Children of the Night – A Universal Song of Monster Love

Children of the Night

Katherine and I were fortunate to spend some time with Jason Ginsburg and Eduardo Garcia Rascon, who wrote the music for “Children of the Night,” a new song sung by Brette Alana. The song features the classic monster that we have all come to love. 

It is an amazing song, and it fits great into this month’s Halloween theme. The lyrics, music, and vocals are stunning. Check it out. 

Transcript

00:00:00:00 – 00:00:10:00
Speaker 1
Larry aimed his telescope. Soon he became my dear Lycanthrope works in the daytime, frisky at night.

00:00:10:04 – 00:00:40:29
Unknown
The whole thing bloomed in the autumn. Moon was bright 00800. He was super friend until he saw this terrible mind and I crossed the nine. There was no reversal in time. His story its universal all day only stay with you One may baby children of the night What music they may.

00:00:41:08 – 00:01:06:12
Speaker 3
everybody I’m happy to be joined by Jason Eduardo and Katherine. Jason and Eduardo and Rita made the song Children of the Night. And it’s a modern twist on the monster MASH. And I’m very happy to have everybody here tonight. And I’m just going to throw it out to you and Startalk.

00:01:06:14 – 00:01:28:24
Speaker 4
Hello, Welcome to I produced a song. This is my my project, The Beginnings. I connected with Eduardo. For me, it it really this whole idea of having a song about the monster started Blowback in 2017. That’s when Universal was trying to launch their dark universe. They started with The Mummy, with Tom Cruise, and that project obviously sort of fizzled and went away.

00:01:28:24 – 00:01:47:29
Speaker 4
But to promote it, they put out this very cool trailer of all the classic monster films that are available on on video and DVD at that point and said, there’s an ad free. It’s like this, it’s a dialog, is very spooky and is very, very well done with this very cool music to it. And it sounded like kind of like, like a marvel trailer or like a very modern trailer.

00:01:47:29 – 00:02:05:21
Speaker 4
And I thought, what is this the sound? It sounds very cool. I looked it up and it was just trailer music they just bought from a trailer house. Now, I have great respect for your music. I own plenty of backs from audio machine and trailer head and two sets from hell and it’s great. I love that kind of music, but it’s not that universal.

00:02:05:28 – 00:02:25:04
Speaker 4
With 100 year film library and the biggest music company in the world just went out and bought something that wasn’t really that was not made for the monsters. I thought, it’s too bad that they use some kind of third party thing. It’s rare they didn’t use, and then I kind of blank and went, Well, what should they have use?

00:02:25:06 – 00:02:49:05
Speaker 4
What is the appropriate thing for the Masters? There’s no piece of music that really exists for them. There’s spooky music, there’s Toccata and and Fugue, Andy Minor, you know, that, and on and on. And that’s there’s not involvement Mountain. I think Mozart’s Requiem is pretty spooky, but it’s not that those those don’t belong. The masters are classic pieces they’re used a million different things.

00:02:49:07 – 00:03:09:26
Speaker 4
What’s the monster music? So I began thinking about this going what actually is it about the monsters at all? And I really came up with Monster MASH. I’m 60 years ago and thought, okay, that’s it. So like an idiot, I thought, I’ll make a song. I think the monster deserves something more epic and grand and the silly novelty songs.

00:03:09:27 – 00:03:35:04
Speaker 4
1962 So I’ll put something together. I guess I can write the lyrics at least I don’t touch my music. I have written a couple of co-wrote two songs for a fake theme park. My old comedy Twitter years ago, So I can find a composer with like, like some kind of mind as me. We can put this together and I can with Eduardo exactly what I was looking for and made this fantastic turn across between symphonic metal and sort of this gothic music.

00:03:35:04 – 00:03:47:15
Speaker 4
And I saw this light Broadway show doing that sort of a character singing these funny lines. So that’s where the whole thing came from, was really there is no song like it, not for 60 years.

