1 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Savor production of iHeartRadio. I'm Annie Res. 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 2: And I'm Loren vogel Baum, and today we have a 3 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: Halloween special for you, a short episode including a piece 4 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 2: of spooky fiction that Annie wrote. 5 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: Yes, I'm really excited listeners. You know, Laurenen and I 6 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: both love horror. We love it at all times, but 7 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: oh yes, especially spooky time. And so I'm really happy 8 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: that we're bringing this back and going to talk about 9 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: it because we also just love good fiction, creepy fiction podcast. 10 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,279 Speaker 2: Oh sure, yeah, well okay, And so this story in 11 00:00:54,320 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 2: particular comes from a anthology horror show that iHeartRadio ran 12 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 2: for four years called Thirteen Days of Halloween. And the 13 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 2: concept here it was created by our dear friends Matt 14 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 2: Frederick and Alex Williams, and they wanted to do We 15 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 2: all want to do fiction. I mean, most of us 16 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 2: have been in nonfiction for a long time and are 17 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 2: good at it, but fiction is sort of where most 18 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,199 Speaker 2: of us started enjoying literature, I think. 19 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: And so. 20 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, we always want to do fiction. 21 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: We love horror. 22 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:36,400 Speaker 2: And they came across this new microphone technology for three 23 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 2: D audio, so they pitched this show Thirteen Days of 24 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,039 Speaker 2: Halloween to be a horror anthology for running the thirteen 25 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 2: days up to October thirty first, with one episode a day, 26 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: and Aaron Menke of Grimm and Mild and Lore and 27 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: all of that stuff said, heck yeah, And we got 28 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 2: Keegan Michael Key to be the main narrator for the series, 29 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: along with a bunch of voice work and writing and 30 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 2: production work from like Local iHeart and Atlanta Talent, and 31 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 2: both of us worked on multiple seasons and it was 32 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 2: so fun. 33 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: It was really fun. And when I tell you we 34 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 1: work with some amazing creatives people, Yeah, and you know 35 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: you might hear, oh, they found this three D audio microphone. 36 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: It sounds kind of like a trend or something. They 37 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: were legitimately interested in it. Like people we work with 38 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: are legitimately nerds. Oh, huge nerds. It's not just us, no, 39 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: And they want to try new things and they want 40 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 1: to tell stories and new ways. And this was a 41 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: really interesting experience when so many of our friends and 42 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: co workers. You would hear the episode they worked on 43 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: or what they did, and it was just so creative 44 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: and often very terrifying. 45 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, really upsetting. There's some really upsetting episodes in here. 46 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: Yes, But it was cool to hear it because you 47 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: didn't necessarily know at the start of this season what 48 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: anyone else was doing, so you would listen to it 49 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: along with everybody else and be like, oh oh, oh, 50 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: my goodness, wow, but in a really really fun way. 51 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: And the sound design was so great. That was cool 52 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: to hear because essentially, and we're going to talk about 53 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: this more later, but essentially, on my end, you know, 54 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: you submit the story and then there's casting and editing 55 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: and then sound design, and then I would listen to it, 56 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: and even for me, it felt new. Oh wow, that's 57 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: so cool. Yeah, because I, you know, I didn't know 58 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: what was going to happen with it, and I I 59 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: shared it with my mom, and my mom still like 60 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: every hell of m huh text me and it's like, 61 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: remember that story he wrote. Oh it's so cool. It's 62 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: very cute, it's very sweet. But it was really cool 63 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:26,159 Speaker 1: to work on something collaboratively and creatively like that. Yeah. 64 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, especially right, like like the things that we do 65 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 2: on both Saverer and your other show stuff Mom Never 66 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 2: told You are pretty contained and pretty straightforward. Like occasionally 67 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 2: we'll do one of our fairy tales here and you'll 68 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 2: get to hear a little bit of soundscaping. But but yeah, 69 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 2: for the most part, it's kind of just like, oh, nope, 70 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 2: there you go. We read things into a microphone and 71 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 2: they cleaned up my throat, clears and cusswords, and here 72 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 2: you are. Not that that's all. But you know, it's 73 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 2: a straightforward and so watching our dear friends get to 74 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 2: stretch their legs a little bit and do some of 75 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 2: that audio storytelling is really satisfying. 