November 26, 2025 • 28 mins
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Season five kicks off with momentum and a bold plan: we’re celebrating roughly eighty episodes and taking the show to Cajun Con with a stacked slate of guests and a fan-first mission. We start by reflecting on the early grind—passing that fragile ten-episode mark, tightening our audio and lighting, and learning when to push and when to breathe—then pivot into a high-energy preview of the con that’s aiming to reset expectations.
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SPEAKER_02 (00:14):
Season five, TJ.
Can you believe it?
I can't believe it.
I don't know.
When we started this thing, Isaw some stats about podcasts
that said if you make it pastten episodes, then you're doing
pretty good because most peoplejust give up before they even
get to ten.
Right.
And then the next big milestone,I think, is a hundred.
(00:38):
We're getting pretty close.
We're around eighty-ishsomewhere in there.
And we've been doing close totwenty give or take episodes per
season.
And I just can't believe thatwe're in the fifth season of
this now.
Yeah.
I feel like we've grown a lotthough from the very beginning.
(00:59):
Looking back at those earlyones, I've started publishing
some of the videos from theearly seasons on YouTube.
Right.
We've just come a long way withthe video and even the audio
setup, I think.
SPEAKER_03 (01:12):
Yeah.
And our own personal lightingsetups, like Billy said, he was
like, oh, I'm all washed out andy'all are in mood lighting.
SPEAKER_02 (01:19):
Yeah.
That's right.
We have Cage and Con coming up.
So that's going to be the firstpart of the new season for us is
actually being at the event.
So far, we've had theopportunity to sit down with
three people that will be atCage Con: Billy Slaughter, Greg
Berger, and Scott Ennis.
(01:40):
One is the founder himself,Scott Ennis, who happens to be
the voice of Scooby-Doo,unmistakable voice.
SPEAKER_03 (01:47):
Yeah.
Rutro.
SPEAKER_02 (01:48):
Rutro Raggy.
Then we had Greg Berger.
SPEAKER_03 (01:53):
Grivlock, that's right.
SPEAKER_02 (01:55):
Yeah, do it one more time.
Griplock.
SPEAKER_03 (02:00):
I just loved.
He was my favorite transform.
I mean, I loved Optimus, ofcourse, but Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (02:05):
Here is a little preview of each of those guests.
SPEAKER_03 (02:09):
Billy Slaughter, how are you, my friend?
SPEAKER_00 (02:12):
I do very well.
How are you guys?
Doing good.
We're here to talk about CajunCon coming up with so many
different guests, of which I'm apart of.
But like Sergeant Slaughter isgonna be there.
And uh being a kid from the 80s,I only met him.
Uh I met him once before, and itwas just at a con I had done uh
a few years back.
I was trying to not be, youknow, a weird fan there, because
(02:32):
it's like here, you know, we'rewe're we're peers, not in the
pro wrestling realm, right?
But just you know the world ofentertainment.
For those listening, anybodycoming out to Cajun Con or
thinking about it, for me, it'sa really cool time because uh
yeah, I just worked on twoprojects back to back.
I did I did Faulkner, of course,and his stomping ground in um
North Mississippi, and then Ijust got back from Atlanta
(02:55):
working on scary movie six.
So I'm I'm very excited aboutthat.
Obviously, yeah, the con world,another, you know, I mean, not
just another like franchise IPpop culture, but you know, I
think categorically it's likethe definitive, you know, horror
comedy.
It's the Wayans Brothers and,you know, Anafaris and just the
the original team that steppedaway for a while.
(03:16):
They're coming back.
So as far as also things donelike authoritatively.
And then another news I can'ttalk too much about.
So Cajun Con is on uh December6th, right?
We're all gonna be there.
It's opening weekend of FiveNights at Freddy's 2, which I
won't say anything more than uhthere are terrible rumors online
(03:38):
that I I may or may not be bein.
So I'll be checking it out, fan.
But what's cool about that is myvery when I just started doing
cons, that was when I was reallygetting into a more when when
the first one came out.
Uh came out doesn't do itjustice, right?
When it like blew up.
Exploded, yeah.
Yeah.
And so every con was justclamoring to get, you know, all
(04:01):
like any cast members theycould, anyone associated from
from the first one.
That's who I was doing all likemy my early cons with.
This was right after uh thefirst season of Twisted Metal
came out, which which I'm in theTV series.
Fun stuff.
SPEAKER_03 (04:14):
Very cool.
What would you say is somethingthat you experienced at cons
that you didn't expect since youwere kind of a newbie in this
past year to cons what struckyou as good or bad?
SPEAKER_00 (04:24):
I had attended cons, you know, as a as a guest, as a
fan, and then I started doingthem more.
What was great was the thegenuine connections, you know,
just with people, not just amongus, you know, colleagues across
different mediums.
Because like we were saying, youknow, you might be a guest and
then one of the other guests,you know, you're a huge fan of
their work and vice versa, ormeeting people where it goes so
(04:47):
far beyond something as simpleas like, okay, they they just
want to snap your picture andmove along, or you just want to
sell them a picture and and andmove them along.
You get into just some reallygreat conversations.
You know, you see families andsort of things that have been
passed on generationally thatthen you you get to be a part
of.
Yeah.
So really, really great, Iguess, the connectivity.
(05:08):
Cause and I mean, we knowthere's like just an increasing
amount of things that divide usin life.
What's really nice with in thecon world that sort of
everything outside of that thatbuilding is put aside and it's
like dude, we're all we're notjust all fans of something.
We're all fans of the samething, you know, and so it's
(05:29):
really great when you can whenyou can talk, trade stories,
trade stuff, compare.
I'm gonna give you a word youcan use from now on community.
SPEAKER_03 (05:37):
There you go.
You know, yeah, it absolutelyis.
Billy, we've enjoyed talking toyou as we always do.
SPEAKER_00 (05:43):
But always so much fun.
SPEAKER_03 (05:45):
We have another great cast who's gonna join us
for CajunCon, and you are, sir,me Grimlock, me Dynobot Leader.
SPEAKER_04 (05:53):
I mean, I mean, uh, it's me, Greg Berger.
How's it going?
SPEAKER_03 (05:58):
That is so awesome.
SPEAKER_04 (05:59):
Greg, nice to have you.
SPEAKER_03 (06:01):
Hey, thanks.
I always loved you know hearingyour work.
I think you did uh was itMysterio?
SPEAKER_04 (06:06):
Yes, Quentin Beck, master of special effects and
treachery.
SPEAKER_03 (06:14):
Always good, always good.
SPEAKER_04 (06:16):
I was Craven on the same show.
I was two Spider-Man villains inSpider-Man the animated series.
Yeah.
Craven wants the MountSpider-Man on the wall as his
trophy.
