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