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I go down in the basement, you already drew like a big pentagram.
He's like, get in your boxers.
Because he had to like rub my, like, body down with this chicken.
So now you're standing in the middle of a pentagram.
In my box.
Yeah.
It's been rubbed down by chicken.
I mean this in the most respectful way.
Yeah.
You believe this.
When my son was really little, he had an umbilical hernia.
So I put my hand over his stomach and I was praying for it to go away.
And I was like, I take this.
away from you, you know, like just praying and concentrating.
And then within two weeks, his hernia thing, his umbilical hernia went away and I got one.
So I was telling my masseuse this.
And she goes, oh, you did Reiki.
And I'm like, I've never heard the term before.
So Reiki, what is that?
I don't get it.
You know, what is that?
She's energy healing.
She goes, my stepfather does it.
And he's like a master.
He's like a Reiki master.
So I'm like, oh, I'd like to, you know, talk with him and everything.
thing. So I go meet him. His name's John. Lives about an hour away. The guy was just very psychic,
like very, like worked not only for the U.S. government doing remote viewing when they can't find
their agents and stuff like that, but also would be employed by the Vatican to do exorcisms
when their priest would fail. When I went to his house, he had had one of the crystal skulls
there and you know so I put my hand over where it was and you could feel it vibrate you know
there and stuff and then he would be telling me like certain things like about the government
like that I'm like John like I don't want to go missing man I know you'll find me later with
your remote viewing but I I don't know that you should tell me like these certain things
you know and stuff like just like really wild stuff and um which I know you're
going to ask me if I can I was I was thinking do you want to tell us one of those things like I mean
there was like a story about like the the spear of destiny how Hitler had it and then but then it was
stolen from I said yeah but Hitler lost and he goes yeah because it was stolen and and uh I said well
who has it now and he goes that Britain he goes Britain has it the British government have it
yeah yeah yeah do what the spirit destiny is so Jesus didn't die on the cross right from being crucified
but he was stabbed by a Roman soldier and the spear, supposedly any army or anybody that has it or whatever.
Very impressive.
I didn't know you would know that.
There was a time I went there and I had my contact lenses in.
And he's showing me some stuff on the computer.
And I'm standing there and I would see this.
It looked like a cloud like hovering in his living room.
and I thought there was like
something on my contact lenses
you know and I would look
and I didn't say nothing to him
and then I just started focusing on
what he was showing me again
and then I would look
and the cloud would be gone
from the living room
and it would be over by the front door
and it would just be like
kind of like doing this
like hovering like that
and then it would be near the stairs
and stuff so it kept moving around
and I said the one
John you know
and at the
this point I had already like moved my contact like out of my eye to see if it was something on
the contact lens and it just kept moving around and I said John what is like I'm seeing this cloud
like this staticy white cloud going from room to room in your house and he goes yeah I have this place
pretty blessed up he's like no negative energy can can get in here so I'm like
okay so I'm not seeing things okay you know and um it doesn't sound crazy at all it you'd have to
see it like I don't know if everybody could see it or if like I was just able to I don't know
but then he had told me like when I did the healing thing you know with my son he's like oh you
can you know heal like with your your hands too like and he goes can you do with your left or
you're right I'm like I don't know and then he did something and he's like oh you could actually
use both hands like I'm ambidextrous that way and I did actually for a little while
go and help like like some friends that were like in the hospital and stuff my one best one of
my best friends Mel who has since you know passed away his his girlfriend was in the hospital
and she had something like internal bleeding or something going on down near her her woman parts
right okay and he's like let Rick come in you know
Let them come in and help you out.
And she's like, didn't believe it.
Right.
And at this point, it was, it was hard for me to even still hold on to the belief of it.
Because it was just so, like you said, you know, it's like unbelievable.
You know, like how do you, you know, and, you know, so I would teeter back and forth with like, this is even real.
Like, what the hell is going on, you know?
And so I went in there and I just put my hand over her stomach.
It wasn't touching it.
And she goes, are you touching, touching me?
and she looked down and I and she saw that I wasn't and she goes it feels like a bowling ball is sitting on my stomach right now and tingling you know and then she like the next day she left the hospital you know but I never went like advertising it or doing anything because it is like a weird thing right you know what I mean and people are like oh this guy used to beat people up right you know what I mean now he's out healing people you know I'm like I don't know like I didn't expect that you know
I was only bringing up the story of, like, you know, healing my son and then, you know, come to find out.
And then there was a time my stepdad on Thanksgiving fell.
And he couldn't, like, my mom was trying to tell him, he's like, I think I got to go to the hospital.
It was right before we were supposed to go for Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt's house.
And he had, he couldn't even breathe.
So my mom's like, well, well, let, you know, calls me Ricky.
Like I'm still 10 years old.
Why don't you let Ricky, you know, do that thing?
Because I did it on her hands for her arthritis, and she could move her hands better for, like, months.
And she goes, let him do it.
Yeah, all right.
Like, yeah, I don't think he believed it either.
Yeah.
You know, and he laid down, I put my hands over it, and he's like, oh, I definitely feel something, you know, feel something going on.
You know, so I'm like, I don't know how long to do it.
Like, I don't know how long I got to stay here or whatever.
And about 15 minutes later, like, we were at the dinner, and he's like, I don't know what you did.
And he was like, I don't, like, it doesn't hurt anymore.
you know and when I went and saw John John's like oh he had crack ribs you sealed on
okay so like all right you know so so then he would tell me stories and one of the
stories he had was the government got at him they came across this big seat like a big
I don't know if it was like concrete or something like a big chair okay like made obviously
for some entity or something that was like 15 20 feet tall I don't I don't know he just said it was
huge okay and they knew the government knew
that it had something to do
with time travel
but they didn't know how to
effectively like
operate it because
people that they were sitting in this thing
were like
it was it was fucking them up
it was fucking them up like they were
nose bleed
you know you know
the hemorrhage and
you know making them
demented or something like it was it was like
frying their brain pretty much
and he I guess
being
like this psychic dude knew that he would be able to handle it, the energy of it, like the radiation
from it or something.
And he told me, he goes, yeah, there's only two ways to, like, it requires an enormous
amount of power to make it work.
And I go, like, how much?
And he goes, like, think of a football stadium filled with car batteries.
He goes, or there's one other way.
And I go, what's the other way?
And he goes, human sacrifice.
And I'm like, okay, so I'm assuming you guys did the car battery thing.
You know, and so he said when he was a kid, there was something, he already knew what he, he was going to go in the chair in what period of time he was going to go back to check on.
