From Havre de Grace to Hollywood: Ben Getz on Gothic Slayers

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Rich Bennett 1:00
Imagine you and your friend of yours work at a local puppet place. Then you have to face off against a demonic cult 

that actually kidnapped your friend and they are threatening to destroy your hometown. 

It sounds kind of scary, doesn't it? Well, there's a movie made about this, and I'll be honest with you, I watched it, and I was rolling, I was laughing, and I have one of the writers and one of the stars on this episode. He's from half a degrees. Look, a guy, and I think if you, number one, if you watch a movie, you're going to enjoy it, I believe you will, because I did. So definitely watch it. It's called gothic slayer, and on this episode, I have Bing Getz on. He came all the way from New York City for this, 

Ben Getz 1:54
just to do this show. Isn't that crazy? 

Rich Bennett 1:56
Yeah, people know I'm blind. That, well, you have the, other one this airs it'll already be done, because it's Friday tonight. 

Ben Getz 2:04
It's tomorrow, tomorrow. Tomorrow night. Yeah. So we're doing the premiere of gothic slayers, which is the movie in Half of the Grace. 

Rich Bennett 2:12
Wow, okay. So how are you? 

Ben Getz 2:14
It was released in a 

Rich Bennett 2:15
March. 

Ben Getz 2:15
Yeah, so we did a, we did a premiere in LA out in Hollywood at the Chinese theater. 

Rich Bennett 2:22
Oh, man. 

Ben Getz 2:22
It was very cool. Yeah, with all the, you know, the place with all the handprints and of 

Rich Bennett 2:28
was that your first time out there? 

Ben Getz 2:30
It was not my first time in LA, but it was my first time premiering a movie out there. 

Rich Bennett 2:35
That had to be a 

Ben Getz 2:36
Wow. It was really cool. And we were in the same theater complex as Captain, the new Captain America was releasing the same 

Rich Bennett 2:44
rush. 

Ben Getz 2:44
night. So it was crazy. They'd shut down the whole street, not for us, but for Captain America. 

Rich Bennett 2:49
Sorry. You can 

Ben Getz 2:50
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 2:50
believe 

Ben Getz 2:51
Exactly. A little bit for us. 

Rich Bennett 2:52
it. 

Ben Getz 2:53
And we were in a theater that was, you know, a couple stories above theirs, but it was really cool. It was a, it was a neat experience. 

Rich Bennett 2:58
Oh man. All right. So before Gothic, 

Ben Getz 3:01
Yes, 

Rich Bennett 3:02
you were in high school because you 

Ben Getz 3:03
were 

Rich Bennett 3:04
having a Grace High School. 

Ben Getz 3:05
Mm hmm. 

Rich Bennett 3:07
Is acting something you always wanted to do? 

Ben Getz 3:10
Yeah, it was something I grew up doing. I had a lot of cousins that were doing it. My mom was a dancer when she was younger. 

Rich Bennett 3:16
Really? 

Ben Getz 3:16
So, yeah. So the first thing that I did was she threw me into dance classes, 

Rich Bennett 3:20
Okay. 

Ben Getz 3:21
which was really not my cup of tea, but I liked being on stage. And so then I started acting and sort of carried that through. And I did all the like musicals. 

Rich Bennett 3:32
Right. 

Ben Getz 3:32
School. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 3:34
Oh, so you sing too? 

Ben Getz 3:35
A little bit. You don't make me sing, right? 

Rich Bennett 3:37
Okay. 

Ben Getz 3:37
Yeah. So 

Rich Bennett 3:39
then what you went off to college? I take it. 

Ben Getz 3:41
Yeah, I went to NYU for theater. 

Rich Bennett 3:43
Oh, no. 

Ben Getz 3:44
And then stayed up in New York after I graduated. 

Rich Bennett 3:47
All right. So take us after 

Ben Getz 3:51
college, 

Rich Bennett 3:51
I know because I know to get 

Ben Getz 3:52
because 

Rich Bennett 3:52
into acting, it can be hard. I 

Ben Getz 3:53
had 

Rich Bennett 3:54
another gentleman on from 

Ben Getz 3:56
here, 

Rich Bennett 3:57
counter-purposed who lives. 

Ben Getz 3:58
Oh, of course. Yeah. I know Connor. Uh-huh. 

Rich Bennett 4:00
So, and he, I think he's on what Chicago med. 

Ben Getz 4:04
Yes. Mm hmm. 

Rich Bennett 4:05
Which I thought when they a 

Ben Getz 4:07
series 

Rich Bennett 4:08
of these, they do it all in like one shot. And he said, 

Ben Getz 4:11
said, 

Rich Bennett 4:11
no, he you have to come tomorrow? 

