Tone Bell | From CBS's "Fam" to Netflix's "Survival of the Thickest" | Comedy, Family & Staying Thirsty

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Tone Bell: And I was like, I

gotta live like Ashton Kutcher.

 

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At some point, I gotta have that

Eddie Murphy apartment where just

 

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it is open and the bed kind is on a

pedestal, and it's just, it was sexy.

 

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

 

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Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

 

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Marc Preston: All right, here we go.

 

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Another episode of Story and Craft.

 

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How are you?

 

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I'm Marc Preston.

 

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If this is your very first episode.

 

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Thank you so much for stopping by.

 

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Uh, if you've been here

before, welcome back.

 

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It is greatly appreciated.

 

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Uh, today sitting down with comedian

and actor Tone Bell, he is on

 

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the Netflix show, survival of the

Thickest, along with Michelle Boutou.

 

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Uh, the new season just came out.

 

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Uh, he was also in a cool show, a comedy

on Netflix called Disjointed With.

 

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Kathy Bates, it was out a few years ago.

 

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Also, he was in the film, uh, trigger

Warning recently, the, uh, Netflix

 

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movie with Jessica Alba, as well as

the United States versus Bill Holiday.

 

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Tone is a funny guy, talented,

and, uh, really a pleasure

 

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sitting down talking with him.

 

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Now let's jump right into it.

 

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Today is tone bell day

on story and craft tone.

 

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Where you join me from today.

 

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Tone Bell: Uh, Manhattan.

 

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I'm right by Central Park man.

 

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I love great view, best view I've

ever had in a, in a, uh, hotel.

 

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In New York.

 

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Marc Preston: So you're, you're there,

uh, vacationing, working something

 

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that's not your home base right now?

 

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No, no, no, no.

 

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Just out here doing a

little work right now.

 

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Uh, where do you call home and where,

where's home originally for you?

 

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Tone Bell: Home originally, Atlanta,

Georgia, just outside Decatur,

 

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Georgia, east side of Atlanta.

 

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Um, and, uh, most of my underwear is in

Austin, but I split time between LA and,

 

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and Austin, Texas for the most part.

 

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Marc Preston: Alright, well, very cool.

 

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Hey, I'm not too far south of you.

 

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I'm down in, uh, south Padre Island, so

 

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Tone Bell: Oh yeah.

 

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Marc Preston: I need, I

need to get up to Austin.

 

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I, I was just speaking with, uh, chef, uh,

uh, Ben Ford recently, and I was like, you

 

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know, we were, we're talking about how.

 

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Where, where to eat in Austin.

 

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I said, you know, the one place I've never

eaten, I've tried, I can never get through

 

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the line, is, uh, Franklin Barbecue.

 

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I haven't had a chance

to get in there yet,

 

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Tone Bell: man.

 

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Franklin, I mean, that line, man,

that line has been around the corner

 

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since, uh, since, because they're

only open for a couple hours a day

 

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and then they sell out everything.

 

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So I haven't been yet.

 

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I have not been, uh, I wanna

say, what's the other one?

 

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Uh, Terry Blacks is the other one.

 

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I, I know somebody at Terry

Black, so I can get in there, but

 

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that's, that's also a crazy line.

 

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Marc Preston: Now I can say I know

somebody who knows somebody at Terry

 

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Blacks, so I can get in that way.

 

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Yeah.

 

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You know?

 

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So, so how did you get down to Austin?

 

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How was that a, how was that destination?

 

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I know a lot of folks are

relocating down there.

 

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Tone Bell: Yeah.

 

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I mean, I went, I, I, I always

knew I was gonna go to Austin.

 

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I used to live in Dallas.

 

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I used to have a, um.

 

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I was corporate for a while, so, so I

worked in Marceting and advertising for

 

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Anheuser-Busch for, for about seven years.

 

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And, um, a lot of friends and

one of the guys that I trained

 

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used to live down there.

 

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So I, uh, I would go down on weekends

and like for meetings and stuff, and

 

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I just loved the city, so I knew when,

when my time in LA my full-time in

 

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LA was up, I knew I was gonna move to

Austin and then, then it turns out.

 

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Over a decade later, the, the

comedy boom happened there.

 

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So I mean, standup is,

is beautiful right now.

 

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It's beautiful.

 

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I, it's so much stage time.

 

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Great audiences.

 

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Marc Preston: Uh, I

 

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Tone Bell: love it.

 

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Marc Preston: Plus South by Southwest,

I think kind of infuses the city with a

 

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lot of, you know, it's a, it's a pretty

sophisticated place when it comes to,

 

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you know, live venues and stuff like

that and activity and, uh, oh yeah.

 

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But yeah.

 

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Where, where in Dallas did you live?

 

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'cause that's actually my home.

 

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My hometown is originally Dallas.

 

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Tone Bell: Oh, yeah.

 

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Okay.

 

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Well, you know exactly

what I'm talking about.

 

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The, uh, uh, I moved to Dallas

in like 2006, maybe seven.

 

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And, uh.

 

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I always remember that.

 

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I don't know, I had that

when I was growing up.

 

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I had that, um, that idea of living,

like one of the guys I would see in

 

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movies that just had like that open

floor playing loft for the exposed

 

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brick wall and the pipes, and I was

like, I gotta live like Ashton Kutcher.

 

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At some point I gotta have that Eddie

Murphy apartment where just it is open and

 

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the bed kind is on a pedestal and it just,

it was sexy and you kind of see the city.

 

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So I live right downtown, man.

 

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I was at, um, Maine in Acker, right across

from that, you know, oh, the Marcus.

 

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Marc Preston: Main in Acker.

 

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Is that, is that where that I

think they used to, is that the

 

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place that used to be a bank?

 

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It was a higher, you know,

there's a place there used to,

 

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Tone Bell: it was, that's a,

that's a couple doors down.

 

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Marc Preston: Okay.

 

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Okay.

 

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It's like used to be a, that's

first National Bank of Dallas.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Had a friend of mine who, uh, who

used to, who used to live there

 

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and she, and, and they had that

stained concrete floor, the highest

 

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ceilings, you know, a lot of window.

 

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It, it was the.

 

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I don't know what Ashton

Cher's place looks like to me.

 

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It was pretty swank.

 

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I was, I was a suburban kid.

 

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I, I lived up in Richardson.

 

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That was where I, you know,

I was a North Dallas kid.

 

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So there was this boom where all this,

uh, a lot of folks were heading down

 

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to, uh, uh, like the uptown area.

 

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It became a real.

 

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What they call 'em, yuppies.

 

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I don't know if that phrase

anymore, but yeah, that's who

 

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was where it was all happening.

 

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But I was a suburban kid.

 

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You, your underwear is in Austin,

but you're traveling, uh, so you,

 

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you're doing the, uh, comedy thing

and the acting thing, but I gotta

 

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know, it's always the what came

first, chicken or the egg, you know?

 

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Did the comedy thing kick off

for you first or were you kind

 

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of in the performance thing in

school and whatever have you?

 

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Tone Bell: Uh, was kind.

 

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I mean, you know, if we, if we gonna go

way back, I'll tell you the fir, my first

 

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time on television, I was, I think 12,

I was on this kids kind of sketch show

 

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on, uh, public asset at public access

TV called, uh, called Kids Barn back in,

 

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um, I mean, shoot, wait, like 94 93 9 4.

 

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And, uh, so I mean, it was always comedy.

 

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And then, uh, in high school,

got into sketch comedy through.

 

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Um, like my high school, the

actual high school I went to

 

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and the church I was going to.

 

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And so I did stand up probably

three or four times in high school.

 

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And then I knew some comics I would

go see, I mean, I was 15 or 16

 

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going to see earthquake and um, I.

 

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And, uh, um, Bruce,

Bruce and DL Hug League.

 

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'cause they used to play at

this little bar down the, uh,

 

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down the street from my house.

 

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And

 

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Marc Preston: my mom's

friend was sleeping.

 

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Yeah, Atlanta had a, Atlanta always had

that, had a big scene going on in comedy.

 

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A lot of people came Oh yeah.

 

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Out of there.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Or at least, or at least they came

of, they cut their teeth in Atlanta.

 

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Tone Bell: Yeah.

 

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And then, I mean, then I got to college

and I was doing theater and some short

 

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films and some, uh, student films.

 

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And then I was hosting events

and all that kind of stuff.

 

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And then.

 

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Uh, you know, a day job will really throw

a monkey wrench in your dreams sometimes.

 

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So, yeah.

 

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Uh, just not letting you live how you,

how you, you know, but you also have to

 

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eat and wash, so that's always important.

 

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And so, but it was kind of like, I,

I tried to do a play when I got to

 

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Dallas and that timing of not knowing,

you know, what events I was gonna

 

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have to be at or travel for work.

 

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So I couldn't really commit to that.

 

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And then it was kind of, kind of synergy

of like, okay, I want to be on stage

 

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and I want to be funny, but also I

need to do this on my own schedule.

 

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And so really kind of started as

a hobby of, of how to get out and,

 

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and kind of do my own thing and

not be on someone as a schedule.

 

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I. And that's where standup came from.

 

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Marc Preston: Well, I think as a

performer you gotta have that freedom of

 

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kind of doing it on your own schedule.

 

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I think some people it's 'cause

you know it's gonna work for you.

 

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You gotta, you gotta fi you gotta

find your own path, you know?

 

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And it may not make sense to other

people, but, uh, but yeah, that, that

 

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makes all the sense in the world.

 

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I mean, you as a comedian, did

you, uh, do you enjoy the tour

 

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thing or do you like kind of like.

 

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Having kind of being where

you're performing or do

 

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you like being on the road?

 

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Tone Bell: Yeah, I mean, I tell

you what I mean, I'm 17 years into

 

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comedy now and, uh, you know, it was

exciting when I realized I could,

 

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I, oh, like, oh, I'm gonna have

a career at this, which is nice.

