WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.919 --> 00:00:14.199 He was cold. Cold. That was an even he was cold. Mine, 2 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.280 what's going on up there? Could be the most important event in history? 3 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:40.320 Now, I am cold? That destroy our worlds? I said. 4 00:00:40.359 --> 00:01:03.359 I hope this is close to Hell's all ever again. M Hello and welcome 5 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.519 to the Tales from the Dark podcast. I'm your host, Bob. You're 6 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:08.239 with my co host Brittany. Hey, guys, what's up. Brittany? 7 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.000 It's Friday. How are you doing. I'm doing good. How are you? 8 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:15.439 Oh, I'm doing well. The United Strangest episode was very well received. 9 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.560 I'm glad that everyone enjoyed it. We are, We're glad to bring 10 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.799 it back. Yeah, yeah, we definitely are. And I was very 11 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:29.239 surprised by all the outpour and outcry to have it come back. Yeah, 12 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.120 and were in the midst of this. We are getting some requests and I 13 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.159 was actually gonna wait to tell you this on the show, to bring back 14 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:40.159 another little known series called for Legal Reasons. Oh my god, So I 15 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:42.760 wanted to see is that something that you're willing to bring back in the next 16 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:45.599 week or two. You're really just putting me on the spot here. I 17 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:47.920 don't have a choice if I don't do it this way. Then we don't 18 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:51.879 get new series. This is how this works. That's not how that works. 19 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:53.439 Now we have the guilt Britie into things with the giver baked goods, 20 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:57.400 and you know, there's some goating that needs to be done. But yeah, 21 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.760 yeah, I definitely think that that can be possible. Just make sure 22 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:05.879 that if you guys want to hear us cover any wild conspiracy theories, that 23 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.319 you either put in the disco or the Facebook or the Patreon. Yes. 24 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:10.879 So once again, if you guys want to support the show, the best 25 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:15.159 way to do that is to join the Facebook group, leave us a five 26 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:17.599 star review them wherever you listen to the show where that's Apple Podcast, Spotify. 27 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:21.800 And then if you want some extra content, that's now one to include 28 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:25.360 the weekly YouTube uploads that I'm working very hard to bring back. Join us 29 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:30.360 over at patreon dot com slash Tales from the Dark Gun. I said it 30 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:32.280 better myself. Well good because I said it. But with that being said, 31 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:36.159 are you ready to give mister Jerry Pauly a call? I am all 32 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.520 right, let's give him a call, all right, miss Brittany. So 33 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:44.319 very much like David Letterman, our next guest needs no introduction. Jerry Polly, 34 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:47.800 how you doing, sir, I wouldn't know where I didn't need an 35 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:52.680 introduction, but I appreciate that I'm doing well. Hey, there's a handful 36 00:02:52.719 --> 00:02:54.879 of people in the pair of community that I look up to, and you're 37 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:58.759 one of them. And we've had this discussion on and off the air. 38 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.039 You've helped the show more than you could ever understand, so we definitely appreciate 39 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:05.240 it. We appreciate you taking the time tonight to sit down with us, 40 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:08.159 and I hope you're doing well. I appreciate that. Usually I need an 41 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:13.159 introduction at my family reunions. So that's all I was gonna say. Fair 42 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.879 enough. So for those three people who don't know Jerry, Jerry is the 43 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:23.439 one of the hosts the extremely popular podcast Hillbilly Horror Stories. Everyone's like, 44 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:24.719 Bob, we know who this guy is. Stop it right now. You're 45 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:31.000 embarrassing yourself. But Jerry is also a podcast guru. Usually if I have 46 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:34.400 an issue, if I'm kind of concerned about an episode, or if I 47 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.840 need advice, Jerry's always the first one I reach out to and he gets 48 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:42.439 back to me. The response time of Jerry is absolutely ridiculous. Let's just 49 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:45.520 be honest. I usually it's like three to four business days for other podcast 50 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:49.120 hosts. Jerry will message you back before you put your phone back down and 51 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:53.599 like most occurrences, so we definitely appreciate the help on the support. Jerry, 52 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:55.400 I want to dive right in. So you have a second podcast that's 53 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:00.039 not Hillbily Horror Stories. Can you tell us about this other show? Yeah, 54 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.240 it's actually at one point in time, I had a podcast called Warning 55 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:06.159 You Will Be Offended. It was a little more adult, which was a 56 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:10.919 comedy podcast, which is the kind of comedy that I did when I was 57 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:16.199 doing stand up and Hillbilly Horror Stories is definitely more family oriented. Uh you 58 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:20.480 know if your families in the you know, killings and ghosts and back histories 59 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:26.199 of hundred houses. But some people's families are so who am I to criticize. 60 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:30.199 But as far as the other show, we did it for a while. 61 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:36.439 I actually signed on with another podcast platform and signed a contract, and 62 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:42.600 they wouldn't allow me to do the other podcast. They were afraid that that 63 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:47.319 reputation from that show might leak over and their vested interest was in Hillbilly Horror 64 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:53.000 Stories. When that contract ran out, we decided that we wanted to start 65 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:57.040 up another one. The young lady's name is Amanda Dacross. She lives up 66 00:04:57.120 --> 00:05:02.199 in the Massachusetts Erry and she has that thick Boston accent, so you can 67 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:08.959 imagine how that goes perfect with my Southern accent. But she's absolutely hilarious. 68 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.160 I wanted to jump on and do something else with her. We decided to 69 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:16.319 make this show a little more PG. Thirteen and it's called it's called Wickedly 70 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.600 Weird with Jerry and Amanda. We basically put on an episode every two weeks. 