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NH Unscripted with Scott Millette

Todays' guest was my good friend Scott Millette. Scott and I discuss working on the short indie film called “Teddy”. “Teddy is a throwback to 80’s slasher films…Teddy was shot in a total of under 6 hour, with no real plan.” Scott talks about Rebel House. “An amazing new creative Co-work space” that’s in the Fox Run Mall in Newington, NH. It’s an absolutely gorgeous facility dedicated to creativity and for podcasting (audio/visual). You have to see the photos to believe it! We also get into the NHFF in Portsmouth as well as the current state of filmmaking in New Hampshire. And as always much, much more!

Duration:
44m
Broadcast on:
03 Jul 2024
Audio Format:
mp3
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Yeah, we love you. Thank you, Matt. We appreciate all you do to respond to this. Almost award winning show. You heard me reference somebody just a second ago. In the house is the doctor himself. Scott Mallett, my friend. How are you? Ah, I'm doing all right, Ray. How you doing? I'm doing good. Do we have not seen each other since Texas? Is that correct since you came back? Man, has it been that long? I'm thinking. I mean, we saw each other right after I came back there, right? Yeah. Because at the film festival. And then that was maybe the last time I was on your show, right? Yeah, correct. Wow. I know. It's time flies. I know. That's why I got you back. I'm like, is he even still alive? Have to go out to Instagram and find out. What are you doing? I know, I know, man. Well, that's because, to be honest, I mean, I haven't been doing a whole lot. I'd like to say that I have, and it's time to get inspired. Even just pulling in here to the studios. Yeah. I was like, I could envision the final set piece of where we're going to do post-apocalyptic type of short story or something and break it down here in the gravel state. I am all over that. I wish you would. I hope you do because you're right. This would be perfect. We actually have an air shell air raid shelter here. That's what he was telling me. That's unbelievable. By the way, producer, we're going to need you to cut that. I don't need any of the other filmmakers here in New Hampshire to know about the bottom shell. The digs, baby. You know, some of the best things that have happened, one of the best things was Teddy, and I don't know what's happened to it. I don't know if you buried it, but so do you ever enter it into any festivals? Well, we obviously had it in the New Hampshire Film Festival, and so, you know, and it was wildly successful there. If you go back and you look at the video post that year, like when they do the highlight videos, it was like Teddy was in like all the highlights because remember, I brought Teddy on the red carpet with me as well. Oh, that's right. I've got that. And we were all over that, you know, so that was an amazing year that was. I know. And the brilliance for people who don't know, Scott loves horror, right? You call it horror? Well, it's not that. I love the business of things. So and look, horror is just fun. And I think it's important for film. And I think that, well, I'll let you ask me some more questions and we'll go here because I'm going to go off. Scott, do you love horror? Yeah. I mean, I like horror. I like it. But I know you do. I like all like one of those guys that like goes to all the conventions and all that type of stuff. Scott is the man. He is so full. He is the man who actually wanted to try to start a horror festival in New Hampshire. Well, we are going to do that. What? Yeah, we are going to do that. And I'll talk to you a little bit about that. Like later in the show, we could talk about Rebel House and stuff like that. Like in the interim, like what about like we said, like one of the great things that happened was Teddy. So like, how do you mean like you mean for you? Yeah. Well, that was such a great experience. You know, we do a lot of theater here. A lot of people in the building do theater. But there's something about film, film commercials, that kind of thing, but that is it's its own world. And it's so beautiful. And what had happened during Teddy was we had the beautiful chance of film in the Halloween parade. Yeah. Live. I mean, that was crazy. That was such a cool event to like be filming in and out as we're running through that thing about. Well, that was my lesson to filmmakers on how to get a free $20 million. Yeah. Like if we had a budget, like that would be dumbed down to like four flatbed trucks, poorly dressed, you know, and like a couple extras that we have to shuffle around. And the thing is, like if you're a filmmaker and you want to show people, you know, what you really got, you got to you got to think big, but then you have to like go back and trim the fat of your story to what is possible. And so like in that instance, like what like the story behind it, for those of you that don't know, if you if you go on YouTube, you should be able to put in like, like Teddy hashtag scare bear, and it should come up and it will, and you can put in NHFF. But like the story of mine is that like I was with buddy of mine, Michael Zakola, who's like a pretty big actor here, and you know, and so we're like at this party, and it's like the launch party for the New Hampshire Film