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Glick's House of Movies: Jake C. Young
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Tonight we flip the script and welcome actor/director Jake C. Young into the House of Music as it becomes for 1 night only Glick's House of Movies. #glickshouseofmusic #nonsensicalnetwork #interview #movies #actor #director #live #follow
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You're on a mission, just give me ammunition, call me the comeback kid. I've been down here in the trenches, swinging for the fences, oh God forbid.
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All hail the comeback queen
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Transition to Glick's House of Movies with Jake C. Young
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within the end. go ahead and check it out. If you haven't already, go stream it. It's everywhere, guys.
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And she's, of course, kicking ass as always. Anywho... Welcome to Glick's House of Music, or should I say Glick's House of Movies for tonight, because we're not doing a music interview. We're actually got a really cool guest that you guys might have already seen a couple weeks ago when we had a cool opportunity on Friday night with Nonsense and Chill to watch Daylight to Dark with the director, Jake C. Young, writer Roland Jouette, and a couple of the actors that were in the movie.
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But Jake is joining us back tonight, so bring him up here in just a minute. But you guys know the drill right off the bat. Follow us everywhere, Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok. Shows are live Monday through Sunday.
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You can find us right there on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch. Chatters box is always open, and you guys are always welcome to hang out with us. And you can listen anytime, anyplace, wherever you listen to podcasts. Because, yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are everywhere, literally everywhere.
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all at the Nonsensible Network or simply go to bio.link slash Nonsensible Network. All them links are there. Give us a follow, give us a like, give us a share if you'd be so kind. We'd greatly appreciate that But without further ado, my, as you guys may have heard a couple of weeks ago, my arch nemesis as I will become the ultimate bad guy in Daylight to Dark 2, the one and only. Jake. Hey, what's up, man?
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What's going on? What's good, brother? Thanks for having me on. Hey, man, I appreciate you for coming on. Thanks again for coming on a couple weeks ago, man. Myself and the guys, we had an absolute blast hanging out with you guys. You guys were so cool.
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Obviously, I've met Roland before here on Tuesday nights, and and he kind of was the one that... threw all that together just from the first time we interviewed because i was like, Hey, we do a movie show here. How cool would it be if you come back and we, and we watch the movie, uh, didn't think we were going have the the lineup that we had for it. Um, but it was cool to get your guys's commentary and get your guys's insight to the movie and some more behind the scenes and stuff like that. So if do you guys haven't listened to that or seen that still up on YouTube and of course it's on all the podcasting platforms, uh, nonsense and chill where we, uh,
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I won't really say we did a movie premiere. I guess kind of sort of a movie premiere. Um, and don't remember what blaze called that, but it's a commentary maybe. Yeah. Like a watch party, watch party commentary. watch party comment It was cool. we yeah We did a whole bunch of new stuff that weekend. Uh, that was the first time that we were all, uh, three of the major players. Well, blaze and myself, we've been together a couple times, but like three of the major players on the network here, we're all together under the same roof.
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Um, And then we did that we did that with you guys Friday night. Then Saturday night, we did a watch party for WrestleMania. So it was like a crazy, a wild and crazy weekend with everything going on and a lot of firsts happening. And it was just like, welcome to my house. It's a circus now.
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So I'm sure you know what that's like. I'm sure you you you've been on set before and had fun. and 19 people running 400 different directions. or Dude, that's every movie I make. Every film I make. It's just so much back and forth. You're just, you know wrapping your head around it. So, yeah. Been there, done that, man. So, yeah, you're all good.
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Good evening. Hey, what's going on, Johnny Boggs? Shout out to the chat real quick. Showing love. Badass off of the music. Thank you, guys. Chat the box is open. You guys, if you have any questions for Jake,
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Please don't be rude and please don't be disrespectful. You know the rules. ah But you you guys are more than welcome to to drop your drop your questions in the chat if you'd like.
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um Jake, real quick, right off the bat, how long have you been in the the film industry and and and kind of what got you got your rolling in that?
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man, I've been, I've been making films since I was like, like little kid. So like I've been wanting to make movies for a long time. Uh, but professionally I've been doing this for almost 10 years now.
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Um, so I started out, which you and I kind of we talked a little bit about this, you know, before the show began. i'm sorry, everyone
Jake's Filmmaking Journey
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click. Now we, we done the interview privately. So you're just, you're going to learn anything. We're just going to hang out tonight. Yeah. But no, I started making films um when I was ah probably like 13, started doing a bunch of like small stuff and kind of just really vibe the interest.
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Of course, you know, I kind of come from a ah a family background of ah filmmaking a little bit. And then, you know, it's just sort of something that I myself decided I wanted to do um because here where I'm at locally, it's just it's not really a thing.
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um so i kind of i kind of started it here i guess you would say nobody had really done it i'd done some of it in college and it kind of really gave me more of a start and when i started doing it in college it just kind of grew and it kind of escalated into making some uh other features um and i so the first big one i made which is it's still available i was probably i was about 20 when i done it um i was very young and it was like a super low budget indie flick a little indie horror movie called screecher okay yeah yeah it was it was cool all right at the time it was cool so years go by you know i make night of the undead the dark room you know just a handful of these other movies
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Um, you know, I've got to work with some cool people. Diane Franklin from the dark room. She was awesome. Uh, getting to work with her because, uh, I was a fan of her growing up. I remember seeing her in like a bill and Ted's excellent adventure.
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Uh, you know, like I remember seeing her in the Amityville movies and that last American virgin. And I like, I hated her in that movie when I watched it, but then when I was over there, I was like, you're like the total opposite of that. yeah She was, yeah, she was awesome to work with.
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Um, but yeah, as time went on, I kind of progressed into making more films, but that first one, um That was a big deal for me.
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and ah I had it and it bounced around from time to time. And it never actually got released until about three years after it was made.
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And when it got released, they released it as Screecher of the Lagoon, the ultimate extended director's cut. is he here at least And, you know, that is like, if you if you're ever on TV and you just need like like something to like pass the tom that is like just like what the hell is this you know like how did this get on here you know that's ah that's a fun watch so you know if if you ever in the and you know if you're a fan of wrestling it's got superstar bill dundee in it uh from memphis wrestling he's to tag team with jerry lawler uh first movie he was in
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And it was it was cool to get to work with him too. So that that kind of got me interested in film. And you know I started with that one. And then you know the rest just kind of went from there. and now you know we just released Daylight to Dark. um And you know I know we watched it a couple weeks ago on the show.
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um Which, like you said, man, that was a really fun time. So anybody hasn't seen that, there's a lot of really cool things that Glick and the guys from Nonsense and Chill...
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that we had kind of talked about on there, which um was some, I thought that was really interesting because we got the got to actually talk about things that we didn't actually, you you didn't actually see during the movie because we had like so much stuff that had happened like during the film that we've not talked about yet. So it was really cool to kind of be like, well, in this part right here, this, this, and this happened. So that was really, really cool. And then, you know, we we brought on,
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a lot of the other people who, you know, some of us had some really interesting stories that ah it was, was really cool just to kind of hang out with you guys. Yeah. No, we, we, we had a lot of fun.
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Drake is still going down. You know, you guys set my girl, Audrey up. Yeah. to Yeah. Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. That was a lot of fun. And it's a, it's, it's a fun movie. It was a fun movie in general to watch.
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Um, you know i i you know seeing the first one the you know the american vampire and then no one knew and i knew that this one was coming out and kind of the the premise behind it i was like hell yeah this is this is cool you know like i was excited for it but uh no i i love them uh the movies like that the the independent films i was telling you behind back before the show you know i am a big fan of indie films and uh but that yeah Like Jake said, pretty there's a pretty large category of his films on on two.
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You could definitely, if the weather's crappy out for a weekend, just sit down and and start watching some movies. um Be warned, Dark Room is ah darkroom was it was twisted.
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that was That was crazy. was ah Holy smokes. But no, I dig it. you know The movies are cool.
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You definitely have a passion for it and it shows in your movies. You're not afraid to put yourself in the movie. Yeah, yeah, I've been told that before. so in most of my films, I have either acted or directed in them and i have become to the point That is almost all that I do anymore unless I'm in someone else's project. You know, like they booked me to be in a movie or something or, you know, I'll do it. But for the most part, most of the stuff that I'm in, I'll either act in it or I'll direct in it just because I enjoy doing it so much. And I just I have a really fun time doing
Challenges of Directing and Acting Together
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it. And, you know, it's really cool to be able.
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ah to direct a movie um that you're in because you're basically you're bringing your vision to life is what you're doing and in a nutshell as a director is you're bringing this really cool story to life and it's really cool when you can bring a story to life where you're in the character now holy shit is it stressful yeah but i mean it's it's a lot of fun though yeah i could I can only imagine.
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you know i get I get yelled at a lot from the guys because they're like, you do too much on the network. I'm doing shows. I'm doing behind the scenes. They're like, give us something to do. And I'm like, I got this. yeah Yeah, for sure.
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Until I don't got it. Go ahead, man. Go ahead. go ahead my god No, no, I was going to say, man, like like, you don't want it, but you do. So, know you know, that's that's how it is. If you're an artist, you get it, you know.
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Yeah, exactly. You know, so you you brought it up, and and and and and this was something that kind of intrigued me, um because when when we first started talking about doing the Daylight to Dark, and I was showing my then-fiancee, you know, pictures and stuff like that,
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one of the first things she said was, damn, he looks just like Scott. And I'm like, Scott. And she said, Eastwood. And i said, holy shit, he really freaking does. And then I start being nosy and creepy and come to find out, you said it you you come from a, you know, a little bit of a family background in movie making. You're a part of the actual Eastwood family tree. right Yeah. Yeah. yeah distant yeah this Distant relatives of the Eastwood family tree, which kind of, you know, explains my my look. give you know Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I get that a lot. So, um, uh, a lot of people, I would actually, I done an interview last night and a guy was asking me about it and I was like, so young is actually my real given name. i was like, but you know, so occasionally I'll use the Eastwood name just, you know, like, like for instance, like with daylight to dark, which was so much fun, you get the idea that, okay, well dude is definitely, you know, uh, playing on that, uh, family legacy. So, yeah.
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Yeah, you definitely have that look. You you have that that family resemblance in the face and some of your face so facial expressions that you make. I'm like, Jesus Christ, are you sure Clint's not your daddy or like your your grandpa or something? Because them genetics can't be that freaking strong. Yeah.
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yeah
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you know but Yeah. Yeah. I get that a whole lot. So, you know, it's, uh, you know, it's kind of, it, it runs, I guess it's one of those that just runs in your blood kind of deals. Um,
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But, ah you know, I enjoy playing that that character, especially of Jonah Helsing, because, you know, you get to play on that whole legacy of the whole Eastwood thing. And then the whole legacy of um bringing that, you know, just the that 70s and 60s cowboy era to life that is, you know, just... ah that that was such a cool character to play and you know one of those roles that you've kind of been preparing to play your whole life um because not only is it it's not just serious but it's got a lot of fun stuff with it too so hi actually i based the character um off of like um i guess you would say kind of off like uh
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the i I based it off like some of the Josie, like Josie Wales and High Plains Drifter. And then I kind of, I also kind of based the character a little bit off of, uh, um,
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Hugh Jackman's performance in Wolverine, you know, because he's still got a cigar smoking, you know, tough guy. So, you know, that that's kind of what I base this character off of. And, you know, ah Drake, our contrast that we had going on was just perfect, you know, because he's like this goofy kid. And then I'm just like annoyed, you know tough cowboy, which in in real life, like,
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we're and We're nothing like that. Well, he is. He's like that. I'm i'm not like that, but we get along great. I think he's he's an awesome dude and he's an awesome kid, man. I love him to death. And um we just, you know, our acting just it was so perfect in that, like he was the perfect choice for that role. And.
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if If anyone hasn't got to watch it, Daylight to Dark is on Tubi now. So if you want to check it out to kind of catch up with what we're saying, i definitely ah i definitely would want you to go check it out. um But, man, it was just so was so much fun playing that character.
