Speaker 1: Give Technology with tex Stuff from Hey there, and welcome
Speaker 1: to a very special episode of tech Stuff. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I am live at Speak Easy in Austin,
Speaker 1: Texas during South By South Southwest Interactive two thousand sixteen,
Speaker 1: and sitting with me is Emma Logins, someone also who
Speaker 1: lives in Atlanta, someone that I've been I've known because
Speaker 1: we're friends with the same people circles. We've never really
Speaker 1: interacted directly that much until now, and I'm questioning why,
Speaker 1: because Emma, you run an amazing blog that's science fiction
Speaker 1: fantasy fan base fan Bolt. I want you to tell me.
Speaker 1: I have so many questions for you about about running
Speaker 1: a blog. I mean, blogs are something that we're all
Speaker 1: familiar with. We know what they are, we know how
Speaker 1: long they've been around. But they're so many challenges to
Speaker 1: creating a good one, more challenges to finding your audience,
Speaker 1: being able to nurture that audience grow a community. So
Speaker 1: to start off, why don't you first tell us, kind
Speaker 1: of in your words, what fan bolt is all about? Okay, Um, Well,
Speaker 1: fan Bolt is a kind of block of the line
Speaker 1: between blog and news site because it is it's a
Speaker 1: site by the fans for the fans. So all the
Speaker 1: content is very editorial in nature. UM focuses mainly on
Speaker 1: genre programming in genre film, so a lot of sci
Speaker 1: fi or UM type properties that we review. We have
Speaker 1: a little bit of gaming on there as well, and
Speaker 1: a little bit of just kind of general geek culture.
Speaker 1: We're getting ready to do this whole like big geek
Speaker 1: travel thing, so when you go to other countries and
Speaker 1: you want to see UM sets that were used in
Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings or UM, you know, Game of Thrones,
Speaker 1: like where you would go, so kind of like a
Speaker 1: geek travel guide. UM. So it's all about geek culture
Speaker 1: and UM the fan community behind that, and we've had
Speaker 1: a number is on the site that have been there
Speaker 1: since we launched in two thousand and two and we
Speaker 1: still you know, they still posted the site and we
Speaker 1: still talk, you know, almost daily. So the fan community
Speaker 1: aspect of that has been really the driving force behind it.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. So first of all, I've got a tip
Speaker 1: for you. Okay, So on the island of Malta, they
Speaker 1: still have the village from the film Popeye that Robin
Speaker 1: Williams started asked Popeye, they filmed it there. It is
Speaker 1: still there. Yeah, so I know it's still as genre
Speaker 1: some of the other movies, but if you want to
Speaker 1: see Sweet Haven, it exists on Malta. So uh, I
Speaker 1: want to ask you about what inspired you to get
Speaker 1: involved in this in the first place. What led to
Speaker 1: the development of fan bolt Well, I was a total
Speaker 1: outcast nerd in Meddle school and um, granted it didn't
Speaker 1: start fan Bolts until I was a senior in high school. Um,
Speaker 1: but that kind of got me involved in really just
Speaker 1: like so much gey culture. And then once you know,
Speaker 1: we had the Internet and we hadn't in our house
Speaker 1: and I had I had, you know, it wasn't dealing
Speaker 1: with dial up and getting knocked off line every four seconds. Um.
Speaker 1: I started playing around with designing websites in the late
Speaker 1: nineties and then I was just I was super I
Speaker 1: was super passionate about the shows that I was watching,
Speaker 1: and I didn't really feel like there was a good
Speaker 1: place online to really come together. And you know, because
Speaker 1: as pre social media, so where do you go to
Speaker 1: talk about the shows that you love and the theories
Speaker 1: that you have and you know, um, what you think
Speaker 1: is gonna happen? Spoilers photos from set like all that
Speaker 1: kind of fun insider stuff. UM, but I was also
Speaker 1: living in Georgia didn't know how to get any of
Speaker 1: that myself anyways. UM, But I started the site and
Speaker 1: started the fan community, and uh, you know, we would
Speaker 1: have people that would just like flood onto the side
Speaker 1: after an episode would air, and we even would have
Speaker 1: people coming in from productions that would kind of stay
Speaker 1: anonymous and like give us little tips. UM. So we
Speaker 1: had a lot of really cool insider stuff on there
Speaker 1: in the beginning to UM, which really fostered the community
Speaker 1: and my whole I guess, my whole kind of strategy
Speaker 1: with it initially was it was a message board community,
Speaker 1: and then I built these other kind of satellite sites
Speaker 1: around it for the different TV shows which had a
Speaker 1: strong fan base. That way, when one show ended, I
Speaker 1: didn't just totally lose that entire fan base that I
Speaker 1: had spent four years building. UM. So that worked out
Speaker 1: really well from an SEO component to being able to UM.
