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Talking Shttt With Steve Merlo
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Talking Shttt welcomes horror film director Steve Merlo!
We’ll be talking all things horror, filmmaking, and the chilling movie Unseen. Don’t miss this live interview and join the chat with your questions!
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Transcript
Hosts discuss health issues
00:00:31
Speaker
and sha Welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen. my name is Brian. With me always, I'm Mark. What's happening, Mark? How are you? doing good.
00:00:43
Speaker
How you been? Good? A little sore, but that's about it. I'll trade you. I'm in a lot of pain here, man. My fucking hip is killing me. Well, the shot in my hip is wearing off, so.
00:00:57
Speaker
How long ago did you get that thing? Almost six months. Oh, wow. and It was supposed to last it that long. This time. before There's times where it doesn't last that long at all.
00:01:10
Speaker
Gotcha.
Planning a military-themed show
00:01:11
Speaker
ah So we had a great show last last week. Yes. before Before we do anything else, because I'm going use this as a clip, um you know next week we're going to have the military show. and we have we have four participants so far.
00:01:32
Speaker
or service members veterans um but we're looking for somebody in the coast guard it's the only one that we don't have a a national guard we don't have something don't think a coast guard exists man i think that they disband the coast guard and unless is that a thing like can you disband i i will i mean i don't think so but um we'll see maybe they join space force which We've never had somebody from Space Force, neither.
00:02:03
Speaker
See, i don't think either one of those two exist. I
Introducing guest Steve Merlot
00:02:06
Speaker
think i think it's i think it's just one of those situations that- you but No, we've had somebody on from the Coast Guard. No, two people. Oh, yeah, yeah. We had the entire Coast Guard on that one time.
00:02:14
Speaker
Yeah. I remember. Any which way. ah Yeah. So this week, we have a- another person that's coming back to the show. This is their second time. So I'm going to maybe they like being on the show the first time or, and couldn't get enough of us or I don't i don't know.
00:02:36
Speaker
Maybe we're just easy to talk with, you listen, we have a ah small channel and we, we like to make sure that people get seen and from being unseen.
00:02:50
Speaker
mean you see what I did there? Hey, so who did you hi did you who did you round up for us this week, Mark? ah Well, he's a director. I think producer.
00:03:01
Speaker
Probably screenwriter. I don't think he acted in the movie. I don't remember seeing him in the movie.
00:03:09
Speaker
But do you remember his name? Steve Merlot. Okay. We're going bring him on in just a second. But first, we're
Trailer and streaming discussion
00:03:17
Speaker
going to play the trailer to on scene. And then we're gonna bring him on and we're going to talk about it.
00:03:22
Speaker
All right, cool.
00:03:39
Speaker
I hope this feeling never ends. It won't. We're gonna be together forever. Promise? I promise.
00:03:53
Speaker
It's nothing. It's my own issues I have to deal with. Amy.
00:04:10
Speaker
Tommy, this is some kind of bad dream. I'll just start them when I'm at your place tonight, and I should be over right after your date. I'm not
Origin of 'Unseen'
00:04:21
Speaker
getting my hopes up, okay? I'm not ready for tonight.
00:04:23
Speaker
God, Crystal, you are ready. It's been over a year, and Jessica says he's a great guy. just... You don't know what it was like with Tyler. I just don't know if I'm ever going to trust another guy again.
00:04:59
Speaker
You said... You said we'll be together forever.
00:05:07
Speaker
What was that? Amy. Amy.
00:05:13
Speaker
Amy.
00:05:21
Speaker
And there we are. Steve, how are you, sir? Oh, great. how are you guys doing? Fantastic. Let's go. So that's the that's the teaser trailer, right, for the film Unseen?
00:05:33
Speaker
It's as much of a trailer you're going to get for Unseen. ah Yeah, everything else gives it away. Well,
Challenges of filmmaking
00:05:40
Speaker
you're here tonight because we get to talk a little bit about the movie, correct?
00:05:44
Speaker
Exactly, yes. We're not going to put any spoilers out there. So, guys, if you're tuning in for spoilers, spoiler alert, there's no spoilers. We won't do it to you. We want you to watch the movie.
00:05:56
Speaker
um That movie is right now. It's playing live on the on the streaming platform Tubi. Is that right? Yeah, Tubi and Fawesome, Fandango, quite a few other ones too. But yeah, those are kind of the main ones.
00:06:11
Speaker
I think Prime Video also. Oh, is it really? i didn't know I didn't know it was on Prime Video. i kind what I'm not 100% sure, but I think I thought I seen something about that. I could be might be.
00:06:23
Speaker
It might be. um So while we got you here, um let's talk about it. Let's talk a little bit about why we came up with the title Unseen.
00:06:36
Speaker
Let's talk about why we came up with the idea of how we got here. How did we get here, Steve? uh this movie started about 10 years ago actually uh i had a a weird dream a lot of my ideas come from weird dreams believe it or not and i don't know the the weird dream i had just kind of got me thinking about um about the premise for this film. like ah And it's essentially it's about having the worst day of your life and reacting in ah in a terrible way to the the bad stuff that's happening around you. And it's to the point where you do something so bad that
00:07:16
Speaker
that you instantly can't believe you did it. So I wanted to kind of play on that idea a little bit of just doing something you can't even imagine yourself doing. And that's really what plays out in this film. A lot of it is through the POV through the eyes of the antagonist, the killer in this movie.
00:07:35
Speaker
And it's really to put the audience right there into his mind. Just immerse yourself into this guy's mind because he can be just like anybody. He just had the wrong stuff happen to him.
00:07:47
Speaker
And that's that's where the idea came from. It came from a weird dream. and I made a short film back in 2016 based on that and you know really had a lot of ideas though for it. Never felt like I got enough done with the short film.
00:08:03
Speaker
So I wrote a feature length draft of it, put it away for a little bit because stuff was happening with ah with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre fan film that I had made. Just a lot of stuff was coming together for that. So I put my focus in on that.
00:08:19
Speaker
And then after we made the Texas Chainsaw Massacre fan film, I came back to this and said, we're doing it, damn it. And
Casting and local filming
00:08:26
Speaker
here we are today. It's now available on streaming services.
00:08:30
Speaker
That is fantastic. you You had to raise a bunch of money to get this thing done. Roughly, do you know about what you came up with to to shoot the film? I think we raised roughly, I think in US dollars, it was roughly around $15,000 to $20,000 that we raised. Yeah. Which is a little modest. Some of our own funds went into this movie. Of course. And hopefully we can recoup some of those funds. But if that doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. Yeah. uh just glad the movie got made i think overall we spent around 30 to 35k on the on the film so yeah it's a little bit of money but significant right significant yeah it's you know we raised at least half of it at least half it was raised on indiegogo so you know
00:09:21
Speaker
the whole thing was shot in canada you didn't find uh find places over here in the states to be able to shoot anything right no ah no it's all in canada all in my hometown of kelowna everything was shot here i didn't didn't even leave the town for not yeah not even for pickup shots do you get because it's your hometown do you have people that you can reach out to and be like hey we're looking for location We don't have a huge budget to shoot. This is what we'd like to do.
