Old Gods of Appalachia - BONUS: Steve Interviews the Railroad Man Yuri Lowenthal

Episode Date: August 19, 2021

A half hour sit down with everyone’s favorite villain in a bespoke charcoal suit — or at least the actor who played him. Yuri Lowenthal talks with Steve about horror podcasts, voice acting, good books, and how we’re do making in this time of the ongoing pancetta.LEARN MORE ABOUT OLD GODS OF APPALACHIA: www.oldgodsofappalachia.comCOMPLETE YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA RITUAL:FacebookInstagramTwitterBlueskySUPPORT THE SHOW:Join us over at THE HOLLER to enjoy ad-free episodes, access exclusive storylines and more.Find t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and other Old Gods merch at www.teepublic.com/stores/oldgodsofappalachia.Old Gods of Appalachia is a production of DeepNerd Media and is distributed by Rusty Quill. All rights reserved.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/old-gods-of-appalachia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Right about now. Well, hey there, family, it's me. You know who I am. Shell, God's of Appalachia, hanging out here with you. I know you weren't expecting to hear from us this week. We did not promote this at all because the element of surprise comes with magic of its own. So I am not alone here in the void. Notice you don't hear really any crickets.

You don't hear any drones. So you know we're not going into Storyland. And normally, I'm going to tell you nine times out of ten when I do something like this, it's going to be reserved for Patreon. But y'all came through for us this season, whether it's supporting the show by word of mouth, getting us into the New York Times. We don't have a publicist. Y'all's word of mouth got us into the New York Times back around Halloween.

Y'all are supporting us on the T-shirt shop. Cameo has become a wild and wonderful thing for me. I have done more cameos as Hornedhead than I have just about anything. If you've never had Hornedhead tell you to go to the gym, then for a meager price over at Cameo.com, or if you want Melvin to tell you to take your kids to baseball and it's your turn to be a good parent, I can do that as well. I've got to do the Walker sisters later today, and I'm fighting the urge to buy wigs.

That's all I'm saying. But I bring all this up, not just to come and tell you and say, thank you, I have a gift for you, my family. I went walking here in Fletcher, North Carolina, which where I live is, I can say this without giving away a geographic location. I went walking down by the railroad tracks. I went walking down by the tracks after dark against my own good counsel, and I happen to find somebody there. and I know about third of you just gas because yes indeed my brothers, my sisters, and all my family beyond the binary. I am joined now by the railroad man himself, Mr. Uri Lohenthal. Yuri, how are you, my brother?

Yes. I am thrilled to be here with you finally, Steve. This is long overdue, my friend. Yeah, we have been trying to put together this, but we're both getting busy and with the world sort of opening back up and then sort of closing back down. work for it's a tease yeah work for both of us um if you are not all the way through season two and have not gotten to the siege of pleasant evenings the incident with the railroad man and the local magistrate story featuring yury and uh the buttercream dream corey forester you might want to pause because we're definitely going to talk about some spoilery stuff about that story and we are

going to celebrate old daddy charcoal himself being here um uh uri how does it feel now i'm the voice of horned head and 80% of the other characters on the show. So I understand how it feels to be objectified as an infernal deer filled with darkness and glowing amber antlers. People like that voice. How does it feel to be possibly the most thirsted after character to ever grace the mountains of old gods of Appalachia? I don't know what I did to become so lucky or so cursed, depending on how you look at

it. It is a burden that I am willing to bear. Oh, man. We have sold a ton of the show. shirts designed by the railroad stand from our Discord server, which that piece of work made me so, so happy. And there's another shirt out there, Twitter user, you know who you are. Mr. Lowenthal here has brought this shirt to me. I believe that is Aaron, I believe, is the user. Their Twitter handle looks like Appalachia with the upside-down Vs. Be very excited

because Mr. Lowenthal here, Yuri sent me an image of that shirt. It's like, do I have to make this shirt and wear it myself? So we're going to be hollering at you here very short. shortly now that season two is over. So, you are not, you are not of our people. You are an outsider to a certain degree. So can you tell the people, how do we end up, how do we end up being kin? How do we end up working on this together? Well, I'm only an outsider in that I walked away and that I left the village, as it were,

because I grew up in Tennessee. I grew up in Nashville. You could argue that Nashville is hardly, you know, I mean, that is, it is about as cosmopolitan as the South gets. but as Appalachic gets, but, you know, I grew up with, you know, stories of the bell witch and, you know, just terrified out of my mind. And when I started listening to the show, I mean, you know, anybody could be a fan. You don't have to be from Appalachia.

