August 26, 2025 • 41 mins
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Are you a fan of horror movies? How about the macabre genre? This evening on NightSide, we were joined by a horror movie actor, Leah Voysey, who is known for her work in Terrifier 2, among other films. Leah discussed the world of horror entertainment and the cult following of horror fans who descend upon various conventions such as the upcoming Silver Scream Con.
Are you a fan of horror movies? How about the macabre genre? This evening on NightSide, we were joined by a horror movie actor, Leah Voysey, who is known for her work in Terrifier 2, among other films. Leah discussed the world of horror entertainment and the cult following of horror fans who descend upon various conventions such as the upcoming Silver Scream Con.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Easy Boxton's Beach Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Thanks for being with us on night Side. As I
asked the previous guest, what do we all want?
Speaker 4 (00:10):
We all want something to do, something cool, to do,
something exciting, maybe even something different. And I have another
thing for you that's exciting and different. Have you ever
been to a thing called the Silver Scream con Or Convention?
Well that's coming up.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
That's coming up September twelve to fourteen, Worcester's DCU Center
and it's a horror theme weekend of well fun vendors, music,
and the stars, the actual stars in the films. You
can talk to them and get autographs and things. And
the happy coincidence is we have one of those stars
here here. Leah Voice is an American actress. She comes
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from New Jersey and she's known well for her role
in Terrifier Too and work with the film company Late
Bloomer Pictures and also a musician.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I don't know if she knows that I know that.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
And one thing that's kind of interesting about this particular
convention is it's put on by Ice nine Kills, which
is a band And besides doing your own work, Leah
has covered one of the songs by the band that
puts on the theme that puts on this convention. So
(01:25):
we'll get to all that and well with Leah a while,
and then after that we'll get back to Hey, are
you going to get the next COVID shot? Which is
quite different. So, Leah, thanks for being with us on
the program.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Thank you so much for having me. That was an
amazing intro. You know so much about me. I'm flattered.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Well, we actually have a common friend.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I actually learned that today. Christina Lise is our common friend.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Christina Lisu.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You may know from Child's Play two, or you may
know from nine oh two one zero or e A.
She's a palliors and you you hung around with her
house at her house on one New Year's Day, so
that's cool.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, she does this really lovely New Year's Day party,
and I've gone the past two years. It's so fun.
It's you know, nice decompressing from whatever big party you
do on New Year's Eve. And I actually met her
doing these conventions that we're talking about. I actually believe
she was at the Silver Screen con two years ago
when I was there.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, I think so too. I think so as well.
We'll talk a little bit more about Christine because she's
going to be coming to town. But we don't want
to go home on your time here, so first tell
us about you. Go ahead, take some time. This is
not your average interview. We want to know about you
the way you want us to know about you.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh well, you know you said a lot about me
to start. I'm involved with the Terrifier franchise, which is
a very gory horror film, and you know, through that,
I've been able to do these really fun conventions and
I got introduced to the band Ice nine Kills, and actually,
besides covering one of their songs, a song called a
Grave Mistake, I actually am featured on this. They did
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a tribute song to the Terrifier films and I sing
on that track and I'm in the music video. It's
very cool. I've got to use like crazy burning aesthetic song.
So yeah, I mean that's who I am in the
horror world. But outside of that, my company, Late Bloomer Pictures,
we focus on LGBT storytelling. I'm also a musician and
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I just put out a teaser to a new song
that I'm working on. I put it out today, so
I'm hoping I'll have a release date for that very
very soon. But yeah, working on a lot of music,
working on my own films. I'm also a YouTuber, I
make cause plays. I'm very creative, so some may call
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me a jack of all trades, especially in this creative
industry that I'm in.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
By the way, if you want to look up about
Leah and maybe listen to our music on Spotify, it's
l e h voy s e y like Leah Voice.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
E Leah vo and I like I like keep It
to Yourself. As I was listening to the music today,
Oh thank.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You so much. I'm giving a live performance on Friday,
and I last minute decided to add that song to
the set because you know, that's an old one, but
I like it. I like it so much. Even though
the new sound that I'm going into, I don't have
anything out on Spotify with my new sound yet. I'm
going in more of a rock direction, pop punk. Where
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is the stuff I have out right now? Liam's Moore pop.
But I think that song keep It to Yourself was
bridging the gap a little to me wanting to be
more of a rock artist. And I actually filmed a
music video for that song back in twenty nineteen, and
it's finished, it's ready to go, and I just never
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released it. So it's one of those I'm trying to
figure out how it'll make sense to release something that
I made so long ago. But it's an amazing music
video and I filmed it in New Jersey, where I'm from.
And yeah, I'm so glad that you liked that song.
I will be performing it on Friday.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I can't wait to.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Hear your new sort of style as well. And by
the way, if anybody wants to, I don't know, sort
of flesh out the experience you're having listening to Leah. Now,
you can certainly google Leah or go to Spotify and
type in l E A h V O Y S
E Y and you can see her and that kind
of might add to this experience you're having right now
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on WTBZ. So now I'm curious about this upcoming event,
the Silver Scream event.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I know that you do. This is not the only
event you do.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You do a lot of them right here on the circus,
but talk about this one coming up on September fourteenth,
Worcester's DCU Center.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, I've had a lot of luck getting to do
a lot of conventions, and all of them are great.
I don't want to take the shine away from any
other convention, but I will say this one that when
I did it two years ago, the Silver Scream con
it's my favorite convention that I've ever done. It's such
an incredible group of people. And in addition to your
regular convention, which is you know, you walk through art vendors,
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you can meet celebrities, take photos with celebrities, master parties
and stuff like that, what really makes this com special
is the connection with Ice Nan Kills. And so Saturday
night they actually put on a whole concert, and last
time I got to perform with them, it was the
biggest crowd I'd ever performed in front of, and all
the celebrities were like in the audience, So I felt
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very cool. I was performing in front of a very
very cool group of people fans included as well. And yeah,
I really think that's what sets it apart. I think
Kills really does something special with this convention.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Okay, so let me get this straight on.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
During this convention, you're going to be performing with the
people who put it on, the band, Ice Nan Kill,
you're going to be performing with them, you're probably going
to do what was it a grave idea?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I can't remember what the name of.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That, A grave mistake, So a grave mistake. That was
the song that I performed with them two years ago,
and that was the song I recorded my own cover of.
I've done my own music video for. But this year,
now that I'm officially on a track, there's another track.
It's called a Work of Art, and I am featured
on that track. So if you come to the Ice
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Nan Kills show, there's a very good chance that you
will see me performing that song with at the Silver
Scream Con. I actually had a chance to perform it
with them in Tempe, Arizona, just a couple of weeks ago,
and that was really special. One of my best friends
from high school and my sister were in the audience
for that, and they've never seen me perform at such
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a big scale before. So I would like to reprize
that performance with the Silver Scream Con. And I assume
that it is happening that I will be up with
the band for that one song.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Now, we don't need to expand what these cons are
like for people to go, But for folks who have
never been to one, and as I mentioned at the
top of the hour, Hey, we're looking for something, We're
all looking for something different to do. This is different,
it's local, it's easy to get to, and there's a
lot going on. Can you take a little more time
and explain what the experience is like for someone that
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goes in.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Or Well.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It's definitely very catered towards people that like horror movies.
But I think one thing people might think going to
a convention like this is that you're you're going to
walk in and it's going to be like going through
a haunted house and you're gonna get scared. It's really
not like that at all. It really is just bringing
people together that have common interests. This one specifically is
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horror films, but there's tons of conventions like this. There
is ones that are more specific to anime or sci fi,
and so if you have a niche that you like,
there's a convention for you. This one specifically horror, but
I really think anybody could enjoy it, especially if you
like art, if you like memorabilia. So a big portion
of it, probably even bigger than the celebrity aspect of it.
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A big portion of it is like a vendor hall.