00:09:49
Speaker
um you do you guys have, I'm hoping that you have people that back you like that in your in your hometown. There are some, you know, not as much as I would like. It's it's a smaller town.
00:09:59
Speaker
So it's it's not as easy here. There's not as many great actors around here. We have a few, though. I did cast a few people from Kelowna. And yeah.
00:10:10
Speaker
you know had worked with a couple of crew members that live here too that did well for us. But but man, we we reached out all over. I didn't want to limit myself. So we had actors coming from Vancouver, a few different ones from the US. So
Mark's opinion on 'Unseen'
00:10:27
Speaker
yeah, we we had we had a diverse cast and crew, that's for sure. That's good.
00:10:32
Speaker
that's That's what you want. So that's good. Now, Mark has seen the film. i've seen Mark has an opinion of it. Yeah, Mark has an opinion of it. And he said, yeah he's not into thrillers.
00:10:44
Speaker
Well, then he must have hated it. Here's the whole thing. i I first watched it. I was like, okay, I'm not one to, you know, viewpoint of the killer.
00:10:56
Speaker
You know, you've only seen a few of movies like that. And I was like, okay, Brian, I i said, Brian, this reminds me of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, Psycho.
00:11:07
Speaker
I said, because it was, you know, first it was, you know, all that. And then I said, well, and then I told Brian, I was like, well, um, I have to watch it again because Steve said, I missed something.
00:11:19
Speaker
I'm like, okay. So I watched it and then I messaged you and I said, ah I did not see this and I did not see this. And I'm like, and you said, I'm one of the few that actually probably got it right on who the killer is.
00:11:35
Speaker
At least half right. If you don't know the name, you still don't know it. Right. Okay. um ah I can't remember his name because it does say that in there. Her name? His name.
00:11:46
Speaker
Their name? Its name. Okay. I'll say it. Sure, you could say it. have been theories there have been theories that the that the killer is a female, just so you know. i've Yeah.
00:12:01
Speaker
ah I don't see how, but you know I get it. though that's how Well, mark when Mark said he had to watch it twice, it was because he couldn't catch all the gold.
00:12:13
Speaker
and And we talked about this beforehand. You leave it very ambiguous for the audience, right? So... it's It's ambiguous, but not just ambiguous. Some stuff seems ambiguous, but it's more abstract is the word. i there' There's answers to questions you probably have that you think are ambiguous, but they're very, very hard to find.
00:12:36
Speaker
Gotcha. And mark Mark, that's why Mark goes into the second round. He's watching it for the second time, and he's looking at pictures inside of pictures, news clippings, and so on and so forth.
00:12:47
Speaker
i Magnets on the refrigerator. ah I would have done that too. I mean, to be honest, I watched it and the first time around. I'm like, okay.
00:12:59
Speaker
I said, I don't know. I don't know what I would think. you know I was thinking myself, i don't know what I think. And then I was like, wait a minute. I'll talk to Steve a little bit.
00:13:11
Speaker
And I told him that I had watched it. He said, did you pick up on everything? And I said, probably not. i to be honest.
00:13:23
Speaker
So I said, okay, I'm going to watch it again. Steve, don't take any offense to it. Mark's a little slow. hey It's only about 90 minutes long and it is worth watching. The second time around, if you put your phone down, it's more, you're more willing to watch. It's really good.
00:13:44
Speaker
I would, I would recommend this one over some of the other ones that I've seen. Oh, I appreciate that. I think it is better on second watch. I think, you know,
Film influences and comedy
00:13:53
Speaker
some people watch this the first time, not get a lot of the stuff that you will get on the second watch and and just kind of think of it. Oh, it's OK.
00:14:01
Speaker
You know, you know, some decent characters or something like that. The acting is OK and all that kind of stuff. But, you know, if you're looking at this movie for gory kills, you're not going to get it hey if you're. If you're looking for definite answers as to what happens at the end, you're not going to get it. you know if If you're one of those people that has to know everything, and you know that's not this film. you know It's definitely stuff you've got to read between the lines and and there is some ambiguity, especially at the ending. The ending is the most ambiguous thing, the most ambiguous element of the film for sure.
00:14:38
Speaker
so Steve has created another seven, What's in the Box? Yeah, it's kind of like that. I would say seven. Hey, you see what's in the box. Yeah, well, it's a different box in this case. But, yeah, you do see what's in this box. And we did a little perk on our Indiegogo campaign. And it made it so obvious what was in the box. and But, you know, that perk sold pretty fast. It was an expensive perk, but, man, it sold pretty quick. And i was like, oh.
00:15:13
Speaker
need that extra cash too. So that happened because, man, I really went behind into the red on in this film. but But yeah, I mean. What genre are you going to classify this this into? It's tough. It's not really a horror and it's not really a is it a slime?
00:15:33
Speaker
It's a horror.
00:15:38
Speaker
It's a horror psychological thriller. It's like a horror psychological thriller. Okay, okay. It's kind of all those mixed into one. As far as in influence, the biggest film influence was not at an Alfred Hitchcock, by the way, but I'm sure this film got some influence from Alfred Hitchcock, and that was the original Black Christmas from 1974.
00:16:02
Speaker
um Also Canadian film, by the way. Other side of the country, but you know... I like that one better than the newest Black. Well, I didn't go see the newest one because I watched it on to whatever program I had at the time.
00:16:19
Speaker
Yeah. I saw the trailer and that was enough for me. Yeah. yeah yeah But the original was awesome. Yes. act The actresses and that all in it, yes.
00:16:33
Speaker
And, know, I like the fact that, you know, you when you When you did the movie, you only see the eyes. Of the killer?
00:16:44
Speaker
ah Yes, of the killer. In one shot, too. It's just one shot. And that's it. They're very, they're through the blinds. going number When you first told us about it. It was definitely Steve in the blinds. He was like, this is how need to do it.
00:17:00
Speaker
It wasn't me, actually. Actually, when we did the short film version of this, though, it was me in the blinds. I actually played the killer in the whole short film, and I thought it was awful. I thought it was... the movie sucked because of how terrible my performance was. come well not Not only the the physical performance, but the the voice as well. and And so I said for this one, I don't want to be the killer at all. However, our our crew was so small.
00:17:27
Speaker
Our cast and crew was so small in this movie that there were some days that I had to be the hands of the killer in this movie. But I refused to be his eyes. It was not me. That was a it was actually a stuntman named Tommy tommy Steele.
00:17:41
Speaker
I'm not sure if that's his real name or not, but yeah, he was he's a stuntman. He did he did one he did ah a hardly a stunt, but he was strangling one of the girls and in the in the night scene for a quick shot, and he was the the silhouette on the wall in one scene.
00:17:58
Speaker
So yeah, he he had he had the physical presence to pull that kind of stuff off. Whereas I just, my physical acting, just even seeing my hands in the movie, ah I cringe, but you know, it's, but it's, it's, I'm, I'm in the movie a lot less than I was from the short.
