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This is Later with Lee Matthews,
The Lee Matthews Podcast more of what you

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hear weekday afternoons on the Drive.
It's the award winning story Time podcast to

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heard everywhere you get podcasts, including
the iHeartRadio app. Will McFadden is the

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host. He is also the chief
creative officer at Colab. The Actors Gang,

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let's start there, Will, What
is the Actors Gang? Well,

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Uh, the the Actors Gang is
Actually it's a it's a Comedia del Arte

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based theater company in Los Angeles.
Uh, and it was I Actually I

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recently I've left the Actors Gang,
so I have to update the bio that

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resume. But uh, but uh, it's it's a great theater company where

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I was there for ten years and
I got to do amazing shows and do

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some and travel the world actually doing
theater, which is pretty rare. Well,

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you've got some big names that were
also a member of members of that,

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and I gather Uh, Storytime podcast
is drawing on that talent pool.

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Yeah, we have some. Yeah, we have some amazing guests. And

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actually you mentioned Collab, which is
a company that my brothers I founded,

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which is a it's a digital creator
studio and tech company. So we work

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with a lot of people from TikTok, YouTube creators, Instagrammers, and you

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know a lot of creators who do
Storytime style content. So that was kind

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of the impetus for starting the podcast
was we have all these these creators that

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we know and work with who are
telling stories on their channels, so why

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not get them on the podcasts and
share never before heard stories that their fans

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would love to hear. Will Nick
Fadden Storytime? What are some of the

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stories you're telling on Storytime? Um? You know, I I don't really

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get to tell that many stories.
Nobody, nobody who wants to hear my

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stories. But the guests that we
have on our you know, are full

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of them. And uh, you
know the stories that that that are on

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the podcast, they're they're true.
They're real anecdotes from people's lives, so

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they're not you know, uh,
made up stories. Um. But we've

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had some amazing guests, especially this
season. We had we had Writers Strong

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on from Boy Meets World or Pod
Meets World, and he told he told

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a great story. He's he's a
he's a If you're don't familiar with Heartthrob

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writer Strong, he's a he's he
was a child actor, but he's actually

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a professor now. But he told
the story about the first acting gig that

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he ever had. He was in
this production of lame Is in San Francisco,

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and he talked about how when he
was on break he would run around

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the Tenderloin and he played Gavroche,
which is like this little street urchin,

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but he would run around with all
the homeless people in San Francisco, and

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he thought it was just kind of
an extension of the stage and didn't understand

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the difference between like this the riff
raff of leme Is and then like that

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these were actually unhoused people, you
know, living in San Francisco, and

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it's just this. It's this really
great story about his first ever acting gig,

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and I don't think it was a
story you'd ever told before. So,

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yeah, a lot. There's a
lot of great every The thing is,

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I think everyone has at least one
great story to tell, and that's

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kind of what we're after on hashtag
storytime. Sounds like he was a method

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actor and didn't realize it. Yeah, I think, yeah, he hadn't.

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He hadn't read the book yet,
but it was in his own Will

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McFadden's Storytime the podcast heard on wherever
you get podcasts, including the Heart Radio

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app and Will, what brought you
to this was it? Was it your

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work in digital or was it your
work in theater? Yeah, it's actually

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it's kind of a marriage of both. Um on the digital side, I've

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noticed and I've been I've been a
content creator myself since the MySpace days to

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really date myself, but one thing
I've noticed is ever since YouTube came out,

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that there's always been the genre of
story time content where people sit down

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in front of their camera and they
share a story either from their life or

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from their day, and and it's
always been a hugely immensely popular style of

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short form content. So we thought
that that would be great fertile ground for

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us to find content creators out there
who are storytime creators and share those those

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those stories on the podcast. So
that was kind of where it came from.

