31,062

Marc Preston: I don't want anything happening like what

00:49:31,082 --> 00:49:31,884

Marc Preston: y'all did to that steak.

00:49:31,964 --> 00:49:34,410

Dane Cook: I think I had that character, floyd, off of

00:49:34,530 --> 00:49:38,568

Dane Cook: a bartender that worked in one of the bar

00:49:38,628 --> 00:49:40,915

Dane Cook: slash comedy places who we used to get

00:49:41,075 --> 00:49:44,106

Dane Cook: really miffed when and if it wasn't a

00:49:44,166 --> 00:49:45,813

Dane Cook: customer that he already knew, like one of

00:49:45,833 --> 00:49:47,680

Dane Cook: the trident truths, like the norm on this

00:49:47,801 --> 00:49:48,382

Dane Cook: end of the stool.

00:49:48,763 --> 00:49:50,347

Dane Cook: He just didn't like anybody knew he was

00:49:50,387 --> 00:49:52,272

Dane Cook: setting his ways even in the establishment

00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:57,089

Dane Cook: and his off color reMarcs were just had us

00:49:57,230 --> 00:49:58,833

Dane Cook: all laughing and I remember thinking, man,

00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:01,729

Dane Cook: there's a little bit of uh, this guy that I

00:50:01,769 --> 00:50:04,419

Dane Cook: want to put into Floyd if anybody wants to

00:50:04,459 --> 00:50:05,483

Dane Cook: know what's like when you work at a

00:50:05,543 --> 00:50:07,190

Dane Cook: restaurant, it that you're that age, that

00:50:07,230 --> 00:50:09,961

Dane Cook: kind of uh, that kind of place that that

00:50:10,021 --> 00:50:11,166

Dane Cook: movie captured it certainly.

00:50:11,226 --> 00:50:13,536

Marc Preston: And uh, now, before I get you know go, i

00:50:13,576 --> 00:50:15,022

Marc Preston: like to ask my seven questions.

00:50:15,082 --> 00:50:16,769

Marc Preston: I do with everybody a little extra, get to

00:50:16,809 --> 00:50:17,773

Marc Preston: know, you're kind of fun.

00:50:18,556 --> 00:50:20,903

Marc Preston: Um, first question, got, is what is your

00:50:20,983 --> 00:50:22,566

Marc Preston: favorite comfort food?

00:50:23,148 --> 00:50:23,428

Dane Cook: is that?

00:50:23,528 --> 00:50:25,192

Dane Cook: is that like a meal or the dessert?

00:50:25,893 --> 00:50:28,424

Marc Preston: well, no, it's kind of like let's say

00:50:28,465 --> 00:50:30,110

Marc Preston: you're on, uh, let's go back to your

00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:31,943

Marc Preston: tourgasm days.

00:50:32,063 --> 00:50:35,030

Marc Preston: You know you're on the bus, um, it's

00:50:35,090 --> 00:50:36,553

Marc Preston: something like you know, maybe you've had a

00:50:36,660 --> 00:50:38,230

Marc Preston: shit day, whatever, something it's just

00:50:38,250 --> 00:50:39,296

Marc Preston: going to bring you back home.

00:50:39,316 --> 00:50:40,642

Marc Preston: You've been on the road too long, something

00:50:40,663 --> 00:50:42,570

Marc Preston: that just it's.

00:50:42,630 --> 00:50:43,936

Marc Preston: You got good vibes when you eat it,

00:50:43,976 --> 00:50:44,237

Marc Preston: whatever.

00:50:44,357 --> 00:50:45,662

Marc Preston: Hey, it could be dessert, could be anything

00:50:45,702 --> 00:50:46,524

Marc Preston: really okay.

00:50:46,544 --> 00:50:47,988

Dane Cook: Well then it's, it's got to be.

00:50:48,569 --> 00:50:50,861

Dane Cook: Uh, you can name an east coast pizza place

00:50:51,122 --> 00:50:51,764

Dane Cook: and that would be it.

