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0:45 This is your host, Mark Torres speaking on the phone. We have Mr. Hassan Goblin for our LIRR Strike edition of the show. There are no trains. And in the studio, we have a special guest we're going to be talking to with and about it. Is Star Trek Long Island very own Stephanie Gangon? And it's called Trek Long Island. Of course it's not Star Trek I wouldn't get. Right, yes, Trek Long Island going to Ricer right is. That we're going to Ricer this year. We're going on vacation. So as I mentioned, we're going to be talking to Stephanie in just a few minutes. But before we do any of that, we have to take away with the non news.

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2:50 Yeah, you've actually been to our live show at the Eastman Oklahoma Library. I have been. And you make conventions. Yeah, now people can't see me though. This is a different one. This is cool. I can make faces. Yes, and she is, by the way, everybody listening to us. I always like to start off with the simple question for any convention organizer. Why? Because people are crazy and it's it's very difficult job to put together a convention. Why in the world would you want to take on that job? I just love stress and anxiety, you know, I really didn't want as much hair as I have right now. And you know, no, I just love it. I I really love to bring a show to people that wouldn't normally get to meet all their heroes and try to keep it at a price is reasonable enough that everybody can join us. And I love watching people.

3:38 Just. Fan out, fanboy out and fan girl out. So why sci-fi? Why Trek? Why not Baywatch Convention? Well, that'd be kind of cool. But Trek, I, I love what it stands for. The future stands for possibilities, hope, and what the future should bring. And that's why I went for Star Trek. So when you were young, Stephanie, were you like one day I'm going to make my own convention, or was that something that just happened along your glorious route of professionalism at the librarian? Right. You're a librarian. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, I'm actually going to blame Ken Deep of Long Island, Dr. Who, when I started working with him and and I really had so much fun helping them put together that convention that I was like, you know, what am I doing? I should do my own darn 1 and that's why I'm doing it. All right.

4:28 Hassan, do you have a question for Stephanie? I do. I have a question. How are you finding the engagement with the fans when it comes to the new era of Trek that we're having? It's like so controversial online, but I was wondering if you get a gauge of how the fans are actually interacting with shows like Strange New World and Lower Decks and Discovery. If you have like a boots on the ground experience with their reaction to all of that stuff. It really varies. It's all over there. The people who just love the new things, the people who hate the new things.

5:08 But you know, I have a theory. When Deep Space 9 came out. When Next Gen. came out, Voyager came out, everybody was like, oh, I hate this, this is the worst, this is the worst, this is the worst. But then it stopped for a while and they all were like, well, I really like Star Trek, so they all loved it. And I do think the same thing's going to happen with all the shows that are coming out now. We're going to see slowly in 10 years all these people that are like, oh, I hate this. But yeah, you know what? I actually, I kind of missed Star Trek, and I'm really kind of enjoying this. And I think it's going to change. I agree. Do you think that that's is like some type of cycle that whenever there's anything new, there's going to be that hatred and, and and was it the reject? Yeah, people don't like, you know, for the most part, a lot of people are really scared.

5:51 The change they want to hold on to what made them comfortable. I, I, I think every single person that goes to my show, they play Star Trek in the background of everything they do because it's their comfort food. Now they're going to put on something that they've never heard this episode. They don't know this person. And it's like, look, I don't, that's not what I'm used to. And soon they will be used to. I remember as far back as the reactions to the the motion picture so and they weren't they weren't all favorable. Now the motion picture has its issues, but over the years it has had a complete renaissance of appreciation. But when it first, when that motion picture for and I was, I was a very small kid, but I remember people weren't as happy as everybody anticipated they would be by even our original characters coming back. So yeah, there's definitely there's a there's a period, there is a hiatus and then the period of Renaissance for all the eras.

6:49 I do agree. Did you find it more difficult now because there's such a wide variety of people to get as guests? Or is it just you'll just pick whoever you can afford? I just throw it in a fishbowl and I pull out. Now I try to get, I try to get somebody that represents each series. It's kind of impossible. Next Gen. is the most difficult to get, really. They are really, yeah. They're they're not cheap. They're not cheap. But we we are in talks with some. So hopefully in the future we will have some the Deep Space Nine people, they are so amazing bringing them and they're just so great with the fans are great.

7:32 I'm looking forward to seeing my Starfleet Academy guests. But I think he's going to be pretty excited. I think he's going to be great. But I I think that what would you ask exactly? It went away. The difficulty of picking and choosing your guests. Yeah, I just try to get somebody that is from every kind of level of Star Trek. You want to get somebody from the original series, which is getting harder, harder every year, obviously, and you want some variation and also you want to stick with the theme. So like we try to have a theme each year, just it makes it a little more cohesive for us. So rice is our theme this year. So yeah, we got a couple people that really aren't in the theme, but for the most part, everybody, it has some part of rice.