71 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:24.920 It's about a thirty forty five minute episode, and every one of the 72 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:30.639 stories have just crazy endings or surprises along the way, twist turns, but 73 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:38.639 they could be any genre. We've talked about the UFO abduction that was up 74 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:44.199 in Berkshire in Massachusetts. We've talked about a time slipped from nineteen seventy nine. 75 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.800 We've talked about several crimes that were solved, and just a bunch of 76 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:54.040 you know, I don't know what's going on, mystery type stuff. So 77 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:58.720 we've we just put out We just recorded our eleventh episode. I think there's 78 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:00.920 eight of them outs or we're a little bit at ahead. Of the game, 79 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:04.600 but people seem to really enjoy it, So I think I feel like 80 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:09.360 a little bit of comedy. She doesn't know the story that I tell so 81 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:12.399 when I tell her the story that's got the surprise, she's guessing all the 82 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.959 way through it and gasping and you know how that goes. And she's just 83 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.879 got a funny personality. So it's entertaining. And like I said, we've 84 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:25.279 not had a single negative review since we started doing this back about three months 85 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:30.079 ago. Well, first off, congratulations, that's in the podcast game. 86 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.480 Negative reviews, they're the bread to your butter. Let's be honest. Everyone 87 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.839 has an opinion, and unfortunately, when it comes to podcast, they're not 88 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:40.879 afraid to share it. But now, so I NA said, every every 89 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:44.160 other week, is it a certain day that you have it as what's the 90 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:46.920 schedule for these releases or is it just every other week? Whenever we released 91 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:51.399 on Wednesdays, it's like the one today's Wednesday. We had a new episode 92 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:55.600 come out today, So I think this will be air in a couple of 93 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.000 days after that one was released, to be a couple of weeks before the 94 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:00.160 newest one comes out. Awesome, Where can people listen? Is it. 95 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.639 Is it everywhere that podcasts are founder, is it on your platform? Everywhere 96 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:10.040 everywhere that you can hear your show or all the other favorites that you listened 97 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:13.319 to, We're on all the platforms. Well, Jerry, that's awesome. 98 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.199 Now can I ask what is the drive for the second show? Because hib 99 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:20.160 were stories massive success because of a great audience, what's the drive to do 100 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:28.040 more past Hibbly Horror Stories? Well? I think the original back when, 101 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:32.000 back about three years ago, it was two, thy was twenty nineteen. 102 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:40.319 Amanda was a listener of the of the show. She loved it, and 103 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.920 she would write me stuff and I'm like, this person cannot be real with 104 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:47.759 some of the stuff she's writing. And I got to talk to her on 105 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:53.720 the phone and she was even more awesome in person. So I said, 106 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:57.720 you know what, why don't you come on for a segment of Hibbily Horror 107 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:01.360 Stories and we'll call it Amanda's I think everybody will love it. Now, 108 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:07.480 keep in mind, my idea of comedy is you know, Dave Chappelle, 109 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:11.560 Andrew Dyce, Clay, Eddie Murphy. Back in the day, Richard Pryor, 110 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.879 that was my idea of comedy, not really what we've built on hillbilly 111 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:22.120 horror story, even though that's how we started up me and Ricky who started 112 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:26.240 to show. The first eight episodes were one percent like that, but we're 113 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:30.920 family friendly now, have been for seven years. At this time, about 114 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:33.799 four years, and I put on this little segment of me and her, 115 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:39.759 and I had people that absolutely loved it, and I had people that absolutely 116 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.840 hated it, and so I said, you know what, let's just start 117 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.279 our own podcasts, and that's how we started warning you will be offended. 118 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:54.080 It was mainly because I really enjoyed doing adult comedy and haven't been doing stand 119 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.600 up for years now since we started the podcast, and I thought this would 120 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:00.960 be a fun way to still be able to put out some some fun stuff. 121 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.559 And the goal was to be like upro Ohio, just more of that 122 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:09.919 type of of content. And I think we did good. I mean, 123 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.120 don't get me wrong. We did one hundred and twenty three thousand downloads and 124 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:20.159 you know, less than a year, so people enjoyed it. But I 125 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.519 thought we could reach a bigger audience this time and still keep some of the 126 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:28.559 humor with keeping it a little more PG. Thirteen. So it's just because 127 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:33.799 I think I wanted to do something with her, and I wanted to do 128 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.159 something that was more I had a little more comedy to it than what I 129 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.600 can and take a few more liberties than what I can with Hillbilly Horror Story. 130 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:46.159 So for more creativity reasons than anything. Well, I mean fair enough. 131 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:50.799 Now this is the question that I really want to know. How the 132 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.240 fuck do you have time for another podcast? Jerry? I'm on your website 133 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:58.200 here, Hillbilly Horror Stories dot com. I go over to live events Louisville, 134 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.159 Kentucky sold out, in Middle Tune, Ohio, sold out, Lebanon, 135 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.639 Indiana, sold out, Buffalo, New York sold out. It keeps 136 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:09.000 going and going and going. Don't we have an upcoming event here Saturday twenty 137 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.559 or thirtieth? I'm sorry, it's you in the Confessionals podcast doing another live 138 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:16.000 event. With all you're traveling, all everything you're doing on social media. 