Speaker 1: There was a number of shows that we actually ranked
Speaker 1: above the official site for and so we would get
Speaker 1: you know, eight thousand people on after an episode and
Speaker 1: back in you know, two thousand to two thousand three.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty big. I thought it was a big deal.
Speaker 1: I don't know if those numbers would be that big
Speaker 1: of a deal now by any stretch, but it was
Speaker 1: something really cool. I had no idea what I was doing,
Speaker 1: and it just opened up so many doors and so
Speaker 1: many opportunities. And I guess the real kind of big
Speaker 1: breakthrough of it. Um Josh Schwartz, the Crater of the
Speaker 1: o C found my site in two thousand and five
Speaker 1: and um and of course O C, which aired on Fox,
Speaker 1: was produced by Warner Brothers, and he told Warner Brothers
Speaker 1: he wanted me to run their official site for the series,
Speaker 1: and so I did that. I was their blogger with
Speaker 1: them for three years until the series ended, and I
Speaker 1: really just tried to make the most out of every
Speaker 1: contacts and connection that I got through that. And then
Speaker 1: I realized, oh, I can, like I can actually do this.
Speaker 1: You know, this is not just a hobby, Like I can,
Speaker 1: I can make a business out of us. Now you
Speaker 1: mentioned that you were able to turn this into a business,
Speaker 1: which is really interesting as phenomenal, So congratulations on that,
Speaker 1: because you know, I mean, the blog of sphere is huge.
Speaker 1: A lot of people run blogs as a hobby. They
Speaker 1: do it as a passion project. So tell me about
Speaker 1: the steps you took moving something that was already obviously
Speaker 1: something you really cared about, but something that you could
Speaker 1: actually make into a business, a legitimate way to earn
Speaker 1: a living. It took a long time. Um. When people
Speaker 1: always asked me about how how I've made money off
Speaker 1: of the site and how I've kind of structured things,
Speaker 1: I always tell people like, if you're not really passionate
Speaker 1: about something, then don't do it, because it's gonna take
Speaker 1: a long time before you make money off of it,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna feel like work, and you may end
Speaker 1: up hating something that you know, in the beginning you loved.
Speaker 1: So you have to be really really passionate about it.
Speaker 1: And making money I don't think can be something that
Speaker 1: you even consider in the beginning. Um, it needs to
Speaker 1: just be a labor of love and a passion project.
Speaker 1: And then when when all the kind of little pieces
Speaker 1: start to fall into place, you start seeing that you're
Speaker 1: building traction um and and you know you have great
Speaker 1: content and you're you're getting great traffic, and then start
Speaker 1: off with the baby steps and monetizing with like Google AdSense,
Speaker 1: and then working your way up from there to work
Speaker 1: with larger advertisers and larger sponsorships, and really it's just, um,
Speaker 1: it's like one day at a time, one day at
Speaker 1: a time. It's pretty cool. You know. It's a very
Speaker 1: similar story for podcasting, right again, people asking me all
Speaker 1: the time about how do I make a podcast and
Speaker 1: use that to make a living? And I said, you've
Speaker 1: gotta understand, and it's a very small field of people
Speaker 1: who are actually making enough money to make a living
Speaker 1: from podcasting. And it's exactly what you're saying. You've got
Speaker 1: to be very passionate about the subject. So if you
Speaker 1: want a podcast, ask yourself why do you want to podcast?
