Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP.110 | Feat. Cosmetic Queens and Jeff Meyer

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

Good News York! - Cosmetic Queens and Syracuse International Film Fest In this action-packed episode of Good News York!, host Matt Masur is joined by the energetic Cosmetic Queens, Stacey and Jenna, who talk about their cosmetic injectables business, their charitable foundation CQ Care, and upcoming projects, including their new location in Syracuse. Following this, Matt welcomes Jeff Meyer, a key figure in the Syracuse International Film Fest scene, who discusses the film lineup for the weekend, the niche of horror films, and exciting upcoming film events in the Syracuse area. This episode dives deep into the world of cosmetic dermatology, horror films, and the local film community. 00:00 Introduction and Birthday Celebrations 00:50 Meet the Cosmetic Queens 01:56 Cosmetic Procedures and Services 06:10 The Sparkle Box Initiative 13:33 New Location Announcement 19:30 Advanced Cosmetic Technologies 25:18 Daily Skin Care Tips 30:51 Closing Remarks and Future Plans 34:32 Applauding the Podcast Journey 35:07 Podcast Milestones and Client Appreciation 36:12 Pushing the Creative Envelope 39:23 Horror Film Festivals and Community Impact 41:44 The Evolution of IMAX and Horror Films 47:58 Upcoming Film Events and Screenings 55:33 The Allure of Horror Films 01:11:43 Halloween and Iconic Horror Films 01:14:26 Closing Remarks and Future Plans

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and Unirold's 50th anniversary summer specials. Good morning, everybody, Matt Major, Growth Mode content. Welcome to Good News, York. This is an action-packed morning already, and I'm only a cup and a half of coffee in, so forgive me. But if there was ever a way to be energized, we got yesterday's birthday boy. Happy birthday.

We wished you. We wished you happy birthday on the show yesterday. I took the day off. I was playing hooky. I was sick. I'm still not feeling well. But yes. I was sad that I didn't get to share my birthday with you guys.

It's all right, buddy. Brothers and sisters. It's all right. But I'm here now. Birthday day dose. And we're surrounded by the Queens. Oh, baby. I am so.

This is long overdue. It is. You and I talked about this like the first week we opened. It is. It is. Having these two. These are our good friends, Stacey and Jenna, the Cosmetic Queens. You might know them from their podcast, Stab and Jab.

It is the most festive podcast that we record. I'm not going to lie. But we wanted to bring these ladies in and talk a little bit on Good News, York, about their business. Because not only do they do incredible things in their business, it's growing, it's expanding. You're doing some other things in the community. It's like we did you're everything we want to talk about here. So we had to have you in. Welcome, ladies.

Yeah, welcome. Thank you. Thank you for being here. This is probably going to be a three-hour episode because Stacey and I are here. That corner is trouble. With a capital T or a lower-case? That's definitely capital. It's serious.

So with that, why don't we let Jenna start? We'll put you right on the spot. I really love to be put in the spot. I know you do. I know you do. But you know what you're great at talking about is what you're. you do. So if you could, just give us the quick overview. What is what is your business? What do you ladies do all day long? Sure. So we focus on cosmetic injectables and cosmetic dermatology.

We have all sorts of gadgets, not just injectables. So we have lasers and we have, I don't know, we have gadgets. We've got tri-lift. I mean, there's so many different things. Our new Pleduo. Oh yeah, you got a new machine. Yeah. A what now? Oh, yeah. We'll talk about this. But, I mean, basically we like to think of the whole picture, the skin, the muscle, the internal structures.

We're not just focusing on, like, one area. We want to focus on the big picture for anti-aging. Are you considered estheticians? Is that the correct? No. No, we love our estheticians. We love them so much. And we partner.

We are good collaborators with our Esty besties. But they are more, they're more going to focus on taking off the vellus hair of your face, which would be known as dermaplaining. They're going to focus on like hydration, skin care lines. They go in conjunction with us, but top layer, some of them, if they have medical directors, can break the skin and do some microneedling, which increases collagen in the face, which we lose. and that's what makes us start to melt, you know, like the wicked witch. But we're doing more of like the medical side. So Jenna's a nurse practitioner. I'm a physician assistant.

We've been doing this a very long time now. And we're going to do things that decrease the collagen decline in the skin. Like she was saying, restore facial structures, anything that you can do to make you look younger without a surgical intervention. Very nice. Wow. Love that. Wow. Yeah, I could, I mean, Matt and I, we get torn apart on social media for our eyebags.

Yeah, we're going to. Some PRF. Some PRF is. Like, I know I have them, but the, and I sound like I'm making, excuse me, the lighting really brings them out on us. I mean, they aren't as bad as they look on. You're beautiful. It's not really the lighting. Beautiful inside and out, you guys.

And it was your birthday yesterday. Yeah, I know. But it's not my birthday every day. These ladies are so encouraging. Let's give ourselves grace. Thank you. Thank you. I've just accepted that I don't sleep and this is what I look like for years.

No, we're going to. It's nothing to do with the lights. I'm sorry. Your natural self. One thing that I think is, I mean, you and I know each other from college, but at the same time, on the outside, you guys, it's just you are a little bit different than I would say a traditional doctor's office. Oh, we're very. You know, you see your social media videos.

You talk to you guys. You have bubbly personalities. You're always decked out in pink. Tell us about the office, the vibe of the office, because it is, it's so inviting. Go for it, Jenna. I know you love this. I love our office. I feel like it's so welcoming.

We have a waiting room, which we call the living room. And people who don't know each other sit in there and they converse and they laugh. And it's like the best sound, I feel like when we're back in our bedrooms, even though there are our rooms that we treat. our patients, we call them bedrooms. Right. And it's kind of just like a big party the entire time. People have literally come to the office and been like, I've seen you on social media.

I feel like I know you guys. I am just basically here to like test the waters and see if you guys really are legitimately as cool as you are on social media. And we're like, okay, did we test the test? Yeah. And they're like, yeah. And our authentic self. Yeah.

We can't. You can't fake this. We're weird. We're fun. We're nerds. We're cool. I mean, and we treat everyone like family. And I think that's what sets us apart.

We've been told a million different times don't have a business model like that. It gets too messy. It gets too weird. You know, stop giving away like treatments and money and things to people. We actually have something called the Sparkle Box. So if someone comes in, they're having a bad day, they're down on their luck. They tell us a story. I feel like our chair is a third.

chair. We are not therapist. As soon as they get in the chair, it's like at all. And I don't know if it's because we're like stabbing, jabbing, burning. Sure. They're already on edge. But like, it's like a physical release for them. Yeah.

And then all of a sudden we're like, how are you doing? And they're like, what? Like, and it just all falls apart. And then we're able to like make a connection with them. And I feel like that connection sets us apart from everyone else. I think it's because what you guys do is a very, um, personal and intimate procedure. So they have to feel comfortable with you.