00:18:14
Speaker
And so ill I'll take it. And I didn't voice the character. So i what he said, what it was, Adam, that did the voice, right? Yeah, Adam Ginsberg. Yeah, he was great. He was he was great. So much better than what I did. I'll tell you that much. The that he says it, the word, you know, Amy stays in your head for a little while. Yeah, it should.
00:18:39
Speaker
And I hope it gives off the impression of what happened, you know. Again, not spoiling anything, but, you know, again, this is based on you doing the worst possible thing you could could imagine doing, right? so ah And still a lot of people haven't even figured that out, you know? So it's it's a tad ambiguous, but I think that there's something pretty heavily implied with that. But, yeah, he did a great job, man. All the heavy breathing he did, too.
00:19:09
Speaker
amanda says Amanda says she's going to watch that one tonight. Oh, thank you so much. give it a Check it out. And if you can, rate it and review it on IMDb, Letterboxd, all that stuff. Because the more we have of that stuff, it definitely helps get more eyes on the movie.
00:19:27
Speaker
Yeah, I'll put something on IMDb. Yeah, I don't think you guys have yet. so No. Well, you haven't watched it, Brian, so there you go. Don't go without watching it. No, but i get I get to do all the questions about it before i before we do watch it. So you talked about there wasn't a big, huge budget for the film as far as going out and doing certain things. Had there a been more money for the film, would you have a lot of gore in it or would you have kept the... No.
00:19:56
Speaker
No, that was never a vision for this movie. It was never... In
Distribution and promotion
00:19:59
Speaker
fact, I would say... Because ah I don't know if if you guys have both seen Sawyer Massacre yet. That was my last film. I did watch that. So that was considerably more gore than this film.
00:20:11
Speaker
But even that film, we we I wanted a lot of kills to be off screen and not not be too, too gory, you know. But the gore budget for that film was a lot higher than it was for this film. Yeah.
00:20:24
Speaker
just because i felt felt like it needed at least a good amount just to to convey a lot of stuff but uh i would say in the gore that we do have in this film we executed better than we probably did in the sawyer massacre it's but there wasn't there's hardly any to work with my wife even did some of the the makeup ah he she did the neck wound on the one guy and and uh so i mean But that was about, that's almost all there is for gore. And then Tom Smith of Sick and Twisted effects did did the head.
00:20:56
Speaker
the The what's in the box, sorry. what The what's in the box thing. he Actually, he made the box, too. He actually made the that box. because I wanted a very specific box. I was very very particular on how I wanted that box, and I wasn't able to actually find a box like that.
00:21:13
Speaker
And you might be wondering, well, what the heck's that? But it's it's the sliding door on the top. I couldn't find anything like that anywhere, and I really wanted that.
00:21:24
Speaker
Don't know why I wanted that, but I really did want that. I guess I felt it was gonna give the right effect for the the jump scare, I guess you would say. This question is, is Steve in the Tubi horror group? I'm in quite a few Tubi horror groups. i I don't know if I'm in that that particular one, but i've ever since the movie landed on Tubi, I've like been like joining every Tubi movie group that there is, you know whether it's a horror group or or just Tubi movies, you know whatever. Just to try to try to promote the movie as best I can, but...
00:22:00
Speaker
I'm probably in the one you're talking about, but share the link in the chat if you want, and I'll make sure, make sure that I am in that one. And if I'm not, I'll join. When these films go to Tubi, is this something that you guys have to push and promote and and, and, and call people and be like, Hey, we got this film. And, or is this something that somebody views and says, Hey, this needs to go over to Tubi.
00:22:25
Speaker
no i mean well we got distribution from bayview entertainment and they they kind of they they pitched it to like tubi and all that that kind of stuff um i just i've never done this before i'll be honest i've never had a movie get distributed before and this is the first time i've ever had a movie on tubi uh so i was kind of all new to this and didn't know what to expect And so it it all kind of got taken care of, but I'm but i'm still of the mind that i've I've got to promote the heck out of this the best I can, just so people do see it. And and hopefully I can break even on the movie.
00:23:04
Speaker
kind of thing, you know, so I'd make, who knows, maybe even make a few dollars. Who knows? That'd be nice, you know. Go on, make money making movies? You never know, right? That's
Steve's journey to filmmaking
00:23:15
Speaker
not a thing anymore. What are you talking about? Some people do. Some people still make money off their movies. I don't know. I'll let you know once I get a little further on this, but I hope to at Listen, when Facebook sends you that check for $1.49, don't spend all on place.
00:23:32
Speaker
don'll spend it all on place Don't be part of what I got paid.
00:23:39
Speaker
mark Mark runs the Facebook page for Talking Shit, and that's about where we've hit so far. I'm like, wow. ah Kill it, man. Well, I've never made anything off Facebook, so I don't even know how to monetize Facebook. Neither do I. I got over 5,000 followers, so i i should at that. I don't know what the hell.
00:24:00
Speaker
I don't know what we what we did to get monetized, because We're getting in trouble every week every time we play a music video. it Every time I tag somebody in a post, I get locked out of my account.
00:24:13
Speaker
I don't know. It's like i can't I can't physically tag people. I have to do like the whole at everyone or whatever in order to avoid that kind of That's exactly what Mark does. And then my wife's like, why tag me? don't have a choice anymore. I i never liked that. I never liked the at everyone. But yeah now if I want people to see anything, I have to do the at everyone. Yeah, you have to do it.
00:24:34
Speaker
I'm getting to the point where I'll i'll sit there and there's some times where i'll I'll tag people in it and then there's other times I'll put just follow. Fans, whatever. the Top fans.
00:24:49
Speaker
And I'm like, okay, let's see how this works. And it is what it is. i It's my the best way of getting it out there. Yeah, do whatever you got to do to get it out there. That's for sure.
00:25:02
Speaker
Steve, I think the first time you came on, we asked you why you got into filmmaking. We might have. Can you refresh and you refresh our our recollection on how we got there?
00:25:13
Speaker
and talk i don't remember what I answered the first time, but I mean, Texas Chainsaw Massacre was really the the film that made me want to get into filmmaking. I can't say it's my favorite film of all time. It's one of them, but it's definitely the one that made me say I want to be a filmmaker. So, um you know, and I just ah I wasn't a filmmaker, though, that's that's the thing. i but I was a local musician and I taught music for a living and I and i played gigs for a living.
00:25:42
Speaker
And um I just kind of got tired of that a little bit. um I mean, I still enjoyed it, but I wanted something. i want i'm I'm that kind of guy that always wants to take on new challenges and and try something new. So in my early 30s, I said, okay, let's ah let's let's see if I can actually do something with filmmaking. You know, i I wrote like a crap ton of short stories when I was younger, and I had this Texas Chainsaw Massacre idea. So that was the very first thing I ever attempted to do.
