Monsterpalooza 2026: We Met Alice Cooper (We're Not Worthy)

Ghouls just want to have fun! Come to Pasadena, California with hosts Samantha and Bonnie to for Monsterpalooza 2026, where they have a monster of a fun time! From interviews with the founder of the original Halloween theme park Spooky World, David Bertolino, to a bewitching chat with production designer extraordinaire William Sandell (seriously, just look him up on IMDb), to crossing paths IRL with In Search of Darkness’s David Weiner for his second appearance, and a sprinkling of cameos and celebrity meetings, you don’t want to miss this episode. No, really, you don’t want to miss this episode. Don't say we didn't warn you. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_09 0:01

Hi, we are here at Monsterpalooza 2026. And I think the scariest part of it so far has been trying to walk down some of the hallways and being stuck. And they're not moving. That has been the scariest thing so far. But it's Saturday here, it's pretty busy. I've also lost my co-host, Samantha. So, uh, you know that thing in horror movies where you're not supposed to split up? We did. I'll let you know if we find her. I'm scared, Adam. I'm scared.

SPEAKER_08 1:02

Welcome to Holyard, the vloggest.

SPEAKER_09 1:08

Lots of good stuff coming today, so enjoy this episode where we're gonna be beep bopping around Monster Palooza, and I have hair in my face. That's also scary. We've got some fun interviews coming up, and yeah. I don't know, I feel like I'm always better at this when I rehearse it in my head, and then when I get behind a microphone and it's not scripted, I don't know what to do.

SPEAKER_12 1:54

It's a nerd alert.

SPEAKER_11 1:57

Nerd alert. There we go. I was so glad we were recording.

SPEAKER_09 2:01

I was like, God, David, we can feel. I love what are you doing here at Monster Palooza?

SPEAKER_12 2:08

I am autographing our new book, which is behind the screens at Spooky World. There it is.

SPEAKER_11 2:16

Do you know how many people just walking around? I've mentioned it to you. They're like, oh my god, I went there as a kid.

SPEAKER_12 2:21

It's amazing. I'm blown away by it.

SPEAKER_11 2:23

That's iconic. I'm just like connecting with people through a mutual love, honestly. Yeah. How cool is that? I mean, I got to go over and say hi to Kane, dude. I have so many Kane Hodder stories because of David Bertolino. Hello. I mean I still laugh about that time that you were like, you gotta pick up my friend and bring I already said this last time, but I I just fucking love you a lot. We love you.

SPEAKER_09 2:47

We love you, and you're the reason why Samantha and I met. Yes, it's because of the documentary.

SPEAKER_11 2:52

He's like he's like the whole of that.

SPEAKER_12 2:54

Well we Bonnie and I were involved in a uh project different from Spooky World, but definitely it was theater at the Zephyr Theater.

SPEAKER_11 3:03

I love that place.

SPEAKER_12 3:04

Yeah. So yeah, I'm here signing autographs, and now I have a panel in about a half hour with Gene Hodder.

SPEAKER_11 3:12

No big deal.

SPEAKER_12 3:13

With uh Tom Savini, no big deal, and with Alice Cooper.

SPEAKER_09 3:16

No big deal! Alice Cooper, famously from the Muppet Show. Yeah, in Waynesworld.

SPEAKER_11 3:23

I know. Let me tell you that I saw Alice perform not that long ago, I think the last tour he did with Rob Zombie, and I I'd seen him before, but it was just like even better than the time before. I was like, how is this man still parading around with a snake and doing all the stuff? He's so cool.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

One hour later.

SPEAKER_10 3:42

We just took a selfie. My hands are shaking. Look at that shit.

SPEAKER_09 3:48

We just took a selfie to Alice Creeper.

SPEAKER_10 3:50

My hands are shaking.

SPEAKER_09 3:50

It's either herbs or her blood sugar. Not as cool as David Bertolino, though. Not as cool. Sorry. We love you, but we also love David. Yeah. But thank you so much for doing this interview and your book is out.

SPEAKER_11 4:04

But really quickly, Bonnie, do you know that the Horror Nerds podcast would not exist without David Bertolino? It's true. We met in the backseat on the way. That sounds weird. We met in the back seat. We bonded in the back seat too. I was like, I don't know who this girl is, but I like her.

SPEAKER_12 4:20

She's my kind of cool. And you shared a meatball with Keith. We did.

