1 00:00:00,125 --> 00:00:03,169 Oh. Hey, Joyce. Nice to see you again. 2 00:00:03,712 --> 00:00:06,047 Hey, hey. Welcome to what's good with John and Joyce. 3 00:00:06,047 --> 00:00:07,173 We're here hanging out with you. 4 00:00:07,173 --> 00:00:09,300 30 minutes of positivity every week. 5 00:00:09,300 --> 00:00:12,053 Get away from all the negativity and the politics out there. 6 00:00:12,053 --> 00:00:13,722 And we appreciate you having a son. 7 00:00:13,722 --> 00:00:16,474 I'd like to say a big thank you to all of our sponsors. 8 00:00:16,474 --> 00:00:19,310 Woodwinds, wedding and special events, venue and Sylvio. 9 00:00:19,310 --> 00:00:22,981 Sources the woodwinds.com ascend bank. 10 00:00:23,314 --> 00:00:25,108 They don't just see your accounts. 11 00:00:25,108 --> 00:00:27,736 They see your vision and ambitions. 12 00:00:27,736 --> 00:00:31,990 Ascend dot bank Moonshots, a vegan based company 13 00:00:31,990 --> 00:00:37,078 that delivers the highest quality organic juices, coffee bowls and so much more. 14 00:00:37,412 --> 00:00:39,831 Drink moonshots.com. 15 00:00:39,831 --> 00:00:43,376 And to your health, nutrition and health coaching. 16 00:00:43,626 --> 00:00:47,338 Creating a lifestyle tailored just for you to your health. 17 00:00:47,505 --> 00:00:49,507 Three 60.com. 18 00:00:49,507 --> 00:00:52,761 We're deeply grateful to all of our sponsors for their support 19 00:00:52,761 --> 00:00:53,636 and for partnering 20 00:00:53,636 --> 00:00:57,766 with us to uplift and enrich the lives of our listeners and viewers. 21 00:00:58,016 --> 00:00:59,350 Like to thank all of our sponsors. 22 00:00:59,350 --> 00:01:04,230 Woodwinds home of Silvio's sources double weddings there too. 23 00:01:04,230 --> 00:01:07,525 And also, moonshots coffee Linda Hubbard over 24 00:01:07,525 --> 00:01:11,154 a two year old 360 and of course ascend Bank. 25 00:01:11,362 --> 00:01:12,405 We appreciate them as well. 26 00:01:12,405 --> 00:01:14,824 But most of all you for tuning in. Yes. 27 00:01:14,824 --> 00:01:17,494 Thank you all. Your name again is. I have no idea. 28 00:01:20,872 --> 00:01:22,749 Man. But we are so excited. 29 00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:27,128 A gentleman who came up with the name for our podcast, What's Good. 30 00:01:27,420 --> 00:01:29,047 He happens to be here. 31 00:01:29,047 --> 00:01:31,716 One of the most talented young men I have ever met. 32 00:01:31,716 --> 00:01:34,886 This guy performed, I believe it's Frankie 33 00:01:34,886 --> 00:01:38,389 Valli and a Florida production, I believe, of, Jersey boys. 34 00:01:38,765 --> 00:01:41,434 He's done independent films. He's an actor. 35 00:01:41,434 --> 00:01:42,310 He's a singer. 36 00:01:42,310 --> 00:01:44,729 He does it all. He washes your dishes if you want. 37 00:01:44,729 --> 00:01:47,732 He bangs his head in the microwaves. 38 00:01:48,566 --> 00:01:50,151 Well, get down the line. 39 00:01:50,151 --> 00:01:54,364 But we like to welcome, Nick Rapino to what's good with John and Joyce. 40 00:01:54,364 --> 00:01:57,367 Hey. What's good? Nick, right? 41 00:01:57,575 --> 00:01:58,243 Yeah. Right. 42 00:01:58,243 --> 00:02:01,121 Right. Exactly. 43 00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:02,705 We want to talk about something good. 44 00:02:02,705 --> 00:02:05,208 And you said something like. Oh, that's okay. For a name, 45 00:02:06,251 --> 00:02:07,502 right? 46 00:02:07,502 --> 00:02:09,796 Yeah, yeah. So it's worked out really well. 47 00:02:09,796 --> 00:02:12,799 Todd, told us not to be afraid of 48 00:02:13,383 --> 00:02:17,178 just talking casually before the camera even gets. 49 00:02:17,762 --> 00:02:19,055 So. I mean. Oh, yeah. 50 00:02:19,055 --> 00:02:22,016 So that's what we'll just. We don't. Nope. Not at all. 51 00:02:22,016 --> 00:02:23,768 I know, just like. 52 00:02:23,768 --> 00:02:26,521 Like you said before, there's too much slickness in the world now. 53 00:02:26,521 --> 00:02:28,940 And like, all they're just being podcasting. 54 00:02:28,940 --> 00:02:30,733 But, you know, you know, I've been listening to you guys. 55 00:02:30,733 --> 00:02:31,609 You guys just you. 56 00:02:31,609 --> 00:02:33,027 Yeah, 57 00:02:33,027 --> 00:02:35,655 well, we got to be us because everybody else is taken, right? 58 00:02:35,655 --> 00:02:38,867 Right. Sammy Davis, 1969. 59 00:02:38,950 --> 00:02:41,953 Okay. So. 60 00:02:43,913 --> 00:02:46,708 That's right. 61 00:02:46,708 --> 00:02:47,625 So, Nick. 62 00:02:47,625 --> 00:02:49,085 So, Nick, tell us about you. 63 00:02:49,085 --> 00:02:52,422 I mean, yeah, I mean, tell us about how you got from here to there, there 64 00:02:52,422 --> 00:02:55,425 to here and a little bit about you because your your career is just amazing. 65 00:02:55,425 --> 00:02:58,261 And you're like, you know, a baby, you're like, 19 years old. 66 00:02:59,971 --> 00:03:00,972 Yeah. 67 00:03:00,972 --> 00:03:03,975 Yeah. 68 00:03:04,559 --> 00:03:06,352 No, I've 69 00:03:06,352 --> 00:03:09,355 just I guess from a young age I've always like from, 70 00:03:09,814 --> 00:03:13,651 like towards movies and stuff and I wasn't really wasn't a sportiest kid 71 00:03:13,651 --> 00:03:16,029 on my appreciate sports but like it was just 72 00:03:16,029 --> 00:03:18,615 when I saw like movies as a kid, the Disney VHS, 73 00:03:18,615 --> 00:03:19,949 I was like that, I want to do that. 74 00:03:19,949 --> 00:03:23,203 And then, that just kind of I didn't really do it a lot until high school. 75 00:03:23,203 --> 00:03:25,079 And then I started doing drama in high school. 76 00:03:25,079 --> 00:03:27,207 I was like, I forgot, I really this was what I really wanted to do. 77 00:03:27,207 --> 00:03:30,210 And then I just was like, okay, so I'm going to. 78 00:03:30,210 --> 00:03:33,963 So, after high school, I went to my other studio of acting. 79 00:03:34,339 --> 00:03:37,342 I started with like, every 80 00:03:37,884 --> 00:03:39,844 three hour train or whatever. The guy coach. 81 00:03:39,844 --> 00:03:40,845 Yeah, there. 82 00:03:40,845 --> 00:03:44,599 And halfway through, I was like, I started working with, this, 83 00:03:45,099 --> 00:03:48,478 director who was, who I just as soon 84 00:03:48,478 --> 00:03:51,898 as I was directed by him, I was like, I was like, I like what he's doing. 85 00:03:51,898 --> 00:03:54,025 And I'm like, I think that's what I want to do. 86 00:03:54,025 --> 00:03:55,318 And I still act, you know? 87 00:03:55,318 --> 00:03:57,570 I'm still doing all that. But like, he really, like, 88 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,283 kind of inspired me to, to tell stories instead of just the environment. 