00:26:11
Speaker
um not Not very well, obviously, but... you know Eventually we got the Sawyer Massacre made, so I guess I did something okay with that. But but yeah, I mean, I just always loved movies, and I kind of stuck with horror because i was always kind of told to stick in one genre, and horror is a good genre to start in because you can do them lower budget.
00:26:34
Speaker
And they're easier, I guess, to get distribution for. So there was a lot of things that made me say, let's do horror. Even though I'd love
Actress Jamie Hill joins
00:26:43
Speaker
to do like fantasy sci-fi kind of stuff in the future, but I need money to make those types of movies.
00:26:51
Speaker
I gotcha. So what is your favorite? What's my favorite film? Like all time, all time favorite movie of all time. The Big Lebowski.
00:27:03
Speaker
Did you expect that answer? No, not at all. I love the big Lebowski. Cause man, oh man, there's so many reasons. I feel like, and I'm totally, ah sometimes in some ways I kind of am the dude, but in other ways I'm not. Like I i don't smoke any paraphernalia at all. You'd never believe it probably from the the songs I've written in the past and stuff like that. But um I don't know that that that movie's just got such a such an authenticity to it. I guess maybe because it's based on real people
00:27:39
Speaker
and the dialogue, man, the dialogue is just unforgettable. It's like I could quote that movie over and over and over again in daily life activities, you know? It's, you know, something happens and something happens in the house. It's like, I could be here with just pee stains on my rug, man, but instead I gotta, you know? You know, there's there's just so much. there's there's There's so much to that movie in a philosophical way, too. there's It's a very philosophical movie, and I think it represents a lot of good and bad and and how we balance each other out. If you look at it in a certain way, I don't know if it's intended that way, but there's, yeah, I don't know. I read so much into that movie. Maybe I shouldn't, but I just, I can watch that movie over. I was going to say, have you watched it multiple different times? Have you oh yeah have you gotten the lines down yet? Like,
00:28:29
Speaker
This could be a, you could go back and fan film this thing up and be like, oh, it's The Big Lebowski before The Big Lebowski existed. you know, I didn't even see that movie. I didn't even see The Big Lebowski until about, I want to say 2000, at least a couple years after it came out. Okay.
00:28:45
Speaker
It came out in 98. I didn't see it until, I remember seeing the trailers for it. And I thought, oh, it's kind of fun. I see John Goodman's there. It looks like it could be good, but I didn't see it. you know It wasn't like a movie I was rushing to go see at the theater or anything like that. or And a friend showed it to me a couple years later, two or three years later, and I was like, wow, I can't stop watching. And he he was even while he was showing me the movie, even said to me, you know, we don't have to watch the whole thing if this isn't for you. I'm like, I want to watch this, man. Let's keep watching it And I don't know, it just it's just, there's something that, there's a certain charm to that movie that really, really appeals to me.
00:29:23
Speaker
I don't know why. i can't quite put my finger on it, but it's a it's ah it's a fantastic film. i I don't think it gets enough credit. Well, I think you get that every once in a while, you know, because back when I was in high school, we watched Ace Ventura, and it was absolutely fantastic. We quoted it. We watched it so many times that we'd run around and quote the film lines.
00:29:46
Speaker
teachers got off at it a few years back a few years back we had the new franchise come out maybe
Game: Florida or elsewhere?
00:29:53
Speaker
you've heard of it it's called the hangover yep uh so when that franchise came out like i got stuck on you know the hangover for the longest time and i just i would go around quoting lines so like me and a couple of buddies and i'm like oh yeah ah you know and it's like yeah okay i think i'm i'm getting to a point where i'm outgrowing that but i still love them Oh, yeah.
00:30:17
Speaker
I mean, comedies themselves don't get enough credit as a whole, as a genre as a whole. Comedies really don't get enough credit. Like, yeah when was the last time ah a comedy won a Best Picture ocar Oscar or something like that, right? Like, never.
00:30:32
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I don't think it's never happened. I mean, you could say the same thing about horror, except for a passion sinners won. True. I mean, there's been a, I can't think of any comedies really though. Like real comedy. Because people don't have, you know, they, it's like ah the scary movie. You know, when they do those, people don't have ah a sense of humor when it comes to those. So I can't wait.
00:30:59
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I can't wait until next month when the new one comes out and see what the Waynes brothers do with this one. And I think it's going to be funny. It's going to stupid, but it's going be funny. yeah and we know And we know that one of our previous guests has a spot in that film.
00:31:17
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Oh, yeah? Uh-huh. You mean Felicia Rose? Who's that? Felicia Rose. Felicia Rose. Oh. Yeah. We actually we actually had Felicia cast in Unseen, but we lost her due to scheduling, unfortunately. so we had her mar ah We had her on at our third anniversary show.
00:31:35
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Oh, okay. Very cool. That's awesome. She said, Mel Brooks hoe. I love Mel Brooks. Baseball 2 coming out, man. I hope so. I hope that's a thing for real. It is. It's already done. They filmed it already. It's already done.
00:31:51
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Mel Brooks is turning 100 years old. and That's crazy. he' really released i when When he filmed the first one, out when when they started talking about, look, we're making Spaceballs the movie, Spaceballs the beach towel, Spaceballs 2, blah, blah. bla I was like, what? then it What? I heard it.
00:32:08
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what What are we making the the sequel? what is What is happening? And we waited and waited and waited. How many years did we wait, guys? for Almost 40 years. That's crazy. Almost 40. 39. Mel Brooks was not the one that wrote it.
00:32:25
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Oh, he didn't write it? The new one? mean you you yeah He the original. I know that. He didn't write this one, but he he gave it his his ah blessing. Oh, okay.
00:32:36
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I wonder who wrote it then. uh josh uh uh i can't say the last name i'm interested i'm interested but you know but he is getting old i mean when you're nearly 100 you can't blame the guy for not writing it right in the script i guess you know but he's part of it so that's fantastic i'm i'm stoked then i thought it was like a big thing where i was going to like oh yeah we're going film we're going film it we're going film and then it never happens Like something happens to Mel Brooks and then it's like, oh, we stopped the filming.
00:33:09
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Yeah, no, it's sorry it's been done for a little while. It comes out next year. They already said it. believe they have a date for it, too. So I think so.
00:33:20
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Go ahead, Mark. We're going to take a small break. We're going to play a music video. And then when we come back, we're going to play a game. And it's called Florida or.
00:33:34
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I like to call it Omens or not, because a Brian here lately has been putting in other countries into it. don't know what you're talking about.
00:33:44
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So we're going to play this video. And Brian, what was the video you gave me? The song is V-A-N. By who?
00:33:56
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I don't remember. Bad Omens? Yeah.
00:34:21
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Violence against nature
00:35:40
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What should we be to stop?
00:37:08
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Silence against nature.
00:37:17
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There we go. Wow, that was great. Was that a good song? Hey, if I ever make a music video for one of my tunes, will you guys play on the show? Yeah. that i might I might make a music video someday.
