Blairstown Diner Interview - Crazy Ralph Podcast - EP 12

The Crazy Ralph Podcast heads to Crystal Lake country as Mike Rumsey, owner of the legendary Blairstown Diner, joins the show!

Known to Friday the 13th fans around the world as one of the most iconic filming locations from the original 1980 classic, the Blairstown Diner has become a true destination for horror fans everywhere and Mike has helped keep that legacy alive in a huge way.

We dive into everything the diner is doing for the Friday fanbase, from fan events and community involvement to preserving the history and spirit of one of horror’s most beloved franchises. A fun, nostalgic and passionate conversation celebrating horror fandom, filmmaking history and the incredible connection between fans and iconic locations.

If you’re a Friday the 13th fan, horror collector, convention goer or just love behind-the-scenes stories tied to classic horror history, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Crazy Ralph Podcast. I'm your host, Jason, and I'm joined with your friendly neighborhood, Uncle Pete. And we have a special episode today. We have an interview with uh someone who's got a lot of passion for Friday the 13th. Well, we're gonna find out actually. Uh he's uh his name is Mike Rumsey, and he is the man in charge, am I say I guess of Blairstown Diner. Which, if you're a Friday the 13th fan, I don't have to uh tell you what Blairstown Diner has been doing in the last little while, but we're gonna dig in today and uh and speak to the man himself. Welcome to the show, Mike. Thank you. So I'm just I'll just kind of uh go through what everybody kind of knows, but just to set things up a little bit. So Friday 13th comes out in 1980, becomes this unbelievable, beloved slasher film over the years, and one of the great things about the Friday the 13th franchise is um the love for the locations of this film, whether it be the camp or whether it be things like the diner, uh over the years, I think a lot of people realized this passion. I think um you know the camp sure did, and obviously Blairstown Diner uh did as well and jumped on that train. And I don't think as a Friday 3D fan, anything could be cooler than that. So uh the fact that it's still around, a lot of these locations over the years have you know sat burned down or yeah, or been yeah. So the fact that it was still around and uh you guys took it over and made it what it is is really just a dream come true for a lot of fans, and we're gonna talk a lot about that. So, first of all, I guess what's your role? Are are you the owner? Are you do you run Blairstown? Bultimate, yep. And when did that happen?

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Um, just about a year and a half ago. I did manage it before then. Okay, uh the owner that owns the building uh moved to Florida and uh basically said uh it's all you now. So Okay, that's all that nice okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

So then if that's the case, I gotta ask, like, was it something you were thrust into or unwillingly, or is were you a Friday fan?

SPEAKER_02 2:31

The normal answer everybody gives uh COVID happened and my other job lost half its business and uh needed to do something else to supplement it, so I ended up coming to the diner.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Awesome. So okay, so before that though, were you a Friday 13th fan? I was not. You were not. Okay. I was not. Are you now?

SPEAKER_02 2:50

I've seen I I saw the movie, but I was never a fan, so okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:54

Has have you changed your tune a little bit?

SPEAKER_02 2:56

Oh, yeah, I definitely changed the tune now, so yeah. No doubt about that.

SPEAKER_01 3:00

That's pretty awesome. Um, yeah, so I mean, so okay, so you've been there for a year. So is this um uh we're gonna talk about a lot of things that you guys have been doing, but um is this your brainchild or is it was it in place before you kind of took over?

SPEAKER_02 3:16

So uh the old owner, he uh he had sold some shirts and stuff like that, but uh it was kind of more my brainchild. I started uh increasing Instagram, Facebook, uh and uh that's probably the uh biggest uh help with the business itself. Now we uh do just more than one t-shirt, we do more than one sweatshirt, and um now we're doing events and we try to do at least two a month, and it's a big deal. So everybody wants to come to the diner. We have people probably come to the diner. I'd probably say at least every day now. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

That's it's really cool. Uncle Pete.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

I don't want to hog hog him, but so yeah, so I was looking I was looking at the diner because I love those types of diners. It's like where you get the old timer, he gets his cup of coffee in the morning, sits at a counter, and there's the waitress he knows and sure he knows his order. That's what the diners seemed like to me when I was looking at it um earlier. And I I love that feeling of it and to add a little like Friday 13th Jason Flair in it. Did you have the there or were there any um regulars who kind of got not shunned or like didn't like this new attention that the diner may have? Like the old, you get those old veterans who want that black coffee, and like, oh, here's these young kids in their horror movies.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

I would say the only issue that happened is when it's actually Friday the 13th and there's a line out the door, and the regulars basically no stay away because uh there's a line around the building.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

Yeah, that's a that's an interesting question. That's it's a it's a good one too. Those grumpy old men, right? Uh uh that don't understand this. Um has has the embracing of the the Friday the 13th film has it uh you know, has it been a a benefit to the business, or is it just like a accessory? Yeah?