76 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. And there was a question for me 77 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: and I we'll get into this more too, but because 78 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: I know you were involved in several different ways over 79 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: this many seasons, but there was a question for me 80 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 1: too this first episode where they were like, do you 81 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: want to voice it? And I said no, because. 82 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 2: I want to do what someone else would do. 83 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: Yes, And it was amazing, so good. I agree. 84 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 2: I do love this story, which is why we wanted 85 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 2: to run it. It originally appeared in season one, episode 86 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,239 Speaker 2: three of Thirteen Days of Halloween. The episode is titled 87 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 2: The Garden. So, yeah, without further ado, we're going to 88 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 2: go ahead and run the story and then have a 89 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 2: little bit of a discussion afterwards. We did want to 90 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 2: say that the story contains a bit of violence that 91 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,839 Speaker 2: runs along the lines of self harm. It's more creepy 92 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 2: and gory, but wanted to put that out there. If 93 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,800 Speaker 2: that's not something you're up for today, then take care 94 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 2: of yourself. And also, headphones are recommended because of that 95 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 2: three D audio thing. But yes, yes, maximum listening. 96 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 3: Here, have a cupcake. They're my special recipe. That's all 97 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 3: I had to do. Make cupcakes, plain vanilla with vanilla icing, 98 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 3: one box of mixed plus eggs, oil and water. The 99 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 3: instructions look simple enough, but I always managed to complicate things. 100 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 3: I was new and down trying to make friends. You 101 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 3: know what better way to make friends than with cupcakesri 102 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 3: it was a book club or something like that. They're 103 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 3: being very kind to me. There was even a prompt, 104 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 3: an icebreaker, to get to know each other. Fun facts 105 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 3: come with a fun fact. My life wasn't fun. It 106 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 3: wasn't interesting. I was even lacking on the facts. I 107 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 3: was panicking, lipping the pure white batter with far too 108 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 3: much gusto, my shoulder aching. Fun fact I've never been 109 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 3: in love. I don't think I've ever been loved either. 110 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 3: Oh no, that wasn't fun at all. My head pounded 111 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 3: with stress. My hands shook as I grabbed a bottle 112 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 3: of pain of Leavers. I swallowed to and tried to focus. 113 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 3: I'm fine, It's going to be fine, I assured myself. 114 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 3: I needed to add the oil. Or did I do 115 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 3: that already? The eggs? Maybe it was the eggs fun 116 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 3: fact I had to sleep the lights on or fear 117 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 3: overwhelms me. No, still not right. They were coming to 118 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 3: my place, my small and personal apartment. I wish I 119 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 3: hadn't volunteered. The throbbing in my head crescendoed like an 120 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 3: ice pick and a blender stuck on chruret. How long 121 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 3: had I been whipping this matter for? I stopped stirring 122 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 3: and lost myself in this thought. As I stared at 123 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 3: the bowl of vanilla white mixture, I watched a single 124 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 3: drop of red appear in its center. I stared at it, 125 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 3: the bright crimson dot in a sea of pure white batter. 126 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 3: It was blood, my blood. I didn't have another mix, 127 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 3: I had no fun facts, I had nothing else to offer. 128 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 3: I only had cupcakes. Without really considering it, I continued stirring. 129 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 3: The red mixed with the white, turning it a pleasing pinkish. 130 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 3: Maybe blood baked out, Maybe the sugar would mask it. 131 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 3: No one had to know. Cupcakes dyed with blood were 132 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 3: still cupcakes, right, They weren't ruined. We couldn't just throw 133 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 3: them out like there were nothing. Right, another drop of red. 134 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 3: I stirred again. The batter became a darker shade of pink, 135 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 3: more interesting than the white. I thought, surely this was 136 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 3: an improvement. That's when I realized I was crying. Tears 137 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 3: were splashing into the batter. Now too. Fun fact, I 138 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 3: sleep with a knife under my pillow. No, no, no, no, 139 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 3: there had to be something more. Blood dribbled from my face. 140 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,239 Speaker 3: I mixed it slowly, watching the swirls blend until they disappeared, 141 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 3: creating an angry sea of smooth crimson. I could be normal, 142 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 3: I told myself. No one would notice. My hands shook 143 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 3: as I poured the batter into the cupcake pan. I 144 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 3: had no choice. I had to give them something. I 145 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 3: put the pan in the oven three hundred and fifty degrees. 146 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 3: I stared ahead as the timer counted down. Had a 147 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 3: little heat, a little fire, and look at the transformation. 