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#74. From Theater to Film: Cassandra Hesseltine’s Journey in Humboldt County
Step into the enchanting world where Hollywood meets the redwoods with Cassandra Hesseltine, the passionate force behind the Humboldt Del Norte Film Commission. This enlightening conversation reveals how a theater enthusiast with a heart for helping troubled youth transformed into the guardian of Northern California's cinematic legacy.
Cassandra shares her remarkable journey from creating her own college degree in theater therapy to accidentally landing her dream job as Film Commissioner. With warmth and humor, she explains how this role perfectly merges her love for storytelling with her desire to strengthen her community. The economic ripple effect is undeniable—every dollar spent by production companies generates nearly three dollars circulating through the local economy before departing.
Did you know the iconic Ewok scenes from Return of the Jedi were filmed exclusively in Humboldt and Del Norte counties? This Star Wars connection inspired the annual Forest Moon Festival, where fans can walk the same forest paths where speeder bikes once raced. Cassandra's creativity doesn't stop there—she's developed a film location app, established a Museum of Cinema showcasing movie props, and hosts a glamorous Oscar night celebration that honors local film contributors.
Beyond the economic impact, Cassandra reveals the profound joy of bringing cinematic magic to her community. Whether it's Leonardo DiCaprio running down an Arcata on-ramp in a bathrobe or Stormtroopers posing with redwoods, these moments create lasting memories while putting Humboldt County firmly on Hollywood's radar.
Ready to explore the surprising film history of Northern California? Download the Redwood Coast Film Experience app and discover where ET, Jurassic Park, and countless other productions captured the region's natural splendor. The redwoods are calling—and they have quite a story to tell.
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Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, Scott Hammond and the 100% Humboldt podcast with my newest best friend, Cassandra Hazeltine.
Speaker 2:Hi Cassandra.
Speaker 1:Hi, how's it going? Good, how are you? I'm well. Who are you? How did you.
Speaker 2:That's the question, isn't it the eternal question that we all ask ourselves, right?
Speaker 1:I hate to say somebody said recently hey, what do you do? And it's like not the right question who are you and how did you get to Humboldt and tell us the Cassandra story? And what are your duties? First of all, what's your role in the county?
Speaker 2:So my role in the county my title is Humboldt Del Norte Film Commissioner, so I am the liaison between productions that come here to film and or even productions that start up here, and the area that I represent, so it's just two counties. I'm also vice president of the film liaisons in California statewide oh wow.
Speaker 1:On the state level. That's cool. Tell us where you grew up who were you growing up? Oh wow, on the state level, that's cool. Tell us, where'd you grow up? Who were you growing up?
Speaker 2:Oh yes. Well, it's no surprise that I work in film because I very early gravitated towards TV and film and acting and wanted to be an actor. Went into theater first, down in Orange County, it was very exciting. Born in LA, raised in Orange County mostly what part of Orange County, it was very exciting. Born in LA, raised in Orange County, mostly what part of Orange County, a couple of different parts, but primarily Westminster, okay, by Huntington. And then I came here to go to college thinking that I would fulfill my parents' dreams of being science or doing, you know, scientific stuff or be, a doctor like most people right.
Speaker 1:Who didn't?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I love astronomy, I love psychology, I love environmental studies, I love all those things. But at the time, you know, I realized, no, my true passion was, you know, theater and film. I ended up actually getting a degree at Humboldt, back then State, and that's when you could create your degree, kind of your emphasis with it. So it was using theater as a form of therapy with youth at risk.
Speaker 1:So did you write your own major Mm-hmm. You're the second guest in two weeks. Griff Griffith wrote his own.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:At Chico State. I think, yeah, I almost did that myself.
Speaker 2:Was it complicated to write your own major no, because it was mostly psychology classes, but it was about equivalent to what a minor would be in theater. And so when I took a directing class it was with the idea that if I was directing two youth minors in a scene and how to pull the emotional out of it, you know theater and psychology go hand in hand. You know the studying of the individual, but also you know finding yourself within the character. So it wasn't too terrible. And then I got a minor in computer programming as well.
Speaker 1:Wow Okay, a humbled state, yeah, liberal arts. Class of 82 as well. Wow Okay, humboldt State, yeah, liberal arts.
Speaker 2:Class of 82. Ah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:My kids go. Did you major in recess? I go kinda, but minors in theater and in business and rec and in PE, so it was not a bad liberal arts education yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And look what's happened to me. Now I'm doing this with you, so hey, fun, there you go. So what's your role then, as the film commissioner here in Humboldt?
Speaker 2:Well, like I said, I'm the liaison, so we do? We focus on a few different things. The primary job is to focus on marketing the region to film productions and to the film world. It used to be Hollywood, right, but it's no longer that. And then, once they're here, we're the boots on the ground and then, after they leave, we focus on film tourism. So that's why we've created a lot of new projects, like a map of the movies and then an app that has the map of the movies in it, as well as the Forest Moon Festival and the Museum of Cinema that we have in front of our office.
Speaker 1:Gosh, let's talk about all of it. Great. How about a core story? I want to know more about you. Then we'll go to Leo DiCaprio coming to town or something. Were you here for Jim Carrey?
Speaker 2:and everybody In college. I'm not that old, I'm younger than you are? How about outbreak? This interview's over.
Speaker 1:That's it, scott, you're done.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's funny. You'll never work in this town again, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't think I do already. So you graduated Westminster High School.
Speaker 2:La Quinta.
Speaker 1:La Quinta in Westminster. Correct, did insurance school on Bristol and Irvine. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, for a year State Farm guy, okay, drank lots of red Kool-Aid. Oh yeah, I like Orange County. Is OC inappropriate no we call it the. Oc. So yeah, my friend Jim from San Diego where. I'm from, Because it's like calling it Frisco. You'd never do that. I go the OC dude, Come on.
Speaker 2:People do. I don't know. I mean people do. Now that area's blown up completely, right yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, nice weather though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't know what weather was until I moved out of Orange County.
Speaker 1:Right, it was always 75. There's one weather.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's one. It's sunny and 75. Right, I don't understand. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Night and morning, low clouds and fog, clearing after noon. And then there was magical 75. Always All year long. San Diego, yeah yeah, same thing. So what brought you to Humboldt? So was it the major?
Speaker 2:Yeah, college Environmental studies is what I thought I was going to do for about six months. That, or oceanography Didn't last long. Ocean major yeah.
Speaker 1:Didn't work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I loved it, loved it, but it's a hobby. Those things are all hobbies, right?
Speaker 1:Yes, not the brightest crayon in the box, ah, maybe one of the broken ones, but even the broken ones still can color. Learned that today at lunch. I thought well, metaphor city man.
Speaker 2:Come on, baby Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what did you do after college?
Speaker 2:What did I do? Let's see. Well, I worked at a teen center. I did do theater and worked at the Boys and Girls Club house as well as the teen center here, and I did work with Youth at Risk. I also worked with some children that had got out of juvenile hall and were in a program, a theater program. So I actually used my major it was pretty exciting yeah.
