Reed Diamond | Multi-Faceted Family Man

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Reed Diamond: Kid and I were walking

down Hollywood, not Hollywood, sunset

 

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Boulevard a couple weeks ago and we

passed the Roxy fans were lying down

 

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the street and I go look at all these

old people and my kid turns and be

 

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like, you're the same age as them.

 

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

 

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Announcer: Welcome to Story Craft.

 

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Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

 

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Alright, here we go.

 

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Marc Preston: Back again.

 

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Another episode of Story and Craft.

 

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Uh, good to have you back.

 

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If this is your first

time here, well welcome.

 

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My name is Marc Preston.

 

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Uh, today we are sitting down and

having a great conversation with

 

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the very talented I. Reed Diamond,

new movie in theaters right now.

 

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It is called Drop With Brandon Snar.

 

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Megan Fahe.

 

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Uh, but of course Reed's been just

on the scene for a long time doing

 

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a lot of great stuff, uh, all the

way back to the movie Memphis Bell.

 

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Uh, he's been in homicide life on

the streets, designated survivor,

 

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uh, agents of Shield, Moneyball.

 

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Uh, just a very talented guy.

 

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Had a long career in the industry.

 

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Uh, kind of a, just a

fun cool dude to talk to.

 

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Really enjoyed sitting down with Reed.

 

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He's a fun guy.

 

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You'll enjoy it.

 

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Appreciate hearing from you.

 

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Uh, okay.

 

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

 

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Uh, great chat today with a very

talented actor and musician.

 

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We will talk about that.

 

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It is Reed Diamond Day right

here on Story and Craft.

 

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So how you doing today?

 

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I'm good, buddy.

 

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I'm so happy to be here.

 

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

 

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Very sweet.

 

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Very sweet.

 

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Now are you, last time we chatted you

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

 

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Are you still up there?

 

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

 

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I'm trying to be full-time

in Maine right now.

 

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Really?

 

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And where are you?

 

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Are you in Chicago?

 

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

I am in, uh, south Padre Island.

 

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Very tip of south Texas

 

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Reed Diamond: coast.

 

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Oh, nice.

 

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Okay.

 

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'cause it said,

 

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Marc Preston: it said central

time zone, south Padre Island.

 

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Yeah.

 

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That's nice.

 

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I love Texas.

 

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I was kind of envious, you

know, doing the Canada thing.

 

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I was like, well, that kind of sounds like

a good place to be for the next few years.

 

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Reed Diamond: There's lovely,

lovely people up here in Canada.

 

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But yeah, we went back to the States.

 

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Uh, uh, we're living on the coast

of Maine right now, which I love.

 

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

 

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Marc Preston: you end up there?

 

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

like family connection or has, it

 

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just sounded like a great place to be?

 

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Reed Diamond: I'll tell you how,

I'll tell you how it is, Marc.

 

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It's like I always, we keep looking for

the one place, but we're the peripatetic,

 

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sort of gypsy esque, uh, diamond family.

 

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So we were in California forever, and I

left Los Angeles a long, long time ago.

 

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We moved up to Los Olivos, which

is the wine country, about two

 

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and half hours north of la.

 

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So did you ever see

 

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Marc Preston: the movie sideways?

 

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I literally, literally just

rewatched it like three nights ago.

 

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So that's, that's where

 

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Reed Diamond: that takes place.

 

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So we were just at the

hitching post, uh, last month.

 

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And so we, uh, oh wait, so

that's like a real place.

 

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The hitching post is a real deal.

 

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Uh oh, yeah.

 

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

we're Virginia Madson works.

 

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That's, that's, that is like

one of the best stakes you'll

 

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ever have in your entire life.

 

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It's real.

 

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Okay.

 

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Okay.

 

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Oh, yeah.

 

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The whole place.

 

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Everything's real.

 

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Everyone's real.

 

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But then, like, you know, Frank Sini,

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

 

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

helmet and, uh, some of the wine, the

 

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winemakers are real, uh, that they visit.

 

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But yeah, so that movie inspired us and

we started going up there all the time.

 

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And then.

 

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Made tons of friends.

 

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It's an amazing small town.

 

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And then when our daughter was

well, did you ever, well, the

 

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Marc Preston: question is, did you

ever do the Paul Giamatti thing

 

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where you're just like, I just need

a drink, and you grab the spit bucket

 

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and just like pour it on yourself?

 

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Reed Diamond: Well, let me tell you, you

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

 

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everyone who lives, well, not everyone,

but a lot of people who live up there,

 

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either wine makers or wine enthusiasts,

and there's no shortage of wine.

 

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In fact, my wife and I just

went back to drinking wine like.

 

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Just in the last year.

 

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Mm-hmm.

 

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'cause we got so much wine up there that

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

 

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And there is no, when you live in a wine

growing region with, uh, wine makers

 

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and, uh, wine enthusiasts, there is no

occasion where wine is not appropriate.

 

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So my, I my wife once hosted a child

CPR class, uh, and I think they

 

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hosted it, it happened with the, the

Episcopal church and every, uh, mom

 

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showed up with her own private bottle

of wine, you know, because you're not

 

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gonna be able to get through a child's

CPR class without a bottle of wine.

 

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So, um.

 

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

 

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Uh, but we left, we,

we were there forever.

 

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Raised our daughter there and then

we thought we'd try Canada out, which

 

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was great because my wife had retired

Marnie McPhail Diamond, the, the, the

 

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more talented diamond in the family.

 

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She had had a storied career and

then retired when, um, we had our kid

 

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and then she was ready to go back.

 

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And so we came up here 'cause she'd

had, her career was based up here

 

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in Toronto and came up to Toronto

and she got right back into it.

 

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Be better than ever.

 

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Oh, okay.

 

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

Canadian destination was because of work,

 

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not because that's where she had her fa

her family was for like, like not for no,

 

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Reed Diamond: yeah, there

was no family in Canada.

 

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And so we were like, uh, and we thought

I'd grown up in Manhattan and my wife

 

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

raised our daughter in Los Olivos.

 

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Literally her school was at

the base of a national forest.

 

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So she'd grown up outdoors in the

country and we thought, oh, maybe

 

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we'll give her a little city life.

 

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Maybe we all want a little city life.

 

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And then as soon as we got to

the city, we all realized that

 

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no one wanted to be in the city.

 

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And, but then, then Covid hit

and the lockdowns happened.

 

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

 

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And, but in that time when I would

work, because the first year of

 

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Covid, I went off to shoot a show in

New Orleans, and I was in la These

 

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were like the first two shows back.

 

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Mm-hmm.

 

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And I got separated them for like,

I got separated from them for about

 

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six months and that was not cool.

 

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So, um, the next year when I got

a show out in Portland, Oregon.

 

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I just said, everyone's

getting in the car.

 

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So everyone jumped into the Chevy

Tahoe, the dog, the whole family.

 

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And we drove across the country

and at that point we knew

 

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we wanted to leave Toronto.

 

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So we were looking for places to live.

 

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

 

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And 'cause I'd visited most of them and

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

 

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And, uh, and we contemplated everywhere.

 

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South Dakota for a little while.

 

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Idaho, really?

 

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Arizona.

 

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

so beautiful and I drive it, I almost

 

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drive it ev back and forth every year.

 

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I really love doing it.

 

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Really?

 

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Marc Preston: No kidding.

 

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That's, I, my, my daughter to

boyfriend just drove from El Paso, uh,

 

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down here, which is just a mammoth.

 

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Anything from or to El

Paso is always crazy.

 

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I don't know.

 

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I love driving, but you

gotta stop intermittently.

 

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'cause when you're really, really

fatigued, it's not fun, you know?

 

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So I guess a cross country trip where

you see a bunch of stuff and stop's.

 

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Gotta be fun.

 

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Reed Diamond: You definitely have to stop.

 

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It's interesting when it's just me

and the dog, we can go pretty much

 

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just whenever you gotta pee, that's

the only time we're gonna stop.

 

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

traveling with the ladies, you wanna make

 

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

 

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'cause I can go, as long as

there's daylight I'll drive.

 

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So in the summertime I'll drive 13

hours without thinking about it.

 

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Mm-hmm.

 

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But I love it.

 

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I think it's also because I grew up

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

 

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grew up right on the Upper West Side.

 

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I lived there.

 

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Yeah.

 

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So you didn't do a whole lot

 

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Marc Preston: of driving growing up.

 

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So this whole idea of road trips?

 

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No.

 

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Yeah,

 

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Reed Diamond: no dude, it was so romantic.

 

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And I remember reading like, you

know, Sam Shepherd's Motel Chronicles

 

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because he was afraid of flying,

so he drove to every location.

 

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Mm-hmm.

 

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

 

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And I started doing it when I was

doing homicide life on the street

 

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when we were shooting in Baltimore

and I lived in LA at the time.

 

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I would drive back and forth

and it was just so, I love the,

 

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it's just everything's here.

 

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

changes and, and the landscapes

 

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and, and I just love it.

 

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I love being in the car.

 

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And now especially as.

 

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Air travel has become less and less.

 

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Um, uh, uh, fun.

 

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Uh, it's, it really,

sometimes it's just easier.

 

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It's in that

 

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Marc Preston: roulette

wheel now it seems like.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Um,

 

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Reed Diamond: I'll just drive,

but the main thing to answer your

 

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original question, 'cause I am, I

tend to be long-winded, is that was

 

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the only state we hadn't gone to.

 

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It was the only state we

hadn't driven through.

 

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It was the only state that in the

lower 48 that I hadn't been to.

 

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And then our, our daughter, uh, start,

wanted to go to this camp that had

 

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been featured on the Disney Channel.

 

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And uh, and I think I know what you

talked talking about, about it, about Yes.

 

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

can't remember what the show was called,

 

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but she, she got, she got to this camp

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

 

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

the first time I'd ever been to Maine.

 

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And then I had a buddy who

said, go to this town and where,

 

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that's where my family's from.

 

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And we went to this town.

 

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We go, oh yeah, this

is where we're living.

 

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This is the place.

 

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Mm-hmm.

 

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We've been looking for,

for the last six years.

 

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So we've been in Maine pretty much off and

on for the last two years, and about to.

 

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

been traveling around.

 

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We've been on the West coast, but

we're about to go back to Maine

 

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right now for the summer and the,

I guess the rest of the year.

 

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

now gonna be a counselor at that camp.

 

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I was to say Baby

 

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Marc Preston: Diamond's

gonna be a teenager now.

 

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Right?

 

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She's, uh, baby

 

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Reed Diamond: diamond's a year

 

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Marc Preston: away from college

right now, which is Wow.

 

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Six.

 

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Yeah.

 

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My oldest just, uh, graduated, uh,

last year in his teaching school now.

 

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Uh, and my, my, my son's

gonna graduate in May.

 

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It's just like, wait, wait.

 

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This is, it starts speeding up.

 

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Yeah.

 

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And that's the reason why when my youngest

graduated, she came down here with me.

 

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We did.

 

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Oh.

 

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'cause you remember I was in New Orleans.

 

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

Orleans and my ex-wife's from there.

 

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Right.

 

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My youngest came down here,

did a gap year with me.

 

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

study in Europe again and again, you know,

 

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

 

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Um, but anyway, so it was kind of

a, um, like you, I thought about

 

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where in the world could I live?

 

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

the whole tropical Mayberry thing.

 

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You know, total population

here is like 3000 or something.

 

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So

 

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Reed Diamond: your daughter, does she

know where she wants to go to school?

 

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She does.

 

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We've been looking at colleges and

she's much more serious 'cause she could

 

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easily go into the family business.

 

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'cause she's incredibly

talented and hilarious.

 

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She was in the second city troop

for teenagers in here in Toronto.

 

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Really?

 

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And, but Wow.

 

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Yeah, but she, you know, she has two

actors for parents, so she actually

 

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wants to go into something real.

 

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So she's looking at being a, uh,

going into developmental psychology,

 

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working with, uh, teenagers.

 

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

quite serious and she's much

 

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smarter than, uh, I am for sure.

 

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

right now as we, as we speak.

 

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

 

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Marc Preston: Julliard, right?

 

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I did go to Juilliard.

 

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Yeah, I, I talked to

somebody the other day.

 

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

you, I say the other day, literally

 

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too many a year ago, uh, I think I

started talking to Michael Beach.

 

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I

 

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Reed Diamond: think

Michael Beach went there.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Michael, of course.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Okay.

 

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Michael went there.

 

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In fact, Michael was hilarious

because my first year.

 

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At, uh, Julliard, they, they would

often have alumni come back and

 

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speak to you about what it's like

to be a, a young actor out in the

 

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world once you leave the nest.

 

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And, um, Michael Beach was a re

he and Bradley Whitford, I don't

 

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know if they were in the same

class, but they both, they both

 

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came back together to speak to us.

 

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And I remember Mike, uh, Bradley

Whitford was like, oh, it's

 

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really bad out there, man.

 

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It's really bad.

 

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I don't know what to tell you.

 

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It's just, it's really rough.

 

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And then of course, you know, then he

got a few good men and he was fine.

 

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But Michael Beach, he was really sweet.

 

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'cause I connected him.

 

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

it's not that bad out there.

 

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And then Michael and I have been pals,

you know, just from just meeting that day.

 

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Julliard, you know, every

time I see him, damn.

 

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He's such a talented dude.

 

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But yeah.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Julliard guy.

 

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There's a few of us out there.

 

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Marc Preston: I think y'all are the

only, uh, Julliard crew I've had

 

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an opportunity to, to chat with.

 

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Yeah.

 

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

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

 

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Reed Diamond: now, right?

 

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

 

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We're about to record against,

I think, record again.

 

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This at the end of

 

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Marc Preston: this week.

 

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You got a nice little rig set up there.

 

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And I, it's funny 'cause I talked

to Christie Montopolis and he's

 

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got, uh, he does a lot of voiceover.

 

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I always get excited when somebody's

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

 

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it's always nice for the audio quality,

 

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Reed Diamond: you

 

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Marc Preston: know.

 

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Reed Diamond: Well, I love the, this

is my, this is actually, I'm literally

 

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right before I was speaking to you,

I was doing a bunch of voiceovers.

 

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So this is my voiceover Mike.

 

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This is my nice one.

 

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And then I inve I invested in

one of those podcast mics, just

 

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'cause it, it seemed fun and cute.

 

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But, uh, this is my favorite mic.

 

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I record everything on this.

 

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I do vocals for music on this.

 

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And then it's, is

 

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Marc Preston: this like, um,

just for fun or you, are you kind

 

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

 

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You know where guys

kinda like back in the.

 

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Covid

 

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Reed Diamond: era.

 

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I had a band, I made a decision in,

I guess at the end of eighth grade.

 

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It was either music or acting.

 

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And I chose acting because I had

bands all through junior high school.

 

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And, and then acting was the,

was ended up becoming my career

 

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and, and the pla path to go on.

 

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But I always loved playing music.

 

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

don't consider myself a very good singer.

 

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But then my wife and I had a

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

 

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Late thirties, early forties,

we had a really cool band.

 

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And it was funny because I was in a punk

cover band, so I was basically doing like

 

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post-punk new wave song cover stuff and

with a bunch of friends, uh, all actors,

 

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but all people who love to play music.

 

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And we rehearse every weekend.

 

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And she came to one of the

rehearsals and and I said, Hey,

 

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get up there and sing this song.

 

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And she got up there and my wife

is an amazing vocalist and we go,

 

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well, you should sing for the band.

 

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'cause I was the default singer

and I hated being the singer.

 

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And she's like, well, I hate

the songs you're playing.

 

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Why, why don't we do some originals?

 

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I was like, great.

 

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Let's do some originals.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Because I had a ton of music written,

but she and I, you know, I liked

 

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to write music, but she had written

a, she was writing a ton of vocals,

 

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so then she became the singer.

 

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And we did that basically until,

you know, we, she got pregnant.

 

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In fact, when she was initially pregnant,

we built like a beautiful isolation

 

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booth because we like to play loud.

 

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And so we had a nice sort of

lockout studio in North Hollywood

 

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and we rehearse all the time.

 

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So we put her in there.

 

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So the, so the baby, 'cause the

baby couldn't put on earphones

 

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or ear, you know, earmuffs.

 

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Mm-hmm.

 

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And um, so yeah.

 

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And then we stopped that, but I still

play and now I got a band with my kid.

 

387

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Really?

 

388

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Okay.

 

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So my teenager, yeah.

 

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So I took her, I was taking her to

a music shop one day 'cause I wanted

 

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

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

 

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Look at this sucker.

 

393

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Look at this 1970s, uh oh yeah.

 

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Music Master bass amp, but

sounds great with guitar.

 

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So I took her to go buy an amp

and I wasn't looking at this amp.

 

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Then the, uh, the guy who ran this great

little boutique music store, one of the

 

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few, you know, ones that are still holding

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

 

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These were, these were like

student amps in the seventies.

 

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Kids would take 'em to college.

 

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And it's so lightweight.

 

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I don't know if you've ever lugged

a amp 'cause I also have a fender

 

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twin reverb, which is my main one.

 

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But that's like 80 pounds it feels like.

 

404

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And uh, going from gig

to gig is never fun.

 

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But this thing sounds amazing.

 

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

 

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And as we're walking home,

she goes, you know what?

 

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I wanna play bass.

 

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I'm like, great.

 

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I got a bass in the closet.

 

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Let's do it.

 

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So we went home and started a band and

then she started writing right away.

 

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And we were, we started as a,

'cause she likes, she likes all

 

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kinds of music, but she, she was

playing joy division stuff with me.

 

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'cause it was a great

place to start on Facebook.

 

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Yeah.

 

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You know, that's

 

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Marc Preston: the hard part, you

know, writing it conceiving, you know.

 

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But, uh, it's funny because you mentioned

that, uh, the, the genre of music.

 

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I was in the grocery the other day.

 

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I think I finally reached that age.

 

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Sure.

 

423

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You know, you're in the grocery and

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

 

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

you start hearing all the music and

 

425

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then the other day it was Beastie

Boys like, wait a minute, am I at

 

426

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that age where grocery store music?