00:03:47:18 – 00:04:05:14
Speaker 3
Right? When we first talked, I watched some videos on how to do the mash so I could do the monster mash, which is basically you got those intros to. So you put this all together on the Internet or did you guys know each other locally or what?

00:04:05:16 – 00:04:07:20
Speaker 5
We connected. Yeah. Yeah. Internet.

00:04:07:23 – 00:04:08:27
Speaker 4
Yes. Okay.

00:04:09:00 – 00:04:24:02
Speaker 3
That’s amazing. And of course, I’m a big Gilman man fan myself. And so you included Gill man, and I was very happy that he made the cut because he gets left off of the traditional monsters so much.

00:04:24:10 – 00:04:46:15
Speaker 4
yeah. I mean, sure. All eight, though, of the classic monsters, you know, are a brand. There’s an official logo. Universal really does license them. Or you say, but this time of year. So they really are eight official ones. I want to make sure they were all in it because otherwise you’re not doing them justice. And sort of like even the question of how to do this, even looking at Monster MASH is this the party are the means.

00:04:46:15 – 00:05:04:08
Speaker 4
The song is basically about a party happening. And I guess the point of like The Mummy was there, the last man was there. But that’s not a song to say, Listen, we’re on the air. So what is the story? What is the songs? I began to think about what’s it what are you what is the is what is the point of view?

00:05:04:08 – 00:05:22:23
Speaker 4
The song is it People see them as monsters chasing the singer is a singer, Van Helsing, and he’s hunting all of them, but seems like they’re become the villains in that song. We only to think about the movies themselves and realize a lot of the stories are about love. You’re Frankenstein and the Bride. Yes, The Phantom and Christine.

00:05:22:25 – 00:05:42:20
Speaker 4
Dracula is really a love story. The Mummy is Reincarnating as Lost Love Dracula based on Valentine’s Day, as a matter of fact. So I thought maybe that’s the way and do a love song of sorts where you’re going through all the love you have for the monsters. So you and the love doesn’t work out a lot in those movies is obviously misguided or unwanted, but it’s still there.

00:05:42:20 – 00:06:08:28
Speaker 4
There’s still like a purity of love to really every single character, including the Gilman carrying the girl away. That’s still some kind of attraction there. So that became the framework to tell the story. I wasn’t really sure what to do besides saying the monsters are cool. That’s not a song. Let’s have some kind of story. And so as I wrote the lyrics, Eduardo helped a lot, sort of like figure out where this is going, have a kind of build to something that has kind of a mystery of who she end up with and who who even is this singer.

00:06:09:05 – 00:06:24:29
Speaker 4
And we end up, but maybe, I’ll guess, the only female monster as who she ends up being. And so even the singer herself is a is a character in this whole thing. So it was interesting journey to go from one song about the monsters to what does that mean? What is a song about the monsters supposed to convey?

00:06:25:01 – 00:06:36:06
Speaker 4
And so this is a kind of a love letter in a lot of ways for them, because it talks about how great they are individually and then but as I think one version of The Beat with Forever.

00:06:36:09 – 00:06:44:09
Speaker 3
Well, Eduardo, how did you how did you mash the music styles together? Because almost like the pipe organ, you know, and.

00:06:44:11 – 00:06:44:21
Speaker 4
The.

00:06:44:23 – 00:06:51:12
Speaker 3
Whole I don’t know the terms for music. I’m not a music guy, but how did you how did you put this all together?

00:06:51:15 – 00:07:13:06
Speaker 5
Well, I guess I guess it was like a progressive thing. I mean, like from the beginning, at least, like when I talked to Jason, like, the idea was to have something spooky, something that brought something that was, like, symphonic. So I was like, okay, you know, going into a bit of like a cliché here, let’s use the pipe organ.

00:07:13:06 – 00:07:37:00
Speaker 5
You know, this, you know, you know, there’s nothing more like, I guess, monster like and that. So I was like, okay, let’s do that. Let’s try to that make that like almost the only cliche, right? So I tried to come up with combine it somehow, right? So I was like, okay, you know, Phantom of the Opera, they do something like that where they have the pipe organ, you know, that the main theme.

