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- 0:02Speaker 1: I ended up going to a psychic that I met
- 0:06Speaker 1: at a party, and that's kind of where we leave
- 0:10Speaker 1: off with our story and pick up in our movie Vessel,
- 0:13Speaker 1: like what happened next, because involving the psychic kind of
- 0:18Speaker 1: escalated the situation and things got a little crazier.
- 0:22Speaker 2: I feel like.
- 0:22Speaker 3: That's how it goes a lot of times. It's like
- 0:25Speaker 3: they sense you're trying to.
- 0:26Speaker 4: Get rid of me, right, I will be holding on.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Hi Kitlin, Hi Cassie, Hi creepy people.
- 0:43Speaker 5: Hello.
- 0:44Speaker 6: If you're new to our creepy corner of the world,
- 0:46Speaker 6: this is PNW Hanson Homicides where we chat about true crime,
- 0:50Speaker 6: the paranormal, and all things spooky, creepy, witchy in the
- 0:55Speaker 6: Pacific Northwest.
- 0:56Speaker 3: And we also do a tarot reading at the end
- 0:59Speaker 3: of every episode for a little bit of deeper insight
- 1:02Speaker 3: into our topic.
- 1:04Speaker 6: We do have some special guests today with us. We
- 1:07Speaker 6: have Aurora and Fanny, who are founders of The Bad
- 1:12Speaker 6: Witch's Productions, a fem led indie production company that focuses
- 1:17Speaker 6: on supporting women and their stories, which is very important.
- 1:22Speaker 6: Fanny is directing their latest project, a horror short called Vessel,
- 1:26Speaker 6: based on something that Aurora actually experienced. So can we
- 1:31Speaker 6: just start right off, because I need to know, like
- 1:34Speaker 6: what happened and why did you decide to make a
- 1:36Speaker 6: movie out of it?
- 1:37Speaker 1: Sure, so I experienced some ghost activity, and this was
- 1:45Speaker 1: during a time that was like a little tumultuous for me,
- 1:49Speaker 1: which I now understand is probably like how this happens
- 1:53Speaker 1: for a lot of people, because like the more your
- 1:55Speaker 1: life is in chaos, the more you are to track
- 1:57Speaker 1: kind of some weird energy it invites, right, So just
- 2:02Speaker 1: you know, keep it light everyone, if you don't want
- 2:04Speaker 1: this to happen to you, keep a jill, keep it fun,
- 2:08Speaker 1: keep it happy. But yeah, we all have a ghost
- 2:14Speaker 1: in this economy.
- 2:17Speaker 7: Final show ghosts.
- 2:19Speaker 1: But yeah, So at the time, it was during the
- 2:22Speaker 1: film strikes, and so it was this thing where my
- 2:28Speaker 1: husband and I, who both work in film, thought that
- 2:31Speaker 1: maybe it was going to last like a couple of
- 2:32Speaker 1: months with the writer strikes. And of course we're kind
- 2:35Speaker 1: of not really out of it. Technically we're out of
- 2:37Speaker 1: the strikes, but studios still aren't doing shows and stuff.
- 2:40Speaker 1: But we were kind of thrown in the situation where
- 2:42Speaker 1: we had just finished working on a show in Vancouver.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Percy Jackson, and we were going to take like a
- 2:48Speaker 1: little break until we found our next show. Go stay
- 2:50Speaker 1: with my parents in Columbus, Ohio, where I'm from, and
- 2:54Speaker 1: just kind of spend some time with them. My mom
- 2:57Speaker 1: allegedly was going through some health issues. It's hard to
- 2:59Speaker 1: know with her, like whatever is going on, She's a
- 3:02Speaker 1: little bit of an unhinged person, right happy, So we
- 3:08Speaker 1: go to stay with her, and like three days into
- 3:11Speaker 1: what we assume would be a couple of weeks, my
- 3:13Speaker 1: mom and I have this big blow up fight, which
- 3:17Speaker 1: is pretty standard in our family. My mom has a
- 3:19Speaker 1: lot of mental health stuff. Honestly me too, and so
- 3:22Speaker 1: like we had this clash right out of the gate,
- 3:24Speaker 1: and so my husband and I decided to just like
- 3:27Speaker 1: kind of hang out in Columbus for a bit, see
- 3:29Speaker 1: if my mom decided to pull it together and spend
- 3:33Speaker 1: some time with my sister and her kids. And one
- 3:36Speaker 1: of my sister's kids who's like in their twenties. They
- 3:39Speaker 1: are their name's Clay, and they're also into very spooky
- 3:44Speaker 1: stuff like I am. Honestly, it's like Clay is like
- 3:47Speaker 1: my child. The most women's similarities. Yeah, And so we
- 3:53Speaker 1: were trying to think of things to do. And we
- 3:55Speaker 1: decided to make a list of the most haunted places
- 3:59Speaker 1: in Columbus, Ohio, and we were gonna make like we
- 4:02Speaker 1: put him on a map, and we're going to go
- 4:03Speaker 1: around to each one and just kind of like talk
- 4:06Speaker 1: to people if they had ever seen or experienced anything,
- 4:10Speaker 1: and just kind of see, like what's really going on
- 4:13Speaker 1: with the ghost scene in Columbus, Ohio.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Heck, yeah, love that? Well, I'm sure it started off great.
- 4:20Speaker 4: Yeah, you like, do I love that? Is this a
- 4:24Speaker 4: good idea?
- 4:25Speaker 2: No, it's great.
- 4:26Speaker 3: Organize a list and a map of all the places
- 4:29Speaker 3: that I need to stay far far far far far right.
- 4:35Speaker 4: Well, we went right into it.
- 4:36Speaker 1: And we started off with the Celton House, which is
- 4:41Speaker 1: this really old house in Victorian Village in Columbus, and
- 4:45Speaker 1: this old family has owned it for hundreds of years.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Like the great great grandfather was very involved in Columbus politics.
- 4:53Speaker 1: He even carried Lincoln's casket in his funeral, which was
- 4:57Speaker 1: like a big honor to be a paul Bear in
- 5:00Speaker 1: a president's funeral. So like they're this very wealthy connected
- 5:04Speaker 1: family and they're like attributed for helping establish Columbus. Wow,
- 5:09Speaker 1: And so this house is like still there. It was
- 5:12Speaker 1: part of the underground railroad. There's like all this cool
- 5:15Speaker 1: history to it, and part of a history is definitely
- 5:19Speaker 1: a ghost history. Each October they do a ghost tour.
- 5:23Speaker 1: When I was there, it was in April, so there
- 5:25Speaker 1: were no ghost tours going on, so we decided just
- 5:27Speaker 1: to go on a regular historical tour. They kind of
- 5:30Speaker 1: show you around the house and talk about the Celton
- 5:32Speaker 1: family and you know, all these cool happenings there. So
- 5:36Speaker 1: while we're there, we're asking the host of the tour
- 5:40Speaker 1: if she's ever experienced anything ghostly.
- 5:43Speaker 6: Of course, like one, what on a tour, I have
- 5:47Speaker 6: to make it into a ghost tour?
- 5:49Speaker 4: Yeah, Like this isn't a ghost stour, it's about to be.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:54Speaker 1: So she's kind of not in the mood to talk
- 5:57Speaker 1: about it, and she mentions like a couple things to
- 6:00Speaker 1: us about how there are like a number of people
- 6:04Speaker 1: who have died in this house. Of course, like families
- 6:07Speaker 1: like during that time would stay at home when they're
- 6:10Speaker 1: about to pass away. So there's people like dying of
- 6:12Speaker 1: like natural causes. There was a little girl who fell
- 6:15Speaker 1: out of the second story window and broke her neck
- 6:18Speaker 1: and died. There's like a soldier that came there to
- 6:21Speaker 1: visit the family and had been like wounded.
- 6:23Speaker 4: He died there.
- 6:24Speaker 1: And there's like all these stories along with that and
- 6:26Speaker 1: the underground railroad stuff, so allegedly this place is quite haunted.
- 6:31Speaker 1: And when I asked if this lady had experienced anything specific,
- 6:35Speaker 1: she said, occasionally lights would flicker and she would smell
- 6:39Speaker 1: cigarette smoke, and whenever she would smell that, she knew
- 6:42Speaker 1: it was Grace. They're like big resident ghost.
- 6:48Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 6:48Speaker 1: So Grace was like the last person to own the
- 6:52Speaker 1: Celton House. She was the daughter of this like lineage
- 6:55Speaker 1: family and she didn't have any siblings or children, so
- 6:59Speaker 1: she was the last to own it. And when she
- 7:01Speaker 1: passed away in the seventies, she left the house to
- 7:04Speaker 1: a historical organization to preserve all this cool stuff about it,
- 7:09Speaker 1: and so she's known to kind of like hang out there.
- 7:12Speaker 1: And after the tour, my nibbling and I and nibbling's
- 7:16Speaker 1: the term for non binary needs Inphew.
- 7:18Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was not such a cute word like nibbling.
- 7:22Speaker 1: I love it's adorable, and Clay is also adorable, So
- 7:26Speaker 1: I love that it's like such a cute word to describe.
- 7:29Speaker 4: Such a cute person.
- 7:31Speaker 2: It's perfect.
- 7:33Speaker 1: So we're looking around and we're looking in this china cabinet.
- 7:38Speaker 1: I have my phone now I'm making content for my
- 7:41Speaker 1: true crime account, my TikTok and stuff we do like
- 7:44Speaker 1: true ghost haunted stories like sometimes. So I'm like trying
- 7:48Speaker 1: to get video of the house whatever for that. I'm
- 7:51Speaker 1: like videoing inside this cabinet, and all of a sudden,
- 7:53Speaker 1: the door slams closed, and we're just like gets an
- 7:57Speaker 1: old house.
- 7:58Speaker 4: Who knows.
- 7:59Speaker 1: We both look at each other and we're like Grace jokingly,
- 8:03Speaker 1: like Grace doesn't want us looking at her dishes, so
- 8:05Speaker 1: we just we don't think much of it, you know,
- 8:07Speaker 1: like it could have been the houses off, you know,
- 8:10Speaker 1: or whatever.
- 8:10Speaker 4: Who knows.
- 8:11Speaker 2: I mean it's still settling.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Yeah, hundreds of years later, yeah yeah. So that was
- 8:23Speaker 1: like the first little like mini thing. And then we
- 8:26Speaker 1: go out to the car and it's April and Columbus.
- 8:29Speaker 1: So it had been like really nice and sunny, a
- 8:32Speaker 1: beautiful spring day. But now the weather has shifted. It's
- 8:35Speaker 1: cold and rainy. So we go out to my jeep
- 8:37Speaker 1: and I'm like pushing the button to turn on the heat,
- 8:39Speaker 1: like pushing it up, up, up, up, up and nothing's happening,
- 8:43Speaker 1: and like five seconds later just like shoots up like
- 8:46Speaker 1: twenty degrees and it's a new jeep. I've never experienced
- 8:49Speaker 1: any like weird electrical things in it.
- 8:51Speaker 4: And again, my nibbling and I.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Are like think it's silly, and we're like Grace, she's
- 8:58Speaker 1: following us around that Grace.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Oh, so she's like, yeah, they want me here.
- 9:04Speaker 4: Right, They're like calling me.