 

427

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'cause they, I guess they're

appealing to a demographic.

 

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

 

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Reed Diamond: Marc, you are that age.

 

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We are that

 

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Marc Preston: age.

 

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Reed Diamond: I mean, this is the

thing, like, I always think about this.

 

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When you, when you, when we were

younger and you'd see like bands

 

434

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from the, you know, like singers

and groups from the thirties and the

 

435

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forties, you know, big band guys doing

their tours and they're quite old.

 

436

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

that, that's interesting.

 

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And now it's, now it's the

Gogos doing that right there.

 

438

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

walking down Hollywood, not Hollywood,

 

439

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sunset Boulevard a couple weeks ago,

going to get some dinner and we passed

 

440

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

the Rainbow right there where the, and

 

441

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the Gogos were playing, like, I guess

probably a warmup show for Coachella.

 

442

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And the, the, the fans were lying

down the street and I'm like.

 

443

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And I go look at all these old

people and my kid turns to be,

 

444

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you're the same age as them.

 

445

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I'm

 

446

00:14:58,324 --> 00:14:59,795

Marc Preston: like, oh

man, it's, you're right.

 

447

00:14:59,885 --> 00:15:02,495

I was thinking about this, thinking

about this the other day, right.

 

448

00:15:02,495 --> 00:15:04,175

The music that we listened to.

 

449

00:15:04,235 --> 00:15:08,105

Our kids don't necessarily

perceive it as being old, but

 

450

00:15:08,465 --> 00:15:09,905

respectively, like, you know?

 

451

00:15:09,910 --> 00:15:10,595

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

 

452

00:15:10,595 --> 00:15:13,175

When we were young, fifties and

sixties music, you definitely could

 

453

00:15:13,175 --> 00:15:14,495

tell it was from a different era.

 

454

00:15:14,495 --> 00:15:14,765

You know?

 

455

00:15:14,765 --> 00:15:15,515

My, uh, sure.

 

456

00:15:15,635 --> 00:15:18,995

My daughter, my youngest, uh, used

to like, you know, Def Leopard

 

457

00:15:18,995 --> 00:15:20,855

pour some sugar on me whenever

we were driving in the car.

 

458

00:15:20,855 --> 00:15:21,425

I'm like, you know, yeah.

 

459

00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,830

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

well they're into some of this stuff.

 

460

00:15:24,830 --> 00:15:28,610

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

full country now that she's the only one

 

461

00:15:28,610 --> 00:15:32,450

in the family and, you know, living in

Texas got her cowboy boots now, so she's

 

462

00:15:32,450 --> 00:15:34,700

got the whole country thing happening.

 

463

00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:35,630

That's so, yeah.

 

464

00:15:35,630 --> 00:15:35,631

Yeah.

 

465

00:15:35,660 --> 00:15:37,430

But are you working on anything right now?

 

466

00:15:37,430 --> 00:15:40,280

Now, now you got the, uh, the

film drop is out right now.

 

467

00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:40,580

Right?

 

468

00:15:40,730 --> 00:15:41,060

Drop

 

469

00:15:41,060 --> 00:15:41,720

Reed Diamond: is out right now.

 

470

00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,480

You can still see it in the theaters,

which is the best place to see it,

 

471

00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,840

but it is also for sale at home if

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

 

472

00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:49,850

But, uh, it's, it's

definitely a movie theater.

 

473

00:15:49,850 --> 00:15:50,120

Theater.

 

474

00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,530

1. Of course, in this day and age,

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

 

475

00:15:53,530 --> 00:15:57,099

to you, talk to you, anytime I do a

podcast, you can't talk about anything.

 

476

00:15:57,099 --> 00:15:59,829

So I've got something coming up

that I'm about to start working

 

477

00:15:59,829 --> 00:16:00,729

on, but I can't tell you.

 

478

00:16:00,729 --> 00:16:01,870

But it's very exciting.

 

479

00:16:02,349 --> 00:16:06,400

I had to keep drop secret for a year and

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

 

480

00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,875

I didn't even tell my parents or my

father, um, until, uh, until like a

 

481

00:16:10,875 --> 00:16:13,180

couple of weeks before it premiered

when they're like, okay, you can tell

 

482

00:16:13,180 --> 00:16:14,380

people that you're in the movie now.

 

483

00:16:14,979 --> 00:16:17,194

Um, so we, what, what is

the, what's the general like?

 

484

00:16:17,275 --> 00:16:18,235

Premise of the film.

 

485

00:16:18,444 --> 00:16:20,814

I mean, this is a modern sort

of Hitchcockian thriller.

 

486

00:16:20,814 --> 00:16:24,385

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

 

487

00:16:24,685 --> 00:16:27,925

So you've got, and this actually based on

something that actually happened to some

 

488

00:16:27,925 --> 00:16:32,035

of the producers, but this woman goes on

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

 

489

00:16:32,035 --> 00:16:37,525

got a young son and she's had a traumatic

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

 

490

00:16:37,525 --> 00:16:39,865

she's now ready to enter the dating world.

 

491

00:16:39,865 --> 00:16:43,015

And she meets at the top, at

this restaurant, fancy restaurant

 

492

00:16:43,015 --> 00:16:44,454

at the top of a skyscraper.

 

493

00:16:44,454 --> 00:16:48,055

And she immediately starts

getting these, uh, airdrops, but

 

494

00:16:48,055 --> 00:16:49,314

we, we call them digit drops.

 

495

00:16:49,314 --> 00:16:52,824

And she gets these drops on her phone

that are getting increasingly threatening.

 

496

00:16:52,824 --> 00:16:55,645

And basically, as you can see,

I'm not giving anything away.

 

497

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

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

 

498

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

Um, she's told to kill her

date, and so she's being

 

499

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

manipulated through these drops.

 

500

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

It's, it's a, and

basically the second she.

 

501

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

The way Christopher Landon, the

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

 

502

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

It's, it's a rollercoaster ride.

 

503

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

So you're preparing, preparing, preparing,

getting to the date, and as soon as those

 

504

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

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

 

505

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

And it, and it moves.

 

506

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

I mean, it's 90 minutes in the theater

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

 

507

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

And it's an incredible script and

beautiful, incredibly talented.

 

508

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

Meghan Fahey and the beautiful

Brandon's ssar, uh, two gorgeous

 

509

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

awesomely talented movie stars

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

 

510

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

And, and I play, I play a small

part in this film, um, that I

 

511

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

can tell you nothing about, but,

 

512

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

Marc Preston: um, which I

appreciate that there's nothing

 

513

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

worse than listening to, to a chat.

 

514

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

And they're like, look,

well, I can reverse engineer

 

515

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

what's going on in the movie.

 

516

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

I like knowing nothing.

 

517

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

You know, me too, because I have this

philosophy that anytime anybody says,

 

518

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

uh, I don't wanna spoil anything,

but anything that follows, but will

 

519

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

be a spoiler, you know, that's of

 

520

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

Reed Diamond: course.

 

521

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

And I know I, it's funny 'cause

it's, they've really changed.

 

522

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

I mean, you've, I'm sure

you've noticed this.

 

523

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

I mean, they've really changed what movie

previews are where, where you're, the

 

524

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

trailers now reveal a lot, which I am,

I guess someone's figured out that pe

 

525

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

that tests well and people want that.

 

526

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

But I, I'm like you, I wanna

know as little as possible.

 

527

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

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

you say there's some sort of a show

 

528

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

that's streaming that you're binge

watching with your, say your spouse

 

529

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

that I'm watching with my wife, but

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

 

530

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

So they're airing, you know, where

say White Lotus or Severance or

 

531

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

whatever those shows, and it's already

airing and it's in the zeitgeist

 

532

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

and people are talking about it.

 

533

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

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

can not to know anything right about it.

 

534

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

'cause I don't like it being spoiled

because that's the fun of it.

 

535

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

And that's why I do think this

is a great movie to see in the

 

536

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

movie theater because some movies,

yeah, you don't need to see there.

 

537

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

It's, but there's something

about not being able to leave.

 

538

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

There's something about watching something

in your house where it makes, you know,

 

539

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

you can get up, you can check your

phone, you can get something to eat.

 

540

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

You can go for multiple bathroom

trips and not miss anything.

 

541

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

But when you're seeing something in

the movie, in the movie theaters that's

 

542

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

meant to be in the movie theaters,

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

 

543

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

thrill ride like this, there's something

special about seeing it in the dark,

 

544

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

seeing it that big and seeing it with

other people and, and having that.

 

545

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

Experience in that finite amount of time.

 

546

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

'cause I'd gotten, obviously we'd

all gotten really sort of away

 

547

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

from seeing movies in the movie

theater during, you know, COVID.

 

548

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

And, and I remember when I first

went back to the movie theaters and

 

549

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

I'm seeing a film at Tiff, right?

 

550

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

At the, at the Toronto Film Festival.

 

551

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

And it was so exciting to see

it in a beautiful movie palace

 

552

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

with people who love movies.

 

553

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

And I realized, oh wow.

 

554

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

Of course this is the way

it was meant to be seen.

 

555

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

Marc Preston: Yeah.

 

556

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

There is something to be said about

the communal experience as well.

 

557

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

You know, when you're in a room

experiencing everything, there

 

558

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

is something to that, you know?

 

559

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

Oh, yeah.

 

560

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

But there's some movies like,

like if it's just like a romantic

 

561

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

comedy or something like that, you

know, so there's some things like,

 

562

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

I wanna see this in the theater.

 

563

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

Other things I'm like,

oh, I want it at home.

 

564

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

Reed Diamond: You know?

 

565

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

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

 

566

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

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

because right now I, I know with, with

 

567

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

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

the future of the film industry?

 

568

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

Is it just Marvel movies and,

and Star Wars movies or, and, um.

 

569

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

And, and video game movies or

is, is there room for cinema?

 

570

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

Because it's interesting because all

of my favorite films that I saw this

 

571

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

year, I haven't seen in the theater I

saw on screeners and I saw them at home.

 

572

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

And like my favorite movie

this year was Andorra.

 

573

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

Um, and Nora, sorry.

 

574

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

And Dora, I'm thinking of Andorra.

 

575

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

And Andorra.

 

576

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

It was an Nora, but Nora, you

know, uh, the Sean Baker film.

 

577

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

And, uh, and I, I wanna see it

in the theater and uh, 'cause it.

 

578

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

Because when you're looking at a

filmmaker's movie, you, you know,

 

579

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

you wanna see Goodfellas for the

first time in a movie theater,

 

580

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

you don't wanna see it on tv.

 

581

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

Right?

 

582

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

You wanna see those kinds of movies there.

 

583

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

So I think it's valuable,

but I agree with you.

 

584

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

Yeah.

 

585

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

I, we all have really nice,

you know what I think should do

 

586

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

Marc Preston: to re reinvigorate

the theatrical experiences is start

 

587

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

re-releasing some older movies, like

you said, like Goodfellas, there's

 

588

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

rerelease it to Goes even if you have

seen it, you know, there's some movies

 

589

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

we've been watching since they've been

on videotape, but how cool would it

 

590

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

be to like close Encounters back in

the theater or something like that?

 

591

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

Um, oh

 

592

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

Reed Diamond: dude.

 

593

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

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

funny, I had never seen Clockwork

 

594

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

Orange in the movie theater.

 

595

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

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

 

596

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

I thought I saw it on VHS in the eighties.

 

597

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

And then I was friends with

Malcolm McDowell 'cause he and I

 

598

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

did a sh show together for years.

 

599

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

And, and they just come out with

a new print and I saw it at the

 

600

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

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

never seen this movie before.

 

601

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

'cause when you see it that way in

the way it was meant to be seen.

 

602

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

And, and there are, I mean, there

are less and less art house theaters.

 

603

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

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

 

604

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

I think Toronto's last ones all

disappeared and in LA obviously Tarantino

 

605

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

bought the new Beverly, so that was great

to like have that place to go see movies.

 

606

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

But yeah, if, if they were shot

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

 

607

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

seeing, I saw Once Upon a Time in

Hollywood at the Arc Light, right?

 

608

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

And, and the CAMA Dome on 70 Oh really?

 

609

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

70 millimeter, which

 

610

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

Marc Preston: is just wow, amazing.

 

611

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

I I still say that that movie had so,

like, it paid homage so well to, uh,

 

612

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

radio circa 1960 something, because every

time they got into that car Oh yeah.

 

613

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

Kicking on K HJ in LA or whatever.

 

614

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

Oh yeah.

 

615

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

I always love it when they were just

driving, you know, and the perspective.

 

616

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

Yeah.

 

617

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

That's one of those movies

that's entered into my list.

 

618

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

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

go ahead and watch it.

 

619

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

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

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

 

620

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

Reed Diamond: But what is, uh,

it's funny that movie holds up.

 

621

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

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

seen it five times maybe, or we watch it

 

622

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

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

 

623

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

Amazing.

 

624

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

One of my favorite, I agree with you.

 

625

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

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

uh, Brad Pitt going to that, uh, you

 

626

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

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

 

627

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

Spawn Ranch.

 

628

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

Yeah.

 

629

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

Yeah.

 

630

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

And, uh, that, just, that whole getting

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

 

631

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

I mean, Brad Pitt, you know, if,

you know, I could've gotten somebody

 

632

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

a little more attractive than

him would do that movie, though.

 

633

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

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

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

 

634

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

Reed Diamond: Oh my God.

 

635

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

He's the ultimate man.

 

636

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

He's, there's no one who

could play that behavior.

 

637

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

You're just like, oh, I

want to be his friend.

 

638

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

I want to be like him.

 

639

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

And then of course, everyone at

that Spawn Ranch is a movie star.

 

640

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

I mean, you've got Mikey Madison and Nor

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

 

641

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

Butler, you've got everyone, everyone

in there is like, is a huge star.

 

642

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

You've got, uh, uh, I

mean, it's Marc Quigley.

 

643

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

It's just like, uh, quality.

 

644

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

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

 

645

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

It's fantastic.

 

646

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

Marc Preston: But with your daughter,

have you found, have you gotten to

 

647

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

the point yet of saying, you know, I

really want you to see this film, like,

 

648

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

you're curating some of her theatrical

stuff, or do you find that, or does

 

649

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

she just have her own interests?

 

650

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

You know?

 

651

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

Reed Diamond: No, she's great.

 

652

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

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

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

 

653

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

mean, we were really, my wife and I would

try to show her things that we'd loved,

 

654

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

and also you wanna see what holds up.

 

655

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

So it's interesting to see

what movies that we love that

 

656

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

are really still amazing.

 

657

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

Mm-hmm.

 

658

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

Like Dog Day Afternoon is.

 

659

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

Always good, right?

 

660

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

Tootsie is always good.

 

661

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

And then there's some movies from

the eighties that just don't hold up.

 

662

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

So we would show them as, as

they became age appropriate, and

 

663

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

we would show them over again.

 

664

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

And most of my favorite movies

were from the seventies.

 

665

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

And, and she, and she loves them.

 

666

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

She loves dog.

 

667

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

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

 

668

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

But it's same thing with music.

 

669

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

It, it wasn't like, you have to

see this, you have to like this.

 

670

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

It's just like, what do you think?

 

671

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

And, and sometimes through her eyes, I, I

would re because she's highly intelligent

 

672

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

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

creative and, and so her insights are.

 

673

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

Are are profound.

 

674

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

And I'm always like, oh yeah, oh

yeah, I see exactly why you see it.

 

675

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

But music, we just exposed her to it.

 

676

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

So her, it's a panoply

of what she listens to.

 

677

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

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

 

678

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

She, she makes mix, you know, playlist.

 

679

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

Mm-hmm.

 

680

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

Now, 'cause we don't make mix

tapes like we used to, but she

 

681

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

makes a playlist all the time.

 

682

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

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

Joy Division song to a Dean Martin song,

 

683

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

to, um, an Eno Morone Italian pop song.

 

684

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

Like she's, because she's

been exposed to all that.

 

685

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

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

 

686

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

See that's

 

687

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

Marc Preston: very cool.

 

688

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

Yeah.

 

689

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

I think,

 

690

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

Reed Diamond: you know, the

 

691

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

Marc Preston: same thing with food,

you know, expose your kids, you know.

 

692

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

Yeah.

 

693

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

My, my daughter though,

she drives me nuts.

 

694

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

She'll, what she'll do is

I have different playlists.

 

695

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

I'll have a country or

I'll have a Sure, sure.

 

696

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

Whatever different playlist.

 

697

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

Yeah.

 

698

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

Uh, you know, maybe it's based

around whatever I'm up to.

 

699

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

Maybe I'm cr driving in the car.

 

700

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

I don't know.

 

701

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

Yeah.

 

702

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

But she just, all she does is Spotify

is just put everything in her likes.

 

703

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

So she has bazillions of just likes songs

and so when we're driving she started

 

704

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

trying to do that with my Spotify.

 

705

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

I'm like, no, no, no.

 

706

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

Daddy's too anal reten for that.

 

707

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

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

 

708

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

Does she, uh, well it's funny you

 

709

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

Reed Diamond: say that because it's

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

 

710

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

daughter and I are driving anywhere

and we do a lot of long trips

 

711

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

'cause I love to drive and we drive.

 

712

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

From Maine to wherever we're

going, blah, blah, blah.

 

713

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

I go, it's your playlist.

 

714

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

We only play your

playlist, so you get to dj.

 

715

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

So, and she does, and they're,

they're incredibly eclectic and

 

716

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

they're more like this, like you're

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

 

717

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

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

it could be hours and hours

 

718

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

and hours, but I love that.

 

719

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

I'm like, you're the dj.

 

720

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

When we got, I think's a great insight

 

721

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

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

interviewed, uh, uh, ours chatting with,

 

722

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

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

 

723

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

And he, what he does is he just makes up

playlists and shares him with friends.

 

724

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

Like something that, yeah.

 

725

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

And so we were talking, uh, and

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

 

726

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

to make a beach playlist for you.

 

727

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

And he made a playlist and,

and then the fires hit.