148 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 3: Maybe it was fine, I thought, Maybe I was fine. 149 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 3: Fun fact, I I there was nothing fun about me. 150 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 3: I decided to make something up, something no one would 151 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 3: question because it was too stupid. Surely I could make 152 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 3: something up, but nothing came to mind. It was as 153 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 3: if all fun had burned from my brain. My breath 154 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 3: was loud in my tiny kitchen. I imagined the pain 155 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 3: my parents went through, the doubt, the terrible and speakable 156 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 3: truth that they never wanted me, A ticking time bombs 157 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 3: set to go off and ruin their lives. I pulled 158 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 3: the cupcakes from the oven. I glanced at the clock. 159 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 3: Anytime now they'd be here. I popped out the cupcakes 160 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 3: onto my cutting board. For a moment, I stared at them, 161 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 3: their red colors sickening, detached. I grabbed a knife and 162 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 3: covered them with white vanilla icing, masking. Their bloody domes 163 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 3: looked delicious, but they hid a dark secret. They were 164 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 3: perfect fun fact hm, I couldn't think of one, but 165 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 3: I had cupcakes that had to count for something. The 166 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 3: guests arrived, kind and false. They complimented my apartment. They 167 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 3: giggled and chatted. I interacted with them, but it was 168 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 3: all superficial. I was an alien in my own skin. 169 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 3: I hesitated, thinking, perhaps I shouldn't offer them my treats, 170 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 3: that my blood and tears weren't theirs to be eaten. 171 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 3: But as I faked my way at normality, besieged with 172 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 3: concern that I was failing, they found the cupcakes. They 173 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 3: moaned in delight and showered me with praise. My stomach turned, 174 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 3: but I smiled. Then they started sharing their fun facts. 175 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 3: They took turns, one person addressing the group at a time, 176 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 3: like a twelve step program for fun people with facts. 177 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 3: I tensed. When it was my turn, I hesitated. One 178 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 3: of the women took pity on me and asked what 179 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 3: flavor these cupcakes? They're delicious. I stared into her for 180 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 3: a moment, then looked around the room at the happy people, 181 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 3: content with my confections. I thought about the red dot, 182 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 3: my blood, my essence, an un welcomed a guest on 183 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 3: a perfect white canvas. I was the red dot. I 184 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 3: turned back to the woman and said, red velvet. They 185 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 3: all wanted the recipe. I muttered thing about it just 186 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 3: being from the box, and they all laughed about how 187 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 3: I must have a secret ingredient. I didn't mean for 188 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 3: things to get so out of hand. It started small 189 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 3: at first, people requested my special red velvet cupcakes for events. 190 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 3: Then local businesses started paying me for them. They were 191 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 3: prominently displayed behind glass cases atop lacy white doilies, red velvet, 192 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 3: handwritten and delicate cursive on the label. I couldn't stop 193 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 3: making them. More and more cupcakes, more white, stained with red, 194 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 3: more blood and tears, my sacrament and offering, unknowingly demanded, 195 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 3: unknowingly consumed. At first, I pricked my fingers until they 196 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 3: pulsed with pain, until I could barely hold the spoon, 197 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 3: distir the batter until my blood flowed sluggishly. I cried 198 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 3: endless tears until I was sure no more or would come, 199 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 3: But they always did. More and more of my essence 200 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 3: poured into sweet delights, devoured for someone else's fleeting enjoyment, 201 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 3: never enough. Still, it rattled in my brain. Fun fact. 202 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 3: I had none to give, but this I could give. 203 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 3: One day, a woman from the fun fact party approached 204 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 3: me about starting a business. She had the money and savvy, 205 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 3: I had the product. I never said yes, but I 206 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 3: also never said no. At a certain point, it was 207 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 3: easier to submit to the ritual of it all. It 208 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 3: distracted me from what I was missing. I named the shop, 209 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 3: red velvet, endless trays of cupcakes, and lines of people 210 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 3: waiting for them with their money, their eyes gleaming with desire, 211 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 3: unaware of what made them so desirable. Years passed and 212 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 3: demand grew. I wasted away, shrunken and desiccated. I poured 213 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 3: myself into the batter, like another ingredient, nothing more than 214 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 3: eggs or butter, to be whipped together, exposed to heat, 215 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 3: covered with icing, and devoured. Lifetimes. I aged, lifetimes I 216 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 3: gave away. I became a husk of a woman with 217 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 3: no more blood and tears to give, withered skin and 218 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 3: bulging veins. Customers grew alarmed by my startling decline. They 219 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 3: feared disease in their food. They were being served by 220 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 3: a walking corpse. One night, my business partner found me 221 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 3: alone in the kitchen, punched