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Unsigned518 - Halloween Special 2025- Part Two · Unsigned518

• 0:03
  Speaker A: It's motherfuckin Andy just hanging around with some local motherfuckers in the dazzle den. If you're in a local band and you're passing through town, stop by when.
• 0:15
  Speaker B: The creepies come out.
• 0:16
  Speaker C: You're at the Dazzle Dan with those creepy motorbunkers.
• 0:19
  Speaker A: You're at the Dazzle Dan with those creepy motor bumpers. You're at the Dazzle dad with those creepy momentum. You're at the Dazzle dad with those creepy movie star.
• 1:01
  Speaker C: Welcome again to unsocked 518 Halloween episode. What's up, BJ?
• 1:08
  Speaker D: Hey, what's going on?
• 1:09
  Speaker C: It is, it's Andy and BJ. It, it's finally here. Halloween is tomorrow. And I mean, you know, all season I, I just. It builds, it builds up, it builds up and then tomorrow hits and then comes November 1st. And then nobody seems to want to talk spooky anymore. And I'm hoping that by having this very long episode that we have ahead of us, it will extend the Halloween season because people might be like, oh, they're doing like a two plus hour part two of the 90 plus minute part one. And they're like, I can't listen to it all in one sitting. So maybe they'll, you know, listen to it over the course of a couple days and maybe we'll get into like 11-5-6, you know, maybe that time.
• 2:00
  Speaker D: It's really weird too because you don't have like, it's not like a season for Thanksgiving. You don't have a bunch of Thanksgiving movies with classic actors. You don't have, you know, all this other stuff. It's just like, they just go like. Right. They kind of skip over Thanksgiving and they go right to like Christmas, you.
• 2:16
  Speaker C: Know, and even some of like the Thanksgiving stuff gets rolled into Christmas. Like Jingle Bells, for instance. Not a Christmas song. It's a Thanksgiving song. Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way, you know. Oh, fun. There's no mention of Christmas at all. They're just dashing through the snow. They're going over the, you know, to whatever grandma's house. Isn't that where they're going something? I think. But yeah, not, not a Christmas song. But they made it a Christmas song. Is Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Is that a. I think that's a Christmas movie. Is it Christmas?
• 2:51
  Speaker D: I think so.
• 2:52
  Speaker C: For some reason I was thinking it could be, it could be going home.
• 2:55
  Speaker D: For that just kind of reinforces the idea like things can't even, can't even hold on to a Thanksgiving song.
• 3:00
  Speaker B: Right.
• 3:00
  Speaker D: You know, so why not just extend. Why not just extend Halloween? Like, why is it just end on the 31st and people just put on slacks again and button downs?
• 3:07
  Speaker C: Like, we should. We should rally for that. It should roll a little. Thank. Halloween should top off with Thanksgiving.
• 3:14
  Speaker D: Yeah.
• 3:14
  Speaker C: You know what I mean? We should celebrate all through most of November, and then after that, we'll concede and we'll be like, all right, it's Christmas.
• 3:21
  Speaker D: You get days of Christmas. You get days of Hanukkah. There should be days of Halloween. Instead of just, you know, Halloween, you have like, you know, 12 days of Halloween.
• 3:28
  Speaker C: 12. Well, it'd be like, I would need like 42 days of Halloween.
• 3:32
  Speaker D: Well, you would.
• 3:33
  Speaker C: Before I'd be satisfied. But anyway, we're here. We gotta kind of keep it short because we have so much content to get to. And basically, just like episode one, we've gathered this content over the past, like, couple weeks or so, and now me and BJ are just gonna kind of. Kind of talk. And in between the segments that are already recorded, we're gonna play some Halloween music and. And whatnot. So I think we'll get right into it. This first segment is DJ Fearless of Knowing, you know, Presents. And he's been a big supporter of the show. He's come on on the show. When I was hosting on sign 518, he came on a lot. I should probably hook you up with him so he could. He can check in with you.
• 4:18
  Speaker D: Yeah, absolutely.
• 4:18
  Speaker C: On. On the weekend Spotlight, because he's great, not only with his support of local music, but just like, you know, really integrated into the community, really gets things organized, get things happening and just a really cool dude. So there's a show happening tomorrow night that no one, you know, presents is. Is putting on. And to tell you all about it and more, we're gonna go to an interview that I did with DJ Fearless. And I guess we'll just. We'll shoot it over to myself, so. Over to you, Andy. All right. And we are back. We have with us DJ Fearless of no One youe Know, Presents. How's it going?
• 5:07
  Speaker E: Hey, my man. What's up? It's. It's good. I'm living in life. It's Halloween time.
• 5:11
  Speaker C: Yeah. My, my. It's the time of the year, like, when I truly come alive. Like, I go to fucking. I. I slumber in the summer, you know, I'm like, not a heat kid. And like, this my time. And I'm like, yeah. So we want to talk about, you know, speaking obviously, Halloween, Halloween parties and Halloween Events. And, you know, you guys obviously put on killer events all year long, but I'm sure you have something planned for Halloween.
• 5:38
  Speaker E: Oh, yeah, I'm pretty excited. I'm like, I said my favorite holiday of all time. So on October 31st, we're actually doing a huge Halloween event at Lost and Found with American foundation for Suicide Prevention. And it's pretty unique. It's not just a part. Yeah, we have, like, I'm DJing, and we have dancers from Night Moves, actually. But the big thing is that we're doing an immersive experience. Like, we're taking over Lost and Found's backyard, making it, you know, three different sections, hollow. You know, we got a graveyard. We have a dollhouse. We have a fun house. And you have to walk through that experience in order to get to the bar. So it's kind of. It's gonna be pretty unique.
• 6:12
  Speaker C: And is it, like, when you say experience, is it, like, set up, like, you know, haunted house style? Like something that you specifically walk through this thing and there's scares and jump scares, or is it just kind of atmospheric?
• 6:24
  Speaker E: Yeah, mainly atmospheric, but with a little bit of jump scares. You know, we're not going to give it all away, but there is, like, some things that may jump out and scare you, and it's small. It's like photo ops and things like that. But there's definitely things you're going to have to walk by that will probably be a little unsettling for some people in a good way, you know?
• 6:40
  Speaker C: Right, right. And I love that with the multiple theme, it's like, you know, how the nightclubs will do the multiple floors with multiple themes. Like the haunted houses with. With the different themes would be good because, I mean, you know, the. The dollhouse is just, for some reason, feels. Seems more unsettling than graveyard. Like, when you said graveyard, I was like, yep, yep. Graveyard. Then you like dollhouse. I'm like, oh, it's fucking creepy. Yeah.
• 7:04
  Speaker E: And then the fun house is clowns. So, you know, we hit all the. All the unsettling situations.
• 7:09
  Speaker C: Yeah, a lot of people don't like clowns. I. I actually, you know, we were talking, like, you know, I had agony on the podcast, and. And, man, that was. That was fun. He, you know, just to have him over and it was in person. It wasn't even over the phone. Like, you know, he was, oh, boy.
• 7:25
  Speaker E: Yeah.
• 7:26
  Speaker C: And I, like, kind of, you know, I was like, oh, man, my dog is going to lose his fucking mind. Because he did. And it was funny because, like, at first, like, my dog was like, you know, hey, you know, it was just another person coming in and was like, hey, you know, smelling him. Cool. And then he, like, looked up and caught, like, a fucking glance of his, and he had, like, just this moment of, wait, what? And then he was like, bark, bark, bark, you know?
• 7:51
  Speaker E: Oh, my God.
• 7:52
  Speaker C: And I was like, all right, you got to get out of here.
• 7:54
  Speaker E: But, yeah, I saw the teaser with the ring camera at your house, Right?
• 7:59
  Speaker C: That's creepy. Yeah, there's. He did a couple other teasers, too, that I'm. That I'm going to use that was. You know, I'm like, you know, it's not every day that you get Agony the clown over at your house. I'm like, would you be so kind as to do a couple of promos with me?
• 8:13
  Speaker E: Like, oh, that's genius, man.
• 8:15
  Speaker C: Yeah, it was so cool. But, yeah, I love. I love the clowns, and I love how unsettling clowns are to other people. I think. You know what I mean? Because, like, realistically, it's no different than any other mask, you know, any other covering of the face or whatever, but it does have that effect on a lot of people that, like, cannot deal with the clowns. And that's funny to me.
• 8:43
  Speaker E: Yeah. I mean, I was like the clown from American Horror Story once. And, like, that one's creepy.
• 8:48
  Speaker C: I get it.
• 8:48
  Speaker E: Why people wouldn't like that one. But this, you'd be a regular clown, and people freak out about, like, just a regular Bozo the Clown.
• 8:54
  Speaker C: Yeah. And it's like, dude, I fucking do children's birthday parties. Leave me alone. Why? Why? Why are you a grown adult, so scared of me? Yeah. But, yeah, it's hysterical. It's a real thing. Remember, like, a few years ago? I don't know, it was, like, probably like, 2016 or 17. I remember it was, like, right before the movie it came out, but there was, like, all the clown sightings all over the place.
• 9:22
  Speaker E: People were freaking out. They were everywhere on the highways, all kind of places.
• 9:26
  Speaker C: And it was like. Like cops were getting involved. It's like, nobody's doing anything illegal here, you know?
• 9:33
  Speaker E: Yeah, that's the type of stuff I like doing.
• 9:35
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 9:36
  Speaker E: Like, I'll dress up and stand in the middle of a road just to scare people like that.
• 9:39
  Speaker C: I love doing that. I've gone out front to trim the bushes in front of my house and been wearing the leather face mask while using in front of my house.
• 9:49
  Speaker E: I knew I liked your man.
• 9:53
  Speaker C: I really want to, like, make like a man. Get like a mannequin and like dress it up as like, you know, Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers or whatever and just place it like 10 or 15ft deep into the woods on the side of like a really like major road around here, you know?
• 10:10
  Speaker E: Uh huh.
• 10:11
  Speaker C: But it would cause hysteria.
• 10:13
  Speaker E: Yeah, I think he caused some accidents maybe.
• 10:15
  Speaker C: Yes, totally. Be like, yeah, seven fatal accidents. Oh fuck.
• 10:22
  Speaker E: Sightings of Michael Myers and Jason.
• 10:27
  Speaker C: But yeah, Halloween is like I said my. I know we're, we're on the phone, but if you could see what I'm seeing. I'm like surrounded by horror stuff.
• 10:38
  Speaker F: I can imagine.
• 10:39
  Speaker E: I can't wait to see it.
• 10:40
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. You know, it's going to be my house.
• 10:43
  Speaker E: Same thing. So we're on the same page.
• 10:46
  Speaker C: Yeah. I have to keep it on the, in the dazzle then because my wife will not, does not want it out in the, in the actual house. Yeah.
• 10:53
  Speaker E: That's hysterical. I mean I want to celebrate like in August. My wife's like, no, not, not happening. So.
• 10:58
  Speaker C: Oh well, we have, I mean we, my wife and I kind of have an understanding because she's very into Christmas like as, like as much as I am Halloween. She's very into, you know, so I don't give her any at all. If she wants to put up, you know, Christmas decorations November 1st and she doesn't give me any shit at all. When I start watching horror movies daily in early September, you know.
• 11:23
  Speaker E: That's amazing.
• 11:23
  Speaker C: Yep.
• 11:24
  Speaker E: That's about the time.
• 11:25
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. As soon as, like as soon as I get one breeze that's not hot, I'm like, oop, spooky. Movie time. Yeah, absolutely.
• 11:35
  Speaker E: Yeah. Oh yeah, we're on the same page.
• 11:37
  Speaker C: Yeah. So let's, I guess we'll get, get back to the, to the party. So what's, it's Friday, you know, Halloween night. Which is wild that Halloween's on a Friday.
• 11:49
  Speaker E: I'm obsessed.
• 11:50
  Speaker C: Start right at like what, five, six, seven.
• 11:53
  Speaker E: Actually we're. Well, you know, I'll be setting up days before that, but at 9:00pm Is, you know, you can get it there early. You know, there's a free charge. There's no cover.
• 12:01
  Speaker C: Oh wow.
• 12:01
  Speaker E: So I'd advise people to get there early because it gets packed and 9pm it starts. We'll be DJing and we'll have dancers and it's going to be a pretty unique. I mean we're doing giveaways from 1911 Cider. They're doing a special like Haunted Hayride Pumpkin spice cider, which is super good heirloom dispensary. They're doing some giveaways and stage one dispensary. And like I said, American foundation is. We're going to raffle these things off and it all goes to American foundation with suicide prevention. So that's why it's free. It's pretty great, right?