00:07:37:02 – 00:08:11:06
Speaker 5
But then if you hear like light wishes firsthand, they operate like this rock band. So I was like, okay, that’s a that’s a good approach. But you know what? We’re still missing like the symphony, right? The the whole orchestra. So I don’t know, I guess it was a lot of like trial and error, the very first graph that I gave and it’s actually like the whole first 45 or minute of the song, which is what I came up with, you know, when I was trying to get the gig.

00:08:11:08 – 00:08:36:23
Speaker 5
So I don’t know, I just at that moment I was like, okay, we’ve got the symphony with the Rock. Let’s do a little bit of like strings here and there. You know, maybe something will come up, you know, And as soon as the we started actually working on it and I started getting lyrics, you know, like ideas started to come, right, just to, I don’t know, we went to several iterations.

00:08:36:26 – 00:09:00:28
Speaker 5
But yeah, from the beginning I did want to do something that sounded like spooky mysterious, kind of like if, you know, like Danny Elfman was doing this mix with like a Broadway thing. So I was like, okay, Danny Elfman, You know, it has to be at least the beginning. Like not too many instruments is like a small things here and there.

00:09:00:28 – 00:09:31:22
Speaker 5
Maybe like the violin on the back, you know, like subtle. But then at some point you just kind of hit it, right, Get the get the rock band going. So, yeah. So I guess, you know, like I said, it was kind of progressive. It was not something that I thought of from the very beginning. You know, bits and pieces were there and they, I don’t know, like it all started to fall into place, you know, after several iterations and, you know, ideas, things did I got this started and, you know, I was like, this.

00:09:31:25 – 00:09:49:28
Speaker 3
By the process. Okay, Either I see you bobbing your head over there. Do you have anything you want to throw in? And today I really like you. Yeah, the the play I’m phrasing, you know, Children of the night, you know, which, of course, is a line from Dracula, the original Dracula. But it also applies to the monsters running around.

00:09:49:28 – 00:10:03:28
Speaker 3
So it’s I like that double play. And then she says in one part, like the I find Dracula’s daughter more interesting. So that’s another. That’s another bit.

00:10:04:00 – 00:10:29:06
Speaker 5
Yeah they this on having that line we did at some point consider changing something with Dracula actually Dracula verse at several stages. At some point I suggested that we did something else. But nowadays I’m a very keen on having the Dracula daughter line in there and I think it’s a great line. So I’m glad that.

00:10:29:08 – 00:10:38:22
Speaker 3
I get so many hits on that movie. I’ve got them audio podcast on YouTube and that hits every week. People love that movie.

00:10:38:24 – 00:10:46:18
Speaker 4
It’s very hard to believe it was made back then and got back to the censors. That was sort of the undertone in that series, but still very cool.

00:10:46:21 – 00:10:50:14
Speaker 3
Yeah, it is a very cool movie. Yeah. You’re back now.

00:10:50:16 – 00:11:13:15
Speaker 1
I think so. Okay. Well, I was just going to say that at least a few parts of the song kind of almost reminded me a little bit of like the Andrew Lloyd Webber, you know, Phantom of the Opera. The Opera a little bit, you know, kind of the mixture of the rock and the organ or the organ and all that stuff, which I thought was really cool.

00:11:13:17 – 00:11:21:16
Speaker 1
And I think that really fits emphatically and it was very appropriate. Yeah, Yeah. So. sorry. God.

00:11:21:18 – 00:11:39:06
Speaker 5
No, no, I was just going to add that. Yeah, there. There’s a couple of things where, you know, there’s a couple of instances where you want to stay away from cliches and there’s instances where you want to hit them. And in this case, maybe like the pipe organ, I guess that was another cliche that we really needed to have there.

00:11:39:06 – 00:11:43:12
Speaker 5
And I think was very beneficial, you know, to include.

00:11:43:15 – 00:12:10:17
Speaker 1
I honestly think that it sounds great, and I think it is one of those like visual and it was written out in visual one of those audio parts that like people really recognize and they associate with that horror genre. That’s the vision. So I think that, yeah, I mean the cliche, but I kind of I don’t think it really read that way in my opinion.

