Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another behind the scenes episode of
Good Morning from Hell.
Speaker 2: My name is Blaine.
Speaker 1: I played the voice of Clayton, and joining me today
is Chris, who plays Chris. Chris, Eric who is our producer,
and Nick who is our sound engineer and lead. What
were you your broadcast? A fancy name that director of
audio production, Director of audio production? What are we doing today?
Speaker 2: Chris? So, I have here a bunch of questions that
a lot of people send us on social media to
really about how we make the show.
Speaker 1: And I'm not doing this in character.
Speaker 2: Nope, not in character.
Speaker 1: Cool, just yourself, sweet, we burn a hole in my throat.
Speaker 2: Well, here's that's a good question.
Speaker 1: That wasn't a question at all.
Speaker 2: No, No, it was not by you, but by people
who sent me questions. Uh, this is from fragrant Rooster
on Good Morning from Hell. Suber How much water slash
honey slash deals with actual satan does Blaine go through
to keep that Clayton voice going for so long? A
lot of people ask that kind of question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I have like a thirty two ounce
water bottle and it is full at the beginning of
each episode, and then it's empty. By the end of it,
so like that's normally. My bladder also acts as like
a clock to where it's like, Okay, we need to
start winding this up now. I think we've shot enough
content because I gotta go piss. And no. It's actually
it's been weird because in light of all this COVID stuff,
you know, I've been like trying to be very aware
of how my body has been feeling. I've been in
quarantine and stuff, but I still have to take Dutch
out and I'm still exposed to some things, and like
it's like every Thursday or every Friday, it's like, oh man,
my throat can hurt. It's like, oh god, I hope
I'm not getting sick. I hope I can catch it.
And then my girlfriend has to remind me every week
she's like, did you record Good Morning from Hell? I
was like yeah, and she's like, okay, that's why. So no,
it's I don't know. Everybody was like super concerned I
was gonna blow out some vocal cords when we started
first making the show. It hasn't affected my voice, and honestly,
if it does, I hope it makes it cooler, because
like I want that smoker voice without having to smoke
cigarettes and smell like shit.
Speaker 2: Huh, so this is just your cigarettes.
Speaker 1: These are my cigarettes. See yep?
Speaker 2: Cool? Uh And then you got a question. Uh, there's
actually a bunch of people asked this. I'm just gonna
read one of them from at Slither and Cindio. How
hard is it to keep continuity between episodes with such
a diverse, revolving guest cast. Do you guys write things
down or is when are you just storing everything in
your brain? Like how do we keep track of our
like cannon man, it's in our brains.
Speaker 1: Honestly, between the both of us, and like you know,
we'll have been.
Speaker 2: And been one of our producers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been, and Nick and Eric, they're all they're
all chime in. Like between all of us, we kind
of have the pantheon of characters and like all the lore,
so like we can remember for the most part and
like that. We've done a couple of things that have contradicted,
but I think for the most part we've actually been
really good on being on top of the cannon.
Speaker 2: I think it helps because a lot of time before
we even when this is kind of getting ahead of ourselves,
before we even go into like who a character is,
we kind of talk through like where we're gonna go
in the episode to make sure it makes sense within
the world, and then we kind of even give that
breakdown to a guest. We're like, okay, so here's you
know this, this this like as little of a of
a setup as we can give them without doing something
that accidentally breaks the world. You know. Yeah, where it's
like again, like sometimes people make jokes about Santa, It's like, oh, well, actually,
in our universe, Santa is an evil clone of Satan,
So like little things.
Speaker 1: Like that, can I say something that always makes me cringe?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: And You're gonna feel really self conscious about it from
now on? And I'm sorry, but for the sake of content,
I think it's okay for me to call you out.
What whenever you are introducing like a new guest, like
I think most recently is like what's good games? The
Andrea in brit They're fucking great to work with. But
I think at one point you started on this tangent
where you said something about Santa Claus and you're like, yeah,
in our world, Santa Claus is a failed clone of Satan,
and he lives in the North Pole where he fucks
a bunch of elves who are actually from the d
and say that.
Speaker 2: I didn't say fuck.
Speaker 1: Basically, you just rambled on for like five to ten
minutes about no good morning from hell.
Speaker 2: Oh. That was it. That was it, and I was like,
extent of it. That was the extent of it. Blaine
was just like Chris, they don't need to know any
of this, bro. That was the extent of it, and
it was relevant to the conversation. I don't remember why.