And I think because of your personalities and your social media president, presidents, presence, I think, I think that's just inviting for them. And they feel comfortable in, you know, in unloading on you. You get that with bartenders and hairdressers too. Yeah. Yeah. But I think it's next level for you guys because of how approachable you are. It's amazing. Well, and we truly do care.

So, like, then we, like remember the things, we know the things, we try to help where we can. You know, we have a new foundation that we're starting. A what now? A what now? Girl? Called the CQ Care. So it started out as this sparkle box where we would just kind of ask the reps when

we'd place a big order, can we get a little bit of free samples so that when people come in and we had a few patients, right? Like congenital birth defects, one girl had to be. told us, you know, I'm not leaving my house. It's actually affecting my relationships. And I said, you know, to one of the docs, like, I want to treat this girl. Like, you know, no charge. I'm going to donate my time. I got the product. And they were like, no, those are the people that would pay even more money. And I'm like, that is not how we roll. Yeah. So we started this thing on our own where we kind of have this sparkle box and we would ask each other once in a while like

would it be okay if I sparkle box this patient and now we don't even ask anymore because we just know both of us are just so in sync with yes if we can do something to give back to these people we're doing it so we don't even ask each other anymore but you can dip into the sparkle box for you know someone who's going through a divorce someone who lost a child somebody who you know is just down on their luck it lost their job, like, whatever. So we were like, wouldn't this be so cool if we could like make it on a bigger scale? Yeah. So, you know the idea, like when you go to a restaurant and you're like, I'm going to pay for

their meal? Yeah, yeah. But I don't want them to know. And I just want to pay it forward. Don't tell them until after I leave. So like, I love that kind of stuff. Been doing it for a long time now that I actually have some money to like do that. Yeah.

And I just, it gives me such a good feeling selfishly. but I also have had the opportunity to, like, see the joy it brings, right? So now working in aesthetics, we were always worried, is this going to be kind of vain? Does this, like, really make a difference? I think that this time in our life, working in aesthetic medicine, has made the biggest difference and the biggest impact, because when people are going through traumatic events,

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Dr. trained, but you see that on a physical level, you see them come in tired, upset, drained. They've had no time for self-care. So we've decided to do three kind of branches. The first branch will be you can actually sponsor a patient and it can be a cancer patient or somebody going through something crazy. We have a new machine that actually regrows hair. We've actually had the opportunity to do this for a couple of our patients. And it's been really a game changer because you're already going through something so deep and traumatic. And their hair is like part of their identity. Absolutely. And so for us to be able to expedite that process of that coming back or give

them a little bit of a add a girl, add a boy, like that's been huge. So that'll be the first one. You can sponsor a patient. So you can make an anonymous donation. We're going to have programs where you can like round up just like, you know, Taco Bells always like, you want to round up. I'm like, no, you make enough money. I'm going to spend my money with someone else. You donate the money. But you could round up, you know, your bill. And Jenna, what's it called? CQ cares. Oh, that's great.

It's a great name. CQC, baby. CQC. And then the second branch is going to kind of be anything that's of no fault to their own, right? So car accidents, domestic violence. In cancer, scars. Scars. Carc.

Carrack. Carrs. Presidents. Cars. Anything that is a congenital birth defect, anything that has left a lasting impression on the face that people feel insecure about, that we can help fix. We have lasers. We have injectables.

We have all these cool things that we've learned from people in our journeys that have been willing to kind of take us under their wing and teach us. We're going to be able to just take that product and treat them. And then at the end, say, this is on us. We've had patients who have had radiation to the neck that were unable to swallow. And then we've been able to use certain modalities at the office. and then they're like, I ate a mushroom and we're like, go, you know. I think we cried for like 30 straight months after hearing that.

We're like, we're doing it. Yeah. And then the third part is like those patients who just like, you know, just are having a rough time and haven't had the self-care. And so we'll be able to have some of the reps kind of give back a little bit for the larger orders that we're placing. We'll have people be able to donate. And then, you know, sometimes we could just grab a thing.

And then the next thing we were actually thinking of doing is going to local community businesses. There's always those work courses in any business that give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, and never take, ask, get anything in return, right? So I know you and I are very good friends with Kate from David's Refuge. Oh, I love Kate. So she was our first one to kind of be a guinea pig in this because we had talked. to everyone and we're like shout her out we love her. Love you so much. And there's just there's so many good people like that in our community that go

on notice they fly under the radar. Kate would never say anything. And we're like why don't you just come in and get like a self-care? Like she doesn't she doesn't meet those criteria of having cancer or having, you know, she's beautiful. But we're like, when's the last time you've done something for yourself? Because she's like, go to mom, go to business owner, go to wife, go to like friend. I'm like, let's treat those people.

So once a quarter, we'd also like to incorporate. You can nominate somebody from a local business that we could give back to and kind of just treat on the house. That's awesome. CQ cares. That's amazing. I love that. It's uplifting. Man, I have so many questions.

Go ahead. No, so I was just going to say, while we're on this. great new things kick that we've been talking about. I understand you're also going to have a new location here in the city we might be able to talk about. We cannot wait. I mean, if one more person asks us, when's it going to be? We're like, we don't know. Because construction is a pain right in mind.

So you've got to build out your space and everything, huh? Okay, so we have this angel. Her name is Claudia. She owns Inspire at the Greenery, which is just this beautiful salon. It had some residential space that was upstairs. And we kind of got talking to her. We have some mutual friends. And she was like, what if the queens went upstairs?

We looked at the space. It has balconies. We're like, this is meant to be. Hello, Sarah Ques. Hello, citizens of Syracuse. That's awesome. Stab you in the face. And I don't know.

It's just construction is a pain in the ass. Yep. Getting all the permits. You've got to get the permits. but then the construction people that were contracted have moved on to other jobs because it took so long. And then you run into something and then you have to fix something else. So Claudia has really been great and we, you know, have been waiting patiently. I'm a little impatient, to be honest with you, but we've been waiting to move into this new space.

And I think the light is finally at the end of the tunnel. We can see it. Awesome. There's parking on both sides of the building. Oh, that's huge. Because, I mean, it's downtown Syracuse. When you were going to look at it, I'm like, I don't know the parking is going to suck.

Yeah. But two parking lots, free parking, you don't have to worry about finding parking because they're huge. Nope. And then we'll just be on the- The girls downstairs are fantastic. Whereabouts is it downtown? It's right on North Warren Street.