Speaker 1: Do you want to do it because you have something
Speaker 1: to say about a specific subject, or do you want
Speaker 1: to do it because you think it's just a cool
Speaker 1: way to make a living. If it's the second, it's
Speaker 1: probably not anywhere. So over the years, you've covered tons
Speaker 1: of stuff. I want to hear some of your favorite
Speaker 1: stories about just experiences you've had, either with the fan
Speaker 1: community or on the creative side, like with some of
Speaker 1: the I know you've gone and talked with some great directors, actors,
Speaker 1: all sorts of people writers in that sphere. Tell me
Speaker 1: about some of the experiences you've had, kind of given
Speaker 1: an idea of of the highlights that you consider an history. Um. So,
Speaker 1: my first in person interview I ever did was actually, Um,
Speaker 1: I flew down to Miami and I think this was
Speaker 1: like the second season of Burn Notice, and I was
Speaker 1: a huge Bruce Campbell fan, huge huge Bruce Campbell fan,
Speaker 1: and but I had never I didn't know anyone that
Speaker 1: knew him or had ever interviewed him, or I had
Speaker 1: no idea what he was going to be like. And um,
Speaker 1: we were sitting it was me and I think four
Speaker 1: other press people. We were sitting at this table on set,
Speaker 1: and he comes in pouring his Tommy Bahama shirt and
Speaker 1: like riding on this bicycle around our table and just
Speaker 1: had like a little horn on it and was just
Speaker 1: like hawking it and like just staring us down. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh God, this is gonna be awkward. Sames awkward. Um,
Speaker 1: But it was really great experience, and he was a
Speaker 1: He was such a great guy. So was my initial
Speaker 1: kind of experience that I had that I still kind
Speaker 1: of nerved out over because I love him. Um. But
Speaker 1: you know another one that is one of my Absolute
Speaker 1: Favorites actually happened here in Austin last June. I was
Speaker 1: out here for a t X Festival Austin Television Experience
Speaker 1: and they had the cast of Girl Meets World out here,
Speaker 1: which I don't really watch that show, but I grew
Speaker 1: up on Boy Meets World, and I so I was.
Speaker 1: I was completely geeking out over the idea of meeting
Speaker 1: Corey Savage and our excuse me, Ben Savage, who played
Speaker 1: Corey Matthews and his brother Fred was out here too
Speaker 1: and for his show Um Grinder on Box but of
Speaker 1: course I grew up in Wonder Years too. UM, so
Speaker 1: I got the opportunity to interview Um Michael Jacobs, the
Speaker 1: series creator for for Boy Mee's World and Girl Meets World,
Speaker 1: along with Ben Savage, and I got to spend like
Speaker 1: thirty minutes with them. And then from there, Um we
Speaker 1: had gone back downstairs to the bar at the Hotel
Speaker 1: Um from our press room and he introduces me to
Speaker 1: his brother Fred as his friend Emma, and I was
Speaker 1: just like, this is like the most surreal moment of
Speaker 1: my life. And Savage just introduced me as his friend
Speaker 1: to Fred Savage like it was just such a great
Speaker 1: a great moment, and then Fred was like commenting on
Speaker 1: my Instagram and I'm like, what world am I in? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't then I don't even know the director of
Speaker 1: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, not to mention Wonder Years
Speaker 1: and everything else. Yeah, that's fantastic. It was. It was
Speaker 1: just such a great experience. And there's been so many,
Speaker 1: um with the different conventions I've worked with, and the
Speaker 1: different kind of you know, after parties and even the
Speaker 1: events that aren't necessarily press related, but getting to actually
Speaker 1: know these people that you know, you watch on the
Speaker 1: screen and you get to you know, just love love
Speaker 1: their talents and love the characters that they betrayed, but
Speaker 1: then also getting to know them as people and not
Speaker 1: you know, as the personality, not just personalities. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: has just been you know, I haven't had a single
Speaker 1: bad experience, which i I'm still I'm so grateful for,
Speaker 1: but in that kind of shocks me to you that
Speaker 1: I haven't, But um, everyone has been so great and
Speaker 1: there's just been just countless really awesome experiences. That's fantastic too.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you a little bit more about
Speaker 1: just sort of the the sort of stuff you do
Speaker 1: for fan bold the kind of day to date activities. Uh,
Speaker 1: do you have a stuff? I don't. It is me, UM,
Speaker 1: I do have. It's just me. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say it's just me. But it is a little bit
Speaker 1: overwhelming some days one like a lot of news breaks,
Speaker 1: or like last week I got like I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's like seven emails from HBO all the stuff that
Speaker 1: needed to go up in addition to everything else, and
Speaker 1: it can be overwhelming, But like I do truly I
Speaker 1: love what I do, so it doesn't feel like work. UM.
Speaker 1: I do have a couple contributing writers that um um
Speaker 1: our friends and for still she does um er recaps
Speaker 1: for me and we'll do normally does conventions with me
Speaker 1: and we'll kind of tag team press rooms and newing
Speaker 1: interviews and things like that. UM and then a couple
Speaker 1: of other people that will just submit news, Like anyone
Speaker 1: can go onto famble and submit a news article and
Speaker 1: if it's appropriate, um I will edit it and then
Speaker 1: post it up on the site. So it's it is
Speaker 1: a by the fans for the fans community. Anyone can
Speaker 1: submit news UM, but on the staff's it it's just me.
