Horror Anthologies Are So Back ft. Ryan Joseph Murphy of “Your Horror Show” | Audio Version

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Welcome to Hornet. The podcast.

Nobody did happen that it was perfect hair day, Ryan.

Yes, I know. I did a lot to it this morning, so I'm really happy that it looked like this for you guys.

It looks so good. Are you using like a product for it or a line?

Totally. Yes. All the products. All the products.

I'm really into Jennifer Anderson's line, but yeah.

I would say it's probably the Winifred Sanderson youth syrup, if you know what I mean.

What a reference. Gosh, it's pulling out the 90s cards already. Oh my gosh, this is amazing.

Oh I live in the 90s. Have you met me? We do.

We do.

As you should, as you should. It was a good, it was a good time period.

God, I miss it. I miss the prices of the 90s.

Do you see?

Watch all those we watch all those movies and like, oh my god,$1.50. We didn't even know. Gas just it was so cheap then. We didn't even know what we had.

We had it so good, we didn't even know.

I had no idea. No idea.

So crazy.

Just hello. Welcome to Horror Nerds Me. Your horror story. Did I do good?

That was great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's so funny because the the show's called Your Horror Show, but everyone calls it Your Horror Story.

I didn't do that.

So I think I need to I think I need to change the actual title of it because the the problem is that my name is so close to Ryan Murphy's name.

It is Ryan Murphy. So it's your fault. So it's your fault.

Yeah, exactly. And I'm I'm the other Ryan Murphy. And so yeah, I I did an audition for 911 guy like four or five years ago, and I went into the casting office and I was like, they're like, Oh, your name's Ryan Murphy. And uh, you know, Ryan, yeah, it was Ryan Joseph Murphy. And I was like, Yeah, you know, I've been trying to get him to, you know, change his handle on Twitter, and he just never responds to me. So I just it's so weird. And they they started laughing, and then I didn't get the job, and I was like, I pissed him off. I had to have pissed him off. So that's that's that's what happened.

So I would have given you the job personally, but yeah, same.

That's that's very sweet.

You're my favorite Ryan Murphy.

Yes, that's so sweet. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Yeah, you're the only one who's hired me, so true.

And I would say that your show is probably actually more accurate than Ryan Murphy's shows based on real people in real life.

It's possible, yes. I've heard, I've you know, I haven't watched every single Ryan Murphy show. I did, I really did enjoy Niptuck way back when I thought that was great, and um a couple of the other Ryan Murphy shows that he did, but I definitely fell off the bandwagon at some point. But you know what? More power to him, make that money, tell those stories. It's great. So yeah.

You go, girl. I will say that like if there's anything that you're gonna learn from a Ryan Murphy production is that the killer will be hot and naked in the first episode. But when it's Charlie uh is it Hunnam? Charlie. Yeah, yeah, Charlie Hunnam, yes, yes. I'm okay with it. Even though he is Ed Geen, he's still kind of hot. But the reason why I was so excited though about the Ed Geen Monster series is because I think Lori Metcalfe is one of the greatest actors of all time. If not the greatest actor of all time. Right. Casting her as Mrs. Gean was just phenomenal. So I was on board when I found that out, for sure. Um and also I have to say American Horror Story Coven is still one of the greatest seasons of television history.

Coven was great.

Coven was fantastic, yeah, top tier and accurate in the sense of Stevie Nix being like everybody's emotional support witch. Yes. Yeah, she's definitely mine.

That was not acting, she wasn't acting in that.

She just was herself. Yes, right? I would rise from the grave and be my favorite witch.

Yes, and everyone's like, we love you. We love you so much. You're great.

Stevie, come on the show, girl.

Oh god, I would die. We would all die. Dear Stevie Nicks, please come on our show. XOXO. Love Bonnie and Sam.

Yeah, Stevie Nix, come on Horror Nerds right now. Get on the show. Like, what are you doing? You don't need to tour anymore. Just come on the show. Come on.

Or just in between, you know, like on a tour bus somewhere.

Yes. Yeah.

She's got time. She'd be cool.

Yeah, talk about talk about witches and you know, American horror story.

The horror story of dating in Los Angeles. Like, she's like, Yeah, no.

Perfect. It's a perfect match.

