Sept. 25, 2025

The Road to Scarefest Weekend with Wes Forsythe

The Road to Scarefest Weekend with Wes Forsythe
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Season 6A Film By...
Scarefest Weekend 17 is just a few weeks away and Jeff and David are scaring up conversation with Scarefest's Media Director Wes Forsythe! Wes offers up details about the history of the convention, his favorite moments, his favorite scary movies, and details on this year's guests and attractions! As the sinister side of comic con, Scarefest Weekend is one of the largest horror and paranormal pop culture conventions in the U.S. and we'll see you there! 

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Hello everybody. I'm Jeff Johnson. I'm David, and this is

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a film by podcast with a special commn episode Dave.

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The listeners seem to love the common episodes. I wish

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we could be doing a lot more of them, but

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we've got a special treat from today we do.

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I'm excited.

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We are just three weeks away from the return of

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Scarefest weekend in Lexington, Kentucky and West Forsyth. The media

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director of Scarefest is with us today.

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And hello, and thank you for having me. Wes.

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It's awesome, man, awesome that that you're here with us today.

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It is just close to Scarefest. We know you must

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be very busy, so let us be on my thanking

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you for making time to join us today.

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You know it's weird. Honestly, I don't feel less as

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busy as I have in years past. Some of the

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things I've been helping them with, Like I don't do

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any of their graphics anymore, I don't do some other things.

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But just like this month is the we finish up

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the film festival, and every spare moment I've had, I

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forgot how busy I got in that last month to

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do the Film Festival just to get all that done.

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So yeah, busy as all get out, but it's coming together.

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Good, good, Well, we're.

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Gonna talk all about Scarefest from its beginning some eighteen

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years ago to the Camp Miss horror event it is

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today that sees tens of thousands of horror fans from

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all over the world coming together for one weekend in Luxington, Kentucky,

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every October. But before we get into it, let's get

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to know west Ford Stifle a little bit, shall we, Dave, Yeah.

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Let's do that. I can imagine you become the media

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directors of Scarefest without having the proper credentials.

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Tell us about let me tell you, let me tell

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you it works. Now. I did the I did a

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podcast for him, and the podcast it started out as

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part of another show called The Paranormal Icon. And then

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I said, hey, Patty, let's do a monthly thing just

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about Scarefest. And that was Patty Star, the previous owners,

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and yeah, yeah, so anyway, so that's how I get

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started podcaster, Okay, and then I showed up one doing

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that show for him. Then I showed up scare Fest

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I want to say eight or nine. Basically, I walked

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in and they handed me a stack of T shirts

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and said, you're the media director that was the pomp

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and circumstances involved in my rise to power.

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Oh well, welcome to the party. Apparently.

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Yeah, Wes, it's not just horror films, it's it's paranormal stuff.

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Uh can we talk about paranormal filler for a bit?

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Oh my god, you duck that one out of my

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my the history of archives, I've watched it now. I

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was doing paranormal filler back when podcasting was hard, and

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if you could really dig out the really old episode

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inside episodes, it shows. But yeah, because I'm out here

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in the country, five miles out of town, and at

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the time, by the time we got what they would

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really call high speed internet, I was convinced the rest

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of the nation would have telepathy. That's how that's how

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bad my internet is out here. Uh finally the cell

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phone companies, now I'm on that five G stuff, so

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I'm I'm there just barely. But anyway, but yeah, I

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was doing it back up, but I you know that now,

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doing paranormal filler. I got into it because I like

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stumping around dark buildings at night. I wish there was

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I watched too much TV. Wanted to do it. Uh,

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And then I started one I need to share what

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I'd learned. That was just you know, And somewhere along

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the line I found out I'm not gonna say I'm

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a good interviewer, but I have a unique approach to it.

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In words, it's just very very let me see me here.

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I used to wave my hands when I was all audio.

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I said, I had you know, I was doing thocts

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on audio, so so video came very naturally to me.

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But yeah, Paranormal Filler I started independently. Then I went

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to Live Peranormal and I got several shows there. They

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kept every time they have a new project, Ay, Wes,

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you want to do it. I didn't want to pay

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me to do it, you know, but I did. I

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gained a lot of experience there, including working with co host.

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I started one show there for him. I don't remember

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which one it was, but uh, they h I said, Okay,

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I'm gonna do well. Actually I did on Paranormal Filler

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for a while. I said, I'm gonna have a co host.

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I've never worked for the co host. I'm just gonna

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do it. And so then I learned I like working

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with co hosts. It gives me a as to catch

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my breath. And then uh, and so I did that

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for you. But then when Brandon Brandon Griffith that bought

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Scarefest and I was doing at the time, I was

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doing both shows, Paranormal Filler and Scarefest Radio, and he said, uh,

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how about if you just give up Paranormal Filler mmm,

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and and and I'm thinking it was the very same

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time he said, I want you to go video and

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so and basically he sponsored me to go to take

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from Paranormal Filler, which I'd played with video not much,

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and then went and I said, when if I'm gonna

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do this, I'm gonna do it my way. You understand

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I'm not a I'm not a blow smoke up your

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ass kind of guy. And so, I mean the rest

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is history. But yeah, he Brandon Griffith talked me into

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going the video and launching Scarefest TV and bringing it

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to what it is today.

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Was it easy to go paranorma filler?

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You know what I want to see it? Actually it was,

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but in my mind I thought I should just go

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ahead and quit. While I was at like the high

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middle I wasn't at the top. I'm not gonna have

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no illusions, but you know, but I did before the

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quality of the show started because now that was really

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when everybody was getting into podcasting. It got easier and

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easier to do, so there's more and more competition. And really,

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here here's a good example. When I started it, and

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for several years I was getting booked at conventions around

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the country because podcasting my reach was not that common.

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And then by the time I got done, it got

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to well why should we fly him in when Bob

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has a podcast He's just down the road and I

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could see that. So, I mean, my popularity was stagnant,

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I'll put it that way. I wasn't getting any bigger,

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wasn't really getting any smaller. Same people want, you know,

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listening week after week. So I was looking for a

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new project that I could dig my teeth into, and

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and so letting that go. I still like to revisit

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it every now and then because it's still in my roots,

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my soul, if you will. But but yeah, I'm not

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sorry that I gave it up.

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Okay, now, tramping around in the dark, I hope you've

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been to Waverley then.

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Oh yeah, Yeah, I've been to Waverley three times, four times.

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Scariest place on earth as far as I'm concerned.

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Well, yeah, it's I'll put it this way. As far

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as just wanting to be scared, yes, great place. And

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when you walk what always say about Waverley when you walk,

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when you pull in the parking lot, that place, the

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history just drips off you. It does, of course, one

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time I went in August, and that's an all that's

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dripping off you. If you go in August. They built

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that hospital. Nobody they don't tell you this in the

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ber sures. It's built on the face of the sun.

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Yeah, I went there in October. If I didn't experience

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the that heat that you're talking about, it gets.

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Pretty gets pretty pretty roasty. But I've had some good

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experiences there. I never felt like it lived up to

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its hype as far as a haunting part of it. Now,

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once again, I don't want to put it down in

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any way, and I did have some experiences there. But

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when you hear people, you know, oh there, you can't

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get through that building without getting scratch or pushed down

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the flight of stairs of the little creeper is going

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to run across stealing. First time I went, I don't

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even remember if I got any good evidence the first

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time I went. Now, later trips, I did get some

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evidence I would call good, but nothing nothing to any

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although now we'll say it, I had one of my

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biggest jump scares there because there's a door in the

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hallway that goes to the death Tunnel and whatever they

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call it, the Death Tone. There's a swinging door and

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if you walk up through it and it go, it'll swing.

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And we were actually we were cleaning up equipment getting

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ready to go, and I was trucking down through there

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and I created enough breeze to make that thing swing.

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And it's scared to live in help and I'm going

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to admit that. But but beyond that, like I said,

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nothing's fury there that I've ever encountered. I did actually

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see an apparition there, but it was one of those

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say I was walking down the hallway setting up sold

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out of the corner of my eye, and then I

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walked past the door. It was like, wait, that was

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a person. It was gone, of course, of course, you.

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Know, yeah, that's frightening. I can't imagine having experienced something

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like that because I would be trucking out as fast

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as possible.