8:17 So for people who are unaware, what is the theme of rice and Beyond the Pleasure Planet, You're going to have a pleasurable convention. Yes, no, when people think rice that they say the pleasure planet, but pleasure isn't have to necessarily be what you're thinking all of you Pleasure is just anything. People take happiness and pleasure and it could be what you're thinking of or playing chess. It could be anything. So we're we're going to have events that go from Vulcan Pilates, we're going to have events, we have a burlesque show, we have a comedy, we have the cosplay cabaret, we have a luau with the stars. So we have a lot of events going on this year, but we want to try and in gaming, a lot of gaming, but the game map is coming and they're going to sponsor all the gaming and it's just a splash of everything.

9:05 So it feels like right. So when people walk in, it's not just this is the only thing. Everybody gets a horror gun. No, that's not what it is. Do you going to have like like palm trees or something outside I'm. Working on getting some blow up palm trees. There you go. You know, the hotel's big so it's not like I can make it like I'm trying. I'm trying the best I can, so don't judge me people. If you have a palm tree at home, feel free to bring it. So, Brian, we're going to take a quick break. We'll get it for that. We'll be right back with more. You came from the radio. Hi, you've heard my voice. Open and close the show. Now we want to hear your voice. If you have a business or product, you can record a commercial here. We offer 30 and 62nd spots.

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12:42 Now back to our show. And welcome back to what came from the radio deal, Fisher. So the Big Apple Khan, this is your host, Mark Torres, speaking with Mr. Hassan Gawan on the phone. I'm still on the phone. And Miss Stephanie Gangwon of Trek Long Island. Gangon. So it's spelled GANGONE. Everybody says it different. You know it just what you want. I don't care. I don't. It doesn't matter. You spell my name with a Phi mean Hey, let's go for it it. Did and then I realized I messed up and then Facebook wouldn't let me edit the post so I was like, I guess that's just going to be her name. I have that's. My name. I'm just going to judge you, but that's cool. So, Chuck, Long Island, what difficulties have you had putting together a convention? The difficulties are getting people to buy their tickets early, for goodness sake.

13:30 I know it sounds silly, but the outreach, they're reaching out to people. I swear to you, I could promote everywhere on Long Island and people from New Mexico will come. But the people that live in hot pock, they don't know who I am. The hardest part is that is getting like the outreach, finding the people on Long Island. So we're doing all sorts of different things this year. I have a partnership with Discover Long Island this year, so that's helping. Be interviewing with Newsday this year, so that's going to help. So it's really meeting the town people, meeting all these other organizations to help promote. It's not easy. Speaking of not easy, I I am, I am pressed to mention because we like to be fair, that I've seen some things on Facebook that some stuff going on.

14:18 Is everything OK with that? With the? Oh yeah, right now. Oh yeah. Everything's wonderful. You know, there's always drama. There's always people that like to have a little drama. But our friend in Port Jeff is has disappeared, so we're good now. Awesome, awesome. Sonya, have a question for Stephanie. Oh, I want to know what that other question was about. But there was a murderer. No, I'm kidding. Who was Jack the Ripper? But it's Star Trek Deep guys. So I'm a big Trek fan. I'm glad that Mark is here because he's actually he's actually asking you pertinent questions about about the show. And I just hear another Trek person and I have Trek questions. So as you mentioned before about the errors that the hiatus and and then the errors get their own renaissance.

15:06 There's been, there's been a million errors for Star Trek. Is it the, the, the TOS era? There's the TOS movies, there's the TNG era, which includes the S 9 and Voyager and Enterprise. And then and now there's the new Kirkman era. And it seems it feels like that the, the Kirkman era is, is kind of coming to an end or kind of wrapping up to some extent. So of course, most likely we're going to get another Trek era soon because that's just the way the franchise has been. Do you think your personal because there's no right or wrong? I I also have an opinion. Do you think we're going to need a hiatus of no activity for a little while before everyone's ready for a new Trek era?

15:52 Do you think we could just go right into it? We need a break. We need everybody to take in what we have. We need authors to write some fan fiction. We need right we it. It's too much at us at once and everybody needs to catch up. But what they didn't watch, we need to give us five years. I know it sounds feels like a long time, but we need about that much time so we can make sense. Fully appreciate so much what we want. Yeah, we watch it a couple of times because a lot of these shows, Discovery is a good one. A lot of people didn't like it the first time, but you've watched it a second time and then you watch the other shows surrounding it. It's like, oh, OK, I get it, I get it now. People need to watch it all. And then even the video games, some of the video games like, match up with it.

16:37 So we need a little time. And then when it comes back in full force and people have new directors, new actors, new ideas, then I think that it'll be even better. And everybody will hate it and get hated and say it's terrible. And then they'll love it again in 10 years. I completely agree. Thank you. If the shows go off the air, doesn't that hurt? A Star Trek convention? A sci-fi convention? A pop culture convention? Because it's not in the zeitgeist anymore? Or does it actually help? I mean, I would guess it would be easier to get guessed. Oh, that's. True, it's a lot cheaper now. No, I will tell. OK, let's think about this.