- 9:07Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like obsessy.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Right. So then like over the next week, stranger things
- 9:16Speaker 1: start happening. And the first of the events that I
- 9:21Speaker 1: start to pick up on for real is that I'm
- 9:25Speaker 1: not sleeping well. And part of that is because when
- 9:28Speaker 1: I try to fall asleep, there's like this orange light
- 9:31Speaker 1: in my subconscious and I've never experienced that before. It's
- 9:36Speaker 1: like normally when you go to sleep, it's lights out.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Everything's black, and the color of speak to me. If
- 9:41Speaker 1: I if I had to think of a color which
- 9:43Speaker 1: I'd never thought of before this, I'd.
- 9:44Speaker 4: Be like, sleep is black, Like sleep is nothing.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great, but like I can't fall asleep because
- 9:50Speaker 1: it's like there's like this light on inside of my
- 9:53Speaker 1: mind and I'm sleeping in this dark room with I
- 9:57Speaker 1: always have like a face mask on, like I am
- 9:59Speaker 1: like such a bedtime princess. I have like my likey
- 10:03Speaker 1: meds I take like I'm tee this, like I have
- 10:07Speaker 1: like new moisture. I run my lip gloss like my
- 10:09Speaker 1: face mask, Like I love this.
- 10:11Speaker 7: Say that's true.
- 10:12Speaker 1: And so I'm not sleeping. My sleep's orange. It's creepy.
- 10:15Speaker 1: And then my dog hurts growling at me.
- 10:18Speaker 2: Oh no, no, thank you.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Yeah, And like at first I was like, oh, maybe
- 10:26Speaker 1: he ate something weird and needs to go for a walk.
- 10:28Speaker 1: Like it's still a little weird that he's growling at me,
- 10:30Speaker 1: but you know, if you got to go, you gotta go.
- 10:33Speaker 1: So like I didn't react to listen, that's fine. So
- 10:36Speaker 1: like I take him for a walk, and he's just
- 10:38Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, sniffing around. He peas once
- 10:41Speaker 1: or twice. He's doing normal dog stuff. Clearly he doesn't
- 10:43Speaker 1: have to go to the bathroom and that's not why.
- 10:45Speaker 4: He had woken up.
- 10:46Speaker 1: So we go back inside and then he's kind of
- 10:50Speaker 1: restless and he's trying to get like comfortable by me.
- 10:53Speaker 1: But when I woke up again, like a couple hours later,
- 10:56Speaker 1: he's sleeping in the closet, like he wouldn't sleep next
- 10:59Speaker 1: to me, And from that night on he wouldn't sleep
- 11:02Speaker 1: next to me. He started sleeping in the closet, which
- 11:06Speaker 1: is like such an active betrayal.
- 11:08Speaker 4: Are you leaving me to deal with this ghost?
- 11:09Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be such a red flag for me.
- 11:15Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe it.
- 11:16Speaker 2: Was in the closet and he was protecting you from it.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Well, well let's let's explore that, because I don't think
- 11:25Speaker 1: that's what it was.
- 11:26Speaker 7: But had run away first.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's he's like he's kind of like a
- 11:32Speaker 1: fussy dog. He's a Pomeranian, but he always sleeps right
- 11:35Speaker 1: next to me in bad he like pretty much sleeps
- 11:37Speaker 1: on my pillow like I sleep in my side, and
- 11:39Speaker 1: he's a little like nook right next to me, Like
- 11:42Speaker 1: he's not necessarily cuddly, but he likes to at least
- 11:45Speaker 1: steal my warmth.
- 11:46Speaker 2: Yes, I want to be near you.
- 11:47Speaker 3: I want to know that you're not leaving me and
- 11:50Speaker 3: going and having right snacks without me, right, I love secrets.
- 11:58Speaker 8: Yes, everyone, So you know I get this point, Like
- 12:04Speaker 8: I can like I can tell something's weird, but I'm
- 12:07Speaker 8: also going through this trauma, like the fight with my
- 12:09Speaker 8: mom was exponential, and I'm going through hard time.
- 12:12Speaker 1: I'm not working a lot of film. People like are
- 12:16Speaker 1: worried about losing houses and stuff like it's going on
- 12:18Speaker 1: so long, so like I'm in a state of stress.
- 12:21Speaker 1: So I'm like, maybe it's just because of that. Like
- 12:24Speaker 1: the next big thing that happened was I want to
- 12:27Speaker 1: get my nails done and I want to a place
- 12:30Speaker 1: that does gel manicures. So I put my hand in
- 12:33Speaker 1: under the lamp to cure it, and every time I
- 12:35Speaker 1: put my hand in the light turns off. And so
- 12:38Speaker 1: my nail tech's like, that's weird and gets out a
- 12:41Speaker 1: different lamp.
- 12:42Speaker 4: Same thing. I put my hand in, the light goes off.
- 12:45Speaker 2: That is really weird, right.
- 12:48Speaker 1: Yeah, Like the nail tech next to us gets involved.
- 12:51Speaker 1: She's like, maybe it's the electrical thing.
- 12:52Speaker 4: Whatever.
- 12:53Speaker 1: She uses the lamp like, she puts her hand in there,
- 12:55Speaker 1: she used it for a client. Works just fine, same outlet,
- 12:59Speaker 1: just like the person right next to us lamp is working.
- 13:02Speaker 1: So at this point I kind of like jokingly but
- 13:06Speaker 1: half serious, like, God, what's going on?
- 13:08Speaker 4: I'm like, I think I'm being haunted.
- 13:10Speaker 1: Yeah, and my nail lady, without missing a beat, says no,
- 13:14Speaker 1: I think you are. Oh, And so turns out I've
- 13:19Speaker 1: been going to her for a while and like she's
- 13:21Speaker 1: a bit clairvoyant, and she's like, no, like your energy
- 13:24Speaker 1: is like so off today and I've never seen your
- 13:27Speaker 1: like aura's a different color, like just everything about you
- 13:30Speaker 1: seems different.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Is it orange?
- 13:32Speaker 8: Right?
- 13:35Speaker 2: Mind?
- 13:35Speaker 4: Usually purple?
- 13:38Speaker 6: No.
- 13:38Speaker 1: So we're talking about it and about like what had happened,
- 13:43Speaker 1: and she's like, well, you know, like when I was
- 13:45Speaker 1: a kid, my dad actually had a spirit attached itself
- 13:49Speaker 1: to him, and he had been going through a hard
- 13:52Speaker 1: time and he had lost his job and had been
- 13:55Speaker 1: like in a situation where like he was exposed to
- 13:59Speaker 1: like a spirit and it's like everything started to fall
- 14:02Speaker 1: apart for him. And her mom, who's also clairvoyant, ended
- 14:06Speaker 1: up like calling a friend who was a medium. They
- 14:08Speaker 1: took a picture of him and in the picture you
- 14:10Speaker 1: could see these three orbs that all had a like
- 14:13Speaker 1: man's face on it, and like somebody's anomalies can be explained,
- 14:18Speaker 1: like if you're in the ghost world, like sometimes it's
- 14:20Speaker 1: the reflection of you or this or whatever, but like
- 14:23Speaker 1: this man very clearly had a mustache and looks like
- 14:25Speaker 1: old timey. It was like nobody that was anywhere in
- 14:28Speaker 1: this room with them, so like they're like, no, that's
- 14:31Speaker 1: like a spirit that has attached itself to you. And
- 14:35Speaker 1: so she had like explained to me that if you
- 14:38Speaker 1: are going through a hard time like I had described earlier,
- 14:42Speaker 1: and like if you're feeling sad depressed, if you're using substances,
- 14:47Speaker 1: like there's like different things you do that can kind
- 14:49Speaker 1: of like lower like your like vibration, and then ghosts
- 14:55Speaker 1: like right before they died likely were in a similar
- 14:57Speaker 1: state where they might have been depressed or sad or
- 15:00Speaker 1: scared or whatever, and that like energy attracts like energy,
- 15:03Speaker 1: So if you're going through a hard time, you're more
- 15:05Speaker 1: likely to have a spirit interested in you and to
- 15:08Speaker 1: kind of feel comfortable in that space that feels familiar
- 15:10Speaker 1: to them.
- 15:12Speaker 3: It makes so much sense, But like way to pile
- 15:15Speaker 3: on right? No talk about timing? Can I maybe catch
- 15:20Speaker 3: a break?
- 15:21Speaker 4: That's how I was feeling.
- 15:23Speaker 1: And also like at this time, you know, I'm paying
- 15:25Speaker 1: to go get my nails done because I'm a Taurus
- 15:28Speaker 1: and I have to like keep like some like someone's
- 15:30Speaker 1: of normalcy up. But like I'm worried financially, Like I
- 15:34Speaker 1: don't know what's happening? Like I've not had a rift
- 15:37Speaker 1: like this with my family in such a way, and
- 15:39Speaker 1: I'm feeling very rejected by like the person who's supposed
- 15:41Speaker 1: to love you unconditionally.
- 15:43Speaker 4: And it's like and now I have a.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Ghost, right, and my nails are sticky but.
- 15:51Speaker 4: We didn't eventually cure them. But she had to hold
- 15:53Speaker 4: the light on the entire time. It was so crazy.
- 15:59Speaker 7: That's really crazy.
- 16:00Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I mean you got that going for you. Yeah,
- 16:02Speaker 3: I got the fresh set, right geez.
- 16:07Speaker 1: But so like after this, I was like, okay, like
- 16:10Speaker 1: how do I get rid of this? Like I honestly
- 16:14Speaker 1: have always been sort of interested in supernatural stuff, but
- 16:18Speaker 1: not really sure if I believed it necessarily. Like it's
- 16:22Speaker 1: not that I doubted people's experiences. I just don't really
- 16:25Speaker 1: know how I feel about the afterlife and like all
- 16:28Speaker 1: these things, like I had just never given it a
- 16:30Speaker 1: ton of thought. Yeah, And so I was like, Okay,
- 16:33Speaker 1: I am not equipped to deal with this. And it's
- 16:35Speaker 1: like so uncomfortable, like knowing that something's kind of feeding
- 16:38Speaker 1: on your energy when you have so little of it
- 16:40Speaker 1: to give anyways, Absolutely, so I was like, okay, I
- 16:45Speaker 1: need a psychic I need a medium. I don't know
- 16:47Speaker 1: what to do, and I had gotten on TikTok to
- 16:49Speaker 1: kind of like learn about like the process of what
- 16:51Speaker 1: you can do about asking the spirit to leave and
- 16:54Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And I ended up going to
- 16:58Speaker 1: a psychic I met at a party, And that's kind
- 17:04Speaker 1: of where we leave off with our story and pick
- 17:06Speaker 1: up in our movie Vessel, like what happened next, because
- 17:10Speaker 1: involving the psychic kind of escalated the situation and things
- 17:14Speaker 1: got a little crazier.
- 17:16Speaker 3: I feel like that's how it goes a lot of times.
- 17:19Speaker 3: It's like they sense you're trying to get ridded me.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Right, I will be holding on. Yeah, So that's where
- 17:28Speaker 1: Vessel comes in. That's where we're going to pick up
- 17:31Speaker 1: our story. So like during the movie, we'll of course
- 17:34Speaker 1: explain some about the haunting, but our girl goes to
- 17:39Speaker 1: work with a medium to try to get rid of
- 17:42Speaker 1: this and things get a little wild crazy.
- 17:45Speaker 6: Yes, now I need to know the rest of the story.
- 17:49Speaker 6: I'm dying if you watch it, well, now you've got
- 17:55Speaker 6: me hooked.
- 17:56Speaker 7: Spoilers.
