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Welcome to Truth Hounds, a production

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of My Heart Radio. I'm

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Anna and I've been unemployed

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for two years now, so

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I really have nothing going on. And

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I'm Kyle and in middle school

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I received the award Most Enthusiastic

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to Learn. So that makes me pretty

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special. And that is what makes

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us the perfect investigative duo.

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We are two friends who love each

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other very much, but we love

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even more is getting to the bottom of

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mysteries, all mysteries, short

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but small mysteries. Specifically,

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trust me, No mystery

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is too small? No, no, no, Why don't you trust

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me when I tell you we are

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ready to sniff around? We are

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the the truth Hounds. Previously

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on Truth Hounds, I

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think we should make a movie to

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submit to this festival. Deep

1:04

Macromy, the director of the festival,

1:06

looked terrifying. Yeah,

1:09

he says, you guys are looking for a short

1:11

film script the horror short. Ana

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and I were thinking about maybe meeting with an acting

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coach to just really get our rolls down.

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What's the intention behind the whoa? I

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think that I

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think let's go get some shut I

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look, we get to be onset tomorrow. I'm

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so excited, so exciting, really that I'm

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scared. I'm really scared. It'll be

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okay, I'm here for you. Okay,

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let's go. Okay, Hello,

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hey Kyle. Yeah,

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hey, sorry, I know you just

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drove away from the beach, but um

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there

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we just kind of need to talk some more.

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I about the beach. But

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I'll be right there. Okay,

2:04

okay, okay,

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else, you should be careful. Hey,

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what is it? Thanks so much for coming back.

2:17

Oh yeah, I was like on my way

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home, I feel like I thought we I

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thought we should get home because of the shoot

2:23

tomorrow. Yeah. I know. I guess the shoots

2:26

in a couple of hours now very

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powerful. How the waves are today? Yeah,

2:31

we just were we were just here. Um,

2:35

I mean I don't know. I guess you left

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and then I stood here and I just

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like we might actually meet beat

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back room. I don't know. I

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got really scared. Well,

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we don't know. Okay,

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I'm serious. We I gotta get home

2:54

because the shoot is tomorrow. Yeah yeah,

2:56

yeah, okay, I just felt

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like I needed my friend. I

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don't do that. I'm sorry

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I needed you. No, it's

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okay, it's fine, I'm fine whatever.

3:11

I just needed my friend. No, I

3:14

can't leave it on that note. Okay,

3:17

but I have to go. I'm sorry, It's

3:20

totally fine, just go, It's

3:22

I'm fine, I'll see, I'll

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see on set. It's fine. We'll

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just from

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And how are you doing? Yeah?

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Is that a birth? Episode

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four? What is Fear? And

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why Can't I Look Away? Part

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three? So here

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we were on the day of the

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shoot, meeting

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beat back from It

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was still in the distance, but

4:07

we had now plotted a map which

4:10

showed us how to reach him.

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The road towards the film

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Festival unfurled itself

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beneath our feet, and

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all we needed to do was

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to commit those feet too, stepping on

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it. Whoa

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yeah, exactly as

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Anna said, the shoot was

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upon us. All

4:37

the different moving parts were in motion.

4:40

My house became a bustling movie

4:42

set. You could have mistaken

4:45

it for the sound stage for Meet the Goldbergs.

4:48

There was a camera operator, a

4:50

guy setting up lights. The

4:53

other actors would eventually be arriving

4:55

with bags bursting with wardrobe

4:57

options, and we had already commit

5:00

the number of the pizza and salad place to our

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speed dials. I

5:04

have to say, I know

5:07

that there was an ultimate destination here,

5:10

the film Festival, but

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for this moment, we put

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aside our investigative hats

5:17

and trench coats and melted

5:19

into our roles as actors.

5:24

Before we officially began the shoot, and

5:26

and I had a huddle with our brave director Clay

5:30

to discuss the day's game plan. Okay,

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okay, so this is I guess a production meeting.

5:38

This is like a um um

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yeah, production eating. Clay

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jumped right in. Okay,

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so, gang, how long do you think we

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have to shoot this? We were so

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happy to be working with him

5:54

and seeing him step into the role of the director

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on set me

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to see him

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in a whole new way.