SPEAKER_11 4:25

We did with a Pope head in the middle of the table. Yes. As one does. As one does.

SPEAKER_09 4:31

Well, appropriately. Oh. Public relatives are gonna get mad at me for that one. Well, I know you gotta get going to your panel, and we're gonna go do that coverage. So we'll see you there. All right.

SPEAKER_12 4:42

Thank you, horror nerds.

SPEAKER_04 4:44

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SPEAKER_09 5:40

Are they actually ghost faced? I love that little clown going by. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm surprised you didn't try to scare me. So I think this theory that we have of maybe Adam being ghost faced, I don't know. I feel like he's got an alibi right now. I mean, he's right here filming this, so. Alright, Adam. I think you're safe for now. Will you still love me if I look like that? It's a good thing I use retinol, buddy.

SPEAKER_11 6:06

Well, hello there, Bonnie Ringlight.

SPEAKER_09 6:08

Hello, Samantha Hale.

SPEAKER_11 6:12

William Sandell, legendary production designer. I don't know if you guys have ever heard of this little movie. I I did not see it eight times in the theater when it came out. Focus. Focus. William Sandell.

SPEAKER_08 6:25

Nice to see you, gal tier.

SPEAKER_11 6:28

He's like, uh, I make things. I don't talk to crazy ladies. No, no.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

I I follow you guys.

SPEAKER_09 6:33

Here, I'm just gonna give this to you. You're good. I'll hold it. I we're good. We're good.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

No, I I love when you guys get on and chat. I love the Horner and I love the live show when I was there with you, Bonnie.

SPEAKER_09 6:42

You were can we just have you hype us up all the time? I love your podcast. I love the live show. That's all we need.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

I do. I mean, it's that's uh wow. We're all the same, right? We're all like somebody said, Oh, I love your Ed Wood shirt. I said, There's a lot of people here that love this is this is if they don't love Ed Wood here. This we're in the wrong monster con.

SPEAKER_11 7:02

Yeah, you mean to go to the anime?

SPEAKER_02 7:04

You want to be at some other con.

SPEAKER_11 7:07

San Diego Comic Con. Get out of here.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

So what are you? Are you buying anything?

SPEAKER_11 7:11

Are you I haven't bought anything yet? Do you have actually? Can we see each has bought the most insane looking? He's like my business card. But this is how horror people's brains work. Show us this monstrosity. Do you want me to help the mic how you do that? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

I love this. Bought it right away.

SPEAKER_08 7:30

It's so gnarly. Look at that.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

I'm gonna put my business cards in it so when people come in, they'll know exactly what they're getting and say nope and run out of my studio, or they'll say, okay.

SPEAKER_09 7:44

Are you gonna say, here, let me give you a hand with that? Sorry. Sorry, Sam. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:51

Not proud of that, but yes.

SPEAKER_11 7:54

This is why this is why I don't do the live show. No, that's actually gonna be the highlight.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

I mean, what did you buy? I bet you haven't bought a severed head.

SPEAKER_11 8:00

I just got here. Maybe.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

I've got dolls heads in here, I've got severed heads. Yep, yes.

SPEAKER_11 8:08

You're basically describing the contents of my garage.

SPEAKER_02 8:11

I know. Well, you and I have talked about that. I've out I'm out of room.

SPEAKER_11 8:14

I know.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

I gotta I can't buy that big Frankenstein head I would love, or uh Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_11 8:22

I've been I've been forbidden from putting things in the living room.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

Have you been into the museum yet, by the way?

SPEAKER_11 8:30

Not yet, no.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

It's probably a little crowded right now. A little bit, yeah.

SPEAKER_11 8:33

I just started walking.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

I was in there last night when no one was here.

SPEAKER_11 8:37

Friday time to go.

SPEAKER_02 8:38

Yeah, I got my ticket, yeah. And it was it's sensational, it's the best. It's got a hocus focus dress from reflector has it in there from uh Sir Jessica's dress from Hocus Focus, too. And there's a Hocus Focus book in there. I mean I have the little stand-in book.

SPEAKER_11 8:57

You did. I'm so proud of you.

SPEAKER_02 8:59

Nice to you guys.

SPEAKER_11 9:00

What take care of it?

SPEAKER_02 9:02

No, it's it's only like every young woman has seen Hocus Focus. Every mother has shown it to every young woman.