00:12:10:19 – 00:12:32:07
Speaker 4
And we talked about Spooky. What what are spooky sounds So yeah, to them or not, I mean, something like a wolf howl. We talked about that someplace that seems like so appropriate, but also is that this is this kid’s song. So yeah, bell ringing, a church bell, something like that. When and we ended up basically just this thunder crash because it really is to great effect I think.

00:12:32:07 – 00:12:51:03
Speaker 4
And Bardo really made sure that was in one sound that we do because it really does play the climax of the song and Frankenstein and the Bride have that thunder and lightning imagery, so it works. We really stayed away trying to not be like Thriller. We hear footsteps in the door, picking up part of it. You know, as great as Thriller is, that’s a lot of sound effects.

00:12:51:06 – 00:12:51:23
Speaker 4
Yeah.

00:12:51:25 – 00:12:53:05
Speaker 5
Yeah, that’s true.

00:12:53:07 – 00:13:12:11
Speaker 1
Yeah. And I know, like the the original kind of monster mash song is definitely a little more silly, probably a little more family oriented. And not that this is not like, you know, not family oriented, but this one definitely it is more serious. And it does it does read like a love letter, in my opinion.

00:13:12:13 – 00:13:33:12
Speaker 3
Uma Yeah. Having been alive during the monster mash time, if you were a band and you could get up a dance, you know, which was just it was a mashed potato, but they made it the monster mash. And that was a way to propel yourself on radio play. It was a great marketing tool. Back in the day.

00:13:33:14 – 00:13:41:20
Speaker 4
I got a dance. Maybe from this I don’t know what it’ll be. The night, the night dance, something like that. Yes. Let’s do it. Let’s make that happen.

00:13:41:22 – 00:14:02:11
Speaker 3
You know what I thought when I first heard the song? I’m like, my God, this is the foundation for a book about a female that goes through a series of guys that have these traits, you know, not monsters, but just traits or Broadway play. You know, it’s like this is just like step one, I think. Because I’m.

00:14:02:13 – 00:14:03:09
Speaker 4
Supernatural.

00:14:03:12 – 00:14:06:12
Speaker 5
Yeah, No, I certainly hope so.

00:14:06:15 – 00:14:07:08
Speaker 3
Yeah.

00:14:07:10 – 00:14:16:18
Speaker 4
Supernatural romance is a genre. It’s a love story. So that’s a popular song, right? We wouldn’t be hard to to combine this with universal monsters.

00:14:16:21 – 00:14:20:22
Speaker 3
Yeah. So the song is not officially out yet, or it is.

00:14:20:22 – 00:14:35:25
Speaker 4
It’s on all the services, however you want to enjoy it. iTunes, Amazon, Apple, Spotify and beyond should be on Tick Tock if not today, very soon and tick tock Background sound. What is that? Pipe organ. Feel free to make it all you want.

00:14:35:25 – 00:14:38:15
Speaker 5
Any readings? Yes.

00:14:38:18 – 00:14:40:18
Speaker 3
Permission for this we put in?

00:14:40:21 – 00:14:44:03
Speaker 4
Absolutely. I think Eduardo and I could both get permission right now.

00:14:44:04 – 00:14:46:16
Speaker 5
So. Yes, I know. For a.

00:14:46:27 – 00:14:56:23
Speaker 3
I want to get into your ear. It’s just a little bit of your background with Universal. You said you work there for a long time. Are you talking universal like California or.

00:14:56:25 – 00:14:59:22
Speaker 4
Yes, the actual movie studio. Yeah.

00:15:00:06 – 00:15:01:20
Speaker 3
the movie studio. I’m sorry.

00:15:01:22 – 00:15:19:19
Speaker 4
Universal Studios, Hollywood. Not so the one in L.A. You’re you’re correct. I was a tour guide there giving the the the famous 100 to the four car tram towards everyone knows where jaws attacks you and can contact you also get VIP tours which is a smaller vehicle and you get to get out and walk around. I really it’s is it’s still offered today.

