June 14, 2022 • 46 mins
Fresh off Kyle’s cancelation, Anna and Kyle jump back into the previous investigation of the mysterious festival director, Beep Macrame. After doing something they admittedly are not proud of, Kyle and Anna decide the only way to make contact with Beep is to put on their very own film festival — in person. Not online. Will Beep show up to their film festival? Will he … be scary?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Truth Hounds, a production of My Heart Radio.
I'm Anna and I've been unemployed for two years now,
so I really have nothing going on. And I'm Kyle
and in middle school I received the ward most Enthusiastic
to learn. So that makes me pretty special. And that
(00:22):
is what makes us the perfect investigative duo. We are
two friends who love each other very much. What will
we love even more is getting to the bottom of mysteries.
All mysteries, sure, but small mysteries specifically. Trust me, No
mystery is too small. No, no, no, Why don't you
trust me when I tell you we are ready to
(00:45):
sniff around? We are the the Truth Hounds. Hello, Kyle, Yeah, Hey, Hey,
it's Anna. Yeah. Are you Are you listening to that song? No?
(01:11):
What song? Contemplating suicide? Are you listening to that right now?
Are you okay? No? No, I'm not not listening to it.
You're not listening, but you are okay? I mean kind
of what's going on? I okay, I know you just
got canceled. I'm I'm assuming this is you trying to
(01:32):
lay low, but we do actually really need to talk.
I'll be right there. Hi, Hi, how are you? Um?
I I hope, I hope no one I got. I
(01:52):
gotta be I get hand on hear you at all.
I sorry, I'm just worried. It's amating to see me
that I can canceled. I gotta The ocean is really
much louder than you. I'm worried that I'm out in
it because I was canceled. Oh right, yeah, canceled. That's okay.
(02:14):
You're just re laying low or at the beach where
no one's here, but the coast looks made. I mean,
it makes me feel like I'm in Spain or something Lorca. Sorry,
I can't hear you. Sorry, the waves are so loud,
but the waves are really loud, and I'm kind of
talking quieter because I was canceled. I've been thinking about
(02:38):
the beat Macroma investigation, and I think we need to
get back into it. Oh you'll kind of do anything
to get away from being canceled. Huh yes. But also
I just feel like I have I have some ideas
of things we could do um one of which I'm
not really proud of, but it's something we could do.
(03:00):
Were pertaining to the beat Back Romain investigation. Really, yeah,
what is it? Is it bad? We'll talk about it later. Oh,
you don't want to talk about it here? Yeah, I
just I kind of don't. We shouldn't talk about it
in public. Is it gonna get you canceled again? Maybe? Really?
(03:22):
I don't know. Damn you really want to get back
to this investigation? I do, don't you? Absolutely? It's all
I keep thinking about. Well, let's do it. Okay, let's
go Episode eight, What is Fear and Why Can't I
Look Away? Part five? We had taken a lot of
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time off from this investigation, but honestly it was too
hypnotizing to truly pull away. Where we were at was
We had found a horror film festival website run by
this intriguing yet scary figure, the Macromay. We had decided
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to infiltrate his universe, but kept everything above for By
creating our very own horror short film and applying to
be a part of this film festival and therefore his world.
We encountered several hurdles aside from the headache of making
the short film in the first place. Some of these
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hurdles included paying an unprecedented hundred fifty dollar submission fee
to get into the festival and overcoming the shock of
finding out that selected filmmakers were made to pay an
additional fifty dollars to attend the event the screening of
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their own movie. But we held our heads high, reminding
each other that this was just the price of meeting
beat Macromy. But then we attended the festival and we
didn't meet him because the event was on Zoom and
(05:17):
beat Macromy's WiFi was so spotty that ultimately he wasn't
even online half the time. By that, I mean for
thirty seconds he would be there and then poof thirty
seconds he was gone. We could barely see him with
the WiFi like this. We were disappointed, and honestly we
(05:41):
were piste. Sorry to the twelve year old fan, but honestly,
pissed is kind of a nice entryway into the amazing
world of curse words, so welcome, take your shoes off. Anyway,
we didn't know what to do with our anger. It
didn't feel constructive. Plus something came along and through a
(06:07):
wrench into the investigation altogether. The law that's right. Kyle
had given her lawyer friend Paul a call. That's right, folks,
I made a pall call, and Paul told us that
we needed to tread lightly and choose our words carefully.
(06:29):
We were mad, but realistically we had just encountered a
bad deal and nothing else. Anyway, we were mad, really mad,
and we decided that the most constructive thing to do
in this moment was to take some time off. Maybe
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time away would give us a clearer perspective. The next
few weeks, we kept it light, We hung out, We
got Kyle canceled. Plus I thought about my crush Chris Hi.
Oh my god, I'm such an idiot. Anyway, the thing is,
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while we were attempting to get Kyle canceled, we found
ourselves back where we had started investigating fear. It seemed
like the universe was nudging us and going, hey, you
should really be looking into this. We had to get
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to the bottom of the back from me, and arguably
we were more equipped to do that now. Yeah only
at my expense. Yeah yeah, it's really not about that.
So that brings you up to date. And here we
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were in a car on our way to a genuine
steak out. Um, how how do we get here? I mean,
what what are we looking at? What's the e t a? Um?
(08:17):
We're looking at about like minutes. Oh my god. Okay,
we're definitely going to beat heart um uh and yeah
it's this is this is where be Back May resides.
(08:38):
That's right. We were doing something that we can't say
that we're proud of. We were about to steak out
beat Macromys place of residents at night, and we are
going to stake it out. Yeah we are. I mean, lady,
(09:00):
look it's late. Maybe this is when he thrives. Okay,
but please keep in mind we were planning on staying
inside the car. We weren't psychos, but I just want
to drive by. I just want to see it. And
I'm saying, like, you know, I don't want to be
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getting in there. Oh no, no, no, no, you have
to be safe. No no, no, we can't. We can't
do that. We were just two girls on a drive
room room. Nothing weird, definitely not psychos, and we were
just going to drive by, not even stop. We definitely
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weren't going to park the car if there's a spot
in front, just parking there and then we you know,
I think it's weird. Have you ever like seeing people
in a car and you're like, why are they just
sitting there? Yeah, so we can maybe need a little
bit of improvnce and we're having a heated argument. Oh
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my god, Oh my god, these cars are going so fast,
Oh my god, is so scary. The point was that,
no matter what, we were not going to get out
of the car. Oh my god, Okay, this is we're turning.
This is it? Oh okay, okay, okay, okay, this is
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And then we couldn't find a spot. I know, we
said we wouldn't get out of the car, but you guys,
the listeners, there was no parking spot right in front,
and you know, we had to get a closer look.