Speaker 3: I will say, like it's the Santa one in specific
where you'll just go back and be like yeah, man,
like I mean, just like, for an example, in our universe,
Santsa is a failed clone of Satan and he lives
up in the North Pole and he fos all the
l's from the I.
Speaker 4: Never said, I just I can't believe you said that
about the elves.
Speaker 2: That's that's messed up. He might. I mean he does,
and I guess technically, but like that's not important. Why
do you keep then?
Speaker 4: Why do you keep bringing it up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Correct, I didn't bring it up, and you said five minutes.
I bet you. We have it on a recording and
we can go back and look, it was probably like
ten seconds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure Nick's gonta get it right on top
of looking at it.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not asking him to, but I'm just saying, Nick,
was it that long?
Speaker 5: It might have been okay, four minutes, ten minutes, four minutes.
Speaker 2: No, it was none of those minutes. It was like
thirty seconds. So anyway, we keep track of the continuity
in our heads. Oh my god, I was gonna say, uh,
it helps that whenever we you know, we after we
record it through the editing, we'll each listen to it,
you know, several couple of times, so it's like kind
of we may not remember when or what we said exactly,
but it'll stick in there. Oh didn't we say this
one time? Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Another thing that we try to do, and this
is kind of unrelated to continuity, but it's also just
kind of finding a diversity and variety of characters, is
we try to like make sure that we're not like
we have three episodes in a row that are all
just celebrity impersonations, Like we want to mix it up
to where it's like there's just such a wide variety
of people, Like we have demons, we have people from Heaven,
people who are evil, people who are mistakenly in Hell. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think we kind of have three I don't know
buckets that we typically put guests in. There's historical, like
real life people. Then there's like fictional in a fictional world,
like a Voldemort or you know, someone from Greek mythology.
And then there's like the third. It's just like people
who live in Hell or Heaven who may not necessarily
be characters, like Hell's number one chef. You know, like
that's not an existing character, but it's like, you know,
someone in that a transplant of Earth to Hell character,
if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to do aliens too, we haven't found
the opportunity to do that yet. Yeah, an alien who
died while visiting Earth and then therefore gets caught an
hour afterlife because of zoning stupid.
Speaker 2: Here's a question from Miranda on Twitter. She asked, do
you tell your guests what characters are playing or do
they choose their roles. It's a mixture. Yeah. Sometimes people
will come to us saying, hey, I have an idea
for a character, and then sometimes we'll go to people
and say, hey, we think you would be really good
at this character that we want to have on the show.
Or a lot of times if it's someone say we
don't know and we're like, we're you know, working with
a new group or other podcasts, we'll say, you know, like, hey,
would you want to be on the show? Uh, And
then we'll say, let us know if you have any
characters you'd be interested in playing. If not, here's like
three options. If so, you can either like pitch us
like an idea for a character you have, or you
can take one of our pitches. Whatever you know sounds
fun to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Because I remember we weren't going to ask Troy
Baker to do the Joker. He was just like I
can do the Joker. And we're like, oh, okay, yeah.
Well like and then and then like James and Lease
were always like, hey, do you guys want to try
these characters?
Speaker 2: And they're like no, and they like they want to
do the Beatles And then we're like, okay, we'll do
the Beatles, And I mean I really like that up.
So I think it's really funny.
Speaker 4: I think I think when people bring an idea to it,
it lets them kind of like, you know, they have
like ownership over what they're doing and what they're bringing
and everything. Like the one that I'll always point to
is Cole being on as the guy who drank milk
for the first time. Yeah, like what, like what an
insane character? I think that character is great. Oh yeah,
And like I don't think we ever would have come
up with a pitch that would have been like, cold,
do you want to be the guy who drank milk
for the first time? So I love when like their
ideas that are like that wacky.
Speaker 2: I think that's like a lot of fun. Yeah, And
I was hot with that one. No, it was I
remember because I was like, I was like, that's an
awesome idea. And then Blame was like, I don't know
if we have enough material? Is there enough to talk about?
I was like there is, there's a lot of a
lot of I was like, this is I think we
can go for hours on the milk guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was one of those things and this
has happened a couple of times where it's like the
initial pitch for it is just like it just makes
everybody laugh, and that's like that is a good starting
point because like if you think of it from a
viewer's perspective if they hear about like the first man
who drank milk? What another one was like Titanic, like
the guy that designed the Titanic but he he died
on the ship and didn't know that it was sank.