So if you're familiar with Clinton Square, we're about a block over. It's called Inspire at the Greenery. Jackie Colello has just done beautiful murals. on both sides. Okay. I know a building you're talking about now. It's amazing. It's a great location,

great parking, great people. You know, the girls downstairs do all of like the aesthetic kind of hair stuff. And then we've got girls that do lashes,

nails, and some of the aesthetician work. And then we'll have some space in the two upstairs floors. Just come in and get it all done. Yeah. Yeah. So Matt and I were growth mode.

We shot the, retro game con this past weekend at the convention center and there was an after party this has to do what we're talking about and as we're driving to the after party I'm like I'm sold as we're driving to the after party I have it right here we went by the Niagara Mohawk building which can you see it here this now and I immediately said you know what that look if Jenna and Stacy were like villains in a movie this would be their headquarters that would be your lair like look at that doesn't it look like Oh, lit up pink.

Stab and jab or Cosmetic Queens HQ? I don't even know if we had to be villains. I think we could be princess. Or you just be yourself. Yeah. I mean, but doesn't it look like, hey, welcome to Cosmetic Queens HQ? 100%. Like it's a mate, I don't know.

He's not lying. We were driving down the street and he's like, oh my God, that looks like that. It depends. I'm like, that should be their building. There's an underground garage to keep our cars in so we can like slip on a pole like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And slip into our pink scrubs. Absolutely.

Easy. This is my job. dream. Do you, so do you guys obviously do a lot of work on faces. Is this also, is it like full body service? Like what are some of the things that you do? Yeah. So we can't fix my knee. I mean, technically, probably I could do some injections. So we kind of have a like crazy background. Jenna was neuro ICU. I was urgent care, emergency medicine, surgery. So we probably could fix your knee. Do you want us fixing your knee? Probably not.

We stay in our lane. We try to do what we're really good at and what we're passionate about, which is what I think drives us to be good at it. We do all sorts of body stuff. So Jenna, one of her big passions is dermatology. So why don't you tell them what you do with the body? So we just do skin exams. And I'm a little bit meticulous with that. I take a little dermatoscope, which is like a little microphone with illuminations.

A microphone? Microscope? Yep. I thought the microphone was weird. I was like, okay. I don't know what audio. Did I say microphone? You did.

That's okay. I take a microphone. It's very early. Don't worry about it. She's staring at microphone. Real good. This mall looks great, guys. What's up, Barmere?

What's up, Barmere? How we do it? So, and I just... I'm really typical. Check everything. Head to toe. And then if she finds something that's suspicious, she takes a nice picture of it,

puts it in the patient's chart. We decide whether we're going going to just monitor it or whether she's going to take a little punch biopsy, get those results back and then we either excise it right in a house or we refer to some of our friends in the community who can actually do some mow surgery or, you know, more complicated excisions and flaps and things like that. Wow. We have some lasers and a machine called the tri-lift.

We've got our new machine called the Pleduo. Those can all treat body areas. So, for instance, I've lost a lot of weight. It's a gentle cruising. You start to see the village, almost like a painting. Join me, travel expert Darley Newman, and Uniworld Boutique River Cruises L'Iq Bali, to learn about river cruising in France.

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nitrogen, nitrogen plasma. Real weird shit that we're doing now. We are the first ones on the West Coast to have this machine. You mean East Coast? East Coast. It's on the West Coast. We're the first ones up. President?

Microphone. West Coast. Where are we today? It's early. It's very early. We, the Indian Hennon night that we went to last night fried our brains. I know. It was so amazing.

You guys went to a wild party. These people are the nicest people in the whole world. It was so fun. They just kept trying to get us to eat and drink and be merry. Let's the judge of good people is how much they are concerned about other folks having enough to eat. I mean, just delights. I mean, beautiful, just stunning. This culture is like none other that I've ever been to for a party, but it fried our brains.

So back to the nitrogen plant. Yes, yes. Yeah. So as you are aware, we have solid. We have gas. We have liquid. And then we have plasma. This is like such a cool thing.

So we take the nitrogen and argon gas and then we actually have a machine that develops it into plasma and we pop that into your face or your body. And it works on a cellular level in anabolic state to actually anaerobic state to actually create new collagen and work on fine lines, wrinkles, tightening without a lot of down. time without like any pain. No pain. And this is such a cool thing that we have now because the East Coast doesn't have it. It's totally different from anything that we have. Correct. It's new technology.

Yeah. It doesn't. Well, so the technology has been around a really long time, but to get it to be stable and the dualness. Correct. Is it like an injection sort of thing or is it something that's just like applied to the surface? It actually looks like we are lighting your face up with light. You see this spark.

I see. And then what it does is it actually penetrates through the epidermis of the skin without breaking the skin. So reduced ability. No needles involved. Correct. So reduced healing because you don't have to worry about infection and things like that. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow.

And you can hear that. You can use this on eyelids. You can use it on body. It helps with stretch marks. a laser surgery type. Yeah. That's incredible. Only without like breaking the outer layer and having, you know, opportunity for infection and healing down time and actually helps with bacteria. Yeah. So like rosacea patients or acne patients, like wild, um, wild differences. I, I, there's nothing like. Yeah. And we try to stay on the cutting edge. Um, as you can tell, I do talk a lot.

No. So I try to pick everybody's brain. I try to learn as much as possible. We're always traveling to conferences and meeting new people and networking. But I'm also like a skeptic. You have to prove to me that there's clinical-based, evidence-based medicine. Back it up. Please do not just tell me something and just say, well, that's just because someone told me.

There's been such an attack. It works great. Trust me. Such an attack on science and facts in this country over the last 10 years. And it's just nice to hear that someone valuing that's important, especially when it comes to medicine. And we're doing this on people's faces and bodies and first do no harm. You know, like we would not do anything to our patients that we haven't already done on my mom and dad as guinea pigs or on ourselves. So if we go visit your parents, they're like this because of all the things that went wrong.

Poor Tom just had his first Pleduo treatment the other day. How did he do? We called him Tri-Lift Tom at the beginning. We're going to have to name him like Pleduo Papa for this or something. How you pleading, you know? Oh, he did great. He sometimes screws with us. Like, he'll pretend like he's stroking out or he'll pretend he's blind or he'll like shout out.

It's actually fun when he does that. And our butt puckers up and we're like, did we just kill my dad? But he did so well. No worries she gets it from now. Exactly. He could not shave for a couple days, and I've never seen my dad with facial hair here. He has a mustache, but I've never seen a beard. And he came in, and I was like, who are you?

What is this? But he did great, and he's like, my parents love telling people to guess their age. Because people guess in the 50s or, like, early 60s, and they're like, we're over 70. Yeah. Love that. That's awesome. This thing, is that? La Duo.

Good for like a big scale. So say people lose a massive amount of weight and they've got just like extra skin like crazy. No. So we draw the line. We're like, listen, we're not going to take your money just to see like these minimal results. Like if you've had a significant, you've had gastric bypass, you've had a significant weight loss, you've been utilizing GLP ones. And you've got a significant amount of. skin, we're going to refer you for a surgical correction.