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Um for you guys, the listeners. Okay, I'm parking. We're
gonna just walk over there. Okay, here, let me get
can you my bucket? Hats down there? Broking that off?
You don't want to extra? I have none. You didn't
bring a hat, okay, but maybe else would be your Okay, Yeah,
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we're gonna happy, Okay, Okay, yeah, I mean this has
to be cool, this really has to be So we
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did get out of the car. But I told Kyle
this had to be quick. I mean I didn't even
have a hat, and if this was quick, it wouldn't
be weird, right, guys. Yeah, okay, no, no good actual, Okay,
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you're gonna put on this house. It's gonna think, oh,
we saw someone come out, but turns out it was
just a woman walking her dog. But honestly, you don't
need to hear the rest of the footage because he
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wasn't there and his place didn't give us any answers.
It's just looked really normal, the kind of place where
a normal guy would live. If anything, the steak out
had left us with more questions, so we knew we
had to do something else. We had to make contact
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in a different way. We went back to the drawing board.
There was only one place we had act actually definitely
seen beat macromy Film Festival. This guy was clearly a
film head and the festival buff. Well yeah, he was
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there at his own festival. But anna, we went and
didn't meet him because it was online. Okay, yes, but
here's the thing. What if there was a different festival
and he was in attendance and it wasn't online. I
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literally don't understand what you're talking about. What if we
put together a festival not online. I mean that sounds awesome,
but what does that have to do with beat macromy Kyle,
we would invite him. Okay, I'm almost getting it. Wait,
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so we would put together our own festival and invite
him to it. Yes, we would put together our own
film festival and invite beat Back Ramy to it. And
because it would be our festival, we would be able
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to control whether or not it was online and make
sure it wasn't. Okay, I'm like on board. But the
only thing is what will we call it? It's a
really good question, um Son dan Son, dizzle, hhm, you
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don't like that. Wait, what is beat Back Remy's actual
festival called Again Film Festival? Okay, so why don't we
just call it the Beep Beep Film Festival? Bingo. I
(15:15):
know things are getting really good, but we have to
take a break for some ads, and the ad break
is over. Back to it. Um, it's really early in
the morning, and I got in a uh to come
over so we could just we're working on our Beat
(15:38):
Beat Festival. So one thing I wanted to just write
down is like, what our description of the event is
going to be. Okay, So we've never really put together
a film festival before, so we really didn't know where
(15:58):
to start in fact, the only film festival we were
familiar with was well beat Backer May's Film Festival. We
pulled up the website and looked through his festival description
for reference. I'm not usually a copycat, so I definitely
didn't want to bite a style. I did my best
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to change some of the words around. But Anna, on
the other hand, maybe if it came to it and
he was to read our description of our festival and
it was similar to his, it would feel kind of
familiar to him. In that way, he'd be more likely
to accept our invite because he'd be like, mm hmm,
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something about this feels like home. Brilliant. We decided to
keep it close but change some keywords around. Beat beat
Festival is a direct portal to the universe of the unknown. Okay,
it's a It's a festival primarily specializing horror. A festival
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film festival. Yeah, primarily dedicated to the horror genre, but
open minded enough, but open minded enough to accept all
genres except and celebrate other films. To clarify that last part,
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something that we found slightly irritating about the mccamy's Festival
is that it purported itself to be a horror film festival,
but then it actually had all genres of film, which
is totally fine, but it felt like it kind of
misadvertised itself. So we wanted to get ahead of that
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same critique and just say we Kyle and Anna love
horror films, but all films are welcome. Let's be clear
about that. Documentary. Come right in short form animation. I
got a spot for you right there. It's the best
seat in the house. The final factor was the submission fee.
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Film Festival had a hundred fifty dollar submission fee, a
number you are well acquainted with by now. In the
spirit of staying true to the film Festival's ethos, we
decided to also have a submission fee. In the spirit
of wanting to be better than them, we added an
extra fifty dollars, so our submission fee was a modest
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two hundred dollars. Once we finished writing the festival description,
it was time for the most difficult, the crucial part,
inviting the man, the myth, the legend himself, Deep macromy
We figured that we couldn't invite him to just sit
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in the audience. Who knows if he'd accept No. We
needed to make sure that this guy felt like v
I p all the way, so we decided to make
him an offer he couldn't refuse. We would invite him
to be a speaker on our horror panel. We didn't
know what a panel was exactly, and we had no
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idea who else would be on it. I mean, he
couldn't be on it alone. That's not a panel, that's
just a guy. But Anna assured me that those details
we would figure out later. I drafted an invitation and
showed it to Anna. Okay, here's um, here's my the
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email going to send if you wanted to check it out. Hi. Wow.
I was a participant in the Shock Horror From Festival
this year with me from Core. The experience was very
inspired one and maybe decide to put on my own
film festival with my friend Anna, the co creator. Truthfully,
participating in your festival made me appreciate my own film community,
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and I wanted to commemorate the occasion with a kind
of celebration in the form of my own film festival.
After talking over with Anna, we realized we wanted to
host a horror film Festival panel. Having said that, we
wanted to extend the offer to you to come be
a participant on the panel that is italicized, so he
knows that part of series. You made the experience very
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interesting and we would love to hear your insight on
the horror film community. Well, disclosure is our first time
doing this sort of thing, so we're definitely kind of
waiting at you. Yeah, I mean I think that that's
I think that's awesome. Okay, that a side name Bingo. Now,
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what we had to do was just figure out how
to put together a festival with a horror panel that
seemed it. In a week, we thought about what we needed.
We definitely needed a venue, things to screen, and a
poster so it seemed official. And don't forget the other
guests for a panel. Yeah, yeah, we'll get to that.
(21:19):
So we found a venue that was easy. We made
a poster, it was awesome. We were halfway there. Now
we just needed films to screen. We did what we
do best and posted on Instagram. We said, do you
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have a horror film or literally any other film under
five minutes submitted to our festival now? And by the way,
the cost of submission is two dollars. And then when
Kyle wasn't looking, I added that if you use a
code word, you could submit and receive two dollars off
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the submission fee. The code was David Scary one. Hey,
I hear you. I'm just worried that no one could
afford that. Have you seen gas prices lately? It's outrageous.
The films came flooding in and we got to watching
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and programming. Oh this is powerful, this is good. Whoa
whoa Okay, So let's see if we're thinking the same thing.
That movie is say in in or out on one
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to three, one two three in wow, page okay, send
the is that does? Wow? Okay? So really really interesting.