over a mixing bowl, as 222 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 3: though I was being slowly absorbed by batter. She watched 223 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 3: as blood trickled from my sinewy palms and tears leaked 224 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 3: from my swollen eyes. I don't know how long she 225 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 3: stood there, horrified by the sight. She didn't make her 226 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 3: presence known until she screamed. I caught her eyes in 227 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:32,719 Speaker 3: mine and gets how that she saw a single red 228 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 3: dot soiling the velvet perfection. I smiled and said, fun fact. 229 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 2: O. Hello, Hi, So that was a lot. Yeah, welcome, 230 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 2: welcome back. I'm going to ease us back in to 231 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 2: the real world with the credits for that segment. Thirteen 232 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 2: Days of Halloween was created by Matt Frederick and Alex 233 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 2: Williams and executive produced by Aaron Menke. This segment was 234 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 2: written by Annie Reese and performed by Andrea Lang, directed 235 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 2: by Alex Williams, with editing and sound design by Trevor Young. 236 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 2: And as we're returning to ourselves here, yes, we're going 237 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 2: to be going on for just a little bit longer, 238 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,479 Speaker 2: So we figured that we would take a quick break 239 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 2: for a word from our sponsors, and we're back. Thank 240 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 2: you sponsor, Yes, thank you all right. So yes, like 241 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,400 Speaker 2: like we said, both of us participated in this show 242 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 2: for multiple seasons. How many short stories did you have 243 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:04,560 Speaker 2: in there? Annie? 244 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: Three? 245 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 2: Three. 246 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: I didn't do the second season because I had chickened out. 247 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: Oh no, yes, every other season one story. 248 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, I wound up doing. I wrote and performed a 249 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:20,439 Speaker 2: piece the first season. I was not involved in the 250 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 2: second season either, but then I was involved in story 251 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 2: editing and voice work and a little bit of production 252 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 2: work for the third and fourth season. So yeah, oh 253 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 2: so much fun. But yeah, Annie, would you talk a 254 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 2: little bit about how you came to join the writing 255 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 2: crew for the show. 256 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's no secret that one, I love horror, 257 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: but also we are generally good friends with a lot 258 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 1: of our coworkers. Oh yeah, and Alex Williams, who used 259 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: to do some editing for this show. We used to 260 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: do hikes together. Oh yeah, yeah, get We would go 261 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: on these hikes and he is someone who carries a 262 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: notebook and takes notes when you're talking. He's just a 263 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 1: very curious wants to know more about you and your 264 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: decisions and all of that. And he also had this 265 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: story he really wanted to tell about kind of a 266 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: tragic lost actress. So anyway, we were talking about that 267 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: on one of our hikes, and I just started talking 268 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: about some of the stuff that I've written in some 269 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: of the things that I see that I like to 270 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: see in horror, and we sort of clicked over that 271 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: and then they sort of sent out Matt and Alex 272 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: sent out Yeah. But I think it was a company wise. 273 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 2: A call for submissions. 274 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:08,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, a call for submissions, and I am an overachiever. 275 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 1: I sent eight ideas. 276 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 2: There's so many. 277 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 1: I love it. I sent eight ideas and I am 278 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,879 Speaker 1: in love with the idea that Alex was like, I 279 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: want you to do this one, because a lot of 280 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: them were much more traditional horror and this was like 281 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 1: a nihilistic kind of breakdown story. But this was the 282 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: one he was like, no, I want. 283 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 2: I want that one. 284 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 1: That one's cool. Yeah, And so that is how I 285 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: came to be a part of it. How about you? 286 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 2: For this first season, I didn't actually pitch them any 287 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 2: ideas because I kind of chickened out or I wanted 288 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 2: to give the opportunity to other people, which flow together 289 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 2: kind of a dovetail together, to be honest. But Matt 290 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 2: and Alex knew I was interested, and they at some 291 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 2: point relatively late in the process, were like, hey, Lauren, 292 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,360 Speaker 2: we're down a story. 