SPEAKER_02 (06:30):
So, Greg, one of the things I like to ask voice
actors particular, were you goodat voices when you were a kid,
or was that something that youdeveloped into later on in life?
How did that work out?
SPEAKER_04 (06:44):
It's a really cool question.
My mother used to tell me thatwhen she I would ride on the bus
with her, and I guess I wouldtake them with the way I thought
people were going to sound, thatI would engage strangers in
conversation just to see if theysounded like they looked.
So I've always I mean, I'm anactor, stage first, last, and
(07:08):
always, but my characters tendto be voice driven.
Not that they're not realized inthree dimensions, but that's
kind of a secret for those whowant to be in the industry.
They're not really castingvoices, they're casting
characters.
And a character who's realizedin three dimensions, you know
immediately how they sound, oryou find out in the audition
(07:32):
process.
Either way, you have to be sortof grounded in a character
before the voice makes anybelievable sense.
And once you're there, the goalin the audition is to surprise
yourself while you're surprisingthem.
Because no matter what you bringin, they're going to tinker with
it to find out how directableyou are.
(07:52):
Sure.
So to get, you know, and I'm allabout in life in in animation on
stage, in any pursuit, you tryto make every effort
collaborative.
So if the writer's giving you amillion clues, pay attention.
If the artist is giving you amillion more, pay attention.
They got there way before westep into the booth.
(08:14):
We're like the last in and thefirst out, and we get a
disproportionate amount of theuh, you know, adoration,
approval, pick a word.
Anyway, I like the collaborativenature of it.
So, yes, I've always beensmitten by by voices and what
they reveal about the people whohave them.
SPEAKER_02 (08:36):
That's awesome.
And you're not the first actorthat has said that that's one of
the things that they enjoy aboutvoice work is the collaborative
nature of it.
SPEAKER_03 (08:45):
When you were recording in the days of
Transformers or Men in Black,any of those, was it the Andre
Romano style where everyone wasin the room, like a teleplay, or
was it like nowadays where it'ssingular?
SPEAKER_04 (08:59):
For me, in those days, I was doing Transformers
and G.I.
Joe at the same time.
Wally Burr was directing both,and he insisted that everybody
in a scene be in the room at thesame time.
He said, and I absolutely agree,that whatever it is becomes more
(09:20):
contagious when everybody'spresent.
If it's if it's saving thegalaxy, it becomes more urgent.
If it's combat and and you know,G.I.
Joe kind of reality, thatbecomes, you know what I'm
saying, more contagious, moreenergetic, more more bonded.
At the same time, I was doingGarfield and Friends, and
(09:44):
everybody recorded ensemble atthe same time in the same
studio.
That becomes contagiously sillyand stupid and fun, but it also
you know it builds chemistrybetween characters.
In interactive gaming and morerecent animation, it's become
the exception rather than therule.
(10:04):
It you tend to record isolatedwith the relationship between
you and the director on theother side of the glass.
We see each other, but not theway we did in the golden days.
I have made friends for lifebecause we were spending as many
hours in the studio, in thegreen room, in the parking lot,
(10:25):
as we were, you know, with ourfamilies when we when we left.
There was there was time toreally get to know each other,
and I bumped into those samepeople through the course of my
career, you know.
Friends for life, but we seeeach other in studios like
regular, regular, because G.I.
Joe and Transformers inparticular, I think the casting
(10:48):
launched a lot of careers, notjust the gig, not just the
series, but people who hadthankfully, like me, uh, careers
(12:14):
for a lifetime.
A lot of versatility in theroom.
SPEAKER_03 (12:18):
Let's switch to cons since we're here promoting Cajun
Con, December 6th and 7th,Lamar, post center, Gonzalez,
Louisiana.
They had a few comic conventionsback in the day in the 70s
stuff, but it exploded so muchmore, you know, in this
millennium.
Let's explore that for what wereyour thoughts when it first
started?
SPEAKER_04 (12:36):
I kind of became aware of the reach of the
convention phenomenon at a botcon.
It was me and Michael Bell, whoyou mentioned, and John
Stevenson, all fromTransformers.
It was a bot con.
It was my first bot con.
And we were tired from travel,and we walked into the lobby of
(12:58):
the hotel, and we might as wellhave been the Rolling Stones.
It was it was rock startreatment from the minute we
walked in.
We were surrounded by people.
It had been some years since I'dbeen involved with the
franchise, and I was kind of notaware of the twists and turns
that the storyline and evenincarnations of Transformers had
(13:21):
taken.
People enveloped us.
Uh, we checked in, and it was, Imean, it was kind of sensory
overload.
There was so much love coming atus that none of us were prepared
for it.
Anyway, it opened my eyes notonly to fandom as sort of the
invisible member of theensemble.
(13:42):
Earlier, I used the wordshumbling and empowering.
It's both of those things, youknow.
You don't want to beat yourchest too hard because you're
you're just trying to exceedexpectation when you walk into
the studio.
But these are all things I couldnever have foreseen, and it's
just a real sort of fringebenefit that I didn't know that
(14:04):
I was creating over the let'ssay decades, because it's been
decades.
But there are so many people asfamiliar with my work as I am
that it it blows my freakingmind.
SPEAKER_03 (14:18):
So we talked with Billy Slaughter, he's our
friend, and just he talked aboutthat community building, that
fan interaction where he hastouched someone's lives and then
they touch his at the cons,which not only does everybody a
good boost, but it also, asactors, will get us through the
lean time.
SPEAKER_04 (14:33):
More than you can possibly imagine.
We don't know what the things wedo mean to the people who
embrace them.
SPEAKER_03 (14:41):
Can you think of one of your favorite, one of the
most positive experiences youhad with a fan?
SPEAKER_04 (14:45):
I'll give you a good one.
Cool.
I was tasked with spirit, theNative American member of the
G.I.
Joe, who who says possibilityand impossibility are states of
mind.
In my mind, there is only thepossible, that which can be
done.
And I tried to bring to him, I'mnot Native American.
My wife's my wife's family is,but that wasn't significant.
(15:10):
I tried to, I mean, it's verysignificant, but I I couldn't
claim that as my own.
So I tried to invest Spirit, whohas this epic battle over
seasons with Storm Shadow andtheir respected adversaries and
and esteemed opponents.
Anyway, I was at a conventionand someone came to my table and
(15:34):
introduced himself as NavajoNation.
And I said, I know where this isgoing, thinking that he was
going to talk about diversity incasting, which I approve of, I
endorse.
But he said he said, That's notwhy I'm here.
He said, I grew up feelinginvisible.
And when Spirit appeared oncamera, and all of the traits
(15:56):
that you gave him made me feelseen, made me feel I said, get
over here and give me a hug.
