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Behind the Screams: Portland's Underhill Haunted House · PNW Haunts & Homicides

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  Speaker 1: Someone said that they did pee themselves a little, and
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering, is this a common occurrence?
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  Speaker 2: Would you?
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  Speaker 1: Would you suggest people wear some sort of a corvincy
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  Speaker 1: pad or diapers?
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  Speaker 3: So last weekend I didn't know this was possible either.
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  Speaker 3: One of our longtime haunters who scared someone so bad
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  Speaker 3: that they left his room through an emergency exit, walked
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  Speaker 3: the exterior wall of the exhibit hall and.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, creepy people, we have a fun spooky season bonus
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  Speaker 1: episode for you today. So if you're in the Portland area,
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  Speaker 1: this might give you an idea of something fun and
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  Speaker 1: very very creepy and scary to do this October. Today,
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  Speaker 1: I'm with Ira and Jeff from Underhill Haunted House. It's
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  Speaker 1: in downtown Portland at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The open
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  Speaker 1: times and dates are seven to ten every Friday and
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  Speaker 1: Saturday in October, and Halloween, which is a Thursday, with
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  Speaker 1: some other special dates will go over a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later on. This is your fifth year as a haunted
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  Speaker 1: house in Portland.
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  Speaker 4: It gets a little confusing. I believe it's our fifth year.
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  Speaker 4: Is we missed a year due to COVID? Oh?
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I think don't we don't count that year.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I believe you're right. I believe it's our fifth
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  Speaker 6: year here.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a fundraiser for the Portland based Canon
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  Speaker 1: Shakespeare Company.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, the Canon Shakespeare Company.
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  Speaker 1: But is so awesome. Do the actors and people involved
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  Speaker 1: with the Shakespeare Company also participate in the Haunt Yes?
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  Speaker 6: Well I'm one of them. I'm the artistic director for
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  Speaker 6: the company.
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  Speaker 4: And we're still a small company, so there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of multiple so you'll have people who are acting, but
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to the Canon itself, they're also doing
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  Speaker 4: marketing and they're also doing the secretary and.
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  Speaker 1: All of that, so it's a lot of work. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is this your biggest fundraiser?
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  Speaker 4: Well, this is This is our only fundraiser for the Canon,
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  Speaker 4: and this house was a hunted house before we started
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  Speaker 4: doing it as a fundraiser for other companies.
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  Speaker 6: Twilight Theater.
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  Speaker 4: We did as a fundraiser for Twilight Theater Company for
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  Speaker 4: a couple of years and then switched to the Canon
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  Speaker 4: Shakespeare Company.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a good idea, I think to do a
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  Speaker 1: haunted house as a fundraiser. I think it's so cool
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  Speaker 1: because it's like one time a year and then you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of set for the year, hopefully set for the year, right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and I like that with the Haunted Houses, we're
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  Speaker 4: creating an opportunity for just more community, for people to
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  Speaker 4: come in and have opportunities that they otherwise might not have.
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  Speaker 6: To learn things, to be a part of things. It's
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  Speaker 6: a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of opportunities, I wanted to ask you about some
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  Speaker 1: of the volunteer opportunities you guys have, either now or
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  Speaker 1: for people for next year.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe well that would be Jeff our cast manager, amongst
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  Speaker 4: many other things that he does.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we have, you know, myriad volunteer opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: You know, whether whether you want to act or just
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  Speaker 3: scare people with loud noisemakers, or if you want to
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  Speaker 3: come in and paint or try special effects makeup, or
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  Speaker 3: you know, try your handed building sets or from cleaning
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  Speaker 3: to sounds, costuming, costuming to lighting, two planning sort of
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  Speaker 3: anything that you would like to come down and try
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  Speaker 3: to help with.
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  Speaker 2: We're welcoming.
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  Speaker 5: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: So you said, do the casting do you have like
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  Speaker 1: auditions this year?
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  Speaker 2: We're trying something new.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying a new format with one of our houses
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  Speaker 3: that involves sort of more storytelling and more sort of structured,
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  Speaker 3: a structured plot through the house rather than your typical
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  Speaker 3: sort of jump scares and things you know, coming out
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  Speaker 3: at you from the dark and loud noises and things.
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  Speaker 3: There's four elemental witches that kind of stop you and
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  Speaker 3: tell you are more storytellers rather than your typical haunted house.
