June 23, 2023

Matt Walsh | Windy City Improvisor

Matt Walsh | Windy City Improvisor
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Matt Walsh | Windy City Improvisor

On this episode of The Story & Craft Podcast, we sit down with comedic actor, Matt Walsh.  We chatted about his Emmy-nominated role as Mike McClintock on Veep, as well as his work as a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB).  We also discussed Matt’s new Hulu movie, Flamin' Hot.Matt reflects on his time growing up in Chicago, his work on The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live and a number of his other memorable roles in TV and film. We also touch on Matt's podcast Second in Command, his kids' reaction to his work, and his thoughts on comedy, acting, and his plans for future projects.It was a pleasure to bring you a fun glimpse into the life of one of the busiest comedic actors in Hollywood…Matt Walsh! SHOW HIGHLIGHTS0:08:59 - UCB and Its Founding Members0:11:35 - UCB Legacy and Growth0:19:42 - Navigating Life's Challenges With Age0:23:47 - Parenting and Entertainment Industry0:32:51 - Comedy, Acting, and Future Projects0:36:59 - Acting Career Aspirations0:39:27 - Collaborating With Eva Longoria0:52:28 - Future and Finding InterestsListen and subscribe on your favorite podcast app.  Also, check out the show and sign up for the newsletter at  www.storyandcraftpod.com....#podcast #interview #mattwalsh #actor #flaminhot #flaminhotmovie #hulu #comedy #improv #ucb #ucbtla #ucbtny #ucbcomedy #uprightcitizensbrigrade #acting #actorslife #storyandcraft #voiceover #voiceactor #voiceovercoach

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Matt Walsh:

Yes, i did a movie called Into the Storm.

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

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Matt Walsh: movie ever.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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

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Marc Preston: Alright, welcome back.

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Marc Preston: Another episode of Story and Craft.

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

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Marc Preston: episode.

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Marc Preston: Thank you so much for checking in.

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

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Marc Preston: actor Matt Walsh today.

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Marc Preston: You know him, you love him.

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

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

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Marc Preston: ted, the Hangover.

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Marc Preston: You may even know him from his

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Marc Preston: Emmy-nominated role as Mike McClintock on

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Marc Preston: the TV show Veep.

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Marc Preston: He's got a new movie.

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Marc Preston: It is called Flamin' Hot.

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Marc Preston: It's on Hulu.

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Marc Preston: Checked it out with my daughter the other

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Marc Preston: night.

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

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Marc Preston: underdog story.

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

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Marc Preston: Matt was a real pleasure.

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

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

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Marc Preston: the UCB or the Upright Citizens Brigade,

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

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Marc Preston: great chat.

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Marc Preston: Really enjoyed the opportunity to sit down

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Marc Preston: with Matt.

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Marc Preston: And if you would do me a favor, as always,

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Marc Preston: everything Story and Craft on the Webber

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Marc Preston: Nets Just go to Storyandcraftpod.com.

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Marc Preston: And of course you can check out the show

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Marc Preston: everywhere you listen to podcasts.

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Marc Preston: Most recently we've put the library on

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Marc Preston: YouTube so you can check out the show there

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Marc Preston: as well.

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Marc Preston: And of course, make sure to like rate.

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Marc Preston: Leave a comment.

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

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Marc Preston: a little love.

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Marc Preston: It is always appreciated And I appreciate

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: Doing great.

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Marc Preston: So what kind of cookie were you eating

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Marc Preston: today?

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Matt Walsh: It was slightly healthier Marcet.

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Matt Walsh: It was like a Nature Valley peanut butter

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

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Marc Preston: You know, i limited my friend.

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Marc Preston: His daughter was my dealer for Girl Scout

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

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Marc Preston: things.

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

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Marc Preston: cookies from?

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

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

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Marc Preston: Scout cookies that nobody talks about, you

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

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: night.

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: in this movie with Melissa McCarthy, so

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Marc Preston: we're going to watch this.

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Marc Preston: And she dug it.

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Marc Preston: She's 17,.

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: one of those guys I love.

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

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Marc Preston: working.

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

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Marc Preston: of long vacations and hiatuses?

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

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Marc Preston: you?

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Marc Preston: are you working pretty consistently from

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Marc Preston: your point of view?

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, i guess I.

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Matt Walsh: I guess I do probably enjoy working and

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

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

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: You know, seems like is that?

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

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Marc Preston: mostly just on acting?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Matt Walsh: on your feet.

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

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

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

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

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Matt Walsh: waiting to get made.

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: to you one day, nat Faxon.

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

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Marc Preston: circles.

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Marc Preston: He's very talented.

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

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Marc Preston: kind of obscure stuff that I really enjoyed

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: screenplay, you know.

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

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Marc Preston: chicago.

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Marc Preston: Were you coming from a family that was

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Marc Preston: creative?

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

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Marc Preston: doing something theatrical at all, or were

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Marc Preston: you kind of the oddball out?

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

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Matt Walsh: was in theater.

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

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

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Matt Walsh: running and everything organized, so but my

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

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Matt Walsh: everybody had a sense of humor.

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

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Matt Walsh: that you know storytelling, joke telling,

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Matt Walsh: that kind of thing, attention getting.

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

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Matt Walsh: But I didn't really do anything

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Matt Walsh: professional or professional.

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

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Matt Walsh: did like a variety show.

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

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Matt Walsh: stage performance.

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Marc Preston: Are you seeing seven, seven kids?

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

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Marc Preston: your family?

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

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

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Marc Preston: So I get lived vicariously through people

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: to have siblings through them.

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Marc Preston: But was that?

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

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Marc Preston: troop who ended up going into entertainment,

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

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Marc Preston: followed you in?

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

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

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

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

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Matt Walsh: also performs and does bit parts

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Matt Walsh: occasionally.

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

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Matt Walsh: the most interested in it.

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

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Marc Preston: epicenter with Second City and all that You

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Marc Preston: had that in your backyard.

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

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Marc Preston: when you were growing up?

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

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

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

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Matt Walsh: Second City when I was in college.

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Matt Walsh: They came through and did one of their

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Matt Walsh: touring company shows and it was really

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

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Matt Walsh: anything like that.

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Matt Walsh: I of course watched kids in the hall

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

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

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Matt Walsh: live stuff I'd never seen.

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Matt Walsh: And then I got involved doing improv.

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

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Matt Walsh: Chicago to study improv and then driving

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

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Matt Walsh: and a half outside of the city.

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

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Matt Walsh: when I graduated I was doing psychology.

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

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Matt Walsh: psychology in college and then at night I

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Matt Walsh: was doing sketch and exploring theater and

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Matt Walsh: comedy.

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

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Marc Preston: that a decision to diverge off the

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Marc Preston: psychotherapy path on to working on stage?

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Marc Preston: Was there a conscious decision or did just

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Marc Preston: kind of just find yourself more and more

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Matt Walsh: I think I liked them both equally.

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Matt Walsh: at some point I really did appreciate like

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Matt Walsh: the potential of like guiding people

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Matt Walsh: through pathology or, you know, depression

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Matt Walsh: etc.

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Matt Walsh: But working on an adolescent psych ward in

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Matt Walsh: Chicago at Northwestern, it was very taxing

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

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

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Matt Walsh: could handle the pressure.

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

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

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Matt Walsh: months in the middle of my psychology

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

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

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Matt Walsh: and just started hustling.

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

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

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Matt Walsh: comedy thing or performing thing.

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

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

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

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Marc Preston: But what a great legacy though.

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

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, And it was.

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

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

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Marc Preston: I mean I can appreciate the experiences,

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

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Matt Walsh: So you collect things, so you have samples

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Matt Walsh: But yeah, i don't look at the boxes, i

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Matt Walsh: don't open them up, i just try to like keep

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Matt Walsh: moving, you know but I do like when friends

474

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Matt Walsh: will send me a picture, i'll send it.

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Matt Walsh: All right, go, go go.

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

477

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Matt Walsh: do love it when friends send me a picture

478

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Matt Walsh: from like 25 years ago, backstage or

479

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Matt Walsh: something.

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

481

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Matt Walsh: look so young, so but you don't really feel

482

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Matt Walsh: any older.

