AMA-Palooza!

[00:00:00] Astonishing Legends Network Disclaimer, this episode includes the usual amount of adult language and graphic discussions you've come to expect around here. But in the event it becomes an unusual amount, expect another call from me. Hey everybody, welcome back to Scared All The Time. I'm Chris Killari. And I'm Ed Ficola. And this week, oh boy, this week you guys are getting a very special episode from the archives of Scared All The Time.

[00:00:29] Because if you've been following along online at all, you will know that it has been one of the most difficult between Ed having jury duty and then my wife and I both got the flu. And then my flu fever broke about 12 hours before I got an evacuation notice that I had to leave my home because Los Angeles was on fire. And so I fled to Ed's and it has just been, I mean, chaos.

[00:00:56] And now my son is going to be here in a couple of weeks. A son who is not born yet. He will be coming out of his mother in a couple of weeks. So it's crazy town over in Scared All The Time land. And so we are this week presenting to you. Well, Ed, you've been doing the editing work on it. Do you want to describe what this is? Yeah, sure. It's not luckily a ton of editing work. Um, we don't have time to make you guys a full episode this week.

[00:01:24] It just wasn't possible even before we were literally in a ring of fire. So what I've decided to do is take some AMAs we had done on premium, old AMAs. You're going to hear some of these questions and be like, well, thank God. Like, I think there's something in here where you don't talk about having a child on the way or anything. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So AMAs, if you're not familiar with Reddit lingo, are ask me anythings. And we technically still offer them as part of our premium package. But I will say...

[00:01:54] People don't ask enough questions. After the first three months of AMAs, we got no more AMA questions. So we stopped recording AMAs. We'll figure out. Maybe they'll become more popular again or we'll find a different way to do them. But it's just people asking questions of us, sometimes more personal stuff. I think we did a movie-based episode. You know, it's fun stuff. You guys will enjoy it. And then next week, we should be back to regular episodes. But God forbid any other insane shit happens, we will still find something to post for you guys.

[00:02:24] We'll just have to figure out what it's going to be. One of our live shows, maybe. An audio version of one of our premium live shows, which we do do every month and are, I think, fucking worth the monthly premium subscription just for those. They're very fun. They're fun, yeah. Ed and I get a kick out of it. And, you know, the people who are there, I'd say we get pretty much the same crowd shows up every month. Like, people like it. We're always looking at the numbers to be like, oh, shit, are people leaving in the middle of the episode? But people come and stay for the whole two hours.

[00:02:53] People stick around, which we'll see how that translates to an audio-only version. I mean, we do a lot of visual stuff. But more importantly, it's a real hangout. Like, we talk with people who are there. It's a fun as shit time. There's a lot of audience interaction and community interaction in those. So hopefully it still kind of plays well for you guys. But yeah, like we said, hopefully it doesn't come to that. And then we'll be back next week with regularly scheduled programming. And we can wait till the next disaster to pull out, you know, an audio-only live show.

[00:03:18] So without further ado, please enjoy some meandering answers to real-life questions to hold you over this week. And maybe even learn a little something about your two amazing hosts. You can find chapters for all the questions in this episode's description, which will likely be a little off because of ad stuff. It's out of our control. But we're actually going to pop back in like the Crypt Keeper and introduce a few of these segments. So that'll be able to help guide you where you are as well if you get lost. What are we? Scared. When are we? All the time. Joy. Joy. Joy.

[00:03:48] Now it is time for... Time for... Scandle the time. Welcome, everybody, to our first AMA episode. So the way that we are going to do this, I think, is we are just literally going to read your questions out of the AMA question bucket here. Yeah. And we'll see where these answers take us.

[00:04:13] I'm going to ask or I'm going to read them in order of most upvoted. So it's not up to me. I didn't upvote these. So I assume other fans did. I didn't do shit, dude. No, certainly. I'm like that Tim Robinson thing now. I didn't do shit. I didn't do fucking shit, dude. The first question is coming to us from Hannah. Well, it's a three-part name. So I guess Hannah JN.

[00:04:42] And she asks, which cryptids would you most want to run into in the wild? Hmm. So this one's easy for me. Loch Ness Monster, hands down. I've long had a dream of swimming into Loch Ness and riding Nessie into the sunset. Swimming with Nessie the way one might swim with a dolphin would be a dream come true for me. So Loch Ness Monster, top and really only. I don't really want to run into Bigfoot in the wild.

[00:05:11] I feel like that would be extremely frightening and dangerous more so than, I guess it depends how much of a carnivore the Loch Ness Monster is. Mothman, you're probably going to die. You know, I mean like any, I would say any Nessie-like being like Champ in Lake Champlain or Ogopogo, I would be down for that as well. Ed, how about you? I'm trying to find like an adorable one or something that I don't. The jackalope. The jackalope's pretty adorable.

[00:05:41] That's technically a cryptid? Yeah. Jackalopes aren't real. But I've seen them in stuff. Not in real life you have it. Maybe in like a roadside attraction. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So I'm in the wild. So I'm walking around and then they're like also there. Yeah. They're like behind a bush or something. Well, I don't want to be scared or anything. So I guess, yeah, something tiny and adorable like a jackalope. Okay. I think. Just something where I can go, wait, what's that?

[00:06:09] What's that thing over there that I could probably best in a battle or keep as a pet? Not that I ever want to do that. I think a jackalope's a good answer for that then. Also, a jackalope seems very like mammal-ish versus like having like lizard-y skin or scales or something that like you're dealing with some sort of big fish. So you're prioritizing the ability to pet a cryptid. I'm prioritizing my safety, I guess. Like I don't want to be. Okay.

[00:06:39] Do I think I can look into the eyes of Bigfoot and go, we're not too different, you and I. Like I might be able to make a connection with a Bigfoot. Wow. Okay. And maybe we could tiptoe backwards away from each other and make believe none of this, that we didn't happen and I'm never going to say where you live. That's fine. But I don't want to be put in that position. I'd rather just be like, hey, what's up, adorable little thing? Right. I'll see you later. Right. Here's a peanut or whatever I have in my pocket. Right. I wonder if there's any like squirrel cryptids. There's got to be. Oh yeah, shit.

[00:07:08] I don't know any off the top of my head. Yeah, probably. Hey, I think I saw a cryptid once that is not in the wild. I mentioned this in another episode and maybe that episode's not out yet, but I was at a museum and I think I sent you a picture of it. There was the Fiji mermaid. That's not real, right? No, the Fiji mermaid is not real. And I don't even know if the Fiji mermaid really counts as a cryptid because I don't think anyone cited a Fiji mermaid in the wild.

[00:07:35] I think the Fiji mermaid is just a monkey upper half stitched onto a fish lower half. No, yeah. I think it's like a P.T. Barnum type. Yeah. It might have literally been P.T. Barnum who was like, look, come look at this attraction. So I saw the Fiji mermaid at Harvard. Hold on. Why was the Fiji? What was the Fiji mermaid doing at Harvard? It was the top of its class in high school, man. I don't have to tell you. It's a legacy cryptid. Yeah. It's a legacy cryptid. It's a fucking Nepo cryptid.

[00:08:04] The Fiji mermaid's dad went to Harvard and also ran a weapons company. The Fiji mermaid's dad is responsible for the largest hedge fund in the sea. So they move a lot of shells down there. At Harvard, Harvard has a natural history museum that for whatever reason includes some unnatural history in it, which is that, you know, it's part of it's there. It's at the Harvard.

[00:08:30] It's the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology? Ethnology? Ethnology? I don't know. Here's my AMA for Ed. What word are you trying to say? Ethnology. Shit, dog. So it is a hard T-H. There you go. So it is the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard. And I went there and it's got just a bunch of shit and it's got dinosaur bones, like proper dinosaur bones and dinosaur bones that were from because Harvard's old, man.

[00:09:00] It's older than the country. So it's dinosaur bones where you're like, that should have been given back to somebody strong-armed to get this. Like there'd be tons of dinosaur bones that were like found in Australia. I'm like, what the fuck are they doing in Cambridge, Massachusetts then? Yeah. Like why do you have these on display and not the country who should technically take claim to that? But I always love seeing like a real dinosaur bones and they have some there. But they also have the Fiji mermaid. And I was like, oh, gross. And I think I sent you a picture and then you were like, oh, I love that.

[00:09:30] Yeah. I think that's, I vaguely remember that. So that's it. So those are my two. I mean, I want to guess my, actually, I think there's another, I don't have in front of me, but I think we have another question about cryptids. So I'll save the Fiji mermaid. So I'm going to go with, if I'm just gun to my head, I'm going to go with jackalope, something adorable and small and manageable. If I ran into it in the woods, that's kind of like, it sounds like they're asking us about running into it. So we're settling on what we came up with five whole minutes ago.

[00:09:59] Hannah, I hope this answers your question. If you have any follow-ups, please reach back out and ask. But those are our cryptids that we would most want to run into in the wild. The next question comes with three upvotes. Oh, so cryptids, Hannah's question had four upvotes. The next question with three upvotes comes from Jennifer Raite, I think is how it's pronounced. Raite?

[00:10:22] How many U.S. dollars would you require to face your current highest ranked non-fatal fear tier fear? Oh my God. Oh my God. Jennifer. Is that her name, Jennifer? Yes. I think, yeah, Yennefer. Not enough. I like that that's U.S. currency. I appreciate that. I would hate to find out it's pesos after I did it. But what is the current highest ranked non-fatal fear tier? Because eaten alive is pretty high, but that's fatal.

[00:10:50] As far as what's been released, it's hot piss and shit for me. Ah. So how much to get hot piss and shit dumped on me? Fuck, man. Every week that number goes lower. Every week that work's been pretty light, that number gets lower. But I should make it high enough that I have self-respect. So I should say a million bones. There you go. That sounds about right. As someone currently negotiating a contract, I'm learning I have no financial self-respect.

[00:11:17] So, you know, I would take less. But also, I don't know. I might have a bone to pick here. I don't know that hot piss and shit is... I mean, that's the top of the fear tier, but it almost doesn't count because it's not something we've covered in an episode. You know what I mean? That's true. And there are people who just, for kink purposes or other purposes, are definitely having that done for much less. Yeah. But this question is about you facing your current highest ranked fear.

[00:11:46] So we don't have to include other people's fetishes. Yeah. For me, it's a million bones. But I also like... It's interesting because you have to... Like, let's say it's that piece of shit show Fear Factor or whatever. Yep. It's interesting. I would do none of the things on that show for any amount of money. And what I find most interesting is, yes, am I afraid of getting into a vat of bugs? Yeah, for sure. Totally. But I guess the number one fear you really have to get over to be on Fear Factor is like the fear of being on TV.

[00:12:14] And I do not want to be... I don't want that level of exposure. I like that the podcast is audio only. If it's a public thing, I'm even more afraid, I guess, is what I'm getting at. So I'm asking to get my million dollars. Does it have to be televised? In which case, just don't... I don't want to... I'm not doing it at all. No, no. Television... You're the one bringing television into this. There's no... Well, no, because we're trying to create a real scenario here. How many US dollars did you require to face your current highest ranked non-fatal fear to your fear?

[00:12:43] So for me, the issue is that so many of the fear to your fears are potentially fatal. I was going to say airline disasters, but I pay for that. Yeah, you do. You already... So no one's giving me any money for that. Yeah. These days, more than ever, it sounds like you're in a better chance of running into that out of your own pocket. Like spontaneous human combustion also isn't very high on the list. I'm trying to think what else is on there. And it can't be manufactured.

[00:13:10] I think this person needs it to be a fear that can be manufactured because you're going to get money after. I can't do tornadoes or something because I can't know when one's going to be somewhere. That is far too literal, I think, of an interpretation of this question. But I guess I would say, how about this? How about I'll take $500,000 to let a bear nibble on me? What? It'll be... Being eaten alive would be the highest tier, but it doesn't have to be fatal, maybe.

[00:13:40] $500,000. There's no... The thing is that the bear doesn't know. It doesn't know to just do a nibble. You're going to end up getting eaten by a fucking bear, in which case make it $2 million. True. True. Can you even get like a good new arm for $500,000 or whatever the hell it eats off you? True. That's a good question. You want to put that into the price. Like what's going to cost if it ends up taking my arm? True. So yeah, it's got to be at least like $2 million then because you got to get a good replacement arm.

[00:14:08] I was going to raise it, but that's just being greedy. I'll have the hot piss and shit for a meal. That's fine. But anything else from our episodes... It's going to be a lot easier if we'd actually built the fear tier. This is what we'd get in trouble for if we had a list. I know. I know. We got to actually build a fear tier that we can reference because it'll make questions like this a lot easier to answer. Yeah, because we're not like being like, what the fuck did we cover? Yeah. But yeah, I do feel like the non-fatal ones are few and far between. We...

[00:14:35] Stalking's non-fatal, but I don't think like money... I don't know. It's tough. You know what it is? It's hard to bring a capitalist mentality into the fear tier. It's true. It's not designed to be monetized. Especially since I think we're both people who have zero interest in going on something like fear factor and felt like there was a lack of dignity in that to begin with. Should we spin this podcast off into a primetime network television show called fear tier that's just like somebody else's version of fear factor?

[00:15:05] Probably. Yeah. I mean, podcasts... I don't know if I want to... I would want to be part of it. Not in the sense that I don't want to be a... I don't want to be a contributing factor to that existing, I guess. In the same way that I don't know how you sleep at night if you fucking EP'd fear factor. Probably in a very, very comfortable bed. Yeah. Way more comfortable than ours, but I don't like it. It just feels like you have to... There's a level of dignity that you have to remove from people in order to have them lay in bugs to get money. Right.

[00:15:34] Or like face their fears for money. You know who would have a good answer to this? What the fuck was it? Jerry Springer? What the fuck was the shit where they would bring people out to face their fears on like daytime talk show? And it was like, bring out the olives. I don't know. For that woman who's afraid of olives. I don't remember that at all. You don't know what I'm talking about? No. Should we cover olives on the show? It'll be in the fucking show notes. If we're able to have show notes for this, it'll be in the fucking show notes. It's either Maury or Jerry Springer or somebody where they would bring people on who have these

[00:16:04] tremendous fears. And there was a woman who I wanted... I think it's olives. She's super afraid of olives. And he's like, no, it's fine. Come out here. No one has olives. There's no olives out here. And then the lady comes out and she's so fucking terrified, like super distrustful of this whole situation. And then she finally gets her out there and he's like, bring out the olives. And she's like, ah, screaming, going crazy. They're bringing olives. Like everything in her mind was accurate. Like I can't trust these people. Yeah.