139 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.320 This guy is the is the only person who comes close to you on social 140 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.759 media is Alan Greenfield. You were so active consistently, You're always talking to 141 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:28.639 your audience. You have this beautiful community. First off, I want you 142 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.519 to tell me about the live show coming up, and also where do you 143 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.480 get your energy from and can I have some, because like I struggle to 144 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.279 do the YouTube plus the Tailsman our podcast and have enough energy to do anything 145 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.000 apart from like walk around the block. So kind of walk us through this 146 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.440 year because it's kind of insane. Well, it's funny you bring that up, 147 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:54.559 because let's let's let's first talk about the live show, the Lave Show. 148 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.360 We're already on our third venue because we sold out the previous two and 149 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.159 we'll probably end up selling this one out too, and it's like we added 150 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:07.120 another fifty seats to it, so it's going to be a blast. It's 151 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.840 in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and we're excited about it because we're actually going to 152 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:16.120 be doing the show on Tracy and my wedding anniversary, so September thirtieth, 153 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:20.480 our anniversary, we'll use the opportunity to come down there. Tony from the 154 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:24.720 Confessional, he just lives about forty five minutes away. That's why we chose 155 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.799 Gatlinburg. And like I said, it's been ticket sales have been crazy on 156 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:33.120 that since the time we announced it because Tony's got a huge audience and now 157 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:37.480 that we've got even more room, well, this will end up being the 158 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:39.799 biggest show that we've ever done, and we've done about fifty of them, 159 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:45.879 so audience wise, we're already over one hundred tickets sold, and we sell 160 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.039 the majority of our tickets for live events the three weeks before the show, 161 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:54.399 so it's just now kicking in. We've had a couple of shows. Actually, 162 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.480 we did two shows in the same day with Tony back in two thousand 163 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.080 and nineteen in Houston, Texas, US, and we sold both of those 164 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.919 shows out. They were one hundred tickets apiece, and we sold both of 165 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.080 those out and did a matinee in an evening show in the same location. 166 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:15.480 So this will be the third show we've had over one hundred tickets sold, 167 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.360 because we're at one hundred and three right now, and all of them have 168 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.240 been US and the Confessionals together. Oh wow. So what you're saying is 169 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.440 people have to get their tickets like right now, like yesterday. If they're 170 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:30.159 selling out like three weeks ahead of time, where can people get tickets already? 171 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:31.200 I'm sure that if they're part of the Facebook group, they already know, 172 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:33.840 but where can folks go to buy tickets that they wanted to write? 173 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:39.320 Like this sitting the podcast they want to go buy them, just go to 174 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.840 our website Hellbilly Horror Stories dot com and you'll see live events. That's the 175 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.440 same place you were at and they can click right there and get more information 176 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.360 and buy tickets. And they can also check out the cruise that we get 177 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:52.480 going on next September, leaving out of Galveston, Texas and going to Mexico. 178 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:56.879 We'll be doing that with Brohile. Okay, where did the cruise come 179 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:03.159 from? Because that just came out of field when Nick sent me a little 180 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.840 blurb, I think this is the second one you've got. You guys have 181 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:07.799 done? Is that correct? Yes? Yes, So he sent me a 182 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.639 little blurb and he's like, Hey, we're doing a fucking cruise And I'm 183 00:13:11.679 --> 00:13:15.159 like, what do you What do you mean? You're doing a cruise? 184 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:20.200 Who does a Who does a cruise? So, because that's that's that's an 185 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:22.639 insane thing to say, especially for two self made podcasts. It's not like 186 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:28.200 you guys are industry plants or you guys have this huge advertiser industry budget that's 187 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.639 pushing your shows. Do you guys are self made? So how do you 188 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:33.919 guys go, especially bro Ohio with their background. How do you guys go 189 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.000 together and say, you know what, put them all on a boat in 190 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:41.480 the middle of the water in the ocean, international waters. No one can 191 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:46.360 prosecute. Let's see what happens. Where does that come from? Well, 192 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:50.159 years ago, when I was doing comedy, I had a friend approached me. 193 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:56.879 Now we're talking probably fifteen years ago, and I had a friend approached 194 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.399 me that was in the business tourism business, and he said, hey, 195 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:05.320 have you ever thought about doing a cruise for your comedy? And the way 196 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.679 we approached it back then it was a lot smaller situation, but he was 197 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:15.000 like, if you can get I think six or eight cabins rented out through 198 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.120 your podcast, they they'll block off like sixteen cabins, and if you can 199 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:22.039 get for every eight of them that you block off, they'll actually pay you 200 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:30.279 like three hundred bucks or something whatever the whatever the cost of what one person's 201 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.919 cruise would be, because those things are done like double but so double occupancy. 202 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.879 So let's say let's say it was seven hundred dollars for me and Tracy 203 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:43.159 back then, every time that you would have eight cabins books with two people 204 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:48.159 in each cabin, obviously they would give you the cost of one of those, 205 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:52.039 and so, you know, back then, we didn't expect to get 206 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.399 all of our money back. We were just looking to get some of it, 207 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:58.360 and you end up with, you know, doing okay, well we 208 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:05.799 had he ended up booking that cruise and Tracy had to have emergency heart surgery 209 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:09.919 two weeks before that, so we couldn't go. Everybody else went my sister 210 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:15.320 cousins and it was primarily friends and family that win, a couple of you 211 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:20.759 know of people that were comedy fans, but we ended up not being able 212 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:26.360 to going to cruise. So the same guy kind of popped in my head 213 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:31.320 because I heard Jim Harrold talking about he was doing a cruise, but the 214 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:35.399 cruise he was doing was different. It was more of a paranormal convention type 215 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:37.399 cruise. Somebody else set it up. He was going to be one of 216 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:39.480 the guests, and I thought, you know what, I kind of remembered 217 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.960 how this works. Let me call the guy that we had to set up 218 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.919 with fifteen years ago, and he's actually one of the biggest cruise bookers in 219 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.720 the country, and he just so happened. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky. 220 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:58.360 Where I was from, and he gave me the ins and outs on 221 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:00.440 what we could do. We set it up last year with us b Ohio, 222 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:07.679 Justin Rule from Mysterious Circumstances and Shane Waters foul Play podcast, and so 223 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:11.440 we had four shows on there, and we just decided, you know, 224 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:15.159 we're not gonna get anybody else involved. It's just going to be us four. 225 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:18.559 We'll do a live show on there, we'll do a meet and greet 226 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:21.440 on a different night, and we'll do a champagne party. And then they 227 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:25.960 set it up so anybody who booked would be able to sit with us at 228 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:29.879 the dining same section of the dining area. So it really was, you 229 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:33.679 know, like our own little special thing. And I think we had two 230 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:37.879 hundred people signed up the first forty five days, and we ended up with 231 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:41.360 a hundred that went on the cruise. But that was enough for us to 232 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:45.240 say, hey, let's do it again. We booked it every two years 233 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.639 so people have time to get it paid for, and like right now, 234 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:52.200 if somebody went and signed up for it, you can get two people in 235 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:55.039 one of the cabins for like nine hundred bucks, and of course that covers 236 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:59.799 all of your food and everything but alcohol and soft drinks the whole trip under 237 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:03.639 it's five day crews in September of next year, and it's going, like 238 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:07.920 I said, from Galveston to two stops in Mexico and then back to Galveston. 239 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.359 But to get all your food and everything for nine hundred bucks basically for 240 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:14.599 two people, and you can start making payments on it. Now they only 241 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.960 take like one hundred dollars deposit, and then you can make payments all the 242 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:21.799 way up to July. So in most of these cases one hundred bucks a 243 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:25.039 month. You can have it paid for by the time it gets there, 244 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:27.079 or paid off with your taxes or something like that. But that's how that 245 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:30.079 came to me, and we're expecting probably about two hundred people this time. 246 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:36.359 That's that's insanity. And like like I was saying, when those was first 247 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:42.519 announced, I didn't I had no idea the reach that these show has had 248 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:49.680 and how I guess attached your communities were to you and Tracy specifically, because 249 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:52.880 there's one thing about Your Guys A Show and this is kind of not related 250 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.119 to the cruise that then I absolutely love, and it's the positive impact that 251 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:02.759 Your Guy's A Show has had on your community. I know recently you posted 252 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:03.799 some reviews, but one of one of my favorite things to do, and 253 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.920 this is one thing I did very early on I'm not even sure I've ever 254 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:11.960 talked about this on the show, but I went through some of o Ohio's 255 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.960 reviews and then you know, just as happened, and your name popped up 256 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:18.359 at the bottom of Apple podcast. So I click on your show and I'm 257 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:22.440 like, man, if our show can just get reviews that are half as 258 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:26.880 heartfelt as this, We're doing something right and so it definitely gave us something 259 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:30.319 to aspire to when it comes to, you know, the significant other podcasts. 260 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:34.279 That's something that it's not often done well. It's often imitated, but 261 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:37.880 very rarely replicated, and it's something that Brittany and I have talked about me 262 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:42.359 really do try and to make sure that we're doing it justice. So you 263 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:45.640 know, podcasts like your own aren't just the only one out there, if 264 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.720 that makes sense. Basically, what I'm saying, we're trying to steal your 265 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.279 thunder Brittany's dyeing or hair as we speak, to be the new Tracy. 266 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:56.440 That's all. That's all I am saying. Oh my gosh, no, 267 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:00.480 But I do want to talk about your book because I think the last time 268 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:02.240 we had Jue, we didn't have a chance. We had to talk. 269 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:03.960 We have to talk your stand up before we leave. Don't let me forget 270 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.559 because the amount of people who reached out to me about your stand up, 271 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:11.039 it's like, hey, he's given you a softball about this stand up comedy. 272 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:14.720 You didn't even you didn't even take a swing, Bob, you gotta 273 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:17.039 you know we want to hear about this. But tell me about your book. 274 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:19.799 Where did it come from? And I see it on the website? 275 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:25.200 Is it still available for purchase or how does that work? Yeah, it's 276 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:30.200 it's on Amazon. We've gotten about eighty eighty three eighty four reviews on Amazon. 277 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:33.279 It's got like. There was one one star review and it was the 278 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:38.039 very first review we got because that person didn't know how to read the description 279 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.640 of the book. He thought it was all going to be folklore and stuff 280 00:19:41.640 --> 00:19:44.960 and it wasn't. It's actually, you know a mixture of some of my 281 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:48.680 stuff and the podcast and all that. So I got a one star because 282 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:51.680 he didn't know how to read, and it wouldn't when he thought it was 283 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:56.200 going to be and honestly, everything else I think has been five stars. 