00:50:51,845 --> 00:50:54,936

Marc Preston: I love a good cheese pie uh, is the real

00:50:55,036 --> 00:50:56,642

Marc Preston: finn kind of new york style, or do you like

00:50:56,682 --> 00:50:57,887

Marc Preston: the uh deeper dish?

00:50:58,288 --> 00:50:59,814

Dane Cook: okay, no, no, i don't like when there's

00:50:59,834 --> 00:51:02,906

Dane Cook: like tears of food on like a very well,

00:51:02,926 --> 00:51:05,235

Dane Cook: there's strata in your food looks like they

00:51:05,395 --> 00:51:08,005

Dane Cook: hired it before they brought it up, indeed,

00:51:08,125 --> 00:51:08,788

Dane Cook: absolutely now.

00:51:08,888 --> 00:51:10,835

Marc Preston: Next question if you're to sit down, uh,

00:51:11,457 --> 00:51:12,621

Marc Preston: with three people, there's gonna be four

00:51:12,641 --> 00:51:15,968

Marc Preston: y'all coffee, just gonna be talking story

00:51:16,048 --> 00:51:17,671

Marc Preston: for a couple hours.

00:51:18,112 --> 00:51:19,682

Marc Preston: Who are those three people, living or not?

00:51:19,743 --> 00:51:20,968

Marc Preston: who would you like to have sitting down

00:51:21,008 --> 00:51:21,249

Marc Preston: with you?

00:51:21,690 --> 00:51:22,253

Dane Cook: living or not.

00:51:22,654 --> 00:51:26,005

Dane Cook: Um, i always wanted to uh, dream up a

00:51:26,065 --> 00:51:27,248

Dane Cook: conversation with Elvis.

00:51:27,368 --> 00:51:30,496

Dane Cook: I've always been a kind of a infatuated

00:51:30,556 --> 00:51:33,304

Dane Cook: with his life, both as a business person

00:51:33,524 --> 00:51:36,955

Dane Cook: and as a um, as a performer, i know a lot

00:51:36,995 --> 00:51:37,296

Dane Cook: of us.

00:51:37,336 --> 00:51:39,684

Marc Preston: He was the original brand mella he, he.

00:51:40,306 --> 00:51:42,232

Marc Preston: There was some genius in how he crafted his

00:51:42,272 --> 00:51:44,740

Marc Preston: brand, you know oh, absolutely very, very

00:51:44,921 --> 00:51:46,826

Marc Preston: like the whole tcb of it all.

00:51:46,886 --> 00:51:50,878

Dane Cook: And so Elvis, george Carlin, and you know

00:51:50,958 --> 00:51:54,165

Dane Cook: I've always been a big lover of all um

00:51:54,606 --> 00:51:56,569

Dane Cook: Meryl Streep's work and I just love her

00:51:56,630 --> 00:51:57,912

Dane Cook: approach on performance.

00:51:58,032 --> 00:52:01,247

Dane Cook: I love her approach in how she carries

00:52:01,287 --> 00:52:02,090

Dane Cook: herself in life.

00:52:02,230 --> 00:52:04,297

Dane Cook: I've never had the opportunity to meet her.

00:52:04,357 --> 00:52:05,982

Dane Cook: I saw her across a room at a Hollywood

00:52:06,022 --> 00:52:08,008

Dane Cook: event once and I was too trepidatious to go

00:52:08,088 --> 00:52:08,208

Dane Cook: off.

00:52:08,609 --> 00:52:10,301

Dane Cook: But those would be my three everything she

00:52:10,341 --> 00:52:11,183

Dane Cook: does is amazing.

00:52:11,203 --> 00:52:14,149

Marc Preston: But did you have you seen don't look up, uh,

00:52:14,390 --> 00:52:17,644

Marc Preston: on Netflix that her president is one of my

00:52:17,684 --> 00:52:19,690

Marc Preston: all-time favorite on-screen presidents ever

00:52:19,911 --> 00:52:20,212

Marc Preston: you know?

00:52:20,493 --> 00:52:20,874

Marc Preston: incredible.