- 17:58Speaker 6: So you mentioned when you were describing the movie to
- 18:01Speaker 6: me that it's kind of a metaphor for women not
- 18:04Speaker 6: having agency over their own bodies and not being believed
- 18:08Speaker 6: about their experiences. Can you talk a little bit more
- 18:11Speaker 6: about that?
- 18:12Speaker 8: Sure?
- 18:13Speaker 1: So you know, like during the time that I was
- 18:15Speaker 1: going through this, people were definitely looking at me like
- 18:19Speaker 1: I was a crazy person. And I get it, like
- 18:22Speaker 1: this is all like a little weird, and you know,
- 18:25Speaker 1: it's like is it in my head?
- 18:26Speaker 4: Is this depression?
- 18:27Speaker 7: Is it this?
- 18:29Speaker 1: But like the way that people were approaching it like
- 18:32Speaker 1: made me feel very broken, and it made me feel
- 18:35Speaker 1: kind of like how it does when I go to
- 18:38Speaker 1: the doctor and I'm having cramps and like have you
- 18:40Speaker 1: taken and ibuprofen or.
- 18:42Speaker 2: Thank god you're here to remind me that it is right?
- 18:45Speaker 2: Is right? And sit down?
- 18:51Speaker 3: Right?
- 18:51Speaker 1: That attitude for everything with women, And yes, I think
- 18:55Speaker 1: it's something that like all women can relate to, you
- 18:57Speaker 1: like going to the doctor for something and being blown
- 18:59Speaker 1: off and going home and having to figure out what's
- 19:02Speaker 1: going on on your own or never getting there. And
- 19:05Speaker 1: you know, also with like sexual assault, it's the same thing.
- 19:09Speaker 1: And I used to volunteer at a domestic violent shelter
- 19:12Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas that also did rape crisis, so we
- 19:16Speaker 1: would meet people who had been assaulted in the hospital
- 19:20Speaker 1: and basically advocate for them, because police departments, when they
- 19:24Speaker 1: send somebody in to interview somebody who's been raped, start
- 19:28Speaker 1: with have you been drinking.
- 19:31Speaker 7: So sad?
- 19:32Speaker 2: Like it's calm and awesome that make it not rape?
- 19:35Speaker 7: Right? Yes?
- 19:36Speaker 3: I mean, if anything, that should clarify that there wasn't
- 19:40Speaker 3: consent right, you know, right alcohol involved.
- 19:44Speaker 2: Oh, it's just it's not good.
- 19:46Speaker 4: It's really bad.
- 19:47Speaker 1: And so you know, when we decided to take on
- 19:51Speaker 1: telling this story, I was like, I don't really want
- 19:54Speaker 1: to tell it like a traditional ghost story, like this
- 19:56Speaker 1: is kind of how I felt, like very dismissed, like
- 19:58Speaker 1: I didn't have agent see over myself, and like I
- 20:01Speaker 1: wasn't being believed about it, which was like part of
- 20:05Speaker 1: like the horror of the situation going through it. It's like,
- 20:08Speaker 1: how do you deal with this and nobody believes you?
- 20:10Speaker 1: Like do I just have to live in this forever?
- 20:12Speaker 2: Right?
- 20:12Speaker 3: That makes it really hard to feel like you can
- 20:14Speaker 3: even begin to access resources.
- 20:18Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
- 20:20Speaker 6: I am particularly always interested in how horror films bring
- 20:25Speaker 6: to life like these really scary moments that maybe when
- 20:28Speaker 6: it's happening, it's like how do you how do you
- 20:31Speaker 6: bring this to a screen and make it so other
- 20:34Speaker 6: people are like seeing what you're seeing and experiencing it
- 20:37Speaker 6: how you are. I imagine that can be like really
- 20:39Speaker 6: really difficult to do. Is there any moments in this
- 20:44Speaker 6: that could be challenging to bring to life or that
- 20:46Speaker 6: you're excited about showing everybody?
- 20:49Speaker 5: I don't think it's going to be challenging because we
- 20:51Speaker 5: have pretty much everything planned, like all the scares and everything.
- 20:55Speaker 5: And if it's if it's well planned, it's easy to
- 20:59Speaker 5: bring it to life. Actually, if like the shots are weaplaned,
- 21:02Speaker 5: then how to and of course, thank goodness, we have
- 21:04Speaker 5: an Emmy Award winning visual effects supervisor help. Yeah yeah,
- 21:13Speaker 5: actually ours husband that really so that's amazing.
- 21:19Speaker 7: Yeah, we have it planned.
- 21:20Speaker 5: I won't spoiler it how and when you guys have
- 21:24Speaker 5: to watch it to find out.
- 21:26Speaker 7: But we have it all planned. We have it all planned.
- 21:29Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a really good jump scare.
- 21:31Speaker 1: But it is just planning, and it's writing a script
- 21:35Speaker 1: that's done in a very visual way so you can
- 21:37Speaker 1: see it. It's having good actors that can like really
- 21:40Speaker 1: channel that emotion. And we have not cast our lead
- 21:45Speaker 1: actress yet. We're still looking, but we have cast the
- 21:50Speaker 1: there's two leads, one the other guy, and oh my god,
- 21:54Speaker 1: he's so good.
- 21:55Speaker 7: Indeed, indeed, well that's exciting.
- 21:59Speaker 1: I worked with him him on the show nineteen twenty three,
- 22:02Speaker 1: which is the Yellowstone spit off with Harrison Ford and
- 22:06Speaker 1: it's not Hair, but he plays Luca. If anybody's seen
- 22:14Speaker 1: nineteen twenty three, he plays Luca. He was fantastic to
- 22:17Speaker 1: work with on set, like he's a great actor, and
- 22:21Speaker 1: I immediately thought of him for this role, like he
- 22:24Speaker 1: has this great charisma and stuff that we really want
- 22:27Speaker 1: from him. And we did a reading with him just
- 22:31Speaker 1: to like we assumed that he would be good because
- 22:35Speaker 1: like I've seen him work, but we still wanted to
- 22:36Speaker 1: do a reading with him and see if he got
- 22:38Speaker 1: the vision for the part. And he had read the
- 22:41Speaker 1: script and then told us like how he like saw it,
- 22:45Speaker 1: like what he perceived from it and what he perceived
- 22:49Speaker 1: from the character. He'd really gotten into this mindset and
- 22:52Speaker 1: then like his audition, I was like screaming internally because
- 22:58Speaker 1: you have this idea like how you want an actor
- 23:00Speaker 1: to perform it. And I was also like there for
- 23:02Speaker 1: like the real thing, like I know how this actually
- 23:04Speaker 1: played out, like who the characters actually are. But then
- 23:07Speaker 1: like he brought something I didn't expect to it that
- 23:10Speaker 1: like went beyond my expectations and like I had chills
- 23:14Speaker 1: it was so good.
- 23:15Speaker 2: Oh that's amazing. That's like what you hope for.
- 23:18Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 23:18Speaker 5: And also from a director's perspective that when you see
- 23:22Speaker 5: someone performing, sometimes you want them to bring out different
- 23:25Speaker 5: emotions or say this in a different way or you know.
- 23:29Speaker 5: And then he was like perfect for the all I didn't.
- 23:33Speaker 5: I could not give him any notes because he really
- 23:36Speaker 5: understood the character.
- 23:38Speaker 2: No notes, no.
- 23:39Speaker 7: Notes, no notes.
- 23:40Speaker 2: That's that's amazing.
- 23:42Speaker 7: He changed the emotions when he had to.
- 23:45Speaker 5: He was just like really understood the character, and he
- 23:49Speaker 5: was the perfect fit.
- 23:50Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's amazing.
- 23:51Speaker 6: Do you think it's going to be harder to find
- 23:53Speaker 6: the person who's supposed to play you, Aurora?
- 23:56Speaker 4: It is proving to be more difficult.
- 23:59Speaker 6: Yes, I can imagine that, because it's like you're like.
- 24:03Speaker 1: It's me, yeah, you know, and like I don't like
- 24:06Speaker 1: necessarily need her to be me. I just need her
- 24:10Speaker 1: to like exhibit this emotion of like what it feels like. Sure,
- 24:14Speaker 1: And you know, also like part of it is just
- 24:17Speaker 1: that there's like all these rules with film stuff. So
- 24:19Speaker 1: if you have one actor who's union who's with SAG,
- 24:22Speaker 1: the other one has to be And because Andy is SAG,
- 24:26Speaker 1: now we have to find a SAG actress, which is
- 24:28Speaker 1: just a little harder. We're an indie budget, so finding
- 24:32Speaker 1: somebody of that caliber, there's like there's a lot of
- 24:36Speaker 1: people out of work right now, unfortunately, Like it really
- 24:38Speaker 1: sucks for filmmakers. It's a really sad time for anybody
- 24:42Speaker 1: in the film industry. But it's just a little more
- 24:44Speaker 1: challenging to find. I mean there's great quality actresses of
- 24:48Speaker 1: course that are like in SAG, but it's making it
- 24:51Speaker 1: a little harder for us.
- 24:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's a it's a tough bar because
- 24:55Speaker 3: you have that challenge and then you know you're really
- 24:57Speaker 3: looking for someone who, like you, Senda is going to
- 25:02Speaker 3: match the emotion and everything that you're looking for.
- 25:05Speaker 2: It's a it's a lot of boxes to check.
- 25:07Speaker 1: And they have to be a good fit for Andy,
- 25:10Speaker 1: like their counterpart, Like they have to like have good
- 25:13Speaker 1: chemistry and work well together. So we're going to find her.
- 25:17Speaker 1: She's going to be absolutely perfect, I know it, but
- 25:19Speaker 1: we're not quite there yet.
- 25:20Speaker 6: Yeah, So let's talk about the ways people can maybe
- 25:23Speaker 6: help you guys get this movie created. So you have
- 25:27Speaker 6: an indie go go fund for the film, can you
- 25:31Speaker 6: tell us a little bit about that and like how
- 25:33Speaker 6: direct people to help sure?
- 25:35Speaker 1: So you know, it's a bit pricey to make films
- 25:38Speaker 1: of course, and this because like the way shorts work,
- 25:42Speaker 1: it's really hard for us to go to this kind
- 25:45Speaker 1: of standard channels for funding because there's never a return
- 25:48Speaker 1: on investment, and this kind of enables us, you know,
- 25:52Speaker 1: like with Bad Witches, we want to eventually make feature films.
- 25:55Speaker 1: Fanny and I have a long history of making movies.
- 25:58Speaker 1: We've both been on big studio stuff. Fanny's worked on
- 26:01Speaker 1: Dune two, doing the TV shows Moonnight, like, we've both
- 26:06Speaker 1: worked on some pretty big productions. But this is our
- 26:09Speaker 1: first time making something like completely from scratch, from like
- 26:12Speaker 1: writing it to producing it to directing it to everything
- 26:17Speaker 1: and if Fanny's an assistant director and a very talented one.
- 26:20Speaker 1: But so you know, it's it's a process. And in
- 26:24Speaker 1: order to prove that we have the ability to do
- 26:26Speaker 1: that before somebody will give us like a million dollars
- 26:28Speaker 1: to make a feature movie, we have to basically have
- 26:32Speaker 1: something showing we can do it, that we can do
- 26:34Speaker 1: it well, that we can tell a story well, that
- 26:35Speaker 1: we can make something beautiful and stunning and engaging and meaningful,
- 26:40Speaker 1: which I think we really will pull off with Vessel.