SPEAKER_02 5:10

No, no, it's definitely a benefit to the business, yeah. I mean uh adding other customers just to the business itself is a good thing. So you know restaurants are out there struggling right now with the prices and have having that happy medium and make customer happy at the same time, and everything's not extreme uh price-wise.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

So it's it's fun. I'm looking at you and like, I mean, uh forgive me for saying this, but you look like a normal guy. And uh I I could just imagine what you've been seeing in the last uh last couple of years. Uh as far as the fans go, how how have they been? Have they been uh, you know, uh obviously you you're you love them as a customer, but have you been able to relate to this fandom that uh you're getting?

SPEAKER_02 5:56

Yeah, definitely. I mean it it feels like uh all the fans feel like the diner is like home to them. They all have to come here, not just once, they have to come here again and again and uh they're like, oh, I haven't been to the diner in a long time. I need to make that trip again, and let's go see what kind of memorabilia they have this time or whatever's going on.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

So with the the fans and the new customers, do you ever get a customer who come obviously I'm sure you've got many customers in full Jason, you know, costume. Did they ever come in and like keep character, like not speak and just like point to what they want to order and like and then lift messes up to eat?

SPEAKER_02 6:37

We just had uh about a month ago, month and a half ago, two guys come in and they stayed in character the whole time. I I was interested to watch to see how they're gonna eat their food, so it was uh quite entertaining.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

So I want to see someone eat a shake and they start sipping through straw with the whole any issues so far?

SPEAKER_02 6:56

I mean literally every fan is probably the most well behaved, they have fun, but at the same time, there's no issues that direction. It's not amazing, it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

It is amazing, yeah. Because like, you know, this you know, the movies that this fan base and myself and that you know, the movies that we embrace and love and watch, and yet all you hear is great things about like these cons that people go to, these locations and stuff like that. And it's just it's great to hear because I think it's it's an appreciation. They know that what you're doing, uh, you know, is a bonus. Like, you know, 46 years later, to the fact that like I alluded to before, that this place is still around and and more readily available to fans than ever. Um, it's great, you know, when uh it's appreciated. So hopefully that's uh that continues. The fans continue to respond to appreciate it. Um so from your perspective, okay. So I I mean I just want to get an idea. So you kind of take over, and uh I mean, uh yes, some a couple of things are in place. Where do you start? Like because you've you've brought in some celebrities and alumni, you've coordinated stuff. Like, is was this your background? And you no, not at all. So how do you okay? So then how did you get going on this? And where do you start?

SPEAKER_02 8:15

It's what I come up with in my head and staying up two, three o'clock in the morning, what I come up with and think about, and social media and seeing what everybody else is doing, and learn what what the fans basically are interested in. So that's that's what it comes down to. So that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Yeah, because I saw that in July, and I I was blown away. I wish I lived close. You're getting the Green Goblin truck from Maximum Overdrive.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Yeah, that like uh blew up yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

Super cool.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

Okay, well, let's use that as an example.

SPEAKER_02 8:44

How did that how did that happen? So, how did it happen? Um, I was looking for other talent, and I thought about horror movies that doesn't that's not shown represents like the two other uh events and stuff like that, and I came up with a couple of them, and that was one of them, and he got back to me and we talked through little issues and stuff, and after that he's like, uh I I think we're good. So it's cool.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

That's great. Are you finding it uh that people are um really accommodating with like you reaching out to them?

SPEAKER_02 9:19

Uh yeah, very uh a lot of people know the diner. They know what we do, and basically uh they want to be a part of it. I I can't say yet, but I had a couple more people reach out today from an agent that uh wants to come to the event in July, and if not uh in October, so because they want to be at the diner and they saw our social media. So pretty famous people too.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Okay, well let's okay, so let's talk about you the the event you were just speaking of. Uh what I'll I'll throw it to you and let us know what's uh what's happening in July at Players Town Diner.