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Honestly, it was so fast, and you know it ain

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could be my imagination. The place does have rough walls. Uh,

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you know, the light will play tricks. But I saw

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a human figure standing over in the corner looking down.

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Uh that's what I thought I saw.

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Yeah, no thanks, they have no thanks. I've got nothing. Yeah.

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So I've got a question for you regarding the genre

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of horror. What do you think is the best horror

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film of all time? And what is your favorite.

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I'll tell you what my favorite is. Now. I'm not

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gonna pretend to try and tell you what the best

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one is, because these people have things on DVD that

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I've never even now that said, the two, I'm gonna

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give you two, the two that left the biggest impression

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on me. My favorite is probably still Nightmare on ELM Street.

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Good one the.

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Series as a whole, Yes, But that first one I

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remember the first time I watched that and saw him

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do that little creepy thing where he's walking down the

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next to the gate or the fence, and you know

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as irone stretches out and you know, and and that

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that had an I remember that had an effect on

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me when I watched it. Yeah. Now the other one

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admitted it is completely different the first Well I can.

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Now I've seen three of them. I think hell Raiser,

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Oh yeah, he chills down my spine. Now, it's but

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it was the psychology of it. It wasn't the grossness, it

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wasn't anything. It was just the whole trying to psychoanalyze

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the connection between pleasure and pain and all that kind

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of blew my mind. But those that's that's my personal

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little dirty sacreds.

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I guess it's too choices. I gotta say, the first

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Nightmare in Elmstreet, you know, that's when Freddy wasn't funny,

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he was scary, I mean, frightening scary. So I completely

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agree with you. Both both Choices were fantastic. I love

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both of those films.

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Yeah, Wes, how do you feel about the state of

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horror films today? Is there is there a director or

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a studio that stands out to you? Now?

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Uh no, Now, I'm gonna tell you honestly, I'm a

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movie fan. I don't get into the nitty gritty of it.

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And if you want to get Joe Lewis on here,

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he's the one that can approach you the cast and everything.

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My take on the horror in Okay, Terror Fire, love

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the series. Yes, so there is some fresh faces out there,

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there are some fresh ideas. But every time one of

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these goddamn studios announces another remake, I just want, I

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just want to pull my ears off my head, you know.

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And in the outbox they're talking about Amityville. Now they're

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gonna remake. Yeah, the remake.

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I mean, come on, go back and get bad movies

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and remake those, yes fast, the case could be done

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much better for you.

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Yeah, yeah, you know.

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But to take classic movies like that and just reomaking

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for that, now, I'm not just like Halloween when it

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was remained. I did watch the remake, and I said

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that was a good remake. It wasn't needed, but it

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was a good remake. I'll give you credit for that.

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But I saw no point in it. You know, it

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was just another telling of the same story.

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Yeah, I agree, it's ridiculous anymore, some of the things

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that we get. But I agree with you, they need

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to go back some of those B titles that could

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use a good reason.

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Yes too, if a director's out there any once ideas,

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I think it's on Gosh, I think it's on Amazon Prime.

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But it's like the one hundred worst movies of all time,

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and fifty of them are horror movies at least. And

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it's not that they were bad concepts. Some of them

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are considered classics, but you know, yeah, let's let's let's

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do some of the ones that had an idea but

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just didn't quite rise to the occasion the budget was

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too low. There's a lot of stuff done back in

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the late seventies and early eighties that the soundtracks loan runs.

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Yeah, maybe a twenty four will listen, which I love

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A twenty four of the studio because they feel like

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they're doing original stuff and at least trying to get

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away from that studio stuff. Maybe they're listening though something

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like that. We'll see. Yeah, So let's talk about your

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first con experience. Do you remember which show you attended?

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My first convince and this was actually I guess, well,

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I've been to some little para cons, but my first

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experience with Scarefest was the second one. I didn't even

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hear about it the first year. I had no idea

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that existed, and a friend of mine in Louisville said, Oh,

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you got to come to this. It's great. It's all

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kinds of paranormal people. You'll be networking, because back then

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paranormal was like almost half the the footprint. And so

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I went and I was hooked, the crowds everything about it.

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And then the next year I said, I can't wait

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to go by and then the son of a bitch

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that invited me didn't like it. It had already got

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too big for him. Oh God, it's lost his character,

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and I'm like, dude, you know so yeah, but I've

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been since. I've been there every year since the second one.

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I missed exactly one.

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Wow, that's impressive. Any anyone you were excited to seeing

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meet at at these before you became the media guy.

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Oh gosh, well when I Yeah, when I was big

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back early, I was big into the paranormal field. So yeah,

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there anybody they had I was happy to meet. I mean,

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I remember Amy Rooney, I kind of met a Ghost Adventures.

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Aaron's great Zach. It wasn't that. But I'm just gonna

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say it wasn't that great of a meeting because I'm

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not a good one about spending money when I go

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to these things. I'm a tight one. But you know Aaron,

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you see him out, he'd be out on smoking around

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lounge and cutting up. You know, he'll talk to you

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for an hour. But so they really that's where it

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started was me is going to see the people I've

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seen on TV from the paranormal field and getting to

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talk to them network and having some good conversations over drinks.

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Because that's one thing about Scarefest when they when we

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close the convention doors, we're still going for another four

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to six hours, sure, And that's been like that from

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day one. It still goes on today now as I've

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got to do the show for him, and they occasionally

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helped me get ahold of a celebrity and bring in

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I've made some really good friendships with some of these

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celebrity guests. Now I'm not saying they would, you know,

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invite me to their next wedding, but you know we

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we are. You know, I've got the actual on my phone.

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I could call them if I needed to. So, but yeah,

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so there are some favorites.

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I'll tell you. I think I think some of some

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of the people in the business, especially in the in

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the horror movie industry. And you've said it like, there's

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some of the most genuine people you're ever going to

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talk to, you ever gonna meet. You know, we've we've

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you know, Dave and I have made some some pretty

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tight friendships over the past two seasons, just reaching out

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and then you know, we've met some people at Scarefest,

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We've done some interviews, and then you know, they're like

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you said, they're in your cell phone, You're you're talking

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to them, They're they're commenting on your your up to

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your Facebook posts. You know, it's it's it's a it's

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a family. It's a cool community.

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I think the the the celebrities over the vast majority

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of them are the most down are just down to earth.

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The people they'd live in the double wide next door.

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You'd never know the difference. The fan now, we'll say,

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horror fans are absolutely rabid. These people on earth they

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are too. I I mean, I've watched, okay huge a

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couple of days. I've watched I've watched fans go up

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to celebrities and quote their movies, saying, you know, repeating

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their lines to them, and you can tell the celebrity

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don't remember the damn script by now, Yeah, it's been

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twenty thirty years. And then last year we had Matthew Lillard.

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Oh yeah, yes, great guy.

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Okay. I worked. I helped his photo ops lines on

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Saturday night, so I got to see everybody, you know,

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before they got their photo op with him. I watched

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fourteen year old girls come out of that faux op

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photo op just absolutely sobbing with pleasure because they hadn't

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met this man. And I'm going, the dude is my age.

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We could be on the same bowling team. Geeze. So yeah,

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it tight, it is. It's a tight community. Matthew is

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special because he has fans from eight years old to

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my age and beyond. He's been in the industry. Robert

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England actually he's like that too, but the words got

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around that he's just he's gotten to the age. You know,

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he can't sign it as fast. He doesn't build as

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much excitement. People don't go to the convention with the

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high expectations of meeting him. But you know, Robert, you know,

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you go back to the eighties and then just stranger things,

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you know, a year or two ago. So he is

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still getting that new fan base, but he's not he's

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a hot ticket. But I think people have lowered expectations

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because words out and around, you know, yeah, and he

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just can't sign that fast.

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Do you think part of that that lowered expectation is

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coming from just I mean, we've seen him at a

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couple of shows and his lines are just massive, and

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you kind of wonder like, well, I'm not gonna get

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a chance. You know, he's just he's.

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Just too well, and you won't. You won't. That's the point.

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First time we've had him, this is this will be

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the at least the third time. The third time, I'm

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pretty sure first time we had him, we let roughly,

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I'm gonna throw out a number. I don't know what's right,

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probably eight hundred people getting got in his line. Seven

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hundred ever left man on Friday if you were on Saturday,

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you know, because but you know, people just wanted to

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get in and they'd waste the whole day standing in

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his line. Now, let me be clear, a lot of

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that is that he he spends five minutes with every signature.