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

484

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Marc Preston: hanging at 25, you know, kind of my no, my

485

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Marc Preston: back will remind me I'm not 25 anymore, but

486

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Marc Preston: you know yeah no, what kind of pooch you

487

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Marc Preston: got.

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

489

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Matt Walsh: One is probably I forget what it is My wife

490

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Matt Walsh: did that DNA thing and the DNA thing said

491

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Matt Walsh: Chihuahua and something else And it doesn't

492

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Matt Walsh: look like a Chihuahua.

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

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, you can do that, you can like send it

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Matt Walsh: in from saliva, i think.

496

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

497

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

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

499

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Matt Walsh: rescue.

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

501

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

502

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Matt Walsh: what, you.

503

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

504

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Matt Walsh: also white spaniel.

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

506

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

507

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Matt Walsh: out, come on, come on.

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

509

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

510

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Marc Preston: I'm a big dog lover.

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Marc Preston: In fact we had a golden retriever and

512

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Marc Preston: Marlowe guy passed a few weeks back and

513

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

514

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Marc Preston: moving down to an island down in South

515

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Marc Preston: Texas here, probably in October.

516

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

517

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

518

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

519

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Marc Preston: we got to get another golden retriever

520

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

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

522

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Marc Preston: attention you got to give them.

523

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

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Marc Preston: around here.

525

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

526

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

527

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Marc Preston: So it's a big dog.

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

529

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

530

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Matt Walsh: to lose a dog?

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

532

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Matt Walsh: hard.

533

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Marc Preston: It went on hot.

534

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Marc Preston: I'm looking over here.

535

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

536

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Marc Preston: on my shelf.

537

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Marc Preston: But no, he he was.

538

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

539

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Marc Preston: grew up with him.

540

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Marc Preston: He was 10.

541

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

542

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Marc Preston: my other dogs had lived.

543

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

544

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Marc Preston: years old.

545

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

546

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Marc Preston: laughs.

547

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Marc Preston: You know something.

548

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

549

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

550

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Marc Preston: three weeks later he passed.

551

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

552

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Marc Preston: hiatus.

553

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

554

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Marc Preston: very good sitting down talking with people

555

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

556

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

557

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Marc Preston: bit older.

558

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

559

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Marc Preston: you navigate it better.

560

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

561

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

562

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Marc Preston: to address it with my kids.

563

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Marc Preston: That's the hard part.

564

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

565

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Marc Preston: adult here and actually help them out and

566

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

567

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

568

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Marc Preston: funny.

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Marc Preston: Um, do you have?

570

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Marc Preston: uh, you got kids as well.

571

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

572

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Matt Walsh: not in college at.

573

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Matt Walsh: My son just turned 16 yesterday.

574

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

575

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Matt Walsh: come?

576

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

577

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

578

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

579

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

580

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

581

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

582

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

583

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Matt Walsh: a family and come back with a language

584

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Matt Walsh: before you go to college.

585

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Matt Walsh: You know things like that.

586

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Marc Preston: That's funny.

587

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

588

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Marc Preston: Emma's doing.

589

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

590

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

591

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Marc Preston: Yeah, probably threw off what school was

592

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

593

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

594

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Marc Preston: used to online learning.

595

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

596

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Marc Preston: just that's.

597

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

598

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Marc Preston: that.

599

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Marc Preston: So she finished her junior and senior year

600

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Marc Preston: This last year.

601

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

602

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Marc Preston: and did just great.

603

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

604

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

605

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

606

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

607

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

608

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

609

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Marc Preston: program she gets college credit for it.

610

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

611

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Marc Preston: immersive language thing and they have

612

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Marc Preston: these really beautiful dorms.

613

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

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Marc Preston: organization that does it.

615

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Marc Preston: Um and uh.

616

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

617

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

618

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

619

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

620

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Marc Preston: four countries and then Israel on the back

621

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

622

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

623

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

624

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

625

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

626

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Marc Preston: biggest group of kids.

627

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Marc Preston: It sounds like a really wonderful program

628

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Marc Preston: in Barcelona.

629

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

630

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

631

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

632

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Marc Preston: immersion.

633

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Marc Preston: Is that what they call it?

634

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Marc Preston: What I think?

635

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Marc Preston: immersion, where they are learning in both

636

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

637

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

638

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

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

639

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

640

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Marc Preston: Spanish?

641

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

642

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

643

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Marc Preston: Jr.

644

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Marc Preston: Um, but uh, but anyway.

645

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

646

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Marc Preston: think it's a great thing.

647

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

648

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

649

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

650

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Marc Preston: especially with, i think it helped.

651

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

652

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Marc Preston: what where their passions are and adjust as

653

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

654

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

655

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

656

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Marc Preston: they have to do uh.

657

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Marc Preston: they did their uh internship their last

658

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

659

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

660

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Marc Preston: already in their senior years.

661

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

662

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

663

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

664

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

665

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

666

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Matt Walsh: experiment or like learn a language, like

667

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

668

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Matt Walsh: creative.

669

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

670

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Matt Walsh: you said.

671

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

Matt Walsh: You know you, man makes plan.

672

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Matt Walsh: And God laughs because I similarly thought,

673

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

674

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Matt Walsh: everybody does it.

675

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

Matt Walsh: They go to college for accounting or

676

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Matt Walsh: bookkeeping or teaching, and then they do

677

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

678

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

Matt Walsh: what was I thinking?

679

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

680

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Matt Walsh: obviously travel is the best education

681

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Matt Walsh: there is.

682

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Marc Preston: It's really beneficial Yeah.

683

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Matt Walsh: Meeting people and seeing lives and uh,

684

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

685

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Matt Walsh: way.

686

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Marc Preston: How old are your other kids?

687

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Marc Preston: Are they 18?

688

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

689

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Matt Walsh: uh, 11.

690

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

691

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

692

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Marc Preston: Oh my god you.

693

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Matt Walsh: So we have a lot in common.

694

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, we have a lot.

695

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Matt Walsh: I was.

696

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

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

697

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

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

698

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

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

699

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Marc Preston: One point in time.

700

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Marc Preston: All three in mind were three separate

701

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Marc Preston: schools.

702

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Marc Preston: I had to.

703

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

704

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

705

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Marc Preston: know how we do this.

706

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

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

707

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

708

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Marc Preston: dad.

709

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Marc Preston: Life was interesting for a while.

710

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

711

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

712

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

713

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Marc Preston: we did Melissa McCarthy.

714

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

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

715

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

Marc Preston: or do they just see dad?

716

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

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

717

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

Marc Preston: from your kids.

718

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

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

719

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

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

720

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

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

721

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

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

722

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

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

723

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

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

724

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

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

725

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

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

726

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

Matt Walsh: cool for them somehow.

727

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

Matt Walsh: You know what I mean.

728

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

Matt Walsh: Like it's like.

729

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

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

730

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

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

731

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Matt Walsh: I'm in.

732

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Matt Walsh: They're never interested in watching

733

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

734

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

735

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

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

736

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Matt Walsh: you know, low budget often.

737

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

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

738

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Matt Walsh: I'm making or whatever?

739

00:25:23,371 --> 00:25:24,032

Announcer: But they're not.

740

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Announcer: That's fun.

741

00:25:24,862 --> 00:25:26,007

Announcer: It is fun, i agree.

742

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

Matt Walsh: Yeah.

743

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

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

744

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

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

745

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

Marc Preston: it's cool.

746

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

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

747

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

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

748

00:25:36,006 --> 00:25:36,649

Marc Preston: know my deal.

749

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

Matt Walsh: Yeah.

750

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

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

751

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

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

752

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

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

753

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

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

754

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

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

755

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

Marc Preston: the voice of the podcast the opening and

756

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

Marc Preston: closing.

757

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

Marc Preston: She's never heard an episode.

758

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

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

759

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

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

760

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

Marc Preston: him?

761

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

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

762

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

Marc Preston: her.

763

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

Marc Preston: I was like you like his show?

764

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

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

765

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

Marc Preston: you sure?

766

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

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

767

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

Marc Preston: kids.

768

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

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

769

00:26:07,728 --> 00:26:09,112

Marc Preston: hip to what's going on.