We can relate.

But she is the queen. She is like Queen Elizabeth. She doesn't have to get married. She has subjects, loyal, loyal subjects that love her.

That's this is true.

And she's happy and she's killing it. And yes, Stevie. Yes, Stevie.

We do love her.

That's it.

That's our show. That's it. That's our show.

Good night, everybody. Wait, no, just kidding. I know. Well, Ryan, I'm not gonna say it wrong again. So I'm gonna I'm gonna make Bonnie say it this time.

Please, you can say it.

It's fine. It's fine. My own producers sometimes say it's okay. It really is. It's it's okay. It's all it all is the same.

Yeah.

It's the same, it's the same connotation.

Yeah. Well, tell us, tell us everything.

Tell us everything.

Everything.

Okay, uh, let's see. I so bringing up the 90s, fantastic place to start. I'm a huge horror anthology fan. I love horror anthologies, my favorite genre of horror because we have so many of them. Um, I grew up loving Tales from the Crypt. I grew up loving uh Are You Afraid of the Dark? Yes. I grew up loving Tales from the Dark side and Goosebumps and like all of the stuff that you know permeated out of the late 80s and then into the mid-90s. And I feel like I, you know, I was a kid at that point, right? I was growing up and I remember Snick, right? You know, you have Saturday night and it's 9:30, and you hear the worn, you see the little boat going, and then you see the little like the little the and then like the little like you know, doll laughing, and then the door opens and it's already afraid of the dark. And I remember being so just scared about the intro. And I was like, oh god, what is this episode going to be about? But I just I love that feeling of you know always having new stories because I feel like horror is just one of those genres that is so malleable to so many things, whether it be political, whether it be, you know, just straight fun, whether it be gory, whether it be you know noir even. I mean, there's just so many subgenres of what horror can be and what like kind of horror can fuse into. And so for me, it's like I feel like in the last 10-15 years, horror anthology has just kind of been decimated. There's just not a lot of shows anymore, there's not a lot of movies anymore. And for me growing up, you know, thinking about the Crypt Keeper and thinking about Goosebumps and seeing those covers and thinking about Are You Afraid of the Dark and all of these different subgenres and these these shows that were pushing anthology, I was like, I really want to do something that is my own and I really want to like convey this love that I have of this genre. And so back when, I don't know if you guys remember, back right before the pandemic, everyone was talking about Quibi. Remember Quibi? Oh my god, Quibi's gonna be a thing. Just you wait, this is gonna be amazing. Um, and you know, at that time, I'm like, oh cool, they're they're making very short little things that, you know, it's funny because they probably were about three years too early because now we have verticals, and I feel like verticals are just the extension of what Quibi was. Yeah. But they were like, oh, we're gonna do these little one to two minute little snippets, and then we're gonna have a cliffhanger after every one, and that's gonna be the new thing. So I was like, well, cool, why don't I I wanna make my own horanthology and I want to pitch to Quibi? And so we actually made like a uh a couple of these episodes that were like shorts. We got some funding for them, and we're like, we're gonna do this and and put them out there. And right, of course, right before this happens, the pandemic happens, and it just like destroys everything, and everyone's like, oh my god, we can't do anything now. This sucks. Um, and so for me, I was like, okay, I kind of recalibrated myself and was like, I don't know what's gonna happen after this. The world's imploded, and I again I'm gonna date myself here. Another reference, Clubhouse. Do you guys remember Clubhouse? It was a hot thing for like five seconds. Oh my gosh, during the pandemic, everyone was on Clubhouse. You could talk to people just like immediately. Oh my gosh, what a thing.

Invite only on Clubhouse. That was a big deal.