00:37:31
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I got a lot of songs and I've just never made a music video before, but maybe I will. ah I don't know if that's the original video or not for that song. I just, I like the song. Um, and knowing that it was bad omens, I was like, this is great song. i was like, let's play that.
00:37:51
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Um, where? I don't know. Well, hang on. to help
00:37:59
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Give her a second. Give her a second. Bam. Okay. Okay. So we have, Well, you already was a female. So, okay. you Would you like to take a guess on who we might have gotten as... I'm going to just guess since I see testing in the chat from Jamie Hill. I'm going to guess that it's Jamie Hill.
00:38:21
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What? No way. don't think he's seen that part. Mark, you're opening up your camera again. oh wow. Shit. Yep. Okay.
00:38:33
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ah
Production process details
00:38:35
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Nope, it's the it's these freaking cheap ass cameras. Hey, Jamie, how are you doing? Surprise. Surprise. Good to see you.
00:38:44
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Welcome to the shit show, Jamie. How are you? I'm not bad. I'm getting smart with my Smarties. That's a thing. It's a Canadian thing. Does Smarties not exist in the U.S.?
00:38:59
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I didn't know that. No, we have them. It's different. They're just not in a package like that. Yep. right A plastic roll.
00:39:10
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you guys have You have M&Ms down there though, right? Of course. I mean, come on. But you guys also don't have Hawkins Cheesies. I don't know what that is.
00:39:21
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Yeah, and I know. You should. ah Oh, really? You don't have ketchup chips? really There's lots. There's lots of stuff they don't have yet. They got lots of nice heat, though. You got to come to the States and just go through the Walmart and figure out what we do have and what we don't have.
00:39:37
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Like, well, where's this candy bar at or whatever? One day. That'd be fun talk. There you go. Let's scare people in a different way. Yeah.
00:39:49
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I'm just going to stay here all fogged up. so Oh, whatever. Yeah, Mark, you suck. ah Yeah, it's almost like it works. It's like I need my glasses on to see you, and I still wouldn't be able to see you. Oh, look. See, when Mark takes his glasses off, like, it's going to make things better. Will that make it better? Here, let's see. No. It almost did. It did make it over. It did. It did kind of help. Anyway.
00:40:17
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Mark, you are now officially the unseen man. Almost unseen man. I don't know. almost unseen man i don't know She said quit smoking then. All right. So, guys, we're here to play a little game called Florida or Not Florida. It's very easy. Basically, i want to read some headlines.
00:40:36
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These headlines can come from anywhere. They can come from Florida. They can come from, i don't know, Ohio. They can come from Canada, believe it or not. They can come from France, Uruguay, Paraguay, Spain. I'm in trouble here. not only Now, Brian, what what do they get if ah for playing?
00:40:56
Speaker
Oh, just for playing, guys, we're going to send you guys, if you haven't gotten them already, we're going to send you guys out some decals. We've got our military. home like They don't look too good. Oh, there we go.
00:41:08
Speaker
We've got the military edition decal. Oh, cool. Very cool. And we have the standard issue decal. So we're going to get those out to you guys. Jamie, i just for playing I don't know if I ever get sent you any. You did. i have them. So now I have the old ones and the new ones. She's got both. All right, here we go. ah So the first headline is going to read like this. like If you guys are ready.
00:41:34
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Man brings his home, steals nothing, leaves behind a bag of frozen chicken nuggets. What do you think? Is this Florida or not Florida? Just so you know, the nuggets were still cold. So at least he was polite.
00:41:48
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ah Not Florida. I'll say it's Florida then to just be different. Jamie says not Florida. Steve says he's going to be different and go with Florida.
00:42:01
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Chat, what do you think? You think that's Florida you think that's not Florida? Let's give these folks a couple of seconds to give give us an answer here. Too hot in Florida to have frozen chicken nuggets all the time. He didn't say what time of year. sir jeff
00:42:17
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Melissa says not Florida, and Amanda says not Florida. Here we go. Marita, to you one more time this time. I'll let you know where it's from. Man breaks into a home, steals nothing, leaves behind a bag of frozen chicken nuggets.
00:42:33
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Ontario, Canada. the i knew it was going to be Canada. That sounded kind of familiar. So at least he was polite. he was polite that was the hint right there yeah make that was your hint you should change this game to tarana or not tarana right yeah he was far over the other way we're this way yeah we're the west side yeah uh far away from us how about your next one here woman calls 9-1-1 because her pizza wasn't spiritually fresh
00:43:04
Speaker
Say that one again? The end of it got cut off. Woman calls 911 because her pizza wasn't spiritually fresh. Now, quick question for you. Do you guys have 911 emergency services in Canada?
00:43:18
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Yes, we do. So it's 911 everywhere. I believe No, not everywhere.
Potential sequel discussion
00:43:23
Speaker
Not everywhere. and we had a 911 call in our in our movie. and then yeah and then and then i think over in our u k it's nine nine one Oh, really? Yeah. Or something like that. It's not 911 over there.
00:43:38
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That was similar. so yeah I say yes. A woman calls 911 because her pizza wasn't spiritually fresh. Spiritually fresh. spiritual Officers confirmed the pizza was spiritually average. Okay. Yes. This has got to be Florida.
00:44:00
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Alyssa says Florida. Yeah. Amanda says not Florida, and both of you guys are saying Florida. Is that right? Yeah. yeah Okay. Listen, it's Florida's little brother. It's Ohio.
00:44:11
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ah was ninema one Because her pizza was not spiritually fresh. That was definitely Ohio. Oh. oh Well, I'm 0 for 2 then. It's okay. They only get better from here.
00:44:24
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no. ah Here we go. Loose beaver chases jogger and shuts down a highway. There's no beavers in Florida, is there?
00:44:36
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i don't know. but A loose beaver chases joggers and shuts down a highway. Police describe the beaver as be as committed to the chase. I'm going to say not Florida for that. You want to say not Florida? And Jamie says not Florida. Let's see what the chat says.
00:44:55
Speaker
Chat says not Florida. and not for where are you at girl and not florida everybody's not florida any guesses guy like that we man in canada in canada or definitely in canada oh yeah there's like all over canada pretty i can show you where i live couple days in nova scotia yep all right so we think maybe canada I think it's I mean, it could be U.S., but I would think it could be like northern U.S., like Michigan or Maine or something like that.
00:45:31
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Yeah, because I get a Washington right here, so I'll read it to you one more time. loose beaver chases joggers and shuts down a highway. The answer was not Florida. It was Saskatchewan.
00:45:43
Speaker
See? Next door to me. There you go. Saskatchewan, as they say. Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan. Depends where you're going. All right. That was, what was that, our third one there? That's the third one.
00:45:59
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All right, we go. numbers Man tries to pay a bar tab with a live raccoon. Florida or not Florida, he claimed the
Steve's next project hint
00:46:08
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raccoon was legal tender in these here woods.
00:46:13
Speaker
Is there are a lot of woods in Florida? I don't know, man. but It doesn't sound like it'd be Florida, but... Again, I've never been to Florida, so I have no real... I got no context to go off. Listen, our redneck-ass people down here in Florida, we do raise raccoons.