770

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

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

771

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

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

772

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

Marc Preston: at picking up on stuff quickly.

773

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

Matt Walsh: But I bet it was slightly more interesting

774

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

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

775

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

Matt Walsh: podcast.

776

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

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

777

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

Matt Walsh: doesn't see you, Right?

778

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

Marc Preston: Yeah, well, i told him.

779

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

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

780

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Marc Preston: time.

781

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

Marc Preston: I mean I was one.

782

00:26:29,740 --> 00:26:31,728

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

783

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

Marc Preston: And the only thing they remember when I

784

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

Marc Preston: worked at ABC radio network is the security

785

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

Marc Preston: guard when they were very little.

786

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

Marc Preston: He would always bring them really cool

787

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

Marc Preston: colored coloring books And they remember

788

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

Marc Preston: the lobby because we had like a little

789

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

Marc Preston: creek in the lobby or something.

790

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

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

791

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

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

792

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

Marc Preston: radio, like the loop in Chicago.

793

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

Announcer: Yeah.

794

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

Matt Walsh: Sister stations Yeah.

795

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

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

796

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

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

797

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

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

798

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

Marc Preston: about.

799

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

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

800

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

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

801

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

Marc Preston: was.

802

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

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

803

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

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

804

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

Marc Preston: what radio was.

805

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

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

806

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

Marc Preston: you?

807

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

Marc Preston: Oh, nice transition.

808

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

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

809

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

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

810

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

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

811

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

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

812

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

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

813

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

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

814

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

Matt Walsh: through every episode of the seven seasons,

815

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

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

816

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

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

817

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

Matt Walsh: about each episode.

818

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

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

819

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

Marc Preston: I will admittedly say that that is one

820

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

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

821

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

Marc Preston: much stuff I haven't seen.

822

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

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

823

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

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

824

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

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

825

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

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

826

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

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

827

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

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

828

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

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

829

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

Marc Preston: I have never seen Game of Thrones.

830

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

Matt Walsh: Oh, my God.

831

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

Matt Walsh: So there's a whole thing.

832

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

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

833

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

Marc Preston: said I watched lost literally the last

834

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

Marc Preston: season.

835

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

Marc Preston: It was on the air.

836

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

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

837

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

Marc Preston: like why did I miss this?

838

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

Marc Preston: You know.

839

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

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

840

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

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

841

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

Matt Walsh: it.

842

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

Matt Walsh: Veep is a wonderful show and Game of

843

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

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

844

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

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

845

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

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

846

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

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

847

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

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

848

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

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

849

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

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

850

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

Marc Preston: got a reality show.

851

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

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

852

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

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

853

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

Marc Preston: have to watch this now.

854

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

Matt Walsh: He has a reality.

855

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

Marc Preston: Really He and his three daughters and his

856

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

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

857

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

Marc Preston: Paramount plus.

858

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

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

859

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

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

860

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

Marc Preston: he was talking with his daughter doing a

861

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

Marc Preston: long distance relationship, and it's

862

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

Marc Preston: something I teach voiceover also, and I

863

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

Marc Preston: teach my students the value of investing

864

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

Marc Preston: their time properly.

865

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

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

866

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

Marc Preston: can be careful about how you invest your

867

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

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

868

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

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

869

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

Marc Preston: like I am stealing that from Stallone.

870

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

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

871

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

Marc Preston: That's just.

872

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

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

873

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

Marc Preston: attitude, and you know.

874

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

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

875

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

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

876

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

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

877

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

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

878

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

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

879

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

Marc Preston: way.

880

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

Marc Preston: You see him shop.

881

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

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

882

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

Marc Preston: like Ted, just you and your.

883

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

Marc Preston: You know you and that relationship to Tom

884

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

Marc Preston: Scare.

885

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

Marc Preston: It just the most random thing.

886

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

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

887

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

Marc Preston: You know Sam Richardson the same way.

888

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

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

889

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

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

890

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

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

891

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

Marc Preston: I've got it.

892

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

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

893

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

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

894

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

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

895

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

Marc Preston: watching all these shows.

896

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

Marc Preston: I can't.

897

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

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

898

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

Marc Preston: things I haven't seen yet.

899

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

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

900

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

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

901

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

Matt Walsh: like yourself.

902

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

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

903

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

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

904

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

Matt Walsh: Tulsa King It's.

905

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

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

906

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

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

907

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

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

908

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

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

909

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

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

910

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

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

911

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

Matt Walsh: seemingly.

912

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

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

913

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

Marc Preston: you were consuming?

914

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

Marc Preston: either comedy wise or I loved with my

915

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

Marc Preston: parents, went out Saturday night.

916

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

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

917

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

Marc Preston: Saturday night live.

918

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

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

919

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

Marc Preston: when I was a kid.

920

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

Marc Preston: It was the you know Billy Crystal.

921

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

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

922

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

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

923

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

Marc Preston: So that was kind of my thing.

924

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

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

925

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

Marc Preston: your entertainment?

926

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

Marc Preston: uh, diet, like back then.

927

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

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

928

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

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

929

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

Matt Walsh: watched probably everything that you did on

930

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

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

931

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

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

932

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

Matt Walsh: big fan.

933

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

Marc Preston: Do you remember something that just popped

934

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

Marc Preston: into my head?

935

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

Marc Preston: Do you remember something called not

936

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

Marc Preston: necessarily the news, do you?

937

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

Matt Walsh: remember that.

938

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

Matt Walsh: Yeah, that was a brief.

939

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

Matt Walsh: Yeah, i do remember that.

940

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

Matt Walsh: Yeah, that was on.

941

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

Marc Preston: I do remember that one And the Canadian

942

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

Marc Preston: stuff come out.

943

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

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

944

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

Marc Preston: is this?

945

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

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

946

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

Marc Preston: thing.

947

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

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

948

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

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

949

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

Marc Preston: different.

950

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

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

951

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

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

952

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

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

953

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

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

954

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

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

955

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

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

956

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

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

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

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

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

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Matt Walsh: signature voice and they were doing it

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

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

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

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Matt Walsh: ways.

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

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

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

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Matt Walsh: younger person, probably cause my dad liked

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Matt Walsh: him too.

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Matt Walsh: Peter Sellers was somebody I was like so

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Matt Walsh: impressed with And you know, i think I had

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Matt Walsh: like a a Woody Allen phase where I was like

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Matt Walsh: sort of you know, uh, obviously just deep

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Matt Walsh: into Woody Allen or trying to see

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Matt Walsh: everything he'd ever made, and then, uh,

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Matt Walsh: yeah, those are the, those are the ones

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Matt Walsh: that come out and they like standups.

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Matt Walsh: There was a lot of standup when I got out

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Matt Walsh: of college.

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Matt Walsh: A lot of the standups I liked were the guys

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Matt Walsh: in the clubs that were just, you know,

983

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Matt Walsh: getting going themselves.

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Matt Walsh: It was like this boom of standup happening

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Matt Walsh: everywhere.

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Matt Walsh: So I, a lot of the people I liked I was

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Matt Walsh: seeing live that hadn't broke yet.

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Marc Preston: Now, was this, uh, was this in Chicago?

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Marc Preston: Are you talking about where, like when you

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Marc Preston: were in New York, chicago?

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Matt Walsh: No, this is in Chicago.

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Matt Walsh: There were guys like, uh, you know this guy,

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Matt Walsh: jimmy Pardo?

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Matt Walsh: uh, some of these people don't do it

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Matt Walsh: anymore, but there was like, uh, brian

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Matt Walsh: McCann, who became a writer for Conan and

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Matt Walsh: various things.

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Matt Walsh: He was a great, funny guy.

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Matt Walsh: Uh, what's the other guys?

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Matt Walsh: I'll think of his name, but he's really

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Matt Walsh: fine, he's still in Chicago.

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Marc Preston: Anyways, Now you're talking about SNL.

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Marc Preston: Uh, did you by chance do any work with SNL?

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Marc Preston: or did you do any writing ever, Or did you

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Marc Preston: I?

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Matt Walsh: did some short films.

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Matt Walsh: They do those like commercials or weird

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Matt Walsh: short films, Yeah.

