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[00:01:15] Welcome to Reel Nerds, podcast live at Denver, Fnx, about 2024.
[00:01:19] We are slicing up another fresh interview.
[00:01:24] Now, sir, we're fresh-lines. I like that.
[00:01:28] We are with everybody really knows us, Smurve, but you can tell us, you know, you're real name.
[00:01:34] If you want... Well, okay, so here's the funny thing. If I use my Reel name, nobody knows who the hell I am.
[00:01:41] So they go around. My name is Daniel Scharner, right? But if you say Smurve, either they've heard of me, they hate me, they've worked with me or kind of aware of my existence.
[00:01:52] So it's like a day. But Smurve with all...
[00:01:56] Yeah, you're tense.
[00:01:57] I would say you're well known in the Con scene in Colorado, because we're here at Fnx, but you have your own con.
[00:02:06] Do you know my own con? I have the Colorado Festival for. I run the Colorado Ghostbusters and I run 502-80-Geek.
[00:02:14] Yeah. We've collaborated on a couple of different things.
[00:02:16] We sure have. It's like we've grown up on...
[00:02:21] It's hard, right?
[00:02:22] Yeah, because when Denver Comic Con, DCC started, you meet Hawks a couple of smattering of other different podcasts.
[00:02:30] We're all here at the Ground floor, which is Charlie. And through the years we have grown.
[00:02:35] You have grown, I've grown with this con and it's amazing to see.
[00:02:39] When we did our panel the other day, this is our 12th one.
[00:02:43] Right?
[00:02:44] And I knew it was Denver Poppulch, or Con, and Denver Comic Con. Now it's Fnx, but...
[00:02:49] And as the people have changed, we've gotten bigger, but we're still here.
[00:02:56] We're still here.
[00:02:57] And it's nice.
[00:03:00] But so I had a question about the Ghostbusters, because you use all their insignia.
[00:03:04] Do you have to go through certain channels to get there? I'm just curious about that.
[00:03:08] So that I have you here.
[00:03:09] There are some gray areas, because we've taken certain liberties with the No Ghost logo.
[00:03:15] It is and they did a poll.
[00:03:17] It is the single most well-recognized logo on the planet.
[00:03:21] Really?
[00:03:22] Yes. So Sony is kind of of two minds of the story.
[00:03:26] But when in 2016 the girls' Ghostbusters film, I felt like a bad Saturday night live episode.
[00:03:32] So Sony reached out to all of us cosplayers, all of the friend chises air quotes there.
[00:03:39] To submit their patches, their logos, to be franchised in.
[00:03:44] And we thought this was the quickest way Sony could think of to serve all these people with season to season.
[00:03:50] It's Sony!
[00:03:51] If we're not controlling it, we're not getting money from it.
[00:03:54] No, forget it.
[00:03:55] But they actually were legitimately wanting all these people to submit their patches, which we did.
[00:04:00] So we are a recognized franchise.
[00:04:05] So on Sony's studio lot, it's Ghostcore.
[00:04:08] That's Dan Acroids office.
[00:04:10] And everything Ghostbusters related is ran out of Ghostcore.
[00:04:14] So if you saw the recent frozen empire film or even after-life, it says Ghostcore on there.
[00:04:20] That is the actual functioning workhouse on the Sony lot.
[00:04:24] So our badge, the mountain peaks and all of that, is hanging in that studio.
[00:04:30] Pretty cool.
[00:04:31] And when I think about it, if I was Sony, I would let him do it because it's free advertising.
[00:04:35] And that's kind of how Sony approached it.
[00:04:37] So when they did Ghostbusters 35th anniversary on the lot, we got invited out.
[00:04:41] So we're a recognized franchise.
[00:04:42] So they had this year for the New York premiere.
[00:04:46] They invited us out.
[00:04:47] So we went to New York and we saw every celebrity film or show up for...
[00:04:51] And ain't that what shows up?
[00:04:53] So we didn't know what to expect from Bill.
[00:04:56] So he shows up and one of the guys that are crew is standing in line in the red carpet area.
[00:05:03] Murray shows in and he's got two kids next to him, one of our guys.
[00:05:07] So Murray comes in. He's signed stuff for these two little kids.
[00:05:11] And then he shakes our crew members hand.
[00:05:13] Ways to the crew and the crowd goes into the film.
[00:05:16] Our buddy doesn't even know who the hell these two kids are.
[00:05:19] I think Murray came in thinking this guy was their dad.
[00:05:21] I'm going to sign some stuff. Shake your hand.
[00:05:23] Thank you for coming. You know, shake the baby because they had it.