And so when it comes to me, this movie is
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one two three and okay, great perfect congratulations one two
three and one two three and okay. Great programming at festival,
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it's turning out to be pretty easy. In no time,
we had a bang in lineup and soon it was
time to spread the good news and send out the
acceptance letters. We remembered how excited we were when we
received our acceptance letter from B. Macromy. It was an
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all different font sizes, fonts, colors, part were highlighted. One
word was huge, while the others were very small. It
made no sense, but there was no denying it. It
was art. So that's what our acceptance letters looked like too.
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Everything was in place, and now we waited patiently for
beat macromay to respond, and waited and waited. What was
the hold up? The festival was literally four days away.
To get our minds off the drama, we decided to
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treat ourselves and go see a movie. We chose that
Nicolas Cage movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and
get this. On our way into the movie theater, Kyle
noticed she had an email. Oh my god, are you okay?
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With the name in a Hello Kyle, and you need
to come back. You need to come back to the
gree We need to okay, we need to go somewhere five.
Oh my god, it's okay. We're literally about to see
a movie. It is eight oh five, Cam. Okay, we're
gonna dip into this little enclave. We're dipping. Come here,
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come here, come here, Oh my god, like we're going
to read it together. Oh hello, Kaleena, Thank you for
your patients. With my response, I have been away from
my desk for longer. You know, you see a guy
like that, I don't think he has a desk. No offense,
(25:43):
No offense. I'm very glad to hear your organizing a show.
I'm unfortunately out of town and and I am unable
to attend. I would love to hear how it goes.
It's really nice, it's actually very friendly. Nice. Keep you
posted to sure photos. I look forward to hearing from
you soon. Good luck. That just sounds really nice. It's
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really nice. Three things jumped out at us. First and foremost,
he had a desk. Second, he wasn't always at this desk.
And third, and perhaps the most surprising, he seemed really nice.
But you know, who knows it was an email. Everyone
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knows it's hard to gauge tone and text. Sure, he
seemed nice, but maybe he was writing that email while
snarling or petting his pet spider. Once the excitement wore off,
he started to process the news he wasn't going to
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be there. Should we even still do the festival? I mean,
wasn't the whole point of the festival to put us
in a room with him offline so we could confront him?
But Kyle, it was too late. The venue was already rented.
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The Instagram posts posted, the acceptance letters sent out. You
know what I actually loved the films we were screening.
If anything, maybe this was our chance to rewrite history.
You see, Film Festival it left us feeling disappointed, So
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maybe this was our chance to treat others how we
ourselves had wanted to be treated. You know what, Kyle,
I'm calling an audible Our festival would go on right
his or He's wrongs, and you know what, it would rock. Also,
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we should point out that our short film Choir, which
we had made to get into Film Festival to meet
beat macromy had never been screened outside of that festival,
meaning it had only been screened online. So this was
our shot to screen it offline and show some love
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to our beautiful cast and our brave director Clay. Plus,
I would invite my crushed Chris and hey, maybe he
could be on the horror panel. It's so annoying. We'll
figure it out later, Kyle, he was in the movie.
It's just you know, it makes sense to invite him.
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I'm just inviting the cast, that's all, okay, fine whatever.
Before we knew it, the Beepy Festival, our festival was here.
As festival directors, our worries were twofold. Would people come
and would they feel taken care of. Luckily they came,
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and as far as making them feel taken care of,
we spared no expense. We didn't know much about festivals,
but after some light googling, you saw that film festivals
would typically have a backdrop thing that attendees could take
a photo in front of, which I guess was called
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a step and repeat. We wanted our festival guests to
feel fabulous as they walked in. So Kyle, she painted
a little sign. It looked amazing. Let me try to
paint a picture. Words splattered a rugged butcher paper with
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a texture so callous you could almost feel it with
your eyes. Red and black paint coming together violently to
form the words Beep beep festival, and yet in a
delicate twist. Once the words married to the paper, strange
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elegance emerged. The words suddenly looked like they were written
with a delicate quill. I made a good sign. The
only thing about the sign was that there was nowhere
to hang it in the venue, but above a little
unmovable bench. People had to sit in front of it
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in order to take a photo. So instead of it
being a step and repeat, it was more like a
sit and repeat, and also, oh, we didn't hire a photographer,
but we figured we could take people's photos if we
had time. And now an ad break. The ad break
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is over. The festival was upon us, people trickled in,
lights went down, and then it was time for a
very special scary intro. Welcome to the BP Festival, A
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Pathway to Pandora's Box. It is my terrifying pleasure to
introduce the festival directors, Kyle Mazzono and Enna Sarah Gina.
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Thank you so much for coming out film festival. Wow.
They don't tell you until you get up here how
bright it gets you guys the listeners, have you ever
been on the stage before those lights that they use?
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Good luck out there. Honestly I could kind of see
why beatmacromy did his festival at home. Yeah. Maybe next
time we can put this festival on at our homes
so I can also be hanging out with my dog. Kyle,
are you kidding me? We were hosting the event of
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a lifetime. Before we could get to the actual screening,
there was some light housekeeping. This is a first year
doing this festival, and we had an overwhelming amount of
apple kinds uh and decided upon these sixteen films that
you're going to see today. And when I tell you
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that it was a painful experience to be able to
choose the sixteen out of the eighteen or so that
we're submitted, I do not tell a lie. Um, it
was so thank you so much for everybody paid a
submission for you have two Thank you, Thank you for that.
And then the last thing we wanted to mention and
we said it this to few people. But there is
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a step and repeat outside. But it's um to sit
down and to sit down one. Um, we don't have
a lot of festivals aren't doing We don't have a
photographer on hand, but where have we to take the photos?
If we're not doing something, if we're not doing other things.
We urge them to not take advantage of our kindness
and keep in mind that we are this festival directors,
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so we do have other stuff to do. Thank you
so much. Okay, so this we have a first film.
Did you want to introduce that? I would love to introduce. Um.
So yeah, thank you so much. Cinema lovers left and right, UM, yeah,
this is honestly beautiful that all bring us together in
our room. It would be tricky to show you the
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next part of us screening the films. As an absolute
film lover, I can attest to the fact that cinema
it really speaks more in a visual language. But something
you should know is that we really did want people
to feel taken care of. So in between most films
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we asked whether the attendees needed to use the bathroom.
That's something that is always hard about the movie going experience.
And again, to pipe in as a film lover, I
felt really strongly about this. Um, does anybody need to
go to the bathroom? Okay? Okay, very nice? Um okay, great,
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net It was time for something we were really excited for,
a screening a choir, the short film we had made
to get into film festival in the first place. Yeah. Wow,
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I mean I was going to get some food, but
I think fridges are a little scary for me right now.