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I think i think you know even even as a non-actor, it's like to play a tough cowboy. yeah you know i'm i'm a i love Western yeah and and like i've always said like i want to build a time machine so i go back to the wild west and be i want to be a cowboy man i want to be a cowboy so bad
Unique Experiences: Horror Western Festival
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like 100 really cool be an hundred percent yeah an actor there's festival there's thisnactor um there's a faster level plan Yeah, 100%, man. There's a festival that's down.
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it's it's in ah It's about couple hours away from me, but I went last year and they've asked me to you know maybe show a film there or something this year. um But it's a horror Western festival in an old Western town.
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and like everybody cosplays is like these man it is cool i mean you get to like they got a saloon in there and you know like everybody like goes and dresses up like these dead zombies and stuff so obviously being me um you know i was like man this is fun you know i we should go so you know um i went down there and uh everybody was like had these cool costumes and then everybody was like holy shit because i'm wearing the poncho and i'm everybody's like i know that guy and they're like i was like well you think you do rollin what's up man i see roll what's up ruland yeah how you doing brother he's the man yeah is so yeah fun fact oh sorry man go ahead i was just gonna say anybody who hasn't seen daylight to dark yet when you get the opportunity
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watch the cigar that the cigar has a very big role in that movie throughout the entire movie dude that that cigar uh that cigar is almost like a character in itself but you like like if we met if we ever done like you know got to the point where it was like making action figures like if you need jonah elzing cigar exactly yeah yeah it almost got to be a main character on its own yeah Like you said, keep an eye on the cigar throughout the movie. Yeah, 100%.
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Actually, it's it it's not the same cigar throughout the whole film. um It is a different cigar like in different parts of the movie. I remember the day that we shot with Tuesday Night.
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um How did that go? it was ah and think it was in between takes. We had already done the part where
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No, that's what it was. We had a couple different cigars in case, you know, one got lost on set. And, you know, while we were waiting on Tuesday, getting her hair and her makeup and everything done, you know we're waiting to get started.
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I'm outside, you know, outside on set. And I'm just like out there and I just start smoking the cigar. Everybody is like, like, they're like, that looks like. genuinely like epic. And I'm out there, you know, I got the wig and the hat and I'm smoking a cigar.
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um I'm out there everybody's like, that is, that's nuts. And I'm just walking around, you know, smoking a cigar. and it was like, like you you could feel the power. inside You know, it was, it was pretty great.
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um But yeah, yeah, I was smoking it at one point. i was just smoking the cigar and it was, it was really stout because I remember like,
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like a few minutes later, like I walked in and everybody's like, bro, you stink. you like smoke you know like You know, you gotta wear the same outfit for like three more days. Right. It just adds to the character. Yeah. I was like, it was like getting in my embodiment there. Like, yeah.
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I, I, I think I looked at somebody when they said that. And, um, they're like, you know, you still gotta to wear that shirt. And I was like, you feel lucky punk. um it like ah du i love a lot of fun um yeah but you know um um speaking of rollin who had just chimed in on there rollin actually just completed a new song uh for my uh for my next film the one i just got done shooting called soul's chapel um and man is that gonna be really cool
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um That one's actually based on a real life place. It's kind of got that more supernatural element. It's kind of a steampunky old time style film.
Soul's Chapel: A New Film by Jake
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it's ah It's still got a lot of Western vibe to it. Still got hats and stuff. So for anybody who's kind of a fan of like a Western-ish horror steampunk style movies or if I don't know if that anything's ever been done like that. But, you know, it's a.
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it's it's been It was a lot of fun doing that flick. I mean, that was a lot of fun, and I think that one is going to just be crazy. I don't know when it's coming out yet, but you know we're still still in the process of it.
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how this sounds like it'd be. You've got a lot going on, and and I like that. you know there's There's a lot of different elements going into it. That sounds pretty cool. ah dude listen ever since a couple of you know when we've done that stream and we said something about a daylight to dark sequel i've gotten non-stop messages from people like dude what is this happening like when is this happening i was like like what the hell guys was like let the first one come out yeah like let the what let the let the first one simmer i gotta get in shape before i come and uh battle you battle you on scene because
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um so I'm coming back for revenge for my girl. Dude, 100%. Yeah, that's... shee man ive been i've i've already I've had people already asked me about it and I was like, let's see, you know, and I know Roland and I've, you know, we've teased it a little bit, but yeah um I could go on a limb and say that I think that would definitely be a character that will return is the Jonah.
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Yeah. So I think that's true. Yeah. it's It's a, I love the story. You know, the story is just cool as hell. You know, he's just this bad-ass vampire hunter and, yeah you know, you throw like Drake in the mix, you know, it's just, you know, I think i think it's cool. It'll be ah a fun opportunity and have a lot of really cool cameos in there. so yeah um Yeah, man. It's it's a it's a blast you know making film. um so i've I've been then making film for, like said, dude, like 10 years, and it's it's been a journey for sure.
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is it is Well, you said that you you started originally doing... You know you you've always wanted to do it since you were like a kid. What were doing where you just doing? like little skits with like your friends and stuff like all right guys annoying the hell out of all your friends and like hey we're gonna do this so but more or less like i get my friends over and then like i had this little video camera and like we would watch a movie And then I'd be like, let's make our own version of this movie. You know, like recreate the movie.
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yeah And I um im made like four or five different movies like that. Well, I say, hang on. i made four or five different videos like it's not like this old ass camera that had like triple A batteries and you'd have to lay it to the side. like yeah It was like ancient, dude. Like the the audio was so bad in it. And i think we done...
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I done one. It was like...
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we done We done, like, our version of, like, The Lost Boys. It was pretty cool. And then we done our version of, like, we done one of, like, Footloose and shit. You know, looking back, I was like, what was I doing? Like, dude, you cannot dance. Like, what the hell? What are you doing? Yeah, like, what are you doing, man? But, you know, it was, you got to start somewhere. And, you know, that was, as a kid, you know, I just had, like, a huge imagination that was so much bigger than, you know, the places I lived and where I grew up.
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And, you know, it was just, its just yeah it was fun to start and it all just kind of from those moments is what, you know, filled my opportunity to make film and, you know, now I'm i'm making film, you know, I've been in um You know, not only my films, but other people's features. I've been in TV shows. I'm getting I'm hosting film festivals. I'm hosting the Creepy Con Film Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, August the 1st through the 3rd.
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um And this is the second annual one. And, you know, we're anticipating it to be pretty crazy. um You know. Yeah, man, it's going to be awesome. You know, i'm I'm hosting it. I get to give out awards to other people who, ah you know, kind of get that same mindset of, you know, loving indie horror flicks and, you know, broadcasting that. So I'm i'm thinking it's going to be, you know, just really, really cool. And, you know, I've got like, I've got a con come up in Florida. got one in like,
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i'm I'm actually going to one, i think this weekend I'm just kind of attending, but there's several friends of mine that, uh, that are going to be there. Um, who are, you know, a celebrity guest, you know, people I've been in movies and stuff with. So it's, it's really cool to get to watch these people growing up.
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And then, you know, flash forward years later, you're like, you're working with them. Like, Whoa, it's insane. Yeah. That's, that's wild. Brittany had asked, um, she said, uh,
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She's kind of a two-parter. yeah What's your favorite genre of films? But then she also asked, what's your favorite genre to direct and act in? Okay. So my favorite genre of film, holy shit. How do you answer that?
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didn't ah No. So my favorite genre, a hundred percent has got to be thriller films. I love the idea. And this is probably my favorite to direct and act too. um,
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But I say i say i my favorite genre is something that really pulls you in, like psychological thrillers. But I also i really like westerns, too. Westerns are definitely you know they're one of my favorites. So when you can combine those two, or you can have a film like something that Quentin Tarantino pulls out, like The Django Unchained or The Hateful Eight, or just these really crazy things, or like Dead Birds, those...
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get me like very excited. But as far as directing, my favorite type of films to direct has definitely, it has to be a suspense thriller because I will argue this.
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um I was on a podcast a couple months ago and it was with, it was with Casey Rian who plays Bridget in ah Daylight to Dark. And she was on there as a guest with me as well.
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And everyone was asking, you know, what's your favorite horror film? And I think I said like, I said like prisoners with Hugh Jackman in it, um which is not necessarily a horror film, but it's a suspense thriller, but man, like that, that will bring you to the edge of your seat. So movies like that are my favorite to make, because if you can convey your audience um to get, to feel what you're feeling, um you're just going to be like, Whoa. I mean, because yeah seeing, seeing people react, um for instance, like when I done undead that, you know, there's that, uh,
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um there's a, there's a scene particular in there during the, uh, the opening night of it during the premiere at the theater, you know, and this was with the audience that had never seen it before. Um, you know, I'm just sitting in the back of the theater and everybody just starts like applauding at the certain scene. So it's cool to feel, feel an interaction with like what people are seeing, ah for something that you've done or something that you've had an idea about.
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that, as I was saying before we started tonight, that none of the undead, ah you know I kicked it on and it was like, oh, this is about
Exploring Ohio's Helltown as a Film Setting
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podcasters.
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Hey, oh, wait a minute. They're doing something that i they're doing something that I've talked about for the last couple of years, especially around Halloween time, going to like, quote unquote, haunted places and doing a live podcast.
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Of course, nobody on the network here, everybody's like, no, fuck you, like you're crazy. We're not going to, because I want to go to Helltown, which is a town here in Ohio that back in the 70s basically the government just threw everybody out it's it's a wild it's a wild wormhole uh just type in hell town ohio into your google box and it's it's a wild wormhole because there's there's uh satanic rituals and murders and ah giant uh anaconda and government experiments and all this stuff and as to why this town is mean literally the government came in and said this is all
00:35:39
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Forestry Reserve and just left and made everybody leave. So for years, all the houses, and there's still some houses and a church and a couple other buildings that are that are still there.
00:35:50
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And you can it's it's not on any masks, but it's not hard to find. But even like there's an old abandoned school bus where there's a local legend behind it that it was a baseball team or a baseball team or something or band, whatever.
00:36:04
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And they broke down there and then they were murdered by crazy, uh, Satanists and whatnot. And the bus is still there today. So like, I'm like, I want to go there when like i' around Halloween to do a podcast and everybody's like, nah, fuck you. Like we're,
00:36:17
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This isn't Scooby-Doo mysteries. You're on your own. Thank you for giving me my next movie idea. I appreciate that. I'm here to help. Just give me a little blurb the Idea Glick. on the yeah yeah idea idea like yeah um yeah so that's actually that's actually very similar to this film i just finished up soul's chapel um it is uh it's it's wild about the real stories on that one as well um it's about a it's about a church um that like this is a real place here where i live
00:36:53
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um it's about a church and it's supposed to be one of the most haunted places in like all of the state um like there was a pastor that conducted like these he was like a double worshiper so he was like doing like satanic rituals and like sacrificing animals and stuff um you know in the church and like like there's ah apparently like hung his self or something like there's like i've heard a million different stories yeah but but it is like such a legend here in the folklore that it was really cool to kind of play on that to bring that to life in this next film so um and this that that film's definitely got that thriller suspense type of genre feeling in it um so if you're a fan of that
00:37:36
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I definitely think this will be one you, you won't want to miss checking out. Um, I'm actually really excited for this one to come out. Um, and it's got Brian Brimmer in it, um, from pumpkin head and dead birds. And, uh, yeah, he played, uh, he played the,
00:37:51
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older brother, Bunt, you know, the brother that takes it takes the the main character to the old witch, you know, wears the overalls. he's ah He's in it, and I'm actually going to see him this weekend um at ah at a con.
00:38:08
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So it's a it's it's ah it's one i'm I'm really excited about. Oh, yeah.