 

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Like it wasn't just, you

know, popping on stage.

 

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And, and, and you know, I'm out of

the open mic scene and I'm starting

 

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to tour and it was very exciting for

the first probably seven to 10 years.

 

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And man, let me tell you, I

can't stand the travel now.

 

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It is a gift and a curse.

 

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I mean, just pack.

 

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I mean now I, man, I got a uniform

now and, and a couple older comics

 

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told me at one point, they're like,

you gonna stop going shopping?

 

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You gonna figure out what you

like to wear on stage and you

 

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gonna pack that every weekend?

 

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And that's what I do now.

 

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And, and I mean, I, I love when

I'm on the stage, but getting

 

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there is, is a, is a sometimes not

the, not the easiest to, to, um.

 

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To get, you know, to be mo motivated in,

 

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Marc Preston: I imagine it's a younger

man's game to a degree, and it becomes

 

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a real job as you get a little bit

older, but you know what you're doing.

 

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So I guess it's kind of a trade

off, you know, you're a little more

 

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seasoned as, as, uh, as a guy that's

got some miles under his wheels.

 

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But do you have a preference

for like, working at clubs

 

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or do you have aspirations?

 

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You, I always wanted to do like,

I mean, to the far end, like a big

 

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arena show or, you know, what, yeah.

 

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What, what kind of aspirationally,

you know, did you start

 

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off wanting to do and, and.

 

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Kind of right now, what are you like?

 

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Okay, this to me is success

when it comes to comedy.

 

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Tone Bell: Man, I hit, I hit a lot of 'em

early, which I did not think was possible.

 

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Uh, I thought it was gonna take a lot

longer, but, uh, yeah, I mean, you know,

 

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I look at it now where I think I'm in the

next few years of, of getting into that

 

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theater space and I'm excited about that.

 

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And I mean, I love the clubs.

 

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It does get exhausting sometimes

when, you know, some clubs are

 

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like, we gotta do seven shows.

 

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You go to Vegas, sometimes it's 10 shows.

 

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Sometimes it's seven now I kind of

just do the Friday, Saturday thing.

 

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So I, I do love certain clubs in certain

cities, but it'd be nice to be able to

 

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go into a town, see it, go grab lunch,

get a restaurant recommendation, do my

 

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show at night, and then get the hell out.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Like that.

 

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Yeah, that would be very nice.

 

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I mean, I'm, I'm, I got a lot of friends

who moved into that space and the arenas.

 

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I don't know if my style fits arenas.

 

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I mean, if, we'll find out if it

does, I mean, we ever get there,

 

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then I, I'd be, um, you know, I'd

be excited to do that, but, but I'm.

 

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I think I'd love to, I mean, I've, I've

worked with a few people and, uh, I've

 

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gotten, you know, the 4,000 seater, the

2,500 seater, and that feeling is amazing.

 

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I mean, just hearing that laugh, roll

back to the back wall and then come back

 

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and you're like, oh, I can pause for like

12 seconds because this joke just hit.

 

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I mean, it's, it's, uh, that crescendo

of sound and laughter is, is, uh, it's

 

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Marc Preston: addictive.

 

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Like, how long does it take you to

kind of get to that point where,

 

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you know, you've said, okay, now I

got my, now I got my show locked in.

 

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How long does it take you to work

that out, to get to the point

 

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where you're, you're like, oh,

let's take this on the road?

 

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Tone Bell: Uh, yeah,

for everything usually.

 

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Usually I write pretty quick.

 

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That's only because most of 'em

are real stories about life.

 

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So if I tell it how I want to

tell it, the most stories, I mean

 

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anywhere between eight to 20 minutes.

 

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I got a story right now that's

25 minutes long if I tell it.

 

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Mm-hmm.

 

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The crowd is really locked in.

 

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One one bit is 25 minutes.

 

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So, uh, that takes about probably say,

six to eight months to really work

 

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out to where I'm comfortable and it

works everywhere, but I mean, an hour.

 

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Oh man, the show.

 

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It's, I mean, I'm still

playing with my new hour now.

 

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I mean, I'm starting to find new stuff

that I like that, you know, trims of

 

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fad and I get the point across better.

 

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So, uh, and I've been working on the

bones of this one for, I mean, I would

 

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say about two, two and a half years now.

 

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I probably could have shot something

a year and a half ago and I would've

 

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been happy with it, but now it's,

it is sharpening and, and, and

 

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it's, it is really feeling good.

 

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It's really feeling good.

 

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Marc Preston: Have you ever been in a

situation, I, I've always been curious

 

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about this, where you go somewhere

and something you do just kills.

 

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It's just like lights up the

room and everybody, and you're

 

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like, all right, this is perfect.

 

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I'm gonna use this wherever I go.

 

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This is gonna be like,

almost like a marquee thing.

 

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And then you go to another city,

another club, and it, and it falls flat.

 

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Has that ever happened to you

where you're like, wait a minute.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Last

 

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Tone Bell: weekend,

 

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Marc Preston: uh, where were you?

 

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Uh,

 

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Tone Bell: Winnipeg, Canada.

 

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Winnipeg.

 

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I mean, and uh, and look, I love

the Canadians and most of 'em

 

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were in, but I mean, even these

shows were set up different.

 

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I mean, I had never, uh,

worked a club like this before.

 

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Uh, 'cause the audience

is, is built differently.

 

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But yeah, I mean, sometimes man, you can

go to, I mean, you go to Salt Lake City

 

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and then you go to Phoenix and that's two

different, yeah, two different crowds.

 

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You just never know.

 

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I mean, majority of the time,

average, they, they all work.

 

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But yeah, sometimes also, like,

you gotta realize sometimes

 

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you, you mentally run outta gas.

 

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Yeah.

 

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Like if you've been, you know, like

you're not hitting it as well as

 

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you, you, like, you try to go on

autopilot and go, this should work.

 

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But if I don't give it the

same performance and the same

 

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nuance, then it might not.

 

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And sometimes the crowd is just not

in, I mean, I've had a opener probably

 

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I'm taking a new guy with me on the

road now, every now and then, and I

 

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mean, he's a killer, which I like,

'cause he makes me work harder.

 

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I. But I mean, he has such a good set.

 

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Probably three weeks ago that I was

upset before I went on, I was like, I

 

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should have just let you close the show.

 

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I was, I was exhausted and this

dude just got off stage and fucking

 

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murdered and I was like, I kind

of just don't even want to go up.

 

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And then I had a pretty good set, but the

show before that, I killed the next show.

 

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It was like, it was fine, which is fine.

 

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But, oh man, it just,

it was, it was rough.

 

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Marc Preston: Like, who was on the

Mount Rushmore when you were coming up?

 

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You're like, okay.

 

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When I see them, uh, you

mentioned Eddie Murphy apartment.

 

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You know, I know like if you're,

if you were to mention like at,

 

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let's say four or five guys or Yeah.

 

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Folks you looked at and go,

man, they cracked the code.

 

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That's my north star.

 

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Who, who would those people

be when you were coming up?

 

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Tone Bell: Coming up?

 

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Uh, I would still say, I would say

my top two are Carlin and Cosby.

 

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And we're talking about, you know, when

I fell in love with standup, I mean,

 

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it's nineties, early two thousands.

 

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I mean, Carlin Cosby, um,

 

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Marc Preston: Cosby is

more of a storyteller.

 

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You know, everything about Cosby

down the line and whatever have you.

 

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But back in the day, I mean, he, he

could take one story and make it last a

 

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while, but are you more of a storyteller?

 

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Are you more of like a quick

commentator kind of style?

 

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Where, where, where do you Yeah.

 

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More

 

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Tone Bell: of a storyteller, more

of a storyteller, uh, getting

 

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more into my personal life.

 

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Then I used to just tell stories kind of

out in the wild, like whatever happened

 

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to me on the subway, on the plane,

in the airport, at the grocery store.

 

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And now it's kind of my home life,

my neighborhood, uh, the wife, the

 

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family, all that kind of stuff.

 

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And I mean, but I do have anecdotes

that kind of, I'll drop in there of

 

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like a perspective that I might have,

but usually it's more storytelling.

 

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Gotcha.

 

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So yeah, that's why Cosby was always, I

mean, you know, one 30 minute bit or a

 

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bit that lasts an entire hour and he drops

like kind of little things in between it.

 

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Um, but I'm also a big

fan of Patrice O'Neal.

 

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Mm-hmm.

 

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I mean, you know, passed away years ago.

 

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But Patrice, I mean, just perspective

wise was, I mean, just, just a way to, uh,

 

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get people to, to, I mean, dig themself

a hole and then let you realize, I don't

 

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even agree with this, but holy shit.

 

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Is that funny.

 

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Marc Preston: Yeah, I mean, Carlin was,

uh, he, he was just a master wordsmith,

 

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like I heard somewhere that he wrote,

I mean, everything he did on stage

 

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was, was almost scripted, you know?

 

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It was pretty much, he

knew what he was gonna say.

 

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You know, I just, I know when I started

in radio years ago, you know, the, the

 

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words you can't say on radio, it was like.

 

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You know, Carlin was my educator on that.

 

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Oh, you know?

 

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Yeah.

 

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Tone Bell: Yeah.

 

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And I, I'll probably watch that.

 

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I'll probably watch that

bit every few months.

 

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Marc Preston: He never lost his edge.

 

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He was always dialed in and I think right

now he would be more contemporary than

 

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even he was back then if he was doing the

same act right now, ironically, you know,

 

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Tone Bell: I mean, I watched the hour

that he did a few months ago, and you go,

 

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it sounds like he wrote it a year ago.

 

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Yeah.

 

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I mean, it's still, it still all matters.

 

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I mean, nothing's changed

that much for, I mean, it's so

 

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poignant when he did it then.