[00:16:33] But I'm like, what a shit thing to do to someone, man. I fucking hate that. Well, that's even... That's way worse than Fear Factor because Fear Factor, you kind of know what you're signing up for. Exactly. Exactly. What I'm saying is both of those are like bad profiting off of people who are either desperate or genuinely afraid of things. Yeah. Well, here's... This might not be highest. I mean, really the flaw here in our answer is that we can't remember what our second highest non-fatal Fear Tier ranking is. Well, I'm pulling him up right now. So here's the episode list.

[00:17:02] Now, I'm looking at the episode list. I don't remember which one is the highest non-fatal on the Fear Tier. I mean, I would remember if I look at it here. So Bermuda Triangle was low. Alien Abduction was... The scariest stuff has yet to come, unfortunately, in season three. So theme park accidents. But again, you can't really replicate that. There's a lot of these you can't replicate. So it's weird, right? Because you said, I know a big fear for you is airline disasters. But you can't...

[00:17:29] But you pay money to potentially be in one. Neighbors from Hell sucks. But again, you pay money to live there. Abandoned Ghost Hounds was a fun episode, but there's nothing. Clowns lost in space. Satanic Banner. Oh, you know what? I'd probably go to space for like 100 grand. Because I would be afraid to go to space. I have no interest in going to space. I don't want to ever go in the water. And as you know, I think that space is just the ocean. And so I think that would be the lowest amount of US dollars I would do to face my fear. I'd go to space for 100 grand.

[00:17:58] I'd also take the... Remember in the amusement parks episode where we talked about the roller coaster that used to have a gap in it. And then they decided to close the roller coaster because it seemed like it might hurt somebody. Yeah. I'd take 100,000 to jump the roller coaster rails. Without... It actually has the gap. Yeah. With the actual gap. Man, I think I'd have to raise it up to 500K for that. Because again, I have to look at what my medical fees are going to be when the thing doesn't work. Right. Right. In this country, you're going to get bone.

[00:18:26] 100 grand is not going to cover like any of those injuries. Well, yeah. I guess I'm assuming that... Because the way that they talked about it in what I read, it sounded like it was a working thing. But they just determined the risk was too high. So... They lost a lot of sandbags, if I recall. They did lose some sandbags. So... A lot of good sandbags lost their lives. So, yeah. I'm going to go to wrap this question up. I'm going highest amount of money. I would say it'd be a million bones for the hot piss and shit. And 100 grand to go to space.

[00:18:56] Okay. And 500 grand to jump a gap. I'll match your million for the hot piss and shit. And I'll match your 100K for space. And I will also maintain that 100K level for the roller coaster gap. Just to play a little fast and loose here. Yeah, it's fine. But great question. Just great question, Jennifer. Sorry we have bungled the answer. But... You know what? This is the first AMA. If you're still with us, thanks for sticking around. Yeah. This is what it is.

[00:19:26] I mean, we're seeing these... We're kind of pulling these up for the first time here. Yeah. So, you're getting a genuine answer. We didn't sit around being like, oh, what's the answer that makes us sound coolest? Yeah, no. Well, now we're getting into the lower ranked questions. So, are either of you afraid of premature death? Death asks Scott Philbrook. Oh, my God. He asks, do you have daily thoughts about your mortality? Absolutely. The answer here is all day, every day.

[00:19:51] I mean, like genuinely, I think one of the struggles I've had most in my life is a fixation on death. Not a desire to die all the time, sometimes. But most of the time, just, you know, I spend a lot of time walking around thinking about all the different ways I can die. Not because I want to think about it, but just, I don't know, those thoughts are in my head. I think it's part of what attracted me to horror at a young age.

[00:20:16] And part of why I write it now is just to kind of get those thoughts out of my head and into something else. But I think I've also kind of come to terms with it. Like, in the past five, six, seven years, I think I've kind of come around. I'm a little less afraid of it. But I definitely still think about it. Wow. I don't think about it ever. That's not true. If I'm driving on the highway and I see some, like, gnarly crash or I see something on TV, yeah, I'll be like, that could have been me.

[00:20:46] I'm driving a car. You know, even if it's not my fault. You know, death, to quote Batman Begins, you know, death does not wait for you. Yeah. I mean, when I drive multiple times on any drive anywhere, I'll get this, like, thought of, like, what would it feel like if something just obliterated my car right now? Yeah, I don't have those. Like, what if a truck just... I don't have those kind of intrusive thoughts. Yeah. And I used to be afraid of those thoughts. But now I just sort of, like, I don't know. I know that they're not.

[00:21:14] They're just thoughts and that death will come for me eventually. And I'll take his sweet hand and fade out. Yeah, I don't know. I'd like it to be quick, whatever it is. But I don't think about it. No, I don't go through life thinking about that stuff. I mean, I honestly, it just comes down to, like, if I'm thinking about death at all on my own, I'm just thinking about what an inconvenience it is for everyone else. So, if there's times... So, I always clean my room. I always make everything really nice before I go on long trips.

[00:21:42] If I'm going to take plane rides. Because it just comes down to, like, hey, if this plane goes down, I want to make sure that all my tax documents are well. Yeah. Filed away so that when my parents come to clean up my home, they'll be able to find all the things they need. Oh, that's nice of you. Yeah, and that way I think about death. Because I think about what is the inconvenience for other people if I suddenly died. Yeah. You think about it practically. I think about it pretty practically. But I don't think about it. And I'm afraid of dying, but I'm not... It doesn't dictate. Dying specifically doesn't...

[00:22:11] Like, tons of fears dictate my day-to-day life. But dying is not one of them. Interesting. Yeah. But do the fears that dictate your life lead to dying? Like, is it like I don't... Are they... Are you talking about, like, emotional fears? More anxiety. More anxiety type stuff. Yeah. That will dictate my life. Because just so rarely... You know, I live a pretty good life in the sense that I don't do adventure sports. Or go to the beach. Yeah. There's nothing where I'm like, yeah, if I choose this direction, it's maybe death.

[00:22:41] Like, I'm nowhere even near that door. That door isn't like the 30th floor of a building that I'm not even... A metaphorical building that I'm not even going... You know, I'll walk by that building. Yeah. I don't take a lot of unnecessary risks. Unnecessary risks? That's not my middle name. Not mine either. All right. Well, that's... Thank you, Scott. Great question. The next question, with three upvotes, asked by Heather H., is titled, Frogs, Not the 1972 Movie. Oh, God.

[00:23:11] Which is a boring film. And the question is, Chris, how did you get into having frogs as pets? And what is involved in being a frog dad? Ed, why you be hating on the frogs like that? Wow. Interesting. Interesting. So, I mean, I could tell you Ed hates on the frogs because he edits this show. And when he can hear the frogs, it makes it very difficult to edit because they're baked under my voice on the audio track.

[00:23:36] I have to leave in all your weird, like, gross noises that you make because there's no way to cut around it. Yeah. You guys, the more of us you get live, the more gross noises you're going to hear coming out of my mouth, my nose, everything. It's going to... You're going to get used to it. Actually, I think the more noise, the more non-show related noise you make is that you do bang your glass down a lot. Like, you're always drinking goblets of like IPAs or whatever the hell you got over there. I do love liquids. And so that... So you'll be like, oh, that's a great...

[00:24:06] Let me give the best answer ever. Slam, crazy glass goes down the table. And if people listening right now are like, I don't ever hear glasses slam. Yeah, because I'm doing a decent job. How did I get into having frogs as pets and what has evolved into being a frog dad? I got into having frogs as pets because in fourth grade, we had to do a report on a Pennsylvania animal. And I picked the tree frog. I had no prior interest in tree frogs.

[00:24:35] I had never seen a tree frog, but it was on the list and I thought it sounded cool. So I did that report. And then I loved tree frogs, man. They were like... I still to this day, I think there's such perfectly weird little creatures. There's like, there's no tree fish. You know, like there's not a lot of other animals that generally live somewhere else who've adapted to be able to climb. So I just thought they were cool. And then I wanted one as a pet for a long time.

[00:25:02] And I think in sixth or seventh grade, I got a green tree frog, which is sort of one of the most common American species. They live in the South and you just feed them crickets. And that was a very easy pet to take care of. And then I got a red-eyed tree frog, probably a little bit closer to high school. And that was a beautiful frog. I feel bad because in hindsight, you know, I probably didn't take the best care of it. Not because I didn't want to. I just don't think...

[00:25:31] Looking back on it, I don't think I realized how involved taking care of a tropical frog properly is. But those frogs both lived for a number of years. And then I got a barking tree frog in like freshman year of high school, which does sound like a dog. They're very loud. And that one also lived for a while. It was easier to take care of than the red-eye.

[00:25:57] Because the humidity requirements for a lot of North American frogs aren't as high as the humidity requirements for tropical frogs. And humidity is, you know, in Pennsylvania in the winter, let's say, it's kind of hard to keep it warm and humid in these tanks when you're just a kid. And now what's involved in being a frog dad? You know, I have two tanks with the poison dart frogs. It's a humidity game.

[00:26:26] It's a temperature game. And in Los Angeles, the temperature takes care of itself. It rarely gets too hot or too cold. And humidity, I have automatic sprayers set up like you'd have at a grocery store so that they spray two or three times a day. And then I feed both frogs flightless fruit flies every two, three days. They get a big helping of fruit flies. And yeah, it's pretty simple.

[00:26:52] I highly recommend if you have a moderate comfort level with paying attention to animals and feeding bugs. I think frogs are great pets. They're gorgeous little creatures. Chris answered my side of it. I just have to edit them. I don't like the noise. But I guess based on this AMA right now, I should be thankful, I guess, that you don't have bark frogs anymore. It would make it even worse. Barking tree frogs. Yeah. My dad hated that fucking thing.

[00:27:20] One time when we were at my grandparents and my dad had stayed home, the barking frog got out, quote unquote, and he couldn't find it. And then when we came home... Your dad killed it. Well, he did find it when we came home. It had gotten out and was just on my bookshelf behind some of the books. But I think he had thoughts of killing that frog because it was... Our neighbors thought we got a dog and my parents had to explain, no, it's just this

[00:27:49] very loud frog. Although it didn't... So it's loud enough that like through the walls? It was very loud. I will say it doesn't... It didn't call as much as the dart frogs do. Only when the postal worker's at the door? Yeah. That's when it naturally feels the urge to bark. But yeah, it was loud, but it was less consistent and it didn't call as much as these dart frogs do. And thank God, because that would have been annoying.

[00:28:22] Okay. Next, we've got a question from Charlotte C. If you could pick any supernatural, paranormal, or otherwise spoopy creature or entity to be real, what would you pick? Take into consideration... And this makes it different from the first question about cryptids. Because that was just what we'd want to run into in the wild. No context. This question is saying, take into consideration we as human beings would have to interact with

[00:28:50] your choice for better or worse. This wouldn't be a one-time event, but something we'd all have to live with. To which I also say, jackalopes seem fine. Everyone, who would hate that? That'd be great. That would be great. But I kind of feel like jackalopes don't really count as supernatural, paranormal, or otherwise spoopy creature or entity. I think I have my answer if you're thinking. Go ahead. Go ahead. I'm thinking mermaids.

[00:29:18] I know I said Fiji mermaid earlier and I might not, you know, and I'm not talking Fiji mermaids. I'm talking about your traditional mermaids, mermen. Hot, hot mermaids is what you're... Hot mermaids, hunkish mermen. Yep. We're talking, you know, human body in the top, bottom is I guess fish. I don't know. What is it? Serpent bottom? Fish bottom? Fish. All fish.

[00:29:42] Although, that'd be cool to have a mer-villain have like a sea snake bottom instead of a fish bottom. Well, any way you look at it, whatever their bottom is. Or a shark bottom. Shark bottom would be cool. Yeah. It's like street sharks, but the opposite. Mm-hmm. Whatever the bottom is, I guess their shit is just that weird long string that a fish's poop is. Probably, yeah. That's weird. That's weird. That's like a weird thing for them to... That's a hurdle. I'm gonna say it's a hurdle.

[00:30:09] That and not being able to walk on land, those I would say are hurdles into the dating pool, but... But they're not asking... Charlotte's not asking about dating pools. She's just asking... No, I know, but they're here with us forever. Yes. So I like the idea that a mermaid or mer-man, a mer-person could... If they're here forever, and now we know about them, if they learn some languages we know, or we learn their language, that's great. Now we can interact with them. If we can start interacting with them, no different than like an AI girlfriend, there's going to

[00:30:39] immediately be like a dating app specifically for... It'll be for... It'll start just for as mer-people. Like as soon as they get here, they're going to be slammed with capitalism. Yep. But then it'll quickly turn into like, I want to date a mer-person. I want to date a mer-person. So it's a net positive for humanity to have like a new form of humanity. Yeah. That's not human at all. That's a very... That's a great way of looking at it.

[00:31:03] I don't want any human type cryptids or spooky creatures to be real because eventually they're going to compete with me for resources. And I would rather not have to do that in a climate ravaged future. So... That's why I like the water people. Yeah, but they're going to run out of water and then start a war to like... Well, I guess they can't come on land. So I guess... Why would they run out of water? If anything, the polar heist caps are melting. They're only getting new water. It's a little colder.

[00:31:33] That's true. They're getting more water. I was thinking droughts, but droughts are all on land. Droughts are all on land. These people... Here's the thing. They want to come up and hang out with us. They're like, what's up? I speak English now. We have so many questions for you. And then they're going to find out that humans are pretty miserable. And then they're going to go, you know what? We're going back to the Mariana Trench. Adios. Yeah. So... And I think if they have a human top half, my hope is that's enough to not have people hunt and eat them.

[00:32:03] No. I mean... If you got like a beastly cryptid all of a sudden showed up, let's say dragons, Jersey devils, Sasquatches. I mean, they're not human enough to not be like, two Sasquatch burgers, please. Well, that's true. I've always said if we clone dinosaurs, the first person to do it is going to pay for it so they can eat a T-Rex steak. That's so true. I think that's... Unicorn steak.

[00:32:29] It's the most commercial application for that is like, hey, you want to eat a dinosaur? Absolutely. Great. Let's spend billions of dollars to clone them. And you could probably get there pretty quick too. All you have to say is like, food is scarce because our animals are so small. Yeah. If we just clone some woolly mammoths and dinosaurs, that's more meat per individual killing. Well, they're close on woolly mammoths. I think the science is there for woolly mammoths are getting there. They just... It's still kind of an unethical thing.