293 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:17,640 Speaker 1: What do you got? 294 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 2: And I already had a piece in my pocket that 295 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 2: I had done at a local Atlanta livelet thing, and 296 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 2: uh so, yeah. So we wound up adapting that with 297 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 2: pretty heavy, pretty heavy assistance from Matt into the episode 298 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,880 Speaker 2: that that is Episode eleven, The observatory, and I wound 299 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 2: up performing it because of course I did. If they 300 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 2: ask me if I want to perform at the answers yes, 301 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 2: especially because that the aforementioned three D microphone setup is 302 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 2: is a setup that looks like a human pair of ears. 303 00:22:54,359 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 2: It's a human. It's a pair of silicone ears that 304 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 2: that you talk in because it's got a microphone in 305 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 2: each year and and so you talk into these ears. 306 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 2: It's wild and and you can like walk around the 307 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 2: ears and talk behind them, and you can whisper into 308 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 2: one or the other, and so it's I mean, it's 309 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 2: it's it's just like a very directional, uh double microphone, 310 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 2: but so weird. It was such a cool experience. 311 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. 312 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 2: Not my best writing, probably not my best performance, but but. 313 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 1: I got such a kick out of it. 314 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 2: And uh and so yeah, that's how I got involved 315 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 2: in season one. And then uh yeah late later on, 316 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 2: right right early, stuff was happening and more voice or 317 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 2: was happening. But this was also a story. Your story 318 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 2: was also a story that you already had in your pocket. 319 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:55,439 Speaker 1: Right I did. Uh, I hate the base of this 320 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: story I wrote in high school. 321 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 2: It is wild to me I love this. 322 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 1: I wrote it. I've already had my horror. The roots 323 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:08,880 Speaker 1: had taken place. That being said, I often I say 324 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: I wrote it in high school, but they did edit 325 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: it and I rewrote some parts of it, so to 326 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: be clear, it did get cleaned up a little bit. 327 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: But the base of it was something I wrote in 328 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: high school after a not great experience I had medically, 329 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: and I was young. I was young, and I felt 330 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: guilty about the stress that was causing my parents wow, 331 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: and the like money it was costing to try to 332 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: get to the bottom of it. So like that through 333 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:49,400 Speaker 1: line of this character having that like guilt of just existing, 334 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: that's where that came from. But it sort of manifested 335 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: in this medical thing that I had is rare. So 336 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,199 Speaker 1: you know, you go to an event and they have 337 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: these fun fact things, and so I was like, you know, 338 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: I was like, I wasn't trying to It wasn't like 339 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: I was coming from a place of trauma. I was 340 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: just like, oh, this is a unique, unique thing about me. 341 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: But a lot of times the story would come out, 342 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 1: people would look at me like, oh whoa are you okay? 343 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: And I just over time, I felt like a lot 344 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: of stories I would tell in those kind of context, 345 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: people would look at me like, that's not really. 346 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 2: That's not really fun. 347 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: It's not fun, which could also go back to my 348 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 1: love of horror. But anyway, So then the idea became 349 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: like having those things where you're trying to come up 350 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: with a fun fact and you feel like you can't 351 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: at these events that feel so superficial, that feel so 352 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:04,439 Speaker 1: like nobody cares about this is and the cupcake making 353 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: part of it and the blood going into the cupcake. 354 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: You know, when you write something and you're young and 355 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: you look back at it later like, oh, I see 356 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: what was going on, but I feel like as an 357 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: adult reading it, it was like trying to cover up. Here. 358 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: Let me present you this wonderful, beautiful dessert where I 359 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,640 Speaker 1: have bled. I bled for it. But here's your fun fact, 360 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: and here's your dessert, and I won't like make you 361 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: feel bad about any of it. 362 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 2: Here's here is something easily consumable in a nice package. 363 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: You're welcome. Yeah, yeah, but yeah. It was one of 364 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 1: those things where I'm like, where, okay? But I did 365 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: save it because I thought I thought it had something 366 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: to it. I saved it all these years through different laptops. 367 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 2: I think it's super effect of like I like, I 368 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,400 Speaker 2: remember listening to it for the first time when when 369 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 2: the episode came out and be and I was so tense, 370 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 2: And it's got so many of those different kinds of tension. 371 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 2: You know, you've got some body horror, you have that 372 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:19,479 Speaker 2: social anxiety, you've got a terrible secret, there's you know, 373 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 2: accidental cannibalism that kind of like what's in the food trope. 