89 00:04:02,575 --> 00:04:06,579 So, I made a movie and then I made two more, 90 00:04:06,913 --> 00:04:09,540 and then I started a theater company up here. 91 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:12,210 We've even played the Bushnell. 92 00:04:12,210 --> 00:04:15,213 And, that's a big deal for Glengarry Glen Ross. 93 00:04:15,255 --> 00:04:18,299 I was, and then right after we did Glengarry Glen Ross there, 94 00:04:18,925 --> 00:04:19,926 I produced that show. 95 00:04:19,926 --> 00:04:22,929 And, where, you know, I was just producing it. 96 00:04:22,929 --> 00:04:26,599 My friend Kath directed it, and, we had a great cast and was a great, 97 00:04:27,183 --> 00:04:28,851 great turnout. 98 00:04:28,851 --> 00:04:32,730 I can believe you like the tickets for, like, the Bushnell comes to diamond. 99 00:04:32,855 --> 00:04:34,023 Yeah. 100 00:04:34,023 --> 00:04:38,069 So I just long story short, like, I just wanted to make something 101 00:04:38,069 --> 00:04:41,823 to tell stories and to make movies or fun plays that I like and plays 102 00:04:41,823 --> 00:04:46,244 that I think are important and people usually do, but also are recognizable 103 00:04:46,244 --> 00:04:50,999 in the way so it's hard because of my, my range of interest in 104 00:04:50,999 --> 00:04:54,752 what kind of movies or plays or musicals I like is so eclectic. 105 00:04:54,752 --> 00:04:56,713 You're all over the map now, but how about your parents? 106 00:04:56,713 --> 00:04:59,215 Were your parents very, very, encouraging 107 00:04:59,215 --> 00:05:02,343 because so many times people say, get a real job, were in the arts, right? 108 00:05:02,343 --> 00:05:02,802 Get a job. 109 00:05:02,802 --> 00:05:04,512 You're going to make money with this. 110 00:05:04,512 --> 00:05:06,806 It's it's hard. It's hard to tell. 111 00:05:06,806 --> 00:05:08,933 You know, people like me, it's hard to tell the parents that. 112 00:05:08,933 --> 00:05:12,520 Like, it's convinced them that, like, this is actually a job, you know? 113 00:05:12,562 --> 00:05:13,062 Right. 114 00:05:14,105 --> 00:05:16,190 But they get it to an extent. 115 00:05:16,190 --> 00:05:18,109 Yeah. Do an extent. 116 00:05:18,109 --> 00:05:20,903 You see it happening like, oh, crap, this is actually happening. 117 00:05:20,903 --> 00:05:24,115 Like like this is going like they they get it right. 118 00:05:24,407 --> 00:05:27,493 They knew that he's going to do stuff with movies and theater and stuff. 119 00:05:27,493 --> 00:05:29,162 That's what he's good at. That's what he's going to do. 120 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:31,914 They're not like, oh yeah, they're going to go be an accountant, you know? 121 00:05:31,914 --> 00:05:34,459 Right. They want to be right. 122 00:05:34,459 --> 00:05:37,712 But they never did like the whole like, don't do what you want to do, 123 00:05:37,879 --> 00:05:40,465 do something else. And they never did. That's awesome. 124 00:05:40,465 --> 00:05:42,842 It's nice when parents realize that. 125 00:05:42,842 --> 00:05:45,845 Plus we we need eclectic. We do. 126 00:05:46,179 --> 00:05:47,055 We need an account. 127 00:05:47,055 --> 00:05:47,972 We need an actor. 128 00:05:47,972 --> 00:05:50,516 We need a producer accountant on the movie. 129 00:05:50,516 --> 00:05:51,142 Right? 130 00:05:51,142 --> 00:05:51,392 Yeah. 131 00:05:51,392 --> 00:05:52,643 Well, the and the 132 00:05:52,643 --> 00:05:55,646 the money you're bringing in, hopefully somewhere down the line, you know? 133 00:05:55,938 --> 00:05:58,649 Yeah, a lot of times it's a play. 134 00:05:58,649 --> 00:05:58,816 Yeah. 135 00:05:58,816 --> 00:06:01,486 You do so much and then like two weekends of a show goes 136 00:06:01,486 --> 00:06:03,571 by and I'm like, you going to take a sales? I'm like, you're either like, 137 00:06:04,864 --> 00:06:06,866 but pretty much 138 00:06:06,866 --> 00:06:09,869 recently last couple, once I produced the one with my, 139 00:06:11,662 --> 00:06:13,414 theater partner Jeff, 140 00:06:13,414 --> 00:06:16,417 we last couple shows we did, we end up in the green room. 141 00:06:16,417 --> 00:06:17,293 We were very happy, so. 142 00:06:17,293 --> 00:06:19,921 Well, Patty and I went to see misery recently. Your version of. 143 00:06:19,921 --> 00:06:22,799 That's one of my favorite Stephen King movies. Misery? 144 00:06:22,799 --> 00:06:25,802 Oh, what was a Kathy Bates and James Caan? 145 00:06:26,135 --> 00:06:29,138 And then, of course, who else could do terms of Endearment, 146 00:06:29,222 --> 00:06:32,183 one of the saddest movies ever you produced, 147 00:06:32,183 --> 00:06:34,394 but that was one of the most amazing productions 148 00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:37,397 you did there, because it would that's that's kind of a tough story to do. 149 00:06:37,397 --> 00:06:39,482 A long story. Yeah. 150 00:06:39,482 --> 00:06:42,026 Yeah, they, they kind of the, the stage adaptation 151 00:06:42,026 --> 00:06:43,945 like cuts it up into like the best parts of the movie. 152 00:06:43,945 --> 00:06:45,530 That's all right. 153 00:06:45,530 --> 00:06:48,116 I produced it, but I was working alongside the director. 154 00:06:48,116 --> 00:06:50,827 And we both direct the same way. 155 00:06:50,827 --> 00:06:54,038 So we had the same things to say about it, and, 156 00:06:54,956 --> 00:06:59,293 we the funny story was, the people that we selected Wallingford 157 00:06:59,293 --> 00:06:59,961 senior scientist 158 00:06:59,961 --> 00:07:01,712 while you were starting out in the company, 159 00:07:01,712 --> 00:07:03,881 and it was just the senior center didn't have really any lights or anything. 160 00:07:03,881 --> 00:07:07,677 So we had to bring our own lights and, and, the people that the seniors that are 161 00:07:07,718 --> 00:07:11,013 didn't really understand, like what we were doing, they couldn't understand 162 00:07:11,013 --> 00:07:14,517 whether, we had to do a week of rehearsal and they were kind of like, oh, you. 163 00:07:14,809 --> 00:07:17,812 Oh, I thought you just showed up on stage and did it right. 164 00:07:18,187 --> 00:07:22,024 It wasn't that they were like mad or anything that really concerned, like, 165 00:07:22,024 --> 00:07:23,067 do you really need this? 166 00:07:23,067 --> 00:07:27,613 And then one guy who was just like, really not getting it, came to see it. 167 00:07:28,114 --> 00:07:30,658 And then at the end of the show was bawling. 168 00:07:30,658 --> 00:07:33,995 And he goes, yeah, this is why you need to rehearse. 169 00:07:34,203 --> 00:07:35,121 Light bulb went on. 170 00:07:35,121 --> 00:07:38,124 It was just it's just fun to see how people like, yeah, 171 00:07:38,124 --> 00:07:40,751 once they once they see what other work and put into they appreciate it more. 172 00:07:40,751 --> 00:07:43,296 And hopefully I personally go to see more theater and do more theater. 