• 12:30
  Speaker C: Because I mean, you guys hear that all the time. You're, you're very good at, at giving back to the community, which is, yeah, a very, not a unique thing, but it's a thing we could use more of, I guess. Yeah. So I really agree, you guys.
• 12:46
  Speaker E: I mean, it's important to me, like what they do. And also like, I love music, you know, you love music and I love American Foundation. So we're trying to do both give people free shows, but also come in with the idea that I didn't pay to, to, to come to the show, so let me donate some money to them. And, and I'm obsessed with Halloween. So this was a no brainer. And if I could build a haunted house, and that's hopefully my future, what I'll do is have a haunted house place. But I try to do it anywhere I go. So I was like, wilson found, let's just take it over and, you know, do something similar.
• 13:12
  Speaker C: Right? Yeah. We got to talk if you want to do a haunted house. Like, I'm in. I, I, I volunteered at a haunted house for, as a scare actor and we would get our own rooms. So yeah, we would have, it was over in Argyle. I did it for three years in a row, but they would give us, it was in this old house that they were trying to rehab. So like the whole house was the haunted house and you'd claim your room and then for, you know, weeks, build up your room, get your scare going or whatever. But yeah, I love, I love doing that stuff. It was awesome. It was before the band and before the podcast and then I kind of stopped having all the free time. But if I'd fucking do that again like in Heartbeat.
• 13:55
  Speaker E: Yeah, I mean, I like the idea of creating your own too. That's super dope. I've never heard of that. That's, that's right. But what I want to do, you know, everyone has their own spin on things. So like, you come in and take your own room. That's so cool.
• 14:05
  Speaker C: Yeah, you would, there would be like, you know, the sign up and everybody, once you'd sign up, you'd claim your room and, and that was it. That was your room. And you could do whatever you want with your room?
• 14:17
  Speaker E: And we definitely got to talk because, yeah, I'm scaring people on a daily basis. I would love. I would be a scare actor if I could do that full time. I'd do that all the time.
• 14:24
  Speaker C: It was so. I mean, it was so much fun. Like, I made, like, some ladies pee their pants, which. Which, you know, like, at first was like. I'm like, oh, man. I, like, feel bad. But then I'm like, they knew kind of what they were getting into. And the way the haunted house was is, like, the upstairs was, like, very family friendly. And if you went downstairs, they, like, kind of warned you. Like, this is where, like, you know, jump scares and, you know, real actors coming at you. It's like a little more. A little more ramped up. So, like, anybody that came down the stairs was well aware that there was going to be people jumping out at him. And I jumped out of them. That's their stampede, you know. So, yeah, her friends were laughing at her. She was like, I peed my pants. I was like, that's amazing.
• 15:12
  Speaker E: I mean, they got a story for the rest of their life now, thanks to you. So, you know.
• 15:15
  Speaker C: Yeah, totally.
• 15:16
  Speaker E: That's amazing.
• 15:17
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 15:18
  Speaker E: Oh, yeah. That's what. We don't want everyone to pee their pants. Lost in town.
• 15:20
  Speaker C: But, I mean, if it happens, it happens.
• 15:23
  Speaker E: But I always wanted to have a good time. You know, it's free. You don't have to pay 50 for a haunt. You can just come and kind of hang out and have a little bit of both.
• 15:29
  Speaker C: And I'm assuming costumes encouraged.
• 15:32
  Speaker E: Oh, big time. We have a costume concert, 100 prize, best costume. And, you know, like I said, night moves. You know, some of our friends work there, and they're actually having some dancers come in, obviously fully clothed, but in costume, dancing and doing a little, you know, different characters. Like, I know Deadpool's coming down and there's a couple other people coming in, so we're gonna see some talented dancing as well, and it's gonna be pretty unique. It's gonna be immersive.
• 15:55
  Speaker C: So that is. That is very cool. All right, well, you know, I. I would be there if I wasn't playing a Halloween show myself. But, you know, being Halloween, I. My band is playing. Playing a show. I can't. I can't tell you who we're going as. I'll tell you after. But it's okay.
• 16:14
  Speaker E: I can't wait to see.
• 16:15
  Speaker C: It's. It's amazing. I'll tell you as soon as I stop recording.
• 16:19
  Speaker E: Okay. Good, good.
• 16:21
  Speaker C: But anyway, DJ Fearless, thank you so much. No one, you know, presents. You guys are fucking killing it. I always love what you do and I love the, the giving back aspect of it. So I appreciate that and any, any parting words.
• 16:37
  Speaker E: I mean, I appreciate you guys and always supporting the unsigned artists and all the local artists because, you know, it's people like you that, that keep them, you know, spreading the word on them, which is important because we have so much talent down here. So you make our jobs a lot easier as producers. So we appreciate it.
• 16:53
  Speaker C: Awesome. Well, mutual respect of each other then. Sweet.
• 16:57
  Speaker E: Oh, yeah.
• 16:58
  Speaker C: All right, well, thank you so much, man.
• 17:00
  Speaker E: All right, Happy Halloween.
• 17:01
  Speaker C: Happy Halloween. All right, we're back. So that was my conversation with DJ Fearless. If no one, you know, presents. So go check that out. It's going to be a killer, killer event and there's so much going on tomorrow night, but there's something you can find, so get up there and find something. So right now we're going to play a song and we're actually going to do kind of a double up with Jess Hudak, who is a friend of mine and has so much music going back a really long time. And she actually sent me two different songs from two separate alter egos. I don't know if you knew. Knew of those, pj.
• 17:44
  Speaker D: I actually did not. I mean, I've been listening to her music for a bit now. I just. I didn't know.
• 17:49
  Speaker C: Yeah, so you remember back like, it was. What, not the Voice? What. What was the name of that show she was on?
• 17:56
  Speaker D: Yeah, wrong person.
• 17:58
  Speaker C: Yeah, she was. She was on one of. One of the shows and, and I'm. I'm old. I can't remember the name. But back in, like, those days, she was out in LA and she was doing stuff with, you know, collaborating with a bunch of different people. And one of the things she did, it was Pony Main was her alter ego and I think it was Power Fox and Pony Main. Don't quote me. And Jess, I'm sorry if I'm getting it wrong, but I'm pretty sure the person she was doing music with when under the name Power Fox. But anyway, this is a song that just sent me and it, you know, fits into kind of the Halloween theme. And then literally two hours before we started recording, she sent me another song and was like, I don't know if it's too late, but here's this other one. And I was like, you know what? It's not too late. And I'm gonna do a Jess Hudak double feature in this episode. So we'll hear another song a little later in the episode from Jess Hudak under another nom de plume, you could say. But anyway, this one is under the name Pony Mane. The song is cursed. And we're gonna check this out, then we'll be right back.
• 19:23
  Speaker B: Open up my cabinets don't know what it is but it's leading me to madness Cursed. Keep stacking in my furniture don't know whether it's a burglar or a murderer Cursed. Who's in my house? Please show yourself out. You're scaring me. Is the sound straight? Are you fr. Can't go to sleep Every little noise gives me the. I think this place is sk. I think this place is skir. Feel a tap on my shoulder Try to boil water but it just got colder Cursed. I don't think it's healthy Middle of the night hero voice Voice saying help me. Cursed. Jesus Christ. Oh, my God, I got a poltergeist. Cursed. Who's in my house? Please show yourself out. Please show yourself out. Me. The I name this place is I think this place is G H O S T Get that ghost away from me. G H O U L Tell that girl to go to hell. T E M O N what's the Exorcist phone number again? I'm pretty sure I'm cursed. No, really, I am cursed. You're scaring me. Fr can't go to sleep Every little noise gives me the my name this place is. Want to pray Now I'm pray and you go away. You're scaring me. Is the Z. Are you fatty? Can't go to sleep Every little noise gives me the creeps. I think this. This place is cursed. I'm pretty sure I'm cursed. I think this place is cursed.
• 22:21
  Speaker C: All right, that was cursed. Jess Hudak performing as Pony Man. And this next one was kind of funny because, I mean, you know. Pine Boys.
• 22:31
  Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
• 22:32
  Speaker C: So Andrew Sharon of the Pine Boys came up to do an interview because they have a show, and he, you know, to promote it was like, I think a show in an album release. And I know that he's into, like, horror stuff. So I was like, basically like, well, you know, since you're here, do you want to just, like, record a little segment for the Halloween episode? And we could just kind of shoot the shit and talk about whatever. Like, nothing planned. And it was, like, very spur of the moment because he was here to talk about something else. And, you know, obviously he was down. So we just had just wrapped up another interview and basically just hit record and started this segment. So I think we'll just go right into it. It's me and Andy Serone of the Pine Boys just talking. Talking about, like, horror movies in general and stuff. So check it out. All right, we're back. So we're here with Andrew Serone of the Pine Boys. And, Andrew, just before I recorded, I started telling you about Sleepaway Camp and. And asked you if you'd seen it. And you do have to, like, make it a point to watch it this Halloween season.
• 23:43
  Speaker A: Like, I'll put it on the list for sure.
• 23:44
  Speaker G: All.
• 23:45
  Speaker C: It's all over the place. Like, you can definitely find it places. It's terrible. But it was filmed about eight or nine minutes from here.
• 23:56
  Speaker A: Really?
• 23:57
  Speaker C: I don't know if you knew that.
• 23:58
  Speaker E: No, no.
• 23:58
  Speaker C: Yeah. It was filmed on Summit Lake in Argyll, which is literally, if you take a left out of here, go over that steel bridge, it's six or seven minutes up, up that way. And I. Me and Nick Kosser of Gozer last year, I got permission to go and record on the property.
• 24:20
  Speaker A: So, like, I think I saw a picture from that. That's awesome.
• 24:23
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker C: Yeah, we went and, like, stood, like, on the beach front where the entire movie was and when it was filmed. And, you know, you'll see it because you are definitely gonna watch it this Halloween season. But was a camp, like in the movie, and it's not a camp at all. Like, none of the camp buildings are there anymore. Now it's like a private residence with one central building. But it was, like, you know, five or six bunk camps, and it was like a working camp, and it was like a rip off. Like, Friday the 13th was a rip off of Halloween and Sleepaway camp was a rip off of Friday 13th. And it's like, the more you rip it off, the worse it gets.
• 25:06
  Speaker A: Well, definitely has a lot of name recognition and just that the fact that it was local. That's awesome.
• 25:09
  Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. And it has. You see, like, Glens Falls, South Glens Falls. There's some exterior shots of buildings that are in South Glens Falls. And I think it even says. I think it's like Fort Ann Ambulance, maybe. Like, there's, you know, there's some local. Yeah, the whole thing was, like, film.
• 25:33
  Speaker A: I don't know what it is, but I heard there's a pretty solid twist in it, so it definitely will be on my list.
• 25:38
  Speaker C: Yeah, there is it. There is a twist. And it's, you know, questionable as far as its appropriateness. It's actually. I'll go. It's totally, absolutely tasteless. And like. But you know, worth it was worth checking it. It was 1983, you know, whatever. But yeah, that was filmed like right over here. But anyway, so we just. I just want to talk some horror movie stuff because, you know, you were just here recording a music episode about pie boys and I was like, dude, do you want to stay and just talk horror movies? So have you. What's, what's your go to Halloween movie?
• 26:22
  Speaker A: That's, that's tough. I definitely try to expand out of just the horror movie space and think of like, what's a good Halloween horror movie?
• 26:32
  Speaker C: Sure.
• 26:32
  Speaker A: Or like what's a good fall?
• 26:34
  Speaker C: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 26:35
  Speaker A: You know, and I've been on the docket this year, what I have lined up for Halloween is Halloween 3. And then also trick or treat. And I mean, this isn't really a scary movie, but my wife and I have been really into Hubie Halloween. We usually will throw that out. I mean, that's just, that's good. Just Salem, Massachusetts. That's good to get to throw on. But let me throw a question back to you. What would you say got you into horror movies?
• 27:02
  Speaker C: That's, that's actually easy. And it's like a pretty easy path. Like we were at, you know, it was probably 12 or so when Friday the 13th part four came. Wait, yeah, it was 11.
• 27:20
  Speaker A: Okay.