You know, like we immediately have those and then we
laugh at the potential and just like the initial joke
and then and then we actually have to go in
and kind of like break down how that episode would work.
What's the structure for it? Do we have enough jokes
to tell? And yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Think that is a big thing. Like whenever we like
when we're like because we have a whole idea bank
of like characters that we want to have on and
it's like obviously like we know it's like there's a
famous historical character or famous thing. We know we can
figure out enough material to have a whole episode on it,
but we always like to uh, and this kind of
goes I guess this goes well into a question which
we got asked a ton which is how much is
planned and how much is improvised, And that really varies
depending upon the episode. There are some episodes that you know,
either someone will come in with a good idea, or
we just know that like the people were going to
like if it's someone we've worked with a whole lot,
we know that, like the rhythm, we won't plan as
much and we'll just kind of go with it and
see what happens. And then there's some episodes where we
like we'll plan out a little, like we like to
have a beginning, in a middle, and an end, like
what's you know, how are we getting these characters in?
What are like the talking points like oh we can
we know we can talk about this and this and this,
and then like how we want to wrap it up?
We want like a fun ending. Yeah, but I think
of like thinking up characters, it's very much like okay,
well here's this character, but like what's what's a twist
on them that's different? You know, like what's everyone has
you know knows about you know, well, Santa Claus or whatever?
Am I going? What does Santa Claus do? He's an
even bone of Satan. I'm just saying like like what
else or or another example. I don't know, I think
that example was good, well, like okay, then another recently
it's like canaan Abel. It's like, well, like one of
them murdered the other and we you know, we got
with the Sugar Pine guys and we're like brainstorming with them.
That was one where we were like, you know, let's
work together, and we just got on a video call
and like chatted for like twenty minutes tossing around ideas
and eventually settled on the one that we have. But yeah,
it was like, oh, well, what if one of them
is like what's the technical thing of what happened of
like in the Bible, It's like, well, one of them
is walking the earth forever. The other one it's like, well,
we don't know what technically happened to him. What if
one of them was in hell, the one that got murdered,
And it's like it's like a twist on what you
might you know, what you would think where the other
one would be in murder.
Speaker 1: It's just the easiest and dumbest form of storytelling. There's
very little that goes into the pre planning. I mean,
like we think about it, you know, but like it's
just nice being able to like have this fully flushot
story that we just make up on the spot. I
think one of my favorite ones that we did that
we had zero idea with what direction you were supposed
to go in. It was a very impromptu episode and
it was just Chris and I were out in Los
Angeles because we're doing something for Arizona Circle, and we
were out in the Funhouse offices and we had John
Smith and Jacob Fullerton and like somehow like one of
us pitched like John Jacob Gingoheimer Smith and.
Speaker 2: We were on the airplane over there. We're like because
we were like, oh, what could we do with these
people at Funhouse? And it's it was I think it
was their names, John Smith and John and Jake. I
was like John, Jacob Jingo Heimer Smith. One of them
could be that and the other one could be John Smith.
And then we're like, oh, from that, it was like
what if we had a whole episodes about John Smith? Right?
But then like that was that was? That was it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then when we got there then we like
by the end of it, like we were like going
off to found a new island with just people who
were named John Smith in hell. It was so stupid,
but like that's one of my favorite episodes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, And that was we had literally just like
the characters and the idea of like, oh, well, we'll
just keep saying John Jacob, Jingo, Himer Smith U over
and over. That was like it.
Speaker 1: But then also like satan would be a clon of
cTTO on a satan.
Speaker 2: Uh well, that was a question too. Someone asked would
we ever could we ever post one of our outlines?
I was like, I'd be up for doing that, like
posting an outline of an episode so you can kind
of see like where what we started and where we
ended up. It varies a lot episode to episode though,
and also sometimes we'll work with on the outline with
the guest on what we want to cover, so it's
they're not like one outline isn't necessarily indicative of everything.
Speaker 1: It's like our version of a set list. But yeah, cool,
less cool, and we don't get laid.