00:52:20,894 --> 00:52:24,485

Marc Preston: Um, now the next question I got is when

00:52:24,505 --> 00:52:26,412

Marc Preston: you're a kid, who was your first celebrity

00:52:26,432 --> 00:52:26,773

Marc Preston: crush?

00:52:28,458 --> 00:52:29,321

Dane Cook: my first celebrity crush.

00:52:29,341 --> 00:52:30,845

Dane Cook: I remember having a crush on Christina

00:52:30,945 --> 00:52:33,111

Dane Cook: Applegate when married with children was on,

00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,845

Dane Cook: and then, of course, you later on went on

00:52:35,885 --> 00:52:38,751

Dane Cook: to be hilarious with Will Ferrell and uh

00:52:38,831 --> 00:52:41,023

Dane Cook: Anchorman before I forget, because I made a

00:52:41,083 --> 00:52:42,487

Dane Cook: note, i wanted to ask you one thing for

00:52:42,527 --> 00:52:45,021

Dane Cook: sure you, you were on a show with Betty

00:52:45,081 --> 00:52:45,322

Dane Cook: White.

00:52:45,362 --> 00:52:45,843

Marc Preston: Do you have any?

00:52:46,344 --> 00:52:48,649

Marc Preston: a couple quick notes of what it was like to

00:52:48,710 --> 00:52:48,930

Marc Preston: be.

00:52:49,331 --> 00:52:51,986

Marc Preston: She see, betty White looked, acted just

00:52:52,367 --> 00:52:54,394

Marc Preston: like my grandmother and it was a crazy

00:52:54,414 --> 00:52:54,555

Marc Preston: thing.

00:52:54,595 --> 00:52:56,322

Marc Preston: So my grandmother passed, but Betty White

00:52:56,342 --> 00:52:57,931

Marc Preston: was still around, you know, and it's kind

00:52:57,951 --> 00:52:59,058

Marc Preston: of like she always reminded me of my

00:52:59,098 --> 00:52:59,902

Marc Preston: grandma as a great man.

00:53:00,324 --> 00:53:02,152

Marc Preston: Do you have a Betty, any Betty White story

00:53:02,172 --> 00:53:03,538

Marc Preston: at all from, uh, your time with her?

00:53:03,558 --> 00:53:03,578

Marc Preston: I?

00:53:03,979 --> 00:53:06,946

Dane Cook: played Betty White's grandson and Marie

00:53:07,046 --> 00:53:08,529

Dane Cook: Osmond actually played my mom.

00:53:08,970 --> 00:53:10,941

Dane Cook: Um, and I was on a series with them for a

00:53:11,022 --> 00:53:13,007

Dane Cook: year and I will tell you this about Betty

00:53:13,047 --> 00:53:16,618

Dane Cook: White uh, well, okay, so forget about her

00:53:16,738 --> 00:53:18,965

Dane Cook: illustrious career, but Golden Girls was

00:53:19,065 --> 00:53:21,953

Dane Cook: already like one of the funniest you know

00:53:22,154 --> 00:53:23,598

Dane Cook: sitcoms ever.

00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:24,702

Dane Cook: I mean just to this day.

00:53:24,742 --> 00:53:26,206

Dane Cook: You can watch any of those episodes.

00:53:26,266 --> 00:53:27,109

Dane Cook: It's hilarious.

00:53:28,012 --> 00:53:30,740

Dane Cook: Um, so I was already walking into the

00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,227

Dane Cook: situation as such an incredible fan.

00:53:33,589 --> 00:53:36,337

Dane Cook: I would say the first word to describe

00:53:36,357 --> 00:53:37,360

Dane Cook: Betty White enchanting.

00:53:38,343 --> 00:53:40,690

Dane Cook: Enchanting the atmosphere she creates.

00:53:41,131 --> 00:53:42,857

Dane Cook: And then, once you get to know her, her

00:53:42,917 --> 00:53:44,963

Dane Cook: demeanor and, of course, her storytelling

00:53:45,666 --> 00:53:46,789

Dane Cook: is unparalleled.