[00:05:26] No, they go. And he was hilarious.
[00:05:27] But the half of the whole Ghostbusters film crew and everybody there.
[00:05:32] Even Paul Red showed up. He signed a couple of things for us.
[00:05:36] And the things have some, which is a podcast,
[00:05:38] help organize all of this and put it all together.
[00:05:41] They're the pre-party, they have to party.
[00:05:43] And it was an amazing time.
[00:05:45] But the franchises are nationwide.
[00:05:47] I mean, there's one in almost every city.
[00:05:50] I mean here in Colorado, there's like five of us.
[00:05:52] This is a really five different franchises here.
[00:05:55] Wow, it's always, you know, I was talking to a brand, my producer.
[00:05:59] And I said, man, you know, for a film that came out so long ago and there's always just the two for the longest time.
[00:06:05] How long the fan base isn't door.
[00:06:08] And how passionate it is.
[00:06:09] I think it's really cool to me.
[00:06:13] You know, and I think it's fun.
[00:06:14] And I think it's fun that this stuff you're doing.
[00:06:16] Well, and we do a lot of like charity work.
[00:06:19] Everything that we raise, we 100% give to whoever we're representing.
[00:06:23] So we've done last year was the Dumfrens League, this year is the wild animal preserve, which inherited a couple of the tiger king's tigers.
[00:06:31] So they've got those out there.
[00:06:32] So we, you know, whoever we can lend a hand, but there's once that bit them.
[00:06:35] I, I, so I was like thinking, did you get a little bling on your teeth there?
[00:06:40] But I mean, that's what we do.
[00:06:41] We just show out.
[00:06:42] We try to make a fun and an active environment.
[00:06:45] Everything we raise, 100% goes to charity.
[00:06:47] Everything we do is out of our pocket.
[00:06:49] So we're not like him for any payoff.
[00:06:50] We're just looking to have fun with the Ghostbusters thing.
[00:06:52] And that's, at the other day, that's all that matters.
[00:06:54] Right?
[00:06:54] Yeah.
[00:06:55] So fun.
[00:06:56] Let's switch gears.
[00:06:57] Shift gears to horror.
[00:07:00] So you have a pretty big con coming up.
[00:07:03] So September 13th, 14th and 15th at the Marriott South.
[00:07:07] It's right off of by 25 and Lincoln.
[00:07:10] It's on the other side of the park, middle small.
[00:07:11] This is our fourth year, Friday the 13th, 14th and 15th of September.
[00:07:15] We have Pam Greer, which is...
[00:07:17] Why mean, legends?
[00:07:18] I mean, you could just say Pam Greer, and you're going to get people.
[00:07:22] Dude, Foxy Brown, the best horror, that main is horrible.
[00:07:25] It's a horrible film, but it's great because it's so bad.
[00:07:28] Bones.
[00:07:28] She did this horror film was Snoop Dogg.
[00:07:30] Oh yeah.
[00:07:30] And I mean, it's a train wreck.
[00:07:32] And I love it.
[00:07:33] The bones from start to finished.
[00:07:35] I was always shocked when screen factory put out a collector's edition of it.
[00:07:39] I got, hey, you know what?
[00:07:40] I guess it has fans somewhere.
[00:07:42] I mean, the back behind the scenes is got to just be like 30 minutes of Snoop Dogg.
[00:07:46] Stone at his head.
[00:07:48] So just like, hey, one might as well do it this way.
[00:07:52] So with it being Friday the 13th is a very heavy Friday the 13th focus.
[00:07:56] We've got a couple of different independent films from Friday the 13th.
[00:08:00] We have a couple of Jason's coming in.
[00:08:02] So we don't have Cain because he's all swear.
[00:08:06] Yeah, he's usually pretty busy.
[00:08:07] He's very, especially like Friday the 13th.
[00:08:11] That's that's the thing.
[00:08:12] So but we got like, we have our own beer, we have our own wine.
[00:08:16] We run late because it's a hotel.
[00:08:18] So we have a lot of after hours.
[00:08:20] We'll have this year.
[00:08:21] We're going to do the midnight cult film.
[00:08:24] Little shop of horrors.
[00:08:25] After we do horror karaoke.
[00:08:27] So everyone's already warmed up.
[00:08:29] Let's do the cult classic.
[00:08:31] Little shop of horrors.
[00:08:32] I love it.
[00:08:35] What can other people expect?
[00:08:37] Because I was, I started my other guys at Zach Zach.
[00:08:40] Actually we've had them on our show and they premiered.
[00:08:44] I think their first year is like official groups.
[00:08:47] That was one of the media.