00:38:19
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That's that like is it you definitely you have definitely piqued my interest Yeah, I think it's on I think it's on IMDB too So like you can go on there and get the synopsis. I think it's like when a Drifter is hiking through the backwoods of Kentucky He comes on a site that is anything, but holy is what it says but yeah yeah something something similar to that i might be off but i just thought that was like man like that's just a really kick-ass description you know it's like yeah like i don't like some of these you know it's like how do you compete with that so yeah definitely like daylight to dark um
00:39:00
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so so far right now like that one is that one's like just getting buzz and a fun fact uh daylight to dark should be i think it's this month is supposed to be coming available for physical media purchase to all major online retailers like walmart target best buy so you'll be able to get it relatively easily um on all these major all these major retail sites so you should be able to get it there anybody wants i think to put them in the stores or is it just for online i don't so I don't know like like like we we signed a deal and I'm not I'm not really sure I know it's just going to retailers might be in a few stores but I think primarily it's like mostly online sales um but there there might be a few stores packing it so I I honestly don't know
00:39:54
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um it's it's just one of those things like dude i just made the movie yeah it's like i just made the movie i was you know flying by the seat of my pants i'll have to i'll have to get me a hard copy and uh send it to you and then send it out to ral and then have you guys sign it for me and then i can help still put it up put it up here my next step behind me is like my my wall of fame from all my guests and stuff like that listen I've got an original copy of the American vampire story signed by Roland Jewish says to my good friend Jake so nice like I've got it sitting in my office right next to the copy of daylight to dark I was like this epic you know so yeah yeah
00:40:37
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No, that's, that's
Collecting Memorabilia from Filmmaking
00:40:38
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cool. One of my, uh, one of my former guests, him and I become actually really good friends. He's an amazing musician. He's got a lot of things about to happen. Uh, we went, we went and seen him a few months back. He was at his hometown playing a little local bar and, uh, he, uh, he's a young kid, man, early twenties, but he had his set list on a piece of like printer paper that he wrote his set list out and everything like that.
00:41:01
Speaker
And, uh, ah we drove out in about three hours away from us we drove out spent the weekend out there and when he got done doing his set he was like hey man i got something for you freaking signed it dated it and everything and handed it to me i was like oh yeah this is going in a frame up on the wall dude i was like because one day you're gonna when you're huge i'm gonna have it and this is this is an og f freaking acoustic set list um so i that that's the kind of stuff is cool i mean especially when you when you're in the and when you're in the line of work that you're in and you get to come across people that you grew up watching or from movies that you've seen or you know other actors that are coming up along the way and that you're a fan of.
00:41:39
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and know and Then you get to work with them and you have that little little bit of memorabilia along with you know, Hey, I'm, I'm the boss. I need you to do this for me. this town again yeah yeah Like I, I dig that. Like, because you know, there's so many talented people I've got to work with and, you know, like some of them may never do anything again, but some of them are destined to be great. And I think it's so cool because usually every film I do, we get a poster printout
00:42:09
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And we have every cast member and every person on the film to sign the poster. And then we, you know, I put it my office. So I think that is so cool to get to have, you know, all those people I've got to work with, you know, and to get to keep a piece of that history with me and memorabilia and things that have happened over the years.
00:42:28
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um And I get to keep that, you know, I got their autographs. I got um ah things from people who are, you know, just, amazing people. So that's, that's a really cool thing. And I, I can really appreciate, you know, you doing that as like, a as a musician as well, you know, because ah it, it means something whenever people are excited about your work and people are like,
00:42:53
Speaker
we want your stuff. And it' was like, no you don't want my stuff. And they're like, no we want your autograph. We want you to sign this. And you're like, okay. And I mean, like, that's like that, that moment of recognition that like, I think you, like when you make something and you've put so many years into it and so much work and so much, you know, just like, holy shit, am I ever going to make anything out of this? You know, that's the moment that makes you say that it was all worth it. You know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. That's the moment. So I can dig that for sure.
00:43:22
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Yeah, that's and that's kind of the whole idea of this of this particular show is to spotlight the up-and-coming local artists. Hey, you're an up-and-coming entertainer yourself.
00:43:36
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I mean, we we don't have the biggest stage right now, but I'm a huge fan of, you know, whether it be movies or especially music, that that independent scene, man, I love it. Oh, yeah, 100%, man. you know yeah and And that's the thing. you know like There's so many things, like especially Hollywood right now.
00:43:53
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like I've seen indie films that cost like $600 be better than a multi-million dollar movie that is put out by like...
The Value of Indie Films Over Big-Budget Movies
00:44:04
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Fox or something 20th Century Studios or Sony, which don't get me wrong. Like those people are I love I love the idea of film. i I love those things. But I've seen so many indie films that just like blow some of these big things out of the water. And it's like those indie people, that's what's, you know, keeping this thing going. That's what's keeping it alive. Like last year when I went to the same convention, I'm going back to host the film festival again.
00:44:32
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they had david howard thornton there who plays art the clown and you know michael uh michael levy who done uh the new stream and he worked on uh the terrifier series and you know those are those guys are the ones that are kind of keeping a lot of this stuff up you know and i think that's so cool because those guys started out indie and then it's just become such a ah national success you know and i just i think super cool Yeah, no, I mean, we were talking.
00:45:01
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See later, Brittany. Have a good one, girl. ah We were talking earlier before we started, you know, about like the independent, yeah you know movies and film, films and whatnot.
00:45:12
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And I said, I was, I mean, I used to love, and I still do. Don't even know, I love Blumhouse. And they a lot of people don't know that they started out doing, go back into Blumhouse's old stuff, man. They got some crazy low-budget movies. Now they're top they're one of the top horror movie studios out there or production companies, yeah whatever they are.
00:45:34
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I mean, they dropped some of the biggest movies that come out come through Blumhouse, but like, yeah you know, you look at like the Blair Witch Project. I don't know what their budget was, but it wasn't very much. and yeah yeah I mean, they made stupid money off of it or yeah the the first the first paranormal activity. You know, they had very small budget and that movie blew up. And then I think they've done 35 different paranormal activity movies. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Which, which that's the genre of horror movies that I'm a really big fan of is that found footage type stuff. Yeah. I don't know why, but man, I am so, I'm obsessed with, you know, and, uh,
00:46:12
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and There's a company that did, there's a new film series out called VHS, and they're killing it. But that's all it is. It's just like an anthology of found footage. And they've got five or six movies now, but they've all been just phenomenal.
00:46:26
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But, you know, like you said, Arthur Clown, he just started out as, it was just a little short, you know? Yeah, yeah. Small character that caught on, you know. You never know when when you're going to do that movie that catches lightning in a bottle.
00:46:39
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. And that's that's what indie indie artists do, whether it's music, whether it's ah film. you know it's I'm ah um'm big on supporting independent people. you know if If I can support someone that's indie on a scene, i do it you know because those are the same people that support me. and you know like I always try to go with people that I know are in the indie industry. Like, uh, I do all of my music.
00:47:05
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Um, like in my films, I'll have, uh, a friend of mine named Bo Haas who Rollin knows as well. He does a lot of music. I'll have Rollin, do it to do some music. I mean, it's all those people who are, you know, they support indie and, you know, they, they just make amazing stuff.
00:47:22
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Um, those are all the people that, you know, I, I try to support and, you know, I try to support, support independent people you know and i and it's good uh to have a good portfolio and a good rapport but you know there's uh there's something about people that you know they just they kind of love the underdogs and you know i think think that's what the indie person is you know we're all kind of the underdogs on that so yeah uh yeah bohoss that's uh i uh roland told a few times i got i do i have to hit him up because i've listened to some of his music and stuff and
00:47:54
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And I know you talked about him a couple weeks ago when we were watching the movie. I got to hit him up that to see if I can get him on this show because he he he does make some really good music. Bo Haas and Cindy Lou, um they do they're a couple that do music. And, man, they make some really great stuff. And, like, almost 85% of the soundtrack in Daylight to Dark was them.
00:48:18
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Yeah, so yeah so there's a few that aren't in there that's different, but they done most of it and they're even probably going to have more ah more tracks in the ah in the director's cut Daylight to Dark.
00:48:31
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Jake glitched out. We'll get him back. Don't worry. Or I glitched.
00:48:49
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I I'm back. I think Jake's still glitched out.
00:48:58
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But, uh, no, guys, um, if you go on Tubi, Tubi's a free streaming site. Are you still there, Jake, or did I lose you? I think I'm here.
00:49:08
Speaker
I'm here. Okay. I was, I was like waiting to, yeah, melt in that I like lost you for a second. It goes out. I was just getting ready to say, um, Tubi's a free streaming site.
00:49:20
Speaker
And if you go to the search bar and just put Jake's name in there, Jake C. Young, it's going to bring up the movies, whether he's in them, directed them, whatever the case may be. There's quite a few of them on there, actually. Let me pull up my Tubi here real quick.
00:49:36
Speaker
One that I kind of want to, and one that I would like to find, and and you'll have to tell me if it's out there anywhere floating around, because i read the synopsis of it. It sounds really cool. You actually wrote and directed it.
00:49:48
Speaker
It was Robin Aloxone. Yeah. Yeah. sir That was a student film I done when I was in college. that was like my first It was a student film I done in college, and it was my first feature.
00:50:06
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It was my very first feature. And it is kind of. In the nether realm. It sounds really freaking cool. I was like where do I find this? Yeah. yeah it was It sounds cooler than it was. ah That was like a first ever. College flick. and Dude. Oh my god.
00:50:32
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The whole thing is like dubbed. So like. it's like it's like you you see them say words and then like you hear it differently than when they're saying it like the whole movie was dubbed and like it was yeah it was it was like my first major that i done and they even played it in like the local theater down here um but that was like my that was my first like feature film I done like, you know, and I was, I was still in college when i done and I don't know, that was back before I knew really what the hell I was doing. Yeah. Just kind of flying by, flying by the seat of my pants. Cause you know, you might say, but it was, that was, that was one of my first major productions. It kind that, that was the the moment when I was like,
00:51:20
Speaker
i can make a feature and then the rest just kind of yeah i can totally do this yeah well that was like one of those yeah that was one of those it's like if i can make this happen and if i can complete this thing if i can actually finish it I can make a feature film. you know I can make a whole full-ass hour-and-a-half movie. and you know that was That was the test. and I'd done that, and ever since after I'd done that, I've made different films. and I made a few different ones.
00:51:55
Speaker
um Not all of my films are necessarily like indie horror. I've done a few of them that were more like like drama and stuff. done one about Daniel Poon. I've done one. It was like ah It was like a narrative. ah i don't know if I don't know what the hell you would call that. It it was like like a cheap version of like a...
00:52:22
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You know what That's better off just left alone. That's in the ether. That's not it. But no, I don't want about Daniel Boone. it was like a modern version of like the story of Daniel Boone. And that was that was an early on.
00:52:38
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type deal um jeremy boggs was in that the guy that plays renfield he's been with me making films since i first started since the very beginning of my first college film with the the robin the robin hood one and ever since you know i've he's always he's been in somehow found a way to be in almost everything i've done he's a he's a phenomenal actor yeah he's we've somehow and i may not even consider him for the role and like he just pops up and i was like yeah i was gonna say i know when we were watching them when we were watching the movie the props got a lot of love renfield's wig was was a was a topic it was a big topic your wig was a was a topic yeah yeah yeah so like my hair there's blaze there's blaze renfield right there yeah no
00:53:30
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ah Yeah, the the hair, the cigar, i mean, ah whole the whole cowboy, you know. The movie's not that good, guys, but all the the the wardrobe and the props, they're amazing.
00:53:43
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Yeah, it's like it's like, just watch it for that, if nothing else. yeah Just watch it for the props. but oh Yeah, watch renfield Renfield's hair, man, that was like...