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He doesn't crank him out. He just you know, he

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stands there, he talks to you. It's a great fan experience,

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but that means when you spread it out, not as

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many fans are going to get that opportunity in a

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day's time. So there's that now. We came up with

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a system. When he was coming back, we said we

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can't go through that again. Well you know they were,

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they were ready to come at us with torches because

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they stood in line all day. So we were the

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ones that came up with the system that so many

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places are using now where you go up, you get

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a ticket given approximate time you get then you don't

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have to stand in the line. You just show up

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when we call that group of tickets.

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So it's like the celebrity photo ops.

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Yeah, very very very similar to that.

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That's brilliant.

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Yeah, but we we have we got we follow him

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around the country. We see about how fast he can

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sign and other celebrities too. We did it for Matthew

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Lillard last year. The thing on him is he'll stay

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till midnight. If he's got people in his line, he'll

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just he'll stand there till he drops dead. I think, wow,

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you know, we were chasing people out of the building

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with with brooms and torches and he's he's still signing.

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Mister England, he's older than me. He's not gonna do that?

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Ye makes sense?

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Wes Uh you mentioned Brandon putting some T shirts in

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your hand and dubbing you the media director. More more

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than that, Uh, can you share some details about the

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role actually, like because I got it? You know you

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talked about scare Fest TV. What all goes into being

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the media director for an event this big?

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Okay, the I'll put it this way. There's been a

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lot of mission creep since I took it over. When

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it started, you was podcast and then the enemy T shirts.

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As the media director, I was in charge the main thing.

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I was in charge of checking in media. In other words,

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when you do you know, we do give up media

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piece passes and so I was in uh charting out

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at that particular show. All I do is hand them

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out at a list. Now. Then, so the next year,

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being media director, I had to figure out who wasn't

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who wasn't media and I was I started from scratch. Soever.

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You know, we'd put links on there. You know, they

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give me links and I make sure they were a

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real podcast or real magazine whatever.

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Uh.

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Now that the TikTok's out, everybody with a thousand TikTok

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followers think thinks their media that's made of toughness because

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I hate hurting people's feelings. But when you sign up

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for TikTok, they give you a thousand followers. You know,

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it just comes with the package. So it takes people

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can't understand why don't jump at influencers because I put

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my time in, had to do this. You know, I

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know what goes into presenting a quality podcast. Just because

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you can wiggle your butt in front of a webcam

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don't impress me.

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So let's talk about Let's talk about planning though, Like

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when the doors closed on a Sunday night, are do

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you get some time off? Or are you already pause

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Best Week at eighteen?

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You know?

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No?

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Start? Okay, now I don't because okay, first of all,

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when we shut the doors on Sunday night, now this

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is a running joke. I shouldn't call it a joke,

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but it's our little dig at Adrian the show manager.

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All the volunteers leave when we shut the doors, except

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for a handful of us hardcore, you know, devoted staff members,

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and so we're packing all that shit up. When you

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go in and you see those set pieces that we've

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set up, the twelve foot skeletons, the Stranger Things set

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piece that we packed around, the Chucky Barbie doll thing.

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All that stuff has to go in storage and the

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convention center wants it out there by midnight. So but

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for some reason, Okay, it was really tough. I think

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it was three I want to give my story straight.

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Three years ago, it just like kill us because they

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just went Brandon went nuts on how many set pieces

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that he brought. So the next year he said, no, no,

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it'll be easier. This year, we've got pods and I said,

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that doesn't change anything. They're just down the ramp so anywhere. Yeah,

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And because he thought that he didn't even have as

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many volunteers, so it did go a little faster, but

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it was just the same number of people doing more

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or different number of people, fewer people doing more work.

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Then the last two years they've decided to something we

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never did before. They've decided to schedule big events on

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Sunday after the con big events that our volunteers would

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sure damn well like to go to. So it's basically

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now it's me Adam and j W. That's that's our

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that's our Low Douck group. And and and they did

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it again this year, they're having the Nightcap on Elm Street.

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Start right at the end of the con. Everybody, I

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one my volunteers called the other night, Are you going

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to that? How can I go to that? Somebody, somebody's

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got to get this crap loaded.

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Sorry, Yeah, hey, we might have to bring our gloves

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and you know, so we might have to help this

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guy out.

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I know, right, and.

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I get to actually trade somebody free tickets. Last year. Yeah,

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he plowed up good girls. Yeah, I knew what was coming.

463
00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:26.400
And I'm a doer. I'm a you know, I'm a

464
00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:27.160
problem solver.

465
00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:30.799
Yeah. Well, Dave, I think now's a good time. We'll

466
00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:33.279
take a quick break here from some of our sponsors,

467
00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:36.720
and when we come back, we got more Wes, and

468
00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:43.680
we got more about Scarefest. Welcome back. We are talking

469
00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:48.880
with Wes Forsyth, the media director of Scarefest Weekend. What

470
00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:54.359
has got to be the biggest horror convention? Yeah, ever, Dave,

471
00:24:54.519 --> 00:24:55.559
do you think?

472
00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:58.480
Yeah? I mean, Scarefest is known as the Senator site

473
00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:01.680
of Comic Con and has been called the ultimate horror, paranormal,

474
00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:05.119
pulp culture convention. So Wes take us back to the beginning.

475
00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:06.680
Can you tell us what the where the idea of

476
00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:09.119
Scarefest came from. Who was involved in how it was

477
00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:10.160
initially put together.

478
00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:15.480
Yeah you mentioned Patty, Yeah, Patty Starr and Jeff Waldridge

479
00:25:16.119 --> 00:25:19.279
where the originator, Jeff Walder was a big horror fan.

480
00:25:20.119 --> 00:25:23.720
He knew Patty had some money and some connections, and

481
00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:25.880
so he went, he said, let's have a horror convention.

482
00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:28.759
She said, I don't know anything about horror. Well what

483
00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:30.880
if we mixed paranormal with it? At the time a

484
00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:36.680
very novel idea. So she launched it in the Lexing convened.

485
00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:41.400
We've already been a convention center show. But over the

486
00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:45.000
years it did. It grew very organically. Now it kind

487
00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:47.440
of leveled off at about ten thousand people. I'm not

488
00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:49.759
gonna make any bones about it. Go up one year,

489
00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:53.440
down one year. I think the biggest year was fifteen thousand,

490
00:25:54.200 --> 00:25:58.960
before Brandon got hold of it, but yeah, it was

491
00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:03.640
then they I think it by year three it was

492
00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:07.240
already it basically gained on average probably one thousand people

493
00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:12.839
a year. Then he bought it in Scarefest ten. That

494
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:16.240
was twenty sixteen, I want to say twenty seventeen, right

495
00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:18.759
around there, and it was tough for a couple of

496
00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:23.839
years because convention center. He's not he's he's got a

497
00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:26.480
good job, he owns his own business, but he really

498
00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:29.039
he's not a rich man, and it takes some real

499
00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:31.519
money to put on these hotel or one of these

500
00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:36.519
convention center conventions. So that first year it was hard

501
00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:41.119
on him. I mean, he has house mortgage. He was

502
00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:46.119
he was sweating. And then well we had a great crowd,

503
00:26:46.359 --> 00:26:49.920
but the bills just were so high from the convention

504
00:26:50.119 --> 00:26:53.720
center because nobody was watching the money. He came into

505
00:26:53.720 --> 00:26:56.880
the organization, gave, you know, handed it over the checkbook,

506
00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:01.400
but there wasn't anybody at that level that was really

507
00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:04.960
watching the money. So the next year he started tightening

508
00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:07.039
down and what he made sure he knew where every

509
00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:10.000
penny was going, to find out where he could cut costs.

510
00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:13.200
First year lost a lot of money. Second year he

511
00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:16.640
owned it. It was roughly I think that was either

512
00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:19.200
broke even or just went a little bit in the hole.

513
00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:21.839
And by the but by the third year he started

514
00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:25.240
showing a profit on it. And it wasn't by doing it.

515
00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:30.920
He was just watching his expenses. And in the meantime though,

516
00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:34.960
still the crowd was fairly flat. So he knew what

517
00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:37.640
what he had to deal with. Then twenty twenty came

518
00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:41.160
and COVID and he and of course we had the

519
00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:43.759
year off yep. But it did give him a chance

520
00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:46.680
to kind of get his take a breather, build a

521
00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:50.799
bank account back up, and uh, and think about the

522
00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:53.359
organization and you know, and how to put on a show.