- 26:43Speaker 4: But we do need help out funding it.
- 26:46Speaker 1: And you know, basically, if you all want to find
- 26:49Speaker 1: out what happens next, you're gonna have to donate to
- 26:52Speaker 1: the campaign.
- 26:53Speaker 3: Gotta do it, you gotta do it, dig deep, Okay,
- 26:57Speaker 3: we need some proof of concept.
- 27:00Speaker 5: Yeah, And basically basically it's not just donations because we
- 27:04Speaker 5: are offering amazing perks like tickets to the premiere or
- 27:08Speaker 5: set visits or a PA internship which is not about
- 27:13Speaker 5: just bringing coffee, but it's about like shadowing like industry professionals.
- 27:19Speaker 2: Very cool.
- 27:20Speaker 7: So we have some amazing perks.
- 27:22Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 27:22Speaker 1: And are we effects supervisor like we mentioned will be there.
- 27:25Speaker 1: He's actually the effects supervisor from Titanic.
- 27:28Speaker 4: Oh what think the boat?
- 27:31Speaker 2: But it's such a theme.
- 27:33Speaker 6: We literally bring up Titanic on accident in like every episode.
- 27:36Speaker 2: It always circles back.
- 27:37Speaker 4: Here's our chance. Okay.
- 27:39Speaker 1: I actually have a cute story about this, y'all. So
- 27:42Speaker 1: he was working as an artist at the time and
- 27:46Speaker 1: he did the breath for Jack and Rose on the door,
- 27:49Speaker 1: like when Rose was on the door and Jack was
- 27:50Speaker 1: in the water, the famous door, the famous door, and
- 27:53Speaker 1: also the famous scene, the most famous scene. And also
- 27:56Speaker 1: the breath work is still used, like they still like
- 27:58Speaker 1: mimic like his work that he did on other shows,
- 28:01Speaker 1: including nineteen twenty three that I was just gone. The
- 28:03Speaker 1: directors like, I want the breath to look like Titanic,
- 28:06Speaker 1: and we're like, well, great, because.
- 28:08Speaker 4: We had the guy who did it on the show.
- 28:10Speaker 2: Amazing.
- 28:11Speaker 1: But also like in that scene, he's doing this work
- 28:14Speaker 1: and he hasn't read the script and he's adding their
- 28:17Speaker 1: breath and like he has like the notes and he's
- 28:19Speaker 1: like in this like clip, he's adding it for Rose,
- 28:21Speaker 1: he's adding it for Jack. He's adding it for Rose,
- 28:23Speaker 1: He's adding it for Jack. Then he gets to a
- 28:25Speaker 1: clip word's only Rose and he's like, wait, y'all miss
- 28:27Speaker 1: Jack's breath. And he's like, oh, Jack's dead. Oh, and
- 28:32Speaker 1: that's how I found that that Jack dies.
- 28:36Speaker 2: Oh my god. Spoiler alerts.
- 28:38Speaker 3: Oh if that's a spoiler, then I think you need
- 28:42Speaker 3: to like maybe consider leaving the house a little bit more.
- 28:47Speaker 7: You never know.
- 28:49Speaker 1: I but yeah, for getting this funded you know, just
- 28:53Speaker 1: to kind of talk about like what that means too.
- 28:55Speaker 1: You know, the reason why we had started Bad Witches
- 28:58Speaker 1: is because there's nothing being made right now and studios
- 29:03Speaker 1: have kind of run the show for a long time.
- 29:06Speaker 1: We had this like great time for indie film in
- 29:08Speaker 1: the nineties and a lot of like those independent film
- 29:11Speaker 1: houses got bought up by studios, and now like all
- 29:14Speaker 1: those brilliant minds aren't getting to work because studios.
- 29:17Speaker 4: I don't know what they're doing right now.
- 29:19Speaker 1: I think they're kind of waiting until people are so
- 29:21Speaker 1: desperate for work that they'll work without being.
- 29:23Speaker 4: Part of a union or like hyahs, what's happening.
- 29:26Speaker 3: But a strong strategy from their perspective, I'm sure, but
- 29:30Speaker 3: not great for art.
- 29:31Speaker 1: But really bad for all these people who have been
- 29:35Speaker 1: working artists their entire lives, that are losing their homes,
- 29:38Speaker 1: that can't feed their children, that are living in their cars, and.
- 29:41Speaker 4: Just really sad situation.
- 29:43Speaker 1: And we want to create something where we actually like
- 29:47Speaker 1: make a film studio. We hire the same teams again
- 29:50Speaker 1: and again and again. Everybody has insurance. We equalize pay
- 29:54Speaker 1: for people, so producers aren't making like one hundred million
- 29:57Speaker 1: dollars and then you know PA's are making a hundred
- 30:00Speaker 1: dollars a day. Like, we want everybody to be sort
- 30:03Speaker 1: of like equalized in wages. We want to tell fem stories,
- 30:07Speaker 1: we want to tell queer stories, we want to tell
- 30:09Speaker 1: stories that haven't been told before. And in order to
- 30:13Speaker 1: do this, like we have to start somewhere, we have
- 30:15Speaker 1: to pay our crew for this, and we really want
- 30:18Speaker 1: to help some people that have been out of work,
- 30:20Speaker 1: give them a little glimmer of hope, contribute to something
- 30:22Speaker 1: that we all believe in, and pay them and get
- 30:25Speaker 1: the meals for a few days at least.
- 30:27Speaker 6: So everyone go support if you can in any way
- 30:30Speaker 6: you can. I think that would be such a cool
- 30:32Speaker 6: perk too for someone who's not just interested in like
- 30:35Speaker 6: the film businesses, but like wants to get like started
- 30:38Speaker 6: in the film business to do the do the shadowing perk,
- 30:41Speaker 6: that would be so cool.
- 30:43Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, And like our DP work with Lady Gaga,
- 30:47Speaker 1: she's really impressive, Like we have some really cool people
- 30:50Speaker 1: on set.
- 30:50Speaker 4: To learn from.
- 30:51Speaker 6: Yeah, so get on it. Everybody, please go donate because
- 30:55Speaker 6: I just need to see this happen.
- 30:58Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, we'll definitely have to link to the indie
- 31:03Speaker 3: Go Go in the show notes too.
- 31:07Speaker 6: What inspired both of you to start working in film?
- 31:14Speaker 5: I actually I started working in film five years ago.
- 31:17Speaker 5: I was always in love with movies, like starting from
- 31:21Speaker 5: a young age, I was always spent my free time
- 31:24Speaker 5: watching movies.
- 31:25Speaker 7: So first, honestly, I.
- 31:28Speaker 5: Wanted to be an actress, but soon I realized I
- 31:32Speaker 5: was born to the wrong country for that, which is hungry.
- 31:37Speaker 7: And then I.
- 31:38Speaker 5: Was like, what should I do, which is behind the camera,
- 31:41Speaker 5: but would be a good fit for me.
- 31:43Speaker 7: And then I found out about.
- 31:45Speaker 5: The assistant director position because it's like leading people and
- 31:50Speaker 5: organizing things, making schedules, and so then I went to
- 31:55Speaker 5: a two years assistant director course and that's how I
- 31:59Speaker 5: got into film. Basically I got to know people. And
- 32:02Speaker 5: then my first movie I was working on was Borderlins.
- 32:06Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys seen it. Yeah, so
- 32:08Speaker 5: that was my first movie. And then it just it
- 32:11Speaker 5: just kept coming. I was stucking me in the street.
- 32:15Speaker 7: You would suck me in, Yeah, absolutely.
- 32:18Speaker 2: It attached itself to you.
- 32:21Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, yeah.
- 32:22Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 32:22Speaker 5: But honestly, I love it so much I cannot imagine
- 32:25Speaker 5: doing anything else. So this is basically why we decided
- 32:29Speaker 5: to start our own company to tell stories.
- 32:33Speaker 1: So it's really like an addicting thing to do. Like
- 32:36Speaker 1: it's it's like really the hardest job I've ever had.
- 32:39Speaker 1: Like you really are working twelve, sometimes fourteen hour days.
- 32:42Speaker 1: Sometimes you're like starting at like six pm and working
- 32:46Speaker 1: until six am, and like it's brutal. But there's nothing
- 32:50Speaker 1: like the feeling of so many people that are creative
- 32:53Speaker 1: coming together to like make something and like this tedious process,
- 32:57Speaker 1: but then people watch it and love it and reac
- 33:00Speaker 1: to it and like feel.
- 33:01Speaker 4: Something about it.
- 33:02Speaker 1: It's just it's so beautiful and you can't get out
- 33:04Speaker 1: of it if you try.
- 33:06Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's really exhausting. And honestly, I've heard this
- 33:09Speaker 5: from so many people. They were like, Oh, this is
- 33:12Speaker 5: gonna be my last show. I'm not working in film anymore.
- 33:14Speaker 5: I don't want to I want to leave this industry.
- 33:17Speaker 5: And then we've met on the next project.
- 33:20Speaker 7: Yes, I was like, oh, you're here, so you did
- 33:22Speaker 7: not live this seeing you?
- 33:24Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 33:25Speaker 7: Literally?
- 33:26Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:27Speaker 3: Now, I mean it sounds like I mean from a
- 33:30Speaker 3: scheduling aspect alone, you would just have to be so
- 33:35Speaker 3: passionate about that as your career because that's a really
- 33:40Speaker 3: tough thing to have, like work life.
- 33:43Speaker 2: Balance and absolutely.
- 33:46Speaker 5: My gosh, you don't really have private life, yeah, next
- 33:49Speaker 5: to film honestly, because you're basically just go to work,
- 33:53Speaker 5: exhaust yourself all day, and then you go home and
- 33:55Speaker 5: straight fall into bed.
- 33:57Speaker 6: Right well, and then you guys create you know, your
- 34:01Speaker 6: own company where you're doing it.
- 34:02Speaker 2: All yourself, so that just like adds to it.
- 34:05Speaker 6: It's not like you're just going to work and then
- 34:07Speaker 6: you get to come home and like be off.
- 34:09Speaker 2: I imagine you're probably like always working.
- 34:12Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, day and night.
- 34:14Speaker 1: Honestly, as soon as I wake up at six am
- 34:17Speaker 1: until when I go to bed whenever, that's yeah.
- 34:20Speaker 5: Yeah. It's like sometimes there's an idea coming up and
- 34:23Speaker 5: then I text to Oro at one am my.
- 34:25Speaker 7: Time, I'm like, oh, I have an idea.
- 34:30Speaker 5: I know it's one I know it's one am, but
- 34:32Speaker 5: I have to tell you now.
- 34:34Speaker 2: Well, I mean otherwise you lose it forever, right right.
- 34:38Speaker 7: Exactly exactly. And my brain works the best at night,
- 34:41Speaker 7: so it is what it is.
- 34:44Speaker 2: Yeah, I can relate to that.
- 34:46Speaker 5: Yeah, thank goodness. She's a morning person.
- 34:48Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 34:48Speaker 7: So the time difference yea, like.
- 34:51Speaker 4: A nine hour time difference or something.
- 34:54Speaker 1: And it's great because I like wake up so early,
- 34:58Speaker 1: and then I can like start texting Fanny when it's
- 35:01Speaker 1: her daytime and she's still up late, when I like
- 35:03Speaker 1: she goes to bed around the same time I go
- 35:04Speaker 1: to bed.
- 35:05Speaker 2: Perfect, that's true.