Speaker 2:But then I got married and started my own family and you know, working with youth at risk is a special. It's a special place that you have to go to to be able to handle. I was trained in suicide intervention so I was the one that the kids came to for that. Or if they were really, you know, had traumatized experiences. You know, usually if a kid's in juvenile hall there's a lot of things going on in the home life that isn't great, a lot of things going on in the home life that isn't great.
Speaker 2:And so when you're doing theater and you're wanting to pull those stories out of them and help them give a voice, you're hearing a lot that's really intense in a short amount of time. So when I went to go start my own family, it became really apparent that I couldn't handle the heartaches at that point. I had done years of it, had a couple kids actually unfortunately murdered. I had done years of it, had a couple of kids actually unfortunately murdered and ended up going OK, well, I, as much as I love giving and trying to help, I knew it was really hard to to have a little baby and be doing both the people who can Wow.
Speaker 2:Because, it's, it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like you a lot more already, it's cool. Oh, you help broken kids. I did I. I like you a lot more already, it's cool.
Speaker 2:Aw, you helped Broken Kids, I did I love Broken Kids. And I'm still actually friends with several that I knew back then, which is really exciting. You know like we follow each other on Facebook and comment, and you know, when I run into them in town and to see them grow up now and have their own families Right, it's, yeah, pretty special that.
Speaker 1:Liz. It's, yeah, pretty special. That's really cool. So were you full-time at the Boys and Girls Club? I was, that's kind of where I think I might remember you. Yeah, I was a programmer when Liz was there back in the day.
Speaker 2:Liz was. I was there when Liz was just running the front counter. This was well before she became. This was way back. Yeah, that was when she first like, started working there as a teenager.
Speaker 1:I was there A hundred years ago.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're in trouble now. Watch it.
Speaker 1:Mr Gingham Okay, and hair no hair, yeah, voted prettiest hair at Sweetwater High School.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:National City, california, goes Sioux High. Oh, class of 78. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Everybody else is getting voted.
Speaker 2:I was five when that happened.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Now we're even. Okay, you'll never work on this topic. I like that line, I'll use that one too. Yeah, everybody else is most likely to succeed. And the smartest, the most magical, I had the most magical hair, and you know. Then, kids, drugs time.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Life.
Speaker 1:Life, life. I like your capacity inference because it's hard to do, you know, to maybe be a full-time nurse and to do kids and to do other things you know and to be aware enough to go hey, I need to adjust this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it was hard. The second one, especially the young girl, the boy that I had worked with, that was murdered. It was brutal and dealing with, you know, kids who are suicidal and all of that and all the traumas. But it was the second one that really got me and I was, I think, about six months pregnant and I went I can't go back, I can't do this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was too emotionally hard for me at that point. But I would love to at some point be able to go back again, and I feel that part of me that likes to give back just is doing it in a different way now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's cool. Maybe who knows what's possible? Yeah, we have a special needs son Gabriel. When he was born it was easy to be at Shriners and UC Davis Medical, and since the visit's back just for fun, it's impossible. I don't even want to be close to that place Because you had grace for the moment. Yeah, and now there's a new season and it just reminds me of trauma and craziness and the grace to get through it all. Yeah, so had kids, then what?
Speaker 2:Let me think you asked the hard questions. That was a long time ago.
Speaker 2:Could have been that long what did I do, you know, ran some businesses with the father of the children and had a couple of kids, went to LA, got into film Thought I was going to do it in acting, fell in love with being behind the camera. It was the year 2000 and someone said I'll put you in my movie if you help. It was a little indie when digital cameras are coming out and hey, why don't you? You know, uh, help me with like some casting and organizing my movie and I'll put you in it. And the next thing I know I was first ad producer, you know, running the set.
Speaker 2:I made the strip board of the um of. You know each scene and how you're going to shoot it and all of that stuff and like organize the whole thing. And because I could organize really well from had already been a programmer at the Boys and Girls and having a business at that point already once and it, it, it just came naturally and I loved it. What I loved about that part was it used my left brain, it used all that skill sets that I had the computer programming minor, all of that stuff came alive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all my nerdy side. And what I found is, even though I was from down there and I always wanted to work in storytelling, I didn't want to have to be a size zero, I didn't want to have to have a nose job no-transcript I went well. If I ever act in front of the camera, so be it. But I'm an actor on stage, which is more the pure art of acting and storytelling, and went into producing and shortly after living down there, 9-11 happens. I've got a four-year-old, I haven't had the second kid yet, and we decide that we're going to move back to Humboldt. Because I'm like I started producing in the Bay Area and I'm like why live in LA if I'm producing in the Bay Area? So we moved back to Humboldt, you know, built a house, had a second kid and started working in film up here again, you know, and helping cast and working on productions where they were here, and then I still would produce out of the area, and so it was kind of a hodgepodge of what I did. And then started teaching acting actually as well and started working with Redwood Curtain Theater, which I had gone to college with them. So it was amazing to rekindle with them and start doing the love part of theater and I started directing then as well.
Speaker 2:So acting directing in theater and then behind the scenes in film, until one day came where I walked off a shoot, a TV show, episode of television show that we were filming down in the Bay Area. I came home, been home just a couple of days, was exhausted, and the film commission called me and said well, we know you use film commissioners, we know you understand the job. Would you fill in for a couple weeks? We just lost our film commissioner. Wow, that was in October of 2010. And then they said oh, wait a minute, we probably can't hire one during the holidays, would you do it for a couple months? And then they took me to a bar. Kid, you not, it's just true story.
Speaker 1:Of course they did.
Speaker 2:And then they kept handing me drinks and they and I set the office up and everything Cause it wasn't. It was all in boxes, it was. Nothing was set up. They were about to build a new website and, like nothing, it was like starting a brand new entity, but with 30 years of history. It was very bizarre, and so I set it up for someone else and not knowing who that was. And then I said are you trying to do? You keep buying me drinks because you're trying to get me to keep the job. These board members are long past, so this is not my current board, not you guys, I can tell this, not you.
Speaker 2:And this was 15 years ago, and they said, yeah, and I went, ok, stop, I'll just take the job. Because then I realized I can work on bigger, better productions and live here. And my kids were little and live in Humboldt. And I mean, oh my gosh, that's amazing, because what I was doing was, you know, pretty independent and feature films and episodic television show that wasn't, you know, saturday night at 8 pm. That's like a bad slot, you know. So, all right, working my way up, but this felt like it was a win win, you know. And then, yeah, I just fell in love with it. I really quickly realized it was more than just getting to do film, it was giving back to my community. So it was all of a sudden bringing back that part of me that wanted to work with youth and helping my community got to merge with film because recognizing the outside dollars that came into the area, Win, win, win win.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, and the jobs to creation, and people talking about in winter when they walk outside and Leonardo DiCaprio is running in a bathrobe on the on-ramp in Arcata and the joy that they feel, you know. Or the Force Moon Festival, jedis, you know, walking around and stormtroopers and people who can't afford to go to Disneyland. But now we brought Disneyland to them. So it's now. I get warm and fuzzy about that, about merging my two realities of helping people as well as, you know, helping my community, but I also get to do it in the genre that I love gosh, you get a job.