284 00:19:56.519 --> 00:19:59.720 I don't think we've had so it was like eighty two five star comments on 285 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:03.200 there. But you can get it there. It's fifteen bucks, and then 286 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.799 if you go to the website, you can get an autograph copy, and 287 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:11.599 then I don't just throw I hate when authors just throw their name on an 288 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:17.839 autograph copy. I always write something and include some stickers and some other little 289 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:21.039 goodies when I send it out. But it's twenty bucks and that covers your 290 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:23.720 shipping and everything, and I'll personalize it. But that's the easiest way to 291 00:20:23.759 --> 00:20:29.319 get a personalized copy unless you're coming to one of our live events or conventions 292 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:33.160 or something we're at. So what was the inspiration for the book? I 293 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:37.839 know it's very heartfelt book. The titles Demons, Depression and Redemption? Where 294 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:41.720 does that come from? If you're comfortable talking about it? Naturally, what 295 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:44.720 folks to go by the book? But can you got us kind of walk 296 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:48.400 us through where the author side of good with it? I mean, I'm 297 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:52.160 literally an open book, so it really doesn't matter that it's in paper too. 298 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:56.200 I wrote the book to try to help others. We've had people to 299 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:00.359 asking us for you know, the first two or three years the podcast, 300 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:02.599 Hey why don't you write a book? But I'm like, I really don't 301 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:04.880 want to rehash a bunch of the stories we've already told. I mean, 302 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:10.519 there's authors out there that are legit authors that can do the stories way better 303 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:12.720 than what I do them as far as a book, so there's no sense 304 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:17.680 of me you writing that same story that's been done a thousand times. But 305 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:27.960 somebody had, somebody had sent us a message about something we said kept them 306 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:37.200 from committing suicide, and they made a comment to me personally about how great 307 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:44.880 of a person I was, and it got me thinking, first of all, 308 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:48.559 I am leaps and bounds better than what I was years ago. I've 309 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:52.480 never felt myself to be a good person. I was a horrible person in 310 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:57.119 my eyes for the longest time, and it caused the divorce. It caused 311 00:21:57.160 --> 00:22:00.519 me to lose my kids, it caused me to lose my house, it 312 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:07.160 financially ruined me, and it was pretty much all my fault. I didn't 313 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.160 see it at the time, but I eventually did find you figure out, 314 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:15.799 you know what, You're kind of a douchebag, and that's why you're in 315 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:21.119 a situation you're in And I've spent the rest of my life trying to change 316 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:23.880 who I am as a person, and it's not always perfect. And I 317 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:30.000 went through years of depression and I thought, you know what, maybe everybody 318 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:36.319 should know that you can be a horrible person at some point in time, 319 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.960 but you can change if you really want to. So that's really where the 320 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:42.759 idea came from. So the book is in three parts. The first part 321 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:48.319 of the book is about me growing up in a haunted house and everything that 322 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:56.480 I encountered there. The second part of the book covers of my divorce, 323 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:02.000 everything that caused the divorce, my depression, I felt suicide attempt back in 324 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:07.319 two thousand and one, and how I've dealt with depression over the years. 325 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.480 And then the third part of the book is how we started hell Billy horror 326 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:21.720 stories and how we use the paranormal to get this giant blanket of a listener 327 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:29.079 base that we can then talk about, you know, mental health and being 328 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:33.279 okay to not be okay, and spreading the word about the suicide hotline. 329 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:37.079 So that's really what the book is. The book You're gonna get some paranormal, 330 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:41.279 You're gonna get some emotion. You're gonna get some tips on how to 331 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.039 deal with depression. I always say, if you've got a friend or a 332 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:48.680 relative dealing with depression, get them the book. Help if you can't afford 333 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:51.400 it. I put the book out. I did an audio version and put 334 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:55.279 it up on the podcast for free. You know, or send me a 335 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:59.000 message, I'll send you a book for free. I wrote it for the 336 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:02.920 to help people, not to make money off of If you make money off 337 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:06.559 of it, that's a bonus. But you know, I've given it out 338 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:11.200 the library, so I've given it out to anybody who's who calls me up 339 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:15.160 and says, hey, I'm really struggling, and I have conversations with them, 340 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:18.720 as Tracy and I often do. I will send them a copy of 341 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:22.279 the book because it might help, it might not, but whatever it's going 342 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:26.559 to take. But that's that's how the book. I finally, once people 343 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:27.720 said, you know, write a book, write a book. I thought, 344 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:32.160 you know what, this is a book I can write because it's it's 345 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:36.440 the only it's a story that only I can tell, because it's my story, 346 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.519 and it's got a lot of good, feel good stuff. I include 347 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:44.319 twenty five I think in the end of the book twenty five emails or messages 348 00:24:44.359 --> 00:24:51.000 that people sent us with their permission of how the show somehow changed their life 349 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:56.240 through them getting medical help, or reaching out to somebody, or just turning 350 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:00.039 their life around. So that was the if that was the attention of the 351 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:04.279 book. You know, you don't I took a risk because people saw me 352 00:25:04.319 --> 00:25:07.039 in a certain light. They didn't see that version of me, and I 353 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:11.160 