Ben Getz 4:14
Totally. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 4:17
So what was the first thing that you did after college? How long did it take? 

Ben Getz 4:21
Yeah, I mean the first thing luckily I had had an agent through college 

Rich Bennett 4:26
Okay. 

Ben Getz 4:26
like while I was in college So the nice thing about being in New York was that I could audition for things They were happening in New York while I was still in school 

Rich Bennett 4:35
Right. 

Ben Getz 4:35
The school didn't love for you to go do that because I think 

Rich Bennett 4:37
Really? 

Ben Getz 4:37
yeah I think they're worried that you're gonna make it big and then they're out there, you know You know 60 grand a year or something 

Rich Bennett 4:43
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 4:43
right exactly. 

Rich Bennett 4:44
Okay. 

Ben Getz 4:44
Yeah, so they don't love for you to do that But I was like, you know, it's the whole reason I'm here. 

Rich Bennett 4:49
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 4:49
Yeah so 

I was I was in small things here and there, but then the first sort of bigger thing Senior year, I booked my little spot in blue bloods 

Rich Bennett 5:01
Okay. 

Ben Getz 5:01
So that was the first thing that I sort of really did and I think it was same year was I was in the first my first feature film As a starring role that ended up getting released on Netflix, which was really cool. 

Rich Bennett 5:13
Then what was that 

Ben Getz 5:14
that one's called uncaged was 

Rich Bennett 5:15
Okay, 

Ben Getz 5:16
and I 

Rich Bennett 5:16
I 

Ben Getz 5:16
play a werewolf 

Rich Bennett 5:17
were wolf. Yeah, 

Ben Getz 5:17
Exactly, yeah, 

Rich Bennett 5:19
you were 

Ben Getz 5:20
the werewolf. I was the werewolf. I was waking up So the whole stick was that I would tear off my clothes, you know at night and then I'd wake up in the morning Back to my human form, but I'd be naked because I would have torn it off So yeah, that was a whole 

Rich Bennett 5:33
doesn't mean it was a porn ooh people 

Ben Getz 5:35
Yeah, right, right, although you can watch it on porn. No 

No night. 

Rich Bennett 5:41
So how long did that take 

Ben Getz 5:43
that that movie? 

Rich Bennett 5:44
Yeah, 

Ben Getz 5:44
we shot that over three weeks maybe 

Rich Bennett 5:46
Get out 

Ben Getz 5:46
you. 

Rich Bennett 5:46
of 

Ben Getz 5:47
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 5:47
was it short film? 

Ben Getz 5:48
No, no, it's a feature length 

Rich Bennett 5:51
in three weeks 

Ben Getz 5:51
Yeah, we actually shot my film in four weeks 

Rich Bennett 5:56
Gothic slayers 

Ben Getz 5:57
mm-hmm correct. 

Rich Bennett 5:58
All right Yeah, but with the werewolf wasn't there a lot of makeup and everything 

Ben Getz 6:03
It 

Rich Bennett 6:03
or 

Ben Getz 6:04
was it was yeah, it was we were doing all prosthetics So instead of it being VFX it was all done naturally, 

Rich Bennett 6:10
was 

Ben Getz 6:10
which is really cool But yeah, yeah, I mean the the process of putting on the prosthetics and stuff took about three hours each time we had to shoot it but yeah, can 

Rich Bennett 6:19
holy So do we are Hemi because I know with movies a lot of times you'll it you don't shoot in 

Ben Getz 6:26
sequence right So 

Rich Bennett 6:27
How many times did you have to put on everything for the werewolf because I was I would hope they shoot would shoot at all one 

Ben Getz 6:34
Yeah, it was probably about I would say maybe six times seven times 

Yeah, the thing that really screwed me up was I had to work colored contacts 

Which I don't wear contacts in general, but also these contacts. We were this was a low-budget film They weren't they weren't getting contacts 

Specifically, you know normally when you get contacts. They're made to 

Rich Bennett 6:57
for your eyes 

Ben Getz 6:57
Curve your eyes. These were not and they really bothered me and then for about three days after I took them out I couldn't see straight and I thought I thought my vision was screwed I thought I was done, but luckily it was ended up being fine My eye was just irritated, but I was like a great. I did this for this this indie film. I just lost my vision It's like this is how it's gonna go down, but yeah, 

Rich Bennett 7:20
I wouldn't be able to I can't even put eye drops in my eyes 

Ben Getz 7:23
It's I still have issues with that stuff. It's like when you have a whole crew of people that 

Rich Bennett 7:28
Yeah, 

Ben Getz 7:28
are waiting for you You'll you'll be amazed at how quickly you can get contacts in because you're like I don't want to let these people down But but if I was just at home trying to do it. I don't think I'd ever 

Rich Bennett 7:38
no, 

Ben Getz 7:39
be 

Rich Bennett 7:39
there 

Ben Getz 7:39
able to get 

Rich Bennett 7:39
is 

Ben Getz 7:39
it 

Rich Bennett 7:39
no 

Ben Getz 7:39
in 

Rich Bennett 7:39
way I'd be 

Ben Getz 7:40
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 7:41
sit now. Is that still available on Netflix? 