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  Speaker 3: So for those roles in particular, we did have short
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  Speaker 3: sort of auditions outside of that. You know, we are
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  Speaker 3: a volunteer haunted house, so we take everybody. You know,
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  Speaker 3: your want to be here is a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: greater than somebody who's the most talented actor in the
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  Speaker 3: world but doesn't want to be here exactly. You want
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  Speaker 3: to be here, you want to help us, you want
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  Speaker 3: to scare people. We've been involved in theater long enough
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  Speaker 3: that we're sure we can either help get you to
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  Speaker 3: the place where you are talented enough to scare people,
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  Speaker 3: or you fit you into a role that you're already
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  Speaker 3: great at. You have sixty or so roles. You can
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  Speaker 3: see behind me the whiteboard which has a third you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's just representative of one of our houses, one of
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  Speaker 3: the sections of characters. Oh wow, so yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 3: you know we can, we can find a place for you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and I've I've worked with people that have
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  Speaker 4: struggled with you know, they want to be a part
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  Speaker 4: of it and they want to act, but they're just
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  Speaker 4: they've never done it before, so the nerves get to
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  Speaker 4: them and they struggle with that. One girl in particular,
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  Speaker 4: I had, she could not get loud, like she could
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  Speaker 4: barely get her voice above a whisper, and the more
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  Speaker 4: people were around and just it was, it became impossible
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  Speaker 4: for her, the worse of God for her. We ended
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  Speaker 4: up putting her in a completely dark room and then
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  Speaker 4: give her a costume and makeup that completely covered her,
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  Speaker 4: so that in the dark room she became invisible to
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  Speaker 4: where all she had to do was open her eyes
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  Speaker 4: and smile. And after about a week of that she
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  Speaker 4: found her voice and towards the end of that season, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: she was a banshee.
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  Speaker 6: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 4: My thing what I like doing with people in volunteers,
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  Speaker 4: especially the actors, is people who've always wanted to but
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  Speaker 4: have no experience. It goes back to acting one on one.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if it's a mask or if it's makeup,
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  Speaker 4: you get it on them and it sets them free.
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  Speaker 4: You get to see the timidity and the self doubt
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  Speaker 4: and the fear fall away, because when you're covered, you're
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  Speaker 4: not yourself. Yeah, so you get to explore. And we've
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  Speaker 4: got people who just all day long they want to
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  Speaker 4: do is what we call a pop scare. So they
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  Speaker 4: just come out from behind something or a slam panel
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  Speaker 4: opens or or whatever, and they're just come out and
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  Speaker 4: attack and then they retreat and they're gone again. To
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  Speaker 4: people who like with Jeff what he was saying about
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  Speaker 4: the Witch's Book, much more character.
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  Speaker 6: So it's engaging.
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  Speaker 4: There's an element of improv to it, but it's also
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  Speaker 4: an element of storytelling, so that you're getting this connection
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  Speaker 4: between the actor and the audience member.
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  Speaker 5: But it's so cool.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's sometimes a lot scarier than the jump scared.
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  Speaker 4: But we want to do it. We want to do
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  Speaker 4: it all, you know, but we do well. We want
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  Speaker 4: to have it be good and have people entertained.
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  Speaker 6: We also.
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  Speaker 4: We want the people who are here volunteering to be
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  Speaker 4: a part of it to feel like they're getting something
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  Speaker 4: out of it. They're growing, they're getting new experiences, they're
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  Speaker 4: having fun. I tell people all the time, if you're
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  Speaker 4: doing something here and you're not having fun. Stop, we
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  Speaker 4: got to talk. Your time is valuable, don't waste it,
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  Speaker 4: don't waste my time. Let's let's find you something that
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  Speaker 4: you're going to enjoy and have fun doing.
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  Speaker 1: That's so awesome, especially for for a volunteer position. It's
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  Speaker 1: like it's not a lot of pressure, but you still
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  Speaker 1: you still want them to have a good time and
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  Speaker 1: you know, make it worth their while. And so I
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  Speaker 1: found a review on your website that says, quote great Haunt,
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  Speaker 1: low budget.
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  Speaker 5: But with a lot of heart behind it.
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  Speaker 1: But looking through your Instagram and seeing and seeing some
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  Speaker 1: of the makeup and the set design, like, to me,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't look that low budget, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like you have some really really talented people
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  Speaker 1: doing makeup, set design and acting as well. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think about the low budget comments.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a compliment.