And wow, you just made my day,my week, and my month.
So things like that are justvery, very powerful.
Yeah.
Well, we met we met as strangersand we leave as friends.
Actually, that's right.
(16:17):
I I look forward to seeing youthere.
I look forward to seeingeverybody there.
SPEAKER_03 (16:21):
First Cajun Con.
We're gonna blow the doors off.
Scooby-Doo, where are you?
And we're live with the manhimself, Cajun Con founder,
Scott Ennis.
How are you, my friend?
SPEAKER_01 (16:32):
Well, doing pretty good.
I gotta give a little credit tomy uh sidekick, Nicole Elmore.
She drives me all over to thecons, you know, all over the
country.
And uh, you know, people ask uswhat inspired us to uh really
want to get Cajun Con going.
And uh, you know, nothingagainst there's some great cons
out there, man.
I mean, some great peopleactually get it.
But we go to a lot of cons thatdon't get it.
(16:53):
And, you know, you walk in.
I always say you can always tellyou're in for a long weekend
when you go, uh, where's thegreen room?
And they go, What is that?
And you're like, you know, thefood and and stuff, and they're
like, Yeah, we got a Keurig backthere, and there may be some
fruit, but I were we supposed toget you a green room?
You're like, okay, yeah, that'sgonna be a long weekend.
So we we we would spend a lot oftime going, that's wrong, this
(17:16):
is wrong, this is set up wrong,because I'm a promoter by heart.
Yeah, I do a lot of big concertsand all that stuff, and and uh I
just said we should do our owncon.
And here we are.
We started this two and a halfyears ago.
And we started collecting Yeah,we started collecting vendors
information like a year and ahalf ago, and uh maybe longer
than that.
And then last June, not thisJune, the June before, we
(17:37):
launched the website.
And you know, people are crazybecause you know, we were
calling and inviting ourcelebrity friends to be a part
of this, and they'd be like, Oh,yeah, I'm not doing anything in
December.
And I'm like, now keep in mindthis is December 2025, not four.
And they'd go, dear God, that'sa whole lifetime away.
I don't even know what I'm doingnext week, you know.
So, you know, it was hardgetting people to commit, but we
(18:00):
did.
And in one button, I kid younot, we made one email to mask
email to vendors.
And I remember going, God, Ihope we sell a couple of vendors
today.
We sold out 200 vendors in oneafternoon.
Wow.
I was like, okay, so I calledNicole, I said, Yeah, I guess
we're doing a con officiallynow.
(18:20):
So I'd be lying, guys, if Ididn't say I wasn't a little bit
fuckered.
SPEAKER_03 (18:24):
You're coming to the end, it's the finish line, and
you got no gas, huh?
SPEAKER_01 (18:28):
Well, it's funny because I just I told Nicole we
tease each other going to consand everything.
I said, You do like it'll belike three in the morning.
We're driving back from Amarilloor something, you know, back to
Baton Rouge.
And I'll go, Well, you do knowif we crash and burn on this
deal, we'll never set foot inanother con.
She goes, Yep.
And I go, I'm just letting youknow.
We're excited about it.
(18:48):
I think uh, you know, we've beenpromoting it a long time.
Tickets are free, so folks cango to Cajunconla dot com and
download the free ticket.
All you gotta do is screenshotit.
You don't even had to downloadit, just screenshot it, show it
at the front door, we'll put atwo-day wristband on you, you're
in Mike Flynn.
I've always wanted to reunitethe Wonka kids, and we're doing
that.
And so by doing that, I puttogether a Wonka set where they
(19:11):
will be signing.
And I'm not afraid to tell youthis because it's kind of almost
embarrassing that I did this,but it's my love for Wonka.
We spent$10,000 just on theWonka set that's coming down
after two days.
So people are like, wait, youspent$10,000 just to build a
place for them to sign?
And I'm like, Yep, I did.
(19:32):
You know, I mean, we've got like15 wrestlers.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, I had uh themillion-dollar man call me just
out of the blue yesterday, TedDibiassi, and we're friends.
And he says, Man, I was justthinking about that Cajun con,
man.
He he goes, Man, I was lookingat the guest list.
He goes, You have a lot ofpeople there.
I said, Yeah.
And he goes, Well, he goes, uh,I hope you do good, my friend.
(19:52):
I hope you do good.
And uh, so it's nice.
We've been getting people, youknow, of the our celebrity
friends calling us, going, man,we're rooting for you.
SPEAKER_03 (19:59):
You are so overstuffed with stars, like an
overstuffed po-boy.
SPEAKER_01 (20:03):
Yeah, we won't do this again.
You know, we we've already gotthe dates for next year for the,
I think it's the fifth andsixth, I think, or fourth and
fifth, I forget.
It's the first Saturday andSunday of December, 25th.
Of December, yeah.
I think it's fourth and fifth.
You see, this year it's sixth,fifth and sixth, I think.
But anyway, we've already got abunch of stars that are signed
on with us.
A couple that we lost this yeardue to filming and other things,
(20:26):
they're coming back, you know.
And so we're gonna make thatannouncement when we're in the
middle of Cajun Con.
We're gonna have this thing comeup.
You're gonna be surprised.
Some really cool uh celebritiesare coming, but we won't do 85
celebrities again.
I've learned my lesson.
We'll probably keep it around40.
It's a lot to undertake.
We hired Eight Lugs Circus,which I got to give them a plug
(20:47):
because I met them at SmokyMountain Fan Fest up in
Tennessee.
They're a women-ranorganization.
Thank God, because men can'tpull their heads out of their
asses.
Anyway, and they go into consand they basically go, give me
your list.
We'll work with your travelagent.
Here's who we're picking up.
They do cards, they move themaround, and they figure, okay,
(21:07):
this guy's coming in at this.
Oh, this guy's coming in likefive minutes later.
Let's just wait for him.
We'll pick them all up.
Dude, they walk away and you'relike, fucking breathe.
They pick them up from theairport, they bring them to the
hotel, they bring them from thehotel to the venue, and uh, and
then they take them back.
So that's been a blessing.
And I gotta hats off to thoseladies.
Eight Lug Circus, if you're acon listening to this, man, look
(21:28):
them up.
They are wonderful and they'refunny as all get out.
SPEAKER_02 (21:31):
You said you locked in vendors really fast.
And I mean, certainly wranglingthat many celebrities can't be
easy.
What's been the what's been themost challenging part to put all
this together?
SPEAKER_01 (21:43):
Seeing two people doing the work of uh, you know,
it's like you know, Jay Branch,who has VXV, good friend of
ours.
He's got like 30 cons.
And I go into his cons and wesign at his cons and set up, and
I'm looking at all thesevolunteers and just his staff,
just his paid staff.