 

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And I mean, just, I mean, just the,

just the scope that he had on the

 

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culture and society was amazing

and also hilarious in human nature.

 

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He, he kind of dialed that in.

 

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You

 

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Marc Preston: know, who right

now are you checking out?

 

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Who are you enjoying watching?

 

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Uh, uh, who's currently out there?

 

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Tone Bell: Man, that's hard.

 

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'cause I mean, you know, it's, when you

get into this, you know, you're, you're

 

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fans of people, then you kind of run

into 'em and then you become a peer.

 

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And so.

 

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Uh, really, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a big fan

of a lot, I would say friends of mine.

 

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I mean, I think, uh, even, I mean, my

wife was very mad at me last week for,

 

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for, we got in a good argument and I

knew because we're, we're trying to

 

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have a kid now, I knew that if I put on

Andrew Schultz special that she would

 

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love it, but she's so mad at me that

she'll try her best not to laugh at it.

 

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And that's exactly what happened.

 

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And it was, it was brilliant.

 

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I mean, I, she was trying to put

a pillow over her face to act like

 

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she was mad, but she was, I mean,

giggling all the way through it.

 

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Uh, so I think Schultz right now,

I'm, I'm, I love his evolution.

 

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Uh, Nate Tazi, love Nate.

 

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Ali Sadik, I think is hilarious.

 

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Um, uh, Kyle Kna, I just love how he,

he's a wordsmith to me and just, I mean,

 

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he kind of puts you in those shoes.

 

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Brian Simpson is really funny.

 

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I mean, a lot of people I see a lot

are that, I mean, they may not be

 

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doing Madison Square Garden all the

time, but they, but they're just really

 

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funny dudes and, and, and very unique.

 

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It

 

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Marc Preston: is funny you said that

your peers now, I think I was listening,

 

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I was checking out Marc Marin, who

I think is, does a great job with,

 

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with his, uh, show and he was talking

to WMAL Bell, I think, and they're

 

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talking about how like you work it out

in front of the audience, but then.

 

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You kind of want to go up on stage

with your peers, like super sharp.

 

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Like they're the ones ultimately you want

to, you don't want to be a dull knife like

 

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in the, in the room with them, you know?

 

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So it's, there's this whole

ecosystem or culture, sociology

 

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of, you know, working at the comedy

world that I'm kind of envious of.

 

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I mean, I'm only moderately funny at best.

 

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You out, you mentioned your wife,

like what, what does she do?

 

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Is she, uh, does she go

on the road with you?

 

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Does she have her own gig that

she's doing right now, or what?

 

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Tone Bell: Uh, I hope she works,

but, uh, and she has been on the

 

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road, but I hope she doesn't.

 

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Um, I like to leave her at home.

 

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Is, is what is, is, is, is fine.

 

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I prefer to leave her at home.

 

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Um, she does like to come to shows

and I mean, a lot of material,

 

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you know, whatever happens in

the house, she hears it first.

 

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So a lot of stuff, you know, as, as,

and I have to tell the audience this

 

424

00:18:03,915 --> 00:18:07,875

sometimes, especially when I'm working

out something new that, uh, my mom used

 

425

00:18:07,875 --> 00:18:11,745

to hear a lot of stuff first, that, you

know, we, we, my mom and I are very tight.

 

426

00:18:11,745 --> 00:18:12,520

We talk every day.

 

427

00:18:12,975 --> 00:18:14,655

And now we don't talk as much.

 

428

00:18:14,655 --> 00:18:18,675

'cause I have a wife now and so she

hears all of this garbage every day.

 

429

00:18:19,004 --> 00:18:22,065

And then she tells me

if it's funny or not.

 

430

00:18:22,095 --> 00:18:25,665

And the inverse happens if she thinks

it's funny, other people don't.

 

431

00:18:25,725 --> 00:18:28,605

If she thinks it's not

funny, other people love it.

 

432

00:18:29,595 --> 00:18:29,715

Really?

 

433

00:18:29,715 --> 00:18:31,335

And so like that, that's

kind like the style.

 

434

00:18:31,335 --> 00:18:31,695

Yeah.

 

435

00:18:31,695 --> 00:18:32,025

Oh man.

 

436

00:18:32,025 --> 00:18:33,165

If she's like, you shouldn't say that.

 

437

00:18:33,165 --> 00:18:34,995

I go, oh, well I gotta put that on stage.

 

438

00:18:35,145 --> 00:18:36,495

Marc Preston: You got

the decoder ring of Okay.

 

439

00:18:36,495 --> 00:18:38,800

If it doesn't work with her, it's

probably gonna work on stage now.

 

440

00:18:38,805 --> 00:18:39,225

Tone Bell: Now,

 

441

00:18:39,225 --> 00:18:41,055

Marc Preston: like you mentioned your

mother, like what, what does she do?

 

442

00:18:41,325 --> 00:18:41,655

Uh,

 

443

00:18:41,655 --> 00:18:42,825

Tone Bell: my mom,

well, she's retired man.

 

444

00:18:42,825 --> 00:18:45,285

She just retired, uh, after 30 years.

 

445

00:18:45,345 --> 00:18:46,485

I mean, probably 40 years really.

 

446

00:18:46,485 --> 00:18:51,675

But, uh, her last gig was the

director, director of the governor's

 

447

00:18:51,675 --> 00:18:56,325

off director for the Governor's off

office of Highway Safety in Georgia.

 

448

00:18:56,355 --> 00:18:56,385

Okay.

 

449

00:18:56,835 --> 00:18:57,795

So, um.

 

450

00:18:58,170 --> 00:19:01,440

Yeah, I mean, and honestly

my mom is really funny.

 

451

00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,470

She don't think she's that funny,

but everybody knows she's real.

 

452

00:19:04,530 --> 00:19:06,270

She's so funny, man.

 

453

00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:08,010

And my wife is getting funnier.

 

454

00:19:08,010 --> 00:19:09,270

Like she, she's really not.

 

455

00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:13,890

She, she's, she, she's, she's

lucky she has me, I'll say that.

 

456

00:19:14,610 --> 00:19:15,540

'cause her jokes are getting better.

 

457

00:19:15,540 --> 00:19:18,505

She's trimming paddle somebody

long, she's long story helping.

 

458

00:19:18,645 --> 00:19:19,560

So you're helping her raise

 

459

00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:21,810

Marc Preston: her bar basically, you

know, you're helping her to, you know.

 

460

00:19:21,810 --> 00:19:22,200

Yeah.

 

461

00:19:22,590 --> 00:19:24,540

Be her, be her fullest self, you know?

 

462

00:19:24,990 --> 00:19:26,040

Are your folks still around?

 

463

00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:27,090

I mean, your mother's still around you.

 

464

00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:28,170

Uh, what about your father?

 

465

00:19:28,170 --> 00:19:29,580

What was his, uh, vocation?

 

466

00:19:30,090 --> 00:19:30,480

Tone Bell: Yeah.

 

467

00:19:30,570 --> 00:19:33,330

Uh, my mom and dad's still

together, still around.

 

468

00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:36,780

Uh, he, he's kind of, nobody really

knows what he's doing right now.

 

469

00:19:36,870 --> 00:19:39,180

I mean, he kind of works,

but then kind of doesn't.

 

470

00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:45,420

Um, he's a, he's a, um, a civil engineer

and developer, and so he kind of, you

 

471

00:19:45,420 --> 00:19:49,710

know, he'll help you out with a parking

lot or, you know, a runway or a house or

 

472

00:19:49,710 --> 00:19:51,480

something if you need it, but only if he.

 

473

00:19:51,870 --> 00:19:52,740

My dad's one of those dudes.

 

474

00:19:52,740 --> 00:19:54,900

He is like, you got cash.

 

475

00:19:55,260 --> 00:19:55,680

Like, that's,

 

476

00:19:59,055 --> 00:20:01,950

my dad was like, I'll work, but not,

but I ain't paying no taxes on it.

 

477

00:20:01,950 --> 00:20:03,390

Like, if you got cash, I'll hook you up.

 

478

00:20:03,390 --> 00:20:06,270

But I'm not, I'm not, uh, I'm

not taking checks anymore.

 

479

00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,400

So yeah, he's kinda

working, but not really.

 

480

00:20:15,485 --> 00:20:18,300

Marc Preston: Were you an only kid or did

you have some, uh, siblings growing up?

 

481

00:20:18,780 --> 00:20:20,520

Tone Bell: Uh, only biological kid.

 

482

00:20:21,375 --> 00:20:25,845

I got, I got, I got some cousins and

um, and some, and some friends that

 

483

00:20:25,845 --> 00:20:29,085

are like brothers and sisters tell

me that, uh, that I've collected

 

484

00:20:29,085 --> 00:20:30,765

over probably the last 30, 40 years.

 

485

00:20:30,765 --> 00:20:35,205

Spent a lot of time hopping around

moving neighborhoods, moving schools.

 

486

00:20:35,550 --> 00:20:37,560

A lot of kind of building your

own, kind of, building your own

 

487

00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,230

Marc Preston: extended family, your,

your homemade family, you know?

 

488

00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:41,490

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

 

489

00:20:41,550 --> 00:20:42,090

So, yeah.

 

490

00:20:42,090 --> 00:20:45,720

But yeah, I was an only kid also and I

was wondering, did that kind of keep you

 

491

00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:50,100

in your head a little bit more, like,

you know, being creative in school and,

 

492

00:20:50,250 --> 00:20:53,310

you know, 'cause I look at different

actors have spoken with comedians.

 

493

00:20:53,310 --> 00:20:56,670

A lot of, you know, a lot of

them, either they were only

 

494

00:20:56,670 --> 00:20:58,050

kids or maybe they were like.

 

495

00:20:58,409 --> 00:21:01,530

The oldest, oldest kid or younger, you

know, it's where they were kind of still

 

496

00:21:01,530 --> 00:21:02,610

sort of on there doing their own thing.