Speaker 2: So when asked, do we ever record different takes? That's
Internet nobody six asset. Yeah, sometimes we do. So, Like
what's our typical recording process is we record for augh,
we try to aim for like forty five minutes and
that's and then that includes like starts and stops, and
then we try and cut that down to like a
good thirty like just cutting Oh that bit didn't really
go anywhere. Oh we can lose these lines just kind
of make it tighter and punchier. But also yeah, within
that forty five minutes of recording, a lot of times
it's like, Uh, actually, hey, can you say that to
me again? Let me set me up again, or oh,
actually can you ask me this question? Or sometimes it'll
be something like one of us will think of a
line that doesn't make sense for us to say as
our characters. We're like, hey, actually, what if you said this?
Speaker 4: I think it it really helps get people to understand that,
Like when we have guests in, I think they're a
little bit hesitant because not everyone's improv you know, person
that we have on a lot are just friends or
people that we're just gonna have on And I think
it really helps in that pitch to go like, don't
feel like you have to be on your a game here.
We stop down and feed each other lines or set
each other up for jokes or say like, oh no,
you have this as like a punchline. Like there's a
lot of in the room sort of collaboration that I
don't know that a lot of other podcasts have, And
I really like I like how often you guys kind
of do that stuff because I think it loosens up
the guests a lot too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't thought about that, but yeah, I guess
it does kind of.
Speaker 4: Like I mean, there are people who just don't do improv.
There are people that are just you know, it's not
like you have everyone on and they're just like constantly
doing these kinds of shows. But when they know that
they can come in, like Alfredo is like, yeah, you know,
I'm not like, you know, am I gonna be good
at this whatever? I just told them easy, Like you
just come in, you feel like you give it as
much as you want to because whatever's gonna happen in
the room, you guys are going to like feed each
other and have like you're gonna elevate each other in
the space and it's not just like a one go
we keep everything in type of show.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I love the Alfredo episode with him
and Trevor. It was a for people listening by name,
it's the interview with the Vampire Hunter episode where yeah, yeah,
and that was I love that episode. That's that's I mean,
I don't I start to say which ones are my favorite,
but I love The ending for that one was my favorite,
and that was an ending that we found in the room.
Mm hmm, like that maybe maybe that'll be a good
one to post. The then outline for yeah, and she's like, hey,
because we went you know, I think we initially approached Alfreda.
We're like, hey, here's here's three ideas for characters. Let
us know which one you're you want to play, and
he was like, oh, I want to do the Vampire Hunter.
And then while me and Blaine were kind of talking
through the Vampire Hunter, we're like, oh, man, be good
to do, like have a vampire come on. So then
we're like, okay, well we need another character. Oh I
bet Trevor would be really good at that. So then
we approached Trevor like, hey, could would you want to
be a Vampire Hunter? And then we just kind of
like yeah, put together like loose ideas, but the ending
with the way they hug each other and like, I
love that and we didn't know what that was beforehand.
That's like one of my favorite endings.
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Speaker 2: Oh here's a question from Surreal Serif on the Good
Morning from hell subreddit, like Blaine thought, I guess so
s I'm real with that. I'm gonna see what that
looks like. Does Blaine paint himself read for every episode
or as he is well known method actor to get
into a character.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna print my business cards up and
surreal saraf uh. Yeah, no, I'm painted right now, just
in case I have to w about the Clayton voice,
you know, because like it's method, man, I got it.
Speaker 2: Well, actually, character, you're only half You're painted on half
of your face so that you can flip between them, right,
because you're you're blained some of the time right now, right, Yes, Chris.
Speaker 4: We've had a lot of conversations about doing this, some
like other shows or if there's video or whatever, because
the conversation always goes it's always blame going, I don't
want to have to do all the makeup.
Speaker 2: It's a pain in the ass, and like you know,
but you're also very particular about it. You're like, oh,
it such a pain in the ass. I was like, well,
maybe don't stress about it. What if you do you know,
what if you just had like the little prop porns
and like, oh no, I don't want it to look
like shit. I'm like, well, I mean it's like we
either go all in and like make it look fucking
good and like we get mileage out of it, you know,
like we do multiple videos and take photos and shit
for marketing material, or.
Speaker 1: Like we don't do it at all, and if it's
gonna look like ass, you know. Like I think I
was super resistant because we have this once a year
live stream where we uh raised money for children's hospitals
and or it's an extra life and Chris signed us
up for an hour or like half hour of me
dresses Clayton torturing him, and uh, I was so pissed off,
Like I obviously want to raise money for the kids,
but I was also just.