You know, he's got 30 people,and he's got a hundred
(22:04):
volunteers, and I'm going.
So he goes, How many you howmany you got?
And I go, uh, what what what doyou mean?
I goes, how many you got haveyou got on staff?
What are you doing?
I go, you're looking at them.
Two.
So our MO, our whole thing aboutour con is this.
I think people sometimes walkinto some of these cons and they
get overwhelmed.
We're stimulated.
There's so much to do.
(22:25):
You don't even know what to do.
And I think cons have gottenaway from what they really were
scheduled, they were put outthere to do.
It was fans, vendors, stars.
So now we've got gaming, we'vegot TV, we got after parties, we
got and you're like, okay, Idon't even know where to start.
(22:45):
We're gonna need to scan yourwristband.
Then you scan this, you do this,you got this, and then blah blah
blah.
Man, I'm like, I don't even knowwhat to do.
I don't even know which door togo into, you know?
And I said, we got to get backto simplicity, man.
We got to get back to vendors,stars, fans.
Boom.
That's let's do that.
SPEAKER_02 (23:03):
And Brian's going, yes, finally.
SPEAKER_01 (23:05):
Yes, that that that's what we're doing.
We're not doing people go, sowho's on your panels?
I'm like, there are no panels,okay?
I uh now I'm not saying we won'tadd some panels down the road,
but I talk to a lot of mycelebrity friends and I ask them
if you could delete anythingfrom a con, and I'm not making
this up, I'm just telling noteverybody would say this, but
I'd say 90%.
(23:26):
Everybody says, Oh, I delete thepanels in a heartbeat.
And I'm like, why?
And they go, Well, I'll tell youwhy.
Because every time you do apanel, you got the same four
people sitting out there askingthe same question.
Uh, what was it like uh to wearthe glove?
It was an honor.
It was really, it was really,really nice.
It was really an honor.
Next question.
(23:47):
Yeah, was it long putting themakeup on?
It was.
It was 20 hours a day.
It was bad.
Next question.
Meanwhile, now not for somebodylike Robert English, who's a
monster star.
I love this guy.
But you know, for people likeus, I mean, it's like you got
the same six, seven people outthere.
Meanwhile, you have to leaveyour booth and you've got you
(24:07):
know 20 people in line, andyou're like, hey folks, I'll be
right back.
I gotta go do my panel.
Well, you're gonna lose thatmoney.
They're gonna they only have somuch money, and they're and if
they don't want to go to yourpanel, they're gonna walk away
and they're gonna go spend it.
So basically, that panel costsyou anybody on an average$1,000,
$2,000 to go do a panel.
Like, gone.
(24:28):
Another thing we deleted was uh,and really the same principle
works for the pro photos becausemost of those celebrities will
get four people by their prophotos.
Like mine, I get four or fivepeople at a con.
I told them, just take me offthose things.
I don't want to do it.
I'll make more money standingthere taking a selfie in front
of my banner with a with a fanthan I am walking halfway across
(24:50):
the block to take a professionalshot.
So, nothing against the prophotos.
I'm just saying, for mepersonally and the people I
talk, it's it's the scenes.
Now, we did do it because youhave a lot of fans that want
that professional photo with Arkthe Clown.
And he's gonna be in the Santaoutfit.
And so we're gonna do that.
And then you've got the WillyWonka, the whole reunion.
(25:12):
So we decided, okay, we'll dothe pro photos and mainly
concentrate on Ark the Clown andthe Wonka Kids.
We did put uh some of the otherbig names in there, but again,
it's been Ark the Clown and theWonka kids that are getting the
buys.
Next year, I'll I can tell youright now, I probably will
cancel.
I won't do pro photo.
(25:32):
All right, guys, I'm lookingforward to seeing y'all.
Yeah, likewise.
I'm off to save the wizard.
SPEAKER_02 (25:37):
Well, thanks, uh Scott.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
SPEAKER_01 (25:40):
Uh, we'll see you in a couple of weeks at CajunCon.
CajunConLA.com.
Download the free ticket.
SPEAKER_03 (25:47):
And never forget, you're gonna see the Nola film
scene there.
SPEAKER_01 (25:50):
We're there.
They are gonna be there.
SPEAKER_03 (25:53):
Man, those were great interviews.
SPEAKER_02 (25:55):
They they were for sure.
Scott certainly has a lot goingon leading up to Cajun Con.
I just can't imagine everythinghe's having to juggle to put
that event at that scale, over80 celebrities appearing and
he's doing it uh alone, just himand his wife preparing all of
(26:15):
that.
So his he certainly has a fullplate.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (26:19):
And then just in what they spent on the Willy
Wonka kids, the backdrop, thewhatever I can't wait to see it.
SPEAKER_02 (26:24):
Yeah, for just a one-time, one time event, it's
gonna be incredible.
The the whole event, it's gonnabe a little bit of a different
approach to doing a convention.
Hopefully the the changes willbe positive ones.
SPEAKER_03 (26:40):
Yeah.
Like we started out with certainexpectations for the podcast,
and we we still strive for thebest, but we probably overdid
it, where we could relax on thisand strive for more and whatever
it was.
And so I think he's goingthrough those kind of growing
pains with his first con.
SPEAKER_02 (26:54):
Yeah, that's for sure.
So hopefully we will see you atLamar Dixon.
If not, we hope you enjoyed theepisode and look for the full
versions.
The the full versions of thelive streams are out on YouTube
already, and we will release therefined audio versions on the
podcast in the coming weeks onWednesday in our normal time
(27:17):
slot.
And we got a few more people whoare going to be at the con.
We're gonna show up.
That's right.
So we're talking to Ming Chenthis weekend, we're talking to
Jim Gleason, and we've got acouple more.
We're hoping we can getscheduled, but we'll see.
We'll see how schedules go.
And if not, we'll hope to catchup with them at the event
(27:37):
itself.
Additionally, the merch store isopen.
I know we've touched on it acouple of times, so go to
nolafilm scene.shop or you cango to our website, nolafilm
scene.com, and then just clickon the merch store, pick up a
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And if you want to support theshow, you could go to
(27:57):
buymeacoffee.com slash nolafilmscene and buy us a coffee.
That aside, we hope to see youat Cajun Con.
What's the date, Brian?
It's December 6-7.
SPEAKER_03 (28:14):
I saw that the other day.
I was like, oh man, I'm gonnahave to do it.
SPEAKER_02 (28:17):
Oh, and I mean, even kids are starting to cringe at
that now.
You do that with my kid, you canjust make the hand motion in
front of my kids and they rolltheir eyes and they're like,
Come on, come on.
SPEAKER_03 (28:30):
That's how we get them to stop.