 

497

00:21:02,610 --> 00:21:06,030

How did that influence, do you

think, uh, your creative trajectory?

 

498

00:21:06,030 --> 00:21:08,399

Tone Bell: I mean, I, I'll tell,

I mean, I think you know that, I

 

499

00:21:08,399 --> 00:21:09,570

mean, like you're on the radio.

 

500

00:21:09,570 --> 00:21:12,899

I mean, so obviously there's a need

to, to be out in front of people

 

501

00:21:12,899 --> 00:21:14,429

and, and have a, have a voice, right?

 

502

00:21:14,429 --> 00:21:16,590

I mean, so like, that's, that's

probably where you got it.

 

503

00:21:16,590 --> 00:21:18,330

I mean, that's where I got it,

is like, if I'm gonna have any

 

504

00:21:18,330 --> 00:21:21,030

attention with two working parents,

both probably have, I mean, both of

 

505

00:21:21,030 --> 00:21:22,740

mine had two jobs, a piece really.

 

506

00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,840

So it was like, all right, I'm

gonna attention from somewhere.

 

507

00:21:25,260 --> 00:21:27,000

You know, so, yeah, I

remember, I remember being

 

508

00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,220

Marc Preston: seven years old, wanted

to do radio and I was like going,

 

509

00:21:29,220 --> 00:21:32,310

it was just, it was a theater of

the mind that was intriguing to me.

 

510

00:21:32,310 --> 00:21:36,090

That was the thing that kinda like, you

know, later on it was like, uh, you know,

 

511

00:21:36,090 --> 00:21:37,410

used to being in a studio by myself.

 

512

00:21:37,410 --> 00:21:38,190

Then I started acting.

 

513

00:21:38,190 --> 00:21:39,870

I was like, I'm doing something

with other people now.

 

514

00:21:39,870 --> 00:21:41,910

So it's like I'm trying to

go, what do I enjoy more?

 

515

00:21:42,270 --> 00:21:46,950

Now as far as the acting thing for you,

you know, uh, comedy is a very singular.

 

516

00:21:47,820 --> 00:21:49,320

Uh, even though you're

part of a community, you're

 

517

00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,700

kind of doing your thing.

 

518

00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:51,660

It's all on you.

 

519

00:21:51,660 --> 00:21:53,970

You're the only guy on stage, but acting.

 

520

00:21:54,060 --> 00:21:56,910

It's not just people you're

acting with, but you got a crew.

 

521

00:21:57,630 --> 00:21:58,710

It's a, it's a 180, you know?

 

522

00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,090

What about the acting thing?

 

523

00:22:00,090 --> 00:22:00,570

Got you.

 

524

00:22:00,630 --> 00:22:01,560

Uh, jazzed.

 

525

00:22:02,070 --> 00:22:02,700

Tone Bell: Uh, yeah.

 

526

00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:05,910

Comedy, comedy is, is a

selfish team sport, right?

 

527

00:22:05,910 --> 00:22:09,480

So, I mean, it's like I can't do it

without other comics, but also I, I'm

 

528

00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,950

solo in this, in this kind of ether of

other people that also are creative.

 

529

00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:15,870

Uh, the acting side of it.

 

530

00:22:16,335 --> 00:22:22,185

Is, um, it's, it's a, it's a

bunch of short jobs, right?

 

531

00:22:22,185 --> 00:22:24,945

So, I mean, so, you know, you go do a

movie, you create a family for three

 

532

00:22:24,945 --> 00:22:26,235

or four months, maybe six months.

 

533

00:22:26,595 --> 00:22:28,875

You do a show, you know,

kind of the same thing.

 

534

00:22:28,875 --> 00:22:31,275

You do theater, I mean, you,

you, you, you come together.

 

535

00:22:31,590 --> 00:22:35,790

You got like-mindedness, you

collaborate and then you disperse.

 

536

00:22:35,970 --> 00:22:38,700

Like, I, I think that's, it always

keeps it exciting 'cause you

 

537

00:22:38,700 --> 00:22:39,480

never know what's gonna happen.

 

538

00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,480

It's always kind of new Now, theater,

I mean, when people do theater runs,

 

539

00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,480

I, I'm, I'm, I could, I've been

thinking about it actually for a while.

 

540

00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,790

Like, would I go back

to theater any, anytime?

 

541

00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:51,930

And I, I think I would, but I,

I could only do a short run.

 

542

00:22:52,379 --> 00:22:55,170

I got friends who just kind of hopped on

Broadway and do some off Broadway stuff.

 

543

00:22:55,185 --> 00:22:57,615

And, uh, I get envious of it.

 

544

00:22:57,615 --> 00:23:00,495

But then, then, then I've had friends

who, I mean, they've been doing

 

545

00:23:00,495 --> 00:23:02,865

the same play for eight years and

I just don't know how they do it.

 

546

00:23:03,165 --> 00:23:03,375

Marc Preston: Yeah.

 

547

00:23:03,375 --> 00:23:04,605

I couldn't, I couldn't do that.

 

548

00:23:04,695 --> 00:23:05,804

I, I'm, I'm there with you.

 

549

00:23:05,804 --> 00:23:08,925

I'm like, God, I think I'd get, I, I

like variety, you know, you know, I

 

550

00:23:08,925 --> 00:23:11,655

like want to go down that buffet line,

like trying different things out.

 

551

00:23:11,804 --> 00:23:12,105

You know?

 

552

00:23:12,105 --> 00:23:13,965

I don't wanna be doing the

same thing, having the same

 

553

00:23:13,995 --> 00:23:15,014

thing over and over, you know?

 

554

00:23:15,435 --> 00:23:18,044

Uh, but did you mentioned theater,

was that something you did in high

 

555

00:23:18,044 --> 00:23:20,685

school or was that where you, where,

where theater started for you?

 

556

00:23:21,540 --> 00:23:24,150

Tone Bell: Yeah, I mean, like I said, I

had the Kid show that was a live show.

 

557

00:23:24,150 --> 00:23:27,780

I mean, it was, it was on tv, but it was

a live stage show every, every Saturday.

 

558

00:23:27,780 --> 00:23:33,510

And then, uh, couple, couple plays

in high school, a couple productions

 

559

00:23:33,510 --> 00:23:37,410

in college, and then traveled

for a little bit after college.

 

560

00:23:37,620 --> 00:23:41,880

I did one, one run on August Wilson

played Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and then,

 

561

00:23:41,940 --> 00:23:46,410

um, and then it was like, yeah, that's.

 

562

00:23:46,740 --> 00:23:49,290

I just, I did like a nine week

run and, and I was like, I, I'm,

 

563

00:23:49,530 --> 00:23:50,820

I can't say these words anymore.

 

564

00:23:51,090 --> 00:23:54,360

Marc Preston: Theater always intimidated

me a little bit because I can go a

 

565

00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:58,380

few pages at a time on a screenplay,

on, on camera, but on stage you

 

566

00:23:58,380 --> 00:24:00,600

got, I always had this like anxiety.

 

567

00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,125

What if I just, I. Vapor luck

and I forget the lines, you

 

568

00:24:04,125 --> 00:24:05,355

know, that was always my thing.

 

569

00:24:05,355 --> 00:24:08,625

I, I never, I think I could have gotten

it eventually, but I, I don't know.

 

570

00:24:08,625 --> 00:24:11,715

I always kind of ended be the theater

kids, like how are they doing that?

 

571

00:24:11,715 --> 00:24:13,420

How do they memorized an entire script?

 

572

00:24:13,420 --> 00:24:13,740

There's

 

573

00:24:14,055 --> 00:24:17,655

Tone Bell: script, there's this clip that

just kind of resurfaced of, uh, back when

 

574

00:24:17,655 --> 00:24:22,755

Will Smith started doing fresh prints

and his, uh, his first like six episodes.

 

575

00:24:23,265 --> 00:24:26,175

He was so nervous, but also

so professional that he would

 

576

00:24:26,175 --> 00:24:29,235

learn the entire script and

know the other characters line.

 

577

00:24:29,580 --> 00:24:29,970

Yeah.

 

578

00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:30,300

Yeah.

 

579

00:24:30,420 --> 00:24:30,840

Right.

 

580

00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,310

And so, but you could see him

in the scene mouthing his scene

 

581

00:24:35,310 --> 00:24:37,860

partner's dialogue as well, really?

 

582

00:24:37,860 --> 00:24:37,950

And

 

583

00:24:37,950 --> 00:24:39,330

Marc Preston: so, and now I

need to go, now I need to go

 

584

00:24:39,565 --> 00:24:40,889

rewatch and, and go see that.

 

585

00:24:40,889 --> 00:24:44,340

But w was being on camera, uh,

was that an aspiration for you?

 

586

00:24:44,340 --> 00:24:47,040

Like, okay, I got the comedy thing,

I'm on stage, I want to, I wanna

 

587

00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:48,750

be on camera, I want to do tv.

 

588

00:24:48,750 --> 00:24:49,530

I wanna do film.

 

589

00:24:49,530 --> 00:24:50,430

Was that actually.

 

590

00:24:50,685 --> 00:24:52,514

Um, percolating in you

 

591

00:24:52,514 --> 00:24:52,635

Tone Bell: or?

 

592

00:24:53,145 --> 00:24:53,534

Yeah.

 

593

00:24:53,534 --> 00:24:57,945

I mean, my dude, I, I'll tell you

this, my, my pops, uh, this is like,

 

594

00:24:57,945 --> 00:25:01,575

you know, pre DVD player, but my, my

dad, I make a lot of jokes about him on

 

595

00:25:01,575 --> 00:25:06,435

stage about this, but my dad recorded

every episode of The Cosby Show, A

 

596

00:25:06,435 --> 00:25:12,495

different World Fresh Prince Martin

Seinfeld, uh, married with children.