173 00:07:43,296 --> 00:07:45,965 So it was just funny how like just, 174 00:07:45,965 --> 00:07:48,426 you know, telling people like, yeah, we have to be here a week 175 00:07:48,426 --> 00:07:49,719 until the show goes off, right? 176 00:07:49,719 --> 00:07:52,805 You know, like after like we're elsewhere rehearsing 177 00:07:53,473 --> 00:07:56,517 to two times, three times a week and then like the final week, Monday 178 00:07:56,517 --> 00:07:57,977 through Thursday before we open the show. 179 00:07:57,977 --> 00:07:59,687 We have to do that every night, too, right? 180 00:07:59,687 --> 00:08:01,564 So that's good. And it just didn't get it. 181 00:08:01,564 --> 00:08:04,901 And then finally they saw it and they were like, okay, we get it. 182 00:08:05,067 --> 00:08:06,611 Yeah, we get what you need to do. 183 00:08:06,611 --> 00:08:08,070 And that that was very nice. 184 00:08:08,070 --> 00:08:08,905 Now what a gift though. 185 00:08:08,905 --> 00:08:09,405 That you have 186 00:08:09,405 --> 00:08:12,742 because you're putting something together and it's got to be stressful. 187 00:08:13,201 --> 00:08:14,160 And the I mean you're looking 188 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,829 if you look at everything as a whole, it's going to be overwhelming. 189 00:08:16,829 --> 00:08:20,416 But if you take a piece by piece day at a time, little by little, right? 190 00:08:20,791 --> 00:08:24,545 And there's always a moment in every show where it's like, 191 00:08:25,129 --> 00:08:25,963 I'm sitting there and I'm like, 192 00:08:27,298 --> 00:08:29,425 this is not right. 193 00:08:29,425 --> 00:08:30,426 We're not doing it like that. 194 00:08:30,426 --> 00:08:32,970 There's no way it's going to come. It's every single time. 195 00:08:32,970 --> 00:08:35,890 And, mostly in theater, not necessarily film. 196 00:08:35,890 --> 00:08:37,558 Yeah. But, 197 00:08:37,558 --> 00:08:41,354 but every single show I've done there's been like, for me, just like what? 198 00:08:41,395 --> 00:08:42,897 What? It's not that we were on the air 199 00:08:42,897 --> 00:08:44,524 and you can just that, like, so much is happening. 200 00:08:44,524 --> 00:08:45,942 It's only, you know, amateur theater. 201 00:08:45,942 --> 00:08:47,485 It's not like, you know, let's be in or anything. 202 00:08:47,485 --> 00:08:49,737 So like, it's just a bunch of people giving their time. 203 00:08:49,737 --> 00:08:51,989 You know, and talent and showing up some. Yes. 204 00:08:51,989 --> 00:08:54,575 Yeah, but someone doesn't show up for their 205 00:08:54,575 --> 00:08:56,118 event or something that happens. 206 00:08:56,118 --> 00:08:59,205 I had to, where I work in New Haven Academy of Performing Arts. 207 00:08:59,205 --> 00:09:01,290 They have a theater company, Broadway, I mean theater. 208 00:09:01,290 --> 00:09:02,291 And that's where I work now. 209 00:09:02,291 --> 00:09:06,546 And, one day, the guy playing 210 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:11,425 Bert wasn't feeling well and kind of needed assistance. 211 00:09:12,093 --> 00:09:13,302 Medical assistance? 212 00:09:13,302 --> 00:09:16,681 And I had to run upstate. 213 00:09:16,681 --> 00:09:18,057 I was just in the lobby. 214 00:09:18,057 --> 00:09:20,226 Just like being in the lobby guy, you know, 215 00:09:20,226 --> 00:09:22,812 because I was just there to support, like, I've been in the the whole thing. 216 00:09:22,812 --> 00:09:25,189 And then, like, the directors looked at me and it was, 217 00:09:25,189 --> 00:09:26,607 go find a costume in my heart. 218 00:09:26,607 --> 00:09:29,110 So. Wow. Yeah, yeah. 219 00:09:29,110 --> 00:09:31,362 And I don't know the lines. I don't know the thing. 220 00:09:31,362 --> 00:09:35,074 So then I go up and there's, this young actress, who has studied 221 00:09:35,074 --> 00:09:37,827 this for a couple of years, like, ran up with me. We were like, like, 222 00:09:39,078 --> 00:09:40,329 yeah, yeah. 223 00:09:40,329 --> 00:09:42,873 He says you can use my hand. And then, like, they threw her had at me. 224 00:09:42,873 --> 00:09:44,333 And then she ran out the door to go to her scene. 225 00:09:44,333 --> 00:09:46,669 And I went in the dressing room, like putting on my clothes. 226 00:09:46,669 --> 00:09:50,047 Getting into this really ridiculous makeshift 227 00:09:50,590 --> 00:09:52,967 costume of a bird from Mary Poppins. 228 00:09:52,967 --> 00:09:55,219 Like, with a little I look. It didn't fit. 229 00:09:55,219 --> 00:09:56,721 Yeah. 230 00:09:56,721 --> 00:09:59,390 The difference between me and Billie, who was playing bird, 231 00:09:59,390 --> 00:10:01,183 who actually went on and it was totally fine. 232 00:10:01,183 --> 00:10:02,685 Just needed rest. Yeah. 233 00:10:02,685 --> 00:10:04,812 I was back. There was great movie set. 234 00:10:04,812 --> 00:10:07,815 Like it was going to go from Bird and Mary Poppins being like, 235 00:10:08,608 --> 00:10:11,611 to to, like, all of a sudden he goes out and I said that his arm. 236 00:10:11,902 --> 00:10:14,989 Ha ha ha, wow. Like that. 237 00:10:15,031 --> 00:10:17,074 But he was fine. He did the show as a trooper. 238 00:10:17,074 --> 00:10:17,533 He's the best. 239 00:10:17,533 --> 00:10:20,453 So I didn't have to go on. And I'm like, now, nigga. 240 00:10:20,453 --> 00:10:24,415 I mean, you know, theater enough and and the script ahead of time, 241 00:10:24,415 --> 00:10:25,249 you know, somewhat. 242 00:10:25,249 --> 00:10:29,045 If you had to go in there and do that role, you can actually fake it 243 00:10:29,045 --> 00:10:32,006 enough to, to, to make it work in my hand on stage. 244 00:10:32,089 --> 00:10:33,924 Oh, you would have brought the script with you. Okay. 245 00:10:33,924 --> 00:10:35,635 And the audience would understand obviously. 246 00:10:35,635 --> 00:10:38,429 Yeah. It's something that that drastic. 247 00:10:38,429 --> 00:10:39,513 But he pulled through. 248 00:10:39,513 --> 00:10:42,475 Wow. Good for him and did all wow. 249 00:10:42,808 --> 00:10:44,185 He wasn't like he was never second. 250 00:10:44,185 --> 00:10:45,519 He was. He's the best. He was. He was sick. 251 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:51,233 He just had some kind of something was up with him like woozy and but he survived. 252 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,987 But I mean those injuries on the floor where I've been, you know, out of it. 253 00:10:54,987 --> 00:10:56,489 And then like, I had the performance to just, like, 254 00:10:56,489 --> 00:10:59,158 jolt into anything in general and just kind of sure. 255 00:10:59,158 --> 00:11:00,409 Yeah. Yeah. 256 00:11:00,409 --> 00:11:03,663 I remember working with Robin Williams on a few shows 257 00:11:04,288 --> 00:11:07,792 and he was going through a really bad time, like they were divorced at the time, 258 00:11:08,459 --> 00:11:10,961 and he was backstage in the green room 259 00:11:10,961 --> 00:11:14,215 sobbing, I mean, sobbing to the point 260 00:11:14,215 --> 00:11:17,218 I went to his manager and I said, there's no way he's going on this date. 261 00:11:17,218 --> 00:11:22,556 There's no way he said, he'll do it, and I'll tell you, those lights went on. 262 00:11:22,556 --> 00:11:23,432 He was introduced. 