Ben Getz 7:43
It's not on Netflix I think it's probably on a free 

Rich Bennett 7:46
like two-beer something. 

Ben Getz 7:47
exactly are free 

Rich Bennett 7:47
Okay, 

Ben Getz 7:48
viewers something like that Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 7:49
interesting. No, watch that. Okay. See actually how many films have you done altogether so far? 

Ben Getz 7:55
I've only done three feature films, but I've done a An array of short films and things like 

Rich Bennett 8:03
that, what's your favorite to do because I just I love short 

Ben Getz 8:05
films. Yeah, I love 

Rich Bennett 8:06
the indie films 

Ben Getz 8:07
Yeah, yeah, I mean I Honestly, the favorite so far has been to do gothic slayers because it was something that I wrote Versus the other things. I never I didn't write any of those things. 

Rich Bennett 8:18
So this is the first thing that you've written 

Ben Getz 8:20
yeah, first feature film. Yeah, I've written some small sketch sort of things like SNL style sort of things that we shot with some 

Rich Bennett 8:27
Yeah, 

Ben Getz 8:27
friends You know and your apartment and things like that. But this is the first real thing that we sort of made 

Rich Bennett 8:32
all right So gothic slayers how in the world 

you come up with this idea because you watch the preview and 

Ben Getz 8:42
Did 

Rich Bennett 8:42
you can't help but lay off your ass. 

Ben Getz 8:43
oh That's good 

Rich Bennett 8:45
I mean, 

Ben Getz 8:46
That's our 

Rich Bennett 8:47
gun for good. 

Ben Getz 8:48
Well, I grew up in Habitat graces You 

Rich Bennett 8:51
Right. 

Ben Getz 8:51
said and I grew up in Hartford County and when we were my so I wrote this with my friend that I met at NYU 

Rich Bennett 8:58
Mm-hmm 

Ben Getz 8:59
and when we were writing together I sort of brought this idea. I said, you know, don't know to be great if we wrote with these certain places in mind that we could possibly shoot so we were really looking to make this thing. Yeah exactly. So a lot of times you'll write a movie and then you'll have to find the place to match, which is tough because your imagination is never really going to match up with 

Rich Bennett 9:21
right 

Ben Getz 9:21
exists right. And this was a weird thing where we were going backwards where I was like I really want to shoot at this at the mini golf course at Churchill mini golf. 

Rich Bennett 9:30
said the first day of your mind 

Ben Getz 9:31
Yeah, I yeah. 

Rich Bennett 9:32
really 

Ben Getz 9:32
Yeah, some some different spots there the Arctic Circle. I always loved that sort of complex right they're all it's all there. 

Rich Bennett 9:38
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 9:39
So it's like yeah, it would be cool if that we were some slackers at this mini golf place and something happens and we had wanted to make something that was sort of genrey. So something that was a little bit of horror. So when we were talking about a cult coming into town and these guys sort of battling it, we were like, OK, this is, this is where it's at. So that's kind of that's kind of how it started. 

Rich Bennett 10:02
Hello, did it take you to 

Ben Getz 10:04
Oh, man. It probably we actually wrote it very quickly. It probably took us maybe a couple months over the whole. 

Rich Bennett 10:11
write? Yeah. 

Ben Getz 10:12
Genesis of it. So I think we wrote what we like to do is we like to bullet point everything out. 

Rich Bennett 10:19
Yeah, 

Ben Getz 10:19
So instead of writing any line down we'll say, OK, the movie starts with there at the mini golf course and then this happens and then. So we bullet pointed out. Yeah, and then then we dealt with the dialogue, 

Rich Bennett 10:29
okay. 

Ben Getz 10:29
then we go through. And then in the process of writing the dialogue, sometimes you'll get other ideas. We're like, oh, maybe they go to a convenience store and they fall. Through the roof of a convenience story. You know, the normal ideas 

Rich Bennett 10:41
Right. 

Ben Getz 10:42
we have. But. So we went through that process and then there's a couple of rewrites 

Rich Bennett 10:47
right. 