We just start doing it, andthey'll be like, that's gross.
Just under 6 7.
That's right.
Come see us.
And if you come, you stop by ourbooth by our table, and you
better get a selfie with me.
See ya, folks.
Have a good one.
Season five, TJ.
Can you believe it?
I can't believe it.
I don't know.
When we started this thing, Isaw some stats about podcasts
that said if you make it pastten episodes, then you're doing
pretty good because most peoplejust give up before they even
get to ten.
Right.
And then the next big milestone,I think, is a hundred.
(00:38):
We're getting pretty close.
We're around eighty-ishsomewhere in there.
And we've been doing close totwenty give or take episodes per
season.
And I just can't believe thatwe're in the fifth season of
this now.
Yeah.
I feel like we've grown a lotthough from the very beginning.
(00:59):
Looking back at those earlyones, I've started publishing
some of the videos from theearly seasons on YouTube.
Right.
We've just come a long way withthe video and even the audio
setup, I think.
SPEAKER_03 (01:12):
Yeah.
And our own personal lightingsetups, like Billy said, he was
like, oh, I'm all washed out andy'all are in mood lighting.
SPEAKER_02 (01:19):
Yeah.
That's right.
We have Cage and Con coming up.
So that's going to be the firstpart of the new season for us is
actually being at the event.
So far, we've had theopportunity to sit down with
three people that will be atCage Con: Billy Slaughter, Greg
Berger, and Scott Ennis.
(01:40):
One is the founder himself,Scott Ennis, who happens to be
the voice of Scooby-Doo,unmistakable voice.
SPEAKER_03 (01:47):
Yeah.
Rutro.
SPEAKER_02 (01:48):
Rutro Raggy.
Then we had Greg Berger.
SPEAKER_03 (01:53):
Grivlock, that's right.
SPEAKER_02 (01:55):
Yeah, do it one more time.
Griplock.
SPEAKER_03 (02:00):
I just loved.
He was my favorite transform.
I mean, I loved Optimus, ofcourse, but Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (02:05):
Here is a little preview of each of those guests.
SPEAKER_03 (02:09):
Billy Slaughter, how are you, my friend?
SPEAKER_00 (02:12):
I do very well.
How are you guys?
Doing good.
We're here to talk about CajunCon coming up with so many
different guests, of which I'm apart of.
But like Sergeant Slaughter isgonna be there.
And uh being a kid from the 80s,I only met him.
Uh I met him once before, and itwas just at a con I had done uh
a few years back.
I was trying to not be, youknow, a weird fan there, because
(02:32):
it's like here, you know, we'rewe're we're peers, not in the
pro wrestling realm, right?
But just you know the world ofentertainment.
For those listening, anybodycoming out to Cajun Con or
thinking about it, for me, it'sa really cool time because uh
yeah, I just worked on twoprojects back to back.
I did I did Faulkner, of course,and his stomping ground in um
North Mississippi, and then Ijust got back from Atlanta
(02:55):
working on scary movie six.
So I'm I'm very excited aboutthat.
Obviously, yeah, the con world,another, you know, I mean, not
just another like franchise IPpop culture, but you know, I
think categorically it's likethe definitive, you know, horror
comedy.
It's the Wayans Brothers and,you know, Anafaris and just the
the original team that steppedaway for a while.
(03:16):
They're coming back.
So as far as also things donelike authoritatively.
And then another news I can'ttalk too much about.
So Cajun Con is on uh December6th, right?
We're all gonna be there.
It's opening weekend of FiveNights at Freddy's 2, which I
won't say anything more than uhthere are terrible rumors online
(03:38):
that I I may or may not be bein.
So I'll be checking it out, fan.
But what's cool about that is myvery when I just started doing
cons, that was when I was reallygetting into a more when when
the first one came out.
Uh came out doesn't do itjustice, right?
When it like blew up.
Exploded, yeah.
Yeah.
And so every con was justclamoring to get, you know, all
(04:01):
like any cast members theycould, anyone associated from
from the first one.
That's who I was doing all likemy my early cons with.
This was right after uh thefirst season of Twisted Metal
came out, which which I'm in theTV series.
Fun stuff.
SPEAKER_03 (04:14):
Very cool.
What would you say is somethingthat you experienced at cons
that you didn't expect since youwere kind of a newbie in this
past year to cons what struckyou as good or bad?
SPEAKER_00 (04:24):
I had attended cons, you know, as a as a guest, as a
fan, and then I started doingthem more.
What was great was the thegenuine connections, you know,
just with people, not just amongus, you know, colleagues across
different mediums.
Because like we were saying, youknow, you might be a guest and
then one of the other guests,you know, you're a huge fan of
their work and vice versa, ormeeting people where it goes so
(04:47):
far beyond something as simpleas like, okay, they they just
want to snap your picture andmove along, or you just want to
sell them a picture and and andmove them along.
You get into just some reallygreat conversations.
You know, you see families andsort of things that have been
passed on generationally thatthen you you get to be a part
of.
Yeah.
So really, really great, Iguess, the connectivity.
(05:08):
Cause and I mean, we knowthere's like just an increasing
amount of things that divide usin life.
What's really nice with in thecon world that sort of
everything outside of that thatbuilding is put aside and it's
like dude, we're all we're notjust all fans of something.
We're all fans of the samething, you know, and so it's
(05:29):
really great when you can whenyou can talk, trade stories,
trade stuff, compare.
I'm gonna give you a word youcan use from now on community.
SPEAKER_03 (05:37):
There you go.
You know, yeah, it absolutelyis.
Billy, we've enjoyed talking toyou as we always do.
SPEAKER_00 (05:43):
But always so much fun.
SPEAKER_03 (05:45):
We have another great cast who's gonna join us
for CajunCon, and you are, sir,me Grimlock, me Dynobot Leader.
SPEAKER_04 (05:53):
I mean, I mean, uh, it's me, Greg Berger.
How's it going?
SPEAKER_03 (05:58):
That is so awesome.
SPEAKER_04 (05:59):
Greg, nice to have you.
SPEAKER_03 (06:01):
Hey, thanks.
I always loved you know hearingyour work.
I think you did uh was itMysterio?
SPEAKER_04 (06:06):
Yes, Quentin Beck, master of special effects and
treachery.
SPEAKER_03 (06:14):
Always good, always good.
SPEAKER_04 (06:16):
I was Craven on the same show.
I was two Spider-Man villains inSpider-Man the animated series.
Yeah.
Craven wants the MountSpider-Man on the wall as his
trophy.
SPEAKER_02 (06:30):
So, Greg, one of the things I like to ask voice
actors particular, were you goodat voices when you were a kid,
or was that something that youdeveloped into later on in life?
How did that work out?