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Honestly, he

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was gorgeous. Gone

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was the bookish boy on the other end of our zoom

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calls in

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his stead the

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sexy bespectacle mysterio.

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You know the kind of guy who lives in

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the Lower east Side. No,

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but I know the kind of man who lives on

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the Lower east Side. Ha ha

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ha, exactly,

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Kyle. You see,

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this was the kind of Lower east

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Side man whom you might

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expect to find on the other side of a door

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leading you to a dusty, obscure jazz

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basement holding a glass of

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eye lay scotch in one hand and

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apathetically tinking on an old yamaha

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with the other. But it

7:04

just so happens to be the most

7:06

beautiful music arrangement your ears

7:09

ever, did hear? Yeah,

7:16

exactly, And

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he's holding a saxophone.

7:23

Yeah, and

7:25

a jazz record plays in the background.

7:31

Yeah, and

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there's a beautiful woman draped over her shoulders

7:36

and she's like, oh yeah,

7:41

okay, okay, anyway,

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now you see what we saw.

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Clay was amazing.

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He had just asked us how long we

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hoped the shoot would take. We

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thought about it, um

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um, I mean as soon as early

8:03

as possible. But I do have four pages

8:05

here. Yeah, so if we shoot

8:07

from six thirty to nine, maybe

8:10

we even rest earlier. But I just

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don't I just don't see that being a possible.

8:20

This was our first time making a film,

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so we really had no idea how long it

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would take. Play seemed

8:27

to imply that would probably take longer than

8:29

an hour, but

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hey, even if it took

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two hours, it would be okay.

8:38

We were here to make a short film

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and get into the film

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festival. This

8:45

is our camera guy, how long do you think this is going to take?

8:48

Unfortunately, the

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camera guy, Moses predicted

8:53

that it would be more like twelve hours to shoot

8:56

the whole film,

8:58

if not more. In

9:01

and I were not expecting that, not

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at all. In our heads.

9:08

It was like this, So

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think about a movie. How long

9:14

is one of those? Two hours? Okay,

9:17

so what's the hold up? Why

9:19

isn't it taking two hours to shoot one? Well?

9:23

You know, I guess the guys have to set up

9:25

the lights and turn on the camera. Okay,

9:29

fine, but that takes what

9:32

an hour? So

9:34

fine? Add that to the

9:36

total. It should take

9:39

three hours to shoot a two hour movie.

9:43

Well but anna, you

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know afterward, I think

9:47

those same guys have to take down the

9:49

lights and turn off the cameras. Fine,

9:54

so I ad another extra

9:56

hour of cushion at the end. Four

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hours. It should take

10:02

four hours to make a two hour movie.

10:06

So what I'm saying is we're

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making a three minute short. Where's

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this camera? Guy? Moses getting twelve hours?

10:15

I'm sorry, but again, what's the hold

10:17

up? Are we gonna be walking

10:20

around the set going oh and wow,

10:22

look at that? And you guys ever hear

10:24

that one story about Orson Wells? Hey,

10:26

what's this story about Orson Welles? No,

10:29

that's not the point. No,

10:32

unnecessary conversation while we're shooting,

10:34

Kyle, keep it tight,

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you know what. We're going to make the short

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in. Four hours before

10:46

we finished our production meeting, I had

10:48

some news for Anna that I hadn't shared with her yet.

10:50

We got an Instagram message and

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it's pretty crazy. I don't know if you saw it,

10:55

but it says

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I'd love to screen your shirt at my festival.

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We'd love to screen your shirt. Yeah, And

11:04

I wrote back and I said, whoa do you mean short?

11:07

Good to clarify, we would love that, and

11:10

he said I absolutely meant short.

11:12

And then I said, awesome, Sauce, tell us when your

11:14

festival is, we will give you our

11:16

short. Wow. He didn't

11:19

respond to that because he said shirt

11:21

at first. Then Yeah, so anyway,

11:24

I'm saying it, We're definitely going to this other

11:26

one. Just

11:29

to keep it consistent, we bleeped out the

11:31

name of this other festival as well. Hey,

11:35

we're not anyone's PR team over here.