Ben Getz 10:48
So all in all I think we had about probably two months, but it was pretty quick. The first draft came about pretty quickly. 

Rich Bennett 10:54
When I watch the trailer, the first thing it reminded me of was taking a horror movie and adding either bill and Ted or Wayne's world. 

Ben Getz 11:06
Yes. 

Rich Bennett 11:06
That's 

Ben Getz 11:07
We 

Rich Bennett 11:07
what I. 

Ben Getz 11:07
get bill and Ted all the time. Yeah. Which is great. I mean, that's what we're going for. 

Rich Bennett 11:11
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 11:12
Honestly, the film so it's like horror comedy, right. And you 

Rich Bennett 11:15
Right. 

Ben Getz 11:15
never hear someone call movie a comedy horror because they don't lead with that. But 

Rich Bennett 11:19
Right. 

Ben Getz 11:19
it's definitely a comedy horror. If that would be a thing. So it's much more comedy. The horror aspects are not it's not gory. It's 

Rich Bennett 11:27
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 11:27
not that scary. Honestly. It's tough because everyone wants to put a movie into a box. And this movie we weren't writing for it to fit into a specific box. So there's some 

Rich Bennett 11:39
You 

Ben Getz 11:39
hard. 

Rich Bennett 11:39
were thinking outside that box. 

Ben Getz 11:41
Exactly. Yeah. So some of those horror fans are not the most, you know, it doesn't scratch that itch of theirs. 

Rich Bennett 11:49
Right. 

Ben Getz 11:49
Where it's this gory thing or it's whatever. But it's it's a comedy. It's like if you added some sort of supernatural elements to super bad or to step brothers or, you know, it's that sort of thing. 

Rich Bennett 12:01
Oh, I can't wait for it. You know what? I was, I'm just going to have to go home and buy it, man. 

Ben Getz 12:06
Are you going to have to, I guess. 

Rich Bennett 12:08
Yeah, and you think it, especially since it's done local, 

Ben Getz 12:12
you 

Rich Bennett 12:12
know, and that's something you, you want to keep in your, I mean, personally me, I would like to keep in my library. 

Ben Getz 12:17
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 12:17
No, you could go back in time. 

Ben Getz 12:20
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 12:21
It just, oh, man, it's, it looks very good. It's what 90 minutes? 

Ben Getz 12:26
Yeah. Mm-hm. 

Rich Bennett 12:27
Okay. 

Ben Getz 12:27
Yeah. So it's quick. We had, we were really big fans of, like I said, super bad. 

Rich Bennett 12:32
You're right. Yes. One movie I haven't seen. 

Ben Getz 12:35
Really? Oh, you should have you should have read that too. But that and step brothers. And I don't know if you ever saw nacho Libre was. 

Rich Bennett 12:42
my God. 

Ben Getz 12:42
Oh, 

Rich Bennett 12:42
I'm a wrestling phase. 

Ben Getz 12:44
Yeah, we love that film. That was a film. We'd actually made a musical version of nacho Libre in at NYU. Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 12:51
get out of 

Ben Getz 12:52
We 

Rich Bennett 12:52
here. 

Ben Getz 12:52
loved it that much that we were like, we have to do this. 

Rich Bennett 12:54
Oh, man. 

Ben Getz 12:55
And I was able to tell Jack Black at one point. I met him. And I said, this is crazy. We made this nacho Libre musical. And he was like, oh my God, that movie is like right for a musical. And at the time we did, we had video of it, but it was nowhere to be seen. 

Rich Bennett 13:10
Right. 

Ben Getz 13:10
And he was like, can I YouTube it? And I was like, no, 

Rich Bennett 13:13
I was 

Ben Getz 13:13
trying to get his email. And he went off and his publicist went off and I was like, oh shoot, but yeah, it was crazy. But we loved all those films. 

Rich Bennett 13:21
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 13:21
And we felt like there hadn't been a film like that in a while. And that was sort of why we wanted to make this. Those films that were fun. But yet you're not like, You don't leave after watching it, thinking about it for days and 

Rich Bennett 13:35
right, 

Ben Getz 13:35
you're like what did they mean and what's the meaning of this? And it's like no, we just wanted something that you could sit down have a fun 90 minutes and then you're not really troubled with it afterwards. And if you are thinking about it afterwards, hopefully it's 

Rich Bennett 13:46
you 

Ben Getz 13:46
that 

Rich Bennett 13:46
go 

Ben Getz 13:46
you had 

Rich Bennett 13:46
back. 

Ben Getz 13:46
a good time. Yeah, exactly 

Rich Bennett 13:48
like Napoleon dynamite. 