523
00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:55.880
So he had to really at that time he was

524
00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:58.240
able to think about the kind of show that he would.

525
00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:01.759
He liked the things he liked about other horror conventions,

526
00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:04.480
but you couldn't find any one horror convention that did

527
00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.960
them all right, and he would He started doing that.

528
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:10.240
Plus in the meantime he kind of became a wizdom

529
00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:13.480
in internet marketing. Got to give him credit for credit

530
00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:18.519
for that. And then he was scared to death in

531
00:28:18.559 --> 00:28:21.920
the year after COVID had calmed down. Uh, we were

532
00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:27.960
still under masked. They weren't mandates, but nah, it was mandates. Yeah,

533
00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:31.240
and uh, Brandon was scared. He said, I don't think

534
00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:35.279
people's gonna come out. I said, Brandon, people will come.

535
00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:38.480
They were wanting out of the house so bad, you know,

536
00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:41.960
don't even now that was one I called, right, I said,

537
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.960
people want out of the house. You don't even need

538
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:47.799
to have celebrities, just have a big party, don't show up.

539
00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:50.839
But he did. He had celebrities, We had the convention,

540
00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:56.319
and yes, we pretty much doubled our normal attendance that

541
00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.680
next year and every year since we've grown on about

542
00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:04.319
fifty Now we're not going to grow another fifty percent

543
00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:10.160
this year because we're out of room. We're at capacity

544
00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:13.759
we were and even though we've got more of the building.

545
00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:15.559
That's one thing I want to get the word out

546
00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:18.599
to people. Yes, we rented finally the entire The only

547
00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:22.119
thing left is Rupperina and twenty five thousand seats and

548
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:25.240
no four space. Yeah, so we're not gonna rent that yet.

549
00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:29.240
But we got every We've got every other inch of

550
00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:31.880
that building. But we are did not add to the

551
00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:34.839
number of tickets we're selling. That's to make room, make

552
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:36.759
it kind of get it back to that easy flow

553
00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:38.039
that we were always known for.

554
00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:43.759
Well, it's like you said, it's grown bigger year after year,

555
00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:47.839
and it's not just about meeting your favorite fiend or

556
00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:50.920
scream queen. It's it's it's more than finding that vendor

557
00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:54.720
that has the rare sealed copy of Halloween two on VHS.

558
00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:58.000
Can you tell us about some of the great activities

559
00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:00.039
that you guys provide, because there's all there's a bunch of.

560
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:01.319
I knew you were going to ask me that I

561
00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:07.519
should have wrote them all down. Okay, after ours events gorgeous.

562
00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:08.440
We have a launch party.

563
00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:09.240
Yes.

564
00:30:09.279 --> 00:30:11.680
Now, if anybody ever been to Scarefest before or five

565
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:13.839
years ago and the launch party sucked, we got it

566
00:30:13.880 --> 00:30:17.440
fixed now, Okay, but I've never been to a convention

567
00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:21.160
that had a good launch party. Just they just just

568
00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:26.240
and we didn't. They just always sucked. And then uh,

569
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:29.440
basically we said, well, let's quit putting so much energy

570
00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:31.640
into it, and we just said horror trivia in a bar.

571
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:37.759
Place is packed. So yeah, that's our that's our launch party.

572
00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:41.400
Then on Friday night, let's see, we've got of course

573
00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:45.039
the War in a Cult Museum, Yeah, is coming this year.

574
00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:49.319
We'll have a ghost hunt basically with that you can

575
00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:52.400
actually buy a ticket to ghost hunt. Uh, bring your

576
00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:57.640
little gadgets and and and lighty flashy things and they're

577
00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:01.759
going to do what's called the with the headphones. Gosh,

578
00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:03.960
that shows you what all out of an eye am

579
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:09.559
on ghost es ESTCE Experiment. Yeah, the ESTES method. They're

580
00:31:09.559 --> 00:31:14.079
going to be doing that. They we have a celebrity

581
00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:17.160
that night, Shane Pittman's coming in on Friday night to

582
00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:19.799
Actually it's more of a participation with you, it's not

583
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:24.880
even his event. But then I also talk to Jericho

584
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:30.519
with Chris Jericho is one night, Worn Museum, War Museum

585
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.240
of course at Saturday night. Also we're doing two of them.

586
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:35.799
We have a ghost hunt schedule. We just scheduled it

587
00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:38.359
for Friday night off site in case somebody doesn't want

588
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:41.880
to spend that money. We've got actually one that's fifty

589
00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:47.319
fifty five dollars maybe down at the Living Arts and

590
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:51.519
Science Center. It's over it's well over one hundred years old.

591
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:54.759
It's almost two hundred years old. That'll be going on

592
00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:59.160
with Aaron Seger's talk Scary to Me Live is coming

593
00:31:59.200 --> 00:31:59.440
up on.

594
00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:00.000
They're coming back.

595
00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:03.599
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah they may bank. No, they're

596
00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:06.799
coming bay. I'd love to say it's for the fans,

597
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:09.000
but no, you know, it's it's a very popular event.

598
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:13.319
We've got of course gallery readings during the day, Psychic

599
00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:18.160
gallery readings, War Museum, another ghost on Saturday night down

600
00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:22.160
to the Italian Winery and Killers on the Rock now

601
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:25.480
this is another Lonch activity. Killers on the Rocks is

602
00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:30.680
on Thursday, and basically it's whiskey tasting with celebrities and

603
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:35.359
hodd Ari mahailof felicea Rose. They go on a whiskey

604
00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:39.759
tasting with you. We put a lot of effort into

605
00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:45.519
making this our weekend a destination weekend. In other words,

606
00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:48.000
he gets a horror convention, but we want you to

607
00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:50.640
have something to do the entire time other than get

608
00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:53.519
signatures and shop. Of course, we do have the film

609
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:58.960
festival I mentioned, we have the pan panels seminar. Seminars

610
00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:03.240
usually lean towards the per normal still, but the panels

611
00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:08.279
are greatly tilted towards the horror end of it. So

612
00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:09.799
there's lot of seven of course, and we have our

613
00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:13.119
VIP party on Saturday night, and then we have the

614
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:17.880
new Nightmare and I'm sorry Nightcap on Elm Street event

615
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:20.599
that we've just added this year and honor Robert England

616
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:25.039
and basically it's a or dervs and drinks with Robert England.

617
00:33:25.839 --> 00:33:29.319
Nice which sounds amazing, but we'll all miss because we

618
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:30.799
got packed the show up right wise.

619
00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:38.599
Yep, I'm I don't get in on that one. I

620
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:41.200
didn't even make the VIP party last year because I

621
00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:47.359
volunteered for Matthew's line building for his photo ops. I

622
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:50.559
got out of there at eleven thirty and I said

623
00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:53.200
there and I actually give it to give our security guy,

624
00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:59.759
a logistics director, Adam credit he went to the party. Okay,

625
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.480
I did not go. I did not go to the

626
00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:03.279
FB party.

627
00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:06.039
You're a busy man. I'm sure you get hardly know.

628
00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:08.480
I was tired, I was flat out. I was doll

629
00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:09.280
as tired.

630
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:10.199
I'm sure you are.

631
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:12.960
Went over setting from the height a few minutes, had

632
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:14.440
a cocktail, went to bed.

633
00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:18.519
I don't blame you on that at all. So I've

634
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:20.679
noticed you're very active on the social media pages for

635
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:21.599
Scarefest weekend.

636
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:22.199
Uh.

637
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:24.920
You responded to comments about everything from guest request the

638
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:27.760
little things that can be found on Scarefest faq link,

639
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:31.400
and you're doing Scarefest TV. Are the interactions online ever

640
00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:33.880
helpful in guiding your decisions for the next year's event.

641
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:37.159
I will say we are one of the conventions and

642
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.760
this isn't okay on Facebook. I'm in charge of where

643
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:42.239
I shouldn't even have them in charge of it. I

644
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:46.800
get it's in my Wheelhouse. I answer most of the

645
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:50.440
questions that go on the so called business page now

646
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:53.559
the group. I do answer some of those the fan group,

647
00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:57.320
but largely we have some volunteers that do that because

648
00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.679
we get a lot more interaction on that page. Now,

649
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:04.119
on that I will say that we actually people don't

650
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:06.800
believe we do this, but we put a guest post

651
00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:09.039
up right after the show that it'll go out there

652
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:13.360
a week do later request your celebrities here, and we

653
00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:15.960
try to drive everybody rather than just make random posts.