 

728

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

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

poor guy's like wrapped up doing stuff

 

729

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

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

this play, which is up on the site.

 

730

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

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

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

 

731

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

like sharing recipes or something

like that, you know, you get insight.

 

732

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

Something I do, I'm gonna

 

733

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

Reed Diamond: share you, I'm

gonna share something with you.

 

734

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

'cause I'm obsessed with playlists,

so I have, I mean, I have a Christmas

 

735

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

playlist that's like eight days, right.

 

736

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

Of music and then eight days.

 

737

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

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

 

738

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

'cause I found every single sort of

fifties and sixties pop Easter songs.

 

739

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

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

know, there were so many Halloween songs.

 

740

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

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

day or three day Halloween playlist.

 

741

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

But, uh, I love doing that and

I'm making them for, because I'm

 

742

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

like you, I make 'em for special

occasions and, and different moods.

 

743

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

I have like, my, my

reading a script playlist.

 

744

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

I make a playlist for every part I play.

 

745

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

And then I have like new,

oh see, that would be cool.

 

746

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

You get, you get the moon

dialed in for the character.

 

747

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

What does a character listen to?

 

748

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

That is kind of cool.

 

749

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

A hundred percent.

 

750

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

Oh yes.

 

751

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

Have my drop playlist because it was like,

what would get me into Richard's mind?

 

752

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

I know.

 

753

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

I love because music's so important.

 

754

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

I, I've done that from the beginning,

like back, you know, it was still

 

755

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

like, just when you're making

tapes, before you burning CDs, I

 

756

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

always made a character playlist.

 

757

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

'cause it's nice.

 

758

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

It gets you.

 

759

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

'cause it just depends.

 

760

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

I mean, you know, you, you obviously

love music, but music is one of those

 

761

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

things where it can just like a smell.

 

762

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

It can just take you somewhere.

 

763

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

It can transport you.

 

764

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

Marc Preston: Exactly.

 

765

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

That's, that's, yeah.

 

766

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

Reed Diamond: Uh,

 

767

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

Marc Preston: puts you Exactly.

 

768

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

It makes it real for you, you know?

 

769

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

Yeah.

 

770

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

Uh,

 

771

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

Reed Diamond: yeah.

 

772

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

You

 

773

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

Marc Preston: know, one of the things

I always liked growing up and my son

 

774

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

ended up liking, he always liked, he,

he, when he was young, he developed

 

775

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

an appreciation of soundtracks.

 

776

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

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

 

777

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

So that,

 

778

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

Marc Preston: that, that

kind of begets a question.

 

779

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

What, what movie or movies do you

think had just a killer soundtrack?

 

780

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

Yeah.

 

781

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

Do you have any in mind?

 

782

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

You're like, oh yeah, that

was, that was a rockstar.

 

783

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

Reed Diamond: Well, are you,

now are you talking about their.

 

784

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

Song choices where they're using pop

songs or just the soundtrack itself?

 

785

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

Like not, not the scoring, if you will,

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

 

786

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

Oh my gosh.

 

787

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

Oh, so many movies.

 

788

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

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

mean, TV has obviously taken that to

 

789

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

the next level because TV Oh yeah.

 

790

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

Spends more money.

 

791

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

They spend more money sometimes just on

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

 

792

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

ending montage in for each episode than

they do probably on some of the actors.

 

793

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

Um, you know, so you

get so many great songs.

 

794

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

Like, um, when The Watchmen was on HBO,

they had so many cool, like, covers

 

795

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

of songs and that made me, and that

in fact, Watchmen inspired me to make

 

796

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

a whole playlist of obscure covers.

 

797

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

'cause they were, I didn't realize that

how many like motowny or staxy type

 

798

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

groups would do covers of like British

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

 

799

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

invasion, sorry, British invasion songs.

 

800

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

So it's really interesting to hear a soul

take on day tripper or whatever like that.

 

801

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

So it's always fun to hear.

 

802

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

But yeah, the, I mean, so

many, I mean, obviously.

 

803

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

What's so funny, Scorsese always

has great soundtracks, right?

 

804

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

He always uses great songs, and then

sometimes he uses this, how many

 

805

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

times does he use Layla in a movie?

 

806

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

Right?

 

807

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

So, but it always sounds great and, uh,

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

 

808

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

favorite movie of with songs recently?

 

809

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

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

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

 

810

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

What I like is something like,

wow, that kinda came outta nowhere.

 

811

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

What was that song with, uh, uh.

 

812

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

God, what's his name?

 

813

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

He was, he was in Barbie.

 

814

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

Good looking dude.

 

815

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

Always.

 

816

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

Brian Gosling.

 

817

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

Brian Gosling.

 

818

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

Yeah.

 

819

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

He was in, was it Drive?

 

820

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

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

 

821

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

That was a cool, that was a cool, but

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

 

822

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

out that was, God, this is really bad.

 

823

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

I I, if I try to remember

names, my brain goes, huh.

 

824

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

No, you're not.

 

825

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

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

 

826

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

That's what I'm here for.

 

827

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

Well, well, thank you.

 

828

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

Yeah.

 

829

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

It was, um, I, I'm gonna

come back to you on that.

 

830

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

'cause I gotta remember, uh, you know,

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

 

831

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

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

net at my, at my disposal here.

 

832

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

Heck yeah, you do.

 

833

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

Uh, I think I got an

Academy Award for this.

 

834

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

Let's see, it was with, uh,

Natalie Portman and, uh, oh

 

835

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

God, it came out about 2004.

 

836

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

This is, this is driving me nuts.

 

837

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

Oh, are you thinking Garden State?

 

838

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

Garden State,

 

839

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

Reed Diamond: yes.

 

840

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

Yeah, garden State.

 

841

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

Yeah, of course.

 

842

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

Garden State had great music.

 

843

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

Of course.

 

844

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

'cause he was using Zach Bra, right.

 

845

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

He was using all that cool

music from that period and like

 

846

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

all these like indie bands.

 

847

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

Oh yeah.

 

848

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

Yeah.

 

849

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

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

 

850

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

Marc Preston: God, that it's just

something that catches like, how

 

851

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

did I not know this was out there?

 

852

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

Which is always, 'cause you'd get a

certain age and you're like, you kind

 

853

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

of feel like you've sampled or tasted

just about everything that is available.

 

854

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

At least you know, a little bit.

 

855

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

Yeah.

 

856

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

But that was like, wow.

 

857

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

That was a, that was a fun one.

 

858

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

So, yeah, that was a long trip to answer

that question for you, so I apologize.

 

859

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

Well, we got there,

 

860

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

Reed Diamond: Dennis.

 

861

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

I knew we, I knew we'd

get there together, buddy.

 

862

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

But that's the fun thing about.

 

863

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

Some of the musical streaming things,

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

 

864

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

you can, instead of purchasing music,

'cause you know when, when you and I

 

865

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

were a kid at 5 99 for that album, that

was, I held onto that for a long time and

 

866

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

you, you, you wanted to choose wisely.

 

867

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

But sometimes, do

 

868

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

Marc Preston: you remember

those old Maxi singles?

 

869

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

They would sell, like, you could

course, like the whole album wasn't

 

870

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

out, but you can go get the single

and they had a, like a, yeah.

 

871

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

Uh, you know, back when you could,

again, this is going off the deep

 

872

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

end here, but uh, you can get the

European, there are the imports.

 

873

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

Like there is a version of like,

with all the different mixes and uh,

 

874

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

Reed Diamond: sure.

 

875

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

Marc Preston: I remember

getting a level 42 1 like that.

 

876

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

I was so excited.

 

877

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

All it was is one song,

but done a four by four

 

878

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

Reed Diamond: different ways, I think.

 

879

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

Well, you get those Japanese imports

and they'd be like on the pink,

 

880

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

uh, vinyl or a different color.

 

881

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

Vinyl, red or yellow for

those, for the, yeah.

 

882

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

Yeah.

 

883

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

Is is the kid into vinyl?

 

884

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

Is uh, she in the band?

 

885

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

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

 

886

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

You're saying like she was,

I literally was adjusting the

 

887

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

pitch on her turntable yesterday.

 

888

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

She's like, dad, can you come

here and adjust the pitch?

 

889

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

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

 

890

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

She received it for, I can't

remember if it was a birthday

 

891

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

or a another special occasion.

 

892

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

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

a vintage 'cause I think I, I

 

893

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

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

 

894

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

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

got old, um, speakers and, and old

 

895

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

turntable techniques, turntable.

 

896

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

Oh, I, oh yeah.

 

897

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

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

wants to do everything on the screen,

 

898

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

on the, uh, yeah, on the interface.

 

899

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

I'm like, I like buttons,

I like knobs, I like Sure.

 

900

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

You know, uh, analog, uh, stuff.

 

901

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

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

logic mixer, you know, so, exactly.

 

902

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

Those are, I'm, I wish

I still had my mixer.

 

903

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

I see.

 

904

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

Yeah.

 

905

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

Yeah.

 

906

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

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

 

907

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

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

White in Nashville at his Yeah.

 

908

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

Recording studio.

 

909

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

They have a, a live room that

they record right to acetate.

 

910

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

It.

 

911

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

Like, in other words, it's like,

that's gotta be so cool to have it.

 

912

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

Not multi-track, but the band just

playing, goes straight to vinyl.

 

913

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

And that's about as close as you can

get to being there, I guess, you know?

 

914

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

Reed Diamond: Well, that's, and,

and there's something, you know,

 

915

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

I mean, obviously everyone's

into analog stuff for music.

 

916

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

I mean, obviously the, the interfaces

and recording digitally is great,

 

917

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

but recording the tape was so

forgiving and it's an instrument

 

918

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

as well, and that analog stuff.

 

919

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

And I have only, you know, I only have

two amps for guitar and stuff like that.

 

920

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

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

uh, how you miss that stuff.

 

921

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

And it's funny 'cause I thought,

I remember when I sold my last

 

922

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

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

it's just gonna get better.

 

923

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

I'll get rid of this.

 

924

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

And they never got better.

 

925

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

They just got smaller and worse.

 

926

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

Mm-hmm.

 

927

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

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

when you show me that mixer, like

 

928

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

there's not one piece of gear that

I've ever gotten rid of that I.

 

929

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

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

every time I've sold, because you know,

 

930

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

when you're, especially as a musician,

you're trading gear for new gear.

 

931

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

Every guitar pedal, I'm like,

I don't need that guitar pedal.

 

932

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

I'll trade it for another guitar pedal.

 

933

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

And you're like, oh,

I wish I still had it.

 

934

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

God, you,

 

935

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

Marc Preston: my ex-wife would

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

 

936

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

need all these old tapes from,

and you on the radio or all this?

 

937

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

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

 

938

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

I'm like, you understand that's,

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

 

939

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

Yeah.

 

940

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

But it's so funny you

mentioned that tube thing.

 

941

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

I, I've always used solid state,

you know, logically preamps.

 

942

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

Sure.

 

943

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

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

uh, preamp here, which is excellent.

 

944

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

But I had a, uh, and she makes wonderful

gear, uh, manly, uh, out California.

 

945

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

She makes a tube pre

everything's tube that they make.

 

946

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

Yeah, yeah.

 

947

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

And I got one and I was like, oh,

I'm so excited to get tube gear.

 

948

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

And there is that.

 

949

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

That just barely that taste in the

background of, you know, that thing.

 

950

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

I'm like, it was driving me nuts.

 

951

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

'cause for voiceover

voice, I, I could Oh yeah.

 

952

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

Hear it was driving bonkers.

 

953

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

But for music, I think it's, it

would be a whole different thing.

 

954

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

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

 

955

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

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

 

956

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

Not dude,

 

957

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

Reed Diamond: there's literally

software for record, you know, for

 

958

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

musicians where you add that his, to it.

 

959

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

Mm-hmm.

 

960

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

Where you add those, right.

 

961

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

That you add those

frequencies and that noise.

 

962

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

You, you know, you, they

call it lo-fi now, right?

 

963

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

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

 

964

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

It 'cause it's character.

 

965

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

Now.

 

966

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

Marc Preston: When you were Julliard

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

 

967

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

degree study where, or you know, where

you're touching on music, touching on

 

968

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

voice, or were you on a focus track

of, of acting when you were there?

 

969

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

I'm not sure how they, yeah.

 

970

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

Beau.

 

971

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

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

 

972

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

The beauty of the, of the conservatory

program there at Julliard was that you

 

973

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

just get to focus on what you want to do.

 

974

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

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

and I was an undergraduate drama major,

 

975

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

but then what they wanted you to do is

basically you're working for the graduate

 

976

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

program, so you're, you're building

costumes and you're building sets.

 

977

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

And I just wanted to be an actor.

 

978

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

I knew I was already an actor.

 

979

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

I was paying for college by

acting in the summers at doing

 

980

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

commercials and stuff like that.

 

981

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

And I'd already done a whole

summer of summer stock at

 

982

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

Williamstown building sets.

 

983

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

And I was like, I'm not gonna

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

 

984

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

in, in working in the costume

department for a year to build.

 

985

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

I, I wanna do this.

 

986

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

And so I was like, I gotta go.

 

987

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

I gotta go to a conservatory program.

 

988

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

And that's the beauty of it.

 

989

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

All you do at Julliard is, is

acting and acting related stuff.

 

990

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

So you're surrounded by all those people.

 

991

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

You know, your friends are

musicians and they're dancers

 

992

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

and, and opera singers, but.

 

993

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

The acting program was

a set when I was there.

 

994

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

It was a set four year program.

 

995

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

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

 

996

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

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

eight, nine o'clock in the

 

997

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

morning till late at night.

 

998

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

'cause you're rehearsing plays

and you're just in voice class and

 

999

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

Alexander class and movement class

and, and scene study class and improv

 

1000

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

and whatever is coming that year.

 

1001

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

And so, um, it, it.

 

1002

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

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

say, I was already acting and my, my

 

1003

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

agents at the time, my managers at the

time, like, please drop outta school.

 

1004

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

We just want you to be full-time.

 

1005

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

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

to college and then Julliard, I just,

 

1006

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

I remember I was sitting in University

of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where

 

1007

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

I'd gone for undergraduate my freshman

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

 

1008

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

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

I could be a lot better, and I think

 

1009

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

I need to be around the best people.

 

1010

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

And, and I just said, I

want to be comfortable doing

 

1011

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

Shakespeare and Checkoff.

 

1012

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

I want to be comfortable

doing whatever's handed to me.

 

1013

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

And then that weekend in the New York

Times, the Sunday New York Times cover

 

1014

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

story was about Julliard and Yale.

 

1015

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

Drama school.

 

1016

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

Mm-hmm.

 

1017

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

And all the people who'd gone there and

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

 

1018

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

I'm gonna go to Julliard or Yale.

 

1019

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

But Yale was a graduate school

and I, I was only beginning of

 

1020

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

my sophomore year of college.

 

1021

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

So I go, okay, I'll,

I'll apply to Julliard.

 

1022

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

And so I didn't know that it was

hard to get into or the people

 

1023

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

really wanted to go there.

 

1024

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

And also at the time, my

favorite actor was William Hurt.

 

1025

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

There was a bunch of actors going

ju who were my, who I liked.

 

1026

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

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

 

1027

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

And then I called them up and I said,

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

 

1028

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

I like, oh, the deadline was last week.

 

1029

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

I'm like, oh man.

 

1030

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

Well there's this new thing

called Federal Express.

 

1031

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

If I FedEx you this application.

 

1032

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

Marc Preston: Well, back then,

they didn't even call it FedEx yet.

 

1033

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

It was still Federal Express.

 

1034

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

It was still

 

1035

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

Reed Diamond: Federal Express.

 

1036

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

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

 

1037

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

Will you still consider it?

 

1038

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

And they said, sure, sure.

 

1039

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

And I got the audition and then, you

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

 

1040

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

while I was there every summer, I'd have

to get a job so that I could pay for that

 

1041

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

year of, of Juilliard, because it was

expensive and I was paying it my myself.

 

1042

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

Well, that's,

 

1043

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

Marc Preston: that's something I really

wish I had, had the opportunity to do.

 

1044

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

I mean, when I was in high school Yeah.

 

1045

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

I would've been mortified.

 

1046

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

Yeah.

 

1047

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

Tell me to come on stage because

it would be a, uh, first of all,

 

1048

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

memorizing a whole script for me

was always an intimidating right.

 

1049

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

Concept.

 

1050

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

Uh, but I, I, I never really considered

myself to be a, a theater kid.

 

1051

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

I don't know why.

 

1052

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

If we had a really wonderful

theater program at my school,

 

1053

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

in fact, I think they did a

documentary, a short one about the.

 

1054

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

The head of the theater department,

but I was like, you know, when I

 

1055

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

got to college, when I was working

in radio, I was like, right.

 

1056

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

You know, it's cool when you can be

around people who are equally kind of

 

1057

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

wired like you, but a little different.

 

1058

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

Like you can kind of see their journey.

 

1059

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

You're kind of, yeah.

 

1060

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

Kinda seeing a mirror of like, okay,

this thing I'm doing is not odd.

 

1061

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

You know, like my family.

 

1062

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

Yeah.

 

1063

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

Nobody had done this.

 

1064

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

Um, right.

 

1065

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

Did you come from a family of

anybody that did performance or did

 

1066

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

they have civilian jobs as it were?

 

1067

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

Reed Diamond: Well, here's the

thing, like, it's funny you said

 

1068

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

like, I, I always did theater,

but I was never a theater kid.

 

1069

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

And so I was very lucky 'cause I grew

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

 

1070

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

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

but when I got into ninth grade, uh,

 

1071

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

when I started high school, they, there

was a new head of the theater pro, uh,

 

1072

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

program, this guy named Michael Gilbert,

and he took over and he created this

 

1073

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

incredible program and I got involved

right away and a bunch of actors who were

 

1074

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

still working to this day, we were all

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

 

1075

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

high school in New York City together.

 

1076

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

We got the best training I'd ever gotten.

 

1077

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

Everything I learned, I learned in high

school, but I, I was exposed to it.