 

597

00:25:12,495 --> 00:25:15,615

I mean, we had just shelves of VHS tapes.

 

598

00:25:15,615 --> 00:25:16,065

VHS.

 

599

00:25:16,665 --> 00:25:16,965

Yeah.

 

600

00:25:16,965 --> 00:25:16,966

Yeah.

 

601

00:25:17,149 --> 00:25:19,695

And, and, and he, I mean, in order.

 

602

00:25:20,310 --> 00:25:24,000

And trying to, you know, stop recording

when the commercials came on and

 

603

00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,550

start recording again when they, when

they, when the show came back on.

 

604

00:25:26,970 --> 00:25:29,639

And TGIF was huge for the three of us.

 

605

00:25:29,639 --> 00:25:33,600

So, I mean, I watched Multicam

comedies from probably the age of

 

606

00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,350

seven or eight, you know, I mean, even

mash, I remember going to Mash and,

 

607

00:25:37,410 --> 00:25:39,090

and, and Golden Girls and all that.

 

608

00:25:40,185 --> 00:25:43,905

It kind of just formed to this thing

of like, oh, this is what my family,

 

609

00:25:43,905 --> 00:25:47,205

'cause we didn't go to movies like

we rewatched, multicam sitcoms.

 

610

00:25:47,445 --> 00:25:49,305

Marc Preston: Why was, why do

you think he was recording that?

 

611

00:25:49,305 --> 00:25:53,175

Was it just 'cause he wanted to be able

to, it's sort of like he was creating

 

612

00:25:53,175 --> 00:25:56,355

his own DVR, he can just jump back

into, or was he like, okay, you know,

 

613

00:25:56,415 --> 00:25:59,925

tone's gonna wanna check this out, you

know, or what was his for doing that?

 

614

00:26:00,254 --> 00:26:03,105

Tone Bell: And they had no idea of

like, this was gonna be my career.

 

615

00:26:03,105 --> 00:26:05,955

But at the same time, I think I

kind of knew it because at like

 

616

00:26:05,955 --> 00:26:08,625

12, 13 years old, my mom asked me

what I'm gonna do for a living.

 

617

00:26:08,625 --> 00:26:10,425

And I said, I'm gonna do

what Will Smith's doing?

 

618

00:26:11,385 --> 00:26:13,095

And, and she goes, all right.

 

619

00:26:13,095 --> 00:26:15,465

I go, I'm gonna be on tv,

I'm gonna do funny tv.

 

620

00:26:16,245 --> 00:26:21,074

And she said, when I went to college,

she, uh, was like, all right, well, we

 

621

00:26:21,074 --> 00:26:25,665

don't know how to do that, but they have

a TV program at this school in Georgia,

 

622

00:26:25,754 --> 00:26:28,365

and you can go for free with your, you

know, as long as you get a scholarship.

 

623

00:26:28,875 --> 00:26:29,985

And then that's what I did.

 

624

00:26:29,985 --> 00:26:32,025

So it was kinda like they didn't

know how to support it, but they're

 

625

00:26:32,025 --> 00:26:34,004

like, all right, this, and she

thought I was gonna be on the news.

 

626

00:26:34,004 --> 00:26:35,985

She was like, he'll be a news anchor.

 

627

00:26:36,315 --> 00:26:37,725

Marc Preston: Wait, what

school was that you went to?

 

628

00:26:38,175 --> 00:26:39,225

Uh, I went to Savannah State.

 

629

00:26:39,405 --> 00:26:41,235

So you were thinking maybe

I'm gonna be a news guy.

 

630

00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:41,520

Okay.

 

631

00:26:41,525 --> 00:26:42,105

Okay.

 

632

00:26:42,105 --> 00:26:42,525

No, no, no.

 

633

00:26:42,525 --> 00:26:44,720

She was thinking that I knew I doing that.

 

634

00:26:45,495 --> 00:26:45,764

Okay.

 

635

00:26:45,764 --> 00:26:48,945

So you're you're like, I wanna, I wanna

do jokes, you know, and she wants you to

 

636

00:26:48,945 --> 00:26:53,355

be that like, you know, swab Debra Air

guy in the, in the sport coat on, on tv.

 

637

00:26:53,355 --> 00:26:53,895

I gotcha.

 

638

00:26:54,375 --> 00:26:55,080

Um, yeah, I mean.

 

639

00:26:57,795 --> 00:27:00,915

Tone Bell: Even to this day, I think I'm

the only one that's had my own show on the

 

640

00:27:00,915 --> 00:27:04,335

close on like the CCTV of, of our campus.

 

641

00:27:04,335 --> 00:27:08,625

But I had like a daily show type show

on campus and so it was like the funny

 

642

00:27:08,625 --> 00:27:10,065

news of what's happening on campus.

 

643

00:27:10,515 --> 00:27:13,395

So like that was kind of,

that was kind of my, my thing.

 

644

00:27:13,905 --> 00:27:17,145

Marc Preston: So do you feel like you

needed, you, you, do you feel like it's

 

645

00:27:17,145 --> 00:27:21,735

kind of hardwired in you, you need that

outlet to comment to, to, you know, is

 

646

00:27:21,735 --> 00:27:23,655

that, is that kind of the way you process?

 

647

00:27:24,344 --> 00:27:25,365

What's going on in the world.

 

648

00:27:25,365 --> 00:27:26,804

It's like, okay, I want to comment on it.

 

649

00:27:26,804 --> 00:27:30,344

That kind of puts you in a position of

con contemplating, you know, whatever.

 

650

00:27:30,344 --> 00:27:30,764

Have you.

 

651

00:27:30,824 --> 00:27:33,615

Um, yeah, like you said you,

your daily show like thing.

 

652

00:27:33,705 --> 00:27:36,524

What, what was your drive

to do something like that?

 

653

00:27:36,645 --> 00:27:39,074

Uh, being a teenager, early

twenties or whatever have you?

 

654

00:27:39,254 --> 00:27:42,645

Tone Bell: I mean, it's, it, it started

as just like a, a, a, um, I mean, what

 

655

00:27:42,645 --> 00:27:47,024

am I, professors, it started as like, as

a, as an assignment and then they kind

 

656

00:27:47,024 --> 00:27:49,905

of wanted to keep going and I was like,

well, we can, and so I kind of hired the

 

657

00:27:49,905 --> 00:27:52,935

rest of the students to be the staff, so

everybody got a chance to learn how to do.

 

658

00:27:53,669 --> 00:27:54,179

Something.

 

659

00:27:54,179 --> 00:27:58,080

So we had, you know, producers and writers

and, and, and, and field reporters.

 

660

00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,350

And I was sitting at the desk and I had

guests come in and I was interviewing.

 

661

00:28:01,710 --> 00:28:05,370

And so it was like the, yeah, it's

the observation of if I'm gonna fly on

 

662

00:28:05,370 --> 00:28:09,600

the wall and, and have a take at this,

can we make it informative and funny?

 

663

00:28:10,139 --> 00:28:10,379

Yeah.

 

664

00:28:10,379 --> 00:28:10,679

Yeah.

 

665

00:28:10,710 --> 00:28:12,780

And, and that's kind of what it became.

 

666

00:28:12,780 --> 00:28:16,860

Even, even my standup now is kind of

that of like these little small things.

 

667

00:28:16,860 --> 00:28:21,060

If I can paint this picture right,

you'll know how ridiculous this thing is.

 

668

00:28:21,060 --> 00:28:21,105

Marc Preston: Yeah.

 

669

00:28:21,375 --> 00:28:23,055

Isn't that the beauty of comedy though?

 

670

00:28:23,055 --> 00:28:25,845

Like where you're sort of like, okay, I

know you didn't see it like this, but let

 

671

00:28:25,845 --> 00:28:29,925

me show it to you through a different lens

and then something absurd is like, or, or

 

672

00:28:29,925 --> 00:28:31,605

something that seems quote unquote normal.

 

673

00:28:31,605 --> 00:28:32,985

It's like, God, that is absurd.

 

674

00:28:33,285 --> 00:28:37,095

See, I think anybody can inform, but

I think it's, it's a special muscle to

 

675

00:28:37,095 --> 00:28:39,555

flex, to, to, to make that thing funny.

 

676

00:28:39,975 --> 00:28:43,695

I think John Stewart is, you know,

does a great job of that, you know?

 

677

00:28:43,755 --> 00:28:44,025

Tone Bell: Yeah.

 

678

00:28:44,415 --> 00:28:46,635

I mean, even now, like I don't really

touch, I mean, there's some, there's

 

679

00:28:46,635 --> 00:28:51,645

certain subjects I don't touch on stage

just because I don't have the ammunition.

 

680

00:28:51,705 --> 00:28:55,695

If, if an audience member

questions it, I go, I'm probably

 

681

00:28:55,695 --> 00:28:56,565

not prepared to answer that.

 

682

00:28:57,045 --> 00:28:58,815

But my life, I can.

 

683

00:28:58,815 --> 00:28:58,905

Mm-hmm.

 

684

00:29:00,255 --> 00:29:03,135

So if I can give you all the,

all the pieces that you need to

 

685

00:29:03,135 --> 00:29:05,595

build this house that I'm trying

to show you the, the picture of,

 

686

00:29:05,955 --> 00:29:07,425

then, then this should work out.

 

687

00:29:08,054 --> 00:29:10,814

Marc Preston: Well, we're talking

comedy, but it just was coincidental,

 

688

00:29:10,814 --> 00:29:13,185

uh, like two or three weeks ago.

 

689

00:29:13,189 --> 00:29:14,354

I was, I was just flipping through.

 

690

00:29:14,354 --> 00:29:15,824

I was doing that thing

like, what am I gonna watch?