374 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 2: I don't know. I think it's super fun. 375 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean that trope. We see that in 376 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 1: Horror all the time, in the food Yeah. 377 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 2: We've talked about it here before. 378 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, yes we have. But I think in this 379 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: particular story, I was trying to look at the she's 380 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: clearly she's trying to meet new friends, clearly upset, not 381 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 1: fitting in, and they're just kind of eating her cupcakes 382 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 1: and not asking about any of it. Yeah, and not 383 00:27:54,880 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 1: observing her. Yeah, not observing her at all. I one 384 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: of my when this first came out, I was really 385 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: nervous because we do work with people of like talent, immense. 386 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 2: Talent, oh scary capacity. 387 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:10,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 388 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 2: I was like, is Key good, Michael Key going to 389 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 2: know who? I don't want that he's good at his 390 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 2: job and I'm middling. 391 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: He said my name. They named the character after me, 392 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: which I'm kind of like, h But I liked it. 393 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: I liked it. But yeah, I mean we work with 394 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,879 Speaker 1: like this amazing people. I hadn't heard anyone else's story. 395 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 1: I didn't know what else was gonna happen, you know, 396 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: and I did. I broke the rule we normally have. 397 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: And I read some comments under this. My favorite one 398 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: was somebody who's like, this is too real my anxiety. 399 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 2: I was like, no, that one's relatable, and I don't 400 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 2: like it. 401 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: That was too real. 402 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:05,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're well, I am so sorry. I don't remember 403 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 2: your piece from season three. Oh no, I do now. 404 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 2: It does not have to do with food, does it not? 405 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: Really? 406 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 2: No, that one's terrific too, and it's voiced by amazing 407 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 2: local actor Angel Masters, who was the main character in 408 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 2: another fiction show that we worked on together, called The 409 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 2: Second oil Age Back in the Day. But yeah, that 410 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 2: one is really upsetting. Your piece in season four of 411 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 2: Thirteen Days of Halloween also heavily featured cooking and eating. Yeah, 412 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,959 Speaker 2: it's like there's a theme, what's an interest of yours? 413 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 2: Unfortunately that one isn't really like a single unit that 414 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,840 Speaker 2: can just be like lifted out for publishing here it 415 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 2: would be a little bit more difficult, but yeah, oh 416 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 2: that one is great too. It's more like a like 417 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 2: relationship and or family anxiety, which the kitchen is just 418 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,600 Speaker 2: such a good setting for, you know, and so many 419 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 2: objects of danger exist in. 420 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: There are And one of the funniest things to me, 421 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: because you were working on kind of the like overall 422 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:24,200 Speaker 1: story and the editing of that season, was I would 423 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: kind of get behind the scenes notes from you, and 424 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: I learned that one of the kitchen items, the names 425 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: of one of the kitchen items I used, was the 426 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: source of much debate. But it is true there it's 427 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: like a lot of dangerous things in the kitchen. I 428 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 1: personally am really interested in the rise of It's not 429 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: that it's new. I've just seen a lot more of 430 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: it lately. The dinner party horror, Yes, yeah. 431 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 2: There's a lot of them in the past, like ten 432 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 2: issues years or so, like ten fifteen years, And I'm like, 433 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,959 Speaker 2: what is it in our collective zeitgeist where we're talking 434 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 2: about how terrible dinner parties are? 435 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: See this anxiety? I'm telling you, Oh, my gosh. 436 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 2: Not that they're always terrible, but yeah, they can be 437 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 2: very stressful. 438 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: They can be very stressful, and I feel the idea 439 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: and this one was much more like something you might 440 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: see at dinner parties where you don't really know who 441 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: someone is. Someone is, yeah, and that can come out 442 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: over food in the kitchen at dinner parties, whatever is yeah. Yeah. 443 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. 444 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,719 Speaker 2: A thing that I've missed this year is working on 445 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 2: this show because we did not make a twenty twenty 446 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 2: four season unfortunately, but but yeah, for four for four 447 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 2: straight years. You know, we started with a creepy mansion. 448 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 2: We didn't include the wrap around in this story, but 449 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 2: the wrap around story for season one is creepy mansion. 