00:46:34
Speaker
don't know why. Then I'm going to say Florida this time. If there's raccoons down there, I'll say... Alyssa says Florida. so like I don't know what it is about certain states. they They don't mess with raccoons, but us around here, for some damn reason, we bring them in like they're dogs.
00:46:51
Speaker
Oh, my gosh. I'm going to say it's real, too. It's Florida. You're thinking Florida on it? I think it's Florida, too, because, you know, everybody wants pets like that. And everybody's going Florida on this one, Mark.
00:47:05
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Guys, man has to pay pay his bar tab with a live raccoon, not Florida. Manitoba, Canada. Another Canada one. They're tasting this.
00:47:18
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I gave you couple of Canada ones. All right, guys, we got one more. We got one more for you. Okay. Naked man steals a fire truck and drives to the Waffle House.
00:47:32
Speaker
We don't have Waffle House here in Canada. No, so it's not a Canada. Not Canada. At least not where I live in Canada. Is there a Waffle House there, in Jamie? i don't think waff I don't think there's... I think that's... Yeah, unless it's out in the eastern side or something. Yeah. That's another odd provinces.
00:47:50
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Waffle House. Florida. I'll say Florida. Yeah, it's really hot down there, so think it happens in Florida. You've got to get into the fire truck because you've got to get there quick, right?
00:48:03
Speaker
Yeah. So I could hose them. They command the fire truck drives it to a Waffle House. He said he needed a hero's breakfast. This happened in Tallahassee, Florida.
00:48:15
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There you go. Wow. ah Interesting stuff. it A lot of fun, right? Yeah. Little game. It's a quick little game. So our crazy asses here in Florida.
00:48:27
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The reason we play the game is because there's every single day. There's something going on in the news right here in our great home state of Florida that we just can't fathom.
00:48:38
Speaker
We just cannot fathom. And we go, who and in the who in hell does stuff like that? We get it. It's Florida man or Florida woman, right? But listen, it's not just here in Florida because we just saw that Saskatchewan. Yeah, there's some crazy stuff here. Manitoba, you know? Manitoba, Saskatchewan.
00:48:58
Speaker
Nothing from BC or Alberta though. so oh Oh, I could probably name some. I bet you I could find some. Oh yeah. you know I bet you I could find some. Give me five minutes. i bet you guys could.
00:49:10
Speaker
No need to do that. Jamie Hill found riding a, no, I'm just kidding.
00:49:16
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She's hang gliding. Nope. So Jamie, thank you for joining us. But ah before we let you go, how do you guys know each other? oh How do I know Steve? Yeah.
00:49:29
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ah He found me on social media. Okay. She's also in the movie. Correct. Yeah, I'm a mom. Jamie's in a couple of movies.
00:49:39
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a Sort of. oh and yeah She's in on scene and she's a you know a very not nice mom. Yeah, I'm a mean mom again. You know, I like take the phone line away from kids all the time. Okay.
00:49:53
Speaker
And I bang on doors really loud when they don't answer me. Exactly. ah If anybody's looking to hire Jamie Hill for any acting roles, what which role are you looking for, Jamie? Does it matter? well but you like ah The mom role? You don't want the mom role.
00:50:11
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I don't mind the mom role. I can cackle like a good three blocks away. So I like scaring people or screaming. That scream movie may be ah a fun thing, too.
00:50:24
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All right. So like that one day, where can folks hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. yeah Before we let her go, we got to, I got to get with you, Jamie, and figure out a date so we can have you back on the show.
00:50:38
Speaker
Since there was a lot of, since there was a lot of problems when we did your first one, Brian was sick and I had some other, I'm not allowed to get sick anymore, guys. Just like there was a lot of problems when we filmed your scene in in the movie, right, Jamie? Yeah, we had interesting weather and noises. And and very low very short amount of time to film it all in. ah Very fun, though.
00:51:05
Speaker
Yeah, made it work. Wish you were here for longer, that's all. Sounds good, Mark. Before we let you go, though, where can people find you, your socials and all that stuff and what you got coming up?
00:51:17
Speaker
Well, most of the social media I have now is Jamie, a.k.a. me. And, well, my Instagram, Facebook is usually the the most popular. And you can find me tagged onto many of the unseen things on those things.
00:51:32
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Perfect. And your guys and stuff, too. Of course. Yeah, I do tag you a lot. Especially this past week. Thanks, guys.
00:51:45
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Thank you, Jamie, for playing along. Nice to see you, Steve. Good to see you. Mark, what was the final score? you i Jamie won. Jamie won. Jamie won. Hold on. Wait a minute. What? No, Steve actually won.
00:52:01
Speaker
He got one more than Jamie did. He did. and amanda won it all for one she only had one amanda won it all congrats amanda she watches the show religiously just so you guys know okay thanks amanda the only one that voted in the poll by the way oh yeah what was the poll again uh let's see that poll one more time that poll was Want to see more talking shit? Hells to the yeah or nah.
00:52:33
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Time to cancel these guys. Oh, man. We had two votes for Hells Yeah, and I think those both came from Amanda. Both of them did. No, one of them came from us. Oh, one came from us, one came from Amanda.
00:52:48
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I wasn't trying to shut us down with ah with a two, but then she changed her mind, she said.
00:52:55
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All right, right, Jamie. Thank you so much for playing along. Thank you for being a part of the show guys once again, and we'll catch you on the flip. Great to see you. See you later. All right, Steve, um back to back to the film and ah and all love of that. um Let's talk about the actors and actresses for a couple of minutes. OK.
00:53:20
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obviously without having a large budget, you know, you, you have pay constraints as well. Um, do you give these people like free range of their, their lines kind of thing? Are you, are you iron fisted, when it comes to the actors and actresses and that,
00:53:39
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um No, I'm not iron-fisted, that's for sure. I do give a little bit of flexibility. However, i i always have to make sure that they are getting ah across what needs to get across at the end of the day. Sure. ah The one actor who was a little bit more of improvising his dialogue was Roland Keller.
00:53:57
Speaker
who played Brady in the movie. And there was one particular scene in the movie, I will say, i won't say which one, that he said, he asked me if he could scrap a bunch of the dialogue.
00:54:08
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Yeah, he said, is this any of this stuff here even necessary? And I said to him, it's very necessary. because he didn't know what it was.
00:54:19
Speaker
Again, it's the kind of little Easter eggs that we have in the movie, right? He didn't realize that it was implying something very major ah in the film, because, again, it's it's it's one of those things that... that i know I know what you're talking about. You know? Okay. Well, you've seen it twice now, so you probably know. But, yeah, he but he was probably the one that was most...
00:54:42
Speaker
going off the dialogue a little bit, but, uh, but even, even he was still fairly on it for the most part. Um, yeah, uh, this, this film, yeah, have these these guys were stuck to the dialogue pretty good, but I always did say, you know if it, if you, if you need something that feels more natural to you, use that. If you have to say it in a way that's, that just feels more natural than, uh, go that way. Cause at the end of the day, you want it to feel natural and not wooden or anything like that. So, yeah.