11:38

This was exciting, to say the least. We

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hadn't made the short yet and there was already

11:43

a festival circuit buzz. Some

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random person from Instagram wanted

11:48

our short sight unseen in

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his film festival Clay,

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it turns out, was not only gorgeous

11:56

but wise. He

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imparted some wisdom.

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Well, I just say, let's keep our eyes from

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the price here, because I don't

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know if I can miss out on this other festival.

12:07

Clay was right, we

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were getting ahead of ourselves by thinking of other

12:12

film festivals. We

12:14

didn't need to because

12:17

we had a great film festival to look

12:19

forward to, the Shop

12:21

Film Festival. Sure

12:25

we hadn't made the movie yet, but

12:27

I had a great feeling. I

12:30

could literally imagine us rolling

12:33

up to the festival. Kyle

12:40

and I would look just like Hollywood

12:42

Starlett. I

12:44

would wear a gown and my hair would

12:46

be up. No, no,

12:48

it would be down. You know what.

12:50

It would be half up, half down, and that way

12:53

you get the best of both worlds. And

12:57

me, Kyle, I

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would wear an oversized suit and

13:02

have lots of gel in my hair. It

13:05

would take hours to get that gel out of

13:07

my hair after the event, but

13:10

it literally wouldn't matter because

13:13

my short film was being screened at

13:15

the film festival. That's

13:19

right, And you know what,

13:22

let's let the whole crew come. I

13:25

mean, I'm sure they would want to come to this fabulous

13:27

event and watch our hard work on the big

13:29

screen. Well, the absolutely,

13:31

I mean that would be and to bring the whole crew,

13:35

I mean we all roll in. Will probably have to get a limo

13:38

if it's in l A. As

13:40

this thing happened before in other areas,

13:43

I have to jump in. The

13:45

truth is we were applying

13:47

to this festival blindly because

13:51

we didn't know where the festival actually took

13:53

place, because this

13:55

information was not listed on the website,

13:59

So we were we didn't know how to answer Clay's

14:01

question this

14:03

festival, Yeah,

14:05

it's unclear, but

14:07

I really looked hard on the website

14:10

you didn't see it, try to find where the location

14:12

of this one was, but it was not there. Little

14:16

did we know at this moment the

14:18

location of this festival would

14:20

actually proved to be a big deal.

14:24

But more on that later. I

14:34

know things are getting really good, but

14:36

we have to take a break for some ads.

14:39

And the ad break is over. Back

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to it. We

14:48

were about to start shooting, but there

14:51

was something we needed to do first. I

14:56

had been told by some of my film but friends

15:00

that getting into festivals it's

15:03

not an easy feat. It

15:08

seemed that getting in it

15:10

was a matter of whom you knew and

15:13

how they felt about you. Let's

15:16

be honest, if we wanted to

15:18

get into this festival, we needed

15:20

to build a report with Beep

15:23

Macromy. I

15:25

know it seems like this was a big risk to take

15:29

to reach out to the very person who frightened

15:31

us, but we

15:34

needed to start playing chess

15:37

in order for this investigation to be a success.

15:41

In order to meet Beep Macromy at

15:43

his festival, we

15:45

needed to start acting like

15:48

real festival hopefuls, and

15:51

that meant reaching

15:54

out to him and saying,

15:57

hey, crazy running

15:59

into you here, what's up.

16:04

I gotta say this

16:07

was terrifying, but

16:09

I knew Anna had a good point.

16:12

She assured me this was the safest time to

16:14

reach out to him. We were together

16:18

on a film set, and

16:20

by the way, we were

16:22

surrounded by a bunch of strong guys

16:24

who handled cameras and lights.

16:28

If anything, this was the safest

16:31

time to do this. That is how that works

16:33

works. That's a really good idea. Sorry, I

16:35

know this is We're in the middle of this meeting. This

16:38

is what production Okay,

16:42

it's getting a vibe check from the DPS.

16:46

Here's what the final email said, Mr

16:50

beat Mackramy. I just

16:52

wanted to let you know we are currently

16:54

working on our short. Something

16:58

you probably can't tell right here is

17:01

that I'm actually terrified.

17:08

It is looking promising and we will

17:10

have it in by the late deadline.

17:13

Not to be presumptuous, but curious.

17:17

Where will the festival be located this year?