00:15:19:19 – 00:15:34:10
Speaker 4
I recommend it to everybody who’s a movie buff to get out and touch the sets, walk around the backlot and if you want the sound department, the props department, it’s very cool. It’s like 2 hours in the backlot and then there’s a theme park part of it as well. So I got to take guests for years and walk around.

00:15:34:13 – 00:15:52:22
Speaker 4
What’s called Little Europe, which is where a lot of the exteriors were shot. They say those are the movies. They were not shot anywhere near Europe. So they’re in the soundstages of the interiors. Stage 12 The biggest one of the lot was Dracula’s castle, and Frankenstein’s lab is 828 with the Phantom of the Opera, the actual opera house boxes that’s been destroyed.

00:15:52:24 – 00:16:14:27
Speaker 4
To make room for more of the theme park. Unfortunately, a little Europe is still there. It’s still used. It was used most recently for the Good Place. I went there an aside and have been in a good place. That was Europe, believe it or not. Look at it again closely. You’ll see it’s a little European and a village, but all they see three years ago, Frankenstein was rampaging around or people with the mob with stage for Europe on the backlot.

00:16:14:27 – 00:16:34:18
Speaker 4
So I got to walk around there and catch those sets. I’m a lifelong fan of the monsters. My dad got me into them. He’s a movie buff himself. What really happened was when I got the job at Universal, I began sort of the DVD areas. I began buying all the movies for my dad in the studio store on DVD as gifts for his birthday, for the holidays.

00:16:34:18 – 00:16:53:17
Speaker 4
And then I kind of ran out of the big ones and they still had the sequels. It would be like the Mummy’s Ghost. The Mummy’s Curse is a two pack, and then I’m Dracula and Dracula’s daughter, a two pack. And I thought, All right, I’ll buy these too, because if my dad being my dad, wanted to watch them with me, kind of watching all these sort of weird spin offs and weird sequels, some of them are greats.

00:16:53:20 – 00:17:11:28
Speaker 4
Dracula’s daughter, Bride of Frankenstein, Ghost of Frankenstein is great. And as the not so great weird one, they’re just making that mummy one’s decreased pretty fast. So I began to sort of fall in love with these movies. I learned them all because my dad hit by them, my dad and watching them with them. When I would go home to Dallas to give them to him for a year is the holidays.

00:17:12:00 – 00:17:31:08
Speaker 4
So that’s my I’ve always been a fan of the characters. I’ve written about them and articles about them. The fandom still exists with plenty of Facebook groups, like a lot of Facebook pages to this day of young people, we’re not near anywhere near our lives, you know, that was 90 years old. So it’s really it’s a testament. These characters are so iconic.

00:17:31:15 – 00:17:52:29
Speaker 4
They mean something today that Universal still has the brand. There’s rides coming to the Florida park with the epic universe. It’s a monster area, so they’re not going away. And some films are being made like Renfield. They kind of refer to actually recreate some of the old scenes in that film in black and White with Nicolas Cage. I can say he was like shot for shot and it’s like a little flashback.

00:17:53:02 – 00:18:13:24
Speaker 4
So they’re they’re great. I love them. And I wanted to sort of I’ve always wanted to do something with them. And this idea has been percolating for years of could there be a song? What would the song be an anthem? Is it only instrumental? And what I came up with is, I think, something a lot of fun for a lot of people that hopefully maybe could be played at, say, Halloween horror nights for an epic universe.

00:18:13:24 – 00:18:34:10
Speaker 4
Someday I would be happy to make a deal with Universal have give them the rights. But if not, since they were not involved in this project, the monsters all everything in the lyrics is royalty free copyright. I’m just talking about characters that’s allowed. Frankenstein and Dracula are two main characters, so that’s fine. But Universal wants to get involved too.

00:18:34:10 – 00:18:36:25
Speaker 4
We are waiting by the phone.