Speaker 1: So you actually do have an editorial voice. You haven't. Yes,
Speaker 1: you have editorial standards. It's exactly. It's not a free
Speaker 1: for all, exactly exactly a lot of people. When we
Speaker 1: first put up that submit news um feature, it was
Speaker 1: just like press release, press release, press release, and it's like, now,
Speaker 1: you know. The thing about Fambles and what makes it
Speaker 1: unique in my opinion, is that it is by the fans,
Speaker 1: for the fans, and it's the point is that the
Speaker 1: person writing it is passionate about what they're covering UM.
Speaker 1: So it's not going to be an unbiased news type article.
Speaker 1: It's going to be heavily biased based upon what a
Speaker 1: fan actually thought of of that material. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: what's the backbone of the site, if you don't mind
Speaker 1: word press? It was I will tell you. When I
Speaker 1: first started the site, i coded all of it to
Speaker 1: work with UM. All of it was in PHP and
Speaker 1: it was coded to work with the peoples and message
Speaker 1: board system, which I've since moved on from UM. But
Speaker 1: that process of it from a custom like PHP coded
Speaker 1: application and moving fourteen thousand news articles into word crafts
Speaker 1: was one of the most stressful things I've ever done
Speaker 1: in my life. Anytime where you're having to migrate a
Speaker 1: system over from one thing to another. It's a huge endeavor,
Speaker 1: especially when you've built up a long history of material. So, uh, well,
Speaker 1: that's great. I had to ask because I just was
Speaker 1: curious how how you could stay on top of things. Obviously,
Speaker 1: when you're using something that has its own kind of
Speaker 1: structure that you can play around with. Work is WordPress
Speaker 1: is pretty robust. It is. It's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a learning curve. It can be. Yeah, it's um, but
Speaker 1: it's it saves you so much time in terms of
Speaker 1: building a site and wanting to add special features and
Speaker 1: and keep things current and up to date in terms
Speaker 1: of you know, versions that are released and all of that.
Speaker 1: It it saves me. It's even though I know how
Speaker 1: to do it, I could code all of that mysel
Speaker 1: off if I wanted to. It saves me so much
Speaker 1: more time to be able to focus on the actual
Speaker 1: content of the site and not just you know, all
Speaker 1: of the the back end of the site. Now, you
Speaker 1: also mentioned that you started this before social media was
Speaker 1: really a thing. Now social media is a thing in
Speaker 1: what you do as well. Yeah, I mean it's kind
Speaker 1: of a love hate relationship honestly, because yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: um it definitely. Message boards are a different place now
Speaker 1: than they were um back before social media, and ours
Speaker 1: were actually getting ready to relaunch ours because we switched
Speaker 1: everything over, like I said, from people it's and gotten
Speaker 1: away from that and then we're going in this new direction.
Speaker 1: So that's coming very soon UM on the site. But
Speaker 1: everyone took a lot of those conversations to social media,
Speaker 1: so it's kind of an interesting learning curve of like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, how do we get these conversations back
Speaker 1: on the site and how do we you know, continue
Speaker 1: to have that kind of engagement on the site, and
Speaker 1: which is still something I'm I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 1: And we we figured it out with certain fan bases
Speaker 1: really well. And that's just because you know, Walking Dead,
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones are kind of sweet spots. UM. Even
Speaker 1: some of like them, like the teenage girly shows on
Speaker 1: CW we have they have they have one of the
Speaker 1: loudest voices scariest voices in fandom too. UM. So it's
Speaker 1: usually when you say something that either people really agree
Speaker 1: with our people find highly controversial, UM, then you'll get
Speaker 1: a you just you have to to take a stand
Speaker 1: and say something that someone feels passionate about, and that's
Speaker 1: really how you create that conversation UM post social media.
Speaker 1: But social media has been great too in terms of
Speaker 1: bringing new people into the site. Um. You know, we've
Speaker 1: done a lot of sponsorships and promotions around UM sponsored
Speaker 1: tweets and sponsored Instagrams and all that sort of thing too.