00:53:47,371 --> 00:53:48,034

Dane Cook: Working with her.

00:53:48,074 --> 00:53:49,739

Dane Cook: I will tell you my favorite story.

00:53:49,759 --> 00:53:52,466

Dane Cook: I've told it a couple times, but one day I

00:53:52,687 --> 00:53:53,869

Dane Cook: wanted to know a little bit about Golden

00:53:53,889 --> 00:53:56,983

Dane Cook: Girls and I said, uh, i said Betty, you

00:53:57,023 --> 00:54:00,013

Dane Cook: know, i think I asked her did you, did you

00:54:00,073 --> 00:54:02,160

Dane Cook: all realize how incredible you were?

00:54:02,921 --> 00:54:04,605

Dane Cook: uh, like, did you know when you were

00:54:04,645 --> 00:54:07,411

Dane Cook: walking to set for a filming day or a live

00:54:07,451 --> 00:54:07,671

Dane Cook: day?

00:54:08,193 --> 00:54:09,945

Dane Cook: and she said I will tell you one thing that

00:54:09,965 --> 00:54:11,913

Dane Cook: I remember about pretty much every week

00:54:11,993 --> 00:54:12,997

Dane Cook: going to that show.

00:54:13,017 --> 00:54:15,370

Dane Cook: She said there was always line changes at

00:54:15,411 --> 00:54:16,658

Dane Cook: the end because the writers were so good

00:54:16,718 --> 00:54:18,507

Dane Cook: that they would change a line last minute.

00:54:19,070 --> 00:54:20,437

Dane Cook: And she said and there were so many things

00:54:20,477 --> 00:54:22,103

Dane Cook: changing that we didn't always have all the

00:54:22,143 --> 00:54:25,213

Dane Cook: time to learn everything we needed to know

00:54:25,494 --> 00:54:26,798

Dane Cook: in terms of the line changes.

00:54:26,818 --> 00:54:30,506

Dane Cook: She said sit down, watch any episode of

00:54:30,567 --> 00:54:31,428

Dane Cook: Golden Girls.

00:54:31,889 --> 00:54:33,572

Dane Cook: And she said and look, and she goes look

00:54:33,613 --> 00:54:35,565

Dane Cook: for this and this is going to knock you out

00:54:35,645 --> 00:54:35,886

Dane Cook: ready.

00:54:36,267 --> 00:54:38,556

Dane Cook: She said whenever you see us holding a

00:54:38,656 --> 00:54:41,285

Dane Cook: sugar packet in our hands, or if you see us

00:54:41,385 --> 00:54:43,853

Dane Cook: holding the mug and talking to someone and

00:54:43,934 --> 00:54:46,442

Dane Cook: looking in as we take a sip, she said we

00:54:46,482 --> 00:54:48,568

Dane Cook: would write the lines we couldn't remember

00:54:49,090 --> 00:54:51,257

Dane Cook: inside the coffee mug on white tape.

00:54:51,699 --> 00:54:54,667

Dane Cook: Or we would write on the sugar packets and

00:54:54,707 --> 00:54:57,315

Dane Cook: if you watch that show, you will see so

00:54:57,355 --> 00:55:00,445

Dane Cook: many moments when Blanche or they stared

00:55:00,465 --> 00:55:02,371

Dane Cook: that packet before they open it or they

00:55:02,392 --> 00:55:03,636

Dane Cook: look in that, that mug.

00:55:03,696 --> 00:55:05,544

Marc Preston: And it's a fun easter egg to go and watch

00:55:05,644 --> 00:55:07,792

Marc Preston: that show now, knowing that, i think now a

00:55:07,893 --> 00:55:09,620

Marc Preston: lot of folks are going to start just like,

00:55:09,781 --> 00:55:11,304

Marc Preston: okay, gotta go watch it now, and like it's

00:55:11,405 --> 00:55:12,407

Marc Preston: a whole new dimension.

00:55:12,467 --> 00:55:13,810

Marc Preston: You know she was she was.