opened it up to let them know, you know what, this person you 354 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:14.880 see that you think is so great, this used to be me. And 355 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:18.400 if that's you, you can change too. That was the purpose of the 356 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:23.079 book, that you're human. I mean, that's that's an amazing, amazing 357 00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:26.480 story, and I really appreciate you sharing that with us and sharing it with 358 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:33.119 the world, because coincidentally enough, we just had a conversation talking about paranormal 359 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:41.559 covering mental hospitals and mental institutions and the horrible, horrible things that they used 360 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:45.720 to do for people who just needed to help, who needed proper medical care, 361 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:52.599 and how mental health has been taken seriously only in recent history, and 362 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:56.400 mean very recent history. So I definitely think people like you out there who 363 00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:02.240 are willing to tell your story and have something that people can can relate to, 364 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:06.599 and says seeing you know, just a podcaster, you know, a 365 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:10.519 very big podcaster, but just a podcast host. They can they can see 366 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:14.160 the community behind you and see why you do the things you do. So 367 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:18.960 I think that's amazing. Thank you. No, I absolutely agree, Jerry, 368 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:22.279 and I do applaud you because you're right. There's there's this self image 369 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:26.119 that your your audience has a few and a lot of times it's of this, 370 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:30.799 you know, this humorous or this intelligent person who does no wrong when 371 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:34.519 an actuality. You know, we're normal people. We have our own internal 372 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:41.160 battles, and it is difficult and kind of lowering that guard and allowing people 373 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.359 to see, you know, the true Jerry for for lack of a better 374 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:48.599 term here, that's that's astounding, and it's one of those things that I 375 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:53.519 wish we would see more in the podcast community and more people, less characters. 376 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:56.559 I think it's my favorite thing to say, especially as I've gotten more 377 00:26:57.160 --> 00:27:02.480 ingrained in the YouTube communities and gotten more involved on the YouTube side. Is 378 00:27:02.519 --> 00:27:07.319 I think that there's there's a big missing part in in content creation and entertainment 379 00:27:07.319 --> 00:27:11.799 in general, is people are playing this character. They want to be perceived 380 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.079 as a certain way, someone who has all their stuff together and they know 381 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.880 what's right. End of discussion. When an actuality, there's this unspoken benefit 382 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.839 that people can have by just having a discussion, lowering those walls and like 383 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:27.200 you said, responding to the emails, that alone can mean more to one 384 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:30.599 person than than I could ever put into words. And you know that firsthand, 385 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:36.000 so I definitely applaud you on that, Jerry. Now I do want 386 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:37.880 to kind of change gears a little bit, something a bit more happy. 387 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:41.880 First off, is there any remaining videos out there that people can go see 388 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.559 of your stand up comedy? Because you mentioned, you know, the the 389 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:48.480 Eddie Murphy that Richard Pryors. I was more of a Charlie Murphy fan personally, 390 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:52.480 but you know, to each their own. Where can people, if 391 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:57.920 it even exists, find your stand up comedy? Well, it's hidden. 392 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.920 You can find it. You got to look for it. If you go 393 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:07.039 to YouTube and you look up my stage name, the rent Daddy, all 394 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:11.480 three words the rent Daddy, and you put up you might want to throw 395 00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:15.319 Louisville in there. You'll find it. Or you can go and this will 396 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:19.640 probably be getting changed before too long. If you go to the Hillbilly Horror 397 00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:27.559 Stories YouTube page and you dig way down, you'll find a bunch of stuff 398 00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:33.359 down there. I stuff was at the Improv and Comedy Caravan and Louisville in 399 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.559 a bunch of the places. There's probably ten or twelve videos out there that 400 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:41.559 you can check out. I got a whole DVD that I did. Wasn't 401 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:45.079 happy with it, so I didn't release its long story on that, but 402 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:51.480 it should have been perfect and it wasn't, and so I kind of cut 403 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:52.559 it up so nobody knows it's there. It doesn't have a whole lot of 404 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.799 views because nobody knows it's there, but it's it's it is on our Hillbilly 405 00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:02.000 Horror Stories page. But you gotta dig down at the very bottom. Well 406 00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:06.319 fair enough, And that's kind of makes perfect sense now, you know, 407 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:10.200 you as a podcast host, because there's one thing that I've been enamored with 408 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:14.279 recently, and that's the lifestyle of comedians. And you know, I dive 409 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:15.880 deep into the injury shoul. It's the Tim Dillon's, the Joe Rogans. 410 00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:21.319 Don't get me started on Tim Dillon. That's my current obsession. Obsession is 411 00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:23.799 like a very loose term, but right now we all need more fake business 412 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:27.480 in our life. Lets you are you are flabbergasted by him, right Jerry. 413 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:30.039 I'm gonna send you a video after the show, just Tim Dillon fake 414 00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:34.599 business. It'll change everything for you, to promise. But no, it's 415 00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:40.359 it's an incredible thing because there's not There's not like much more you could say 416 00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:44.000 about, like really putting yourself out there to a crowd because you have no 417 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:47.279 idea what the crowd response is going to be. So I'm going to ask 418 00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:51.640 you when you were doing stand up, did you ever really bomb? And 419 00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:56.319 how does Jerry Pauli handle Heckler's and did that also carry over into the podcast 420 00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:03.640 world? I bombed one time. I was very lucky. My very first 421 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:08.000 time ever on stage, there was an HBO rep in the audience and they 422 00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:11.759 called me over. She said, I can tell you're raw, but I 423 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:18.680 love your stage presence. I love the command that you have over the audience, 424 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:25.400 that you had tons of confidence. And she gave me a couple of 425 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:27.799 tips on some things to do and not do. But she actually set up 426 00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:30.920 my first website for me, And that was my first time ever at an 427 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:36.839 open mic at comedy Caravan. There was some pretty well known comedians that were 428 00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:40.880 out there that night. Tom maybe was a good friend of ours, was 429 00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:45.400 actually out there that night. A fluteman. Greg people of Greg Warren. 