People selling art, people selling the h ones, people selling clothing.
You know, there's tons of stuff. There's sometimes late night events.
I'm not sure what sort of late night events will
be at this one. I know some cons will do
like karaoke nights or just big parties. But there's a
lot of cool celebrities that are going to be there too,
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and a lot that are in the horror world, but
some also a lot that are out of the horror world,
like Matthew Lillard for example. You know, he's really known
for the Scream franchise in horror, but he's also really
known for Scooby Doo, so he gets a lot of
fans that will come to these conventions specifically because they
like Scooby Doo, which I guess is horror, but it's
you know, more geared towards children. So it's it's definitely
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a cool event for anyone who's really interested in horror
and movies in general, if you can hang on just.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
A couple of minutes to take a break and continue
with you and find out more about what the experience is.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Like for you. At this Silver scream con and what
newcomers might expect as far as interaction with you, do
they get to say hi? And how that goes? Can
you stay a little bit?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Absolutely okay?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Right after this, we'll continue with Leah Voic on WBZ.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
We continue with Leah Voice, who is known well, at
least for the purposes of this interview, for a being
a musician and b being an actor in a film
called Terrifier Too. She's been in a lot of other stuff,
lots of horror things. I have a quick question, do
you think of yourself as a horror actor. I think
it's a mistake some people make thinking that people are
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in horror films consider themselves horror film actors. Maybe you
just consider yourself an actor, which is it?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
At this point? I probably consider myself a horror actor.
I feel like that's where a lot of my opportunities
are coming from. But I'm very open to doing other stuff.
I would say, for me as a media consumer, sci
fi is probably my favorite. So it would be pretty
cool to do a sci fi film at some point.
(11:25):
But I do keep saying to my parents every time
I book a horror film. I say, don't worry, the
next one will be a rom com that you guys
can watch, because they don't want to watch my horror films.
But every time I lie, and I've never booked a
rom com, it's always just another horror film. So sometimes,
you know, you find yourself in a niche and you
just kind of if you're enjoying the niche, you just
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you know, keep going for it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Tell us about your role as the host in the
Clown Cafe.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yes, so my role is actually a pretty small role
in the film. I'm well, I'm technically in two scenes.
I play another character at the very end of the film.
There's this post credit sequence with Chris Jericho, who's a wrestler,
and I play a nurse in that scene. There's a
little easter d to have me be in both scenes
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because I look completely different. But in the Clown Cafe,
it's about twenty minutes into the film. It's one scene
the main character she falls asleep and she starts having
this really crazy dream where she's on the set of
this fildren's television show, and I play the host of
said television show. So I'm a little singing dancing clown.
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I've got a little banjo and I sing a song
called the Clown Cafe, and that song has become so
iconic in the terror Fire community, which has been amazing
for me. It's so fun. I actually sing it sometimes
at the conventions if there's a panel or something, and so, yeah,
I'm singing to the kids at the show. I'm singing
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to the main character. And at the very end of
the song, I bring out Art the clown, who is
the main protagonist in the movie. And then chaos and
sues and a lot of people, unfortunately Perish myself included. Yes,
but I'm smiling through the whole thing. He takes the
flamethrower and he sets me on fire, and oh sorry, sorry.
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It's not a spoiler for the main film that that
scene really exists, like very much in its own little
universe within the film. People have a lot of theories
of what it means, but it just exists within a
dream sequence, you know. It's not it's not really a
part of the main storyline. It's something completely different. But
fans are theorizing that it will come back in the
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fourth film in some way and maybe get some answers
about what the Clown Cafe actually is.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Okay, we're speaking with Leah Voise, an actor in lots
of horror films, and she's going to be participating and
the Ice nine. The Ice nine presented a Silver Scream
Con September twelveth through fourteen at the Worcester DCU Center.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I watched the movie Terrified too today, of course, I
mean you know, of course I did, and it felt
kind of Rob Zombie e to me, is is that me?
Or does it? Does it to you too? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I can see that. I definitely think that Damien the
director was inspired by Rob Zombie. I do think he
was trying to find the magic of those what made
those old slasher films really special. So if you think
of Michael Myers and Freddy and Jason and all of
those characters, he wanted are at the clown to be
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able to live up up to the standards of those characters.
I really think that he's done that. So people are
really taking Art the Crown and putting him next to
these big greats that have existed for decades at this point,
and I think I see that Arthur Clown would potentially
have that same sort of longevity in the horror community,
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which is really cool to be a part of that.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Okay, so I hope you don't. You probably get this
question all the time, but I'm curious it's to what
you think because you're an expert in the horror genre,
and I was asking myself this question, how what do
you feel is the Grandpa the standard of the genre,
the one at the top, And for me, it's the
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original Texas Chainsaw Masacre. It is so so, so so
so creepy, and I don't know, I get invested in
the characters, but you know that's I'm not an expert.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
What would you say is at the top for you?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh see, it's because if we're specifically talking about the
slasher sub genre, you know, because horror there's so many
different subgenres and horror, there's psychological horror, there's ghosts and
possession and everything. But I think with the slasher genre,
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I you know, them speaking for the community as a whole,
but I think for me personally, if people consider him
a slasher, my favorite would be Pinhead from the hell
Raiser film.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Oh so, one of the people is going to be
at this convention, right, yes.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The original tint I think he was in the first
eight movies Doug Bradley, and I did actually meet him
at one of these conventions, which was really exciting for
me because I'm a huge fan of his work.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Okay, finally, what's life like on the circuit beauty? Which
life like like a day for you at one of
these and the travel? I know, there's the travel and
you come in and you see a lot of people
you've come to know, so you must go hey you
and hey you must wave to your friends, and there's
a routine you go through, and what's it like. What's
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the experience like for somebody meeting you, and what's it
like for you? It's going to be exhausting. I know
for a fact that meeting people. Meeting people is exhausting
for me, even for like fifteen minutes. You do it
all day, you must be tired at.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
The end of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Well, yes, I always take a day at the end
of the convention to recalibrate afterwards, because I mean, I
love meeting people. It's so fun. I'm so blessed to
be able to do this. But I do consider myself
an introvert, so I usually need to, you know, re
get my energy back after these conventions, but yeah, everything
you said. This one in particular, there's so many of
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my friends are going to be there that I've worked
with before. Specifically, you know, some of the people from
the Terrifier franchise. Catherine Quirkrin and Samantha Scaffiti, who are
in the first film are two friends of mine and
I've never done a convention with stand before, so I'm
excited to see her there, get to see Catherine. But
on the day to day how it works for the celebrities,
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each kind has set up differently. But if there's a
vendor hall and a celebrity hall where sometimes they're intermingled
and basically sitting behind the table and on the table
are photos of me. Most of the photos are photos
of me from Terrifier some other projects that I've worked on,
and you can come up to my table, say hello
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to me, and I sell the photo, so I'll sign
it for you. There. We also sell selfie so if
you want to take a picture with me at the table,
there's also an option to get a professional photographer. That's
a separate section. It's not at the table. At some
point I would leave the table and go do the
professional photos. With people who've bought them. And what makes
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my mind so fun compared to some other people is
I actually get in my costume from the movie when
I go and do those professional photos. But yeah, for
the rest of the day, I'm just sitting at the
table talking to fans, and I love taking time with
the fans. You know, even if somebody doesn't want to
buy something for me, if they don't want to buy
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a photo, you know, that's totally fine with me. If
you want to come up and say hello and you
just want to chat, I'm so happy to do that.