17:17 Next Gen. hasn't been on for how long, right? But if I got Patrick Stewart tomorrow, guess what? Everybody's coming. They're coming. So it's really people at Star Trek is different than the normal kinds of shows that people watch that they kind of forget about. This is like, you know, like, OK, I love Stranger Things, but in five years, yeah, they're, they're not all those meet and greets aren't going to be as big. The Star Trek's different. People connect with Star Trek, and they connect with this future, this world. It's totally different. So I'm. Going to it's the conventions that actually kept Star Trek around after the T the the TOF era all the way into the movies, because Star Trek, there have been there have been many years which Star Trek was declared dead and it just wasn't. It was the IT was the fans that were keeping it alive. They always will.

18:07 I'm going to share one of my favorite stories from a Star Trek convention that I was I went to one of the creation conventions back in the day in the city and they had Scotty. And Scotty was very limited on time. And people will ask him, you know, what's your favorite Star Trek movie? What's this? You know, an excellent couple of questions. And he has one final question. And this little girl, probably 6, comes up to the microphone and says, what's your favorite movie? And the whole audience is like, Boo, they all booed this poor little girl because they asked, they already asked that question. And Scott, you know, he had to leave. So the whole New York he had booed her girl, but but he was so nice you. Would remember that that would be. That wouldn't be your favorite moment. I didn't say it was my favorite moment. I.

18:54 Didn't. Boo. I didn't Boo. I was laughing. I was like, Oh my God, that's meaner. Well, I didn't laugh in front of the car was all the way over there. I'm. Out of here. But on the flip side, one of my favorite memories, Hassan is that I was at a convention with Morph Michael Dorn. Michael. Dorn. Yeah. He was on stage and somebody came up to him as he was on stage and they whispered in his ear and he says, oh, you know, there's just, there's such and such in the audience. And the guy was like, yeah, it's me. He goes, your wife is in labor. And everybody was like, yeah, they cheered the guy. And he was like, yeah, he felt like the man. And then he ran out because he had to go into his wife. But in my mind, like the fact, like, yeah, they're celebrating that he had intercourse with his wife and he hasn't a baby. They're like, yes, he's a man.

19:45 Yes, so that's what you think of Wow, not. Commenting on that one at all. So on the same lines of those two stories, do you personally, Stephanie, have a? A memory or something that you're has happened at your convention. Oh my goodness, it's so funny. I have to really dig in there because I am so busy at the show that I rely on all your pictures. So keep them coming, people, because I rely on it. But I mean, just the first year, David Ajala that he was his birthday and everybody kept bringing cakes and singing to him. Oh my God, he's so dreamy. David and Joel and and everything about Doug Jones.

20:25 Everything about Doug Jones is amazing. And right now we're doing we're they're coming his he's not coming to the event, but his agents coming to the event to promote the his autobiography, Get Me Doug Jones Kickstarter starts tomorrow and it it's going to be amazing. He, Doug, is such a great guy and everything about him. It should be celebrated, but he doesn't want it to be. He is so against it. I don't want this, but that's I remember him more than anything. So you're making a convention because you love science fiction, you love Star Trek, you love all the stuff, but you can't enjoy the convention? No, I don't. I just run around. Like a lunatic. That's a terrible idea to. Make a convention. It's just something about it, you know? OK, when you're there and like everybody's going bonkers everywhere and I sit down, I just look around at everybody. I'm like, Oh my goodness, everybody's having so much fun. Everybody's so happy.

21:14 And now it's all worth the fact that I'm broke. I love it. So let's get some important facts down. When's the dates? How much are tickets? What kind of events? What's the headliners? Is there free parking? Is there food? What we? Got hold on, hold on one second. I got put up my thing because I don't remember everything at once. I have a terrible memory. OK, when's the dates? The dates are next month, June 12th through 14th. But just so you know, the the guests aren't there until the Saturday and Sunday. But the Friday we have Con the musical coming. They're going to be there at 3 hours. They're going to do, it's going to be an interview and then it's going to be they can do parts of the play. It's going to be amazing. It's really cool. And then we have karaoke at night of course, and everybody loves that.

21:55 But on the Saturday and Sunday is where everything really begins. So admission for the weekend is $80.00 and then for a day, I think Saturday's 45, Sunday's like 35 or something like that. I'm not terrible. I shouldn't know that, but I do. And then kids, you know, kids under 5 come for free, so just bring them. We have a whole big children's track going on. They can have retro gaming Ozobots for the kids. And it's run by librarians. Suffolk County librarians run it. So yeah, it's really cool. That's really nice. Yeah. Free parking. Free parking. And where is it at? It's at a hotel. It's at the Hyatt Regency hotel in a hot pog and we have food this year. Last we had all this drama with the food, but this year we have food trucks, yay, food trucks.