Ben Getz 13:49
Right. First 

Rich Bennett 13:50
time I watch that, I didn't get it. 

Ben Getz 13:52
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 13:53
But I had to go back and 

Ben Getz 13:54
again. 

Rich Bennett 13:54
watch it They were 

Ben Getz 13:56
sent. 

Rich Bennett 13:57
Yeah. And the other money pie found in the holy grail. It's another one. 

Ben Getz 14:01
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 14:01
And some people watch it the first time I'm like 

Ben Getz 14:03
what the heck? 

Rich Bennett 14:04
yeah, You go back, watch again, and then you're remembering the lines and everything. And it's just I have a funny feeling. That's the way this is going to be. 

Ben Getz 14:13
I hope there's some there's some lines that people quote, which is really nice. I mean, that's like the biggest. Compliment that we can get 

Rich Bennett 14:20
Why? What's your favorite line? 

Ben Getz 14:22
right. 

We have a bit where Dylan's character, we're in this frenzy that we've just discovered this cult. So I told him to Google it and he looks it up and he goes, all I'm getting all I'm getting is horses. And he 

Rich Bennett 14:38
turns, he 

Ben Getz 14:39
turns the computer around and he goes, I guess you looked up cults, not cults. So that's one of my favorite lines. 

Rich Bennett 14:46
right, 

Ben Getz 14:46
All 

Rich Bennett 14:46
and with that seen because you two are repeating. 

Ben Getz 14:50
Yes. 

Rich Bennett 14:51
Each other. All right, was that shot separately? 

Ben Getz 14:54
No, we did it at the same. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 14:55
Oh, come 

Ben Getz 14:56
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 14:56
on. Really? 

Ben Getz 14:59
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 14:59
how many takes did that 

Ben Getz 15:00
well, what was 

Rich Bennett 15:01
take? It takes to 

Ben Getz 15:01
great? Yeah. I mean, it takes that. Well, so in a movie, you're getting all these different viewpoints, 

Rich Bennett 15:07
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 15:07
right? 

Rich Bennett 15:07
You'll 

Ben Getz 15:07
set up the camera. We had two cameras, which was nice. Because it saved us time, but you're going to get a wide shot and you're going to get a close shot. And you're going to get a shot of, you know, Dylan's character and you're going to shot a me doing it. So you have a bunch of takes and the first time we did it. So it's, right, it's this monologue that we 

Rich Bennett 15:25
Yeah, 

Ben Getz 15:25
both say at the same time. And actually the first time we did it, we nailed it. And 

Rich Bennett 15:30
really? 

Ben Getz 15:30
everyone was so impressed. We were like, oh my god. And then probably four subsequent takes, we could not get it right. It was like we had sort of, Yeah. And then I think we ended up doing a couple more, like, you know, take six and take seven that we got it right for the close ups or things. But yeah, it was kind of crazy. It took us a while. I was really scared. And we would, the day, 

Rich Bennett 15:51
right? 

Ben Getz 15:52
sort of that morning, we just kept sort of repeating it to ourselves because a lot of, I'm, I go off script a lot. Like, sort of improv. 

Rich Bennett 15:59
I love 

Ben Getz 16:00
Yeah. And just, and not even a huge thing, just like certain words will be flipped or something. But for something like that where you're saying the exact 

Rich Bennett 16:09
you. Yeah. 

Ben Getz 16:09
same thing, it has to be word, perfect. So that's why we really had to drill it into our brains. 

Rich Bennett 16:14
But isn't that a technique that they also taught you in the acne school? 

Ben Getz 16:18
How to memorize? Well, 

Rich Bennett 16:20
the mirror. 

Ben Getz 16:21
Oh, 

Rich Bennett 16:22
I guess it's called, 

Ben Getz 16:23
yeah, some like myzener technique. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, there's this whole sort of train of acting thought that if you keep repeating a line to 

Rich Bennett 16:34
other, 

Ben Getz 16:34
each 

Rich Bennett 16:34
yeah, 

Ben Getz 16:35
that you'll find emotion through that. I think it's kind of crazy. 

Rich Bennett 16:39
all 

Ben Getz 16:40
When 

Rich Bennett 16:41
I, I saw that, I'm like, how that day, no way, and you got the first take was the bomb. 

Ben Getz 16:48
it was the bomb. 

Rich Bennett 16:48
Holy, 

Ben Getz 16:49
It was, that was probably the one that's in the movie, honestly. 

Rich Bennett 16:52
Yeah. That is awesome. 

Ben Getz 16:53
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 16:54
So any other actors from Harvard, can you in it? 