263 00:11:23,432 --> 00:11:27,103 He pulled himself together and he was Robin Williams. 264 00:11:27,645 --> 00:11:32,817 No one was disappointed, but I think that could take a toll 265 00:11:32,817 --> 00:11:36,821 on somebody after a while, especially comedy. Yes. 266 00:11:37,238 --> 00:11:41,242 And people expect you at a certain level all the time. 267 00:11:41,826 --> 00:11:43,744 So you have to take care of your mental health. 268 00:11:43,744 --> 00:11:46,831 I think we all do, but especially actors, 269 00:11:46,831 --> 00:11:50,251 especially on a Broadway play, we're playing the same role over. 270 00:11:51,711 --> 00:11:52,086 It's like it 271 00:11:52,086 --> 00:11:55,089 doesn't joke that, comedian John Burnett stands with 272 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,383 and Hairspray. 273 00:11:57,383 --> 00:11:58,884 He goes, it's the same show every day. 274 00:11:58,884 --> 00:12:02,304 Like, you know halfway through you can't go, oh hahahahahahahaha. 275 00:12:02,304 --> 00:12:03,806 Yeah, yeah. 276 00:12:03,806 --> 00:12:06,892 But have you ever gone on stage yourself and had like a brain fart 277 00:12:07,101 --> 00:12:09,478 or or just basically. 278 00:12:09,478 --> 00:12:10,271 Oh yeah. Exactly. 279 00:12:10,271 --> 00:12:12,064 I'm sure that's happened as well. Right. 280 00:12:12,064 --> 00:12:14,191 When the rest of the cast goes. Really? 281 00:12:14,191 --> 00:12:17,194 No. But like you're like like you forgot your lines. 282 00:12:18,154 --> 00:12:18,571 Yeah. 283 00:12:18,571 --> 00:12:22,783 Yeah, that's happened before I did, but I, I don't like I kind of like 284 00:12:22,783 --> 00:12:25,995 just go forward if like, I've missed something, I try to fix it. 285 00:12:26,036 --> 00:12:27,121 Right. 286 00:12:27,121 --> 00:12:29,165 I think, 287 00:12:29,165 --> 00:12:32,168 there's been a couple times, I think I just kind of block them out of my memory 288 00:12:32,168 --> 00:12:33,294 that what had happened. 289 00:12:34,378 --> 00:12:36,005 But I don't remember any 290 00:12:36,005 --> 00:12:38,966 specific time where it was like, oh, my God, I'm so, like, nuts. 291 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:41,594 But, 292 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:44,597 I think I was I don't know 293 00:12:45,014 --> 00:12:45,598 if it happens. 294 00:12:45,598 --> 00:12:48,601 I just kind of like now because I get so soon. 295 00:12:49,310 --> 00:12:52,396 Anyway, I just you've got to have a great memory. 296 00:12:52,396 --> 00:12:52,646 Yeah. 297 00:12:52,646 --> 00:12:55,232 I remember there recently there was a line 298 00:12:55,232 --> 00:12:58,235 and I was in A Christmas story, I probably a name and, 299 00:12:59,278 --> 00:13:01,864 I give I play the father, you know, the old man 300 00:13:01,864 --> 00:13:05,075 with the lamp and everything I gave, I gave the the wife, 301 00:13:06,327 --> 00:13:09,330 the, the note that says I won and I said, read it, read it. 302 00:13:09,497 --> 00:13:13,167 And we she and I came up with a bit that wasn't in the script, which was like 303 00:13:13,542 --> 00:13:13,959 most of our, 304 00:13:15,961 --> 00:13:16,962 you know. 305 00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:19,715 Oh, did you really know? Okay, okay. 306 00:13:19,715 --> 00:13:22,718 Yeah. 307 00:13:22,718 --> 00:13:25,763 There was a moment where I go read it, read it, and we thought it'd be funny 308 00:13:25,763 --> 00:13:28,766 if, like, she starts reading it, like, silently, and I just go out loud, 309 00:13:29,892 --> 00:13:30,476 joke. 310 00:13:30,476 --> 00:13:32,895 So I read it, read it, and then I'm standing there 311 00:13:32,895 --> 00:13:35,731 and I forget that we made up the bed, and I'm just like this. 312 00:13:35,731 --> 00:13:40,444 And I go, yep, yep. 313 00:13:40,528 --> 00:13:42,738 It was like, I remember that was the most recent one. 314 00:13:42,738 --> 00:13:44,532 But, yeah. 315 00:13:44,532 --> 00:13:48,619 Sometimes if I had to do a song and I like, do the first verse last 316 00:13:48,619 --> 00:13:50,913 or the last verse first or something, that that kind of sucks. 317 00:13:50,913 --> 00:13:53,082 You know what makes you so good? 318 00:13:53,082 --> 00:13:57,378 And just knowing you, I know this, that you really have your finger 319 00:13:57,378 --> 00:14:01,215 on the pulse of life and you know what's what's going to be funny. 320 00:14:01,423 --> 00:14:03,384 You know what people are going to relate to. 321 00:14:03,384 --> 00:14:05,052 You just innately know that. 322 00:14:05,052 --> 00:14:06,929 And that's what makes you a good director. 323 00:14:06,929 --> 00:14:09,974 It's I try I think it's just natural what they know. 324 00:14:10,558 --> 00:14:11,976 I mean, let me ask you this, Nick. 325 00:14:11,976 --> 00:14:13,644 You make movies, two independent films. 326 00:14:13,644 --> 00:14:15,187 Matter of fact, I was able to do the voiceover 327 00:14:15,187 --> 00:14:17,731 and a couple of them playing a DJ a couple of times, right. 328 00:14:17,731 --> 00:14:18,482 Throughout the whole. 329 00:14:18,482 --> 00:14:21,026 Yeah, throughout the movie, it was kind of cool. 330 00:14:21,026 --> 00:14:22,862 Yeah. And that was an honor and privilege. 331 00:14:22,862 --> 00:14:24,655 And that's the last line of saying, 332 00:14:24,655 --> 00:14:28,242 oh yeah, but but tell me about the whole process of movies. 333 00:14:28,242 --> 00:14:29,952 First doing theater. 334 00:14:29,952 --> 00:14:32,955 So I tell everybody all the time 335 00:14:33,122 --> 00:14:36,000 that I do theater for a couple of years, and then I get sick of it, 336 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:36,917 and then I make a movie, 337 00:14:36,917 --> 00:14:40,087 and then I do a movie for two months, and I get sick of it, right, right, right. 338 00:14:40,379 --> 00:14:42,381 Like a circle of theater or film? 339 00:14:42,381 --> 00:14:43,257 Theater or film. 340 00:14:43,257 --> 00:14:46,802 So, like, I miss doing film when I'm doing theater and I miss, 341 00:14:47,011 --> 00:14:49,430 you know, I'm doing film, but, like, I love both of them equally. 342 00:14:49,430 --> 00:14:51,056 But, right now, I mean, 343 00:14:52,224 --> 00:14:53,267 it's a very low budget movie. 344 00:14:53,267 --> 00:14:54,935 It's a Christmas movie. 