WEBVTT - Amanda Kloots Finds Silver Linings 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.400 This is Alec Baldwin and you were listening to hear 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.520 the thing from My Heart Radio. You may know the 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:13.840 name Amanda Clutes from the daily social media dispatches she 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.920 released while her husband, Nick Cordero, Broadway star and Tony nominee, 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:24.079 battled COVID in early a fight he sadly lost in 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.880 July of that year. But she did not take these 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:32.080 events lying down or spend her time idly after his passing. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:37.879 Amanda Clutes is a woman of boundless positivity and innumerable talents. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:42.879 She's a dancer, fitness entrepreneur, and television co host of 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:47.320 The Talk on CBS. Clutes was also a contestant on 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.440 Dancing with the Stars, and she's the author of Live 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.480 Your Life, My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.400 All of this on top of being a single mom 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.160 to her young son Elvis, to what had Frankly, Amanda 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.880 Clutes is a force. I wanted to know how this 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:09.440 Broadway veteran and longtime New York resident made her transition 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:14.360 to Sonny, Los Angeles. I had spent some time out here. 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.360 I had done the national tour straight out here. I 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.440 had done the national tour of Young Frankenstein through um 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.199 Los Angeles. I had done two productions at the Hollywood Bowl, 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.640 so I had spent some summer weeks over in the 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.360 summer here, so and ironically had always wanted to live 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:36.200 in l A. And then you know, um, the weather, 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.319 the lifestyle, but always just seemed like, you know, one day, 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.480 I think I'd love to live in Los Angeles. But 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.480 then when I got pregnant and we were living in 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.720 New York, and my fitness business was thriving in New 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.000 York and Nick was unemployed. He could not get a 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.200 job to save his life. So our income relied on 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.120 my fitness business. As I was pregnant, and then my 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.400 mom and dad lived across the hall from us, and 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.160 my sisters, Yes, and my sisters were down the streets. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.920 So in the city, in the city. What were your 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:09.880 parents doing in the city because you were pregnant, they 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:11.840 came to stay with you. Yeah, and my sister had 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.880 a baby too. You know, they're retired and they wanted 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.399 to be close to their daughters and their new grandchildren. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.760 And you know, from being a parent, like you need help. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.120 And so I was like, Nick, I don't think this 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.320 is the right time to move. You know, you're unemployed. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.760 All of our income is here. Everybody you know that 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.839 could possibly give you a job is here. You don't 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:38.000 know anybody in l A. But he was so insistent 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.520 on wanting to do music and needing to be in 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.320 Los Angeles for music, and so it got to the 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.320 point where, you know, we kept fighting about it, and 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.960 I knew, because I know my husband, I was like, 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.519 if I don't let him do this, you know, we 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.720 gotta try. We can always go back to New York. 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.400 New York is always here, you know, New York never changes. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:58.920 And so I thought, you know, okay, we just we 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.400 give a shot. And I was hoping, you know, wouldn't 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.480 work out and we would move back to New York. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.360 Why why that's interesting. I thought you said you wanted 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.280 to be there, I know, but just with with a 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.920 child and being close to family, I just was thinking, 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.160 you know, I just hope that we go out to 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.760 l A, figure out that it's not the right time 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.840 at the moment, and we get to come back to 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.360 New York. And your parents relocated there permanently, um, pretty 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.920 much not. They didn't sell their home in Ohio, but 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.400 they had rented for a year an apartment, and then 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.240 we're going to renew their lease. Nick and I found 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:37.400 our apartment in a building that used to be a 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:42.320 women's dormitory and they were converting it into apartments. So 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.800 we found this apartment, and the landlord had no idea 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.480 what he had, but you know, I've been in I 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.240 was in New Yorker for eighteen years at that point, 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.120 and I was like, Nick, we're getting this apartment right now. 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.600 And the one across the hall was also being renovated. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.280 And I was like, and my mom and dad they're 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.160 getting that apartment. They don't know it, but they're getting 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.400 that apartment. And it was so dirt cheap you would 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.240 not even believe for a two bedroom to bath on 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.520 sixty Central Park West. And so my parents luckily were 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.240 able to rent out the place across the hall from us. 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:12.640 So that's where we were. Your parents now they're back 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.640 in Ohio. They went home. Well, when COVID happened, you know, 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.800 they went they went home. Yeah, they got out of 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.440 their lease and and drove back to Ohio. But you 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.000 were a visitor there. You were a visitor in l A. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.239 You know, I visited then I went out there for 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.440 like a pilot season in the eighties, and then I 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.200 lived out there. I had an address out there for 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.479 thirty years, and I lived out there, and I was 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.960 one of the great l A haters of all time. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.400 And then I hated because I hated driving. In New York. 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.480 You walk, you a taxi, no uber back then, but 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.280 you don't take the subway. Obviously, everybody took the subway. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.880 And I didn't like to drive. I hated to drive. 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.560 And I've made peace with l A. I don't hate 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.960 it anymore. But uh, when you're there, it's a quick 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.600 commute to the studio. Oh it's the best. Critical, It's critical. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.240 And I didn't even realize how critical that was. I mean, honestly, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.000 this job, at the talk, I feel like, was just 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.800 you know, a gift, such a blessing. I mean, I 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.120 I can take my son to school and then I 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.000 go to my job. I get to talk to really 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.360 fun people and be in a great community every day, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.680 and then I, you know, I'm home in the afternoon 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.159 for my son after he gets home from school. I mean, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:32.080 it's it's exactly, it's laughable to talk. Come wants to talk, 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.080 and I'm like, that's all I've done today, I don't 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:35.760 want to talk anymore. I don't want to tell me. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.920 How was your day? Yeah, what's going on? Baby? What happened? 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.080 How's pre school? Tell me about Yeah, tell me all 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.640 about it. When you get this job, you hadn't done 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.960 anything like this before, correct, No, not really. I mean 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.600 the casting director at the talk reached out to my 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.880 friend who contacted me, and I said, I'll hand them 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.480 over to my manager at the time, and and then 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.000 they came back and said, we're going to test her 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.520 for ten episodes. And you know, at the time, they 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.560 were looking for Marie Osmond's replacement. And so it came 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.840 out of nowhere. It literally came out of nowhere. Now 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.000 I had I had done some hosting stuff. I was 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.919 a dessert critic for six years of my life in 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.000 New York City, and I had filmed some pilots for 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:22.240 hosting dessert shows with Food Network. A dessert critic. Yeah, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.240 could you like stick your spoon into a lot of 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:30.440 key line pies? And I don't know exactly kidding. No, 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.159 I was sent desserts. I was sent to restaurants all 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:38.719 over the world and reviewed dessert It was a good job. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.800 It was not a bad job, and I balanced it 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.440 out with teaching fitness and being on Broadway. So it 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.279 was you know, I you know, joked that I would 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.080 have my cake and eat it too, and that was, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.960 you know, all good. So you've done some hosting, yeah, 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.160 but I mean, don't you think alec when you do 0:06:55.360 --> 0:07:00.200 I mean I did Broadway for seventeen years, and mean 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:04.040 when you do that, it kind of prepares you for 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.520 anything in life in a way. I mean you get 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.440 to a point where you know you're at an audition, 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.440 can you do this, and you just say yes. You know, 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.720 You're like yes, because you realize you gotta learn on 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.400 the spot. You gotta say yes in order to get 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:16.880 a job, and you just got to learn and teach 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.679 yourself as you go. So I mean when the talk 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.440 reached out, I was I was super excited and nervous, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.080 but also kind of like, you know, I I had 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.120 done morning shows, I had done talk shows. I had 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.520 done talk shows for Broadway from my fitness business, So 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.520 it wasn't like, yeah, and I had worked with because 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.760 of Broadway. I had worked with a lot of celebrity 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:41.560 celebrity directors. You know, it wasn't necessarily something that was 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.400 very foreign to me. You know, it didn't feel like, 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.360 oh my god, what am I doing? This is? You know, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.400 it just felt kind of like a new home. They 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.800 were auditioning a lot of people, I know, like Rumor 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.880 Willis was another UM person that they were looking closely at, 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.640 and you know, she looks nothing like me, so I 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.720 didn't know what they wanted. And Elaine welter Roth, who 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.840 who eventually got the job as well, they were auditioning 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.920 her a lot too, and she's a beautiful black woman. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.480 So I was really unsure and I shocked when I 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.840 got the job. I really was, Yeah, you did the 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.760 ten episodes I did, and how they go? Well? I 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.040 ended up doing fifteen, so I felt like they did great. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:27.120 Have that many doubts about it, Bob, I'm not so sure. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.040 She really can't talk very well. It's called the talk, 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.439 by the way. She can't talk No. But you know, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.040 I mean, you just you never feel like you can 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.720 be certain that you got the job until you get 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.080 the call that you got the job. And it was 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.040 so funny because I'm not used to this TV world. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.559 And so when my manager and lawyer called me and 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.640 they downplayed it at first, and then they told me 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.560 that I got the job, and I of course was 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:57.160 super excited. And then afterwards I ended up calling Zach 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.600 Braff and he goes, Amanda, just a heads up, Hollywood, 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.559 if your lawyer and your manager calls you, it's always 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.520 a good side. As I go, okay, I was like, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.280 I didn't know that. He was like, you always thought 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.640 your lawyer on the phone. He's like, that's a good 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:19.319 side of the deal, Amanda Clutes. If you enjoy conversations 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.800 with vibrant talk show hosts, check out my episode with 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.240 Rosie O'donnald. The club owner called me again, Richie and said, 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:27.760 come back. Why don't you come back? You were good 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.400 that first night. And so I come back and I 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.600 do sign fields act almost verbade him and I get 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.200 off stage and Ritchie and a bunch of other comics 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.200 are standing around said, wod you get that material? I said, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.840 this guy named Jerry who was on MERV Griffin yesterday. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:40.600 They go, You're not allowed to do that. I'm like, 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.320 why not? You have to write your own jokes and like, 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.800 wait a minute, strikes and doesn't write her own song? 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.280 Didn't did you do well? Did the audience like of course? 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.800 And they didn't you hear those? Because they were laughing 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.280 jokes a joke. I have to write the jokes and nuts. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.280 To hear more of my conversation with the versatile Rosie 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:03.720 O'donnald go to Here's the Thing dot org. After the break, 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.600 Amanda Clutes reveals the musical theater role from her days 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:25.439 in Ohio that sealed her fate. I'm Alec Baldwin and 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.800 you're listening to Here's the Thing. Amanda Clutes, best telling 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:34.160 author and fitness entrepreneur, landed a hosting gig on CBS 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:39.080 as The Talk in January. We spoke about the enormous 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.120 amount of prep work that goes into making a daily 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.360 television show. The day breaks down. We start with an 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:50.880 eight thirty AM zoom with the cast and our producers. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.640 They kind of run through, you know, we talk about 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.959 topics before we get into the interviews of the celebrities, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.560 so we run through those topics and as soon as 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.520 that end, then we are on calls pretty much until 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.120 we walk out on set with other producers about the 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.200 guest we have on what they're promoting, what we're talking about, 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.120 and we're on meetings up until so I'm getting here 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.440 and makeup done. But I'm on meetings up until I 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.040 walk out on stage, so you feel very very prepared. Now. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.840 The night before, your inboxes flooded with emails and links 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.960 to the screeners. If there is somebody that's promoting a book, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.080 we got that book last week, so it's you know, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.320 it's up to you to do your intelligence. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.920 I mean, the good thing I will say about the 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.600 talk is that it's fun that there's five of us, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.319 because it does take the pressure off of feeling like 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.400 you have to know everything or you have to prepare everything. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.840 It it's nice to be able to bounce off of 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.040 each other like a real conversation would if you were 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.559 sitting at home with a group of friends. So that 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.920 does help. But the more you're educated, obviously, the better 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.160 for you. Does Amanda cludes come to Hollywood to do 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.240 the talk show and someone else is deciding how you 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.840 wear your hay, what clothes you wear, how much makeup 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.680 you wear. Is there a lot of hands on there 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.520 or you're on your own? No, I have a whole team, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.680 which is thank god, and they're doing everything for me 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.240 while I'm on these producer calls. But I mean, I 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.320 definitely have say, and what I wear and what I 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.720 look like? No one holding up something with some little 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.320 bo peep costume and going and you're going, now I'm 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.040 walking unless they are, And then I go, absolutely no, 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.040 I'm not. I'm not wearing that today. What else have 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.679 we got? It's interesting, how you know? When I first started, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.679 it was the last gasps of an old Hollywood. I 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.080 remember doing the movie Hunt for Red October. We shot 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:43.480 ane and I was in a chair and four men 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.240 that were producers and executs from Paramount were standing there 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:51.240 talking about what Claire roll number beaver I needed to 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.480 have my the brown of my hair. Four men were 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.240 sitting there smoking cigarettes. It all smoked back then in public, 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.400 and they were like, I think it's forty seven, franc 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:03.040 I'm gonna we go with number forty seven, Beava forty seven. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.080 I was like, I don't know, Jerry, thirty nine looks right. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.200 I think we should go with shade light at thirty nine. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.839 And I'm sitting in a chair going I had no idea. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.520 It was really like this. I feel like I'm Clark Gable. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.600 I mean, they're all talking about they're all getting all 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.880 hot and bothered about my hair color and I mean, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.000 I kind of love that. Though all my friends moved 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.000 to l A in the nineties, some in the eighties, 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.040 like me. I started going out there in eighty three 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.120 for the first time, when I was very, very very young, 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.880 and but eventually all through the eighties and into the nineties, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.680 all my friends left New York and all my friends 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.720 are there. I got more friends in l A than 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.560 I do in New York. Is that the same for you? Yeah? 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.319 You know, well, I think COVID too. There was such 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.960 an exodus of people in New York. But I think 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.640 that was another reason I was really terrified about moving 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.240 to l A, especially being a new mom and knowing 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.240 that like life as like a young couple isn't the same. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.520 I was really worried about what you hear. You know, 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.520 you're lonely in l A. If you don't live by 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.120 your friends, you never see them. People make plans say 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.360 you know, everyone's fake and phony. And for some reason, Alec, 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.679 I don't know why, I have found just like the 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.440 best community here, especially the Laurel Canyon community, my neighbors, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.880 my friends here. I have a really, really wonderful group 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.600 of people around me. Amanda, are you saying you're smoking 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.320 a lot of pot making every night? Is that what 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.600 the Laurel Canyon thing is? Is that what you say? 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.360 Do you know what? I wish? I could tell you 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.160 that I don't smoke pot I have tried. It doesn't 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.680 it puts me right to sleep, So it's not something 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.640 for me. But you know, yeah, I have a little 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:38.120 bubble here, he said. And I do love the sunshine 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.920 and my lemon trees. And I just bought a vintage Broncos. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.560 So I was gonna ask you, what car are you driving? 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.240 Did you buy one of what I call the Kevin 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.480 Bacon Broncos. I don't know what's Kevin Bacon Bronco. Kevin 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.280 does a thing for oh May's for charity. When you 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.440 give the money, you're registered in the raffle. You give 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.000 the money to be in the raffle, and you get 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.840 like this, like super tricked out Bronco with like you know, 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.920 novelho blankets or the other fabric on the see all 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.080 those craziness, and I call the guy who makes him. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.960 I find that who he is. I call this number. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.800 He picks up the phone. I said, Hi, I'm Alec Baldwin. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.760 I see this thing with Kevin. He's like, yeah, yeah, 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.520 we did that car. Yes, sir, we did that car. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.480 It's a man. That car is so really awesome. I said, now, 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.160 do you make any more with this, like a one 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.760 off with the charity thing with Kevin? Are you making No. No, 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.320 we have a production line and we're doing the cars. 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.520 I said, Wow, that's amazing. So what are they running 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.280 for these cars? If you're selling these cars, what are 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.160 they running for? He was like, they weren't in About 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.440 on the low one like too sixty and behind about 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.160 And I literally like this little child like looking at 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:43.920 a toy in the window on fifth them and like 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:49.160 I'm like, Schwarts. I'm like, do you mean two sixty dollars. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.760 He's like, yes, yes, yes, that's exactly what I mean. 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.640 And I was like, oh wow, wow, I don't want 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.160 to bronco that, but you gotta trick that Bronco. Well, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.000 it is not that pensive, that's for sure. I found 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.360 a guy in Long Beach that found one for me 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.760 in Atlanta and he is making it tricked out for me, 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.280 but not that tricked out. It's just tricked out so 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:13.600 that I don't break down on the side of the 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.480 road because I have no business owning a vantage car. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.360 I have no business owning any season of the show. 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.920 Are you in now? I'm in season two, So yeah, 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.960 I was gonna say it's season two tricked out. You 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.440 have a different car Season five, Season five, it's gonna 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.920 be like solid gold steering wheel diamonds. There's a season 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.680 five car for all of us. But you've got a 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.800 lot of good pals out there. Yeah, you know, I 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.960 really do in a great mix of people. You know, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.480 people in the business, people not in the business, people 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.480 in the music business, lots of good people. I have 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.240 a great support system, if you don't mind my asking. 