Invite only, yes. And it was super cool, and like, yeah, so I was on there and I got a chance to meet like Tori Spelling and I met my friend Serenato Cheney on there, and I met a bunch of other people, and so we were like, oh, cool. I was like, hey, I really want to do like table reads on Clubhouse, and I want to like have sounded music, and we'll do this live, it'll be really fun. And so we ended up doing a recreation of Scream with Tori Spelling playing Sidney Prescott because she had auditioned to be that brule before Nev Campbell got it, and then Wes Craven was like, Yeah, I'm not gonna cast you in this, but I'm gonna cast you as her double in stab, you know, in the alternate universe. So it was like a really fun thing. So we got Josh Rubin and um Noah Seegan and and um Sarah Nil Cheney and a bunch of people, Matt Cantzano, who I know you know was in it too. And Mattano, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so we did this really fun table reading, it went really great, and then we started doing a bunch of them. We did uh Friday the 13th, I had um Kelly Morone playing Mrs. Vorhees, and I had a bunch of people doing this, so it was super fun, and I was like, man, I really love audio. I love working in this medium, this is so fun, and getting a chance to do these things, and so that got me thinking about my show, and I was like, well, this never worked out the way I intended it to, but maybe we could do it as a podcast now because now this, you know, podcasting has grown exponentially over the last whatever 10 years. And I was like, Yeah, we can tell like stories and and and and do this fiction podcasting. And I didn't realize how big fiction podcasting has gotten involved. I mean, there's podcasts with a hundred thousand followers that are fiction podcasts at this point that are huge. And so I was like, cool, this is really fun. I really want to do this. And so that's what I've been doing for about the past two and a half years is creating these things. And you know, I'm a shill. I will always like show my own show and wear my own merchandise and promote my own stuff. But I just I love the EC comics kind of like reference points that like of those that artwork for Tales from the Crypt and the haunt of fear and like you know, the crypto fear and all that stuff. And so that's really what I wanted to like kind of borrow my homage to is like I really want this artwork to kind of marry those those comic books that were really big in like the 40s and the 50s and kind of do a marriage with that. So yeah.

You had me at comic books, yeah.

And you had me at the artwork. Like I remember, I think Matt was like, Oh yeah, my friend Ryan does it, it's called your horror show. And I'm like, Oh, well, what is it? He's like, Here's his Instagram. I just looked at the graphics and I thought, Tales from the Crift, nostalgic, happiness, joy. My inner child is like, Woohoo! This is great. Because yeah, I mean, I definitely grew up on all the same things. I mean, Nick at night or uh snick, snick, gosh, yeah, yeah, snick, yeah, yeah, yeah. Clarissa at eight, Carissa explains it all. And then Pete and Pete Ren and Stimpy was in there. Pete and Pete.

Pete and Pete.

Pete and Pete, Alex Mack.

Yep.

Oh, God, I was obsessed with Alex Mack. Oh my gosh. But the big grand finale was definitely Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Yeah, and then and always at 9:30, right before 10 o'clock, they do Are You Afraid of the Dark? And yeah, it was such a cool time. And I yeah, I remember just growing up as a kid and like remember the scholastic pages you used to get in school, and it was like, choose your book. And it was like all of the Goosebumps books were on there, and I was just like, Oh, and then scary stories to tell in the dark. That artwork too was just like iconic.

Oh, totally.

Just giving you like nightmares every time like you read it in the library or you checked it out. And so all of that stuff for me was like, you know, very big on my inspiration of like wanting to do this again. Cause again, it's just, I just feel like we're, you know, outside of like, you know, I remember Cabinet of Curiosities came out with Guardian Totoro, did that on Netflix, which was fun. It was like kind of almost like a little mini season. I think there's like eight episodes or something, but there just isn't a ton of revival of the horror anthology. And I just feel like it's a lost art now. And I feel like it was real big for a second, maybe in like the mid-2000s, like late 2000s, everybody was kind of popping up with one, and then everyone just stopped and they're just like, nah, we're we're done with anthology, it's it's over with. And I'm like, I but I love it. I want more. I like these little short contained stories of 15 to 20 minutes. They're fun. So yeah.

Yeah. And that's what you're doing is you're going, here's this thing that I love that so many other people loved.

Yeah.

Where is the thing? I'm going to create the thing. And I think that's really cool. And that's something that I love about creatives is we see the need for something and we look at nobody else doing it and we go, Well, why not me? Why can't I do it? Let me be the one to do it. Like, Sam, you do that with your live show. Definitely. You know, like it's just so cool to see people be good at something and have a passion for something and they bring it to life instead of waiting for somebody else to do it.