Ben Getz 16:56
Yeah, there are. So what was really cool was we did some local casting, but 

Rich Bennett 17:02
it 

Ben Getz 17:02
was actually great. I brought some friends and some local personalities. There's this guy, Jimmy O Burrell, who is like this haggity grace local. Who's friends with my, my parents, and he's great. He plays this creepy prisoner. It 

Rich Bennett 17:20
he's 

Ben Getz 17:20
was, it was a lot of like one day things that we got these people in. It was great. 

Rich Bennett 17:23
oh, 

Ben Getz 17:23
And another friend of mine from high school, Lamar Leonard, he plays this cop. And what was really cool was I had actually cast him in a different role in the film, but our cop dropped out last minute and the cop was supposed to come down from Philly. Like the day before we found out, and I was like, Lamar, could you, could you come in and play the cop. And we had given him other scenes to memorize. So he came in sort of with, I would say, maybe six hours of being able to memorize this scene. And he came in and killed it. It was great. He's in the trailer, too. 

Rich Bennett 17:58
Is he going behind the 

Ben Getz 17:59
Yes. 

Rich Bennett 17:59
counter? All right. Is he smoking weed or something behind it? 

Ben Getz 18:03
This is, this is a great like inside story. It was that we wanted him to smoke this cigarette, and he doesn't smoke cigarettes, but he does smoke weed. Hopefully Lee will here, but if it's not he doesn't smoke weed, but 

Rich Bennett 18:17
It's legal here. 

Ben Getz 18:17
yeah, yeah, so but he was He's smoking that cigarette like as we it's so funny 

But poor guy had to smoke that cigarette yeah 

Rich Bennett 18:27
Yeah, cuz I've seen all the seat all this way I'm like 

Yeah, yeah, I lost it. 

Ben Getz 18:33
Yeah, it's funny cuz on that scene we have it's inside Police station and he's got this no smoking sign in front of him. And that was the whole bit 

Rich Bennett 18:42
all 

Ben Getz 18:42
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 18:43
right, so because the trailer kicks ass how hard is 

Ben Getz 18:47
To 

Rich Bennett 18:48
just figure out which 

Ben Getz 18:50
the 

Rich Bennett 18:50
clips Pool for the movie to make the trail because the trailers was gonna pull people in 

Ben Getz 18:54
yeah, yeah, 

Rich Bennett 18:55
but you don't want to give but 

Ben Getz 18:57
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 18:58
you see movies where the trailers better than the 

Ben Getz 19:00
movie Mm-hmm 

Rich Bennett 19:02
So how hard is that to do? 

Ben Getz 19:03
yeah, making a trailer is a whole art in in and of itself It's kind of crazy because right you want to you want to Present the movie and you want to show them some exciting things that happen in the movie But right you don't want to give everything away 

Rich Bennett 19:14
Yeah, right? 

Ben Getz 19:15
You don't want to like right sometimes you'll see a comedy and all the funny lines where in the 

Rich Bennett 19:20
Yeah, 

Ben Getz 19:20
trailer And then you're watching another 90 minutes of you're like oh, I already know those jokes So it's tough, but yeah, that was we I mean I'll say luckily there are a bunch of funny parts in the movie that we actually We were trying to get more into the trailer and we like we can't have a five minute trailer. It was gonna be 

Rich Bennett 19:37
crazy 

Ben Getz 19:38
So that was nice that we had a lot to pull from but it took a while It took us sort of going through the movie pulling out certain things That we all liked and just playing with it and it took a while It was really annoying was we had hired someone to make a trailer for us And we thought really bad because we kept sort of taking back control. We were like 

Rich Bennett 20:00
Right 

Ben Getz 20:00
actually weak, but it's your baby, right? You you know what 

Rich Bennett 20:03
When 

Ben Getz 20:03
works? 

Rich Bennett 20:03
you're right, no too 

Ben Getz 20:04
Yeah, so we honestly we kind of cut the trailer together ourselves And then kind of sent it to the person and said hey Kind of make this a little nicer play with 

Rich Bennett 20:13
right. 

Ben Getz 20:14
the sound play with the things that you know the technical things that you have to Play with but yeah, it's a whole art to it because you're right You don't want to give it away. You you want to make it funny, but it's it's tough 

Rich Bennett 20:25
I just that's something that Because at the same time the trailer could really suck. 

Ben Getz 20:33
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 20:33
which ain't good at pool people and right It's like hitting this. I would think 

Ben Getz 20:37
yeah, 

Rich Bennett 20:39
but with your trailer. I mean I was just rolling. 