00:55:14,091 --> 00:55:17,465

Dane Cook: She was truly, and I learned probably more

00:55:17,525 --> 00:55:21,832

Dane Cook: from her about acting for television,

00:55:21,893 --> 00:55:25,489

Dane Cook: certainly than anybody else in my career oh

00:55:25,510 --> 00:55:26,935

Dane Cook: god, the things she did with Ryan Reynolds

00:55:27,035 --> 00:55:28,902

Dane Cook: for the movie the was with the proposal.

00:55:29,043 --> 00:55:29,665

Marc Preston: Yeah, was that what?

00:55:29,685 --> 00:55:32,215

Marc Preston: yeah, that promo she did was like, oh, that

00:55:32,255 --> 00:55:34,082

Marc Preston: was just like just flipping him off.

00:55:34,122 --> 00:55:35,006

Marc Preston: That was just brilliant.

00:55:36,392 --> 00:55:37,396

Marc Preston: Now, next question now, if you're going to

00:55:37,416 --> 00:55:39,125

Marc Preston: be living, let's say, on an exotic island,

00:55:39,165 --> 00:55:40,351

Marc Preston: somewhere you actually want to be, but

00:55:40,391 --> 00:55:41,979

Marc Preston: there's no streaming or nothing, you've got

00:55:41,999 --> 00:55:44,548

Marc Preston: to go og, bring your favorite cd, your

00:55:44,568 --> 00:55:47,497

Marc Preston: favorite album, and a dvd of your a movie.

00:55:47,858 --> 00:55:49,182

Marc Preston: You know you're gonna enjoy your it's, it's.

00:55:49,202 --> 00:55:50,526

Marc Preston: You know it's not rough living on this

00:55:50,646 --> 00:55:52,571

Marc Preston: island, but what's the album, what is the

00:55:52,912 --> 00:55:55,904

Marc Preston: uh, a movie you want to bring with you?

00:55:55,924 --> 00:55:57,189

Dane Cook: oh my, goodness, oh boy.

00:55:57,731 --> 00:56:00,320

Marc Preston: I was hoping you're gonna say book um hey,

00:56:00,340 --> 00:56:01,844

Marc Preston: you know I have a lot of people to say that

00:56:01,864 --> 00:56:02,044

Marc Preston: too.

00:56:02,064 --> 00:56:02,566

Marc Preston: You know you can.

00:56:02,706 --> 00:56:04,471

Marc Preston: You can substitute one out with a book,

00:56:04,861 --> 00:56:07,849

Marc Preston: most certainly um, if it had to be a film.

00:56:07,929 --> 00:56:09,554

Dane Cook: I love planes, trains and automobiles.

00:56:10,757 --> 00:56:12,804

Dane Cook: I've watched it's way too many times and I

00:56:12,844 --> 00:56:15,092

Dane Cook: adore it um, you know, you know it's funny.

00:56:15,152 --> 00:56:17,660

Marc Preston: I would say that's come up a good number of

00:56:17,721 --> 00:56:19,665

Marc Preston: times when I ask that question, that that

00:56:19,846 --> 00:56:20,267

Marc Preston: one movie.

00:56:20,528 --> 00:56:22,593

Dane Cook: Love it because it's got everything um book.

00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,905

Dane Cook: I love Stephen King's the dark tower, the

00:56:25,925 --> 00:56:27,328

Dane Cook: gunslinger now.

00:56:28,270 --> 00:56:30,421

Marc Preston: The next question is if you're from stem to

00:56:30,442 --> 00:56:32,066

Marc Preston: stern, when you first wake up to put your

00:56:32,087 --> 00:56:33,431

Marc Preston: head down on the pillow at night, what is,

00:56:33,761 --> 00:56:35,385

Marc Preston: what are the component parts of a perfect

00:56:35,425 --> 00:56:35,907

Marc Preston: day for you?

00:56:37,351 --> 00:56:39,437

Dane Cook: starting off with uh affirmations.

00:56:39,919 --> 00:56:42,206

Dane Cook: I do it every day, you know, uh, making

00:56:42,246 --> 00:56:44,693

Dane Cook: sure that I always stay grateful.