So he said when he was a kid like 10 years old, he went to the bank.
His parents opened him, opened a bank account.
And some old man at the bank was like, oh, this is your first account.
here's a dollar piece
you know put that in your account
so when he went up
he put the the dollar piece
on the counter
and when he went to give it to the lady
it was gone
and he goes
I never knew
who took it
you know it just disappeared
and I've always wanted to know why
but he goes I could never figure out
who like who took it
you know
even though he's like psychic he just
didn't know like that and he so he goes uh in the chair and it put him there like you know so he sits in
this chair and it you know puts him there and then he's like in that room in the bank in in a chair
in like an overtone or like an astral form or something right and he gets he gets out and he's
watching himself he sees himself dialogue with the old man and everything and he gets the coin and he
follows near himself and he said he was very very nervous to be right beside himself because he didn't
know if like they were just going to merge into one or blow up the universe or you know what i mean
right you know like two things of the same touching he said he was very nervous because he didn't
want to bump into himself.
You didn't know what it could what it could yield.
So he went and when he put the coin on,
he put his astral hand,
like the one of him that went back in time,
put his hand over it so nothing could grab it.
And then he had to somehow go back to the chair.
Like I don't know if it like sucked them back or whatever.
And when he came back through,
he had the damn coin in his hand.
So he essentially stole the freaking coin from himself.
Right.
at 10 years old and the coin being metal and everything to this to this day like you know i mean
i haven't seen him in like a few years but he went and got it and this thing vibrates you know like
he's like do you want to see the coin it still vibrates and i'm like yeah you know so he's done
weird he just he just keeps it somewhere he even found like some weird um uh he was out visiting
friends somewhere and he encountered a bad he felt a real bad energy like a real something something's
up in this neighborhood and he went out for a walk to kind of see you know what it was and when he
was out walking he encountered like this is what he said and I'm like these your stories are nuts
so like a like a real vampire you know they also picked up on the bad energy and what it was was
it was an abandoned church that people were doing like black masses out of and like some evil
shit so he went he went in and broke into it and he found like some really old book in there
with like spells and everything and stuff like that so we took that and he has that it's like
so bad he said it's it's in his house but he almost had to like do a certain protective
blessing thing over the book but he read some of it to learn more
things not like bad but learn how to you know study the enemy or whatever and you know that's like
blessed up to a degree so that like the the the bad energy doesn't radiate from there and um around
that time um yeah he's he's just got wild stuff you know so soon after him uh like i had bad
energy coming at me and like I said I was seeing these shadow things and and stuff like that
and there was an issue with with a girl that I was dating in her father her father
Latin okay so her father was into like some dark stuff and he's like you need to just
Santa Rio yeah yeah actually I guess guessed it so um he he was like you need to just kind
to like not deal with him and stuff and I'm like I'm with his daughter but he was like
creating issues with her and I and we were starting like breaking up and she was getting ready
to move and I somehow she she had some medical issue and I said well why don't you have John
fix this okay like fix like something I think her rib or something was was messed up and I was
like just come come to John because I wanted John to like get rid of whatever negativity she
like her dad was putting on her as well okay and uh when
we went to her house like she was very standoffish with me because we were like broken up it was
basically like my last plea like just come up for this and then you go on your way you know do this
for me you know he'll fix your your issue and um like i don't know why i didn't i didn't do it maybe
i tried and i couldn't um so we go up there and the moment we're in his house because like he has
like that misty hayes good positive energy thing circling around and whatever um she
was like very very loving towards me you know so like she was like holding my hand on the couch
and you know like oh so then she had to use the bathroom i go john why she's not she wasn't like
this before we came here and he goes yeah because the the bad things that her dad sent that like
that watch her and stuff can't get in here so they're not i'm like oh so they're out in my car
right seat waiting for us to leave i'm like that's great but he didn't john didn't want to like
help me with with that so i kind of felt like i got i got to seek outside help you know so um
that's when i came in contact with a voodoo priestess a female mombo down in the city and uh she uh did
this thing to get rid of like uh the bad energy okay and when i was there i met my buddy
kevin demarkis right he goes by demarcis so i might say demarcis on accident but he's kind of going
by Kevin now and he was there sitting in the the waiting room and I'm like you know like I'm
like okay this guy's here to see her but he was actually learning like the Haitian voodoo um and stuff
he was already like uh trained in palo meambay which was like the Cuban voodoo and stuff and he
he's just had an interest I think he was even like ordained minister before and stuff he just
so knowledgeable you know about stuff um so he's the
one that, um, the producers that did my first movie, uh, were actually, um, trying to do
like a voodoo, I don't know, like a documentary or something like that. So, so they, they knew I
was going through these things with this, this Haitian mombo down in New York City. And, uh, so
they wanted to film it and see if they could pitch it as a reality show. And when, uh, we went
down there, uh, Kevin was there. So he was like helping her. Right.
So I would, because prior to that, he was living in Memphis, Tennessee, but he was going through a divorce.
And so now he was actually living in the city.
So we reconnected.
And it started kind of growing as friends and everything.
And he was, I was already observing that he was getting like more information.
And there's like a lot of jealousy in that work in that, you know, like the voodoo thing thing.
Very competitive, you know, with other voodoo priests and stuff like that.
but he was getting like information from the spirits that his godmother didn't think
like he deserved or should get like they were telling him she's like oh you're not supposed to
know that you're not supposed to know that and um you know so we ended up when i got access to
or an opportunity i should say to uh open a restaurant i knew his background was french cuisine
that's when he came up you know to the hotel right and then kind of i'm sure he influenced me
writing a horror movie, you know, being a voodoo priest that's, that's a chef in this restaurant.
And it was funny because we would go, I think a rumor even went around that we were like
sacrificing chickens and then cooking them.
We never did that.
You know, so.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with it.
No, they got to die anyway, right?
You know?
So, you know, like after, and then after that, we got the barbecue restaurant and that was doing
good until COVID hit and he actually called that COVID was coming like wait like before like months
I want to say like half a year or more he goes there's something in the air I'm telling you there's
something in the air you know you could just feel it like he like you know and this is before
anything even came out like like COVID right and then sure enough once you know that was like
starting to be an issue he just left he just like I'm going to go to Africa you know and so like
the the barbecue place closed um he's in Africa he leveled up extreme
like way more so spiritually um whereas you know i think like the voodoo thing kind of gets a
negative thing because because of the movies you know it's like oh it's all skulls and
you know black candles and this and that and whatever and i've seen them like help a lot of
people like you know straightened their life out you know like they were about to get evicted
and he'd fix that or court case uh one woman i remember we had to run to the graveyard you know
on a Sunday night
you know he comes to me and he goes
we gotta go to the graveyard I'm like
it's getting dark like you know
and it's raining right and he goes
this woman has court case on Monday
like we gotta go so I'm sitting in the car
I'm like looking at the gate like okay I hope
we don't get locked in here
you know there's no way out
and he went back into the cemetery
comes back he's all you know dripping
you know water you know from the rain and everything
and I think it was maybe
later that Monday or Tuesday
the woman calls and said, yeah, yeah, I won
what did he get in the
the core case?