Absolutely not. Our family is vast and wide. Yeah. But, I mean, you could tell, by the way, I think I reached out to you how excited I was. And, you know, I would have accepted a. hey, you know, well, we've got a, you know, a rule about this and this is, you know, we're sticking by it. And I think we managed to still stick by your rule. Indeed. Indeed. And you didn't ask me to, you know, to down a couple of whiskeys and settle back into the way I used to talk when I was in,

when I was growing up in Nashville. You didn't ask me to do that, which I appreciate, you know, because we didn't need to push that. I get enough of that when I, you know, when I have more than to or I get on the phone with my sister anyway. Oh yeah. Calls back home is an automatic way to dip, to dip the paint brush back into the, into the family bucket there. Yeah,

I talked to my mom on the phone the other day. And y'all, y'all know, y'all have seen me. It's really, we're going through a weird thing as the show is getting bigger. And people are, new people are seeing some of our live streams

right at a Facebook live the other day. And people are either shocked by how I look, I guess, maybe. Or so handsome, so much handsomer than they expect overalls and a beard, apparently, a bigger beard. Fair enough. Yeah, that's fair enough.

And that's fair. But they're also a little bit surprised that my voice doesn't sound the cadence of the narrator all the time. I am an actor. Okay? Like, this is my natural. Like, if I relax all the way into my accent, this is how it sounds, and I'm not holding back anything. This is just what it sounds like when I go home, talk to my family. Everything is a little bit faster.

Comes to my nose a little bit, and that's just how it is. But on my normal day-to-day, my Asheville, North Carolina, progressive liberal hippies with white dreadlock voice comes out more like this, which I know is still accented. But Yuri had been supporting us. And did you find us through Gary Whittah? No, I was, I think I was, I was already listening to you. I think it was, because some friends of mine did a podcast, a horror podcast called Video Palace. Oh, God, that show is so good. So good, right?

And I think somebody said, I was done with Video Palace. And they said, if you're, you know, looking for more, you should probably try this. And I think that was my gateway. Oh. And then I, and then when, I don't know if Gary tweeted about it or if it was just in the, and I think it was just in the credits once or you thanked Gary and his wife. And, and then I, I immediately sent a note to Gary saying, hey, is that, is that the you? Were you involved?

And he said, yeah. And then when we started talking, you know, we found out that I also knew Gary. Yeah, yeah. Gary, what a mutual friend of ours, a fantastic screenwriter, wrote Book of Eli, I did some, was kind of, Rogue One. Yeah, the OG Rogue One script and a lot of other great things. His wife is my wife's oldest internet friend who she has never met. They have known each other for like 20 years.

Oddly enough, I met her in a parking lot of a target in San Francisco when I was out there on a poetry trip with our youth poets. And like I was standing there talking to Dines Smith, who is an amazing poet, go look that person up. If you're listening to Steve reads and you hear me introduce you to these poets, Denez Smith is a poet you need to know. And another poet, Devin Samuels, who's not as well known, but Denez had just been on the Colbert show like a couple of weeks before with Macklemore. He got to do a verse like after the hymn, Jamila Woods. And this woman approaches this. And I'm like, oh, she recognizes Denez, clearly, because Denez is beautiful and has a very unique look.

So I start to step back and she's like, are you Steve Schell? And this is, old gods doesn't exist. Nobody knows who I am, maybe outside of Slam poetry. And she's like, I'm Leah Whittah. I'm Jamie's friends. So we sent a selfie and we did all that. But when the show started picking up, we reached out to Gary for advice. And he's like, I'm very busy.

And I won't tell the whole story of how we eventually got connected to Charlie Ferraro, UTA, who's Gary's agent, now he's our agent. And Yuri was retweeting this with his massive follower account. And I'll be completely honest, I don't watch anime. I haven't played a Spider-Man video game ever. So I'm like, who is this cool dude who's like retweeting me? And like, we were in L.A. and you're like, oh, man, I just missed you in L.A. We could have hung out.

