{"podcast":{"title":"Story and Craft with Marc Preston","slug":"story-and-craft-with-marc-preston-5077873","podcast_index_feed_id":5077873,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/450dac6f-a0c8-4883-ba43-229f0fbc2c2f","website_url":"https://www.storyandcraftpod.com/","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/12/23/9/e977794e-6f28-4090-a271-c8e25c1742ad_0-8280359.jpg","author":"Marc Preston Productions, LLC","episode_count":104,"summary":"Story & Craft is Marc Preston’s venue for offering up entertaining, insightful and inspiring conversations. Marc has spent over three decades as a successful actor, voiceover talent, and nationally syndicated radio host. He’s endlessly curious and enjoys great conversations that inspire. Each episode, Marc welcomes film, television and voiceover actors, storytellers, influencers and creative personalities that have intriguing points of view to offer. Marc’s unique interview style provides insight into the origins of what made his guests successful, as well as how they stay at the top of their game. Whether you work in the industry, or simply enjoy great conversation, you’re invited to grab a cup of coffee and enjoy a sit down with Marc and his guests as they talk story, share a moment and inspire.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T18:19:55.533620+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/story-and-craft-with-marc-preston-5077873"},"episode":{"title":"D.B. Sweeney | Crafting His Recipe","slug":"d-b-sweeney-crafting-his-recipe","published_at":"2026-04-01T11:37:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/story-and-craft-with-marc-preston-5077873/d-b-sweeney-crafting-his-recipe","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/story-and-craft-with-marc-preston-5077873","url":"https://www.storyandcraftpod.com/","audio_url":"https://audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/9dfba8c3-874c-485b-930d-3bcc6f1ab43d/stream.mp3","summary":"On this episode of “Story and Craft,” Marc sits down with actor and voiceover veteran DB Sweeney ( “The Cutting Edge,” “Eight Men Out,” “Memphis Belle” ) to talk career pivots, creative choices, and the long game of working in entertainment. DB shares what it was like training for “Memphis Belle” with retired SAS guys, flying in real B-17s. He opens up about growing up on Long Island, chasing baseball dreams at Tulane, discovering acting through theater, and getting launched by Francis Ford Coppola in “Gardens of Stone.” They also dig into DB’s work in voiceover run (Bud Light, Lincoln, Oprah’s network, and “Mountain Men”), his love of cooking, directing projects like “Two Tickets to Paradise,” and what he’s working on now, including “Red Ink,” and his current film, “Protector.” SHOW HIGHLIGHTS 03:20 Memphis Belle Bootcamp 05:13 B17 Death Star Tactics 10:03 Voiceover Career Highlights 12:34 Origin Story Long Island 13:21 Tulane Baseball And New Orleans 15:39 Cooking Signature Dishes 19:54 Broadway Breakthrough 21:10 Coppola Casting Break 22:44 Baseball Roles and Heroes 26:15 The Cutting Edge 28:30 Movies Then and Now 31:33 Directing and Next Projects 33:52 The Seven Questions","meta_description":"On this episode of “Story and Craft,” Marc sits down with actor and voiceover veteran DB Sweeney ( “The Cutting Edge,” “Eight Men Out,” “Memphis Belle” )…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2684,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/story-and-craft-with-marc-preston-5077873/episodes/d-b-sweeney-crafting-his-recipe/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/story-and-craft-with-marc-preston-5077873/d-b-sweeney-crafting-his-recipe.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}