• 27:20
  Speaker C: Friday the 13th part four came out and a couple of us were at a sleepover at a friend's house and it was coming out on hbo and they were, you know, we were like, we're gonna stay up till 10 o' clock and we're gonna watch this movie. None of us had seen any Friday 13th, none of us knew anything about it. And it really scared me, like, it really scared me, like in an uncomfortable way, like in a. I, you know, because I couldn't like let my friends know that like I was terrified. You know, Like, I was terrified and then like I didn't sleep that night and it like. And I couldn't stop thinking about it. Like, I couldn't stop thinking about it for days. And like I then like almost found that like I had to fight back against this fucking movie by like taking away like it's scariness. So I went the opposite of running away and dove into it and was like, I want to watch. You know, it was obviously part four, so I'm like, I want to watch all of them. And then I actually had part one on vhs and I remember the first time I watched it. You know, spoiler alert. Like, finding out that, you know, Jason is not even fucking in it, other than, you know, a little flashback. And I was like, what? You know, I had. And then, I don't know, it just got me really into it. And then once I devoured everything about Friday the 13th, like, I devoured everything about Halloween. And then by the time, like, Nightmare on Elm street came out, I was like, I'm gonna watch Nightmare on Elm street when it comes out on HBO in the dark all by myself. And then that fucked me up. And I was like, what? This is like a whole new kind.
• 29:01
  Speaker A: Of, like, Never escape.
• 29:03
  Speaker C: Yeah. Like, this is, like, something that I didn't even. And it just kept fucking escalating until I just, you know, I love it for sure.
• 29:10
  Speaker A: It's. I think there's something. I've always loved movies, but there's something about being at a sleepover with your friends and you're putting out a scary movie. It's kind of like, you know, turn the lights down. This is like a different gear. It feels like the way as. As dialed in as we were. I don't want to say it felt wrong, but it's just like. It just felt like something. I don't know the culture of it. Like, I remember seeing, like, the Ring or Scream, like, when I was that age, and it was just kind of like, what is this? And I feel like the same with. The same with you. I just kind of dove in from there. I think slashers are a great gateway into it.
• 29:44
  Speaker C: Right? And that's, like, why Nightmare on Elm street threw me for such a fucking loop is because, like, I was, like, locked into the slashers. You know what I mean? Like, I was like, I know what to expect. I'm good. Like, it's going to be creative kills. It's going to be funny. And, you know, as much as, like, Freddy Krueger turned into, like, MTV Freddy and, like, you know, with, like, the, you know, catchphrases and the, you know, having to have a little line every time he killed somebody, that first movie is terrifying. And, like, there's nothing funny about it.
• 30:16
  Speaker A: Yeah, Wes Craven.
• 30:17
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 30:17
  Speaker A: I mean, I didn't really realize that he only directed the first one in New Nightmare. I mean, that is such a creative idea. And for him to have his hands in Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street, I mean, just such a legend, so such, like, a visionary, but kind of interesting. The other day, I saw it in a theater. They were doing kind of Regal's doing, like, a classic Every, every day of the week they're doing a different scary movie. And I saw recently, Quentin Tarantino said that he thinks Stephen King might have taken some Pennywise from Nightmare on Elm Street.
• 30:52
  Speaker C: Except Stephen King began writing it in 1980. He wrapped it up in 1984 and it released in 1985. So while Nightmare on Elm street came out before it was released, he did not take anything from that book. Yeah, if you see my shelf behind me, like up on the top shelf, I'm a huge Stephen King fan.
• 31:16
  Speaker A: Oh, same.
• 31:17
  Speaker B: I'm.
• 31:17
  Speaker A: I'm on the King side, dude.
• 31:19
  Speaker C: My wife just bought me a hardcover first edition of it that has never been read.
• 31:27
  Speaker A: Holy crap.
• 31:28
  Speaker C: Like, I. I haven't even opened it all the way because as soon as you open the pages, just, you know, open the COVID just a little bit, you hear it crack. And it's still got the original dust jacket, it's in front, mint condition.
• 31:40
  Speaker A: Put that in a box or something.
• 31:41
  Speaker H: Yeah.
• 31:41
  Speaker C: Oh, yeah. No, it's not on my normal shelf. I'm waiting until I get a nice, you know, protective display for that. But yeah, no, yeah, Quentin Tarantino can go fuck himself because he's getting a little.
• 31:54
  Speaker A: He says a lot of stuff because he's gonna write a thousand page, very, very complicated book.
• 31:59
  Speaker C: Right. Based on a year movie that you just saw and then release your book three months later. No, that book took years to write.
• 32:06
  Speaker A: There's some parallels, but I think it's just parallel thought.
• 32:09
  Speaker C: Yeah. And there's not even really that many parallels because like Freddy Krueger's in your dreams and like Pennywise. The whole thing is that he, you know, feeds on your fears, but he's like those things that the kids see are not hallucinations or dreams. They're really tangibly there, you know what I mean? It's like, it's not the same. Like, it's not the same. Like in Nightmare on Elm street the kids go to sleep, you know, there's no aspect of it that has anything to do with fucking dreams. There's not.
• 32:42
  Speaker A: I guess that's true. I mean, it's kids and it is like the. Freddy gets upset when people forget. But it's. It's not definitely different.
• 32:51
  Speaker C: Based horror, two great characters, let's put.
• 32:53
  Speaker A: It that way, 100%.
• 32:55
  Speaker C: Both of them represented on my. On my shelf of horror. But like, it is my favorite book of all time and I've read it 10 times and I've listened to it on audiobook, you know, every year for the past 10 years. Like so, yeah, that's definitely a good.
• 33:13
  Speaker B: It's probably good.
• 33:14
  Speaker A: There's that one part they didn't put in the movie. But we don't need to talk about that.
• 33:18
  Speaker C: No, we don't need. I mean, we could talk about like, how stupid it. Like how stupid it is of a scene and how fucking flawed it is of a scene and how nobody ever re. Like, I, I haven't read that. Like when that chapter comes up, I skip it every fucking time. Like, even when I was a kid. Because when I first read it, I was literally the same age as the kids. Like they're 12 in the book. I was 12 when I read it. You know, that was the summer it came out. And even then I was like, this is gross.
• 33:53
  Speaker A: Stephen King is a sicko. They usually leave out details in adaptations.
• 33:57
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 33:58
  Speaker C: And I mean, he's got a sick mind and that's what made him. Him so much. But also cocaine.
• 34:03
  Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I think he didn't remember writing Cujo was good.
• 34:07
  Speaker C: Good. Yeah, it was Cujo. Yeah. He has zero recollection of Cujo because he would just sit in his office and. And hoover cocaine up his nose all day. But did you read the, the little sequel to Cujo in. Was it. You like it darker?
• 34:26
  Speaker A: No. No.
• 34:26
  Speaker C: So in his. There's his newest, like short story collection came out like, I don't know, maybe a year ago, two years ago maybe. There's a short story called Bats. That's a little, little, little post wrap up of Cujo. That's.
• 34:44
  Speaker A: Oh, sweet. I'll have to check that out.
• 34:45
  Speaker C: Yeah, it's good. It's not a happy story, but just like a long walk. Like that's one of those, you know, the movie.
• 34:52
  Speaker A: Like I read that recently.
• 34:53
  Speaker C: I don't know if I'm going to go see that movie. And the reason is because I've read the story.
• 34:57
  Speaker A: It shook me up. Yeah, it's pretty emotional.
• 35:00
  Speaker C: And there's not a single fucking good thing that happens in it. Not one good thing happens to. It's such a, like, I don't know, not even a heartstring tugger like it. Like it fucks up your. I don't know. Yeah, it's. It's bad. I mean, it's a great story, but it's not one that you reread.
• 35:21
  Speaker A: No, definitely not.
• 35:22
  Speaker C: And especially I'm like, I don't need to see it played out in front of me like on the screen because it's dark.
• 35:31
  Speaker A: But what would you say is your favorite type? Or actually, do you Are you ever scared of scary movies still? Even if you watch them all the time? Do you ever stay up at night? Do you ever.
• 35:43
  Speaker C: No.
• 35:44
  Speaker A: I mean, no.
• 35:46
  Speaker C: And like my wife thinks I'm crazy because it sometimes upsets me that I don't have nightmares because she'll have like nightmares and it'll really upset her and she'll wake up and like, whatever. And I'll be like, ah, jealous. And she's like, what do you mean? I'm like, I'd be pretty cool to like, I don't know, you know, to have a wild realistic nightmare, then wake up, be like, oh, that was just a dream. That was fucking cool. You know, be like a movie playing out in your head. But the one there is horror movies that I won't watch any like body horror shit.
• 36:18
  Speaker A: Okay?
• 36:18
  Speaker C: Not into and anything with fucking bugs. Like.
• 36:23
  Speaker A: I'm with you there. I'm out on spiders completely.
• 36:25
  Speaker C: Yeah, spiders and roach. Like there's like. Like in that Nightmare on Elm Street 4, there was that scene with the roach motel where like the girl turns into the roach and. And like that fucked me up. And I was like, that's disgusting. It just makes me want to throw up, you know, it's not like, oh, it's scary. I'm just like, that's just gross.
• 36:45
  Speaker A: One bug adjacent horror movie that I think is excellent and actually did scare me is the Fly. Like there are certain parts of that when he's like on the wall and stuff that it's just the practical effects are so good. It's pretty terrifying.
• 36:59
  Speaker C: Yeah. Oh no, it's definitely like. And I was, I don't know, probably 13 or 14 when the fly came out. And that was again another one of those where it like took it to a different place where I was like, you did not expect that. What do you think about like the. The highbrow horror like. Like mid summer?
• 37:18
  Speaker A: See, I think that there are a lot of. I'll just say it. I mean hereditary is top five for me definitely. And I think Ari Aster, when you brought up Midsommar, I think he kind of almost started the highbrow, the elevated horror, which I think is kind of a dirty phrase, but. But it's. I think there's some really good things that have come out from of that movement. It's something different. But I really, really don't like the slow. Nothing happens. And then there's one small little thing happen at the end. Like that a 24 style in certain cases.
• 37:55
  Speaker C: I'm gonna tell you a little story. Remember Paranormal Activity, yes. So when Paranormal Activity came out, you know, I was, I don't know, however old, in my 30s, early 2000s. Yeah. So I was like, you know, mid-30s. I turned 30 in 2003. So, yeah, in my early 30s, like working in downtown Troy. And I was like, I'm gonna like. The marketing for it was like the most terrifying movie since the Exorcist. And I was like, I like, sign me the up. I love the Exorcist. I've got several copies of the book. I've got a poster of the Exorcist on the wall. Like, I love the Exorcist. And I was like, all right, I'm in. So the very first showing, I went to the theater to see it and I was like, this is what the am I even watching? And like, people were watching it as if they were watching like their friend's video or whatever, you know, like it show the couple sleeping and you'd see the door move and like, I'd hear a lady in the audience scream. And I'm like, it's a movie, fucko. Like, what is happening? Like, this isn't scary. And then like you said, at the very end, there's a jump scare and then the movie's over.
• 39:09
  Speaker A: Man, that's just really, really tough expectations.
• 39:12
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 39:12
  Speaker A: And like, weird marketing.
• 39:13
  Speaker C: If they'd have been like, hey, this is a low budget movie that we did on a dime and we think you might enjoy it. Check it out. I probably would have been like, holy shit, that was great. But like, my expectations going in were that they were gonna scare the shit out of me. And it was like. And at this point, I'd already done a little Internet maze thing. When you get to the end and it gives you a jump scare and shit like that. That's all it was. It was a fucking, you know, and. And it just made me. The expectations are so high. Made me mad.
• 39:45
  Speaker A: I think some found footage is good, though.
• 39:47
  Speaker C: I think that's a cool touch myself. I love it. I love found footage. Like, I saw Blair Witch in the theater. Oh, man, it fucking blew me away. And I watched that movie all the time. Even the 2016. Have you seen that one?
• 40:01
  Speaker A: No, I've heard pretty good things.
• 40:02
  Speaker C: It's fucking decent and like, people will shred on it, but it's. It's a decent movie. They're taking the premise of the original and they're adding in some modern day shit like fucking cell phones and drones and whatever and kind of doing the same thing, but you know, what do you want? You want fucking. You want to reinvent the wheel? Every single movie, you know, just.
• 40:26
  Speaker A: That's that. When the Blur original Blair Witch came out, I was like, I didn't see it. I wasn't really aware of it. I was so young. But it's. I think it was the perfect time because I think people were just like, oh, those people are dead. Like, people thought it was real.
• 40:41
  Speaker C: My sister, like, I remember getting a cut, like talking to her and she's like, that's fucking crazy. Like, why would you want.
• 40:47
  Speaker A: People thought it actually was found footage.