- 35:08Speaker 6: Actually, so you guys can never live in the same
- 35:11Speaker 6: time zone or it'll just not work.
- 35:13Speaker 4: I don't know how we'll do it.
- 35:14Speaker 5: Yeah, I still text you at one am.
- 35:22Speaker 2: You'd just be ships in the night.
- 35:26Speaker 6: I also feel like too, when you text someone your
- 35:29Speaker 6: idea right away, instead of like writing it down and
- 35:32Speaker 6: maybe waiting until later, you could like read it later
- 35:34Speaker 6: and be like, oh, well, this idea kind of sucks.
- 35:36Speaker 6: I'm not gonna I'm not ever gonna like tell send
- 35:40Speaker 6: it right away. Then you don't have that chance to
- 35:43Speaker 6: like second guess yourself.
- 35:44Speaker 3: Yeah, right, for you've overthought it well, and I feel
- 35:47Speaker 3: like you always, well almost always explain things better when
- 35:53Speaker 3: it's like fresh and in the moment and you're feeling
- 35:56Speaker 3: like excited and passionate about you know, the idea that
- 35:59Speaker 3: you just came up with, where like you said, you know,
- 36:02Speaker 3: if you if you sit on it, then sometimes it's like,
- 36:07Speaker 3: m I'm forgetting details about it, or you know, like
- 36:11Speaker 3: things that really trade shit what it was.
- 36:14Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, Do you guys have any advice for women
- 36:19Speaker 6: wanting to get started in film?
- 36:21Speaker 7: Do it.
- 36:22Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be hard, it's gonna be a challenge,
- 36:26Speaker 5: but do it. Because the more women start to work
- 36:30Speaker 5: in this industry, the more success women will have in
- 36:34Speaker 5: the industry.
- 36:35Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's still so hard, and there's
- 36:39Speaker 1: still so few women on film sets. Like the average
- 36:42Speaker 1: crew is like maybe a few hundred people, or is
- 36:45Speaker 1: obviously gonna be much smaller for the short but like
- 36:48Speaker 1: the percentage of women is certainly nowhere near fifty percent.
- 36:52Speaker 1: And also like you might see a lot of women
- 36:54Speaker 1: who are like pas and such, more people like coming
- 36:57Speaker 1: through the system, but then like the number of women
- 36:59Speaker 1: who hods and such is just non existent. And I
- 37:04Speaker 1: had gone on a scout for nineteen twenty three when
- 37:08Speaker 1: we were moving from Austin to Montana, And I went
- 37:12Speaker 1: on the scout as a lower position, like as a coordinator,
- 37:16Speaker 1: which I normally wouldn't have been invited on. But we
- 37:19Speaker 1: had some like weird things going on because we it
- 37:23Speaker 1: was supposed to snow for all of this show. It
- 37:25Speaker 1: takes place in Montana in a blizzard, and they decided
- 37:28Speaker 1: to film it in October, and I'd been to Yellowstone
- 37:32Speaker 1: in October years ago and I was like, the.
- 37:34Speaker 4: Weather was like beautiful. I don't feel like it was
- 37:36Speaker 4: anywhere near snowing. Then we'll see how this is going
- 37:38Speaker 4: to go.
- 37:39Speaker 1: And it was like my department and like it was
- 37:41Speaker 1: kind of my role to make sure that the snow
- 37:45Speaker 1: happened because we were going to add that all in
- 37:46Speaker 1: visual effects, which was not the original plan. And we
- 37:49Speaker 1: had this like eight million dollars snow budget, like it
- 37:51Speaker 1: was just crazy. So they decided that like I should
- 37:54Speaker 1: be there for that because we had to make sure
- 37:56Speaker 1: all the sets were scans we could add snow to them.
- 37:59Speaker 1: And also so we had two VFX supervisors and one
- 38:02Speaker 1: of them couldn't go. So they're like, okay, or I
- 38:05Speaker 1: just go. And I hadn't like given any thought. I
- 38:08Speaker 1: had never been invited on a scout because I'm not
- 38:10Speaker 1: high enough up like on a big studio project. And
- 38:14Speaker 1: I'm looking around and there's like fifty men and three
- 38:18Speaker 1: or four women yep on this scout like for hods,
- 38:22Speaker 1: and like the women that were there, a lot of
- 38:24Speaker 1: them were like assistant to the hod They weren't even
- 38:27Speaker 1: like the Hods and it was just shocking. But you
- 38:30Speaker 1: look at that snippet, but then like the next snippet
- 38:33Speaker 1: is like bipoc people and let me tell you how
- 38:37Speaker 1: white a film crew is. So like we need more
- 38:39Speaker 1: diversity like in this space, like we need to hear
- 38:42Speaker 1: people's stories that aren't like older white men, and like
- 38:46Speaker 1: we need more voices in this space.
- 38:48Speaker 2: Seriously, have we not heard enough?
- 38:51Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 38:51Speaker 1: Yeah, movies for the beginning of time have been told
- 38:55Speaker 1: from like a white male says straight perspective, and let's
- 38:59Speaker 1: do something else.
- 39:00Speaker 2: I don't know, just give it a shot.
- 39:03Speaker 4: What if we tried something else?
- 39:04Speaker 2: Yeah? Literally anything.
- 39:08Speaker 5: Yeah, It's like when I thought someone that ivia direct
- 39:12Speaker 5: this movie, the first reaction was, wait, isn't aren't directors
- 39:17Speaker 5: usually men?
- 39:18Speaker 2: What?
- 39:19Speaker 7: I was used that right now?
- 39:22Speaker 4: Unfortunately it's true.
- 39:23Speaker 1: Kate Blanchet just posted this like video at con Film Festival,
- 39:29Speaker 1: and I'm going to mix up this number. I keep
- 39:31Speaker 1: forgetting to look up the accurate number. But she said
- 39:34Speaker 1: that like in the history of the festival, eighteen I
- 39:37Speaker 1: think it was like eighteen hundred men that were directors
- 39:40Speaker 1: have been on the steps in only eighty women directors
- 39:45Speaker 1: compared to eighteen hundred men.
- 39:47Speaker 2: Wow, I don't love the stats. I'm not gonna lie.
- 39:52Speaker 3: Feels like it should be at least a little closer to,
- 39:55Speaker 3: you know.
- 39:56Speaker 7: At least fifteen.
- 39:58Speaker 2: Yeah, I could be.
- 40:00Speaker 3: Into except you know, maybe a sixty forty. We're working
- 40:04Speaker 3: on it, but that's ye, it's a long ways off.
- 40:08Speaker 4: A long ways, very long ways. Yeah, one percent or something.
- 40:12Speaker 2: Okay, ladies, let's plot the film industry. Let's go.
- 40:17Speaker 7: That's the plan, storm take over.
- 40:21Speaker 2: Yes, get in there.
- 40:23Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 40:23Speaker 1: And if you're a filmmaker and you're like, hey, I
- 40:26Speaker 1: want to join a group of ragtag women filmmakers and
- 40:31Speaker 1: I want to go out to La or I'm like,
- 40:33Speaker 1: we're going to film in Joshua Tree, like near where
- 40:35Speaker 1: I am right now. And you want to be a
- 40:37Speaker 1: part of this, let us know. We would love to
- 40:40Speaker 1: mentor you if you're new, if you've been in it
- 40:42Speaker 1: for a while, and you have something you'd like to contribute.
- 40:46Speaker 1: We are trying to get everybody paid. It may not
- 40:48Speaker 1: be the best rate you've ever gotten from a studio,
- 40:50Speaker 1: but we're trying to get everybody paid, and it's something
- 40:53Speaker 1: we take very seriously, and we'd love to hear your ideas.
- 40:56Speaker 6: Yes, please contact them, get in there. I'm so excited.
- 41:01Speaker 6: I just want to, like, I can't wait to see
- 41:03Speaker 6: what all comes from this.
- 41:04Speaker 2: I'm very excited.
- 41:08Speaker 6: Okay, So we kind of did talk about some of
- 41:13Speaker 6: the other films that you worked on. Had you either
- 41:17Speaker 6: of you ever worked on a horror film before.
- 41:20Speaker 4: I haven't.
- 41:21Speaker 7: I worked on House of Spoils.
- 41:25Speaker 5: It's a it's a prime video movie, but it wasn't
- 41:29Speaker 5: really scary in my opinion.
- 41:31Speaker 1: It's horror, though, I'll be the judge of it.
- 41:36Speaker 4: Haylan's like I was terrified.
- 41:38Speaker 5: Okay, I won't say any spoilers, but it's not like
- 41:41Speaker 5: it's not a movie jump scares and stuff, right, Okay, So,
- 41:45Speaker 5: but yeah, it's genre. It's horror, but it's not like
- 41:48Speaker 5: the bloody jump scares and slashing people kind of horror.
- 41:53Speaker 7: You have to watch it and you will find out.
- 41:56Speaker 2: So this is kind of new for both of you.
- 42:00Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, and like a lot of it
- 42:02Speaker 1: is done like similarly, you know, like like there was
- 42:06Speaker 1: some really lovely scenes on nineteen twenty three comes to mind.
- 42:09Speaker 1: Just I just got off the show where the director
- 42:11Speaker 1: wanted to approach the way that they were shot as
- 42:14Speaker 1: a horror movie, like where he's building suspense, Like there's
- 42:16Speaker 1: a scene where Helen Mirren's character is attacked by a
- 42:21Speaker 1: or like.
- 42:22Speaker 4: Is confronting a mountain lion. I think that's the mountain
- 42:25Speaker 4: lion scene. There was a mountain lion and a wolf.
- 42:27Speaker 2: It was the wolf.
- 42:28Speaker 4: The wolf like has killed a nurse.
- 42:30Speaker 1: S it'ce all like blood and guts like in her
- 42:32Speaker 1: living room, and it's like we have a lot of
- 42:33Speaker 1: like bloody stuff. And he wanted to like sneak up
- 42:36Speaker 1: on that scene and like approach it like you would
- 42:40Speaker 1: a horror movie discovery like a jump scare, and so
- 42:42Speaker 1: like that was like done in that way. Like we
- 42:45Speaker 1: had this great special effects makeup shot where they're drilling
- 42:49Speaker 1: into somebody's skull because they were having gosh, I forget
- 42:54Speaker 1: what the name of that is where they had like
- 42:57Speaker 1: blood like essentially like sitting on their brain is like
- 43:00Speaker 1: a heemotoma or something. I forget the issue, Like the
- 43:03Speaker 1: way and I don't know how they deal with it now,
- 43:05Speaker 1: Like I'm certainly not a doctor, but like the way
- 43:07Speaker 1: they would deal with it then was like they would
- 43:08Speaker 1: literally drill into the person's skull to release that pressure,
- 43:12Speaker 1: and so we had to have like we had like
- 43:14Speaker 1: the the special effects head that was made to look
- 43:18Speaker 1: like the actor, and they were drilling into this like
- 43:22Speaker 1: bloody like thing with blood scorting everywhere and like whatever.
- 43:26Speaker 1: And I didn't need to be on set then, Like
- 43:30Speaker 1: it was. I'm a coordinator. It's like a lot of
- 43:32Speaker 1: my time is spent in a trailer. Like I'm like
- 43:34Speaker 1: a budget vend or whatever. I'm organizing things. I don't
- 43:37Speaker 1: always have to be on set. But like I was
- 43:40Speaker 1: texting my VFX team and I was like, if I
- 43:42Speaker 1: missed the bloody head scene, I will be.