Festival, which I'm, I try to be a part of every year. I'm usually one of the presenters, and basically, we have a couple guys that are cinematographers that have had some cocktails, and they're kind of like grilling me because I don't really make the types of films that would be in a film festival. I appreciate those types of films, and I love them. And I could give you my ranking list on like what makes a great film, what doesn't, what should win Academy Awards. And I, I'm going to guess that most people that are in that type of category would disagree with me, but you know, industry, box office sales, you know, like would disagree with them typically, and so like basically they were saying like, you know, you're supposed to be a filmmaker, but you never put films in the festival. And of course, Michael and I have both had some cocktails, and I'm like, I'll go home, and I'll make a film tonight that's better than half the movies that you took two years to make. And I had just bought like an outfit that was like similar to Michael Myers and this crazy Barrett, for God knows what reason, but I had, and they were tearing up my street. And so like we go home, I throw it on Michael, I give him like this thing, and I see you're going to stumble around the street, and we'll wake up in the morning like if it's dope, like we're going to finish the film, you know. And sure enough, like wake up next morning pretty hungover, ready to go for the film festival, but I'm like, dude, it is gnarly, you know, and so I'm like, well, we have to finish it like within the day. And so like I have a couple ideas in my head, but not really, and I call it my friend Dolly, and I was like, listen, you're going to be my movie starlet, and then we just go out and quickly improv, and we put it together. And I hold off one extra day so I can videotape the red carpet. And basically what I made the short film about was it's about a serial killer that hates like pretentious directors. And so he kills them. And that was based on because the guys were making fun of me. So now like I'm using my film to kill them all, and I put, you know, and I put, you know, I film some of them are hidden within the red carpet. So they get to see themselves and know that I made it that quickly. And so in between like presenting the films at the film festival, I'm also out back editing it. And I put it all together within 24 hours, and I put it out for like the final party. And I put out like eight minutes before the final party of the night, so everybody will be watching. Yeah. Yeah. And I want to talk to you about the parade. That was brilliant on your part. Hang on. Hang on. We got to put a pin in it right there. Oh, it's so nice to be with you. You want to see the N.H. Unscripted. I am your gallery like coach Ray Dudley. You are listening to us 1450 AM 103.9 FM and Kankit 101.9 FM for the beautiful souls and Manchester. Hey, maybe you went out to nh.grader.com, our URL where all the cool kids are. Scott Mollett's in the house. We got a lot of road to cover baby. We'll be right back. Oh, yeah. We got to talk to you guys a little bit about this. We got to talk to you a little bit more about what you're going to be doing. Oh, yeah. We got the wedding bells and blues here. You are listening to N.H. Unscripted. I am your fifth dimension my coach Ray Dudley got my platform shoes on my bell bottom pants. Happy to be out of bed 1450 AM 103.9 FM and Kankit 101.9 FM for the gorgeous souls and man, just a we love you folks down there. nh.grader.com is our URL. Give you a little bit more info about what's happening out there later. Scott Mollett is in the house. Yes, sir. So finish up that story. Well, to really quickly finish it up. So basically that was it. Everybody watched it that night at the party and it was a big hit, but it wasn't in the film festival. And of course, a week later or two weeks later in Portsmouth, we have the amazing Halloween parade. Besides Salem, maybe probably the best in New England and I give you a call last minute. We probably got like five hours before the parade and I said, Ray, what do you got for a Halloween costume? He said, I got a lab coat, I go, cool, you're a scientist, get down here and nobody knew what we were doing. And I have this amazing camera at the time that a lot more people in the film industry should use because the quality of it is out of this world, but it's discreet enough that people don't really realize what you're doing. So of course, there was lots of friends from Portsmouth that saw me that thought I was documenting the parade and you were like, well, what are we going to do? And I said, don't worry about it. I had somebody in the outfit like Teddy and I told them, you're just going to go from side to side and you're going to wave to us and you'll just keep running behind us as we move along with the parade. And that means we get one shot. Yeah. So 45 minutes. Right. 