Like a thigh bone or something?
I don't know what he took back there.
Like sometimes I would see him,
see him work on stuff, you know,
and sometimes he'd just be doing it,
I'd be doing something else.
Did he leave with a shovel?
I mean,
probably like sometimes he'd take like a hammer in there.
But, um,
I had to go,
I was to go break apart a tomb stone or something.
I didn't break,
you didn't break any out.
any of them but um you know he she said that like this was a woman whose husband was abusive to her
or boyfriend whatever they had a couple kids um the welfare checks or something like that was in his
name and uh he wasn't giving her any money so she's like in a shelter with these kids and she's like
i don't have any any money this guy's taking all the money he doesn't have the kids he doesn't even
have the kids it's not taking care of the kids so then he went and did something even to the point
where the judge said to the guy like he must have had like a spirit
speak or make him speak and the guy went in and he was just incriminating himself like left
and right like everything out of his mouth was like incriminating to his whole case to the to the
point where the judge says sir do you realize where you are today do you realize you're in court
and he's like yeah i hit her yeah i didn't give her no money yeah i did this yeah just like you know
like ridiculous so she she won that and you know i've seen him you know help a lot of people and
usually the people you know that he really kind of would go a little bit vigilante with
would be like to be like some or something in the paper and he would like I know a couple
times he would cut the article out and be like I'm going to take care of this son of a bitch you know
so he doesn't play that like you know like messing with kids stuff so like he he he he screwed
a few of those guys up I know I know that but but this go ahead he look like yeah I suit
what so so what are you so how did this come about like are you doing a movie with them or something
yeah yeah so like what happened was um about like with cast yeah yeah with Kevin um so you know
he's over there and when like I said he leveled up to the point where you know like in voodoo it's
like you're dealing with um incarnate uh spirits and stuff like that and now he's actually like
because he's in Africa like the motherland where the magic is just way better and stuff he's like
in conversation with like a goddess okay like that's like you know what in in his wife he's taking a wife
I'm actually going to see him in December you know for his official wedding there and she's getting
dreams and they're coming to her and she's waking up with nosebleeds because like the radiation
from them is like way more than you know like our soul or the spirit
or whatever and he was getting you know headaches and and nosebleeds now but they've kind of
acclimated to the point and so they're getting like a lot of knowledge and stuff on how to do
things how to how to treat things cure things you know ailments and everything like that so like
there's a lot of people that he's helping he's more so on the helping people you know treating
their physical ailments and and stuff like that than than anything else now and last october
he sends me a message, you know, on a, you know, like on a text.
And it's just like, oh, you were mentioned by like Hecate.
Like you, like call me ASAP.
Like I missed a call.
Like I think I was sleeping.
There's like four hour difference there.
And I'm like, oh, shit, what is this shit?
You know, like, I just like automatically, like you couldn't say it in the text.
It must be bad.
Right.
You know what I mean?
So then he goes, yeah, they have something for you.
So I said, what's that?
So his wife was given a movie
Okay
Now when I say a movie
I mean a real story
Right okay
Um by Hecate
Which is the goddess
And she saw the whole thing
Like in her dream
Like a like a two hour movie
And they said
Give this to Richard
And have him write it
And then so she goes
Well how am I going to remember this
This is two hours of a movie
Like and they said
We will not let it leave your head
Until you give it to him
And sure enough, I get 30 WhatsApp messages of like this whole story.
And I had to cut, paste, email to myself, put them in a thing, and then write it.
And as I was writing it, I called Kevin and I said, you've heard this story, right?
And she goes, yeah.
And he goes, it's like almost like movie night, you know, like, you know, she gave me the story.
And I was like, I think this really happened.
And this movie particularly has to do with, um,
Okay, for organs.
And I said, there's certain things in here just being, like writing and stuff that doesn't necessarily even need to be in here because it doesn't really pertain to the story or anything.
It's like a backstory, but it doesn't have any relevance.
I think this is real.
He goes, I think so too.
He goes, I think this is like they want this to be known.
So I said, all right, you know.
So I finished writing it.
And then he was like, oh, they have another one for you, you know, month later or something.
So they gave a couple stories, and then they put him in touch with the world's greatest storyteller in their realm, okay, named Brenna.
These are like spirits.
Yeah, like, but Brenna's like up there.
She's like almost like a lesser god.
Okay.
Not like an incarnate, like that was a guy that used to live 20 years ago and now he's walking around the earth.
Right.
type of thing um of course so what what they did was they well hiccate introduced them personally to
two spirits that that passed away that wanted their story told and one was a woman uh during germany
uh nazi germany and she became a sniper for the british and goes on to like avenge you know that
someone close to her you know which is an amazing story i think that was maybe the second or third one
I wrote and I got to tell you like I cried five times writing it and I would just get to the
point where I'd be done writing for the day and go sit in my recliner and just like tear becoming
I'm like I can't believe this woman like really went through this right shit like this is this
crazy it was it was almost like no beautiful story very like poetic kind definitely altered
my perception to a degree on uh you know like lives of people you know and thought that that was
just a brilliant, brilliant story, which that one in the next one, which is called Levi,
or for the love of Levi, which the ending of that one kind of fucked me up for two weeks
because I couldn't even sleep.
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I'd start thinking about the ending of that one, and it was just like lunacy.
I'm like, this is the craziest fucking ending that I've ever heard of.
I don't even think I could have ever thought of anything like this.
And then I was talking to Kevin on the phone, and he goes, I never told him that it fucked me up.
Like, I couldn't sleep like for two weeks.
And he goes, yeah, that movie fucked me and Ebby up, his wife.