[00:32:57] I know a girl who is a taxidermist and one of the things she sells that's outside of like traditional taxidermy is she bought at auction like a small amount of woolly mammoth hair, like actual like, I don't know, thawed, fossilized, I don't know how it works. And then like uses that in part of her art or whatever. But so it's like, oh, you can get a necklace or whatever with a woolly mammoth hair in it or something. That's cool.

[00:33:24] And I don't know if that's really for me, but I do actually find that weirdly cool. Yeah, that's super cool. I mean, yeah, not for me either, but that is pretty sweet. I bought a plesiosaur vertebrae once that I'm pretty sure is just like a cow vertebrae or something because it was like $60. Yeah, that's not anything. But then I looked up how much plesiosaur vertebraes go for and it's a lot more than $60.

[00:33:49] So, but speaking of plesiosaur vertebrae, I, again, I would love it if the Loch Ness monster or Champ or Tahoe Tessie or Ogopogo or any sort of lake beast monster was real. I know humans would probably hunt it down very quickly. But in this fantasy world, we are not hunting these things. Well, by virtue of making it real, does that mean we get like Nessie?

[00:34:18] Is it the last of its kind? If it's the is it the only one? No, breeding population as there has been for hundreds or thousands or millions of years. If I'm also assuming I shouldn't say this is a fantasy world. I'm living in a world right now where I want Nessie to be real, where I believe there is a chance Nessie could be real. So if Nessie's real, that means breeding population. So at least a few hundred. Well, in that case, I mean, I just it's different, right? Because if you're like, oh, I want to make it real.

[00:34:47] And now Nessie and just Nessie is real. It's interesting. It'll be in the zoo pretty quickly or to be hunted. But yeah, if we get a bunch of Nessies and you can have that Jurassic Park thing, it was like, oh, they do run in herds or whatever. Yeah, I mean, I would I would go for that or any of the Congolese living dinosaurs would be Mokile Mbembe, Kongamonto, Kongamato, the pterosaur that they think that some people have reported living deep in the jungles of the Congo. Is that a small dinosaur?

[00:35:18] It's like a giant bat sized pterosaur. So not like a pterosaur mean it flies. Yes. Well, technically, pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs. They are flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. I feel like we don't need to put wings on stuff. We don't need to snap into existence more shit with wings. That's all I'm getting at. Have you ever seen the like prehistoric planet or any of the newer dinosaur shows that have portrayed those giant? What the fuck are they called?

[00:35:47] The giant pterosaurs. They're basically like the size of a giraffe with a massive beak and wings. They're terrifying. Yeah, I've only watched a few of those things and I can't stop laughing. It's just because it's one thing if you're watching planet Earth or something and there's video of a snow leopard and then you got David Attenborough being like, here's a snow leopard. It's pretty shy. But when it eats, it goes here and then you see it do that.

[00:36:15] And so we have like real knowledge of how that shit works. But then you watch those dinosaur documentaries and it's all CG and they're like, here they are. The the balapadopalos sore. It walks together with its young and its young goes on its shoulder to drink from the water. But because they're not carnivores or whatever, they have to wait their turn. I'm like, where are you getting any of this from?

[00:36:42] Well, like, where are you getting fucking anything about what they did and didn't do that? It's on its shoulder. Like, get the fuck out of here with that. I mean, a lot of it. A lot of it is theoretical, but it's based in, you know, a lot of it is based in kind of physiology of the way that this that the is that as far as we can tell the way that these skeletons fit together. And that tells us a lot about the way that they had to have moved.

[00:37:10] And then the way that they died tells us about if they traveled in herds or if they traveled alone or if they died near the nest and all that kind of stuff. It's all it is all extrapolation from the fossil record. But the fossil record is well, the fossil record is wildly incomplete. I think it's something like I don't I'm not going to say a number because I'll be wrong, but it's some tiny percentage of all, you know, dinosaurs ever were fossilized.

[00:37:38] So there's entire genus and families of dinosaurs that we'll never even know existed because none of them were fossilized. Well, I think the documentary should be should have to legally say like every piece of narration should be like, I think maybe we think and then continue the rest of the sentence. Sure. That's yeah. I don't know. That's assumed. I feel like it should. Yeah, sure. But you know, I'm a bit of an idiot and I feel like people are probably even dumber than me. So we should have it ready for us. Fair.

[00:38:07] I think maybe pterodactyls twice of twice a month kind of kissed each other with little with their beaks. And it's like, where the fuck did you get this? You know, it could be as granular as that. Right. But I think if you just open it with if you start that sentence with, I think maybe I'm cool with it. But he was like, they really were so matter of factly like they're like Tuesday night. It was the beak kissing hour. Well, per usual. Charlotte, that is our question back to you.

[00:38:35] Do you need dinosaur documentaries to constantly remind you that they are theoretical? Let us know in the comments. All right. Thank you, Charlotte. Great question. I love how many questions we're getting about cryptids and stuff because I could talk about cryptids all day. Which is wacky because we don't really cover cryptids that much. This is people projecting. They're projecting onto us. But that's why we're getting questions about them because we're not afraid of them. So they're not on the show except the Galookagoo. Anyone who listened to Abandoned Towns.

[00:39:05] Galookagoo. I have to make that pin at some point, but probably get in trouble for it. Should get in trouble for it. Probably. From Michael S. I have a question about psychopaths. Fair, fair. We all have questions about psychopaths. Would you two split psychopaths in equal measure? Question mark. What does that mean? Like, are we bifurcating psychopaths? Yeah, that makes us sound like psychopaths. We're like, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, for real.

[00:39:35] We'll cut them right in half. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to read this whole thing and then we can break the question down further if need be. Okay, so this is what Michael asks. Would you two split psychopaths in equal measure, both ease existential and physical? Because there is equal opportunity for both a physical encounter on an everyday and day-to-day basis. As in, every new day, there is the very real possibility of encountering, knowingly or unknowingly,

[00:40:04] enraging, or to put another way, sparking, a psychopath's attention. And ease extensively because it has neither been proven nor disproven that psychopathy, psychopathy? Psychopathy? I don't know. You said ease extensively. Who fucking knows? So, existentially, psychopathy. Both existential and physical. Meaning that through no fault of your doing, psychopathy could potentially be passed along to yourself or your child unwittingly. Okay, sounds like Kevin here.

[00:40:33] Is this Kevin? Who's his guy's name? Michael. Oh, Kevin. I said Kevin. Who's Kevin? I said Kevin because where I was going with it is... Yeah, I'm trying to understand the core of the question here. I think the core question is, hey, do you think when we're walking around, 20, 30, 40 people are going to walk by us any given couple city blocks? How many of those do you think are psychopaths? Do you know how close you are at any given time to, I guess, upsetting a psychopath and

[00:41:00] then being victim to their psychopathy? If that's the case, then yeah, I absolutely think we probably... I mean, there are sociopaths for sure in my fucking family. Right. So if we just extrapolate from there to now being very comfortable with harming people and making them a psychopath, I probably have those in my family too. I definitely have met psychopaths or people that I would believe were like low level psychopaths. Yeah. I mean, you fucking had that kid who shot that squirrel.

[00:41:30] That's psychopath behavior. Yeah, that kid was a lunatic. But I guess I still don't really know how to answer the question other than, yes, I definitely think we walk among them. Yeah. I mean, I think broadly this question is asking like, you know, we don't know exactly what causes dangerous psychopathic behavior. I got punched in my driveway by that guy. Remember? Yeah. I just, I flipped that guy, the bird, but the guy was super fucking super warranted, tossing

[00:41:56] the bird and he slammed in his car's brakes and then fought me in my driveway while his girlfriend, who I do not, I do not envy her position in this life. It was like, please stop. Why are you being crazy? I think, I mean, in terms of like dangerous psychopaths or the danger of passing a psychopathology onto your children unwittingly. Well, that's why I mentioned Kevin. What's that movie? We need to talk about Kevin.

[00:42:23] We need to talk about Kevin, which I think, so I don't know. It's difficult because if you want to have kids, if you want to have kids, you want to answer that question is like, it's not nature or it's not nurture. I don't know. It's tough. Like, cause if it's like a twins or like every, every other generation, you, you, you make more psychopaths. That's kind of a bummer. Well, wait, what do you mean? It's like twins. You make more psychopaths. Like, you know, every, like a twin skip a generation or whatever. Oh, I didn't know that. Where, you know, yeah.

[00:42:53] Like my cousin's mom is a twin and she has children. None of those children are twins, but I think now all their kids, if they now have children are very good shot. One of them is going to be a twin. Cause I think it skips a generation, the twin gene or whatever. Interesting. I see. If I had a kid and I was like, Hey, just so you know, uh, I'm a twin and there's a very good chance that your kids, you know, they might be twins. That's fine. But if you're like, Hey, uh, I'm a psychopath and there's a very good chance that your kids

[00:43:23] are going to be psychopaths. So keep an eye out for weird psychopath behavior, which you probably can't do anything about. Cause I'm not sure we have any way to curb that. Like, is there a way to give psychopaths any form of emotions or no, but I, I do think there's something to be said for the fact that like, you know, there are psychopaths in all walks of life. And I don't think it necessarily, I don't think having traits of a sociopath or a psychopath

[00:43:53] doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to be a bad person. I think you, you have to, you know, as, as a parent, if you're concerned that your child is a psychopath and I should say as a disclaimer, neither of us have any training in any of this. So don't, there's zero, uh, don't take any of this as like real advice. We don't even have kids. No, but I think, I think it's like, cause we don't want to make more fucking psychopaths.

[00:44:20] You want to keep an eye out for the, those sorts of behaviors. But I think, you know, just because you don't necessarily feel the kinds of emotions that other people do, or you don't feel any emotions doesn't mean you can't still be a productive, good member of society with a moral code. And not every psychopath is Michael Myers or Dexter, or like, you know, looking to kill people. They just don't observe humanity and others the way that we do.

[00:44:50] And so that can be, I think you could teach behaviors to somebody with those tendencies and hopefully they won't succumb to those tendencies and they will always try to respect and honor human beings and other living creatures. But yeah, I mean, and generally I'm not too worried about sparking a psychopath's attention. If that's the question here. Unless that psychopath can hire us. Yeah. Yeah. We work in Hollywood.

[00:45:18] We're surrounded by psychopaths. Well, psychopaths and sociopaths, I mean, whether you're watching fucking American Psycho or whatever, like they're usually super successful because they lack that element of remorse, empathy and guilt. Yeah. Everything's when everything's a game, it's easy to try to, well, not easy, but it's easier to try to stack money and make choices that'll make you money. Even if that means, you know, I don't know, theoretically denying a screenwriter healthcare.

[00:45:48] Theoretically. Yeah. But no, yeah. So I think we should reread the question one more time to see if we completely fucked us up. Let's reread the question one more time. See if we've covered all the bases here. Or any. I have a question about psychopaths from Michael S. Would you two split psychopaths in equal measure, both existential and physical? Because there is equal opportunity for both a physical encounter on an everyday and day-to-day basis.

[00:46:17] As in, every new day, there is the very real possibility of encountering knowingly or unknowingly enraging or, to put another way, sparking a psychopath's attention. Question mark. All right. We should stop there because we haven't split it, existential versus physical. I think existential, I don't care. I don't. How does that affect my life? And then physical, it would affect my life. But if I enrage a psychopath, that's their fucking problem. They need to fucking calm down. Well. They need to get their life together. Yes.

[00:46:46] Unless they punch you in the jaw. Here's the thing. If I'm in a fight with a psychopath or I'm in a fight with an empath, we're still fucking fighting. Yeah. Right? Like, it's not, at the end of the day, it's about whether or not, like, a non-psychopath might let someone live at the end of that. And a psychopath might just kill someone and not feel anything towards it. Like, oh, I should have stopped hitting them with a bat or something. Right. Where, you know, the whole, like, the Simpsons, like, stop it. He's already dead. Like, to the horse.

[00:47:15] So, I guess we're saying we generally are living lives where we're not provoking anyone to fight, whether they be psychopathic or not. Yes. But part of the question was, I guess, is, like, is that a what if they're asking? Like, what if you did or whatever? Yeah. Well, what if we did? Then we're fighting. It's a fight. This is what's going to happen. It's fight or flight. We're going to be just as kind of insane with trying to protect your own self. And I don't think at any point until the fight's done where you're like, hey, do you think that was a psychopath? Like, I don't know how you even know.

[00:47:42] If you've, like, enraged a psychopath or just a person who's got road rage. Well, look at their cold black eyes and see if there's anything back there. You know I'm an eyeball man. Yeah. I've been an eyeball man since day one. Like, I will. I make a lot of judgments in my life based on people's eyes. And I have had people come to me in the past who were like, hey, you know, I'm going on a second date with this guy. He was kind of weird. Can you give an eyeball look? It's harder to do over the photos. But I still try. Yeah. Because I think that it really is the window to the soul.

[00:48:13] Like, I really do believe that. Like, even as a young person, I've been like, I don't like those eyes and have been confirmed with my suspicions sometimes as quickly as 10 minutes later where I'm like, yep, guess that right? I remember that very specifically as a young person at like a ski place where I was like, that guy is no good. And then he immediately hurt a bunch of kids. What? What? Like a guy working there. I'm not going to get into it. Okay. All right. I'm saying it's like, not only do I have great eyeball taste, like I'm really good at figuring it out.

[00:48:41] I've been confirmed in so many cases in my life. Yet I continue to date sociopaths and psychopaths. Physically, we are... Not afraid. I don't give a shit. I'm fighting you no matter what. Not really all that afraid. Yeah. Existentially, it's because it has neither been proven nor disproven that psychopathy is genetic, meaning that through no fault of your doing, psychopathy could potentially be passed along to yourself or your child unwittingly. Well, if it was passed on to either of us, it happened a long time ago.

[00:49:11] I don't think it did. I don't think you're a psychopath and I don't think I'm a psychopath. I don't think I've shown any tendencies for that. No. I though existentially of like... Yeah, it is an interesting question because it is like somebody shoots up a school. Somebody's getting a phone call. Well, these days, it's usually that parent's already been shot before they went to the school. But it is like somebody's getting a phone call. It's somebody's nephew, somebody's niece, somebody's kid. They didn't manifest from thin air.