345 00:14:54,935 --> 00:14:58,647 And, we are in the tail end of, the shooting schedule. 346 00:14:58,647 --> 00:15:02,568 So we'll be finishing up soon and hopefully premiering it. Wow. 347 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,323 Watch a Christmas movie. 348 00:15:07,615 --> 00:15:10,367 And the thing is, when you think when it was Christmas. 349 00:15:10,367 --> 00:15:13,370 But, Bob, when I first met Nick, I mean, 350 00:15:13,412 --> 00:15:16,415 it's it's the drama, but it's not, like, scary. 351 00:15:16,457 --> 00:15:19,835 Yeah, but when I first met you, Nick, I was introduced to you by your. 352 00:15:19,835 --> 00:15:22,713 Or your cousin and your cousin Vinny. Right? 353 00:15:22,713 --> 00:15:24,673 You should do that show, right? Yeah. 354 00:15:24,673 --> 00:15:26,133 Oh, wouldn't that be awesome? 355 00:15:26,133 --> 00:15:27,885 But when he told me all about you, I thought, 356 00:15:27,885 --> 00:15:29,637 you know, guy, make it a local movie, this and that. 357 00:15:29,637 --> 00:15:31,722 You know, you had lower expectations. 358 00:15:31,722 --> 00:15:34,808 And then when I met you and I saw the films you actually made 359 00:15:35,184 --> 00:15:36,894 very professional. 360 00:15:36,894 --> 00:15:38,604 The acting and everything just well done. 361 00:15:38,604 --> 00:15:42,149 And this and this would hold up raving about you, your movie. 362 00:15:42,149 --> 00:15:44,860 The quality is just I mean, they, they they definitely go 363 00:15:44,860 --> 00:15:48,822 I a lot of my first movie that I made is not as good quality as my second. 364 00:15:48,822 --> 00:15:49,823 My seconds. I was just calling. 365 00:15:49,823 --> 00:15:53,035 I'm sure it's just like a you just learn and you keep getting better. 366 00:15:53,077 --> 00:15:56,163 You do like you know, depending on 367 00:15:56,372 --> 00:15:59,333 depending on the movie, like this movie is very, very low budget. 368 00:15:59,333 --> 00:16:00,626 Like we don't even have like a full crew. 369 00:16:00,626 --> 00:16:03,754 It's just like actors telling us, putting the story first 370 00:16:03,754 --> 00:16:05,839 instead of worrying about putting the pictures. 371 00:16:05,839 --> 00:16:08,842 Let me ask you something because I never thought of this question before. 372 00:16:09,426 --> 00:16:13,222 If you want to do a play and the play already exists, 373 00:16:13,222 --> 00:16:16,725 or was a movie like My Cousin Vinny, do you have to get right. 374 00:16:16,767 --> 00:16:17,309 Yeah. 375 00:16:17,309 --> 00:16:20,437 You do like Terms of Endearment already had an adaptation 376 00:16:20,437 --> 00:16:21,647 that you can get the rights to. 377 00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:22,064 Okay. 378 00:16:22,064 --> 00:16:25,651 So, misery are with a play that already got 379 00:16:26,235 --> 00:16:29,405 made into something, and that's what I did for our cabaret, our name. 380 00:16:29,780 --> 00:16:32,199 And we did that. That was like a big one. 381 00:16:32,199 --> 00:16:33,367 That was huge. 382 00:16:33,367 --> 00:16:34,284 That was insane. 383 00:16:34,284 --> 00:16:36,120 And I was working on Neil Fuentes, 384 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,498 who runs the tech and directs the Broadway shows. 385 00:16:40,124 --> 00:16:43,210 I directed the show, and then he came in and just designed everything around it, 386 00:16:43,544 --> 00:16:47,589 and we learned during the process that, like, 387 00:16:48,215 --> 00:16:51,051 we are, we we know like we we don't. 388 00:16:51,051 --> 00:16:52,803 We have the same vision. Yeah, almost every time. 389 00:16:52,803 --> 00:16:55,806 Like if I say, you know what we should do, we'd be like, yeah, we should do this. 390 00:16:55,889 --> 00:16:57,224 You're the yin to his yang. 391 00:16:57,224 --> 00:16:59,393 We're just like, we know. Like, right. He goes, okay. 392 00:16:59,393 --> 00:17:01,937 And he doesn't really know. What about this? I'll be like, yes. 393 00:17:01,937 --> 00:17:03,856 Like we work really well. 394 00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:06,108 And then there's another adaptation. 395 00:17:06,108 --> 00:17:06,608 That's all. 396 00:17:06,608 --> 00:17:07,151 That was a play. 397 00:17:07,151 --> 00:17:10,946 First, we took together, I rarely co-direct with Neil, 398 00:17:10,946 --> 00:17:12,990 and I work so well together. 399 00:17:12,990 --> 00:17:15,242 We're doing steel Magnolias. Wow. 400 00:17:16,410 --> 00:17:19,413 So, yeah, my wife's gonna love that. 401 00:17:19,621 --> 00:17:21,123 Yeah. That's right. 402 00:17:21,123 --> 00:17:22,583 On with the show. 403 00:17:22,583 --> 00:17:23,625 Wow. Yeah. 404 00:17:23,625 --> 00:17:26,170 So we're doing that next. That's going to be the next best. 405 00:17:26,170 --> 00:17:29,173 We're following up misery with Steel Magnolias, and then 406 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:33,093 they're doing, we're we're doing, school of Rock and. 407 00:17:33,469 --> 00:17:36,472 Oh, my goodness, that's going to be so much fun. 408 00:17:36,847 --> 00:17:38,015 I want to see that. 409 00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:38,182 Yeah. 410 00:17:38,182 --> 00:17:40,809 That's, Cabaret on Main Broadway, 411 00:17:40,809 --> 00:17:43,645 and it's running so you can do all the music, everything. 412 00:17:43,645 --> 00:17:45,230 You have full rights? 413 00:17:45,230 --> 00:17:45,439 Yeah. 414 00:17:45,439 --> 00:17:50,486 So Billy is the owner of where I work, and, he he's running everything. 415 00:17:50,527 --> 00:17:50,986 The producer. 416 00:17:50,986 --> 00:17:53,989 So you have to go on a website and there's a couple of, 417 00:17:54,364 --> 00:17:57,326 sites that have the rights to these shows, and, 418 00:17:57,785 --> 00:18:01,497 they you just get permission to buy the rights, like. 419 00:18:01,497 --> 00:18:03,082 And then you have a certain time to do it. 420 00:18:03,082 --> 00:18:05,584 They give you the rehearsal material. You can't change anything. 421 00:18:05,584 --> 00:18:06,502 You can. 422 00:18:06,502 --> 00:18:07,836 You have to make sure it's to the TV 423 00:18:07,836 --> 00:18:11,465 because they're giving you this to perform it in somebody else's, like property. 424 00:18:11,799 --> 00:18:14,384 And then they got the rights for school rock, and they do this for the rock. 425 00:18:14,384 --> 00:18:14,635 Yeah. 426 00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:17,054 So many kids fight for that front you. 427 00:18:17,054 --> 00:18:18,847 They don't get a percentage. 428 00:18:18,847 --> 00:18:21,934 Yeah, we pay for it upfront and then you get the estimate. 429 00:18:21,934 --> 00:18:24,978 Like we have this many people in our seats. 430 00:18:24,978 --> 00:18:26,230 We have this many performances. 