• 40:50
  Speaker C: She's like, why would you want to go watch people die in the movie? And I'm like, dude, it's fucking not real. She's like, oh yeah, it is. No, it's not. But like, they specifically, like the actors had signed agreements to like basically not take any other work for like a certain amount of time.
• 41:08
  Speaker A: They kind of like disappeared in real life.
• 41:10
  Speaker C: Do this role and then disappear and then we'll roll it out, you know, later. But.
• 41:14
  Speaker A: Well, it's. I think you can make some really creative, low budget horror movies and they're good vehicle where you don't need a huge financing and have a creative idea. I mean also getting lost in the woods is, I think just on its own is a very scary concept and it feels very real.
• 41:32
  Speaker E: Yeah.
• 41:33
  Speaker C: Did you ever see Hell House llc?
• 41:36
  Speaker A: Oh yeah. Huge fan.
• 41:38
  Speaker C: And like that's another one that's like, you know, super low budget and very effective and like scary. Like there's actual like parts of it that I'm like, that's fucking scary. And it's not this big Hollywood, you know, production.
• 41:54
  Speaker A: And it wouldn't have been as good if it was right.
• 41:56
  Speaker C: You know, it would have been decisions made by committee and they would have sanitized everything and fucking shredded it. But this is basically just like, you know, a crew with a vision. They're like, let's do this. And it's. It's, yeah, really good.
• 42:11
  Speaker A: I'm grateful though. I still. I honestly still get scared from certain things. Like it. I won't have trouble falling asleep, but sometimes I'll like get up in the middle of the night and just like not be able to just kind of replaying movies. Like recently a couple that did it to me was Smile two Really scared me. And also when called the Dark and the Wicked. And if you've ever seen that, I haven't really, really good. It's made by the same guy who did the Strangers. But I don't know. I'M glad I'm not super desensitized. Like it's still kind of fun being scared every once in a while.
• 42:43
  Speaker C: Yeah. That's why I'm jealous that I don't get nightmares. Cuz I'm like, I'd be pretty fucking fun to like have like this thing that feels really real and then you wake up and you're like, oh, cool though that's not real. That's. You know, I would. I think I would enjoy that.
• 42:56
  Speaker A: What would you say is your favorite? All time?
• 42:59
  Speaker C: It's like, I would have to say probably Friday 13th part one.
• 43:03
  Speaker A: Okay.
• 43:04
  Speaker C: And it's more nostalgia based than quality based, I guess. And that comes from. That was the first physical horror. Anything that I owned was that VHS of Part one. So I watched it a million times. I became really familiar with it. I've been to the original filming locations. I've toured the original Camp Crystal Lake and gotten my picture where all the. All the first murders happened and like where Kevin Bacon got the arrow through his neck. I sat on that bed in that cabin and like that movie to me is like what started it all.
• 43:42
  Speaker A: Like, which isn't super important.
• 43:45
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 43:45
  Speaker A: And it's like I saw that recently and there's a lot of. Okay, there's no Jason in it, but some of the kills are brutal and very well executed.
• 43:56
  Speaker C: Yeah. And that was Tom Savini.
• 43:58
  Speaker A: Okay.
• 43:58
  Speaker C: Then Tom Savini wasn't there for two and three, and then he came back for four. And that's why, you know, four out of the Jason movies, four is my top.
• 44:10
  Speaker A: Okay.
• 44:10
  Speaker C: But then there's also six, which is kind of comedic. You know what I mean? Like Friday 13th part 6 could be absolutely called a comedy horror or a horror comedy. Like there is so much fucking comedy in that. But it's not comedy that's dumb and out of place. Like it's intentional and very well done comedy, which feels like it should be out of place. Especially fucking rolling off a Part five, which is the darkest of. You know, like that's a very. Something about Part five just feels fucking dirty. Like, feels just like such a tonal shift from the first four. Like it almost feels like a different movie. Like it feel. It almost has like a snuff film vibe.
• 45:04
  Speaker A: Like it's cool to try something different though.
• 45:06
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 45:07
  Speaker A: Franchise that long.
• 45:08
  Speaker C: Yeah. And I love it. And Roy, I've got a Roy figure on my. On my shelf. Like you know, fake, fake Jason. I thought it was a great move and I'm not mad at it at all. And I watch it all the time. Actually. I'll. I want to show you a video when we. When we wrap it up here that. Did you ever watch the League?
• 45:27
  Speaker A: Yes.
• 45:27
  Speaker C: So the guy who played Taco, okay, his name is John La Joie is his name. And he does, like, parody songs. And he's done like a bunch of, like, you know, goofy, jokey songs and, like, different styles. And he's brilliant, brilliant comedian. And he does this act. He calls it Wolfie's Just Fine. I don't know if you like Terminator 2. Okay, so like, when he calls his foster parents and he says, you know, and Arnold goes, you know, what's your dog's name? And he goes, you know, it's, It's. It's Max. And then he goes, why is Wolfie barking? And then the Terminator who's playing his stepmom goes, wolfie's just Fine, sweetheart. Which lets him know that, you know, your parents are dead. Anyway, the name of the act is Wolfie's Just Fine. And he calls it, like music without punchlines. So the songs themselves are. Aren't jokes unless you see the video.
• 46:26
  Speaker A: Okay, so like an inside joke.
• 46:29
  Speaker C: Yeah, it's like. So I will show you that because one of them is his experience with watching Friday the 13th for the first time, and it's with his older brothers, and it's Friday 13th part five. And it's kind of like what you said. Like you're like watching these movies. It felt a little wrong, like you were doing something wrong. So I'll show you that. More wrap up here. But anyway, I think we actually were at like the 25 minute mark, so if we want to wrap it up in closing, I guess what do you want to say for. For everybody this spooky season?
• 47:05
  Speaker A: I have a couple picks here that might be a little bit under the radar, I would say. Oddity, I thought was really good, which is on shudder, I think I just saw Good Boy in theaters last night. Oh, yeah, I was very creative. I mean, not pretty low budget, but I mean, the incredible dog acting, I think. Well, it's three or four years.
• 47:25
  Speaker C: It's the director's actual dog.
• 47:27
  Speaker A: Yeah. And I can't believe what they did, but I thought that was awesome. Let me see what else I got here. The Visit, I think is pretty scary. M. Night Shyamalan. And last one I'll say is Clown in a Cornfield for, like, just a throw on. Spooky season movie that's pretty new. You might not have heard of. It's Also on Shutter. I thought that was pretty entertaining.
• 47:50
  Speaker C: And what's probably a good idea, too, is just get the fucking Shutter subscription, at least for the month.
• 47:56
  Speaker A: Yeah, dial it up.
• 47:57
  Speaker C: There's so much good content on and stuff that you've never heard of. You know what I mean? Like, yeah.
• 48:03
  Speaker A: And, like, one last thing I want to say Quick, is I'm a huge proponent of physical media.
• 48:09
  Speaker C: Same.
• 48:09
  Speaker A: I mean, a lot of times you're looking up something to watch, and it's not in any streaming service. You can find really good deals on Blu Rays, and it's just like. I don't know. I don't think all these companies and Netflix and stuff want you owning your stuff. If there's a movie you love, go out and buy it.
• 48:24
  Speaker C: Definitely. I agree. All right, well, sweet. So, Andrew, thank you for hanging out.
• 48:31
  Speaker A: Thank you, sir. Happy Halloween.
• 48:32
  Speaker C: Happy Halloween. All right, that was my conversation with Andy Serone of Pine Boys. And so, bj, you know, we were saying a little bit off mic, how, you know, you didn't know that Jess had had all these alter egos. Jess Hudak. We're gonna go into another song from her. This, she said, goes back to when she lived in la, I believe, and. And made music with an old roommate of hers, if I'm. If I'm not mistaken. But anyway, the song itself she sent in the email I thought was a good backstory of the song, and I asked her if it was okay if I read the email on the air, and she said it was all right. So this is a little bit about the. The song that we're gonna hear. So she says. This is Dead Crow by my EDM project, Bang, you're Dead, that I used to do with my old LA roommate, Quick E Mart. It was inspired by an actual crowd crow that made its way into the house pipes and came up through the toilet and died. But in the song, I turned it into a metaphor for my grandmother's death from lung cancer after being a lifelong smoker. Quit smoking, kids. So I guess it's a spooky PSA about cigarettes. And then she says, I hope you enjoy. It's one of the favorite, my favorite tracks that we ever made. So, again, another one of Jess's alter egos is something that you made out in LA with Quick E Mart under the pseudonym Bang, you're dead. It's Jess Hudak, and the song is.
• 50:04
  Speaker B: Called Dead Crowd Cold. It's dark and you're alone if only you and own to read the signs that lead to your own mind oh, oh, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go. You used to be a king shining brighter than a rain diamond in the sky on wings that are meant to fly. But now you're all claw digging holes in which to fall. There's no turning back Completely trash O Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go. Ram.
• 53:52
  Speaker C: That was Jess Hudak as Bang. You're dead with Ted Crow. And this next segment is my friend Matty Dwyer, one of the co owners of Nerdy By Nature. And I hadn't quite planned, you know, because we had scheduled the conversation and we were just going to talk about the store because the store is awesome. But just a couple days before we recorded it, I went and saw Audacity Cabaret's Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• 54:23
  Speaker D: Right, right.
• 54:24
  Speaker C: As a matinee on Sunday. And Maddie's husband Scotty was the lead was Dr. Frankenfurter.
• 54:31
  Speaker D: Oh no.
• 54:32
  Speaker C: In, in the production. So like it was really cool. And so I decided, you know, I was like, I just want to talk about that a little bit. So we do talk about that and then we get into, into the store and there's a bunch of new happening with the store bringing in some, you know, Trick or Treat Studios. Yeah, yeah, they're bringing in or they've brought in some Trick or Treat Studio stuff and they're working with them and working on expanding and, and stuff like that.
• 54:59
  Speaker D: So we talked about that store is already completely and utterly badass. Like you go in there and I'm just entranced. It's so awesome.
• 55:05
  Speaker C: Like all like I have so much stuff on my shelf from, from that store.
• 55:10
  Speaker D: Oh yeah.
• 55:11
  Speaker C: Like all that stuff on the back wall is from Nerdy By Nature. Yeah. Every time I go in there I just fucking love it. But anyway, we, we will talk about it. I talk about it a lot in this next segment. So it's a conversation with Maddie dwi, one of the co owners of Nerdy By Nature. And we'll check that out and then we'll be right back. And we are back. I am on the phone here with Maddie Dwi, one of the co owners of Nerdy By Nature. How's it going, man?
• 55:36
  Speaker G: Hello.
• 55:37
  Speaker C: Hello, hello. And you know, I want to first and foremost talk about the exciting things that are happening while actually second and foremost talk about the exciting things happening at Nerdy By Nature. But before we do, I just wanted to like put it on record. This past weekend, you know, I saw the Rocky Horror Picture show shadowcast from Audacity Cabaret and your husband was the lead and, and you were there. And the cast was fucking phenomenal. We had just like Katie and I went. And we went on. On the matinee, you know, like the two o', clock, whatever, on set. So it was like the one for old people. Yes, the one for old. Yeah. It was funny because, like, when. When Scotty was like, you know, just tell me what show you. You know, because I bought like an ad for the program and it came with a couple of tickets. So Scotty was like, just tell me what, what show you want and I'll put you down on the list. And I looked at the shows and I told Katie and I'm like, yeah, then the one on Friday is at 10. And she literally went, PM.
• 56:52
  Speaker G: Going to be a pass.
• 56:55
  Speaker C: And I was like, put the mat names in too. So we went to that and it was fucking awesome. But, like, it was such a. I had never seen, like. I mean, I've seen Rocky Horror Picture show, but I've just seen the movie Rocky Horror Picture show. You know what I mean? Like, with just like some buddies, like, you know, smoking weed and watching it, like, you know, in a. On an old VHS copy or whatever. But I had never done the experience like that.
• 57:24
  Speaker G: Yeah, the Shadow Cast.
• 57:25
  Speaker C: Oh, my God, am I like. I had a grin from ear to ear. And there was a guy right in front of us that like, you know, obviously, like, the people shout out the. The things.
• 57:39
  Speaker G: Yeah, they're called callbacks.
• 57:41
  Speaker C: He knew every single one of them and shouted them with confidence. And it was like. I don't know, I just. It made me feel like I was like, in on something. You know what I mean? Like, just 100. Just. It was such a cool experience and I. I really hope. I mean, that's a yearly thing that they do. Yeah.