Most people are, you know, like my line doesn't get
as crazy as some of the other people, So I'm
happy to sit and talk to people. I think that's
one thing people who come to these conventions are not
sure about, you know, if they aren't going to purchase something,
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if a celebrity will speak to them, And honestly, like
I can't speak for everybody, it's definitely a case by
case basis, but we're usually sitting with someone at the
table who's handling our money and the transactions and stuff
like that. So if you're unsure as a guest at
this convention, if you're unsure if you.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Can talk to you.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Did we lose you?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Happy to have conversations with anyone who wants to talk
to me about film, about my work. You know, I
hear so many great stories from people, and it really is,
it really is often getting that space time with the
fans of Terrifier.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well, I really appreciate talk speaking with you. Thank you
for speaking to me for so long. You have you
have one new fan that's me. I appreciate it. And
by the way, I also make music and getting to
know you a little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
It's kind of dark. I think you might like it.
Check Ignore the Machine on on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Ignore the Machine absolutely.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Okay Leah Voice.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
What a cool person and you can meet her in
person at the Silver Scream Scream con September twelfth through fourteen,
dc I Center in Worcester.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Thank you so much, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
This was awesome.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Okay bye bye. Wow. Isn't that cool?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
The best thing about this job is meeting and getting
to know new people. So I had two minutes before
the break here, so I want to do this. As
we mentioned, she has met a friend of mine named
Christina Elise at these conventions and actually went and hung
around at her house, so they're kind of pals now.
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But it just so happens that that same Christine Elise,
who is local and that's why this is particularly important.
She grew up in the rock scene here in the eighties,
was a fixture in the rock scene. It just so
happens that Christina Elise, whom you may know from Er.
I think she did like fifteen episodes of Er, and
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she was in Child's Play two, and she was a
fixture on nine O two one zero playing Valentine.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Uh the no, I won't go into that.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
But the thing is she's coming to town and you
can meet her too, And I told her I would
plug her thing because it's it's definitely along the side lines.
If you're a person who wants to go to the
DCI A Silver Scream comments, you might like this. Christina
Lisse of Child's Play Too, et cetera, will appear at
the Coolidge Corner Theater for a screening of Child's Play.
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That's October twenty three. I hope I didn't say, Oh,
I guess it's October twenty three, And there'll be a
Q and A and signing as well, so you can
meet her and She's cool because she's very Boston and
very friendly, very professional, and just I know her. I
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know her from her roles in the movies, but I
also know her from her role as working at Photo
Patio in like nineteen eighty at Cleveland Circle. I used
to live on Sutherland Road right there, and I'd walk
by and I used to go in and chat with
her because she was so co She was way into music,
way into the rock scene, owner clubs really early, and
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she had the coolest haircut. So it's a good reason
to bring this up is because a lot of you
may know her personally from the scene back in the day,
as well as those of you who may have come
to know of her in her roles by way.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Of her roles and these big TV shows.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
So there's that Christina Elise of Child's Play, two, Fame
and all those other things er and nine, O, two, one, oh,
et cetera. Coolest corner October twenty three, and say.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Hi to her.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Now for the rest of the time here, I want
to chill and talk about the COVID thing, because we
did have a doctor on here, a primary care physician,
and I also talked to another doctor today who talked
about how they got.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
In PTSD, like serious bad PTSD, and that actually one
of them had to actually quit the practice because of
the severity of the PTSD. I said, by the way
to the doctors, look, should we still be getting COVID vaccines?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
And they go, yeah, So I want to know how
you feel about it. Will you get will you continue
to get the vaccines? Did you not want to get
to the vaccines? Do you think vaccines should be mandatory
for public safety or do you think it should be
up to the individual, because hey, why should you have
to put something in your body.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
That you believe will hurt you? And how will you
operate if there's another pandemic?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
We will you operate differently? And I'll think about the
answers to those questions too. During this break on WBZ, You're.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
On Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's Bradley Jay for Dan. Did you hear that story
just then about surveillance and supermarkets. I don't think they
mentioned this. If they can tell by the way you walk,
how about you will pay for an item? They should
certainly will know by your phone if you have an
Apple product, as opposed to a non Apple product. They're
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probably gonna charge you more because Apple products cost more
and they know you have the money. I worry about
that when I'm buying airline tickets too. If I'm on
an Apple computer, are they gonna charge me more?
Speaker 4 (25:18):
I kind of think so if they, if they can,
they will.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Now about COVID, we talked about it a little bit
because I had some time to do that, and it
came up because we were talking with a primary care
physician and I'm curious COVID is still out there, people
still get it.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Are you going to continue to get the vaccines?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
A six, one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty and
by Tommy from West Virginia. By the way, it's a
good time for you to call. I have the time
anybody else? Are you going to get the vaccines? Are
you getting other vaccines? Did the COVID vaccine reaction that
you may have had influence how you feel about other vaccines.
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I have a friend who will yet no co vaccine,
although he does get flu vaccines because he's concerned about
what was that side effect, the heart swelling or something
like that. And I looked in there were the numbers
of teeny tiny for the heart swelling, but the numbers
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for damage to your body long term from getting COVID
were much greater. But somehow the side effect resonated with
him more than the main effects. And I guess, if
someone like that has a fear of their body being
directly harmed by introducing something into the body, should you
be able to make them do it? Even if it's
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a public health situation? And I put myself in his shoes.
What if I was seeing information, reading books or whatever
they told me, Yes, if you get the code vaccine,
you have a high risk of having a swollen heart
or some other or dropping dead from some side effect.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Would I want me? Would I want the state to
be able to force me to do it? No? I
guess I wouldn't. My sources of information did not teach
me that, did not send me in that direction, but
they could have. And for those of you who consume
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anti VACS sources of news and information, you believe that
with all your soul and all your fiber. If one
believes that with all their soul and all that fiber,
should they be forced to get it, even if it's
a public serve public health concern? I would say I
(27:41):
would not want to. And of course you do have
the new situation where you have a person in charge
of vaccines nationally that doesn't like a lot of them.
I don't know how I feel about that. How do
you feel about that? I don't know how do you
(28:01):
feel about chlorine? And not chlorine in the water, but
the fluoride in the water. We grew up with fluoride
in the water. Actually, when I was a kid, did
any of you have to take things called corridium pills? Yeah,
they were supposed to strengthen our teeth, but it didn't work.
(28:22):
Like people bon't. Young people now their teeth are tremendous
compared to my teeth in my generation. You're a lot
of your generations you had rotten teeth, right, And in
my father's generation he had to have all his teeth
pulled out. And I don't know why that was was.
It might have been just poor nutrition, because.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
For example, this doesn't reflect very well in my parents,
but I had a terrible diet in the summertime. In
the summertime, when the weather was hot, we would ride
our bikes to bowl Ach in New Hampshire and we'd
(29:04):
buy like ten freeze pops you know this colored water
in a tube, water and sugar. Suck on those all day,
then come home and I remember it distinctly make kool aid,
but it was the kind of kool Aid you had
to put sugar in. It wasn't the pre sweet and
kool aid. It was the sugar Koolid.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
And I don't know how much you had to put
in there, but it had to be two cups something
crazy like that. It was half sugar. So I would
drink a quart of that, guzzle it right down, and
eat just wonderbread and kool Aid. I would stuff white
wonder bread in my mouth and then soak it and
(29:48):
wash it down with kool Aid, and then and then
for dessert, a Funny Bone hostess Funny Bone. Anyway, back
to cool we have Brian and Weymouth. It's great to
hear from Weymouth. Hello, Brian, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Hey? I can't say that I'm a first time call,
that's for sure. How you been, buddy? How's everything? How's
the Dutch? And how's the dogs doing? You've ever me
calling the old day?
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Now the dog I'm forcing me only had one dog,
Molly the docs. Yeah, he's so sweet lost the others.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
But that's the way it is. And Molly's doing very well.
My partner's doing very well and awesome. I'm rolling along
making music, doing radio.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I don't want to get your show camps.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
I will.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I got my I got the cover with the airspace.
I did get my two COVID shots. But moving on
just a little bit, beause it's almost time for you
to punch out. Did you know anybody that went to
the WHO tonight?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
A couple of my.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Buddies once they said it was incredible. I don know.