10,000 extras on the side of the road, 5,000 of the best dressed Halloween extras period. It's like a set right out of the movie screen or like the, you know, I know what you did last summer when they have the parade, but we have way more parade in on it. And just like the way that it came out was like so dope and we have like so many things and Ray, like you did such a great job and like I was directing you literally, I mean, you could talk about it. That's the most. And what was your recall? I never got to hear what you thought. Oh, just so I, what amazes me was the quick thinking of being out of the box, outside the box, you use that parade. It was, to me, it was just brilliance because the simplicity of the whole thing, it was literally just in five hours. And then we're getting them over your place and I'm like, okay, we got like 10 minutes to parade. Sorry, 10 minutes. And we're all running around trying to get ready to get out of the building and get these shots done. It was just fun. That's what it was. It was fun. And you did a great job. And we literally like I directed you in the middle of the parade and direct a camel. And so like, for me, one of my, there's two shots that are my favorite in the film. Two of my favorite shots is the one when you come into the parade because you probably didn't know why I was having you do that, and I had you come in a certain angle. And then in my whole thing was to you, as I said, we're going to see how it looks. And then I'll build the story after that happens like before and after, right? And so really we shot it then, and then we went back and shot the second parts, right? Yes. And, and also the scene when you panic and run and come out of the parade and the people all turn to look at you, and then when the bear comes through, nobody looks. And if I was directing the audience, that's how I would have directed it. It was so impromptu. You know what we got to do? What is it? No idea. Yeah. We got to add the link to this interview so people can go back and watch the film. Absolutely. And to answer your question, is Teddy dead? I mean, does Jason die, does Michael Myers die, does Freddy Krueger die? We haven't even begun the story with Teddy. So Teddy's made one other appearance. I did a film called Number Neighbors, and it was part of a 48-hour film festival in Texas. And we ended up, I think we ended up taking, I thought we won, but then I just went, because that's what I was told, like I wasn't there for the awards ceremony. We were one of the winners of the Audience Award in San Antonio, which was like, there's probably like over 100 teams. And it's a show that's like our best take on Catfish, the television show, a show called Number Neighbors. And anyway, Teddy makes an appearance in that. And Dolly, Dolly and I did it together, and she wears a shirt from Teddy that's also like an Easter egg in there, and we do a bunch of stuff. And that was like her quick thinking, like last minute, like we're filming, and we knew that we were including, and then all of a sudden she comes out and she's wearing the shirt. I'm like, I'm like, I don't even know you kept the shirt. That's brilliant. Yeah. Dude, I love it. She's the boss too. Yeah, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have some great people to work with. So I want to segue a bit to the, to the NHFF, the New Hampshire Film Festival. Of course, yeah. What's your current relationship with them? I know before you were volunteering heavily. Yeah. So are you still related to it? I mean, now that. And I want your, you're also, I don't mean to interrupt you. Your opinion about the move to the musical taking over. Yeah. So, okay. I mean, here's a few things I have to say about it is this past year, yes, I did work there. And actually my friend Layla, who was also in Number Neighbors, she flew out from Austin and she's an amazing actress. She has, she's in a bunch of different movies on Amazon Prime right now. And. Wait, what? Yeah. She's, yeah. She's awesome. Dude, he's dropped that right there and let that go. Yeah. Yeah. And so she flew out to come and hang with me. We could talk about that another time, but, you know, shout out to Layla. And she, and she came out to be a presenter as well at the Film Festival. And we had a great time. It was the first year where like, so Nicole, Greg, who's the founder, like she was still there. Yeah. Like her whole crew and Carrie and all those, you know, the whole rest of the crew that makes up and all those amazing, strong, beautiful women that put that thing together. Yeah. And then the, the, the musical's crew was like kind of like they were side by side and they were working together. And they did a great job. There's a few things. I mean, sometimes I think when you want to fill roles, you bring people in that think they're organizers and they have an idea, but they forget about people like myself. And I'm not, I don't mean just me and other people that have been there for many years. And look, I don't need any special treatment because I've been there for many years, but, you know, like I at least need to know if I'm going to be a presenter, if I'm not going to be a presenter, like that type of thing. And sometimes like you get carried away with trying to fulfill the job that you forget to look back and be like, Oh, I have all these other people that like have already agreed to do this. Yeah. And then so that was kind of the case last year of this year, I don't know what's going to happen because I don't necessarily have like a relationship with the music call personally. I could tell you this, like them three asks, like, I mean, like some of that stuff is on fire, like what they've been doing lately for, you know, just like different types of events. I mean, they've had so