• 58:03
  Speaker G: This is our second year doing it. Well, this was. I mean, we weren't involved with the first year, but this is Audacity Cabaret's second year doing it. And there's. There's troops out there that have been doing it for years. Decades.
• 58:17
  Speaker C: Right?
• 58:18
  Speaker G: And the big funny thing, you know, when you go and you know somebody who, what we call a virgin, you know, a person who's never been to a Shadow Cast before, they're called virgins. But the big running joke is that, like, you have to convincingly, convincingly tell people that Rocky Horror isn't a cult, even though it clearly is. You know, these people, these people go every year. There's, you know, there's callbacks. And the cool thing about it is that callbacks can change from. From city to state. You know, even in the same town, different troops and different people that go see. Go see the show will have different callbacks. So you'll hear somebody on the. On your right making callbacks and then somebody on your left making different callbacks at different times. And it's just so cool how the movie impacts areas and groups of people differently.
• 59:10
  Speaker C: Yeah. And one thing that I thought was. Was very interesting with the. The callbacks. And again, they were all fucking hilarious. It felt like I was like watching Mystery Science Theater, but, like, sitting directly behind the guy doing it. And like, the callbacks were. Some of them, you know, were the obvious. You know, I knew the like, you know, you gotta say slut an asshole. Like when. Yeah, Brad and Jared and throwing the toast. I was one of two people that threw the toast, by the way, at the Sunday matinee. And the other person was the gentleman that I'm speaking of that was sitting right in front of me. Like, I was like, yeah, we're throwing to. But is how modernized some of them were, you know, like, there was some, like, callbacks about, like, his Tinder profile and like, Justin Bieber and, like. And I was like, wow, that's so wild how, like, you know, it. It modernized and it just continues going and continues to evolve, like 50, I think it years later, you know.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker G: Yeah. I think it speaks to, like, the art format that that movie is in and like, the. The community that that movie was maybe not even made for, but that just.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker C: Made in mind.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker G: You know, and there's constantly new Rocky fans, Rocky cult members, whatever you want to call them, you know, joining the ranks every year. People who go and see that. See that shadow cast for the first time and say this, like, I'm doing this every year, right?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker C: Oh, I'm coming back. Like, if it happens, it's like, I hit him.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker G: Yes. Oh, it's definitely gonna happen.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker I: No, it was.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker G: It was such a cool experience. I grew up a theater kid, like, fifth grade. All the way through high school, I was doing theater, and then I joined bands and I started doing my. My music stuff, and I pulled away from theater. But it was so cool to come back to it. So cool to, like, be part of, like, the production side of it and, you know, watch the cast bust their ass. So hard to put on what they put on for you. Like those though, that whole entire cast, they. We had, like, set rehearsals, but they were doing private rehearsals. Some of them were practicing and doing. Getting together and doing stuff almost four to Five nights a week.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker C: And you know what I was thinking, too, is, I guarantee you, like, while I was watching it, it was like, I guarantee you some of these cast members are rehearsing on their own, you know, just like, sitting in at home, just throw the movie on and run through their part, you know?
• 1:01:37
  Speaker G: Yeah, we had.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker C: There was so. It was such a. Like a natural movement to everything. It was. It was wild.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker G: Like, it was. It was so cool to watch it all come together and, like. And that was like, the testament to it. Like, you can get together and you can do a shadow cast, but those people spent so much time together that they built a relationship and they just became so comfortable and trusted each other so much. And that's kind of what theater comes down to, is like, this, like, level of trust that you can trust who you're on stage with. And it really, really showed. It was just. We were. I was so, so proud of everyone, especially. Especially Scotty.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker C: Yeah. Who just really was like, 8ft tall in those heels. Like, I was like, you know, he's already taller than me, and I'm like, oh, my God. Like, he was so, so tall, but so tall. And, like. I don't know, just everything about it was. Was wonderful. And I mean, really, I just wanted to, like, kind of start it off by just getting that out and, like, putting. Putting that.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker G: That.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker C: Making that public knowledge.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker G: Not to toot our own horn or anything, but toot, toot. We've had so many people say that that's, like, one of the best shadow casts they've ever seen. That, like, just how we did it, the. What we did. And, you know, the. Like you said, just the magic, the chemistry between everybody, you know, the pol. Like, it was actually quite polished for a Rocky Horror thing. And there's so many people that were like.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker J: That was.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker G: I've seen a bunch, and that was one of the best. And that was a really, really good feeling that people felt like we honored. Honored what that was supposed to be.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, it was like, I said, it was like beat by beat. Just, like, fucking fantastic. And, like. And I was kind of like, how do they know, like, how. How close they're mimicking what's happening on the screen when they can't see the screen, but you'd see it and you'd be like, man. They're like, almost, like, exactly synced up in some part where you're like. I know they can't see the screen, but yet they're, like, almost in perfect motion. It was fucking awesome.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker G: Yeah. And that was practice. They, like I said that was all them busting their ass, rehearsing and making sure that, that, you know, that they did it. You know what I mean? And they really did. It was so. It was so cool. I was crying multiple times throughout the weekend.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker C: Yeah, it was fucking fantastic. So, kud, kudos to the entire cast and crew and I'll definitely be back next year if they do it again because it was so.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker G: And keep an eye out. Follow Audacity's cabaret on Instagram.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker C: Others as well should. Yeah. Or others should as well.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker G: There's gonna be so much going on and we're not just gonna be doing Rocky Horror. We're going to be doing so much more. So it's really, really exciting to kind of start building this relationship with this production company.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker C: Yeah. Hell yeah. And, you know, on Sunday you were there and you had like a table laid out with some merch, some really cool merch, some unique stuff that I hadn't seen. Some like NECA stuff, some like alt figures that I haven't seen. So that kind of rolls me into what, what I really kind of came to talk about and that is the changes that have happened to Nerdy by Nature. And I don't even want to say changes because that could signify like, you know, going either way, the upgrades that have happened, the additions to Nerdy by Nature. Because it's really exciting shit. And while I haven't been in to see the new stuff, I got a taste of it on Sunday when I got to see the table. But I'm excited to come in and check everything out. But I guess tell everybody what's. What's been happening at my favorite store. Nerdy by Nature.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker G: Yeah, I mean, it's been really, really cool to kind of roll this out. And you know, we, we are developing a relationship and started. Started working with Trick or Treat Studios. Oh, sorry, sorry. Yeah, we started working with Trick or Treat Studios. We're getting. We got a bunch of their stuff in. We have some really cool Texas Chainsaw figures, some terrifier figures. We got this awesome pumpkin head. Like it's like an 8 inch or 9 inch, like statue. And it's been really, really cool to kind of include this and bring this on and add this as part of our store. It's always been like a dream of mine to, to kind of be part of or own or operate like a horror shop.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker B: Right.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker G: And so to be able to like carve out a corner of Nerdy, which it firmly makes sense. It's not even A stretch for us. You know, between all of our interests and the way that the store flows it, it's. It made sense to add this and bring it on and open up this corner and try to make another. Another space for a different group of people that might not have walked into our store just for our oddities, but now can walk in for, you know, to. To find really awesome, unique horror merch and product that maybe they might find, not find everywhere else.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker C: And for those that don't know, I mean, like, you know, Trick or Treat Studios and NECA are like the only two, like, I don't know, companies that I would say that I'm like actually a fan of. Like, that I own a bunch of their shit. Like, I have so much. I have a Trick or Treat Studios makes a Jack Torrance replica red corduroy jacket from the Shining. And I have just looks like a regular fucking. I'll send you a picture like when we're. When we're done talking. It just looks like a regular corduroy jacket, but it's like an exact replica of the one that that Jack Nicholson wears in the Shining. And I've got like, you know, like they make the Leatherface mask that I have and my Michael Myers mask is trickortreat studio. And like that, like, you know, it's almost like in a lot of industry, industries when you're working with like a big brand, it could almost be seen as a. Mmm, oh no. You know, but like, right. They're so well respected and they're very well known as people that pay attention to what they're putting out and they don't just put bullshit out. You know what I mean?
• 1:07:53
  Speaker G: Right.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker C: So that, yeah, they care.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker G: They care about the product, they care about the niche, they care about the genre. I think, I think they tote the idea or tote the, the passion of, of saying that they are. They provide the, like the closest to on screen replica, like an affordability, which is really cool. You know, I mean, and you can tell when you look at these figures, like, there's just so much that goes into them. The paint jobs that, you know, the. Everything that, that goes into them, the accessories, even down to the clothing, the shoes, everything. And there's just so much detail. Like the pumpkin head, like, he's like, has his claw and like you like the claws. It. It's just so cool. It looks like you're pulling that pumpkin head right from the movie. It's awesome.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker C: Amazing pumpkin head. That was a what, like 88 or something? That was like mid to late 80s, I think, because like I was, I was a teenager, I think, when that one came out and yeah, that one me up.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker G: It's so cool.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker C: I remember being like, oh, it's such a cutesy name. And then I was like, oh, wow, that's a terrible. That's a terrifying monster.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker G: My favorite, my favorite scene. I forget what the kid's name is. But like this girl that's just terrible writing and she's like, she's like, we don't even know where Peter is. Peter left and you don't care where Peter is. But I know where Peter. And it's like, why did you say Peter? Why'd you say his name 17 times? It's so bad.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker C: But she's a repeater.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker G: It just makes you so feel warm and cozy with. How stupid and ridiculous.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker C: I have plenty of movies, movies like that. Did you, you know, not to get off top, not. Fuck it, it's still on topic. Did you watch welcome to Derry?
• 1:09:37
  Speaker G: I have not started it yet.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker C: I watch. Yeah, I watched the first episode last night. It was good.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker G: Yeah, I've heard really good things. A lot of people are. People are saying it's really, really exciting.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker C: Yeah. You know, a lot of people like complain about Andy Machete and like his directing style, but I think it's good, you know, I mean, like, how fucking serious are you gonna take a movie, you know, with a shape shifting clown? Like, yeah, right.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker G: Like, right.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker C: You can't, you know, like, I always.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker G: Think it's so funny when people want to like make horror movies out to be like, like, we're gonna win an Oscar.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker G: I'm going to make a movie for completely different reasons.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker C: Yeah. And like make it scary with a little bit of funny and like camp is fine. You know what I mean? Like, look, if, you know Texas Chainsaw Massacre, everybody's like, the most film of all time. I'm like, if it's kind of. It's fucking goofy if you think about it, you know, like right in 2025.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker G: It'S goofy as hell.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker C: And that's why I love it. Because I can be like, yeah, look at it. Look at that hitchhiker cutting himself with a jackknife. But it's goofy. And that's why I love it because horror and comedy. I think it was like Tom Savini or someone. It was someone in like. I've been watching a lot of horror documentaries, said that they're like, horror and comedy are so parallel because they're both mediums where it's like a visceral effect that you're after. You know what I mean? You either want to make someone involuntarily laugh or involuntarily gasp and cover their eyes. But either way it's like a visceral reaction. Whereas a drama or whatever isn't necessarily set up to be that that way. You know.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker G: 100 and in horror movies as a Phil I in my mind if I was ever to make a horror film my goal would to be doing to have that feeling, have both of those feelings at the same time. I want people to like cover their face and be cracking up and having a blast.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker C: I mean you kind of need to like ha. You know because life isn't all just like scary. You know what I mean? Like so like you kind of need to have that tone shift of like moments of levity and comedy and. And that makes the scary moments scarier. You know. 100 that's how I feel.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker G: 100 but yeah.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker B: No.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker G: Yeah. We're really excited. We're really excited about what's coming up. We have a bunch of new vendors coming in. I have this. We have this guy. His name's Frank Vermont Dark Arts. But he. He does a whole bunch of like clay work and boss and stuff like that. But it all has this really cool fantasy dark edgy vibe to it. Super excited about him. We have this other individual Strangled Hearts who does a whole bunch of like spooky and horror fun cutesy spooky stitch like cross stitching stuff. So. And a few more. A few more awesome vendors that we're going to be bringing in. So we're super excited about. About what this next year of nerdy is going to look like.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker C: That is so much fun. So you know obviously Halloween season is like a great season to visit nerdy by nature. But it's definitely a year round and that's what I think makes it so cool is that like you know you have places that may focus on some. Some spooky stuff as like the Halloween comes around. But like you're like normalizing the spooky for all of us spooky kids that like to like that like to do the shit year round and and watch scary movies year round and. And you know.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker G: 100 you know. Yeah. Spooky isn't just a season. Spooky's a lifestyle.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker C: Correct.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker G: And you know that's. I wanted a shop like this. I, you know something that I can go to that wasn't Spencers or wasn't Hot Topic or wasn't fye, you know, be able to walk into a, into something that's a little bit more hands on, a little bit more engaging than those shops.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker B: Shops.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker G: And it's been really, really, really awesome to be able to kind of build that myself, ourselves, you know what I mean? And then be part of that, you know?