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.000 So when Nick passed away or his parents alive, his 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.720 mother is he lost his dad three years before, So 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.120 his poor mom lost her husband and then lost her son. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.320 How many other kids does she have? She has two 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.639 other kids that live very close to her, So that's 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:11.080 thank god. You stay in touch with her. Yeah, we 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.679 have a family FaceTime every Sunday where we get on 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.040 and and we face time. But you know, they're in Hamilton's, Canada, Ontario, 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.200 so it has I haven't seen them since she left 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.600 after he passed, but hopefully we'll be able to see 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.240 each other soon. What are you falling in love with 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.359 out there? What do you love? My favorite place in 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.159 the entire world the Hollywood Bowl. I could literally go 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.600 there every single night, weather permitting, and sit and watch 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.560 whatever they're doing, whether it's a movie, the orchestra concert. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:45.200 I love that place so much. I wish I had 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.760 my own seat there that was like the Amanda Cluses 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:56.040 could be arranged at that Season five s from for 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.200 I'm Getting my Own box Season five where it's did 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.159 it Now? My own parking spot too, Dodger Stadium and 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.360 the Hollywood Bowl. There you go. That's that's my favorite though. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:13.240 I love that Bowl because I love that old Hollywood feeling, 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.520 like when you were telling your story of shooting that 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.240 movie with the directors, and I mean I would. I 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.000 wish I could go back in time and be there. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.159 I think that's why I love studio lots, because you 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.200 drive onto a studio lot and you immediately feel like 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.679 you're in the nineteen fifties or something. I love it. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.000 So I love the Hollywood Bowl. It's my favorite. What 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.560 was it like for you? You grew up in what 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:36.479 town in Ohio? Ohio? Can'ton Ohio? Are you a football fan? Yeah. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.680 The Football Hall of Fame was five minutes down the 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.120 street from where I grew up, and you grew up there, Yeah, 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:42.560 that's where I grew up. And I moved to New 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.199 York at eighteen years old. Why because what was the 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.239 theater thing? If you as a child, you know, it 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.879 wasn't really I started dancing when I was twelve. When 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:54.479 I started looking to it, Yeah, musical an arts middle school. 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.760 And then when I got into high school, I started 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:01.080 doing musicals and I fell in love with singing and 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.320 acting and being on stage. And I was Adelaide and 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.080 my senior performance of Guys and Dolls, and that just 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.560 sealed the deal for me. And I told my parents 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:12.919 I gotta, you know, go to school for musical theater. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.560 And auditioned for a school in New York called AMA 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:20.600 American Musical and Dramatic Academy and got in, and I 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.040 convinced them I don't know how to drop me off 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.239 in New York City at eighteen years old and let 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.280 me go to school to be on the think did 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.800 they just believe in you? I definitely fought for it, 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:33.680 that's for sure. I Mean, when I want something, I'll 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.520 fight for it. But um, you know, I was. I 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.560 was one of five kids. I have a younger sister, 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.080 so I was basically the baby for a while. I 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.320 think by the time they had already put three people 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.840 through college, you know, normal four year colleges. I think 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:49.679 by the time I was begging and pleading to go 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.359 to New York and be on Broadway, they kind of 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:53.880 they were tired. They were tired, were tired of you, 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.680 Like down the hallway. It's like that movie Little Voice 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:58.600 down the hall Way. They can hear you going. I 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:06.119 was born in a in the Plymouth Theater in Pocatello, Idaho. 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.080 But seriously, I think about that now, and I think 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.240 about like Elvis coming up to me and going, mom, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:13.440 I want to move to New York and be on Broadway. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:14.919 And at the you know, I also said be a 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.919 Radio City Rocket, and you know, I would look at 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:22.600 him like, no, no, you don't. Is it weird how 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:23.919 we do that? I said to my kids. They were like, 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.639 I want to be an actor. I'm like, man, we 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.679 gotta have a few drinks. I know you're only five. 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.120 We need to have a few drinks. Even break out 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:39.159 a package of camel lights, puff a couple of cigs, 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.560 have a couple of cocktails, and we're gonna talk it over. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:43.879 Now you get to New York and you became a 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.840 roquet how quickly? Well, I first did the national tour 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:48.840 of forty two straight. That was my job. I got 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.040 two days before I graduated school. So my parents, luckily, 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.240 we're like, oh my gosh, well, you know, this is 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.200