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Matt Walsh: So when I landed in New York, uh, a couple

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Matt Walsh: of my buddies were writers on that show so

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Matt Walsh: they were often suggesting me for like

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Matt Walsh: weird films that they had written.

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Matt Walsh: So I appeared in SNL probably a couple of

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Matt Walsh: times in like weird commercials or weird

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Matt Walsh: short films.

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Marc Preston: As you came out to LA.

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Marc Preston: that's really the genesis in kind, of when

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Marc Preston: you started kicking off doing stuff on

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Marc Preston: camera, I mean, what was, what were some of

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Marc Preston: the first things you were working on?

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Marc Preston: How do you feel like what was the momentum

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Marc Preston: builder?

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Marc Preston: What really kind of kicked things off for

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Marc Preston: you?

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Matt Walsh: I think for me, like New York, getting my

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Matt Walsh: feet on the ground and starting UCB we were

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Matt Walsh: kind of known in New York in the comedy

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Matt Walsh: scene And then being on the Daily Show was

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Matt Walsh: really for me a moment of feeling like I'd

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Matt Walsh: been launched or people knew me because

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Matt Walsh: in a sketch group.

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Matt Walsh: And then I think landing in LA was I was on

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Matt Walsh: a show called Dogbite's Man and then I

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Matt Walsh: started popping up in movies like Road Trip

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Matt Walsh: or Old School.

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Matt Walsh: So those were kind of like moments that I

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Matt Walsh: felt like propelled me perhaps.

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Marc Preston: You had Comedy Central was sort of like I

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Marc Preston: mean, considering the talent you were

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Marc Preston: working with, yeah, that's good springboard,

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Marc Preston: but were you, were you really kind of

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Marc Preston: getting invigorated?

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Marc Preston: I mean you had a lot of energy for it, like,

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Marc Preston: was that like, okay, this is my thing, i'm

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00:35:03,825 --> 00:35:05,049

Marc Preston: going to be doing comedy movies.

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Matt Walsh: I think I always felt like maybe similar to

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Matt Walsh: you, Like I was happy if I was creating and

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Matt Walsh: performing comedy and I didn't know

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Matt Walsh: necessarily like what's the steps to like

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00:35:21,971 --> 00:35:23,825

Matt Walsh: you know, like getting another movie, I

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Matt Walsh: would just keep working at it, keep doing

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Matt Walsh: things.

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Matt Walsh: That's probably not a good interview, Marc.

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00:35:30,985 --> 00:35:31,869

Matt Walsh: I don't have a good answer.

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Marc Preston: No, no, no.

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00:35:34,209 --> 00:35:37,116

Marc Preston: I see the thing is it's everybody has

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00:35:37,176 --> 00:35:38,930

Marc Preston: different path, and that's what fascinates

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Marc Preston: me is how somebody finds their way in and

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00:35:41,383 --> 00:35:42,787

Marc Preston: then they make some friends and that you

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00:35:42,828 --> 00:35:45,655

Marc Preston: start like just finding yourself in

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00:35:45,675 --> 00:35:47,688

Marc Preston: different situations, like, yeah, i'm an

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00:35:47,768 --> 00:35:49,653

Marc Preston: improviser, like truly, one of the biggest

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Marc Preston: skills I learned was improv.

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Matt Walsh: I studied improv in Chicago.

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00:35:53,125 --> 00:35:54,029

Matt Walsh: I studied, you know.

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00:35:54,069 --> 00:35:56,209

Matt Walsh: I taught it in New York, i taught it in LA.

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00:35:56,905 --> 00:35:59,530

Matt Walsh: I have my 10,000 hours on stage doing

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Matt Walsh: improv, you know.

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Matt Walsh: so that's probably one of my skills And I

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Matt Walsh: probably approach life that way too much

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Matt Walsh: where I don't have a plan, but that's the

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Matt Walsh: truth of it.

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00:36:09,605 --> 00:36:12,913

Matt Walsh: So, inside comedy and inside acting, that's

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Matt Walsh: a great skill to have because you teach.

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Marc Preston: Well being.

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00:36:15,767 --> 00:36:18,018

Marc Preston: The ability to adapt keeps you, gives you a

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Marc Preston: career with longevity, and you've gotten

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00:36:19,827 --> 00:36:20,048

Marc Preston: that.

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Marc Preston: Most certainly, you know, you've, you know.

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00:36:22,479 --> 00:36:23,986

Marc Preston: Is there something you haven't done though

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00:36:24,186 --> 00:36:25,530

Marc Preston: that you know, i think?

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00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:26,412

Marc Preston: oh, it's drawn.

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00:36:26,452 --> 00:36:27,635

Marc Preston: I'm drawing a blank on what it was.

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00:36:28,265 --> 00:36:28,907

Marc Preston: It was a movie.

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Marc Preston: You were a storm chaser.

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

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00:36:33,265 --> 00:36:33,526

Matt Walsh: It was.

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00:36:34,909 --> 00:36:36,974

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

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00:36:37,034 --> 00:36:42,646

Matt Walsh: ever, but but yeah, it was a blast Action.

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Matt Walsh: I would love to do another action movie.

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00:36:44,231 --> 00:36:44,913

Matt Walsh: That was action.

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00:36:45,365 --> 00:36:47,850

Matt Walsh: That was like driving crazy vehicles,

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00:36:47,991 --> 00:36:50,636

Matt Walsh: running through fire, getting soaked in

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00:36:50,697 --> 00:36:53,626

Matt Walsh: rain, you know, explosions, all of that It

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00:36:53,726 --> 00:36:54,027

Matt Walsh: was.

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00:36:54,850 --> 00:36:56,495

Matt Walsh: it was really fun and really challenging.

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00:36:56,725 --> 00:36:59,033

Matt Walsh: So I would love to do another action movie.

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Marc Preston: Is there something you're wanting to do

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00:37:00,468 --> 00:37:01,572

Marc Preston: that just hasn't shown up?

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00:37:01,712 --> 00:37:03,286

Marc Preston: as far as your agent hasn't handed you the

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00:37:03,306 --> 00:37:05,592

Marc Preston: script just yet, you know that you would

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00:37:05,612 --> 00:37:06,935

Marc Preston: like to do something you would like to do.

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Matt Walsh: Well, I think, like you talk about action,

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Matt Walsh: I think like an action comedy I think would

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Matt Walsh: be really fun.

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Matt Walsh: I think also like kind of like these are

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Matt Walsh: things I haven't done, but kind of like

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00:37:23,337 --> 00:37:28,111

Matt Walsh: either an unraveling mystery or an

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00:37:28,191 --> 00:37:30,776

Matt Walsh: unraveling sort of dramatic show, that sort

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00:37:30,836 --> 00:37:33,568

Matt Walsh: of unfolds, if you will like that.

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00:37:33,669 --> 00:37:34,853

Matt Walsh: That's very interesting to me.

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00:37:34,925 --> 00:37:37,113

Matt Walsh: I haven't done those, those sort of things.

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00:37:37,926 --> 00:37:39,770

Marc Preston: Well, we see a lot of guys with comedy

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00:37:39,810 --> 00:37:42,396

Marc Preston: background that are stepping into doing

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00:37:42,417 --> 00:37:43,086

Marc Preston: those kind of things.

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00:37:43,186 --> 00:37:45,747

Marc Preston: You know it's pretty common, but you are, i

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00:37:45,787 --> 00:37:47,171

Marc Preston: mean, without a doubt you're one of those

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00:37:47,191 --> 00:37:49,846

Marc Preston: guys that's busy, you know, and that's in

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00:37:49,866 --> 00:37:50,227

Marc Preston: Hollywood.

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00:37:50,267 --> 00:37:51,812

Marc Preston: I guess that's a blessing, you know,

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00:37:51,832 --> 00:37:52,855

Marc Preston: because you're always Yeah, i did.

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Matt Walsh: I did something like I'm grateful for all

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00:37:55,590 --> 00:37:57,275

Matt Walsh: you know, all the things I've been able to

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00:37:57,295 --> 00:37:57,716

Matt Walsh: get into.