SPEAKER_04 (06:44):
It's a really cool question.
My mother used to tell me thatwhen she I would ride on the bus
with her, and I guess I wouldtake them with the way I thought
people were going to sound, thatI would engage strangers in
conversation just to see if theysounded like they looked.
So I've always I mean, I'm anactor, stage first, last, and
(07:08):
always, but my characters tendto be voice driven.
Not that they're not realized inthree dimensions, but that's
kind of a secret for those whowant to be in the industry.
They're not really castingvoices, they're casting
characters.
And a character who's realizedin three dimensions, you know
immediately how they sound, oryou find out in the audition
(07:32):
process.
Either way, you have to be sortof grounded in a character
before the voice makes anybelievable sense.
And once you're there, the goalin the audition is to surprise
yourself while you're surprisingthem.
Because no matter what you bringin, they're going to tinker with
it to find out how directableyou are.
(07:52):
Sure.
So to get, you know, and I'm allabout in life in in animation on
stage, in any pursuit, you tryto make every effort
collaborative.
So if the writer's giving you amillion clues, pay attention.
If the artist is giving you amillion more, pay attention.
They got there way before westep into the booth.
(08:14):
We're like the last in and thefirst out, and we get a
disproportionate amount of theuh, you know, adoration,
approval, pick a word.
Anyway, I like the collaborativenature of it.
So, yes, I've always beensmitten by by voices and what
they reveal about the people whohave them.
SPEAKER_02 (08:36):
That's awesome.
And you're not the first actorthat has said that that's one of
the things that they enjoy aboutvoice work is the collaborative
nature of it.
SPEAKER_03 (08:45):
When you were recording in the days of
Transformers or Men in Black,any of those, was it the Andre
Romano style where everyone wasin the room, like a teleplay, or
was it like nowadays where it'ssingular?
SPEAKER_04 (08:59):
For me, in those days, I was doing Transformers
and G.I.
Joe at the same time.
Wally Burr was directing both,and he insisted that everybody
in a scene be in the room at thesame time.
He said, and I absolutely agree,that whatever it is becomes more
(09:20):
contagious when everybody'spresent.
If it's if it's saving thegalaxy, it becomes more urgent.
If it's combat and and you know,G.I.
Joe kind of reality, thatbecomes, you know what I'm
saying, more contagious, moreenergetic, more more bonded.
At the same time, I was doingGarfield and Friends, and
(09:44):
everybody recorded ensemble atthe same time in the same
studio.
That becomes contagiously sillyand stupid and fun, but it also
you know it builds chemistrybetween characters.
In interactive gaming and morerecent animation, it's become
the exception rather than therule.
(10:04):
It you tend to record isolatedwith the relationship between
you and the director on theother side of the glass.
We see each other, but not theway we did in the golden days.
I have made friends for lifebecause we were spending as many
hours in the studio, in thegreen room, in the parking lot,
(10:25):
as we were, you know, with ourfamilies when we when we left.
There was there was time toreally get to know each other,
and I bumped into those samepeople through the course of my
career, you know.
Friends for life, but we seeeach other in studios like
regular, regular, because G.I.
Joe and Transformers inparticular, I think the casting
(10:48):
launched a lot of careers, notjust the gig, not just the
series, but people who hadthankfully, like me, uh, careers
(12:14):
for a lifetime.
A lot of versatility in theroom.
SPEAKER_03 (12:18):
Let's switch to cons since we're here promoting Cajun
Con, December 6th and 7th,Lamar, post center, Gonzalez,
Louisiana.
They had a few comic conventionsback in the day in the 70s
stuff, but it exploded so muchmore, you know, in this
millennium.
Let's explore that for what wereyour thoughts when it first
started?
SPEAKER_04 (12:36):
I kind of became aware of the reach of the
convention phenomenon at a botcon.
It was me and Michael Bell, whoyou mentioned, and John
Stevenson, all fromTransformers.
It was a bot con.
It was my first bot con.
And we were tired from travel,and we walked into the lobby of
(12:58):
the hotel, and we might as wellhave been the Rolling Stones.
It was it was rock startreatment from the minute we
walked in.
We were surrounded by people.
It had been some years since I'dbeen involved with the
franchise, and I was kind of notaware of the twists and turns
that the storyline and evenincarnations of Transformers had
(13:21):
taken.
People enveloped us.
Uh, we checked in, and it was, Imean, it was kind of sensory
overload.
There was so much love coming atus that none of us were prepared
for it.
Anyway, it opened my eyes notonly to fandom as sort of the
invisible member of theensemble.
(13:42):
Earlier, I used the wordshumbling and empowering.
It's both of those things, youknow.
You don't want to beat yourchest too hard because you're
you're just trying to exceedexpectation when you walk into
the studio.
But these are all things I couldnever have foreseen, and it's
just a real sort of fringebenefit that I didn't know that
(14:04):
I was creating over the let'ssay decades, because it's been
decades.
But there are so many people asfamiliar with my work as I am
that it it blows my freakingmind.
SPEAKER_03 (14:18):
So we talked with Billy Slaughter, he's our
friend, and just he talked aboutthat community building, that
fan interaction where he hastouched someone's lives and then
they touch his at the cons,which not only does everybody a
good boost, but it also, asactors, will get us through the
lean time.
SPEAKER_04 (14:33):
More than you can possibly imagine.
We don't know what the things wedo mean to the people who
embrace them.
SPEAKER_03 (14:41):
Can you think of one of your favorite, one of the
most positive experiences youhad with a fan?
SPEAKER_04 (14:45):
I'll give you a good one.
Cool.
I was tasked with spirit, theNative American member of the
G.I.
Joe, who who says possibilityand impossibility are states of
mind.
In my mind, there is only thepossible, that which can be
done.
And I tried to bring to him, I'mnot Native American.
My wife's my wife's family is,but that wasn't significant.
(15:10):
I tried to, I mean, it's verysignificant, but I I couldn't
claim that as my own.
So I tried to invest Spirit, whohas this epic battle over
seasons with Storm Shadow andtheir respected adversaries and
and esteemed opponents.
Anyway, I was at a conventionand someone came to my table and
(15:34):
introduced himself as NavajoNation.
And I said, I know where this isgoing, thinking that he was
going to talk about diversity incasting, which I approve of, I
endorse.
But he said he said, That's notwhy I'm here.
He said, I grew up feelinginvisible.
And when Spirit appeared oncamera, and all of the traits
(15:56):
that you gave him made me feelseen, made me feel I said, get
over here and give me a hug.
And wow, you just made my day,my week, and my month.
So things like that are justvery, very powerful.
Yeah.
Well, we met we met as strangersand we leave as friends.
Actually, that's right.
(16:17):
I I look forward to seeing youthere.