00:53:55
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that just hit me one day and i was like like they were gonna make him wear a hat and when i i was like no i was like i see this guy and the the the script said it used car salesman and i was like you know and and the first thing that came to mind when i thought that was like better call saul you know that vibe and i was like this dude needs like some kind of goofy ass hair piece and like it just it fits so perfectly in the film like it was perfect you know it's just funny as shit and you know it just fits so well i mean he just he he he played that character so well he played it to a t too like dude and he was like he was like should i be funny he's like i'm more of a serious actor i was like he's like how should i do this i was like i don't know he's like i'm not trying i said that's perfect don't try to be funny i was like i was like don't try to be funny i said you know what
00:54:48
Speaker
I said, let's play the character more like he's just angry and pissed off at everybody all the time. He's just old and grumpy. as like and And he did, and that was it. That was solid. Because you know he's just like just like he's only out for himself, and he just hates you know or everything and everybody. so you know Someone asked me, theyre like so is he a good guy or a bad guy in the story? I was like, no, he's just Renfield.
00:55:09
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actually He's just in he's his own entity, man. He's... He is what he is. He's just Renfield, man. and Yeah. And honestly, today, I think that is probably my most favorite version of Renfield. And I'm not saying it because it's my film, just because it's so cleverly done, you know, that he's like, he's just him. And, you know, it's just, it's just perfect. So I thought it was cool.
00:55:34
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No. with with With the newest, with with Daylight to Dark, you know as a dragon, do you get to see any of the analytics and stuff? like Or in any of your movies, do you get to see the analytics and how they're doing and with streams or or or anything like that?
00:55:48
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Or that just... Sometimes. so Usually the way that's based is I know if they're doing well is usually i see analytics on like certain platforms, but sometimes I don't see it until it's like quarterly.
00:56:06
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and Usually the quarterly ones that I get to see is usually based on um ah Royalties that are deviated off of that So that kind of tells me this was a good month. This was a good month. What was the quarterly?
00:56:18
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um or you know just it it all just kind of varies but so far I've not seen any analytics on daylight to dark but I can say I've had so many people message me that they have watched it or that they have seen it or that they are they're interested in it to that point that I know the analytics on that have to be have to be on a high scale because it's become such a such a such it's got a it's got its own little vibe to it and so you know a lot of people people that know me and people that are just kind of around you know they'll watch it just because so it's uh and you know when people watch it i'm always appreciative so i think it's uh i think it's awesome whenever you know
00:57:05
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it's on Tubi and you know, Tubi's free. I mean, you know, I don't, they don't cost anything to, you know, Tubi, you can just go on there, watch a movie, um, you know, just sit through ads and, you know, that's ads. Nobody likes ads, but Hey, that's how, that's how the little guy gets paid. So, you know, support your star support, your starving artist. It's like, um, um, yeah, man, I've, I've had a lot of, uh, really good feedback on that so far.
Daylight to Dark: Cult Following and 90s Resonance
00:57:32
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Um, but daylight to dark, man, it's just like,
00:57:35
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It's of its own kind, for sure. It's, yeah you know, it it's one of those, and Roland and I talked about it when he was on the on here.
00:57:48
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Some movies, especially in the 90s, they just have that appeal to them where they they get that cult following, that ct cult base, and it's like, you know, there was a couple movies that Roland had done, and and I had seen them, and I remember watching them.
00:58:03
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Yeah. And American Vampire was one of those. And I had actually rewatched it. was like man, I remember watching this one as a teenager. And I told him, he was like, oh you seen that? And I'm like, yeah, it was great. And I watched it again before i before i interviewed you.
00:58:17
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And I was like, I forgot how great this damn movie was. But that's how Light the Dark has that vibe to it. It's like one of those movies where it's it's a fun watch. You know, you can, I mean, hell, you guys go watch the movie on Amazon or Tubi.
00:58:31
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then after you watch the movie go watch our episode with the cast and and crew yeah yeah and and honestly um daylight to dark so for people that don't know it's like a spinoff of the american vampire story it's like a it's like a sequel type spinoff i don't know if i would call it a s sequel it's more of a spinoff um but i thought for whenever so i went back and i watched the film i actually watched it afterwards And I think between myself, my crew and Rollin, I think we paid a lot of homage to the American vampire because there were things in there I didn't even catch until after the movie that was like on point because like you got Moondoggy talking about his friend, Vlad the Impaler. And then like, you're like, oh, that's Vlad the Impaler. And it's like, you know, they direct out of the same universe. So it's like, it's really cool.
00:59:24
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that you guys even played a nice little homage to uh adam west yeah and uh and the the big kahuna the big kahuna yeah yeah that was really cool uh that was thats a little innuendo but you know and that's what a lot of people ask me they're like you have to watch the first one i was like no this thing is a standalone on its own yeah you know there's just those little references in there and That's what, you know you know, especially since I had watched it so recently, when I did the first, watch when I watched through the the movie, I was like, oh, nice.
00:59:57
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Well played. i too I see what you did there. yeah that' yeah it Yeah. Catch some of the things. There was other things where, you know, even when we were when we were all watching together, I would, you know, I would catch it or you guys pointed out. I was like, okay.
01:00:11
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kind of snuck that in there. Yeah. Yeah. And then, and then like, you know, you just randomly, you have bogey in there from, yeah it be you know, from American vampire. You're like, what? This guy's playing the same character that he played 20 years ago. I, I thought that was really cool. You know, originally,
01:00:29
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get this before Tuesday night was the original pick for that part. Originally it was written, that role was written for a guy named Tony.
01:00:41
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So it went through two actors that we were trying to get. One would have changed the whole course of everything. and it would have been from a guy named Tony who was a clairvoyant and a psychic who would have happened to have been played by, we were trying to get Danny Lloyd who played Danny in the shining.
01:01:06
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Okay. ah So, and his name was going to be, uh, uh, Tony like Anthony. So that would have like set that in me like unofficially set that in the world of the shining.
01:01:22
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So that's that was like the first one we were going with. We didn't get we didn't get Danny. So next we actually we reached out to the star of American Vampire. We actually tried to get Trevor LeSueur in there who played Frankie.
01:01:39
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um one of the production managers is like best friends with him and like i was trying to get him and then so he declines and i was like well holy shit and then you know one of the guys is like dude i know tuesday night and i was like who he's like kristen parker elm street four i like oh yeah and he's like you know i could probably get her and you know so we we got tuesday and Then getting Danny in there to reprise his role as bogey was just like, man, that was like bread and butter. I mean, it just went together so well. And Danny's such a cool guy. He came to the the convention that I hosted last year.
01:02:15
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and you know, I got to hang out with him and talk with him. And he's just, he's super cool. I mean, he's super cool guy. um So it was really cool. We we actually had replicated a photograph.
01:02:28
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At the very end, he was telling me, he was like, at the end of the movie you see me he said that was the first time i actually seen adam west in american vampire he said so my reaction when he walks by he said i was like that he's like that was real he said he's like the big kahuna so we actually took a picture where you know danny's sitting there like like doing that but you know it's jonah helsing you know the the the descendant of you know the big kahuna standing there so i thought that was really cool yeah that's awesome
01:03:00
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That's fun when you can do stuff like that, man. Yeah, yeah. You can go back, you know, I mean, essentially go back in time and you're you're able to kind of play a around and still throw references but do a totally different movie in its own right and and and not be a complete sequel.
01:03:19
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there is another picture so originally during the processing of this it got lost in the ether but there was like a comic book drawing that had ah young jonah helsing standing next to a man who strongly resembled the big kahuna it was supposed to be in the movie somewhere and it was like a comic book page cover and It ended up not making the final cut. It ended up like getting lost out in the ether somewhere. i thought I thought it was still pretty cool. It's still a cool looking thing.
01:03:54
Speaker
Thanks. so outside of Outside of the movies and whatnot, you know you you spoke you said you got a con coming up. which uh man Knoxville is like six hours from me I could make that is that a weekend is that a is that a weekend yeah that's it's August the first through the third um it's one it's the biggest horror convention in Knoxville um they have it every year I've been fortunate enough to be invited back for let's see since ah that since before night of the undead came out and it was still titled night of the living dead that is when i first started going and they've invited me back in some capacity every year oh wow
01:04:38
Speaker
hard <unk>ve I've developed a a real love with those individuals who own it really great people. And, you know, we're hosting a film festival down there. And, you know, this is going to be the biggest film festival that last year was the first, you know, start of it this year is going to be epic. This is like the first biggest one with this most interaction that we've had um you know, for there's a submission, you know, people can go online, fill out the submission to enter their film.
01:05:06
Speaker
And, you know, I'm going to be there hosting and giving out awards for people who make, make the, uh, make the final cut there's like five different awards they can win there's like the final girl award the poe award you know like the all these things and the the main award is called the oscar award like ah scare award yeah but you know that's it it's kind of lame you know we thought it was fun no it's yeah it's funny it's it's it's fun it's different yeah so i mean and that's that's going to be epic i mean and if you if you like cons and stuff like
01:05:41
Speaker
Definitely. this is one every horror fan should
CreepyCon Film Festival Excitement
01:05:45
Speaker
definitely check out. I mean, they've got contests. They have they have stuff. They have a whole ass stage and they have events going on the whole con. I mean, it's it's epic. I mean, it's it's really epic.
01:05:56
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i've never I've never been to any con of any sort, but I've always wanted to. I just haven't had the opportunity. If you go to that one first...
01:06:08
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You'll want to go to another one, but be advised, it will more than likely spoil you for some of the other ones. So I just figure if I come down there and I drop your name, i get like free VIP access and everything like that.
01:06:20
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Hey, they might, they might just be like, bro, you're here for the film festival. I don't know. might be like, you know, you're here for the film festival, but it's going to be a blast.
01:06:31
Speaker
Yeah. It's going to be epic. I've got that. i've got the one coming up this weekend it's in knoxville as well it's called frankencon it's like a sister con it's a really cool one i'm going to be down there this weekend visiting and then july i've got one in florida i'll be at fort myers florida at charlie's comic con and then i got rcpl con which is in russell county kentucky that's actually where we shot most of daylight to dark so i'm being invited there so that's that's kind of cool to get to go back down there and say hey to everybody and then there's one then i've got one that's coming up in shit when is that it's like there's so many something but i've got one i've got one that's coming up in uh july it's in uh
01:07:22
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danville kentucky i believe and then uh i think so far there's the one in august which is the creepy con which is the film festival one and it'll be in august um and definitely you know all these guys i try to plug everybody but sometimes there's just so many that go through the mix it's hard to keep it up you know usually my summers are pretty pretty busy um But yeah, man, if you get the chance, you should definitely come down to CreepyCon. A lot of people do like live podcasts and live videos and stuff. and yeah it's a
01:08:01
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I think they're they're having a lot of guests from Supernatural down there this year. so That's going to be really cool. I'm actually revisiting Supernatural as we speak because I never i never finished the series.
01:08:14
Speaker
was watching it when it when it came out and I think I got to like season 10 or 11 and uh i i just never got back to it and now it's on netflix and stuff i it took me a year and a half but i finally convinced um my ex i'm like let's just let's start watching this and uh she was like all right i don't know i don't want to watch it i'm not going to get into it it was one episode was fucked yeah yeah and yeah but now she's not here and i'm like well damn it i'm already invested yeah yeah yeah i know for sure man for sure it's uh it was it was a great show i really loved it and uh it uh it ran like super crazy long because i remember i remember watching jensen ackles
01:09:02
Speaker
in Smallville, like before he'd done anything big and he was in Smallville. And then I remember watching the Friday the 13th remake and then I see Jared Padalecki in there and was like, hey, that's Sam. ah that's yeah i was like i was like whyat my ah my ex-wife, she used to watch Gilmore Girls and Padalecki, he was in that. And when I when when i first started watching, I was like, hey, I know that guy.
01:09:29
Speaker
Yeah. yeah um But yeah it's it was a great show, and it's and it's cool to see the guys do everything that they're doing now. I mean, they're basically doing a full-on damn reunion of Supernatural on on the boys.
01:09:45
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I've seen all of those. Everybody back, and I'm like, let's go. I need to watch the latest season. I got but kind of fell behind on That's what I could be doing now, but now I'm going to finish Supernatural.