431 00:18:26,230 --> 00:18:28,315 So it's usually like this much amount for performance 432 00:18:28,315 --> 00:18:30,943 depending on your ticket sales and how many people you have. 433 00:18:30,943 --> 00:18:31,610 Oh what. 434 00:18:31,610 --> 00:18:35,030 And I h we've been trying to get those rights for. 435 00:18:35,364 --> 00:18:38,867 Well now you played Frankie Valli in Jersey boys ago. 436 00:18:40,202 --> 00:18:41,245 It was called. 437 00:18:41,245 --> 00:18:41,870 There was two of them. 438 00:18:41,870 --> 00:18:43,580 One was called. Oh, what a night. 439 00:18:43,580 --> 00:18:45,958 There's also another. 440 00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:47,876 Oh, what a night somewhere that's still going on. 441 00:18:47,876 --> 00:18:48,961 But we called ours over tonight. 442 00:18:48,961 --> 00:18:51,630 But the big one we did was on the Jersey experience. 443 00:18:51,630 --> 00:18:53,048 Oh, like, 444 00:18:53,048 --> 00:18:56,385 it really was like you were sitting in, like, a lounge singing place with. 445 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,846 That. Must have been awesome stories. 446 00:18:58,846 --> 00:19:00,347 And we just did all the songs. 447 00:19:00,347 --> 00:19:02,599 About this one thing and created the jersey. 448 00:19:02,599 --> 00:19:05,602 Yeah, because I love Jersey boys, and definitely it's my favorite thing ever. 449 00:19:05,936 --> 00:19:08,188 And I saw it 32 times on 32. 450 00:19:08,188 --> 00:19:09,314 That's good. 451 00:19:09,314 --> 00:19:11,650 I live there and it was like $27 for student tickets. 452 00:19:11,650 --> 00:19:14,653 I went when I was in a bad mood. 453 00:19:14,778 --> 00:19:16,488 I love the I love the movie. And, 454 00:19:17,698 --> 00:19:18,782 it was my favorite thing ever. 455 00:19:18,782 --> 00:19:21,869 And, so when I was working on a theater company 456 00:19:21,869 --> 00:19:25,038 in Florida, you know, like, let's do a Jersey boys show, we can't do Jersey. 457 00:19:25,038 --> 00:19:25,831 It was the right idea. 458 00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:27,541 But let's there's so many, so many people do. 459 00:19:27,541 --> 00:19:28,917 Jersey striptease. Let's do it. 460 00:19:28,917 --> 00:19:31,336 Yeah. I did it for like two years. And there's one. 461 00:19:31,336 --> 00:19:32,004 Wow. What? 462 00:19:32,004 --> 00:19:34,173 Who else would you like to play if you had the opportunity? 463 00:19:34,173 --> 00:19:36,466 Yeah, like a person in real life. 464 00:19:36,466 --> 00:19:37,509 Sure. Like maybe. 465 00:19:37,509 --> 00:19:43,265 Maybe if you were going to do it, I would love to play Billy Joel. 466 00:19:43,265 --> 00:19:45,392 If I can play the piano like him. 467 00:19:45,392 --> 00:19:47,352 Yeah, a little bit. Not like that. 468 00:19:47,352 --> 00:19:48,395 Yeah, yeah. 469 00:19:48,395 --> 00:19:49,271 There's one. 470 00:19:49,271 --> 00:19:51,440 I played a lot of roles that I've already done. 471 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,860 I would like dream roles, but, I could do is Billy Joel. 472 00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:55,319 Yeah, 473 00:19:56,528 --> 00:19:59,239 right. 474 00:19:59,239 --> 00:20:01,533 There's one role that really 475 00:20:01,533 --> 00:20:02,784 the Catholic Academy. 476 00:20:02,784 --> 00:20:03,577 Oh, yes. 477 00:20:03,577 --> 00:20:06,580 Yes. Yeah. 478 00:20:07,247 --> 00:20:10,542 But my movie is, amazing role in that. 479 00:20:10,709 --> 00:20:13,712 Yeah. Yeah. That was a great movie. 480 00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:14,338 Yeah. 481 00:20:14,338 --> 00:20:15,172 That was a remake too. 482 00:20:15,172 --> 00:20:17,299 That wasn't, it wasn't an original of Cashman. 483 00:20:17,299 --> 00:20:19,218 The musical was the adaptation of the movie. 484 00:20:19,218 --> 00:20:21,595 Right. Okay. Yeah. 485 00:20:21,595 --> 00:20:22,512 But I'm stuck on it. 486 00:20:22,512 --> 00:20:25,557 And so what about people who, whatever 487 00:20:25,557 --> 00:20:28,560 their age, old or younger, is 488 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,270 getting into acting? 489 00:20:30,270 --> 00:20:33,357 Because I don't think there should be an age cutoff for that. 490 00:20:33,357 --> 00:20:36,276 Because you always need characters, right? Yeah. 491 00:20:36,276 --> 00:20:36,818 It doesn't matter. 492 00:20:36,818 --> 00:20:38,904 Like, any, like, just because, you know, you're 493 00:20:38,904 --> 00:20:41,323 tall as when you have to play tall people, you know, they have to. 494 00:20:41,323 --> 00:20:42,574 Anybody can play anything. 495 00:20:42,574 --> 00:20:46,954 And, I think, like, I teach acting at New Haven Academy, informing arts. 496 00:20:47,329 --> 00:20:51,541 I, I do classes, twice a week and, three times a week. 497 00:20:51,541 --> 00:20:53,126 Actually, I teach teenagers as well. 498 00:20:53,126 --> 00:20:54,920 And I've noticed that some people just come in 499 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,130 because they just are interested and interested. Right. 500 00:20:57,130 --> 00:21:01,009 And they come in and they and I give them the training that I, you know, was given 501 00:21:01,009 --> 00:21:04,012 and all the stuff that I was doing, whether on film or stage 502 00:21:04,054 --> 00:21:06,807 and it just they end up loving it. 503 00:21:06,807 --> 00:21:09,059 They come back, they, they do auditions and stuff 504 00:21:09,059 --> 00:21:13,230 and that's just, a thing that people have an interest for. 505 00:21:13,230 --> 00:21:16,024 And they go do it. And, safe space to learn. Yeah. 506 00:21:16,024 --> 00:21:20,237 To just try and do first the first round of people who never even thought of it 507 00:21:20,487 --> 00:21:23,740 and just said, this might be fun, are actually now going out and auditioning 508 00:21:23,907 --> 00:21:24,658 and getting parts. 509 00:21:24,658 --> 00:21:27,619 And oh, yeah, they're like, let me see if this works for me. 510 00:21:27,619 --> 00:21:28,996 And it's like, oh, it does. 511 00:21:28,996 --> 00:21:33,333 So that's what yeah, there's something about playing the role and doing that. 512 00:21:33,333 --> 00:21:38,255 I remember playing a lot of, of roles in high school, college, community theater. 513 00:21:38,797 --> 00:21:42,175 They're not make players, which are, well known here in Connecticut. 