SPEAKER_02 9:51

So we were focusing it over at around Ari Lehman, the first Jason, of course, and his band. Um we picked five other band or four other bands besides his. Um we started off with uh a 5 till 10 p.m. We were just having bands, and then uh we started talking about other avenues or people that wanted to come out, and it just kept on snowballing and and other people, and now we have uh 35 vendors that are gonna be here selling horror-related items and everything like that. So it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 10:23

That's amazing. That's amazing. Um the uh so and and talk to us about some of the uh Friday alumni that you've been able to work with. Um you've uh along with Ari, you've had you know uh quite a few over the years. You want to run some of them down and like kind of like how how that kind of how those relationships are now, like a yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

So uh my Jason that I have here for smaller uh events is South Jersey Jason. His name's Brian. He uh he basically teaches me who's uh who's what in the Friday the 13th land and and he knows their agents and stuff like that. So that's how we uh been getting uh the connections through uh through the years here of who wants to come out, and uh so that's where we're at with him. But Brian's a big help that way. Um he'll like for uh June 13th, for example, is Jason's birthday. He'll play Jason, and we have a couple other uh actors coming out, and we do it for four hours, but the fans like it. We'll do a birthday cake, and that's pretty cool. That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

Yeah, and they're all on board, they all they're all loving it. Oh yeah, definitely all loving it. Any any jerks so far? You don't have to say names, but no, no jerks to believe it or not. Well, that's good, that's good. But uh yeah, not that I was hoping for that.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

But Pete, did you have anything or is there just speaking of the diner itself? Because I was looking at the menu and you guys do a little bit of everything, which is really cool because anybody can sit down and they can get like a little Italian, they can get a club, a sandwich, a steak, all kinds of stuff. Is there a fake what's your you would say aside from Friday the 13th, what would you say your diner's most popular dishes? And then I have a target.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

Our burgers and pancakes. That's our two number ones.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

Now, is there something fans tend to get more?

SPEAKER_02 12:16

The slasher burger. Okay, the slasher burger, they got so what's the audience? That's the key item.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

What let's tell our audience what's in a slasher burger.

SPEAKER_02 12:28

Slasher burger is a uh raw egg, uh raw egg, you cook it. Um over easy. Um put it on top of the burger with cheese. Um I like mine medium rare, of course. Uh on a brioche bun. Um, and uh it seems to catch people's uh attraction. I don't think so much as the burger, but but we have great burgers at the same time. Um that uh that's awesome. But people like the name is what the key is. So we've learned from that. So a lot of specials and stuff like that we do. We catch a lot of names and stuff like that, like Alice's omelet and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 13:04

Does anybody because I know in Fredder 13 part eight, uh, when there's a little diner scene. Not I'm sorry, not yeah, part eight, um, not part eight. Death of Jason. Jason goes to hell. Sorry. Yep, they're in a diner, and she's going over on how to make they have Jason burgers, and just like you see the raw meat and she's poking out the meat. Has anybody ever asked if you guys do stuff like that? Like, is your patty shit?

SPEAKER_02 13:26

I have so we we tried doing the the like an impression on top of the brioche fun itself. It's just so much turn that uh it's hard to keep up with them, unfortunately. So it's not a two-second thing. And say about the burger. I've thought about doing a burger that looks like it, but you wouldn't be able to do a uh medium rare burger if it had holes in it and stuff like that. So that's the only issue that way.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

This is this is a deep cut. So, Mike, don't feel bad if you don't get it. But if you do, do you have anything on your menu that is two and a quarter?

SPEAKER_02 13:59

Uh I think uh toast is right now. So okay, sure, sure.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

That's a deep cut for Friday the 13th fans, but I think coffee's uh ahead of that now. I think it's like three dollars now. So it is, it is, right? I know, isn't that crazy? Um so uh okay, so as far as uh Friday the 13th and and and you know, and obviously the diner, uh I came to I went to the location I did the Crystal Lake Tours in 2018, which is were you there at all at that time or were you not yet in 2018? Um I was not no not yet.