17:20

If we get in fingers crossed winky

17:23

face again, I'm

17:27

terrified. Can

17:29

my whole crew attend? I

17:32

know they are all dying to go. As

17:36

I said, we have a strong product

17:38

here. I will send

17:40

another message when we actually submit

17:42

the short. Much

17:46

love about Emoji,

17:48

Kyle. That

17:53

was so scary, but

17:56

it had to be done because

17:58

we how to get into the

18:00

festival, because

18:02

we had to meet beat

18:04

macromy because

18:06

that would be facing

18:10

our fears. We

18:13

were super happy with the email we had

18:15

written, but we did apologize

18:17

to Clay for taking time away from the production.

18:21

I mean, if we were going to

18:23

make this puppy in two hours, we

18:26

kind of had to get this thing going. But

18:29

Clay was really cool about it. I think

18:32

I think you're I think what you're doing right

18:34

now and that's more important is networking. Wow,

18:39

I was feeling really good about

18:41

it. It was definitely

18:43

scary to send an email to beat macromy

18:46

but we did it. Who

18:49

knew what the twisted freak would say back.

18:53

It was finally time to start this shoot,

18:56

but before the cameras could start rolling, we

19:00

needed to take care of some little last minute

19:02

tasks like create

19:04

the set design. Kyle

19:07

and I didn't know what set design was

19:09

per se, but we

19:11

knew what looked good play

19:15

plan for the opening shot to be that of a

19:17

creepy fridge, so

19:20

we took a look at what we had to work with Kyle's

19:23

fridge. We just decided

19:26

that, I think for the opening shot, we wanted it

19:28

to be this postcard that we got from the Tri

19:30

Cities Cities, which is where we took

19:32

road Yeah for his perfect days

19:34

Perfect and we wanted to give this, as they say

19:37

in the film world, a little easter egg,

19:39

A little easter egg that's right for the fans,

19:42

so hopefully they catch it. Hopefully the fans

19:44

that are listening to the show are also of course watching

19:46

the film, and the even bigger vans,

19:48

A little a basket of baghetts,

19:51

a magnet because Paris, because

19:53

we have a real strong relationship to Paris,

19:55

to Paris, of course, and

19:57

just like that, we

20:00

he became set designers, having

20:02

just adorn the fridge with a postcard from

20:04

the Tri Cities and two magnets

20:07

from Paris. The Tri

20:09

Cities, if you remember, was

20:12

where we took Rod on his perfect day

20:14

in season one. We

20:17

put that in there for you, the

20:20

listener. The

20:22

magnets from Paris, well that's

20:24

just for us. We love

20:27

Paris. We moved

20:29

onto the interior of the fridge. You

20:33

see in this opening shot a

20:35

guy would be opening the fridge and looking

20:38

inside of it, and we

20:41

the audience, would be right

20:43

there with him,

20:46

meaning we would also

20:48

see what was inside the fridge. He

20:52

likes to eat. Maybe there's nothing

20:54

in his fridge except for the maple syrup,

20:57

and then you who's that guy. We tried out Anna's

20:59

idea of leaving just the

21:01

maple syrup in the fridge, but

21:03

it actually wasn't as impactful as we had

21:05

hoped. We threw some sausages

21:08

in there too, So whoever

21:10

this guy was in the opening shot, he

21:13

was a maple syrup and sausage

21:15

kind of guy. You figure it

21:17

out. I

21:21

think that's really nice. And then you just

21:23

just because just check, just check the

21:25

motor that really read

21:28

that there's because see you

21:30

also imagine this. The

21:33

fridge was set and we were ready to fly

21:35

in the actor who would be playing the

21:37

guy. But

21:41

here's the thing, we

21:43

didn't know that many actors. Kyle

21:47

had mentioned that her neighbor sometimes acted and

21:49

stuff, so we figured

21:51

that sounded fine and we

21:53

asked him to do it. It

21:56

looked promising for a while, but

21:59

right now when

22:01

we needed him the most on set,

22:04

he was nowhere to be found. And

22:08

we were already an hour and a half

22:10

into the shoot. Well,

22:12

we waited patiently. Clay

22:15

decided to test the shot by standing

22:17

in for the other guy. Checked

22:20

it out in the monitor. Wow,

22:23

I really like how long you held your gaze.