 

691

00:29:15,854 --> 00:29:17,895

'cause I'm on my computer, I'm

doing a little bit of work, I

 

692

00:29:17,895 --> 00:29:19,935

don't wanna kick something on TV

and kind of check something out.

 

693

00:29:19,935 --> 00:29:23,625

And I landed on, um, uh, uh, a

trigger warning and I was like,

 

694

00:29:23,625 --> 00:29:25,215

oh, well that's not comedy.

 

695

00:29:25,574 --> 00:29:29,115

But, uh, but that was, that was kind of

a fun, you know, any, anytime I have a

 

696

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

chance to see I'm a Gen X kid, anytime I

have a chance to see Anthony Michael Hall.

 

697

00:29:33,445 --> 00:29:35,274

I'm gonna do it, but, well, no,

I thought you, I thought you say

 

698

00:29:36,294 --> 00:29:36,925

Tone Bell: Jessica Alba.

 

699

00:29:36,925 --> 00:29:38,695

I was gonna say, yeah, anytime

I get a chance to be next to

 

700

00:29:38,695 --> 00:29:40,495

her, I, I, I, I take that chance

 

701

00:29:40,495 --> 00:29:40,554

Marc Preston: too.

 

702

00:29:41,514 --> 00:29:42,774

No, but that, that was the thing.

 

703

00:29:42,774 --> 00:29:46,615

See, Jessica Alba, you know, back

in the day, she was doing the, she

 

704

00:29:46,615 --> 00:29:51,205

was the teen movie, you know, like

she was the nu or whatever, but

 

705

00:29:51,205 --> 00:29:52,524

she was kind of a badass in this.

 

706

00:29:52,524 --> 00:29:55,225

So how, how did that, how did that,

'cause that's not comedy, but how

 

707

00:29:55,225 --> 00:29:56,665

did that come across, uh, your desk?

 

708

00:29:56,695 --> 00:29:59,365

Tone Bell: Yeah, I mean, I, I had worked

with that same, those same producers

 

709

00:29:59,365 --> 00:30:02,304

before, and then they, they, uh, they

called like, Hey, we got something fun.

 

710

00:30:02,729 --> 00:30:05,159

Uh, do you think you could pull this off?

 

711

00:30:05,165 --> 00:30:06,975

And, and I read it and I was

like, yeah, let's, let's do it.

 

712

00:30:06,975 --> 00:30:10,800

And it actually added me to more

of it than, um, we went back and

 

713

00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,350

did some reshoots and, and, uh,

I tested pretty well on that.

 

714

00:30:13,350 --> 00:30:15,689

And it was, it was a fun,

that was very fun, man.

 

715

00:30:15,689 --> 00:30:18,570

I mean, I, I, I wanna get back in

that space, you know, I put on about

 

716

00:30:18,570 --> 00:30:22,080

15, 20 pounds and, and, uh, you

know, get, get some nice arms so

 

717

00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,310

I can go shirtless a little more.

 

718

00:30:23,669 --> 00:30:23,970

But

 

719

00:30:25,439 --> 00:30:25,709

Marc Preston: yeah.

 

720

00:30:25,709 --> 00:30:25,919

Yeah.

 

721

00:30:25,919 --> 00:30:28,169

'cause you know, you, you, you

made me feel like I gotta go to

 

722

00:30:28,169 --> 00:30:30,990

the gym a little bit, you know,

but it was, it was physical, so

 

723

00:30:30,990 --> 00:30:31,980

that had to be a little more fun.

 

724

00:30:31,980 --> 00:30:32,010

I

 

725

00:30:32,189 --> 00:30:34,169

Tone Bell: get, before I get

too many, uh, more gray hairs.

 

726

00:30:34,169 --> 00:30:36,419

I'm, I'm gonna thirst trap a

little bit as the kids say.

 

727

00:30:36,689 --> 00:30:36,959

I don't

 

728

00:30:36,959 --> 00:30:39,810

Marc Preston: know if I've got the,

uh, capacity to do that anymore.

 

729

00:30:39,810 --> 00:30:42,211

I don't think, uh, gray

hairs and stuff, I'm.

 

730

00:30:43,070 --> 00:30:43,371

Tone Bell: You got you.

 

731

00:30:43,430 --> 00:30:46,340

You gotta believe for yourself,

thirst trapping is for any age.

 

732

00:30:46,550 --> 00:30:46,820

Marc Preston: Okay.

 

733

00:30:46,820 --> 00:30:49,790

Well, you know what that, that'll

be, uh, maybe that'll be the title

 

734

00:30:49,790 --> 00:30:51,260

of the a, uh, uh, of this episode.

 

735

00:30:51,260 --> 00:30:52,730

Thirst Trapping at any age.

 

736

00:30:52,820 --> 00:30:52,910

Yeah.

 

737

00:30:52,940 --> 00:30:54,080

I mean, it sounds 6-year-old.

 

738

00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:54,770

You say it like that.

 

739

00:30:54,980 --> 00:30:57,170

How did survival of the

thickest come along to you?

 

740

00:30:57,590 --> 00:31:01,160

Tone Bell: Uh, that was one that,

uh, uh, I was reading a couple

 

741

00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:08,540

scripts, uh, I wanna say, uh, end

of 2021 and, uh, it came across and,

 

742

00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:11,720

and, and Michelle bout who is the

star and, and creator of the show.

 

743

00:31:12,284 --> 00:31:15,645

Um, I read it and I was like, oh

man, this, yeah, this seems fun.

 

744

00:31:15,705 --> 00:31:19,334

And my agents were, were asking me like,

you know, Hey, do you wanna read for this?

 

745

00:31:19,845 --> 00:31:23,595

And I'm like, well, I've known her

for, I mean, 12 years at that point.

 

746

00:31:23,595 --> 00:31:27,074

I'm like, if, if she saw me

in it, then I, you know, I'll

 

747

00:31:27,074 --> 00:31:28,455

call her and see how she feels.

 

748

00:31:28,845 --> 00:31:32,024

And we talked about it and

then, uh, and I was like, yeah.

 

749

00:31:32,024 --> 00:31:34,095

I was like, but I'll, but I'm

not gonna audition for it.

 

750

00:31:34,245 --> 00:31:38,445

But I will read with her, like, if,

if she's down to just, just let's

 

751

00:31:38,445 --> 00:31:40,544

just do a chemistry read and, and, um.

 

752

00:31:41,355 --> 00:31:44,325

I had worked with Netflix a few times

before already, and, and they agreed

 

753

00:31:44,325 --> 00:31:48,405

to it and, and we read it and it

is, it is, it is, it is really dope

 

754

00:31:48,405 --> 00:31:49,965

to be able to work with a friend.

 

755

00:31:49,965 --> 00:31:53,355

You have before the,

the, the project starts.

 

756

00:31:53,355 --> 00:31:56,115

I mean, you, I think I've always become

friends with the people I worked with,

 

757

00:31:56,505 --> 00:32:00,345

but to start off as a friend and I've

known, because I've known her from my

 

758

00:32:00,345 --> 00:32:02,895

first sitcom and hers from standup.

 

759

00:32:02,895 --> 00:32:05,145

I think we shot our first

half hour specials with Comedy

 

760

00:32:05,145 --> 00:32:06,585

Central the same weekend.

 

761

00:32:06,975 --> 00:32:08,205

So, um.

 

762

00:32:08,775 --> 00:32:11,145

I mean, I've known her, you know,

we've both been climbing in this

 

763

00:32:11,145 --> 00:32:13,965

career, and I mean, right now she's

just, I mean, she's killed it.

 

764

00:32:14,295 --> 00:32:14,535

Marc Preston: Yeah.

 

765

00:32:14,535 --> 00:32:16,965

I mean, I mean, it's though, because

y'all got that, uh, familiarity.

 

766

00:32:16,965 --> 00:32:19,725

You got that friendship, you got

that thing that's, you know, probably

 

767

00:32:19,875 --> 00:32:22,065

you tr there're a little bit more

trust kind of built in when you're

 

768

00:32:22,065 --> 00:32:23,625

making choices and stuff like that.

 

769

00:32:23,715 --> 00:32:23,835

You

 

770

00:32:23,835 --> 00:32:25,395

Tone Bell: know, abso absolutely.

 

771

00:32:25,635 --> 00:32:28,335

I mean, it's, I, I've known her,

I knew her before she was married.

 

772

00:32:29,070 --> 00:32:30,630

I knew her husband when they were dating.

 

773

00:32:30,630 --> 00:32:33,420

And so, you know, kind of going through

all this together at the same time.

 

774

00:32:33,420 --> 00:32:35,940

It is, it is, it is been a

wonderful evolution of a friendship

 

775

00:32:35,945 --> 00:32:37,140

and, and, and career path.

 

776

00:32:37,140 --> 00:32:37,320

Man.

 

777

00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,640

It's, it's, I mean, out of all the, the,

between the, the regulars on the show,

 

778

00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:47,760

you know, the cast leads and, um, I would

say other comics and actors that pop in.

 

779

00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:53,580

I mean, this is the show I've worked on

in my career where I've known majority of

 

780

00:32:53,580 --> 00:32:55,080

the people that come to play on the show.

 

781

00:32:55,620 --> 00:32:57,570

And that's been very cool, exciting.

 

782

00:32:57,570 --> 00:32:59,969

'cause you know, you get to your trailer

and you get the hair and makeup and

 

783

00:32:59,969 --> 00:33:02,729

then, I mean, sometimes they don't

even tell me 'cause it is a surprise.

 

784

00:33:02,729 --> 00:33:04,709

And then you get the hair and

makeup and you're like, oh shit, I

 

785

00:33:04,709 --> 00:33:08,100

didn't know you were coming in to,

you know, and that's such a, you

 

786

00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:09,179

don't get it often, I don't think.