 

1078

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

So it was, my dad was a, a local

television director in New York City.

 

1079

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

He worked for Channel nine.

 

1080

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

He directed the news.

 

1081

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

He directed the Joe Franklin show.

 

1082

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

My mother had come to New York to be an

actor, but then had became an astrologer.

 

1083

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

So I grew up on the Upper West Side.

 

1084

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

My whole building was filled with actors.

 

1085

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

Malachi McCort lived next door.

 

1086

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

The whole building was theater, you know,

in the theater, writing for the theater.

 

1087

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

So.

 

1088

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

It wasn't an odd career choice.

 

1089

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

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

wanted to do, and people, you know, people

 

1090

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

recognized that I had the talent for it.

 

1091

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

I remember when it happened.

 

1092

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

I remember just when my, when adults

came up to me in the sixth grade

 

1093

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

production of Oklahoma, and they're

like, oh, you should do this.

 

1094

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

And I was like, oh, really?

 

1095

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

Because I, I loved doing it

 

1096

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

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

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

 

1097

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

Yeah.

 

1098

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

Getting, getting affirmation from adults,

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

 

1099

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

Reed Diamond: Well, you do crazier,

like what I told my grandmother, because

 

1100

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

for a while, then when I got into

junior high school, I was like, oh, I

 

1101

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

better, I was surrounded by all these

kids we're gonna be doctors or lawyers.

 

1102

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

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

 

1103

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

That's like being a, an actor.

 

1104

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

And I was sort of saying that.

 

1105

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

And then when I said I was gonna be an

actor, my grandmother was so relieved,

 

1106

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

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

all came from a very conservative sort

 

1107

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

of, you know, east coasty sort of mindset.

 

1108

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

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

what you're meant to do.

 

1109

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

You're supposed to do that.

 

1110

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

So there was no resistance.

 

1111

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

And also, but I was very

lucky, so I, because.

 

1112

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

I was in New York City.

 

1113

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

I'm doing Diary Van Frank in my

senior year of high school, and

 

1114

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

there's a manager in the audience.

 

1115

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

And because they knew one of the

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

 

1116

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

got signed that day and then I went

to my first audition, uh, you know,

 

1117

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

when I signed them, signed with 'em,

I signed with 'em in the morning.

 

1118

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

I went to my first audition in

the afternoon and got that job.

 

1119

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

I got, the first thing I ever went

up for was a huge national commercial

 

1120

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

that aired during live aid and paid

for my first year of, of college.

 

1121

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

And so I was, uh, so I had this

sort of affirmation and I knew

 

1122

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

I could make a living at it.

 

1123

00:39:42,615 --> 00:39:45,915

And so that, that was, um,

it was wind in my sail.

 

1124

00:39:45,915 --> 00:39:47,115

'cause I was a very practical kid.

 

1125

00:39:47,115 --> 00:39:47,600

Like if mm-hmm.

 

1126

00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,025

If, if I hadn't been able to work

 

1127

00:39:50,025 --> 00:39:52,365

Marc Preston: because I, I, well

I think early on that probably

 

1128

00:39:52,365 --> 00:39:54,585

like, like you said, is an

affirmation, so it was sort of like.

 

1129

00:39:55,230 --> 00:39:56,730

This can be a real thing.

 

1130

00:39:56,730 --> 00:40:00,360

Now, if he had gone a long time before

it hit, maybe it would, you know, the

 

1131

00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:01,590

trajectory would've been different.

 

1132

00:40:01,590 --> 00:40:02,070

You know,

 

1133

00:40:02,430 --> 00:40:03,450

Reed Diamond: it would've

been very different.

 

1134

00:40:03,450 --> 00:40:06,030

'cause that was a, you know, because

the thing is like, because I wasn't,

 

1135

00:40:06,030 --> 00:40:08,940

when we were in high school, we were

just regular kids who loved to act.

 

1136

00:40:08,940 --> 00:40:09,360

You know, we were.

 

1137

00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,760

And so even when I got to

Julliard, I was the least sort

 

1138

00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,230

of theater kitty thing, you know?

 

1139

00:40:13,230 --> 00:40:16,320

And it was, it was a hard sort of, it was

a slightly cultural adjustment for me.

 

1140

00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,260

But I remember on my first day of

Julliard, there was an orientation.

 

1141

00:40:19,770 --> 00:40:20,910

Um, they were like, it was the first day.

 

1142

00:40:20,910 --> 00:40:24,600

And I, and I, and I, I went, I went to the

head of the school and I go, I can't be

 

1143

00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,810

here on the first day 'cause I just got

this commercial, then I need to shoot.

 

1144

00:40:28,410 --> 00:40:32,070

And he's like, well, we really frown

on people missing anything but fine.

 

1145

00:40:32,070 --> 00:40:33,960

And thank God, 'cause it paid,

it literally paid for the

 

1146

00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:34,740

first two years of school.

 

1147

00:40:34,740 --> 00:40:34,800

Yeah.

 

1148

00:40:35,070 --> 00:40:36,270

Like that one day missing.

 

1149

00:40:36,540 --> 00:40:40,320

But I was, I was very lucky

and I learned a lot, um, there.

 

1150

00:40:40,380 --> 00:40:45,810

But, uh, but acting is, I wasn't

a theater kid, but it is my tribe.

 

1151

00:40:45,810 --> 00:40:46,920

Like I love performance.

 

1152

00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,810

I think, you know, when we're

talking about my wife earlier and

 

1153

00:40:48,810 --> 00:40:53,280

her missing the business, the thing

she missed most was being around.

 

1154

00:40:54,705 --> 00:40:55,335

Show people.

 

1155

00:40:55,425 --> 00:40:55,635

'cause

 

1156

00:40:55,635 --> 00:40:56,325

Marc Preston: there's something, yeah.

 

1157

00:40:56,505 --> 00:41:00,915

To me that was like the, you know,

my, my resume's exponentially

 

1158

00:41:00,915 --> 00:41:05,085

smaller than yours, but one of the

things I always enjoy is when a,

 

1159

00:41:05,085 --> 00:41:06,440

when a show comes to life, you know?

 

1160

00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:06,600

Yeah.

 

1161

00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,215

And you got crew and everything and

you're kind of in this like tribe of

 

1162

00:41:10,215 --> 00:41:13,425

people who are all kind of gonna get

it and you're all there to do a thing.

 

1163

00:41:13,845 --> 00:41:16,995

And then it's always like, when it

ends, it's just like everybody just kind

 

1164

00:41:16,995 --> 00:41:18,225

of goes off into the wind, you know?

 

1165

00:41:18,225 --> 00:41:19,845

It's like kind of a sad thing, you know?

 

1166

00:41:20,145 --> 00:41:20,625

It's sad.

 

1167

00:41:20,775 --> 00:41:21,075

Yeah.

 

1168

00:41:21,135 --> 00:41:25,815

But you know, the thing is the

most memorable to me was not when

 

1169

00:41:25,815 --> 00:41:28,665

it ends up on screen, it's the

making of the thing, you know?

 

1170

00:41:28,665 --> 00:41:29,265

A hundred percent.

 

1171

00:41:29,670 --> 00:41:32,820

Like for you, like of all the projects

you've worked on, what was probably

 

1172

00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:36,540

form, I don't wanna say formative,

but like a, a set you ended up on with

 

1173

00:41:36,540 --> 00:41:39,720

different, with the people, the maybe

where it was shot that you were like,

 

1174

00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:43,620

that was a badass experience and I I

would do that a million times over.

 

1175

00:41:43,740 --> 00:41:44,190

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

 

1176

00:41:44,190 --> 00:41:47,040

No, I, I, I, that I, I can

say that with, I know exactly

 

1177

00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:47,970

what it is without hesitation.

 

1178

00:41:47,970 --> 00:41:48,870

It was my first movie.

 

1179

00:41:48,870 --> 00:41:53,100

So I, I'm I, my second year at Julliard,

I got this movie in Memphis Bell about a

 

1180

00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:54,750

B 17 bomber crew in the Second World War.

 

1181

00:41:55,170 --> 00:41:59,460

And so we spent four months in

England preparing and shooting

 

1182

00:41:59,460 --> 00:42:00,630

this movie, and I got to work with.

 

1183

00:42:01,290 --> 00:42:05,040

Eric Stoltz and Matthew Modine and DB

Sweeney and Tate Donovan, Sean Aston,

 

1184

00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:06,930

Billy Zain actors, Harry Connick Jr.

 

1185

00:42:06,930 --> 00:42:09,120

Actors who I, I adored,

who were my heroes.

 

1186

00:42:09,570 --> 00:42:11,880

And we, I, I, John

 

1187

00:42:12,060 --> 00:42:13,260

Marc Preston: John

Lithgow was in that also.

 

1188

00:42:13,260 --> 00:42:13,890

Wasn't John Lithgow

 

1189

00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:14,730

Reed Diamond: David Strat?

 

1190

00:42:15,330 --> 00:42:19,230

It was just, it, it was Courtney Gaines,

Neil Gen. I could tell you all, 'cause

 

1191

00:42:19,230 --> 00:42:22,440

we, I fell in love and it was the most

amazing experience right out the gate.

 

1192

00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,270

We went over to England,

we went to bootcamp.

 

1193

00:42:24,270 --> 00:42:26,040

We were the only second

movie to go to bootcamp.

 

1194

00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:27,150

Like Platoon had done it first.

 

1195

00:42:27,150 --> 00:42:27,240

Mm-hmm.

 

1196

00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:28,440

And then we did the second one.

 

1197

00:42:28,860 --> 00:42:32,610

And so I'm, I'm bonding with these

guys in the woods of Dartmore

 

1198

00:42:32,910 --> 00:42:36,630

and, uh, as we're being trained

by a Royal Marines and SSAS guys.

 

1199

00:42:36,690 --> 00:42:40,020

And my, and in a weird way,

it ruined me because I, I made

 

1200

00:42:40,020 --> 00:42:41,310

friends for life from that movie.

 

1201

00:42:41,310 --> 00:42:44,245

In fact, bootcamp, I'm still friends

with Eric St. Stills and t Donvan.

 

1202

00:42:44,250 --> 00:42:47,040

'cause we were out on maneuvers

one night and we, the three of

 

1203

00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,160

us shared a one man tent and then

we've been buddies ever since.

 

1204

00:42:50,370 --> 00:42:50,490

Yeah.

 

1205

00:42:51,030 --> 00:42:51,120

Then

 

1206

00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:51,165

Marc Preston: last time

 

1207

00:42:51,170 --> 00:42:51,990

Reed Diamond: we talked to you said even

 

1208

00:42:52,650 --> 00:42:54,420

Marc Preston: you'll stay in touch

with the uh, uh, Matthew Modine.

 

1209

00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:55,049

You know.

 

1210

00:42:55,049 --> 00:42:55,440

Oh yeah.

 

1211

00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:56,339

He said to saw Matthew.

 

1212

00:42:56,339 --> 00:42:56,880

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

 

1213

00:42:57,900 --> 00:43:00,990

Marc Preston: But that, that, I guess

folks are a little younger, may not get

 

1214

00:43:00,990 --> 00:43:05,400

it, but at that era, at that time, these

were all of the, I wanna say they were.

 

1215

00:43:06,870 --> 00:43:09,839

They weren't teen actors necessarily,

but it was kind of, that next stage was

 

1216

00:43:09,839 --> 00:43:12,210

maybe their first more adult-ish role.

 

1217

00:43:12,359 --> 00:43:12,779

Wasn't it?

 

1218

00:43:12,779 --> 00:43:15,210

Kind of like for a lot of those

guys, if I remember correct, it was

 

1219

00:43:15,210 --> 00:43:17,527

about 1991, I think is what it was.

 

1220

00:43:17,819 --> 00:43:18,120

We

 

1221

00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,460

Reed Diamond: shot it in 89,

I think it came out in 90.

 

1222

00:43:20,879 --> 00:43:22,200

Um, but yeah, no, you're right.

 

1223

00:43:22,230 --> 00:43:24,810

They, they were all, 'cause they'd

all started as young actors and

 

1224

00:43:24,810 --> 00:43:28,770

they, and it's interesting because

it was a great way to enter into the

 

1225

00:43:28,859 --> 00:43:29,940

business because all, oh, maybe one

 

1226

00:43:29,940 --> 00:43:30,480

Marc Preston: split second.

 

1227

00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,700

I've got a teenager who's done suntanning.

 

1228

00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:33,569

I gotta let her in the door.

 

1229

00:43:33,629 --> 00:43:33,930

Whoa.

 

1230

00:43:34,140 --> 00:43:34,440

Reed Diamond: Alright.

 

1231

00:43:34,770 --> 00:43:35,399

Marc Preston: Hello.

 

1232

00:43:37,470 --> 00:43:38,339

Oh my apologies.

 

1233

00:43:38,339 --> 00:43:39,750

My, uh, not at all.

 

1234

00:43:39,750 --> 00:43:43,259

At she, she takes this time to go to

her sun tanning, so that's fantastic.

 

1235

00:43:43,620 --> 00:43:44,910

Living that 19-year-old life.

 

1236

00:43:45,240 --> 00:43:45,600

Jealous.

 

1237

00:43:45,930 --> 00:43:47,339

But I just love that movie.

 

1238

00:43:47,339 --> 00:43:49,710

I tried to watch it the other

night when my son was in town.

 

1239

00:43:49,799 --> 00:43:52,649

Uh, it's, it's one of the few

things that's not streaming.

 

1240

00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:53,160

Oh.

 

1241

00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:53,879

I mean, you can get it.

 

1242

00:43:53,879 --> 00:43:54,569

You gotta pay for it.

 

1243

00:43:54,569 --> 00:43:57,480

I'm like, I, I just don't hear anybody

talk about it that much anymore.

 

1244

00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:58,920

Is one of the movies of the era.

 

1245

00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,899

But I think it's a wonderful

movie is well done.

 

1246

00:44:00,899 --> 00:44:03,899

It was like, I can remember certain

scenes, like somebody was carving a

 

1247

00:44:03,899 --> 00:44:05,879

plane out of wood and then Oh yeah, yeah.

 

1248

00:44:05,879 --> 00:44:07,620

When the battle was going

on, they sat on it, bro.

 

1249

00:44:07,649 --> 00:44:10,379

It was just all these like little

things that there was a, seemed

 

1250

00:44:10,379 --> 00:44:12,690

to be a lot of attention to

the little minutiae in detail.

 

1251

00:44:12,690 --> 00:44:15,120

This the way it was directed and

put, I dunno, it was a great movie.

 

1252

00:44:15,180 --> 00:44:15,865

I don't mean to all over.

 

1253

00:44:15,930 --> 00:44:16,230

You know what's

 

1254

00:44:16,230 --> 00:44:17,399

Reed Diamond: exciting

about that movie too, Marc?

 

1255

00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:22,590

Is like, uh, it was shot before CGI,

so there's no, it's all real planes.

 

1256

00:44:22,620 --> 00:44:22,680

Yeah.

 

1257

00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:27,630

So when we were doing the, the aerial

photography was, they got five real

 

1258

00:44:27,630 --> 00:44:29,790

B seventeens and they got a bunch

of master schmitz and they got a

 

1259

00:44:29,790 --> 00:44:33,210

bunch of Mustangs or P 30 eights,

and we were up there shooting.

 

1260

00:44:33,210 --> 00:44:35,550

So like I went up there one day while

they were shooting aerial stuff, and

 

1261

00:44:35,550 --> 00:44:38,820

I got in my top tour and I'm firing

50 caliber blanks at an incoming me.

 

1262

00:44:38,820 --> 00:44:39,570

Really?

 

1263

00:44:39,630 --> 00:44:40,205

No kidding.

 

1264

00:44:40,225 --> 00:44:43,710

So, and, and they got the, the,

the Memphis Bell itself, the actual

 

1265

00:44:43,710 --> 00:44:47,190

plane is in Memphis on an island,

well, whatever is it, mud Island,

 

1266

00:44:47,190 --> 00:44:48,630

wherever it is there in, in the river.

 

1267

00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:51,960

But the guy who helped curate that,

he came over and they built a whole

 

1268

00:44:52,020 --> 00:44:54,330

B 17 from scratch in the studio too.

 

1269

00:44:54,330 --> 00:44:57,780

So we shot at Pinewood Studios, which is

the only studio I ever wanted to shoot at.

 

1270

00:44:57,810 --> 00:44:59,370

'cause that's where they made

all the James Bond movies.

 

1271

00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:04,470

And so my, it was iconic for me, like,

and, uh, and it, and it proved to be.

 

1272

00:45:05,090 --> 00:45:08,570

Beyond iconic when we shot there,

but we got to make a movie and, and

 

1273

00:45:08,570 --> 00:45:09,770

have this incredible experience.

 

1274

00:45:09,770 --> 00:45:11,270

It ruined me for a long time afterwards.

 

1275

00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:15,200

'cause it, and that's the thing about

having a, now I, I, I joined sag.

 

1276

00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:18,290

I got my first commercial 40

years ago this month, I, I think

 

1277

00:45:18,290 --> 00:45:19,790

almost 40 years ago to today.

 

1278

00:45:20,210 --> 00:45:20,840

So, oh,

 

1279

00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:21,470

Marc Preston: muzzle tough.

 

1280

00:45:21,500 --> 00:45:21,800

Yeah.

 

1281

00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:22,355

That's mov.

 

1282

00:45:22,625 --> 00:45:22,915

Yeah.

 

1283

00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:23,150

Thank

 

1284

00:45:23,150 --> 00:45:23,330

Reed Diamond: you.

 

1285

00:45:23,510 --> 00:45:23,870

Marc Preston: Thank you.

 

1286

00:45:23,875 --> 00:45:24,710

40, 40 years.

 

1287

00:45:24,710 --> 00:45:25,580

Isn't that crazy?

 

1288

00:45:26,270 --> 00:45:27,650

30 years ago, 40 years ago.