Speaker 2: Like not that much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well no, I was like, dude, I got to like,
fucking this is gonna be a whole prep nightmare. And
then I got to take it off and I'm gonna
be right on camera like immediately after that. And then
and then we did it, and I was very happy
that we did, and like, you know, people really enjoyed
the segment. And then I didn't like jokingly torture you,
like I actually tortured you like you had a shot
collar and I was like putting legos on the ground
for you to step on, Like no, he.
Speaker 2: Went through l Yeah, it was like at some point
I was like I think whenever I got doused and mustard,
I was super happy because then the shot caller got
less shocky and I was like, oh my god, thank
you because it was getting It was a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyways, had to put on face paint and that's hurt.
Speaker 2: Someone's asked Liam cutting or cutting at cutting Liam, he
can't decide the order. On Twitter, asked how long does
it actually take to find a guest, set up and
record an episode and like get it ready? Uh kind
of depends, Like yeah, We've done some episodes where we
recorded the like when we were behind and we had
to like get a guest, record it on like a Monday,
and then edit it together super fast and then released
it a few days later. So like, I think a
week is the minimum of what we want. There was
actually whenever we first launched the show, the Doug Gug episode,
the second episode, we actually moved that one up. We
rearranged the order, and you we that was edited in
like two days.
Speaker 1: I remember that episode because I think at one point
I slammed my fists on the tables and I just
went fuck, fuck, fuck, because I knew I had to
get that one around in time because the other one
we were working on just needed more tinkering and it
just wasn't in a place that we were happy with.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had to turn that one on really quick,
and I think I pulled like a partial all nighter
to just get it ready another great episode. I mean, honestly,
there hasn't been many episodes that I've walked away and
I've been like that was a disappointment, Like I don't
like that one. There's a couple where I feel like
they could have been better.
Speaker 2: But like, I mean, that's the thing too. I feel
like there's a lot of times we're in the room
we're like, I don't think that was a very good one,
or oh man, that one felt like a slog, and
then it comes out and it's like it's really good.
And that's just like a testament to like the editing
with Nick and just like just the process.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I mean, trusting each other and stuff
like that, and like it's another thing great that we do,
is you and I switch every other week, so sometimes
you listen to a Chris episode and sometimes a Blain episode.
And by that I mean Nick always has his hands
on it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I guess recently you passed editing off.
Speaker 2: Of Dennis helps out a lot too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dennis is great, so like and I think Peyton
did one or two, but like you'll, we'll swap over
direction and like kind of guide like what the story
is the post need to be made?
Speaker 2: Yeah, posts of it. Yeah, we both like we both
work on the on the the front end of like
the characters and creative, and then we take turns like
kind of oversenc post.
Speaker 1: Well even that though, I mean like one of us
will take the charge with leading you know, the emails
and the correspondence of setting it up and you know,
before it hands off to their producers. And then after
that we'll take over the edit and we'll like, you know,
we used to do a thing where we would have
to step in for the last bit of editing just
to add a level of polish. But it's gotten to
where we become so efficient and Nick has like gotten
so fucking good at sound design that we don't even
need to do that. We hardly ever have to touch
the edit anymore, which is yeah, great.
Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's because we talk about,
like in the earlier days, also we weren't as we
didn't have as good of a schedule, and so me
and and also I think me and Blaine were still
figuring out the voice of the show and so we
did a lot more editing ourselves because we wanted, you know,
like we're still kind of figuring it out and the
workflow and just the best way of getting it done.
And now, I mean we don't really edit anything other
than just like like giving notes on like on like
our you know, editing note system. Yeah, but yeah, I
mean that's that's I mean, that's a I mean that's
all Nick, you can talk to that. How annoying are
we to work with in posts? It's not annoying.
Speaker 5: I think we've gotten to a really good spot now too,
because initially we would kind of go back and forth,
and you guys would both have an idea of what
you wanted for specific things and sometimes didn't see even
I'd eye on certain decisions. And I think like now
that you've kind of like I got this episode, I've
got this episode. You both have you have your endi
idea for how an episode is. We go through around
to three of notes depending on like how heavy a
sound design is.