[00:49:38] So you have to, I imagine, and I said, I talked about this earlier, but you have to, I imagine, as a parent, be like, what did I do wrong? And honestly, I take back what I said earlier. I think I do want there to be a psychopath gene because the alternative is it's something I did, right? It's like, oh, if it's fully nurture, well, then that's a bigger existential crisis than I gave them the psycho gene. Well, but I think it's both. I think it, I mean, to me, I've always thought of it almost like addiction where it's like,

[00:50:06] I think you're born with the predisposition to be an addict, but what you are addicted to is going to depend on what you are exposed to. Interesting. And I feel like it's kind of similar with psychopaths where like you can be born a psychopath, whether or not you're a dangerous psychopath is going to depend on how you're raised, you know? And maybe if you're a good psychopath, I don't mean good as in like good witch, bad witch.

[00:50:32] I mean, like if you're good at passing as not a psychopath, you're doing the like Bateman American psycho. I'm practicing my smile in the mirror. I'm, you know, doing everything. I'm watching movies. I'm watching, I'm trying to blend in as a person with emotions. I imagine if you're a psychopath or sociopath, there's a fair amount of your life where you're, you're acting to not seem insane, but I can't confirm or, you know, not confirm that. Yeah. Me either. Okay.

[00:51:00] According to this thing I just pulled up and I've done no research into it. 1% of the general population, they say are psychopaths and 4% of the general population, they say are sociopaths. I don't know if they mean the population of the world or if they mean the gen pop of a prison. No, I think I mean the general population of a world of the world. Well, there's no way they could know that. There's no way they know that this is bullshit. And that's low because I think there's probably a higher percentage of psychopaths and sociopaths who are not going to talk about it or let you in on that or whatever. Well, forget it.

[00:51:30] Well, I will say this is a good batch of first questions because they were all difficult, weirdly. And the last one was like really difficult. Did we have good answers for any of these? No, these are all bad answers. We'll do better in the future. We'll do better, guys. I do think it's fun to not look at them really until we open them. Yeah. But I also think that's a detriment because we could have had like really thoughtful, really well thought out, really good. But isn't that psychopath behavior to like open the questions and then like pretend that we've never looked at them before? Yeah. I don't know. No.

[00:51:59] But even if I did know, I don't think I have time to answer. I still have to edit. I still have to pack more stuff, ship more stuff out. You know, I still have like all that stuff to do before I head out. Oh, yeah. That's right. You got to hit the road. Yeah, that is correct. I mean, by the time people hear this, I'll already be on the road. But yeah, we're definitely cutting it pretty close. For the next one of these, I won't be as compressed for time. And we'll definitely be able to get in more questions next month for sure. So if we didn't get to your question this month, it'll be at the top of the lineup next month when we're back here trying to be better at this.

[00:52:28] So these are all really great questions. Thank you guys so much for participating in the inaugural AMA. I think we set a very low bar to clear for next time. Not with the questions, with the answers. Well, I don't always believe this. And this is not how I normally think. But this is a situation where I do believe it can only get better. It can only get better. Like normally my brain is like, well, it can always get worse. But no, in this case, I think we kind of can't do any worse than our first attempt at this. So it can only get better.

[00:53:04] All right, cool. So hopefully you guys are enjoying the AMA extravaganza, AMApalooza. That was the first batch that we ever received. I mean, how do you think that went, Chris? I think that went okay. I mean, when we said people could ask us anything, I thought we might get some more insane questions. But I think that was a pretty good spread of questions about frogs versus questions about fears. You know, the things that people really want to know. Yeah, yeah.

[00:53:30] They really want to know about the frogs because the frogs are actually going to come up again in the next segment. Yeah, like right now. Right now. So without further ado, let's go to the original. AMA 2 starting now. What are we? Scared. When are we? All the time. Join us. Join us. Join us. Now it is time for. Time for. Scared all the time. Hey, everybody. Welcome to our second AMA episode.

[00:53:59] Before we get started. I guess we'll just say we'll try to make the AMAs a little easier to A the Qs. Yeah. Because we haven't gotten a whole bunch of Qs. Now, maybe there's just not that much to ask us. I don't know. But you guys still, you delivered a lot of questions last month. So we're going to do some rollover questions that we didn't address last month, this month. And then we'll try to make the link to ask the questions a little bit easier to access. Yeah.

[00:54:29] We're still learning this new system. I don't know. It's a whole. It's a whole thing. Thank you, everyone, for sticking with us while we figure it all out. But, you know, we're around. There's different ways you can yell at us if you don't love it. Yeah. So we'll dive in here on the questions that actually came through Supercast. And then we have an email question from Carly Cannon that got emailed previously. But because it didn't go through Supercast, we didn't answer it.

[00:54:58] But we'll answer it this time. Whole thing. But we'll start with this. I feel like we kind of covered this already. All right. But Jeanette wants to know, Ed, what's behind your disdain for the frogs? Oh, I think we kind of covered this thousands of times now. You should know this, Jeanette. It's just that I have to edit the show. And when they're squawking and squirping, whatever they're called, ribbiting, I don't know. When they're doing, it sounds like electrical interference, whatever their body is doing back there.

[00:55:28] It just makes it difficult to isolate the audio in a way that I feel comfortable working. You may have heard the effects of unisolated audio in Buried Alive Part 1, where you get to hear how we echo a bunch and all that crap. That's what happens when we don't have isolated audio. Yeah. So it's just an audio issue. It's not an animal issue. It's not a Ed hates creatures, great and small issue. It's just a sound thing. Related.

[00:55:57] I was on a very important phone call the other day for my writing work and my frogs were screaming and I wasn't thinking about it. And I was on this big group call and somebody was like, what is that? Are we getting, does anybody else hear that like that shrieking noise? And I was like, oh, sorry. Yeah, because it really does sound like electrical interference.

[00:56:25] It doesn't sound like, again, you think frogs, you're like ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. Nope. Or like the Budweiser frogs. You don't get that. It's like a crazy noise that sounds like if you're driving a car, it sounds like your wheels are about to fall off. If you're editing the show, it sounds like, I don't know, some sort of electrical interference. It's a hazardous noise. We want you to be able to listen to the show in the car and not be worrying about what's happening to your wheels. And if your wheels are making that noise and about to fall off, you really should pull over.

[00:56:54] So I took apart a car today. I took apart a car before we got started today. But that's for you can ask me that question. You can say, Ed, what did you do with a car today? And we'll answer that next month. Jeanette has a second question here. Oh, my God. This one better not have been answered already, Jeanette. It was not. It was not. It was not. So this question is, are either of you afraid of heights? Yes. I'm terrified of heights and can't stand near an edge that doesn't have a solid railing that is at least waist high.

[00:57:21] But I still am willing to scare the shit out of myself by going on roller coasters or things like jumping off of the stratosphere in Vegas. Oh. I can't really square these things, but I know fear of heights is a pretty common one. Okay. I thought her question had ended with heights. I didn't know there was more, which is why I interrupted. But yes, I have a fear of heights. I definitely, I don't even like being on ladders. I hate it. My dad's got a crazy fear of heights. It's vertigo runs in my family too.

[00:57:48] So it's just a lot going on where I don't want to be up in the air. Ed, you're going to have to get over your fear of heights before this podcast takes you to the top of the goddamn world. I don't think that's... Because we're going to be up in the clouds, brother. I guess it's not a fear of heights. It's more of like a fear of falling maybe. But yeah. I just don't like being up there. I'm not great with heights. I think, I think, I don't know. I, a little bit, I think I have sort of a death drive.

[00:58:16] Like, yeah, that's pretty established on the show. You're constantly, every third thought is like, what if I threw my body into the ceiling fan? Yeah, I mean, I remember going to Niagara Falls as a teenager and standing on the edge, like one of the observation decks and being like, I could just, I could just jump. Not in like a, not in like a aggressively suicidal way, but just in that sort of like the voice in the back of my head going, just do it. Just fucking do it. Just find out. Just do it.

[00:58:44] You got to stop listening to that voice, dude. I've never listened to it, but I feel like heights, like if I'm, or I've never been to the Grand Canyon, but I think I would have. I love it. How the fuck do you love the Grand Canyon if you're afraid of heights? The whole thing is heights. I brought my dad to the Grand Canyon this year and I have already been. It's one of my favorite places. And I pushed him right off the edge. Well, no, he wouldn't like go to it.

[00:59:07] Like, there's a picture, like he wouldn't even like go from where it's safe in like the parking area where you can't even see the canyon to go through. So I was like, let's get a picture together in front of the canyon, but pictures don't do justice to this thing. It's the best. Right. So crazy. Like it's a hole, but it's my favorite. It's your favorite hole? I was going to say my favorite hole. I stopped myself. I didn't know there was too many jokes. Hey, Ed, we just got a new user question. What's your favorite hole? I have to wait until next month. It wasn't in this submitted already. They got to wait till.

[00:59:37] I'll answer my favorite hole, but next month. But I do love the Grand Canyon and my dad wouldn't go near it. So I had to go do it all myself down there. I don't know. It's almost, you know, I'm not like on the edge or anything. I'm just looking out into it. I'm not. It's not Wile E. Coyote. I haven't like run off. I'm like, I'm nowhere near where I would fall in. Do you understand? Yeah. I still stand back, but I just love it. I fucking love it. I think the last tall building I was on was the World Trade Center. I have a good photo of me up there. Great. Great. Yeah.

[01:00:07] Any particular day you were there or? Nope. That was it would have been pre 2001. Okay. I was just going to say fear of heights is pretty common. And it's one that I've wrestled with how to research because I would love to do an episode of the show about fear of heights because it is, I think, probably one of the more common fears.

[01:00:27] But it's a weird one because the fear isn't particularly, it doesn't lend itself well to like stories and research. You know, it's like, what is heights? How high are heights? I will say that like heights is interesting because, you know, my dad who's hates heights. But when I was a kid, I'd go to all these job sites with him and he'd be like, and he did,

[01:00:54] you know, skyscraper work and stuff in the seventies in New York as well. But like, less so in Connecticut where I grew up. But I'd be like, how are you up in these catwalks and shit? Like at the top of this old crap. And he's like, well, they pay me. And so there is an interest. So it's like, I get paid to do that. Like if I have to get done, I have to be up there. And so there is a way, I guess, to turn off certain fears when it comes to just being like,

[01:01:19] oh, my family's livelihood depends on me going up in this crane or me being on this catwalk. Yeah. Well, actually, that's maybe that's a way into an interesting fear of heights episode of like, you know, stories about like window washers and like people who have to go do face, face what for some people would be a paralyzing fear to go do their job. I mean, my, my, my day, you make really good money being a crane operator on like big construction sites, but you're up there all day.

[01:01:49] You're pissing in jugs and stuff. Right. But because you're not like coming down. Right. But it's, you make good ass money up there. That's, that's not a lot of people want to be up there and a lot of people want to do it. Right. And then there's obviously pictures of like guys eating fucking sandwiches on a beam, you know, right. Building the Empire State building and shit. So yeah, I don't know, I guess, but there has to be some people like I've got friends who don't, who are not allergic to poison ivy. And it's like, what a fucking superpower that is. Yeah.

[01:02:19] So they don't give a shit about poison ivy. They can run through it. It means nothing to them. So I imagine if you just don't have a fear of heights at all, if you're like hanging out on the fucking side of a building and whatever, it must be interesting to just not feel anything for that in the way that like you could run through poison ivy if you're not allergic to it. Yeah. Like if you look at fear as allergies, if you're not allergic to heights, it's gotta be cool. Well, yeah. You know, the guy, what's his name? The free solo guy.

[01:02:46] He probably doesn't have, he's got, he's got fear of nothing. That guy's a... He's got a fear of living a long time. Yeah. He just wants it to be over with. Have you ever jumped out of a plane? No. I did. I jumped out of a plane with Keto. Oof. How was it? It was, the video was not great. I wish I had lost a little bit more weight before being on that video, but it was fine. It was surprisingly fine because really it's about that guy getting over his fear of heights, not me, right? I'm strapped to him.

[01:03:15] But then I got unbelievably sick when the parachute was pulled because you go from like a hundred and whatever miles an hour to fucking five miles an hour in an instant. Right. And then my shitty inner ear issues that I have, it was just like, Hey, how about you're just going to feel like fucking nauseous the rest of the day. Was it, did you go tandem with Keto or was you each were tied to someone separate? We were both tandem with a stranger. Okay. And you know how I'm always talking? So I was like also talking up there and the guy's like, you need to stop. It's just all of your spit is flying into my face.

[01:03:46] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're not podcasting Ed. You're falling out of a plane. Yeah. That was also surprisingly not scary. It wasn't like the fear of heights kind of, again, disappeared because we had a deposit down. And so it's the fear of height is something you can cancel out with like, well, I can't break these plans. Money. With money. Yeah. Money. That is the fear factor. Yeah. All right. Well, hopefully that answers your question, Jeanette. Yeah. We are both afraid of heights. But I will. I've, I've been able to push through it a few times. Yeah.

[01:04:14] These next two are actually like weirdly kind of related and they're from two different people. Should we hook them up? Yeah. Yeah. Meet Cute, Casey and Sean. Oh, hell yeah. So I'm going to say this. I'll save both of the questions and then maybe we can figure out which order. Until their wedding. And we can, yeah, well, we'll, we'll answer it when we officiate your, your wedding, Sean and Casey.

[01:04:40] Um, but we'll, I'll, I'll read both the questions and then we can figure out what order we want to answer them in. Cause they do kind of overlap. So Casey asks, what spooky slash creepy place would you refuse to enter? Also, if you had to spend the night in a spooky, creepy place, where would you? And then Sean asks, would you guys ever cover a paranormal slash haunted place and visit it to do an episode of your experiences there?

[01:05:08] I, interesting, both are interesting questions. One is just about like doing an episode somewhere and the other one's like sleeping over like a, yeah, well, one's, one's, one is about like where we would do, the question is called AL Sally house type episode. Oh yeah, dude. That episode's scary. That episode's legit scary. So one, so the one question is about like, where, where would we do our Sally house episode? And the other one is just saying, where would you refuse to enter?

[01:05:37] But if you had to spend the night in a creepy, spooky, creepy place, where would it be? So the reason I think they're related is because the answer to where would we spend the night is also probably the answer to the, where would we do a haunted place episode? Okay. This is interesting because I actually have like kind of an interesting answer. Good. Cause I don't, which is, I, I don't know. Yeah. I don't know exactly the places, but I went to a wedding that was at the Stanley hotel in

[01:06:05] Estes Park, Colorado or at just Estes Colorado. I remember exactly. Either way. I remember I had a shortness of breath. I was super up in the clouds there and I was hammered. But I remember when I was getting my hotel, it was like, you can stay in the Stanley hotel or you can stay in a new building that's on the property that was built like 20 years ago or even new who fucking knows. And I remember specifically choosing that. I did not want to stay in the original Stanley hotel.