SPEAKER_11 9:09

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, how many people bonnie have like even you and I know that like, oh I named Rick Cat Banks. Yeah, or I still I had a doll, like my favorite porcelain doll is a kid. I named her Danny. Beautiful name the Danny.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

You know, and I see I don't I didn't see him here at Vanessa and Omri and not usually Thora, but uh I said to them last time here at Monsieur Luisa they were signing up.

SPEAKER_08 9:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

I said, Oh, you kids, isn't it? Vanessa goes, Bill, we're not kids, I'm 45 now. We were 16 when we did the movie. I mean, she's teasing. I said, You'll always be kids. And Thoros told me walking on that sound stage at Disney, she said, Bill, I was 10. And nine got ten. And you walked up a road, there was a road, there was a witch house, there were trees. It wasn't like it would look like a real witch house in a forest. She said, Oh, it's kind of spooky to me, Thorus.

SPEAKER_11 10:04

As a 10-year-old, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:06

As a 10-year-old, can you imagine?

SPEAKER_11 10:07

But she used it for the role.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Boy, you know, every day in the in the screening rooms, Thora, we were like, Wow. Yeah, Thora, every delivery was slightly different, slightly better. Yeah. I think everybody realized right away. She was gonna be. Yeah, Ghost World. I love her in Ghost World.

SPEAKER_09 10:26

Now and then, yeah. Are we showing her age here?

SPEAKER_11 10:30

Yeah, but even her like her guest star on The Walking Dead was yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

She's a really good actress, but even at that little tiny age, yeah, she was special. And everybody I heard that oh, there'd be collected guests sometimes when she would just rephrase something or turn a phrase or give a look. You know, it was obvious that she was destined.

SPEAKER_08 10:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:51

I do see acting when people say I saw it. Yeah, well even me, I'm a below the line guy, but even I could see it, you know.

SPEAKER_11 10:59

Yeah. Yeah. Another uh favorite film of mine as a kid. Let's see if any of you guys know this one monkey trouble.

SPEAKER_08 11:07

Whoa!

SPEAKER_11 11:14

Wow. Oh yeah. Blast from the past, Sam. I know, I know. But it's I mean, it's pretty cool to have a a a film that meant so much to both of us. Yeah. Now we're standing there. Well, you know.

SPEAKER_02 11:27

I borrowed the book back, and all my hope is focused stuff is at the Sugar Nib Gallery. Yeah. And yeah, and Sarah Rose, boy, she's like a like you, like a our house.

SPEAKER_11 11:36

She's just turned that into a fact that you can see the Michael Myers house, it's right next to the gallery.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

And that's kind of she worked so hard coming up with these like Coraline is her show right now. I'm it's off my radar, but apparently it's on every young woman's radar.

SPEAKER_08 11:54

Oh, we love Coraline.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

Are you a Coraline? I had no, I heard the name, I didn't know what it was. He spooky the buttons. That's one of the successful shows is people branding coral.

SPEAKER_11 12:04

I believe it. And one of my most incredible moments doing Horner, the live show of Oliver, we did the evil mothers edition. So, of course, you're gonna think of the other mother, Coraline. But the thing that made it so incredible was my grand Samu Weisser, who was on the show. Her mom is tearing out his best friend. So Terry came and sat in the audience and she did the line for us. Oh my god. It was like we all died.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

I had so much fun that day. I finally went to the improv and saw you and the cast of characters sat with the club. Oh, that was yeah, the evil, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:41

I had to throw in my focus material.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

I haven't been to comedy clubs in a long time. I used to all the time. Every comedy club. That was so much fun. I must admit, I don't get out that much anymore.

SPEAKER_11 12:51

Um, you have an open invite and a golden spot against us.

SPEAKER_02 12:55

Well, I I watch all your posts of this stuff and they uh see all the comedians they get up there, you know, it's fun. There's some pretty amazing comedians out there who are willing to Oh, I like that when you kind of have a cast of your characters and your friends.

SPEAKER_08 13:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:11

How fun that is to sort of you know, sort of change it up that you've got your ball team with you, kind of, you know.

SPEAKER_11 13:19

My roster is pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

I mean, we're just walking around with Sarah Rose and we're talking about her stable of artists at the Superman.

unknown 13:28

Right.