514 00:21:42,634 --> 00:21:43,677 And I and I loved it. 515 00:21:43,677 --> 00:21:45,929 I remember my mom, God rest her soul, 516 00:21:45,929 --> 00:21:49,558 when I learned how to learn my lines, she would always read me my cue. 517 00:21:49,933 --> 00:21:52,769 So when I was in high school and college, I go home 518 00:21:52,769 --> 00:21:56,064 and we go into the room at night, and she'd be reading my cues and I just, 519 00:21:56,106 --> 00:21:58,358 you know, be oh, okay, blah, blah, blah, blah. 520 00:21:58,358 --> 00:22:01,069 But my mom, thank goodness every time I did a show, 521 00:22:01,069 --> 00:22:02,195 she was there to help me with it. 522 00:22:03,196 --> 00:22:05,324 And then you become that character. 523 00:22:05,324 --> 00:22:07,117 You think, how are you going to memorize all this? 524 00:22:07,117 --> 00:22:09,119 You look at the script, you just do. 525 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,122 And when you're put in that situation up on stage with all the other actors, 526 00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:14,041 it becomes who you are. 527 00:22:14,041 --> 00:22:15,876 You become that person. 528 00:22:15,876 --> 00:22:17,878 And then you were saying before, I like, 529 00:22:17,878 --> 00:22:19,046 you know, how do you memorize all those lines? 530 00:22:19,046 --> 00:22:20,756 Like, that's the one thing 531 00:22:20,756 --> 00:22:24,384 everybody asks that actor, like, how do you memorize on stage of his life? 532 00:22:24,634 --> 00:22:27,596 And for me, it's it's like, you know, like 533 00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:30,223 I can tell you a long joke with a good punchline. 534 00:22:30,223 --> 00:22:32,100 If you really like a joke made you laugh. 535 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:35,771 Tomorrow you can go tell your friend that same joke that you are. 536 00:22:35,771 --> 00:22:37,898 Oh, I got to tell you this joke. Yes. 537 00:22:37,898 --> 00:22:38,565 Right, right. 538 00:22:38,565 --> 00:22:40,817 Because as long as you know where it's going, right? 539 00:22:40,817 --> 00:22:42,152 Don't you know the punch line? 540 00:22:42,152 --> 00:22:44,237 You can get there that way. 541 00:22:44,237 --> 00:22:45,906 I always tell people, like 542 00:22:45,906 --> 00:22:48,867 when it's a play and there's no music, it's just dialog and dialog. 543 00:22:49,117 --> 00:22:52,120 It's not about memorizing lines, about memorizing the conversation. 544 00:22:52,621 --> 00:22:55,332 So like my line make sure you say that. 545 00:22:55,332 --> 00:22:57,334 And I know when you say that my response is that. 546 00:22:57,334 --> 00:23:00,087 So like it's about memorizing the memorizing. 547 00:23:00,087 --> 00:23:01,296 Everyone does it in a different way. 548 00:23:01,296 --> 00:23:01,630 Yeah. 549 00:23:01,630 --> 00:23:03,382 But it's about memorizing the stories, 550 00:23:03,382 --> 00:23:05,008 memorizing what these characters are going through. 551 00:23:05,008 --> 00:23:07,969 I want you to just do it over and over again. It just. 552 00:23:08,970 --> 00:23:11,306 And it really wasn't as difficult as I thought. 553 00:23:11,306 --> 00:23:14,893 You know, even if it was a lot of, you know, a lot of dialog because, 554 00:23:14,893 --> 00:23:16,770 I mean, I had a lot of roles where I was the lead 555 00:23:16,770 --> 00:23:20,357 role and I had a lot of a lot of that, and for the 556 00:23:21,608 --> 00:23:23,276 well written and everything falls. 557 00:23:23,276 --> 00:23:24,194 Yeah. 558 00:23:24,194 --> 00:23:25,404 Awesome. Right? 559 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:27,489 I we did Glengarry Glen Ross, that's David Mamet. 560 00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:30,659 He's known for so many words and so many. Yes. 561 00:23:31,076 --> 00:23:32,536 Back and forth. Quick, quick quick quick. 562 00:23:32,536 --> 00:23:33,870 Do I even like the little stutters? 563 00:23:33,870 --> 00:23:35,539 Need to be precise. 564 00:23:35,539 --> 00:23:35,789 Yeah. 565 00:23:35,789 --> 00:23:39,084 That like people just when they start to, when they start doing it, 566 00:23:39,543 --> 00:23:42,546 you know, it's just becomes like a second nature. 567 00:23:42,629 --> 00:23:44,756 And instead of memorizing, oh, what am I saying? 568 00:23:44,756 --> 00:23:46,049 What are the words like this? 569 00:23:46,049 --> 00:23:47,551 It's more like, 570 00:23:47,551 --> 00:23:50,554 I'm on this roll with these lines, and then this guy's going to come in, 571 00:23:50,554 --> 00:23:51,263 then I'm going to go over. 572 00:23:51,263 --> 00:23:54,266 It's just it's just memorizing, just acting it just memorizing, 573 00:23:54,391 --> 00:23:58,353 being in the moment instead of worrying about, you know, what lines I'm saying 574 00:23:58,478 --> 00:24:01,648 now, are you one of those directors is really strict about the script. 575 00:24:01,648 --> 00:24:03,942 Are you do you do you give your players a little? 576 00:24:03,942 --> 00:24:06,862 Are your actors a little bit of flexibility as possible? Okay. 577 00:24:08,071 --> 00:24:11,074 Depending on the kind of the Clint Eastwood approach, my favorite. 578 00:24:11,158 --> 00:24:14,744 And I mean, my movies, I people are like, 579 00:24:15,245 --> 00:24:19,332 I remember I had a, the lead in sandstone, the first of all 580 00:24:19,332 --> 00:24:23,044 he did with me, he he was like, he's not giving me any direction. 581 00:24:23,044 --> 00:24:24,004 I don't know what's going on. 582 00:24:24,004 --> 00:24:27,382 And then, like, he realized, oh, he'll say something if something's not going well. 583 00:24:27,591 --> 00:24:32,137 So something on sandstone that was like it didn't tell me and direction, 584 00:24:32,137 --> 00:24:36,433 but like, he was moving on and he's like, if Nick doesn't say anything, it's fine. 585 00:24:36,516 --> 00:24:36,850 Yeah. 586 00:24:36,850 --> 00:24:40,645 So like right now, because I like to have everybody breathe. 587 00:24:40,729 --> 00:24:43,565 Yes. Do it themselves and see what comes out of that. 588 00:24:43,565 --> 00:24:46,318 If I really need something to be precise, I'll tell em. 589 00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:48,987 I like just throwing the camera up and just, like, getting raw and stuff. 590 00:24:48,987 --> 00:24:51,573 Yeah. You know, it's really interesting. 591 00:24:51,573 --> 00:24:52,532 Wow. And, 592 00:24:53,867 --> 00:24:55,535 But yeah, but when it comes to a play, depending 593 00:24:55,535 --> 00:24:58,955 especially depending on the, you know, what rights company you get them. 594 00:24:58,955 --> 00:25:01,541 So most of them are really strict about like you can't change it. 595 00:25:01,541 --> 00:25:02,834 Can't change it. 596 00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:05,462 But like David Mamet can't change it. 597 00:25:05,462 --> 00:25:07,547 You know, but sometimes if something's funny comes up 598 00:25:07,547 --> 00:25:08,965 and they want to add something a little bit. 599 00:25:08,965 --> 00:25:11,968 Sure, but like, but usually, like, 600 00:25:13,303 --> 00:25:16,640 I don't care about, you know, it's all about what's around the lines. 