He goes for two weeks
So he's like the same thing
You know
And that one's amazing
You know
So now they're in contact
Every week
They get a new story
So he's up to like 40 stories
I've written into
script format
Seven of them
Thus far
And they're just very
Very amazing
And they're all real
This is all stuff
Literally that is
That has happened
Right
You know
In various years too
There's the one
Like I said
It was Nazi Nazi
Nazi Germany so it was like in the 30s into the like the early 40s I finished one called the
offering which took place in the 1970s in Mexico um he's got one that's in Mongolia
Thailand on some small island in Greece and all these stories are real this is this is like
literally like like the book of deeds of men there these stories are getting pulled out
these are like the highlight stories you know the greatest of the great that this spirit
Brenna is giving him
And you looked up
Didn't you say you looked up
Like the sniper
And it was turned out
To be like a real person
That that one
There I think that there's
See that's the thing is
There's names in them
Like like for the sake of the story
Okay like the one the one woman's name is Amelia
I don't believe it ever gives her last name
And but she had a sister
And it gave her sister first name
I think it gave her parents first names in it
And the thing is is if it's you know
They keep good archives
you know, the British military.
Right.
So I think if anyone went to look this up, they would be able to find it.
Also, you're limited in Google.
Google's not like what it used to be.
Now it's like firewalls or something.
You know, you can't really find what you wanted.
Like 15 years ago, you'd Google something.
You'd get the results you wanted.
Now it's like, oh, whoever paid for that advertising, I got to witness their crappy web page or whatever.
but like the one invested in Mexico that one was in the 70s so some of them should still be alive
and also it was the mayor of a small town called Espita trying to think what his name was
in that but it should be easily you know there should be record of it so some of the more modern
stuff there should be records of and I also think there's one story called Diamond in
that is more modern
and also the one
faces of betrayal
which is the one
that seems to be more modern
because they're talking about phones
and almost sounds like
cell phones when people are calling
sometimes in it
so there might be at some point
when these get made
the actual person watching their own movie
going how the fuck
right did they know that shit
you know like and just blow
you know and then at that point
I'm sure it'll be
you know some interesting interviews and everything going on um so he's getting a new story every week
so what are you i mean you're and you're writing the stories like in the script format he's also
starting to turn them into novels um a dean the the the world war two one there is called a dean um
the other one is levi which took place uh during the middle ages in england and um those are
actually getting turned into novels as we speak so he's going to
start releasing them as novels
I'm putting them into script format
we've already talked with
a production company that is taking on
a dean and Levi but there's
there's so much that other production companies
could definitely you know come in
and partake of this
you know thing there's just so many
I mean are you
so you're saying you're working
with a production company that's going to turn
them or attempt to turn them into films
yeah yeah two of them
yeah they've slated two of them
right now they're dealing with the Toronto
Film Festival right now
which I think just ended
yesterday or Sunday
just a couple days ago
so I'll be talking with them again
and getting the update
as to where we are on that
but it's amazing to see
you know these these stories
and they actually is a gift
Brenna
is kind of like a sign to him
is a spirit now
so she's in his house
resides in his house
you know here's everything
and he heard
his wife and him
mentioned my name
and she said to them
they can hear her and stuff
and I'm curious to see
what I'm going to see her here
when I go there in December
and stay there for two weeks
because I'll be sleeping in his house
and she said
who's Richard?
And the thing is
I think people have like a misconception
where they think like
all spirits know everything
and it's like
that doesn't even make any damn sense
because if a spirit knew everything
they wouldn't even need to engage
in any dialogue with anybody because they know what you're going to say and know what they're
going to say back to it and then what you're going to say again so they wouldn't even
engage in anything so I think they kind of narrow their scope and their perspective to what is
relevant you know at the time so she heard my name and I'm all the way over over here you know
and she's a sign there so I'm going to like fly across the ocean check on me but so she
actually uh was told by uh his Kevin's wife that's that that Richard is uh Kevin's
best friend in the United States and she goes well I'm his best friend too like you know a little not
like jealous but um and so she went and he told me she looked in like the book of my deeds
but not just for this life for like all my past lives like what kind of rap sheet is that like
you're looking like how deep you got to search search me out where you're looking at my past
lives to you know see if I was a good man just doing a Google search oh that's yeah that's
that never very extensive yeah so so then is a gift
she gave me one of my stories from a past life
and she said this is the one where you did like a very heroic act
and stuff like that so I was in the Persian Empire
you know and stuff in was it 1092
or 1192 something like that so I actually read that when I was like wow
that's crazy to die in a battle or what do I do I do die in a battle
yeah but the weird thing is is like I actually um in that
it's a crazy story but like it even starts tragic for me you know and I'm like damn
son of a bitch like so I don't I don't want to ruin it but I I I uh yeah I die in battle
but I'm sufficient in battle but knowing what um handicap I had you wouldn't think I'd be
able to fight at all okay you know so it's like kind of weird one of the things that I
witnessed is when we had the French cuisine restaurant um it was
in a historic building, a historic hotel.
It used to be the old courthouse.
And business was slow because the main entrance was on a back street,
although we were right downtown.
There wasn't really a sign saying, hey, we're right here.
You know, come in and, you know, get a...
Bad marketing.
We didn't really have, like, a budget for marketing.
You know, we went in there.
We thought the hotel was going to have a certain amount of,
people staying there and whatnot and it was just ran really crappily you know by these guys and
it even got so bad to the point where it was almost an extended stay type of place and then a few
times when we filmed my movie there there was one time I took the elevator and I'm standing
right next to this girl that was either a call girl or they were making a porno like one floor
above like a porno I believe a porno was being made while we were filming
our movie in the same in the same uh the hotel um and business was slow and he says to me
Kevin yeah uh I'm gonna feed the doors and I go feed feed the doors and he goes yeah I'm gonna
feed the doors like business he goes I did it at my last restaurant and it it got crazy
so I'm expecting him yeah feed the damn doors so they we can make some money
You know, we would get customers and we get some regulars, but we weren't killing it there.
We weren't making what we wanted, what we expected.
And one day, it's slow.
It's the start of the day.
And I'm dressed in my, you know, white shirt and tie and stuff is the Mater D or whatever the hell they call it there.
And there was these two big oak doors with big glass windows that there were the entrance to the restaurant.
And we were in a beautiful room with marble floor and everything.
It was like the main lobby converted into a restaurant.
And I go up to the door and I just rest my hand up on the door frame.
And it's in something sticky.
You know, so I'm like, what the fuck is on this thing?
So I take my hand away and I could see that it was dried.