That's a great point, Bonnie, about just like how creatives think and how we are just inherently, and I feel like that's how entrepreneurs think too. You know, it's just a different creative mechanism for us. It's like, I love something, and if I love it, other people theoretically love it too, and I should bring that into the world and like do it. So it's it's such a fun way to think of it.

Yeah. I never really thought about it until you just pointed it out. Like with the live show, we do a different theme every month. So it's almost kind of like an anthology because it's a new cast just performing for 90 minutes at a time, and it's all like one subject. Wow, I never even really thought about that. It's kind of a cool way to think about it. I will say that one of my like biggest nerd moments of like excitement and joy was getting to meet John Kassier and talking to him, and he's the nicest guy on the planet.

Legend, absolute legend, legendary, right?

And still giving with his time and like just we'll actually talk to you. And it was really cool talking to him. He's like, Oh, you're a comic. I did stand up before I, you know, got really primarily into voiceover. I did stand up in New York, and so we completely hit it off over that. And I told him about the show, and he was nice enough to record an intro, like the Crypt Keeper bringing me, fucking me, to the stage.

Oh, it's so cool. I love him. I love him so much.

Yeah, and I use it all the time, and it kind of gives me the goosebumps every time. And what what a cool moment. I never would have thought in a million years. I mean, Tales from the Crypt specifically was something that really bonded my dad and I. That was our thing. It was always like, oh, which actor's gonna pop up on this episode and what's it gonna be about? It was like, it was like Christmas, every episode. What's in the box, you know?

You're like a point too about Crib. I don't know if we'll ever get an anthology like that again, where it was like very much in the zeitgeist of everybody was tuning in. It was before it was obviously before Sopranos and kind of HBO hit, I feel like mainstream, mainstream, but it still had like you had sex, you had violence, and you had incredible guest stars. I mean, like you're talking about like even now you watch it, you're like, I have the DVD set, and I I'll still, you know, I'll go through every year and just watch the whole thing again. And I'm always just like, man, they had so many people. It's just crazy how many people were in it, and they were like iconically amazing roles too. Like Tim Curry's role as like four different people in the salesman episode. You had Brad Pitt in an episode, you had um episode with Demi Moore, uh, with uh Jeffrey, whatever his name is.

I'm blanking on his name now, but I mean just if you're into horror, healing, and handmade treasures, you're gonna love the mountain crone.

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I'm catching up to him in Ringo's bow. I'm getting there, girl.

Don't talk about my friend like that.

Okay. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of, I mean, I still get the question. What is Horner? You're a horror comic? What does that mean? And I'm like, that is a good question. Uh, I think this is what it means. This is what I do anyway. So yeah, I'm I'm I'm a real life crypt keeper. I'm just gonna start seeing that and just let them figure it out. And if they get it, I'll be like, you're your family, your fam. If they don't get it, all right. I'll explain it to you and then you can come hang out with us. Yeah.

Yeah, you're like the crypt keeper at these shows.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

I'm going with that.

That honestly is an incredibly cool way to introduce yourself, but then you have to crack like a funny pun after that, too. You have to say something, you know, like, I've got all these comics here, and they're just dying to meet you. You know, like I'm like, do I attempt to do the laugh?

I don't know. I've never I've literally never tried it before. This is gonna be so bad, and you're probably gonna have to edit out. But it was like it's not bad.

That's pretty good. That's pretty good.

It should be higher. I'm not editing that out. Okay, keep it, keep it, keep it.

That's gonna be my text message alert for when you send me a text message. Like, that's gonna play on my phone and it's gonna annoy me because it'll go off while I'm recording. Oh, and I'll be like, oh, it's Sam, and it'll make me laugh. It'll be perfect.

You realize the next time I see you in person, I'm gonna be texting you the whole time, just so I can hear that come up on your phone.

Okay, I could do it. I work in audio, I could do it. I could do it. Y'all, okay, it's amazing.

Y'all, well, then you my ringtone for you is gonna be Megan. Have you heard her, Megan? No, I haven't heard Megan.

No, I need to hear this.

Bonnie, I just need you to say hold on to your vaginas for me. Real quick.

I will say that for you anytime. Okay, it's so stupid because it's like my lead-in for her is when I do it, but she's okay. It's like this weird I have to that's my lead-in when I have to do the Megan voice. I'm in the booth and I'm like, hold on to your vaginas. I just my voice cracked right there. It's fine. It's fine.