22:42 So we got a a lemonade stand, we got a meat Patty stand and we have right now a Greek food truck and we're working on one more. And then the hotels should have their own food in their carts and stuff. But you know, we're mad at them. So, you know, buy the, buy, buy the. Greek food support Support the food. Trucks support support the food trucks and for guests. Oh my goodness, I have a lot of guests. Well, give me the the top three. My tops, all of them The. Tops No offense, no offense, everybody else. Yeah, no offense to OK, so we have actually, I'm gonna I'll say the top and then the people that don't normally come out. OK, so we got Nana Visitor. If you don't know who she is, I'm rolling my eyes. It hurts. Jeffrey Combs. He's been at everything. We all know that.

23:23 Celia Rose Gooding, Strange New World and Nicole Dubois coming. Kareem Dayani. I think it's Dayani is how you say his last name. He's the Klingon on Starfleet Academy, so everybody's super excited. I think he's the first small con he's ever been to. He's done the big ones, but getting him was very difficult. Oh my goodness, was it. And I want to mention that the the thing about a small con is that the people will have a better experience with the guests and the interactions and the vendors at a smaller con that they would at a larger convention. Usually they're at the bar afterwards, like after everybody's like at the bar like last year. Terry, Terry Farrell sitting at the bar and everybody's just chilling out. It's totally, totally different. We're not hiding them behind walls unless they want to be hidden but usually don't so.

24:07 I think it's an it's an important thing because throughout the years I've gone to big convention on small conventions and sometimes you see the same people at the different conventions and the interactions are vastly different and the prices are also vastly different. So some places I like to mention that you go to pay hundreds of dollars and you get a 5 second interaction with someone where the smaller convention, the opportunity is less as you just said, and you have more time to be with them. So I always wanted to stress that's an important thing. Is that something that was in the back of your mind? Absolutely. I don't. I don't want to be a gigantic creation convention. I want to stay about where I am, Maybe a little bigger, maybe a little bigger, but not much bigger than this.

24:49 I want people to be able to meet their heroes. I don't want them to be like, oh, there he is by, you know, I want to meet their heroes and get to know them and feel like it was a special point in their lives. Because how many times have you gotten an autograph and then you walk away? You're like, well, that was dumb. You know that was the worst. I I can throw this out because Roland's on Taiwan throughout this quick story. So I've met most of the original series cast and I had most of their autographs, but only George Takei was the one who personalized each and every single autograph, and we didn't even ask for it. This was back in the day. He's a great man. And it was so nice that he would, you know, personalize. And we didn't expect that, but like, oh, my God, I didn't know that was a thing. Yeah.

25:31 Almost at a time. So, final thought, Stephanie. Final thought is you should all come to the convention and hang out with us and it's going to be amazing. It's three days. Bring everybody, bring the kids, bring the tribbles, bring no, don't bring the tribbles. We don't have room for that. But come, come, come Trek longisland.com, come to us. Hang out with us. Hassan, final thought. All Trek is good Trek. Go to Trek Long Island and celebrate your love of this enduring franchise with fellow fans. So that is it for this portion of the show, everybody listening to us on the air. We'll see you next time. For everybody else, stay tuned for more. It came from the radio. Hi, I'm Olivia Yonkers from Star Trek Picard, and you're listening to It Came from the Radio. Now back to our show.

26:17 And welcome back to It Came From the Radio, the official show, the Big Apple Con. This is your host, Mark Torres speaking. I had originally planned to do a more tutorial for this little segment, but instead I have to run across a brand new movie that I saw and I feel that this is a good time to talk about it and give it a review. The movie is called Master of the Universe. Yes, so I saw that and I was like, oh he man. But I realized within 2 seconds it is an Asylum film. An Asylum film, as I've mentioned many times on the show, it's an unapologetic company, independent film company that blatantly makes RIP off movies as best of a possible movies that are coming out. And I remember when I was working with Blockbuster Video Whale back in the day, they used to have movies that were similar to entitled to whatever movie was coming out. And according to interviews, that was on purpose. So that way when people were looking through the Blockbuster aisle of the aisles, they would see something like, oh, this looks like that, and they would get in. So that pretty much tells you what you're going into in this movie.

27:31 Now, on top of that, I want to say that there was a line in this movie that is exceptional and probably my favorite line of the year so far in any movie I've seen or any form of entertainment I've seen for 2026. And basically it was four people in the cast. They were on a spaceship. And the pilot tells the other person sitting in the navigator chair, hey, you're in a navigator chair, can you navigate? And the guy responds without any type of sarcasm or anything or straight line, he goes, I don't know what any of this says, does or means. And that's the type of movie you're going to get. So I'm watching this movie and as I've mentioned many times on the show, I don't like to watch trailers unless I'm on the fence of something to watch it.

28:22 Otherwise I'm just going to watch the movie because I know I'm going to watch it. So I see a movie called Master of the Universe by Asylum. I'm like, yeah, I got to see this. So the movie itself looks like it's made for a dollar. Now I understand low budget films, I understand how difficult it is to make an independent film. But good God they had one set and probably a green screen set and it just looked like it was this random building that they found that doesn't look anything like any type of futuristic or a castle. It just looked like some some abandoned warehouse barely or like a school or something that was just happened. They just find it but in the best possible way.