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  Speaker 6: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: The Death Star was low budget, you know, but it
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  Speaker 3: was awesome, you know. And then we take a lot
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  Speaker 3: of our especially our sci fi special effects, and that's realm,
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  Speaker 3: you know. The Death Star was just a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: plastic stuff glued onto other plastic stuff and then spray
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  Speaker 3: painted silver, you know, and that's you know, we're lucky
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  Speaker 3: because the Rose Garden, sorry, the Moda Center's trash room
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  Speaker 3: is just a little bit over that way, so we're
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  Speaker 3: able to just go and get a bunch of discarded
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  Speaker 3: things that we can just go And I mean, pilfer, I.
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  Speaker 4: Know a lot of people, especially today, and you know
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  Speaker 4: rightfully so expect haunted houses to be these huge, very
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  Speaker 4: well financed professional productions. And uh, my wife is a
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  Speaker 4: special effects artist in film. I'm a prop maker in
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  Speaker 4: film Feaster Famine. Sometimes we have a bit of money,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes we don't. And every year we do this, we
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  Speaker 4: take a big risk, We take a loan to try
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  Speaker 4: to make it happen. And then when you put an
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  Speaker 4: advertising and you put in the fact that there are
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  Speaker 4: some people here who deserve to be paid just what
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  Speaker 4: they do, what they bring to the table, and the
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  Speaker 4: time that they spend. But yeah, most of our walls
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  Speaker 4: are recycled from TV shows. A lot of our gag
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  Speaker 4: is recycled from you know, stuff that I would go
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  Speaker 4: up to a coordinator on set were like, if you
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  Speaker 4: want to have some money and have less waste, let
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  Speaker 4: me take that for you. So in some ways we
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  Speaker 4: are still kind of like what you would call in
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  Speaker 4: the industry a home haunt where it's not high glass,
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  Speaker 4: high professional. You know, we're not spending two to three
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  Speaker 4: hundred thousand on a whole bunch of animatronics and on
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of boot boxes. Things that can control the
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  Speaker 4: motion and dictate how many times something does something or
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  Speaker 4: repeats itself, or different patterns for how it would interact
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  Speaker 4: on's set off one of our people. He's building that
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  Speaker 4: stuff on his own. Wow, just to make it happen.
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  Speaker 4: And so yeah, when the people like low budget, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: definitely a little budget, but with about three times the heart
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  Speaker 4: that the guys who've got the chet books have.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you can get a lot more creative
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  Speaker 1: too if you're making something from scratch, and then it
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  Speaker 1: probably looks a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Scarier if it's not super polished.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think there's a certain level of pride that
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  Speaker 3: goes into it from our volunteers when we've put.
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  Speaker 2: That much effort into something.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can buy the wall treatments and the
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  Speaker 3: you know, vacui formed things that are all.
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  Speaker 2: Finished and polished and good.
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  Speaker 3: But if you have a team of volunteers that have
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  Speaker 3: actually put in the time to make this their own.
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  Speaker 3: Then you know that really does cement in that this
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  Speaker 3: is this is ours, this is something that I've built,
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  Speaker 3: this is something that I'm proud of. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that really translates into the performances, into the commitments, into the.
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  Speaker 2: General morale, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, pride of ownership, pride of ownership.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you touched on the Witches fog House. But let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the other two, correct, the terror Ship and
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  Speaker 1: then under hill manor so can you tell me a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about each of those without any spoilers. We
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  Speaker 1: want people to go and see it for themselves.
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  Speaker 6: So the Terrorship was new last year.
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  Speaker 4: We're getting to the point now where we'll have a
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  Speaker 4: theme for a couple of years. So one of the
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  Speaker 4: houses was the Junkyard, which was fun at the last
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  Speaker 4: year is always the best year. It's kind of the
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  Speaker 4: joke is like the year you're doing it before you
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  Speaker 4: do something.
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  Speaker 6: New is the best year.
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  Speaker 4: So the Junkyard, dead cars with flashing lights, it was amazing.
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  Speaker 6: Every year you want to be better.
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  Speaker 4: And this guy right here for the Tearship, the effort
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  Speaker 4: that Jeff's put into it with how you just using
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  Speaker 4: an engraving machine, what.
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  Speaker 6: Is it called that's a C N C.
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  Speaker 4: Router, so he'll route PLEXI run a strip of LED
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  Speaker 4: across the top of it and makes these lights look
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  Speaker 4: futurist stick and using old computer monitors that we found
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  Speaker 4: worked after a freak duck come out of the dump
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  Speaker 4: at the motor center to you know, make monitors for
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  Speaker 4: the ship.