Wow.

I'm dehydrated, it's fine.

But Jason Blum, call this, call this person, call her now.

Hold on to your vaginas.

Like it just, I love her so much. I don't know, Ryan, if we've told you about this, but like I have this unnatural love for Annabelle and she has this unnatural love for Megan. So we've just kind of put them together and We're gonna do fun things with those girls. Yeah.

As you should. That's like the perfect little like that's a movie spin-off. I didn't know I needed. Like, there you go. Like an animatronic or Android doll versus a possessed evil doll.

Is it gonna be Thelma and Louis?

It probably has to, right? That's scary right there. No, I love that's actually hilarious. That that's the crossover I didn't know I needed. And maybe if Blumhouse had made that one Megan 2, it would have done better. That's really just the reality right there.

Oh, bless their hearts. Yeah, Megan 2. I was so excited, and I don't know what happened. You know, I don't think it was the same writers as the first one.

Nope, it was different. Yep.

Yeah, we noticed. We know, we noticed. And then there's some films, Five Nights of Freddy's 2, that maybe needed a writer, like a screenwriter.

What? They didn't have a writer?

What? Oh, I I think it was the guy who did the games, and so that's cool and all, but like film is a little bit of a different animal. So I mean, I still love the characters, but my goodness, I was hoping for a little bit more. I'm not gonna lie. But I saw it anyway because it's it's Freddie, you gotta go with it. But have you guys seen it? Have you seen the new Five Nights?

Yeah. No, I didn't even see the original, to be honest with you.

I didn't see the film I have friends in the damn games, haven't seen it.

I I was a bad horror fan and didn't see the original. I've neglected, I'm trying to think of what I saw on the I saw Cinners, which was incredible. I mean, masterclass, incredible stuff. That was just it was like, let's make from Dust till Dawn actually emotionally resonant. And like that, they're like, oh, okay, cool.

Let's do Dust Till Dawn, but let's make it like perfect and have a meaning behind it and history and and let's say things with it. I mean, I love Dust till Dawn, don't get me wrong. But hello, hello. I think that is one of the most iconic moments in horror. I mean, I think all of us, no matter how you identify, we're like some heck, I want that. Either I want to be her.

Yeah, no, I mean, there's there's a couple moments I feel like as boys growing up that you're like going into like, oh, I like women. And like you're like, yeah, like that's like that moment, like catwoman, Uma Thurman as poison ivy. Like, there's just a couple of moments where you're just like okay.

That's also the awakening for some people. Completely.

I mean, I have a poster. Yeah, I have a poster. I woke up to Michelle Pfeiffer every morning. Granted, I like want to be her. You know what I mean? That's when I see like, you know, any of these stunning women, I'm like, oh my god, I'm so enamored, but I'm like want to be more like them. So I still, even though, you know, I I like men, I guess. No, I'm kidding. I do like no matter how you identify, you can appreciate a beautiful, stunning human being. However, you know, stunning is stunning, and that can be physical, that can be emotional, that can be energy. I mean, there are people that you meet and there's just something so that they're like walking enigma, or like she was very kind of mysterious as that vampire. We kind of knew uh oh, Quentin's not gonna make it out very good. Oh Quentin Tarantino, leave Matthew Lillard alone. We love him. Leave him alone.

Yes, yeah. I listen, Quentin, you quite movies, just be quiet, though. I mean, you can just you just don't have to say anything. Like you just direct your movies, just direct your movies. It's fine, it's fine. Lillard, yeah, Lillard.

Oh, I don't like Matthew Lillard. I'm like, okay, well, you what are you doing? What are you doing? But whatever. Quentin Tarantino is not invited to our show. No, yeah, Tarantino. Tarrantino. He's not invited to our show.