SPEAKER_02 14:37

So I was uh I about 2019 I started.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Okay, so when I came, it was funny, it was me and uh and a friend of mine. Um uh actually it was uh Slick from Cabin 6, who does a lot of work behind the scenes for us here. And uh we we we found the diner, we went, we ate. Uh I I am so mad I can't remember what I had. I'm sure there was a f there was fries in there because you know, I know of course um and you know it was there there's some Friday 13th fans, you know, you could spot them in that in that location. You could definitely spot the Friday 13th fans kind of but it was pretty much you know regulars in there, maybe a group of Friday 13th fans and us. It was just starting. It was just kind of getting that, you know, that boost uh from uh from the fans because a lot of people would actually go to the tour and probably just do the tour, not even going to um to the town there. So when we went, they didn't even have the sign, the diner sign. Were you around when they restored or found the sign? They I was not. I was that was after me. So or before me, excuse me. So the the sign that they have, is it like is it what did they find the original or was it?

SPEAKER_02 15:49

No, no, it's it's actually the original. I think uh now uh somebody has it, um, a fan, from what I know about it. It wasn't a museum that was here in town, but that's gone now. So but uh I think a fan has the uh actual diner sign itself.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Okay, cool. So, anyways, it was a great vibe even when I went, and that was before like you know, all the bells and whistles that you brilliantly do now. Um so I'm looking forward to going back again and uh and uh and visiting. Maybe we could do a show down there and uh Yeah, definitely that'd be cool. That'd be fantastic. Um, but anyways, yeah, so what I was trying to get at, it was like, you know, it was just at the very beginning. So it's kind of like it's humble roots, and then you know, to see where it is now, it's like that that's it. Every time I see like, you know, a new event added, or I'm like, these guys get it. Like, you know, so just a more of a kudos to you for just understanding what you have and uh and running with it because you know you're making a lot of people happy.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Yeah, yeah, and it's we have fun doing it at the same time.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

So good.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Like, man, I I think I got I'm on to something here. Like you knew, like, you know, you got the ball rolling and you knew like, yeah, we're gonna go now, we're gonna hit full speed ahead on it. What was like a certain moment when you like knob or something?

SPEAKER_02 17:14

I think it was little by little we kind of started turning that direction. Now it's like a 180. We're we're head on into it, and that's what we focus on. I mean, we're the diner, but at the same time, we appreciate the fans and want them to come in and uh enjoy the diner itself and sit in the stool where Steve Christie sat, and uh so it's pretty cool that way.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

That is cool. Any plans for franchising? I guess that takes away a little bit of the luster, I'm sure. That is the problem.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

So like uh most places don't have the diner. It's kind of like having uh yeah, there's actors from the movie. Well, we don't have actors, but we have the diner, so that's the cooler part.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Now, this I just thought of this one, because I don't know, you obviously you've probably refurbished and everything over the last you know couple of decades. Did you ever catch anybody trying like try and take like an old piece of wood or a picture, try and steal a piece of the diner to take home?

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Every once in a while we we're missing salt and pepper shakers, let's put it to that. I was about to say the salt shaker for sure.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

They have to you have to you should put a sign on. This actually wasn't in the original movie, you know. Um that's awesome. Uh so uh what okay, so on take us through a day in Mike's life with this diner. I mean, it's not always, I'm sure, like, you know, Friday 13th, crazy, but like you you said you you lay in bed, you do a lot of your thinking, and you come up with ideas. But what's a day in your life look like?

SPEAKER_02 18:45

Day in the life. Um, so besides a diner, I actually work another job during the day. So on top of this, so I'm I'm actually a salesperson. That's actually how I end up coming here. I I sold food for a couple big companies, and that's how I met the owner that was here at the time. So okay. And then uh but five, six o'clock in the morning, I take the social media, answer questions, uh emails. Um, I do my other jobs. That's all you on social media. I'm all social media. That's all they're talking to me.

SPEAKER_01 19:15

Wow, because you're doing a lot. You're doing a lot lately, I've noticed.