22:26

I kind of scared myself a little bit, so it's kind

22:28

of I'm not even acting early honestly,

22:33

When I saw on the monitor, it's

22:36

great. Clay,

22:40

well, he was a natural. Right

22:42

then we made a split decision. Let

22:46

Clay be the part of the guy.

22:49

That's right. He could

22:51

be the guy in the opening shot. I

22:55

mean he literally just nailed it

22:57

in one take. Sorry, Kyle's

22:59

neighbor, better look next

23:01

time. You're really good. I think it's

23:03

so good that we we got it so

23:06

let's move to the second show. One

23:08

shot down, twenty to

23:10

go. We were off

23:12

to such a good start that we

23:15

were ready to do one of the most important

23:17

parts of the day, ordering

23:20

the pizza and the salad. Just

23:23

to refresh your memory, we had

23:26

raised money through indiego Go to

23:28

buy pizza and salad for

23:30

the day of the shoot. Well,

23:33

that day was today.

23:36

I browsed the pizza menu and asked

23:38

the crew what they thought. Can

23:43

I give you, guys two choices? Okay,

23:46

Pepperoni classic or

23:49

roasted fenteal sausage. Well,

23:54

it's two different schools entirely, so I

23:57

would defur both in those h

24:01

The pizza was ordered, and don't

24:03

forget the salad, and we

24:05

were sitting around at

24:07

this point. We were about

24:10

three hours into the shoot. To

24:13

be honest, we weren't

24:15

doing much. This

24:18

is probably a good time to tell you about the short

24:20

film.

24:25

Kyle and I were in it as

24:28

actors, but it

24:31

was actually about much more than that. It

24:35

was about COVID and the

24:37

monotony of our own anxieties about

24:39

COVID. That

24:42

is to say, this

24:44

film

24:46

it's about something much bigger than just

24:49

us. And that

24:51

is to say, there were

24:53

lots of scenes in this thing that we weren't

24:55

in. And then

24:57

that is to say, we

25:00

were doing a lot of sitting around. M

25:02

M. It's

25:06

so interesting with Phil how

25:09

long they stay in the same spot. I know,

25:11

it's crazy, like you

25:13

think we yeah, you think we've already

25:15

moved on. It's crazy.

25:18

I kind of we would be done by now. It

25:23

was taking a really long time. But

25:26

before we knew it, the

25:29

pizza had arrived and

25:33

with it the

25:35

salado.

25:40

Have the pizza? Oh great? Do you want to put it over

25:42

here? The pizzas here? Whenever you bud the

25:45

sun always really small

25:47

right now? Damn do you think? I

25:50

mean yeah, I think we already thought,

25:53

yeah, that's rolling, okay,

25:55

say okay, just because the pizza.

25:58

Ah, what is this quiet

26:00

on set thing? We

26:02

were just letting everyone know that the pizza

26:04

had arrived and with it the

26:07

salad. I mean, could

26:09

you blame us? We were

26:11

just sitting around with nothing to do. It

26:14

seemed to me that this whole filmmaking

26:16

thing kind of

26:19

sucked. I mean,

26:21

don't get me wrong, I am a huge film

26:23

lover, but to

26:25

be honest, I

26:27

found the whole process to be rather tedious,

26:31

and they would spend so much time shooting

26:33

the door, watching it open

26:36

and then watching

26:38

it close, then shooting

26:40

another angle, this

26:42

time from the door's perspective. I'm

26:45

sorry, why did we need the door's perspective

26:49

and action? Uh?

26:58

I guess we got the shot, but something

27:01

worried me. I

27:03

brought it up to Kyle. Mm

27:07

hmm. I just so

27:09

the pizzas here and then the

27:12

salad. Yeah,

27:15

the salad. Again, pizza

27:19

and salad had to arrive, but it

27:21

seemed like no one on the crew cared.

27:25

They kept shooting. There's

27:27

no poetic way to say this pizza

27:30

gets cold, which normally

27:32

would be fine, but in this

27:34

case, it had been

27:36

funded by our Indie Go Go backers.

27:39

Remember our Indie Go

27:41

Go campaign was solely for this, providing

27:45

pizza for the shoot and with

27:47

it the salad. I

27:50

really didn't want to cause a scene on set, but

27:53

also I didn't want

27:55

to risk toying with other people's money.