Speaker 1: Um So, I definitely see it as a huge part
Speaker 1: that's that's been beneficial to the site. My own personal experience,
Speaker 1: because of course social media is a part of my
Speaker 1: job as well. Is that social media is a great
Speaker 1: way to reach out to people. It's a great way
Speaker 1: to find out what they're thinking. But it's also a
Speaker 1: great way to dedicate way more time to managing social
Speaker 1: media than to doing everything else that you need to do.
Speaker 1: It's a time suck, really. Uh So, it is interesting
Speaker 1: that you say that. I do think that sites like
Speaker 1: yours have incredible value because if you look at something
Speaker 1: like social media, you're generally talking about the same group
Speaker 1: of people contributing to this conversation. You're not getting any
Speaker 1: ideas outside of that group. It's patively small, right since
Speaker 1: your Facebook friends or it's your Twitter followers. Maybe someone
Speaker 1: just did a search for a hashtag that you contributed
Speaker 1: to and they they might join in. But Twitter is
Speaker 1: already limited because you have so little space. Facebook, you're
Speaker 1: limited to the people who are your friends generally speaking,
Speaker 1: unless unless you're someone notable who has a lot of
Speaker 1: public followers. So sites like yours allow people who have
Speaker 1: no interaction outside of their own circle of friends to
Speaker 1: meet up with each other and share a love for
Speaker 1: something quite literally. Actually I had to my members get married. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's two thousand and seven, So that was really cool
Speaker 1: that they met on the site and then started like
Speaker 1: long distance dating and then like three years later they
Speaker 1: got married and um, so yeah, it is a place
Speaker 1: where you can come and for for all of the
Speaker 1: kind of message boards fan communities like that, you do
Speaker 1: get exposed to, you know, other people than you would
Speaker 1: on your your own social network. So that's that's definitely
Speaker 1: a really great opportunity to meet fans. And then if
Speaker 1: you end up meeting up at conventions and kind of
Speaker 1: having your your group of con friends when you go
Speaker 1: to the different conventions. Um, that's not something that I
Speaker 1: think is that easy to find, um just through your
Speaker 1: Facebook and Twitter and media outside of the con circuit.
Speaker 1: Like for a long time, local science fiction conventions were
Speaker 1: really the only way that you would meet up with
Speaker 1: other fans that you did not necessarily personally know beforehand
Speaker 1: and get a chance to talk to them. Internet suddenly
Speaker 1: allows that to happen over on a global scale, so
Speaker 1: you can have the equivalent of a fan panel about
Speaker 1: a particular TV series or film series all the time, anytime, everywhere.
Speaker 1: Because of that, and uh, it's one of the things
Speaker 1: I've liked. I've been part of various fan communities over
Speaker 1: the years. Uh, for those who want to know, way
Speaker 1: back in the day, I used to contribute regularly to
Speaker 1: a message board called Lebronze, which was a Buffy the
Speaker 1: Vampire Slayer fan song. Yeah, so these are these communities,
Speaker 1: These online communities are something that's really fascinating to me
Speaker 1: because it does allow for people who otherwise would never
Speaker 1: have any connection to one another to forge those connections
Speaker 1: that can be really meaningful in the case that you've
Speaker 1: a lifelong connection exactly. So that's really exciting stuff as well. Well.
Speaker 1: What are you looking forward to in the future? Is
Speaker 1: there anything besides I mean you're talking about the site
Speaker 1: is evolving and growing. Is there anything uh, specifically that's
Speaker 1: got you really excited or maybe even just really scared.
Speaker 1: Two things actually, so Fampled is launching a podcast in
Speaker 1: partnership with Atlanta Movie Tours Fantastic. I'll be glad to
Speaker 1: be a guest anytime you will totally have you as
Speaker 1: I guess, so we'll totally have you on UM. So
Speaker 1: we're still trying to we're trying to be very thorough
Speaker 1: with all of all of our tone in our our
Speaker 1: our kind of structure of the of the show before
Speaker 1: we launch it. UM. So we're still kind of in
Speaker 1: the beginning planning stages. We've done a couple of like
Speaker 1: test episodes, and so I hope that that will be
Speaker 1: something you know, um within the next month or two
Speaker 1: that will push out. But UM, it's going to be
Speaker 1: called The Atlas Wonderful because a little a t l
Speaker 1: that lovely the hometown exactly exactly. And while we're not
Speaker 1: going to focus just on Atlanta entertainment, UM, that definitely
Speaker 1: will be UM a part of the show and every
Speaker 1: eating that's filming in the city and and going on
Speaker 1: in the city. UM. But the other thing that I've
Speaker 1: been having a total blast with, UM we've partnered with
Speaker 1: Joystick game bar third Thursday of every month for Project Cosplay. Um,
Speaker 1: and so St Patty's Day, we're going to have our
Speaker 1: third one and that one will be UM d C
Speaker 1: Comics and we're I think we're gonna do like a
Speaker 1: little spring Break style, So it's gonna be like Batman
Speaker 1: versus Superman spring Break style. Um. Yeah. So Joystick, for
Speaker 1: those who aren't in Atlanta, is a bar arcade. Yes,
Speaker 1: so it's an adult arcade because it's it's a bar.