Speaker 1:You'll never have to work because you got your dream job.
Speaker 2:Usually, sometimes mostly yes.
Speaker 1:Everybody that says that probably doesn't really work Exactly. So yeah, gosh, I don't know where to launch from this. It's like so, matt St Charles, you know? Matt and Rick, yeah, of course, yeah. And then Ray DeSoto and his brother Malcolm.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, of course, yeah. And then Ray DeSoto and his brother Malcolm.
Speaker 1:The DeSoto brothers, yeah, and.
Speaker 2:Jonathan. Jonathan also is part of that group.
Speaker 1:Okay, have you done production with those guys?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, of course, yeah.
Speaker 1:Redwood Curtain Theater. Is that on First Street?
Speaker 2:It was.
Speaker 1:And it's closed.
Speaker 2:Now We've actually the company still exists. We now are housed with NCRT. We now are housed with NCRT.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So they've renamed their theater to the D Street 5th and D Street Theater, which we greatly appreciate, and they've taken us in. Oh, so both NCRT and Redwood Curtain Theater are now housed in the same, in the same one Playhouse.
Speaker 1:Which is a downtown, eureka, where I use my prop Right over here in Eureka, which is in California. Yes, it is Right over there, humboldt Bay, north of San Francisco. It rains a lot. You don't want to live here, but you can come and spend money and see other things Anyway, wow, where did that come from?
Speaker 2:Yes, so I'm directing a play now and it opens next Friday, so I'm very excited.
Speaker 1:Really what's?
Speaker 2:it called.
Speaker 1:Is it a nasty word?
Speaker 2:Oh, am I allowed to say a cuss word?
Speaker 1:Of course.
Speaker 2:Okay, so this is the full title. Good luck. It's called POTUS, or. Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. Whoa, it's a Broadway play.
Speaker 1:That's a long one, you wrote it.
Speaker 2:It's a Broadway play. It's a Broadway play.
Speaker 1:It's a Broadway play. Well, you could have wrote it if it went to Broadway.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's a real play. It was a real play done on Broadway. It was written about three or four years ago. Yeah, I can't remember the exact time. I should know that. Any famous local actors? Yes, actually Scott Q Marcus.
Speaker 1:It's seven women.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's all women. They think that they've killed POTUS and so it's a farce. It's very funny until it's not. There's a few moments that are pretty, you know. Poignant Is Carol Lang in this.
Speaker 1:No, she's not, you know, carol.
Speaker 2:I do, yeah, yeah, no. Cynthia Martell, who actually was nominated for a Tony on Broadway and has been in tons of TV shows and movies, including ER, and she's in it. She plays Flotus, and you know. There's Chris Joris, who is one of the original founders of Redwood Curtin. She's also in it. Caroline McFarlane, who's done a lot of NCRT and a lot of theater in the area. She's in it as well. There's so yeah, seven really talented actresses that are in it Cool.
Speaker 1:When is it open?
Speaker 2:Next Friday, March 14th.
Speaker 1:Tickets can be found where. Go ahead and call it out Sure at.
Speaker 2:NCRT North Coast Repertory Theatre's website, AdamLuttshireUpTherecom, and then obviously RedwoodCritinTheatreLieferorg. Again, I should know these things. I didn't realize I was going to be saying that.
Speaker 1:You know what my kids always say? You could Google it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, hello, just Google it 100% Humboldt, Scott Hammond, Google it. Yes.
Speaker 1:NCRT Google it.
Speaker 2:Or Redwood Curtin Theater, google it.
Speaker 1:Cassandra Heseltine. Anyway H Hazeltine, anyway Hazeltine. We'll get Hazeltine Gosh Messed it up, oh well.
Speaker 2:It's not even my name, so it doesn't matter, that's okay.
Speaker 1:It is. I should just go by Cassandra For the moment it is.
Speaker 2:You know why? Because I was going to go back to Roberts, but there's like 15 Cassandra Roberts on IMDb and only one work. I have kept this last name, that makes sense.
Speaker 1:I like it, so tell us about the festival. The Endor Moon, the moon.
Speaker 2:Forest Moon Festival Of Endor.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's at the Skywalk right.
Speaker 2:It's all over. Actually, it's all over the place. So it is. The idea came up about 10, 12 years ago where we were realizing, when we were making a map of the movies that filmed in both counties, that Star Wars, return of the Jedi, had filmed in both Humboldt and Del Norte, and we were like, wow, that's pretty cool, let's start there.
Speaker 1:So where were those filmed exactly? Sure.
Speaker 2:So in Humboldt County, on Highway 36, there is a grove, my favorite grove out of all the groves, cheatham Grove. It's beautiful, and that is where they shot the speeder chase scene. So where they're doing on the speeder chase and they're going and there's a tree and they go underneath it.
Speaker 1:I was imagining that was Smith River or Jed Smith, nope.
Speaker 2:Nope, nope, it was there and actually it was just a guy wearing a harness with a camera, wearing a harness with a camera, and it was the first time they had. I believe I'm picturing Star Wars fans listening to this now and they're going to like, wreck me with my facts, but it was the first time that I believe that they were able to speed it up or something like that, run it at a certain way, so that's how they get that fast pace like it's moving Because really they're shooting the actors on a green screen screen.
Speaker 2:they weren't bringing those speeders out there and doing all of that, right um but the guy in the camera runs through, and then um and so it's done.
Speaker 2:Very well, it's done very well, for back then it was very exciting. And then the second part, the endor village with all the ewoks, which I had no idea they were crazy and eat stormtroopers. I thought they were nice, cute, cuddly little things. Um, oh, they eat them. Yes, they, you didn't know that. Yeah, they filmed on private property, as well as Jed Smith for that and what they knew. When they were filming on the private property, they had requested it and they said, yeah, sure, go ahead, you can film on the private property because we're about to cut down these trees. And so that, unfortunately for us where the Ewok Village actually was Gone, that unfortunately for us where the Ewok village actually was Gone, it was yeah, and that was already going to be the deal.
Speaker 1:Did they cut down the Ewoks too? I just Sorry. Oh my God Wait. Fiction and truth, yeah, yes, ok.
Speaker 2:So we can get near the site, but the actual village doesn't exist, but we could still celebrate it and nowhere else did they film the film sites of Endor. So we are the only place in the world that can claim that.
Speaker 1:So it's pretty exciting. So now we have this festival. How does that? What is that? Yeah, what's that about?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, when we decided we should celebrate that fact that we had such an important part of film history in one of the biggest series, then we said, well, what if we do like a little festival, we could show Return of the Jedi, we in one of the biggest series. Then we said, well, what if we do like a little festival, we could show Return of the Jedi, we could have some booths, we could have some Star Troopers. And it just started from there and we did a May the 4th event four years ago and it was fun. You know, it was all at Sequoia Park in Eureka with the zoo, and we brought in Kevin Thompson who actually played an Ewok in the movie.