Remember when it was like, leave Brittany alone? We just did a show at the mortuary. So we run Hornered at uh this place called Missing at the Mortuary in Pasadena. It's amazing, it's iconic. It's the actual mortuary from HBO's The Mortician, that documentary, all the messed up stuff that happened. It's that actual mortuary where we run the show. Um shout out Allison and Noelle, they're amazing. And um, I had Dana Gould on the show last week, and we were just sitting there talking, and somehow Jack Frost gets brought up and he's like, wait, wait, wait, which one? And I'm like, he's like the Michael Keaton one. I'm like, no, the other one. He's like, oh, because I worked on the Michael Keaton one. I'm like, what? I had no idea. Yeah. Like, of course you did. That's so fucking cool. And then he told me he's like, yeah, because I just I'm a huge Michael Keaton fan. I love Michael Keaton, obviously. And he's like, You remember of like when Batman came out, people were really mad that they cast him. I actually didn't know that because in my mind, I'm like, he's the greatest ever. Why is this a problem? He's the best one. I really didn't.

I missed well, I it's funny because like, you know, we we had like in our generation, we had everyone get mad about Heath Ledger getting cast as the Joker. And like that was a big, oh my god, why are you casting it? Ah, why are you doing iconic performance, you know, like one of the great kind of like seminal joker performances we had, and then and like Jack Nicholson was like slam dunk casting. Everyone knew that that kind of was like, oh, that's gonna work. But with with with Michael Keaton, like you said, everyone was kind of like, huh? Like, why Michael Keaton? And he was fantastic. I mean, like, he's he's it's hard. It's I go between him and Bale a lot. I like Bale's Bruce Wayne maybe a little bit more because he's a little bit more playboy-y, you know, but like I like Keaton's portrayal of Batman, I think, more just because he's more grim and more kind of like stoic.

Um, I did have one of the funniest things ever happen to me the other day. I was doing a show in Clovis, so like Central California, like three hours north of LA. And it was really fun. It was like ladies' night, and uh, it was really great. It's just such such a good time. And then halfway through my set, I'm doing like, I don't know, 40 minutes or something. Halfway through, this guy just like happens to stumble in and had no idea what was going on, like came from the other room, and he literally looked like the freaking penguin. Like he had a top hat and he was short and he had this little outfit on, and then he comes up and just starts like kind of heckling me. And I'm like, I'm sorry, am I getting heckled by Oswald Copperbott? Like, I'm sorry, did your parents abandon you? And I start trying to talk to him, and he's like, What are you talking about? I don't look like a penguin. And then I said, Sir, what's your name? He's all veto. I'm like, your name is Vito. You put a D in front of the motherfucking penguin. Oh, he might as well have. He he might as well have. And then so I'm having this conversation. I'm gonna have a great time with this guy. And then he threatened to kill Catland's bird. It was so weird. Um, but the funniest thing was so then guy's wife like walks and sees that this guy is like bothering me and literally just walks and looks at him and does shakes her head and leaves. I'm like, oh my god.

Oh my god. Okay. So good. You want to know what's really funny about that when we were staying on the Queen Mary, and then like the next morning when the ghosts were all upset or whatever, the Batman episode that was on in the hotel. Because I put on Me TV and it was the 1960s Batman series. The episode that was on was Penguin Gets a Wife.

Yeah, that's weird.

And then Wonder Woman came on, and it was like a military episode right after that with Linda Carter, who, God bless, um, love her. And then there was like weird noises in the hotel room. I think it pissed off the ghosts. But, anyways, the fact that like Batman was on and it was Penguin Gets a Wife, and then you saw that in person when he heckled you. Weird.

And you know what? I was just gonna say, I think my grandfather actually did an episode of Batman. I think he was on an episode of Batman, but I know for sure that he was on the Andy Griffith show on the episode called The Farmer Takes a Wife.

Well, certainly with the farmer looking for a wife, a lot of a lot of wives and yes, yeah, yeah, taking and yes. Women didn't have rights, so no, this was this was a common theme, I guess, in the 50s and the 60s.

And then we brought in Michelle Pfeiffer, and that fixed everything.

Everything.

Everything.

Yes, correct. Yeah, Michelle Pfeiffer single-handedly just fixed the the women's movement.

Yeah, and I have to say she's in one of my other favorites. Kind of a horror comedy, but it's definitely horror. The Witches of Eastwig is one of my all-time favorites.

Well, she's also in What Lies Beneath.

What lies beneath, which I will get that VTS VHS right now. I will get that VHS right now.

Yeah, I mean, that's I mean, come on, we're talking about iconic great performances in a wonderful film, too.