So he fed the doors that night or something because he was staying in the hotel as the residential chef,
well okay so I'm like okay he fed the doors man that day was bat shit crazy
like it got it got to the point where we had to lock customers out from trying to
get in it's like and then lock which meant the ones that were already eating right
were still were locked in okay and I had to go unlock the door when people were ready
to leave because people were coming up just yanking on the door trying to get in
you know and it was at that point we weren't we didn't have like a big staff because we
weren't doing that well there right you know and I was like dude like but I went and called them
out on the feeding of the doors after I saw it was on my hand I said did you feed the doors
yeah and then it just it right around lunchtime man it was it was an influx of people like we
and we couldn't keep up we could we couldn't keep up we he goes go lock the doors go lock them
out okay I'm the only one this seems this whole thing kind of seems this crazy that
What did he put on the thing?
It was birds.
It was like, it was like baby, like baby chickens or chickens or something.
Yeah, it was wild.
It worked.
Okay.
It worked.
For how long?
Because didn't you eventually close?
Yeah, like it worked like crazy that day.
And I think it had some residual for a little bit.
And it died down, but nothing was like that day.
Like that day, it was just like shot out of a cannon.
Yeah, there's so many people.
It was, oh, my God.
It was like one of the worst days.
Like, just because we weren't, I think it was just him and I.
I'm trying to think if we even had like a waitress on that day.
And then he got mad at me one time, you know, he would teach me things here and there.
He would be like, okay, you do this or you could bury this here or you, you know, he would tell me stuff.
And one time he told me with an egg, you know, how to kind of.
make um a girl argue with her man and then want you okay so i'm not going to tell you what it is
later okay but um uh so you know i don't know who he anticipated you know i was i was going to use
it on but there was this one very cute waitress that i hired obviously i if you hired her
it's not because of the skill set you know you know i mean she she had some waitressing experience
but she was a very beautiful girl.
And I did the egg thing on her.
And I didn't even know she had a boyfriend, you know.
I thought I was like, okay, I'm just going to kind of get her to, like, pay some attention to me.
And, like, that day, she was, there was her and another waitress on.
And then he came down.
It was right before lunch.
And I said, well, I said, yeah, I did the, uh, the egg thing on.
you know you know who and he's like
you know
like man
you know like
why the fucking yeah like he's like why
like why the fuck you wasted on her right you know like on that chick
you know and I'm like I don't know like I'm single
and like whatever you know like
so then the girl
was like just bitching about her boyfriend
like texting him and like oh this fucking guy
I'm fucking done with him like you know
I'm ready to you know
this guy like it so you could see that it was like annoying so so so so Kevin's like watching this
and just like every time like I'm witnessing it I would look over at him and he would just give like
give me this like shitty look like why the fuck did you do it look you know what I mean like
and then the girl was you know like let's uh you know let's take a picture let's take a selfie
together and shit and he gave me like the the weirdest stink eye look man like just like
why you know and then yeah and then I ended up like actually the girl and I ended up like
hooking up and we dated for for a few months and then she just kind of was like too too jealous
I think that fucking egg worked too good right because she was like showing up she was showing up
like when it wasn't even her scheduled work day you know what I mean to like see what the
fuck I'm doing you know and she would there was a window to the kitchen and you just see her
head looking as I'm out into the seating area just looking through the thing just spying like
crazy you know and then there was one girl that didn't a woman came in to patronize the the business
and she was waiting on her one day and the girl said she goes oh he's he's kind of cute
and she goes I know like she was ready to like fight the the customer so like eventually you know
I was like dude I got to get rid of this chick like what and do I got to make an omelette now
The egg or wash.
Like, what, what do you do now?
And I can't remember if he did anything to kind of alleviate that.
But that, that was, that was a rough, you know, a rough getaway, you know, to get out from under, like, her clutches.
The old egg trick.
The old egg trick, man.
Yeah.
And then, and then I went, like, bat shit with him.
He goes, you can go fucking wear that out.
You can wear, you know, wear it out.
That's funny.
So what's, what's going on?
now so what's going on now he's just uh you know he's over in africa just doing a lot of
spiritual work for people um but he anticipates um within you know the next year or two to not be
doing as much i think he's going to retire from the spiritual stuff in about two three years
he just doesn't he won't he won't need to do it anymore for people okay well what
Like, what do you, what does he do for, like, for, for, for money?
That's what he does.
Like, he's very good.
He gets very good results.
He's good results, like, people pay him to perform.
Yeah.
Well, like, also, like, for certain, yeah, for, like, you know, most of it is not so much, you know, like I said, it's the movies that's kind of like, oh, it's non-stop.
Like, voodoo's old, like, negative one way, you know, like fucking people up killing them, you know, and doing shit.
Like that.
Well, I think of scams.
I think of, oh, you have bad money.
You have bad money.
You need to bring.
You had, you came into money somehow that's bad money.
Well, I have a job.
I did get paid.
Yes.
And this money is how much did you got, $1,500.
You need to bring that money to me.
We need to wrap it in to get rid of its bad money, you know.
And then, oh, yeah.
And they've given $15.
Yeah, but I think, I think there's like negative.
You leave it here for a week.
and then it will be cleansed and then when they come back the envelope is empty and they go it was cleansed
yeah no I think there's bad no matter what like I think you know there's a lot of the you know
like priests that take your money you know what I mean or televangelists or whatever you know
they're millionaires and billionaires from they don't even have any results like there's
there's people you know it's kind of like counseling or anything I'm not saying he's wrong
No, no, I'm, I hear, I know, I respect his hustle, I mean, you know, but he's, you know, he doesn't have like a call this number and get your, you know, you don't think. It's pretty much word of mouth. And, you know, people are getting results. So a lot of it is repeat business from people like, wow, you like, you help me with this. You help me with that. Like, I'm going to come to you for this. Or now I have a cousin that needs this done. Like, you know, so, so it's very tangible results that he's doing. And people.
people he he keeps it kind of on the down low it's not like he's got some weird YouTube
channel like I am the Mambo of the there you're not Mambo but like a wound gun of this
you know like it's not that like he keeps it keeps it small and he's he's got the
you know it's coming in you know he's doing he's doing very well with it okay and you
can just move to Africa like you don't need a permit or something no he got he ended up
getting a visa visa like when he went and then um he had a he had a he had a
contact there that helped them, you know, kind of get like the dual citizenship.
Right.
You know, because I guess you can't ever relinquish the USA.
They don't want to let go.
Okay.
And so he has dual citizenship now.
Yeah, they helped him with that.
Yeah.
And the funny thing is, is like sometimes he had like a, not like a really good bed to sleep in.
So sometimes I would just sleep on the couch and he would sleep in my bed.
And then when he started dating somebody, he would stay at their house.
a lot and I would go sleep in my own bed and I would have like really weird dreams of
spirits like hey where's where's Kevin but like they expected to encounter him or something like
that you know where is he tell him this so I go oh well legba said this or you know like this
spirit said that they said they wanted this you know it was I was like his secretary a little
bit too and it's interesting and you you like I mean this in the
most respectful way.