Speaker 2: Sound design is really the main thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And and through all that it's just gotten a
lot simpler. And when we ever have a chance now
we try to record as far in advance as possible,
just in case, you know, right now, if we run
into a recording issue and you know, with the COVID
stuff the way it is, it's like we don't know
how it all turn out. So it's like, if we
ever get back to the studio, we'd like to be
able to record there and all that, but trying to
get as far ahead as possible to really give us
a lot of lead time and that that that's been
very helpful for us as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I do feel like, well, this is the
kind of like the sound design. This is a question
Stephen Goem has asked on Twitter. Do the sound designers
hate y'all every time you make a joke that require
requires sound going off?
Speaker 1: Like absolutely, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 5: It's funny because initially when we started doing some episodes
that were really sound design heavy, I come from more
of a radio background. So I hadn't had as much
experience with, like, you know, making more of this hellscape
kind of sounds breaking stuff. You know, it was more
like music and like a straight read over something. So
learning to kind of put together these different sound designs
has been really something. And using some of the sound
effects that we have has also been interesting because we
have to sometimes make shift a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: Like a fight.
Speaker 5: Scene could be a lot of clothing rustling sound effects
with chairs being knocked over and things like that. But
you know, certain sounds may not be what you want
me to be, so we a lot of times have
to implement different sound.
Speaker 1: Effects for other sound effects. Like what was the one
it was?
Speaker 5: We had like it was a bubbling Oh it was
in the one with What's Good Games when we were
trying to figure out how to do like that melting
and explosion sound. Oh yeah, and it's like boil water
and uh like somewhat of like a firecracker sizzle and
some other uh what was the rest. There's like a
lot of little clinks and clacks that I put in there,
and like all together popping.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, because we wanted like the exploding and
then blah blah, blah blah blah. Uh but yeah, I
mean and like yeah, you and uh and everyone who
helps with Dennis. I mean, it's got so good at
doing it. And it's like and that is even a
thing too, even in like our because we use a
cy called a FRAMEO for like notes, and it's like
we'll like have threads. Whe were like, what could be
a good sound effect for this? Maybe something like Jello's
or you know, like I don't It's like like what
could what? I know, It's like, oh, we couldn't find
a good sound effect for this? What exactly were you
envisioning or like what? It's like we'll have like a
whole discussion on like the right like oh well, maybe
speed it up like twenty percent.
Speaker 1: I remember it was the the Jack Patillo episode where
we were doing football and I think I had, like
I told Nick, I was like, hey, man, I know
that I'm leading a lot on you, so like I'm
happy to take over, so like between you and me,
we had to like assemble the sound design for that,
and it was I mean, there was like fucking Godzilla,
there's a war going on.
Speaker 2: That was the biggest sound design episode we've had, right
by far.
Speaker 1: Because I remember we were even acknowledging it while making it,
and we're like, oh man, we're gonna this is gonna
be so funny. We're gonna hate ourselves in the future.
And I was like I was done with it, no, because.
Speaker 2: I remember this, Blaine. I remember before we were recording it,
when we sat down with Jack, I was like, we're
explaining and you know, we'll do obviously, we'll have this
is like on locations, we'll have a lot of stuff.
But I said something just you know, trying to try
to be conscious not to be like to throw out
too much stuff because we have to do sound design
for it. So and You're like, no, no, don't think
about that. Do whatever you want. And I was like
I want to go nuts. Yeah, And I was like, okay, cool, Blaine,
you're gonna edit this one. You're trying to post on
this one.
Speaker 1: But so happy it turned out. Like there was like
at one point like a origial No, it was it
was the dropping off wrestlers, and then it exploded and
I loved it. Yeah, so much fun. There was another
one where like it was like it was like the
I was like, what would the sound of a field goal?
Or like a touchdown. How would they celebrate that in hell?
And I found this like horrifying horn that I pitched
down and it just sounded like awful. It's just just fun. Man.
Speaker 5: There was one on there too where I think they
kicked a head through an upright, So I had to
found to find a sound effect that was like the
thump of a head, like a blood splee ye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess people ask how many people are working
on this production? I mean like generally on like the
me and Blaine more on the pre production and then
either like Ben or Eric for like helping coordinate and
you know, getting cast, and then and then like in
the post in like Nick, whoever's editing it. I mean, Nick,
you can tell more like it's generally just one person
per episode, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's one editor per episode and then you two
or whichever one of you is taking the lead on
notes at that point, so it's really just two people
in post at that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This is question from Benjamin something on the subreddit.