01:09:56
Speaker
Yeah. I'm dead set on finishing Supernatural. Yeah, I've watched The Boys, and that's one that you're just sitting there like, what the hell? After every episode, but man, it's a sinker because you get invested in that.
01:10:13
Speaker
i think I think that's part of what keeps people coming back is just because it's like so crazy. like It's so crazy. In the first season, and it first season The first season, it was it was it it was good, but it was a like it was tough. to You had to like really yeah down and watch. you know And then the second... and One episode that I'll never forget is the Herogasm.
01:10:36
Speaker
I knew you were going to say that. I knew you were going to say That is permanently fried into my head. it was oh It was one what-the-fuck moment after another in that episode. Oh, my God. Yeah.
01:10:49
Speaker
It is. pardon knew I knew that's what you were going to say. I knew it. of all of all the all Of all the crazy shit that's happened on that show, that one episode has permanently been imprinted on my mind and I cannot shake it as much as I try. It's because of what was introduced like in that episode. I know exactly what what you think of when you say that. it's It's that one character that has that one thing. Yeah. Yeah. yeah I know exactly what you're talking about. it's You know, it's actually, i have a friend of mine. we were talking about it and I was like, have you seen season three? He goes, no.
01:11:31
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was like, why not? I thought you were watching that. He goes, yeah, but after season two, my wife won't let me watch it anymore. I was like, dude, I was like, you have no idea. Yeah. yeah It just, it was like,
01:11:46
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there's no way they can out weird themselves. Hold on. had a moment but And they first, when they first introduced soldier boy, um, Jensen, I want the one line, one of his, one of his first lines of man, Bill Cosby could make a hell of a drink. I'm like, really? that They went there. Yeah. Yeah.
01:12:07
Speaker
yeah Yeah, i was like I was like, that is Captain Not America. 100%. it's ah It's an interesting show. It's an interesting take on superheroes. but Yeah, yeah it's it's stuff like that that keeps them coming back for sure. It keeps people coming back, which is, you know as an indie person, you know it's kind of ah that's kind of what we try to do with indie films. you know the The crazier you make them, the more it's going to bring people back. That's what keeps you watching our stuff.
01:12:38
Speaker
Now, as as i'm as I'm diving into your your catalog, is there anything that I need to be warned of? Not like that, no.
01:12:51
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do Do you do anything like that? like you know like um Like a shock and awe thing? you know like Like Terrifier, man, that first one. And and not that it got any um that it got any better for throughout the next three, because some of the kill scenes were just...
01:13:06
Speaker
Brutal. completely ah Just unnecessary. And I don't know if you've ever seen that Winnie the Pooh movie. The first one. yeah the Yeah. The first one was just some gruesome. growth like I love a good horror movie. I love a good kill scene.
01:13:23
Speaker
but you don't have to be over the top 40. know So so that's what that's one thing i will say about every film I've done, and I've made a conscious decision to do this, is i like the idea of having a kill scene and having that horror, and you can still maintain that suspense and horror without using so much of the red stuff.
01:13:44
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I mean, and that that's that's true suspense. if you You don't have to, the gore is not always better. If if you just have all gore in your story, then it's like, what what the hell are you doing? You know it's, it's unnecessary. like Like you said, and it gets kind of boring after a while.
01:13:59
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Yeah. I was like, if you, if you don't have a good story and this, uh, this next film I got coming out, it's, it's probably one of the more gorier films I've done.
01:14:10
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um it's got some, it's got some pretty gnarly makeup in it. Um, but it's, uh, it's It's got a good story to it. So, yeah, I definitely think that's the one thing as a filmmaker you got to be conscious of is um you can your films can be known for like all gore and stuff. But, you know, at a certain point, if you if you don't have a solid story, you know, you're you're you're just doing it unnecessarily. So, yeah, I definitely think that's a that's a real factor.
01:14:38
Speaker
That was ah that was the cool thing about the dark room. like that one the one scene where uh choked that dude out you didn't really actually you just heard it you know you see you or you see the killer grab him but outside of that it wasn't and even the the construction site too was just like oh well you know you don't need to see it but you know what's going yeah and it's like so quick you're like oh wow you know and it's like yeah Yeah, The Dark Room, that that one was well-received because people were like, i was that's like kind of mind fuck. That's twisted. There's no kind of about it. It was a mind... I'm going to have to watch it again.
01:15:21
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that's That's one of those movies where I'm going to have to watch again because it's like my brain didn't 100% comprehend. I'm like yeah youre like, I'm so mentally fucked right now. What did they just do to me? But that that that character, the the get-up and everything, was really freaking cool.
01:15:39
Speaker
I mean, it's it's it's like, you know, you have your horror icons like Jason and Freddy and Michael Myers and stuff. It's kind of got that vibe, like a Michael Myers vibe to it. where it's Yeah, like ah a masked killer, yeah.
01:15:53
Speaker
Yeah, not not nothing crazy going on. Just a menacing figure that's creepy as hell. Especially when just shows up out of nowhere. like yeah You know, it makes me want to stay at home at night. because it's for Or not be walking around a you know the back of a a shopping plaza anytime soon because that fucking creature might pop up. yeah Yeah, walking behind a shop or going to a construction site you know that was supposed to be... He's like, that was a dinosaur dig. like
01:16:28
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ah But yeah, man, that that film was received really well by a lot of people just because it's so not what you expect. And then you know the ending is just like...
01:16:40
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not what i expected you know and i i had people like i wasn't expecting him you know to open that door and then find what he found so it was yeah no it was it was it was cool
01:16:58
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sorry i was asking my daughter a question real quick uh no it was it was like i said it's one of those movies and there's movies like that there's there's been a lot of movies where it's like need to watch that again Yeah, so that one was kind of inspired off off some classics like Rear Window and stuff like that. oh Movies like that kind of helped introduce that.
01:17:18
Speaker
Yeah, it had that kind of... Like John Cusack has done a lot of really good mindfuck thrillers like Identity or 1408, you know, stuff like that. Yeah, 1408, one of my faves. yeah I love movies like that. They're scary, thriller...
01:17:38
Speaker
just mess with your head, rattle your brain. I've seen identity probably 20 times and every time i watch it the ending still blows my mind like i know what's coming i know what's going to happen and it still blows my mind i think dark room kind of will have that effect too like all right i've seen it i know it's going to happen but it's still going to be like originally on the dark room it was supposed to actually just come on with that opening scene where you know the guy's behind the the shopping plaza and you know he's you know attack time quite i like yeah he's like So that was actually how the movie was supposed to come on. And my wife actually made a suggestion. She's like, I don't like it I was like, what do you mean you don't like it? She's like, it's just missing something. She's like, you know what you should do? i said, what? She said, start it at the end and then come back to it. And I was like, okay. And so when we done that, like,
01:18:34
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you're not expecting the ending because you think you've already, you already know what's, what's happened. You already know this guy's fake. So like, you know, and then he's like, Oh, well he's off, you know, he's dead. and then at the end you're like, wait, what? go and he Hold on a damn second. Yeah.
01:18:51
Speaker
Yeah. No, I'm, I'm, I'm, like I said, I'm excited to, you know, obviously being a fan of, some of the work that you've already done, but also being a fan of the independent film scenes. And and and your movies are like right up my alley of the genre that I like, that horror, thriller, suspense, and stuff like that. So it's like, yeah, man, I just got to carve out the time and sit down. and yes Because that's the other thing I've noticed, because like I put on Night of the Undead today. I just threw it on, and I was doing a couple of other things.
01:19:27
Speaker
And was like, I can't be... i gotta you know because there are some movies or some tv shows you can put on the background and clean and cook cook dinner or whatever yeah i i got because i kept
Engaging Elements of Night of the Undead
01:19:38
Speaker
stopping and going what the hell just happened rewind it back hold on a second why is this guy playing a guitar all of a sudden out nowhere which is a really cool you know a little little music thing was like the hell did I just mean? Yeah.
01:19:51
Speaker
Yeah. There's, there's some stuff in there. And honestly, that's another film that if you watch the original night of the living dead, the original George Romero's original from the, uh, was 68, 1968, six, six, six, seven, something like that. Yes.
01:20:09
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If you watch that one, this one is works as a direct almost sequel to that movie. So if you watch that one, you're going to catch a lot of little things that are in and out of there that are from that original film um that are a little innuendos, like little Easter eggs throughout the movie.
01:20:29
Speaker
I like, I like having like the, the YouTube channels, the podcasters, the different YouTube clips and stuff like that. You guys kind of threw that a little a little bit on. Yeah. So that, that idea just kind of hit me. Yeah. Like, um, uh, the other guy was working with kind of come up with the allegory. He's like, COVID would be really good. And he's like, you know, that would work for, ah you know, like a good movie. And they wanted to do just like a straight, like remake.
01:20:55
Speaker
And I was like, nah, ah Nah, I was like, i was like this this is a story I've got here i was like, I've got a story that just hit me. and I was like, that's that's it, man. That's it. So, you know, as that just kind of developed, you know, it just it just hit me out of nowhere. And I was like, that that's it.
01:21:12
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And, you know, just, um which it actually, you said you got halfway through. So the lady that plays the, one of the main girls, like the one that's her mom, there she's talking on the phone.
01:21:26
Speaker
if you look really close um that is actually the girl that was uh one of the girls in the bathroom in the first scream movies oh okay yeah that's uh that's nancy ritter she was in uh she's in scream she was uh one of the girls when they uh when they walk in talking about sydney prescott when she's like in the stall crying you know she's she's one of the girls that was in there so she's she played the role of the mother yeah yeah Nice.
01:21:57
Speaker
got allive You got all these little ah and all these little Easter eggs and tidbits, like little little fun facts about your your films. That's cool. when as are As a director and whatnot, out of curiosity, and for anybody out there that may be listening that may be like, man, I want to be a director. I want to be an actor.
01:22:14
Speaker
What are some of the biggest hangups that you run into when you're trying to do a movie or direct a movie? So... yeah so I will tell you, if you're an actor or director, I'm going to encourage you to probably start with one or the other to start with.
01:22:29
Speaker
Because when you're acting and directing, I'll even tell you to this day, there are things that I miss as a director. that I do not pick up on um to make my film as good as it can possibly be to put those little Easter eggs in there unless they're premeditated. And you know that you are going to those in there Definitely start with one or the other because my biggest hang up is trying to, you want to try to get those shots just perfect.
01:23:01
Speaker
But when you're in the film, you have to find a really good, you got to, that's when at the point you rely on your DP and, you know, your PAs and, you know, your ADs and all these other, you know, there there's never just one person in a room. Like you see a scene um with me is for instance, in daylight to dark, when I'm, you know, listening to the gun there, whenever I'm right before they come to the RV and,
01:23:24
Speaker
um That was actually, that was filmed. There's like five people in a room and that's, that's in like a, that's in a studio room. That's not in the RV, that's in a room. And there's like five people in there. Everybody's making sure it's good. And, you know, because as a director, you're, you're depending on all those people to help you create that vision.
01:23:44
Speaker
So. If you want to be an actor, I definitely think that it's a lot of fun um if you can find that niche to be who your character is. you know you You got to develop who your character is and what they're doing, like why they're there, and get inside that mindset of, like I got to be this person. like I'm not me right now. I am this person.
01:24:07
Speaker
And ah ah when you're acting and directing, those are thoses just some hard hangups because it gets really stressful. I mean, man, it gets like stressful trying to trying to make sure because that's ah that's another thing.
01:24:24
Speaker
There are certain things as a director that only you will ever be able to catch. Only you will ever only ever be able to pick up on. Like, you know, a lot of times I'm sitting over there listening to the headphones for every scene I'm not in.