I love that he went back into the fridge after
checking the fridge. Yeah, but what is it? Ah, it's
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an Amazon package. I know, I know I shouldn't be
ordering from Amazon. Can you lock the door? No, It's
just it's just it's really convenient, And I mean, personally,
in hot take, I do think that we should be
paying more taxes. Where are you going in want anything? Wow?
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The audience really loved it. Well, we had their attention.
We gave them a little insight into how this movie
was made. Wow, we wanted this is kind of a premiere.
It actually did premiere somewhere, yeah, another at different festival,
but this is kind of the in person premiere. So
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thank you so much for being Thank you so much.
I'll just speak to the film quickly. To me, it
was really important for it to be very scary. Yeah,
and the way that Kyle and vision that is for
there to be people who are running backward. I don't
know if you guys caught that moment. I almost wanted.
I know it's not proper in a film screening to
pause something, but do you guys see I didn't want
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to kind of pause it, so just to make sure
you cap out and and just a little insider things.
That actually was Anna and I that's us. I brought
up what was important to me and then for me,
it was really fun to have a social message. And
when we um we asked our friend and uh filmmaker
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Zone Accord Alex Koutski, who could not be here today,
Um to write the screenplay. We said, anything with the
social message. Um, maybe taxes maybe, And so he was able.
I don't know if you guys were able to catch
that a little eastern Amazon Amazones. Yeah. Next thing we knew,
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questions were pouring in from the audience. I was still
able to go to the bathroom. Great question, Um, yes,
would you like to go to the bathroom right now? Yeah,
you can go to the bath Oh okay, very interesting,
interesting twist. Okay, thank you so much. Yes, anybody can
go to the bathroom anytime they want. We even got
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some challenging questions which we ended up throwing to our
brave director Clay. Who we expect the sequel? I think
not at all. Finally, the main event, our horror panel. Okay,
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let's talk about the panel. It's sole purpose was to
provide beat back from me with a reason to be
a part of our festival. And you probably noticed by
now he wasn't a part of our festival. But regardless
of Beep's absence, he selected a small group all rock
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stars and experts within their respective film genre risk to
be a part of our panel. They were Chris Cricket,
Tipper and David and we let them introduce themselves. I
was thank you, thank you, I was I directed the Egg,
I made Necronomicon, I made three Love Beautiful for them.
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For them. Even though we were a little disappointed that
Beat Macromay wasn't there, we decided to take advantage of
this opportunity and to ask our panelists some questions that
were on our mind. Well, we just want to know,
what is the most amount of money you have ever
paid to get your film into a film festival, Like
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a lot of people aren't open about that. Sixties seventy
is that? Oh my gosh, probably it was supposed to
be a hundred, but I got a voucher and then
fifty actual dollars. Once the problem if you wait to
let you know they have these different deadlines, it goes up.
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So am I started out at forty and then you're like, oh,
I waited too long. Now at seventy guys, I'm sorry,
but I had to really drive this next point home.
Our reasons for wanting to meet Beat Macromay becoming as
complicated as the investigation itself. Yes, Beat Macromay was fascinating,
(40:30):
sometimes mortifying, sometimes disarmingly nice, but also he were still
mad about forking over two hundred dollars. We wanted to
know why he had charged us that much money. No,
we needed to know. Frankly, it had become a bit
(40:53):
of an obsession, so much so that I needed to
address it to the panel. Um, let me ask you, Paul, question,
if you paid a hundred and fifty dollars to submit
your film into a festival, Um, and that was a
hundred fifty one five zero dollars, which is three times
more than a submission to the Sundance Film Festival, which
is fifty dollars. Obsessed, Um, if you paid one hundred
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fifty dollars to submit your films, plus then when you
actually get accepted, they ask you to pay to actually
attend the festival. So you're actually looking at approximately and
that ticket is fifty five zero dollars, and you want
to bring your whole crew to the festivals, so that's
going to run you fifty ahead. So crew like ours,
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you know, we're rolling five deep, so kind of you
do the math? So anyway, so if that's how much
you paid, would you say that that festival is a
bad deal? Yes? Yes, that was all we needed to hear.
The answer we were waiting for thinked. Our panelists profusely
(42:02):
encouraged the attendees to use the bathroom one last time
for the road and snap a sit and repeat on
their way out. I just wanted to say, give it
up for yourselves and all the other people in the
audience who are part of films, made, films, submitted films,
film lovers through time. We'll see you next year, and
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thank you to our panel thank you, thank you guys,
thank you, thank you. So let's assess where we stood.
We had just successfully thrown our own film festival, which
guests and filmmakers and panelists alike raped about, but all
of the success couldn't shake the feeling within us that
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something was missing. Meeting beat macromy we were just dancing
around the issue. We weren't going to have the answer
as we were seeking until we met him, looked him
in the eyes and asked him, who are you? Why
(43:11):
can't we look away? And why did you charge just
so much money? We didn't have the closure we needed.
We headed to the beach to talk. Hi, Hi, thank
you for meeting me here. Oh my god, there's like
(43:31):
a beautiful woman walking down the Wow. She's absolutely beautiful.
She really is. I want this woman was walking really
towards us. Well, so, what did you think about the festival?
I I love the festival. I had a great time.
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I think we did a great job. I think we
did a great job, and I, you know, for the
sake of being like getting to refly and getting to
really think about how lucky we are. Um, I don't know.
I'm just I feel really humbled that it was such
a success and so many people came out and is
(44:13):
that a dog? Why? Bye? But but the thing is,
I don't know about your thinking. And when I'm thinking, yeah,
I felt like it was a little anti chlimactic. Huh unclaimactic?
Is that? No? No, no, it's anti climactic. You're right,
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I do. I just felt like we we have to
meet him, and anything other than that is not going
to feel like we got to the bottom of anything
until we actually meet this person. Like, no matter how
good of a job we did and how much of
a dream come true it was, he wasn't there. Well,
(44:58):
I just don't think the investigation is over. Yeah, I
think you're right. Next time on Truth Hounds, I literally
just saw the craziest, scariest thing on Instagram and I
(45:19):
have to show you why I think it's going to
blow the lid off this case. We're doing this, We're
finishing the investigation, finishing the investigation. Yes, oh my god,
this was it. There was no way we wouldn't beat
Macromay because this event was in person. They saw three
words that nearly caused us to crash Kyle's pre It's
(45:41):
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Welcome to Truth Hounds, a production of My Heart Radio.