Get that lopped off? Yeah, just get it lopped off. And then we'll work on the scars and stuff. You can tighten it up. Now, if you have some, like, people's necks or hands or just, like, they've had, like, a baby and they have, like, just a little bit of creepiness and just a little bit of skin that needs to contract, then that's totally something we can address. Awesome.

Let me ask this. What are, like, three or five things that everybody can do at home before they would come to see the cosmetic queens just on a daily basis that everybody should be doing just to preserve their skin or wrinkles and you know just daily stuff what do you got it's number one sunscreen every day doesn't matter if it's sunny out which we live in turquins that but today this is great or even through the cloudy days because the reflects off snow the UV rays penetrate so put you're saying put sunscreen on every day especially your face and your ears and your neck.

Tell them what SPF? SPF 30 or greater. And tell them what kind? I personally like color science, but you can do Alta MD. I meant like, tell them like mechanical, chemical. Yeah. What do you like? I mean, that's big.

I use a bunch of databases, so it depends on what chemicals are in there. So I do like to look at ingredients. But I like the mechanical. Now, the zinc oxide, the iron oxide, the titanium dioxide, those are the ones that I look for in a sunscreen. If it has any components that start with O, this is the easiest thing. Do not buy that one. Oh, no O. And if you go to Target, Walmart, like, any of the local store, CVS, Kinneys, those are the ones that Ox Salashuk,

and you cana-na-99-9-8 that you'll see. There's three of them that always come up as the first, like, ingredients. And it's like your ones that you would have used as a kid, like your banana-oh. And you're like, nutrigena and your... Unfortunately, can change hormones and cause cancer. So a lot of people are out there and they're like, don't use sunscreen. No, use the proper sunscreen. Use the right one.

Be smart about what you're looking to put on your body. I mean, your skin's your biggest organ. Right. That's true. That's a sign tip. So you're saying use sunscreen every day, mechanical, and no ingredients that have the letter O in it. I have one more thing for the sunscreen.

Oh, please. You think it's just as easy as simple as putting it on one and done? No, every two hours that you are outside, it needs to be reapplied. And it needs to be, if you're using the spray ones. Yeah, I hate the lotion ones. Well, me too. But you have to spray and then you have to rub it in.

And it's one. You can't just spray. An inch away from your skin, rub it in, and then I recommend a second round of it. Spray one inch in, rub it in because it's not getting to the level as a cream would. Right. And cream, you need like a cup, like half of this cup to do your whole body efficiently. Oh my God. So, I mean, you're going through sunscreen and just think about like that's every two hours you're outside.

So Jenna keeps this cool little brush stick in her car and now she's got me doing it. But we just brush quickly our hands from driving, our face, our neck, our ears. Is this for vanity or like anti-aging or is it also obviously to prevent skin? It's a gentle cruising. You start to see the village, almost like a painting. Join me, travel expert Darley Newman and Uneworld Boutique River Cruises L'Obelle to learn about river cruising in France. As we have been setting there for decades, we have been able to create deep connection with the local communities.

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I really think that you've evolved kind of into, like, like, feeling more confident and being more present in, in. being able to public speak. And she just did a Center of Excellent event. And she did her first presentation and, like, nailed it. And I wasn't as sweaty as I was when I do it. I think it's like anything. The more you do it, the more comfortable. It's like immersion therapy, right?

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Thank you. I mean, I have watched you from the very, very, very, very beginning. Don't get me more. And you guys have literally like catapulted. And I feel like, Matt, we've known each other before you started this. And, you know, local IT, and you've run that IT department very differently than other people. And I've always been like, okay, he's, like, really into business. Like, you love buildings.

I'm going to buy a building today. You do love building he sees. You know, anytime he's like, what could we do with that space? Yeah. The creativity. And you've run, you know, your IT department differently. But this branch that you're now, like, going out into the podcast. world. Like, I just want to applaud you guys. Like, I've seen the different things that you guys have done, that you've interviewed, that you've gone to, that you're doing with the community.

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Good news, York. This is an action-packed. I love when we have. Double-bill. This one's going to go crazy because not only do we have the incredible cosmetic queens here telling us everything we need to do to not look like such schlubs. We've got an OG here. We've got my old buddy Jeff. Now, we've talked about in the past how many, many years ago I opened a podcast studio downtown and what was the Tech Garden.

And during that time, we made a bunch of casts and we talked about a bunch of interesting people. and one of them was this guy, Jeff. Now, at the time, it was specifically the name. Is it the Salt City Horror Fest? Was it the name of the festival? Yeah, it was Salt City Horror Fest, and then we did, it was kind of a branch off from the Sean Lou Horror Fest.

It was started off with a Sean Lou Horror Fest. It was a friend of mine back of the day. He passed away of brain cancer. Oh, wow. So we dedicated a film festival for about five years, raised over 30 grand between Galasangelo's Hospital, American Cancer Society and a couple of other organizations. And then we started the Brewing View 35 millimeter film series.

And we were doing benefits for like the Salt City Roller Derby team. And then we were doing stuff for like the SBCA and the CAT Coalition. So all of our little film events were kind of circle around, raise the money for good causes, local stuff like that. And then Salt City Horror Fest that lasted for a while too. It's, you know, it's good. This guy has got some legitimate local film credits, you know. Yeah.

Everything he's talking about he's involved in. I think, do you still work with the most as well? Yeah, been there 25 years. Wow. And one of the OGs from there still around. I'm the longest in front of employee there still. And we, I got IMAX is a, like film. IMAX film.

We wouldn't start off with a dome screen. It was a 15 per 70 millimeter IMAX film. And then, you know, I was one of like maybe five IMAX projectionists in upstate New York that could run that projector. And then during COVID, we got rid of the film stuff and, like, redid the whole theater. It's still a dome. But then I was all laser projection. It's pretty awesome. And been working with After Dark doing, you know, side horror screenings and like creamers and stuff.

Because, you know, the most can't, you know, they don't. You know, they don't want to, you know, sponsor horror stuff because it's a science center. So we have an outside promoter come in. They want a slightly more family friendly than some of these classics, right? But honestly, I'd love to talk about that just for a minute because I think that's a resource that so many people don't even realize. And I remember even from when I was young, we'd go to the most to see this IMAX theater. And they'd talk about how we have the IMAX dome because there's even different types of IMAX, right? and it was such a unique and special thing that right here we had this incredible theater.

I've become a huge fan of the sphere in Las Vegas, but I still consider that just a larger scale of the theater at the most. It really is sort of that very similar dome concept, just a little bigger. But if you could just talk a little bit about just how rare these types of theaters are anywhere in the country. It's now the National Grid Explorer Dome, and before it was the Bristol Omni Theater, it's still the same thing, just a different name. And they are really rare.