many cool creative events that they didn't used to have there. Oh, I think that's a good sign. But this is the one thing that I'm going to say, I've been to a lot of film festivals over the years, and one of the main reasons, true story, I know I've told you this before, why I moved to Portsmouth. My parents used to bring us to the plays there when we were young. And so like to me, like that was always the first place you went to like learn about the arts. And I feel like over the years, like Portsmouth really evolved into this like artistic, artistic cultural center. And honestly, like the film festival was the best. Like my first film festival that I went to was Sundance. So my bar was high and I went there with this girl. Her dad was one of the founders of Sundance. And so my experience, as you can imagine, was amazing. And I actually had the honor of being able to return the favor, like the year that we had Teddy, he came to the New Hampshire Film Festival and he was blown away by it. And I think that that speaks a lot of volume because like he's been all over the world, you know, to film festivals. And what sets NHFF apart, I know this sounds funny, it's like the important part's not the movies, it's the parties. Because that's where filmmakers and actors and future film people get to network and really create relationships. And it's also the panel discussions are important. And we can talk about that. That's why horror is important. And so I'm going to say to the music hall, if you're listening, first of all, hit me out, Scott Malat, I live in Portsmouth, I'm easy to find, Rebel House, NH at Rebel House, NH on Instagram is my new place. Because I want to be a presenter, but there's other stuff I'd like to do with it. You want to be more than a presenter, though, don't you? Hang out and put a pin in that one. My gosh, we are way down, you're under a new Orleans. You want to listen to NH unscripted, I know, Freddy Boom Boom Cannon Lycos, Ray Dudley, and we are coming to you from the YMCA like digs of the WKXL Studios, man, I can smell the pool chlorine from here, 1450 AM 103.9 FM, that's conquered, 101.9 FM for the gorgeous souls of Manchester, God, we love you down there. NH.gradio.com is our URL, Scott Malat is in the house, do this guys got stories, we're coming back. Yeah, you can tell all your friends, NH unscripted, you're listening to it, because you're cool and we know you are, you're trucking on here. Listen, he does 1450 AM 103.9 FM and conquered, they're coming to you from the Car 54 like digs of the WKXL Studios, 101.9 FM for the beautiful souls of Manchester, NH.gradio.com is the heavy lifting URL, where all the stuff happens, that's it. Scott Malat is in the house, we're talking film, we're talking to Hampshire Film Festival, we're talking Teddy, we're talking to it all. So do you think there'll be any change in what happened with the Film Festival, now the musical has it? I hope not, I mean, I just hope it only grows and it gets better. The only, you know, basically for me, like now I'm going to add my own horror component and whether like I'm going to align it with what's happening there within the weeks and stuff and I'm not going to give like too much away about what I plan to do, but I mean, here's the thing is like no matter what film festival you go to, if you're fortunate enough to attend like the panel discussions, panel discussions for people that don't know are like when like experts gather, so might be distribution companies or directors or whatever. And you can go in there and ask them questions about like BTS or just about process or whatever. And most of the time, like 99% of the answers are make a horror film. Make a horror film. Oh, really? Oh, 1000%, like if you want to be successful, look, the first everybody's first success is a horror film and you know, and for those people that like don't recognize that, like I hate to say that it's like in a pretentious way where they believe like their art house film will overcome, you know, and even on the art house side, like I'm not trying to take away, but like look, the witch was presented as a horror film. And I would say like within the realm of like filmmaking, like for an art house film, like that might be considered a horror film. I don't think it was like I watched the trailer and I was, you know, in the movies amazing and I'm blown away by it, but it was presented like a horror film. And I feel like that, it owes part of his success to that, you know. But you know, like if we look at like Jennifer Aniston's first movie is leprechaun, Johnny Depp's first movie is Nightmare on Elm Street, Kevin Bacon's first movie is Friday the 13th, Tom Hank's first movie is a horror film. James Cameron's first movie isn't even Piranha one, it's Piranha two. So I mean like, yeah, you can just go down the line with like all the greats of greats and everything like leads back to horror. And at the end of the day, like, I mean, you know, try to name a movie star that's more famous than Freddy Krueger, Jason Vory is or Michael Myers, you know. And of course, like you already know, I talked about it the last time, what's the greatest movie ever made, there's no arguing that it's Jaws and you know, so I think like when we look back over time, like that was once Will Smith's secret, like how do you make a successful career, you start