So good. And like, spoiler alert, sorry, but to see Harrison Ford wind up being the bad guy is kind of rad. Like that's you don't see that a lot. Yeah. Um, spoiler alert.

But no, you don't that's where my bad boy issues began. It wasn't Han Solo. It was uh that's where it started for me. Whoopsie. That's fair. Yeah. Oh god. Be like, yeah, put me in the bathtub, big guy. Whatever you need to do. All right, all right. Check one, two, Freddy's reading for you. Okay, so full disclosure, we weren't able to get Robert England in the studio. Let me guess. His schedule was a nightmare. Yes, we. So instead, we've got Bob Scotland doing his very best, Freddie? Sure. Well, yes, and it. Uh hey, Bob, nice to meet you. Um, go ahead and give us your first take whenever you're ready.

Why? Sorry. Let me try that again. Why sleep when you can smell amazing?

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Um Hey Sam, are we seeing anybody else today? It it says Johnny Knife Hands is reading next. I'm sorry. Was Edward Hair Shears not available? No, I have a restraining order against that guy. Um, but anyways, go see Alex at Creepyecon and shop online at themagicoilbox.com.

But I I want to say this real quick too, and I know we were uh talking about hair support. I'm gonna change the subject here, and I just want to say for both of you, because you both were on the show, and you both were really fantastic on the show. Samantha, your episode Corporate Creature. I love that episode. That was the first one for season three that I wrote, and I just want to say you were such a great character in that, and I got inspiration from I don't remember if you guys remember that X-Files episode. Yeah, the episode where the worker believes he's seen like weird uh insect alien things, and he's like, Oh my god, I'm hallucinating, and like are they real or are they not? So I got inspiration from that. And then Bonnie, you were so great in the Halloween special, and that was really the newest one. And I I really wanted to do. I don't know if you guys, either of you have seen uh the really old anthology movies called The Dead of a Night, and it's it's an old British horror anthology, but it's like one of the first ones ever created, and it was about a guy who goes to a house and he's like delivering something and meeting with people, and uh he comes in and he's like kind of has a weird sense of deja vu, and he's like, I think I've been here before, and they all start telling stories about weird occurrences that they've had. And the last one was is the most iconic story, and it's about like a dummy, a ventriloquist dummy that is like coming to life. And so at the end of it, he goes home and he meets with his wife, and he's like, Yeah, I just had this really strange encounter with these people that I think I've seen before, and it was so weird, and she's like, Oh, well, I'm sure everything it would be fine. And then he wakes up and the next day restarts again and he goes to the house again, and it's like a loop that he's like living in a weird loop. But yeah, but I don't know if any of your listeners have seen Dead of Night. I think you can watch it for free. It's fantastic, it's a really great old and uh the British horror anthology is like in the 30s. I think it was made the list, and then yeah, that X-Files episode. I think it's like season four or five for that X-Files episode. It's so good. It's so so good.

Ah God, I love the X-Files.

Yes, for the record, I still want to be Jillian Anderson when I grow up. So yes, same.

Yes, yes. Who does it?

Who does it 100% the the will they won't they?

See, that was the thing. The show jumped the shark when they did. It was the best one they will they won't they?

Oh, just kiss already. Come on. Yeah, god, me in the middle of the day. Now I'm thinking about remember when they're almost about to kiss, and then like she gets stung by a bee. I'm like, motherfucking bee! Yeah, I really love bees, but now I wish you were extinct. Damn you, bees. I love bees, but what not that bee? Oh, I'm so mad at that. Yeah, that's fair.

Iconic, amazing. I mean, like I rewatched the X-Files again recently, and I just I I've forgotten kind of perfect the first like five seasons were of that show. It was just so perfect. It kind of got within too much mythology as we go on, but for those first like four or five seasons, those monster of the week episodes were just like absolute perfection. I mean, like, there's so many good ones. It's kind of unreal how many bangers they had in such a short time span. It was really, really special.

And that one episode they only aired the one time with the the inbred family.

Yes, you can actually you can actually watch it, you can watch it on Hulu now. It's actually on Hulu, but it's that episode's great.

It's so good, but yeah called home, I think. Yeah. Let your podcast rise from undead obscurity. Beamly hosts your show, builds your site, handles paywalls and memberships with zero platform fees. Your resurrection begins at beamly.com.