- 43:46Speaker 4: Bloods burting.
- 43:49Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. It's a dema, a deema. That's the
- 43:52Speaker 2: word a dema where we were looking for.
- 43:55Speaker 6: See, are you guys excited to work on just like
- 43:58Speaker 6: a straight horror film and do you want to keep
- 44:01Speaker 6: doing horror films in the future.
- 44:03Speaker 1: I think it's probably a good direction for us. We
- 44:06Speaker 1: are not limiting ourselves to horror. There's a few reasons
- 44:10Speaker 1: to do horror. For one thing, like it's actually pretty
- 44:12Speaker 1: inexpensive to do a horror movie. For a few reasons,
- 44:17Speaker 1: like a lot of the themes are done in like
- 44:21Speaker 1: film world. What's called like a monster in a house,
- 44:23Speaker 1: like classic storytelling style, where you're filming at one location,
- 44:26Speaker 1: maybe it's in a house, like a Halloween kind of
- 44:28Speaker 1: thing or whatever. You're limiting your locations and the number
- 44:32Speaker 1: of actors. It's also really easy to pull things off
- 44:35Speaker 1: with practical effects, which will always be much cheaper than
- 44:39Speaker 1: visual effects, and we'll be doing all of our effects
- 44:42Speaker 1: practically while having VFX there to make sure we don't
- 44:45Speaker 1: mess it up, so we have to go into VFX.
- 44:49Speaker 2: Perfect. That's perfect.
- 44:51Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 44:51Speaker 1: So I think that horror is such an important genre
- 44:55Speaker 1: for women and unrepresented voices in general, because it's a
- 44:59Speaker 1: way for us to speak about things that have happened
- 45:02Speaker 1: to us and our experiences in a metaphorical sense, like
- 45:05Speaker 1: what we're doing with Vessel, and so I think it's
- 45:09Speaker 1: it's easy to like kind of get into like a
- 45:10Speaker 1: gentle political mindset too, which we're already working on our
- 45:15Speaker 1: first feature length script, which is going to kind of
- 45:18Speaker 1: address like the housing economy, how like it's so hard
- 45:23Speaker 1: to get housing these days because of short term rentals
- 45:26Speaker 1: and just like wealthy coming in and like buying up
- 45:30Speaker 1: space like in a town where I live, like in
- 45:31Speaker 1: Joshua tree where like you literally can't find houses because
- 45:34Speaker 1: they're all vacation.
- 45:36Speaker 2: Rentals on Airbnb.
- 45:37Speaker 1: Yeah, and so like it's going to be like a
- 45:39Speaker 1: movie kind of making a statement about that, and it'll
- 45:43Speaker 1: be like a fun kind of like not quite slashery
- 45:46Speaker 1: a little bit, but we're gonna have some like scream
- 45:48Speaker 1: style stunts and stuff in it.
- 45:50Speaker 4: So I think it'll be a fun one.
- 45:52Speaker 2: You love that, And.
- 45:53Speaker 5: There's a meaning behind because what's important for us to
- 45:56Speaker 5: have a meaning always in every movie, every movie you
- 46:00Speaker 5: make like either a political statement or some kind of
- 46:03Speaker 5: meaning behind.
- 46:04Speaker 2: Yause, what else? What else is it for?
- 46:07Speaker 7: Right?
- 46:07Speaker 2: You can't? Like that's so true. Help people your thoughts
- 46:10Speaker 2: and feelings.
- 46:12Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, especially right now. Yeah, in these times.
- 46:17Speaker 6: Okay, I wanted to know if you had any current
- 46:20Speaker 6: movie suggestions for people to watch.
- 46:23Speaker 7: Substance we're ubsess.
- 46:25Speaker 2: Yes, Substance is amazing.
- 46:27Speaker 5: If anyone asked, my first answer is Substance.
- 46:31Speaker 4: It's so good, agreed.
- 46:34Speaker 1: The two that, like, I think Substance like, I definitely
- 46:37Speaker 1: loved and it's probably one of the most memorable horror
- 46:39Speaker 1: movies I've seen, like in the recent years. But I
- 46:42Speaker 1: also really love Strange Darling. Oh, have y'all seen that?
- 46:46Speaker 7: No, I haven't seen that.
- 46:47Speaker 1: Oh, it's so good. It's kind of like a serial
- 46:54Speaker 1: killer kind of thing. We're like a girl's traveling with
- 46:58Speaker 1: a guy. We're like presuming as a serial killer. And
- 47:02Speaker 1: Kyle Gallner I'm not sure if I'm saying his name right,
- 47:05Speaker 1: isn't it And he was in like Veronica Mars. He
- 47:09Speaker 1: was in Smile. He's like the cop that's trying to
- 47:11Speaker 1: help Socie Bacons. Yeah, and like he's briefly in the
- 47:16Speaker 1: second one.
- 47:17Speaker 2: Oh, no, I haven't seen the second one yet.
- 47:20Speaker 4: So he's great. He's in it.
- 47:23Speaker 1: But it's like such a great like it's got one
- 47:27Speaker 1: of the best twists I've ever seen ever done in
- 47:30Speaker 1: a movie. It's so great, it's so smart. It's really
- 47:33Speaker 1: like a beautifully done movie. So I really liked that one.
- 47:37Speaker 1: And then we were just chatting with Cass and Ashley
- 47:42Speaker 1: from Drinking the kool Aid podcast. We just did a
- 47:45Speaker 1: chat with them the other day. They're so wonderful. And
- 47:48Speaker 1: Cass had recommended a movie to us which was Significant
- 47:52Speaker 1: Other and it has Gosh, I don't know her name,
- 47:57Speaker 1: but she was she's the girl from It follows the
- 47:59Speaker 1: blonde girl, and she's like such a scream queen, like
- 48:02Speaker 1: she's in the Villain. She's in so many great movies.
- 48:07Speaker 1: She's always so good, like she deserves the scream queen
- 48:10Speaker 1: title for sure.
- 48:11Speaker 4: I can't remember her name. I wish I knew it,
- 48:13Speaker 4: but she's in it.
- 48:14Speaker 1: And this other guy that I think he was like
- 48:17Speaker 1: in the office, and he's been in a few things,
- 48:19Speaker 1: but he always plays like the guy that you like.
- 48:22Speaker 1: He seems nice, but you know he's going to be
- 48:24Speaker 1: like a bad guy eventually, Like he has this kind
- 48:26Speaker 1: of like douchey quality. But it takes like a real
- 48:29Speaker 1: like some real unexpected twists in turns and was not
- 48:32Speaker 1: at all what I thought it was going to be.
- 48:34Speaker 1: So that's like a nice one for like kind of
- 48:36Speaker 1: like a sci fi monster in the woods, like they
- 48:39Speaker 1: go on a camping like a hiking trip, and like
- 48:42Speaker 1: twist twist, twist twist, like who has the power now?
- 48:45Speaker 4: Like it's really kind of mind blowing.
- 48:47Speaker 6: Those are good because I haven't seen either of those
- 48:49Speaker 6: that you suggested, so I'll have to put them.
- 48:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think I have seen either of them either.
- 48:56Speaker 6: You haven't seen very many scary movies, but you did
- 48:59Speaker 6: you did see some?
- 49:00Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 49:01Speaker 6: Right?
- 49:01Speaker 2: I bought it. Yeah, I was like renting good job.
- 49:06Speaker 1: And I would say, like, if you're like for people
- 49:08Speaker 1: that are like kind of like horror adjacent, like maybe
- 49:12Speaker 1: they don't like to fully immerse themselves in like a
- 49:15Speaker 1: slasher movie, Strange Darling is really good for that because
- 49:20Speaker 1: I wouldn't like call it scary. It's just like really
- 49:23Speaker 1: fun and unexpected, like very feminist. And I don't want
- 49:28Speaker 1: to like say what it reminds me of, because then
- 49:29Speaker 1: it would kind.
- 49:30Speaker 4: Of give away the end.
- 49:31Speaker 1: Oh that's but it reminds me of like this other
- 49:33Speaker 1: great like feminist horror movie that I saw that I
- 49:35Speaker 1: wish they had taken it in this direction a little more,
- 49:38Speaker 1: but like it's it's really good.
- 49:41Speaker 3: Oh now I'm like, oh, maybe we need to watch
- 49:43Speaker 3: it and then right now come back to you.
- 49:45Speaker 2: Yeah right now.
- 49:48Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll have like a movie club.
- 49:51Speaker 4: And I love that.
- 49:52Speaker 7: Yeah, sign us up.
- 49:56Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 49:57Speaker 2: Have you guys seen the movie Presence? No?
- 50:00Speaker 6: Oh yes, I just watched that and I was like,
- 50:03Speaker 6: this movie is like pretty good.
- 50:05Speaker 7: I was just like suw, I have to add that
- 50:07Speaker 7: to my list.
- 50:08Speaker 4: It's good.
- 50:09Speaker 2: Yeah. I wasn't expecting it.
- 50:11Speaker 4: It's good. It's a ghost story. Oh yeah.
- 50:14Speaker 1: And like from a filmmaking perspective, that was done with
- 50:19Speaker 1: like the average movie I was reading has like hundreds
- 50:22Speaker 1: to maybe thousands of like cuts, so like you cut
- 50:25Speaker 1: and go to like the next scene.
- 50:27Speaker 4: That one I think I read has.
- 50:29Speaker 1: Thirty three right, wow, So the longest takes you've ever seen.
- 50:33Speaker 1: And it's kind of shot like a documentary where they're
- 50:36Speaker 1: like following them around with a wide angle lens instead
- 50:39Speaker 1: of like normally you would go like you would cut
- 50:42Speaker 1: from like one after space to another and kind of
- 50:44Speaker 1: like put them together having a conversation. They were like
- 50:47Speaker 1: moving the camera around them to like accommoedy these few cuts,
- 50:52Speaker 1: and it's really like artistically done. It's very beautiful. I
- 50:55Speaker 1: can't imagine trying to pull that off.
- 50:57Speaker 2: I thought it was so interesting.
- 50:59Speaker 6: I'm sure they did it digitally, but like they would
- 51:01Speaker 6: show the camera like in a reflection, but you like
- 51:05Speaker 6: couldn't see the camera obviously, I'm like, how did they
- 51:07Speaker 6: do that?
- 51:09Speaker 1: Yeah, And for the way they were doing it, like
- 51:12Speaker 1: there's certainly ways to accommodate those shots, but like the
- 51:15Speaker 1: way that they were keeping the cut song. They might
- 51:18Speaker 1: have done some VFX removal, like on the camera in
- 51:21Speaker 1: the mirrors, Like I wasn't looking for that. I'll have
- 51:24Speaker 1: to go through and see like how they did that.
- 51:26Speaker 1: But yeah, it's beautiful.
- 51:28Speaker 6: They were shooting through a window one time, so you
- 51:30Speaker 6: could see out the window, but the light was on
- 51:32Speaker 6: so you can like see the reflection of the house
- 51:34Speaker 6: in the back. I just thought it was so cool.
- 51:36Speaker 6: Was like, whoa this is this is awesome.
- 51:39Speaker 4: It's good Lucy losing it.
- 51:40Speaker 6: Yeah, Oh yeah, it's a really good movie. Yeah, it's
- 51:44Speaker 6: kind of like a woman's story too very much. So, well,
- 51:49Speaker 6: do you guys want to do some terror?