There's a lot of theaters were like torn down. There was a period of time when they all just like rip them down and then they rebuild them in for digital systems. But we kind of like just converted everything to digital. And this is the only theater in New York that does 4K laser projection. Wow. That scale. And it's like crisp.

So crystal clear, the image. It's like amazing. You got four 4K lasers. You know, there's no, they're all Chrissy projectors. They're amazing. There are no, like, lamps that you have to change out, none of that stuff. And it's beautiful. And it's so sick to see a movie in there.

Do they need to, I remember when it was the regular film, the giant projector, it was a big thing. The movie had to be shot a search. way for that, right? Do you still with the digital, does it have to be specifically shot for this format, or can they take kind of more standard movies? A lot of these have 40-minute documentaries are shot digitally, so you can just, like, render it to fit don'ts. You can go flat, which is, at Destiny of USA, that's a flat IMAX screen, and that's a, that's a crappy,

Christy, I think it might be a barco, but they have balls in their projectors. I see. So we are way better than that. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, I got a question about that because, you know, you see now with technology and there's 4K and high-deaf and, you know, there's these videos you can see online where, like, they'll show an old episode of Dawson's Creek. And they're like, you know, you can clearly see now when they walked outside and stepped on the snow that it's, it was blankets. Because they didn't have HD back then. I feel like, and correct me if I'm wrong, in horror, there's a lot of sleight of hand, a lot of shadows, a lot of lighting that goes in to make some of these effects look real.

has the 4K and high-deaf made it a little more complicated to shoot horror films? No, not actually. A lot of like horror directors and special effects departments are still, you know, sticking with like practical effects and they can get more out of it. It looks better because you can make it more bloody with better colors and the lighting and stuff. So it really hasn't changed. Even if you like remaster an older film from like the 80s or the 70s and 4K, it just looks better.

it's still, you know, the movies were shot on film, so you still have that film quality that makes it look more like a film and not like a digital something or other. There was a whole heyday during the 80 when 80s did all these like shot on video horror films that were like on VHS cameras and VHS tapes. And they still looked like garbage, but they were meant to look that way. Right. So it's like that horror is like something that everyone like appreciates and respects

no matter how it looks because you're always the fan of that genre. Sure. You can watch the crappiest horror film and still be entertained because it looks like garbage. Or something that's like, you know, alien, which just looks amazing

and the Alien Earth show that was just on on Fox, you know, look great. And it was fun. But my forte is like still trying to do original film. So that's what the Palace is. Yep. When Michael Haggerty and Paul Valenti were there, they just let me kind of like run wild and do whatever I wanted.

That's why we're doing these Bruin views and all these horror festivals. It was like, you know, they weren't, it was rather inexpensive to do a movie there. And, you know, I basically didn't make a dime. Still don't make a dime doing these. It's more for the love of trying to. Self-fulfillment. Yeah. Yeah.

And considering probably over a thousand films, I've screened in that venue on 35 or at other places, too. So I've done a lot of 35 millimeter movies. And I have not run the projector once. It's always like I'm the guy who puts it all together who's just like putting fires out and all that kind of stuff. And we'll hire projections, he'll take care of the movies. And love of 35, the Pals just recently had a tech service call. So they have all new stuff in there. So it looks a lot better, sounds a lot better.

We were having some sound issues recently for the last couple things we were doing, you know, some, you know, mini horror festivals or whatnot. But we got all those bugs, like, tweaked out, and had some professionals from Buffalo come out and, like, fix everything. So it sounds a lot better now. We had a, they spent, like, a good 12 hours tweaking stuff. Wow. So I like 35 because that's the way it was like when we grew up and I grew up in the theater.

I watched, you know, movies like, you know, when I was five years old, watching Alien, The Beast Within and stuff like that. And it's, you know, I want to bring them back for those. people that want to bring their kids. You know, I want to, when my kid gets old enough, I want to get in to see Alien in the theater and film. And a lot of my friends, I grew up in high school and now dads who are, I see them with their kids watching original film prints because that's what he grew up and he wants

his kids to have that experience too. Kind of how it was intended to be shown, you know? Exactly. That's awesome. I'm a big fan of the palis. I got married there. And I just think it's. one of the coolest places ever.

We made use with it. We made movie trailers and everything. That's awesome. Before the ceremony is time. That is awesome. It was cool. So, Jeff, let's talk about what's happening specifically coming up here. You've got an event with a bunch of awesome movies and some panels and things.

Tell us a little bit about that. The Syracuse International Film Fest, which was created by Owen Shapiro, starting like 2003. I've been involved with them, guys, since probably 2005. and more of their tech guy. And one of the best memories is me and Jamesville Jones at the landmark. Wow. Awesome. Well, we've had a lot of cool people, some Joel Schumacher.

He was there when he did Falling Down on 35, and that was the same time we had Bobcat there. And there was a funny story. I have to segue off of, we were screening, falling down was the scope print, which is flat. It's more like a 4x3. free image where scope is more like it's 16 by nine. Okay.

You see it on the screen. Yep. So the projectionist, my friend George Abbott, who recently passed away, he was also IMAX projectionist. He was running the movies. And falling down was scope. And Joe Schumacher comes running in. He's like, the movie looks like shit.

It's like garbage because it's like crap, cropped and stuff. And then George is like, you shot it in scope or showing it in scope. He's like, oh, fuck, man. Oh, and then you hear. out in the audience, you hear Bobcats yells, Joe, shut the fuck up, man. You gotta shut the fuck up. People are trying to watch your fucking movie out here.

And then Joel just, like, got all like, oh, man. And then he, like, you know, scattered out of the, like the projection booth all, like, defeated and stuff. Wow. Side note, that is one of my most favorite movies falling down. It's so underrated. It is because that character in that movie is all of us at some point. Like he's doing what we all, like, when you're stuck in traffic and you're having the shittiest week of your life, that movie is what you envision you wish you could do.

It's so great. And he was phenomenal in that movie. I'm blanking out on the, who was the star of that? It was Douglas. Doug Michael Douglas. Just a performance for the ages, man. Such a good movie. Yeah, it was the classic.

And just to show that with Joel Schumacher, the director there, was amazing. Yeah. You know, sitting with Bobcat because we showed a couple of his movies that, you know, you know, that weekend too and it was pretty cool but this weekend um we usually the last couple years when michelle took it over from owen and owen now lives in rochester so michelle has been uh taken the reins she's the new director of there um we we did it one year at the red house and then we did something you know we tried to do some stuff at the most but it didn't work out but this year she's out of casanovia friday this friday saturday tomorrow so

Saturday and Sunday. And I think it's Stephen Baldwin's getting the Sophia Award on Sunday afternoon. But he's in town for the whole weekend. So he'll be coming to the palace more than likely on Saturday just to pop in and say hi and stuff. And I think he's friends of Gwendova Turner, who is the screenwriter, who will be there on Saturday doing a Q&A for American Psycho, which we're doing on 35. And this is like a pristine print.