01:24:37
Speaker
i am behind the camera. Every one of them on daylight to dark for every scene you do not see me. i am behind the camera. I am still there 100% for every single scene, standing there 90% the time doing audio and watching and directing and saying, okay, if you don't like, let's try it this way, you know, and just that that's one of the biggest hangups because, know,
01:24:58
Speaker
as a director, you really need to master that before you can focus on being an actor and a director. Now I'm no way am I a master at direct at directing, but I've learned what skills I've had to develop as a director to be able to do that and be an actor at the same time. So, you know, you're wearing a lot of hats.
Complexities of Directing and Acting
01:25:19
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Yeah. Yeah.
01:25:23
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I know the feeling. Yeah, yeah you you know you know, you know, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Sometimes you you got one too many hats on. Yeah, yeah. and It's like, ah yeah yeah Jonah Helsing's got like four more hats under this one. like Yeah.
01:25:41
Speaker
Yeah, 100%. And then, you know, and that's another thing, man, like you gotta, you gotta pay attention to the shots and the continuity as the director, you know, you've got to, you've got to think, you know, how continuity wise is going to work. And,
01:25:55
Speaker
that is That is one good thing i will say about being a director and wearing your own hats. It's because as a director, I do a lot of my own editing. So when we're shooting, I can actually shoot with the edit in mind of how i'm going to do it. So I can actually shoot to edit, which makes shots come out a whole lot smoother.
01:26:14
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Transitions look a whole lot better. and you know just certain things because it can be hard whenever somebody else is shooting and you're trying to just you know splice it all back together when you're doing that with that already in mind it makes things you do a little easier heard that that's why we just do everything raw and uncut around here yeah I used to do that when we were first started I used to do that and I'm like alright I'm going to break here I'm going to splice music in you know and then it's like
01:26:45
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oh man, then you listen back it's like, oh, I should have let that go another 30 seconds longer and then put the music in. Yeah, yeah or and you you'll always be your biggest critic. mean, I don't care what anybody says.
01:26:58
Speaker
You will find stuff that nobody else, like, man, for instance, like, all of my past films i still find stuff that cringe me to death on those like i'll find a i'll hear a pop or a click or something that shouldn't be there and it's just like like i gotta get up i can't watch this anymore i' like what the hell dude it's your movie it's like listen like you will always to date always be finding stuff to correct yourself yeah that's so you yeah you know you know the struggle I was just going to ask you that that question was, how how hard are you? Because I had to stop listening back to replays.
01:27:32
Speaker
I used to listen to all the shows, and I had to stop. Because i would listen to it and I'm like, oh man, I should have worded it this question differently or I should have done this or man if I waited just a second longer that joke would have really hit, you know, you know got a better pop than what it already got her or whatever and I had to stop because then when I'd go to do a show I'm in my head and I'm like, yeah, all right. So, you know a lot of I've learned as a director on a lot of really long scenes, what we've had to do. And as a, when I'm directing and acting, I'm just gonna tell you a hundred percent,
01:28:08
Speaker
things suffer, whether it's directing or acting, because this last movie, I directed it as well and acted in it. and And the whole time I'm having somebody follow me around with a binder with my lines in it. And they're they're physically reading me my lines and then I'm just repeating the lines and they're being spliced together because there's so much to cram in there and also try to do other stuff. It's just it's really hard to remember all that stuff. So yeah, I've got someone physically...
01:28:36
Speaker
like a script supervisor reading the lines me holding the moment they finish and then i say the line in my you know in my character and then it's just spliced from there so yeah movie magic you know so i really admire stage actors and people do stuff raw because there's no saying cut in there there's nobody go beat you gotta just do it and then when you fuck up you gotta own it Yeah, yeah if you if you screw up a line, you better hope you're really good at improv so you can save a scene or something like that.
01:29:11
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. i've had I've had to run with them like that before. So, you know, it's just it's it's all it's all a ah ah game that you you have to choose. um But yeah, man, I still pick my my stuff apart. Like to this day, I still... ah For instance, I'm actually... ah Before I came onto this ah pod with you, man, I was actually...
Creating a Director's Cut
01:29:32
Speaker
um i was working on the director's cut for daylight to dark i'm up there changing stuff that i didn't like on the original version of you know going back and finishing up my director's cut you know like this is how it was supposed to be yeah right things like that yeah so like the director's cut didn't get released because it's like where it's so much longer than the theatrical version you know it's uh just it just it was a big stretch so with the director's cut you know it's just i i get to go in and kind of fix things that that i was having trouble with yeah well if anybody who's ever seen justice league and then watched the snyder cut be prepared for daylight to
01:30:14
Speaker
They like the dark for the young, for the young cut. Oh yeah. first law I don't know that I would go that far. Listen, I watched justice league in the theaters and it was so bad. I couldn't even watch it.
01:30:27
Speaker
I watched the Schneider cut and like 10 minutes in, I'm like, Holy shit. This is what I needed. You know, it's like, why was the, why was this not the, I, being a comic book nerd and being a DC fan, like I was like, all right.
01:30:40
Speaker
and And I, I liked the movie, but I was also disappointed by the movie. And then when that's like, you said, when that Snyder cut came out, I'm like, why isn't this the movie that we got? Why wasn't this the movie we got in the theaters? You know, which makes me, which makes me as a fan myself of those is like,
01:30:58
Speaker
what the hell did we not get on Batman versus Superman? You know what I mean? exactly. Because that whole movie loved it, but it was so, like, you know, like, was, like, stuff just, it was weird. Like, stuff didn't belong, and their motives weren't there, and then it was, like, okay, if I've seen what they've done with Justice League, what did they not do for us on yeah Batman versus Superman?
01:31:20
Speaker
Yeah, that Batman versus Superman, it was, like, okay They know about each other. And now they're fighting. like What's going on? Why? Why? why but The most disappointing thing in all of batman versus superman was yeah superman saying tell martha goodbye what did you say yeah but yeah i was like i was like i think i like i was like yeah i think i like the the cartoon version better had a better story but you know that's that's a price you pay because you know like my uh daylight to dark um i think overall
01:32:00
Speaker
it's a better film for the um for a first watch but for the extended version you know the the director's cut um it's one of those it's it's not a whole lot different but there's things in there that you know i can add that you know i feel complete things a little more so and it's just it's just you pick and choose got You gotta find a way to give Drake his memory back for that one night, man. Yeah. is That one scene. Yeah. but What a great scene just to lose your, you know, have it taken away from you. per yeah He's like, what the hell? Which though I told you, ironically, Audrey wasn't even supposed to be in that scene. And then, you know, we had some fall throughs and I called her and I was like, listen, I need you here. And she was like, you better be glad I like you. And i was like
01:32:53
Speaker
and I will pay your same rate. i was like, get here. I need you. And she's like, okay. And, you know, she showed up and saved the day because, you know, she just, she fit the scene so well, you know, so it just, it works, you know, she was, she was originally like, I think we said she was vampire, like vampire two or something. And then developed into this whole life character. so yeah, was just assistant which is crazy, you know, just how, you know,
01:33:24
Speaker
Things can change so quickly and on a dime. 100%, man. When you're filming on set, or on location and stuff like that, that's something I've always been curious about.
01:33:37
Speaker
how many distractions do you run into like outside, like a fire truck going by or some random goofball walking by and like right in the middle of a scene or something like that?
Sound Quality Evolution in Filmmaking
01:33:50
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You, if you're going to ever be in film or expect to be, just go ahead and chalk that up to that's going to happen. like Like eight out 10 times, that's going to happen. Um, um,
01:34:05
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And honestly, that's why we use such like controlled microphones on the actors. We actually, instead of using booms, we got to now we just put them directly like ah wireless mics right on the actors.
01:34:18
Speaker
because that was a problem you know you're booming and then you're getting like these stupid birds in the side or something and then you know or like traffic driving up and down or something or a dog barking you know it's like and don't get me wrong they still pick up on those lavaliers you know but you can you can you got more to work with when the sound is just direct instead of you know taking a large variety of which actually if you watch night of the undead which i'm totally telling on myself live you know in front of the whole world but who cares yeah but it's just on the internet it's not that big a deal and yeah it's uh we we used a boom on it and like i'm not a fan of the sound quality on that film
01:35:00
Speaker
Because you can tell it's boom because there's so much more extra noise that is kind of unnecessary. um But we used a boom and that was back before we started using condensed microphones that are just on actors. And um I think, I want to think dark room was like one of the first times I used those condensed mics and, you know, just audio quality night and day on both of those films. So so now now I'm going to go back and rewatch all the movies and watch them a couple of times and pick up on all the sound quality and yeah well i'm going to go with dark room with dark room
01:35:36
Speaker
it is where it's it's shot in like an older style look it's supposed to be on like a 50 millimeter you know it looks like an older film you do have subtle like grain running in the back like that old record you know graining style so you may not pick it up as much there but i thought that was a subtle touch you know it's it's made to look like it's an old film you know so i was yeah i was gonna ask you about that i totally forgot but now you did that you brought it up yeah i was gonna ask was that was that done intentionally but she' just answer Yeah, it was, that was a hundred percent intentionally.
01:36:10
Speaker
Some of the people that I was working with that film, like the people I was working on with it had complaints about that, but I was like, no, was like, I feel that the whole film, it fits it because the whole thing is about film, you know, and about developing film. And, you know, it,
01:36:26
Speaker
it i i feel like it just it fits the narrative so much better than just making it like just a movie you know it's it's there's so much narrative there and when you're decompressing the quality of footage to make it look older you know and it's done on purpose man you can get by with a lot of stuff so it's like it it it works it just works so makes makes It's got to make it a little bit easier and and the in the editing process, I would think. 100%. We'll let that slide.
01:36:57
Speaker
100%, yeah, it helps. But, I mean, it's still it's still a struggle. But, you know, when you're doing ah a grindhouse-style film, yeah you know, you've got a lot of room to play with. Mm-hmm.
01:37:10
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You talk about raw, just uncut, just like and those old grindhouse films, man. Yeah. I remember when I was first introduced to him, I was a teenager or whatever. And I was like, this is horrible.
01:37:25
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And then I realized, Oh wait, they did this on purpose. Okay. Now it's not so bad. Yeah. it' like it me Yeah. yeah And that, that was what I tried to do in dark room. You know, you'll see like little blips throughout the the film, you know, of like, uh,
01:37:38
Speaker
like the actual, like the film messed up, like, know, and stuff, you know, so little blips on that, that just kind of add more to the aesthetic of the, the piece. Do you have like any, any one director or anything like that, or a couple directors that, that heavily influenced your style or what you do or somebody that you looked up to when you were younger, when you're like, I'm going to do that one day.
Influences from Hitchcock to Flanagan
01:38:02
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um I've mostly all the directors came later on. I've had handful of directories that influenced the way that I make films.
01:38:14
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And most of those came later on whenever I was starting to make film. As a child, it was more, ah felt more along the lines of it was just more my imagination and pretending to be things.
01:38:29
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So it wasn't so much one in specific director as it was just a spectrum of ideas. Yeah. so when you're When you're a kid, you want to be everything. you know so That's what I said. They said, what do you want to be when you grow up? I said, I couldn't decide. so i wanted to be everything. so upper became you know an actor and a filmmaker so I could be whatever I wanted to be. yeah and that's That's what I came up with. I found a little snippet that they put in our local paper from like when I was in like kindergarten like way back in the nineteen hundreds was like you know I find it and I'm reading it.
01:39:05
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and it's like it's says Jake wants to be a scientist because the Hulk is a scientist. That was totally something that, you know, you never grew up. And like, everybody's like, I want to be a firefighter because they help people. I want to be a nurse because they save people, blah, blah, blah. And I like, I want to be a scientist because the Hulk is a scientist. I was like, I don't even remember this. I was like, was like four years old.
01:39:30
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but nice it's thick so hey but you know had a handful had a handful of directors like mike flanagan he's one of my favorites because he started out very indie and he's done some hella good movies good shows um i'm i'm a big fan of his grumelo del toro um alfred hitchcock i think like um ah like I even like Adrian Lyon. I think he's he's done a lot of really good films. They're not necessarily horror. They're actually like the you know romantic thriller type deals, but he's got a lot of really cool stuff in there.