And I'm like, who are you? Who are you? Why are you so friendly? Because I don't trust you in L.A. vampires. You're weirdos. But then, like, every time you would retweet us, we'd gain like 300 followers. And I'm like, hey, could you start? And I looked you up.

And I'm like, oh, he's a voice actor. I wonder what? He's not Appalachia. What could we do? What could we do? And then one day, I was asking you to retweet a trailer. And you're like, you know, Steve, I would do anything for the show. And I was like, I don't have Naruto money, Yuri.

That was very railroad man. I know. I know. And it was, but then, yeah, and then we just hit it off. And I found the character. The railroad man was always going to be a character after I named dropped him in the Wolf Sisters. And the character changed. You were almost a serial killer.

Like the railroad man originally was patterned after Francis Walcott on Deadwood. Yes, I remember you telling me. Hyperviolent, did what he wanted, walked where he wanted because powers that protected him made it so. But then as you shaped the character and you found the voice, he went from like, yeah, this guy could roll into town and kill a few dozen people and then leave the town almost. Or he could raise it to the ground with the powers of dark magic and capitalism. So, same thing, really. Right. Thinly veiled metaphor.

Thinly. Finely, the thinest. But, yeah, you brought such a lot. So just as an actor, and this is an actor-y-asked question for me to ask you, how did you get it? there with him. Like, how did you, how did you find that, yes? And, you know, I know, I, I know where you got the words. I wrote them. But like, how did you, where did you find, where did you find him? I, you know, it's always a lot easier for me. And this is not just because we're talking face to face. It's always a lot easier for me when the writing is good. You know, I mean,

that makes an actor's job so much easier. And I was already. in love with the poetry that you had been creating. And the, you know, the smoothness of the character comes from the smoothness of the writing. But also, I mean, you know, you talk about capital, you talk about how, you know, the, you know, yeah, you could either come in and kick a door down or you could come in and charm the pants off everyone and, you know, end up with a lot more at the end of the day. And I think, you know, that's where where he's at. He's, he's no stranger to violence.

He's no stranger to, you know, pure evil. But he knows he doesn't, it's almost more of a challenge. And it's much more rewarding for him to let people sort of come in on their own. Yeah. I think that was a lot of it. You just oozed. Like, we, I think we took one direction call where I think I walked you through a couple of phrases. and you just, but then they just slid on like this oily glove, and I don't think I ever had to direct you past that.

Like, I might, I think I definitely wanted potato salad. Yes. Oh, yeah. No, and that was a good call. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was very, people found that very disturbing. And there was fan art of you serving potato salad in one place. I believe, I don't know if Railroad Stan drew that one or whatever.

But it's, it is, it's a weird. world when two kids who grew up in Pohunk Appalachia get to work with like the voice of Spider-Man. And we did some math. Actually, I had the Red Thread Society do some math on you. They're probably maybe peeing themselves right now over this interview because

they're huge stands of the railroad man. But I believe Cherlington Beascoat on the Discord server did the math and that Frank Megatron Wellaker might be the only voice actor that has more, the working actor that has more voiceover

animation credits than you do right now. So you are prolific. That's crazy, my friend. Yeah, I know, right? And, you know, in a similar way, it's weird for me to think that this little Jewish kid from Nashville grew up and gets to do this stuff, you know? You're freaking Spider-Man.

Like, you're Spider-freaking man. And for a kid, I know, and for a kid who grew up reading comics and, you know, love Spider-Man and, you know, just about anything else that he could get his hands on, that is it is still I like I I mean you just said it out loud and I'm about to say it out loud that I'm

Spider-Man and it still doesn't feel yeah real yeah I mean I don't I don't think I'll ever be Spider-Man but the closest I can come to relate is when like we sit down and look at numbers and they're like okay a half a million people listen to the show

yeah and I scream into a trash can for a half hour sure yeah because you can't make that work in reality. Yeah, no, or it's just like when people, like when you, like you, people like you, and there are a lot of artists out there, Tess Fowler, whose artwork I admire and adore, is apparently a big fan and is a lovely human being.