off in monster movies and that was like Men in Black Independence Day. Like if you look at his career, you know, at the beginning when he was the biggest movie star in the world and like a lot of people kind of like follow that. So why do you think that is though, is it because of cost, is it because of ease of being able to make something to why would why is that I mean, we love monsters, man, we love the unknown. And like, you know, I mean, what like look at we're sitting here in a radio station, what was born in a radio station is a horror film, war of the war of the worlds, right? Like that's like the first time that like everybody's scared at home. And I just watched the other night, like I had seen it before, but amazing documentary. I think it's 78, 52 maybe and it's just about the shower scene in Psycho. And you know, like the whole documentary built on that and I don't know if you know this, but they took two weeks just to shoot that scene. What? Yeah. So, you know, but like how important is that scene, right? And I don't know if you realize like how much to like like the like film that changed. So like, I haven't tested this yet. I'm going to test it. But in the documentary, so make the might make the psycho sound. Right. Okay. So now like, first of all, you ever have like a little kid, right? Not that they should be practicing pretending to snap. But if they do it, they make that noise, right? Now, why do they make that noise? Like they probably never even seen Psycho, they don't know, but it's become like part of the ethos. It's like culture that like five decades removed, six decades removed, like a kid naturally makes that noise. Yeah. Now, supposedly, if you actually slow down the the actual noise in the movie Psycho, do you know what it makes? I have no idea. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. So that is true. Wow. Who's the girl that gets killed in the shower? I know the name. She's blonde. I forget. That's okay. But do you know who her daughter is? No. Her daughter is babysitter in another famous horror movie Halloween. Wait. So. Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeah. Wait. So that was her mom? That's on purpose. Because when they were making Halloween, they wanted Jamie Lee Curtis to be forever tied to Psycho. What is her name? Janet. Janet Lee. Right. Is that right? I don't know. Janet Lee Curtis. I'll have my astute. I should know that. I should know this. But anyway. Yeah. Go ahead. But isn't that an interesting like linear? Right? Like when they go to make Halloween, John Carpenter says, no, I need her daughter as the star because I want to be forever tied to Hitchcock in that way. And that's not how Jaws came about, but it's an interesting scenario. If it's true. I haven't fully tested. Wow. So those of you at home tested, let us know in the comments if that was correct, you know. So are you without giving too much or are you thinking about creating more horror films yourself or getting back in? I'd like to at some point do like a feature a teddy and I'd like to do some other stuff. But for right now, like, so I have this place called Rebel House and it would be like studio lab if like studio lab didn't have a budget. So like, you know, but you know, I believe like, I know that like on the studio lab, you guys mentioned like how gorgeous it is and everything is like top of the line, like they could literally make like a Star Wars movie over there. My place is the type of place that like, you know, we're dirty, grungy type things have and that's where like amazing art happens, right? Like like just like CBGB or we think of something like Rick Rubin in, you know, like his dorm room at NYU, creating Def Jam records, you know, like my place is like you're not things you won't be able to do at studio lab. If you have the budget to like change the backgrounds and do all that stuff, that's great. At our place, if you want to just throw paint on the wall, as long as when I come back, it's the same colors when I left, I don't care if you do that. So that's like my, that's the difference between my place. Is my finish work great? No, I did it myself. I'm not a carpenter, but I'm like a jack of all trades. And so we have podcast studios, YouTube studio, like event space, we already have had like, you know, presidential hopefuls like come and have events there. We've had a couple of secret like kind of comedy nights, but just recently, like I finally started to start taking in people from the public and that are starting to produce some podcast there. Shout out to a guy, Dr. B. Well, and he was creating this show there. A lot of those shows that we have tend to be about something that's not legal in New Hampshire, which is like THC stuff, you know, but that's okay because I think it will be legal, you know, yeah, yeah, soon enough. But that the content is about like the health sides of that type of stuff and like different athletes and purveyors of law and things like that. So all right. So what's the website? You have a website? Yeah, it's rebelos nh.com and on Instagram where rebelos nh and I can tell you this. So like I just resigned for a year and one of the things that I'm going to be doing is like a shark tank, ask type night, okay, because and basically what I'm looking to do is build like a mini bar stool. And I don't mean like related to sports, but I'm just looking for your my most talented people like you, Ray, but we're, you know, we want like the young creators, right? Because we need like the young to help like build this up, right? And so we're looking for young creators, whether it be like sports ideas to the next call her daddy to the next Joe Rogan, whatever. And they're going to come and pitch the ideas and we're going to give scholarships to those creators. So we can talk more about that. Oh my god. This is what happened. We get so caught up. Oh, I love being out of bed some days and it's so nice to be with you. You will listen to NH Unscripted. I am your gallery like host Ray Dudley, we're having a ball today, 1450 AM 103.9 FM in Concord. We are coming to you from the Gung Show like things at the WKXL Studios. 