I look forward to seeingeverybody there.
SPEAKER_03 (16:21):
First Cajun Con.
We're gonna blow the doors off.
Scooby-Doo, where are you?
And we're live with the manhimself, Cajun Con founder,
Scott Ennis.
How are you, my friend?
SPEAKER_01 (16:32):
Well, doing pretty good.
I gotta give a little credit tomy uh sidekick, Nicole Elmore.
She drives me all over to thecons, you know, all over the
country.
And uh, you know, people ask uswhat inspired us to uh really
want to get Cajun Con going.
And uh, you know, nothingagainst there's some great cons
out there, man.
I mean, some great peopleactually get it.
But we go to a lot of cons thatdon't get it.
(16:53):
And, you know, you walk in.
I always say you can always tellyou're in for a long weekend
when you go, uh, where's thegreen room?
And they go, What is that?
And you're like, you know, thefood and and stuff, and they're
like, Yeah, we got a Keurig backthere, and there may be some
fruit, but I were we supposed toget you a green room?
You're like, okay, yeah, that'sgonna be a long weekend.
So we we we would spend a lot oftime going, that's wrong, this
(17:16):
is wrong, this is set up wrong,because I'm a promoter by heart.
Yeah, I do a lot of big concertsand all that stuff, and and uh I
just said we should do our owncon.
And here we are.
We started this two and a halfyears ago.
And we started collecting Yeah,we started collecting vendors
information like a year and ahalf ago, and uh maybe longer
than that.
And then last June, not thisJune, the June before, we
(17:37):
launched the website.
And you know, people are crazybecause you know, we were
calling and inviting ourcelebrity friends to be a part
of this, and they'd be like, Oh,yeah, I'm not doing anything in
December.
And I'm like, now keep in mindthis is December 2025, not four.
And they'd go, dear God, that'sa whole lifetime away.
I don't even know what I'm doingnext week, you know.
So, you know, it was hardgetting people to commit, but we
(18:00):
did.
And in one button, I kid younot, we made one email to mask
email to vendors.
And I remember going, God, Ihope we sell a couple of vendors
today.
We sold out 200 vendors in oneafternoon.
Wow.
I was like, okay, so I calledNicole, I said, Yeah, I guess
we're doing a con officiallynow.
(18:20):
So I'd be lying, guys, if Ididn't say I wasn't a little bit
fuckered.
SPEAKER_03 (18:24):
You're coming to the end, it's the finish line, and
you got no gas, huh?
SPEAKER_01 (18:28):
Well, it's funny because I just I told Nicole we
tease each other going to consand everything.
I said, You do like it'll belike three in the morning.
We're driving back from Amarilloor something, you know, back to
Baton Rouge.
And I'll go, Well, you do knowif we crash and burn on this
deal, we'll never set foot inanother con.
She goes, Yep.
And I go, I'm just letting youknow.
We're excited about it.
(18:48):
I think uh, you know, we've beenpromoting it a long time.
Tickets are free, so folks cango to Cajunconla dot com and
download the free ticket.
All you gotta do is screenshotit.
You don't even had to downloadit, just screenshot it, show it
at the front door, we'll put atwo-day wristband on you, you're
in Mike Flynn.
I've always wanted to reunitethe Wonka kids, and we're doing
that.
And so by doing that, I puttogether a Wonka set where they
(19:11):
will be signing.
And I'm not afraid to tell youthis because it's kind of almost
embarrassing that I did this,but it's my love for Wonka.
We spent$10,000 just on theWonka set that's coming down
after two days.
So people are like, wait, youspent$10,000 just to build a
place for them to sign?
And I'm like, Yep, I did.
(19:32):
You know, I mean, we've got like15 wrestlers.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, I had uh themillion-dollar man call me just
out of the blue yesterday, TedDibiassi, and we're friends.
And he says, Man, I was justthinking about that Cajun con,
man.
He he goes, Man, I was lookingat the guest list.
He goes, You have a lot ofpeople there.
I said, Yeah.
And he goes, Well, he goes, uh,I hope you do good, my friend.
(19:52):
I hope you do good.
And uh, so it's nice.
We've been getting people, youknow, of the our celebrity
friends calling us, going, man,we're rooting for you.
SPEAKER_03 (19:59):
You are so overstuffed with stars, like an
overstuffed po-boy.
SPEAKER_01 (20:03):
Yeah, we won't do this again.
You know, we we've already gotthe dates for next year for the,
I think it's the fifth andsixth, I think, or fourth and
fifth, I forget.
It's the first Saturday andSunday of December, 25th.
Of December, yeah.
I think it's fourth and fifth.
You see, this year it's sixth,fifth and sixth, I think.
But anyway, we've already got abunch of stars that are signed
on with us.
A couple that we lost this yeardue to filming and other things,
(20:26):
they're coming back, you know.
And so we're gonna make thatannouncement when we're in the
middle of Cajun Con.
We're gonna have this thing comeup.
You're gonna be surprised.
Some really cool uh celebritiesare coming, but we won't do 85
celebrities again.
I've learned my lesson.
We'll probably keep it around40.
It's a lot to undertake.
We hired Eight Lugs Circus,which I got to give them a plug
(20:47):
because I met them at SmokyMountain Fan Fest up in
Tennessee.
They're a women-ranorganization.
Thank God, because men can'tpull their heads out of their
asses.
Anyway, and they go into consand they basically go, give me
your list.
We'll work with your travelagent.
Here's who we're picking up.
They do cards, they move themaround, and they figure, okay,
(21:07):
this guy's coming in at this.
Oh, this guy's coming in likefive minutes later.
Let's just wait for him.
We'll pick them all up.
Dude, they walk away and you'relike, fucking breathe.
They pick them up from theairport, they bring them to the
hotel, they bring them from thehotel to the venue, and uh, and
then they take them back.
So that's been a blessing.
And I gotta hats off to thoseladies.
Eight Lug Circus, if you're acon listening to this, man, look
(21:28):
them up.
They are wonderful and they'refunny as all get out.
SPEAKER_02 (21:31):
You said you locked in vendors really fast.
And I mean, certainly wranglingthat many celebrities can't be
easy.
What's been the what's been themost challenging part to put all
this together?
SPEAKER_01 (21:43):
Seeing two people doing the work of uh, you know,
it's like you know, Jay Branch,who has VXV, good friend of
ours.
He's got like 30 cons.
And I go into his cons and wesign at his cons and set up, and
I'm looking at all thesevolunteers and just his staff,
just his paid staff.
You know, he's got 30 people,and he's got a hundred
(22:04):
volunteers, and I'm going.
So he goes, How many you howmany you got?
And I go, uh, what what what doyou mean?
I goes, how many you got haveyou got on staff?