• 1:13:43
  Speaker C: Yeah. And for me, it's cool to have a store where I can go in and know, like, because I don't, I don't like, at my age, I don't like, just spend money, you know what I mean? Like, I'm not just like, oh, I'm just gonna get something. Like, so like something needs to really be like, hey, look at me. Buy me. Before I'll be like, oh, yeah. But like at your store, I know that when I go in I'm like, I'm going to buy something. Like before I even get there, I'm like, I don't know, I'm definitely going to buy something, you know what I mean? Like, because, yeah, it's just a fucking store full of shit that I want.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker E: Right.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker G: Whether it's a sticker or in or, you know, you're like, hey, I'm going to splurge and, you know, get this taxidermy skunk. You know what I mean? Like, you're going to find something that, that you want for sure.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, I've. I'm looking around the room, I see Texas Chainsaw VHS tape that you made with the blood dripping off it. I've got a Leatherface bobblehead from Nerdy by Nature. I have the little piece of wood shavings from the Amityville Horror House. A piece of asphalt from the Texas Chainsaw driveway, and a piece of the fragment from the waterworks from Friday 13th part one. All which are nerdy by nature.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker G: I love that. I love making those VHS tapes. They are like between those and my Demented Soul dolls, which is like my upcycling of like the, the Troll, like the Treasure Trolls. The VHS are just so much fun to make because it's, it's just a fun little shelf decor item that I just, I don't know, it's just so much fun. I can, I can make each one unique with each of the, like the drips of the blood or whatever I end up using, you know, and the color depending on the movie. Yeah. Sometimes like, if it's like the Exorcist, I do green, like, like Reagan's vomit. I have a substance one who I'm gonna do like a, like a cream, like the beige cream color, like, the stuff that they inject into them.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker C: I'm not gonna watch that movie.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker G: You're not going to.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker C: I don't like. I don't like body horror stuff. Like it. I don't like it.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker G: It's so fun.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker C: I know everybody says that, but I don't know, man.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker G: You have to wait until, like. Like, it's worth it. The whole thing is great. Demi. Demi Moore is absolutely, absolutely fantastic. It's so cool to see her in that role. But, like, I'm gonna tell you right now, the ending, like, the last, like, whatever, 10 minutes or whatever is like. So it's worth that payoff, like, to be like, I don't really like body horror. Like, I don't want to ruin it for you in case you ever do watch, but those last 10 minutes are like chefs kiss. Ridiculous. Bonkers. Off the wall.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker C: All right. What was that one? Malignant? Was it like. Remember that one? Did you see that one? Yeah, that one.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker G: I wasn't a bit.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker C: I didn't. Yeah, but I didn't. Same thing. I didn't like it.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker G: Hot take. Not a big fan of it.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker C: I didn't. I didn't either because of the, like, body horror aspect of it. I was just like, grosses me out, and it doesn't gross me out. And like a. Oh, this is fun way. It grossed me out, and I'm like, I don't want to watch this.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker G: I get it.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker C: You know?
• 1:16:43
  Speaker G: I get it. Yeah. It's not. Yeah, but the substance isn't like. I don't know. People say it's body horror, but I don't. I don't get that from it. I get like. I don't know. Maybe I'll have to watch it again and see if I. I pick up on those. Body. I get. There is body horror, but it's not like, saw or hostile or even malignant. Like, that's. It has a little bit more of a tongue in cheek vibe to it, which I think makes me appreciate it a little bit more.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker C: Well, maybe. Maybe I'll. Maybe I'll. If you watch it again and then let me know if you think someone who, like. Because I hate. I hate body horror. Like, it's gross. Like. Like even, like, the fly. I'm like, oh, I love the fly.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker G: Oh, it's so ridiculous.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker C: Yeah. But no, I'd rather just see somebody get cut with something sharp. That's a good way. That's a good trick.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker G: I feel you.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. And speaking as someone who has cut themselves on something Sharp. Many, many times. Just like, working in the kitchen. Like, I said so many times, you'd be like, oh, yep, cut myself again.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker G: Like, so it's relatable content.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker C: It's relatable content. Yeah. I could be like, oh, yeah, that one hurts. That's gonna take a stitch.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker G: Get that sewing kit out, buddy.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker B: Totally.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker G: That's so fun.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker C: All right, Maddie, I. I know. I was like, oh, yeah. We'll only talk for, like, five minutes. We're at, like, we're approaching the 23 minute mark, but is there anything you want to throw in before we wrap it up?
• 1:18:19
  Speaker G: No, I mean, I'm excited to see you and come. When you come to the shop, you better let me know so I can come down and say hi. And I'm sure I'll see you soon, buddy.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely, man. All right, we'll talk to you soon.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker G: Okay, bye. Bye.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker C: All right, that was Maddie Twier, co owner of Nerdy by Nature. And up next, we're gonna play a song. And this is a band that has not been on the show yet. They. I would like to get them on. They've been on my radar for a little bit. And when I did a kind of a call for Halloween songs, I just literally, like, put out like, a, like, Instagram story. I was like, hey, if anybody has any. Any Halloween songs, like, you know, send them my way. I'd love to. To play them on the show. And these guys reached out and sent me their song Trick or Treating, and I was like, this is so, you know, it's so cool, like, when local bands have Halloween songs and Christmas songs and holiday, you know, because, like, any one of them could almost, like, just kind of catch on, you know, like, nationally is like, what I mean, like, because some of them are, like, so good and so clever and. And it's nice to have original music for not only a holiday that's my favorite, but a holiday that's just begging for music to be made about it.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker D: You've got these busy holidays, and people are just like, people listen to music as a background thing, but it's great to be able to find somebody local that can be a soundtrack to, like, a big day.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker C: Right?
• 1:19:54
  Speaker D: That's incredible. I love it.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker C: Yeah, and I love it too. So I was really stoked when I got the email and saw that the song was called Trick or Treating, because I'm like, that's not just Halloween themed. That's a fucking Halloween song. I love it. You know, so we'll check out Bard Owls. Trick or Treating and if you're listening, reach out again and let's get you on the show because I think that'd be pretty cool. But anyway, it's Bart owls trick or treating here on unsigned 518 Halloween special. And then we'll be right back. Nursing home don't have the same R because no one answers her door. But I'm waiting. Every year I wear the same costume My regular street clothes and worn out all of the houses end up less and less candy than they ever did before in the past. Something's changing There used to be a shell in the air that's now been replaced by hours the sun shining In a moment I realize it's already November 1st and it's only a matter of time till I'm waiting. All right, that was Bard Owls with trick or treating and bj. Now it's like it's. I think it's your favorite time of, of every episode. And while we're doing like a. A special combined episode, we're keeping one thing the same. And what's that?
• 1:22:42
  Speaker D: Our band show. You know, it's. And I say this every episode for the weekend. Spotlight is just one of the best things about music and the518 and beyond because they just, they take a band that's either one of your favorite bands or a band you haven't had a chance to hear yet. They give them the rock star treatment. You know, they really just pull out all the stops. And it's an incredible thing. And it's an incredible thing. It's an important thing. It's a. It's a necessary thing. So they will always and forever have my adornment. Is that the word?
• 1:23:11
  Speaker C: Yeah, it is now. Yeah, that works.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker D: So let's check in with our band show guys. What's going on right now?
• 1:23:17
  Speaker H: Thank you BJ and welcome in to our band show. We are overwhelmed with joy each and every time we're lucky enough to have a live session with an exciting band from the Hudson Valley and the surrounding regions. There is no substitute for the amazing talent amongst us in our respective local scenes. This past weekend is no different as we were honored to have in the studio some legends in our area. The Big Takeover. Fronted by the charismatic Jamaican born singer and songwriter Nini, the eight piece New York band, the Big Takeover plays original music that is rooted in and reverence toward the genres and rhymes of Jamaican pop, reggae, rock, study and ska. They are devotees of Desmond Decker and the way the old school did it. At the same time, the Big Takeover crosses lines and blends traditions like global pop fusionists. Their deceptively complex arrangements and big hooks connect with the spirit of Motown and the uptown sophistication of. Of the 21st century Retro Soul and R and B revival scene. Enough about what the bio says. Let's hear it straight from the band.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker I: One thing I think you guys are definitely known for is truly giving back to your local community. I mean, for example, in a busy calendar year, you made time for our program and, you know, you guys play all over the place locally. And so many of the bands that we've had on this program reference you guys as sort of like, paving the way for bringing attention to local music here in the Hudson Valley. So, yeah, most certainly. And then from all of us independent artists too, you know, thank you guys for, you know, truly keeping our beautiful home here front row and center. I think that's always been appreciated, at least, certainly from this program.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker F: Oh, yeah. Thanks for telling us that. We had. We had no idea that people referenced us or whatever. You know, that means really a lot to us. We love this area that we're from. And, you know, no matter where we go, we always come back. And we always say this when we play, like, local things, we always say, like, no matter where we go, like, this is the best place to play, you know, like, the best vibe we're received, the best. They get us the best. It's just like. So it just works for us.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker I: Yeah, no, it's a truly magical artistic community. I mean, you spoke about the Chance Theater, which is no longer around, but I certainly cut my teeth there. So did so many members of our crew and past bands. And of course, I know you guys play a bunch all over in Ulster. And yeah, the Hudson Valley really is just a hub for not only great music, but such a wide variety of music. And it's just. It's just so great to finally have you guys in studio. So. All right, we got the van, we're starting to play some shows. What happens next?
• 1:26:11
  Speaker C: I don't know.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker B: So.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker F: Okay. So one thing that was very. That was very motivating for me when this band started is how easy it was to write songs. So, like. Like Rob said, we weren't really doing anything that was super complicated or, like, rewriting anything. But, like, when we got together to write songs, like one writing session, we would come up with, like, all these songs, and that was very easy for us. So we would record and make albums. So we've, like, made, like, a bunch of albums over the years, and we'd also play A bunch of shows. So the shows are fun to play. The music was easy to write. The albums are kind of easy to record and put out. And people were dancing and. Yeah, you know, so it just kind of worked. You know, the wheel started working and like before you know it, it was, you know, like we're. It's 18 years later for us.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker H: We've had the Big Takeover on the radar for a while now as we developed our band show. We watched other YouTube channels like audio Tree, our Sugar Shack sessions for some influence. We spotted from right here in our backyard, the Big Takeover among their catalog of performers. The bar was set for us to put in the hard work, develop our program, and eventually join forces with such a talented group of creative people. I used the word honored earlier, but that is just a catch all for all the emotions I can't put into words. We achieved an amazing goal of working with not only some amazing musicians, but some really generous people. They play some crazy chill music that makes a stressful day of video production feel so relaxing. So for that reason, our choice for this week's weekend spotlight is the Weight of the World by the Big Takeover, performed live on our band show.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker B: Sam with the weight of the world we wait we try to rise and shine the soul, heart and the soul as to the test of time.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker C: And.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker B: The weight of the world.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker F: Ever since.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker B: We were bought we were told we need to run this race we'll never win no matter how the wrinkles ray in my face with the way Talk over Can we carry on today as we turn another page and we wait for the weight of the world for the weight of the world he's the weight of the world Just our faith that we walk towards each day Our old hearts and our souls have lasted all this time with the weight of the world Is the weight of the world Just our fate that we walk towards each day Our old hearts and our souls had lasted all this time with the weight of the world can we carry on today as as we turn another page as we wait for the weight of the world for the the weight of the world can we carry all the traits I have as we turn another page and we wait far who wait at the world it can we carry all this great time as we turn another page and we wait by the weight of the world can we carry on this way as we turn out of the page and we wait and wait and wait for the wait how the world.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker A: We had.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker H: A blast this past weekend in the studio recording with the Big Takeover. Go ahead and Check out the session live stream on our YouTube channel and clips from all our past guests on the Instagram feed, both at our band show. Besides following those social accounts, check out our website, ourbandshow.com for new articles from past performers on the show. Go ahead and keep on rocking out there. And bj, let's send it back to you.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker D: All right, thank you so much, guys. I really appreciate our band show. One of the best. I'm not even going to talk about anymore because I'll just do it again next week and check them out on Facebook, Instagram, our bandshow.com. you know me, I always like. YouTube is my favorite. You can just go on there and just get right to. And you know, you've been, you've been with them so many times.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I've gone down and like, I've done the show with Shortwave radio band. We like did. Went down and got the rockstar treatment for that. And then I went down and did, you know, the four band spotlight with, with the four pants that I, that I brought down. That was the problem was that that was like July, I think or whatever. You know, what's funny is like a long year. I'll, I'll say just like on the record, just because I don't give a like about, you know, being too candid or whatever. But like that, that showcase that I did down there is the reason that I went on that diet to lose all that weight because I, because I saw myself on film.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker D: Oh yeah.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker C: It was like, wow. Wow. Really? Really? That's what I look like. Really? Okay. All right. And then I was like, I gotta do something about that.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker C: But yeah, it was, it was fun. But yeah, I'm not gonna, I'm personally probably not gonna re. Watch it too much or at all.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker D: Oh, I mean, I'll watch them.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker C: I'll watch the music parts because. And that's, and that's the good thing too, is that the way they break it up? He breaks it up. You know, there's the whole show, but then they also release just the interviews and then just the music. They call it a visual ep. So like, it's just the music. You know, one song. One song. One song. And that I watch a lot, like, because it was really fun. But yeah, our band show rocks. So this next one. And actually, bj, we didn't talk about any of this ahead of time. I mean, I'm sure you see the, the name on the, on the show notes. But. So on Saturday, was it last Saturday?