Ben Getz 20:44
I'm glad it spoke 

Rich Bennett 20:45
to oh did 

Ben Getz 20:47
I

Rich Bennett 20:48
gotta watch it and that got upset

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Ben Getz 22:14
because Uh-huh, 

Rich Bennett 22:17
I think it this ain't not available at first when I first saw it and then it might be rent 

Ben Getz 22:22
Yeah, it should be available. Yeah, it's on It's on Apple TV. 

Rich Bennett 22:26
or 

Ben Getz 22:26
It's on uh-huh. It's on Google Play, but it's all renter by for the moment. Yeah 

Rich Bennett 22:32
But I think that that much 

Ben Getz 22:34
now it's like five bucks to rent it 10 for to own it, which 

Rich Bennett 22:38
which 

Ben Getz 22:38
is great 

Rich Bennett 22:39
I mean years ago to buy a DVD with more than that price still costs 

Ben Getz 22:42
I know yeah, when I remember I don't know if they're still doing this but right There's some releases that get released and it's like 20 bucks or something 

Rich Bennett 22:48
you Yeah, 

Ben Getz 22:49
which is not But it's like yeah, I mean for the price of a movie ticket now, right? You can just own that thing at home and watch it whenever you want And it is it really is a film. That's just a nice kind of at home watch where you're like you just want to put something mindless 

Rich Bennett 23:02
right 

Ben Getz 23:03
on 

Rich Bennett 23:03
Yeah 

Ben Getz 23:03
that'll make you laugh, and you're not thinking too hard. You know, I don't know. To me, there's just so many movies out nowadays that are great, it's like pieces of cinema. And they're artistic and they're, you know, sort of have lofty themes and, you know, really make you think, and that's awesome. But it's like, I just want to relax and watch something like Hot Rod or, 

Rich Bennett 23:23
something. 

Ben Getz 23:23
you know, 

Rich Bennett 23:24
Yeah, you can just, 

Ben Getz 23:25
yeah, exactly. So that's what this is. 

Rich Bennett 23:28
All right. So at the end, we're fact giving away the end. 

Yeah. Well, people think there's going to supposed to be a sequel. 

Ben Getz 23:39
We kind of leave it open to the possibility. 

Rich Bennett 23:42
OK. 

Ben Getz 23:42
Yeah, if a big, you know, time producer wants to come in and fund a sequel, that'd be great. But we've sort of, we've run out of money. 

Rich Bennett 23:50
to. 

Ben Getz 23:50
But if someone wants If this takes off, if enough listeners want to, you know, go and fund our next, 

Rich Bennett 23:56
right, 

Ben Getz 23:57
yeah. Yeah, there's a bit of an open end there. 

Rich Bennett 24:00
Well, I guess that's something a lot of people don't. either is because you guys. You're not big time movie producers. 

Ben Getz 24:09
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 24:10
So you got to get that 

Ben Getz 24:11
but 

Rich Bennett 24:11
budget 

Ben Getz 24:11
everything. 

Rich Bennett 24:11
and how does that work? How do you go about? Is it like a business? When you start a business, you look for investors. 

Ben Getz 24:19
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 24:20
Is it the same way when you're putting together a 

Ben Getz 24:21
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 24:21
movie? 

Ben Getz 24:22
totally. It's getting that out there. I mean, people have different ways nowadays. Go fund me. 

Rich Bennett 24:27
Right. 

Ben Getz 24:28
A lot of people have financed things that way. Right. But right, you go and you give people what they call points on the back 

Rich Bennett 24:35
is 

Ben Getz 24:35
end, which 

Rich Bennett 24:36
the credits. 

Ben Getz 24:37
Exactly. Right. And well, credits, but also points are like a percentage of the profit that's 

Rich Bennett 24:42
Oh, 

Ben Getz 24:42
made. 

Rich Bennett 24:43
OK, 

Ben Getz 24:43
Things 

Rich Bennett 24:43
gotcha, 

Ben Getz 24:44
like that. It's tough, though. It's going to family and friends and contacts. And 

Rich Bennett 24:49
gotcha. Right. 

Ben Getz 24:51
especially when you're doing-- it's your first movie, right. When you have a track record or something, you could go to bigger producers. But that's what's crazy. I mean, you look at a budget-- I don't know if you know that film in Nora-- that was this huge indie darling this year. It won the Oscar for best film. But it had a budget, I forget, of like maybe $6 million. And everyone's talking about how small that budget was. It was so small, the $6 million-- 

Rich Bennett 25:15
What? 