- 51:52Speaker 7: Yes, let's do it. I never did Taro before.
- 51:55Speaker 5: I'm kind of afraid of it because whatever you say
- 51:58Speaker 5: something bad. I've been thinking about it, like, oh day,
- 52:02Speaker 5: all night.
- 52:03Speaker 6: It's always something good, something you need to know that
- 52:06Speaker 6: you probably already knew in the back of your mind.
- 52:08Speaker 2: Then it's just it's just bringing out.
- 52:10Speaker 7: I don't want to know.
- 52:11Speaker 2: I know, I don't want to know. Well, are you
- 52:16Speaker 2: comfortable if we if we pull out?
- 52:18Speaker 1: Ye?
- 52:19Speaker 2: Yes, do you have any specific questions about.
- 52:22Speaker 1: I think we would love to know if we're going
- 52:26Speaker 1: to pull this movie off.
- 52:29Speaker 2: Okay, that's a lot of pressure. Yeah, that's a lot
- 52:32Speaker 2: of pressure.
- 52:32Speaker 1: Think our biggest question is is, like, you know, we
- 52:35Speaker 1: have not met our Indie Go Go goal yet, and
- 52:38Speaker 1: we're really hoping to get there, so we'd like to
- 52:41Speaker 1: know because if we don't meet it, we're probably still
- 52:43Speaker 1: going to make it where I will play the psychic,
- 52:46Speaker 1: Fanny will play me, and we will shoot it with
- 52:48Speaker 1: an iPhone, but.
- 52:52Speaker 2: We will we'll be involved.
- 52:54Speaker 4: Yeah, right, I'll do terror. How long have you been
- 52:59Speaker 4: doing tear?
- 53:00Speaker 2: Pretty much? I've just been doing it since we started
- 53:02Speaker 2: the podcast.
- 53:03Speaker 6: Like four years ago, so nice. We're not like super
- 53:07Speaker 6: professional at it or anything. We kind of just are
- 53:09Speaker 6: learning through pulling a card every episode and that's like
- 53:13Speaker 6: how we're learning to do it.
- 53:15Speaker 1: That's how you get there, right, and then like eventually
- 53:18Speaker 1: your synapses start to like make sense of it.
- 53:21Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 53:22Speaker 1: It's like it's so hard to like remember all the cards.
- 53:25Speaker 1: And I've tried doing like apps that like like flash
- 53:28Speaker 1: cards like give you a card and this meaning like whatever,
- 53:31Speaker 1: but my memory is such trash. Yeah that I feel
- 53:34Speaker 1: like I should just do more readings because then I
- 53:36Speaker 1: would like have that memory associated with something.
- 53:40Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 53:41Speaker 6: Yeah, And we just read from like an interpretation book too.
- 53:44Speaker 6: We don't really have them all memorized or anything like that, right,
- 53:49Speaker 6: we do try to like look at the card and
- 53:51Speaker 6: you know, see if there's anything that correlates with what
- 53:53Speaker 6: we're talking about.
- 53:54Speaker 2: Usually there is.
- 53:55Speaker 4: And yeah it can be like so spot on it scary.
- 53:59Speaker 2: I know.
- 54:00Speaker 1: Recently, I have like an ancestor altar for my grandma
- 54:04Speaker 1: and my dog who passed away, and yeah, it's so
- 54:09Speaker 1: sweet and like I just set it up like kind
- 54:11Speaker 1: of recently and I had like pulled a card like
- 54:14Speaker 1: for if my grandma had anything to say for me,
- 54:17Speaker 1: and like whatever the card was, it was like.
- 54:19Speaker 4: Family love like whatever.
- 54:21Speaker 1: It was like this like really like kind thing and
- 54:23Speaker 1: my grandma was like my person. It was so sweet.
- 54:25Speaker 1: And then I pulled on for like my dog, who's
- 54:27Speaker 1: like my spirit dog, like we are connected, we always
- 54:31Speaker 1: will be, like she's so sweet, and the card was
- 54:35Speaker 1: like basically like you were an asshole.
- 54:42Speaker 2: She's mad at me and.
- 54:47Speaker 1: Right, and it was like, gosh, I wish I could
- 54:49Speaker 1: remember the card. I took a picture of it, but
- 54:51Speaker 1: it was like it represented it was like in reverse.
- 54:54Speaker 4: Like first of all, so it.
- 54:55Speaker 1: Was like like substance abuse and like not being there manipulative, unreliable,
- 55:03Speaker 1: and I'm like my dog thinks I'm manipulative. It's like, girl,
- 55:10Speaker 1: you don't like reevaluate my life and my decisions?
- 55:15Speaker 2: Did you though? Did you? Was? Was she telling you
- 55:17Speaker 2: something that you know?
- 55:18Speaker 4: I don't know?
- 55:19Speaker 1: And like I really spent a lot of time stressing
- 55:22Speaker 1: over it because it's like it could just be that,
- 55:25Speaker 1: like I don't have a good connection with my tarot deck,
- 55:27Speaker 1: like it's not necessarily a message from my dog. And
- 55:30Speaker 1: I was like my husband kept telling me that, but
- 55:32Speaker 1: I definitely wanted. It's like a deep depression for three days,
- 55:36Speaker 1: and like I just like sat and cried each morning
- 55:38Speaker 1: at my ancestor altar, like apologizing to my dog. And
- 55:41Speaker 1: I was like I should have taken you on more
- 55:43Speaker 1: hikes and I should have.
- 55:45Speaker 6: Done honestly, Okay, what if what if this is your
- 55:51Speaker 6: dog just manipulating you to like sit there and talk
- 55:54Speaker 6: to her.
- 55:55Speaker 2: Oh my god, maybe maybe she.
- 55:59Speaker 4: Was so sweet.
- 56:00Speaker 2: Want it's just some more attention.
- 56:02Speaker 1: I definitely like bought like salmon treats. I got like
- 56:06Speaker 1: a new toy for the altar. Like I was like
- 56:08Speaker 1: every day I'm getting you something.
- 56:11Speaker 6: Like I was gonna say, yeah, were your dog played you, dude?
- 56:18Speaker 1: No surprise there, right, my Pomeranian definitely does.
- 56:25Speaker 3: I feel like little dogs are the biggest game players.
- 56:29Speaker 2: Oh gosh, yeah.
- 56:31Speaker 1: Just like little demons, but so cute. It works every time.
- 56:36Speaker 2: Oh a thousand percent.
- 56:37Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was a solid shuffle though.
- 56:42Speaker 4: Hey that's good. I'm so bad at shuffling.
- 56:45Speaker 7: I could never rough.
- 56:47Speaker 2: All right, I feel better about it.
- 56:50Speaker 3: You killed it, Okay, So I'll spread these out.
- 56:56Speaker 2: You guys, tell me kind of where.
- 56:59Speaker 4: To Okay, I would say, just right of center.
- 57:05Speaker 3: Would we get I cannot believe how frequently this card
- 57:09Speaker 3: is coming up.
- 57:10Speaker 2: Oh is this the death card? It is?
- 57:12Speaker 6: Oh my god, that's actually amazing. That is like, actually
- 57:17Speaker 6: so perfect for this.
- 57:18Speaker 4: It means rebirth.
- 57:19Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it says death, but it means like death
- 57:23Speaker 1: of the olds, like to bring in the news for us.
- 57:27Speaker 6: Death of the white male fifth male led film industry,
- 57:31Speaker 6: and rebirth, yes, and not already.
- 57:35Speaker 7: Red ends right right.
- 57:37Speaker 2: It's like the first thing I thought when I saw that.
- 57:39Speaker 1: Well, so I pulled the death card once when I
- 57:42Speaker 1: was flying home. I was in Saudi Arabia, like this
- 57:46Speaker 1: prince had flown us out because he wanted to start
- 57:49Speaker 1: like a film studio there. And on the way home,
- 57:52Speaker 1: I was having anxiety about flying and I don't know why,
- 57:54Speaker 1: Like I fly quite a bit and I don't really care,
- 57:57Speaker 1: but I was having anxiety about it, and I decided
- 57:59Speaker 1: to like pull a card to see if it was
- 58:01Speaker 1: going to be okay.
- 58:01Speaker 4: And I pulled the death card and I was like,
- 58:04Speaker 4: that is not.
- 58:05Speaker 1: The card you want to see before getting on, asking
- 58:07Speaker 1: if you're gonna be okay.
- 58:08Speaker 2: I would be scared of that. No, that's that's kind
- 58:10Speaker 2: of intense.
- 58:11Speaker 7: Oh my god. Yeah, absolutely, but you were fine.
- 58:14Speaker 4: Spoiler alert, I didn't die.
- 58:16Speaker 2: No, I'm dead.
- 58:19Speaker 7: Maybe you're a ghost now I would explain so much.
- 58:22Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. So the only the only caveat is that
- 58:27Speaker 3: we did draw in the reverse, so it is going
- 58:29Speaker 3: to have a little bit different interpretations.
- 58:33Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay.
- 58:35Speaker 3: So your keywords for the death card are transformation, metamorphosis,
- 58:41Speaker 3: and ending, sacrifice, loss and rebirth. So I think we
- 58:48Speaker 3: all agree, we've already discussed it's a it's a positive
- 58:51Speaker 3: thing in this context.
- 58:53Speaker 4: How about in reverse.
- 58:55Speaker 6: I don't know about reverse. Well we'll make it positive.
- 58:58Speaker 6: We'll figure it out.
- 59:00Speaker 1: Dude, now I'm bringing out.
- 59:06Speaker 3: When this card appears reversed, it suggests you're putting off
- 59:10Speaker 3: making necessary changes, usually out of fear you're stuck in
- 59:15Speaker 3: old habit patterns you know need to be revised, but
- 59:19Speaker 3: you don't want to put forth the effort to alter them,
- 59:22Speaker 3: even though you're unhappy with the current situation. Oh, the
- 59:25Speaker 3: way out is to face up to your stagnation, frustration
- 59:29Speaker 3: and unhappiness, throw out the old and ring in the new.
- 59:35Speaker 4: Interesting.
- 59:36Speaker 6: Does that feel like it applies directly to you guys,
- 59:39Speaker 6: or just like the film industry that we were kind
- 59:42Speaker 6: of talking about.
- 59:42Speaker 1: Before, Yeah, because, like I think we're doing something like
- 59:47Speaker 1: very bold for both of us, And I would say, like,
- 59:50Speaker 1: are throwing out the old is like being reliant on
- 59:52Speaker 1: this like archaic system and trying to literally do something
- 59:56Speaker 1: new and have like a metamorphosis in rebirth. Like I
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: can't say that, Like I feel like that it's necessarily
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: true for this project.
- 1:00:05Speaker 4: Right, So maybe it means industry in general. I don't know.
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like in some readings you do get
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: sort of a sense of a card and the meaning
- 1:00:17Speaker 3: being more related to even like a period of the
- 1:00:21Speaker 3: past in relation to your kind of your question or
- 1:00:27Speaker 3: the situation.
- 1:00:29Speaker 6: Like that could apply directly just to your your story
- 1:00:33Speaker 6: of what happened to you and how you kind of
- 1:00:36Speaker 6: turned it into something more relative.
- 1:00:38Speaker 3: Yeah, I do feel as though this is kind of
- 1:00:41Speaker 3: our deck being a little bit smart assy, because it's like,
- 1:00:46Speaker 3: doesn't feel like you're directly answering our question.