SPEAKER_02 13:28

And we're talking to some of her who knows all these artists here. She's done it very cleverly, is she'll pick a theme like Floraline or Universal Monsters or Halloween or Creature from the Black Lagoon. But then all the artists respond in time with their particular style of art, and they enjoy it. I talked to them, they said, No, we like that. It's we're doing our thing, and then she'll say, Well, now we're doing Frankenstein, and everybody they'll paint it, they'll stitch it, they'll film it. So I thought, how clever.

SPEAKER_11 13:57

It's fun to have a theme for like a direction because that's the thing about art, comedy, standard. You can write about, whatever you want to write about. But if you have a hey, this is what we're all doing, it's fascinating.

SPEAKER_02 14:09

I could see kind of from following your snippets on your shows, and I can see how you do that. I think it's interesting.

SPEAKER_07 14:15

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:15

And I'm sure your comedians are the same as Sarah Rose's artists, painters, and they enjoy that. Oh, ch it's like a changeup. Good. And they're comedians, right? So that's the fun of it. Okay. I'll respond. I mean, it's the most terrifying thing I can think of. It's like when I first met you. I said, Really? You're like a comedian to get I can't think of anything scarier than getting up in public. Not just speaking to them, reading a story about Hoover Dan. You're trying to make them react and laugh. Whee! I can't that gives me I'll go into the worst haunted house before I get on stage. I'll go to the Waverly where you saw your ghost. Yes. I'd rather stay in the Waverly for a week than get up on stage at the Hollywood Incro.

SPEAKER_09 15:02

That's the soundbite, that's the line. Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

Okay. Well, yeah, it's good to see you. Always it's so fun. This was so fun. Now I know.

SPEAKER_08 15:12

Yeah, you know me!

SPEAKER_02 15:13

I was looking at that girl talking time, and I'm like, I'm working at it, but I don't. I thought it was funny to your access sons.

SPEAKER_11 15:21

No, this is my other half.

SPEAKER_02 15:23

The other half.

SPEAKER_11 15:25

Thank you so much for chatting.

SPEAKER_09 15:26

That's all hey Sam.

SPEAKER_10 15:28

What are you doing on uh April 25th? Oh, I will be going to the Sugar and Moon Market at the lodge in Sierra Madre.

SPEAKER_09 15:37

Wow, that's oddly specific. But actually sounds like a lot of fun. What are you doing there?

SPEAKER_10 15:43

Okay, so I'm gonna be picking up some sage butter from our friend and sponsor, the mountain crone.

SPEAKER_04 15:49

Oh, that sounds awesome. Can I come with?

SPEAKER_10 15:52

Yada.

SPEAKER_09 15:53

I already got you a ticket, B. Sweet! Oh, that's kind of spooky. You read my mind. Oh, that's funny. I'm actually gonna see her at Mountlow Brewery Company. Whew. Try saying that five times fast. On May 9th to pick up some restock lip balms. Because with all this talking we do, my lips are gonna look like the Cribkeepers if I don't hydrate them.

SPEAKER_10 16:13

I like the Crib Keeper's lips. Um, hey, can you pick me up on the way over? Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_09 16:18

I'll go grab my keys. I just realized I'm kind of like Gail Leathers right now. I'm telling Adam what to do. Kenny, roll for your ass! This is maybe one of the greatest days of my life. I love you, Courtney Cox.

unknown 16:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 16:32

We got some really good stuff. It was very cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:35

And we would have to do it. We're talking two and a half minutes about uh imprinting, right?

SPEAKER_09 16:39

Yep, in 70s horror. It's okay, it's good. And like imprint horror. That's what I'm saying. You know what?

SPEAKER_03 16:45

I I just finished the press release that we're gonna do for next week, and I said never said it before in my life. Oh you by saying that's really good.

SPEAKER_09 16:55

I'm like You heard it here, folks. You heard it here. It imprinted on me. It imprinted on me. Wait, is that like a twilight thing too? And then uh David, what did you say about the hair on these mics?

SPEAKER_03 17:06

Uh you said it's my ass hair. Yes, there you go. And I that's a visual I can never take back. I was like, oh, it's like a triple. No, I will look at triples a different way now.

SPEAKER_09 17:18

Yep, triples are my cousins, yeah. And then a large bearded man stopped in his dress. Yep. I should have just given him my card and be like, here, subscribe to our Patreon if you want more stuff like that. I don't know. This is giving me kind of.