[00:08:48] Yes, sweet.
[00:08:49] So yeah he says you also have artists and authors and collectibles.
[00:08:57] And so not only do you have the celebrities.
[00:08:59] Now you have a dealer room or is we have a very big dealer room.
[00:09:04] And it's 100% horror focus.
[00:09:06] So no Jake from State Farm.
[00:09:08] Sorry if you're looking to get your windows replaced,
[00:09:10] not going to be here or your roof done or scammed out of your room being done.
[00:09:14] All of this is 100% horror focus.
[00:09:16] You have to have at least 90% horror to be in this vendor room.
[00:09:20] So it is, I wouldn't say cut throat.
[00:09:22] But it is horror focus.
[00:09:26] And the horror community is so warm and ingrationating.
[00:09:30] There's no bad horror fan.
[00:09:32] You like your genre.
[00:09:33] It's either slasher or jump scares or intense like hell razor type shit.
[00:09:40] But all in all it is, it is a fun horror focus thing.
[00:09:44] And then we have publishers.
[00:09:45] So hex publishing is doing a comic based on our horror con.
[00:09:51] One of the covers is a Jamie Lee Curtis exclusive that came out of the Kickstarter.
[00:09:55] So hex publishers has, I think, issue two almost done.
[00:10:00] They're at least so have a premiere for it at cofo.
[00:10:03] So we've got all of that.
[00:10:04] We have all other independent authors in the horror field.
[00:10:08] We have brand-soker award winning authors that are there and they're signing a book
[00:10:15] that they've got coming out or they actually even did an anthology for us our first year.
[00:10:21] So it's, it's fun.
[00:10:23] The horror people are great and they just like to have a good diet.
[00:10:25] What I always love about it too is people always think that horror because I love
[00:10:29] our films too that were some sort of deviants or something.
[00:10:32] They're probably the most normal people.
[00:10:35] We just like, I think the horror films for us are the escape and you know, we like to see
[00:10:41] people get stabbed because if they didn't happen on screen, maybe we wouldn't do it in real life.
[00:10:47] I mean, that's some of the best comedies I know are the slasher teenage ones.
[00:10:51] Oh, oh, totally.
[00:10:52] It's all about having fun.
[00:10:54] So if I want to get tickets to cofo, how can I find them?
[00:10:58] So if you go to the Facebook page, Colorado Festival for or the website, which is ColoradoFestwell4.com,
[00:11:05] you can buy tickets there.
[00:11:06] They are on sale.
[00:11:07] I think we have a few VIP packages left, which if you do purchase the VIP comes with a bottle of our signature wine.
[00:11:14] This year and I will give you this because we haven't announced it yet.
[00:11:17] This year's flavor is Stabernay.
[00:11:20] I love it.
[00:11:22] I love it.
[00:11:22] So I haven't even announced that that detail.
[00:11:25] So we will give that to you guys because you're such fans of the John Ryan and films and all of that.
[00:11:31] Exclusive and real nerds, yes.
[00:11:34] But it's and we have a Jobal Blasso who has done our labels over the last couple years.
[00:11:39] He's a great artist, he's local and he comes up with some amazing stuff.
[00:11:44] And I know Stephen Graham Jones will be there.
[00:11:47] He's another author that does a lot of horror stuff.
[00:11:49] And we're excited to have all of these different components.
[00:11:53] And then later in the evening, drawn in blood.
[00:11:56] So I'll have like local artists up there in the bar area doing sketches.
[00:12:00] So it's kind of like a dictionary but it's of a horror kind of focus.
[00:12:04] I love it and because I've been following guys I saw in Facebook since it's been around.
[00:12:10] It keeps getting bigger.
[00:12:11] Yes.
[00:12:11] And I mean you already have a legend coming so yes.
[00:12:15] You should get tickets soon because my guess is it will sell out very well.
[00:12:20] And I know next year in year five and with Jamie Lee Curtis agreed and agreed.
[00:12:25] She agreed to discover with hecks.
[00:12:27] So now we're like okay.
[00:12:29] Yeah, so we start asking see the foot's in the door.
[00:12:32] Put it in the door.
[00:12:33] That's right.
[00:12:34] And everything I've seen about her, she's very nice.
[00:12:36] She is a sweetheart and we would love to have Jamie Lee Curtis come in.
[00:12:40] But we would break that damn hotel if she showed up.
[00:12:44] It would be done skis.
[00:12:46] It's like oh.
[00:12:48] So good.
[00:12:49] What is your favorite horror movie?
[00:12:51] My favorite movie is Army of Darkness but I wouldn't say it's technically horror.