 

1289

00:45:27,650 --> 00:45:31,400

It's like, and you start thinking

about, for you the trail from then to

 

1290

00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,190

now and all the different people you've

met, the films you've done, the shows.

 

1291

00:45:35,205 --> 00:45:38,295

And in looking back at all that, I

mean, if you were to say, Hey, listen,

 

1292

00:45:38,295 --> 00:45:44,295

this is, this is where my happy place

is, we TV or film or a genre, have you

 

1293

00:45:44,295 --> 00:45:47,295

kind of settled into that or is there

anything that you're like, this, this

 

1294

00:45:47,295 --> 00:45:50,745

is something that you just easy peasy

for you, you enjoy it every time?

 

1295

00:45:50,835 --> 00:45:52,845

Reed Diamond: Well, the thing that's

so excited about this life and,

 

1296

00:45:53,325 --> 00:45:57,165

and, and you ask like what was the,

the experience that really, you

 

1297

00:45:57,165 --> 00:45:58,725

know, affected you and spell it.

 

1298

00:45:58,755 --> 00:46:01,125

There's just something, it's

like, it's like, uh, you know,

 

1299

00:46:01,125 --> 00:46:02,625

the first hit is free, right?

 

1300

00:46:02,625 --> 00:46:03,495

So it's the Dragon Novis case.

 

1301

00:46:04,755 --> 00:46:08,415

And my wife and I joke about this all

the time because it's a job and, and

 

1302

00:46:08,415 --> 00:46:11,145

the reason that you have professionals

do it, I think lots of people can act.

 

1303

00:46:11,145 --> 00:46:13,065

I think it's, it's not

the most complicated.

 

1304

00:46:13,070 --> 00:46:15,195

That, that part of it is not

the most complicated part.

 

1305

00:46:15,195 --> 00:46:17,565

The most complicated part is doing

it under, always doing it under the

 

1306

00:46:17,565 --> 00:46:19,575

worst possible circumstances, right?

 

1307

00:46:19,575 --> 00:46:20,325

At a time and place.

 

1308

00:46:20,325 --> 00:46:23,085

None of your own choosing at the worst,

under the worst possible circumstances.

 

1309

00:46:23,415 --> 00:46:26,895

So you have a lot of experiences

that are, that are good, right?

 

1310

00:46:26,895 --> 00:46:28,995

That you're, you're, you know,

you're, this is how I earn a living.

 

1311

00:46:28,995 --> 00:46:30,345

That's how I've paid

the bills for 40 years.

 

1312

00:46:30,345 --> 00:46:32,925

So, but every few years.

 

1313

00:46:33,105 --> 00:46:36,735

You have that experience where

you're like, oh, this is why I do it.

 

1314

00:46:36,740 --> 00:46:36,860

Mm-hmm.

 

1315

00:46:36,940 --> 00:46:37,875

And it keeps you going.

 

1316

00:46:38,145 --> 00:46:41,625

My wife had just, she was having

some, she was having a co repeated

 

1317

00:46:41,625 --> 00:46:44,175

like, you know, rough shows where

you're just, maybe the scripts aren't

 

1318

00:46:44,175 --> 00:46:46,245

there, or you're working with somebody

you're not really crazy about.

 

1319

00:46:46,245 --> 00:46:49,515

And then she has one of these ones where

everyone in the cast, all, you know,

 

1320

00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:53,565

all big stars and they're like, oh yeah,

we, we know how lucky we are to be here.

 

1321

00:46:53,565 --> 00:46:54,615

This is a special experience.

 

1322

00:46:55,125 --> 00:46:55,605

Isn't that great

 

1323

00:46:55,605 --> 00:46:58,605

Marc Preston: to still be this age and

go, you know, you still get that hit,

 

1324

00:46:58,605 --> 00:47:00,945

you still get that jazz, you know, from

 

1325

00:47:00,945 --> 00:47:01,065

Reed Diamond: it.

 

1326

00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,290

You better because, and I think

people don't, but I think why, what,

 

1327

00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:05,190

that's the whole point of life.

 

1328

00:47:05,190 --> 00:47:08,370

Like that's the thing, it's like a kid's

game played in adult level and Yeah.

 

1329

00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,880

You know, it's not the most financially

secure job and you can have rough years

 

1330

00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,840

and great years and you never know,

but it keeps you young and it's, and

 

1331

00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:17,100

you never know what you're gonna do.

 

1332

00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:18,390

And every time is the first time.

 

1333

00:47:18,390 --> 00:47:21,150

So my happy place, I don't

know, it's just, you never know.

 

1334

00:47:21,450 --> 00:47:24,990

When I was a young actor, people would

be like, what, what do you wanna do?

 

1335

00:47:24,990 --> 00:47:26,370

What kind of characters do you wanna play?

 

1336

00:47:26,370 --> 00:47:27,780

What, what are you most interested in?

 

1337

00:47:27,780 --> 00:47:28,920

I'm like, I don't know.

 

1338

00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:29,490

I'm not interested.

 

1339

00:47:29,490 --> 00:47:29,940

You wanna work?

 

1340

00:47:30,565 --> 00:47:32,010

Well, it's also like,

I wanna do the thing.

 

1341

00:47:32,010 --> 00:47:35,160

I never thought of, like, I, I didn't

know about B 17 bombers and then I

 

1342

00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:36,600

become an expert on B 17 bombers.

 

1343

00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,450

You know, like, it's like, you, you,

every you, you learn, because that's

 

1344

00:47:39,450 --> 00:47:42,330

the thing too, is like, you get

to learn a new thing all the time.

 

1345

00:47:42,540 --> 00:47:47,520

So you, you, you're gonna, you, you're

gonna dive into late 19th century Russia

 

1346

00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,830

if you're doing a checkoff play or

you're gonna, whatever you're doing, you

 

1347

00:47:49,830 --> 00:47:51,120

be, you get to learn about something.

 

1348

00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,540

And I love that, that you're, you're

constantly with exciting, intelligent

 

1349

00:47:54,540 --> 00:47:56,850

people and, and, and fun people.

 

1350

00:47:57,180 --> 00:47:58,200

And, uh, so.

 

1351

00:47:58,775 --> 00:48:00,904

The, you know, I always say

my favorite job is the job I

 

1352

00:48:00,904 --> 00:48:02,170

haven't done yet and mm-hmm.

 

1353

00:48:02,255 --> 00:48:03,545

And it's great to have great surprise.

 

1354

00:48:03,545 --> 00:48:04,715

Like Drop was just that.

 

1355

00:48:04,715 --> 00:48:06,035

It was an amazing cast.

 

1356

00:48:06,395 --> 00:48:08,825

We were all overshooting in Ireland

and it worked out perfectly.

 

1357

00:48:08,825 --> 00:48:12,005

'cause I'd gotten married in Ireland

20 years before and we were gonna

 

1358

00:48:12,005 --> 00:48:13,265

bring our kid over there anyway.

 

1359

00:48:13,265 --> 00:48:17,525

And now here I, I got a Universal pays

for us to pop over to on our, during our,

 

1360

00:48:17,525 --> 00:48:20,165

you know, and we can go back to where we

got married on the west coast of Ireland.

 

1361

00:48:20,165 --> 00:48:23,525

And I'm working with an amazing cast

and it felt like the old days, 'cause,

 

1362

00:48:24,154 --> 00:48:26,285

'cause things have changed, you know,

there's a lot of money, you know,

 

1363

00:48:26,285 --> 00:48:30,005

involved in and a lot of corporate

sort of mentality sometimes with shows.

 

1364

00:48:30,005 --> 00:48:31,145

But ev in the old days.

 

1365

00:48:31,545 --> 00:48:32,475

It was a lot of money.

 

1366

00:48:32,835 --> 00:48:33,045

Mm-hmm.

 

1367

00:48:33,285 --> 00:48:35,715

They just bring everyone over and

you'd always have that opening night

 

1368

00:48:35,715 --> 00:48:38,924

dinner where you'd all get together

and drink and get to know each other.

 

1369

00:48:38,924 --> 00:48:43,185

And there was a period of, of of, of

that comradery, which I really missed.

 

1370

00:48:43,185 --> 00:48:46,185

And Covid brought that back because

everyone had to be quarantined together.

 

1371

00:48:46,185 --> 00:48:47,355

So that was really nice.

 

1372

00:48:47,924 --> 00:48:50,654

Um, but then being on

location, it's just magical.

 

1373

00:48:50,654 --> 00:48:52,125

So you're over in a wonderful place.

 

1374

00:48:52,154 --> 00:48:54,134

'cause that was the thing, like

my first movie, I get to be live

 

1375

00:48:54,134 --> 00:48:56,985

in London and, you know, uh, yeah.

 

1376

00:48:56,985 --> 00:48:59,205

And, and then this getting back be

in Ireland and then now, you know,

 

1377

00:48:59,205 --> 00:49:02,535

40 years later coming with my family

and working with such a great group.

 

1378

00:49:02,535 --> 00:49:05,355

And it's just a, it's

a, it's a magical life.

 

1379

00:49:05,445 --> 00:49:08,055

Um, and I I'm very lucky that, um,

 

1380

00:49:08,290 --> 00:49:09,945

Marc Preston: well, I mean, you, you,

you've had a chance to work with,

 

1381

00:49:09,945 --> 00:49:12,705

I think there's been a nice collage

of different stuff you've done.

 

1382

00:49:12,705 --> 00:49:12,765

Yeah.

 

1383

00:49:12,765 --> 00:49:13,154

And I like that.

 

1384

00:49:13,154 --> 00:49:14,955

You know, is there anything like.

 

1385

00:49:15,285 --> 00:49:18,105

If you, if you were to kind of like

say, okay, in the next few years I

 

1386

00:49:18,105 --> 00:49:23,205

would like be at directing or maybe

writing a screenplay or, or a certain

 

1387

00:49:23,205 --> 00:49:26,235

role, is there something you're like,

okay, this is still on the bucket list?

 

1388

00:49:26,295 --> 00:49:26,955

Reed Diamond: Well, a hundred percent.

 

1389

00:49:26,955 --> 00:49:29,295

I mean, to answer the question

you just previously asked,

 

1390

00:49:29,295 --> 00:49:30,285

like, where's my happy place?

 

1391

00:49:30,285 --> 00:49:33,045

I, I started in the theater

and I love the theater.

 

1392

00:49:33,225 --> 00:49:34,335

I miss the theater.

 

1393

00:49:34,365 --> 00:49:35,535

I just have a family.

 

1394

00:49:35,535 --> 00:49:39,825

So the theater isn't necessarily,

uh, the place that I can spend the

 

1395

00:49:39,825 --> 00:49:43,335

most time in because I, we got, we

got rent to pay and, and food deep.

 

1396

00:49:43,335 --> 00:49:48,975

But I, I miss, I miss the theater and I, I

can't wait to go back and, and do a play.

 

1397

00:49:48,975 --> 00:49:52,095

It's interesting 'cause I have

friends who, who maybe have other

 

1398

00:49:52,095 --> 00:49:54,555

careers and they work in their

community theater and they're like,

 

1399

00:49:54,585 --> 00:49:55,605

oh, I wanna get into your job.

 

1400

00:49:55,605 --> 00:49:56,205

I'm like, no, no, no.

 

1401

00:49:56,205 --> 00:49:57,314

This is my, it's a job.

 

1402

00:49:57,529 --> 00:49:57,950

Mm-hmm.

 

1403

00:49:58,029 --> 00:50:00,915

Like, you, you're playing the great

roles and you have, you know, you're an

 

1404

00:50:00,915 --> 00:50:04,634

investment banker by day or whatever,

and, you know, you're, you trading stocks

 

1405

00:50:04,964 --> 00:50:05,984

and you get to play, you know, the lead.

 

1406

00:50:06,194 --> 00:50:06,524

Yeah.

 

1407

00:50:06,529 --> 00:50:08,174

The, the lead in our town.

 

1408

00:50:08,294 --> 00:50:11,234

I go, you know, I'm, I'm just

taking whatever comes because

 

1409

00:50:11,535 --> 00:50:12,944

this is what I do for a living.

 

1410

00:50:12,944 --> 00:50:13,995

But I miss the theater.

 

1411

00:50:14,055 --> 00:50:17,564

I mean, I got that hit for a long

time when I was doing a lot of improv.

 

1412

00:50:17,564 --> 00:50:21,044

So I'd at least be on stage a

couple of nights a week improvising

 

1413

00:50:21,044 --> 00:50:22,004

a show in front of an audience.

 

1414

00:50:22,004 --> 00:50:22,424

And I love that.

 

1415

00:50:22,424 --> 00:50:23,205

And I still do it all the time.

 

1416

00:50:23,205 --> 00:50:27,455

Like I. I, I ho I just came back

from hosting an, uh, an event for

 

1417

00:50:27,455 --> 00:50:30,754

my daughter's old school and raising

money, and I, and I love to improvise

 

1418

00:50:30,754 --> 00:50:32,375

and get on stage as often as possible.

 

1419

00:50:32,404 --> 00:50:32,495

Mm-hmm.

 

1420

00:50:32,734 --> 00:50:33,665

But I would love to do a play.

 

1421

00:50:33,995 --> 00:50:35,045

I'd love to do a play.

 

1422

00:50:35,375 --> 00:50:36,754

I miss, I miss doing Shakespeare.

 

1423

00:50:36,754 --> 00:50:40,355

I was so lucky to get to do it with

Joss doing on screen because about

 

1424

00:50:40,355 --> 00:50:43,325

two weeks, I think before Jos called

me to do much, to do about nothing.

 

1425

00:50:43,950 --> 00:50:48,000

I said to my wife, I said, I don't

know why the FI went to Julliard.

 

1426

00:50:48,210 --> 00:50:49,830

'cause I'm never gonna use

this classical trainer.

 

1427

00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:51,150

I'm never gonna use it.

 

1428

00:50:51,150 --> 00:50:51,840

I don't know, you know?

 

1429

00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,610

And then he's like, do you wanna

be in my Shakespeare movie?

 

1430

00:50:53,610 --> 00:50:54,630

I'm like, heck yeah, I do.

 

1431

00:50:55,110 --> 00:50:58,920

Um, so I love the theater, but also

what I love, I, I chose not to be in the

 

1432

00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,220

theater also because what I do love about

what we do is it's always different.

 

1433

00:51:02,220 --> 00:51:04,590

And that's how, you know, we were

talking about this just right before,

 

1434

00:51:04,590 --> 00:51:06,600

it's, I never know what I'm gonna do.

 

1435

00:51:06,660 --> 00:51:10,560

And it's, it's different every day because

if you, have you ever been in a bad play?

 

1436

00:51:10,740 --> 00:51:11,940

Did you don't or you don't do much?

 

1437

00:51:12,210 --> 00:51:13,320

I, I've never, you know what?

 

1438

00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,130

Marc Preston: I've never done it.

 

1439

00:51:14,130 --> 00:51:17,490

I, I mean, maybe I think in junior

high, but, uh, never done a play.

 

1440

00:51:17,550 --> 00:51:17,850

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

 

1441

00:51:18,030 --> 00:51:18,330

Okay.

 

1442

00:51:18,335 --> 00:51:20,670

So, so a good play is a ton of fun.

 

1443

00:51:20,670 --> 00:51:21,900

You know, you're like, oh, this is great.

 

1444

00:51:21,900 --> 00:51:25,530

I did a, one of the last plays, I did

this Richard Greenberg play Three Days of

 

1445

00:51:25,530 --> 00:51:27,180

Rain down at the Old Globe in San Diego.

 

1446

00:51:27,180 --> 00:51:28,560

It was amazing, amazing cast.

 

1447

00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:30,720

One of those perf one of those

productions that keeps you in the

 

1448

00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:31,620

business for the rest of your life.

 

1449

00:51:32,190 --> 00:51:35,790

But, uh, so that was a joy to go to the

theater every night and explore that play.

 

1450

00:51:35,790 --> 00:51:40,470

But I've also been in bad plays on

in very, you know, August venues

 

1451

00:51:40,470 --> 00:51:42,210

where you have to show up and do it.

 

1452

00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:43,270

Every day.

 

1453

00:51:44,140 --> 00:51:44,620

Donut.

 

1454

00:51:44,620 --> 00:51:44,622

Gotta donut.

 

1455

00:51:44,627 --> 00:51:45,015

Good donut.

 

1456

00:51:45,015 --> 00:51:45,136

Marc Preston: Yeah, donut.

 

1457

00:51:45,136 --> 00:51:45,137

Yeah.

 

1458

00:51:45,310 --> 00:51:45,910

Reed Diamond: You gotta make the donut.

 

1459

00:51:45,910 --> 00:51:48,790

So at least if you have a bad day on set,

you're never gonna do that scene again.

 

1460

00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,130

And you're probably gonna move

on to another show anyway.

 

1461

00:51:51,220 --> 00:51:52,570

Uh, it's pretty soon thereafter.

 

1462

00:51:52,570 --> 00:51:53,890

So see, that's the thing

for me, I could only

 

1463

00:51:53,890 --> 00:51:54,850

Marc Preston: memorize like,

 

1464

00:51:54,940 --> 00:51:55,180

Reed Diamond: uh,

 

1465

00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,790

Marc Preston: a few pages

in a, uh, screenplay, right?

 

1466

00:51:57,790 --> 00:52:01,060

And then inevitably, and, uh, you feel

like you got it, you gotta locked in.

 

1467

00:52:01,060 --> 00:52:02,230

I've gone and done highlighting.

 

1468

00:52:02,230 --> 00:52:04,990

I've rer, I've memorizing

is not my strong suit.

 

1469

00:52:05,350 --> 00:52:05,440

Right?

 

1470

00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,510

And then the director goes,

here, let me throw you some other

 

1471

00:52:07,510 --> 00:52:09,100

stuff to say, just to play with.

 

1472

00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:09,670

I'm like, oh shit.

 

1473

00:52:09,790 --> 00:52:10,360

Can I remember?

 

1474

00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:10,660

You know?

 

1475

00:52:10,715 --> 00:52:11,535

And, and, mm-hmm.