What are you doing?
I go, you're looking at them.
Two.
So our MO, our whole thing aboutour con is this.
I think people sometimes walkinto some of these cons and they
get overwhelmed.
We're stimulated.
There's so much to do.
(22:25):
You don't even know what to do.
And I think cons have gottenaway from what they really were
scheduled, they were put outthere to do.
It was fans, vendors, stars.
So now we've got gaming, we'vegot TV, we got after parties, we
got and you're like, okay, Idon't even know where to start.
(22:45):
We're gonna need to scan yourwristband.
Then you scan this, you do this,you got this, and then blah blah
blah.
Man, I'm like, I don't even knowwhat to do.
I don't even know which door togo into, you know?
And I said, we got to get backto simplicity, man.
We got to get back to vendors,stars, fans.
Boom.
That's let's do that.
SPEAKER_02 (23:03):
And Brian's going, yes, finally.
SPEAKER_01 (23:05):
Yes, that that that's what we're doing.
We're not doing people go, sowho's on your panels?
I'm like, there are no panels,okay?
I uh now I'm not saying we won'tadd some panels down the road,
but I talk to a lot of mycelebrity friends and I ask them
if you could delete anythingfrom a con, and I'm not making
this up, I'm just telling noteverybody would say this, but
I'd say 90%.
(23:26):
Everybody says, Oh, I delete thepanels in a heartbeat.
And I'm like, why?
And they go, Well, I'll tell youwhy.
Because every time you do apanel, you got the same four
people sitting out there askingthe same question.
Uh, what was it like uh to wearthe glove?
It was an honor.
It was really, it was really,really nice.
It was really an honor.
Next question.
(23:47):
Yeah, was it long putting themakeup on?
It was.
It was 20 hours a day.
It was bad.
Next question.
Meanwhile, now not for somebodylike Robert English, who's a
monster star.
I love this guy.
But you know, for people likeus, I mean, it's like you got
the same six, seven people outthere.
Meanwhile, you have to leaveyour booth and you've got you
(24:07):
know 20 people in line, andyou're like, hey folks, I'll be
right back.
I gotta go do my panel.
Well, you're gonna lose thatmoney.
They're gonna they only have somuch money, and they're and if
they don't want to go to yourpanel, they're gonna walk away
and they're gonna go spend it.
So basically, that panel costsyou anybody on an average$1,000,
$2,000 to go do a panel.
Like, gone.
(24:28):
Another thing we deleted was uh,and really the same principle
works for the pro photos becausemost of those celebrities will
get four people by their prophotos.
Like mine, I get four or fivepeople at a con.
I told them, just take me offthose things.
I don't want to do it.
I'll make more money standingthere taking a selfie in front
of my banner with a with a fanthan I am walking halfway across
(24:50):
the block to take a professionalshot.
So, nothing against the prophotos.
I'm just saying, for mepersonally and the people I
talk, it's it's the scenes.
Now, we did do it because youhave a lot of fans that want
that professional photo with Arkthe Clown.
And he's gonna be in the Santaoutfit.
And so we're gonna do that.
And then you've got the WillyWonka, the whole reunion.
(25:12):
So we decided, okay, we'll dothe pro photos and mainly
concentrate on Ark the Clown andthe Wonka Kids.
We did put uh some of the otherbig names in there, but again,
it's been Ark the Clown and theWonka kids that are getting the
buys.
Next year, I'll I can tell youright now, I probably will
cancel.
I won't do pro photo.
(25:32):
All right, guys, I'm lookingforward to seeing y'all.
Yeah, likewise.
I'm off to save the wizard.
SPEAKER_02 (25:37):
Well, thanks, uh Scott.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
SPEAKER_01 (25:40):
Uh, we'll see you in a couple of weeks at CajunCon.
CajunConLA.com.
Download the free ticket.
SPEAKER_03 (25:47):
And never forget, you're gonna see the Nola film
scene there.
SPEAKER_01 (25:50):
We're there.
They are gonna be there.
SPEAKER_03 (25:53):
Man, those were great interviews.
SPEAKER_02 (25:55):
They they were for sure.
Scott certainly has a lot goingon leading up to Cajun Con.
I just can't imagine everythinghe's having to juggle to put
that event at that scale, over80 celebrities appearing and
he's doing it uh alone, just himand his wife preparing all of
(26:15):
that.
So his he certainly has a fullplate.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (26:19):
And then just in what they spent on the Willy
Wonka kids, the backdrop, thewhatever I can't wait to see it.
SPEAKER_02 (26:24):
Yeah, for just a one-time, one time event, it's
gonna be incredible.
The the whole event, it's gonnabe a little bit of a different
approach to doing a convention.
Hopefully the the changes willbe positive ones.
SPEAKER_03 (26:40):
Yeah.
Like we started out with certainexpectations for the podcast,
and we we still strive for thebest, but we probably overdid
it, where we could relax on thisand strive for more and whatever
it was.
And so I think he's goingthrough those kind of growing
pains with his first con.
SPEAKER_02 (26:54):
Yeah, that's for sure.
So hopefully we will see you atLamar Dixon.
If not, we hope you enjoyed theepisode and look for the full
versions.
The the full versions of thelive streams are out on YouTube
already, and we will release therefined audio versions on the
podcast in the coming weeks onWednesday in our normal time
(27:17):
slot.
And we got a few more people whoare going to be at the con.
We're gonna show up.
That's right.
So we're talking to Ming Chenthis weekend, we're talking to
Jim Gleason, and we've got acouple more.
We're hoping we can getscheduled, but we'll see.
We'll see how schedules go.
And if not, we'll hope to catchup with them at the event
(27:37):
itself.
Additionally, the merch store isopen.
I know we've touched on it acouple of times, so go to
nolafilm scene.shop or you cango to our website, nolafilm
scene.com, and then just clickon the merch store, pick up a
t-shirt or coffee cup orsomething.
And if you want to support theshow, you could go to
(27:57):
buymeacoffee.com slash nolafilmscene and buy us a coffee.
That aside, we hope to see youat Cajun Con.
What's the date, Brian?
It's December 6-7.
SPEAKER_03 (28:14):
I saw that the other day.
I was like, oh man, I'm gonnahave to do it.
SPEAKER_02 (28:17):
Oh, and I mean, even kids are starting to cringe at
that now.
You do that with my kid, you canjust make the hand motion in
front of my kids and they rolltheir eyes and they're like,
Come on, come on.
SPEAKER_03 (28:30):
That's how we get them to stop.
We just start doing it, andthey'll be like, that's gross.
Just under 6 7.
That's right.
Come see us.
And if you come, you stop by ourbooth by our table, and you
better get a selfie with me.
See ya, folks.
Have a good one.
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