00:56:45,475 --> 00:56:46,519

Dane Cook: Um, and what does that mean?

00:56:46,619 --> 00:56:49,004

Dane Cook: gratitude for me is being able to take the

00:56:49,065 --> 00:56:52,292

Dane Cook: energy and uh, the enthusiasm that I always

00:56:52,312 --> 00:56:54,844

Dane Cook: seem to have and in trying to bolster

00:56:54,904 --> 00:56:56,829

Dane Cook: somebody else with it, not just what I want

00:56:56,849 --> 00:56:57,832

Dane Cook: to see come to fruition.

00:56:57,872 --> 00:57:00,067

Dane Cook: But how can I find?

00:57:00,127 --> 00:57:01,853

Dane Cook: seek somebody out that I know is like maybe

00:57:02,054 --> 00:57:03,680

Dane Cook: trying to figure out their path forward,

00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,425

Dane Cook: and what can I do to try to stimulate their

00:57:06,525 --> 00:57:08,068

Dane Cook: ideas and enthusiasm.

00:57:08,549 --> 00:57:12,201

Dane Cook: And then, by the end of the day, um, man, i

00:57:12,241 --> 00:57:12,541

Dane Cook: think it's.

00:57:12,762 --> 00:57:15,747

Dane Cook: I think more than anything, it's um always

00:57:15,867 --> 00:57:20,120

Dane Cook: realizing that the words that you speak and

00:57:20,141 --> 00:57:23,287

Dane Cook: the way that you treat people, um, when you

00:57:23,307 --> 00:57:25,852

Dane Cook: put your head on your pillow, that's really

00:57:26,113 --> 00:57:30,371

Dane Cook: the only the only thing that you'll ever

00:57:30,471 --> 00:57:31,555

Dane Cook: really take with you.

00:57:31,616 --> 00:57:33,001

Dane Cook: At the end of that day, when you're getting

00:57:33,042 --> 00:57:34,890

Dane Cook: in bed and settling down, you're not going

00:57:34,910 --> 00:57:37,220

Dane Cook: to think so much about what you did or what

00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:38,001

Dane Cook: you accomplished.

00:57:38,501 --> 00:57:40,364

Dane Cook: I think you're thinking, you reminisce more

00:57:40,404 --> 00:57:44,073

Dane Cook: about How did I treat people, how did I

00:57:44,214 --> 00:57:44,936

Dane Cook: impact people.

00:57:45,005 --> 00:57:46,910

Dane Cook: I don't even think people realize that they

00:57:46,950 --> 00:57:48,654

Dane Cook: are thinking those things sometimes because

00:57:48,674 --> 00:57:50,848

Dane Cook: they might be embroiled in something

00:57:50,908 --> 00:57:53,399

Dane Cook: stressful or dramatic, but I always like to

00:57:53,801 --> 00:57:56,128

Dane Cook: recognize and acknowledge I was.

00:57:56,349 --> 00:57:58,194

Dane Cook: I was good to people today and it feels

00:57:58,234 --> 00:57:59,517

Dane Cook: good when that was reciprocated.

00:58:00,386 --> 00:58:01,730

Marc Preston: Well, when you're a kid, do you think you

00:58:01,771 --> 00:58:03,436

Marc Preston: were more kind of in your head?

00:58:04,046 --> 00:58:04,968

Marc Preston: You know, does that make sense?

00:58:05,029 --> 00:58:05,991

Marc Preston: it like where you kind of one of those

00:58:06,011 --> 00:58:07,435

Marc Preston: people was really in your head with your

00:58:07,495 --> 00:58:09,788

Marc Preston: thoughts and just processing.

00:58:10,189 --> 00:58:11,312

Dane Cook: I just wanted to be loved.

00:58:12,093 --> 00:58:13,396

Dane Cook: I just really wanted to be loved and

00:58:13,436 --> 00:58:16,491

Dane Cook: accepted and I Really wanted to feel like I

00:58:16,531 --> 00:58:18,697

Dane Cook: never understood why I didn't quite fit in.