 

1476

00:52:11,615 --> 00:52:15,160

And, and suddenly, you know, everything

kind of still gels, but like you said,

 

1477

00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:18,010

the, the, the, your favorite thing,

the thing you have yet to do, you know?

 

1478

00:52:18,010 --> 00:52:19,330

So it's just kind, that's

what had me thinking.

 

1479

00:52:19,330 --> 00:52:22,150

It's like, well, what is it that, you

know, was on the, the, the agenda?

 

1480

00:52:22,150 --> 00:52:23,560

Maybe a family project.

 

1481

00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,390

Have you ever thought about

getting the wife, the daughter?

 

1482

00:52:25,390 --> 00:52:26,680

You put something together?

 

1483

00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,080

Reed Diamond: Well, we, yeah, we,

we think about things all the time.

 

1484

00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,090

And I would definitely love

to work with my wife again.

 

1485

00:52:31,090 --> 00:52:31,660

That's how we met.

 

1486

00:52:31,660 --> 00:52:32,380

We met on a movie.

 

1487

00:52:32,380 --> 00:52:34,780

But it's interesting you say that

because that's how Drop came around.

 

1488

00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,380

'cause I, I, I actually, and I

had, I'd never done this really,

 

1489

00:52:38,380 --> 00:52:39,400

but I called my manager up.

 

1490

00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:40,810

I just come off doing, um.

 

1491

00:52:41,580 --> 00:52:44,339

Series and I was like playing

the same character, which I love,

 

1492

00:52:44,399 --> 00:52:48,270

but playing sort of the, the

well-dressed, uh, douchey bad guy.

 

1493

00:52:48,270 --> 00:52:51,930

Like basically I always, I've been

playing some sort of hybrid of, you

 

1494

00:52:51,930 --> 00:52:53,819

know, Jeffrey Epstein, Bernie Madoff.

 

1495

00:52:53,939 --> 00:52:55,709

Oh, I was about to say somebody

that, we mean the Trump

 

1496

00:52:55,709 --> 00:52:56,759

Marc Preston: administration basically.

 

1497

00:52:56,879 --> 00:52:57,540

Reed Diamond: Yeah, exactly.

 

1498

00:52:57,540 --> 00:53:00,959

So I, I'm playing like guys who

look good in Hugo Boss suits and our

 

1499

00:53:00,959 --> 00:53:04,439

dickheads, and, and I, and I call

my manager, I go, this is great.

 

1500

00:53:04,439 --> 00:53:07,169

You know, I love, I love the check,

and, and I, and you know, it, it's

 

1501

00:53:07,169 --> 00:53:10,709

fun to play this, but I, I feel

like I'm using 10% of who I am.

 

1502

00:53:10,980 --> 00:53:14,310

I, I go, I'd love to play somebody

like me, or maybe not even someone

 

1503

00:53:14,310 --> 00:53:17,279

like me, like somebody just like

vulnerable like me and, and maybe like.

 

1504

00:53:17,285 --> 00:53:20,345

Not cool schlubby, whatever it is,

because I'm not cool in real life.

 

1505

00:53:20,345 --> 00:53:21,274

That's why I started acting.

 

1506

00:53:21,274 --> 00:53:24,665

I was like, oh, I can be dorky

on stage and I get you, you can

 

1507

00:53:24,665 --> 00:53:26,165

get, uh, attention for that.

 

1508

00:53:26,165 --> 00:53:27,065

People like you for that.

 

1509

00:53:27,305 --> 00:53:30,095

So, um, and I, and she's

like, hold on a second.

 

1510

00:53:30,154 --> 00:53:31,774

And she goes, I think I've

got something for you.

 

1511

00:53:32,134 --> 00:53:36,004

And she hand, she brought me the

audition for drop the next day.

 

1512

00:53:36,305 --> 00:53:38,285

And the people that dropped didn't

want, they wouldn't wanna see me.

 

1513

00:53:38,285 --> 00:53:39,065

They're like, that's not Reid.

 

1514

00:53:39,065 --> 00:53:40,625

Reid doesn't play this schlubby guy.

 

1515

00:53:40,955 --> 00:53:41,045

Mm-hmm.

 

1516

00:53:41,285 --> 00:53:46,325

And, uh, I, I auditioned for it, uh,

um, two days later, and I had the job

 

1517

00:53:46,325 --> 00:53:48,875

the next, I had the job before the

end of the week, so I called her on a

 

1518

00:53:48,875 --> 00:53:50,464

Monday, and by Friday I was doing drop.

 

1519

00:53:50,464 --> 00:53:51,335

I was headed to Ireland.

 

1520

00:53:51,424 --> 00:53:51,665

Well, that's,

 

1521

00:53:52,024 --> 00:53:54,785

Marc Preston: so you got something,

you, you went out, you cast your

 

1522

00:53:54,785 --> 00:53:58,024

line, you pull something back in

that worked perfectly for you.

 

1523

00:53:58,355 --> 00:53:58,895

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

 

1524

00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:07,995

Marc Preston: So before we get going,

I always like to do something I call my

 

1525

00:54:07,995 --> 00:54:09,825

seven questions a little extra thought.

 

1526

00:54:09,825 --> 00:54:09,827

Okay, Marc.

 

1527

00:54:09,832 --> 00:54:10,485

I'm ready, buddy.

 

1528

00:54:10,694 --> 00:54:13,634

I always talk food at least once on

my show, which I haven't had a chance.

 

1529

00:54:13,634 --> 00:54:15,975

'cause you grew up in New York,

Jewish boy over here, you know,

 

1530

00:54:16,035 --> 00:54:17,685

having delis, I'm very jealous.

 

1531

00:54:17,714 --> 00:54:19,154

Reed Diamond: You know, food's,

my food's, my life, my and

 

1532

00:54:19,154 --> 00:54:20,145

our, the whole family cooks.

 

1533

00:54:20,145 --> 00:54:23,355

And now my daughter 'cause

Italian, uh, and, and, and meat.

 

1534

00:54:23,355 --> 00:54:24,404

So that's my specialty.

 

1535

00:54:24,404 --> 00:54:27,674

But my daughter is fully into Japanese

and Korean food and she just made gazes.

 

1536

00:54:27,674 --> 00:54:28,005

Oh really?

 

1537

00:54:28,005 --> 00:54:30,525

Yesterday, like that blew my,

blew my, she's been making

 

1538

00:54:30,525 --> 00:54:31,545

gazes now for the last three.

 

1539

00:54:31,545 --> 00:54:34,455

She blew her first time.

 

1540

00:54:34,605 --> 00:54:35,355

They blew me away.

 

1541

00:54:35,355 --> 00:54:38,595

She's got a, she's got a chef's

temperament and so it's, it's fantastic.

 

1542

00:54:38,595 --> 00:54:40,485

She's got the, uh, she,

she eats everything.

 

1543

00:54:40,485 --> 00:54:41,115

She loves everything.

 

1544

00:54:41,115 --> 00:54:43,545

But I love that she's

exploring this cuisine.

 

1545

00:54:43,545 --> 00:54:44,535

But please Marc questions.

 

1546

00:54:44,535 --> 00:54:44,775

I'm,

 

1547

00:54:45,225 --> 00:54:48,045

Marc Preston: I'm envious now 'cause the

one thing I've always wanted learn how to

 

1548

00:54:48,045 --> 00:54:51,134

cook, uh, well, is Greek, uh, and Indian?

 

1549

00:54:51,134 --> 00:54:51,585

Yes.

 

1550

00:54:51,645 --> 00:54:54,765

But that's a very

specific kind of a thing.

 

1551

00:54:54,765 --> 00:54:57,165

But, uh, but now I'm getting, I'm

telling, I haven't had lunch yet,

 

1552

00:54:57,404 --> 00:55:01,634

but, uh, if we were to say, what

is your favorite comfort food?

 

1553

00:55:01,995 --> 00:55:05,205

Uh, something that just good day,

bad day doesn't make a difference.

 

1554

00:55:05,265 --> 00:55:05,445

Yeah.

 

1555

00:55:05,445 --> 00:55:05,925

My favorite

 

1556

00:55:05,925 --> 00:55:08,895

Reed Diamond: go-to, and it's also the

way I test any good Italian restaurant.

 

1557

00:55:08,955 --> 00:55:13,245

I just love a spaghetti oleo,

you know, garlic and oil and

 

1558

00:55:13,245 --> 00:55:14,385

maybe a little chili flake.

 

1559

00:55:14,385 --> 00:55:16,545

'cause it's, I love pizza.

 

1560

00:55:16,965 --> 00:55:20,775

Um, and I, we love to make pizzas and love

to eat pizzas, but I always like if I,

 

1561

00:55:20,895 --> 00:55:24,255

if I'm going to a new pizza place, right,

first time I only order a margarita.

 

1562

00:55:24,285 --> 00:55:26,175

'cause it's, I always want

the simplest thing 'cause.

 

1563

00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:27,439

That's the hardest thing to do.

 

1564

00:55:27,444 --> 00:55:27,845

That's,

 

1565

00:55:27,859 --> 00:55:29,959

Marc Preston: that's, I,

I'm, I am there with you.

 

1566

00:55:29,959 --> 00:55:32,839

And you know, another, another thing

that's very simple, but it is awesome.

 

1567

00:55:32,839 --> 00:55:33,229

Cacho, Peppe.

 

1568

00:55:33,649 --> 00:55:33,979

Have you ever

 

1569

00:55:33,979 --> 00:55:34,399

Reed Diamond: had that?

 

1570

00:55:34,544 --> 00:55:34,939

Of course, of course.

 

1571

00:55:35,359 --> 00:55:35,509

Yeah.

 

1572

00:55:35,689 --> 00:55:39,109

I just had one a couple weeks ago at

my, I have an Italian friend in, in Los

 

1573

00:55:39,109 --> 00:55:43,040

Olivas where he has got a great restaurant

called Tana, and I usually get his pizzas

 

1574

00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,020

'cause they're magnificent and wafer thin.

 

1575

00:55:45,049 --> 00:55:46,850

But, uh, he's from Naples.

 

1576

00:55:47,209 --> 00:55:50,990

Uh, but, uh, he had his Kaia

Pepe and it was like, it was

 

1577

00:55:50,990 --> 00:55:51,500

Marc Preston: crazy.

 

1578

00:55:51,500 --> 00:55:51,770

So good.

 

1579

00:55:51,770 --> 00:55:55,520

Oh, did you see, uh, Stanley Tucci, uh,

exploring, uh, in search of Italy or I

 

1580

00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:56,685

think it's, was it in search of Italy?

 

1581

00:55:56,685 --> 00:55:56,765

Yeah.

 

1582

00:55:56,870 --> 00:55:58,970

Oh, basically I'm like, every

time watch a show, I'm like,

 

1583

00:55:59,029 --> 00:56:00,560

oh God, see that's the gig.

 

1584

00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,509

I want travel and eat, you know, dude.

 

1585

00:56:02,509 --> 00:56:02,750

So

 

1586

00:56:02,990 --> 00:56:05,029

Reed Diamond: my daughter and I

are just, we're learning Italian,

 

1587

00:56:05,060 --> 00:56:05,959

we've been learning Italian.

 

1588

00:56:05,990 --> 00:56:07,759

'cause that's where we go.

 

1589

00:56:07,790 --> 00:56:08,870

'cause that's what we like to eat.

 

1590

00:56:09,049 --> 00:56:11,479

So, and I, and I have so many friends

who are Italian chefs, I was like,

 

1591

00:56:11,479 --> 00:56:12,799

we can practice this all the time.

 

1592

00:56:12,935 --> 00:56:13,985

And, uh, my daughter's gonna

 

1593

00:56:13,985 --> 00:56:16,475

Marc Preston: be studying

in, uh, Milan, uh, the fall.

 

1594

00:56:17,165 --> 00:56:17,315

Oh, great.

 

1595

00:56:17,315 --> 00:56:17,330

So I'm great.

 

1596

00:56:17,525 --> 00:56:18,665

So I gotta go there and bug her.

 

1597

00:56:18,725 --> 00:56:19,330

You know, you have to.

 

1598

00:56:19,330 --> 00:56:19,730

I probably will.

 

1599

00:56:20,029 --> 00:56:22,025

It is just gonna be restaurant

after restaurant, I'm sure.

 

1600

00:56:22,384 --> 00:56:25,325

But, uh, now the next question, if

you're gonna be sitting down, uh, if

 

1601

00:56:25,325 --> 00:56:27,665

you're gonna be having coffee, three

people, they're gonna be with you,

 

1602

00:56:27,665 --> 00:56:31,174

four of y'all at a table living or not,

who would those three people be that

 

1603

00:56:31,174 --> 00:56:33,365

would make for a perfect afternoon?

 

1604

00:56:33,365 --> 00:56:35,495

Si drinking coffee, talking story.

 

1605

00:56:35,495 --> 00:56:36,185

Who would those people

 

1606

00:56:36,185 --> 00:56:36,186

Reed Diamond: be?

 

1607

00:56:36,191 --> 00:56:37,174

It's just gonna be two people.

 

1608

00:56:37,174 --> 00:56:38,435

It's gonna be my wife and my daughter.

 

1609

00:56:38,674 --> 00:56:40,685

My wife and I meet every

morning for coffee.

 

1610

00:56:40,685 --> 00:56:43,445

We have, call it coffee clutch,

and sometimes Uhhuh we can

 

1611

00:56:43,445 --> 00:56:44,674

lose two hours of the day.

 

1612

00:56:45,305 --> 00:56:48,815

Um, because, uh, and, and, and if,

if I could bring someone, probably

 

1613

00:56:48,935 --> 00:56:51,395

it's not living, I'd just bring

my grandmother back to join us.

 

1614

00:56:51,424 --> 00:56:52,685

'cause she would have a really good time.

 

1615

00:56:52,685 --> 00:56:55,775

And then we'd probably switch

from coffee to cocktails and

 

1616

00:56:55,775 --> 00:56:57,275

it would be a magnificent.

 

1617

00:56:57,335 --> 00:57:02,015

But, uh, no, I'm a very lucky, I'm,

I'm in a little triangle of joy here.

 

1618

00:57:02,015 --> 00:57:04,174

We've got our only kid and

we're a very close family.

 

1619

00:57:04,174 --> 00:57:05,915

We, we've literally have

just come back from.

 

1620

00:57:06,195 --> 00:57:09,465

Two months on the West Coast where

we've, we've been the three of

 

1621

00:57:09,465 --> 00:57:11,745

us in one room, uh, pool houses.

 

1622

00:57:11,745 --> 00:57:16,035

So we've, we can, we can literally

stay in one room, uh, with one bathroom

 

1623

00:57:16,125 --> 00:57:20,085

and still delight in each other,

uh, by the end of every single day.

 

1624

00:57:20,170 --> 00:57:21,405

That, that is awesome.

 

1625

00:57:21,585 --> 00:57:21,765

Marc Preston: Yeah.

 

1626

00:57:21,915 --> 00:57:23,385

That's kind of a European way of doing it.

 

1627

00:57:23,385 --> 00:57:23,805

Just get up.

 

1628

00:57:23,805 --> 00:57:26,145

You, you'd kinda lose, uh, a

little bit of the afternoon.

 

1629

00:57:26,145 --> 00:57:26,895

You not lose.

 

1630

00:57:27,105 --> 00:57:27,225

Yeah.

 

1631

00:57:27,230 --> 00:57:30,015

You just spend either and there's

no real, you're not wa looking

 

1632

00:57:30,015 --> 00:57:32,925

at your watch or anything, uh, or

checking your phone for the time.

 

1633

00:57:32,955 --> 00:57:33,225

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

 

1634

00:57:33,495 --> 00:57:34,875

Marc Preston: Um, but that's,

that's, and I would like to meet

 

1635

00:57:34,875 --> 00:57:36,915

Reed Diamond: Shakespeare, Marc, I

would love to have, you know, and then

 

1636

00:57:36,915 --> 00:57:37,905

that's the number one answer, right.

 

1637

00:57:37,905 --> 00:57:38,955

To who do you want for dinner?

 

1638

00:57:38,955 --> 00:57:40,785

It's either Jesus Christ

or, or Shakespeare.

 

1639

00:57:40,785 --> 00:57:43,065

And I, I, I would love to meet

Shakespeare, but I don't know

 

1640

00:57:43,065 --> 00:57:45,165

that he would be well-mannered

and he might be, you know, as

 

1641

00:57:45,165 --> 00:57:46,215

they say, don't meet your heroes.

 

1642

00:57:46,245 --> 00:57:46,365

No.

 

1643

00:57:46,365 --> 00:57:46,785

Yeah.

 

1644

00:57:46,785 --> 00:57:46,995

I have to say,

 

1645

00:57:47,290 --> 00:57:48,705

Marc Preston: it's like, that's wonderful.

 

1646

00:57:48,705 --> 00:57:49,275

That's wonderful.

 

1647

00:57:49,275 --> 00:57:50,205

So, and you know, yeah.

 

1648

00:57:50,205 --> 00:57:53,260

It's, I'm lucky my kids don't tolerate

me, so I, I feel very fortunate hack.

 

1649

00:57:53,260 --> 00:57:53,340

Yeah.

 

1650

00:57:53,340 --> 00:57:54,735

That's, I feel the same way.

 

1651

00:57:54,855 --> 00:57:56,085

Now the next question got for you.

 

1652

00:57:56,085 --> 00:57:59,145

Now, going back when you're young,

who was your very first celebrity

 

1653

00:57:59,145 --> 00:58:01,875

crush going back to the early years?

 

1654

00:58:02,355 --> 00:58:04,425

Reed Diamond: Oh, I know

exactly who it was my first, my.

 

1655

00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:06,790

I had two first celebrity crushes.

 

1656

00:58:06,850 --> 00:58:11,110

Um, it was Jody Foster and Bugsy

Malone, and then Andrea McCardle, the

 

1657

00:58:11,110 --> 00:58:12,880

original Annie when I saw her and Annie.

 

1658

00:58:12,940 --> 00:58:14,800

So, uh, Annie on Broadway.