SPEAKER_03 17:29

We're rauncher in real life. Did you know that? I yeah.

SPEAKER_11 17:32

We haven't even flirted with each other yet. I did scratch your back for a while. It felt really good. I started purring. Yeah. It is it's a thing that we do. I kind of feel like this would be like the early stages of a critter. Yes, yeah, yeah. Mouth comes out.

SPEAKER_03 17:45

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_08 17:46

Little little feeties come out.

SPEAKER_03 17:48

This is these are really deceptive because oh, hey! After I do this, I'll say hi. Those are good friends of mine.

SPEAKER_09 17:56

Yeah. He's like really popular. I know. And he's here with us again in the flesh. Ooh. Ooh.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

I don't know what that means either.

SPEAKER_09 18:07

I know. We're real, we're not just on the city.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

Well, you know, I uh I made a comment last time that I that uh they they give me more validation than my AI girlfriend.

SPEAKER_11 18:17

So it's a big deal. I actually made Bonnie with a 3D printer. Oh, right. Yeah, really good.

SPEAKER_03 18:23

Good work. I know.

SPEAKER_11 18:24

I know.

SPEAKER_03 18:25

And you got the ass hair all correct as well.

SPEAKER_11 18:27

That was the extra, because I bought like the the soup superior model printer, so I was able to get the details. Right. Thank you. Samantha. I said it to werewolf.

SPEAKER_03 18:38

Oh is this all gonna be used?

SPEAKER_11 18:40

Probably. I think that's actually the best sound bite. Is this all gonna be used?

unknown 18:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 18:46

Make an adam, that's good. Hello.

SPEAKER_03 18:49

I can I can riff as long as you want.

SPEAKER_11 18:51

The shining twins from the could be in your 70s anthology.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

Oh, that's right. 1980, but that's okay. Oh, it's all right.

SPEAKER_11 18:58

Oh, I'm gonna be.

SPEAKER_03 18:59

Well, Sam who locked the flame. Oh no, it's okay. Is that gonna be used?

SPEAKER_08 19:03

Bye.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Take away the horror card. No, it's all right.

SPEAKER_08 19:07

It's all right. No, it's okay. Uh no.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

Well, it feels like it's the same. So the shiny feels like the 70s because it came out in 1980. And listen, we like to divide decades with, you know, the first year to the end, but it makes no sense when there is no defining line with horror, you know, it just keeps on going. And so usually the beginning of a decade feels like the end of the last decade. And the 70s feels like it's still the 60s in the beginning with hammer and amicus. This is boring. It's not as much.

SPEAKER_11 19:41

Oh, no, we're both like, no, no, no, you just saved my ass.

unknown 19:45

That was thankful.

SPEAKER_11 19:47

Thank you. Listen, if you're going to interview someone who knows their shit, particularly a documentary filmmaker, they know their shit.

SPEAKER_03 19:56

I really like the uh the the unstructured way that these two approach every interview.

SPEAKER_09 20:01

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:02

It's great. Yeah, great.

SPEAKER_09 20:03

Yeah, we like to have fun and we just say what whatever's on our minds, and I think that's why it works.

SPEAKER_03 20:08

I think the last interview we just started talking, and then about 20 minutes in, I'm like, maybe I should give some, you know, introduction to you.

SPEAKER_09 20:15

So, anyways, we worked backwards. Here's why I'm here. So it's keeping us on top because otherwise we just yeah.

SPEAKER_11 20:21

Yeah, but you but it just kind of shows like, hey, we're I mean, it's the brand. We're just a couple of nerds who love this stuff, who grew up on it, and we're like you. We're just like you. But forever.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

I never, that's 1980. That's good. That's so good.

SPEAKER_11 20:41

That was really good. I'm gonna I'm gonna watch The Shining tonight and do like 1980 Hail Mary's Hail Danny's? I'll do Hail Mary's.

SPEAKER_03 20:52

Hail Satan.

SPEAKER_11 20:52

Hail Satan.