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: Right, I think it kind of is. Yeah, I think
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: it kind of is.
- 1:00:54Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's kind of true because we have
- 1:00:56Speaker 5: to make sacrifices and stuff for this project.
- 1:00:59Speaker 7: So I think I think what it.
- 1:01:00Speaker 5: Says it applies because it's like it takes a lot
- 1:01:03Speaker 5: of sacrifice and energy and work and yeah, so I
- 1:01:06Speaker 5: think I think I think it fits for a situation
- 1:01:10Speaker 5: basically true.
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:01:12Speaker 3: I do also find it really interesting. This is in
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: the major arcana. This is the thirteenth card.
- 1:01:21Speaker 4: Oh today was part of the thirteenth Yes.
- 1:01:25Speaker 6: Yeah, that's so funny too, because I wrote down thirteen
- 1:01:28Speaker 6: questions for you guys, and I had twelve, and I
- 1:01:30Speaker 6: was like, man, I need to think of one more
- 1:01:31Speaker 6: just to like make it an even like thirteen.
- 1:01:35Speaker 4: And even thirteen.
- 1:01:37Speaker 7: Oh my god, that's rics.
- 1:01:39Speaker 4: I love you spooky ladies.
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: Yeah right right, that's a really good name for our
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: production company.
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: And even thirteen Yeah, no podcast.
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: And Even thirteen Oh yeah, I love it?
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: Are we starting another podcast?
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: This is this is first episode of an Even thirteen
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: I'm spin off.
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: I'm gonna lie I dig the name.
- 1:02:09Speaker 3: So what I was gonna say is that I feel
- 1:02:11Speaker 3: like with the interpretation and where it's saying, you know,
- 1:02:15Speaker 3: the way out is to face up to your stagnation
- 1:02:18Speaker 3: and kind of as it goes on there, I feel
- 1:02:21Speaker 3: like this also can be kind of warning against maybe
- 1:02:24Speaker 3: falling back into old habit patterns as you move forward,
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: So it may not be that you're actively doing that.
- 1:02:32Speaker 7: Yeah, that's true. That's true.
- 1:02:34Speaker 4: That is true.
- 1:02:35Speaker 5: Yeah, because actually we have to pull off like new
- 1:02:38Speaker 5: ways to be able to make this movie because like
- 1:02:42Speaker 5: old habits doesn't work, we have to pull off new things.
- 1:02:45Speaker 7: That's how I understand this.
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: That's really true, because like that's exactly it. And it's
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: funny because, like, you know, my dream for making this
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: kind of anti capitalistic thing has been like burning bright.
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: And I was talking to this girl who came to
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: stay with me during the LA fires, like I lived
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: like a couple hours from LA and she was looking
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: for a place to go just because she has like
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: asthma and like whatever, air quality was better here. And
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: she actually works in film, like she works as an actress,
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: and I was like telling her about the idea and
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: she was like really into it, and so I was like, like,
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: I want to create a system where like the producers
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: aren't making so much more, and she's like, yeah, but
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: like if you pay yourself out a lot of money,
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: then you can hire more people. And she was doing
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: this very like Elon Musk like style argument for like
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: the trickle down like economics, and I was like, no.
- 1:03:39Speaker 4: Like this is how I stop it.
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: Like the production company gets to pay more people a
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: better wage because I'm paying myself less, and like it's
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: something that like I get. It's like kind of you know,
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: if we had money coming in, it's more difficult to
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: like actually abide by that and say, no, I'm going
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: to like pay myself a living wage, but not some
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: excessive amount to where we can't pay the rest of
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: our team, which is something I really really believe in
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: because like just reading statistics about like what CEOs and
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: stuff used to make twenty years ago, they made about
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: double what they're like average employee made right, and now
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: they make like twenty one hundred times like whatever that
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: and it's like why it just doesn't make any sense
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, and that's like that's why we have
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: this income disparity that we do now in the US.
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: It's because like they're keeping so much more for themselves,
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: so like it's tempting to want to do that. Clearly
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: it's working, you know, like I get it right, like right,
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: but like somebody, like people have to like stop it,
- 1:04:38Speaker 1: like somebody has to stop it.
- 1:04:40Speaker 4: And I was like, I'll be a person who stops that,
- 1:04:42Speaker 4: which is hard. I'm a tourist. I like luxury.
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's like same girl, right, right, But I
- 1:04:51Speaker 3: think that, you know, the argument really to be had
- 1:04:54Speaker 3: is not like should we all, you know, give up
- 1:04:58Speaker 3: all of our worldly possessions and you know, join a monastery.
- 1:05:02Speaker 3: It's more about, like we can all have some luxuries
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: so long as nobody's bow guarding everything.
- 1:05:13Speaker 4: Exactly.
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: It has to be a little bit more a military.
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: As long as like you don't have like a smaller
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: yacht to follow your mega yacht, because your mega yacht
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: can't like everything that you need for your supplies while
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: on your mega yacht death basis.
- 1:05:29Speaker 3: I do think it's reasonable to maybe, you know, like
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: one yacht.
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: Okay, guys, guys, I think I think the death guard
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: is telling us we can only have one yacht.
- 1:05:43Speaker 2: And you know what, I, for one have made my
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: peace with that.
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: So man, it's not going to be easy, but you know,
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: I'm willing to do my part.
- 1:05:58Speaker 5: But yeah, I actually, I actually think it has a
- 1:06:00Speaker 5: positive meaning to leave behind the past and revert to
- 1:06:04Speaker 5: do things differently than before and a big change.
- 1:06:07Speaker 7: Basically, yeah, it.
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: Was perfect, right. I loved that.
- 1:06:13Speaker 3: She was at first, but she's like, Okay, okay, you
- 1:06:16Speaker 3: guys get it way around death card.
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: Like, if you can spin the death card positive, you
- 1:06:21Speaker 2: got this.
- 1:06:22Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:06:23Speaker 5: Really, how do you know if the death card has
- 1:06:27Speaker 5: a positive or negative meaning?
- 1:06:29Speaker 6: I think it's it's really just based on like, I
- 1:06:32Speaker 6: think it's based on your feeling really when you're pulling
- 1:06:35Speaker 6: the card. But generally, to me, the death card means
- 1:06:38Speaker 6: it's very positive. To me, that's that's just how I
- 1:06:42Speaker 6: feel about it. But I don't know how everyone else
- 1:06:44Speaker 6: feels about it.
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: Yeah, Oddly, I think the death card is probably not
- 1:06:50Speaker 3: the scariest in the deck. I think the Tower is
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: the one that really that's that's a little bit chaos.
- 1:06:57Speaker 2: It's a little bit more difficult to put a spin on.
- 1:07:01Speaker 2: It's a it's a little intense.
- 1:07:03Speaker 4: Oh thank god we didn't know.
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't need chaos.
- 1:07:09Speaker 6: I can spin that one positive too, like you need
- 1:07:11Speaker 6: to totally break down your life and have chaos to
- 1:07:14Speaker 6: like rebuild something so much better.
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: So that's what I see the Tower card.
- 1:07:18Speaker 3: Yeah, which I understand the argument in principle, but you
- 1:07:22Speaker 3: don't want to go through it, thank you, Like you
- 1:07:25Speaker 3: have to go through it, but you don't like necessarily
- 1:07:27Speaker 3: want to.
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: Yeah, right, But for anybody that likes Taro, there will
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: be like a tarot reference in our movie.
- 1:07:36Speaker 4: Of course they're in a reading room for like most
- 1:07:38Speaker 4: of it.
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: But also my nibbling that I mentioned earlier that went
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: on the ghost tour with me is a very good
- 1:07:44Speaker 1: artist and they're designing us a custom tarot deck that
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: will be used in the movie will also be Uh
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: it's a perk too in our indiegg that you can
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: get the custom made tarot deck used in vessel.
- 1:07:58Speaker 4: H Yes, and it's kind of ghosty and stuff.
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: Okay, so that's a perk that we're doing to.
- 1:08:08Speaker 4: It's a really cool one, it is, it is indeed.
- 1:08:11Speaker 7: Yeah, the cards are going to be amazing.
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so excited.
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: So the movies coming out projected for Halloween, we want
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: to release around Halloween just because OVS. But the Tarot deck,
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: you know, we'll probably be able to get that out
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: a bit sooner. We might be able to get that
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: out close to the time that our indiegog ends, which
- 1:08:35Speaker 1: I think is like in is that in July, Fanny
- 1:08:38Speaker 1: M Yeah, I think it might be like a week
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: or two after that. It's like maybe like August we
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: can get those shipped. Clay's almost undesigning them. I think
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: they're on like like I think there's seventy two cards
- 1:08:52Speaker 1: in a deck?
- 1:08:52Speaker 4: Is that right around there?
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: Seventy seventy eight, So I think they're like in the
- 1:08:56Speaker 1: fifties for designing cards, Like they're they're getting there. They
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: look at amazing, They're so cute. There's some like very
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: special ones. There's also references to like people in our lives,
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: like my grandma speaks to me a lot, which is
- 1:09:09Speaker 1: why I set her.
- 1:09:10Speaker 4: I set up an ancestor altar.
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: I had like gotten a reading done with an oracle
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: deck like with a friend, and they pulled something that
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: was like wild rose, and the name like the name
- 1:09:23Speaker 1: hadn't like meant anything to me when she first said it,
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: I was just like, oh, wild Rose, that sounds cute whatever,
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: And she's like, I think someone's like trying to talk
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: to you through this card. Does the name Rose mean
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: anything to you? And my grandma's middle name was Rose
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: and her name was Edith Rose, and she hated her
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: middle name, and like it was like a joke like
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: in our family, everyone would always get her roses and
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: like whatever. So like I think she like liked it
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: in like a cute, like playful way. I don't think
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: she actually hated it, but it was like always this joke.
- 1:09:53Speaker 1: But she like always leaves me like roses and whatever.
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: It's like let me know that she's communicating with me.
- 1:09:59Speaker 1: So there's a rose and the deck that represents my
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: grandma on like we have all these like cute things
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: os gat Yeah.
- 1:10:06Speaker 6: Well, does anyone have any like any any last any
- 1:10:10Speaker 6: final words anything else that you want to throw out
- 1:10:12Speaker 6: to people that you haven't got to say yet.
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: Now, I guess just you know, we so appreciate everyone's support.
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: If you're curious and learning more about the project, we
- 1:10:23Speaker 1: do have our social medias, which are at bad Witch's Productions,
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: on TikTok and on Instagram. You can find our website
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: bagwitches dot com and there's a section for Vessel there.
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: You can find our Indiego go also just by looking
- 1:10:40Speaker 1: up Indiegogo and Vessel and it'll pop up. And we
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: so appreciate your time and attention and we can't wait
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: to share this movie with y'all.
- 1:10:50Speaker 2: Yes, I am. I'm so excited, so excited.
- 1:10:54Speaker 3: I'm super excited for my new tarot deck, which will
- 1:10:58Speaker 3: make it a lot easier to wait for the movie right.
- 1:11:03Speaker 4: Absolutely day, amazing fun.
- 1:11:13Speaker 7: It was way more.
- 1:11:13Speaker 2: Fun than it usually.
- 1:11:16Speaker 4: Brilliant idea.
- 1:11:18Speaker 2: I mean, Cassie, I need to go run and grab
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: a tissue for your issues.
- 1:11:32Speaker 3: Yeah that's my co host, famously witty.
- 1:11:40Speaker 2: I'm so smart.