[01:06:32] For listeners who don't know the Stanley hotel is the inspiration for the shining. It is where Stephen King was staying and was snowed in there and was alone in the hotel. And that was the inspiration for why he wrote the shining. And so the, the movie, the shining is not shot at the Stanley hotel, but it's all inspired by it. And it's apparently just covered in ghosts and all that shit. So that said, I specifically chose that I did not want to sleep in the old, old place.

[01:07:00] I wanted to sleep in the new place where I'm not going to be harassed by the dead all night. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So in that sense, I'm not great with this kind of stuff, but I guess if I had to choose a place, I guess maybe something like the Stanley hotel or something where it's like, I won't be alone, you know, where it's like, Oh, send me to the most haunted room. But I don't want to be like alone in a haunted house, at least at least at the hotel, the Stanley hotel, there's other people who are checked in and stuff.

[01:07:31] True. So that, that I find to be a little bit more comforting and a little bit more of like dipping my toe into the paranormal versus like, Hey, come to the Amityville horror house and spend the night alone or go to like a abandoned sanitarium and spend the night alone. Like, no, fuck off. Yeah. Pay me. I'm not doing that for free. There it is again. That money. That money will make me do it. I, I, this is sort of related. So the, the book, the shining is based on the Stanley hotel.

[01:07:59] The look of the shining in the, in the Kubrick film in the film is based on a hotel called the Awani in Yosemite national park. And I went there, uh, last year and it is shocking how exacting the, some of the designs are like the red elevators that the blood comes out of in the shining are, are just straight photocopy of, of what's in the Awani. Yeah. Because they shot the shining in like England, right? Like Pinewood studios or something. Yeah.

[01:08:29] They built it. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so it's a mix of different places. If you ever do get, if you're ever in Yosemite do definitely, I don't think the Awani is haunted, but it's very cool. Like to, to see straight up the shining in, in real life. You feel like you kind of walked on set at certain places. And I, and I went, uh, I went to go look for, um, shit. What's the room number two, two, three, seven or something like that. Yeah. Whatever the number, whatever the room number is, I'm blanking on it right now, but you

[01:08:57] know, I went upstairs to try to find it. And of course they do not have a room number there, uh, because they know that everyone would try and stay in. Everyone would try to stay in it or steal the number off the door or 237. Yeah. It's room 237. 237's in the movie. I think it's 217 in the book, 237 in the movie. But yeah, they don't have, they don't have that. And I, it was pretty obvious my wife and I were there and it was pretty obvious we were there because of the movie.

[01:09:24] And I feel like we were getting dirty looks for, cause it's a very fancy hotel. I, I, I just looked it up to see if I was pronouncing it right. And the prices for the summer are sitting around $800 a night. Wow. Well, the summer is when people go to national parks and stuff too. Cause it's like kids are off from school and everything. Yeah. I mean, I was scared of those prices. Cause yeah, ask me about the prices I get scared about next month. But okay. So let's see what, okay. A spooky, creepy place. I would refuse to enter.

[01:09:54] I mean, I would, I've gone in a bunch of spooky places. I actually, when I ghost hunted in high school, kind of, I found myself in, in some places I probably should not have been in, including one house that my friends and I forced the door open cause we read online that it was this like haunted farmhouse. And then we heard footsteps. Oh no. And my, my first thought was, oh, it's a ghost. And then one of my friends was like, someone lives here.

[01:10:20] And I looked around and like, like it definitely, we were, we had just broken into someone's house. Oh my God. And so we took off running. So that was, that was a, I, I, that's a way to say there's not many places I, I would refuse to enter. I'm trying to think like, I mean, maybe like the Paris catacombs at night. Like if someone was like sneak in, I would, I would not love that just cause being underground more than creepy or spooky, a cave.

[01:10:50] I would, I'm definitely not a spelunker. Sure. I don't want to be underground in a very tight hole. And you get lost. It's like a series of underground tunnels and you must be so easy to like get turned around, you know? Yeah. So I, I would not go into like a haunted cave. The catacombs would be tough. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I turned down at all of those. I mean, like as a kid, we actually have a recording of this that we never released.

[01:11:18] When we interviewed a friend of mine from Connecticut and like, you know, there was a Fairfield Hills, which is an abandoned sanitarium in Connecticut where they actually shot the movie sleepers. Oh yeah. That is something where like, it was almost a rite of passage to break into that when you were like in high school. And I just was like, fucking no, thank you. I have no interest in that. It's awful. And so I get, yeah, I get real skeeved about that type of shit. I do not care to, to do anything too spooky.

[01:11:48] That same guy that we're talking about that we have a recording of. I also went, you know, ghost hunting with him at like cemeteries and stuff. And I didn't, I didn't care for really any of it. Um, yeah, I have, I have one really great. Well, you, Ed, Ed is familiar with the house on Waltonville road, which is a short film that I made in college. I have great pictures of us making that. Yeah. But I, I got the, I have video of that scary basement situation. Wait, which scary basement?

[01:12:14] Me and Pat or somebody, some friend of ours was like getting equipment out of the basement. So the Waltonville road house had like, uh, like Bilco doors outside. Like you'd enter the basement outside through Bilco doors. Yeah. And I was coming up in the door at the bottom of the Bilco doors was a normal, like just door. You would open at the bottom of the steps. That door slammed shut behind me when I was carrying equipment out, like hit me in my butt. Oh, and I ran out all freaked out. And I was like, who the fuck did that? You assholes.

[01:12:44] And then they were like, no one's down there. Like, no, it's just, everyone's up here. Oh wow. And I have video of that. Basically that incident. I have it somewhere on like, God, I would've been like a cyber shot or something camera, like a, like a 0.4 megapixel digital camera. But there's somewhere exists, uh, at least audio or some video of me getting scared to death by the fact that a door that has no wind, no nothing slammed shut on my ass.

[01:13:12] Well, somewhere video also exists of the trip that my friends took in high school to the actual house on Waltonville road where I'll tell that story on the podcast, uh, for everyone to hear some time. Well, before we get too far into that story, we should say that the house where we shot your short film was like, it did burn down and everything. Like it wasn't just a pretty nice house. Like the one where I got my ghostly thing happened.

[01:13:38] It was like a, uh, I don't know if anyone died, but it definitely burned down after, after we shot there. No, I mean like when we shot there, it was all burned and it was like, it had, it had been a victim of fire. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was our friend's like grandmother's old house or something. It was more at Kyle Morrison's family had it somehow. It was a spooky house. Um, but we're, we're way, we're way, we're way down. I have a way off the path here.

[01:14:06] This is what people come to premium for. Yeah. Just verbal diarrhea. Um, so spooky, creepy places. Yeah. Those, there's not a lot of places I would refuse to enter, but then this, the, where would we go and where, where would we stay and where would we do a, uh, paranormal haunted place? I have two answers to that. I guess the one that I would, um, really like love to.

[01:14:34] To do an episode from would be either the Amityville house, which I know there's a lot of controversy as to whether or not any of the Amityville stories are even real, but I just, I, I love it. Um, but I think even more so I would just love, maybe we can make this like a contest for the fans or something, but I would love, I bet somewhere out there, there is like a local haunted house that just doesn't have like a good enough story to have made it on ghost

[01:15:03] hunters or something. And I'd kind of love to do, to do a night in a very haunted house that I have no preconceptions of what is haunting it or why it might be haunted. Just it's a haunted house. You know? I know there's not a lot of people who get the AMA yet, but if any of you guys know of any places, let us know in your local area or something. Cause there's Lindley house in Bridgeport, Connecticut. And a couple of places that, you know, we're Warren, the Warrens did them, but they were, there are not fucking movies yet. You know what I mean? Yeah.

[01:15:33] Yeah. Well, cause I feel like the famous ones or even ones that have been, um, you know, subject to previous investigations or whatever, like you kind of, you, it's like, Oh, it used to be a brothel or, you know, and then like, you know, the, the, the widow lived here forever until she threw herself out of a window and it kind of, it gives you preconceived ideas of what's happening there or why it might be haunted.

[01:15:59] Whereas just like some guy's house that seems to be haunted is kind of more interesting because you can just experience the phenomena as it happens instead of being like, Oh, that must be the spirit of the little girl. Yeah, that's true. That's true. It's hard to find those types of places, I guess, but it is, it is. But yes, the answer is yes. We absolutely would do a haunted place episode. I think it's just. I'm 100% in. Yeah. Cause again, no different than money. It's like, if just as all it really takes for me to do something, I'm not that comfortable

[01:16:29] with is just the expectation that people think I'm going to be there because I usually follow through on everything I agree to. So like, it would just be like, Oh, it doesn't love heights. And it's like hard cuts who you and me on the, whatever those like, you know, Instagram videos of like, you can eat a meal on like, on the bottom of a plane. Outside. Like, yeah. Like I would, I'll do almost anything if I agree to like, all right, I guess we're all doing this. That's fine. So yeah, let's do it. Let's make it a plan.

[01:16:57] We, I know some of these West Virginia paranormal people follow our show and they're always posting stuff. Maybe, maybe we can do a thing with them. Well, yeah, we'll hook up with some people in Ohio and see at Monster Fest. We'll meet some ghost hunters too. Oh my God. So many people that we're going to meet there definitely do way more paranormal shit than us. Since recording this, Chris and Ed have gone to Monster Fest and did a quick ghost hunt with the West Virginians. It went well and more to come on that in the future. Yeah.

[01:17:25] Well, cause I think that's, that's one of the things that's tricky for us is we're three seasons into this. We're just kind of feeling comfortable making a podcast and then like doing an overnight haunted location show is like, it's kind of the dream. It's just, there's a whole other level of, you know, just red tape around the legality of where you are and, and then bringing equipment in and what kind of equipment.

[01:17:52] And it becomes a whole production very quickly that, that I feel like we're not, or even beyond haunted stuff, just like any, like if we did a Bigfoot investigation or a lake monster hunt, or I'd love to do all that stuff eventually, but it just, it requires some infrastructure that I feel like we don't quite have our, our hands around yet. Yeah. We'll ask everybody there. I know Micah Hanks said we can come down to where he is and do something. Oh yeah. That'd be great. All right. Well, so we've, we beat that question to death. Oh my God. Yeah.

[01:18:21] Sorry, everyone. Casey and Sean, uh, congrats on being married and, um, uh, we'll move on. Let's see. Okay. So here's the question that Carly emailed that, that I forgot to answer last week. Carly, I'm sorry. It was just, we ended up just going through the questions in the, uh, AMA bucket. And I forgot that you'd emailed this one. So, but if you listen to the show enough, you know how bad we are at emails to begin with. So yeah, truly. Um, but okay.

[01:18:49] So this one, we're going to do two Carly questions because the first one doesn't, well, you'll see in a minute. It's, it's sort of, we just answered it with our last episode. So Carly's question last month was some of your topics would benefit from a female perspective. Topics like stalking or deep water have unique girl fears. For example, the deep end of the pool is scary for a girl with long hair because it could get caught in the drain and cause drowning. Not a fear most guys would have.

[01:19:16] Do you have any plans on having a female guest on for some of these topics in the future? So yes, we just had Anna Akana, who was our first female guest. Who had zero female perspectives into being buried alive, but was always good to have her. It's not our first female guests. We've had let's get haunted on who are both. We only have female guests except for our friends. Well, uh, I guess, well, okay. I mean, Anna's our friend, but Anna's our friend. Let's get haunted.

[01:19:42] I guess I thought of as like a crossover episode, not like a guest. Cause we did theirs and they did ours. That's true. That's true. That's true. But yeah, I mean, we're going to have more, more women on our friend Maggie at some point. We're going to get on. She's awesome. And that's all the girls we know. So we actually, both of us have like a fairly large female friend group. So yeah, probably why the ladies love our show so much. We're safe. I don't know if we'll necessarily always have them lined up with like something that has

[01:20:11] a specifically girl associated fear. But we should. Smart idea. We should. Well, stalking was one. They weren't on the show, but when we were, when we started researching and writing stalking, we were writing it on a writer's retreat with three women there, four women, I think. Yeah. So none of them were on the show, but we did have a long, a big dinner discussion one night about stalking and, and listened to the stories that they had. And I mean, one of them was on the show actually. Yeah.

[01:20:41] True. So, okay. So that was Carly's first question. But since it, since we, we answered it, we answered it, but she, so then Carly sent an email a couple of weeks later and she said, hello there. Hi, Carly. I made this list while listening to the AMA and the first episode of season three. So now you can do an entire episode of Carly's questions and 100% being a ginger makes you

[01:21:08] require more anesthetic than other people because we are technically mutants because of our MC1R gene. We also have a much higher tolerance to pain than most people, but our weakness is the sun. Yes. We are part of the X-Men sunglasses emoji. Huh. Huh. Carly, welcome to the ginger army that we're, we're in support of here. Yeah. Hey, was there a question in there? Well, no, she sent, so that was the intro to the questions. Now there's seven questions under there.

[01:21:36] Now we're not going to do all seven of these. We can't just make it Carly up. You have to get to a higher tier maybe to be a full Carly episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Carly, we'll set up a specific tier just for you so we can do the rest of these. But I figured we'll do at least the top question here because it's very relevant coming up. Will there be behind the scenes videos available from the boys at Monster Fest? Oh, shit. Thanks for giving me more work to do, Carly.

[01:22:07] There will be content. I'm not sure exactly what form it's going to take because of Ed's workload and just general our availability during the, during the fest and everything that's going to be going on. But we'll be doing something. So look out for that. Well, and speaking here, we'll end on this. Speaking of more work for Ed, question five on Carly's list.

[01:22:32] I think this is something that we've been asked a couple of times, not on the AMA, but we'll answer it here. When will we be getting merch? Will there be a, quote, Halloween edition release like they do on the father cast Astonishing Legends? The merch store didn't come out in time for Halloween, but it's out now. So head over to scaredallthetimepodcast.com and put Ed to work making you things. So that's Ask Me Anything for this month. Yep.

[01:23:06] All right. Another good batch of questions. I like these. This is fun. We should, we should get back to doing AMAs. This next batch we themed, didn't we, Chris? We did. We themed it to be movie related. We call it Cinema Paradiso and we got some movie questions, which is exactly what we were looking for. So you guys delivered on that. And now hopefully we are going to deliver you some really good answers. So let's take a listen. What are we? Scared. When are we? All the time. Join us.