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00:37:58,205 --> 00:38:01,492

Matt Walsh: I did an Apple limited series about the

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00:38:01,552 --> 00:38:03,537

Matt Walsh: assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the

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00:38:03,577 --> 00:38:05,429

Matt Walsh: capturing of John Wilkes Booth last year

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00:38:05,489 --> 00:38:09,430

Matt Walsh: down in Georgia And I played Dr Mudd who

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Matt Walsh: fixed John Wilkes Booth's ankle And it was

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00:38:13,367 --> 00:38:15,353

Matt Walsh: completely a drama and it was a complete

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00:38:15,413 --> 00:38:18,049

Matt Walsh: period piece And it was like heavy beers

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00:38:18,129 --> 00:38:20,033

Matt Walsh: and sweaty clothing and Georgia in the

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00:38:20,114 --> 00:38:23,068

Matt Walsh: summer and dim lighting And it was really

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00:38:23,369 --> 00:38:24,566

Matt Walsh: challenging and good It was.

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00:38:24,726 --> 00:38:26,091

Matt Walsh: It was a really neat experience.

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00:38:26,805 --> 00:38:29,454

Marc Preston: So as far as the summer goes, kids out of

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00:38:29,474 --> 00:38:32,023

Marc Preston: school, you planning any kind of family

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00:38:32,043 --> 00:38:33,848

Marc Preston: vacation and they kind of get away a little

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00:38:33,928 --> 00:38:35,932

Marc Preston: break from work, or you got stuff lined up

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00:38:37,416 --> 00:38:38,578

Marc Preston: in the next couple of months here.

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00:38:38,785 --> 00:38:42,194

Matt Walsh: Yeah, we have a plan to was just discussing

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00:38:42,255 --> 00:38:42,896

Matt Walsh: it with my wife.

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00:38:43,005 --> 00:38:44,409

Matt Walsh: We're going to get up to the Northwest.

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00:38:44,429 --> 00:38:46,315

Matt Walsh: She's from the Northwest, i'm from Chicago,

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00:38:46,565 --> 00:38:48,011

Matt Walsh: so we've gone to Chicago a fair amount.

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00:38:48,245 --> 00:38:49,771

Matt Walsh: She's always like we don't get to Northwest

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00:38:49,811 --> 00:38:50,052

Matt Walsh: enough.

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00:38:50,205 --> 00:38:53,093

Matt Walsh: So we're going to go up to like her her mom

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00:38:53,113 --> 00:38:54,737

Matt Walsh: is in Eugene and then we're going to go to

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00:38:54,785 --> 00:38:56,666

Matt Walsh: the coast, see the Oregon coast, and we're

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00:38:56,686 --> 00:38:59,315

Matt Walsh: going to try to get up to like Big Sur,

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00:38:59,396 --> 00:39:02,045

Matt Walsh: which we've never done, and maybe Northern

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Matt Walsh: California coast.

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00:39:03,205 --> 00:39:05,493

Matt Walsh: So that's the plan and that's exciting.

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00:39:05,605 --> 00:39:08,551

Matt Walsh: We're probably going to rent a little mini

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00:39:08,731 --> 00:39:12,498

Matt Walsh: camper and just maybe park on a couple

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00:39:12,538 --> 00:39:14,629

Matt Walsh: beaches and get into nature.

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Marc Preston: That's exciting.

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00:39:15,953 --> 00:39:16,755

Marc Preston: I would love that.

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00:39:17,867 --> 00:39:19,091

Marc Preston: When I was younger I was really younger, my

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Marc Preston: kids were young I always thought getting a

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00:39:20,887 --> 00:39:23,173

Marc Preston: like a big motor home doing like the go

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00:39:23,213 --> 00:39:23,694

Marc Preston: full grisly.

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00:39:23,714 --> 00:39:24,235

Matt Walsh: Yeah, yeah.

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Marc Preston: I thought that would be a blast.

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00:39:27,283 --> 00:39:29,592

Marc Preston: Yeah, now, as far as flame and hot, the new

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00:39:29,632 --> 00:39:30,073

Marc Preston: project.

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00:39:30,926 --> 00:39:33,105

Marc Preston: Now, how did that come across, eva?

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00:39:33,767 --> 00:39:35,071

Matt Walsh: so Eva Longoria.

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00:39:35,692 --> 00:39:37,919

Matt Walsh: I wrote a movie with a friend of mine

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00:39:37,999 --> 00:39:41,149

Matt Walsh: called Unplugging and Eva signed on to do

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00:39:41,269 --> 00:39:44,829

Matt Walsh: it And so me and her were co-stars in this

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00:39:45,651 --> 00:39:49,779

Matt Walsh: story about a couple who agrees to no Wi-Fi,

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00:39:49,819 --> 00:39:52,390

Matt Walsh: no phones, no cell service for a weekend to

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00:39:52,410 --> 00:39:54,696

Matt Walsh: kind of rescue the marriage because they're

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00:39:54,716 --> 00:39:56,306

Matt Walsh: having some problems And then the minute

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00:39:56,326 --> 00:39:58,732

Matt Walsh: they put their screens down they start

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00:39:58,752 --> 00:40:00,376

Matt Walsh: getting paranoid that the world's ending.

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00:40:00,685 --> 00:40:02,469

Matt Walsh: So that was the story that I wrote with a

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00:40:02,510 --> 00:40:05,825

Matt Walsh: buddy and she was great She's the best And

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00:40:05,845 --> 00:40:07,654

Matt Walsh: we became friends making that movie playing

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00:40:07,674 --> 00:40:08,437

Matt Walsh: a couple together.

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00:40:08,518 --> 00:40:11,249

Matt Walsh: And she was directing a movie the next year

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00:40:11,329 --> 00:40:14,901

Matt Walsh: and she asked me to come in and she said

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Matt Walsh: would you come into my movie and play an

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Matt Walsh: old white racist?

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Matt Walsh: And I said I'll play a.

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Matt Walsh: I said no, but I'll play a middle-aged

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Matt Walsh: racist.

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Marc Preston: Very nice Now if I was just watching her on

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00:40:26,049 --> 00:40:28,295

Marc Preston: her CNN her new, i think it's called

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Marc Preston: Searching for Mexico.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, it's awesome.

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Marc Preston: She's a wonderful fellow Texan.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah.

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Marc Preston: From what I gather from the trailer, it's

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Marc Preston: addressing Marcets that hadn't previously

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Marc Preston: been tapped into by the fast food folks.

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Marc Preston: Is that kind of the gist of it, more or

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Marc Preston: less?

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, i think it's really about a Mexican

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Matt Walsh: American tale.

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Matt Walsh: Like a guy who's a janitor grew up in

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00:40:53,969 --> 00:40:57,792

Matt Walsh: America, his parents were picking fruit and

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Matt Walsh: vineyards and then he got a job and learned

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Matt Walsh: everything and then they were threatening

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Matt Walsh: to close the factory down and he had the

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Matt Walsh: idea to basically create food for Latinos.

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Matt Walsh: There was no Marcet yet, nobody had like,

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Matt Walsh: and he was living and looking around

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Matt Walsh: America and he's like there's tons of

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Matt Walsh: people who will buy this.

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Matt Walsh: So he came up with the idea and called the

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Matt Walsh: head of the company and he's like all right,

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Matt Walsh: they'll come down.

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Matt Walsh: Lo and behold, the guy came down and they

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00:41:27,432 --> 00:41:29,237

Matt Walsh: worked it, he pitched it and they kind of

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00:41:29,305 --> 00:41:31,808

Matt Walsh: made it happen and that guy helped launch

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Matt Walsh: this billion dollar industry.

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Marc Preston: You're playing like a supervisor.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, Another middle-aged short sleeve

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00:41:39,298 --> 00:41:40,721

Matt Walsh: wearing office jerk.

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Marc Preston: You know, if you own it, own it.

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Matt Walsh: No, no, it's great, It was so I mean,

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Matt Walsh: honestly, it was amazing because it's

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Matt Walsh: really a story about what it is to be

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Matt Walsh: Mexican in America.

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Matt Walsh: I think It's about this Latin culture and

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00:41:54,696 --> 00:41:56,741

Matt Walsh: like working your way up into the American

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Matt Walsh: dream And, against all odds, this guy, like

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Matt Walsh: his wife, is a big part of it.