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  Speaker 6: And just his creativity is the engine room is amazing.
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  Speaker 4: What he's done again you you suggest and rightfully so
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  Speaker 4: not to give stuff away. I'm trying in my excitement
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  Speaker 4: to express the coolness but not give it away.
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  Speaker 6: But the idea is.
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  Speaker 4: Is, yes, it's your your spaceship that's been out too far,
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  Speaker 4: out too long. It's all gross and mucked up, and
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  Speaker 4: then the aliens have gotten into it.
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  Speaker 1: Spooky, that's so cool. What about the Underhill manner?
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  Speaker 4: So Underhill the manner is something that while will never
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  Speaker 4: get rid of the manner, but the themes of the
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  Speaker 4: manner can change from you know, Underhill Hospital to right now,
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  Speaker 4: it's the manor with family pires.
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  Speaker 6: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good mix of stuff. You got the witches,
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  Speaker 1: aliens and vampires. I love it. So where do you
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  Speaker 1: get the inspiration for the houses?
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  Speaker 5: Every year?
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  Speaker 4: It starts out with well, with the idea of you know,
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  Speaker 4: what would be cool to do next? Also, though it
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  Speaker 4: depends on what our resources are, because you know, again
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  Speaker 4: we're a good season is the season we break even
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  Speaker 4: and everything's paid for, you know. And considering that we're
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  Speaker 4: in this space for roughly four months between that and
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  Speaker 4: the advertising and then all the money is that get
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  Speaker 4: paid to all the other organizations here that do things,
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  Speaker 4: it can add up pretty fast. So like the terror ship,
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  Speaker 4: we wanted to do a ship. We had a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of walls that were roughly the same color, and then yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we just went. We went for a We went and
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  Speaker 4: to the good old bins and every cool plastic plastic
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  Speaker 4: key thing we could find, from NERF guns to contraptions whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Because what's crazy, and as Jeff was mentioning, like with
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  Speaker 4: the Death Star and what they used to do in
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  Speaker 4: the seventies in the eighties is you would just take
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  Speaker 4: all this gack and then mount it on something and
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  Speaker 4: then paint it. And when you paint it and then
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  Speaker 4: you give it detail, it changes. It goes from looking
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  Speaker 4: like a bunch of junk screw to a wall to
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  Speaker 4: things that look like they have purpose. You don't know
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  Speaker 4: what it is, but you know that it looks it
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  Speaker 4: tells overall, it tells a tale that this is a
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  Speaker 4: part of a ship.
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  Speaker 6: And then you put black light on it and it
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  Speaker 6: looks cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to have the black light.
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  Speaker 4: But a lot of the designs of the houses, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the themes, that comes from my wife, Christina.
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  Speaker 4: She's the one that's been doing this for close to
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  Speaker 4: thirty years. She started out at a Haunt down in
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  Speaker 4: California that was an old two story mall and the
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  Speaker 4: whole thing was the haunted house. So this is this
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  Speaker 4: is She loves doing the mazes and she just gets
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  Speaker 4: these feelings like I think whitches are it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, she's right, something I thought was so cool and unique.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think i'd ever really seen it before. You
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  Speaker 1: have a halloween market in the space as well, a
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  Speaker 1: bizarre Is the market area really scary too or is
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  Speaker 1: it just kind of like.
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  Speaker 5: A normal No, it's it's scary, Okay. No jump scar
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  Speaker 5: is going to come out from behind a booth or something.
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  Speaker 3: We tell our actors that's strictly off limits. That in
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  Speaker 3: the bathroom, No jump scares, no scare zones, no scare zones.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, we have if the houses themselves are too
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  Speaker 3: much for our patrons, we have at the very end
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  Speaker 3: in the or in the halloweens are the Scaredy Cat Lounge,
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  Speaker 3: which is very well lit, very pot pink with the walls,
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  Speaker 3: a very comfy couch. But you just have to sit
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  Speaker 3: in shame somewhere that's like Scaredy Cat Lounge where everyone
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  Speaker 3: can see you as they exit. Yeah, but yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: a safe space right next to all the merch.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like if I took my co host there,
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  Speaker 1: I would just have to PLoP her down there and
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  Speaker 1: just leave her there the whole time.