Speaker 1:I remember this, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we had some costumers and some games and we showed the movie and it was just really fun.
Speaker 1:Are you going to say why May the 4th is important?
Speaker 2:May the 4th be with you. Oh there, you said the word, but we actually Nick rarely smiles, he's smiling yeah we moved it from that. It's not true you smile. We moved it from that date because, in order to actually be able to get celebrities or to get out of town customers, we can't actually do it on the same date that everybody in the rest of the world celebrates this so we moved it to a weekend that actually has a low in hotels for us that way also, if it became big you had enough hotels to accommodate people coming from out of town.
Speaker 1:Not Humboldt graduation weekend.
Speaker 2:Correct. It's been in between graduations, in between Mother's Day and Father's Day, it's in between all of those things. So it's actually the first weekend after Memorial every year.
Speaker 1:After Okay, perfect, yeah, and that brings people to town.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and both in Humboldt and Del Norte, because activities happen all over. There's activities up in Crescent City and throughout Del Norte as well, and the same down here in Humboldt.
Speaker 1:Love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we put a schedule together. There's a whole team that works on this, you know, and it's amazing, and a lot of out-of-town costumers who are volunteers that show up in film quality costumes per Lucasfilm and they have to be approved and they come and spend their money and are sweethearts, entertain the guests.
Speaker 1:Why would you go to a Trekkie convention when you can do this?
Speaker 2:Well, the feedback we've gotten from a lot of people is usually it's in a convention center and ours is half the time, most of the time outside. Half of it's free, you know non-ticketed, and it's near the Redwoods, and then you can go near a film site. So they're like this is magic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's pretty exciting. Take a picture with an Ewok by a Redwood. Yes, come on, I know that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Wow, I'm on Endor right. That's cool With an Ewok. Here we are. I love that, so it's at the Skywalk as well.
Speaker 2:Yes, we do do activities there at the zoo and we go on the Skywalk. Yeah, every year they've been part of it and we've been. City of Eureka has been amazing and the zoo and the rec department that helps us out with that Jim from there's, Jim from the zoo and Jim from the rec department and both of out with that, there's Jim from the zoo and Jim from the rec department and both of them Everybody's been amazing.
Speaker 1:We're going to have Jim from the zoo on the show.
Speaker 2:Ah, yeah, he's great. Supposed to be a great guy, yeah.
Speaker 1:We just missed, but we'll hit that. So film, commissioner, promotes the region, supports filmmakers. It's permit facilitation, I, it's permit facilitation.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's got to be like this replete, crazy project management thing, right? Yes, Well, you know, when we first took the job, we didn't do, we don't, we didn't issue any permits. There's 15 jurisdictions and agencies that do and we have to know who they are, what their needs are, what they require, what area they represent, and then we introduce the filmmaker to them and then try to help do any mediation. For instance, in Del Norte, one time I had a producer, accidentally, when she was pulling a permit from Rhodes in Del Norte, asking for to do a avalanche on a road. She's like I just want to close one lane.
Speaker 2:A car pulls up, sees a dead body and an avalanche happens. And Rhodes said, no, I don't understand, why aren't they letting me do this? And so we got on a three way call and and I had her describe it and I could hear the fear in the you know liaison from Rhodes, from the county, and I said, excuse me, wait, producer, um, are you actually going to show that avalanche? No, it's just a sound. We hear a sound cue that we hear off camera and one rock goes across and then Rhodes goes oh, I pictured you really doing an avalanche and I was just like no, it's movie magic. So I was able to talk filmies, you know, with people who don't know anything to do with film and help translate that. And film people sometimes forget these people don't know what. You know what they're actually saying and how to translate it to a permit.
Speaker 1:Way to liaise. Thank you, I like it. Kind of negotiation it is. It is, I love it.
Speaker 2:Actually, that is what happens. I worked on a Kirsten Dunst movie and we sat at a table about this big and there was, you know, half of it was rangers with guns and the other half was all film people. Everybody was with guns and the other half was all film people and everybody was staring at me. I sat in the middle and they were like here we go. Yeah, they, they wanted to film in a state park in july when it was really popular and they wanted to close it down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the rangers weren't having it, so I was getting like a no, yes, and I said I was like oh, and. So I used my improv, as a good actress does, and I said, uh, well, what would you allow them?
Speaker 1:and and the ranger and your salesperson voice.
Speaker 2:The ranger looked at me and that was my mom's voice. Well, maybe salesperson, but the ranger looked at me.
Speaker 1:Same. Thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and he goes. Oh, he was so like. He was like dang it Got him. Yeah, because.
Speaker 1:What could you do here?
Speaker 2:Instead of saying yes, say yes. In a question that's yes or no, it was like well then, this is what they want to do. Where would you allow it? Within the park? Would work for you.
Speaker 1:What's possible and I found out.
Speaker 2:After doing that, I now basically get a yes anytime because I'm asking. I always ask them for their input instead of saying, well, this film wants to do this, and then they put a wall up and say no, now they're more open to it. So so we started off doing it like that with entities permit agencies. We are now the ones that permit for the county. We just recently took that over, in July. So we actually handled the county permit and we are actually working on updating it as well as creating an incentive package that goes with that. Cool.
Speaker 2:But you know, during COVID, nobody could pull a permit without going through our office. So, even though we weren't the ones to execute the permit, both health departments Humboldt and Del Norte said, well, in order for anybody to come in, you have to follow the state's white paper of filming with COVID in in during COVID times in the state. And then we had to be the gatekeeper the state and then we had to be the gatekeeper. So we had to have a whole protocol and checklist and nobody could pull a permit anywhere without us saying it was okay for them to do that. Feel the power. Yes, it was terrifying. I didn't want that. I could have slept at night.
Speaker 1:So I want to hear all the names and all the movie stars. But before we do that, if you're just joining us, I'm here, scott Hammond with 100% Humboldt. If you're just joining us, I'm here, scott Hammond with 100% Humboldt. Podcast with my new best friend, cassandra Hazeltine, who is the film commissioner liaison.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:So is it three words.
Speaker 2:No, just two. It's Humboldt Del Norte film. Commissioner, thank you. You're welcome, appreciate that You're welcome.
Speaker 1:So I love the fact that this is kind of the dream job, because this is a win-win-win-win-win. It brings it all in. We all win when people come from Ford Motor Company and film something in Shelter Cove or on some cliff somewhere. It brings money to the county right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, yeah, love that.
Speaker 1:So walk me through one that did that, where it was the win-win-win-win-win. I don't know, leo or whoever like a production or a commercial or something happened. That was a cool thing for the county.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, they all are cool in the sense of when they come, they do bring in outside dollars, right, and for every dollar they spend it really feels more like $2.95. So it's about $3. So if they spend a million it's like $3 million before the money leaves the area.