654
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.239
You know, I want so and so put it on there.

655
00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:22.000
They keep a spreadsheet. We have somebody that actually goes

656
00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:24.760
through every day and sees what's been requested and keeps

657
00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:27.800
a spreadsheet. Now I'm not saying it's shoe in, but

658
00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:30.360
it really does affect the direction we go in the

659
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:31.280
next year in booking.

660
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:34.320
That makes me feel that's one way. Yeah, I like

661
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:36.039
that you guys do that. That makes you, you know,

662
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:38.519
fan friendly basically is what it is. You're listening to

663
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:40.400
the people who come to that convention. You may not

664
00:35:40.440 --> 00:35:42.679
get everybody that people request, of course not, because that's

665
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:44.800
just not the way it works, you know, But it's

666
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:46.679
not that to hear that you keep a spreadsheet like that.

667
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:47.519
That's impressive.

668
00:35:48.440 --> 00:35:50.480
Well, now, another thing I want to point out to people.

669
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:55.119
We are basically an eighties nineties horror movie convention. Okay,

670
00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:58.199
on that end of it, that's when the classics came out.

671
00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:02.559
We dipped our toes in the years into the more

672
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:05.599
modern stuff, and sometimes we got our toes bit off.

673
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:08.119
So I just want to have people to understand that's

674
00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:11.000
why we don't try We don't go after uh some

675
00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:14.440
of the current stars is because they first of all,

676
00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:18.159
they don't want a conventions. But we even though they're popular,

677
00:36:18.199 --> 00:36:21.840
we can't count on them drawing our fans in uh.

678
00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:27.480
Here's here, there's a quick example. Tobin Bell. Yeah, we

679
00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:32.599
had him six seven years ago. I had a fan

680
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:34.400
walk up to me and said, you mean Tobin Bell

681
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:38.559
is your headliner? You all got to do better? What? Wow?

682
00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:39.400
Come on?

683
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:42.679
He'd but he I mean he's and he's I like

684
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:47.119
the movies, but said, he's not a horror star. And

685
00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:50.119
now we can hardly get Tobin Bell because he's always

686
00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:52.639
so busy doing horror conventions and he is one of

687
00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:55.320
our most requested guests. I do want to point out

688
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:57.159
we tried to get him this year, but he was

689
00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:58.199
already booked elsewhere.

690
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:01.559
Well, yeah, that's aside from Tobin Bell.

691
00:37:01.559 --> 00:37:01.719
Though.

692
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:04.199
Is there a specific guest you've had in mind over

693
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.159
the years that you'd like to see attend or perhaps

694
00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:08.239
someone that you'd love to see make a.

695
00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:12.360
Return Evil Dead guy.

696
00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:14.159
It's Bruce Campion better.

697
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:18.960
Yeah, Bruce Camble. Yeah, he's He was actually scheduled to

698
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:22.679
come back originally this year, but something came up and

699
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:24.679
couldn't do it. Because we thought that would be really cool.

700
00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:28.400
I have Robert England and and him, so I look

701
00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:31.199
for him to be back anytime. He's very popular with

702
00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:35.320
the fans and the man is an autograph machine. The

703
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:37.440
thing I'll say about him, and really it's a lot

704
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:43.599
like Matthew, but he whips out autographs incredibly fast and

705
00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:46.639
every fan walks away from him going that was such

706
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:49.599
a great experience. He has somehow just found that perfect

707
00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:56.719
balance between engaging the fan and cranking out autographs. But really,

708
00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:00.760
there's nobody we've really tried to now. We've tried to

709
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:02.880
get some, we had some we wanted this year. To

710
00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:05.119
be honest, I'm not gonna drop names because hey, if

711
00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.079
I dropping somebody say oh he said they're getting them,

712
00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:10.519
you know, that'll be the first thing happens, or I'll

713
00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:12.239
say we're not getting them, and then they come to

714
00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:14.639
find out we end up with him because we were

715
00:38:14.639 --> 00:38:17.360
waiting on filming commitments and we just never got them done.

716
00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:21.239
But we had a couple of more really big big

717
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:24.880
stars this year that I hope we do get in

718
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:28.639
the near future. That but I'm afraid I would love

719
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:30.599
to drop the names to you, but it would just

720
00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:32.599
backbur on me, so I'm not going. Oh. Yeah, Colic

721
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:35.039
s Cooper is one we finally gave up just trying

722
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:39.199
to get We get his agent says, yes he wants

723
00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:42.000
did the show. Yes, I'll talk to him. Yes, Well,

724
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:45.760
we just got to wait on his touring schedule, and

725
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:48.159
every year it falls through. We finally just quit asking.

726
00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:50.239
Damn, that's unfortunate.

727
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:52.440
I need him on my Friday the thirteenth poster, Part

728
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:54.039
six on Alice Cooper.

729
00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:59.360
Yeah, come on, Alice, listen. Uh, just because you mentioned

730
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:02.039
Bruce Campbell, I'm gonna shoot my shot right here. Uh.

731
00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:03.920
I'll tell you something. If you could reach out to

732
00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:06.599
Sam Rami at some point and just have him bring

733
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:10.000
in the Delta Classic, you know, the car from the

734
00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:12.000
Evil Dead that shows up in every Sam Rami film

735
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.239
because you guys, you guys have some amazing cars that

736
00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:18.000
show up, you know, some of the greatest vehicles from Hore.

737
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:19.559
You know, there's always gonna be anc that one. I've

738
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:22.159
seen the DeLorean. You know, you guys had the Kuda

739
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:24.400
from Phantasm last last.

740
00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:27.840
H Yeah, I never made it to in the building.

741
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:30.760
I forget what they have every year, but yeah, that's

742
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:34.440
the dead opposite end of where I'm stationed through most

743
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:36.800
of the convention. But yeah, I mean and even some

744
00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:42.519
of the more frivolous ones. Supernatural, Oh gosh ya, the

745
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:44.800
Mystery Machine. We used to have the Mystery Machine every year.

746
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.599
So yeah, it's of course Christine. We get Christine about

747
00:39:49.639 --> 00:39:54.639
every other year. Christine doesn't like to do same conn.

748
00:39:55.079 --> 00:39:57.280
You can count on Christine next year.

749
00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:01.639
Now now west for for the first time a heading

750
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:05.360
to scare Fest. Are there any dues and don'ts you

751
00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:08.559
can offer about meeting your favorite celebrity or maybe what

752
00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:10.639
to expect on the convention floors?

753
00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:14.000
Well, first of all, anybody that has not been and

754
00:40:14.039 --> 00:40:16.639
this actually you can use our website and then apply

755
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:20.159
what you learn to where we want to go read

756
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:24.159
the FAQ on our website, which incidentally I wrote, you

757
00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:26.199
can tell there's a little snarky remarks in it every

758
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:31.320
but uh and then they put but they have put

759
00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:33.480
together a lot of information on the website just has

760
00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:36.599
to do with going to conventions in general. But the

761
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:41.239
main thing I would wear comfortable shoes. That's rule number one.

762
00:40:41.960 --> 00:40:44.400
Rule number two is actually deodorant just for the sake

763
00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:48.039
of it. But beyond that, I don't can tell people

764
00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:51.599
is be patient in our case, expect your crowd. But

765
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:55.119
we do everything we can. Last year week we uh

766
00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:59.599
jacked it up Friday night. We weren't expecting the mad

767
00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:04.920
rush of uh Matt Lillard Lillard fans. Yeah, and data

768
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:07.280
hit is brought on and we did we got we

769
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:09.679
we dropped the ball fright. We had it fixed by Saturday.