Yeah.
You believe this.
Like you've seen you.
Like, um, there was, there was just too much I've seen that, that you can't go,
oh, that's coincidence.
Like, get out of here.
You know what I mean?
Like, you know.
And, uh, there was a, when I had him like, work, you know, I told him, I said, man, like,
something's, like, messing me up.
You know, somebody's, like, doing something to me or whatever, like, magically or something.
I just didn't feel right.
And he goes, I'm going to do, I'm going to do a cleansing for you.
You know, so I was like, all right, you know.
So, um, we're in the basement, uh, this one time.
And I, I go down in the basement, you already drew like a big pentagram on, on the, on the ground.
But obviously I'm stepping in it like right side up, you know, not like it was, you know, some basfamette, upside down satanic shit.
So it was more like a like a, like a not, I don't want to say wicking because it's not wicking.
It was, it was voodoo.
So he had candles going around it, white candles.
And he goes, you got to stay, you get a stand.
in the middle of this.
So I'm like, he's like, get in your boxers.
So I'm like, all right.
So it's like, getting weird.
Yeah.
So he had, you know, a black trash bag behind us.
And then I had my Nike, can I say Nike?
Yeah.
Too later.
Right.
Yes, I had like this very nice big black Nike duffel bag.
Okay.
Like, outside of the circle.
So, you know, he has a thing's lit and he's saying some prayer and everything.
And then he had a big calabash with herbs and stuff in it.
And he had a chicken down there, I think, trying to think.
This is going to incriminate the shit out of me, but you don't care because it's all about the views.
I mean, we're a horse or views.
What is that, peta, pita?
Like, they're going to get out of my ass.
Well, there was a chicken down there.
Right. So like what he had to do is he had to like rub my like body down with this chicken, okay, to get my scent on this chicken. This is what I'm assuming. I never like went to him and said this is like process of deduction, like deductive reasoning and stuff like else. So so he he rubbed his chicken down and then the the chicken gets unalived at some point. Okay. And then he washes me with these herbs in this calabash like to like kind of give me a.
different scent or something.
And all this started because you made the comment.
Yeah, but I was, I was, yeah, I was, yeah, I felt off for like a, like a, like a, like a month or
something.
I'm like, dude, like, it was almost like depression, but like, usually like if you're depressed,
you have like a fucking reason to be.
Right.
You know what I mean?
You're like, oh, man, my dog died or this or that.
And I was just like, like, fucked up for no real.
I was like, dude, where's this coming from?
What am I fucking fucked about?
Like, like, I couldn't figure it out.
And I'm like, so now, so now you're standing in the middle of a pentagram.
in my boxers in your boxers yeah been rubbed down by chicken yeah like if you didn't feel weird
before no no the chicken was alive when it when i get rubbed with yeah yeah yeah don't make me yeah i
don't want to be a that's crazy necrophiliac chicken guy that you're right that would have been crazy
yeah yeah it's got a less when it's alive yeah so um yeah after that uh you know there was um
you know he's he's doing a prayer and everything like that and then he goes and he puts
the chicken in the in the black trash bag okay but he was still tending to me so this this thing's
there it's obviously deceased and we're going on and you just hear extreme rummaging through
this bag like to the point and it's like not the like i'm like there's no way that's the the chick
i know sometimes it jerks around and like whatever because like i've been there with him
when he's sacrificed them before.
And I know when they stop moving or doing something.
So there was something went into that bag to devour the chicken.
I think he took something off of me that went to that chicken
because he rubbed it all up on my scent.
And it was trying to eat and feed off the energy of the chicken
like it was feeding off of me.
And he's like, do you hear that?
And I'm like, yeah.
And I'm looking at it.
You know, I can't, like, leave the circle, but I'm like, like, turn around and I'm like, yeah, I think like that thing.
He goes, yeah, I think that thing's in there.
Like, you know, eating the, you know, what it thinks is you.
So I'm like, yeah.
So, you know, we get done and stuff, you know, I dry, dry off and, you know, candles go out, come out of the circle.
He takes the, the bag, ties it up, the black trash bag, throws it in my duffel bag.
And I thought he was just using my duffel bag to transport it out, like, take it somewhere.
I'm not sure where he went with that.
I think he went by himself to get rid of it.
And when he came back, I think like a day later, I'm like,
where's my Nike bag?
You know, like, you know?
And he goes, well, what the hell do you think?
Like, I got rid of the, you know, the chicken in it.
I'm like, well, I'm like, it was already in a bag.
Like when he goes, you want me to go bring it back?
And I'm like, no, no, fuck it.
Leave it.
I don't need a Nike bag that bad, you know?
But yeah, that was weird because, like, I literally seen it.
And then another thing happened was we went to we would get our chickens from like you're like a maze.
Look at his eyes.
Just like, holy shit.
Keep going with this.
It's a part series.
So we got our chickens from like a like an, you know, one of those auctions like the, the hell.
Like firm, farm auction thing.
You know, where they're selling goats.
We never did a goat.
Right.
You know, it was always like chickens, roosters.
That would have been over the line.
I don't even know.
Yeah, yeah, that's cross-knit.
But, um, so, yeah, you don't want them pulling up a goat trying to rub me down with that thing.
But, um, we had three chickens in the backyard.
And we put them, they were in a cage.
It was summer.
You know, they had water and food.
And they're really respected for what they do.
Like, you, it's not like you're just using them like you're,
your man wipes you got in the bathroom there right but like you know you're really respecting the
animals are my wife by the way oh they're okay yeah so so um geez so you know you really have a
respect for the animal you know like some people like you know they eat a chicken sandwich
they're not praying over it saying oh thank you for for your your offering of life sacrifice
yeah your sacrifice so that I could eat and shit you out later you know um but you know like
him there you know there's definitely a respect for what you know instead of the the chicken being food
you know for him for energy and whatnot instead it kind of exists as still providing something
for the individual whether it's doing something magically removing a curse doing whatever okay um
so we had three chickens out on this wooden stump in the backyard and because we we weren't
gonna you know use them until the next morning and um the neighbor came over ringing the doorbell
early in the in the morning and mind you they're in a fenced in yard the chickens are all the way
in the back this neighbor doesn't even go in her backyard and just being a a Karen basically and um
she she's like you guys got chickens in the backyard and this and that and like first off like
we're legally allowed to have chickens like in
like I don't think you can have roosters but you can have like hens and um she uh you know was
like they you need to do something what if a fox gets them i'm like through the fucking cage
like it's a problem not no like i've never seen a fox in my neighborhood but like so she's
just being a Karen basically and uh we're like look you know we'll take them out i know you need
to get rid of them now it's like nine in the morning we've slept in a little bit you
you know and uh she's like you gotta do something or i'm calling i don't know she threatened the
police or animal control or both or some shit right so i'm like all right all right deal with
it like fuck out of here so then she she goes and i go up to him and he's like what the fuck
was that about because he was like just waking up and i go yeah fucking bitch next door like
you know complaining about the it's like what he goes he goes i'm gonna fucking make her move
I'm going to make her move out of her house.