Speaker 1:It's a good conversion.
Speaker 2:That's a really amazing, you know, stimulus to the economy. It's temporary jobs, whether it's casting, catering, driving. You know there's all of that part. There is the emotional component of being part of something like Return of the Jedi part. There is the emotional component of being part of something like Return of the Jedi.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of people still alive and living in Crescent City that remember what it was like to have them there filming and now they get to celebrate for 40 years plus of being part of this huge legacy. So there's the quality of life that it brings. They know now that film tourism does that. But just even being part of the original filming and being part of the community that gets to, you know, celebrate that and brag about that bragging rights, right. So there's so much that every single project does that, whether it is a car, commercial, reality TV, indie, feature film, studio film.
Speaker 2:They've, all you know, had their impact differently and you know we are very careful. You know I'm sure someone listening might say well, what about had an accident? You know, had something go wrong? They did have to clean it up, they did have to fix it and nothing major happened that I'm aware of. So I would say that most production, especially around 2000,. Green became a popular word in Hollywood and so they they want their productions to be green and not destroy the environment. And state parks have told me that actually less happens when a production films there than when regular tourists. They actually trample and leave trash worse than a production does usually.
Speaker 2:So, not to say we don't have our anomalies, but for the most part I do feel really good about how they treat the community and come in.
Speaker 1:So my comment is it would be minuscule compared to logging or growers that have raped the lands over the last decades or centuries. I mean it's got to be minuscule and we clean it up.
Speaker 2:Sure what I? Can you get fined if you don't? There's a lot to it. So my guess, without seeing you know stats in front of me and knowing you know case by case studies, my educated guess would be sure I want to guess yes, yeah, yeah I mean I don't want to talk bad about another industry, and especially not having you know all of that in front of me. I try to, you know, but sure I brought it forward.
Speaker 1:Growers, you've raped things, loggers, you've done the same, make it right. So some people are doing that and God bless them. Moving on yeah, thanks, scott. Where did that come from? Dude, tell me about the storefront thing, tell me all about it, because I got to go check that out. The museum yeah, the museum.
Speaker 2:The Museum of Cinema. So we started getting products from people like not products, what am I saying? Props from people like the boat from Swiss Army man with Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe. It's a sailboat that Paul Dano gets marooned on an island with and he's used it for shelter. It shows up in the movie maybe a minute, probably less, but the boat was hauled down to the beach, you know, and brought back and all that. And so one of my interns at the time thought maybe the film commission would want the boat. So it was donated to us. So it's this sailboat, that's about the size of this table. And then we got another boat. We got the smaller. It was cut in half, it was part of the boat from Bird Box with Sandra Bullock. And, yeah, now we have a fake log from a Jesse Eisenberg movie that looks like a real redwood but it's not. And so we and we got, you know, cannabis from the Woodshock, the Kirsten Dunst movie. Fake cannabis, it's really oregano or whatever. And yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1:We have fake cannabis in a museum.
Speaker 2:We do, I know, yeah, isn't that weird.
Speaker 1:There's dispensaries all around you where you can go see the real thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but this is called Art Scott.
Speaker 1:This is art.
Speaker 2:So, which I failed to mention, that how I really probably partially got into this industry is my Uncle Don. My great Uncle Don was a famous set designer, art director he worked for, worked for Norman Lear and did all the TV shows 70s and 80s. So who's the Boss? Three's Company, jefferson.
Speaker 1:Mary.
Speaker 2:Hartman, I don't know, let me see. Wait, who's the Boss? Three's Company, jefferson's? One Day at a Time, all in the Family.
Speaker 1:Those are huge.
Speaker 2:I have his first sketch of the All in the Family chair yeah, all of those Married with Children. I went Probably I was like 17 when I was there.
Speaker 1:Studios are not all in Hollywood. Proper right? No, no More like Burbank.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah I mean they're all over. I used to live by Sony, which is by Culver City. Yeah, so MGM used to be the old MGM.
Speaker 1:So that's Burbank flight on a Velo. Do you go there? It is.
Speaker 2:It is. I do that or I go to LAX for my parents, but either way have you been back since the fires? No, I was there right before the fires, like the week before.
Speaker 1:Oh crazy.
Speaker 2:But I am probably going to go down in April. Yeah, yeah, but actually my brother's house slash, dad's house burned down.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Where was that? That was the Altadena one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rad Sad.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So does the museum cost, can you just oh, no Donation, we're back there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you switched gears on me.
Speaker 1:Sorry, Break break the museum is?
Speaker 2:No, it's free, it's a donation. And right now we're doing a women in film exhibit, which is time leaf, because march, I believe uh is the the women month. Is that? Is that true? Yes and uh. And we also have some of the key pieces that are too big to put away, so those are in the entrance and then you can take a picture on the red carpet, and then we have the exhibit wow and we have a little store. And then we have the exhibit Wow and we have a little store. And then we're behind that, we have like fake walls.
Speaker 2:Yes, currently we're trying to get some move back to our desks in real offices and expand the museum. So if we have any people who want to help us out with that, please, you know how do we get a hold of you guys there.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, oh sure, call it out. Yes, there is, oh sure Call it out?
Speaker 2:Yes, there is. We have our website, which basically Google. Scott, you could just Google.
Speaker 1:Oh, you could Google.
Speaker 2:Humboldt Film Commission Humboldt Del Norte Film Commission. You could Google Del Norte Film, any of those combos, or you can find us at hdnfcorg, which is Humboldt Del Norte Film Commission dot org. Or.
Speaker 1:Google it. Can we liaise there when? We get there sorry, that's I mean kind of cute.
Speaker 2:We're on facebook, we're on instagram, we have a youtube channel. We are currently not on tiktok and that's no political reasons or anything.
Speaker 2:We're just not on, tiktok it just you know we're two and a half people and it's very time consuming to do. We have have an app, we have the museum, we have the map, we have the Forest Moon Festival. We just did a red carpet gala. We do red carpet events when movies come out that filmed in the area. We have six interns and we help productions when they're inquiries and calling and I'm vice president of all the film commissioners in California.
Speaker 1:So two and a half people do all that, so we don't have nothing going on.
Speaker 2:We don't do, we don't have time for TikTok.
Speaker 1:Forget TikTok. There's more things happening, so the app and the map talk about that for a second. So is that? I don't know if that is tell me? Is that we go around and look at old film sites, the?
Speaker 2:app is called the Redwood Coast Film Experience app and basically it's all things that we do that somebody might be interested in for film experience. So when you open it up it takes you to you can go to the Forest Moon Festival and find out what's going on with that Right now. If you go to the map I mean if you go to the app it's last year's content because we're just about to switch that over to this year's content, but it does have the updated map right now. So the map takes you to. It's a self-guided interactive map where you can go and see where production's filmed. Read a little blurb about it. We have the IMDb link, the trailer link, the poster, all of that so you can go see in Humboldt and Delmar counties. And then there's the museum part on the app which lets you know current exhibits. You can book an appointment, tells you our times and, yeah, that's got it all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a film experience.