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Matt Walsh: He reconciles some stuff with his father.

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Matt Walsh: It's a beautiful story, it's really.

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Matt Walsh: It's one of those movies I always watch,

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Matt Walsh: like somebody with a dream making a car

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00:42:12,471 --> 00:42:15,056

Matt Walsh: like Tucker, or like getting five minutes

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00:42:15,116 --> 00:42:17,601

Matt Walsh: to play on the Notre Dame kicking team like

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Matt Walsh: Rudy.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, like it's one of those stories and

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Matt Walsh: it's beautiful and it was fun to be, you

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Matt Walsh: know, around all these people And my

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Matt Walsh: Spanish got sharper too because they were

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Matt Walsh: often speaking Spanish to each other.

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Marc Preston: Well, no, that's what I was saying.

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Marc Preston: I'm going down to this.

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Marc Preston: I just figure I can work from anywhere and

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Marc Preston: I've always wanted to live on an island.

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Marc Preston: I don't you know.

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Marc Preston: I've done my Southern California thing.

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Marc Preston: But going down to South Padre Island in

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00:42:40,073 --> 00:42:42,710

Marc Preston: Texas and to get a place set up, nice, and

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Marc Preston: I told my daughter, it's like baby.

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Marc Preston: I said, you know you're Spanish, you're

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Marc Preston: going to have to help me out here.

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Marc Preston: I mean, am I?

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00:42:46,498 --> 00:42:49,450

Marc Preston: it's okay, i can get by, yeah, but it's

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Marc Preston: like here's the thing you give me a corona,

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00:42:50,754 --> 00:42:52,499

Marc Preston: you let me sit, post up somewhere near the

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Marc Preston: beach.

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Marc Preston: It will just come back to me, yeah, or at

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00:42:55,650 --> 00:42:55,891

Marc Preston: least I feel.

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Marc Preston: The more coronas I'll feel like more of

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00:42:57,275 --> 00:42:58,359

Marc Preston: it's come back to me than actually has.

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Marc Preston: It just gets embarrassing after a while.

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Matt Walsh: Got the boat.

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Matt Walsh: Do you have the boat dialed in or you can

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Matt Walsh: have yourself a boat?

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Marc Preston: No, no no, no, no, I actually that's the.

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Marc Preston: you know I would love to do that It's.

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Marc Preston: it's a really neat place because right

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00:43:12,654 --> 00:43:14,658

Marc Preston: across the bay is where SpaceX has their

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00:43:14,698 --> 00:43:17,071

Marc Preston: launch facility, oh, wow, But.

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00:43:17,151 --> 00:43:17,832

Marc Preston: but yeah, that's.

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Marc Preston: that's going to be my the second half of my

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00:43:20,078 --> 00:43:20,820

Marc Preston: daughter's gap year.

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00:43:21,610 --> 00:43:24,258

Marc Preston: The first part shall be in Barcelona,

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00:43:24,579 --> 00:43:27,469

Marc Preston: learning Spanish, spanish, spain Spanish,

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00:43:27,569 --> 00:43:29,114

Marc Preston: and then she'll be coming down there and

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Marc Preston: kind of helping me out a little bit.

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Marc Preston: But tell you what, before we get running, i

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Marc Preston: got my what I call my seven questions that

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00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:36,382

Marc Preston: I like to ask.

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00:43:36,810 --> 00:43:38,976

Marc Preston: It's kind of an additional little get to

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00:43:39,016 --> 00:43:39,878

Marc Preston: know you, a little fun.

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Marc Preston: One of the things is I'm always curious

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00:43:42,835 --> 00:43:43,698

Marc Preston: about because I'm a food guy.

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Marc Preston: I can talk food day in, day in, day out.

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00:43:46,370 --> 00:43:48,357

Marc Preston: But what is your favorite comfort food?

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00:43:48,890 --> 00:43:50,722

Marc Preston: Something that it's like craft service

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00:43:50,742 --> 00:43:51,930

Marc Preston: tables like this is nothing.

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00:43:52,131 --> 00:43:53,136

Marc Preston: I just want this thing.

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00:43:53,270 --> 00:43:54,636

Marc Preston: This is going to be comforting.

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Matt Walsh: You know what would that be?

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00:43:57,210 --> 00:43:59,677

Matt Walsh: Um, i guess snack.

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00:43:59,878 --> 00:44:01,161

Matt Walsh: my mind goes to snack food.

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Matt Walsh: Like I'm a sucker for caramel corn, like

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00:44:04,470 --> 00:44:06,812

Matt Walsh: that's kind of an Achilles heel, like I try

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00:44:06,852 --> 00:44:10,381

Matt Walsh: not to eat it, but it's very comforting to

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Matt Walsh: see a good.

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Matt Walsh: oh my God, if it's warm like freshly made

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00:44:14,753 --> 00:44:15,817

Matt Walsh: caramel corn, forget it.

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Marc Preston: We one time I you know, during COVID, we're

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00:44:18,179 --> 00:44:20,829

Marc Preston: getting deliveries from Costco and they

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Marc Preston: messed up something in my order and

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00:44:22,153 --> 00:44:23,638

Marc Preston: accidentally brought me this big bag of

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00:44:23,678 --> 00:44:26,152

Marc Preston: things called creeders, caramel, corn and

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00:44:26,572 --> 00:44:28,314

Marc Preston: cheese cheese Chicago.

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00:44:28,354 --> 00:44:30,116

Matt Walsh: Yeah, that's the Chicago mix, come on.

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00:44:30,497 --> 00:44:31,337

Marc Preston: I know that's what they call it, that's

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00:44:31,357 --> 00:44:31,818

Marc Preston: what Chicago.

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00:44:31,958 --> 00:44:33,520

Marc Preston: Yeah, that's what's dangerous, oh yeah.

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00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,463

Matt Walsh: Exactly 100%, 100%.

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Marc Preston: When you look at it, this big bag and half

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00:44:40,319 --> 00:44:41,509

Marc Preston: of it's gone is like I can't not be doing

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00:44:41,529 --> 00:44:42,754

Marc Preston: this Well it's made of corn.

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Matt Walsh: It's not that bad for me.

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00:44:43,917 --> 00:44:45,582

Marc Preston: I mean, it's just pop See that's the way I

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00:44:45,623 --> 00:44:46,009

Marc Preston: think about it.

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00:44:46,050 --> 00:44:47,596

Marc Preston: See, you're on the same page as me, though,

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00:44:47,930 --> 00:44:49,676

Marc Preston: It's like, although my cholesterol level

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00:44:49,716 --> 00:44:50,459

Marc Preston: says otherwise.

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00:44:51,031 --> 00:44:52,535

Marc Preston: Now, the second question I got for you is

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00:44:52,956 --> 00:44:54,741

Marc Preston: if you were to take three people sit down,

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00:44:54,890 --> 00:44:55,959

Marc Preston: you're going to have a cup of coffee with

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00:44:55,979 --> 00:44:57,209

Marc Preston: them and you're going to have, you know,

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00:44:57,229 --> 00:44:58,735

Marc Preston: talk for a few hours, have conversation.

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00:44:59,337 --> 00:45:00,320

Marc Preston: Who would those three people be?

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00:45:00,410 --> 00:45:02,877

Marc Preston: I mean living or not, who would you enjoy

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00:45:02,917 --> 00:45:03,719

Marc Preston: talking story with?

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00:45:04,651 --> 00:45:07,672

Matt Walsh: Oh my gosh, living or dead.

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00:45:07,712 --> 00:45:08,515

Matt Walsh: You said right.

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00:45:09,017 --> 00:45:11,453

Marc Preston: Yeah, just you know somebody, anybody that

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00:45:11,493 --> 00:45:13,878

Marc Preston: you feel like would kind of elevate your

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00:45:13,918 --> 00:45:14,820

Marc Preston: experience of life.

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Matt Walsh: I'm going to go.

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00:45:17,634 --> 00:45:22,075

Matt Walsh: I'm going to go, harry Truman, because I

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00:45:22,295 --> 00:45:24,820

Matt Walsh: remember really liking him as a young kid

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00:45:25,100 --> 00:45:26,122

Matt Walsh: studying presidents.