770
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:12.320
You know, the line was back to moving the way

771
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:16.159
it should. But so we've actually instituted instituted a new

772
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:18.880
plan this year just to get people in the building early,

773
00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:22.320
just to make sure there's stage ready to go even

774
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:24.719
if the tickets mess up. We've got extra time now

775
00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:27.480
to work out the problems because we'll have you in

776
00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:32.559
the building good. But as far as the We're an

777
00:41:32.599 --> 00:41:36.199
easier one. As far as meeting celebrities, Robert England is

778
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:38.920
still is gonna be very, very difficult, But we have

779
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:42.719
found the magic number. Everybody thought Brandon was crazy crazy

780
00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:45.800
when he went north of eighty celebrities because there was

781
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:48.440
always a tipping point there where you could the celebrities

782
00:41:48.440 --> 00:41:51.960
couldn't make money. That is, it's spread it out too much.

783
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:55.159
But we was able to, or I shouldn't even say we.

784
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:58.079
I was not responsible for it, but he did manage

785
00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:00.559
to keep the crowd growing and grow that number of

786
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:04.920
celebrities with it. And by doing so, now when you

787
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.920
walk up if you look at Oh my God, Pelissa's

788
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.840
line is ten people along. Oh look, Cane's it, you know,

789
00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.719
and you go to and you've got another celebrity. With

790
00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:16.000
that many celebrities, there's gonna be more than one you

791
00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:20.000
want to meet. And so you get to you get

792
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:22.480
to choose your line that you want to stand in,

793
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:25.840
and it keeps it really keeps going smoothly.

794
00:42:26.679 --> 00:42:28.199
Well, one thing I'd like that you guys are doing.

795
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:31.360
You guys are getting groups of people from particular films

796
00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:33.559
so you can just basically go down the line and

797
00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:36.320
fill up a poster because you've got so many people

798
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:37.360
I love that I really do.

799
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:40.360
Well. See that was once again, that was Brandon. We

800
00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:42.400
were the same as every other convention. We just took

801
00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:45.960
the who the agents threw at us. We'd have a headliner,

802
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:48.480
we'd try to get some supporting cast behind a headliner,

803
00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:50.880
but we just really didn't put a lot of effort

804
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:55.880
into getting reunions. But Brandon once he bought it. Now

805
00:42:55.880 --> 00:42:58.440
this Brandon's a horror fan. That's why he bought it.

806
00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:02.280
He honestly was up to him. He closed the paranormal down.

807
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:04.719
But his wife is a paranormal fan, so that's what

808
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:11.400
keeps that into uh involved. But he knew what he

809
00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:14.719
wanted out of the convention and he will and he's

810
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:18.039
one of those guys that will buy a poster just

811
00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:21.480
to take it to the convention to get five signatures

812
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:24.119
on it. Yep. And then somewhere it occurred him, wait

813
00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:28.760
if I could get the entire cast here, and in words,

814
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:32.639
you're looking at a fan building the convention that the

815
00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:36.719
fan wanted mm hmm, and rather than just being all

816
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:38.280
over the map with the celebrities.

817
00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:41.159
Yeah, you can see it. I mean, I'm telling you

818
00:43:41.159 --> 00:43:43.360
I'm gonna get as a kid seeing the Monster Squad people,

819
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:45.719
and how many of you all got what eleven?

820
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:48.480
As far as we know, we're the biggest Monster Squad

821
00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:52.039
reunion ever. Yeah, yeah, I read that.

822
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:55.119
This is there's not been one this size ever and

823
00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:55.960
you guys got it.

824
00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:59.440
Yeah, and and a lot of that that Once that's

825
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:03.800
I'm of this dumb luck because once you get so big.

826
00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:07.000
As far as the convention you mentioned before, we don't

827
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:11.400
know we're the biggest convention in the country because when

828
00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:14.920
we were I went to a couple of the ones

829
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:18.119
that said they were the biggest, and I'm like, you,

830
00:44:18.360 --> 00:44:21.719
you couldn't fit our line for the bathroom in this convention.

831
00:44:22.440 --> 00:44:25.199
So yeah, so you know, so I don't. But at

832
00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:28.360
the same time, Texas frightmark great convention. They've moved a

833
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:30.480
convention center now, and I think, you know, we're on

834
00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:33.119
we're on par with them. So I'm not gonna say

835
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:35.119
we're the biggest, but I'm saying we're we're, we're in

836
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:40.000
the team, We're we're still running for it. Uh, I'm sorry,

837
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:42.239
go ahead, No, I was just about to say, now,

838
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:44.000
what was I even talking about? When I start went

839
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:46.199
off on that tangent and.

840
00:44:46.280 --> 00:44:48.000
We were talking about reunions and stuff like that.

841
00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:49.400
Oh yeah, yeah, so.

842
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:51.119
Getting getting the whole whole cast together.

843
00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:53.320
Yeah. But so I was talking about dumb luck of

844
00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:56.199
it a lot of times. You know, we'll he'll have

845
00:44:56.239 --> 00:44:58.960
a reunion in mind, and then the agents find out

846
00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:02.199
that we're booking that reunion, and then of course they

847
00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:04.519
started contacting and saying, hey, I've got the you know,

848
00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:09.000
I've got the person that you know, customer number three

849
00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:10.920
that was standing in line, I've got the dead lady

850
00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:14.800
for you know, the caterer is really but they do,

851
00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:17.679
really they find us a lot of times what what

852
00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:20.480
have people? And He's like, that's never done a con before.

853
00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:22.760
And they said, oh, I saw you're doing it. I

854
00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:25.119
was in that movie and yeah, we know you were.

855
00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:27.920
Where the hell have you been that way?

856
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:31.840
That's awesome? Hey, I love that. And you know, you guys,

857
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:35.000
I think when we went to you guys what three

858
00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:37.000
or four years ago, we fell in love with you.

859
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:39.400
We really did. We we love this convention very much

860
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:42.000
and we find we look forward to it every single year.

861
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:45.360
So we're starting to come back again this October for sure.

862
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:48.000
But if that is that's a lot of our goal

863
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.559
is and this one thing I've been I'm in business

864
00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:56.400
the repeat customers or what makes your business. You can

865
00:45:56.440 --> 00:45:58.840
get new customers, but you've got to get people a

866
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:01.840
reason to come back to you. And I'm hoping that

867
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:04.440
we we we've done that. We Like I said, now,

868
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.000
some people first if they were last Friday last year

869
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:09.960
on Friday, if that was their first con experience with us,

870
00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:12.800
they went away parties and wall I'll never go back there.

871
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:16.400
I'd love to say, give it to another shot, because

872
00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:19.599
we'll we will do it right. We will fix it. Yeah,

873
00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:21.920
I mean we it's we want people to come back.

874
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:24.360
We were in that line on Friday and you know

875
00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:26.960
those things happened. You know, it didn't FaZe us one bit.

876
00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:29.199
You know, you know we're fans. We understand what you

877
00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:31.880
guys have to go through to run a convention like that.

878
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:35.000
So but to hear you guys recognize that that and

879
00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:37.440
are fixing it, that speaks volume. It really does.

880
00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:38.320
Well.

881
00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:40.639
It was a quick reaction to last last year too,

882
00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:43.760
with that Friday, because I know when we got got

883
00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:46.159
to the doors, I was like, man, they they kind

884
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:48.199
of course corrected quick, there, didn't they? They you know

885
00:46:48.480 --> 00:46:51.559
kind of fixed it right on the spot, you know, so.

886
00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:54.639
We know what we know. Yeah, basically I think of

887
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:56.760
what that was. Some got screwed up, and then they

888
00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:59.480
tried something that made it worse, and then finally they

889
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:01.760
kind of got it under control. Now I wasn't there

890
00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:05.039
Friday night. Brandon was all a panicky and everything, and

891
00:47:05.199 --> 00:47:07.400
and well I shouldn't say that he was. He was upset,

892
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:11.440
and so I said, okay, I will be there Saturday morning.

893
00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:16.639
I'm not a morning person, but I said I'll get

894
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:18.440
up bright and early. And I did. I want I

895
00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:20.960
do like my breakfast. But I got over there and

896
00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:24.199
I took the reins and I got the best compliment.

897
00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:28.599
Somebody went, uh uh, posted on online, well they got

898
00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:31.480
the line working. It was going great until Wesley left.

899
00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.360
I don't think that was true. But but I was.