00:18:36:27 – 00:18:56:09
Speaker 3
You know, that’s funny. I don’t know if you know this because, you know, I mean, there’s so much about it. Are Daughter of Dracula was made because Stoker’s widow lost the copyright. So they said we’re not we’re not even going to deal with your demands. We’ll just write our own story. And that was the daughter of Drac is.

00:18:56:09 – 00:19:18:23
Speaker 4
Supposed it’s like especially Dracula’s guest, I think, which is like a lost chapter of the novel. So this weird copyright, it was really wasn’t part of the novel. It was, you know, the rights to it. Yeah, it’s the sequels. They just I mean, the idea really blew everything. That’s a huge deal today. Frankenstein missed the Wolfman the first time ever you had two characters in two separate films meeting each other.

00:19:18:23 – 00:19:44:25
Speaker 4
The idea that Frankenstein Wolfman existed in the same world at the same time, not different eras or anything. That’s how we get the Marvel Cinematic Universe today. That was a mind blowing idea that the monsters could get together. I took them out of several other movies. They all got together and met all of them. So that was a they make more sequels, but it was genius idea that these are the person who knew about the Wolfman, also knew the Frankenstein was also in their universe.

00:19:44:28 – 00:19:48:02
Speaker 4
That’s a great, great, huge idea for movies.

00:19:48:04 – 00:19:55:19
Speaker 3
Yeah. Yes. A ghost of Frankenstein was the last monster alone Ryan or ever. The last time Frankenstein appeared alive.

00:19:55:19 – 00:20:15:05
Speaker 4
It’s the last time Boris Karloff played the Master. It was. It was a disaster of a picture, that point. It was. It was Basil Rathbone in it. It was a classy use. That was a high budget film. And for that, it sort of stopped. And more money for Karloff walked away. The films had him emoting anymore. He was even talking at that point.

00:20:15:08 – 00:20:25:02
Speaker 4
So you have that was a Son of Frankenstein, which is not as well-regarded. And I think it’s Lon Chaney Jr playing the monster at that point.

00:20:25:05 – 00:20:30:03
Speaker 3
So, Eduardo, what is your monster background? Are you a big fan?

00:20:30:05 – 00:20:57:06
Speaker 5
Yeah, I mean, I you know, you probably should have asked me first because after, you know, Jason spoke at an origin, I feel like, what can I possibly say after that? But I mean, I’ve always liked the monsters. I mean, of course, you know, I don’t have the knowledge and the background that Jason has. But I remember, you know, ever since I was a kid, you know, they were there and, you know, Dracula was there.

00:20:57:06 – 00:21:15:26
Speaker 5
And I think I told these days and at some point there were a lot of times like with I had an interest in so that I was really close to. And so my siblings and I and my cousins, we used to get together like for sleepovers a lot. And we would do like our own, like haunted mansions. And we were like in a room, right?

00:21:15:26 – 00:21:35:29
Speaker 5
So it was like a very amateur thing. I would say, you know, we were kids, but, you know, there were always a time where like, you’re going to be Dracula or you’re going to be Frankenstein or I don’t know, or like The Invisible Man. So kind of like hide under the bed, you know, after their leg or whatever, right?

00:21:35:29 – 00:22:01:20
Speaker 5
So, yeah, so, you know, I it’s something that I, you know, that I like since I was a kid that I’ve known since I was a kid, you know, even though most of them are existing, you know, way back before I was even I was even born. And not to mention the books. Right. The book the book that I did read recently are like two years ago it was Frankenstein.

00:22:01:23 – 00:22:23:13
Speaker 5
And I really liked it. And I got to say, it was much different than I thought it was going to be compared to the way you see Frankenstein in the movies and everything, you know, because, you know, Universal, they invented the like the famous Frankenstein look, you know, like with the flattop had what’s going on with this, which is a line, you know, the lines we have from the car.

00:22:23:15 – 00:22:48:29
Speaker 5
And then also the book is is it’s like very when Frankenstein starts to live, it’s like very underwhelming, actually, in the book, you know, like as you have in the movie, the famous It’s alive line. It’s like, you know, it’s living now in the book. It’s like, and then doctor Frankenstein finished or something very soon, like underwhelming.