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  Speaker 4: If you guys, if you guys wanted to come through,
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  Speaker 4: you should come through and bring her a little early
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  Speaker 4: and we'll put her in makeup and we'll.
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  Speaker 6: Put her somewhere in the house.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, and she can hunt you.
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  Speaker 5: She might be into that. It might be payback.
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  Speaker 6: But with the with the Halloween Bazaar, sometimes just the
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  Speaker 6: cost of booths is outrageous.
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  Speaker 4: What people have to pay just to display there. You
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  Speaker 4: know there was real estate. Yeah, it's crazy expensive. What
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  Speaker 4: we do is we tell people you can put up
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  Speaker 4: your booth and your tent and leave it. And the
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  Speaker 4: cost of that space is ten percent of your sales
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  Speaker 4: as a donation from you to the Canon Shakespeare Company,
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  Speaker 4: so it's deductible for them.
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  Speaker 6: That's the that's the cost. And what we'd like to
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  Speaker 6: do is just focus on.
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  Speaker 4: You know, small privately owned companies, mom and pop companies,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like us artists people like that, and just
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  Speaker 4: it's a it's an opportunity for for artists to be
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  Speaker 4: seen by a lot of people and not lose a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of money doing it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, and it's like the perfect time of year,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the perfect area. Like all of those people I'm sure
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: would be into anything spooky they're selling at the market
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: if they're coming to a haunted house, right, But if
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: anyone is interested, So you said, you still have spots,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and I assume there's like a form online you would
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: fill out if you're interested in being in the market.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: The person who's in charge of is the one who
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: who puts that all together. So there's not a place
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: to sign up for it that I'm aware of.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: We would have to talk to her, okay, but people
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: could contact you if they were Oh.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, and you're presenting some questions like oh, Okay, well, these.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Things need to change.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: That's that's something that's been a part of this process
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: over the last several years. As we're just like, we
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: are a very safe space. We have a very strict
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: no bullying, no threats of violence, no violence, no aggressive
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: aggression policy.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: So it's just and over we've developed that over.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: The last several years, and when something happens that we
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: were ready for it, then the policy gets updated. But
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: also with things like that too, where it's like, oh,
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: we should have some place where people if they're interested,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: once the word gets out and it becomes more known
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: in the city that this is and that's what we
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: want is that this is a place.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: For artists to show their stuff. Yeah, to put in
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: an application for it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I wanted to talk about the Lights Out
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: special event that is Thursday the twenty fourth, and the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: title seems a little self explanatory, but can you tell
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: us a little bit about what changes with the haunt
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and the extra do environment.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, we we hand out sort of small you know,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: pin lights, sort of the finger lighty led lights to
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: each of our participants. Not so much so they can
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: see their way through in the dark, more so we
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: can see where they are.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's a false sense of security because they have
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: some light.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: It's not that great. Just get you caught right, Yep, yep.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: We we do leave on you know, emergency exit lights
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: because the fire marshal would be angry if we didn't.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: But outside of that, yeah, it's more or less just
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: a blackout event.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Feel your way around in the dark, try to it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: It's intense. It's not for everybody, but every year we will.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: You started doing it and we just we've had this
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: slow build of very committed people that every year, are
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: you doing it again?
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Are you doing it again? Yes, yes we are, and
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: they love it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Those creepy people, man, they just want to be so scared,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: but you do have so maybe not so scary.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Stuff kids Monsterfest yet.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: That is Sunday, the twentieth and twenty seven. Yes, I
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: just kind of have one question asking for a friend.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Do the adults get to come and do they get
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: wands as well?
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Adults can come and know they don't get ones because
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: the wands only work for the children. We've had several
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: complaints over the years when people are they show up
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: and what they expected was because the tickets are cheaper,
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: and they expected to be able to go through the
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: haunted a cheaper price, but still have the late night
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: scared shenanigans. And they've been very upset because kids Monsterfest.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: It's just that it's during the daytime. What we do
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: is we close down one of three houses, so we
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: only have two houses open. We close the scariest, goorious
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: house down. That makes sense, and then kids are given me.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: And what the kids are told is that the magic
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: wands only work for them, so they can't hand it
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: off to the adults. They're the only ones that can
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: use it. It will only work for them. And most
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: monsters are being good little monsters because it's daytime. Daytime
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: is bedtime for monsters. But there are some naughty monsters
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: running about and if they see one, point their magic
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: wand at it and tell it, go to bed, monster,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: go to bed. And I always say this after I
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: tell that, when I tell people what it is and
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: how it works, Like, you don't know fear until you've
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: been hunted by seven.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Year olds for four it's a workout.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they come after.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: You, oh my god.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, But it's just it's so much fun. It's one
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: of the more simply the most rewarding of the of
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: the Haunt days, just because it's just straight fun because yeah,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: you get to act just so goofy. We're all dressed,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: you know, as very clownish, like bright colors.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: We're just giving all of the power to these ten
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: and under kids.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: And oh my god, they're coming watch out you guys,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: and yeah, just running for our lives from toddlers. It's amazing.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: A lot of falling over.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and they take it to heart real fast.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: It's also really interesting because when we started doing we realized, wow,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: we're getting some insight into how some of these kids
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: are parented, because some kids will be like, go to sleep, monster,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: and other kids are like monster, I.