900
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:38.199
I was out there. I was greeting people. I had

901
00:47:38.239 --> 00:47:42.079
a postcard all the way from France. Somebody came from

902
00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:45.559
France and saw me directing traffic and greeting people and

903
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:47.920
getting them across the street. And he said, you don't

904
00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:51.360
see that. It conventions. The guy that it's not even

905
00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:54.800
my damn job, the media director, the guy that does

906
00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:59.480
her podcast is out there bringing fans into the building

907
00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:02.760
making sure the lines are right. And that's and I'm

908
00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:05.119
not and I don't want to take credit because that

909
00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:08.199
is why the way our volunteers are our staff. That's

910
00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:10.159
one thing we get a lot of compliments on. When

911
00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:12.159
you walk up to one of our staff and ask

912
00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:15.280
them a question, they're instructed they are not allowed to say,

913
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.920
I don't know. Goodness, if they don't know the answer,

914
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:20.440
they're going to escort you to the person they know

915
00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:21.079
that will.

916
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:23.840
And you know, I experienced that last year. I went

917
00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:25.360
up to some at work because I had a question

918
00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:26.960
for them and they didn't know what they said. Hold

919
00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:28.760
on a second, let me go, let me go find

920
00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:30.519
such and such, let me get this answer for you,

921
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:32.639
so I know exactly what you're talking about. That's exactly

922
00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:34.760
what happened to me. So kudos to you for that.

923
00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:39.280
Well, we we think it's very important for the fan experience.

924
00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:42.079
And it is and that's why we keep coming back.

925
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:44.760
And that's why you guys keep growing because obviously you

926
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:46.960
care about it. You care about the fans, and you

927
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:48.960
care about the guests. They are there. You can see

928
00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:51.679
it because the guests are having fun. I mean, everybody

929
00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:53.880
we met last year and the year before that is

930
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:56.039
just or having the time of their life. You know,

931
00:48:56.239 --> 00:48:57.519
you want to sit down with them. I mean you

932
00:48:57.519 --> 00:48:59.199
could sit there for hours with them if you could

933
00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:01.119
have the time, and they had the time, you know,

934
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:03.960
to listen. It's it's a great experience for fans. It

935
00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:07.480
really is a question you do you do? So I

936
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:09.840
got a question for you. I mean we had many

937
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:11.199
questions for it, but I got another one for you.

938
00:49:11.440 --> 00:49:14.239
If you guys thought about inviting anybody from like cryptids

939
00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:18.079
and stuff like that, you know that genre. Have you

940
00:49:18.159 --> 00:49:18.719
thought about that?

941
00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:26.320
Yes? Okay, how can I explain this? We actually had

942
00:49:26.760 --> 00:49:30.360
some people from the cryptozoology booked last year. I'm in

943
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:33.599
I'm largely in charge of booking the per normal side,

944
00:49:33.639 --> 00:49:36.159
and we we pulled that in that new apology into

945
00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:40.119
the into that side of the building and I had

946
00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:44.079
a couple We announced them and then they called me.

947
00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:46.480
We had them out like a month and they called

948
00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:50.480
and said, we got to cancel, we're filming. Then just

949
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:53.039
let me know we're filming. So we lost them. Then

950
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:57.920
we had another convention in Lexington that's a month after us.

951
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:03.519
That the minute they were on the phone the minute

952
00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:07.800
we announced the cancelation and booked them, and now what

953
00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:10.400
that they're going back this year, I'm pretty sure they're

954
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:13.079
just trying to keep us from getting them. That being said,

955
00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:16.920
we have the Mountain Monsters coming. I realize it's not

956
00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:19.599
the serious side of it, but we do. We do

957
00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:22.719
look at that and like now our speakers, there's usually

958
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:25.599
somebody that will be speaking about it. They may not

959
00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:28.000
be famous, but there we do try to make sure

960
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:31.920
that they're an authority. You might say, sure, but we

961
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:35.199
are trying to get like we we want to get

962
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:42.519
more into the cryptozoology and in UFO type fields and

963
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:45.320
it probably I'm not gonna say it's be easier to do,

964
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:49.960
but paranormal. As far as paranormal TV, it's slim pickens

965
00:50:50.039 --> 00:50:52.360
now and a lot of us went to streaming. But

966
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:55.159
as far as what's on TV in the for the

967
00:50:55.159 --> 00:51:00.599
wide audience, they've canceled everything. Aaron Sagers as other than

968
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:05.800
Ghost Adventures. Aaron Sagers and his paranormal caught on camera.

969
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:08.480
I believes the name of it. He's that's one of

970
00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:10.599
the last paranormal shows left on TV.

971
00:51:11.559 --> 00:51:12.159
That's crazy.

972
00:51:12.199 --> 00:51:15.119
But there are still UFO shows and I believe the

973
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:18.960
crypt the some of the the Bigfoot shows are still going,

974
00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:22.519
so we're we'll we'll work on that harder. Yeah, just

975
00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:24.840
try to stay current with that. It's funny and horror.

976
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:28.440
We don't have to stay correct, right, paranormal we did do.

977
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:31.760
Yeah, it makes sense. I'm a big Crypti guy. I

978
00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:34.440
love bigfoot sasquatch, anything to do with that. I'm a

979
00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:36.199
huge fan. I have been since I was a little kid,

980
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:38.599
and I would just love to be able to get

981
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:40.519
some of those groups who I see on YouTube and

982
00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:43.400
stuff like that. There's a group called small Town Monsters.

983
00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:47.440
Yeah, no, we we had what's the guy's name that's

984
00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:53.280
in charge? That on top of my head right now anyway,

985
00:51:53.320 --> 00:51:57.320
But yeah, he's from Ohio. I've known him for years.

986
00:51:57.639 --> 00:52:01.000
We actually had him two or three three years ago,

987
00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:05.480
four years Yeah, he so we it is on our radar.

988
00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:11.679
So yeah, okay, good deal. So, looking back over the

989
00:52:11.679 --> 00:52:14.480
yours of scare Fest Weekend. As the media guy, do

990
00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:16.000
you have a favorite moment you can share with us

991
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:17.559
besides being busy all the time?

992
00:52:19.800 --> 00:52:22.039
You know, that's a tough one. I'm gonna give you

993
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:26.400
a generic answer first, and then I'll be more specific generically,

994
00:52:26.719 --> 00:52:29.400
I make really good friendships with the slibs that come

995
00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:33.760
on my show. Melanie Kenneman, we kept in touch. I've

996
00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:38.519
known Dustin Perry from the paranormal side forever. We keep

997
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:43.360
in touch. Beatrice Buffly, who incidentally, I am absolutely in

998
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:46.840
love with that woman. I would murder my wife to

999
00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:53.199
but then felicita rose. Of course, every she's everybody's friend,

1000
00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:56.280
but every time, you know you, when she sees me,

1001
00:52:56.480 --> 00:52:58.199
you know, she will jump out from at her table

1002
00:52:58.199 --> 00:52:59.800
and give me a big hug. But I think she

1003
00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:03.320
does that with like everybody she's ever known. But so

1004
00:53:03.719 --> 00:53:06.320
in generically, it's just the friendships I made and getting

1005
00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:11.480
to see those people again. But specifically, and this fell

1006
00:53:11.719 --> 00:53:18.400
mostly towards the felicita side of the argument, I basically

1007
00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:21.440
made a bet that I said I will dress up

1008
00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:25.679
as the what I called the douchey eighties character from

1009
00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:29.000
sleep Away Camp, which Ina didn't laugh, metting he's not

1010
00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:31.920
He's really hell. He's a hell of a guy. But

1011
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:36.480
so yeah, cut off shirt, daisy do shorts, the works,

1012
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:39.880
and some of a bitch found a somebody found a

1013
00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:41.960
loophole in the way I made the bet, and I

1014
00:53:42.079 --> 00:53:45.360
and I said, no, I'm gonna stand up to it.

1015
00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:49.719
So yes, I actually did cosplay sleep Away Camp cause play.

1016
00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:53.159
It was just two years ago and I was sucking

1017
00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:59.159
my gut here, so yeah, but that's probably the right now.

1018
00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:03.719
That is probably most memorable experience and the reception it got. Honestly,

1019
00:54:03.719 --> 00:54:08.239
he was Catherine. Uh hope, I don't mess pronounce her name,

1020
00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:14.039
gosh v I hope she didn't watch this anyway, but

1021
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:17.199
one of the other stars was there, and uh, Catherine Cammy.

1022
00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:20.920
Yeah all right, now she's a listener.