• 1:35:05
  Speaker D: Yeah.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker C: Or the Saturday before.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker D: Saturday before.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker C: It was the Saturday before we went. And when I, when I say we, like me and Katie and you and Angela, the four of us, we went to Schenectady. We stopped by Capital District Cannabis and Wellness. They were doing their harvest festival, which was crazy.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker D: It was a great time.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker C: I'm so glad, like, I didn't have to drive anywhere that, you know, because, you know, just all the, all the free samples. Yeah, yeah, we're fucking ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. We just got to sit there and be like, take us to the. But like, after, after that, we went directly from there to the Nightmare Market.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker D: Yep.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker C: And I had never been to one and you had never been to one and. And holy shit. It was so fucking huge and so much fun. I couldn't believe how many people were there to celebrate, like the weirdness, I guess, of Halloween and like all the super cool vendors and cosplayers and the. And the whatnot. So I reached out to, to Kayla Ek, who is the. She's the person behind Nightmare Market. And I didn't know who it was. I literally just sent an email or a message through Instagram and was basically just like, hi, you know, I'm Andy. And like, I really dug what you did and it'd be pretty cool to be able to talk to you and find out a little bit more about it. So she graciously agreed to an interview and it was really, really cool, like, really cool to talk to her and find out about Nightmare Market, which has only been around for a couple of years. And it started as Nightmare on J Street.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker D: Right.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker C: I mean, you've heard that. Yeah. And now it's Nightmare Market. It's a different. And you know, we'll find out a little bit more about the name change in the interview. But cool conversation, really, really cool person. And I hope to collaborate more because, you know, obviously very like minded. Oh, yeah. Because Nightmare Market was fucking awesome. So let's check out my conversation with Kayla Ek of Nightmare Market and then we'll be right back. All right. And we are back. I am here with Kayla Ek from Nightmare Market in Schenectady. Well, is it always in the same place? It's always in Schenectady. Correct, Kayla?
• 1:37:34
  Speaker J: Yeah, so it's in Schenectady and it probably will for the next year or so. So we did change the name from Nightmare on J Street to the Night Nightmare Market because our intentions are to travel a little bit. We just don't know when. But Schenectady is like our home. Base. The city has been good to us. We're not going anywhere. So even if we do end up traveling, those core markets will always happen in Schenectady.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker C: And I had, you know, obviously it had been on my radar, you know, being in. In the area. But I went to my first one, you know, a couple weeks ago, the. The October one, which, for my needs, was everything that I needed. It was just the most amazing market. There was so much spooky stuff. All the vendors were really cool. And I guess I just want to know a little bit about yourself and a little bit about how the market kind of came to be. I think I'll just maybe hand it over to you to tell us a little bit about what's going on.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker J: Yeah, no pressure.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker C: In the world.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker I: But.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker J: I guess where the kind of inkling for the nightmare market started. Well, I've been kind of creating events for a long time. I've been in the art world. I've been in the gallery sphere. I'm an art director for a gaming company. So I've always been kind of curating and putting on shows or hosting things or been part of shows myself. But the whole curiosities and oddities thing, I actually tried to start back in Connecticut back in 2018, and the venue that we were working with, it just didn't work out. There was a lot of, like, logistics. There was also a church sharing that space that wasn't too keen on what we were trying to do, but, you know, power to them and.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker C: Yeah, I guess.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker J: Yeah. And we decided to leave the venue, and right after, you know, logistics were handled, and we decided to move around. We just. We landed on the capital region. We moved to Troy January 1st of 2020. I worked at a company called Foam Brain Games, literally, for two weeks before they told me I had to work remotely. So all of our plans of starting that oddities market that originally started in Connecticut up here were kind of put on hold for a while, and we just kind of were scouting the area. We liked Troy, but we knew it wasn't like, our permanent home. No, hate to Troy. It just, you know, sometimes you just get a vibe that, like, maybe I'm not meant to be here for a long term. You know what I mean?
• 1:40:21
  Speaker C: Yeah, I gotcha.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker J: So we were scouting the area, and we just fell in love with Schenectady. There's a really wonderful demographic here of small businesses that are just kind of like the misfit. Misfit kid that kind of grew up to love their, like, passions. A lot of the business owners in this area are that. And when I pitched my idea for this market, they were more than excited about it and very helpful with getting me, you know, the right people to talk to. By some, you know, luck, I was able to sit down with the mayor and all the department heads of the city and kind of told them my ideas and they were all for it. And I honestly, I'm a big believer in like good karma and luck and things happen for a reason. As silly as that sounds. A lot of people are silly at all.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker C: I fully believe in that.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker J: But I've worked, you know, like I said, in the gallery space for a long time. I've been on two art commissions for two different cities. And this was a situation where I was a girl walking around the city of Schenectady with a binder with a skull on it, telling people I wanted to like future artists that paint with blood and things like that. And I didn't bump into any hiccups. Everybody was so willing to help me out. They were excited about it. A lot of people were curious about what our intentions were, but I just didn't bump into any problems or anybody against it. And that was really welcoming to see. And I think a big part of the nightmare market, the success we've had, is just the community that's surrounding it is just so open to this idea. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker C: Go ahead. Well, I think like, you know, an open mindedness like that, like when you just said that, I was like very surprised that there was no hiccups, that everybody was so welcoming. But that does show a appreciation of arts. And if you are a true appreciator of arts, your appreciator of all the arts, you know, and like dark arts are part of it, you know, and if people are like, yeah, absolutely, that just shows a true passion for the arts, I think.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker J: Yeah, I think there was a. There was a lot of questions. And I actually have to say in that meeting with the department heads, the mayor was so eager and excited and he really didn't have any questions. He just wanted to hear about it and wanted to know like, what decorations we were going to have and stuff like that. I want to say the police department and the fire chief had the most questions, but they weren't pointed in a negative way. They were just like, how can we help you?
• 1:43:03
  Speaker C: Right, Like a safety thing. Like, yes, like, how can we work?
• 1:43:06
  Speaker J: That was something that I didn't anticipate when I walked into that meeting. And I'm not typically A nervous person. But this particular meeting, I was nervous because I'm like, I really don't know if, you know, sitting down with all these people is going to go the way I. I think it's going to go, but I'm just going to wing it. And, you know, everything happens for a reason. I tell people that I feel very, like, lucky to be in the position I'm in right now, but at the same time, like, fully aware of the work I put into it. And I'm just happy that it's at the, I guess, pace it is right now compared to what it was back in 2023 when we were just in the planning stages.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker E: Right.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker C: It was so wild, like, how packed it was, like, right up, like, entering into J Street was literally like entering into a packed venue. Like, the entire, like, everything was just. There was so many people. It was like, so festive and so, like, I don't know, so lively. It was so much more than I expected. Like, by leaps, you know, I was like, oh, this is gonna be like a, you know, a market. And like. But it was just, I don't know, it was like the event of the year. Like, it really was.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker J: Oh, thank you.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker C: I couldn't, I couldn't believe how many people were there and how. How just like minded everybody seemed to be.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker J: You know, don't be surprised if I get that into a sticker event of the year.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker C: Yeah, Yeah. I mean, it really, really was like, it really was. It was just so, you know, like the fire jugglers and, and the, the cosplay and I don't know, just the whole vibe and like, even people coming that were just, you know, participants that were dressed up like it was, it was just, it was amazing. It felt like, you know, Halloween of old, you know, because I'm in my 50s, so like, you know, when I think of Halloween, I think of like 1980s shit, you know what I mean? I'm like this.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker J: That's like traditional for me, 80s Halloween is like the best version of Halloween.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker J: But I tell people, even though this is very much 90s, early 2000s, I tell people I'm just trying to make Schenectady Halloween town or like all the monsters come out during the market. But there is, I do have to say, a big part of, like, people keep saying there was such a good feel and a vibe and so like, that we did put a lot of work into like, the logistics and layout of the market. So, like, if you look at the market map, we intentionally put like tarot Readers in different locations to make sure you're, like, walking through the whole marketplace. We made sure, like, the birds were kind of away from the music so that people kind of stick around and they're not distracted. And also, it's safer for the birds.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker C: Right?
• 1:45:55
  Speaker J: We made sure, like, there was walking performers and there. We just kind of made sure that people were aware of all the work we're doing, like, telling them, hey, there's going to be photographers. This is what they look like, and we're paying them. So please, if you want a photo taken, ask them. You know, we're not going to, like, leave it up to them to just take pictures. And you're not knowing of photos being taken of you sort of thing.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker B: Right.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker J: But, yeah, we put a lot of work into making sure, like, if I was in your shoes sort of thing, Even though I'm working during the market. If you were attending the market, where would your eyes go? Where would you want to walk? Is this, like. Is this going to cause a cluster sort of thing? I do have to say, though, the crowd that we got, our first market, the first October market, was incredible. We had a great turnout. And for the very first one, I knew there'd be a crowd, but the crowd that I was, you know, projecting based off numbers that we're seeing, like, in the back end of things, it doubled May. There was a postponement because of weather, but we still had a great crowd, which was awesome. In October, I didn't really know what to anticipate. I'm like, well, we just had the market in May. Are people kind of tired of this, or are they going to be, like, all out, you know, full swing ahead sort of thing? And I feel like connectivity surprises me every time, because every time I have, like, a number in my head, they succeed what I'm thinking. But we also just had a great crowd. The people, like you said, all the costumes, there was different levels of costumes. There was families dressed up. Did you see the Scooby Doo family?
• 1:47:30
  Speaker C: I said, yeah, that was outstanding.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker J: Yeah. Even the baby. The baby was Scooby Doo. I just appreciated how much time and excitement people had to be there.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker C: And when you couldn't figure out if they were part of, you know, if they were hired or not, you're like, I don't know. That costume's really good. Do you think they're hired?
• 1:47:52
  Speaker J: Yeah. We paid some actors to be there, and we gave them, like, signs to, you know, so people knew you could take a photo with them. But everybody was so well dressed. We were taking pictures of everybody. It was great.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker C: Yeah. I got my picture with the Art the Clown, and he was so good. Even just looking at him face to face, I was like, that is amazing. Amazing.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker J: Yeah. So Jack is a multi talented, multifaceted human being. He's done magic shows for us, but he's kind of a literally a Jack of all trades sort of thing. But his Art the Clown is the best I've ever seen. I'm gonna plug him a little bit. He is so well in character. Like, even when I found him finally after going through the crowd and I said, hey, how are you? I'll check in with you later. Here's your sign. When he was responding to me, just about logistics, he was in character.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker C: Yeah. He was so good that I had to seek out who. I did research to find out who he was, and now I'm following on. On Instagram. But I was like, it was so good and just. Oh, man. His. His body movement, like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was. It was amazing.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker J: Also, he. He made his prosthetics himself, too, and it shows, too, because it's a very accurate costume.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker C: Yeah. And I guess that's what it was, you know, because it was like. I feel like. I know that it's like part mask but part not. But it was, like, even looking right at it, I'm just like. I can't even tell. It's just. To me, he's Art the Clown.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker J: Yeah, he's Art the Clown.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker C: Yeah. It was wild.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker J: I'm glad you mentioned that, because I think he was, honestly, I think a very popular highlight of the market is how accurate the Art the Clown was.