I we can talk about it on this I can't talk.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
About anything during this last kind of this time.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh cool.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
So no, I didn't know it. I haven't heard anything
about it. Do you What does your buddy say?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Oh he's calling.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
You're saying that.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You said it was almost like being in the old Garden.
I'm sure he was under some substances, but uh, pinball wizard,
they were rocking, you know. Roger Daltrey was out of
cancer place today in town. So I heard that first,
I said, was that just a coincidence? Then my buddy
texted me, he said, I'm actually walking into the TD
Garden now to watch the Who. So then he called
you just now. So it was a great show.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
That's interesting how many of the original members were there.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Only you get Roger Daltrey. Is Townsend? Townsend's so alive? Right, huh.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
I never know. It's a dangerous thing going to seeing
those bands because in your mind, in your mind, you have.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Your child, your young person memories. Maybe you saw them
in the back in the day they were so geral
and powerful, and.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Then I sometimes I know if it's good to see
the old man version of it. I see those concerts
on TV sometimes and I think, why why, That's.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Why I called him. And you're the expert. You don't know.
Remember the old days people would think Madonna was lift sinking.
And now we got this ai on on the lead
guitar of Won't Get Fooled Again.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Good that's a You gotta wonder how much of the
thing is real, how much of it is pre programmed.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
But if you know the guy had fun, that's what matters.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I went to the July fourth, nineteen eighty seven, Grateful
Dead show, and all my buddy said to me is
just pay for gas. Everything else is all sad. You
know what, I mean, it was thirty dollars in and
out to see Jerry Garcia and now it's you're lucky
if it's one hundred and thirty five, right, Riley.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
For the nose beads. Here's the thing that gets me exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I don't want to be a negative Nelly. However, I
have a hard time going to those shows.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Even though I can really ford to pay eighteen bucks
for a beer, the sixteen ounce beer or whatever it is.
I feel like a sucker. I feel like they're taking
advantage of me. I feel kind of like those kids
it would stock and just it just grinds my gears
and it bums me out. And plus the ticket prices,
(33:19):
I'm thinking, geez, they're taking advantage of advantage of me.
They're taking advantage of my nostalgia. Do I wanted to
do that?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
So what I end up doing is I go see
some new band at O'Brien's. There's only twenty people, and
the beer's a drink is reasonable, and the cover is
the cover might be, the cover might be fifteen bucks,
and for me, that's.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
A rock experience. And as always, the grave, grave danger
that the band is going at disappoint so that's very difficult,
and it happens. Sometimes there's a more modern band echoing
the Bunnyman. Do you remember them?
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, absolutely man. My brother he passed away, but you
come into play here. He was playing at the Channel.
He was in a band called Mister Wizard God Rest
his soul up in having Boughtley and he had the Drive.
Was playing that night and my father snuck me into
Scotch and Sounds in Brockton. I was like fifteen years old,
(34:16):
so you know, I know that whole history, the enemy
Charlie Farron. But my brother's band beat those guys out.
He had that. My brother had Hughey Ferguson, the League
guitar player. If anybody's listening from Hingham Hull, they know
exactly what I'm talking about. He ended up moving to
LA and he played. He passed away to played with
Tony Banks. He told my brother true story. He said,
(34:37):
what are you we gonna do now? I don't want
to go commercially, He said, I can't believe we just
beat these two bands. Well, I don't want to go commercial.
Next year later, Hugh Ferguson is living in LA and
he called me, yes, yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Want to sell out right, Okay, fine, but I got
to ask you before you go, how are you going
to deal with vaccines?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Are you goin to keep getting vaccines?
Speaker 6 (34:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I think that I think that has I think that
has passed. I think that's the horse is way beyond
the bond. But I want to say, you said something
funny early, but no one picked up. You said up
next Devo. I was driving and I'm like, I know
he wasn't going to play anything by Divo.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
But I did. I did interview Divo. That was a
Devo interview with a real guy.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Oh it was the real guy.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yes, and you And because you missed it, what you
can do is this, go to night Side and everybody
can do this. Go to night Side on demand in your.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Search bar boom, there it is. You scroll down and
you can hear it.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
And I must say I was nervous about that in
that interview because I heard I've heard that Mark can
be cantankerous. But I was highly prepared and it went well.
I'm really proud.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Of that interview.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Real quick question, when I mentioned those bands, did that
ring a bell with you guys? Like if my brother's
band was playing the Scotch and Sounds. He ended up
playing at the chandel the band. I gotta be honest, mister,
mister wizard.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
No it's not it's not him, it's me. I really
got a break. I gotta go take care of right by.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
I'll get to Rick and Bill, Rick and Tom and
Va West Va.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Coming up on b Z It's Night Side with Dan
Ray on w B Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
I have two folks on the horn, that's all. I'll
have time for him. Quickly we go to Tom in
West Virginia. I just want to say, I'm going to
continue to get my vaccines, but I of course have
an open mind. Because you're grown ups in your Americans.
You get to do what you want to do. But
I'm curious to know your thought patterns. So Tom in
West Virginia, try to keep it to the vaccines because
of the time constraint.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Tom, of course, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
In the sixties, I remember elementary school getting tuberculosis and
all those vaccines polio back then. I am by no
means antifactor. But where I am angry at is that
during the pandemicy twenty one twenty twenty two, the finger
waggers like a previous collar about well, you better wear
(37:08):
a mask right now. I used to listen to a
different radio program where the radio host would say, wearing
the mask is an act of love. And what I
was told by a cardiologist at Masks General in June
of twenty one. He said, wearing the mask does one
(37:30):
thing and one thing only. If you sneeze or you
cough and you have the COVID virus, it prevents you
from spreading the molecules further away, he said. But wearing
a paper mask does not prevent you from inhaling or
catching the COVID virus, because it's an airborne virus and
(37:55):
you can catch it through the eyes, nose, and mouth.
And it became essentially a virtue signal during that time,
and it made me very angry that when Joe Biden
took office and hundreds of thousands of people were crossing
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our border that were not required to get the COVID vaccine.
They were not required to get vaccines as my wife
from a foreign country who's immigrating to the United States,
and these same finger waggers, the same virtue signal people
said nothing about migrants entering this country. That were not
(38:42):
required by the government at that time. That I'm sorry,
you're crossing the southern border. You have to take the
COVID vaccine. We have to medically examine you and find
out have you had the tuberculosis vaccine, hepatitis, all kinds
of that scene. And no, they just let them in
(39:03):
like livestock answering into a pen. And I'm fed up
with the.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
I get it, Tom, I completely get it. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I wish I had more time for you, because you're
always a good caller. And now it's Rick and Rick
and Bill Rick. Yeah, you got you a minute, now
a minute.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Nice, nice to talk to you. I like what Tom said,
so so well said, and it's all true. And and
it became political political, and there was no testing on this.
It was released. It was given permission through through through
uh you know, good intentions, through through President Trump that
a vaccine could be available.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
There was testing that there was some testing.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
Well, what I'm saying is there wasn't enough to I mean,
the FDA for the FT eight to approve some it's
like seven to ten years. They did the best testing
they could do, but unless you got real human subjects,
it's pretty tough to do testing that's viable, you know.
But then when when they made mandates, like Charlie Baker
in this state, that was disgraceful. I never got the shot.
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I lost some opportunities because of it. Some that I've
gotten back because they dropped the COVID policies. But I
just believe that it became incredibly political. I think it
was well intentioned, but I may have taken the shot.
Advisor Johnson and Johnson and Maderna said no, definitely, don't
don't mandate any of these shots. Just it's good that
(40:28):
people take and we recommend it. But I probably would
have got it. But when they were silent because it
was a cash cow, I said, my god. And you
know I had loved ones who passed away, but they
were old and they had other comobidities.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
So that good question.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Did you not get the vaccine simply for political reasons?
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Well? I didn't get the vaccine because I was afraid to.