00:58:19,426 --> 00:58:22,712

Dane Cook: But I understand now and it was because I

00:58:22,772 --> 00:58:24,936

Dane Cook: was supposed to learn and understand even

00:58:25,076 --> 00:58:27,100

Dane Cook: more than I thought I needed to know about

00:58:27,605 --> 00:58:30,173

Dane Cook: Empathy and what it feels like to be lonely

00:58:30,254 --> 00:58:32,450

Dane Cook: and to be alone, because a lot of my act

00:58:32,490 --> 00:58:34,458

Dane Cook: and a lot of what I try to put back into it

00:58:34,538 --> 00:58:36,265

Dane Cook: is is for that kid who was like me.

00:58:36,506 --> 00:58:38,198

Dane Cook: I want someone to see something in me.

00:58:38,722 --> 00:58:39,706

Dane Cook: Where they go, you know what.

00:58:39,907 --> 00:58:42,713

Dane Cook: Maybe I can have an impact in my community

00:58:42,793 --> 00:58:45,078

Dane Cook: or beyond, and I really hope that that's,

00:58:45,886 --> 00:58:47,772

Dane Cook: you know, the message that most people take,

00:58:47,953 --> 00:58:48,956

Dane Cook: even from my comedy.

00:58:49,076 --> 00:58:50,782

Dane Cook: It's about just making you feel.

00:58:50,966 --> 00:58:53,387

Marc Preston: Yeah, i mean I most certainly I get.

00:58:53,448 --> 00:58:56,166

Marc Preston: I mean there, there's always been Something

00:58:56,187 --> 00:58:58,173

Marc Preston: that a word my kids have heard from me a

00:58:58,233 --> 00:58:59,156

Marc Preston: lot is kindness.

00:58:59,806 --> 00:59:01,290

Marc Preston: It is, i mean, that's kind of like

00:59:01,471 --> 00:59:03,256

Marc Preston: everything you know and it's and we didn't

00:59:03,276 --> 00:59:03,697

Marc Preston: really bring it.

00:59:03,705 --> 00:59:06,472

Marc Preston: I'm not gonna do a deep dive at all, but I

00:59:06,602 --> 00:59:08,295

Marc Preston: know for those folks, i know I've heard

00:59:08,315 --> 00:59:10,698

Marc Preston: interviews you brought up the situation or

00:59:10,758 --> 00:59:12,380

Marc Preston: the manifestation of what happened with

00:59:12,420 --> 00:59:14,691

Marc Preston: your brother and You know, feeling taken

00:59:14,711 --> 00:59:15,293

Marc Preston: advantage of.

00:59:16,168 --> 00:59:17,898

Marc Preston: You know I had, without going into how

00:59:17,918 --> 00:59:19,045

Marc Preston: sausage is made, i had a similar.

00:59:19,125 --> 00:59:20,228

Marc Preston: I don't have your siblings, but I have

00:59:20,289 --> 00:59:22,194

Marc Preston: similar kind of a family, familial

00:59:22,214 --> 00:59:25,492

Marc Preston: experience and that that that's something

00:59:25,573 --> 00:59:28,390

Marc Preston: that Man does that cause you to really do

00:59:28,490 --> 00:59:31,617

Marc Preston: some introspection and you could stew on it

00:59:31,797 --> 00:59:35,070

Marc Preston: or are or Our Process and move beyond it

00:59:35,110 --> 00:59:36,455

Marc Preston: and like integrate, you know, and how

00:59:36,516 --> 00:59:38,965

Marc Preston: you've discussed it I've heard in the past

00:59:39,366 --> 00:59:41,133

Marc Preston: I have great admiration for that because

00:59:41,173 --> 00:59:45,128

Marc Preston: there was like I said it's gotta be

00:59:45,208 --> 00:59:48,107

Marc Preston: something that Really can shake your

00:59:48,147 --> 00:59:50,813

Marc Preston: foundation or make your foundations more

00:59:50,873 --> 00:59:51,154

Marc Preston: solid.