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: Told you go to sleep.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Go to sleep.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Break down and the parents are behind the kid and
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: they're like, oh, let's see.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Oh it's so sweet though, even though I wouldn't get
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: a wand.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: No, it's it's it's like just say, it's really rewarding,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: and we've a lot of parents have really appreciated having
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: something close in town to do with with their kids.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: And we lower the price because we are closing one
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: of the houses also, we just we have a lower
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: price because it's for families.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I imagine that seeing everything be put together
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes kind of takes some of the mystery
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: out of the haunted house. But when all is said
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and done and the lights go down, do you guys
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: ever get scared seeing it all come together?
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: We encourage the actors to try and scare.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Us as much as possible. I mean, especially me.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I mean it's my job as the as the cast
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: manager to you know, critique performances, make sure they're doing
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the right thing. So I try to drill into them.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Please don't drop character, please, you know, keep what you're doing,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: show me, show me what you got kind of thing.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: And most of the time they're good. And a lot
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: of the time, yeah I get, I do get scared.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: One person in particular that like Iris had started off
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: you know, behind a slamp pannel tim and is all
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: get out. Could only you know, shut shut a thing
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: from behind the wall. This last weekend, I think scared
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: me three times in the course of like two turns
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: of a hallway. It's just completely come out of their
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: shell and got me, you know. So it's definitely more
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: the more the people like the the scares and the
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: gags themselves. You know, I know, I know those are coming.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: But the things that people do get me all the time.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Or like, you know, if we have a new actor
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: that I've never met before and they come out of
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: the the would work to surprise me.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great, cure are you?
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: Are you supposed to be here?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: People crawling on the ground every time? Every time.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: Crawling is just so creepy.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it's you think you're in a space
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: and there's no one around it, and you look down
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: and they're right above your feet.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Looking up at you.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: There's yeah, when you when you do this, when you're
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: in the industry, you don't get scared anymore because you
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: see all of the mechanisms and all of the all
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: of the things behind it. You can still appreciate when
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: things are well done though, whether it's a set or
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: whether it's a performance. But like, yeah, like Jeff said,
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: we tell our actors all the time, just because you
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: see us, don't let us pass by, come after us,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Try something new, try something bold, because once in a
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: while I can still be gone. I can and oh
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: man like and it's a badge of honor when you
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: can get someone who's been doing this for years and
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: years and years, so we encourage them to do that
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: because it's good for them when they're like, oh my gosh,
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: I did it, and for us it's like, oh, man,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: who has been a while.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: When I was snooping through your Instagram, I saw one
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of the reels of people their reactions after they were
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: getting out of the house, and someone said that they
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: did pee themselves a little, and I was wondering, is
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: this the common occurrence?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Would you.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Would you suggest people wear some sort of corvency pad
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: or diaper.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: So last weekend, which was our first time ever encountering
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: something like this, I didn't know this was possible either.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: One of our longtime haunters, who was also very instrumental
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: in building the whole Haunted house, scared someone so bad
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: that they left his room through an emergency exit, walked
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: the exterior wall of the exhibit hall and projectile vomited
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: a really entire wall.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Oh no, which.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: We're in the process of building him a trophy.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Because it's just the most amazing thing.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So, where diaper and bring a bar.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Just in case of your prone to fits of vomiting
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: or you know, have.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Iritable Yeah, people ask questions that are someone like that
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: or that are like that, and it's just know yourself,
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: know what your limitations are, because we also have people
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: that are like, can I bring my kid? And I've
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: had fifteen year old's sixteen year olds make it through
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: the first room and they're done.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: They and they will not go back. I feel bad.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: It's like, because you know, no refunds, but yeah, you
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: guys are missing out on like ninety five percent of they.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: Won't go back. Yeah.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Man, We had a girl go through Kids Monsterfest. She
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: was about eight or seven somewhere in there, and her
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: parents had a great time, and she was sad. She
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: came out, she said, and my wife was there and said, well,
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: did you not have a good time? And her response
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: was it wasn't scary. So we gave them comp tickets
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: to come back later that night when all three houses
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: were open, you know, all of the ruckus and the
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: blood and the grossness and the screams and the terror.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: So they go through third house, they come out, the