29:05 This movie could have easily have been made in the 80s and it was made serious and it feels like what they would call a cult classic where this is something that was just so bad. It was good. And as I mentioned, very bad CGI, very low budget, had a very painfully limited cast. Like you can tell they had like 8 guys which once again they committed to it. So that's what made it entertaining. The beginning, The beginning movie is pretty straightforward. The bad guys like I want to destroy this planet and that's it. However, the logic is just out the window. It has very 80s and 70s logic as if you know what I'm talking about when you're listening to the watching a sci-fi film and also on top of it, it's because it's called Master the universe.

29:56 You would think there's some type of he man or some type of connection to anything closely related to the Master of the Universe toy line or the franchise or the movie that's coming out. But no, this movie could have easily been Star Wars RIP off or even a Rebel Moon RIP off, which goes to say a lot if you remember what Rebel Moon is, which was a passed on Star Wars treatment by Zack Snyder and and that was that was bad in a bad way. This movie was bad in a good way, Although it's it's really easy. Like there is the brother sister connection. I mean, there's there's not really spoilers in this type of movie.

30:41 It's just the bad guys coming. The good guys want to want to fight them. That's it. It's nothing, nothing that's even spoiler world like you just going to watch this movie for what it is. If you know what it is you're going into it, you're going to have a grand old time and that's what I did. He doesn't even have a sword. There's no sword of power. Why isn't he man? No sword. If you look at the cover box, he has a sword, no sword. In the movie, he does have a weapon. It's an axe but no sword and it's not even remotely close to any type masses universe connection. But I said except for the brother sister thing which like I said could have easily been a Star Wars reference or real moon revolt, whatever. Overall the dialogue was really bad. The acting was really bad, but it felt but it didn't feel like a student film which has been a problem for a lot of independent films that it looked like it was made cheaply. This movie looks like it was made on the cheap, but kind of purposefully, if that makes any sense. Like there's a difference between when you see a low budget film that doesn't look like a low budget film and you see a low budget film that looks like it was two guys, that first movie out of high school, low budget type of film. So this looked like a really cheesy, bad 80s film that you could just watch and laugh at and enjoy. And it was just great.

32:12 And I will mention it one last time, the fact that he goes, I don't know what any of the says does or means. It's so beautifully delivered. This is a great entertaining film. So I think you guys said go check it out if you're a fan of, I guess low budget RIP off the Teemo version of the movie. But I said it wasn't even a massive universe Teemo version. It was just a really bad sci-fi 80s film that happened to be called Mass of the Universe for obvious reasons. So if you're going to where you see the trailer, don't even bother watching the trailer. I say just go for it if this is your type of thing, just going for it full throttle into this movie.

32:57 Don't even try to to make any kind of sense of it because as you know, I like to pick movies apart. This movie doesn't even try. It doesn't even try to make sense. It's just people appear, people editing is just all over the place. People go from one place to the other. I mean, the the Man of Steel did that. So that's has nothing to do with how low budget the film is. It's just that hilariously bad. And it's not plan 9 from outer space bad. It's not that far, but this one is. It's pretty good for that type of movie. Like I said, if you know what you're getting into, it's it's it's a good fun film. You know, they say turn off your brain and I don't like that.

33:41 But then but because of the other types of movies that they're expecting you to try to make sense of, trying to make it a big thing and I make it a big spectacle, but not this movie. This movie unapologetically, as I said before, it's just a really sloppy, cheesy 80s throwback sci-fi film that was made for a dollar. So I think you should go watch it. I enjoyed it. It will not make the honorable mentions of good or bad because it's so good. It's bad, but it's it's it's in there. Something that you guys should check out 100%. So with that, we're going to take another break and we'll be right back with more.

34:23 It came from the radio. This is Michael Bell, the voice of Duke from GI Joe, and I am here at Cradlecom and I am with It came from the radio. Now back to our show. Born in 1977, Chris Siva is currently a Rochester, NY based producer who's produced over 65 films Holy moly, including Blood Fart Lake 3 in the documentary Mulva Demon Ass Kicker which I just saw. It was one of my top three movie watching experiences and my other two are Borat and 300. So you can take or leave what it from that. Wellsville Nights. There's Taint Light, which I didn't see, but I imagine it's like a spoof of Twilight based on the cover. The description is when a young girl falls for an ancient vampire with great hair.

35:12 They must fend off another group of blood suckers and the werewolf who desires her. He's created the Warlock Home Video Network, which is quite a feat with a bit of a cult following. He has some rabid fans and one YouTube comments are on one YouTube video, The Making of Crapster piece Terror at Blood Fart Lake wrote in Terror at Blood Fart Lake makes my genitalia explode, so welcome Chris Eaver. Hello. Thanks for having me. Thank you for being here. So you've done a lot of work. I have a lot of I have at least 60 movies to watch because I've only seen, I think, 2:00. But let's get into it. So even though you've created over 65 films, in another interview you claim to only like about 16. So what makes you like or dislike one of your films? You know, it can be a, a, any manner of things, but due to the nature of how I shoot my films, which is very fast, you know, two to three days, you know, I think our longest shoot was 4 1/2.