101.9 FM in Manchester NH.radio.com is our URL. I'll give you info about that when Scott and I come back. [Music] [Music] [Music] Ooh, baby, welcome back to NH Unscripted. You will listen to us as we come to you from a loved, old, white condition. WKXL Studios, I am the captain, still being like host Ray Dudley. You are listening to us at 1450 AM 103.9 FM in Concord 101.9 FM in Manchester NH.radio.com is our URL. Now, what's happening out there is you can find a button obviously to listen to us live, you know. It comes to you every Wednesday and Friday morning at 9 AM. So you're in your car, fire it up, baby, fire it up. So you can find all the archives of this, what should be an award-winning show and all the other great programs that happen here at the studio out there. They're all archived. Yeah, you get up at 2, 3 in the morning and you're hung over, you need something to help you with. Just go out there. Go out there. Make friends with us. Scott Molot's in the house and we are talking right now about Rebel House. Scott, where is Rebel House even located? So Rebel House is located actually inside the Fox Run Mall. There's not a whole lot left over there. But what is... Oh, I'm kidding. Yeah. But what's in the mall is starting to be a lot of cool, amazing local businesses. And that's everything from like a dance hall to like learn how to dance to like Jiu Jitsu instructors. Oh, kidding. And like learn a two step, learn how to choke your best enemy out and then we'll do a podcast about it. So, you know, but there's a lot of other cool things that are starting to happen over there at the mall and they've been cool enough to. I have a cool space with some cool studios. We have the Rogan Room, which is modeled after Joe Rogan's first studio in the coop named after Alex Cooper from Call Her Daddy, who's like the queen of podcasting right now. And then we have an awesome event space that holds like up to 150 people. And yeah. You've come a long way from the horse bed. No, dude. Listen, we're just getting this going. Like this is... It is what it is. And it's the exact opposite of studio lab, but in the same spirit. So those guys are doing amazing things over there. And we're trying to do something similar. We're just trying to keep help, keep that local art a lot. But we're just getting ready to jump start it. Like it hasn't been easy. I've done it like on like a boot string budget, but that's kind of like, I know that other great creators a lot of times are in that position. And until they have the budget to get in a little bit fancier of a place, like we have some the ability to create some great content at a high quality at like some budget rates. But it's more like you come and help self produce. It's like a studio where us creatives are supposed to like kind of bounce off each other. And maybe like someday there'll be this awesome documentary about a two year run where cool things happen. Who knows? Whoa. And so we're going to do a scholarship night. Like I said, and I'm going to scholarship and we're going to sign people on where we're going to try to make like a mini label. And who knows? Like I might put it on like Roku television or something and see what we can do with it. That's the hopes. And I also hope to do a horror film festival and my own version of like a 48. But that one, I'm going to put up like some prize money, maybe like a $5,000 first prize or something. I don't know, man. I like that the sky is the limit. So when I ask you, what are you up to lately? And you say, Oh, not much. Well, I'm sitting in the room. This is a version of not much. We're going to give out scholarships. We got a dancing. We got a whole low. My God. Well, these are all hopes though, right? You know, like we got a dream. We got a dream. Yes. But that's because we also like got to talk about the state of film here in New Hampshire. Fire away. Good segue. What is that? I have no idea. Quick question. Have you ever had Matt Newton on the show? Yes. Years ago. Okay. You should try to get him back on because he's not in that position anymore. He was the head of the New Hampshire film thing. It got cut and so like now that but they're thinking that's why I can't find them. So that's what they're thinking about bringing it back. But I bet Matt could tell you all the things that need to happen, right? To really start trying to bring film back here, but I'm going to tell you what needs to happen. All right. Like what needs to happen is somebody needs to make a couple big films from New Hampshire. And look, obviously