Any figures you won't have on the show or ones
the ones that have been suggested and turned down? Uh, well,
we haven't put Hitler on the show. I think that
was like one that like at the top or like
oh we could have but like I don't know, it
just seemed like the easy, low hanging fruit.
Speaker 4: So I think that one's I think it's just too easy.
It's just I think everyone with this like that would
have an idea like this is that's the first thing
they would go to, and it's like, yeah, let's try
to like not just go for like the easiest thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well it's hard too, because like you don't want to
you want to pick somebody that you can have a
comedic hook on, and like they like someone like Hitler
committed so many fucking atrocities, and it's like there's there's
a degree in like with Nazis being back in the
news for whatever fucking reason, like we just want to
shit on that character and not even make light of
some of those situations. It's it's a weird predicament.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a weird thing. Someone asks what's the
most difficult aspect of the show to develop? Uh, I
mean I think it's like that it is kind of
finding that that that balance of like okay, well, what
is who is this character or guess that we're gonna
have and then what what where's the line of like
what we can joke about and and what's appropriate right
now in the world. Uh, And that's that's like because
we want it to be a we want the podcast
to be fun and entertaining and not something that's gonna, like,
I don't know, be a downer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't want to and we don't like wanna
there's a level of offensiveness that we're willing to toe
the line up to. But like there's parts of it
where it's like even when one of us says I'm
not comfortable doing that, we're all just like, yeah, I know,
you're right, Like it's it's nice. I feel like we've
been operating in a pretty decent comfort zone. But like, yeah, man,
we're not here to piss anybody off or to like
super offend anybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think it's there's really easy to have
like we try not to like have someone on the
show who like whose death was super tragic really recently,
because then it's like, well it's not really it's not
the people who are alive, you know, it's a little
too tragic to like make comedy show about. Yeah, not
that there haven't been tragic things in the show, but
we try to just like figure out where that balance is.
Speaker 1: It's weird too, because I feel like my parents are
pretty religious, and anytime I talk to my dad about
the show, he refers to it as that show that
you and Chris do, because I think he's really bothered
by the fact that I play a demon and you know,
raising being raised Christian, you know, household and stuff like that.
Demons always scared the shit out of me. The idea
of the of like a a creature firm that could
take your soul from the underworld. It was like very
spooky to me, and I didn't like movies like The Exorcist,
but like, I don't know, there's something about making fun
of stuff that kind of gives you power over it. Also,
I don't believe any of that stuff anymore, and like
it's weird, Like I hope when people listen to it
that their beliefs aren't being challenged and they're able to
just enjoy a piece of content, you know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think we try and also approach
like the religion aspect of it, where it's like, hey,
we're gonna tell you what religion is, right, or wrong.
They were all right, you know, like we're not you know,
like every religion is right in our universe essentially, they
just have different like territories or like dimensions or whatever.
Yeah or yeah, uh, there was a question. I can't
find it, but it was basically, uh about doing life
shows or doing it in a more video aspect or
I mean, besides Blaine doing the paint. But yeah, we
actually definitely want to do some live shows at some
point whenever it's safe, and also have plans we want to, like,
we like these characters in this world and we want
to do more with it. So uh, we we do
want to do more than just a podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have. We have a big plan in mind
for when all that stuff is a possibility, and I'm
very stoked about it, like our you know, r t X.
I guess we could talk about that in particular, like
that's always been an exciting time and it's very.
Speaker 2: A big events convention, yeah, right, and.
Speaker 1: That we've been doing for I mean, I've been going
to like I think I've been a seven or eight
of them, but this is the first time in a
while that I've been like, holy shit, I'm so excited
to do this thing this idea. Yeah, well wait till
next year. But it's still gonna be worth it.
Speaker 2: Though, see of simping ass that's funny. Jesus on Twitter,
what has been your favorite episode to record?
Speaker 4: I think mine was the Coal Milk one. It's so
it's just so off the wall and it's like, why
would this guy be in hell?
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 4: I thought that episode and like being in the room
when that one was being recorded was like a blast.
It was so weird just trying to like follow this thread.
It was really really fun. I've read that's like one
of the few that I've like re listened to.
Speaker 1: I would say that mine is definitely Jeremy is Doug
gug Chaos because he just he just slipped right into it.