00:59:51,174 --> 00:59:53,118

Marc Preston: I don't know, would that be a good way of

00:59:53,218 --> 00:59:53,579

Marc Preston: putting it?

00:59:53,766 --> 00:59:55,695

Marc Preston: I don't know, because I hear you talk about

00:59:55,716 --> 00:59:55,756

Marc Preston: it.

00:59:55,776 --> 00:59:57,565

Marc Preston: I was like I identify with that.

00:59:57,725 --> 00:59:59,691

Dane Cook: I think some of the most traumatic moments

00:59:59,751 --> 01:00:01,616

Dane Cook: in your life, some of the most cap-sizing

01:00:01,656 --> 01:00:06,792

Dane Cook: moments I They define your character and,

01:00:07,052 --> 01:00:08,696

Dane Cook: to put it, i guess, kind of in something

01:00:08,717 --> 01:00:12,172

Dane Cook: more bite-size, it made me believe that

01:00:12,433 --> 01:00:14,748

Dane Cook: nothing is ever falling apart, it's only

01:00:14,829 --> 01:00:17,640

Dane Cook: falling together, and if you stop halfway

01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:18,945

Dane Cook: it seems like it fell apart.

01:00:19,386 --> 01:00:21,171

Dane Cook: But if you can see things through, even if

01:00:21,271 --> 01:00:22,394

Dane Cook: it's something that feels like

01:00:22,434 --> 01:00:25,255

Dane Cook: quote-unquote failure Or it's something

01:00:25,295 --> 01:00:27,589

Dane Cook: quote-unquote destructive, it may be the

01:00:27,669 --> 01:00:29,335

Dane Cook: very thing that you needed to clear the

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Dane Cook: path for what is good.

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Marc Preston: I could not agree with you more And it was

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Marc Preston: funny when I, my kids and I watched Wi-Fi.

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Marc Preston: Oh, that was kind of our family thing when

01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,058

Marc Preston: it was on and you came on And the character

01:00:39,098 --> 01:00:41,128

Marc Preston: you play now I had known the stories like

01:00:41,630 --> 01:00:43,153

Marc Preston: this is just as a little bit of a.

01:00:43,194 --> 01:00:44,838

Marc Preston: You have some source material for this.

01:00:45,686 --> 01:00:47,512

Marc Preston: You're playing Danny's brother on the Wi-Fi.

01:00:47,592 --> 01:00:48,274

Marc Preston: Oh, did you did you?

01:00:48,434 --> 01:00:49,678

Marc Preston: did you find that there was?

01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:52,287

Marc Preston: did you kind of use some of your own Life

01:00:52,327 --> 01:00:53,072

Marc Preston: and bring it in the?

01:00:53,112 --> 01:00:55,145

Marc Preston: you know this charming guy that's yeah,

01:00:55,245 --> 01:00:56,792

Marc Preston: yeah was that kind of the case.

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Dane Cook: Funny enough it wasn't actually so much of

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Dane Cook: my home life that I brought into it, but

01:01:02,667 --> 01:01:04,252

Dane Cook: you know there were shysters and there was

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Dane Cook: people across the Landscape in the world of

01:01:07,352 --> 01:01:09,341

Dane Cook: stand-up that you know would just take,

01:01:09,361 --> 01:01:10,145

Dane Cook: they would take advantage.

01:01:10,285 --> 01:01:12,353

Dane Cook: You know bad business when you're a young

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Dane Cook: comic.

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Dane Cook: There's no like formal contract in and an

01:01:15,633 --> 01:01:17,057

Dane Cook: attorney to make sure that you know

01:01:17,458 --> 01:01:20,045

Dane Cook: everything is precision a lot of good faith

01:01:22,791 --> 01:01:25,297

Dane Cook: That turns into you know you not being able

01:01:25,337 --> 01:01:27,521

Dane Cook: to pay the rent on time because you know

01:01:27,602 --> 01:01:29,125

Dane Cook: somebody who's holding your the check.

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Dane Cook: You know 86 is out of there.

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Dane Cook: So I think I took a lot more from some of

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Dane Cook: the early dark corners of my career and put

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