And like, there are people who have, I love hearing that. Who have pushed us along out there and have suggested us. Like, I think one of the, there was a while back, it was somebody, the name is escaping me, but someone was just, early on was raving about the show. Like, we weren't even all the way through season one yet. And it was the guy who drew the Avatar The Last Airbender comic. And I'm like, that person knows who I am. Like, that person,

like, that's strange and bizarre. And it is a wild, it is a, it is a, it is a, a wild thing to go from, like, doing a project that you think five people will hear to. Yeah. It's just for me and my friends. To hang out with Spider-Man. I mean, like, you know, like, you know, like. Which I hope we get a chance to do someday in real life back when traveling, you know, you know, you know, in the future. Oh, no, you're, yeah, yeah, I will undoubtedly be back. We'll be out there for something, but Asheville is a place you can come and get away from L.A. And the food here is absolutely amazing. It has been gentrified to a T, but like I will say, our food and beer scene are excellent.

And if you're hearing this and thinking about coming to my town during the pandemic, don't. But if you do, wear a mask. I don't care. I don't care if you're vaccinated. I'm vaccinated. I'll wear a mask everywhere I go. had one of my most, one of my most fun friends who works in, um, in food services in Asheville at a very fine, nice, fine dining restaurant, super careful, vaccinated masks all the time, Delta variant.

You know, like you can be as careful as you can, but like people, if you're a jerk to a server's over COVID stuff, don't come to my town. Don't go to any town. Just, just fight another planet. Just dig a hole. Yep. Yeah, yeah, okay. I got some people that can help you with that. I got six men. they haven't had much to do in a while, and they'll come and I believe we know a gentleman from the railroad who could help supervise with that. So are you caught up? Did you finish the season? I did.

Okay. And just really, you know, I was going to, I was going to get in touch with you to tell you about this, but I figured, you know, maybe, you know, it'd be better to just talk about it in front of everyone. Go ahead. Exactly. Just delicious.

And the care you took with it, And, you know, getting, you know, cultural sensitivity, uh, uh, advisors on it was super smart and I think raised the level and all the different actors you had in this last. They're all so great. Like it was, it was, uh, it was, you know, fantastic. You, you have, you have a great once I don't know if it's a gift or not, because you know, I know you worked your ass off for it. But, you know, you have a, a gift for, you know, just massive, ridiculous climaxes to each of the different parts of the story.

Like, it all really comes to an epic. And that's why I want to see, you know, illustrations. That's why I want to see, you know, comic books. That's why I want to, you know, see stuff. Give us time. Give us time. Yeah, I know. I know. I'm being impatient. We may have... I've got it all in my head, and it's great in my head.

And thank you so much. My, my... Cam wanted to be with us today, but Cam is over at Old God's Shipping Central getting more Patreon packages shipped out to folks who have been very patient and very kind. And they managed one call today. And this was my, the work I must do for this show to hang out with Spider-Man, Mr. Uri-Lowenthal the Railroad Man, and chat with him. Otherwise, Cam will be here. The three of us are going to hang out on a Zoom sometime.

Maybe patrons can join us for that or something and watch us all be goofy. Yeah, let's do that. So I asked if you were caught up, not for the obvious prompt to praise us. But how did you feel about the bait and switch we pulled with Mr. Nathaniel Locke? And again, spoilers, we are going into late season territory because we sort of teased people that Jack's young protege was going to get a job with a man from the railroad. So did you have feelings about that bait and switch? You know, often I would say, you know, often I'd get upset about bait and switch. but when you bait and switch me, it's okay.

Like, again, you know, in that last little bit, you know, the introduction of skin, Tom, you know, I was like, oh, this guy, he's going to be so bad and we're going to hate him. And then by the end, I was like, well, I love him. So he's just a good, he's just a good guy who wears other people's skins. Like, he's a helper, you know, so I'm okay when you, when you bait and switch me, Steve. We just, I can't, honestly, I'm not going to, I'm not going to, like, talk down to people. I was surprised some people fell for it because it would be way too soon. I felt like for it.