• 1:49:45
  Speaker C: Yeah. And like, that character, like, by nature, is supposed to, like, almost, like, innocently engage, you know, like, so it's. He's not meant to, like, scare in that type of setting. He's just, in his mind, he's a clown. You know, he's just supposed to have fun. And, like, I don't know, there's just something. Something about his portrayal that was unreal. And, like, I had to be, like, dragged by the group that we were with because I just kept standing. I'm like, I just want to watch it for a little bit more. He's like, pull props out of his bag and everything. So good.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker J: I really wanted to, because part of my job during the market is to, like, film content for social media, and I really wanted to get, like, an interaction of him with the Schenectady police officer that we had there. But I could. I couldn't get Them near each other. They were on two different ends of everything. I was like, ah, but wouldn't that be a funny video of like. Yeah, I was trying so hard, but I couldn't make it happen. But maybe next time.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker C: Yeah, totally. And so, you know, there was the one in October. When's the next one scheduled for?
• 1:50:56
  Speaker J: Yeah, so it's not the market. We're actually having the Nightmare Expo at Proctors on January 17th in Schenectady. Proctors is in Schenectady. And the only difference between this and the market, and because people keep asking me, like, what's the difference? Why is it labeled differently? Well, we are going to have vendors there, but there's also a very big industry showcase edge to this, where, like, we're truly selecting people who have established themselves as brands, people who are educating others. There's classes, there's taxidermy classes, butterfly pinning classes, perfume, perfumery. Excuse me, basics 101 class. That's happening. And we're doing a lot of like, 3D art installations. Like, these are people who are like, actively changing the game in their particular specialty. So if you're somebody that is, you know, looking to make business connections or find out who these brands are who have been in their industries for five, 10 years, the expo would be the place to go. We are going to say it is still. Excuse me. There's a. I don't know if you hear the sirens going off.
• 1:52:08
  Speaker C: Oh, I do. Oh, it's great for atmosphere.
• 1:52:11
  Speaker J: Yeah. The Expo is family friendly, but there is definitely more of a educational edge to it or things that will definitely be more entertaining to adults, while as the market is more like, immersive and we, you know, go out of our way to make sure there's things for children to stay entertained. This is purely for the enthusiast.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker C: Gotcha. Yeah. Because it really felt like, I don't know if you've ever been to like, a Universal Studios Horror Nights thing where they do the whole amusement park kind of. That's what Nightmare Market felt like. I was trying to pinpoint what it felt like, but it felt like that. It felt like the whole town had turned spooky. And it was awesome.
• 1:52:59
  Speaker J: That's awesome. And everybody's actually so surprised. But I haven't been to the Halloween Horror Nights at Universal. I'm like a huge fan of them online. I follow all their pages. I keep up with, like, what they have themes for the year and all that, but I haven't been there myself. But that is, that's also a big compliment that it Feels just as immersive as a. An actual amusement park. But, you know, that's kind of the goal is. From the beginning of the Nightmare markets planning, I really wanted it to be more than just a market. Like, I want people to find it as like a destination or a. Something to seek out when it's happening. And I want people who are also, like, into these things, like you said, you're into horror and stuff like that, who are into these different categories, feel like they're coming to a celebration of sorts and not just like a shopping venture. You know what I mean?
• 1:53:54
  Speaker C: Yeah, I know 100% what you mean, because you got me hooked. Like, I'm. I'm in. It was so much fun. I had a blast. So, Kayla, I want to thank you so much for taking time out of your. Your busy schedule to talk to me. And I guess before we go, is there anything else that you want to throw in for the folks out there?
• 1:54:16
  Speaker J: The Nightmare Expo, we have some really awesome guests. If you're into the true crime sphere, we have a big YouTuber coming. We're actually announcing them on Halloween. If you want to keep an eye on our social media, along with some other guests that if you're into Halloween and local influencers or influencers from afar, we're going to be highlighting them on our social media pages. And then expo tickets are for sale now at early bird pricing and then they go up a little bit the week of, in the day of. So if you are interested in the expo, get your tickets now and hopefully I'll see you all there. And Andy, I hope you join us as well.
• 1:54:54
  Speaker C: I think I probably will, actually. You can. You can count on me for sure.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker J: Awesome. Very cool.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker C: All right, so Kayla, thank you so much again and we'll talk to you soon. All right. That was my conversation with Kayla Ek of Nightmare Market and bj. I know that you. You like this thing called punk rock, I believe they call it. I believe the kids refer to it as.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker H: Yes.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker D: Thank you. It's a style of muse that became popular in the early.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker F: Often.
• 1:55:28
  Speaker C: Often known for its rebellious style and its fast down picking guitar. No, so like, you know, doing Weekend Spotlight, obviously, you know, you put together music every week and that'll be back next week. We took a couple weeks off our respective shows to do these mega episodes. But I know one of the bands that you were a fan of long before Weekend Spotlight was the Haunting. I love the Hauntings and you've, you know, seen them many times and played them, but that's that's what we're gonna close out this Halloween season with.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker E: Awesome.
• 1:56:06
  Speaker C: Because I figured it was. It was only appropriate. What. What do you want to say about the haunting? Why do you like the haunting so much?
• 1:56:14
  Speaker D: You know what? The hauntings remind me of a lot of the people that were in punk bands when I was. When I was younger. You know, they've got the. Cause everybody. I mean, you and I were all older now and stuff like that. We have a decent amount of energy, but we also. We like a good nap and an early bedtime.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker D: And these guys are young, you know, they have a great sound, you know, and they just. They have fun, you know, it's not unlike you guys. If they fuck up, it doesn't matter, because they're having fun and that kind of energy. Energy, it's just. It doesn't even matter, like, what kind of song they're singing. Even though I love their music, right? Because just their. Their presence is just like, hey, hey, hey. All right. Yeah, let's around.
• 1:56:51
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:56:51
  Speaker C: And, like, I really like them because the. The music that, like, is their clear inspiration is like, my favorite bands. You know what I mean? Like Descendants and no Effects and like, all those bands that are rancid and, like, you know, just to have. Have a band that, like, I've. I'm like. Immediately, I'm like, I get you. You know, I understand where you're coming from because.
• 1:57:15
  Speaker D: So afraid to it.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker C: Yeah. Because not everybody likes, you know, like, the music that we like, you know, not everybody likes punk rock. And some people have no fucking idea who Descendants even are. You know what I mean?
• 1:57:27
  Speaker D: I still run into people. Yeah. It's crazy.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker C: Yeah.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker D: That's what I'm saying. Their. Their music gives me energy. And even though you can't tell it a show because I'm not a dancer, so I desperately. I definitely just do the head nodding and throw up the horns and. But, yeah, guys, if you're listening, I love you guys. And just keep doing what you're doing because it's. It's great. Anyways, so we're going to close this out with the hauntings. All right? And this song is called always check your candy. Kids.
• 1:58:05
  Speaker B: It'S Halloween time once again it's time to kill some strangers and scare your friends Rat you out and trick or treat but you gotta check your candy before you eat Always drag your candy kiss the. If you don't you end up dead P Toss to your te Cause Halloween beats out the week Raise the blades and your stickers War. The roof is in your Reese's you woke apart Twizzlers dip desire mine if you ring my doorbell better run it high Always check your candy cans. They told you I'm dead bitch plays less to your cheek cards. Halloween leads out the week. Hey, hey. My mother told me jack my baby but I didn't know I. Oh, chef, you can't he kids. If you don't, you'll end up dead. Raise a blade flies through your cheek. Cause Halloween breeds out the week. Always shack a candy again.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker D: All right, that was always check your candy kids from the hauntings. And I'm pretty sure that's. That's it. That. And I say that's it like it's not a humongous.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker C: You know what? Before we go, I'd like. Before we go, I'm gonna try dipping my Twizzlers and cyanide just to see. Just to see what happens, you know?
• 2:00:38
  Speaker D: Yeah, no, that's a great idea. What size shoe do you wear? Because you wear some good shoes.
• 2:00:41
  Speaker C: What s. What size shoes? I wear a size 11.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker D: I call Andy shoes.
• 2:00:44
  Speaker C: Yeah, you know what? I. Instead of. Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Hauntings. And it's all your fault. You gave me the idea. But yeah. Anyway, that was. That was super fun.
• 2:01:00
  Speaker G: That was.
• 2:01:00
  Speaker C: Was the longest unsigned 518 episode that ever, ever done. Certainly for sure. And it's got to be that Halloween episode. So. Bj, Happy Halloween, dude.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker D: Thank you. Thank you, man. I really appreciate it. It's going to be. It's going to be a great one, I can tell.
• 2:01:15
  Speaker C: Yeah. And do you, like, go. You go out trick or treat, take the kids out trick or treating? Or do you stay home and man. Man the house for trick or treat? Them both.
• 2:01:24
  Speaker D: So like the.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker C: We.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker D: We gather the kids and we get together like, you know, while it's still light up. We hand out candy to the young kids and stuff like that. And then we throw a bucket on our. Our porch skeleton.
• 2:01:36
  Speaker C: Right?
• 2:01:37
  Speaker D: Just go out and do trigger and stuff like that.
• 2:01:39
  Speaker C: So it's best candy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm playing. I'm playing a gig. So I'll be. I'll be playing bass. I'll be playing bass guitar with the shortwave radio band. Are you putting candy up at Bound by Faye?
• 2:01:50
  Speaker B: No.
• 2:01:51
  Speaker C: We don't get true trick or treaters here. We live on a. Anybody who's been to the Dazzle then knows it's not like, pedestrian friendly.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker D: It does seem dangerous.
• 2:01:59
  Speaker C: Anyway, shape or form.
• 2:02:01
  Speaker D: But nobody's gonna be out because it's gonna be at Bound by Fate at the show anyway.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker C: Yeah, everybody down there.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker D: Everybody.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker C: We have no, we don't get any. But. Yeah, plus absolutely no one will be home and there won't be any lights on, so. No, we won't get any trick or trainers. The only, like, foot traffic we had. One time. Time I was here, I think I just recorded an episode. It was me and Dave Tayo, and someone rang the doorbell and it was late. It was like 7:30 at night. It was dark because it was like, you know, this time of year. And it was like the, like Jehovah Witness kids or whatever. It's like these two kids, you know, dressed like moral oral from. And. And they're like, you know, hey, cool, cool if we talk to you about Jesus for a minute? And I was like, no, off. Get out of here. Like, what are you doing? And they like, didn't have a car or anything. I'm like, where the did you guys come from?
• 2:02:59
  Speaker D: Like, I mean, you know, nobody's gonna try to kidnap them.
• 2:03:02
  Speaker C: They're gonna get hit by a car. That's what I'm saying. People drive cruel out here.
• 2:03:07
  Speaker D: Backpacks flying up in the air.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, it'd be crazy. Anyway, happy Halloween, everybody. That's. He's BJ Schwinghammer, and I'm not.
• 2:03:17
  Speaker D: Yeah, thanks for. Thanks for listening to us. If you get a chance to get to Bound by Fate tomorrow, do it, because I cannot. So be there for me. I can live vicariously through you. And you know what? We really appreciate you listening to us.
• 2:03:30
  Speaker C: I'm gonna be dressed as the. We're gonna be dressed as the Backstreet Boys. I'm personally going to be dressed as. Dressed as a Backstreet Boy.
• 2:03:36
  Speaker D: Yeah, I've seen the pictures. It is majestic as a word.
• 2:03:41
  Speaker C: Yes, majestic. All right. Happy Halloween. 518.
• 2:03:44
  Speaker D: Stay cool. 518.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker B: I'm calling shotgun. Where's the party tonight? Let's take a ride. Been swinging. We're driving. The Weekend Spotlight. Get ready.
• 2:04:10
  Speaker C: The Weekend Spotlight is a production of Unsigned 518 and part of the Metroland now network of podcasts. Unsigned 518's Weekend Spotlight is produced by Andy Scullin and hosted by DJ Schwinghammer. Look for new episodes every week at the metroland. Com and everywhere you stream podcast.