601 00:25:16,848 --> 00:25:18,266 What's around the lines can be freedom. 602 00:25:18,266 --> 00:25:19,893 An interesting line. 603 00:25:19,893 --> 00:25:21,520 So it depends. I'm not a stickler. 604 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,523 If they paraphrase a line, I'm not gonna be like, 605 00:25:25,232 --> 00:25:26,816 like they're going to be doing this. 606 00:25:26,816 --> 00:25:29,486 They're on stage. They can't stop. Right? 607 00:25:29,486 --> 00:25:30,654 Because they're in the moment. 608 00:25:31,780 --> 00:25:32,489 Right? 609 00:25:32,489 --> 00:25:32,989 That happens. 610 00:25:32,989 --> 00:25:33,865 You know, like 611 00:25:33,865 --> 00:25:37,494 some people are very particular about it, but I'm not as articulate about it. 612 00:25:37,494 --> 00:25:38,995 A lot of people, depending on what it is, 613 00:25:38,995 --> 00:25:41,498 if it's something that needs to be said a certain way, that's different. 614 00:25:41,498 --> 00:25:43,166 Yeah. But sometimes people paraphrase. It's not. 615 00:25:43,166 --> 00:25:46,336 It's not a favorite movie of all time, said a woman, 616 00:25:47,963 --> 00:25:50,966 Al Pacino, who is the guy who played with. 617 00:25:50,966 --> 00:25:52,801 No, I mean with Al Pacino. Who's that young guy? 618 00:25:52,801 --> 00:25:55,845 Whether he was great, forgot his name 619 00:25:57,097 --> 00:25:58,348 was something. 620 00:25:58,348 --> 00:26:01,059 Yeah, yeah, that was a great movie. 621 00:26:01,059 --> 00:26:03,478 Oh, I love that movie too. 622 00:26:03,478 --> 00:26:04,563 It's one of my favorites. 623 00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:07,190 Field of dreams, Kevin Costner. 624 00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:09,651 Yeah, yeah, I'd like to. Notebook for men. 625 00:26:09,651 --> 00:26:12,028 That's a good one, right? You like that? 626 00:26:12,028 --> 00:26:14,614 You know, if I had to pick one that I could watch over and over 627 00:26:14,614 --> 00:26:18,618 because of the dialog, it's the man who came to him, right? 628 00:26:19,286 --> 00:26:21,621 Yeah, yeah, it's classic. 629 00:26:22,872 --> 00:26:25,208 He was a professor at Yale. 630 00:26:25,208 --> 00:26:29,462 He did the part in the play, and I think he might have been 631 00:26:29,462 --> 00:26:31,214 the only one that was brought over to the movie. 632 00:26:31,214 --> 00:26:32,424 But wow. 633 00:26:32,424 --> 00:26:37,721 If the dialog of that is quick, quick witted and it doesn't even get old, 634 00:26:37,721 --> 00:26:40,724 even though he's speaking to Eleanor Roosevelt. 635 00:26:41,891 --> 00:26:42,892 Yeah, 636 00:26:42,892 --> 00:26:45,895 I heard I heard Nick's also working on another project, too. 637 00:26:45,937 --> 00:26:47,814 But these two people do a podcast. 638 00:26:47,814 --> 00:26:49,482 It's kind of like the morning show. 639 00:26:49,482 --> 00:26:52,110 You know? Right. 640 00:26:52,110 --> 00:26:53,737 Exactly. Exactly. 641 00:26:53,737 --> 00:26:55,030 Happened on that exact. 642 00:26:55,030 --> 00:26:55,905 That's right. 643 00:26:55,905 --> 00:26:58,908 But, well, their names are, 644 00:26:58,950 --> 00:27:01,953 Joey and Jay. 645 00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:03,788 But we have to have you come back again. 646 00:27:03,788 --> 00:27:04,914 There's just too much here. 647 00:27:04,914 --> 00:27:07,917 Especially when the new projects come out to keep us up to date. 648 00:27:08,335 --> 00:27:11,921 And, we appreciate you being a part of this podcast from day one. 649 00:27:11,921 --> 00:27:13,089 Nick, you unselfishly help 650 00:27:13,089 --> 00:27:17,344 Joyce and I came up with, with a name is in my next movie. 651 00:27:17,677 --> 00:27:20,305 Oh, it is really? 652 00:27:20,305 --> 00:27:22,265 Whoa. That's nice. 653 00:27:22,265 --> 00:27:25,435 You can see, like, like up front and center, what's good. But, 654 00:27:27,479 --> 00:27:28,355 Yeah. 655 00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:30,565 Oh, the thing is, you know, quite frankly, the royal, 656 00:27:30,565 --> 00:27:33,652 the royalties from what's good since he came up with the name that we pay 657 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:36,655 Nick is financing a lot of his movies. 658 00:27:36,988 --> 00:27:39,908 I get paid. 659 00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:42,911 It's funny because. 660 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,122 The guy picks up two mugs, and one of them is the what's good money, right? 661 00:27:46,498 --> 00:27:48,958 And then, like, the one next to it, is it? 662 00:27:48,958 --> 00:27:49,626 Oh, no. 663 00:27:49,626 --> 00:27:52,295 Hahahahaha. Yeah. 664 00:27:52,295 --> 00:27:53,171 There you go. 665 00:27:53,171 --> 00:27:56,716 Well, hey, thank you so much for, you know, watching 666 00:27:56,716 --> 00:27:58,051 listening to What's Good with John. 667 00:27:58,051 --> 00:27:59,886 Enjoy his subscribe any time on YouTube. 668 00:27:59,886 --> 00:28:03,056 Share it with a friend who needs a pick me up 30 minutes every week. 669 00:28:03,306 --> 00:28:04,724 Like to thank all of our sponsors. 670 00:28:04,724 --> 00:28:07,102 Thank you. And Nick, thank you so much for being here. 671 00:28:07,102 --> 00:28:08,853 Continued success. 672 00:28:08,853 --> 00:28:10,980 And we just appreciate you and you're welcome here. 673 00:28:10,980 --> 00:28:13,024 Any time. All right. 674 00:28:13,024 --> 00:28:14,734 Till next time I'm John Cadillac Seville. 675 00:28:14,734 --> 00:28:17,070 And who are you? I have I don't know, 676 00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:19,155 Joe, I so we love you. 677 00:28:19,155 --> 00:28:22,242 Bye. Hey, I heard you got engaged. 678 00:28:22,283 --> 00:28:23,451 Congratulations. 679 00:28:23,451 --> 00:28:25,286 Now it's time to book the DJ. 680 00:28:25,286 --> 00:28:26,246 And that's where we come in. 681 00:28:26,246 --> 00:28:28,915 Hi, I'm John Cadillac, Seville with John Seville entertainment. 682 00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:32,293 Wedding wire and the knot 2026 Couples Choice Awards winner. 683 00:28:32,293 --> 00:28:33,712 You can call me directly if you'd like it. 684 00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:36,047 (200) 398-8065 eight. 685 00:28:36,047 --> 00:28:39,551 We'll set up your free consultation or go to John cashman.com. 686 00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:44,013 That's (203) 988-0658 or John cashman.com. 687 00:28:44,013 --> 00:28:47,225 We offer excellent peace of mind and a great time 688 00:28:47,225 --> 00:28:51,229 for all John Seville Entertainment a name you know and can trust.