27:59

It felt ad, but I

28:02

had no choice. Hey,

28:05

so I know that you guys have a

28:07

couple more shots and stuff, but I'm

28:11

a little worried. Yeah, the

28:13

pizza is going to get cold because the salads

28:16

fine, I

28:19

think sounds good cold. Well,

28:21

salads good cold, so that unless it came

28:23

hot. But the pizza, I'm

28:25

now I'm a little worried because it's kind of

28:27

a focal point of the fundraising. So I just

28:30

you know what I'm taking. Are you thinking for

28:32

the pizza just to have it be warm?

28:34

I think you might lose a shot. Combine

28:37

it with another shot, and then maybe

28:39

we have a quicker out. Is that okay?

28:42

Yeah, that's good. I'm okay with that.

28:44

Is because I think as long as you keep the pizza the fox,

28:46

it's going to be a Yeah.

28:50

I'm not planning on eating

28:52

the pizza, but even though I'm not

28:54

eating it, I am worried about it

28:56

for the sake of other people. Just can we change

28:59

shot to and and

29:01

merchant was shot four, so we can skip

29:03

shot six? Cool? All

29:09

right, I'm gonna get back to say, okay, cool, thank

29:11

you so much, thank you, Thank what

29:16

a relief. Lay

29:18

was really a good guy, and

29:21

you know what, it didn't hurt

29:23

that he was gorgeous. He

29:26

moved some shots around and before we knew

29:28

it, we were eating piping hot pizza

29:30

while some of us focused on the salad.

29:34

Hey Kyle, I'm looking at you.

29:38

She doesn't eat pizza.

29:43

We thought this would be a good opportunity to grab

29:45

some behind the scenes footage for indiego Go

29:48

backers to

29:50

show them exactly where

29:52

their money went. At

29:55

first, the crew, which

29:58

included Clay are Di Rector,

30:01

Moses our camera operator, and

30:04

Tom, the lights guy. They

30:07

were a little taken aback. You

30:10

see, usually these

30:13

guys are behind the camera, not

30:15

in front of it, and

30:17

I get that, but

30:20

I told them it was an important

30:22

part of the process to

30:25

connect with our campaign supporters.

30:29

And hey, they like

30:31

that they were getting to eat, right, That's

30:34

what I thought. Now

30:36

get dancing boys.

30:41

So what you're about to hear is that footage

30:44

we got of the crew enjoying the pizza

30:48

and don't forget the salad. Tom,

30:50

thank you to all the indigogo donors

30:53

on this pizza is really amazing and

30:56

not to mention the salad. Wow,

31:00

it looks like a really good pizza. I don't think

31:02

this would have been possible without the indiego

31:05

Go people who gave money

31:07

for this, and thank you so much. It's most really good too.

31:10

And the salad I'm sorry for invention salad

31:14

action drink because

31:18

of you. I's pizza

31:21

and the scream

31:23

shot. Thank you all

31:28

right, boys, thanks

31:30

for dancing, and

31:39

now an ad break. The

31:42

ad break is over. Next,

31:49

it was time to bring in the other

31:52

actors. Let's

31:54

just talk about them for a minute. We

31:56

needed to people who would be portraying

31:59

a couple seated next to one another

32:01

on a bed. First,

32:04

we had hired a wonderful woman named

32:06

Sheila. Sheila

32:09

had been recommended to us by Deshaun, our

32:11

acting coach. Sheila,

32:14

well, she just had the it factor.

32:18

Now the more tricky actor

32:20

to explain. We

32:24

were looking for a guy

32:27

and it was kind of important to me that he

32:29

was cute. I mean, I'm

32:33

not shallow, but let

32:35

me ask you this. If

32:37

you were watching a movie and you see a cute

32:40

guy on the screen, aren't

32:42

you more likely to keep watching the movie?

32:46

That's what I thought. So

32:50

I thought about all the guys that I

32:52

think are cute, and

32:54

one happened to

32:56

stand out. Honestly,

33:01

I have a confession. I

33:04

have a crush. You

33:06

guys, you actually know him.

33:09

It's so embarrassing. Okay,

33:14

do you remember Chris from

33:16

episode one? Why are

33:18

some people always late? Hi?