00:55:11
Speaker
Yeah. They did great. Is there something that you wanted to put in the movie but couldn't or didn't have time or?
00:55:23
Speaker
That's a tough one, you know. I mean, there's always little things, but nothing major. I mean, I think I got everything in. In fact, if anything, probably more I got stuff in the movie that wasn't originally intended to be in the movie.
00:55:34
Speaker
ah But you know after you know after I saw what it was looking like after the first cut of the film, I was like saying, okay, maybe maybe I should do this, and maybe I should do that. And I had that flexibility with this film, having shot it all here in Canada and so you know some of the actors living here and you know, the locations kind of at my disposal that I could use at any time I wanted and the props and all that kind of stuff. I just went back and I i shot a few things myself. I didn't have my DP with me because he's ah he lives about six or seven hours away from me, but yeah he walked me through using the camera. you know
00:56:11
Speaker
I'm not a techie guy whatsoever. So yeah there's a big, long message thread of him and I going through how to set up the camera properly and all this stuff. I'm like, Well, now I know how to use this camera though. So it's pretty awesome. But yes but you can't fire your director of photography. That doesn't make any sense. I would never, ever, I would never, ever try to DP an entire film, but you know, I do have a basic sense of lighting and stuff like that. Uh, I'm not, I'm, I would never try to be a DP by any means, but I have enough to do pickup shots. I got enough to do pickup shots. And, you know, some of those pickup shots ended up being pretty important in the film, actually, you know, uh,
00:56:48
Speaker
but And I'm glad I did them. but you know will Will was a great DP, though. I'll say that. And I don't know if he's ever going to do films ever again. He's kind of tired of making movies. but I missed the guy already, but I'm glad that we got to do this this final movie together. Now we've got find a new DP, though.
00:57:08
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um Locally, on the on the independent scene, even not locally, even in the US. and Was there anybody that you would have loved to have had in the film from the independent scene that you know would have been a great fit?
00:57:27
Speaker
Again, we we had cast Melissa Rose originally in the role of Ashley, but you know ah things fell through. And we last minute, we cast ah Tammy Wyatt, who is a ah local actor.
00:57:41
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and didn't have a lot of experience. She had mostly done background extra work, but we had to make a quick choice because it it was we literally lost ah Felisa like three or four weeks before filming was scheduled to to to go.
00:57:57
Speaker
So you know it would have been nice to have Felisa, but you know i considering Tammy came in, ah when she did and having the little experience that she had making it in in movies you know i thought man she actually did pretty darn good considering you know i was worried about it too you know i was i was super worried hiring this person who didn't have a lot of experience and uh you know i've never i haven't heard a single complaint about her acting i i thought you know i thought she did quite well
00:58:28
Speaker
Maybe she's not going to win an Oscar or anything like that, but you know but who is? I agree with you. She did a great job. yeah not and i mean i didn't even know that she was new to it and uh a lot of ah a lot of the actors we hired were were came in pretty fresh because we we lost a lot due to uh scheduling and uh transportation you know the their ability to to get here to colonna because we had cast a lot of we did actually cast quite a lot of americans A lot of people from the US and a lot of them just said, I can't, you know, I can't travel at this time and all that. And we couldn't afford expensive, expensive flights. ah
00:59:10
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So, so we had to have people that were willing to accommodate us a little bit because we just didn't have money. In fact, I think we had somebody from Florida, if I'm not mistaken, and the frightful flight from Florida was going to be way too expensive for me, you know? So yeah, because yeah, I'm way on the other end of the,
00:59:29
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of the fricking continent from you guys i yeah and pretty much. Uh, but yeah, I mean, so we had to cast, uh, like the, the gal that played, uh, Jessica, the Russian gal that played Jessica, she came in about a month before, the, the gal that played the Stacy, the other, other friend, she came in, ah she came in literally a week before, you know? So we had some of these people had to be like right on the ball. and uh you put them in a hotel hotel room and you make them all go to work together start practicing right now it was a little bit but we had an airbnb for all the people coming from out of town and yeah yeah i think we had our dp from squamish we had chris the crystal and jessica were were there roland was there uh they're all shared this airbnb and they got to you know really bond with each other the gal playing stacy actually lives here in co colonna though so she had her own place to stay. So she wasn't part of that, but you know, but yeah, I know they had a good time. I feel like if I was a, if I was a director or something, or if I, if it was my film, I think that's smart. I would rent an Airbnb and I would make everybody commingle together, get to know one another because you want to know who you're working with.
01:00:43
Speaker
Right. Don't make it a surprise. Like how do you do things? So I know what I need to do to, you know, compliment that. Exactly. and i think that's I think that's really smart.
01:00:55
Speaker
yeah yeah It actually even worked out in a way I didn't think it was going to work out because there's ah there's one scene in the movie, not ah not a real spoiler here, where ah the the guy's going on Jessica's computer and there's a social media of Jessica and Crystal doing the night out together and they're like totally you know girls. it was It was just a spontaneous scene.
01:01:17
Speaker
girls night out when they were off off away from filming and it looked like you know it looked very authentic to that to that scene uh and uh and uh my wife made all the fake so social media so a shout out to her uh for doing that because i had no idea how to make fake social media stuff you know because we can't use facebook or anything right like that for copyright stuff But yeah, I mean, so so we had that. we They sent me some pictures of them going up to dinner and stuff like that. I thought, yeah, this is going to look great for a for a social media type, for the social media thing that I need.
01:01:52
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And it worked out really well. So there you go. It brings some authenticity to it, that's for sure. That's really good. All right. What do you have in the pipeline?
01:02:03
Speaker
what are you working on? In the pipeline, um so I haven't really started working on it yet, but I have an idea for a movie that I can't get too much into it, but it's going to lean a little bit more towards what I did with my last film, my Texas Chainsaw Massacre fan film. It's not going to be a Texas Chainsaw Massacre fan film, but it's going to have that kind of feel, I guess you would say.
01:02:27
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. But I won't say any more than that at this time because I don't even have it written yet. I only have an outline. So I got to get writing again soon and, uh, back to the screenwriter software and, uh, get that, uh, fleshed out. And, uh, you know, who knows when I'll get that finished. I got to really promote on scene as best I can for the time being and hopefully get some more eyes on it.
01:02:51
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Yeah. Uh, Mark was, uh, Mark was questioning. He was like, well, when we bring them on, um I might even ask them if, can you go anywhere from here with this film? Is there, uh,
01:03:03
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Is there more to it? You know, like a sequel to unseen, you mean? Yeah. Uh, but then again, I mean, she depends on you doing yeah I mean, it just depends on how you want to interpret it.
01:03:17
Speaker
The ending. Yeah. It's open. there There's things you can do, but, uh, do I have, do I have an idea to do a sequel to it? No, not yet.