 

1659

00:58:14,950 --> 00:58:16,960

So Andrea McCardle originally did a role.

 

1660

00:58:17,230 --> 00:58:21,250

And, uh, so those, I think of, I

mean, you know, also I grew up in

 

1661

00:58:21,250 --> 00:58:23,020

the time of, of seventies television.

 

1662

00:58:23,020 --> 00:58:27,010

So I, I, and I was, I was very

smitten by lots of, we, we, we,

 

1663

00:58:27,100 --> 00:58:31,120

you know, we were thinking of like,

uh, all of the seventies TV shows.

 

1664

00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:32,230

They were Julie London.

 

1665

00:58:32,634 --> 00:58:33,265

Emergency.

 

1666

00:58:33,270 --> 00:58:33,399

Oh, yeah.

 

1667

00:58:33,940 --> 00:58:35,160

Oh, yes.

 

1668

00:58:35,995 --> 00:58:36,984

Oh, she could s now she could sing.

 

1669

00:58:36,984 --> 00:58:38,335

Now that's a voice right there now.

 

1670

00:58:38,335 --> 00:58:39,919

She, uh, oh, she could sing.

 

1671

00:58:40,194 --> 00:58:41,154

Oh, she could sing.

 

1672

00:58:41,154 --> 00:58:44,634

So yeah, Julie London on emergency,

there was a, and pretty much every

 

1673

00:58:44,634 --> 00:58:46,285

guest star on Wild, wild West.

 

1674

00:58:46,674 --> 00:58:48,265

Um, so there, there was a lot.

 

1675

00:58:48,265 --> 00:58:51,325

But I, I think the first one where I

was just like, uh, where I remember

 

1676

00:58:51,325 --> 00:58:54,355

my mother embarrassing me because

I'd come back from Bugsy Malone and I

 

1677

00:58:54,355 --> 00:58:55,825

confided her that I had the crush on.

 

1678

00:58:56,095 --> 00:58:58,495

'cause Jodi Foster played tall

Lula and that thing, and then

 

1679

00:58:58,495 --> 00:58:59,605

she told everyone at a party.

 

1680

00:58:59,605 --> 00:59:02,665

And I was, I, I remember getting up,

I'm like eight years old by the way.

 

1681

00:59:02,665 --> 00:59:03,595

And I go, it's at a party.

 

1682

00:59:03,595 --> 00:59:05,035

I go, you are a terrible host.

 

1683

00:59:05,095 --> 00:59:06,504

And I stormed off to my room.

 

1684

00:59:07,464 --> 00:59:08,035

Uh, so there

 

1685

00:59:08,035 --> 00:59:08,305

Marc Preston: you go.

 

1686

00:59:08,305 --> 00:59:12,955

Well, well, at least, at least you're

one of the good Jodi Foster fans because,

 

1687

00:59:12,955 --> 00:59:14,725

you know, circa 19, you know, 80.

 

1688

00:59:15,050 --> 00:59:16,910

Was 80 whenever the, uh, what's his name?

 

1689

00:59:16,910 --> 00:59:18,801

Uh, the whole, uh Oh.

 

1690

00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:19,640

Oh, you mean Reagan

 

1691

00:59:20,030 --> 00:59:20,540

Reed Diamond: Hinkley?

 

1692

00:59:20,545 --> 00:59:20,555

Yeah.

 

1693

00:59:20,555 --> 00:59:20,905

Hinkley.

 

1694

00:59:20,930 --> 00:59:21,800

Hinkley, yeah.

 

1695

00:59:22,645 --> 00:59:22,865

Marc Preston: Yes.

 

1696

00:59:22,975 --> 00:59:23,265

Yeah.

 

1697

00:59:23,510 --> 00:59:24,590

So, but you're one of the good ones.

 

1698

00:59:24,590 --> 00:59:24,800

Yeah.

 

1699

00:59:24,830 --> 00:59:25,190

There you go.

 

1700

00:59:25,220 --> 00:59:25,310

Yeah.

 

1701

00:59:25,310 --> 00:59:28,190

I remember, uh, Haley Mills

for me was one of the first,

 

1702

00:59:28,340 --> 00:59:30,110

and that's before I recognized.

 

1703

00:59:30,150 --> 00:59:30,450

Okay.

 

1704

00:59:30,450 --> 00:59:33,450

This was in the sixties, you know, isn't,

when I first saw it, it realized, well,

 

1705

00:59:33,450 --> 00:59:36,995

this came out a long time ago, you know,

and so, oh, I, I, I thought she was great.

 

1706

00:59:36,995 --> 00:59:37,290

I just had

 

1707

00:59:37,290 --> 00:59:39,660

Reed Diamond: cocktails with

Hailey Mills, uh, last summer.

 

1708

00:59:39,660 --> 00:59:42,450

'cause my wife did a, did the

movie Trap with her, the M Knight

 

1709

00:59:42,450 --> 00:59:44,790

Shaalan movie, and that was Marni.

 

1710

00:59:44,790 --> 00:59:46,710

My wife's so excited to

work with Hailey Mills.

 

1711

00:59:46,710 --> 00:59:49,680

And then we're just sitting at some,

we're sitting at the standard in New

 

1712

00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:53,670

York just drinking margaritas and

negronis and, and just telling stories.

 

1713

00:59:53,670 --> 00:59:54,569

That's the thing, you know?

 

1714

00:59:54,569 --> 00:59:55,319

Really?

 

1715

00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:55,710

Yeah.

 

1716

00:59:55,799 --> 00:59:56,520

She's a bomb.

 

1717

00:59:57,180 --> 00:59:59,310

Marc Preston: I still have a, I still

have a little crush on her, you know.

 

1718

00:59:59,310 --> 00:59:59,790

Oh, yeah.

 

1719

00:59:59,790 --> 01:00:03,420

You know what I did the other day Get

this big 75 inch TV at it's digital.

 

1720

01:00:03,420 --> 01:00:05,250

I was like, you know, there's

some movies I haven't seen since

 

1721

01:00:05,250 --> 01:00:06,990

I was a kid on a little Tube tv.

 

1722

01:00:06,990 --> 01:00:07,049

Yeah.

 

1723

01:00:07,049 --> 01:00:08,035

I was, I'm gonna rewatch this.

 

1724

01:00:08,339 --> 01:00:10,170

It's fun to go back and watch

some of those old movies

 

1725

01:00:10,170 --> 01:00:10,995

when you have the Oh, yeah.

 

1726

01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:14,819

You know, 4K and you get, it's just,

you know, it's almost the closer you can

 

1727

01:00:14,819 --> 01:00:16,290

come to the theater experience, I guess.

 

1728

01:00:16,290 --> 01:00:16,740

Heck yeah.

 

1729

01:00:17,445 --> 01:00:18,465

Now, next question.

 

1730

01:00:18,465 --> 01:00:21,105

If you're gonna be living on an

exotic island for a year now, it's

 

1731

01:00:21,105 --> 01:00:23,355

not, uh, it's, you're not a castaway.

 

1732

01:00:23,355 --> 01:00:24,045

It's somewhere you wanna be.

 

1733

01:00:24,045 --> 01:00:25,635

Nice resort, but there's no streaming.

 

1734

01:00:26,235 --> 01:00:30,675

So the only way you can listen to music is

bring one CD with you and, uh, to watch a

 

1735

01:00:30,675 --> 01:00:32,025

movie, you can watch over and over again.

 

1736

01:00:32,025 --> 01:00:33,165

You can bring 1D VD.

 

1737

01:00:33,165 --> 01:00:37,035

What would that cd and what would that

DVD be for that one year on the island?

 

1738

01:00:37,695 --> 01:00:41,235

Reed Diamond: Yeah, so the, the,

the CD would be the Cure Wish album.

 

1739

01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:45,880

Um, and so I, 'cause it would always

be the cure and I would go back

 

1740

01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:49,000

and forth between Cure Wish and

Disintegration, but if I had to listen

 

1741

01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,610

to one album over and over again,

it would be either one of those.

 

1742

01:00:51,610 --> 01:00:56,680

So probably Wish and then if it was

one movie, because now you, you've

 

1743

01:00:56,680 --> 01:01:00,430

created a scenario where you want

to be entertained at the same time.

 

1744

01:01:00,610 --> 01:01:00,730

Mm-hmm.

 

1745

01:01:00,970 --> 01:01:01,210

Right.

 

1746

01:01:01,210 --> 01:01:04,570

So, but a movie that you would

enjoy watching over, because my

 

1747

01:01:04,570 --> 01:01:05,920

favorite movie is Apocalypse Now.

 

1748

01:01:05,945 --> 01:01:06,365

Mm-hmm.

 

1749

01:01:06,445 --> 01:01:10,030

So I would probably say Apocalypse

Now would probably fit the bill 'cause

 

1750

01:01:10,030 --> 01:01:12,130

there's so much to pull from it.

 

1751

01:01:12,220 --> 01:01:15,250

Marc Preston: You know, maybe a little

side, you can get the making of Apocalypse

 

1752

01:01:15,250 --> 01:01:17,080

Now, which is his own unique duck.

 

1753

01:01:17,525 --> 01:01:18,485

Amazing documentary.

 

1754

01:01:18,485 --> 01:01:18,665

Yeah.

 

1755

01:01:18,665 --> 01:01:19,025

Yeah.

 

1756

01:01:19,985 --> 01:01:20,915

That, that I love.

 

1757

01:01:20,975 --> 01:01:22,145

That's why I love talking to folks.

 

1758

01:01:22,145 --> 01:01:23,345

I'm like, yeah, I haven't

seen that in a while.

 

1759

01:01:23,345 --> 01:01:24,095

I wanna go watch that.

 

1760

01:01:24,095 --> 01:01:26,135

It's someone I'm, yeah,

I have every streamer.

 

1761

01:01:26,135 --> 01:01:27,995

I'm like, I can't find

anything I really wanna watch.

 

1762

01:01:27,995 --> 01:01:31,145

And then like, get reminded

about, uh, these great movies.

 

1763

01:01:31,415 --> 01:01:32,645

Um, now the next question I got.

 

1764

01:01:32,645 --> 01:01:36,965

If you were to find, uh, define for

yourself the component parts of a perfect

 

1765

01:01:36,965 --> 01:01:40,445

day stem to stern time to get up time,

good or bad, what would some of those

 

1766

01:01:40,445 --> 01:01:44,045

component parts be to help you to find

that Okay, this is a perfect day for me.

 

1767

01:01:44,255 --> 01:01:46,055

Reed Diamond: Well, perfect day really is

 

1768

01:01:48,305 --> 01:01:50,465

you wanna be with your family

and you wanna be creative.

 

1769

01:01:50,465 --> 01:01:51,725

For me, that's the perfect day.

 

1770

01:01:51,725 --> 01:01:54,275

So it was, I was so lucky that I

was able to bring them over with

 

1771

01:01:54,275 --> 01:01:56,435

me to Ireland while I was shooting.

 

1772

01:01:56,765 --> 01:01:59,705

'cause I do much better when I'm

with, 'cause we're so connected

 

1773

01:01:59,705 --> 01:02:02,645

and it's so, it's such it's

fuel for me to be with them.

 

1774

01:02:02,645 --> 01:02:05,495

And, and, and also it's, it's really

good 'cause it keeps your ego.

 

1775

01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:07,110

Profoundly in check, you're not even

 

1776

01:02:07,110 --> 01:02:07,560

Marc Preston: thinking about

 

1777

01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:07,890

Reed Diamond: anything.

 

1778

01:02:08,430 --> 01:02:08,520

Marc Preston: Oh yeah.

 

1779

01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:08,730

It's great.

 

1780

01:02:08,730 --> 01:02:09,060

Kids have a way of

 

1781

01:02:09,060 --> 01:02:09,570

Reed Diamond: doing that.

 

1782

01:02:09,570 --> 01:02:13,680

They, that they're, they kind of, they

bring you back down to reality, you know?

 

1783

01:02:13,830 --> 01:02:16,290

And that's where you want be

because that's, you know, I, I love

 

1784

01:02:16,290 --> 01:02:19,710

acting, but you know, my favorite

job in the world is being a dad.

 

1785

01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:22,590

And that's, that's what I was put

on this earth to do, is be a dad.

 

1786

01:02:22,590 --> 01:02:24,780

And, and I love acting, but I think,

you know, if you're talking about

 

1787

01:02:24,780 --> 01:02:28,590

like, if we're objectively a perfect

day, it'd be nice to be able to.

 

1788

01:02:28,785 --> 01:02:33,795

See your family create and then finish

the day with, um, a nice meal and,

 

1789

01:02:33,855 --> 01:02:35,265

and something delicious to drink.

 

1790

01:02:35,265 --> 01:02:37,995

That sounds to me, and

nature nature's important.

 

1791

01:02:37,995 --> 01:02:38,055

Yeah.

 

1792

01:02:38,085 --> 01:02:39,375

That's why Yeah, for me, yeah.

 

1793

01:02:39,375 --> 01:02:43,035

I, I mean, if I can get a hiking and

I try to like, get a hike, that was

 

1794

01:02:43,035 --> 01:02:44,115

the best part about being Ireland.

 

1795

01:02:44,115 --> 01:02:47,865

We were right there in the woods and so

I'd leave the windows open all night.

 

1796

01:02:47,865 --> 01:02:51,405

The, the, the, the French doors

open, just let the air in and just

 

1797

01:02:51,405 --> 01:02:53,415

cu cuddle up and work hard all day.

 

1798

01:02:53,415 --> 01:02:55,455

And then we were shooting

French hours, so we were home

 

1799

01:02:55,455 --> 01:02:57,045

every day and dinner, so yeah.

 

1800

01:02:57,105 --> 01:02:57,315

Yeah.

 

1801

01:02:57,315 --> 01:02:59,805

I get a little hike in the morning,

fresh air all night, work all day,

 

1802

01:02:59,805 --> 01:03:02,925

come home with the family, have a great

meal, and hang out and just laugh.

 

1803

01:03:03,015 --> 01:03:03,825

Marc Preston: Very nice.

 

1804

01:03:03,915 --> 01:03:08,415

Uh, now if we were to say this, everything

you're doing now is not an option anymore.

 

1805

01:03:08,415 --> 01:03:08,475

Yeah.

 

1806

01:03:08,505 --> 01:03:09,915

This is not a way you can earn a living.

 

1807

01:03:10,245 --> 01:03:14,115

What would be the number two thing for

a vocation that would bring you joy?

 

1808

01:03:14,670 --> 01:03:15,060

Reed Diamond: Well,

 

1809

01:03:15,390 --> 01:03:16,020

Marc Preston: a vocation

 

1810

01:03:16,020 --> 01:03:20,550

Reed Diamond: that would bring me joy

would be playing in a band, playing music.

 

1811

01:03:20,580 --> 01:03:20,820

Yeah.

 

1812

01:03:20,825 --> 01:03:22,800

It would, I don't think it would bring me,

 

1813

01:03:23,220 --> 01:03:25,470

Marc Preston: um, what, what kind

of band, what this, would this

 

1814

01:03:25,470 --> 01:03:29,881

be, uh, a specific genre or just

kind of whatever y'all want to do.

 

1815

01:03:30,540 --> 01:03:32,490

Reed Diamond: For me, like it would

totally be like, you know, as I

 

1816

01:03:32,490 --> 01:03:33,930

say, I've written tons of songs.

 

1817

01:03:33,930 --> 01:03:38,430

I've, I, and I have my own style

of music that I play, you know,

 

1818

01:03:38,430 --> 01:03:39,870

which you could call post-punk.

 

1819

01:03:39,870 --> 01:03:41,970

I don't know what it would

be post-punk, new wave.

 

1820

01:03:41,970 --> 01:03:43,170

I don't even know what it is.

 

1821

01:03:43,170 --> 01:03:46,200

But I would love to be playing in a band.

 

1822

01:03:46,230 --> 01:03:47,250

There's, there's nothing great.

 

1823

01:03:47,250 --> 01:03:47,970

I mean, that's the thing.

 

1824

01:03:47,970 --> 01:03:50,400

I mean, when you look at those

artists and they're getting on stage

 

1825

01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,770

in front of all those people and

playing their songs, there's something

 

1826

01:03:52,770 --> 01:03:56,340

magical about that, because I don't

write my material right as an actor.

 

1827

01:03:56,670 --> 01:04:00,660

But having written that song, getting to

play it, and getting to explore it every

 

1828

01:04:00,660 --> 01:04:02,640

night, that seems like a dream come true.

 

1829

01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,670

I mean, obviously for many

people, you know, I've, I've

 

1830

01:04:05,670 --> 01:04:06,780

watched enough behind the music.

 

1831

01:04:06,810 --> 01:04:07,890

It very rarely goes well.

 

1832

01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,410

And I think that's why it's important

that it's not your vocation, because

 

1833

01:04:10,410 --> 01:04:13,050

when it's your day job, when people

talk to me like, oh, I wanna be an

 

1834

01:04:13,050 --> 01:04:14,520

actor, I'm like, well, this is my job.

 

1835

01:04:14,850 --> 01:04:15,930

Like, I wanna do what you do.

 

1836

01:04:15,930 --> 01:04:16,545

Like that's mm-hmm.

 

1837

01:04:16,630 --> 01:04:19,110

You know, so my passion

is music, you know?

 

1838

01:04:19,110 --> 01:04:20,520

I mean, I, acting is my passion.

 

1839

01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:21,000

I love it.

 

1840

01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:21,780

I love it profoundly.

 

1841

01:04:21,780 --> 01:04:25,740

But yeah, music gives me such, I'm

always bring, I, I never travel without

 

1842

01:04:25,740 --> 01:04:29,310

my guitars, and I'm always playing and

always writing and creating that way.

 

1843

01:04:29,985 --> 01:04:32,355

It's so funny you were talking about

country music and your daughter, my wife

 

1844

01:04:32,355 --> 01:04:36,135

and I, because I'm really into sixties

or late fifties, early sixties country.

 

1845

01:04:36,230 --> 01:04:36,650

Mm-hmm.