I mean in the beginning I was a little worried.
It's like his voice kind of sounds like mine. And
then like that had everything else was fucking fantastic and
we were I mean it's something when you have a
guest that comes in and they're on then like everybody's
comedy is elevated, you know, and like that's just such
a good, good appisode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is hard because I do love
all of them in different ways. Uh, maybe it was
the intervention with the Vampire Hunter, because I just like,
I love the ending of that. That's like my favorite ending.
I don't know. I love the reading. I love the
Right Brothers episode.
Speaker 5: I think the difference between Gus's character and Eric's character
is just.
Speaker 2: So it's so good.
Speaker 5: I was laughing so hard in that recording, and you
can hear me on any of them anyway, but I
just lost it in that one.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: You know what I love about that one is we
totally mixed up the Right Brothers I had, We had
it in our thing and I don't know how, like
we swapped them up in some way, Like I had
the names written down and maybe I was like is
that right, and it's like, oh no, that's wrong, and
then we swapped it. I don't know, but like we
didn't realize until the comments came out, like why wait,
isn't Wilbur the the older one? You're like, oops, whatever,
that's pretty much it.
Speaker 4: Who cares?
Speaker 2: That's fine? Yeah, Okay, last question, what is the best
part of working on the show. That's from Cole cork Caon.
It's from who Cole Corkoran I don't know. I don't
pick their Twitter names.
Speaker 1: Best aspect of working on the show, I don't know.
I think having a creative outlet where you don't have
to do any sort of like being able to do
something in audio only podcast is fun because like you
don't have to worry about any other amount of performance.
It's just like your voice, and like there's something really
freeing about being in a space where you can add
in any sound design you want and post and just
like the story could go in any direction that you
want to. It's just a really fun creative space. So
I think just like the recordings themselves are always like
really fun challenges that are kind of a nice break
from the mundane work that you know we might do otherwise.
Speaker 2: I guess for me, I love telling stories and like
writing and creating like narratives, and like there's so many
obstacles sometimes to getting stuff made and being able to
every single week sit down and like do something creative
and like tell a story that's not in this world
that's like a fantasy, fictional thing and do it with
friends and have fun and laugh is incredibly I don't know, exciting,
and and like it's every every recording is a is
a highlight of the week. And getting to write something
or you know, and I say write very loosely, but like,
you know, tell a story in that way is great.
Speaker 1: It's keeping a sharp too, you know, like it's working
our improv muscles. It's working our storytelling muscles and our
acting stuff. It's just like it's just a nice little
thing that we keep coming back to, and I feel
like we've gotten better with it over time.
Speaker 4: I think my favorite part is probably when it comes together,
not like in the edit or whatever, but I mean
like in the room, when it clicks and you can
see it click and then everybody's kind of all pulling
in the same direction. Everyone starts firing on all cylinders.
I think that's like and.
Speaker 2: It's like the best part.
Speaker 4: It's what you could hope for from any production. And
being able to see it more often than not in
this where you don't usually get to see it in
like a lot of longer form stuff that you're maybe
making that involves like a lot of camera, a lot
of people in everything where it's just maybe three or
four people that are just all of a sudden really
on the same page. I get a lot of satisfaction
from seeing that, like, oh, we put this together well
and we're executing really well on it right now.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love theater of the mind, and this show
to me perfectly encapsulates what that is. It's a show,
you know, based entirely on this concept of being in
hell and then everything that happens around that, and I
love being able to like build a world through it.
And it's just so cool because without the visual element,
it's all it all has to be done in your head.
And that's one of my favorite things about audio only stuff.
And I'm really happy that this show is the one
that kicked.
Speaker 2: It all off. Yeah, it's having a world of your
own is really special. So thank you everyone listening for
allowing us to have it and share.
Speaker 1: It with you.
Speaker 2: So we will be back in a week or two,
depending on when this actually comes out. I think a
week or two. I'm not sure of the dates. Uh,
but if you like the show, please you know, as
always tell your friends and really you know, to get
people caught up, like tell them to listen, and because
we want to keep making it.
Speaker 1: And god, I love the pleading you're doing with the
audience right now.
Speaker 5: Chris Well, please please find.
Speaker 2: All right? Well, does anyone else have anything? Thanks?
Speaker 4: Thanks, Yes, rate and subscribe and there's more fun coming
your way. Until next time, Bye bye