I said, there's no testing on this. There was no testing,
and I have other situations in my body. I wasn't
going to take the risk.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
That's a good call. I wish I had more time,
so not enough testing.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
It's what I believe he means thank you very much
everybody for staying with me all night, and thanks to
Rob Brooks for working the wheel. I'll be back tomorrow night,
and we have Michael coin in one of your favorites,
Michael coined The Lawyer on WBZ News Radio ten thirty
It's night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Easy Boxton's Beach Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Thanks for being with us on night Side. As I
asked the previous guest, what do we all want?
Speaker 4 (00:10):
We all want something to do, something cool, to do,
something exciting, maybe even something different. And I have another
thing for you that's exciting and different. Have you ever
been to a thing called the Silver Scream con Or Convention?
Well that's coming up.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
That's coming up September twelve to fourteen, Worcester's DCU Center
and it's a horror theme weekend of well fun vendors, music,
and the stars, the actual stars in the films. You
can talk to them and get autographs and things. And
the happy coincidence is we have one of those stars
here here. Leah Voice is an American actress. She comes
(00:48):
from New Jersey and she's known well for her role
in Terrifier Too and work with the film company Late
Bloomer Pictures and also a musician.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I don't know if she knows that I know that.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
And one thing that's kind of interesting about this particular
convention is it's put on by Ice nine Kills, which
is a band And besides doing your own work, Leah
has covered one of the songs by the band that
puts on the theme that puts on this convention. So
(01:25):
we'll get to all that and well with Leah a while,
and then after that we'll get back to Hey, are
you going to get the next COVID shot? Which is
quite different. So, Leah, thanks for being with us on
the program.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Thank you so much for having me. That was an
amazing intro. You know so much about me. I'm flattered.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Well, we actually have a common friend.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I actually learned that today. Christina Lise is our common friend.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Christina Lisu.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You may know from Child's Play two, or you may
know from nine oh two one zero or e A.
She's a palliors and you you hung around with her
house at her house on one New Year's Day, so
that's cool.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, she does this really lovely New Year's Day party,
and I've gone the past two years. It's so fun.
It's you know, nice decompressing from whatever big party you
do on New Year's Eve. And I actually met her
doing these conventions that we're talking about. I actually believe
she was at the Silver Screen con two years ago
when I was there.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, I think so too. I think so as well.
We'll talk a little bit more about Christine because she's
going to be coming to town. But we don't want
to go home on your time here, so first tell
us about you. Go ahead, take some time. This is
not your average interview. We want to know about you
the way you want us to know about you.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh well, you know you said a lot about me
to start. I'm involved with the Terrifier franchise, which is
a very gory horror film, and you know, through that,
I've been able to do these really fun conventions and
I got introduced to the band Ice nine Kills, and actually,
besides covering one of their songs, a song called a
Grave Mistake, I actually am featured on this. They did
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a tribute song to the Terrifier films and I sing
on that track and I'm in the music video. It's
very cool. I've got to use like crazy burning aesthetic song.
So yeah, I mean that's who I am in the
horror world. But outside of that, my company, Late Bloomer Pictures,
we focus on LGBT storytelling. I'm also a musician and
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I just put out a teaser to a new song
that I'm working on. I put it out today, so
I'm hoping I'll have a release date for that very
very soon. But yeah, working on a lot of music,
working on my own films. I'm also a YouTuber, I
make cause plays. I'm very creative, so some may call
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me a jack of all trades, especially in this creative
industry that I'm in.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
By the way, if you want to look up about
Leah and maybe listen to our music on Spotify, it's
l e h voy s e y like Leah Voice.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
E Leah vo and I like I like keep It
to Yourself. As I was listening to the music today,
Oh thank.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You so much. I'm giving a live performance on Friday,
and I last minute decided to add that song to
the set because you know, that's an old one, but
I like it. I like it so much. Even though
the new sound that I'm going into, I don't have
anything out on Spotify with my new sound yet. I'm
going in more of a rock direction, pop punk. Where
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is the stuff I have out right now? Liam's Moore pop.
But I think that song keep It to Yourself was
bridging the gap a little to me wanting to be
more of a rock artist. And I actually filmed a
music video for that song back in twenty nineteen, and
it's finished, it's ready to go, and I just never
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released it. So it's one of those I'm trying to
figure out how it'll make sense to release something that
I made so long ago. But it's an amazing music
video and I filmed it in New Jersey, where I'm from.
And yeah, I'm so glad that you liked that song.
I will be performing it on Friday.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I can't wait to.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Hear your new sort of style as well. And by
the way, if anybody wants to, I don't know, sort
of flesh out the experience you're having listening to Leah. Now,
you can certainly google Leah or go to Spotify and
type in l E A h V O Y S
E Y and you can see her and that kind
of might add to this experience you're having right now
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on WTBZ. So now I'm curious about this upcoming event,
the Silver Scream event.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I know that you do. This is not the only
event you do.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
You do a lot of them right here on the circus,
but talk about this one coming up on September fourteenth,
Worcester's DCU Center.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, I've had a lot of luck getting to do
a lot of conventions, and all of them are great.
I don't want to take the shine away from any
other convention, but I will say this one that when
I did it two years ago, the Silver Scream con
it's my favorite convention that I've ever done. It's such
an incredible group of people. And in addition to your
regular convention, which is you know, you walk through art vendors,
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you can meet celebrities, take photos with celebrities, master parties
and stuff like that, what really makes this com special
is the connection with Ice Nan Kills. And so Saturday
night they actually put on a whole concert, and last
time I got to perform with them, it was the
biggest crowd I'd ever performed in front of, and all
the celebrities were like in the audience, So I felt
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very cool. I was performing in front of a very
very cool group of people fans included as well. And yeah,
I really think that's what sets it apart. I think
Kills really does something special with this convention.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Okay, so let me get this straight on.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
During this convention, you're going to be performing with the
people who put it on, the band, Ice Nan Kill,
you're going to be performing with them, you're probably going
to do what was it a grave idea?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I can't remember what the name of.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That, A grave mistake, So a grave mistake. That was
the song that I performed with them two years ago,
and that was the song I recorded my own cover of.
I've done my own music video for. But this year,
now that I'm officially on a track, there's another track.
It's called a Work of Art, and I am featured
on that track. So if you come to the Ice
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Nan Kills show, there's a very good chance that you
will see me performing that song with at the Silver
Scream Con. I actually had a chance to perform it
with them in Tempe, Arizona, just a couple of weeks ago,
and that was really special. One of my best friends
from high school and my sister were in the audience
for that, and they've never seen me perform at such
(07:50):
a big scale before. So I would like to reprize
that performance with the Silver Scream Con. And I assume
that it is happening that I will be up with
the band for that one song.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Now, we don't need to expand what these cons are
like for people to go, But for folks who have
never been to one, and as I mentioned at the
top of the hour, Hey, we're looking for something, We're
all looking for something different to do. This is different,
it's local, it's easy to get to, and there's a
lot going on. Can you take a little more time
and explain what the experience is like for someone that
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goes in.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Or Well.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
It's definitely very catered towards people that like horror movies.
But I think one thing people might think going to
a convention like this is that you're you're going to
walk in and it's going to be like going through
a haunted house and you're gonna get scared. It's really
not like that at all. It really is just bringing
people together that have common interests. This one specifically is
(08:51):
horror films, but there's tons of conventions like this. There
is ones that are more specific to anime or sci fi,
and so if you have a niche that you like,
there's a convention for you. This one specifically horror, but
I really think anybody could enjoy it, especially if you
like art, if you like memorabilia. So a big portion
of it, probably even bigger than the celebrity aspect of it.
(09:15):
A big portion of it is like a vendor hall.
People selling art, people selling the h ones, people selling clothing.
You know, there's tons of stuff. There's sometimes late night events.