[00:12:55] It's not horror.
[00:12:55] But yes and no.
[00:12:57] Yeah, but my favorite horror film is Night of the Living Dead.
[00:13:00] Yes.
[00:13:01] That is spectacular.
[00:13:02] Because I think the paranoia that's associated with it adds another layer of horror.
[00:13:09] When they're sitting in the room, it's like ready to kill each other.
[00:13:11] Yeah, because you have the racial tension and then you also have the tension of what the inside coming.
[00:13:17] Outside coming in.
[00:13:18] And I think the way Romero shoots whether it's night dawn day, the crazy doesn't matter.
[00:13:24] Doesn't matter the way he shoots.
[00:13:27] It's almost every one of his films fills documentary.
[00:13:31] And even his later stuff.
[00:13:33] I mean, I love land of the dead because absolutely.
[00:13:35] To me it's the natural evolution of the zombie.
[00:13:39] And the way he shoots it's just it's gritty but it's well done.
[00:13:43] And he's the only one who can do it.
[00:13:45] Well, and it's like Scorsese.
[00:13:47] Scorsese has a certain look.
[00:13:48] Romero is the same thing.
[00:13:49] You cannot deviate from that because you immediately look at it.
[00:13:54] Romero.
[00:13:55] Yeah, and you know he's one of those guys.
[00:13:56] I respect so much because I love listening to well.
[00:13:59] All right, P.
[00:14:00] But I used to love listening to him talk.
[00:14:01] All right, because I think he's so well spoken.
[00:14:03] I think he loves movies so much and he loves the people he works with.
[00:14:07] And he's like all of us, you know, we bring our friends into whatever we do.
[00:14:11] And if you watch his movies are on the Pittsburgh area, they're all as friends.
[00:14:15] And they all do great work and and doing it.
[00:14:18] And not living dead to me is the ultimate horror film because the paradise there,
[00:14:23] the tensions there, I think the writing is incredible.
[00:14:27] Especially with the budget that there were work.
[00:14:28] Oh yeah.
[00:14:29] And just just to have that intensity and how he just framed that all out.
[00:14:34] He's like the Orson Wells War.
[00:14:36] Oh, I mean, just so impactful.
[00:14:38] And I think the ending is the greatest ending to any horror film because I mean,
[00:14:43] I mean, it's why I was for maybe that 60 years old, but you know,
[00:14:46] you, you make it through the night and then, you know, Ben comes up and he gets shot
[00:14:50] and the throwaway line of there's another one for the fire is haunting.
[00:14:56] And it takes a whole new layer because it's a white month killing a black man.
[00:15:01] And then they're throwing them in the fire to do, yeah, who cares?
[00:15:05] It's like that's seen in glory, you know, and Ben's El Washington gets thrown into the pit
[00:15:09] and rolls down on top of Matthew Brotterick.
[00:15:11] Yeah, it's like holy crap.
[00:15:13] You know, I tell people, you know, people will always immediately say,
[00:15:17] because it's black and white or whatever, I'm telling you, add to the film.
[00:15:20] It does.
[00:15:21] The way he lights it.
[00:15:22] So yeah, that's my favorite horror film.
[00:15:26] You know, show girls to act again that is truly terrifying.
[00:15:32] But I mean, like you Army darkness all the way, I love that franchise,
[00:15:36] but I mean, like one of the ones that really scared the hell out of me was like the initial
[00:15:41] hell of a razor.
[00:15:42] Oh yeah.
[00:15:42] When that first hit the theater and all of that, it's like, oh, we got it.
[00:15:47] There's just something bizarre about it.
[00:15:49] There is.
[00:15:49] And so my one of my price collection, my DVD collection is arrow about seven years ago
[00:15:55] put out this Scarlet box.
[00:15:57] And it's beautiful, but horror if I get the same time because it comes with the cards
[00:16:01] of like all the people with their skins ripped off.
[00:16:03] Oh, as it's awesome.
[00:16:05] It's beautiful in the most insane way.
[00:16:09] So thanks for coming on.
[00:16:10] My pleasure.
[00:16:11] You're giving us a scoop on the wine.
[00:16:13] Make sure you go to caradofestivalahor.
[00:16:17] Or Facebook to get your tickets because it will sell out.
[00:16:21] So remember, they have Pam Greer and absolute legend not only in horror, but overall.
[00:16:26] Quentin Tarantino, fine chicken brown.
[00:16:28] Yeah, you, she's awesome.
[00:16:30] So sweet.
[00:16:32] Thanks.
[00:16:32] Thanks.
[00:16:32] We'll see you guys soon.
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