Speaker 1:So imagine that. So the map is that the map where I could go to see where so-and-so, such-and-so is filmed, Correct?
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 1:Ferndale.
Speaker 2:Yes, like Outbreak, if you wanted to know where it was filmed and know more information about it, you look on the map and you find it. We also added restaurants and hotels that are near there, so if you wanted to know where can I stay I love that movie so much I want to know, you know. So we were trying to help build the economy in another way, that we are promoting the area. I love that, that's really cool yeah, so I love that.
Speaker 1:That's really cool, so it's all. I love it. Synergistic is the word I was thinking, yeah.
Speaker 2:You can find the Redwood Coast Film Experience app both for Android and the iPhone. And again, you know, we two and a half people, so we're constantly trying to catch up on the updating of the things. Hey, I just got it on my phone. Oh, look at that, that was so quick.
Speaker 1:That's quick. Wow, how'd you do that?
Speaker 2:Google.
Speaker 1:Google. Oh, look at that, that was so quick, that was quick. Wow, how did you do that, google? Oh geez, oh geez. So let's go back to your Sunday night Oscar event that you did last Sunday.
Speaker 2:Red Carpet Gala. How many?
Speaker 1:of those have you done? I mean, how many have been done? Ten plus, that's a big deal, right? Yeah, how'd this one go?
Speaker 2:Because I know it rained yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it did really well.
Speaker 1:I wanted to go, really bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you should have came.
Speaker 1:I was in my jammies and Could have came in your jammies.
Speaker 2:I think we've actually had someone come in their jammies before. No that's. Winco. Oh Well, they won't be a sponsor, will they?
Speaker 1:3 am. My bad, I got him confused. No, I didn't.
Speaker 2:Well, this is too much fun, so did it all go well? Oh yeah, I forgot what we were talking about.
Speaker 1:What's the event? Yeah, break, break, so we're back to your gala. So what is it all about? So somebody wanted to go next year. Yeah, oscar night.
Speaker 2:First part that happens is you get to walk the red carpet. We have a professional photographer. People dress either down to the nines or they show up. We have people show up in whatever's convenient. We've actually had that. People also have showed up. Last year we had someone dress up as Barbie. It was fantastic. Astronaut Barbie, it was amazing. We've had people show up as characters. Then, when you come in, it's the Art Deco, historical Eureka Theater and they've been doing a lot to refurbish it and it's really getting fancy and fun. It's cool.
Speaker 1:You guys are sort of involved in that a little bit too.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm on the board.
Speaker 1:You're on the board Is Greg still on the board.
Speaker 2:Greg is president. He's rocking it. Yeah, greg Foster, hey, greg, shout out to Greg Foster. Yes, what's up, foster? So then we have this year. What we did is we have the downstairs lobby where you can purchase your drinks and we give away free popcorn. And then in the theater there is tables that you can purchase for VIP and with a security board, and get some service bar service, or there is also a buffet style table that comes with any tickets. And then there was cocktail tables around so that you could either sit or stand around at the cocktail tables. And then we opened up upstairs lobby. This is the first time we've ever done that. I had a bartender up there and then we actually had the secret, hidden door open to the apartment. There's a three bedroom, really cool apartment that's up there and we had a piano player up there, the Academy Awards playing up there. The secret door, the secret door Sounds like a movie.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, they have VIB tickets for that. Downstairs we also showcase all the trophies for the people who won the community awards. So we do film-friendly community awards, so we do film friendly community awards. And on the screen during commercial breaks we either have our LA trio playing some beautiful music or and or we show videos of who won the awards in the community for helping us be film friendly for the past year's worth of filming.
Speaker 1:We know that's a lot of commercial breaks, so you actually air the entire Oscar show. Do I have that?
Speaker 2:right.
Speaker 1:Yes, OK so that's a four hour, three and a half four hour.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's a long. It's a long event. It is a production, yeah, so so the, the tickets are all for the, the, the party version, and then we air the show per ABC as a free bonus 25 bucks to show up.
Speaker 1:That's like that's a bargain.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is the bargain we wanted to make it sure that it was, you know, approachable by, you know, college students make it a little bit more, you know. Yeah, easier to access, and then the VIP were more like $45. Wow.
Speaker 1:Still a bargain.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Less than a concert.
Speaker 2:I agree, I concur.
Speaker 1:You're concurring now.
Speaker 2:I concur. Well, I go to a lot of concerts and my concert seats can be expensive Really, especially if it's Depeche Mode.
Speaker 1:So let's go with the concert talk. Oh good, Because it's on.
Speaker 2:Now I'm happy.
Speaker 1:So Jodi and I go to the Brit Festival up in Jacksonville, oregon. Oh Less 10 years. Okay, we've seen Jackson Browne, the Decembrists. We've seen Stephen Stills, judy Collins magical she's got 80 years old, she still has the pipes. Ooh, australian Pink Floyd. I'm just going to drop names, but I'll tell you about another show in a minute. So, actually for actors, we've seen Keanu Reeves and Dogstar, his band.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Didn't say two words.
Speaker 2:Oh, he apologized to me for cussing by accident in front of me. He was so sweet, he's a sweetheart. Yeah, he's so nice.
Speaker 1:Saw Johnny Depp in a band called the Hollywood Vampires. Oh, really good, alice Cooper. I have a Johnny Depp story. And who's the guitar? Yeah, I want to hear it. Who's the guitar player for Aerosmith, joe? Ah, anyway, these guys are wonderful. Alice Cooper told all the stories about the not the Troubadour, the other bar where John Lennon and Harry Nilsson and Keith Moon drank themselves to death. Oh, just the lore of rock and roll in Hollywood. And he got sober 45 years ago, so he's doing fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, Anyway tell us about your rock and roll pedigree. Who have you seen? Who's good Depeche Mode?
Speaker 2:I'm a Depeche Mode fanatic, so I saw them five times this last year, wow, and I even went to Budapest to see them and it was utterly amazing. I had second row, third row, fifth row, I can't remember what other tenth row.
Speaker 1:In Budapest and then the which is in Budapest, in Hungary.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hungary, so we stayed.
Speaker 1:You actually flew to Hungary to go see them.
Speaker 2:I did. Now, in all fairness to me, a really good friend lives there and I went to the studio, the Budapest studio, as well as met some other filmmakers at some events. So it was a film friend visit and they happened to be playing. And they just happened to be there.
Speaker 1:Weird right. I know it was amazing how much receipts.
Speaker 2:I don't remember it was like in Budapest dollars. I forget what it is.
Speaker 1:Right, which is pretty affordable, I understand. It's actually yeah If you're going to go to.
Speaker 2:Europe.
Speaker 1:Hungary and Croatia are supposed to be amazing.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I ended up going to Vienna and Budapest and it was utterly amazing.
Speaker 1:Vienna would be cool.
Speaker 2:God, it's incredible.