 

787

00:33:16,215 --> 00:33:18,465

Marc Preston: Before we wrap up

here, I always do something I call my

 

788

00:33:18,465 --> 00:33:20,355

seven questions a little extra fun.

 

789

00:33:20,685 --> 00:33:24,435

Uh, yeah, a little of some randomness,

but, uh, first question I always ask

 

790

00:33:24,495 --> 00:33:26,355

'cause I always talk food at some level.

 

791

00:33:26,385 --> 00:33:29,175

In fact, you being from Atlanta,

I always talk about going to,

 

792

00:33:29,535 --> 00:33:31,580

uh, was it I. The varsity.

 

793

00:33:31,610 --> 00:33:33,020

My daughter loves that orange drink.

 

794

00:33:33,020 --> 00:33:34,159

They got the varsity up there.

 

795

00:33:34,639 --> 00:33:39,530

And my, and my, and my uh, uh,

arteries, uh, don't like the, uh, the

 

796

00:33:39,530 --> 00:33:42,915

rest of it, but it's very tasty, you

know, so it's good stuff up there.

 

797

00:33:42,915 --> 00:33:43,195

Yeah.

 

798

00:33:43,875 --> 00:33:44,034

Varsity

 

799

00:33:44,274 --> 00:33:44,834

Tone Bell: trapping.

 

800

00:33:44,834 --> 00:33:47,030

Don't, don't, uh, don't,

don't, they don't add up.

 

801

00:33:47,030 --> 00:33:47,510

But go ahead.

 

802

00:33:47,810 --> 00:33:50,300

Marc Preston: What is your

favorite comfort food?

 

803

00:33:50,304 --> 00:33:52,490

That thing, it just kind of brings

you right where you want to be.

 

804

00:33:52,490 --> 00:33:53,449

Good day, bad day.

 

805

00:33:53,659 --> 00:33:54,679

What would that be for you?

 

806

00:33:55,310 --> 00:33:59,780

Tone Bell: Uh, probably shrimp and grits.

 

807

00:34:00,405 --> 00:34:01,605

Marc Preston: Now next question.

 

808

00:34:01,605 --> 00:34:04,095

If you're gonna sit down and talk

story, you're gonna have coffee with,

 

809

00:34:04,155 --> 00:34:08,325

uh, three people, you and three people

living or not, who would you like to

 

810

00:34:08,325 --> 00:34:11,505

sit down and spend a whole afternoon

drinking coffee and talk in story with

 

811

00:34:12,615 --> 00:34:13,215

Tone Bell: living or not?

 

812

00:34:13,275 --> 00:34:13,784

Uh, one.

 

813

00:34:13,784 --> 00:34:14,655

Kathy Bates.

 

814

00:34:15,075 --> 00:34:18,014

Um, I do that in real life

already, but Kathy Bates is one.

 

815

00:34:18,705 --> 00:34:27,705

Um, uh, I would say

young, young Don Cheadle.

 

816

00:34:28,575 --> 00:34:30,105

Like 30-year-old Don Cheadle.

 

817

00:34:30,825 --> 00:34:31,605

Uh, maybe 30.

 

818

00:34:31,605 --> 00:34:32,445

I'll give him 35 maybe.

 

819

00:34:32,445 --> 00:34:33,645

30 5-year-old Don Cheadle.

 

820

00:34:33,645 --> 00:34:33,915

Okay.

 

821

00:34:34,425 --> 00:34:42,705

Um, and, um, um, I, oh my God,

there's a, I'm gonna forget his name.

 

822

00:34:42,825 --> 00:34:46,725

Um, there's a crazy story I heard

when I, I was in, I was in, I

 

823

00:34:46,725 --> 00:34:52,335

was in Italy a couple years ago,

and there's a story about a pope

 

824

00:34:52,455 --> 00:34:57,135

who decided to, um, take down.

 

825

00:34:58,335 --> 00:35:00,855

The wall of like forgiveness or something.

 

826

00:35:01,125 --> 00:35:01,214

Marc Preston: Mm-hmm.

 

827

00:35:02,145 --> 00:35:04,754

Tone Bell: I don't know if you know

this story, but every 25 years they,

 

828

00:35:05,835 --> 00:35:08,745

the pope can take this wall down,

whoever walks through with him,

 

829

00:35:08,745 --> 00:35:12,915

they're, they're forgiven of all their

sins and guaranteed to go to heaven.

 

830

00:35:13,484 --> 00:35:16,185

And this pope didn't think

he was gonna make it, so he

 

831

00:35:16,185 --> 00:35:17,625

took it down 10 years early.

 

832

00:35:18,825 --> 00:35:24,404

And I thought it was so funny during

the tour that I was like, man, I want

 

833

00:35:24,404 --> 00:35:26,535

to, I want to know what he was thinking.

 

834

00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,040

What was he up to?

 

835

00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:29,340

Yeah.

 

836

00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:30,540

I'm like, man.

 

837

00:35:31,590 --> 00:35:32,010

Yeah.

 

838

00:35:32,010 --> 00:35:34,980

Like that, that I've been thinking about

this for the last two and a half years.

 

839

00:35:34,980 --> 00:35:36,540

That, that it makes me laugh.

 

840

00:35:36,540 --> 00:35:37,980

And I go, all right, man, what's up?

 

841

00:35:38,850 --> 00:35:41,640

I just, I just, I would love to go.

 

842

00:35:41,725 --> 00:35:43,440

You, you had to tear down the wall.

 

843

00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,960

Like it's what, like what's, oh, man.

 

844

00:35:46,020 --> 00:35:49,590

Because I think it happened at

like 92 or 94, something like that.

 

845

00:35:49,590 --> 00:35:52,585

I can't think of which Pope it

was, but, oh, pop John Paul.

 

846

00:35:53,460 --> 00:35:54,450

I don't think it was John Paul.

 

847

00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:55,740

Marc Preston: I didn't

even know about that.

 

848

00:35:55,745 --> 00:35:55,825

See?

 

849

00:35:56,010 --> 00:35:57,840

See, I love this show

'cause I get to learn stuff.

 

850

00:35:58,290 --> 00:36:02,280

Um, now, but the next question I got

for you, going back to your young tone,

 

851

00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:03,810

who was your first celebrity crush?

 

852

00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:04,440

That's, yeah.

 

853

00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:05,065

I gotta, I, that's my crush.

 

854

00:36:05,225 --> 00:36:05,465

I gotta

 

855

00:36:05,465 --> 00:36:06,750

Tone Bell: give you, I gotta give you two.

 

856

00:36:06,990 --> 00:36:07,350

Okay.

 

857

00:36:07,410 --> 00:36:08,370

I can't give you one.

 

858

00:36:08,430 --> 00:36:10,410

Uh, number one, Rudy Huxtable.

 

859

00:36:11,070 --> 00:36:11,760

So Keisha Knight.

 

860

00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:11,820

Yeah.

 

861

00:36:12,930 --> 00:36:15,750

Um, and then Topanga.

 

862

00:36:16,424 --> 00:36:17,325

From Boy Me's world.

 

863

00:36:17,384 --> 00:36:17,444

Marc Preston: Yeah.

 

864

00:36:17,564 --> 00:36:18,794

She's come up a few times.

 

865

00:36:18,794 --> 00:36:20,595

She, she's definitely come up a few times.

 

866

00:36:20,595 --> 00:36:20,654

Yeah.

 

867

00:36:20,924 --> 00:36:22,214

Now it, next question.

 

868

00:36:22,214 --> 00:36:24,435

You're gonna be living on

an exotic island for a year.

 

869

00:36:24,585 --> 00:36:24,855

Alright.

 

870

00:36:24,855 --> 00:36:26,625

Somewhere you want to be, they

just don't have streaming.

 

871

00:36:26,625 --> 00:36:29,805

So you, you know, you gotta bring,

uh, it's, it's a beautiful place.

 

872

00:36:30,134 --> 00:36:31,245

You gotta bring an album.

 

873

00:36:31,274 --> 00:36:35,174

If you wanna listen to, uh, music,

gotta bring an album, DVD, whatever,

 

874

00:36:35,564 --> 00:36:38,714

uh, or cd and you gotta bring a

DVD if you wanna watch a movie.

 

875

00:36:38,714 --> 00:36:40,814

So what would that album,

and what would that movie be?

 

876

00:36:40,814 --> 00:36:43,544

You could watch over and over

again that you could bring for

 

877

00:36:43,544 --> 00:36:44,564

the full year on the island?

 

878

00:36:45,134 --> 00:36:47,984

Tone Bell: Uh, this is probably

cliche, but, but I love it.

 

879

00:36:47,984 --> 00:36:50,475

So probably Dark Side

of the Moon, pink Floyd.

 

880

00:36:51,075 --> 00:36:54,825

Um, and then you said DVD?

 

881

00:36:55,605 --> 00:36:55,814

Announcer: Mm-hmm.

 

882

00:36:55,875 --> 00:36:55,904

Uh,

 

883

00:36:56,805 --> 00:36:59,355

Tone Bell: probably, probably Life.

 

884

00:36:59,444 --> 00:36:59,984

Eddie Murphy.

 

885

00:36:59,984 --> 00:37:02,654

Marc Preston: Martin Lawrence or they,

when they were in prison together.

 

886

00:37:02,654 --> 00:37:03,600

Yeah, that was a good one.

 

887

00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:04,424

I forgot about that one.

 

888

00:37:04,694 --> 00:37:09,495

If you were to go, say from stem to stern,

uh, time you wake up, time you go to bed,

 

889

00:37:09,495 --> 00:37:13,154

what are the component parts in your mind

that would make it a perfect day for you?

 

890

00:37:14,190 --> 00:37:16,529

Tone Bell: Starting off with my

wife not waking me up when she has

 

891

00:37:16,529 --> 00:37:19,080

to pee at 3:00 AM if I got a full

night's sleep without having to

 

892

00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,120

wake up it first, her not peeing.