And no shit, that woman was gone in, like, six months.
Just put her house up for sale and, like, left, you know.
So I think he, like, sent something tormenting her.
Yeah, like, she had no, she lived there for 40, 35 years or something.
You know, there was no reason for her to just get up and leave.
And he said it.
He's like, I'm going to make her, I'm going to make her move.
I'm going to make her move.
I didn't have anything to do with the fact that two guys, one of them,
a voodoo priest
moved in next door to them
and they've got chickens
you know
all my long
I mean that it was the only time
no that was the only time
we left them outside
like most of the time
when we got them back
they went right into the garage
but I think
that time they were like too loud
or something so like I was like
let's put their ass on noise they made
what do you call it
gobbling gold
that's a turkey
turkey well what do chickens do
what do they call that
clock clock clocking and then
backyard
yeah yeah so like they were just
I didn't want him in the garage
that day
and so she she didn't know
what he was into
she didn't know he did
did that stuff
your brother's name is Kevin
yes
Kevin how do you feel about all this
he's met he's met
he's met the other Kevin
yeah
yeah it's it's it's interesting
okay there you go
it's interesting
he's a polite
He's polite.
He doesn't know what to make of it.
Yeah.
But there was the time, remember, when we went to go eat and my phones were blown up,
and I told you the spirit, like, showed me something.
Yeah.
You've told me a lot of stories that I don't have time to work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This has been interesting.
Yes.
Anything else?
I was a co-owner of a French cuisine restaurant with my friend, Kevin, Kevin DeMarcus,
the voodoo priest
Okay
So this is going to segue into that
And we were running it out of a very historic hotel
That used to be a courthouse
And
Just there was some weird stuff
That would happen in the hotel
He was actually staying there
Because he moved up from the city
When I brought the opportunity to him
Like hey there's an opening here
You know if you
I know you're a chef
He had four French cuisine restaurants
in Memphis, Tennessee.
After he went through a divorce, he just,
I'm going to go up to the city, just vacate him.
And I said, there's an opportunity up here.
Why don't you come up?
So he came up and we ran the French cuisine restaurant
and I got an idea for...
Out of the old courthouse.
Yeah, well, it was converted into a hotel.
Right, that weird things happen.
Right, right.
Like what?
Like room 13.
Of course, room 13.
Yeah, right.
And people would report,
The toilet would flush on its own, and people would reportedly get their feet massage by something that wasn't there.
This is a weird room.
Yeah, we're a good one.
Yeah, depending on if you need your feet rubbed.
Weird, kinky, go shit.
Yeah, we actually filmed in that room in the movie The Overnight, which is the first movie that I did, which was the horror movie.
Although I had wrote it, I had no need to direct.
you know I didn't I didn't really care to wasn't my forte didn't have the experience to and so I went and I got these two producers they got the ball rolling and then screwed me so what they did how the wife kind of wears the pants in the family and she convinced her husband like you know we got to take control of this like Richard doesn't know what he's doing and I wasn't trying to pretend I knew what I was doing I just wanted what I was doing I just wanted what I was do
You know, and they ended up saying, hey, sign in under our legal umbrella, come in under our LLC.
Right.
Relinquished all my rights.
Right.
You know, so then I was treated.
Now you're like, now you're an employee.
Yeah.
Like, I'm like, oh, he's one of the writers.
And she wanted to write it.
But in the initial contract, it was like, I'm the only writer.
Mm-hmm.
So then what this idiot did.
and um she goes and spends two weeks watching other movies other horror movies to see what they had in
common like trying to find the algorithm right you know of what is scary yeah so then she went
and since i signed off on it she was able to come in and write right which is what she wanted
the whole time yeah and when she did that um she put in a lot of cliche yeah things that were in horror
movies which I thought is like kind of plagiaristic right you know in nature and um you know the
movie came out and they just assassinated themselves by saying because it was done in the hotel
we filmed it in the hotel the haunted hotel and uh it oh this is the shining this is like the second
shining and it's like way to compare yourself to like one of the top three horror movies
Stanley Kubrick like you're out of your mind might want to lower the bar a little yeah a little bit
Yeah. Yeah. So when she, when I gave her the initial script, she goes, we, we can't do this. This is too scary. This is too, Mike, that's the purpose of a freaking scary movie. Yeah. You know, it's supposed to be scary. You know, that's what we want, right? Like, that's what we're making. So she made it more, I called it Hannah Montana. Like, I called it like more poppy, like, fun and stuff and put in some things that I just believed were really hokey. So there was a lot of complaints about.
that woman um on the set there was actually a meeting and her husband deflected and tried to like
put blame on me i'm i'm just sitting here i'm just on set you know and uh the one of the producers
ended up having a stroke in the middle of shooting so it was a two-week shoot one week in
week in this guy's getting flown in a helicopter two hours away right and then his wife was
I think suspected that my friend the voodoo priest did it, you know, and I don't know if he did
or didn't. He never told me, oh yeah, I put the kibosh on, you know, the one producer. He never told
me. But the guy was already, he had a history of strokes and everything. You know, I think it was
the stress, you know, probably his wife killed him. So she didn't really know what was going on
after he left. It was, you know, chicken with the head cut off, you know, running around. She
she couldn't really pull anything together good when the uh the one producer ended up having
his stroke and he was gone they the his wife relied upon the the crew member that was maybe
the most junkie addicts guy right you know on the set to go dump the footage and when he went to
dump the footage he erased a third of the movie so they had to go reshoot that which then they
had to line up everybody's schedules all over again and stuff and you know it was just a mess it
inflated the budget to the point where it didn't equal what it would make back there wasn't
big stars in it um and then when they went out and said this is like the shining we got her asses
kicked like in the media like any any review was like yeah right like this is like and had we just
said and made it a B movie on purpose, there's a market for that.
I love watching crappy horror movies and good horror movies.
You know, they pick on the bad ones.
Oh, look how bad that effect is.