Speaker 1: But yeah, one of those one of those really cool,
Speaker 1: very Atlanta kind of feel location. So it's great that
Speaker 1: you've got that partnership going. It's been great. And um,
Speaker 1: the two guys that run it, Johnny and Brandon um
Speaker 1: run the bar. Um, They're they're amazing and they've been
Speaker 1: so instrumental in getting all of this together with Project Cosplay.
Speaker 1: We have a great group of people that do it.
Speaker 1: R NC Candice amazing. Um. I always kind of describe
Speaker 1: it as a fun hot mess because it is a
Speaker 1: little bit of like a hot mess, but it's so
Speaker 1: much fun. Um, so much fun. They contestants have We
Speaker 1: have three contestants a month. You have roughly twenty minutes
Speaker 1: to put together a costume with you know, we we
Speaker 1: provide all the materials, duct tape depends, um some and
Speaker 1: we usually throw in a couple of curveballs. UM. But
Speaker 1: it's just been so much fun and we've gotten such
Speaker 1: an incredible response to it for us to only be
Speaker 1: on our third month. UM. So the winner gets a
Speaker 1: golden Joystick and that's the that's the big prize and
Speaker 1: bragging rights obviously, but it's just been I'm so excited
Speaker 1: about it. And that's I think seeing just the growth
Speaker 1: of that over the last couple of months and just
Speaker 1: how much of a community that's being built around that.
Speaker 1: Like everyone stays and hangs out after we finished the show,
Speaker 1: which only runs for about an hour from nine to
Speaker 1: ten UM, but everyone stays and hangs out, and it's
Speaker 1: we're kind of fostering a little community with with those
Speaker 1: people now and it's so many great people. And that's
Speaker 1: what I love about doing doing all this is it's
Speaker 1: just the people. The people are so great and the
Speaker 1: friendships are incredible. Yeah, and you mentioned something else that's
Speaker 1: really interesting. People again not in Atlanta probably aren't as
Speaker 1: aware of this, but the city over the last five
Speaker 1: years has really become a hotbed for film and television production,
Speaker 1: um Walking Dead being an obvious example, but there are
Speaker 1: other ones, sleepy hollow films in the area. Now we've
Speaker 1: got movies that are always being shot. We've got Pinewood
Speaker 1: Studios south of the city that was the sister Pinewood
Speaker 1: Studios to the one that's in London. So since you've launched,
Speaker 1: you've seen the city that you work in turning turn
Speaker 1: into a major film and television hub. So you really
Speaker 1: lucked out. I really did. Like I always people people
Speaker 1: always ask me like, when are you going to l A?
Speaker 1: Aren't you gonna go to l A? And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: in l A, I'd be a very small fish and
Speaker 1: very pond But with everything going on in Atlanta and
Speaker 1: really the lack of of media there, you know, we
Speaker 1: don't have the the entertainment Tonight's or the a On
Speaker 1: Mines or you know, all of those kind of big
Speaker 1: entertainment giants in Atlanta. So I get to do so
Speaker 1: much and and go to so many sets and do
Speaker 1: so many interviews, and um, I'm not planning on leaving,
Speaker 1: like I don't. Firstly, don't exactly exactly. There's so much
Speaker 1: and especially in the genre space we just have. I mean,
Speaker 1: like you said, with Walking Dead and Sleepy Hollow. Um,
Speaker 1: Netflix is Stranger Things, which I'm really stoked about comes
Speaker 1: out in June. Um. I'm really looking forward to that one. Um.
Speaker 1: But there's just so many ones that are in that
Speaker 1: kind of sci fi or genre and that's like, that's
Speaker 1: what I love. So being able to see the shows
Speaker 1: that I actually love to watch on TV being filmed
Speaker 1: around the city. It's just so cool. That's great. So
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