I'm Anna and I've been unemployed for two years now,
so I really have nothing going on. And I'm Kyle
and in middle school I received the ward most Enthusiastic
to learn. So that makes me pretty special. And that
(00:22):
is what makes us the perfect investigative duo. We are
two friends who love each other very much. What will
we love even more is getting to the bottom of mysteries.
All mysteries, sure, but small mysteries specifically. Trust me, No
mystery is too small. No, no, no, Why don't you
trust me when I tell you we are ready to
(00:45):
sniff around? We are the the Truth Hounds. Hello, Kyle, Yeah, Hey, Hey,
it's Anna. Yeah. Are you Are you listening to that song? No?
(01:11):
What song? Contemplating suicide? Are you listening to that right now?
Are you okay? No? No, I'm not not listening to it.
You're not listening, but you are okay? I mean kind
of what's going on? I okay, I know you just
got canceled. I'm I'm assuming this is you trying to
(01:32):
lay low, but we do actually really need to talk.
I'll be right there. Hi, Hi, how are you? Um?
I I hope, I hope no one I got. I
(01:52):
gotta be I get hand on hear you at all.
I sorry, I'm just worried. It's amating to see me
that I can canceled. I gotta The ocean is really
much louder than you. I'm worried that I'm out in
it because I was canceled. Oh right, yeah, canceled. That's okay.
(02:14):
You're just re laying low or at the beach where
no one's here, but the coast looks made. I mean,
it makes me feel like I'm in Spain or something Lorca. Sorry,
I can't hear you. Sorry, the waves are so loud,
but the waves are really loud, and I'm kind of
talking quieter because I was canceled. I've been thinking about
(02:38):
the beat Macroma investigation, and I think we need to
get back into it. Oh you'll kind of do anything
to get away from being canceled. Huh yes. But also
I just feel like I have I have some ideas
of things we could do um one of which I'm
not really proud of, but it's something we could do.
(03:00):
Were pertaining to the beat Back Romain investigation. Really, yeah,
what is it? Is it bad? We'll talk about it later. Oh,
you don't want to talk about it here? Yeah, I
just I kind of don't. We shouldn't talk about it
in public. Is it gonna get you canceled again? Maybe? Really?
(03:22):
I don't know. Damn you really want to get back
to this investigation? I do, don't you? Absolutely? It's all
I keep thinking about. Well, let's do it. Okay, let's
go Episode eight, What is Fear and Why Can't I
Look Away? Part five? We had taken a lot of
(03:47):
time off from this investigation, but honestly it was too
hypnotizing to truly pull away. Where we were at was
We had found a horror film festival website run by
this intriguing yet scary figure, the Macromay. We had decided
(04:12):
to infiltrate his universe, but kept everything above for By
creating our very own horror short film and applying to
be a part of this film festival and therefore his world.
We encountered several hurdles aside from the headache of making
the short film in the first place. Some of these
(04:34):
hurdles included paying an unprecedented hundred fifty dollar submission fee
to get into the festival and overcoming the shock of
finding out that selected filmmakers were made to pay an
additional fifty dollars to attend the event the screening of
(04:55):
their own movie. But we held our heads high, reminding
each other that this was just the price of meeting
beat Macromy. But then we attended the festival and we
didn't meet him because the event was on Zoom and
(05:17):
beat Macromy's WiFi was so spotty that ultimately he wasn't
even online half the time. By that, I mean for
thirty seconds he would be there and then poof thirty
seconds he was gone. We could barely see him with
the WiFi like this. We were disappointed, and honestly we
(05:41):
were piste. Sorry to the twelve year old fan, but honestly,
pissed is kind of a nice entryway into the amazing
world of curse words, so welcome, take your shoes off. Anyway,
we didn't know what to do with our anger. It
didn't feel constructive. Plus something came along and through a
(06:07):
wrench into the investigation altogether. The law that's right. Kyle
had given her lawyer friend Paul a call. That's right, folks,
I made a pall call, and Paul told us that
we needed to tread lightly and choose our words carefully.
(06:29):
We were mad, but realistically we had just encountered a
bad deal and nothing else. Anyway, we were mad, really mad,
and we decided that the most constructive thing to do
in this moment was to take some time off. Maybe
(06:50):
time away would give us a clearer perspective. The next
few weeks, we kept it light, We hung out, We
got Kyle canceled. Plus I thought about my crush Chris Hi.
Oh my god, I'm such an idiot. Anyway, the thing is,
(07:15):
while we were attempting to get Kyle canceled, we found
ourselves back where we had started investigating fear. It seemed
like the universe was nudging us and going, hey, you
should really be looking into this. We had to get
(07:36):
to the bottom of the back from me, and arguably
we were more equipped to do that now. Yeah only
at my expense. Yeah yeah, it's really not about that.
So that brings you up to date. And here we
(07:56):
were in a car on our way to a genuine
steak out. Um, how how do we get here? I mean,
what what are we looking at? What's the e t a? Um?
(08:17):
We're looking at about like minutes. Oh my god. Okay,
we're definitely going to beat heart um uh and yeah
it's this is this is where be Back May resides.
(08:38):
That's right. We were doing something that we can't say
that we're proud of. We were about to steak out
beat Macromys place of residents at night, and we are
going to stake it out. Yeah we are. I mean, lady,
(09:00):
look it's late. Maybe this is when he thrives. Okay,
but please keep in mind we were planning on staying
inside the car. We weren't psychos, but I just want
to drive by. I just want to see it. And
I'm saying, like, you know, I don't want to be
(09:21):
getting in there. Oh no, no, no, no, you have
to be safe. No no, no, we can't. We can't
do that. We were just two girls on a drive
room room. Nothing weird, definitely not psychos, and we were
just going to drive by, not even stop. We definitely
(09:41):
weren't going to park the car if there's a spot
in front, just parking there and then we you know,
I think it's weird. Have you ever like seeing people
in a car and you're like, why are they just
sitting there? Yeah, so we can maybe need a little
bit of improvnce and we're having a heated argument. Oh
(10:03):
my god, Oh my god, these cars are going so fast,
Oh my god, is so scary. The point was that,
no matter what, we were not going to get out
of the car. Oh my god, Okay, this is we're turning.
This is it? Oh okay, okay, okay, okay, this is
(10:25):
And then we couldn't find a spot. I know, we
said we wouldn't get out of the car, but you guys,
the listeners, there was no parking spot right in front,
and you know, we had to get a closer look.
(10:49):
Um for you guys, the listeners. Okay, I'm parking. We're
gonna just walk over there. Okay, here, let me get
can you my bucket? Hats down there? Broking that off?