And we have definitely not seen the last of the railroad man. I mean, I can't say win or where. We don't ever do that. But, like, yeah, I wouldn't like just cut his throat one week. The next thing you know, he's got an office job somewhere in, uh, somewhere in Tennessee. Like, that's just not how HR works around here. Yeah. So what else are you listening to?

that old gods is on hiatus, and we're named a video palace, which if you've never listened to Video Palace, Shutter made it, it very much falls into the category of oops, I podcasted my own spooky demise. Sure. Sure. But they do it. That's, they are probably the top of the class of oops,

I podcasted by spooky demise. Yeah. So what else are you listening to you? Is there anything else? Not, does that be horror, but just like. No, I'm, I'm on hiatus too. The most, the most, I've been listening to podcasts lately is my son, when we go on walks and sometimes when

I don't want him to watch TV but you know I want him to get focused on something we listen to a stories podcast okay um it's yeah it's called stories podcast I think with with Amanda Weldon and oh okay yeah I know the one you talk about yeah yeah he likes he likes that one

he likes a reading bug adventures so this is all stuff for if you're out there listening you want something for your kids to listen to um that's honestly mostly what I've been consuming lately uh which is a very different Yeah, I have a hard time with horror podcast. I love the White Vault.

I love all our friends at Fullem Scholar. And I finish Magnus. We are on the Rusty Quill Network. Shout out Rusty Quill. But I don't need to revisit those guys like anytime soon. I rewarded myself for finishing season two by listening to John Darneal of the Mountain Goats read Wolf and White Van on audiobook, which is phenomenal. That was my favorite book when that came out in 2015. that was my book of the year, and it was long listed for the National Book Award.

I've never read it. I'm a John Darniel super-fan, and he lives in North Carolina, and I really wish I could be seeing him at the Orange Peel tonight, but I did not think we would be having live concerts in August, which we probably shouldn't be. But even though they're requiring mask and proof of Vax to get in, I have family dinner plans, so I will not be there. But when a musician makes that leap from musician to novelist, you're always kind of sketchy. get it. It's, I can tell you kind of what it's about. It's about a young man, because

it's content warning, if I'm recommending it, it's about a young man in the 80s who is obsessed with Conan and D&D and has this very rich internal life, but also there's definitely something off. And as you find out from the get-go that he has attempted to end his life with a rifle, but survived, severely disfigured, and has grown to be an adult and runs a turn. You remember, remember these jury, a turn-by-male role-playing game. Oh, my God. And the narrative weaves in and out of time, and in the real world, two kids have died playing his game. And there's a whole thing. That's not, but that's not the story. The story is about the internal workings of this character who is a grown man and also

perpetually the child he was when he attempted. And it's just like, I, it's just a, I recommend the audio book very highly. But the book is, like, you said it's a wolf, the white van and white van and the wolf and white van and the wolf and white van and that i don't want to spoil where that title comes from uh but if you grew up in the satanic panic if you grew i if that's when i was playing d and d's when i i used to i used to go back in nashville i used to show up outside a donut shop where this guy would pull up his pickup truck and sell us used d and d d and he'd sell d and ds he'd sell diced modules like i used to buy d and d stuff out of the back of a pickup in front of a donut shop.

Legit. Absolutely 100% legit. So I think I, and when you're talking about musicians who then write, I immediately think, and it sort of falls in with this whole tone. Nick Caves and the Assaw the Angel. Haven't read it, but I know it's out there. It's, well, I'll tell you what, I'll read Wolf and White Van if you read. Yeah, done, done, done. Because they're, yeah, so good.

Yeah, no, yeah. But I finished Wolf and White Van, and now I'm doing his other book, Universal Harvester, which is horror. I know what it's horror. And Universal Harvester is a guy in the in the 90s working in a video store, small town video store. People start returning the tapes and what looked like clips of maybe torture or maybe a snuff film, maybe something horrible, have been put on random tapes throughout the store. And it's about unraveling the mystery of that. And it does not go where you think it's going to go at all. Darniel's mind is there's, I talk about John a lot just because I worry about my parisosophobic. boundaries because there's just very seldom been an author who or an artist who like are you sure you're not me 20 years from the future sending me warning signs back through art because that's what