01:03:28
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if if If a good idea comes, so you know it's possible. It's going to pop up in his dream. He's going to be like, shit, got to write this. ah You never know. The dreams, man. the dream Never underestimate the power of dreams. because all my great All my great ideas come from dreams. Jamie Hill was in Skinny-Marink.
01:03:48
Speaker
Are you to tell me that that's not some freakish childhood nightmare? that what yeah That movie is. that that i was I saw that movie. i'm like, holy crap. I feel like I'm four years old again and having one of the crazy, weird-ass freaking nightmares they used to have.
01:04:02
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It's exactly like that. It's like, how did he capture that feeling in in that movie? it's It's amazing. The first 15 minutes of that movie, you're like, what the hell am watching? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
01:04:14
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Yeah, that's exactly what Mark was telling me too. He was like, oh my God, dude. And that's what you're like when you have those nightmares. What the hell is going on? you're like yep that's When I was a kid and I woke up, I'm like, what the frick was that even about? Like, it's so, they're so random, right? So that's why, I don't know, I gravitated to that movie really well because of that. I know not a lot of people did. A lot of people didn't feel the same way I did, but I thought it was great. But, you know, I could see why some people didn't like that movie, but I did. Yeah.
01:04:44
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Some people, yeah. i mean it You just got to use a different part of your brain to watch it. Definitely. Definitely. ye Mark, you only have one part of the brain left. What are you talking about? A little piece. Leave it alone. He's got enough.
01:05:00
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There's enough left there, right? He's got enough to run this show, I guess. i mean Mark was able to figure out More than probably 80% of the people that have have seen Unseen, they were like, I didn't figure anything out. I don't know who the killer is at all. I thought he Go back and watch it again. oh Totally embarrassing.
01:05:19
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So many of them. yeah so he he did He's got a little bit of his grade left, for sure. He's definitely got something there. It may not be, but then again, it could be.
01:05:31
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you Who knows? Could be multiple people. or it could be just one person or or ah one theory we had is that the killer was uh was all part of crystal's imagination that was a cool theory uh hey but who maybe it's an interesting yeah all right well guys listen we had a great talk here with you steve and we greatly appreciate your time on this and uh
01:06:02
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Can't wait to see what happens next. um This next thing that you got in the pipeline, have you named it yet? i've got some I've got some name ideas, but again, I don't want to share it because I i might. It's okay. I don't know. There's probably going to be changes, but i it's going kind of and imply what it's about too. When it comes to fruition, you got it on paper.
01:06:27
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Let us know. Yeah. And we'll we'll make sure that people get ah hold of it. we'll bring him awesome We'll bring you back on. I'd love to come on again. That's for sure. it's I want to keep making movies. That's for sure. Even though it's a pain in the ass, it takes me forever to get get a movie. I don't know how some of these people make like, they have like three or four Indiegogo campaigns going at the same time. I'm like, how do you do it? I don't know. Some of them take forever, even longer to do theirs. True.
01:06:55
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True. It's like they raise the money for them. but then when Well, you got raise you gotta to raise the money for one from one Indiegogo so that you can start another Indiegogo to pay for that first funding. it't do well I don't like that. i Raise all the money for one Indiegogo. Yeah, and see how it goes. I'm i'm that kind of guy, though. i'm um yeah Maybe I'm just a bad multitasker. I don't know. but I would get confused. Hold on a second. I got four Indiegogos going on. I couldn't do it. But I need more money to do this.
01:07:29
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By trying to get the fourth one going, yeah or trying to get the money going. I've already lost. What was I doing in this first film again? oh I know. Again, i don't know how people do it. Some people do manage it, but I couldn't.
01:07:44
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They probably have bigger teams than I got, that's for sure, because I just, you know, I i love rob i don't have the people. What's up, Rockets? You got to know Ruckus. He'll be on our our show next week for the military show.
01:07:59
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Who is that? His name is so Ruckus Rocks. Ruckus is an ex-Air Force guy. So we got an ex-Air Force guy from the military for the military show. Retired.
01:08:16
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He's retired Air Force. think he's like a brigadier general or something. I'm just kidding. No, yeah guys stop lying. All right. All right. Listen, Steve, I think I think we'll call it a night then if you're good. You got anything else you want to let people know?
01:08:33
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ah Just, you know, ah on oh well I'll mention this again next Friday. I'm i'm doing my live stream, Merlot's Movie Massacre, and we'll be dropping our breadcrumbs. We showed a little promo today. go check that out ah because we're going to be giving some little clues as to certain things in the film that a lot of people have been having questions about, a lot of people have having theories about. It's that kind of movie that you know you're're you're not going to know everything. And hopefully these ah these breadcrumbs clips will ah will help people understand it a little bit more.
01:09:07
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Or maybe they'll cause they'll cause more theories. They'll get more theories out there and stuff like that. And that's cool too. Exactly. So next Friday at 6 p.m. Pacific.
01:09:20
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About this time, a little about 6.10 Pacific right now. I guess it's 9, 10...
01:09:26
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Where are you guys from? 9-9-10. Yeah. So next Friday night, the 29th, I believe, is the date on that. Yeah. Very cool. And guys, make sure you check out the film Unseen on Tubi.
01:09:40
Speaker
It's free, right? It's free. Yeah. You got to watch ads. But yeah. And then make sure you go rate it. so free And then go rate it. Rate it and review it. You give your honest opinion.
01:09:51
Speaker
Don't hold anything back. If you don't like it, say you don't like it. I have never said to anybody, give it a 10 out 10 or a 9 out of 10 or anything. Just rate it. Rate it, review it. And you know I know it's not going to be for everybody. I know it's going to be a movie that's ah divided amongst people. you know When the movie first came out, when it was first coming out, I thought people are either going to love it or hate it It's going to be like nines and 10s or 1s and 2s is what I was expecting on IMDb. But there's a lot of fives.
01:10:21
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There's a lot of fives and sixes. There's some this tens and ones as well, but but there's a lot more fives. And I want to think it's because maybe they liked the feel of the movie, but because they didn't understand it, that's why they gave it kind of that medium rating. I don't know for sure, though.
01:10:40
Speaker
I can only speculate, but I was a little little surprised to see all the fives. So that's cool though. Hey, at least at least at at least they're giving it attention.
01:10:51
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They're giving it exactly that. At least it's getting the attention. So definitely. All right. so Mark, next week we have our very special military show where we'll have the air force, air air force, army, Marine Corps, Navy. We hope the coast guard and we hope,
01:11:10
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maybe a space force guy. If those still do two branches still exist, we were, I have not, I've never met somebody from a space force, so I don't know if they exist.
01:11:21
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We don't know if it's real. of Not sure how I feel about it. so got So guys, make sure you're tuning in for that as well. All right. That's it.
01:11:32
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I think we can end the show here, guys. Sounds good. Are you sure? Yeah. far I'm sure. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, from us here at Talking Shit, my name is Brian.
01:11:45
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I'm Mark. And this is Steve. We're out of here. Have a good night, everyone. See ya.
01:12:24
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Bitch, I'm in the... Wow.