 

893

00:37:21,420 --> 00:37:23,490

That's first, that's number one.

 

894

00:37:23,610 --> 00:37:27,029

A full night's sleep without

hearing the door and her climbing

 

895

00:37:27,029 --> 00:37:28,440

over me to go to the bathroom.

 

896

00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,850

That would, that that'd be perfect

to wake up at, like 7, 7 30.

 

897

00:37:33,509 --> 00:37:38,130

Um, nice cup of tea, a

stretch, a little lemon water.

 

898

00:37:38,865 --> 00:37:39,915

Uh, my old neighbors.

 

899

00:37:39,915 --> 00:37:42,645

Go give them a shout,

Jerry and Linda, the 87.

 

900

00:37:42,645 --> 00:37:44,235

Go kick it with them for a little bit.

 

901

00:37:44,685 --> 00:37:47,565

Um, do, do a little yard work.

 

902

00:37:47,625 --> 00:37:49,575

I mean, I, I'm a big fan

of doing my own yard work.

 

903

00:37:49,575 --> 00:37:50,145

Do that.

 

904

00:37:50,505 --> 00:37:53,865

Uh, my wife makes lunch without

me having to ask her to do it.

 

905

00:37:54,225 --> 00:37:56,835

Oh, that would be lovely.

 

906

00:37:56,835 --> 00:37:57,885

Mm-hmm.

 

907

00:37:57,891 --> 00:37:58,935

That'd be great.

 

908

00:37:59,535 --> 00:38:04,365

Um, clean another thing, I, I

clean the pool, clean the pool.

 

909

00:38:04,845 --> 00:38:07,905

Or maybe not have to clean the pool,

either clean the pool for some time

 

910

00:38:07,905 --> 00:38:10,815

to myself or look out there and go,

oh, the pool doesn't need cleaning.

 

911

00:38:11,175 --> 00:38:11,640

That's, mm-hmm.

 

912

00:38:11,725 --> 00:38:12,315

That's great.

 

913

00:38:12,915 --> 00:38:17,384

And then head downtown in the

evening, hit zero traffic, my

 

914

00:38:17,384 --> 00:38:19,245

parking space is available.

 

915

00:38:19,785 --> 00:38:23,475

Um, hop on stage and uh, and

kill a new 15 minute set.

 

916

00:38:23,775 --> 00:38:24,435

That's a perfect day

 

917

00:38:24,884 --> 00:38:26,025

Marc Preston: because I

know what parking's like in

 

918

00:38:26,025 --> 00:38:27,195

Austin, so I feel you there.

 

919

00:38:27,645 --> 00:38:30,915

Um, now if you were doing this for a

living, what, what would be the vocation?

 

920

00:38:30,915 --> 00:38:34,245

What would be the number two that

would bring you joy you think?

 

921

00:38:36,030 --> 00:38:36,420

Tone Bell: I don't know.

 

922

00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,580

Uh, uh hmm.

 

923

00:38:38,580 --> 00:38:40,950

I mean, I guess, I mean, at this

point it's time to start a family,

 

924

00:38:40,950 --> 00:38:43,860

so, uh, making sure my parents get a

chance to hang out with the grandkids.

 

925

00:38:44,430 --> 00:38:44,940

I gotcha.

 

926

00:38:45,090 --> 00:38:45,600

Marc Preston: I gotcha.

 

927

00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:45,840

So

 

928

00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:49,500

Tone Bell: fly them in wherever they

want to and just hang out and, and, uh,

 

929

00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:52,200

and, and like some cool family time.

 

930

00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:52,440

I think.

 

931

00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,320

I think that'd be, that's what I, that's,

I think that's what I'm working for.

 

932

00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:55,620

Yeah.

 

933

00:38:55,650 --> 00:38:58,170

Like to, to be able to go, all

right, this is, this is good.

 

934

00:38:58,170 --> 00:38:58,950

We're gonna be fine.

 

935

00:38:59,070 --> 00:39:00,990

And then to whatever they wanna do.

 

936

00:39:01,455 --> 00:39:02,175

Marc Preston: Fantastic.

 

937

00:39:02,175 --> 00:39:02,625

I like that.

 

938

00:39:02,625 --> 00:39:02,955

I like that.

 

939

00:39:02,955 --> 00:39:04,755

Now, now I got one last question for you.

 

940

00:39:04,755 --> 00:39:06,795

You're jumping in the DeLorean

and you're gonna go back to

 

941

00:39:06,795 --> 00:39:07,845

when you were 16 years old.

 

942

00:39:07,845 --> 00:39:11,745

You got a piece of advice for

16-year-old tone, uh, to make your

 

943

00:39:11,745 --> 00:39:14,175

life better In that moment, maybe put

you on a little bit different path.

 

944

00:39:14,175 --> 00:39:16,605

What's that one piece of advice

you would offer up to yourself?

 

945

00:39:17,775 --> 00:39:19,485

Tone Bell: Don't deal with

that light-skinned girl you

 

946

00:39:19,485 --> 00:39:20,745

dealt with when you were 16.

 

947

00:39:21,375 --> 00:39:24,525

Marc Preston: It always kind of boils

down to the, to, to the opposite sex

 

948

00:39:24,525 --> 00:39:25,785

sometimes, you know, do or don't.

 

949

00:39:25,785 --> 00:39:25,875

Yeah.

 

950

00:39:25,875 --> 00:39:26,085

I

 

951

00:39:26,085 --> 00:39:29,745

Tone Bell: mean it was, I, I, I knew I

shouldn't have fooled with her and I did.

 

952

00:39:29,745 --> 00:39:34,665

'cause I used to skip church to try

to go do uh, things and one time I

 

953

00:39:34,665 --> 00:39:38,715

was trying to leave with her and I was

making a left into her neighborhood

 

954

00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:44,955

and, and, and I had a car for about

four months and total totaled my car.

 

955

00:39:45,795 --> 00:39:47,865

Uh, trying to do something

I shouldn't have been doing.

 

956

00:39:47,865 --> 00:39:52,060

So that would've been, I mean, I

learned a lot, believe that, but yeah.

 

957

00:39:52,060 --> 00:39:54,555

Yeah, that little I, that

that's, that's what being

 

958

00:39:54,555 --> 00:39:56,714

Marc Preston: a teenager and being

your early twenties is all about.

 

959

00:39:56,714 --> 00:39:58,154

Just those life lessons.

 

960

00:39:58,154 --> 00:39:58,545

Yeah.

 

961

00:39:58,845 --> 00:40:01,365

Well, my friend man, thank you so

much for sharing some time with me.

 

962

00:40:01,365 --> 00:40:01,845

Next time.

 

963

00:40:01,904 --> 00:40:04,275

Uh, you're down in South Padre,

you cruise south a little bit.

 

964

00:40:04,515 --> 00:40:07,754

Uh, you know, come knock on my door,

I'll get you, get you some proper grub.

 

965

00:40:07,754 --> 00:40:11,805

You know, uh, I might have to bug you

about getting into blacks to go get some

 

966

00:40:11,805 --> 00:40:13,154

good barbecue though when I'm up there.

 

967

00:40:13,214 --> 00:40:13,455

So.

 

968

00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:14,640

Tone Bell: Man, hit me up, Marc.

 

969

00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:15,150

Anytime.

 

970

00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:18,060

Marc Preston: Alright, there you go.

 

971

00:40:18,060 --> 00:40:19,290

Tone Bell.

 

972

00:40:19,350 --> 00:40:20,130

A funny guy.

 

973

00:40:20,130 --> 00:40:20,880

Really enjoyed it.

 

974

00:40:21,180 --> 00:40:25,860

Uh, the new season of Survival of the

Thickest, uh, along with Michelle Boutou,

 

975

00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,160

it is on Netflix right now, just came out.

 

976

00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:34,170

Also, you can check out, uh,

again, story and craft pod.com.

 

977

00:40:34,529 --> 00:40:38,220

Uh, you can check out his info

and if he's on tour and you

 

978

00:40:38,220 --> 00:40:39,150

know, you just can kind of.

 

979

00:40:39,375 --> 00:40:40,455

Click on the links.

 

980

00:40:40,515 --> 00:40:44,235

In fact, uh, all of our guests, if you

wanna find them on, uh, on the socials,

 

981

00:40:44,235 --> 00:40:46,725

it's a good way to, uh, look that up.

 

982

00:40:46,815 --> 00:40:48,405

Alright, so I'm gonna get on out of here.

 

983

00:40:48,525 --> 00:40:52,995

Uh, you have yourself a great rest of your

day or evening, and as I always say, thank

 

984

00:40:52,995 --> 00:40:57,435

you so much, very, very much for, uh,

making whatever I've got going on here.

 

985

00:40:57,435 --> 00:40:59,265

Part of what you've got going on.

 

986

00:40:59,550 --> 00:41:03,000

Okay, we'll see you next time

right here on Story and Craft.

 

987

00:41:03,270 --> 00:41:06,000

Announcer: That's it for this

episode of Story and Craft.

 

988

00:41:06,090 --> 00:41:08,490

Join Marc next week for more conversation.

 

989

00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:12,900

Right here on Story and Craft

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990

00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,400

of Marc Preston Production's.

 

991

00:41:14,430 --> 00:41:17,460

LLC Executive Producer is Marc.

 

992

00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,900

Preston Associate Producer

is Zachary Holden.

 

993

00:41:21,230 --> 00:41:24,830

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994

00:41:24,830 --> 00:41:29,030

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995

00:41:29,210 --> 00:41:30,620

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996

00:41:30,980 --> 00:41:33,950

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997

00:41:34,070 --> 00:41:38,210

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998

00:41:38,780 --> 00:41:39,680

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999

00:41:39,950 --> 00:41:40,880

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1000

00:41:41,090 --> 00:41:43,490

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