SPEAKER_03 20:53

So, all right, so what's your favorite stuff? So I just got here today at Monster Palooza and I quickly got sidetracked. I'll throw some some light on my friend Terry Wolfinger. He's a great artist. And uh back in my days when I worked at Famous Monsters to film my magazine, uh he did a lot of cool art for me, and he's a great guy, so we've been pals ever since. So he always has a booth here and always looked to help out his booth so he has like a bathroom break or at least something like that. Yeah. So that's where I was. So I have not seen much, but what I love about Monster Palooza is that these are my people. You are now my people as well, because we've imprinted on each other. And what's cool about that is that I just love, I mean, you saw my friends who walked by. I have yet to even say hello to them, but I I knew they would be here.

SPEAKER_08 21:39

Right.

SPEAKER_03 21:40

And we didn't say, Oh, are you gonna be there? No, they're there.

SPEAKER_08 21:42

Right.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

That guy who walked by that we don't see, uh, and not the shining twins over there, nineteen eighty.

SPEAKER_11 21:48

Nineteen eighty, nineteen eighty.

SPEAKER_03 21:49

Uh uh Eric. I wonder if they know Oh, they have to know. Actually, when I I was famous, I mean now just at ADHD, horror ADHD, but I got one of the coolest things I did, among many cool things, when I ran Famous Monsters, is I got to interview the Burns twins. And they talked all about working on La Shiny and how cool was that. And then what was so cool about that is at the tail end of the interview, I had them say forever and ever and ever. They said, come and play with us forever in unison. They did it for me.

SPEAKER_08 22:24

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 22:26

I managed to, as a interviewer and a professional individual, to be a my a mega geek as well. And and if I could, if I could just, you know, solicit some performance, like please be a performing monkey just for me. It'll be awesome.

SPEAKER_05 22:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:43

They totally did.

SPEAKER_05 22:44

Yeah. So Eric.

SPEAKER_03 22:45

Eric Curlin, who just walked by, check out the 3D space. It's uh a 3D museum in Los Angeles, and he's a historian for everything 3D. And you can make a personal appointment for a tour of it's, I think it's in uh don't kill me for this. I think it's in Echo Park.

SPEAKER_08 23:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Maybe. But uh it's very, very cool because he has all this amazing stuff. Uh he has 3D showings at at Monster Calooza all the time. And uh he was in one of my documentaries in Search of Darkness, the first one talking about the 3D stuff that was in actually both in Search of Darkness and Tomorrow, talking about the 3D films, you know, like Friday the 13th, part three, and so on and so forth. So that's cool stuff too.

SPEAKER_08 23:34

Yeah, we'll have to swing by these boots.

SPEAKER_09 23:36

Yeah, I got distracted by Bob from Beetlejuice Beach. I just cosplay.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

They're just like, I saw them just like completely lose interest in what I was saying. But listen, but listen, no, it doesn't matter. I've lost interest in both of you because I've imprinted on Bob over there.

SPEAKER_11 23:53

Well, that's fair. I get it. Bob, Bob, come join us.

SPEAKER_03 23:57

Bob, Bob, yeah, you. You, not the other Bob. You! Come on, Bob. We love you, Bob.

SPEAKER_11 24:04

You better move that camera right out.

SPEAKER_03 24:07

Hey, Bob. I think Bob dissed us.

SPEAKER_11 24:10

I think so.

SPEAKER_03 24:10

Or Bob is is very we still love you, Bob. I think Bob's an introvert and he doesn't like to talk.

SPEAKER_09 24:17

You know, he hasn't cleared it with his publicist yet. So Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.

SPEAKER_03 24:23

Don't say it a third time. Candyman.

SPEAKER_11 24:26

Candyman! Come on, Dave. Oh my god. Could you imagine? Just so what do you like?

SPEAKER_03 24:32

So you've got something going on here at Monster Palooza as well. Yeah. Yeah. You're hawking your wares.

SPEAKER_09 24:38

Of course. Well, helping a friend hawk his wares, but I'm damn good at it.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

Hawk your wares.

SPEAKER_09 24:43

So I'm hanging out at my friend David Bertolino's booth, who has his book just came out all about Spooky World, and there will be an interview with him in this episode coming up shortly.

SPEAKER_08 24:53

Oh, very good. Good job.

SPEAKER_09 24:54

Yeah, it was very cool hanging out with him. Like he had the documentary, the book came out. He's going to be a little bit more than a little bit today, the panels today. Tom Sabini's gonna be there. It's gonna be very, very cool. And maybe Tom Sabiney's.

SPEAKER_03 25:06

Tom Savini.