Really quickly, I want to say so. I just pulled up the cover for Corporate Creature of your horror show, and it's just so freaking cool. You guys, there's like a lizard creature eating a leg, and then there's me. You made me look real hot in this cartoon. I'm like, oh it kind of has a skully vibe. Actually, you you are sculpting. Oh my god, thanks. I need like well, she has lighter hair now, so it's okay. Yeah. Um, but I do have to say, like, when I when I wasn't familiar with the show, and when Matt was like, oh, just check it out, and you send it, my first thought was this is Tales from the Crib. And that's that's such a huge, massive compliment. Like your version of it, like an homage to like, hey, he's bringing back something that we all love so much. And I've literally never recorded with a blanket over my head for a couple hours before, and had so much fun. And your direction was so spot on. Like it was so easy to work with because you know the genre, you know the tone, you know the vibe, and you know how to bring it. It was truly like I had so much fun doing it.

I was gonna say, too, you're natural. You both are fantastic actors, like, really you are. But I think comedy and horror are just like just sympathico, right? Like it's one of those things that you know, I consider Josh Rubin a good friend, a little bit of a mentor to me, and he's somebody that I look to as like he's a comedian. He started off in funnier die, and then he started directing and acting, and he's so great with it. But you look at all these great horror comedies of just like the world, right? And like they work well because that's just two sides of the same coin. That's why horror nerd, I think, is like such a brilliant kind of idea and kind of antithesis because horror and being scared is a reaction that just like laughing is a reaction, but it's like the same thing. And you're you're you're laughing and you're you're screaming at the same stuff, and we want to have those feelings. And I think like horror in general is just it's the best genre. I mean, it really is. Like, I can't think of another genre where it's so malleable to anything that you want to do with it, and really and and I just love that even though our entertainment industry feels like it's constantly in terminal and it's like never gonna get better or whatever. But horror seems to always do well. That's like a testament to the genre, and the testament to the fact that all of us just love this subject matter so much and want it to be better. And like it makes me like a really, really like heartfelt, like thank you for saying that about Telescope Crypt. Because like I said, it's Telescope Crypt is iconic, and like that's it, that's some of the great stories of just like you know, all of those episodes that they had, and like to have people even like remotely be like, Oh yeah, this is similar and you're really gonna like it. And it's like I love seeing the bad people get their just desserts, right? Like, that's for the most part what the show is about. It's like it's about bad people getting the bad things happening to them. I don't want to we have too much punching down now as a society of just taking shots at things that don't need to be shot at, but bad people getting their their stuff. I feel like that could still, but that's in vogue. That's always in vogue. It's never left. So it's like that's that's the thing. I always love that aspect about it. So I'm here for it.

God can't say it better than that. Well, I mean, you know, who doesn't love a good I don't want to say revenge, but a good justice story, right? Or a justice league for you nerds out there like me. Hello. Well, I know we need to wrap up here, but where can we find your show and listen to it and support you and follow along?

Yes, please. Uh, if you guys want to listen to the show, we just ended our third season. We've got about 50 stories for you to listen to now. You can listen to it on Apple, Spotify, podcast out at Overcast. Anywhere that you listen to podcasts, if you want to find Samantha's episode, it is called A Corporate Creature, that is uh in season three, the very first episode. And if you want to find Bonnie's episode, that is the Halloween special volume three, which is also in our third season. Both are incredible. These two are amazing, and yes, please continue to support horror nerd and uh everything that they do because they are great, great people.

That's gonna be the outro that we use forever, calling us amazing, and then come listen to our shit. Like I can't do it better than that. Support creatives making cool horror stories and horror comedy and horror sketch comedy podcasts, damn it.

Yes, support all that.

Support all of it. We're all in this together. We're creating the stuff that matters to us and adding it into the world, and I think that's wonderful.

So and on three, can we get a day? Ready?

Batman!

Why is everyone doing it?

Because I thought you were cueing us in. I was confused. Okay, ready? One, two, three. Okay, our counting was off, but it's fine. It's good.

It'll be good horror, not math or counting.

Ow.

Damn. All right.

Well, until it's right.

Oh my god.

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