450 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 2: Season two is creepy seaside town. Season three is creepy 451 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,800 Speaker 2: Depression era town, and then season four is like creepy 452 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 2: institution the other stars Like, It's still kind of blows 453 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 2: my mind that we got all of these amazing humans, 454 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 2: like after Keag and Michael Key, it was Kathy Na Jimmy, 455 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 2: then Clancy Brown, then Natalie Morales, like who like what 456 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 2: wild to me? 457 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: So cool? 458 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 2: And to have our humble work with Clancy Brown, with 459 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 2: mister Crabs aka the Kurgan himself. 460 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: Yes so good. 461 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 2: Season three is a personal favorite of mine in ways. 462 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 2: There was the role that I got to play in 463 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 2: that season is this sort of demonic telephone operator and. 464 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 1: She's real creepy. 465 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 2: I'm still upset by that performance. And I did it. 466 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:25,840 Speaker 2: I'm like great, I'm like, oh no, oh dear. We 467 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 2: had we had Atlanta local talent Nick Dakowski producing on 468 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 2: series Our seasons two and three. He co wrote the 469 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 2: segment of the first VHS movie that you like. It's 470 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,320 Speaker 2: at one. It's called Amateur Night. It's the one with 471 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 2: you know, with the girl with the face. If you 472 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 2: haven't seen it, see it. I'm not going to tell 473 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 2: you anything more. He's also the viceroy of Right Club Atlanta, 474 00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 2: Rite Club, being a terrific live literature event around around 475 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 2: the podcast office here. He's been working on Tomorrow's Monsters 476 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 2: and the Manawak Caves and The Passage. Also our Thirteen 477 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 2: Days holiday spin off Twelve Ghosts, which featured Malcolm McDowell Let's. 478 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 1: Get Things nice and sparkling. Clear. 479 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, I did not write, but I performed a piece 480 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 2: in that one as well. And it's not that I 481 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 2: was in a room with Malcolm McDowell. 482 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:27,279 Speaker 1: I was not. 483 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:31,600 Speaker 2: We recorded our lines very separately, but our characters talk 484 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 2: to each other, so he basically knows me. 485 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, six Degrees of podcasting. 486 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope that it's illuminating for y'all that like 487 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 2: we're fangirling about this. 488 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, like it's amazing that the talent that did 489 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 1: these voices, but it's we're fairly about people we work 490 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,440 Speaker 1: with too. It's this was a really cool This was 491 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: a really cool experience. 492 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 2: It genuinely was, and I really do hope that we 493 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 2: get to do more fiction in the future. It can 494 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,520 Speaker 2: be kind of a hard selling podcasting because it's a 495 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 2: little bit hard to pitch and a little bit hard 496 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 2: to get advertisers for. Like like Annie and I were joking, 497 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 2: like what if we had Duncan Hines in this ad break? 498 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 1: That would be amazing. Best thing come on most opportunities, 499 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: Like who do we call? Let's go? I think it's 500 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,120 Speaker 1: simple I do as well. 501 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 2: But yeah, just so fun. And I hope that I 502 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 2: hope that y'all out there enjoyed listening to this one. 503 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,320 Speaker 2: And if you are into this sort of thing, I 504 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 2: hope that you will go as this episode comes out, 505 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,520 Speaker 2: you have just about just about thirteen days between now 506 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 2: and Halloween. So if you want to give yourself a 507 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 2: little a little Halloween treat every day, you could do that, 508 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 2: or you could binge it all. I don't know, I 509 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 2: don't know your life. 510 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,120 Speaker 1: Can't tell you what to do now, I can't tell 511 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:11,399 Speaker 1: you what to do. But in either case, we hope 512 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 1: that you're having a good a good time, whether it's 513 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 1: how we based or not. Yeah, and we would love 514 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 1: to hear from you if you have any suggestions for 515 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,399 Speaker 1: other things we could do in the fiction world. There 516 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:32,480 Speaker 1: are in the public domain. Yes, yes, you can email 517 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: us about that at Hello at savorpod dot com. 518 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,359 Speaker 2: We are also on social media. You can find us 519 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 2: on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at saber pod, and we 520 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 2: do hope to hear from you. Savor is production of iHeartRadio. 521 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,759 Speaker 2: For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, you can visit 522 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to 523 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,520 Speaker 2: your favorite shows. Thanks as always to our super producers 524 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,280 Speaker 2: Dylan Fagan and Andrew Howard. Thanks to you for listening, 525 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,080 Speaker 2: and we hope that lots more good things are coming 526 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:57,520 Speaker 2: your way.