36:22 But so due to the nature of it, there's always something going wrong. Nothing is ever 100%. You know, again, because of the nature of how fast we shoot, I have to RIP things out that I might not have wanted to RIP out. But we are losing time. We're, you know, irritability sets in and things got to go. So that can contribute to my overall feel of the film.

37:04 You know, sometimes I'll say, hey, there's some good things in there, but overall I think just as a a flick that coalesces into something, it just doesn't work for me. There's also the you know you're sometimes you're making a movie for the wrong reasons. Well, maybe like renting a girl or having friends. No, no, like. I'm just. Kidding. Just for rent, you know. Got you. It's and I don't like that. No, me either. You know, I'm thrown into a situation where that kind of happened often where I was like, oh, crap.

37:50 Like, you know, I don't really want to turn this into anything, but boy do I need to pay some bills. Gotcha, gotcha. And I don't like working like that. I definitely, you know, the last like 10-15 years, I've gotten better with that and just saying no. So that can totally like, you know, there's there's flicks that we've done where we deliberately are making it or poop making it poop even more so than the knowledge of us making a, a, a crappy movie.

38:31 So we will put the effort in to make it even worse just because we don't want to do it. That's funny. And while some fans think that stuff is quote UN quote the best or, you know, even more hilarious than the stuff we like care about, which I can understand. For us as a group, I think it's just like, OK, that was a stinker. And we tried to let everybody know that this is a stinker. So that can it's that variety of things where I'm just like, oof, this didn't work out and I'd rather. Think about it.

39:16 So quick question with deviate from my question list. So if you're kind of trying to make a movie in three days, 40s, which is pretty much my format for everything going forward, like one day, 2 day, three days, let's get it done. You know, as a girl, my hair is it changes if you work on a film for a year. I might gain 20 lbs in a year. But anyway, so have you ever dealt with an actor that couldn't get their lines on and then that's going. That alone has happened to me. It's made a short film Go one extra day and cost 1000 some extra dollars 'cause my costar couldn't get the lines right. Ever happened? No, no, like I mean, so you know, I, I, I have asked, I've been asked this question before and I always go to the 27 take.

40:07 So we did it. We were doing a flick called called Moist Fury. And our actor, Billy Garbarina, and he knows this, that we we've talked about it forever, but I wrote a line in the script that he just could not stop laughing. It like took him off guard. And we did 27 takes before before he just stopped laughing. That's wild. But I was so I could have said, you know what, we're just going to throw it out and not have that in there. But it was my fault. I said, no, I want this line.

40:51 This is a funny line. It's staying in there, so I don't care how long it takes. But I've never had like to, you know, if if it got to a situation And believe me, you know, I write like ridiculous monologues for people. And sometimes they just are just like, oof, I can't get through this. Then I'll just, I'll cut it in half, you know. So as much as the other line where I'm like, oh, it's got to stay in. I can not be precious with my dialogue as well. And I can say, you know what, I liked it. But if, if, if you're struggling with it, then let's just cut half of it and just get what you can, you know all.

41:36 Right. Well, Speaking of cutting, so I'm sure you've heard this, you know, a lot of people in the film business know about Mel Brooks. And supposedly he claimed that he was pulled aside pretty forcefully, given notes by a Warner Brothers producer. And the notes were no fasting, no fasting, no punching a horse, take it out. No hitting an old lady, take it out the N word. You can't say that word when Mel Brooks basically said IF he took all the notes, he'd end up with a 12 minute movie. So I crumped up the notes and he threw them in the trash. So what are maybe some critiques you've received that you ignored and said, I'm not listening to you, I'm going to do whatever I want And and then also, how did it go? I mean the good thing about what I do, I mean it's so it's micro budget stuff.

42:23 So even the producers, most of the producers that I've worked for are pretty decent as far as like saying yay or nay, you know, they don't even read my scripts, you know, So it's actually more the, the, the people that I work with that will say, hey, are we really going to do this? You know? Yeah. And sometimes I will say, OK, if if you're not comfortable with this, then it's then it's gone, you know, or if that particular person doesn't want to say those lines, then somebody else will do it. But I've never had to, you know, and I think there's a good portion of the flicks that we've done early on where it was a lot of, you know, I've talked about this before, but being seduced by the idea of, of shock value and, you know, being under the tutelage of Lloyd Kaufman for a good portion for 10 years, oh, ten years all.

43:40 Right. Working with trauma, not like working for trauma, but them doing stuff for my films and me doing stuff for their films. You know, Lloyd really was like a proponent for pushing the limit. So there's a, there's a large swath of my flicks that have stuff that I would not do today and I and things that I wouldn't even say today. Really. Oh yeah, Lloyd supported them. Lloyd pushing them because Lloyd was like, people are going to remember. Yeah. Stuff that shocks them more than not. Yeah. So I took that to heart and there's a lot of that in a huge portion of the earlier stuff that's funny that to us, we maybe not necessarily felt like we were saying or doing anything wrong because we were like, Oh no, this is outsider cinema.