[01:23:36] Join us. Join us. Now it is time for. Time for. Scared all the time. All right, everybody. Welcome to your AMA for the month. You're scared all the time AMA. S-A-T-T-A-M-A. Our call sign. Uh, I am Chris Kalari. And I'm Ed Ficola. And we're here to answer the questions that you have asked us this week. Theme, Cinema Paradiso.

[01:24:04] And we were looking for questions particularly about movies, films, what have you. And we got some. You guys delivered. So let's see. I guess we'll start. Okay. With the. That's right. We have the likes here. We have how many upvotes or likes each of these gets. So the number one upvoted question is underrated horror favorites.

[01:24:29] I know both you guys are fans of horror and Ed has an affinity for the B-rate stuff. As do I. So what gems of horror do you guys have to tee up that are either underrated, obscure, or borderline unknown? This question, underrated horror favorites, was asked by Justin Heron. So thank you, Justin, for asking. Wow. Okay. Well, you watch more horror. That'll like scare you. Yeah, I would.

[01:24:56] I mean, my go-to for years was Lake Mungo because it was a movie that was made in Australia. And the first place I ever interned when I moved out to LA was a company called After Dark Films. And they used to release the eight films to die for every year from like 2006 to maybe 2009 or 10 or something. And they would buy eight horror movies out of film festivals every year and release them

[01:25:26] nationwide on the same weekend. And the idea was they would try to do basically like a horror festival in your town because it was all these movies one after the other all weekend. Anyway, they didn't last very long because most of the movies they bought were pretty bad. And I think they were buying some bottom of the barrel stuff. But when I got there, they had just passed on Paranormal Activity, as had everyone else in town.

[01:25:52] And then they did buy this found footage movie, Lake Mungo, which is more in the mold of a fake documentary than a found footage movie. There's a little bit of found footage in it, but it's more of just a almost like a ghost watch that British TV special from the 90s. Sure. It's more documentary style. And it is not jump and boo at you scary, but it really, really gets under your skin. That used to be my go-to answer.

[01:26:21] But now I feel like Lake Mungo is actually starting to, you know, 10 years on or whatever it is from when it originally came out. Find an audience? Yeah. It's starting to find an audience. Wow. More than 10 years on, 15 years on. It's starting to find an audience. People have discovered it, discovered that it's creepy, discovered that it's very good. I would also, I mean, it depends how much horror you watch, right? That's going to define what's considered a underrated favorite. I think Cemetery Man often goes overlooked. It's an Italian movie from- Yeah, I've seen it. Yeah.

[01:26:51] Yeah, like the 90s that I think got rebooted in America is Dylan Dog, which I think is the comic book that Cemetery Man is actually based on. Yeah, it makes sense. Or something like that. I don't remember. So that's a good one to see. It's fun. It's more fun horror. It's weird. If you like your horror serious, it's definitely not for you, but it's a bizarre one. What else, Ed? Have you thought of one yet?

[01:27:16] Yeah, I mean, if they're asking specifically about B-movie stuff or schlock, then I've got a bunch. But my stuff is, again, not going to scare you. Nothing I'm watching is going to scare you. If you're looking for that, don't come to me. But, because it's like, what's a horror movie? Is Stripped to Kill a horror movie? I don't think it is. It's one of my favorite schlock movies, but really it's like crime in the big city. So that's not really a horror. It's like a who's killing these prostitutes.

[01:27:44] Which I don't think is horror, really. Yeah, well, a lot of schlock is horror adjacent, but it's not necessarily a horror movie. Okay, so it's funny. I'm looking at my list and my list includes movies that I watch with my friend Dan and we have little notes sometimes next to each movie. And I just have such a hatred of trauma movies. And so there's just so much like fuck trauma in this list. So I won't give any of those. You know what's an excellent fucking movie?

[01:28:14] And I'll add it to this list for sure is The Changeling. It's an excellent horror movie, I think. Yeah, The Changeling is an excellent horror movie. I would say that's pretty much an A-list classic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When I put it, it technically comes under my schlock list. It's how I, it met all the criteria to be on my schlock list, but that was something where I was like, oh, this is great. Okay, fair enough. Let me see here. All the Witchboard movies. I'll watch any Witchboard movie, any Kevin Tenney movie, which would be like Witchboard,

[01:28:43] which would be Night of the Demons, I think is a Kevin Tenney movie. Yeah. I'm just looking here. Witch Trap is a Kevin Tenney movie. Witch Trap is another great one. A lot of witch material, that guy. Yeah, yeah. Oh my God, Pin. Have you ever seen Pin? No, Pin's one that I haven't seen. I know of it, but I have not seen it. Yeah, Pin is, it's even difficult to explain. So someone could just look it up. Oh, Screamers, which is a huge piece of shit.

[01:29:08] It's the movie that had the tagline, you will see a man turned inside out, but they didn't shoot that. And then they had to shoot it after because there were so many people complaining. Which series was it that you were like, oh, you could basically make this into like an X-Men trilogy? Oh, Scanners. Scanners. I love Scanners. I love all the Scanners films. It's tough. I'm looking at my schlock list, which is not movies that I love. And I didn't know what the questions were going to be here. Like I love, what the fuck's the wax movie? Waxwork? Yeah, Waxwork rules.

[01:29:38] Waxwork's incredible. I'll put that on my recommendation list. Waxwork is like one of the perfect, if you can get a CRT television and watch that movie on VHS on a CRT television. It's a movie that I had no context for, knew nothing about, bought it for a dollar on VHS at a library sale. And it's exactly the kind of movie that you hope it is. So many of those, like Ed was just talking about the movie where they say that you'll

[01:30:06] see a man turned inside out, but they never even shot a man get turned inside out. Waxwork's like the opposite of that, where the poster, I guess, promises some crazy stuff, but then you actually watch it and it delivers. Not again, not in scares, but it delivers. And I, we live, well, I live maybe five minutes from the Waxwork house, which is where they shot. There's a lot of like great horror movie houses in LA that now have huge fences and

[01:30:34] beautiful landscaping that you would never see the house anymore. But when you watch it in 1981, when they shot it, there weren't fences in those roads yet. There weren't. Yeah. Giant bushes. Yeah. Yeah. Not everyone wasn't like hiding behind shit. Yeah. That movie rules. I love all the, I love most of the house movies, even though a house came out, like the numbering doesn't make sense in real life. Right. If you like to know the history of the house movies. Yeah. But like house is great. Oh, neon maniacs is an awesome movie. Neon maniacs fucks. Yeah. Neon maniacs fucks.

[01:31:04] But like neon maniacs is absolutely a movie that like wasn't finished. I think it was actually two separate movies. They tried to combine to like hit 80 minutes. Like, like clearly people's like ages change, like actors fall out and they like try and replace them. It seems like with, with other people, like story changes, like whole parts of the story just never get resolved. But I remember that movie kind of slapping. Oh yeah. No. Cue the wing serpent slaps. Cue's great. I'll watch anything with Michael Moriarty in it.

[01:31:33] Anything with Michael Moriarty is where I was getting at. Yeah. Yeah. So this is actually too unwieldy for people. All the sleep away camp movies rule. I can't even tell you if I agree with that or not. Cause I think I've only ever seen the first one, which is enough. Now we're just like naming movies. Like we might as well be throwing. I know. We're just naming movies. Well, I wasn't like prepared. I didn't, I didn't make like a top five list or anything prior to this. So anyway, I'm not going to go into any more. I mean the gate. Oh, the gate. I don't know if the gate is considered obscure or unknown.

[01:32:01] Again, that's one of those, like, it depends how much horror you watch. You know, if you just go see, you know, what's out in theaters, you may not have heard of the gate. If you grew up when we did, you, you may have. But the gate's amazing. There's, there's some practical effects and like stop motion stuff in the gate. There's a, there's a shot where a guy, like a zombie comes out of a wall and then he falls down. And when he hits the ground, he, he instantly turns into like, I don't know, like 30 or

[01:32:30] 40 different, like miniature little goblins. No, they're great. And the effect is so well done. I mean, like you can tell that it's stop motion and everything, but the actual like mechanics of how clean it is, is just like, it's, it's a beautiful, it's a movie from like the very late eighties, very early nineties. And it's right on the cusp of CG wasn't there yet, but people were, it was the kind of the

[01:32:55] pinnacle of practical effects that this like sub Goonies level movie could get just really incredible visual effects that you just don't see anymore. No, it's a really great movie. So we'll move on from this. Although I would, I would like to give one or two readings of my notes from some of these movies. One is, I guess a horror movie called the strangeness and my note, never seen it. Don't worry.

[01:33:21] I wouldn't suggest you do because my note was unwatchable steer people away from this cave movie. Okay. So that would have been good to know in a, for the cave stuff. Did you see the terror within? No, I don't think so. So the terror within my note for 1989 is the terror within was gargoyles are the greatest threat humanity's ever faced. They're entirely too strong. The only thing stronger is their sex drive was my note for that movie.

[01:33:51] Okay. So I'm picturing, I'm picturing what that movie's like already. Yeah. It's very strong visual. Let's see. Oh, so this is a movie. I mentioned night of the demons, night of the demons with an S earlier, the Kevin Tenney movie. But there is a movie called night of the demon, not plural, which includes Bigfoot ripping a man's dick off on screen. Yes. And night of the demon I have seen. That is some fucking trash. Not for anyone. Yeah.

[01:34:18] But if for anyone cryptid heads out here who want to see when cryptids go bad or whatever. All right. I think that's enough. Yeah. I'm gonna have to do a lot of editing on that. So if you need more, I'm sure we can add some, but moving on to the next one. Werewolves. What do you guys think of werewolves? Vampires you could almost easily speak to and persuade. Zombies. Well, nothing to negotiate with there. That's kill or be killed. Yeah, totally.

[01:34:44] Werewolves, on the other hand, unless you are armed and ready, if you happen to say work the night shift and bicycle or walk home or have missed the bus for its last trip, let's say, you cannot reason with a werewolf. Unlike zombies, where almost anything will do to remorselessly take them out because they will do the same, a werewolf is terrifying to me. The one supernatural I would shit myself to encounter. What about you guys? Vampires, zombies, or werewolves? Asked by Michael Smith.

[01:35:14] Thank you, Michael. Great question. The question is, which one are we least excited to... Yeah, which one are we most scared to encounter? I'm afraid of befriending a vampire and then being let down when they reveal to me that they're a vampire. And this is all a ruse to eat me. So it's more the betrayal than... Yeah, the betrayal really bothers me there. Mm-hmm. Werewolf, same thing. Best of friends until the full moon. And then it's like, oh no.

[01:35:43] And it's tough. Like, I guess I'm most afraid of zombies because, yeah, there's no negotiating with a zombie. But it's also kind of like, I don't know, if they're not running zombies, if they're just like classic Night of the Living Dead zombies, I can probably deal with that. So yeah, werewolves are super strong too. Werewolves have like ape strength. And they don't remember what they're doing. And silver is hard to get your hands on these days. Mm-hmm. So I can make a stake. I can put up a board over my window.

[01:36:13] So I got a stake for vampires. I got a board I can put up over my window for zombies. I just don't think I'm going to have access to silver. So... Yeah, it's tough. It's a tricky market. I feel like it's riding a bubble because of like internet investment schemes. Well, what's funny, I wrote a sketch a million years ago that was like a we buy gold type of commercial. Mm-hmm. And about like investments in silver and gold and platinum and shit.

[01:36:40] And the whole thing is revealed as it goes on that like this is not financial advice. It's just for like the end of days is coming. And you're going to need all this shit. It wasn't the best, but it got me a gig at the time. There you go. I think werewolves, yeah, is the scariest and the worst because I just don't feel like I have access to something that could stop it. Yeah. But I also, again, that's another thing where it could also be like, if we can just trap it, if we can trap it until the moon goes away, then we're good. Right. Whereas zombies, there's nothing to do.

[01:37:09] They're not going to turn back. Yeah. They're not going to turn back and they'll just be out there all night. Yeah. I would say, I mean, werewolves, because of the fact that the werewolf will eventually turn back and be a rational human. In a way, I feel like I'm less afraid of that because vampires are outwardly evil and zombies are passively evil in the sense that they have to consume you to survive.

[01:37:36] So werewolves are more human in a way than either of the others. Yeah. They're literally right in the middle because they're actively evil, but passively transforming into a werewolf. So it's like you feel bad for them. Yeah. You feel bad for all three, honestly. Yeah. Like zombies just being a zombie. Yeah. Vampires like, well, that's not true. I don't feel bad for vampires. Fuck you, vampires. Yeah. I don't know. It's a tough one. It is a tough one. I mean, they all have their pros and cons.

[01:38:04] I feel like to answer what do you guys think of werewolves, fuck werewolves. That's the condensed answer. But I don't know of the three of them. It's so circumstantial. It depends on everything, you know, like where you are and how many zombies you're facing versus how many vampires, numbers and such. The vampire aspect. So it's tough to like zombies are like also the least threatening because they're the only

[01:38:29] ones that can't hide where when it's not a full moon, werewolf walks among you. When it's not daytime, vampires walk among you. Like they can kind of blend in with the crowd. Here. Here's the answer for the monster that Ed and I are most afraid of. The creatures from a quiet place because we're both Italian and can't imagine being that quiet all the time. Oh, forget. It's not possible. Take me now. Take me now, quiet place monster.

[01:38:56] So I know that's not on the list, Michael, but I think we're going to have to go with that one. All right. All right. Moving on to the next question. Overrated horror movies inspired by the underrated horror movie question, Smiley Face. Are there any horror movies that are really popular and well loved that you think are overrated? This is asked by Katie Krempley. So Katie, yes, a lot. Honestly, I think a lot of horror movies are really overrated.

[01:39:25] Well, that's not fair to say. Oof. You know what's funny? I have a weird answer for this. I think the Blair Witch Project was overrated. But then as time went on, now I feel like it's underrated. Oh. Like it doesn't. It feels like it came out and everyone was like fucking. So, oh my God. And then it was like, you can immediately have detractors be like, this is overrated. This is fucking. It wasn't that scary.

[01:39:50] But now like 20 years later or whatever, I think now it's an underrated thing where I think people need to rediscover that movie that it's a vibe. Yeah. I mean, if you haven't seen the Blair Witch Project, yeah, that's, I don't think you can overrate that movie really. I think it's really one of the core most frightening movies I've ever seen. People's mileage varies on that.