I got screenshots from the projectionist who over at the palace now is Adam asked. He's a local musician. Really awesome dude. And he's like, dude, you got to check out these like screenshots. The movie is like in Mackey like it like it was like never screened before. So I'm super stoked to see that movie on 35. So she's there, Gwanevere Turner. She has a history of, you know, been working with, you know, doing a lot of shorts and a lot of TV shows.

I think I have some of her bio stuff here. Really sweet lady. And I'm just looking forward to meeting her because I found a newsweek with David Dukovny on the cover of it. And the top corner was like a little thing about American Psycho. So I'm like, oh, crap, I got to bring that with me. So I read the article and she talks in the article and stuff like that. So I'm going to have her sign it.

That's awesome. I'm still a fan boy, you know, just stuff I own. But yeah, it's cool. we're doing two horror films before then on digital. This movie called Al Jocko, which is a 20 minute, 22 minute short from Puerto Rico. It's an urban legend about this like the zombie fisherman guy who allegedly is still there, his ghost, and he'll haunt people,

and this one section of the island. And so he, the director, Adrian, I met over the summer, working the state fair. and I said, hey, you know what, let's screen your movie. And he said, oh, right. So we got his movie submitted in and it's playing. And it's really good. It's won some awards.

And we're looking forward to having that play officially for its, like, U.S. premiere. Yeah. So that would be first. And then this movie Jacked, which is another film that was shot actually locally in Ithaca. It's kind of like a throwback to the 80s slasher genre. Cool. people get stuck, you know, in a car, and then they're getting stalked by this, like, serial killer,

and they call them the creep. And we have the DP there, the director, and a couple of the cast members. They're going to be doing a Q&A. That's awesome. That's awesome. Where can, how do folks get tickets to this? Is it all at the door?

Do they get them in advance? How's it work? You get them at the door, and it's, like, blocked. It's like the two horror films in the beginning, Jacked and, Jacko, El Jacko, it's like a $15 ticket so you can see a double feature. And then American Psycho is like $15. And then the last film, which is Just Kids, which was shot on the West Coast,

it's very controversial about, you know, transitioning and how families can cope with that and how like certain states are trying to like, you know, ban the, you know, the process of doing it. I see. You know, the medical stuff. and it's a really informative. If you are on the fence about, you know, transition, you know, what it really is. I would say watch Just Kids. You can educate yourself on it and you can educate that.

It's not just, you know, a blue-red topic. It's, you know, about people and what they have to go through and with their families and how do they make adjustments to make themselves feel like they belong in society. And it's a very heartwarming movie. I almost cried watching, you know, a preview of it. And, yeah, so it's really good. So that's last. We don't have anyone coming out for that movie, unfortunately.

It's just, you know, we weren't able to get that worked out because the people, the directors and the producers are in, you know, other projects and stuff. But each segment is like, there's three blocks. They're $15 each. Or for $25 bucks, you can just, like, see and spend the whole day there. So it's a really good deal. And you can get them at the door or the Syracuse International Film Fest, website.

Awesome. You can Google Syracuse and it'll seek you right there and you can get them online. I love this. I love this. This sounds so incredible. Yeah. Great movie lineup. And, you know, anytime you can go.

I mean, honestly, $25 for the whole day. I don't think you can go watch one movie at the mall for $25. No. I'm actually like 1850. Yeah. I got to ask because, you know, I have friends that are into the horror genre. Yeah. And when you're involved, I don't know when you're experiencing,

in my experience, people who are in the horror genre, I mean, they are in, all in, very passionate. And I am a gigantic wuss, and I saw the exorcist when I was very young by accident. My babysitter had it on or something, and it ruined me. I was terrified.

So I'm a giant wuss. I'm too afraid to watch horror films. I like suspense. My question is, and I know it's subjective, but in the horror genre, what is it that that drives you and that make the films and the people that watch them to these horror films? Is it the gore? Is it the story? Is it what is it the jump scare aspect?

What makes it so addicting? There's a for me when I was growing up, it was like my mom loved horror films. And so it's kind of like where you're raised. If you're raised into that situation, you kind of like your mom's love and the passion of like the sci-fi horror stuff, she really like the alien type of movies. And so it kind of rubs off on you. And then when you watch them, you get an appreciation of like, I kind of like watching, you know, I'm not really scared, but I am. And as long as I know that it's fake, then I'll be fine. I'm not going to have nightmares watching like a chestburster come out and blood squirting on everybody.

And for me, and I would say for everybody else who are horror fans, they each have their own thing that drew them into it. Could be any one of those. It could be. It's a gentle cruising. You start to see the village, almost like a painting. Join me, travel expert Darley Newman and Uneworld Boutique River Cruises L'Wiq Bali to learn about river cruising in France.

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The gore aspect is you got like, you know, gore porn, horror, like, terrifier, you know, those other Ellie Roth movies. And that's like over the top. Sure. People like really love that over-the-top extreme violence. Yeah, yeah. Where I'm not really necessarily into that, but I'll watch the movie just because it's practical effects. I want to see, you know, what things are, you know,

what people are doing these days. Yeah. And the movies are entertaining, but it's nothing that I consider, like, my favorite. I'm more old school, zombie stuff, Donald of the dead and all you let me dead stuff because it's spooky. And then you kind of get, you kind of think that, you know, could this really happen?

Right. And then you look on the streets and you see people all drug down, they look like zombies. Right. Like, well, could that be that back then in 1968 during Nile, Let Me Dead? Because these just people would be all like methed out and just like walking around like zombies and stuff. And then you start like really like going into that rabbit hole and then you're like looking around. And then you're like, you know what?

You know, there's space. You know, we're going to space now. And then that's alien. Yeah. What are we going to find when we're out there? And it makes you really think. You open your mind and then you really think about these things. Maybe I'm meant to love horror because I've always said my, my favorite.

movie plots or TV plots are obviously it's fiction, but who's to say it can't happen? Or it's not real. Like the Walking Dead. Like, you know, I love that stuff. 28 days later is another one. Like that kind of stuff where it's like, yeah, okay, it's fiction, but maybe this could happen. So maybe that's I'm meant to watch horror. Yeah, you look at 28 days later.

It's a rage virus. There's viruses. You never know. Oh, yeah. We could be a lucky. Or, you know, there could be an asteroid that. crashes and then there's a bacteria that, you know, kills the population, then we have to deal with stuff.