44:34 We are pushing the limit. We are, you know, like we're Troma, John Waters, we're right. All of that squashed together. Let's just go have fun and damned the consequences, you know? Yeah, yeah. No, I love working with Lloyd. He's a lot of fun. Like tied him up. I rescued him in a movie. That's on Troma now and it will be out, I think on Amazon to be and all this stuff. You'll see it. It's pretty awesome. And he was great. He was a good sport. You know, we tied him up and made a lot of fun with Lloyd. Yeah, he was great. OK, all right, so moving on. So now the the main reason I wanted to interview now, we did a little promo for Wellsville Nights, which I think is amazing. And quick aside, I've told Heat this, I've told Bob Hackman this, I've told a handful of people this because this is really weird. Something that's happened to me many times where I think was sent me a clip of Clifford and it was Martin Short. He plays like a 7 year old or 11 year old. And I watched and I was like, this is this is the best thing ever.

45:31 You know, I was reminded that and I was just obsessively thinking for maybe one or two hours right in this living room, how I have to play the child, you know, 40 year old, I have to play child. And and then I think within one or two hours, I get a message and a script from Bob Heckman asking me to play a high schooler. So I guess before we go into Mulva, which really was like, all right, I got to interview Chris now tell us a bit about Wellsville Knights. That's such a cool concept, and it's a concept I had in my head. And then the script landed and it was like already created. Look at that. So Wellsville Knights, some people might think it's dead, but it's not. You know, for lots, of, many, many, many years, I always wanted to make a a parody of 80s teen soap operas. They were ridiculously melodramatic, you know, played straight and in a lot of cases outside of Degrassi, because what the Canadians were doing with Degrassi Junior High, that was some real stuff.

46:41 They were tackling some real stuff. But over here, you know, some of the things that these teens were were, you know, whining and complaining about on these soap operas, these high school soap operas were ridiculous. And I always found that hilarious. You know, and, you know, growing up in the 80s, I, I didn't really watch those shows, but my sister did. And so I found them very funny. I mean, this is not like Saved by the Belt because that is a comedy. That was a that was a comedy show. I'm talking more like like Degrassi Junior High. There was there were shows called 15.

47:23 There were shows called Swans Crossing, you know, there were there were these and then to a more greater extent, something like 9 O 21-O. But so I always wanted to poke fun at shows like that. And I was like, man, this would be my bread and butter because I, I, you know, I love absurd comedy and, but I couldn't just do it straight. I, I love the horror genre so much. So I have to put some elements. And, you know, there's Dark Shadows from the 60s. That was a primetime soap opera, very melodramatic. The props were terrible.

48:04 If something fell in the background, then it was capped because it was shot live, you know, that type of thing. I loved that aspect. So I wanted to meld an 80s high school drama with Dark Shadows or Buffy or something like that and play it straight, but shoot it all the way. That it was shot back in the 80s on tape with harsh, ugly lighting. You know, keep the dialogue of the time, but my dialogue ridiculous. Everything is played straight, but it's so stupid and pushed to, you know? The it's really fun to 11.

48:47 It's really fun. Yeah, definitely. That's all I'm watching it. Yeah, Wellsville night. So we finally, during the pandemic, I finally wrote the pilot and then we wrote the 1st 8 episodes of the first season. All during that we created the pitch deck, all of that stuff. And we, and we were able to shoot the pilot in 2022. And then we've had terrible luck trying to raise, raise enough money to make the rest of the episodes. We were close but but I'm not going to let it go because everyone loves it and we had such a fun time doing it so.

49:28 Yeah, I wished for it before it landed in my e-mail. I mean, I was like, I'm hoping I'm can somebody cast me to play this and here you are. All right. So moving on. So something else I really loved. Loved, loved. Loved like fanatic, loved like crazy lunatic, loved. Went to the theater. I don't love that everything, but it doesn't matter what I love. I love stuff that people hate and I like. I hate stuff people love. I don't like Star Wars, so it doesn't really matter what I think, but I love Caddyshack and a lot of people love it, but who cares? Anyway, on to the next question. So you just premiered, I think last week. Wildly, wildly fun movie. It's definitely one of my top three and it's called Mova Demon Kicker. So if you could just tell us a bit about that, it was so fun. Thank you.

50:12 I'm glad you had a good time. So in the year 2000 we shot a movie called Mulva zombie ass kicker on Long Island with a bunch of fans who were fans of my my garbage. That's not that much. And with their collaboration, we shot and traumas Trauma was a Co producer on it, Doug Sackman, who worked, who was head of production at trauma. He he Co produced the movie. And so we shot this, you know, this shot on video little thing that was really meant for conventions only, you know, on VHS to sell at conventions.