Look how stupid, you know, this guy is.
Right.
And we didn't do that.
We were like, we're up here.
This is, you know, this is a classic.
You know, this is, you know, and I'm just sitting there like, my name is attached to this.
That's not the case, though.
No, no, it was not the case.
All right.
Yeah.
But every once in a while you end up with one of these films like, Colby won't remember this.
I don't even think these happen anymore because now this is a standard.
But when Blair Witch Project came out, like...
The phone footage stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
Like Blair Witch Project came out, which was three kids.
I'd say three, were there four?
I think there was four.
Okay, so the four kids end up shooting, they end up deciding they're going to go deep into the woods in, I don't know where, Oklahoma, whatever.
Yeah, yeah, I think.
Was it?
I think so.
They drive out, so they're film students, and they're going to drive out to where,
to interview people about the Blair Witch, because there's this kind of war about this
witch that would kidnap local kids, and they would disappear, and she lived in the
woods.
And so they're going to interview some people, and they even believe that there's a house
somewhere in the woods, right?
So they interview a few people at beginning the film, and they're all fucked up.
It was all like eight, eight millimeter, right?
Like it's bad
Fucking
They're not on
They're using the new camera
And they're using the new camera
And the old one
And so they watch the whole
They go out in the woods
To find the fucking house
And they get lost
Like they get lost in the woods
Like
Like that's a serious fucking thing
Like you get lost in the woods
You could just die
You know
And so nobody knows where they're going
Nobody knows anything
They're lost
They're freaking out
They're turning on each other
And every night when they go to bed
They go to bed
In their little camps
And everything
And something's out
there moving around like they're freaking out you're freaking out watching it because the whole
movie so in the end they find this house and they get somebody gets kidnapped and they go in to try
and find them and i mean just thinking about it like the hair on my arms are standing up it's so
overwhelmingly freaky and the whole movie is pitched as that after this whole thing happened
the footage was found by some hikers they found the footage and they put this movie together
with this footage that those kids were never found again, never seen again.
They just found the raw footage.
And some producer put it all together.
And that is how all the advertisement was done.
This was found footage by some film documentary film students who were putting together
a story about the Blair Witch.
They disappeared.
And to this day, nobody's seen them.
This is the footage that we put together based on what happened.
So it's a documentary.
And I mean, you're reading articles about it.
you're like, holy shit, this is amazing.
Yeah, they did a good job on masking it.
Yeah.
It's true.
Like, this is all bullshit.
Like, they would know, it's all that's part of the marketing.
And I think they did it for like.
And I remember Googling it like back when it happened.
Right.
Is this real or is this?
Articles about when it first, when it first came out, if you Googled it, you were led to
believe that this was real original real stuff.
They didn't leak it out.
It was fucking.
amazing. It was amazing.
Like, literally, when we went to see it,
I happened to be that one of my
brokers at the time had
seen it was like, bro, you got to see this movie.
I was like, what? He said, yeah. He said, you got to take
your wife to go see the movie. I was like, okay.
Why? And he was like, he told me all about it. He was like,
I was like, holy shit. He was like, bro, it's freaky
as fuck. And then he said, I'm going to tell you something. No, he said, it's all
fake. So he tells me, it's all bullshit.
The marketing is all set up because it had been out for like
a week. By that time, it was
coming out. So I take my wife
and I don't tell her or my girlfriend. I don't know if I was
married. Whoever I took, I took some chick there
and she saw, she was freaking.
Like, you're just people in the line or
are like, can you be like, no, they just found
the footage. Like they still don't know. Right.
And I'm knowing the time. It went for a while.
It was amazing. And then you saw it
and then the, but the biggest
thing to me, scratch all that.
Is the whole film was made
for like 80 grand, 60
grand. It was made for almost nothing.
It was less. Or was that paranormal activity? One of
was like 35,000 or something like yeah so somebody said it was made for the price of a compact car
now that's what i had always heard so i assumed it was 35 000 but later i looked i looked it up
and somebody it was like for 60 or 80 grand and i was a hell of a car i was back then that was more
like a fucking nice horse car yeah um but so yeah it was made for and it and it it it made like
you know eight million dollars or something or 20 or 30 or 40 million whatever it was an outrageous
amount of money that it made and it blew the doors off of that kind of film right because
everybody else kind of started coming out with that kind of stuff and then it just died off like you
could only do that once but but to me that's it's that hook that nobody has yeah that was great
fucking what did it make what did the bluer witch project make see i'm i don't have
joe rogan has the highest percentage it grossing joe rogan has like jamie this guy this guy
$250 million
What did I just say
10 million, 6 million?
It didn't see
How much was it made for?
What's the budget?
Oh, let's see
Because I remember the budget was way higher than I thought
Because I always heard about the price of a compact car
35,000
That was right.
You were right, 35,000
Where did I see 60 or 80 the other day?
Fact checking
Oh my God, can you imagine
Can you imagine that investor?
I'm going to give you the 35 grand
to do it, but
that investor's
coming back all day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can you fucking imagine that guy?
That's some guy's,
some guy's dad stuck it on his,
stuck the budget on his credit card.
Like Billy's dad's going to put it on his credit card.
Yeah,
but he's got to get 50% of the return.
Yeah.
Well,
Billy's never going to see that money.
I'll tell you that.
No, that was like old mind right there.
Fuck.
Wow.
Still, I mean, like, you know,
you end up that to me,
that's the kind of thing like you stumble on to some little niche
that nobody quite has yet.
And then period.
Activity
duplicated it to a degree.
You know another one?
You want to run the paranormal activity numbers?
I was probably locked up by then.
Well, yeah, well, the Blair Witch was the first original found footage
where everyone was believing it.
And then paranormal activity, I think people...
They kind of fell out.
Yeah, they can't already know because the truth kind of came out after the Blair Witch
that it was...
Yeah, okay, yeah.
the the production is anywhere from 15,000 to 200,000 but it made 200 million
again worth it online yeah good that's a good investment it is that's an investor that
comes back yeah yeah it was it was shot for 15,000 and then additional post-processing and
stuff I think was the extra 200,000 so so good for them wow bastards what
What's that thing around your neck?
Is it...
Ah, you noticed.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, I don't know what it is.
Yeah, I can't go into too much of the explanation, but, you know, these were told, I was told to get these through Kevin's spirits, you know?
So they both have meaning.
This thing, we'll just say it helps business-wise.
I can't go into specifics.
But I get a lot of people asking about it because it's just not like a typical charm.
Listen.
Yeah.
I appreciate you coming.
Hey, thanks for having me, man.
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