it feels like tell me when I die um but um yeah there's just as somebody who worked in a in a video store growing up uh that appeals to me greatly next next on my list yeah next on my list is chuck wendig's new book uh book of accidents oh yeah yeah yeah i don't think i don't know that i've read chuck Winding, to be honest. If you, you know, his last big book was called Wanderers, and it was very much, if you liked Stephen King's The Stand, it had, it definitely, there was DNA in that, but it was also very prescient with what's going on. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. With global pandemics and, you know, the rise of militias. And, and in a way that when we're always reading it, it just became more, more terrifying, but it's really great. I, I'm glad I, so I'll recommend, I'll see your

wanderers and raise you Justin Cronin's the passage. Okay. The passage is a trilogy. Well, the passage, the passage... Yeah, I'm looking off to see if... No, that's... Okay, somebody else... Yeah, the passage is a brick, and it's the passage, the 12, and the city of mirrors,

and it is vampirism as a virus, but not in the way, like, not in a tropy sci-fi way. It actually spans, like, the entire book spans generations and a lot of inspiration of how I, how you will eventually see families get tied together once we start writing past mid-20th century point with old gods. It's very inspired by this. But it is the way it is written, the lyrical nature, it is written you. It starts with Fox did one season of a TV show, setting it in the present, setting in which FBI agents are sent to retrieve a little girl who's been orphaned because they're looking for a child to use in these experiments. and she's someone who can vanish into the system, and it's this experiments about extending human life

by doing this things, and of course it creates something. It's not supposed to create. But that turns into a road story with the detective and the little girl, and then it jumps 400 years into the future, into the world that came after all of that was unleashed. And it flashes back, and when you're in the future, you hear about the characters you met in the first written about as if they were in the Bible. And then there was Amy, who was glorious of the Savior,

and at her side, Peter, the man of days. And it's like, and it's just, Cronin just has this voice that weaves. And it's just one of these things, like, if you're going to write about vampires and they're not like spooky, you know, they're not sexy vampal. They're not sexy. No, no, not at all. Not remotely.

Right. Though in the series they made, because the premise is they experiment on death row inmates, whose deaths they fake. So they give them this thing that mutates them. And then, of course, they are instilled by their basest instinct. and they kind of become this hive mind. But it is rich and it is lyrical. It is epistolary in places.

And then you'll get like some little snippet side story that you wonder where it's going. And they reveal a last name at the end of it. And you're like, oh, God, that's the grandmother of that guy. Oh, yeah. So, Justin Cronin's, when you're ready for something big and you've got downtime, just to start with the passage. And if you like it, go, again, also recommend the audiobooks of that when I forget the narrator. but this has been Book Corner with Uncle Yuri and Uncle Steve.

Whatever you do, don't get me started on movies. Yeah. Well, the last good thing you watched. Movie-wise? You know, I just re-watched The Lighthouse because it's so good. I re-watched detention recently. Joseph Khan is a Gonzo filmmaker and his high school sort of of throwback to not the 90s and but like you know it's it's part breakfast club it's

part weird time travel movie it's part it's it's it's it's nuts but yeah you know a lot of stuff I'm blanking out now but a lot of stuff has come out recently that I guess people have sort of been holding on to waiting yeah you know exactly when to drop it during the pandemic yeah I've been hesitant on movies I've been delving into TV shows. I'm super excited that we got Wellington Paranormal in America. Me too. Yeah.

Well, but I mean, it's not, because it was that on Netflix or who's got it? HBO Max. HBO Max has it. And did they drop it yet? There are four episodes out. I think they're dropping it live on the CW. And HBO Max is getting it day after the way Hulu does. Great.

Because I love the, yeah. What we do in the shadows universe is. It's flawless. There is nothing you can say about it. Again, I'm for it. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Same. And I so much.

I can't wait for September for season three. I almost hope it's the last season because I don't want it to get to. It's a trail. Yeah, I don't want it. I can't say enough good things about what we do in the shadows. It's the funniest, singularly the funniest horror show I've ever, I've ever watched maybe. I have, yeah, I love it. I have great faith in Tycho Wittiti and Jemaine Clement and, you know, like everybody involved.

I can't see it. I can't see the quality dropping off. Yeah, now, you're right. As things go on and on. But you have, sometimes you have to know when, like the good place, in my opinion, walked away. 100%. I cannot rewatch the finale. I cannot cry that much.

I can't do Chee-D's Wave speech. No. No. Oh, God, what a great show. Oh, totally. What's your comfort, what's your comfort viewing right now? What are you watching? Comper of you right now, Ted Lasso, I mean, is just, it is the show that we all need.