SPEAKER_02 19:19

That's good for you. That's why I'm up till two, three o'clock, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 19:22

Yeah, yeah. Social media is.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

I finished my other job at uh like five o'clock, and then I'm here at the diner, and uh I do the work that's got to be done here, and I'm home uh usually about nine o'clock, and then uh it's to social media again and answering and whatever else is going on. I try to keep track of it during the day at the same time, so it's not all at once, but uh it's a lot of work, but it it's it I I I claim it as my fun job as that. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

You see, we can we should all be so blessed to exactly you but you know what it is, and again, Mike, I'm not just you know blowing smoke up your ass here. You just you get it. You like you you you get what you have, and that is really, really cool. And you know, that's kind of like again, with with a lot of these locations, that people are so passionate about locations, and some people can't understand that. And I that's fair. And then some people that like you know, you know, like they'll buy a house that is like a uh like a such a pivotal house in film, you know, and then people come by their house and they're like, you know, get off my lawn. And I well, not that you want them on their lawn, but like they don't understand, they don't understand what they're getting into, they don't understand what they have, and and and that's kind of frustrating because like it or not, like people are coming. And uh so that's it, but again, it's what you've done is fantastic. Um what are uh what are your future plans? Because I think you kind of alluded to like you're you're just getting going, right?

SPEAKER_02 20:52

Yeah, it's uh it's distraction. Um, like I said, we're doing a couple of uh events every month. Um BlairstownDiner.com, you can see everything going on. You can buy tickets there. Um you can see what we're planning. Um I try to do a little bit of uh teasers of what's going on um on some parts of it so people the fans can see what's going on. Uh social media is a big uh help. Um I think we just went over 10,000 followers in uh Facebook and we're almost close in Instagram now, so it's pretty good following that way. Um try to work with other businesses. You brought up uh other places like the Diner, uh Buffalo Bill's house in Pittsburgh. We work very well with him um from Silence of the Lambs. Nice. So we uh we try to work with other locations, uh work off each other's fans and stuff like that. That's that's helped a lot that way.

SPEAKER_00 21:48

So has anyone up heard to you about wanting to film a TV show or a movie?

SPEAKER_02 21:55

Correct, we have. Yep. Um we have had movies here, other ones. Um a lot of fan films and stuff like that. Um we we post it as a uh filming location, so we're we're always open to uh other movie places. And right now I I'm cle I hear that uh New Jersey is the uh Hollywood of the East, I'm being told, because Netflix is moving here and Adam Sandler's filming movies in New Jersey and stuff like that. So it's pretty cool that way.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

That's great. That's great. So what's uh what's capacity for an event there? Like because I I've been there and I'm trying to picture where you do everything.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

Yep. Um sitting down, 53 people, I think it is. Yeah. Um that actually can sit at once. Um but fan-wise they'll they wait at the door and uh wait in line and go around the building, and sometimes it could be an hour and a half uh wait just to get inside, but they they want to eat in the diner, uh, where it all happened and where it started and the birthplace of Friday the 13th.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

So for sure. Does all your staff is all your staff bought in? It's all the way what is all did all your staff did they buy into this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would I would imagine, you know, it when they're applying for the job, this comes up, right? So that's part of the interview.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Do you know about us on Friday the 13th? And if they go yes or no, and then I gotta explain everything, and they're like, oh, really? That's pretty cool. So uh so everybody wear everybody that works here wears the Friday the 13th gear, and it's cool that way. Even the kitchen helps.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

So brilliant. Uncle Pete, do you got something uh more? I don't I don't want to hog Mike again, like I said.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

No, no, no, you're you're fine. Oh, what's your favorite thing to eat at the diner? Other than the burger, like what's like what's uh I'm sorry, like what's a sleeper like you wish more people would try, like the meatloaf or the French onion soup.

SPEAKER_02 23:54

Turkey dinner, how's that? Turkey dinner, okay. Yeah. We actually roast our own turkey, everything's fresh that way. It's not belly turkey, so that's a pretty good uh pretty good item. What's the bottom is nobody goes home from the Blairstown diner.

SPEAKER_01 24:07

Hungry home nice. No, it goes home hungry. That's awesome. How many staff?

SPEAKER_02 24:11

How much uh do you have on a regular um depending on the day, depending on Friday the 13th, it's always all different.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

So yeah, so you just have yeah, okay. Do you have like volunteers for this? Because I would imagine that would be a fantastic like you know, opportunity for like fans to volunteer.

SPEAKER_02 24:27

We do yeah, we do have fans that volunteer for certain events, and we have a pretty good nucleus. Brian has a bunch of friends from Friday the 13th, people that always volunteer and they're pretty cool at that. And uh we take care of them that way.