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00:45:26,423 --> 00:45:27,224

Matt Walsh: I'm going to go.

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00:45:28,192 --> 00:45:31,499

Matt Walsh: I mean, you might as well go dead, right.

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00:45:32,661 --> 00:45:33,543

Matt Walsh: Who else would I go?

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00:45:33,710 --> 00:45:37,316

Matt Walsh: I'd probably go with, like Da Vinci.

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00:45:38,338 --> 00:45:42,164

Matt Walsh: Leonardo Da Vinci, and then because he's a

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00:45:42,504 --> 00:45:46,835

Matt Walsh: brilliant genius of a mind, and then maybe

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00:45:46,895 --> 00:45:48,359

Matt Walsh: Michael Jordan, because I never met him.

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00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:49,061

Marc Preston: Yeah, he did.

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00:45:49,650 --> 00:45:50,752

Marc Preston: He did a couple of things in Chicago, i

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00:45:50,792 --> 00:45:53,517

Marc Preston: think, didn't he Like, yeah, i think he did?

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00:45:53,557 --> 00:45:54,398

Matt Walsh: What was the sport?

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00:45:54,418 --> 00:45:56,281

Matt Walsh: again, i forget Basketball.

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00:45:57,063 --> 00:45:58,934

Marc Preston: I think curling, no, no, no, something else,

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00:45:59,450 --> 00:45:59,891

Marc Preston: but he was.

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00:46:00,954 --> 00:46:03,320

Marc Preston: Yeah, that being Chicago back then must

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00:46:03,340 --> 00:46:04,523

Marc Preston: have been just insane.

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00:46:05,112 --> 00:46:07,499

Marc Preston: In fact, that's another that I think air.

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00:46:08,391 --> 00:46:09,935

Marc Preston: I think that's the movie about the air

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00:46:10,035 --> 00:46:10,316

Marc Preston: Jordan.

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00:46:10,616 --> 00:46:12,100

Marc Preston: Yeah, yeah, i need to watch it.

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00:46:12,380 --> 00:46:14,432

Marc Preston: That's on the list Now going.

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00:46:14,512 --> 00:46:17,799

Marc Preston: Third question who was your first celebrity

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00:46:17,819 --> 00:46:19,142

Marc Preston: crush when you were young?

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00:46:19,850 --> 00:46:23,238

Matt Walsh: Crush like oh she's beautiful, like for me.

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00:46:23,358 --> 00:46:25,590

Matt Walsh: or crush like oh, that guy is amazing, that

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00:46:25,611 --> 00:46:26,475

Matt Walsh: person's amazing.

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00:46:27,573 --> 00:46:29,339

Marc Preston: No, you know it could be either one.

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00:46:29,571 --> 00:46:30,093

Marc Preston: You know it could be.

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00:46:30,113 --> 00:46:31,921

Marc Preston: Just like you see a lady in a movie going

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00:46:32,042 --> 00:46:33,468

Marc Preston: oh my gosh, like for me, like Olivia

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00:46:33,489 --> 00:46:33,810

Marc Preston: Newton-John.

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00:46:33,971 --> 00:46:36,854

Matt Walsh: I was like oh okay, i think it was maybe

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00:46:38,097 --> 00:46:39,119

Matt Walsh: Jessica Lange.

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00:46:40,531 --> 00:46:42,914

Matt Walsh: Like that's a star Like she's so beautiful,

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00:46:43,175 --> 00:46:43,416

Matt Walsh: sure?

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00:46:44,190 --> 00:46:45,378

Marc Preston: Or you know, the second half of kind of

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00:46:45,398 --> 00:46:46,949

Marc Preston: what you brought up, who was the person you

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00:46:46,990 --> 00:46:49,238

Marc Preston: saw is like they just killed me.

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00:46:50,855 --> 00:46:52,259

Marc Preston: Magnetic or mesmerizing assembly.

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00:46:52,830 --> 00:46:56,598

Matt Walsh: I think like for me someone from Chicago.

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00:46:56,618 --> 00:46:59,584

Matt Walsh: I think there were people like John Belushi

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00:46:59,670 --> 00:47:01,799

Matt Walsh: or Bill Murray who were like, because they

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00:47:01,819 --> 00:47:04,208

Matt Walsh: were from Chicago, it was like they were

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00:47:04,248 --> 00:47:08,300

Matt Walsh: amazing and they had it seemed connected to

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00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:08,801

Matt Walsh: my life.

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00:47:09,050 --> 00:47:10,496

Matt Walsh: You know, they were from my hometown.

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00:47:10,810 --> 00:47:12,297

Marc Preston: You see, as a kid growing up in Texas I

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00:47:12,337 --> 00:47:14,688

Marc Preston: thought everybody in Chicago lived in a big

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00:47:14,748 --> 00:47:15,431

Marc Preston: suburban house.

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00:47:15,471 --> 00:47:17,778

Marc Preston: Their father worked in advertising you know,

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00:47:17,798 --> 00:47:18,761

Marc Preston: there's things that were set up.

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00:47:18,850 --> 00:47:20,454

Marc Preston: They did the whole John Hughes thing.

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00:47:20,494 --> 00:47:23,882

Marc Preston: You know, it's like I thought everybody did.

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00:47:24,010 --> 00:47:27,217

Marc Preston: You know and like, but I was influenced, i

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00:47:27,237 --> 00:47:28,440

Marc Preston: guess, as a kid, by John Hughes.

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00:47:30,130 --> 00:47:31,138

Marc Preston: Now, if you're going to be going, next

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00:47:31,179 --> 00:47:32,207

Marc Preston: question if you're going to be going down

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00:47:32,227 --> 00:47:33,757

Marc Preston: to an island, it could be an exotic island,

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00:47:33,877 --> 00:47:35,928

Marc Preston: somewhere that you're going to enjoy being.

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00:47:35,968 --> 00:47:37,533

Marc Preston: It's not like you're, it's like deserted

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00:47:37,654 --> 00:47:40,100

Marc Preston: island, but you don't have streaming and

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00:47:40,140 --> 00:47:41,792

Marc Preston: you can only if you want to consume any

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00:47:41,812 --> 00:47:42,554

Marc Preston: kind of entertainment.

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00:47:43,235 --> 00:47:45,921

Marc Preston: It's going to be in the form of a book, an

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00:47:46,041 --> 00:47:48,575

Marc Preston: album, if you want to.

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00:47:48,595 --> 00:47:49,558

Marc Preston: You want to watch a movie.

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00:47:49,858 --> 00:47:50,581

Marc Preston: It's going to be on DVD.

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00:47:50,850 --> 00:47:51,834

Marc Preston: So what would the DVD be?

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00:47:52,430 --> 00:47:53,874

Marc Preston: What would a CD be that you would bring

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00:47:53,915 --> 00:47:55,158

Marc Preston: down there, an album and a movie?

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00:47:56,130 --> 00:48:00,239

Matt Walsh: So, to be clear, it's either a book, cd

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00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:01,923

Matt Walsh: album or DVD.

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00:48:01,990 --> 00:48:03,714

Marc Preston: Yeah, you know some people, some people say,

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00:48:03,754 --> 00:48:05,278

Marc Preston: well, i don't really, wouldn't really want

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00:48:05,298 --> 00:48:06,802

Marc Preston: to bring a movie, i'd want to bring a book.

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00:48:07,290 --> 00:48:08,994

Marc Preston: So I've now opened it up to the idea of a

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Marc Preston: book also.

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Marc Preston: but you know something to listen to music

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Marc Preston: wise, a movie to watch, maybe a book as

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Marc Preston: well, if you'd like.

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Matt Walsh: Well, just because I'm trying to make my

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Matt Walsh: way through it, i would try to either

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Matt Walsh: finally finish Moby Dick, because I've

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Matt Walsh: started that book like four times and I've

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Matt Walsh: lost it on airplanes or just quit on it,

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Matt Walsh: and or because it seems like I'm going to

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Matt Walsh: have a ton of time on my hands, So it's a

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Matt Walsh: good project, or I just started reading

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Matt Walsh: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and it's

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Matt Walsh: like bite-size things about what it is to

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Matt Walsh: be a good person or a good man.