1023
00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:27.639
Dave ye, you saved it West, thank you, Okay, Uh yeah,

1024
00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:29.320
I got to take pictures. I mean that, you know,

1025
00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:31.960
she wanted a selfie with me. Felicia got his selfie

1026
00:54:31.960 --> 00:54:33.679
with me, all because I was in my little type

1027
00:54:33.719 --> 00:54:36.599
bans and tucking my gut in my cut off shirt.

1028
00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:38.519
I was about ready to ask you if there's photo

1029
00:54:38.519 --> 00:54:39.280
evidence of this, but.

1030
00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:44.320
Oh yeah, it's it exists on the internet.

1031
00:54:47.199 --> 00:54:50.320
Well, as we wrap things up, let's talk about what's

1032
00:54:50.440 --> 00:54:53.639
next for Scarefest, because, uh, if this event wasn't big

1033
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:58.400
enough next year, uh twenty twenty six or is a

1034
00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:01.280
midyear event planned? What what can you tell us about

1035
00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:03.239
Spawn of scarefest.

1036
00:55:03.840 --> 00:55:06.559
Not a lot, just because we've been so tied up

1037
00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:09.840
in the planning for this that they haven't let me

1038
00:55:09.960 --> 00:55:12.039
in on what any of the planning that they made

1039
00:55:12.039 --> 00:55:16.199
on on that show. It's going to be a hotel show.

1040
00:55:17.199 --> 00:55:18.920
It's going to want to where it's going to be

1041
00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:25.119
much smaller now. I mean we're talking twenty thirty celebrities tops,

1042
00:55:25.960 --> 00:55:27.360
just because you know, that's about a hole we can

1043
00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:30.840
fit in the hotel. But Brandon kind of wanted he's

1044
00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:35.400
wanting to do an extra event, and he wanted to

1045
00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:38.360
do something to take us back to our roots. That

1046
00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:43.559
smaller crowd, the more intimate, you know. Uh, we're not

1047
00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:47.800
gonna get thirty thousand people, forty thousand people in this hotel.

1048
00:55:47.960 --> 00:55:49.599
Matter of fact, when we told him how many we

1049
00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:53.639
were expecting to show up, they went white. So we

1050
00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:58.239
might have to work on that. Because I told Brandon

1051
00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:00.800
when he bought the business brand, you had nine thousand

1052
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:03.440
people that if you bolted the door shut, they would

1053
00:56:03.480 --> 00:56:06.760
break the windows and come in. You've got that covered.

1054
00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:09.679
But uh, but yeah, that's uh, it's gonna be a

1055
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:13.400
a smaller version. Uh, it's gonna be more of a

1056
00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:17.159
I want to say a party atmosphere most of the

1057
00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:20.559
after our stuff will be more geared, like we're already planning. Uh.

1058
00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:22.760
They've got fire pits at the hotel and we're gonna

1059
00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:26.079
be sitting around the fire pits and and and just

1060
00:56:26.119 --> 00:56:28.719
see what all we can get into outdoors. It'll be

1061
00:56:28.760 --> 00:56:32.719
in June, so I don't have a lot of details

1062
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:34.639
on it, but I can tell you it is gonna

1063
00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:37.079
be a completely different animal from what we are now.

1064
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:37.719
Okay.

1065
00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:39.760
It takes me back to when we first started going

1066
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:41.880
to conventions back in the late nineties, where you had

1067
00:56:41.880 --> 00:56:44.800
those hotel events and they're very intimate. You know, they

1068
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:47.880
weren't gigantic crowds, but they're you know, decent crowds and

1069
00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:50.119
you you had more time to like sit there and

1070
00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:51.960
talk to the guest and take your time with them

1071
00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:54.800
and stuff like that. And I am absolutely a static

1072
00:56:54.800 --> 00:56:56.280
that you guys are gonna do that, and I would

1073
00:56:56.280 --> 00:56:58.039
definitely be there for that. I I can't wait.

1074
00:56:58.880 --> 00:57:01.199
Well, I can't wait, Dave, I know we got three

1075
00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:04.920
weeks to go. Uh. Scarefest Weekend is taking place this

1076
00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:08.559
October seventeenth through the nineteenth at the Central Bank Center

1077
00:57:09.159 --> 00:57:12.960
in Lexington, Kentucky. Tickets. You're on sale now, so head

1078
00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:17.320
to www dot Scarefest Weekend dot com to get your tickets.

1079
00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:20.880
Secure those celebrity photo ops, find out all about the

1080
00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:22.480
great things happening during the.

1081
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:25.880
Weekend, and listeners, are you heading to Scarefest Weekend next month?

1082
00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:28.400
We'll be there all weekend long and we hope you

1083
00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:30.880
see you there. Who are you hoping to see? Let

1084
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:34.480
us know on social media. You'll find us on Facebook, Instagram,

1085
00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.519
and x. You can check us out at www dot

1086
00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:40.320
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1087
00:57:40.440 --> 00:57:43.719
articles and our entire library streaming free. Write to us

1088
00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:45.920
at a film by Podcast at gmail dot com with

1089
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:49.719
your questions, comments and concerns. We may just read your

1090
00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:51.639
response on the show and send you some a film

1091
00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:52.280
by swag.

1092
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:54.239
Well, So, I gotta tell you, man, this has been

1093
00:57:54.280 --> 00:57:57.360
a blast having you on and talk to scat talking

1094
00:57:57.440 --> 00:58:01.719
scared movies, talking, talking paranormal anything. Uh where can our

1095
00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:04.039
listeners if they want to, if they want to find

1096
00:58:04.039 --> 00:58:06.760
out more about uh your side of the business, like

1097
00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:09.360
you know, like with the with the paranormal stuff. Any

1098
00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:10.679
anything you can you can offer us.

1099
00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:13.519
I don't do paranormal anymore. I got I got tired

1100
00:58:13.559 --> 00:58:17.239
of watching. I got tired of reviewing evidence, watching sixteen

1101
00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:22.400
hours of myself talking to walls. Uh it so I

1102
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:25.639
I do a little bit of that now on the

1103
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:28.159
uh we'll call it the celebrity side, if you will.

1104
00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:32.880
But as far as actual ghost stuff, now, I I

1105
00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:34.599
I couldn't even lay my hands on most of this

1106
00:58:34.599 --> 00:58:38.800
stuff I collected. I will say, if you want to, uh,

1107
00:58:39.079 --> 00:58:42.039
find out more about Scarefest TV. Uh. We got the

1108
00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:46.039
website now Scarfest radio dot com because Brandon never offered

1109
00:58:46.039 --> 00:58:48.119
to buy me a new domain, so it's still under

1110
00:58:48.119 --> 00:58:51.559
Scarefest Radio dot com. But we've got the full archives

1111
00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:54.519
up there. It's searchable and you can kind of see

1112
00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:57.480
how I cut up every every goddamn Fridays.

1113
00:58:57.480 --> 00:59:01.639
I like you said, well, that's fantastic.

1114
00:59:01.800 --> 00:59:01.920
Uh.

1115
00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:04.639
We appreciate you being on here. We thank you, and

1116
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:09.800
hopefully we run into you at the show. You'll be there, right, I.

1117
00:59:09.719 --> 00:59:12.440
Mean, oh yeah, yeah, all right, whether you're right in

1118
00:59:12.440 --> 00:59:15.320
the traffic, you'll either see me outside line building or

1119
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:17.199
now if you get if it's later in the day,

1120
00:59:17.719 --> 00:59:20.599
just wait at the top of the escalator. I spend

1121
00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:22.920
ninety percent of my time going from the scare FIST

1122
00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:26.920
TV booth, which is you know where the big column is. Yep, Okay,

1123
00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:30.800
that's where our booth is. From there to the second floor,

1124
00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:33.840
back and forth because I run the second floor and

1125
00:59:34.159 --> 00:59:36.360
so yeah, just stand at the escalator and eventually you'll

1126
00:59:36.360 --> 00:59:36.960
fuck catch me.

1127
00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:40.199
Okay, Well, remember that we'll be on the lookout for you.

1128
00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:41.480
Was uh.

1129
00:59:41.760 --> 00:59:45.199
This has been great and for those of you out

1130
00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:48.239
there listening each week, following us on social media and

1131
00:59:48.280 --> 00:59:52.239
subscribing to our Patreon, we thank you and we'll see

1132
00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:53.519
you at Scarefest.

1133
00:59:53.960 --> 00:59:54.519
See you then,