You don't want to extra? I have none. You didn't
bring a hat, okay, but maybe else would be your Okay, Yeah,
(11:18):
we're gonna happy, Okay, Okay, yeah, I mean this has
to be cool, this really has to be So we
(11:43):
did get out of the car. But I told Kyle
this had to be quick. I mean I didn't even
have a hat, and if this was quick, it wouldn't
be weird, right, guys. Yeah, okay, no, no good actual, Okay,
(12:08):
you're gonna put on this house. It's gonna think, oh,
we saw someone come out, but turns out it was
just a woman walking her dog. But honestly, you don't
need to hear the rest of the footage because he
(12:31):
wasn't there and his place didn't give us any answers.
It's just looked really normal, the kind of place where
a normal guy would live. If anything, the steak out
had left us with more questions, so we knew we
had to do something else. We had to make contact
(12:53):
in a different way. We went back to the drawing board.
There was only one place we had act actually definitely
seen beat macromy Film Festival. This guy was clearly a
film head and the festival buff. Well yeah, he was
(13:13):
there at his own festival. But anna, we went and
didn't meet him because it was online. Okay, yes, but
here's the thing. What if there was a different festival
and he was in attendance and it wasn't online. I
(13:33):
literally don't understand what you're talking about. What if we
put together a festival not online. I mean that sounds awesome,
but what does that have to do with beat macromy Kyle,
we would invite him. Okay, I'm almost getting it. Wait,
(13:58):
so we would put together our own festival and invite
him to it. Yes, we would put together our own
film festival and invite beat Back Ramy to it. And
because it would be our festival, we would be able
(14:18):
to control whether or not it was online and make
sure it wasn't. Okay, I'm like on board. But the
only thing is what will we call it? It's a
really good question, um Son dan Son, dizzle, hhm, you
(14:47):
don't like that. Wait, what is beat Back Remy's actual
festival called Again Film Festival? Okay, so why don't we
just call it the Beep Beep Film Festival? Bingo. I
(15:15):
know things are getting really good, but we have to
take a break for some ads, and the ad break
is over. Back to it. Um, it's really early in
the morning, and I got in a uh to come
over so we could just we're working on our Beat
(15:38):
Beat Festival. So one thing I wanted to just write
down is like, what our description of the event is
going to be. Okay, So we've never really put together
a film festival before, so we really didn't know where
(15:58):
to start in fact, the only film festival we were
familiar with was well beat Backer May's Film Festival. We
pulled up the website and looked through his festival description
for reference. I'm not usually a copycat, so I definitely
didn't want to bite a style. I did my best
(16:19):
to change some of the words around. But Anna, on
the other hand, maybe if it came to it and
he was to read our description of our festival and
it was similar to his, it would feel kind of
familiar to him. In that way, he'd be more likely
to accept our invite because he'd be like, mm hmm,
(16:42):
something about this feels like home. Brilliant. We decided to
keep it close but change some keywords around. Beat beat
Festival is a direct portal to the universe of the unknown. Okay,
it's a It's a festival primarily specializing horror. A festival
(17:07):
film festival. Yeah, primarily dedicated to the horror genre, but
open minded enough, but open minded enough to accept all
genres except and celebrate other films. To clarify that last part,
(17:30):
something that we found slightly irritating about the mccamy's Festival
is that it purported itself to be a horror film festival,
but then it actually had all genres of film, which
is totally fine, but it felt like it kind of
misadvertised itself. So we wanted to get ahead of that
(17:50):
same critique and just say we Kyle and Anna love
horror films, but all films are welcome. Let's be clear
about that. Documentary. Come right in short form animation. I
got a spot for you right there. It's the best
seat in the house. The final factor was the submission fee.
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Film Festival had a hundred fifty dollar submission fee, a
number you are well acquainted with by now. In the
spirit of staying true to the film Festival's ethos, we
decided to also have a submission fee. In the spirit
of wanting to be better than them, we added an
extra fifty dollars, so our submission fee was a modest
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two hundred dollars. Once we finished writing the festival description,
it was time for the most difficult, the crucial part,
inviting the man, the myth, the legend himself, Deep macromy
We figured that we couldn't invite him to just sit
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in the audience. Who knows if he'd accept No. We
needed to make sure that this guy felt like v
I p all the way, so we decided to make
him an offer he couldn't refuse. We would invite him
to be a speaker on our horror panel. We didn't
know what a panel was exactly, and we had no
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idea who else would be on it. I mean, he
couldn't be on it alone. That's not a panel, that's
just a guy. But Anna assured me that those details
we would figure out later. I drafted an invitation and
showed it to Anna. Okay, here's um, here's my the
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email going to send if you wanted to check it out. Hi. Wow.
I was a participant in the Shock Horror From Festival
this year with me from Core. The experience was very
inspired one and maybe decide to put on my own
film festival with my friend Anna, the co creator. Truthfully,
participating in your festival made me appreciate my own film community,
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and I wanted to commemorate the occasion with a kind
of celebration in the form of my own film festival.
After talking over with Anna, we realized we wanted to
host a horror film Festival panel. Having said that, we
wanted to extend the offer to you to come be
a participant on the panel that is italicized, so he
knows that part of series. You made the experience very
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interesting and we would love to hear your insight on
the horror film community. Well, disclosure is our first time
doing this sort of thing, so we're definitely kind of
waiting at you. Yeah, I mean I think that that's
I think that's awesome. Okay, that a side name Bingo. Now,
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what we had to do was just figure out how
to put together a festival with a horror panel that
seemed it. In a week, we thought about what we needed.
We definitely needed a venue, things to screen, and a
poster so it seemed official. And don't forget the other
guests for a panel. Yeah, yeah, we'll get to that.
(21:19):
So we found a venue that was easy. We made
a poster, it was awesome. We were halfway there. Now
we just needed films to screen. We did what we
do best and posted on Instagram. We said, do you
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have a horror film or literally any other film under
five minutes submitted to our festival now? And by the way,
the cost of submission is two dollars. And then when
Kyle wasn't looking, I added that if you use a
code word, you could submit and receive two dollars off
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the submission fee. The code was David Scary one. Hey,
I hear you. I'm just worried that no one could
afford that. Have you seen gas prices lately? It's outrageous.
The films came flooding in and we got to watching
(22:27):
and programming. Oh this is powerful, this is good. Whoa
whoa Okay, So let's see if we're thinking the same thing.
That movie is say in in or out on one
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to three, one two three in wow, page okay, send
the is that does? Wow? Okay? So really really interesting.