This might be a hacky question. So, because I'm not a horror fanatic, if you were to give me one or two, what is the Shawshank Redemption of Horror Movies, where for you, you're like, this is the closest to perfect horror movie you could get? Like, just a masterpiece. To me, Donald Dead, George Romero, 1978. Awesome. And then Alien, 1979, Dano Van.

I actually did see Alien and it is phenomenal. What makes those better than all the other options? Because one, it ties everything in. Social commentary with Donald Aded, you know, it's like there's politics on the side, but then it doesn't really go too deep because George Romero is like, you know, we always throw stuff in there politically. So if you're interested in seeing like the late 70s and like the scheme of like how things are on a political scale, it's very subtle.

And plus it like deals with like how. how you get a group of people, and now they have to spend all the time together and how they deal with, like, their little group of, like, four or five individuals and how, you know, and it's not all peaches and cream. It's, like, a lot of conflict amongst them.

And so who are the real heroes? Is it, like, them or is it the zombies because you don't see the zombies fighting amongst themselves, like they see the human. Interesting, I got to see. Which is actually very fitting for today. Yeah. I mean, it still holds up.

Yeah, and it's one of those. movies where the effects were like top notch back then it was really awesome tom savini did a great job with like practical effects and so that's a movie that you would want to watch just to say hey you know what this is like a good true horror film and it's a classic you know it's exorcist up there but it's completely demonic possession right it happened exactly you got signs of the lambs based on a serial killer it could happen texas chainsaw massacre ad dean you know it's all everything is a could happen thing, you know, a Terrifier. You got a killer clown.

There could be really a killer clown out there. You're selling me. That's my whole mantra. Like I said, I love that kind of stuff. I got to ask you, what do you feel is the most overrated horror movie of all time? Good one. I was thinking about that. I would say some of the...

Friday the 13th? No, they're not really overrated. Good, because I love those. You know, maybe the Terrifier movies are great, but then they got like kind of overrated. like part three, I think there was a fatigue that set in. It's like one and two, we're like, oh my God,

then part three was just like, oh, we've seen this already in one and two. So I think three was a little overrade because the people were like really stoked and then they realized it was basically the same way that they watched over again. Just like home alone. Yeah, home alone two.

Home alone, one and two are great. Three, what the hell are we doing? The hell are we doing. But I'm not saying that it's an overrade film. I'm just saying that there was a, It's more a fatigue that sets it. You're talking about Friday the 13th? Well, not necessarily.

Oh, terrifier. Terrify. Sorry, sorry, okay. And I wouldn't say, like, there is, like, a really overrated film of horror. I think it's more of a fatigue thing. Yeah. You know, like the genre goes through phases. 80s, it was all slasher films.

And then they got to a point where you were just fatigued from watching slasher films. I just want to watch something different. Right. And I think that's more or less what it is. It's not like a little. overration. Great answer. Now, now with that in mind, you find I feel like horror movies are the ones that have the longest series, right? You know, Friday the 13th, part 406. Mm-hmm.

You know, and all of these. How do they survive without getting that fatigue, that burn out? And I think it's a character. So the first 513th was a woman, a mom who was all mad at, you know, a bunch of camp or, you know, a bunch of, you know, people. ended up, you know, not keeping an eye on her son and he drowned. And then the part two was like the son. So you had Jason Voorhees, you know, growing up, killing off like, you know, campers or whatever. And I think like you, at that point you kind of start falling in love with like that bad guy. And that's where you get like your, oh, this is cool.

And so you're kind of curious to see where it goes. So Jason Voorhees, you create an icon for the horror. community and that icon actually stays because now I when I grew up watching Jason now my kid you know they're going to want a new Jason Voorhees they want that you just keep going same thing with Freddie Krueger Robert England you know created the perfect character and so you want to see him because he's funny he's entertaining and he's goofy and so you want to see all those movies because each story is somewhat different and whatever and it's more you're watching the character not necessarily the movie.

You bring up a good point because it's like, how do you make a psychotic slasher, a protagonist in a film? You come up with a great backstory of why he's doing it and revenge. And suddenly it becomes like, you don't love the guy for killing people, but you're like, like, get why he's doing it, you know? Yeah. And that's a great answer. Yeah, that's a good call on that.

Yeah, Jay Savoy is, you know, he's killing camp counselors because the camp counselors were like too busy doing stuff with each other, you know? Like, knitted and kissing, blah, blah, blah. And then you let the poor kid drown in the water. So then Jason hates camp counselors. Right. That's who gets murdered. You know, there's other people.

But he focuses on the camp counselors because they think they're bad and they're evil. And then you look at all the movies that were kind of like ripoffs of like Friday 13th. Like the burning was basically a rip off of like the Friday 13th movie. But, you know, they're all good. And I think the 80s was probably the best decade for like horror film. Yeah, it was definitely the heyday. For sure. With that in mind, you're a guy who's obviously incredibly plugged in both locally in the film scene as well as just everything that's happening.

What's up and coming that people might not know about, whether it's something that is being produced maybe in New York or just in the horror scene in general, if you're a fan. What can folks look forward to at films that are being made or being announced, things of that nature? So in 2019, a movie was released by IOC Films and Film Channel. It was called Rretched, and it was made in Michigan, and it was the Pierce Brothers who directed the film. Their father was the effects guy for Evil Dead, the original from, you know, 81. So they're in town now shooting the Wretched Part 2. So I did a couple days on set.

working with the generator operator, setting stuff up. And I met the directors, the Pierce Brothers. Really cool. So they're in town. I don't think it's like common knowledge because they're online talking about it. But they're making the sequel to The Wretched. And I would say The Ratchet is a pretty creepy film. It did really good at the box office in 2019.

So watch that. And then maybe we'll bring the sequel to Syracuse into a premiere. So there's that, and then there's always going to be like these film festivals that pop up. I work with a guy down in New Jersey. He'll bring up film prints. We'll do like the SIF Horror Fest or just Horror Fest or something. And recently I did this thing called Terorama where I found it online on Facebook. Groovy Doom posts these things.

He's down North Carolina. He'll take ads, newspaper clippings from the 80s of like, you know, the movies that were coming out in the newspaper. Oh, you know that. And so he posted one from this thing called Terraorama, which was Hospitius Cemetery, Gates of Hell, Superstition, and the Evil Dead. It was like four, you know, four films playing at the Hollywood Theater. It's like Hollywood Theater. I'm like, oh, those movies. And I'm like, oh, that was, you know, Maddie Dell, like in 1985.

I'm like, you know what? I'm going to do that. I'm going to have the ad converted to, you know, with, you know, today's information. But I took the same ad, same artwork, did the same lineup. And we did that at the palace not too long ago, and it was great. So there's, I'll find something and I'll, then I'll, like, you know, I want to do that because I always wanted to do kind of like a spookorama type of thing. Yeah.