51:04 But ultimately ended up getting national distribution through Tempe Entertainment. Thanks to Debbie Rashawn, who was on a set. She's in the she's in the original movie. She was shooting a movie for Full Moon with Jr. Bookwalter in Ohio. She she basically passed the movie around and said you guys got to see this and Jr. was like, this is great. Do you have distribution? I was like, no. So anyway, Long story short, because of that movie, when, you know, in 2000 we got national distribution and A and a large swath of people were able to finally like see the garbage that we were doing on a much larger scale than just friends and family. You know, the previous ten years of me making movies was. And so sometime in early 2023, Jr. came back to me and we were just kind of throwing around the idea of what if, what if we did a new Malva that paid homage to those fans and those first films that, you know, got us on the map, but did it with what we do now, sort of the the group that we have now, the tech that we have now.

52:26 What would it look like? How different would I make it? And that intrigued me, you know, that idea of sort of going back like that and, and putting a new spin on it. And then Mulva demon ass kicker was was born. And there's winks and nods to the first two Mulva movies that are in there. We did a movie called Filthy Mcnasty, which is now celebrating 25 years. We did four of those movies. But those that those original Mulvas and the Filthy Mcnasty's are really the two that sort of like gained us a fan base back then.

53:06 And so Maul the demon kicker is a big sort of sloppy wet kiss to those fans, but also anyone new that wants to discover sort of our type of stupid. Absolutely check it out. You know, you're someone that I've more than anyone, maybe more than myself. You say your work is it's shit, it's poop, it's stupid, but I think it's one of the most entertaining, creative, well done thing ever. So anyway, moving on to we have like a minute and a half, two minutes left. So if you can answer this question and then also give us your socials where to find you. Kind of a long answer and weird way to close out, but you said in a different interview that basically you'll decide to keep a scene in or what to put in the movie because if it makes you laugh, then it stays. So I guess ironically, and you know, totally opposite, I just finished acting and also Co producing a 47 minute film. Took me about a year with the exact opposite role. I laughed at one line the writer chose. So I my role is basically helping this guy bring his movie to light.

54:11 So it, you know, whatever his vision is. I made the location, I made it happen. I, you know, tried to follow along and not manhandle it. So I laughed at one line and then he took it out. I said no, keep it, it you know, I laugh at everything. It's it's a great line. So I watched the final cut and the line is out because he wants no laughter. That's not no laughter, no laughter, no laughter. No, no, no. If it makes you laugh, I don't want it. So I don't. All I really care is about making stuff that's informative, makes you think health, and then I used to teach health and then stuff that is funny. So what would you do on a set like this where there's no laughter allowed in the film? I mean, I wouldn't be there. No, you wouldn't.

54:52 Do it. I wouldn't be there, you know. What if you signed on and then you found that out, which is what happened to me? I mean, I I'd probably quit. I'd probably quit. That's somebody else's job. Yeah. Like, I don't want to make something serious. There's enough. There's enough of that out there. I make receiver movies and imovies are dumb and they're silly and they're stupid and they are created to just make people laugh. That's it. And they do. I have smile. Yeah, I have no nothing behind them other than to like entertain in that way. And yeah, there's, you know, my stuff is you either hate it or you'll love it.

55:34 You can either get bored with the stupidity or you're just like, man, this stuff is terrible and I cannot get on board so. But that's, Oh well, you know, like. Oh well, yeah. Then it's not for you. Yeah. Yeah, I've been. Lucky for everybody, you're for everybody, You're for nobody. I've been lucky enough to, you know, not only make movies for me and my friends to laugh at, but there's a nice, you know, group of people out in the world who find this stuff as silly as we do. And, and that's great. That's a that's a cherry on top. So Speaking of that, close out gives your final thought and where we can find you all listeners where to watch your movie, see Demon's Kicker, see Wellsville Nights, see it.

56:18 Yeah, yeah. So we have a YouTube page, it's called a Crep from the 80s. You can go there. That has a lot of lot of stuff about my movie making, but also my passion and love for the 80s decade. It was my favorite decade. I lived it, I loved it and I want to go back. You can go to Instagram and that's Warlock home Video. Facebook is Christopher J Seaver or Warlock Home Video Network, and that's where all of our info is as far as like what we're doing production wise. If you want to find my movies, you can get them through Amazon, you can get them through SRS Cinema, you can get them through Make Flicks. They're streaming on most of the streaming services. Mulva Demon.

57:03 But Kicker is finally coming out on physical media. It's I mean, it's out there now. Finally. It's doing a small theatrical run. We've. Got Florida coming up, we've got Gettysburg coming up, we've got Philadelphia coming up and you know all the streaming sites and whatnot that's it's going to be getting a lot of those sites coming up. So there you go. Chris Seaver, That's the end of our interview. So now we're going to close out and get back to Mark Torres for more. It came from the radio. You had any honor, you would listen to sci-fi dot radio, the sci-fi for your Wi-Fi Kapla.

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