01:40:08
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and there's There's just a handful of people that's influenced me over time that I've just i've picked up notes as they progress. But um definitely Mike Flanagan's in my top.
01:40:20
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like two he's he's definitely he's definitely one of the people that i've i've learned a lot from and i've watched well i kind of like myself i've watched this stuff progress as he started and just moved up the chain you know from doing indie films like Hush all the way to like, you know, the Midnight Mass and the fall of the House of Usher and Dr. Sleep. and You know, he he done all of those. And usually whenever I start watching a good flick, you know, it it was a real treat whenever I'd see his name pop up. And i was like, OK, I know it's going to be good. so Yeah, as I say, there's some good movies in there.
01:40:57
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Yeah, for sure, man.
01:41:01
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Midnight Mass is one that I want to watch. I haven't watched that yet, but I've heard good things about it. Yeah, it's it's interesting. At first, you wouldn't think it is, but you know it's a very interesting, really really interesting flick. and He uses Kate Siegel in a lot of his films, which people a lot of people don't know that Kate Siegel is actually married to Mike Flanagan, so they kind of started doing like a couple duo type deal. Yeah, they started doing like a couple duo type of making film. so You see a lot of her stuff, and then when you find that out, you're like, oh,
01:41:33
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these people did start indie because they're just using people they got, you know, around them, you know, and just, you know, people like that. So it is, you know, but, you know, they developed into multi-million dollar Netflix films. So you got to start somewhere.
01:41:47
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Yeah, exactly. no you like I said, you just got to find that that right movie that that catches on and kind of, takes off and then you know like you said you guys have already kind of flirted around about a sequel for daylight to dark it's one that we joked around when when when you guys were on the show with us about because there's just like just so much more that could be done like with your character of jonah uh you know and and and vampires i mean as long as you don't incorporate sparkly freaking vampires but yeah and i like i like the idea that we we we made it so meta you know we we joked about stuff like that you know he's like my sister gonna start sparkling in the sun you know and he's like yeah
01:42:30
Speaker
you really just make a twilight reference and then you got like you he's like hey let's leave the corny lyrics for taylor swift and you know it's just like yeah just it's it's it's it's very meta which i i love that about it so it just it worked yeah yeah lot lot of the references although the brother and sister that was that was borderline uh i was waiting for one of them to yell out roll tide at any moment that was yeah yeah yeah yeah um was yeah it was like uh yeah roland i told you about the pillow fight scene in the original script they're supposed to have like this big pillow fight and like we started reading it on set like we get all the way on set and we were gonna film this and we get there
01:43:15
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ah the actors start reading it i'm in there getting my wardrobe and everything on and because when you shoot you have to do everything in like one to two days all in one location so you have to get shots from like the beginning the middle and the end of the movie all that same day so i'm in there getting wardrobe and i come back you know uh back in there where the actors were rehearsing i come in there and you know they start reading it and they're like uh and i was like yeah okay this is weird let's just get rid of that all all together yeah and everybody i was like this is a little incestuous i was like yeah brother just you like i was like yeah i was like i was like it's and i was like yeah this is weird and then like all i hear is like one of the one of the pas in the corner goes stop it step bro i was like okay nine done done you were one scene away from uh making a totally different movie
01:44:06
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Yeah, I was like, no,
On-the-Spot Script Changes
01:44:08
Speaker
no. I said, we're going to cut it. We're going to make meta. I said, he's going to say, I'm not going to pillow fight you. yeah So it was like, it was like, yeah, now was I would, I think that was a smart move.
01:44:22
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Yeah, like it like I did, that gla that could have very easily turned into a totally different movie that would be on a totally different streaming site. Well, you know, and that's what I was telling Rawlings, you know, like when you get reading it, it's like, it sounds cool on paper, and then whenever you go to actually do it, it's like,
01:44:37
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oh oh. I was like, maybe that's not such a good idea. And he wrote it, and he was like, he's like, you know what, it happens. And he was really cool about that. But yeah, it was it was a it sounded like a funny scene at the time, and then it just like, when it came time to do it, it's like, okay, this is just weird. think this Things got real weird real quick. yeah yeah we We have moments like that all the time, man.
01:45:02
Speaker
In my head, or I'll think of something like, man, this sounds like a really good idea to do on a show. And then I'll hit up Blaze, and I'm like, hey, man, got this idea. And then as I'm saying the words, I'm like, Wow, that's dumb. Yeah, all the time. You should try coming up with ideas for movies. I mean, you're like, you really want to know what the fuck is that? I could totally do a movie. That'd be easy. Yeah. i it's You know, you start planning stuff. It's like, this is going to cool. And then you like start reading it aloud. You're like, oh,
01:45:34
Speaker
Yeah, so i couldn't I couldn't imagine trying to write a movie or even directed a movie because I know how many times, like I said, Blaze or myself or one of the other guys will come up with an idea. And until we get it, until there's words come out of our mouths and we hear it out there in the the universe, it's like, yeah, please tell me I'm stupid because I can't go back on this now. I heard you put it out there. Yeah, 100%. 100%.
01:46:01
Speaker
everybody agrees with me I gotta run with it and I know it's a bad idea but yeah just just one of those just do it type of deals just throw shit at the wall and see what sticks and see what happens you know that's like we had that whole concept on Saturday night where we literally put the link in the in the chat and whoever wants to come up here on the panel with this can and and and that happened purely by coincidence and accidental and I was like this could be really bad Or it could be really good.
01:46:31
Speaker
Yeah. yeah I'm pretty sure we've had two serial killers come up on the panel with us at different times. I'm pretty sure but i yeah we're going to read in the newspaper someday. I'm like, Hey, I know that guy. Yeah.
01:46:46
Speaker
Yeah. You just, yeah. but next of In the morning.
01:46:52
Speaker
but um But yeah, you're just like, it's already there now. Now we just run. For sure, man. So, um and don't want to well we got food ma but i dont want like I don't want to keep you too long.
01:47:06
Speaker
Outside of the cons, we got the movie. The new movie that will be coming out eventually. but but don't know if I would have given it. Oh, Rowling. Oh, no.
01:47:22
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yeah Listen, Rowling, I love you, man. He said, no, seriously, you made the right choice. what was like they Listen, it sounded good on paper. It sounded great on paper, but then whenever we got to listen, it's the price you pay working with kids. You know, it's it's it's different when it's, you know, but would you're when you're reading it on paper, you're like, yeah, this kind of makes sense. But then when you see interaction, like,
01:47:48
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between brother and sister, and it's already a little bit questionable and a little bit suspect in the movie as it is. You know, it's like, ah. I'll tell you what, Rollin, in the sequel, we have the pillow fight. Yes. We have found our epic showdown. It's a pillow fight. together Yeah, you go. Yeah.
01:48:11
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Oh. No. It's how you defeat the vampire with a freaking pillow fight.
01:48:23
Speaker
No, man. I truly do hope because I have become, you know, I think all of us were, I didn't know what to expect, you know, but I have become a ah fan of it.
Daylight to Dark: Sequel Prospects
01:48:38
Speaker
The guys, Mike and Blaze, both fans of it. I i think that'd be really cool if that opportunity is there as a fan to definitely see ah sequel, see more.
01:48:48
Speaker
and Like I said, there's just so much more that that could be done especially with your character i mean yeah 100 yeah there i think i think that's definitely one i can't say for sure right now but i definitely think that's one that will be returning in the near future he is yeah we all and guys these yeah okay yeah yeah it's a Like I said, i this might this might be that film you know for you. that's Yeah, for sure.
01:49:20
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Into the stratosphere, man. Next thing know, there's 14 sequels to the movie and Jonah Watts does get the action figure with the cigar. Yeah. it's a It's one of those things, man. It's like...
01:49:35
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um You're going to have daylight too dark, and then you're going to have daylight after dark, and then you're going to have morning to midnight. All these little...
01:49:49
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yeah not dark enough just just like best in the furious franchise you know yeah all these random yeah and then we'll we'll have one that's just called daylight and then one that's just called dark yeah is daylight to dark in space because
01:50:10
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Jonah's hunting vampires in space, man. Space vampires. when When I get to that point, that's going to be one of those like where you have another actor that's playing Jonah Helsing. and like like it's like I've officially i've become the George Clooney of Batmans.
01:50:29
Speaker
I've done everything I can do. yeah but yeah I've done it all now. yeah but But yeah, man, like you know like we said earlier, you know you'd you you'd never know.
01:50:41
Speaker
and I think it's cool because not only from you guys and stuff, but um and maybe i'm in you know maybe I'm in the algorithm or whatever, but I'm seeing daylight to dark everywhere. yeah though yeah I'm getting freaking ads for it.
01:50:54
Speaker
ah but Yeah. oh So and that's cool. That's that's that's exciting. i'm open Hopefully the new movie will be successful too. Like I said, I looked at the synopsis of it. I see that there on, on, on your IMDB and I'm like, Oh, this could be really freaking cool.
01:51:12
Speaker
Like this could definitely be 100% right up my alley. One of those can't, can't wait till it comes out. Yeah. That's a, that's one of those nail biters, man, for sure. For sure. It's a, it's a nail biter, but yeah, I definitely think there's, there's a world of endless possibilities for future projects for sure.
01:51:31
Speaker
going to have to get my, uh, about to get my hard copy and then come to the cons and completely fangirl out. Yeah, for sure, man. Yeah, hey, you know what I tell? and more The more the scarier.
Charity Fundraising with a Shaved Beard
01:51:45
Speaker
Come get some popcorn and come come watch a movie.
01:51:49
Speaker
Can't go wrong, man. Just know that if you see a giant Sasquatch walking your way, that you're not in danger. It's just me. Dude, listen. a con, you know how like plausible that actually is to see a giant Sasquatch walking? Because there's so many people in cosplay like...
01:52:07
Speaker
Like, I'm just going to like to see you over like a, like a zombie Chewbacca is going to be a relief. I'm just going to say this is the most normal thing I've seen all day. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
01:52:20
Speaker
A hundred percent. yeah That's a the guys all here. They, they bust my balls and and called me a Sasquatch and whatnot. I'm like, ah you know, I, I, I get it because they do the same thing to Padalaki and it's Supernatural, calling them moose and and yeah references. And I'm like, we're the same freaking size. We're not that big.
01:52:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. but Yeah. But, but yeah, they call it, they're like, yeah, Glick's our resident Sasquatch. Bigfoot's a real. He's right there on your screen. You're just jealous us of the beard.
01:52:54
Speaker
Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah. Shock. shock the world if i ever decide to shave yeah but yeah hey that's uh that's that's gotta be your uh um that's the uh the biker vampire gang he's got the got the beard yeah the vampires that return in daylight to dark they're they're avenging they're they're uh they're falling avenging my sweet lilith yeah yeah i'll call them oh you call the uh you can call it uh Like Vlad's Angels or something. Yeah, something like that. Yeah.
01:53:27
Speaker
That'd be cool. oh No, actually, we've we've talked about me shaving my beard before, but I want to do something for charity. I think I would love to do something around Christmas time for charity and do like a shave or don't shave type deal and donate the money to like Children's Hospital or something like that.
01:53:45
Speaker
and you know, whatever raises the most will decide the fate of my beard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're, um, my, uh, my wife used to do the locks for love. So she'd grow her hair real long and then cut it off. And then, you know, which is really cool because if you're going to do something that's like drastic, at least you're doing it for a good cause. You know what i mean? yeah it's, that's really cool to do something. My, uh, my, my girls have done that and I've done it. Excuse me.
01:54:12
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I've done it a couple times because, uh, i used to I used to have really long hair. And I started a job where they're like, you can't have long hair. And I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ.
01:54:23
Speaker
But it was long enough to i was like, all right, I'll chop it off and donate it. And even now, I just do like the, have that like a quote unquote now that it's trendy and everybody does it. This was the hairstyle that I've had for the last 15 years because I was able to get away with it at my job. They thought I cut my hair off. I just pulled it but like Viking style where it's shaved on the sides and stuff and it's grown out long.