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: parents are just like and she was she almost she
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: was gonna split, she was. Her eyes were smiling. She
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: was like, oh it was so oh, it was so scary.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: It was so good.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: So you got to know yourself. Yeah, you got to
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: know yourself. You got to know. It's great for us.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, the worst case scenario what happens is is
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: we have to shut a house down.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: This happened outside, so we didn't.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: But there's been times where I've had to stop a
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: line and then backs up to enter and people get upset.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: You know, they don't want to that natural. You know,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: I'm not upset with that. You're standing around for ten minutes,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: fifteen minutes. You want to know why you just waited
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: to get in. You're standing again? What's going on? And
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: then the best time that ever happened was is people
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: started getting vocal about it. And as it started getting
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: vocal to people, it has batsuits head to toe because
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: someone had had made a mess, they.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: Had lost mowel control.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: And they come out pushing the cart but they feel
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: like the goggles and the thing yellow suits and they're
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: gloves and they're pushing it. And I watched him go by.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: I turned to the guy who was making a noise,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: a lot of noise.
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: He was like, this is stupid. I don't want to
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: be here. What's going on? Once.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: It takes a long and I just tread him ready, sir,
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: We're ready for you, all nice and clean.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: He didn't want to go.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's why he was trying to get out of
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the line before it actually opened up again, because he
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: was too scared.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: But he was, yeah, this is stupid. Well we have
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: to wear oh man.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: So but yeah, there have been accidents.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask, what the weirdest thing you've
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: ever had to clean up from a haunt was? I
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: feel like you kind of answered it.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we were. It's nice to still be surprised, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: that was a surprise.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine the type of things people I don't know,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: because I imagine people just like ah and like losing
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: all of their stuff.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: It seems like several times a year we have to
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: go on a cell phone hunt through the twelve thousand
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: or so square feet of haunted house and it's you know,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: typically kicked under something. We find them fairly quickly, to
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: our credit.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: But yeah, stuff goes flying. We find earrings, necklaces, jewelry, phones.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Be careful, put your stuff on ropes so you don't
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: lose anything. And to be so scary.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: And it's just you know, they'll they'll get through it
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: three houses before they realized they've lost something, and they've
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: gone through sprinting at some points because there's just.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: Just to get through it.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: That shows how like scary and into like the story
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and the scenery they are if they are forgetting that
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: they've lost something.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: That's That's what I'm really I'm proud of is our
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: are Haunt is getting a reputation now for being very
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: actor centric and focused and being scary because of it,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: because we don't really have anything in the way of animatronics,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: so it's on our actors.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's another I mean plus about being low budget.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: You know, we have to we get to rely on
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: these actors that are you know, getting better and better
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: year after year, that are just continuing to surprise me
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: over and over as as I go on. You know,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: we have people now in higher positions of sort of
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: more authority, that are taking on more sort of directorial
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: roles that I'm walking into Haunts finding that they've choreographed
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: these sort of elaborate routines that are just amazing and
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: brilliant just taking it on themselves.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: And so you've got you've got two actors doing a
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: little sort of vignette that they've worked out together as
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: people come by.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's great.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: That is so fun. Well, now I want to volunteer
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: do Yeah, I'm coming down. You can't stop me.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you would like to volunteer underhillpdx
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: dot com monsters needed link that will send an email
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: directly to me and I will reach out via phone
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: within a couple of days and we'd love to have you.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, probably sometimes I haven't said it time for
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: it yet, but what I like to do is, if
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: not two different times, at least one time, have an
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: actor's workshop, which is part just acting but also acting
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: for the Haunt. I've been in theater since I was
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: a kid, and I love it. It's my passion and I
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: love helping people figure ways to do it and be
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: involved in it. I'm very much of a you want
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: to be an actor done, You're an actor. There's no
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: like secret handshake, there's no like code that you need
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: to know to be an actor. No one, no one
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: gate keeps that unless you give them the power too.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: So I tell people, if you want to be an actor,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: you're an actor. Now you've got to be better the
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: onus of that is on you, and uh so come
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: in and volunteer for us and be scary and if
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: you want, you know, learn some learn some stuff about
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: acting and have fun.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: Yep, you want to go have some spooky fun.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: Right, yeah. And it's I've seen.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Some haunted houses where regrettably, unfortunately, I feel like that's forgotten.