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And also it came out of the
pandemic for me as a theater actor

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obviously couldn't get into a theater to
perform, to tell any stories, So

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it made sense to to kind of
merge those two loves of the mind of

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storytelling and this, you know,
the emerging platform of podcasting, Will McFadden's

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Storytime. I'm a big fan of
it because I've always been a spoken word

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guy, and I've always been a
fan of either audiobooks or radio plays,

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even going back to when I was
a kid, I wanted to get into

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this business. I had a collection
of some of the old radio dramas that

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I would listen to, and I
loved the pictures that were painted in your

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brain. So for me, this
it sounds for me. I feel like

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everybody's just catching up to what I
was doing for years. Your youth at

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the trend. Maybe I did.
Yeah, I mean it is. It

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is the oldest form of entertainment.
You know. We would sit around a

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campfire and we would we would share
our stories, and that was how we

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used to entertain ourselves before before Netflix
and Hulu, there was the you know

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this this camp the camp fire story
time that was that was television. Yeah,

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well it's It's even spilled over into
my personal life when whenever I get

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a note or a letter from my
mother, I've taken to my I'll get

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my wife. Hey, honey,
I got a wife. I got another

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letter from mom, here we go, and I fire up a music bed

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and so dear ones. You know. Then I go into the letter.

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And I haven't told mom that I
do that, but it just makes it

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more entertained. My mom's so flowery
and and and when she she can't write

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a simple hey how are you doing
kind of note, it has to be

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this long, flowery description of things. So so I just turned it into

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a radio play. Well, she
knows about it now, she does,

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Yes, she does, she does, Will ms. I hope her letters

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now have like more characters than them, and you know, you get to

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do all sorts of yeah, yeah, the door opened creakily. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
mom. Just call. We've got phones,

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just call. Oh. Story time
with Will McFadden. Will McFadden is

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with us. What are some of
the ones that have stood out in recent

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seasons? You know, Uh,
we had a great We've had a ton

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of great guests. Um, one
of the ones that that comes to mind

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is, uh, Lucky Yates.
He's great. He's a great actor,

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voice over comedian, he was a
he was a voice on the animated show

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arch Arger. Yeah, we've had
him on this, we've had him on

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the program a couple of times.
I love the guy. Okay, yeah,

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yeah, So you guys know Luck
friend of the pod U. Yeah,

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but Lucky told this great story about
he was he was hosting This is

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I don't know twenty years ago,
but he was hosting an award show,

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co hosting, and he was h
he had a monkey puppet that was the

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host and and you know, whenever
you have a puppet on your hand,

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it gives you carte blanche to kind
of say anything. And at some point

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Burt Reynolds accepted an award and didn't
like the cut of the monkey's jib and

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tried to break Lucky Yates's arm,
tried to grab it and wrestle it off

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of his hand, and Lucky Yates
was saying all he could think of in

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that moment was Burt Reynolds is so
weak. He was in his older Yeah,

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yeah, Lucky, He's got a
great story. But I mean,

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we've had some really amazing guests.
Adam Paley from from Happy Endings and The

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Mini Project and his newest show one
hundred and one Place at the party before

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he died, he had a great
story that was actually really poignant. You

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know, Adams a comedy guy,
but he told this kind of dark,

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poignant story about his mother passing and
it was it was never I don't think

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he's ever told that story before.
So that's one of my favorite episodes as

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well. We are talking to Will
mc fadden story Time the podcast. I

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guess I should say hashtime story story
Time, right, is that officially the

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well? Yeah, we we we
started as story Time and then h Seth

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Rogan showed up on the podcast scene
with a podcast called The story Time,

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didn't I guess he didn't bother to
check if there was any other story Time

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podcasts out there, because he's like, well, m Seth Rogan, who

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cares? Yeah, and so we
we we pivoted, We adjusted around Seth

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and we added a hashtag tours,
which it makes a little more sense because

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ours is sort of that that Internet
style of storytelling, that that genre of

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hashtag storytime. Yeah, so hashtag
storytime. I stand corrected with Will mc

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fadden. Everywhere you get podcasts,
including the iHeartRadio app. Thank you for

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