And so when it comes to me, this movie is
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one two three and okay, great perfect congratulations one two
three and one two three and okay. Great programming at festival,
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it's turning out to be pretty easy. In no time,
we had a bang in lineup and soon it was
time to spread the good news and send out the
acceptance letters. We remembered how excited we were when we
received our acceptance letter from B. Macromy. It was an
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all different font sizes, fonts, colors, part were highlighted. One
word was huge, while the others were very small. It
made no sense, but there was no denying it. It
was art. So that's what our acceptance letters looked like too.
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Everything was in place, and now we waited patiently for
beat macromay to respond, and waited and waited. What was
the hold up? The festival was literally four days away.
To get our minds off the drama, we decided to
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treat ourselves and go see a movie. We chose that
Nicolas Cage movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and
get this. On our way into the movie theater, Kyle
noticed she had an email. Oh my god, are you okay?
(24:58):
With the name in a Hello Kyle, and you need
to come back. You need to come back to the
gree We need to okay, we need to go somewhere five.
Oh my god, it's okay. We're literally about to see
a movie. It is eight oh five, Cam. Okay, we're
gonna dip into this little enclave. We're dipping. Come here,
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come here, come here, Oh my god, like we're going
to read it together. Oh hello, Kaleena, Thank you for
your patients. With my response, I have been away from
my desk for longer. You know, you see a guy
like that, I don't think he has a desk. No offense,
(25:43):
No offense. I'm very glad to hear your organizing a show.
I'm unfortunately out of town and and I am unable
to attend. I would love to hear how it goes.
It's really nice, it's actually very friendly. Nice. Keep you
posted to sure photos. I look forward to hearing from
you soon. Good luck. That just sounds really nice. It's
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really nice. Three things jumped out at us. First and foremost,
he had a desk. Second, he wasn't always at this desk.
And third, and perhaps the most surprising, he seemed really nice.
But you know, who knows it was an email. Everyone
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knows it's hard to gauge tone and text. Sure, he
seemed nice, but maybe he was writing that email while
snarling or petting his pet spider. Once the excitement wore off,
he started to process the news he wasn't going to
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be there. Should we even still do the festival? I mean,
wasn't the whole point of the festival to put us
in a room with him offline so we could confront him?
But Kyle, it was too late. The venue was already rented.
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The Instagram posts posted, the acceptance letters sent out. You
know what I actually loved the films we were screening.
If anything, maybe this was our chance to rewrite history.
You see, Film Festival it left us feeling disappointed, So
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maybe this was our chance to treat others how we
ourselves had wanted to be treated. You know what, Kyle,
I'm calling an audible Our festival would go on right
his or He's wrongs, and you know what, it would rock. Also,
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we should point out that our short film Choir, which
we had made to get into Film Festival to meet
beat macromy had never been screened outside of that festival,
meaning it had only been screened online. So this was
our shot to screen it offline and show some love
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to our beautiful cast and our brave director Clay. Plus,
I would invite my crushed Chris and hey, maybe he
could be on the horror panel. It's so annoying. We'll
figure it out later, Kyle, he was in the movie.
It's just you know, it makes sense to invite him.
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I'm just inviting the cast, that's all, okay, fine whatever.
Before we knew it, the Beepy Festival, our festival was here.
As festival directors, our worries were twofold. Would people come
and would they feel taken care of. Luckily they came,
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and as far as making them feel taken care of,
we spared no expense. We didn't know much about festivals,
but after some light googling, you saw that film festivals
would typically have a backdrop thing that attendees could take
a photo in front of, which I guess was called
(29:38):
a step and repeat. We wanted our festival guests to
feel fabulous as they walked in. So Kyle, she painted
a little sign. It looked amazing. Let me try to
paint a picture. Words splattered a rugged butcher paper with
(30:05):
a texture so callous you could almost feel it with
your eyes. Red and black paint coming together violently to
form the words Beep beep festival, and yet in a
delicate twist. Once the words married to the paper, strange
(30:25):
elegance emerged. The words suddenly looked like they were written
with a delicate quill. I made a good sign. The
only thing about the sign was that there was nowhere
to hang it in the venue, but above a little
unmovable bench. People had to sit in front of it
(30:49):
in order to take a photo. So instead of it
being a step and repeat, it was more like a
sit and repeat, and also, oh, we didn't hire a photographer,
but we figured we could take people's photos if we
had time. And now an ad break. The ad break
(31:21):
is over. The festival was upon us, people trickled in,
lights went down, and then it was time for a
very special scary intro. Welcome to the BP Festival, A
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Pathway to Pandora's Box. It is my terrifying pleasure to
introduce the festival directors, Kyle Mazzono and Enna Sarah Gina.
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Thank you so much for coming out film festival. Wow.
They don't tell you until you get up here how
bright it gets you guys the listeners, have you ever
been on the stage before those lights that they use?
(32:32):
Good luck out there. Honestly I could kind of see
why beatmacromy did his festival at home. Yeah. Maybe next
time we can put this festival on at our homes
so I can also be hanging out with my dog. Kyle,
are you kidding me? We were hosting the event of
(32:52):
a lifetime. Before we could get to the actual screening,
there was some light housekeeping. This is a first year
doing this festival, and we had an overwhelming amount of
apple kinds uh and decided upon these sixteen films that
you're going to see today. And when I tell you
(33:12):
that it was a painful experience to be able to
choose the sixteen out of the eighteen or so that
we're submitted, I do not tell a lie. Um, it
was so thank you so much for everybody paid a
submission for you have two Thank you, Thank you for that.
And then the last thing we wanted to mention and
we said it this to few people. But there is
(33:33):
a step and repeat outside. But it's um to sit
down and to sit down one. Um, we don't have
a lot of festivals aren't doing We don't have a
photographer on hand, but where have we to take the photos?
If we're not doing something, if we're not doing other things.
We urge them to not take advantage of our kindness
and keep in mind that we are this festival directors,
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so we do have other stuff to do. Thank you
so much. Okay, so this we have a first film.
Did you want to introduce that? I would love to introduce. Um.
So yeah, thank you so much. Cinema lovers left and right, UM, yeah,
this is honestly beautiful that all bring us together in
our room. It would be tricky to show you the
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next part of us screening the films. As an absolute
film lover, I can attest to the fact that cinema
it really speaks more in a visual language. But something
you should know is that we really did want people
to feel taken care of. So in between most films
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we asked whether the attendees needed to use the bathroom.
That's something that is always hard about the movie going experience.
And again, to pipe in as a film lover, I
felt really strongly about this. Um, does anybody need to
go to the bathroom? Okay? Okay, very nice? Um okay, great,
(34:59):
net It was time for something we were really excited for,
a screening a choir, the short film we had made
to get into film festival in the first place. Yeah. Wow,
(35:22):
I mean I was going to get some food, but
I think fridges are a little scary for me right now.