I'm not sure what sort of late night events will
be at this one. I know some cons will do
like karaoke nights or just big parties. But there's a
lot of cool celebrities that are going to be there too,
(09:35):
and a lot that are in the horror world, but
some also a lot that are out of the horror world,
like Matthew Lillard for example. You know, he's really known
for the Scream franchise in horror, but he's also really
known for Scooby Doo, so he gets a lot of
fans that will come to these conventions specifically because they
like Scooby Doo, which I guess is horror, but it's
you know, more geared towards children. So it's it's definitely
(09:59):
a cool event for anyone who's really interested in horror
and movies in general, if you can hang on just.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
A couple of minutes to take a break and continue
with you and find out more about what the experience is.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Like for you. At this Silver scream con and what
newcomers might expect as far as interaction with you, do
they get to say hi? And how that goes? Can
you stay a little bit?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Absolutely okay?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Right after this, we'll continue with Leah Voic on WBZ.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
We continue with Leah Voice, who is known well, at
least for the purposes of this interview, for a being
a musician and b being an actor in a film
called Terrifier Too. She's been in a lot of other stuff,
lots of horror things. I have a quick question, do
you think of yourself as a horror actor. I think
it's a mistake some people make thinking that people are
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in horror films consider themselves horror film actors. Maybe you
just consider yourself an actor, which is it?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
At this point? I probably consider myself a horror actor.
I feel like that's where a lot of my opportunities
are coming from. But I'm very open to doing other stuff.
I would say, for me as a media consumer, sci
fi is probably my favorite. So it would be pretty
cool to do a sci fi film at some point.
(11:25):
But I do keep saying to my parents every time
I book a horror film. I say, don't worry, the
next one will be a rom com that you guys
can watch, because they don't want to watch my horror films.
But every time I lie, and I've never booked a
rom com, it's always just another horror film. So sometimes,
you know, you find yourself in a niche and you
just kind of if you're enjoying the niche, you just
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you know, keep going for it.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Tell us about your role as the host in the
Clown Cafe.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yes, so my role is actually a pretty small role
in the film. I'm well, I'm technically in two scenes.
I play another character at the very end of the film.
There's this post credit sequence with Chris Jericho, who's a wrestler,
and I play a nurse in that scene. There's a
little easter d to have me be in both scenes
(12:15):
because I look completely different. But in the Clown Cafe,
it's about twenty minutes into the film. It's one scene
the main character she falls asleep and she starts having
this really crazy dream where she's on the set of
this fildren's television show, and I play the host of
said television show. So I'm a little singing dancing clown.
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I've got a little banjo and I sing a song
called the Clown Cafe, and that song has become so
iconic in the terror Fire community, which has been amazing
for me. It's so fun. I actually sing it sometimes
at the conventions if there's a panel or something, and so, yeah,
I'm singing to the kids at the show. I'm singing
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to the main character. And at the very end of
the song, I bring out Art the clown, who is
the main protagonist in the movie. And then chaos and
sues and a lot of people, unfortunately Perish myself included. Yes,
but I'm smiling through the whole thing. He takes the
flamethrower and he sets me on fire, and oh sorry, sorry.
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It's not a spoiler for the main film that that
scene really exists, like very much in its own little
universe within the film. People have a lot of theories
of what it means, but it just exists within a
dream sequence, you know. It's not it's not really a
part of the main storyline. It's something completely different. But
fans are theorizing that it will come back in the
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fourth film in some way and maybe get some answers
about what the Clown Cafe actually is.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Okay, we're speaking with Leah Voise, an actor in lots
of horror films, and she's going to be participating and
the Ice nine. The Ice nine presented a Silver Scream
Con September twelveth through fourteen at the Worcester DCU Center.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I watched the movie Terrified too today, of course, I
mean you know, of course I did, and it felt
kind of Rob Zombie e to me, is is that me?
Or does it? Does it to you too? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I can see that. I definitely think that Damien the
director was inspired by Rob Zombie. I do think he
was trying to find the magic of those what made
those old slasher films really special. So if you think
of Michael Myers and Freddy and Jason and all of
those characters, he wanted are at the clown to be
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able to live up up to the standards of those characters.
I really think that he's done that. So people are
really taking Art the Crown and putting him next to
these big greats that have existed for decades at this point,
and I think I see that Arthur Clown would potentially
have that same sort of longevity in the horror community,
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which is really cool to be a part of that.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Okay, so I hope you don't. You probably get this
question all the time, but I'm curious it's to what
you think because you're an expert in the horror genre,
and I was asking myself this question, how what do
you feel is the Grandpa the standard of the genre,
the one at the top, And for me, it's the
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original Texas Chainsaw Masacre. It is so so, so so
so creepy, and I don't know, I get invested in
the characters, but you know that's I'm not an expert.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
What would you say is at the top for you?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh see, it's because if we're specifically talking about the
slasher sub genre, you know, because horror there's so many
different subgenres and horror, there's psychological horror, there's ghosts and
possession and everything. But I think with the slasher genre,
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I you know, them speaking for the community as a whole,
but I think for me personally, if people consider him
a slasher, my favorite would be Pinhead from the hell
Raiser film.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Oh so, one of the people is going to be
at this convention, right, yes.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The original tint I think he was in the first
eight movies Doug Bradley, and I did actually meet him
at one of these conventions, which was really exciting for
me because I'm a huge fan of his work.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Okay, finally, what's life like on the circuit beauty? Which
life like like a day for you at one of
these and the travel? I know, there's the travel and
you come in and you see a lot of people
you've come to know, so you must go hey you
and hey you must wave to your friends, and there's
a routine you go through, and what's it like. What's
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the experience like for somebody meeting you, and what's it
like for you? It's going to be exhausting. I know
for a fact that meeting people. Meeting people is exhausting
for me, even for like fifteen minutes. You do it
all day, you must be tired at.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
The end of the day.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Well, yes, I always take a day at the end
of the convention to recalibrate afterwards, because I mean, I
love meeting people. It's so fun. I'm so blessed to
be able to do this. But I do consider myself
an introvert, so I usually need to, you know, re
get my energy back after these conventions, but yeah, everything
you said. This one in particular, there's so many of
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my friends are going to be there that I've worked
with before. Specifically, you know, some of the people from
the Terrifier franchise. Catherine Quirkrin and Samantha Scaffiti, who are
in the first film are two friends of mine and
I've never done a convention with stand before, so I'm
excited to see her there, get to see Catherine. But
on the day to day how it works for the celebrities,
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each kind has set up differently. But if there's a
vendor hall and a celebrity hall where sometimes they're intermingled
and basically sitting behind the table and on the table
are photos of me. Most of the photos are photos
of me from Terrifier some other projects that I've worked on,
and you can come up to my table, say hello
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to me, and I sell the photo, so I'll sign
it for you. There. We also sell selfie so if
you want to take a picture with me at the table,
there's also an option to get a professional photographer. That's
a separate section. It's not at the table. At some
point I would leave the table and go do the
professional photos. With people who've bought them. And what makes
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my mind so fun compared to some other people is
I actually get in my costume from the movie when
I go and do those professional photos. But yeah, for
the rest of the day, I'm just sitting at the
table talking to fans, and I love taking time with
the fans. You know, even if somebody doesn't want to
buy something for me, if they don't want to buy
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a photo, you know, that's totally fine with me. If
you want to come up and say hello and you
just want to chat, I'm so happy to do that.
Most people are, you know, like my line doesn't get
as crazy as some of the other people, So I'm
happy to sit and talk to people. I think that's
one thing people who come to these conventions are not
sure about, you know, if they aren't going to purchase something,
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if a celebrity will speak to them, And honestly, like
I can't speak for everybody, it's definitely a case by
case basis, but we're usually sitting with someone at the
table who's handling our money and the transactions and stuff
like that. So if you're unsure as a guest at
this convention, if you're unsure if you.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Can talk to you.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Did we lose you?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Happy to have conversations with anyone who wants to talk
to me about film, about my work. You know, I
hear so many great stories from people, and it really is,
it really is often getting that space time with the
fans of Terrifier.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well, I really appreciate talk speaking with you. Thank you
for speaking to me for so long. You have you
have one new fan that's me. I appreciate it. And
by the way, I also make music and getting to
know you a little bit.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
It's kind of dark. I think you might like it.