[01:40:15] But for me, yeah, I can't consider it overrated because I think it's just so, so fucking good. Yeah. And I think the reason they've never been able to figure out a good sequel to it is because it's just so singular. Yeah. It was really, you can't, you can't recapture. That's one of those, I'm glad I was there when, you know. It was a real, getting old, but. That's a movie that like, holy shit, the ephemeral aspects of that movie in the sense that like you needed to be there. You needed to feel the vibe in the world.

[01:40:44] You needed to not have the internet be very present. Yeah. Like you did, you needed to not, you needed to not have social media. Yeah. For that movie to hit the way it fucking hit. And I was in like sixth grade when it came out, I think. And I had access to the internet, but I don't know if we had a very good internet connection at my house. But I was just at the age where I was pretty sure it wasn't real. But then I was also like thought maybe it kind of was because they put the documentaries

[01:41:11] out on Sci-Fi Channel and my dumb sixth grade brain was like, well, if it's on TV, I mean, they can't just put this on TV and say it's a real documentary. If it's not, like it has to be or the TV people wouldn't hear it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, you didn't know. So I was, I was like really fell under the spell of that movie, but that's not answering the question. Yeah. This is underrated. Ugh. No, this is overrated. This is overrated. This is overrated horror movies and it's, I can't.

[01:41:40] Anything you say, you're going to upset a friend. I know. I know. That's the thing. I have two on the very tip of my tongue, but I can't, I can't say it. Shit. Well, I'll say something. I'll say something. I don't watch a lot of real horror movies. So, oh, you know what's fucking overrated? I can't say that one. Trying to think of what's overrated. This is like the hardest question they could have possibly underrated. There's so many that we would, we would go to bat for. Yeah. Oh, you know what's an overrated movie? Is this horror?

[01:42:10] What? I, I did not like the Norseman. I liked the Norseman. I think it's overrated. Okay. All right. That's not really a horror movie. I think all A24 horror is overrated. Okay. I think all neon and A24 horror movies are overrated. I don't know about all of them. I think they've definitely become a brand. They've become like a vibe that people try to capture. That like elevated slow burn A24 horror is like a thing. But some of them are really good. I don't know if it's my thing. Oh, I know one.

[01:42:40] Don't Breathe. I think Don't Breathe is really overrated. I've never even heard of it. It's the movie with, it's a blonde girl and her two friends like break into this house to try to steal some money. And Stephen Lang plays a blind, I think, veteran who's in the house. And you quickly realize that he's. Oh my God. I remember the trailer. I remember the trailer. Yeah. And everybody loved that movie.

[01:43:05] And like, I, it's well made, but the story and the concept and the, the why he's doing it just don't really. I mean, the, the reasoning is horrific, but it just, it all kind of, I was like, okay. Yeah. This is actually tough. Cause I'm looking around. I'm just, I just typed in horror movies and it's tough because people innocently ask this question and it really puts us in a minefield. Cause it's not going to be like, Oh, it's overrated. We can't say that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[01:43:35] That was one of the ones that came to mind. Yeah. Like I, but the thing is you can't, we personally can't say that. So I know like, I want to say, I want to say any movie. We're just going to have to say like, we're to bow. Well, no, I, we're not going to have to bow out. I was, so I would say one of my answers to this question is that I think a lot of overrated movies for me are overrated movies in different franchises. Where like, there's some people who really, really love Friday the 13th part five.

[01:44:03] And I think Friday the 13th part five is one of the worst in the franchise. I don't understand the love for it, but people, people love that movie. And I also don't think Friday the 13th part three and four are that good either. I'm a big part six guy and I feel the same way in, in other franchises too. Like, okay, here's one, here's one that's almost verboten to admit.

[01:44:27] It people love, and I'm glad that it was kind of rediscovered a nightmare on Elm street part three, but it's really not that good. There's one kill in that movie. It'll stick with me forever where the guy gets his wrist slit open while he's sleepwalking. And then Freddy sleepwalks him like with his veins, like a puppet, and then walks him off the edge of a building. Oh, wow. That's pretty cool. Which is the one where they like, he's, it's like they're, which is the one where it's like they're in like a video game.

[01:44:55] Oh, I think that's six when they get the Nintendo power glove. Is that the same one where the guy like gets turned into a roach or something? Or like he's lifting weights? Uh, that might be part five. That doesn't matter. God damn it, Ed. Yes, it does. I think 10 Cloverfield Lane is overrated. I would agree with that. I like it, but people, so now, now I've given two, uh, small cast trapped in a place movies.

[01:45:22] Um, I didn't mean to do that, but don't breathe in 10 Cloverfield Lane or have some, some similarities. 10 Cloverfield Lane, the ending really kills it for me. Yeah. But that happens with anything like that. Any kind of story where they have to reveal that as the ending. They're like, Oh, I know. No, but even that it's so, it's just so, it's like a big reveal, but like, why?

[01:45:45] It doesn't, it doesn't impact the movie at all or the, or what it's trying to get across or like, because what's so the parts about that movie that work are the, the study of the three people trapped below ground. And one guy says that the world's ended and the other two don't believe him. And so I feel like any answer, any ending at all to that movie is kind of. Yeah. Cause it, the whole issue. I mean, honestly, it should just be like people going to open a door and then it cuts to black directed by. Yeah.

[01:46:14] Well, that's how people would be so pissed about it that they wouldn't. That's how cube ends. And that's one of the reasons cube is a classic. Yeah. Cube rules. Because the savant, the savant gets to the end and then you don't really ever find out what's going on. I love cube. I love cube two hyper cube. I love cube three behind the scenes of cube or whatever it's called. So yeah, I don't know. We've got, we've got some answers in there. We've got some answers in there. Well, the next two, the next two questions are the same and we kind of answered it already. Well, I guess not really.

[01:46:48] Sucker for those stupid and silly B horror movies. Sometimes you can find a totally ridiculous one on prime. You absolutely can prime and to be to be, uh, has a lot. Yeah. We, we bought a box of garbage films for 50 cents. Yeah. Yeah. We got to fill this platform with stuff. Amazon's got tons. You know, I, I go to Amazon for a lot. Yeah. I feel like to be programs from yard sales sometimes. What do you, what do you got? But it makes it kind of a close. Well, what's the question?

[01:47:18] Autumn falls is asking our favorite horror movie or genre. And I think she's, she's saying hers is I'm a sucker for those stupid, silly horror B movies. Sometimes you can find a totally ridiculous one on prime. Yeah. Like nine, seven, six evil two. Yeah, exactly. Or death bed. The bed that eats. Yeah. But the thing is about me is so if anyone would like to know what my criteria is, I don't like anything made bad on purpose. Right.

[01:47:45] So I'll watch hundreds and hundreds of schlock movies, but it can't be Birdemic. It can't be, you know, most shit from Troma. Like I want someone to like have tried to make a good movie and failed, which some would say that is the room, but I just can't sit through that shit. So what makes Troma more interesting though, is that Troma movies are Lloyd Kaufman being too afraid of failure to even try to make a good movie.

[01:48:09] And so making bad movies and implicitly failing because he never even tries to make a movie that takes itself seriously. Because that guy is really fucking smart. And he writes about movies sometimes and talks about movies and he clearly knows what he's doing. And I think he's just so afraid he'll make a bad movie that he'll only ever make goofy ones so that you can't say, oh, that was bad because that's the whole point.

[01:48:36] Well, my favorite genre of horror movies is horror movies that aren't too scary. Ed likes horror movies for babies. That's his favorite horror movie genre. I like like Return to Salem's Lot is excellent movie. Like it's a lot of fun. It's got fun stuff. All right. Well, I'll give I'll give a real answer since your answer is weak horror movies. I like weak horror movies. Yeah, I love slasher movies.

[01:49:01] I think the slasher, especially as sort of like a Jungian figure is really underrated. And I think they're due a resurgence. Like we've had enough zombies. We have zombie, zombie, zombie, zombie, everything with zombies standing in for every imaginable metaphor. And I think the slasher, there's a lot that a slasher can stand in for. So love slasher movies.

[01:49:26] Any and particularly slasher movies that are masked man slasher movies, probably because my love for all horror was kind of started with Halloween. But masked man slasher movies. I love a good horror comedy, a purposefully funny and scary horror comedy. So Shaun of the Dead. Tucker and Dale or it's called. Tucker and Dale versus evil. That's a good movie, actually. Yeah. Parts of Cabin in the Woods. Parts of Cabin in the Woods. Yeah. And then I also like monster movies.

[01:49:55] I love a well done monster. They're, you know, they can be classics like Godzilla or, you know, they can be indie movies like Grabbers. You know, I love, I love a monster movie. So. But even my favorite monster movie, well, my favorite monster movie is probably Jaws, which would say that my second favorite monster movie is, is Tremors. But neither one's going to scare me. So. But that's okay. I'm not out here trying to get scared, man.

[01:50:22] So yeah, I guess those would be our favorite horror movie genres. All right. Last question from Shane Johnson. What horror won't you watch? Any horror genres or series you guys will not watch and why? Have you ever started watching something and walked out on it or couldn't finish it? Oh, I have. Absolutely have. I have. I have a pretty, pretty nice list of movies that I walk out in the first 15 minutes of, which I'm not going to go through right now.

[01:50:49] I have a rule that I will never walk out on a movie because I believe every movie has something to teach you and every movie has something that you can take away from it, whether it's a visual or a joke or a moment. So I always watch every movie. Now, you're not doing what I'm doing. You're not doing 295 Schlock movies in the last couple of years. No, I'm not doing that. My rule is, and this isn't going to happen in a theater or anything, but when it comes to watching Schlock, my friend Dan and I who do the movies together, our rule is,

[01:51:18] it's the 15 minute rule. We have up to 15 minutes to turn the movie off. But if we do, we have to watch whatever we put on next to the very fucking end. So we very rarely invoke that rule because we get so worried that the next movie might be worse and then we're stuck with it. Right. But we've done it a couple of times. We've done it a couple of times. The thing I won't watch, I don't like body horror. I don't like the Cronenberg stuff that much. Hmm.

[01:51:45] Like society is a tight movie, but then it gets into all that stuff that it's known for and I'm like, I'm gonna throw up. I love that stuff. I would say there's not much that I won't watch. I really will watch pretty much everything. I've definitely, I had like an extreme horror phase up through college. And I even wrote a college paper on Japanese extreme horror, like the Guinea pig series and mermaid in a manhole and stuff that's barely even a movie.

[01:52:12] It's just more of, you know, an effects showreel. So I would say like the older I get, the less I find extreme horror appealing just because there's a lot of, like gore is fine. I don't mind gore and I don't even mind mean gore or mean movies, but I just can't, I have a harder and harder time doing really bleak. Yeah. I don't want to watch like spit on my, spit on your grave or anything like that. Yeah.

[01:52:36] Although even that, I mean, the original is, it feels like a, it's filthy feeling to watch, but it's not compared to modern stuff. I mean, even like Hostel 1, I felt like, you know, had a little levity in it and had it some merits. Hostel 2 is a much better looking movie. There's some really gorgeous stuff in Hostel 2, but that's one of the first movies I remember being like, oh, I don't know, man. I don't know. No, you know, like, and also the more that I've directed horror and the more that I've

[01:53:06] found that I, you know, it's hard to go there on set with an actor or an actress. Even in this YouTube show that we did, which was a pretty, for the most part, PG-13, except for the episode that I did, there's a part where a girl dies and she's supposed to have kind of a drawn out karmic death, like Tales from the Crypt style. And she ends up having to, she gets stabbed in the stomach and then crawls across broken glass to try to get to a phone.

[01:53:34] And directing that scene with the actress, I was just like, man, I don't know about this. Like, it just, it feels, you know, it feels, it feels weird. It feels, and it's, and it is disturbing and sad and weird. And like, you know, I, I sort of like the, the cringe you get when you watch it, but even the making it is just like, ah. Yeah. And there's, in every movie we're mentioning, there wasn't such a thing as like an intimacy coordinator or any kind of person to help with this stuff. Yeah.

[01:54:03] I don't like body horror. I don't like anything with like sexual violence at all, really. Yeah. So. Yeah. I would say something like The Strangers is really brutal, but I'll watch that every once in a while just because it's so well made that it, it totally, you know, even though it's a real nightmare bummer. Well, The Strangers is tough for me. I mean, I actually thought it was a good movie, but I, The Strangers is tough because it's well beyond the chances of Michael Myers showing up is exactly zero, but the chances

[01:54:32] of home invasion happening is that can happen. That could be happening while we record this. Yeah. Like to us. Yeah. Like home invasions, like even that fucking insane Keanu Reeves movie, which I can never sit through again. One of the meanest endings I've ever seen. But I'm saying any kind of home invasion, any kind of like highest Tamera home is just a line that will live in my brain rent free from The Strangers. Yeah. It's so, it's so good that movie.

[01:54:58] So yeah, like that I'll watch, but you know, or Cannibal Holocaust, I think we talked about on the Cannibal episode. Yeah. I watched that two or three times in college and I like don't ever really want to see it again. Oh bro. Fucking speaking of Cannibal Holocaust. Cannibal Holocaust. Really? I hate Italian horror. I hate Italian horror. Not all of it, but like old Italian horror where they always have that one extra step where it's like the killer's dead.

[01:55:25] But if you know Italian horror, that hand's going to come out through the water and grab them again. And then it's going to be a freeze frame. And then it's going to be like somewhere over the rainbow plays and it goes into the credits. Or a disco track. Yeah. Yeah. Like goblin stops. Then it goes into like another, like I'm just, I see so much of Italian horror. I do find to be mean spirited. I didn't think about that being genre, a part of the genre, but there is like mean horror and mean thrillers. And I don't, yeah, I guess I don't like mean stuff. Yeah.

[01:55:55] There's nothing wrong with mean horror. It can be very effective. Just the older I get, the less it's for me. Yeah. Even, um, what's his name? Who made Blue Ruin and Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier. I remember when he made Green Room, he was like, somebody was like, you know, Blue Ruin was such a big hit. Why didn't you go make a studio movie? And he was like, because I really want to make Green Room and I'm like 41 and I just had a kid and I just don't know if I can really go much longer and, and, and make it and,

[01:56:25] and not just feel weird about it. Cause Green Room's a really good movie, but it's pretty mean spirited. Yeah. And, and pretty violent. And he was like very open about the fact that he's like, I just, I got to get it out of me now because in another year or two, I'm not going to want to. No. And I have, I will say the kid thing changes things, man. Like I have buds who were real into a lot of stuff and now they're just like, now that I have a kid, they're like, I can't watch prisoners. I can't watch anything where there's like a child harmed. Yeah.

