Wow… I cannot believe how far this podcast has come in four months. It truly seems like last week when Justin and I started DMing on Twitter, trying to figure out a way to bring this project of ours to life. Originally, it was supposed to only be a video game podcast. But I told Justin that if I was going to get involved, then we HAD to include horror cinema. He and I spent weeks working on the master lists, trying to determine how to tackle the vast variety of the genre, and how we were going to grade our reviews. Outside of a few editing mishaps, the show has gone flawlessly and literally is only getting better from week to week. For this week’s blog post, I want to discuss two crazy developments that have happened with the podcast and offer my sincere thanks to listeners and readers for allowing them to happen.
Last week I wrote a blog post about one of my favorite authors, and a person who I truly believe was one of the main reasons I ended up being a horror fanatic. That man is Darren Shan. For deeper analysis of my thoughts on his work, please refer to last week’s blog post. For the most part, I write these blog posts with no real aspirations that they are going to be read by many. And with the exception of my rankings of “American Horror Story” (I sometimes will post the blog on Reddit, to get writing feedback and such) most of the blog posts get around ten views all together. So when I wrote my blog on Shan, not only did I not expect much feedback, I also never anticipated that Darren Shan himself would read it. But he did. And he liked it. And he agreed with my thoughts. I do not know if any of you can imagine how I felt last Tuesday. To have one of my favorite authors acknowledge me and provide feedback, it will be a morning that I do not forget for a very long time. And I want to thank all of the listeners and readers for giving me this platform to have this experience.
The second thing I would like to thank you all for is in the past for me, but in the near future for you all. A couple months ago, Shudder on Twitter posted a tweet asking for people to submit their favorite horror podcasts. Our listeners were quick to answer the call, and we flooded their responses. But there were a lot larger horror podcasts with much higher listener counts than ours that certainly had more responses than us. But somehow, be it through luck or chance or wherever you place your faith, Ben Rock responded to a response saying he would check us out. Ben Rock is one of the filmmakers responsible for creating and making “The Blair Witch Project”, a Hollywood director (its called “Alien Raiders” and it is a pretty great alien movie) and most recently he is the co-writer and director of Shudder’s first original podcast “Video Palace”. We responded back to him, tongue in cheek asking for him to join us on the podcast. He then replied he would. I personally thought that that would be the end of it, thinking that he was just too twice to tell us know. But then the DM showed up. And it was from Ben. And he said, “I’m not joking, I would love to come on.” I think I stopped breathing around this point. An A list Hollywood player, not to mention one of the men responsible for creating my favorite horror film of all time, was willing to come on my podcast. We set up a time that worked best for all of us, and last Saturday Justin and I interviewed Ben for over an hour. It was amazing and an experience I never thought that I would have. I am not going to spoil what we discussed here. That episode will drop on the 11th for Patrons and on the 12th for everyone else. But it was amazing, and I thank all of you for helping us to create this platform that is allowing for so many things to come true.
I am so excited for where the future of “Here’s Johnny” is heading. Justin and I have some pretty big plans going forward, and because I don’t like to count my eggs until they hatch, they are going to be kept in the dark for now. But I want to thank you all, from the bottom of my heart, for helping Justin and I live out our dreams. As always we love feedback, and if you think the podcast can do something better or you have concerns, let us know. Until next week, keep things spooky!
Larry
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