 

1846

01:04:36,735 --> 01:04:39,555

And uh, and I have a playlist

of that called El Paso.

 

1847

01:04:39,585 --> 01:04:43,065

'cause we were driving, as you just

talked about, I was driving from El Paso.

 

1848

01:04:43,065 --> 01:04:45,675

We were driving from El Paso

all the way across the state.

 

1849

01:04:45,675 --> 01:04:48,765

We were going from El Paso to New Orleans,

and I loved El Paso in San Antonio.

 

1850

01:04:48,765 --> 01:04:51,705

So I was trying to make songs

that fit in there and uh, and

 

1851

01:04:51,705 --> 01:04:54,465

then now I go, oh, that's what

this is now age appropriate as we.

 

1852

01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:58,730

Go into the next decade of our lives

that we can, uh, have a country band.

 

1853

01:04:58,730 --> 01:05:01,310

So I think, uh, yeah, we're

working on and I, I love the good

 

1854

01:05:01,310 --> 01:05:02,870

old, uh, country drinking song.

 

1855

01:05:02,870 --> 01:05:06,259

So I've been, you know, there stands

the glass and thanks a lot and

 

1856

01:05:06,259 --> 01:05:08,660

pass the booze and two, six passes.

 

1857

01:05:08,660 --> 01:05:08,875

Well, to me

 

1858

01:05:08,875 --> 01:05:11,870

Marc Preston: that's always, when

people say OG country, it's always like,

 

1859

01:05:11,870 --> 01:05:15,290

something growing up in Texas is some

like tiny barbecue place somewhere.

 

1860

01:05:15,350 --> 01:05:15,410

Yeah.

 

1861

01:05:15,410 --> 01:05:19,910

With wood floors and sawdust and

get old Ral what, you know, jukebox.

 

1862

01:05:19,910 --> 01:05:23,149

And it's got like Willie on it, you

know, like it's part of the atmosphere.

 

1863

01:05:23,149 --> 01:05:25,009

But, well, you did the road trip

through tech, through Texas.

 

1864

01:05:25,009 --> 01:05:27,410

I gotta ask you, did you go to

Bucky's when you were traveling?

 

1865

01:05:27,919 --> 01:05:29,089

Reed Diamond: You know, I didn't know.

 

1866

01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:32,390

I, it's so funny 'cause it's only two

years ago I think that we did the drive

 

1867

01:05:32,390 --> 01:05:33,710

across and we did this 'cause I had the.

 

1868

01:05:34,325 --> 01:05:34,595

It was.

 

1869

01:05:34,595 --> 01:05:37,265

'cause every time we drive back and forth,

we always try to take a different route

 

1870

01:05:37,265 --> 01:05:38,464

so we can see places we hadn't seen.

 

1871

01:05:38,524 --> 01:05:40,745

And I wanted to show my family New

Orleans, 'cause I worked there all

 

1872

01:05:40,745 --> 01:05:43,205

the time and I hadn't been there,

but I hadn't done Southern Texas.

 

1873

01:05:43,205 --> 01:05:44,615

I hadn't done El Paso and San Antonio.

 

1874

01:05:44,975 --> 01:05:46,055

And so I really wanna do it.

 

1875

01:05:46,055 --> 01:05:47,044

We didn't stop at Bucky's.

 

1876

01:05:47,044 --> 01:05:48,845

That to my, to my chagrin and regret.

 

1877

01:05:48,845 --> 01:05:49,504

But we'll be back.

 

1878

01:05:49,504 --> 01:05:49,685

'cause I

 

1879

01:05:49,685 --> 01:05:52,024

Marc Preston: love, if you ever find

yourself down to the valley, we'll

 

1880

01:05:52,024 --> 01:05:53,375

feed you down here on the island.

 

1881

01:05:53,375 --> 01:05:54,020

If you're ever come down.

 

1882

01:05:54,020 --> 01:05:54,365

Hey, Y come.

 

1883

01:05:54,424 --> 01:05:54,725

Yeah,

 

1884

01:05:54,725 --> 01:05:56,674

Reed Diamond: I'm a, I'm

a brisket kind of guy.

 

1885

01:05:56,765 --> 01:05:59,015

Marc Preston: You know, that's the thing

that, that, you know, my family's Jewish,

 

1886

01:05:59,015 --> 01:06:01,595

we're in Texas, so it's kinda like, I

think Anthony Bourdain said, uh, you

 

1887

01:06:01,595 --> 01:06:04,140

know, Jews in Texans, the only ones that

know what to do with brisket, you know?

 

1888

01:06:04,140 --> 01:06:06,544

So, uh, fair enough.

 

1889

01:06:07,084 --> 01:06:10,055

Now the last question I got for you,

if you're to jump into that DeLorean

 

1890

01:06:10,055 --> 01:06:13,384

and you're gonna travel back to when

you were, uh, 16 years old and you've

 

1891

01:06:13,384 --> 01:06:15,935

got a piece of advice to give yourself

to either make that moment of your

 

1892

01:06:15,935 --> 01:06:19,354

life somehow better or put yourself

on a little different trajectory, you

 

1893

01:06:19,354 --> 01:06:22,865

know, or just generally what would that

piece of advice be to, uh, younger you?

 

1894

01:06:24,180 --> 01:06:25,020

Reed Diamond: Well, here's the thing.

 

1895

01:06:26,129 --> 01:06:29,609

I talk, I have this conversation all the

time with my wife and my kid, but I go,

 

1896

01:06:29,609 --> 01:06:33,899

like, if I had done one thing differently

in my life, I wouldn't be here.

 

1897

01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:34,649

I wouldn't be with them.

 

1898

01:06:35,279 --> 01:06:35,370

Mm-hmm.

 

1899

01:06:35,609 --> 01:06:40,230

So you could, I could go objectively

or subjectively, I could turn, I

 

1900

01:06:40,230 --> 01:06:42,660

could look back and go, oh yeah,

you should have invested in that,

 

1901

01:06:42,660 --> 01:06:43,770

or you should have got an MBA.

 

1902

01:06:43,770 --> 01:06:46,710

Or you should have, like, you should have

taken that job or not had your ego there.

 

1903

01:06:46,710 --> 01:06:49,109

But that's, you know, Kyle and

I have been doing this podcast

 

1904

01:06:49,109 --> 01:06:50,370

about homicide life on the street.

 

1905

01:06:50,910 --> 01:06:53,430

That show that we were both

on, that affected everyone

 

1906

01:06:53,430 --> 01:06:54,240

who was involved with it.

 

1907

01:06:54,255 --> 01:06:58,005

It was a highlight creatively, but

it was also profoundly traumatic

 

1908

01:06:58,065 --> 01:07:01,125

because, and everyone felt like, oh,

if I'd done something differently, I

 

1909

01:07:01,125 --> 01:07:03,375

would've had a different experience,

or I should have done this.

 

1910

01:07:03,525 --> 01:07:07,395

And that's life because you either get

what you want or you get the lesson.

 

1911

01:07:07,395 --> 01:07:10,020

And some things as, as you

say, is that's, I mean, I

 

1912

01:07:10,020 --> 01:07:10,425

Marc Preston: don't can to

 

1913

01:07:10,425 --> 01:07:10,665

Reed Diamond: cut you

 

1914

01:07:10,665 --> 01:07:10,725

Marc Preston: off,

 

1915

01:07:10,725 --> 01:07:10,875

Reed Diamond: but

 

1916

01:07:10,875 --> 01:07:12,765

Marc Preston: that, that's,

that's, that's it right there.

 

1917

01:07:13,035 --> 01:07:16,005

You, it's either what you

envisioned or you just went to

 

1918

01:07:16,005 --> 01:07:17,055

school and learned something.

 

1919

01:07:17,175 --> 01:07:17,835

Reed Diamond: Exactly.

 

1920

01:07:17,835 --> 01:07:20,775

And you know, as a parent, you know,

like I, I say to even my kid, I go,

 

1921

01:07:20,775 --> 01:07:22,215

there's some things I can tell you about.

 

1922

01:07:22,215 --> 01:07:24,135

There's, but there's some

things you have to experience.

 

1923

01:07:24,135 --> 01:07:24,645

Mm-hmm.

 

1924

01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:29,655

And, you know, wisdom is just got,

getting to a certain age and having

 

1925

01:07:29,655 --> 01:07:32,175

had a lot of life experience where

you go like, well, you know, I kind

 

1926

01:07:32,175 --> 01:07:33,405

of see how this thing's gonna go.

 

1927

01:07:33,405 --> 01:07:36,045

But some lessons you have to learn

for yourself and sometimes you

 

1928

01:07:36,045 --> 01:07:37,335

gotta learn 'em multiple times.

 

1929

01:07:37,725 --> 01:07:41,055

So yeah, I could come up with a bunch

of things where, oh yeah, I should

 

1930

01:07:41,055 --> 01:07:43,185

have taken that job, or I should have

known this or shouldn't have done it.

 

1931

01:07:43,185 --> 01:07:43,455

It's like.

 

1932

01:07:43,995 --> 01:07:45,015

You learn it when you learn it.

 

1933

01:07:45,105 --> 01:07:47,775

And, um, I couldn't,

I couldn't be happier.

 

1934

01:07:47,775 --> 01:07:49,035

So he reminds me

 

1935

01:07:49,035 --> 01:07:52,035

Marc Preston: of that Jim Belushi movie,

uh, called Mr. Destiny came out, right?

 

1936

01:07:52,425 --> 01:07:52,845

Not yet.

 

1937

01:07:52,845 --> 01:07:55,995

And, and he just changed one thing,

like he got, he got the touchdown

 

1938

01:07:55,995 --> 01:07:59,025

in high school and yeah, he ended

up on a, some different path.

 

1939

01:07:59,025 --> 01:07:59,295

I think.

 

1940

01:07:59,325 --> 01:08:00,915

Uh, Michael Kane was

in it, if you remember.

 

1941

01:08:00,915 --> 01:08:02,055

He was a bartender having drink.

 

1942

01:08:02,055 --> 01:08:02,116

Of course.

 

1943

01:08:02,121 --> 01:08:02,170

Yeah.

 

1944

01:08:02,565 --> 01:08:04,515

I think the drink was

mother's milk or something.

 

1945

01:08:04,545 --> 01:08:05,655

Don't ask me how I remember that.

 

1946

01:08:06,135 --> 01:08:09,135

And it brought up a que, you know, it

was like, okay, well if I do change

 

1947

01:08:09,135 --> 01:08:12,465

one little thing, it just, everything

it creates as the kids say with

 

1948

01:08:12,585 --> 01:08:14,505

that Loki a new timeline, you know?

 

1949

01:08:14,505 --> 01:08:15,285

That's exactly right.

 

1950

01:08:15,465 --> 01:08:15,885

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

 

1951

01:08:15,885 --> 01:08:18,345

Marc Preston: But, um, but yeah,

so, so basically it's like if

 

1952

01:08:18,345 --> 01:08:19,335

you're happy where you're at.

 

1953

01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:21,660

I think Neil deGrasse

Tyson said the same thing.

 

1954

01:08:21,660 --> 01:08:23,370

He is just like, no,

that's a, that's a farce.

 

1955

01:08:23,370 --> 01:08:26,399

I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't

do that 'cause I'm here, you know?

 

1956

01:08:26,580 --> 01:08:26,880

Yeah.

 

1957

01:08:26,910 --> 01:08:29,969

Um, but, uh, well my friend, I appreciate

you spending some time with me.

 

1958

01:08:29,969 --> 01:08:31,889

This is a, an infinite amount of fun.

 

1959

01:08:31,979 --> 01:08:34,290

Uh, I gotta go check out, drop

you say I gotta see it in theaters

 

1960

01:08:34,290 --> 01:08:34,974

and if still definitely see it.

 

1961

01:08:35,085 --> 01:08:35,375

Reed Diamond: Yeah.

 

1962

01:08:35,375 --> 01:08:37,410

Marc Preston: You know, if it's

still in theaters, I gotta go.

 

1963

01:08:37,529 --> 01:08:38,549

I gotta check it out.

 

1964

01:08:38,554 --> 01:08:38,615

Definitely.

 

1965

01:08:38,615 --> 01:08:39,599

You can watch it or you can

 

1966

01:08:39,599 --> 01:08:41,009

Reed Diamond: run it, but

Marc, always a pleasure.

 

1967

01:08:41,009 --> 01:08:43,769

It's so nice to talk to you and,

and, uh, this was super fun.

 

1968

01:08:43,769 --> 01:08:44,580

This just flew by.

 

1969

01:08:44,729 --> 01:08:46,529

Marc Preston: And before we

go, tell me about, uh, podcast.

 

1970

01:08:46,529 --> 01:08:47,189

What's the name of it?

 

1971

01:08:47,189 --> 01:08:49,349

Where can we, well, I guess

it's on all the podcast.

 

1972

01:08:49,380 --> 01:08:49,559

Reed Diamond: It's

 

1973

01:08:49,559 --> 01:08:49,950

Marc Preston: everywhere.

 

1974

01:08:49,950 --> 01:08:50,189

It's on

 

1975

01:08:50,189 --> 01:08:51,599

Reed Diamond: YouTube and

all the podcast places.

 

1976

01:08:51,599 --> 01:08:55,049

And it's called Homicide Life On

Repeat with me and Kyle Secor,

 

1977

01:08:55,710 --> 01:08:57,599

Marc Preston: homicide Life on repeat.

 

1978

01:08:57,599 --> 01:09:01,229

And you know, I'm gonna go, I'm just

gonna go and pay the 3 99 or whatever.

 

1979

01:09:01,229 --> 01:09:03,630

I'm gonna go watch Memphis Bell

tonight 'cause I wanna see that again.

 

1980

01:09:03,689 --> 01:09:05,040

You know, I haven't, I've

seen that in so many years.

 

1981

01:09:05,189 --> 01:09:06,090

I wanna, actually, I'm gonna wait.

 

1982

01:09:06,090 --> 01:09:08,250

My son's gonna be in town

hopefully sometime soon.

 

1983

01:09:08,250 --> 01:09:13,049

And well my friend, go have a wonderful,

uh, rest of your, Dave, whatever you

 

1984

01:09:13,049 --> 01:09:14,790

got going on, get some lunch, Marc.

 

1985

01:09:14,969 --> 01:09:15,571

Reed Diamond: Yeah, yeah.

 

1986

01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:16,710

Because I know you're hungry now.

 

1987

01:09:17,235 --> 01:09:18,225

Oh, get something delicious.

 

1988

01:09:18,585 --> 01:09:18,645

I'm

 

1989

01:09:18,645 --> 01:09:19,335

Marc Preston: very hungry.

 

1990

01:09:19,340 --> 01:09:20,300

And now I wanna tell you I'm, I'm hungry

 

1991

01:09:20,305 --> 01:09:20,445

Reed Diamond: too.

 

1992

01:09:21,435 --> 01:09:22,275

Definitely get an oleo.

 

1993

01:09:22,995 --> 01:09:23,595

Marc Preston: Thanks Marc.

 

1994

01:09:25,365 --> 01:09:26,235

Alright, there you go.

 

1995

01:09:26,235 --> 01:09:27,735

Mr. Reed Diamond.

 

1996

01:09:28,095 --> 01:09:31,875

The many facets of this diamond

covered a lot of ground.

 

1997

01:09:32,295 --> 01:09:36,885

Uh, really enjoyed, uh, the opportunity

to kind of drift off into talking about,

 

1998

01:09:36,945 --> 01:09:41,295

uh, nerdy technical audio equipment,

music, and all that kind of fun stuff.

 

1999

01:09:41,325 --> 01:09:44,835

Uh, just always a pleasure to sit

down and, uh, connect with Reid.

 

2000

01:09:45,195 --> 01:09:46,125

Alright, do me a favor.

 

2001

01:09:46,125 --> 01:09:50,355

If you would just grab your, uh,

listening device, go to your.

 

2002

01:09:50,395 --> 01:09:53,905

Podcast app and just make sure

to follow story and craft.

 

2003

01:09:54,175 --> 01:09:57,565

That way you get notified every

time there is a new episode.

 

2004

01:09:57,685 --> 01:09:58,225

Uh, okay.

 

2005

01:09:58,225 --> 01:10:02,395

So, uh, do that and pop over

to story and craft pod.com.

 

2006

01:10:02,515 --> 01:10:04,585

Everything about the

show, it's right there.

 

2007

01:10:04,585 --> 01:10:06,925

You can send me a note,

check in, say howdy.

 

2008

01:10:06,925 --> 01:10:09,265

I always love hearing from you.

 

2009

01:10:09,445 --> 01:10:13,405

Okay, so I'm gonna jump on out of here

because the pooch, uh, ranger, the

 

2010

01:10:13,405 --> 01:10:16,075

studio dog has been very, very patient.

 

2011

01:10:16,195 --> 01:10:19,675

He's been laying here and looking

forward to us going outside.

 

2012

01:10:19,855 --> 01:10:21,025

So that's where I'm going.

 

2013

01:10:21,265 --> 01:10:25,405

And as always, thank you so much

for making what I've got going on.

 

2014

01:10:25,405 --> 01:10:27,325

Part of whatever you've got going on.

 

2015

01:10:27,350 --> 01:10:31,070

It does mean a lot to me and I'm looking

forward to connecting with you next

 

2016

01:10:31,070 --> 01:10:34,400

time, right here on Story and Craft.

 

2017

01:10:34,700 --> 01:10:37,460

Announcer: That's it for this

episode of Story and Craft.

 

2018

01:10:37,490 --> 01:10:39,920

Join Marc next week for more conversation.

 

2019

01:10:40,130 --> 01:10:44,330

Right here on Story and Craft

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2020

01:10:44,390 --> 01:10:45,830

of Marc Preston Productions.

 

2021

01:10:45,860 --> 01:10:52,340

LLC Executive Producer is Marc Preston,

associate producer is Zachary Holden.

 

2022

01:10:52,670 --> 01:10:56,240

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2023

01:10:56,270 --> 01:11:00,470

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2027

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