33:21

My name is Chris and I'm a late person. Oh

33:25

my god, I'm turning red. I'm

33:28

so thankful this is a podcast because

33:30

my face is turning beat red. Anyway,

33:37

Chris was the guy who was perpetually late

33:39

to practically everything. But

33:41

I'll tell you one thing. He wasn't late for leaving

33:45

a big impression on me. No,

33:48

when it came to that, he was

33:50

right on time. Anyway.

33:54

Chris had been on my mind, so

33:57

when we needed to hire another actor and

34:00

he needed to be cute, well

34:03

naturally I thought

34:05

of him. Um,

34:07

okay. When

34:10

Anna first brought up hiring Chris,

34:12

I was a little confused. You

34:15

mean Chris who was eating a tangerine

34:17

for twenty minutes and that's why he was late

34:20

to meet his friend Mia and

34:23

Chris who showed up at our art show uninvited,

34:26

and Anna didn't have answers for that. Look.

34:31

It was becoming clear that Anna had developed a

34:33

big crush on Chris, which

34:36

is fine. I get that, I've

34:39

been there, but I

34:41

guess from my perspective, Rather

34:44

than casting her crush in a role

34:46

in a short film that we would eventually submit

34:48

to a festival in the hopes of getting

34:51

in to meet beat Macromate Journey,

34:54

which would ultimately take up most of our

34:56

second season. It seemed like, rather

34:59

than doing all that, wouldn't

35:02

it be easier to just ask

35:04

the guy out? But

35:06

hey, eat their

35:08

own anyway.

35:13

That's how we came to select Sheila and Chris

35:16

to be a part of our short. You're

35:18

not going to believe this, but Chris

35:23

showed up early. He

35:25

wanted to have time to run through his lines.

35:28

I honestly jumped at the opportunity

35:31

to help him.

35:33

Wait. So it's like a horror

35:35

movie within the world.

35:38

Yeah, it's like weird. It

35:41

really does feel a horrantine. Everyone

35:44

going through the same. Something you probably

35:46

can't tell right here is that I'm

35:49

actually freaking out.

35:52

Oh my god, you're not gonna open it, are you

35:56

please? Just

36:01

that sounds great? Good, great

36:04

job. Oh

36:07

god. I barely held it together

36:09

right there. But luckily

36:12

Sheila arrived and it really

36:14

seemed to break up the tension. This

36:17

is Chris and acting with Chris.

36:24

Hey, let's not get

36:27

too carried away. And

36:29

then players are directed a break.

36:34

Well, I think they're all set up.

36:37

The actors took their places. In

36:40

this scene. We would see a couple next

36:43

to one another in a bed. They're

36:46

watching a movie as they wait for food

36:48

to be delivered. The

36:50

twist is that the movie they're watching

36:52

is actually the scene that Clay was

36:55

just in, a guy

36:57

opening the fridge, looking at

36:59

the bull syrup and sausages, and

37:02

then getting stabbed.

37:06

Obviously there's more tour

37:09

short, but we'll tell you

37:11

more about the plot later. We

37:13

were just about ready to shoot the Sheila and

37:15

Christine. First,

37:18

Kyle and I needed to make sure their outfits

37:21

looked right. I

37:24

jumped at the opportunity to look at Chris a

37:26

bit closer, if you

37:28

know what I mean. I

37:30

mean like two ft rather than the

37:32

classic six Okay,

37:40

leading man sweater. That's

37:43

kind of nice is

37:46

leading men sweater? I've never worn it.

37:48

I bought it five years ago. I'm

37:51

just thinking maybe maybe.

37:55

Yeah. I kept

37:57

laughing like a psychopath. Can

38:00

you guys tell him nervous? My

38:03

stomach is literally in my butt.

38:07

Anyway. Clay framed

38:09

the shot and I checked it out on the monitor. Oh

38:15

it's a beautiful shot. Wow, you've

38:18

got to come over here by

38:21

play this. Oh

38:24

my, that's really nice, so good,

38:26

it looks really really good. Sunk

38:29

that little lamp a little lamp punch

38:31

shine so much? Alright,

38:33

cool whatever X call action. You

38:35

can wait the five seconds and then get into

38:37

it. Question and

38:41

action. So

38:46

it's it's like a movie

38:48

within a horror movie. Yeah, it's like weird

38:51

in meta. It

38:53

really is like Quarantine. I

38:55

mean, everyone doing the exact

38:58

same thing over and over. Yeah,

39:01

cut beautiful.