430 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.559 People hear him on Bob and Tom and stuff. He was actually out there 431 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.759 that night doing a guest appearance. Tim Northern, who was on Star Search, 432 00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:55.960 was out there that night. At a lot of well known people out 433 00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:59.079 there. And you know I was the one that got called over to talk 434 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:04.359 to the HBO talent rep. But you asked about bombing. Yeah, so 435 00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:07.960 let me tell you there's this There's a comedian who since passed away, great 436 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:14.599 guy, Jay Scott Holman, very funny guy. We were doing I was 437 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:22.279 local in Louisville and he was coming in the headline a show. They decided, 438 00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:23.599 you know what we're gonna have. There was a website in town that 439 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:27.319 everybody was on. It was like Facebook before Facebook, called Louisville Mojo, 440 00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:32.960 and I had built up a little bit of a following on air. They'd 441 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:37.640 come to the open mics, they'd have up last and everybody had a good 442 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:40.799 time. Well, this particular night, the comedy club decided, you know 443 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:42.440 what, we're gonna have our regular show, but then after that show, 444 00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:49.039 we're gonna have Louisville Mojo Night. Well, there's a scene in a comedy 445 00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:52.240 business that I didn't know then, and I found out about it this night. 446 00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:57.200 I went on. I was actually the headliner of that, and I 447 00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:01.559 keep in mind people have already at two hours for the regular comedy show. 448 00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:07.799 Now they've set for about another hour and something from another show. Three hours 449 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:15.000 is a long time to sit at a comedy show. People get laughed out, 450 00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:17.160 believe it or not. And my stuff just did not go over. 451 00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:22.200 Well. Well, Jay Scott finished up, you know, he stuck around 452 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:27.119 for it. He came over afterwards and he said, look, I'm gonna 453 00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:32.160 tell you something. Your stuff is really funny. The crowd's reaction was not 454 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:38.799 indicative of your set. They're tired, they're ready to go home. He 455 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:43.039 said, I'll let you in on a little tip. When the show is 456 00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:47.599 over. The show is over, And that's apparently a pretty well known thing 457 00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:52.920 in a comedy business. After about two hours, people are tired of laughing, 458 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:58.079 so they usually don't schedule more than two hours. If you go to 459 00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:01.640 a comedy show right now, it will never last more than two two and 460 00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:05.640 a half hours period. You go to a concert, you can sit all 461 00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:07.799 day and listen to music and go to these festivals. Can't do that in 462 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:15.000 comedy. So usually you'll have the headliner usually does thirty to forty five minutes. 463 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:19.400 At a comedy club, you'll have somebody do twenty to thirty minutes before 464 00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:22.319 him, and in an opener do fifteen minutes. But it always equals up 465 00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:24.880 to about two hours. And that's why. So that was the only time 466 00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:29.279 I ever really bombed. And he made me feel better about it by saying 467 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:32.240 that it wasn't the material, it was just the fact that that show had 468 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:37.039 been on, you know, going on for over three hours. I completely 469 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.480 understand that, because I can barely sit in a movie theater for two and 470 00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:45.720 a half hours before I'm anson and and wanting to leave, and that whoa 471 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:51.680 three and a half hours before you headline. I would be as supportive as 472 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:53.519 I could be, But oh my gosh, that's a long time. There's 473 00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:57.480 only so many laughs I have in a day, and that's uh yeah, 474 00:33:57.519 --> 00:33:59.559 I'd say about hour and a half, two hours, and I'm pretty much 475 00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:02.480 I'm pretty much laughed out. I'm like that with concerts. I mean, 476 00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:06.759 I can go see a band that I absolutely love, and after about two 477 00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:09.000 two and a half hours, I'm like, like Brittany said, I've got 478 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:12.079 kind of got the jitters, and like, Okay, I'm kind of ready 479 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.719 to go. Now. You know, I've heard all the hits and I 480 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:16.760 know they got a couple more. But you know, there comes a time 481 00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:21.440 where you just are ready. No, I completely understand that. So I 482 00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:22.480 know we're coming up on our time here, Jerry, but I wanted to 483 00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:25.599 ask one last question and then we're going to kind of put it all, 484 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:30.239 put it all together in a neat little box. If someone wanted to sort 485 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.519 a podcast, and this is something I'm trying to ask all of our podcast 486 00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:37.400 host friends, what advice would you give them in twenty twenty three, because, 487 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.920 as we both know, in the past twenty four months, the podcast 488 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:45.800 landscape has changed dramatically. So what advice would you have someone who maybe doesn't 489 00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:51.519 doesn't have an entertainment background. They listen to podcasts, but that's about it. 490 00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:53.559 What advice would you have someone sorting, you know, ground zero day 491 00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:58.880 one. First of all, get you some decent equipment. That doesn't mean 492 00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:00.800 you got to go out and spend you know, a thousand dollars on podcast 493 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:06.360 equipment. But you know, if you're going to have more than one guest, 494 00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:13.039 get you at least an eighty nine hundred microphone that's got great reviews. 