And Taraama was something that fell in my lap. I saw Evil Dead the musical many years ago in a theater in Vegas. That was a good time, man. Did you really? It's like kind of mixed on. There's like the Evil Dead Broadway show that's going on or something like that. and I guess it's not really selling well I don't know why

but I did think I did see the musical and when it was I think I was in Rochester when it came out to evil then it was all right I just remember there was another reason why

I don't think I don't watch horror films is I just remembered I watched Freddy versus Jason and I there was the only one of the only times I vomited during a movie I was at my friend's house and he eats somebody's heart like literally

like eats their heart and and I just I remember running to the bathroom vomiting and uh it's all coming back to me so in the temple of doom like stick to care bears

oh temple of doom took the heart out did you got my shookty day no I didn't vomit but I was very I remember being very terrorized by that although when they're eating dinner with wherever they were it's been so long same movie

in India. In India, and they eat snake. That almost made me vomit. So I think it's more about me than the film. That was a PG-13 movie. It was it? Yeah. See, I'm not...

I mean, that's like right on the cusp of, like, when PG-13 first came out. I'm like, I vomited during Furngully. That was really, when she jumped through the air. I don't know. For a few good men. You don't want me on set. For a few good men. You can't handle the truth.

I can pick on Mike all day long here. It's very easy. Jeff, before we go, let's one more time give folks all the, just the key details, the date time website for tickets. Yes, so this Saturday at the Palace Theater starting at 5 o'clock, we're doing a horror short from Puerto Rico called Al Jocko, followed by a feature horror film shot in Ithaca called Jacket. We're going to have the director of DP and the two main leads. there for that. We have after that is a 35 millimeter print of American Psycho with the screenwriter Guinevere Turner and she's going to be there doing a Q&A, which is going to be moderated by a local film author or a local novelist called Tommy Clark. He's a internationally known, grew up in Syracuse,

still lives here and he makes all these horror novels that do pretty good. So he'll be there moderating the Q&As. Then after that, we have a really controversial film called Just Kids. That deals with transitioning from men to girls or girls' guys, however you want to do it. And it's like if you want to really learn more about the content, it doesn't matter if you're, you know, a Republican or Democrat. If you need to learn about something about something that you may disagree with, I will watch this movie and educate yourself on it. said man and then you can see um all four of them or those three blocks each block is broken down into um you know like the first two is one block and mickside goes a block and then just kids is a black

so those are 15 dollars each but if you want to just come for everything it's 25 bucks and then you can get the tickets through the syracuse state national film festival website which you can just google it and it will pop up and everything will anything you want to know if uh if folks want to to come to the second or third movie about what time do they start so the first two is five and then about two and a half hours later will be so i would say about seven 30 eight o'clock will be american psycho and then probably like 10 o'clock 10 30 will be just kids and uh there's there's snacks and drinks and all kinds of cool things like that at the palace to uh enjoy during beer yes they have a nice IPA selection by My last question, Halloween's coming up.

Is it fair to say that Halloween is kind of the Super Bowl for anyone in horror films, whether they're fans or filmmakers, or is that kind of a myth? No, you're absolutely right. It's not a myth because Halloween is based around basically, you know, a pagan ritual or whatever. I'm not too, you know, hip on the whole thing. I think Halloween is like an opportunity to wear a mask and get some fun and watch the horror films and decorate and now I have kids

and it's really fun taking them out trick-or-treating well for me growing up and Halloween was with Michael Myers and what better way to spend Halloween

and we're going to show the original Halloween on 35mmeter at the palace oh on the 24th the Saturday the 24th or whatever that day is

but it's just one night only original film print of wow Michael Myers the original Halloween It's the 25th is a Saturday. 24th is a Friday.

Yeah, so the Rocky Horror Pitcher Show is a great movie to watch during the holiday season. If you just want to get like shit-faced drunk, have a blast with dancing on stage and have a good time. And, you know, debauchery, everything you can think of happens at a Rocky Horror Pitcher show. Like the things you see and the corners of the palace are really awesome. You know how I said I got married at the palace? Yes, I do.

We got married the day after Rocky. Don't they throw stuff Like cinnamon sugar toast or something They had the event The night before And they had to clean the entire place From head to toe Crazy for us to come in

To have a whole wedding there It was wild Yeah because he got like bread You got rice You got hot dogs Yeah you know Every thing of is just like Not like a regular show where they got a sweep

You know Yeah yeah yeah You got a mop and it's like vomit Because people get really shit face drunk there And it's fun And so that's that's that Friday And then Saturday You really need to see

Halloween on the big screen on film. That sounds awesome. It's kind of an original print, so it's a little beat up, you know. That makes it cooler. Oh, yeah, because the funny thing with film is, like, as it ages, certain, like, film quality fades. Sure. So when you see something like 1969, you know, in Technicolor or color or whatever,

it looks great, but now you see it's like pink. Yeah. But it adds charm. But then Kodak created a film quality. Eastman Kodak, which... which stood the test of time and then the color stays. Rochester, New York, shout out, Kodak. And so anything, if you're a film collector,

look for Eastman Kodak color film because that stays. And then you don't have to worry about 40 years from now watching a pink print. This is awesome, man. Jeff Meyer, you got to come back now. We're up and rolling again, so you've got to be a regular visitor and tell us about all the... Yeah, we really enjoyed this, man.

All the cool things happen in all over time. Oh, I love talking. You know, I can have a whole conversation about comic books collecting toys, movie posters. You know, it's amazing. I was going to say, yeah, I think we need a Jeff Meyer show. That's it. That's it.

But appreciate this. You guys are awesome. Matt, it's been a long time, and I totally appreciate you having me on the show. Same with you. I'd have a blast talking. Well, I could do this all day with you. I could ramble on about everything. I know.

That's good. That's why we do it, you know. That's what the podcast is all about. That's right. Let people dig in deep beyond just a commercial or something. These guys, Grindhouse, they're awesome. They are a repertory archival place where they released and got the licensing for Evil Dead. So I use them a lot for finding, like, gory movies.

They own the rights to like Cannibal Holocaust, make them die slowly and the Gates of Hell. And Bob Morowski is a guy that owns it with Sage Stallone before he passed away. So Bob won an Academy Award for film editing for the Hurt Locker. So these guys are legit that run this company. Brindhouse releasing. I'm just throwing a plug out there. I've run a lot of movies from them. I love that, man.

Jeff, thank you again. Mike, it's been a great day after your birthday. Thanks, buddy. Thanks for coming back to work. Yeah, of course. Danny, as always, thanks for running the board, my friend. We will be back. It's Thursday.

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