Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, how's it going about. First, Sorry, this is
not a video with stories in it, but I need
to make this announcement and I hope it benefits a
few people. But about a month ago, I put out
a video telling you about a big TV show that
is being produced at the moment. It's being cast at
the moment for a major television network. They're coming to
the end of the casting. Twenty or thirty people have
submitted videos to me. I passed them on to the
casting directors and the producers, and I think all of
those people got a callback. I don't know if they've
been cast, but they got a callback. So they're kind
of narrowing down the types of stories they're looking for.
Of course from me and other people are I'm not
the only one sending recommendations for casting, but they're looking
for special niches. But before I tell you what that is,
as we get down to the end of the casting process,
there's still about two weeks left that you could submit.
They've told me that you can write. You don't have
to do a video, you don't have to do an
audio file. You can just write it, but make it brief,
make it and email it to me, and I will
forward it onto the production company. They'll took a look.
They'll take a look at it, and they're interested. They'll
give you a callback or they'll email you. They'll have
your email address and all put your phone number in
there and also that they'll have that if you want
them to call you. But there's still about two weeks
left to do this casting thing, to audition for this show.
And if you've had a crazy experience, I think they'll
talk to you. I don't know if they'll cast you,
but I think you'll get a callback and they'll talk
to you. So let me read you what they're kind
of narrowing down. This is not exclusive. If yours is
something else that I don't list here, then go ahead
and send it in too, because they may find it interesting.
But these are some of the suggestions and the directions
they're looking to go. We're really interested in finding some
stories with unique crypt it. Some that come some that
come to mine are the glimmer Man, the Slender Man,
the Man of Talk, Long Island Beast, the hell Hound,
the Frogmen, etc. Do you have any of these stories
in mind? I don't because I don't even know what
those are. I don't know what those things are, but
the Mothman that she didn't write this, but the Mothman
comes to mind. I would say demonic type stories might
be interesting to them. She goes on to say they've
also divided up our stories into four categories, and some
are looking for a few more of her stories to
fill the episode. One being home invasions, where a cryptid
has entered your home. Second one is trapped, if you've
been trapped in your home an RV. She gives an example.
She has one where a couple is trapped in their
RV while a skunk ape tries to claw its way in,
or there's a bigfoot roaming around outside and you're terrified
to go out. They're looking for stories about bigfoot in
British Columbia specifically. So that's just a few ideas, but
don't let that limit you to your story. Go ahead
and go ahead and send it. I should have put
this out a month ago, but I've been so daggonb
busy i haven't had time to make this video. I'm
still kind of busy, but not quite as busy as before,
which leads me to this topic. We're on the fringe
right on the front end of probably the best building
economy that I will have seen in my life. And
it's the kind of economy guys like me dream of
because there's tons of work, the money's always good, and
like an idiot, I'm backing away from it to do
this podcast and write I've probably lost my mind doing this,
but I'm going to try it and see. Hopefully, if
this doesn't work out, the building economy will still be
rolling a year from now, six months from now, and
I can jump back in it and make a living
like I've always done it. But I want to write books.
I want to finish. Nobody's encouraging me to do this,
That's fine. I just it's just an itch. For six years,
I've been doing this podcast and I didn't know I
would love it so much until after I had done
it about a year and I thought, good grief, I
love doing this. This is so fun, and to me,
it's just a great feeling to sit down at the desk,
look at the screen and just read you a good
story and then go through the editing process and all
that stuff. It's a it's just a I don't know.
I just have a blast doing it. But since i've
been doing this podcast, You've only gotten about ten percent
of my time, and the other ninety percent is spent
on my business. I do this stuff early in the
morning or late at night, or right after I wind
up with a job. There's sometimes there's a two of
three day lag where I can spend time on the podcast.
And I've always done it for fun, but I'm going
to try it as a business. And so you're going
to see a lot more podcasts. You're going to see
everybody's asking about Steve Lily. You just haven't had time
to write. But I'm going to have time. I want
to finish my I said. Nobody's encouraging me except my wife.
She's like, you've got to get that Steve Lilly novel
written and get it out there. People are gonna love it.
It's a great story. And uh, I've got like a
three volume maybe four volume novel series I want to
write on him. I have other ideas for other non
monster stories. I won't be one of these literary writers
who spends two years on a book. I'll write these
pretty fast. And so I've got to get editing figured out.
I've got to get publishing figured out. I have a
lot of work to do to launch this. But in
the meantime, I'm going to be doing this podcast because
you two and my podcast hosts. That generates a little
bit of income for me. So I've got to do that.
I want to do that. It's not that I have to,
it's part of the joy of doing this whole thing.
But that's gonna have to sustain me, keep my bills
paid until I get these the first book published, and
just to see how it's going to go. So I
don't know why I'm telling you this other than you're
gonna see a lot more podcasts from Dixie and Steve. Lilly.
Got about two weeks of cleaning up jobs that I've
been working on the last six three to six months.
But once I get those done, by yaw, I'm off
to the races and walking away from all this beautiful
work like a freaking idiot. And I'm trying to I
want to get the quality of the podcast better. I
think it's pretty good now, but I want to do
better with visuals and maybe some AI visuals. No AI
voices unless it's something funny or whatever. I've got all
kinds of ideas of different things to do and that
keeps it interesting for me. So anyway, I just want
to let you know that, back to the auditions, if
you didn't feel like you could do a video, or
you can do an audio. You can send me an
audio file, email it to me, or you can just
write it one or two paragraphs just to give them
the outline of what your experience was. All forward it
on to the producers. They'll look at it. If they're interested,
they'll get in touch with you. It's I think twenty
or thirty people have sent videos, and I think all
of them got a callback. I may have already said this,
but I don't know if they got cast or not.
But they did get a callback, at least the ten
or so people i've heard from, So I think you've
got a good chance to get a second look. I
don't think you're going to get rich for being cast
on this show, but it might be a really fun experience.
You'll get to travel out to the Pacific Northwest and
probably get camped, a meal and a plane ticket. And
I don't know, if I had an experience, I would
do it because I'd love God there. And so I've
never been out to the Pacific Northwest, but it might
be a good experience for you. So send me that
audio file, send me a video file, or send me
a written account. This is new. We asked for videos first.
Now they're taking Renten accounts. But you've only got about
two weeks left to get those in and then they're
going to close down the casting window and they will
probably have everything cast out for the first season or two.
That's right. That's right. So I'll let y' all know
that it's pretty outside. Look at all that grain behind me.
Look at my grass, it's a foot tall. Won't quit raining.
It's been raining for six days. It'll dry up. I'll
be on a deadline. I can't get on my lawnmower
and cut grass. And then once I finish my deadline,
it starts raining. I still can't cut. I got a
big old lawnmower, so it'll cut this grass. I kind
of like cutting it when it's deep sometimes then I
can see what I'm doing. All right, you guys, have
a good day. We'll see all the next podcast. Thanks,