Speaker 1:The gem of Europe, or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's incredible, but I did get to see Depeche Mode then, yes, so I'm a huge 80s fan. Obviously, I like other, like house and contemporary music, and I like all kinds of music. Who have you seen that?
Speaker 1:you really liked.
Speaker 2:That was memorable. Fluent Mac Cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Fluent Mac the original lineup.
Speaker 2:Yeah, about five, six years ago somewhere in there they got back together. I've seen Stevie Nicks, I think two or three times now. I just saw her, like last year I saw New Order, pet Shop Boys, duran, Duran, the Cure, the Cure is really good. The Cure would be cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're definitely an 80s girl.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and then oh yeah, oh yeah. Who else did I see?
Speaker 1:The.
Speaker 2:Doobie Brothers, the Doobies Cool they are so good, they're great.
Speaker 1:They used to have Michael McDonald for a couple of records.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but just regular Doobie Brothers. Oh, they're great, I'd love to see it so good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, doobies are cool. Yeah, how about the Stones.
Speaker 2:No, I've never seen them.
Speaker 1:Now there's a production, yeah, production, but they are. Yeah, yeah, the stones would be fun I will.
Speaker 2:I want to see, um, like I'm into other music now, like more like house djs, and that would be more my modern style. Now I mean I go to burning man, so oh, burning, that tells us a lot. Burning man, well, tell us more what happens at burning man stays at burning man that's what duane flatbow said yeah, yeah, yeah, I see him every year.
Speaker 1:What a nice guy, I know, I love him, sweet him. Yeah, yeah, I see him every year.
Speaker 2:What a nice guy, I know I love him, him and the guys I see them all every year there.
Speaker 1:They're cool guys. Yeah, no, he's, he's really funny.
Speaker 2:I'm mayor of the astronomy camp. I hang out with people who, like, worked at CERN or helped take the first picture of a black hole or, you know, worked on the James Webb telescope and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Wait, wait over at Burning man.
Speaker 2:These people all in their day job and we all camp together and I'm mayor of that camp.
Speaker 1:That's cool. Do you guys have telescopes and stuff?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we have a big dome and we bring out telescopes and we show people, you know, planets and then we have a solar scope too, so we can show the sun and we do talks. And these people are like I think there's something like 14 PhDs at the camp Whoa.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nerd Central, that'd be fun, it's super rad. Yeah, that sounds like really fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I throw Space Pants, space Dance.
Speaker 1:Tell us Well, I can't leave that one alone.
Speaker 2:Tell us more you have to wear Space Pants Pants that have space on them.
Speaker 1:Okay, Space pants space dance. Are they like aluminum foil-ish?
Speaker 2:Whatever you want.
Speaker 1:So they could just be space jammies.
Speaker 2:Whatever you want.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's Burning man, I guess, is what everything goes. Yeah, never been to one. There you go.
Speaker 2:There's all kinds of camps.
Speaker 1:Could I go? Nick fit right in, scott. Have fun. Knock yourself out, dude. And then they burn the burning man at the end.
Speaker 2:Yes, they burn the man. He's the man. Yes, they burn the man and the temple. My favorite is the temple. So the temple is this beautiful building. It's always incredible art piece and they burn that the day after and that's where, up until they burn it, you can go in there and leave a little memorial, you can write a name, you could do a picture. People leave flowers, they leave items and it's so spiritual of anything, yeah, cats, dogs, your people that you know, whatever, and usually you know, anytime I've gone, there's always been a couple hundred people that are in there any time of the day, that are sometimes meditating, singing, crying, you know, just going around, feeling it. You know. It is an incredible experience I've never heard of this.
Speaker 1:This is cool.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the temple is incredible. So then when that burns, so you know when the that burns, so you know when the man burns it's kind of a party. But the next day, when the temple burns, everybody's quiet and you sit around the perimeter, it's a whole different experience. And one year, a couple of years ago, a guy brought his cello and just started playing it while this thing was burning down and everybody's hearts are in there. It's so incredibly epic. Yeah, it's an experience, definitely. Yeah, and like that, it's an experience, definitely yeah, and Burning man, you know, people say, oh, it's this or it's that. You know? A, if you've never been shut up. B, it is what you want it to be, that's you know. If you want it to be a party, that's what it is. If you want it to be art and community, then that's what it is. I like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's cool, yeah, and we just go over the border to Brit, which is really fun. It's like three and a half hours.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And they get top grade A everything. Yeah, steve Martin to back in the day, willie Nelson played there.
Speaker 2:Oh, I saw Willie's free concert, wasn't that great.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Back when he owed taxes. Never see a free concert.
Speaker 1:Really Free shows. Yeah, I remember growing up in San Diego. Kgb radio used to do a free concert at the stadium. It was fun, yeah. So let's talk movies real quick before we talk about your legacy. And oh, let's do the quiz show. Sorry, got ahead of myself. What is happening? Quiz show, are you?
Speaker 2:having a stroke, I'm okay.
Speaker 1:Just a little ADD. Look squirrel, oh where. So, cassandra, for all the money, you get a whole day in Humboldt to do whatever the heck you want. Unlimited budget Starts at nine, ends at nine. 12 hours Go, what do you do? Buy everybody everything that they need.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's a great answer everybody ever you said in humboldt so buy everybody everything that they need. Okay, so we right, so that everybody would be taken care of and you would be a provider for 12 hours, yeah, easy like it that'd be the first five minutes the logistics would be tough.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, no Visa cards.
Speaker 2:I just got an A 99.91%, by the way, in project managing at MIT, Really yeah.
Speaker 1:Like remote.
Speaker 2:Yeah, online course at night.
Speaker 1:So you can get shit done. Yeah, oh nice, and you're 99, point what 99.91.
Speaker 2:I forgot to comment on someone else's thing and so I got two points deducted. I would have got 100% I couldn't believe it, that people actually didn't get Other people. You know, like if 12 points was the score, the highest you could get, other people actually got six on an assignment. They show you and I couldn't comprehend that.
Speaker 1:It seemed easy.
Speaker 2:It was easy enough. You could do all the things it seemed easy.
Speaker 1:It was easy enough. You could do all the things Project manage.
Speaker 2:Wow, I love that Project manage, my project manage class.
Speaker 1:Break it down and do it, yeah. Question number two Break this one down, ready, okay?
Speaker 2:Favorite cup of coffee. Where do you go?
Speaker 1:My house, Can't say your house, you can say anything you want. You said provide for all the needs in 12 hours.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I said my house. I actually do you realize that I used to own a coffee house? I didn't know that I had Black Lightning Motorcycle Cafe? Oh, yeah, so my favorite cup of coffee used to be there. Where was that? At F and 5th, not, yeah, 5th and F? F, but it sounds like f and fifth. Like I'm saying it, f and fifth. Oh, yeah, yeah, so, um, I had that for five years there, um with my former partner and I. That was my favorite coffee, um. But so my house, uh, but there's, you know, all the coffee houses are good around here. They're good. Yeah, we're next. We're by old town coffee and chocolates, a couple doors down there's. They're always fun to go down, they're delicious. Yeah, there's plenty of amazing coffee around here. They are good. Yeah, we're next. We're by Old Town Coffee and Chocolates, a couple doors down.