39:08

You guys are doing fabulous

39:12

closer to acting. It's

39:15

really good. Sheila

39:21

and Chris were amazing. They

39:24

really understood what we were going

39:27

for. Great

39:29

acting, great chemistry,

39:32

and sheer terror. We

39:35

set our goodbyes to them,

39:37

and I told Chris that

39:39

I hoped I would see him later.

39:43

He said, okay, what

39:46

do you guys think that means? Finally

39:49

it was time for our big moment.

39:53

We were about to act. We

39:57

were all nerves and

40:00

then we

40:04

looked at the clock. It

40:07

was like twelve thirty am.

40:11

I'm sorry, but how did we go

40:13

from knocking this out in two hours to

40:16

barely getting around to it at six? Not

40:19

only were we stressed out about our parts,

40:22

but we were tired and

40:25

the guys were still setting up our shot.

40:28

It was so late. You

40:31

don't understand. This

40:34

was hours after Kyle's bedtime. We

40:37

had done all this preparation for

40:39

our scene beforehand. I

40:41

met with an acting coach, strategized

40:44

on the best ways to run backward, and

40:47

visited Hollywood. But

40:50

when it came time to actually act,

40:53

we didn't even have the energy

40:56

for it. We literally

40:59

did two hags and said

41:01

that it would probably be fine. I

41:05

mean to be honest,

41:09

we did it so quickly. We

41:12

don't even have the audio of

41:16

us doing that scene that

41:18

you the listeners have

41:20

heard over and over. We

41:25

hoped it would be good, but

41:27

honestly, who cares.

41:31

I have to get some disease. It's

41:34

really interesting. I don't really know how actors

41:36

do this. Hit hard. It's

41:38

really hard hard, you

41:42

know. I think that hopefully

41:44

in the end we come up with a great product

41:47

that I really that they will,

41:49

that will not be able to ignore.

41:53

Kyle was so tired she

41:56

was calling her short film a product

42:00

m poor guy.

42:04

We waited around until we were officially

42:06

dismissed by Clay. You've

42:09

got another time check. You're

42:12

not gonna believe this. It

42:15

was three a m. How

42:18

did this happen? What

42:22

happened? What is this?

42:28

Okay? So

42:30

I think that's a wrap? Yeah, um,

42:33

guys are just getting in with the nareson um

42:38

rap. It's three Wednesday

42:43

next day, am

42:46

yeah, so

42:51

damn, I'm so tired

42:54

that I don't even I don't know how I

42:58

can't. I don't even know where my body

43:01

is anymore. Yeah, like, how

43:03

do people do this? I

43:05

honestly don't even remember what we did. I

43:09

honestly feel crazy. I had

43:11

no idea filmmaking took so long. I

43:15

we had done it, we

43:19

had made the short film that

43:21

we would submit to the Horror Possible.

43:25

We were by no means done.

43:28

There's still remains several stretches

43:30

of our journey doors

43:32

yet to be opened. We

43:35

would still have to submit the film,

43:37

hopefully get in attend

43:40

the festival and meet

43:43

Beep macromy who scared the ship

43:45

out of us. But honestly,

43:51

I am so tired. I

43:54

just need to go to bed. I

43:57

can't a person just go to bed and not

43:59

have to wrap things up poetically and

44:02

present them to you with a little bow.

44:07

Okay, okay, we do have

44:09

to go to bed. More

44:12

on all of this later to

44:15

be continued. M

44:19

hm hm, can

44:22

you actually turn down the

44:24

music. I'm trying to get

44:26

some shot. I Next

44:32

time on Truth Hounds it

44:35

is PM and there's

44:37

just been a break in the case. Oh

44:39

my god over

44:42

superfar girl. Oh my god, what

44:44

we saw next was um

44:47

confusing to say the least. That

44:50

was brutal to hear. Get

44:53

me, get that that.

44:57

I was a little worried about Anna.

45:00

Where did that leave us? Did

45:03

that mean we were done? That?

45:05

Was it a ship?

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