SPEAKER_09 25:09

Are you serious? Yeah. The booth works on it. Nice. Yeah. He's like, Can I draw a rubber band? And then he shot it at us. So Adam has been teaching people how to shoot the rubber bands back, being a menace. He was a pleasure to have in class.

SPEAKER_11 25:20

Yeah. Yeah. But I think that's the joy of these conventions, Monster Blues that, and all of them really, it's more about the community. And it's more about you can't get down one aisle without saying, Oh my God, so-and-so!

SPEAKER_03 25:32

Right, exactly. And then especially when they they're extremely famous and legends and they shoot rubber bands at you. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 25:38

And you see your friends on the artwork, you're like, oh, I know that person from this movie. I know that. I'm sure that's just your daily life. You're like, oh yeah, I interviewed her. She pooped on my toilet. Yeah. Interviewed this guy.

SPEAKER_03 25:48

I have to say hi to Corey Taylor because I've interviewed him a thousand times. And he he co-owns Famous Monsters now. He does. We have never met. He's always, whenever I interviewed him, he's in uh Las Vegas. Okay. So I've never been in the same space with him.

SPEAKER_11 26:02

So well, I listened to Slippin' on the way over. So okay. Very, very cool.

SPEAKER_03 26:07

I well, yeah. My son went to school with his stone sour drummer's daughter.

SPEAKER_08 26:15

Oh, of course. School world.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

Yeah, put that one together, put two and two together. That's literally just a random thing.

SPEAKER_08 26:22

That's really cool. That's really cool. So LA.

SPEAKER_03 26:25

Well, we just started chatting because he was cool and I I was maybe wanting to be cool. You're hard. You're very cool.

SPEAKER_09 26:31

We have Chris and View cool. We don't have many repeat guests on the show. Especially so soon. Yeah. Because I think your episode is coming out after this one.

SPEAKER_03 26:44

I have an episode on horror nerve? You're kidding me.

SPEAKER_09 26:48

Oh, about In Search of Darkness 70.

SPEAKER_03 26:53

Thank God we wore our shirts, so the rest of it wouldn't know who we're talking to.

SPEAKER_09 26:56

I'm just dressed up as a slutty guy.

SPEAKER_11 26:58

I had thought about that. Like, do you wear, you know, when you go to the concert, do you wear the band shirt to the concert, right?

SPEAKER_03 27:04

You know what? I was once I'm uh not okay. I know I'm looking like I'm hungry stroke. I'm trying to remember the name of the place, but there's this place where we can get pumpkins way by the Reagan Library. I used to go there all the time. It's this awesome farm. Anyway.

SPEAKER_08 27:21

Oh, the CD Valley?

SPEAKER_03 27:23

Yeah, sort of kinda. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I was there with my family in the fall, looking for pumpkins, playing. It's like a whole pumpkin field. If you're the ultimate uh you know, Halloween person, it's the greatest place to go. And I saw all these people and all it's all these cameras, and I saw this guy walking towards me, and I saw that he was wearing a a Kanye concert shirt. And then I realized it was Kanye wearing a Kanye concert.

SPEAKER_11 27:51

Why does that not surprise me at all?

SPEAKER_03 27:53

And then I just said, Why does he need that attention? I feel like that checks out. Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_11 28:00

That's a valid question.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

Why don't you well I I have to say very genuinely, is it is it tacky for me to wear darkness?

SPEAKER_11 28:09

No, that's just marketing. Okay. That's just marketing, but that's just hey, I'm at a horror-themed convention. This is what I do, this is my passion. This is the place to wear it. You're not wearing it to the pumpkin band.

SPEAKER_03 28:20

So you worked on screen?

SPEAKER_11 28:21

Of course he did.

SPEAKER_09 28:22

He is five years old. Adam worked on screen.

SPEAKER_11 28:25

The other ghost face, the one that was just like planning the phone call.

SPEAKER_09 28:28

Okay, so actually we saw two ghost face earlier, and Adam was with me, so we think he might have an alibi now. I got to be Gail Weathers in that moment. I've never had a greater moment in my life, except for this interview. Then it was fine. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:44

It's all downhill from there. Well uphill.

SPEAKER_09 28:48

You can see why we have David back whenever he's like, hey, I'm doing this thing. Can I come back? Yes. We ask him to come back.