[01:56:54] So yeah, I hope that answered your question. Um, you know, I won't, I would say there aren't any series I won't watch. Except I guess I won't watch a human centipede, not even because it's gross, but just because I roll my eyes so hard at how desperately it wants you to be offended by it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, whatever, who cares? Yeah. I guess that's a, that's a good point. Like anything where the premise is like shock value. Yeah. That's, and you know, you're watching it. Yeah.

[01:57:23] So it was like, Hey, Hey, Hey. Yeah. Although saw is a, I think saw one is a really good movie. It is. And then like, but then as that series progressed, that also turned into like a shock value thing. Yeah, it did. I mean, in a way I consider that almost, I consider it different almost in the sense that I'd almost rather have my shock value pandered to me by a company who's leveraging shock value

[01:57:49] to make gobs of money than somebody who's just like, what about this? Does this offend you? Like some fucking edge. Yeah. It's like, yeah, it's like, come on, man. I mean, yeah, obviously people shitting into each other's mouths and whatever else happens to that movie. Yeah. It's pretty gross. I don't really like it, but there's something about a company being like, you know what? A hundred million people will pay to see a guy removing his own teeth one by one.

[01:58:19] It's like almost like respect, respect. Well, before we move on, I don't know if there's another question or not, but before we move, no, that's it. We're done. Before we move on from this, what is your feeling on this thing that feels to me to be like kind of a new, I don't know new, but like in the last, like this past decade, I feel like I had never heard this terminology previous where people start to like talk about horror

[01:58:48] as like, oh, it's great because it's life affirming. Like we watch horror because you leave and I guess you feel good that it wasn't you or something. Is that, does that feel new to you too? That like for some reason that this line of justifications. No, I don't feel like they have to say now. I mean, cause I don't even find them life affirming. I'm like, this is a movie dude. People were like talking about meal penalties on set when they were shot this. I mean, I think, I think for a long time, there's been an acknowledgement of movies as

[01:59:14] a safe, a safe way to, to kind of touch the void, to get close to death and adrenaline rush that, you know, won't actually hurt you. So, you know, I life affirming, I think is a little over the top, but I do think it's, you know, for some people it's, it's a safer equivalent to skydiving or something where you get that, that zap. I mean, I, I like the adrenaline that comes from a horror movie. Um, uh, yeah, I wouldn't ever necessarily call them life affirming either.

[01:59:41] I do think there's been an uptick in, I mean, look, people gravitate to art and movies and books and whatever, because it moves them one way or another. And I think horror is one of those genres that it's sometimes hard to touch it, to, to like put a finger on exactly why you're moved by it. Like I go back and think about a lot of horror movies I like, and some of them it's really obvious. Um, and some of them it's like, I don't know. I just kind of liked its vibe.

[02:00:08] Um, even if maybe it was, you know, too weird or too violent or something like, you know, there's, there's movies that I'm like, I feel like I liked its vibe or whatever. And, but, but I think we're in a, we're in a critical environment where people have a hard time defending and justifying the things that, well, first of all, you really shouldn't have to defend and justify the things that you like. But when people do, they want to do it in a very, um, kind of like identity based way.

[02:00:34] Uh, because it's a cultural meme almost to try to find the thing in you reflected in the piece of art to go, oh yeah, well I had that experience or I'm connected to this because this character reminds me of me or I went through this situation or whatever. And it's not necessarily a bad thing. I think that can be a very good thing, but I think it makes it harder sometimes to talk about the less direct and specific reasons that we like these movies.

[02:01:03] We feel like we need to justify it with some grand feeling when sometimes I think you could just be like, I don't know, man. It's great vibe. Fucking red ice. Yeah. Fucking red ice. Yeah. That movie was that. That movie has a vibe. What the hell is the name of it? Running scared. Running scared. I love running. Not the Billy Crystal movie. No running scared with Paul Walker. It's not really a horror movie. That's a super underrated movie though. People still don't know about that movie and it's so weird and it's so good. Yeah. It's such a wacky film. Oh, here's a question I have for you that people who did write in might have interest.

[02:01:32] What's the last movie or any movie where you were like afraid enough in a theater where you're like, I kind of want to get up and take a walk here. Yeah. Like not even say that like I'm bowing out of the film, but like it's tough to stay in this seat right now. I think I've talked about mine before in the show a little bit, which is Paranormal Activity, but I would say Paranormal Activity 2, you know, it was hard for me to go see it and

[02:01:59] I saw it with friends and there was times where I'm like, I need to just stretch my fucking legs, bro. I'm so funny. The spring is so coiled down for me. Like I am so tense right now. It's so funny because that movie is so near the bottom of the pile of the movies in that franchise even. Yeah. But I was just so afraid of number one that like going into number two, I was already so fucking tense. And then like anything that was scary in the movie, I was like hypersensitive to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[02:02:28] Because I kind of didn't want to be there to begin with. I mean, so like what's something where, what's something where the inner spring in you, you can feel it being pressed down and that, that, that next jump scare might just fucking be like, you know what? I got to get the fuck up. I mean, honestly, Insidious was probably one of the last ones that I felt that way about because I, it was, it was, it was, it's a, I mean, Insidious, I think it's kind of already gone through a couple of different critical evaluations, but when I saw it, it

[02:02:55] really was, I really didn't know what to make of it. And I saw it at like 11 o'clock in the middle of the week at the Grove and it just got under my skin. I didn't know what to make of it. You know, the haunted house revival. I mean, it's it in the conjuring. Those are both Patrick Wilson. I think they're both Patrick Wilson and they're both James Wan and together are those are the movies. And I guess with paranormal activity that really kickstarted the haunted house genre to the, to new heights.

[02:03:23] But I didn't know what to think. And there's a, there's a scare at Insidious kind of early in the movie where Rose Byrne goes upstairs to check on the baby because she hears weird noises. And there was just something about, she goes, she walks into the doorway and there's a man standing, a ghost standing behind like a thin sheet of like red or pink fabric. Around the baby's crib. And it's just staring at Rose Byrne.

[02:03:53] And there was just something about the way that the scene was blocked. And then like when the sting hit and, and when I noticed the ghost versus when Rose Byrne noticed the ghost. And just like in that moment, it just all hit in such a deep, terrifying way that that scare, particularly in that movie, I almost said, fuck this. And like left the theater. It just hit me so hard.

[02:04:19] And, and honestly, I think one of the reasons James Wan's movies, particularly Insidious, before a lot of people were doing this, although I guess maybe Mike Flanagan did it too in his first indie movie using physical people as ghosts and not doing like a see-through application to the, making them a special effect or something. Just blocking actors and using them as... Or just putting like Doug Jones in a fucking costume.

[02:04:46] Yeah, because it, it, I would imagine to see a ghost in person would very much feel in that moment. Like you're seeing somebody just like walk really quickly through your living room. It would, you, it wouldn't be like, you know, it would be all like, what the fuck was that? And Insidious, I think really captures that. What the fuck was that doing in my house feeling? Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's funny you mentioned it. I'm getting all freaked out of here. Cause for me, when we're recording this, it's after midnight where I am and there's a thunderstorm happening.

[02:05:15] So I'm getting, so I'm getting all freaked out now hearing you talk about it. Um, and it got me thinking about like, cause you were like, Oh, just seeing like a, a regular ass person is on its own. So scary. I think the most effective horror, one of the most effective horror movie things that personally get me real creeped out is the fully to all hell footfalls of like a boot, like just, just the sound of a boot walking on creaking. Yeah.

[02:05:43] Something where like they do it with like Jason and stuff too, where however they record the walking of the bad guy or the ghost or whatever. Yeah. It always has like, they just seem unnaturally heavy as human beings. The sound of Jason's footfalls or Michael Myers or somebody, uh, any kind of slow person carrying a knife, they sound 900 pounds. Like the way it touches the floor.

[02:06:10] And I think that's an art that is an actual art recording that and getting that sound. Yeah. But Holy shit. Does that so effective on me? Yeah. But yeah. So interesting that you still get scared when you watch things. Oh, I wouldn't. I always say people who don't get scared at horror movies, people, horror fans who say nothing scares them are like comedy fans who say nothing makes them laugh. It's like, then why do you? What are you a fan of that? Yeah. Like, you know, I want to go be, I mean, even the simplest, I'm a very nervous, anxious,

[02:06:40] jumpy person. So even the simplest, uh, executed jump scare in a theater with the volume turned all the way up, I will, I'll jump. I mean, I jump all the time. And I think you and I both do something that a lot of people who work in our industry maybe don't, which is I'm never thinking five minutes ahead. Like I, something that a lot of people like go and watch, they'll be like, Oh, I saw that 10 minutes earlier. I saw that coming 25 minutes ahead. Could you believe?

[02:07:09] And I'm like, bro, like, I don't, I genuinely kind of give myself into, if it's a pretty decent movie, I'll like give myself to the movie. I'm not thinking about like what the script is going to be in the next scene. What's the act break going to be? What's the turn going to be? Like I stand by, I just rewatched the village, which is a movie that I do love. It's very good. And I'm like, anyone who was like, I saw it 30 minutes ahead of time. I'm like, really? Cause I just rewatched it and really paid attention to like where they're giving you real genuine clues on that.

[02:07:37] And I'm like, you did not see this coming at half hour earlier. No. So, so I don't do that. I don't do that. And I think every movie horror for sure is, is helped if you don't think ahead on the movie of like, Oh, I bet you the ghost is the neighbor. Yeah. Yeah. I try not to think ahead either. Sometimes I do, or sometimes there'll be like a clumsy line in the first act that I'm like, I think I see where that's good. Oh yeah. That one line is just, yeah, that's true. There might be a weird piece where it's like, yeah, that that's too crazy to not come up again. Yeah.

[02:08:05] Um, and there is a, a thing that Dan and I, when we watch lock, we have a box in our bingo card that is like checkoffs blank. So it could be checkoffs acts, checkoffs knife, checkoffs gun. So there will be stuff where we're like, well, that's coming back. Yeah. But, um, the last question I have before we wrap up for the evening is have you ever been scared of TV horror or does, does a feature film horror is the only thing that you're like, man, that really got me. Is there any like television shows?

[02:08:34] I don't watch American horror story, anything like that. Again, I do not want to be scared. Even tonight going to sleep is going to suck now. Like I don't want these images in my head. I just avoid them. Yeah. I mean, when I was a kid, goosebumps the TV show, I would leave, like I would come home from school and turn it on. And sometimes if my mom wasn't home, I'd end up like leaving the house and walking around the neighborhood until she came home. It was one. Are you afraid of the dark episode that freaked me out? But no, I don't, I don't, I don't think that that shit really scared me or it made a real

[02:09:03] impression on me as a kid though. Oh, I was afraid of everything as a kid, like deeply, deeply afraid of things. And, and so yeah, goosebumps and are afraid of the dark. Are you afraid of the dark scared me? X-Files got me good a couple of times and still does. There's some episodes that still have some really creepy moments. I would say the last TV show, I mean, channel zero is a, is a really creepy. Not like jump. I think, I think, um, jump scares for whatever reason, I think are harder to pull off on TV.

[02:09:32] It's been done in a couple of Netflix shows. Like one of the later episodes of haunting of Hill house. There's a really great jump scare, um, that kind of uses the pace and structure of TV against you to get you really good. But I think because TV has commercials and it's hard to build tension long enough to break it with a scare. I think it's hard to do jump scares in TV, but I think TV can get under your skin. Like I consider true detective a horror show and detective scared the shit out of me.

[02:10:01] I loved true detective season one. At least I love season one and season two is actually, I think season two, if it had been called anything else, people would have loved it. It's just so different. And so not season one and, and not as good, but still pretty good just in a different way. Yeah. American horror story never really scared me. Nothing on the walking dead ever really scared me. Channel zero scares me. It's a anthology adaptations of creepy pastas.

[02:10:27] And there's some really unsettling moments in all of those seasons. There's actually an episode of Deadwood. That's very scary to me. Hmm. I think it's Deadwood. Am I getting it confused? I might be getting it confused with Carnival. Carnival seems like it would be scarier based on like the art at the time. No, I know. But I remember thinking that this moment was kind of out of place. No, it must've been Carnival, not Deadwood. I watched them both at like the same time.

[02:10:55] So sometimes little pieces get crossed over my head, but there's a, there's an episode where they're, it must be Carnival because they're moving on from this like abandoned where somebody had, had died. And when one of the characters looks back, he sees this character who died looking at him from a window, suggesting that this person's spirit is still there and just going to be alone forever. And that moment really got me.

[02:11:22] It was really uncomfortable and really like deeply frightening that, you know, you could be a ghost and all the things you want to remain connected to are just going to leave you and you can't leave. Well, it's like that movie, a ghost story. Yeah. Yeah. And kind of like Lake Mungo. So that, that really gets under my skin. But yeah, I mean, there's, there are two things on TV that are certainly creepy. I mean, Unsolved Mysteries is still creepy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's, I'm glad that we, I had, those are just questions I had for you.

[02:11:49] Cause again, you work in that field, you work in that genre. I'm not the best person to ask about horror movies and stuff. Cause you know, I, I say it, said it a million times. Like I try not to kind of have that stuff in my noggin. It's just cause I, it affects me. I'm an empath as a human being and it does affect me. Um, I don't, I don't like it. He's an empath, ladies and gentlemen. I'm an empath. Um, all right. Well, that's the AMA for this month. Uh, thank you guys for asking questions.

[02:12:15] Thank you, Justin, Michael, Katie, Autumn and Shane and Ed for a couple of guest questions. Um, we'll be back next month with another AMA. We'll post, uh, a new theme, uh, for this next one. Um, again, it probably won't be too deep. We'll keep it pretty broad. And, and as always, you don't have to ask a question to that theme, but just sort of, uh, it'll be a little bit of a prompt in case you, you can't think of something you want to ask. Yeah. So I hope you enjoyed.

[02:12:44] Uh, until next time I'm Chris Colari. And I'm Ed for Cola. And this has been ask me anything all the time. All right. We'll see you next time. Bye. And there you have it. You asked us anything. And we answered delivering on the promise of the AMA, the ask me anything. And, uh, I think there's a lot of good stuff in there. I had fun with these questions. If you guys like this, let us know because we're happy to keep doing these as part of the premium content. We just stopped getting questions.

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