01:54:44
Speaker
Yeah. So I've even cut this twice and was able to donate it since it was so long, but yeah, it's a nice, you know, all about the kids, man. Do something nice.
01:54:55
Speaker
yeah for show Yeah. It's a, I'm, I'm a big supporter of, you know, uh, independent people independent artists like kids and functions like like people that have a hard time standing up for themselves you know so i say more power to you yeah yeah man somebody's got to be there to stick up to the for the little guys that the underdogs you know gotta gotta rep the underdogs for sure yeah man i feel that i feel that 100 yeah i i i'm i'm big on the on local like buy local shop local uh absolutely absolutely especially can find me a good farmer's market let's go yeah man yeah you know local local local you know and you know big corporations you know they they try to stomp out the little guys but you know that's uh that's community man that's community its raw form 100 so yeah it's like i said that's where this is this this brainchild came from was like gonna spotlight guys that are you know artists that are coming up man
01:55:55
Speaker
I'm actually thinking about rebranding. And now that I'm, now that I've done this with you, and like, and I kind of want to, and I was talking to blaze about it. I don't want to, I don't want to step on your toes. Cause you do the movie thing, but he's like, I'm not an interview guy.
01:56:08
Speaker
I'm like, I want to rebrand Wednesday nights where I interview directors and actors and and shit like that that are from the indie scene. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Brother. Absolutely.
01:56:21
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I think that'd be fun, especially after hanging out with you guys and, and and having the opportunity of jack of all trades over here, Rollin. Yeah. Listen, man, listen, it's, a it's, it's same way as I i think it is in music.
01:56:38
Speaker
There's all different kinds out there. I've met some filmmakers that are like,
01:56:44
Speaker
You know, just like, it's like, out there' there' there's some strange individuals, but, you know, it it takes all kinds, you know, so it's, it's same with music, you know, people are people. So.
01:56:55
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Yeah, man, exactly. like
01:56:58
Speaker
like I said, I don't want to I don't want to keep you too long, but um real quick, let everybody know where they can find you on social, social medias.
Social Media and Film Accessibility
01:57:07
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And why did I just say social?
01:57:11
Speaker
You didn't hang around your kids too long, bro. Clearly. Listen, listen, I get it. When you got little ones running through the house, like you just, you start saying stuff. You're like, wait, what the shit? yeah About a month or so back. Cause I've got a 20 year old daughter, almost six. Oh my God, man.
01:57:31
Speaker
Almost 16 year old. And my, my boy will be 12 July. couple about About a month and a half, maybe two months ago, the girls came up on a Wednesday night. We do like a what-the-fuck news, and it's just crazy-ass news stories, dumb criminals, stupid people, whatever.
01:57:46
Speaker
The girls had this idea that they wanted to quiz us on all the terms that kids use, like Riz and Skibbity Toilet. They're like, so they came up on the show with us and were like, and I'm like,
01:58:00
Speaker
is wrong with you people? like yeah what happened What happened to your generation? Yeah, what is this? 100%. And then they were talking about it, like, shut up. You see say things like all that in a bag of chips. I'm like, I still fucking say that. What are you talking about? Yeah, yeah i remember I remember growing up, it was like, yeah, man, that's bitching. You know, you're like, what? Like the stuff they say now. What the hell?
01:58:26
Speaker
But yeah, man, you can find me on socials. um Just search ah on Facebook. It's Jake C. Young, or you can type in Jake Eastwood, or you can search on Instagram. It's Jake C. Young underscore official, or you can search my name on there, and it should pull me up.
01:58:43
Speaker
um As far as ah movies and stuff, if you want to type in my name or the titles of my films, you can find them all on IMDb or just punch in my name on Tubi, and you can find my old catalog there.
01:58:58
Speaker
There's a nice little catalog of movies on there on Tubi. Like I said, you definitely ah keep yourself keep yourself busy.
01:59:11
Speaker
Easy. And if you can't find him on social media, which I promise you, it's super easy to find him. Put his name in, it like like he said. Just go to our Instagram or our Facebook page. He's tagged there. yeah You're already following us. you know Absolutely, man.
01:59:26
Speaker
Give them a follow. Follow Glicks for sure. Yeah. if If you're watching this and you don't follow Glicks, like there's so like, go follow them, which I don't know why they'd be watching if they didn't, but you know, never had throw that out there. Never has thrown out there.
01:59:39
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. Um, no, man, uh, you know, thank you for everything, you know, yeah man thanks for having me on always, always a fun time, man. You are, uh, you are welcome back anytime.
01:59:53
Speaker
obviously uh when the new movie when you find out about the new movie if you want to pop in and be like hey i got the deets on the the details on the new movie man here's here's what it's happening what's going on uh even uh even your cons man um we'll try to do our best tag us put throw us up in the comments when you got stuff coming up we'll we'll gladly uh throw it up there on the social medias for you on our end as well um and uh If know any actors or actresses or directors that want to swing through the doors, let them know. I'm going to expand my horizons. and And anytime you need anybody, you hit me up. I've got ah i've got a book of people that I keep on ah keep on tap. So for sure, man. how a i got to get my guy Drake up here.
02:00:37
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, he's great. He's great. Yeah, man. i know I know a lot of people that would be you know thrilled to do it. But man, thank you so much for having me on. It's always always a great time. Yeah, man, definitely appreciated it.
02:00:50
Speaker
Guys, like you said, go give Jake some love. Go go follow him. Go check out his movies, especially if you're into that horror, thriller, suspense genre, if you like them, like that style. You won't be disappointed. Check out, go stream the hell out of Daylight to Dark because we want a sequel, guys.
02:01:06
Speaker
We want a sequel. Go stream the hell out of it. Yeah, he's like, um he's like I want a sequel, and I want to be in the sequel. Yeah. I want to be in the sequel. I got to avenge my my sweet angel Lilith. She did nothing wrong. It was just her nature. She couldn't help herself. Yeah, she was just going to try to eat that kid. What the hell?
02:01:25
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He deserved it. He had it coming. he Yeah, he totally did. Like didn't your mother ever tell you not to get in the car with strangers? He got everything he deserved. Yeah.
02:01:36
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Don't I get it. We're not supposed to victim shame, but I'm 100% victim of shaming. je Yeah. Yeah. That's yeah. He got everything he deserved. Yeah. No, man. Like I said, um, yeah, keep us in the loop. Let us know guys keep up. Obviously he's got so many cons. He doesn't even know where he's going to be when he's going to be there.
02:01:54
Speaker
So check out the socials for that. Yeah. I, I put them up on there every time I find out. Yeah, I've never been to a con. Being a big horror fan, if the Knoxville one is the jam, I might have pop my con cherry and come down to Knoxville in August and check it out. Come on down. It's an event. Yeah, it's horror, but it's one of those things that you could entertain all ages there, too. It's got a lot of really cool stuff.
02:02:24
Speaker
Oh, no, this is going to be a dad trip. no Yeah, dad trip. I feel that. I feel that 100%. I might hit up Blaze and be like, hey, want to go for a road trip, buddy? I'll pick you up on my way down. Yeah, for sure, man. Yeah.
02:02:39
Speaker
I'm game. Yeah. y'all just Y'all just throw a flag and show up. and all we We'll have a good time. hey I'm going to be there all weekend hosting a festival. So, you know, I'm just saying there's a, there's probably a really nice bar in my hotel.
02:02:52
Speaker
That's, that's one of the key things I look for in hotels, either a bar inside or one within walking distance. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, I think this one's got a bar in a Starbucks. So. There you go. Yeah.
02:03:04
Speaker
Yeah. You're down on the night. You can get back up in the morning. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. that's Rise and shine. We got stuff to do. No, brother. Thank you again, man. you're You're freaking awesome. Best of luck to you, man.
02:03:17
Speaker
I can't wait to see what the future holds for you, man. Yeah, man. your man I appreciate that, man. Thank you so much for having me on. it's ah Like said, it's always a fun time. And yeah we'll we'll definitely get together and I'd be glad to come on for some more.
02:03:31
Speaker
Oh, yeah, man. Definitely, definitely. um You don't have to run away unless you need to go. I'm going to do the inch or the outro. It's just going to drop down, and then it'll come back up, and it we'll just be backstage again. But, um guys, thanks for listening. Thanks for hanging out. Hopefully you don't mind.
02:03:46
Speaker
ah changed the game up a little bit tonight. I know it's usually Glick's House of Music, but for tonight we did Glick's House of Movies. Had jakes Jake Young on here. Jake C. Young, appreciate that. If you're not already, check us out. We're everywhere. Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok. Show us live.
02:04:01
Speaker
Monday through Sunday, we're doing something different every day of the week, live on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch. And you can also listen wherever you listen to podcasts. That's what I actually need to do tomorrow is upload some episodes. So sorry, guys. I've been a little bit behind. I've got a lot going on in my world over here the last few weeks.
02:04:19
Speaker
So I'm going to get all caught up. Blaze has been doing a fantastic job trying to keep us caught up. So shout out to him. And like I said, don't forget to check out the rest of the shows. I'll be back tomorrow night. Going to change it up again.
02:04:32
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ah little bit doing something a little bit different. You guys have seen her on Saturday nights. You've seen her on Friday nights. Our girl, Brittany. ah She's going to come and hang out and let me ah crack open the head of Brittany, and we're going to learn some more about her, that she's a wild one.
Podcast Schedule and Upcoming Guests
02:04:45
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And so we're go to we're going to change the game up again on Wednesday because that's what I'm always doing around here, man.
02:04:51
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ah Thursday, Wally will be back talking dinosaurs and dragons. And I don't know what Mike and Blaze are doing this weekend, but apparently Blaze – no, wait, that's next weekend. Anyways, I don't know what they're doing this weekend, but they're doing something on Nonsense and Chill, and then, of course, we're back on Saturday, and hopefully we'll be back on Sunday for Unnecessary Roughness ah for the sports show we took this Sunday off.
02:05:16
Speaker
Rick was in Vegas for a work thing. Derek had a show that he was doing for church, and... I just decided to take a nap. So we didn't we didn't do the sports show Sunday.
02:05:27
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And then Monday, Wally's back with all things motorsports. And then I'm back again next Tuesday with... Who do I have next Tuesday? should be already ahead of this.
02:05:39
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ah What is next Tuesday? The 13th? Oh, sweet. I got Memphis Key, country rock band. Going to be hanging out with me ah next Tuesday night. So do it all over again.
02:05:51
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Thank you guys for listening. Thank you guys for hanging out. Don't forget to follow, like, and subscribe. Roland, appreciate you, brother. as always, great show and interview, guys. Thanks. Hell yeah, man.
02:06:02
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You were awesome. Appreciate the hookup with this young man right here. I say young because I'm assuming you're probably younger than I am still. but but but so Hey, I'll take it.
02:06:16
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You referenced the late nineteen hundreds and I'm like, o I hate when my kids say that. I was born in the late nineteen hundreds yeah Yeah, same. yeah so But nonetheless, we will see you guys tomorrow night. Jake, again, thank you again, brother. And let me hit these buttons. I hope I got the right outro, because Blaze just did a new one. Music
02:06:46
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Nonsensical network, different flavor every day Movie talks, new flicks, hitting the display Microphone magic, musicians spill the praise From reptiles to motorsports, burning rubber craze Football crashes, touchdowns, epic plays News spinning, catching on the tales, word and stories we embrace Tune in, tune in, every week diverse Groove to the beats, let the rhythm immerse Lyrics flowing
02:07:19
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interviews buzzing stars in the circuit worlds of tapestry pieces we interpret hip-hop to rap the flow never stagnant resilient tales nature's arrangement cars with muscle engines with might motorsports roaring speed in the night discussions heated always a delight network of nonsense but the vibes just right tune in tune in wait for
02:07:49
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always on repeat