Okay, my wife liked that a lot, and I haven't watched it. So I'll put that. Yeah, it is. I put it off for a while because I'm like, you know, I want to watch a sports show. Yeah, that's kind of what I'm doing, I guess. It's about sports like the show Sports Night was about sports. Oh, okay. God, that show.

How far ahead of its time was that freaking show? Too far ahead. Like, yeah, like, yeah. They gave us Peter Crick. If you released it today, people would say, hey, this. is right. Yeah, Peter Krause, before 6 feet under, you know, like that was just like... And by the way, if you're

if you're a Super Z baby, 6 feet under, was one of the greatest TV shows made of the late 90s early aughts on HBO. Early HBO hit. Some of it holds up and some of it did not age well, but... Interesting. Yeah, yeah, that's when I went through a whole thing of revisiting all the big HBO hits, revisiting the Sopranos, which does not hold out that well.

There's a lot of misogyny that's just not... Yeah. It's never okay. Never okay, but just... Like, there are times when, oh, yeah, that word got used. Oh, no. Oh, wow. So much. Yeah.

Dexter's getting a revival. I'm not for it. Dexter's getting a, no, because Dexter did that thing where Dexter, I love Dexter. And then it was diminishing returns after a certain point. The John Lithgow season was absolutely horrifying. Oh, the Pentagon. Yeah. And after that, everything, they tried.

They tried. I want a new season of Fargo. How do you feel about Fargo? Yeah. Yeah. Always. Yeah. Yeah.

Solid. I've been watching Schmigadoon. if you're a fan of musicals at all. The wife is on Shmigadoon, and I need to get it on it. That is definitely feel good. It's sort of like the, you know, the good placey thing

that I'm watching right now. Yeah, yeah, you know that, but yeah. That's just... Yeah, Ted Lassow, Schmigadoon. Doom Patrol. Oh, so good. So good.

Doom Patrol is so good. And like, it's my favorite superhero TV show like that and the boys maybe, but, um, but Doom Patrol is, I mean, I know it was on a streaming platform that nobody really watched. And then it's sort of buried on HBO. Max, but you, it's, you owe it to yourself.

Brandon Fraser in that is, a Brendan Fraser, sorry, Brendan Fraser. Yeah, the return of Brennan. Yeah, it's just, I, yeah, I couldn't, I couldn't get enough of that. I'm trying to think, let's see, what else, is there anything? We're just talking about random stuff now. But I don't know what the family wanted. It was a chance to hang out with you. Right.

Right. And this is just the introduction, because I have to, I have to wrap this up and get to other work, the work that, where they called me and they said, and they scheduled it and they said, you got to do this and we'll, we'll pay you money. But can this just be sort of like the intro to a much bigger thing we do? And we could do it live on, you know,

Discord or more of this. Yeah, I'll tell you what, let's call this the end of Part 1 because we're right at a half hour. Okay. And like, we will return with Uncle Yuri, aka Daddy Charcoal, aka the Rail Me Man,

aka somebody just died. They will not believe I actually said that, but I did. The most thirsted after character at Old Gods. We'll come back and either do something live or we'll just pick this up and add Cam to the mix. They'll be a part two to this maybe week or week after. Because you and I've got to talk, but Cam and I only talk on Twitter. I know.

That needs to happen. Part two will feature, we'll feature 100% more Cam content. Great. So family, thank you all for joining us and hanging out with me and Uncle Yuri here on a special just kind of interseason drop in on Old Gods of Appalachia. Can I throw in one last book? Sure. I just dropped a sci-fi show on Dust, which nobody's heard of, but it's like a sci-fi aggregator. All eight episodes of a sci-fi show that we produced live a couple of years ago, but now is all cut down and mastered.

You can watch it at watchdust.tv, or it's probably, they've got an app. You know, it's like Shudder, but for sci-fi, basically. And the show is called Orbital Redux. Orbital Redux. Gunpowder in sky produces dust, and they're good people. Correct. They are good people. All right, so, family, we will come back and visit more with Uncle Yuri with 100% more cam content,

and we'll work it out. So we'll see you soon, family. See you real soon.