Check Ignore the Machine on on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Ignore the Machine absolutely.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Okay Leah Voice.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
What a cool person and you can meet her in
person at the Silver Scream Scream con September twelfth through fourteen,
dc I Center in Worcester.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Thank you so much, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
This was awesome.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Okay bye bye. Wow. Isn't that cool?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
The best thing about this job is meeting and getting
to know new people. So I had two minutes before
the break here, so I want to do this. As
we mentioned, she has met a friend of mine named
Christina Elise at these conventions and actually went and hung
around at her house, so they're kind of pals now.
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But it just so happens that that same Christine Elise,
who is local and that's why this is particularly important.
She grew up in the rock scene here in the eighties,
was a fixture in the rock scene. It just so
happens that Christina Elise, whom you may know from Er.
I think she did like fifteen episodes of Er, and
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she was in Child's Play two, and she was a
fixture on nine O two one zero playing Valentine.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Uh the no, I won't go into that.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
But the thing is she's coming to town and you
can meet her too, And I told her I would
plug her thing because it's it's definitely along the side lines.
If you're a person who wants to go to the
DCI A Silver Scream comments, you might like this. Christina
Lisse of Child's Play Too, et cetera, will appear at
the Coolidge Corner Theater for a screening of Child's Play.
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That's October twenty three. I hope I didn't say, Oh,
I guess it's October twenty three, And there'll be a
Q and A and signing as well, so you can
meet her and She's cool because she's very Boston and
very friendly, very professional, and just I know her. I
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know her from her roles in the movies, but I
also know her from her role as working at Photo
Patio in like nineteen eighty at Cleveland Circle. I used
to live on Sutherland Road right there, and I'd walk
by and I used to go in and chat with
her because she was so co She was way into music,
way into the rock scene, owner clubs really early, and
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she had the coolest haircut. So it's a good reason
to bring this up is because a lot of you
may know her personally from the scene back in the day,
as well as those of you who may have come
to know of her in her roles by way.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Of her roles and these big TV shows.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
So there's that Christina Elise of Child's Play, two, Fame
and all those other things er and nine, O, two, one, oh,
et cetera. Coolest corner October twenty three, and say.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Hi to her.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Now for the rest of the time here, I want
to chill and talk about the COVID thing, because we
did have a doctor on here, a primary care physician,
and I also talked to another doctor today who talked
about how they got.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
In PTSD, like serious bad PTSD, and that actually one
of them had to actually quit the practice because of
the severity of the PTSD. I said, by the way
to the doctors, look, should we still be getting COVID vaccines?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
And they go, yeah, So I want to know how
you feel about it. Will you get will you continue
to get the vaccines? Did you not want to get
to the vaccines? Do you think vaccines should be mandatory
for public safety or do you think it should be
up to the individual, because hey, why should you have
to put something in your body.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
That you believe will hurt you? And how will you
operate if there's another pandemic?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
We will you operate differently? And I'll think about the
answers to those questions too. During this break on WBZ, You're.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
On Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's Bradley Jay for Dan. Did you hear that story
just then about surveillance and supermarkets. I don't think they
mentioned this. If they can tell by the way you walk,
how about you will pay for an item? They should
certainly will know by your phone if you have an
Apple product, as opposed to a non Apple product. They're
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probably gonna charge you more because Apple products cost more
and they know you have the money. I worry about
that when I'm buying airline tickets too. If I'm on
an Apple computer, are they gonna charge me more?
Speaker 4 (25:18):
I kind of think so if they, if they can,
they will.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Now about COVID, we talked about it a little bit
because I had some time to do that, and it
came up because we were talking with a primary care
physician and I'm curious COVID is still out there, people
still get it.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Are you going to continue to get the vaccines?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
A six, one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty and
by Tommy from West Virginia. By the way, it's a
good time for you to call. I have the time
anybody else? Are you going to get the vaccines? Are
you getting other vaccines? Did the COVID vaccine reaction that
you may have had influence how you feel about other vaccines.
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I have a friend who will yet no co vaccine,
although he does get flu vaccines because he's concerned about
what was that side effect, the heart swelling or something
like that. And I looked in there were the numbers
of teeny tiny for the heart swelling, but the numbers
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for damage to your body long term from getting COVID
were much greater. But somehow the side effect resonated with
him more than the main effects. And I guess, if
someone like that has a fear of their body being
directly harmed by introducing something into the body, should you
be able to make them do it? Even if it's
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a public health situation? And I put myself in his shoes.
What if I was seeing information, reading books or whatever
they told me, Yes, if you get the code vaccine,
you have a high risk of having a swollen heart
or some other or dropping dead from some side effect.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Would I want me? Would I want the state to
be able to force me to do it? No? I
guess I wouldn't. My sources of information did not teach
me that, did not send me in that direction, but
they could have. And for those of you who consume
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anti VACS sources of news and information, you believe that
with all your soul and all your fiber. If one
believes that with all their soul and all that fiber,
should they be forced to get it, even if it's
a public serve public health concern? I would say I
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would not want to. And of course you do have
the new situation where you have a person in charge
of vaccines nationally that doesn't like a lot of them.
I don't know how I feel about that. How do
you feel about that? I don't know how do you
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feel about chlorine? And not chlorine in the water, but
the fluoride in the water. We grew up with fluoride
in the water. Actually, when I was a kid, did
any of you have to take things called corridium pills? Yeah,
they were supposed to strengthen our teeth, but it didn't work.
(28:22):
Like people bon't. Young people now their teeth are tremendous
compared to my teeth in my generation. You're a lot
of your generations you had rotten teeth, right, And in
my father's generation he had to have all his teeth
pulled out. And I don't know why that was was.
It might have been just poor nutrition, because.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
For example, this doesn't reflect very well in my parents,
but I had a terrible diet in the summertime. In
the summertime, when the weather was hot, we would ride
our bikes to bowl Ach in New Hampshire and we'd
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buy like ten freeze pops you know this colored water
in a tube, water and sugar. Suck on those all day,
then come home and I remember it distinctly make kool aid,
but it was the kind of kool Aid you had
to put sugar in. It wasn't the pre sweet and
kool aid. It was the sugar Koolid.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
And I don't know how much you had to put
in there, but it had to be two cups something
crazy like that. It was half sugar. So I would
drink a quart of that, guzzle it right down, and
eat just wonderbread and kool Aid. I would stuff white
wonder bread in my mouth and then soak it and
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wash it down with kool Aid, and then and then
for dessert, a Funny Bone hostess Funny Bone. Anyway, back
to cool we have Brian and Weymouth. It's great to
hear from Weymouth. Hello, Brian, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Hey? I can't say that I'm a first time call,
that's for sure. How you been, buddy? How's everything? How's
the Dutch? And how's the dogs doing? You've ever me
calling the old day?
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Now the dog I'm forcing me only had one dog,
Molly the docs. Yeah, he's so sweet lost the others.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
But that's the way it is. And Molly's doing very well.
My partner's doing very well and awesome. I'm rolling along
making music, doing radio.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I don't want to get your show camps.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
I will.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I got my I got the cover with the airspace.
I did get my two COVID shots. But moving on
just a little bit, beause it's almost time for you
to punch out. Did you know anybody that went to
the WHO tonight?
Speaker 5 (30:49):
A couple of my.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Buddies once they said it was incredible. I don know.
I we can talk about it on this I can't talk.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
About anything during this last kind of this time.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh cool.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
So no, I didn't know it. I haven't heard anything
about it. Do you What does your buddy say?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Oh he's calling.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
You're saying that.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You said it was almost like being in the old Garden.