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Matt Walsh: It's 2000.

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Marc Preston: I've been seeing a lot of his quotes.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, it's a 2000 year old collection.

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Matt Walsh: He wrote it to himself, it was just his

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Matt Walsh: Basically He was like a Roman Yeah, he was

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Matt Walsh: a Roman emperor off in some land you know,

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Matt Walsh: defending the Roman empire, and he

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Matt Walsh: it and published it And it's really, it's

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Matt Walsh: You just you read a page and then you put

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Matt Walsh: it down for a couple of days because it

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Matt Walsh: seems built for the island life, because

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Matt Walsh: you could like you're never going to

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Matt Walsh: comprehend those dense nuggets, so you

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Matt Walsh: could read a page and then walk around the

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Matt Walsh: island and catch fish, have a barbecue.

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Matt Walsh: Two days later you come back to page two.

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Marc Preston: You know It's kind of groove on life a

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Marc Preston: little bit and to kind of let it sink in.

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Marc Preston: Yeah exactly.

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Matt Walsh: Let it sink in.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, yeah You get it.

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Marc Preston: It's almost kind of meditative in that

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Marc Preston: regard.

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Marc Preston: you know, to some degree Yeah.

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Matt Walsh: I would also have a secret.

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Matt Walsh: You know, hideout like a James Bond villain

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Matt Walsh: on my island, just so you know.

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Marc Preston: See, you got to and it's got to have some

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Marc Preston: swing mid-century furniture kind of, like

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Marc Preston: you know the what was it?

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Announcer: Yeah, exactly.

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Marc Preston: Now, if you were to define, from time to

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Marc Preston: get up to time, to get a bed the component

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Marc Preston: parts of a perfect day for you, where

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Marc Preston: something's kind of laid out, everything

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Marc Preston: just kind of hit.

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Marc Preston: you know it could be going to the coffee

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Marc Preston: shop getting the perfect cup of coffee, i

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Marc Preston: don't know.

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Marc Preston: whatever it happens to be all the way

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Marc Preston: through the day, what are those things that

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Marc Preston: would be, for you, component parts of a

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Marc Preston: perfect day?

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Matt Walsh: Coffee, bit of meditation, family, creative

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Matt Walsh: work, laughter, dynamite, dinner, nature,

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Matt Walsh: something immersing myself in nature, more

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Matt Walsh: laughter, consume some media and more

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Matt Walsh: family, i would live a very, a very similar

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Matt Walsh: life, That's very yeah.

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Marc Preston: That's, that's to me.

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Marc Preston: That's the thing is like I'm, i'm, i'm

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Marc Preston: busying myself more because I know my kids

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Marc Preston: being in college and my youngest one, i'm

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Marc Preston: like feel like all right, well, make myself

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Marc Preston: super busy, then I'm not going to notice

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Marc Preston: the fact the house is a lot emptier, you

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Marc Preston: know.

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Marc Preston: So I'm enjoying the family stuff as much as

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Marc Preston: I possibly can And they still like spending

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Marc Preston: time with me.

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Marc Preston: So I consider myself to be very fortunate

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Marc Preston: in that regard when it comes to family.

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Marc Preston: But now the last question for you.

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Marc Preston: I got, let's say you got a DeLorean.

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Marc Preston: You can pop back and travel to see 16 year

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Marc Preston: old Matt back in Chicago.

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Marc Preston: You got a piece of advice, either to make

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Marc Preston: your life better in that moment or to kind

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Marc Preston: of get yourself on a track.

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Marc Preston: You know a better track.

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Marc Preston: What would that piece of advice be for a 16

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Marc Preston: year old?

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Matt Walsh: you Don't make your friends in class laugh.

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Marc Preston: pay attention, But see if you didn't make

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Marc Preston: your friends in class laugh.

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Matt Walsh: Yeah, but you, just you can still be funny

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Matt Walsh: outside of class, like you're missing out

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Matt Walsh: on learning and the discipline of learning.

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Matt Walsh: So there was that going on too, but that's

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Matt Walsh: what I would say, and I would I would have

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Matt Walsh: more to say around that, because 16 years,

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Matt Walsh: like what are you talking about?

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Matt Walsh: All right, sit down.

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Matt Walsh: Let me tell you why learning is important.

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Matt Walsh: These are fundamental skills.

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Matt Walsh: This is a discipline.

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Matt Walsh: There's cool stuff happening here That

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Matt Walsh: methodical thought that patients you're

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Matt Walsh: developing sitting in a chair in high

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Matt Walsh: school.

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Matt Walsh: You can start to grow.

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Matt Walsh: Other disciplines like that will help you

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Matt Walsh: in life.

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Matt Walsh: Focus and build a plan or not, or continue

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Matt Walsh: to make your friends laugh.

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Matt Walsh: Matt, i got to go back to the future.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, i was always.

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Marc Preston: I was very much the same way in school.

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Marc Preston: I just if something grabbed my attention, i

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Marc Preston: was full in.

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Marc Preston: If something didn't grab my attention, i

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Marc Preston: was just struggling to stay focused.

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Marc Preston: My grades weren't bad.

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Matt Walsh: That's true, you're right.

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Matt Walsh: There are classes that even if you paid

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Matt Walsh: attention, it wouldn't have permeated me.

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Matt Walsh: So I don't know, maybe I'll have to go back

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Matt Walsh: in time again off to rewrite that one.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, i think psychology for me was

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Marc Preston: interesting because a psychology teacher

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Marc Preston: was kind of an odd ball and he'd walk

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Marc Preston: around the hallways with a book balanced on

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Marc Preston: his head and it was just like he was in his

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Marc Preston: own world.

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Marc Preston: I was like, if I can be like that man,

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Marc Preston: psychology is my jam.

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Announcer: I love that.

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Marc Preston: Well, my friend, i certainly appreciate

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Marc Preston: your time.

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Marc Preston: Really I do.

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Marc Preston: I know you probably want to enjoy just

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Marc Preston: kicking back with a fam, but, my friend,

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Marc Preston: have yourself a wonderful rest of your

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Marc Preston: weekend.

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Marc Preston: We're close enough to a weekend.

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Marc Preston: Have a great weekend.

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Marc Preston: Thank you, Marc, this was fun.

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Marc Preston: Thank you very much.

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Marc Preston: Well, there you go, mr Matt Walsh.

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Marc Preston: Enjoy the chat quite a bit.

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Marc Preston: Such a talented guy, funny Everything he's

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Marc Preston: in, always a good laugh.

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Marc Preston: Great to see him show up in any project,

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Marc Preston: both on TV and film.

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Marc Preston: The new movie Don't Forget on Hulu is

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Marc Preston: called Flamin' Hot.

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Marc Preston: Checked it out the other night with my

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Marc Preston: daughter, really enjoyed the movie and I'm

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Marc Preston: sure you will as well.

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Marc Preston: I mean, it's an underdog story that

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Matt Walsh

Actor | Writer

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Matt Walsh began his comedy career as an improvisational actor. After he finished college he performed at several improv clubs and practiced under legendary improv teacher, Del Close.

In 1990, Matt, along with friends Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and SNL alumna Amy Poehler founded the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe. The television series ran for three seasons on Comedy Central. He appeared as a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2001 to 2002 and has also featured in several sketches on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

Since his improvisational days, Matt has landed several notable roles in such films as Semi-Pro (2008), Role Models (2008) and The Hangover (2009). He is known for his straight-faced, sardonic and sarcastic characters, often acting in opposition to the protagonists.

In 2010 Matt created the partially scripted comedy series Players, which aired on Spike TV in 2010 and featured Besser and Roberts from the Upright Citizens Brigade.

In the last several years Matt has had recurring roles on several television shows, such as Hung, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Outsourced. In 2012 he landed a co-starring role on the series Veep alongside comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus, for which he earned an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Matt appeared in the new reboot of Ghostbusters (2016) as well as the films Office Christmas Party (2016) and Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016). In the comedy Life of the Party (2018) he played Melissa McCarthy's ex-husband.