like in Portsmouth, there's Amy and Chris did the leftovers. Yeah. They've been nominated a few times here for Academy Awards, like Sound and Metal, Knives Out. I mean, those guys are very successful in that commercial realm. What we need is like a film that's like based right in New Hampshire. And to me, like the first one, it's probably going to have to be a horror film, you know, again, like we look at those player witches and we look at like those types of things, low budget, high return, that could be done right here in the state. We can make something dope in the backyard of the studio right here. And I think that happens. It will start to attract like officials to be like, okay, we could give tax cuts to start creating jobs in places like this. Why is it not happening? It all has to do with taxes. It has to do with politics. It has to do with why a lot of things don't happen, you know, period. But if you're a creative person, you can figure out like we did with Teddy on how to get the things you need and make a great story. And for those of you that are at home, if you're younger and you're listening and you think like, I don't have the best red camera, I don't have this, you don't need it. What I want you to do is look historically at what film was shot on and then look at like an iPhone four and it has the same specs as a great cinema camera from back then. And you can buy one of those online for about $12. This is what I teach kids in like some of the programs when we work with like underprivileged youth, you know. And so what's really important is like learning how to edit and like learning how to get an attractive audience. And you know, and also like how films are built now have changed, like we don't have enough time to go in to all that. And I wish we did. But you know, we could talk about the difference between the new roadhouse and the old roadhouse. And while people, a lot of people don't think the new ones a good movie, it is if you look at what today's times are, but it's not at the same time. It just depends. It's like saying that like the Beatles are great and Drake isn't. Well, it depends when you were born, right? So I don't know. I mean, so have you heard of anything being made lately in New Hampshire? I've heard of nothing. I mean, seriously, things don't get made here because of the tax breaks. So it's right over the border. It's crazy. You know, and you know that that can that can change. That was an issue when Matt was in here when I talked to Matt before. Right. It was the same issue back then. And that had to be 2018 2019. Well, they don't they just don't see the financial. So the thing is like, look, if you're trying to shoot a film in a place like Portsmouth, you don't need any more business, right? Yeah. But if you go to the North country, like say you go above the notch, there's like a plenty of communities that like people could use jobs being sound people being, you know, like whatever. I mean, like such dressers, gaffers, like extras, PAs, like whatever. And you could you could build, you know, catering companies. And there are like broken down areas that you could redress as different types of towns. So the great part about New England is that we have like, you know, both historical places set next to modern places set next to mid century places. So you know, it offers like this wide variety of, you know, areas, but of course, we only have like a limited amount of months to shoot certain types of seasons. So you do have to be very efficient and that makes it tough. Yeah. Yeah. Are you, if you look at the film scene out there right now, is there anything on the horizon you're looking forward to going to see? You know what? I just saw that I had for that movie about landing on the moon. I thought that that looked interesting. But you know what? I wish we probably don't have enough time to have you seen civil war? No. It was excellent. Really? There's a lot of people that will say that it's not and that it's a slanted view. You're looking for that. Like, there's certain things you have to write into a storyline to like appease, like across the board and make an understanding. It got a lot of chatter. It was done really well, but just to give, if you haven't seen it, it's a great point about talking. It's seen through the eyes of combat press. So I know like the press takes a lot of heat now, but one type of press that has always been real, whether you like it or not, whether anybody likes to know are the people that are in war zones that are just trying to tell us what happens. And sure, there's a couple of parts that are a little cheesy, like where they try to add in to like create a storyline as some Hollywood people do, but the following of the press throughout the story, just to kind of give us an idea of what that scenario would be like in this world, and it touches in different things, and I don't want to give too much away, but it was really well done. And I actually like post this election, no matter what happens. I almost think there is a spinoff for each one of the individual characters. No kidding. Yeah. Man, we got to put a pin in it there. Thanks for having me, Bob. Oh, Scott, give me your URL real quick again. We're going to go rebelos 10h on Instagram at rebelos nh and rebelos nh.com. Yeah. 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