Speaker 1:They're always fun to go down to. They're delicious yeah.
Speaker 2:There's plenty of amazing coffee houses. Here's a tough one, oh.
Speaker 1:Number three, for all the money, I'm scared. Lunch in Old Town when do you go?
Speaker 2:You're evil. I have evil in me. I'm trying to get rid of it. I don't actually I bring my own food, but if I go for a work lunch, I mean, you know all the places are good around there. One of my favorite, though I'm a sucker for the orchid Thai, or Thai orchid, the green curry.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's not an old town, but I love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2:I'm a sucker for it. Yeah, that's delicious, I, but I love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's good. I'm a sucker for it. Yeah, that's delicious. I'll be out there. That's good. Okay, well, you win the prize, I'll get here. Let me just get it to you right now. Ready Coffee.
Speaker 2:Oh, I didn't even see that.
Speaker 1:Brought to you by Dutch Brothers.
Speaker 2:The subliminal message that I did not see On every corner of Medford Oregon. I will tell you my dad loves Dutch Brothers. Every time he comes here, this is where he likes to go.
Speaker 1:Here's the deal with Dutch. There's three of them in Humboldt. The cool thing about this is there's one in Santa Rosa. You know what the biggest deal at all of Santa Rosa is? Y'all, because it's like a demand, I have a Santa Rosa trip, so I'll save it for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 1:It's a trip, so there you go. It's right on the highway. I'll save it for that. Yeah, you can do that. So, yeah, winner, winner, chicken Dinner. So real quick but real slow because we have a little bit of time. Yeah, tell me, let's arc some of the films that have and the filming that's been done here and drop names and do the fun stuff, because I think people would like to hear. By the way, this is my friend Cassandra, with the Humboldt Del Norte Film Commission. We'll get it right. Yeah, google it, google it. Yeah. So tell me more about some of the stories. So, chris Farley was here before he died, filmed up on Trinity, somewhere in some movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we don't really talk about the movie. The movie's not that PC it wasn't that great a movie.
Speaker 1:Okay Okay, it has a name. What's the name?
Speaker 2:I can't remember right now.
Speaker 1:I like put that one in the back of the brain, so it's not a great movie.
Speaker 2:Well, it's not that it's not a great movie, it's just not what we would consider appropriate anymore. It's a couple of white guys doing comedy through a Native American area. It's kind of not Crazy stuff, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, moving on, exactly. Let's move on to Outbreak.
Speaker 2:Please, please, use this subject.
Speaker 1:Let's do Birddale, where we're breaking out in deadly pandemic diseases.
Speaker 2:Ah, the anniversary was I think it was the 25th anniversary was during the pandemic. It was a good time. Literally, march of 2020 was like a big anniversary and we couldn't advertise that because we were like, oh, look at, this would have been perfect. Life imitating art, right, yeah, it was amazing. I read that at the time, but all of those I want to remind you happened before me, right.
Speaker 1:Yes, let's talk about those, but we'll get to yours.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm just making sure.
Speaker 1:I can't tell you stories. No, because you're only like 35 or 36.
Speaker 2:19.
Speaker 1:Depeche Mode. How old are those guys now? They must. Young, yeah, very young. You watch your tongue. It was the walkers that gave it away. Sorry, so you'll never work here again, scott. Yes, so we had Outbreak. Our neighbor Larry was an extra in that he was a cop that dressed up in a uniform. Dustin Hoffman starred yes, what else Jim Carrey was in that one? The Majestic, right Majestic. Yes, so Ferndale was scoring a couple of big flicks back then they did Go. Ferndale hey, we love Ferndale.
Speaker 2:Yeah, del Norte had.
Speaker 1:ET. That's, how was ET up there?
Speaker 2:All the tree stuff yeah, because the houses were down in LA, but all the tree and you think about the treescape and the bicycle.
Speaker 1:That's got to be somewhere.
Speaker 2:That was Del Norte.
Speaker 1:That ain't Burbank or Pisces.
Speaker 2:Right, right, exactly. So, yeah, we got that. We had Johnny Depp's Dead man. Hmm, yep, very artsy movie that took place on the Klamath River.
Speaker 1:He was up here for a bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, as we mentioned, we had Return of the Jedi. We've had.
Speaker 1:Jezebel's Kiss. Jurassic Park oh yeah, Jurassic Park At Sumeg Park, formerly known as Patrick's Point State Park.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and actually the biggest part was Fern Canyon, so where they brought a dinosaur going down in.
Speaker 1:Fern.
Speaker 2:Canyon. So that was exciting. And then let's see what else did we have. That was exciting. Well, our first movie was in 1916 and that starred Helen Holmes and she was a pioneer back then. She's actually in our current museum exhibit of the woman in film and she was married to the director, so she didn't direct it, but she did all her own stunts, including running on the top of the train and like with guns a-blazing, and she was saving men. There's a picture of her saving a guy tied to a railroad tracks, when normally it was the other way around.
Speaker 1:Was she local or did they just film her? No, no, she came from.
Speaker 2:Hollywood. Yeah, wow, yeah. So she was in our first movie ever and she was a big pioneer, so we feature her in the museum. That's cool.
Speaker 1:So how do you want to be remembered? Remembered? What's your legacy, what's it saying your tombstone?
Speaker 2:the shoebox theory. That's what I want. I I wrote, I came up with a theory and I'm writing a book and that's what I want to be remembered for okay, that's your book yeah, okay, it's it's not, you can't google it.
Speaker 1:Yet you can't google it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we told you about it.
Speaker 1:We'd have to kill you again.
Speaker 2:Well, well, it's about meeting in the middle. And it's about that relationships are like a shoebox, that there is a bottom, a top sides and meeting in the middle. And when you walk to the middle, if you picture yourself on one end and someone else or something else on the other end, you fill up space and so that status quo. And when you're off and things aren't right, how do you get back on? So it's about it's elevator in the time it takes you to ride an elevator, like elevator speeches, right, it's elevator therapy. You could figure out a problem, at least the basics to it.
Speaker 2:It doesn't blame anybody and you can figure out where do you want to go and what. Maybe you could do different in that time frame. Love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, hey, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me Pretty fun Good.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Did you have fun I?
Speaker 2:had fun, I had fun.
Speaker 1:That's always fun. Anyway, I'm going to close you ready. Thanks for listening. 100% Humboldt podcast. Like us, look for us. You could Google us. Actually 100% Humboldt, scott Hammond, not the senator from Nevada or the drummer for Jethro Tull, this one and enter to win one of our. Like us and say something Enter to win a Dutch Bros card and thank you, keep coming back. We'll be back next week. And 100% Humboldt, we're out there somewhere. Just Google it, google it. Thanks again for coming.
Speaker 2:Thanks for having me.