SPEAKER_03 28:54

The inner obnoxious person in me. And it it it exists.

SPEAKER_11 28:58

That is a high compliment. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's so bad.

SPEAKER_03 29:01

Well, I feel comfortable enough around you that I feel like I have to up the quick factor.

SPEAKER_11 29:06

But I feel like I have to up the smart factor.

SPEAKER_03 29:08

No, no, no, no. Just bring it down.

SPEAKER_09 29:11

I just up the boob factor and then we're good.

SPEAKER_11 29:13

I can't help with that. I got you.

SPEAKER_03 29:16

And I apologize for shaming you about the 1980 cutoff.

SPEAKER_11 29:20

No, I deserve that.

SPEAKER_03 29:21

Listen, well, it doesn't matter, but when did that interact in the 70s? In 1948. That's not a fact.

SPEAKER_09 29:33

When you can make Sam laugh like this, it's a big deal.

SPEAKER_11 29:36

I don't do this a lot. This is a big deal. Do you know how I laugh? Usually? That's good. That's really good. That's how I usually laugh. Yeah. But so when you get that and you get the oh afterwards, it's a big deal.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

I have to say, now I'm gonna, you know, it's all about the name dropping, right? So I used to work at Entertainment Tonight. And I was there for 13 years. 13 years, 14 years, and I used to I worked in the same office because these are your co-workers as well as the people on camera. Maria Menos.

SPEAKER_11 30:05

I remember Maria Monos.

SPEAKER_03 30:06

Maria Menunos has the most epic laugh that she was gifted with by the. And and it's so uh you now have to hear it.

SPEAKER_05 30:16

So Roll the tape.

SPEAKER_03 30:18

Google, roll the tape.

SPEAKER_05 30:20

I like that laugh. That's my evil laugh. I have a few different versions.

SPEAKER_03 30:27

But in terms of laughter, you know, there's some really, really memorable laughters in horror. But then there's under TV tonight, and that's a whole different story.

SPEAKER_11 30:35

Yeah, that was my favorite laugh. Thank you, John Cassier.

SPEAKER_08 30:39

That one I could do a little better. That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_09 30:43

Next time we need a crypt keeper for one of our ads, look and I'm gonna call you and be like, hey, we're recording.

SPEAKER_11 30:48

Oh yeah. Okay. Oh, we just volunteered you as tribute.

SPEAKER_08 30:54

That's the last you'll ever see of me.

SPEAKER_09 30:57

Thank you. Well, thank you so much for talking with us. Speaking of hat, guess who he recorded?

SPEAKER_06 31:07

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SPEAKER_09 31:08

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SPEAKER_09 31:36

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SPEAKER_06 31:43

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SPEAKER_09 31:49

I wonder why.

SPEAKER_06 31:50

Right? Or multiple reasons. So my best seller right now is my Elm Street blend. Ooh.

SPEAKER_09 31:56

Because we're living in a nightmare.

SPEAKER_06 31:58

Yes, we're living in a nightmare. And if you live on Elm Street, you are stressed out.

SPEAKER_11 32:02

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dream Warriors out there just doing domestic kids.

SPEAKER_06 32:09

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SPEAKER_09 32:18

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SPEAKER_06 32:19

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SPEAKER_09 32:21

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SPEAKER_10 33:26

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SPEAKER_01 33:44

Smell ya in your dreams.

SPEAKER_09 34:00

Oh yeah, we'll just draw out you then. Okay. Okay. Well, thank you so much for hanging out with us. We're so glad we met in person.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

I came to Monster Palooza just to see them in person.

SPEAKER_11 34:08

We came to Monster Palooza just to see you in person. Really, really? Yep.

SPEAKER_03 34:12

Well, I also had to learn the fine art of the fine art of uh grooming ass hair.

SPEAKER_11 34:17

Uh yes. Yep. Also, we're gonna switch shirts, right? Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_04 34:32

This is not a test. This is your emergency broadcast system, announcing the conclusion of the Horror Nerds Comedy Podcast, sanctioned by Horror Nerds Productions. All authorized screams, laughter, and unhinged opinions of Class 4 have now been safely contained. During this broadcast, all tangents, puns, and unsolicited horror takes were permitted without consequence. Emergency podcast services will resume after this brief transmission. Blessed be our final girls and our horror nerds founders, a podcast reborn. May humor be with you all.