495 00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:19.199 Get you a dynamic microphone because it won't pick up everything around you. And 496 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:22.840 if you're going to have more than one host, get you some kind of 497 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:25.960 inexpensive mixer that you can get for about one hundred bucks. If you've already 498 00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:30.239 got a laptop or some type of computer, you literally can get ac a 499 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:37.039 mixer and a stand for two hundred and fifty bucks. Now that's a lot 500 00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:39.079 of money for some people, but I can tell you this, if you 501 00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:45.239 do not have good sound quality, it doesn't matter what your topics are or 502 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:49.480 how entertaining you are. There are sound snobs and you will lose them. 503 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:54.360 And when you're starting off a podcast, you can't afford to lose anybody. 504 00:35:54.480 --> 00:36:00.960 So that's my first thing is definitely have great sound equipment. Uh, like 505 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:02.639 I said, doesn't have to be the Joe Rogan, you know, eight 506 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:06.800 hundred dollars microphone or something like it. Just it just don't. But it's 507 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:09.519 got to be decent, you know, and and I think that's the that's 508 00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:15.920 the first step. I would say that the other thing is maybe stay away 509 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:21.599 from politics and religion, because you know what you're in the beginning. You 510 00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:28.119 need every listener you can possibly get, and that means don't divide your audience. 511 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:30.719 You know, I learned a long time ago. We did a show 512 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.880 back during the twenty sixteen election. We did a show. I made a 513 00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:38.440 Trump joke and I made a Hillary joke in the same show, and I 514 00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:43.800 got hate from both peep sides of it. And my thought was, being 515 00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:47.000 a comedian, if I make a joke about both of them, it doesn't 516 00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:50.800 show bias. It just shows if nothing else, we're you know, we're 517 00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:53.119 trying to just make fun of everybody, and trust me, that does not 518 00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:59.639 work like that. I've done shows. The one show that we put up 519 00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:04.039 best of shows and the one show that I've never rerained was the one we 520 00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:07.840 did on the Freemasons because I gave out my opinions on some freemasons and I've 521 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:15.639 never had so many people disagrees wholeheartedly as what that episode was and I'm not 522 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:21.400 about to put it back up again. And that was like episode like twenty 523 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:25.480 four or something that was way back seven years ago. So I would say, 524 00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:29.239 don't divide your audience, get your good sound equipment. The rest of 525 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:34.000 it. You'll be able to figure out. That's phenomenal advice, and I 526 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:37.039 want to I want to double up on the good sound. If I learned 527 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:42.199 anything, especially when it comes to videography, people will watch seven twenty p 528 00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:45.000 video, they will click off if your microphone sounds like you're talking to a 529 00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:50.079 ten can. We were guilty of that in our early early stages, and 530 00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:53.159 thankfully we had guides are like, hey, maybe go to zounds and get 531 00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:59.199 this instead. So I definitely agree. So before we go, Jerry, 532 00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.519 let's remind everybody where can they find Hillbilly Horror Stories, the new show, 533 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.320 the cruise tickets, the live event tickets, all this. Where can I 534 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.920 send folks to find more? Jerry Hillbilly Horror Stories dot com. That's how 535 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:15.599 they can found anything we got going on live and anything that we've got. 536 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:20.400 The cruise has its own special tabs, so you can find out everything about 537 00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:22.920 it, probably seen and everything is on there and who you would need to 538 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:29.679 call. You can buy tickets or find out more by going to the events 539 00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:32.239 page on there and as far as the podcast, you can listen to it 540 00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:39.159 anywhere, absolutely anywhere, and that includes the new podcast which is wickedly weird 541 00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:43.360 with Jerry and Amanda, and I appreciate people given that one a shot. 542 00:38:43.400 --> 00:38:45.519 I think you'll really like that show if you listen to it. Well, 543 00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:49.920 absolutely, Jerry, and again I appreciate the time, sir. It's always 544 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.039 a pleasure. We're gonna have to do this again here in the next couple 545 00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:55.719 of months, so have a good day. Thank you, Jerry, Thank 546 00:38:55.760 --> 00:39:00.400 you well, Britney. It's always fun to talk to other podcasts and kind 547 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:04.079 of see how the other half lives. Yeah, the magic. Yeah, 548 00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:07.679 And that's the cool thing about podcasting in general is even though we do have 549 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:12.360 like some crossover with our audience and even our subject matter, the way that 550 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:15.960 other people approach these topics and they add their own little twists and stuff, 551 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:20.159 it's always fun to get to dive into that specifically. No, I completely 552 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:22.599 agree. Yeah. So with that being said, Mispertty, the only thing 553 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:25.119 I want to remind everybody about is uh go if you're if you haven't subscribed 554 00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:29.239 already tells the dark Over on YouTube. I plan to try and do weekly 555 00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.239 uploads if I can. I've got one one out last week does a really 556 00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:36.639 cool, like semi local story to us that I had never heard before until 557 00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:39.719 we covered it. So if you're into like kind of darker history, I 558 00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:43.880 think you're gonna like the next couple of videos where you putting now I agree. 559 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:45.199 Well that being said, misperty, unless there's something else that you'd like 560 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:49.679 to add, I think we're not have to add this episode of Our Strange 561 00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:55.400 World with Jerry Polly to our never ending but are always growing Tales from the 562 00:39:55.480 --> 00:41:02.760 Dark. M m m. The Builder was come