SPEAKER_00 24:39

So Pete, I don't know if you got anything more for I just not really a question, just to reiterate some of the stuff Jason said, just like you know, horror as horror fans, I love hearing that other horror fans are always like the nicest fans you'll ever meet. Like you go to a horror convention, everybody's super sweet. And I I love hearing stories like that. Like it's the you know, that you don't get the a-hole. I'm sure every once in a while, no matter where you will, you're gonna, but I like hearing stories like that and just the fact that you're you kept it alive because Jason alluded to earlier, there was another Friday the 13th location that the owners bought it, and they're like, Nope, not uh and it's kind of disappointing knowing what you're getting into, but for you not only but to accept it but to embrace it and like you're doing something for fans, and just think about all the old fans and all the new fans are coming in, you know, because Jason and I we're all a little getting older in years. We remember the movies, but doing what you're doing is breaking into all kinds of new fans, like they're probably gonna go to the diner for the first time. Oh, let me go check out that Friday movie. That I'm just saying that I really I gotta commend you for that. It's kind of cool, it's really cool.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

I think the TV show is gonna bring in a new generation, definitely, of uh fans when that comes out in October.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

So yeah, we're we're hoping so for us too.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Do you have any kind of uh partnership or um you know just any kind of uh yeah, cooperation with uh Crystal Lake Tours or is that completely separate?

SPEAKER_02 26:10

No, it's separate. Um the Boy Scouts actually own the camp still. Yeah, um, I know they have a company that runs it for them. Um I've talked to a couple of the people powers of bee that's there, but we don't really uh do anything with them. We just uh kind of rely on each other. If something somebody posts on Instagram, we'll repost it and uh we use it that way. So one of the fans are up there, we'll post uh what their experience was. And I that's the biggest thing. I I try if a if a fan tags us in something, I try to uh repost their stuff. So they're they're out on social media and they appreciate that part of it. So that's the cool part about it. A lot of people get the exposure that way.

SPEAKER_01 26:49

I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to dig up a picture I have of me at the diner. I'm gonna have to see it is send it over. 2018, so it was a while ago, but I definitely still have it. Um honestly, uh I you know I can't thank you enough. This was uh this was fun. I I love what you're doing. Again, I'm I'm gonna say it again. I love what you're doing. I can't wait to come back. I don't know exactly when that'll be, um, but I will definitely be coming back. And um, I just you know, you seem like like I said, your heart's in the right spot, and I wish you all the best moving forward. Appreciate it. Thanks, Mike. So we'll talk to you, uh we'll talk to you again. Okay, sounds good. All right, we'll bring you on. Have a good day. Take care. See you later. Bye-bye. Well, that was Mike Rumsey of the Blairstown Diner. Uh, a man who gets it, a man who understands what the fans want, and uh and God love him. Uh seems like a great guy. And uh, like I said, maybe we'll be doing a show there one day. Who knows?

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Hopefully, that would be kind of cool.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

Yeah, it's it's funny. You know what? I was like, I was wondering going in, I was like, I wonder if like, you know, he's a like a hardcore fan or if this just kind of came to him. And like it does so many times, right? It just kind of comes to people, right? It it's it's weird how that works out, but um again, just hoping that he can keep it going. Hopefully the show when it starts, you know, manifests even more to his direction.

SPEAKER_00 28:29

Uh again, being being such an original working out for him. Sorry? Sounds like it's really working out. Like when I went on the website, the to me that's a big deal. The maximum overdrive truck is gonna be that's super that would get me to go. I would drive a couple hours to go see the diner and that truck. I mean, so for sure. I'm I'm glad things it looks like the things and like he said with the show, uh he's they're gonna be doing really well, I hope.

SPEAKER_01 28:55

Well, because the show again, the the show is like, you know, we don't really know for sure, but it's like prequel-ish or it's like the origin story. It's camp, it's like you know, New Jersey probably. So, you know, that's gonna kind of evoke a lot of imagination from fans to, you know, go back and see it all and uh hopefully that uh you know they're around for another 45 years. Again, you know, and we're gonna have some you know upcoming shows about like you know, some the disastrous states of some of the Friday 13th locations. It's nice to know that one is stand in proud and uh still operating open open for business. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

That's right. So seven days a week. Yeah.