I love that he went back into the fridge after
checking the fridge. Yeah, but what is it? Ah, it's
(35:42):
an Amazon package. I know, I know I shouldn't be
ordering from Amazon. Can you lock the door? No, It's
just it's just it's really convenient, And I mean, personally,
in hot take, I do think that we should be
paying more taxes. Where are you going in want anything? Wow?
(36:19):
The audience really loved it. Well, we had their attention.
We gave them a little insight into how this movie
was made. Wow, we wanted this is kind of a premiere.
It actually did premiere somewhere, yeah, another at different festival,
but this is kind of the in person premiere. So
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thank you so much for being Thank you so much.
I'll just speak to the film quickly. To me, it
was really important for it to be very scary. Yeah,
and the way that Kyle and vision that is for
there to be people who are running backward. I don't
know if you guys caught that moment. I almost wanted.
I know it's not proper in a film screening to
pause something, but do you guys see I didn't want
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to kind of pause it, so just to make sure
you cap out and and just a little insider things.
That actually was Anna and I that's us. I brought
up what was important to me and then for me,
it was really fun to have a social message. And
when we um we asked our friend and uh filmmaker
(37:27):
Zone Accord Alex Koutski, who could not be here today,
Um to write the screenplay. We said, anything with the
social message. Um, maybe taxes maybe, And so he was able.
I don't know if you guys were able to catch
that a little eastern Amazon Amazones. Yeah. Next thing we knew,
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questions were pouring in from the audience. I was still
able to go to the bathroom. Great question, Um, yes,
would you like to go to the bathroom right now? Yeah,
you can go to the bath Oh okay, very interesting,
interesting twist. Okay, thank you so much. Yes, anybody can
go to the bathroom anytime they want. We even got
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some challenging questions which we ended up throwing to our
brave director Clay. Who we expect the sequel? I think
not at all. Finally, the main event, our horror panel. Okay,
(38:35):
let's talk about the panel. It's sole purpose was to
provide beat back from me with a reason to be
a part of our festival. And you probably noticed by
now he wasn't a part of our festival. But regardless
of Beep's absence, he selected a small group all rock
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stars and experts within their respective film genre risk to
be a part of our panel. They were Chris Cricket,
Tipper and David and we let them introduce themselves. I
was thank you, thank you, I was I directed the Egg,
I made Necronomicon, I made three Love Beautiful for them.
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For them. Even though we were a little disappointed that
Beat Macromay wasn't there, we decided to take advantage of
this opportunity and to ask our panelists some questions that
were on our mind. Well, we just want to know,
what is the most amount of money you have ever
paid to get your film into a film festival, Like
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a lot of people aren't open about that. Sixties seventy
is that? Oh my gosh, probably it was supposed to
be a hundred, but I got a voucher and then
fifty actual dollars. Once the problem if you wait to
let you know they have these different deadlines, it goes up.
(40:07):
So am I started out at forty and then you're like, oh,
I waited too long. Now at seventy guys, I'm sorry,
but I had to really drive this next point home.
Our reasons for wanting to meet Beat Macromay becoming as
complicated as the investigation itself. Yes, Beat Macromay was fascinating,
(40:30):
sometimes mortifying, sometimes disarmingly nice, but also he were still
mad about forking over two hundred dollars. We wanted to
know why he had charged us that much money. No,
we needed to know. Frankly, it had become a bit
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of an obsession, so much so that I needed to
address it to the panel. Um, let me ask you, Paul, question,
if you paid a hundred and fifty dollars to submit
your film into a festival, Um, and that was a
hundred fifty one five zero dollars, which is three times
more than a submission to the Sundance Film Festival, which
is fifty dollars. Obsessed, Um, if you paid one hundred
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fifty dollars to submit your films, plus then when you
actually get accepted, they ask you to pay to actually
attend the festival. So you're actually looking at approximately and
that ticket is fifty five zero dollars, and you want
to bring your whole crew to the festivals, so that's
going to run you fifty ahead. So crew like ours,
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you know, we're rolling five deep, so kind of you
do the math? So anyway, so if that's how much
you paid, would you say that that festival is a
bad deal? Yes? Yes, that was all we needed to hear.
The answer we were waiting for thinked. Our panelists profusely
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encouraged the attendees to use the bathroom one last time
for the road and snap a sit and repeat on
their way out. I just wanted to say, give it
up for yourselves and all the other people in the
audience who are part of films, made, films, submitted films,
film lovers through time. We'll see you next year, and
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thank you to our panel thank you, thank you guys,
thank you, thank you. So let's assess where we stood.
We had just successfully thrown our own film festival, which
guests and filmmakers and panelists alike raped about, but all
of the success couldn't shake the feeling within us that
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something was missing. Meeting beat macromy we were just dancing
around the issue. We weren't going to have the answer
as we were seeking until we met him, looked him
in the eyes and asked him, who are you? Why
(43:11):
can't we look away? And why did you charge just
so much money? We didn't have the closure we needed.
We headed to the beach to talk. Hi, Hi, thank
you for meeting me here. Oh my god, there's like
(43:31):
a beautiful woman walking down the Wow. She's absolutely beautiful.
She really is. I want this woman was walking really
towards us. Well, so, what did you think about the festival?
I I love the festival. I had a great time.
(43:51):
I think we did a great job. I think we
did a great job, and I, you know, for the
sake of being like getting to refly and getting to
really think about how lucky we are. Um, I don't know.
I'm just I feel really humbled that it was such
a success and so many people came out and is
(44:13):
that a dog? Why? Bye? But but the thing is,
I don't know about your thinking. And when I'm thinking, yeah,
I felt like it was a little anti chlimactic. Huh unclaimactic?
Is that? No? No, no, it's anti climactic. You're right,
(44:34):
I do. I just felt like we we have to
meet him, and anything other than that is not going
to feel like we got to the bottom of anything
until we actually meet this person. Like, no matter how
good of a job we did and how much of
a dream come true it was, he wasn't there. Well,
(44:58):
I just don't think the investigation is over. Yeah, I
think you're right. Next time on Truth Hounds, I literally
just saw the craziest, scariest thing on Instagram and I
(45:19):
have to show you why I think it's going to
blow the lid off this case. We're doing this, We're
finishing the investigation, finishing the investigation. Yes, oh my god,
this was it. There was no way we wouldn't beat
Macromay because this event was in person. They saw three
words that nearly caused us to crash Kyle's pre It's
(45:41):
those three words. What the fuck had we gotten ourselves into? Hey,
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