00:22:48:29 – 00:23:21:26
Speaker 5
And at some point you’re like, So where is the monster living now or not? And then and once they start describing the monster, you know, walking and doing stuff like, okay, yeah, yeah, he’s alive, but it’s like completely different. But I still think it was like, very interesting thing. And you can tell a lot, you know, like, like by the day the year was me, you know, it’s been so long ago and it’s interesting to see in three and you can tell that this was written like, you know, a long time ago.

00:23:21:27 – 00:23:45:16
Speaker 5
So it’s very interesting to read that book for sure. You know, of course, The Mummy, you know, when I was a kid, like the first mummy with Brendan Fraser came out and I absolutely loved that movie, you know, it’s such a great movie. The second one was great too. The rest and I say I love them, but at least at first they were pretty good and I, in my eyes, you know.

00:23:45:18 – 00:24:11:25
Speaker 3
Is like, you know, I was a kid during the The Hammer Brothers with all the Christopher Lee and all of those guys are coming out. So I went through the lived through the second phase of this. Too bad they kind of nosedived on the reboot of the universe. I want to ask Catherine, do you have any universal background or experience or anything you’re interested in?

00:24:11:28 – 00:24:13:23
Speaker 3
Maybe we’re talking about?

00:24:13:25 – 00:24:43:29
Speaker 1
Well, I mean, obviously my story is sort of not exactly mirrors Jason’s, but obviously, like you’re my dad. And I think that you gave me a love of movies and maybe also a love of horror movies in general. I know that’s not your genre, but I think from all of my movie watching as a kid, I kind of moved into a big horror fan.

00:24:44:02 – 00:25:11:03
Speaker 1
And so of course, these universal monsters were definitely like kind of the bedrock, the foundation of that. And I think it is really a testament to how good these stories are and how good these movies are that just like you were saying, Jason, with the Facebook groups of young people, I mean, people are continuing to, you know, discover these movies and watch them and share them and grow to love them.

00:25:11:03 – 00:25:25:19
Speaker 1
You know what I mean? And of course, I love theme parks. And so, you know, I’m a universal annual pass holder. And so I have an appreciation for the parks as well.

00:25:25:22 – 00:25:29:29
Speaker 3
As all those. Mickey’s not so scary. Halloween’s we took you to when you were little. Yeah.

00:25:31:11 – 00:25:40:11
Speaker 5
I’ve been to one of those, and I absolutely loved it for sure. I mean, it’s a lot of fun. I mean, the name doesn’t play, you know, It’s actually not scary at all, but it’s. It’s a lot of fun. That’s true.

00:25:40:11 – 00:25:46:09
Speaker 3
Yes. Yeah, it is. It really is. So what’s the next step for you guys? What happens now?

00:25:46:11 – 00:25:48:04
Speaker 1
Music video.

00:25:48:07 – 00:26:07:16
Speaker 4
Well, that’s I mean, ideally, I mean, the video would involve all the footage from these movies, which is an issue since we are not universal at this point. So I think it would be tough to do a video without without that, you can have someone dressed as Frankenstein in 2023. I don’t think it’d be the same as see Boris Karloff.

00:26:07:16 – 00:26:11:13
Speaker 4
You want to watch that video that Universal put out in 2017 is fantastic.

00:26:11:13 – 00:26:12:12
Speaker 5
And just just.

00:26:12:15 – 00:26:33:26
Speaker 4
The movies and it’s very cool music. So I don’t know if there’s any way to do that. We are certainly are interviewing with great podcasts like yourself. I spoke to the Orlando Sentinel today. They had the Halloween Horror Nights section themselves off The Dr. Demento Show. They put it on the air. So we are talking to everyone who anyone who likes movies or horror or theme parks or monsters.

00:26:33:28 – 00:26:39:22
Speaker 4
We’re happy to talk to you or send you the song or send you our press release and give you the info.