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: You know, it's you can.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Get caught up in all of the uh the technical
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: side of it and in the presentation.
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: And it's good to have those things. I mean, you
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: want those things.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Because it all, it all just adds to the overall
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: experience and the omvioance of it. But uh, I've seen
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: actors that are just there to be there. Oh you look,
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: you see it, you can see it.
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: The eyes are very important.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: I tell people, when you're having fun joy, your eyes
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: are smiling, they're a light, they're they're telling you that
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: this is a moment that everyone's involved in. And some
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: some of the times you go to these places and
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: actuals just no, no, no, no, that's oh my gosh,
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: your poor your poor kid. So that's you know, we
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: really put the emphasis on there, you being present, being
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: in the moment, having energy, enjoying the experience and not
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: being afraid of failure. Don't be afraid to get it
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: wrong as an actor. What's really cool about being in
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: an a haunted house. You get a fresh audience every minute.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: That is true.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Didn't work, Try something else, did it work? Okay, Try
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: a variance, try to up the anti, try to play
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: it differently. And as we say, if you can't scare them,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: make them laugh, can't make them laugh, gross them out,
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: can't gross them out, make it awkward.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's what I would be good at,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: is making things awkward.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Oh I love making things awkward. That's like a lot
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: of my interaction with people is to just be that personally. Hey,
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: do you just hate it when people like don't pick
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: up on social cues And then I'll go away and.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: Keep talking to you like you have to conversation.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: But that was talking.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they left random like, oh man, that's just the worst.
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: I love awkwy me too.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: That was great.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Just some examples of what you could be doing in
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the Haunted House if you were a volunteer. Well, thank
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: you guys so much again for coming on with me.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I really wanted to find something local, something that was
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: for a good cause. So hopefully everyone goes and checks
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: out Underhill Haunted House and gets super scared and has
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: so much fun.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you for having us.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: It's this has been fun to just sit down and
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: talk about what we do here.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: So you have tickets on the website, right, that's where
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: you get your tickets, and you do say to pre
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: purchase tickets because you pick like a time slot, correct.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's so that people don't end up waiting
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: three hours to get in, especially towards the end of
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: the season when more and more people start coming. It
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: really can back things up. Also, something very important if
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: you can take the max here or carpool or taken
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: an uber or what have you do, because this is
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: a very happening place. So often there's several events going
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: at once, and the parking is not cheap. Parking starts
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: around twenty eight dollars.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Yikes, and it goes today.
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it goes up from there.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: Wow. Okay, that was a good tip.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Then, because sometimes you know, people see that and then
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: we get hate mail, get that one star review. I
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: don't know why I paid this, and then I had
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: to pay the service fees and then they maybe pay
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: forty dollars to.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: Park my car and we're like, sorry, we didn't do that.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: Have you been downtown before? It's kind of how it goes.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: But yeah, every max line stops within a.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: Block, so oh perfect, perfect.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: So I mean or just you know, park, park up
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: by the Lloyd Center and stretch your legs for a bit,
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: walk a few blocks. Save the money and the aggravation.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Oh my goodness. Yeah, and it takes forty five minutes
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: to an hour to park, and then and then another
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: hour to.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: It gets it gets messy.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: So yeah, don't do that, guys.
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: We always suggest to people to try to find other means.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you alrighty, well, you guys have so much fun
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: with the rest of your haunting season, and I hope
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: so many people come and you run out of tickets.
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: Wow, thank you very much.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: Thank you guys, absolutely, thank you.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Fue I definitely would I want to come see the
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: witches Bog.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: That sounds amazing.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I cannot drag my co host out there because she
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: doesn't do I'm already taking to her to a cemetery
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: and she's not into that, so I can't.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: I can't get her to go to a haunted house.
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: But well, she should she should volunteer as an actor.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: There's a there's an old, cliched joke about the people
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: who can't go to the haunted house because it's too terrifying.
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: Make the best actors.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: That might make a lot of sense.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: They really do.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: She terrifies me all the time, so