I'm sure he was under some substances, but uh, pinball wizard,
they were rocking, you know. Roger Daltrey was out of
cancer place today in town. So I heard that first,
I said, was that just a coincidence? Then my buddy
texted me, he said, I'm actually walking into the TD
Garden now to watch the Who. So then he called
you just now. So it was a great show.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
That's interesting how many of the original members were there.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Only you get Roger Daltrey. Is Townsend? Townsend's so alive? Right, huh.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
I never know. It's a dangerous thing going to seeing
those bands because in your mind, in your mind, you have.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
Your child, your young person memories. Maybe you saw them
in the back in the day they were so geral
and powerful, and.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Then I sometimes I know if it's good to see
the old man version of it. I see those concerts
on TV sometimes and I think, why why, That's.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Why I called him. And you're the expert. You don't know.
Remember the old days people would think Madonna was lift sinking.
And now we got this ai on on the lead
guitar of Won't Get Fooled Again.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Good that's a You gotta wonder how much of the
thing is real, how much of it is pre programmed.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
But if you know the guy had fun, that's what matters.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I went to the July fourth, nineteen eighty seven, Grateful
Dead show, and all my buddy said to me is
just pay for gas. Everything else is all sad. You
know what, I mean, it was thirty dollars in and
out to see Jerry Garcia and now it's you're lucky
if it's one hundred and thirty five, right, Riley.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
For the nose beads. Here's the thing that gets me exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I don't want to be a negative Nelly. However, I
have a hard time going to those shows.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Even though I can really ford to pay eighteen bucks
for a beer, the sixteen ounce beer or whatever it is.
I feel like a sucker. I feel like they're taking
advantage of me. I feel kind of like those kids
it would stock and just it just grinds my gears
and it bums me out. And plus the ticket prices,
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I'm thinking, geez, they're taking advantage of advantage of me.
They're taking advantage of my nostalgia. Do I wanted to
do that?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
So what I end up doing is I go see
some new band at O'Brien's. There's only twenty people, and
the beer's a drink is reasonable, and the cover is
the cover might be, the cover might be fifteen bucks,
and for me, that's.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
A rock experience. And as always, the grave, grave danger
that the band is going at disappoint so that's very difficult,
and it happens. Sometimes there's a more modern band echoing
the Bunnyman. Do you remember them?
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, absolutely man. My brother he passed away, but you
come into play here. He was playing at the Channel.
He was in a band called Mister Wizard God Rest
his soul up in having Boughtley and he had the Drive.
Was playing that night and my father snuck me into
Scotch and Sounds in Brockton. I was like fifteen years old,
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so you know, I know that whole history, the enemy
Charlie Farron. But my brother's band beat those guys out.
He had that. My brother had Hughey Ferguson, the League
guitar player. If anybody's listening from Hingham Hull, they know
exactly what I'm talking about. He ended up moving to
LA and he played. He passed away to played with
Tony Banks. He told my brother true story. He said,
(34:37):
what are you we gonna do now? I don't want
to go commercially, He said, I can't believe we just
beat these two bands. Well, I don't want to go commercial.
Next year later, Hugh Ferguson is living in LA and
he called me, yes, yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Want to sell out right, Okay, fine, but I got
to ask you before you go, how are you going
to deal with vaccines?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Are you goin to keep getting vaccines?
Speaker 6 (34:59):
No?
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I think that I think that has I think that
has passed. I think that's the horse is way beyond
the bond. But I want to say, you said something
funny early, but no one picked up. You said up
next Devo. I was driving and I'm like, I know
he wasn't going to play anything by Divo.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
But I did. I did interview Divo. That was a
Devo interview with a real guy.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Oh it was the real guy.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yes, and you And because you missed it, what you
can do is this, go to night Side and everybody
can do this. Go to night Side on demand in your.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Search bar boom, there it is. You scroll down and
you can hear it.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
And I must say I was nervous about that in
that interview because I heard I've heard that Mark can
be cantankerous. But I was highly prepared and it went well.
I'm really proud.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Of that interview.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Real quick question, when I mentioned those bands, did that
ring a bell with you guys? Like if my brother's
band was playing the Scotch and Sounds. He ended up
playing at the chandel the band. I gotta be honest, mister,
mister wizard.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
No it's not it's not him, it's me. I really
got a break. I gotta go take care of right by.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
I'll get to Rick and Bill, Rick and Tom and
Va West Va.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Coming up on b Z It's Night Side with Dan
Ray on w B Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
I have two folks on the horn, that's all. I'll
have time for him. Quickly we go to Tom in
West Virginia. I just want to say, I'm going to
continue to get my vaccines, but I of course have
an open mind. Because you're grown ups in your Americans.
You get to do what you want to do. But
I'm curious to know your thought patterns. So Tom in
West Virginia, try to keep it to the vaccines because
of the time constraint.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Tom, of course, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
In the sixties, I remember elementary school getting tuberculosis and
all those vaccines polio back then. I am by no
means antifactor. But where I am angry at is that
during the pandemicy twenty one twenty twenty two, the finger
waggers like a previous collar about well, you better wear
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a mask right now. I used to listen to a
different radio program where the radio host would say, wearing
the mask is an act of love. And what I
was told by a cardiologist at Masks General in June
of twenty one. He said, wearing the mask does one
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thing and one thing only. If you sneeze or you
cough and you have the COVID virus, it prevents you
from spreading the molecules further away, he said. But wearing
a paper mask does not prevent you from inhaling or
catching the COVID virus, because it's an airborne virus and
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you can catch it through the eyes, nose, and mouth.
And it became essentially a virtue signal during that time,
and it made me very angry that when Joe Biden
took office and hundreds of thousands of people were crossing
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our border that were not required to get the COVID vaccine.
They were not required to get vaccines as my wife
from a foreign country who's immigrating to the United States,
and these same finger waggers, the same virtue signal people
said nothing about migrants entering this country. That were not
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required by the government at that time. That I'm sorry,
you're crossing the southern border. You have to take the
COVID vaccine. We have to medically examine you and find
out have you had the tuberculosis vaccine, hepatitis, all kinds
of that scene. And no, they just let them in
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like livestock answering into a pen. And I'm fed up
with the.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
I get it, Tom, I completely get it. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I wish I had more time for you, because you're
always a good caller. And now it's Rick and Rick
and Bill Rick. Yeah, you got you a minute, now
a minute.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Nice, nice to talk to you. I like what Tom said,
so so well said, and it's all true. And and
it became political political, and there was no testing on this.
It was released. It was given permission through through through
uh you know, good intentions, through through President Trump that
a vaccine could be available.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
There was testing that there was some testing.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
Well, what I'm saying is there wasn't enough to I mean,
the FDA for the FT eight to approve some it's
like seven to ten years. They did the best testing
they could do, but unless you got real human subjects,
it's pretty tough to do testing that's viable, you know.
But then when when they made mandates, like Charlie Baker
in this state, that was disgraceful. I never got the shot.
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I lost some opportunities because of it. Some that I've
gotten back because they dropped the COVID policies. But I
just believe that it became incredibly political. I think it
was well intentioned, but I may have taken the shot.
Advisor Johnson and Johnson and Maderna said no, definitely, don't
don't mandate any of these shots. Just it's good that
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people take and we recommend it. But I probably would
have got it. But when they were silent because it
was a cash cow, I said, my god. And you
know I had loved ones who passed away, but they
were old and they had other comobidities.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
So that good question.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Did you not get the vaccine simply for political reasons?
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Well? I didn't get the vaccine because I was afraid to.
I said, there's no testing on this. There was no testing,
and I have other situations in my body. I wasn't
going to take the risk.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
That's a good call. I wish I had more time,
so not enough testing.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
It's what I believe he means thank you very much
everybody for staying with me all night, and thanks to
Rob Brooks for working the wheel. I'll be back tomorrow night,
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