00:26:39:25 – 00:26:56:27
Speaker 3
Well, I’m definitely going to get this album before Halloween, maybe in a week or so. And I’m very excited, you know, because it’s a great idea. The concept in the. Yeah, every time I listen to it, I hear a little I didn’t it the first time. Yeah. And I get it now. Okay. Yeah. There’s a lot in there.

00:26:56:28 – 00:27:01:15
Speaker 3
The music’s wonderful. The singing is just over the top.

00:27:01:15 – 00:27:03:11
Speaker 1
It’s amazing. He has a great voice.

00:27:03:13 – 00:27:07:13
Speaker 5
As a female. They absolutely never.

00:27:07:15 – 00:27:16:17
Speaker 4
Got her just before. She’s about to blow up, too, so it’s a busy night. So, yeah, I think we got her just in time. Remember that name, Bret? Alana.

00:27:16:19 – 00:27:34:09
Speaker 3
I will. Definitely. Well, you know, the thing is, I’ve been practicing less is more now lately, so I’m giving these podcasts short. They’re easier to edit too, by the way. But I do that and let’s go. Let’s go round it in reverse order. Heather And you have any final comments, anything you want to say?

00:27:34:12 – 00:28:01:08
Speaker 1
I’m just I appreciate you asking me to be on here knowing my interest. It was really cool to meet you guys and get to talk to you guys. I do have some episodes of my podcast, Creepy Americana that are up and available. I haven’t really worked on it in a few years. Just with Dating Life, I guess, but they’re still there if you want to listen to them.

00:28:01:08 – 00:28:05:00
Speaker 1
But I think that’s pretty much it. So thank you.

00:28:05:01 – 00:28:08:17
Speaker 3
Okay, Eduardo, final words.

00:28:08:20 – 00:28:27:18
Speaker 5
Just, you know, thanks for having us for inviting us to let us comment to this platform and just talk about our work. You know, we did work for it on it for a while. It took us, you know, a couple of months. I mean, we as we we didn’t want to take enough time to make sure it was good.

00:28:27:18 – 00:29:04:18
Speaker 5
You know, fortunately, Jason, you know, started this whole thing with, you know, a lot of anticipation. So we had the time and we took the time to make sure it was, you know, as we possibly said, you know, every now every information that I did, you know, with all the care that I could do, every single syllable that Jason wrote and all the melodies and syllabic things that I asked them to change, too, you know, for a lot of and so a lot of things, you know, it was just we put a lot of work in through it and I think, you know, I can also see for days on that, you know, we’re proud

00:29:04:18 – 00:29:27:01
Speaker 5
of this. We, we we love the way it came out and we just happy to be able to share with people. And, you know, in your show and hopefully, you know, in a lot of other places and we hope, you know, people enjoy listening to it as much as we we do and as much as we did. And, you know, and and actually creating it was okay.

00:29:27:03 – 00:29:28:17
Speaker 3
And Jason, final words?

00:29:28:21 – 00:29:54:00
Speaker 4
Well, let me put it this way. When you’re putting together, you’re having a party. If Halloween, you’re putting together a playlist, what’s the most recent song on the playlist? Ghostbusters, thriller, The Eighties. And remember for Christmas from the Nineties, there has not been a Halloween song like on the Radio. That was a novelty silly song in 25 years, 30 years, 40 years.

00:29:54:00 – 00:30:07:24
Speaker 4
Going back to Thriller, Let’s Make Children of the Night, the next great Halloween song to put on a Halloween playlist for your Halloween party. That’s intended to be a great thing. I think we need a new song to do it.

00:30:07:24 – 00:30:23:23
Speaker 3
I can’t get it out there. You guys have done a fantastic job lyrically. It’s amazing. Musically. It’s amazing, vocally amazing. So I’m going to do everything I can to promote it. Thank you for coming and letting us hear your story.

00:30:23:25 – 00:30:25:28
Speaker 5
Thank you so much. Thank you, John.

00:30:26:01 – 00:30:27:06
Speaker 1
One more feature.

00:30:27:09 – 00:31:02:25
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