Ben Getz 25:15
yeah. Yeah, because most of these Hollywood films are $30 to $100 million. So something like $6 is small. And I was like, oh my god, if we had $6 million, are we 

Rich Bennett 25:25
Oh, 

Ben Getz 25:25
insane? If we had even had $1 million, it would be amazing, right? So yeah, it was what was kind of crazy with this film was we were able to get such high level people onto the film 

Rich Bennett 25:38
because-- 

Ben Getz 25:38
just 

Rich Bennett 25:39
Right. 

Ben Getz 25:39
They loved the script. And they loved the idea of shooting this in the small town. And it was really great. Because we have some really great talent there. We have Quinn Hempill, who was just in the new bad boys. 

Rich Bennett 25:56
OK, 

Ben Getz 25:57
She plays the girl who gets like abducted, which is really cool. We have some cool-- we have actors in from LA, from New 

Rich Bennett 26:06
right. 

Ben Getz 26:06
York, from Atlanta. We really flew in like some big talent are directors from LA. And he actually brought in his crew from LA into Havardy Grace, which was great for the local business, because we basically put up for three weeks an LA into local houses, into Airbnb's, 

Rich Bennett 26:26
and to-- Really? 

Ben Getz 26:27
Tells and things like that. And they were just there the whole time. So that was really great. But yeah, and people were working for less than they should be. But for the love of this film, which was really amazing. 

Rich Bennett 26:39
I'm trying to think. 

I think the last thing that may have been filmed here is probably house of cards. 

Ben Getz 26:48
Well, what was crazy-- OK, this is another story. 

Rich Bennett 26:51
[LAUGHTER] OK. 

Ben Getz 26:52
We, which hopefully podcasts love stories. 

They, we went to Churchill Minigov and we went to the Arctic Circle. We went to these places in Hartford County and we were like, "What'd you mind if we filmed 

Rich Bennett 27:06
Right. 

Ben Getz 27:06
here?" And they were like, "No, of course, like come in." Which was so amazing. And they were like, 

Rich Bennett 27:11
Probably a 

Ben Getz 27:11
"We've never had, yeah." And they were like, "We've never had something film here." And it was really cool. And then about two weeks before we start filming, 

we had Lioness, which is this new TV show 

Rich Bennett 27:24
shock. 

Ben Getz 27:24
that 

Rich Bennett 27:24
Mm-hmm. 

Ben Getz 27:25
has

 Zoe Celdana on it. 

And oh my god, I'm forgetting the Australian actress. Nicole Kidman, 

Rich Bennett 27:36
Well, come in, 

Ben Getz 27:36
Nicole Kidman was in it. They also had Lady in the Lake or something like that that we had Natalie Portman in it. And all of these local productions were shooting, I mean, the 

Rich Bennett 27:45
yeah. Down 

Ben Getz 27:46
Lioness, 

Rich Bennett 27:46
here in Hartford 

Ben Getz 27:47
yes, 

Rich Bennett 27:47
County? 

Ben Getz 27:47
Lioness actually shot at the Arctic Circle. 

Rich Bennett 27:50
Really? 

Ben Getz 27:50
And yes, like two weeks before we got there. And it was crazy. So after these huge productions come in, it was like we were nothing after that. Which was nice. It was nice that they were sort of paving 

Rich Bennett 28:02
for 

Ben Getz 28:02
us to go there. And 

Rich Bennett 28:04
I had no 

Ben Getz 28:05
It 

Rich Bennett 28:05
idea. 

Ben Getz 28:05
was crazy, yeah. Well, the part of the reason that we had to use so much LA crew was because we wanted to use some more Maryland crew members. 

Rich Bennett 28:12
Right. 

Ben Getz 28:13
They were all on those local productions. 

Rich Bennett 28:15
Oh, 

Ben Getz 28:16
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 28:16
okay. 

Ben Getz 28:17
so we had to fly in our own crew, which was kind of crazy. And we were honestly battling these other productions for equipment. And 

Rich Bennett 28:24
Really? 

Ben Getz 28:24
we were losing most of the battles that we were going up because this is paramount and fox that are-- 

Rich Bennett 28:29
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 28:30
But there were a couple times that we won, which was 

Rich Bennett 28:31
Wow. 

Ben Getz 28:32
really-- 

Rich Bennett 28:32
Holy cow, man. 

Ben Getz 28:34
Yeah, it was crazy. 

Rich Bennett 28:35
But yeah, you guys still did in four weeks. 

Ben Getz 28:37
Yeah, we did in three weeks. 

Rich Bennett 28:38
Or three 

Ben Getz 28:39
Uh-huh. 

Rich Bennett 28:39
weeks, four weeks is the-- werewolf, 

Ben Getz 28:41
Yeah. Or 

Rich Bennett 28:42
okay. 

Ben Getz 28:43
actually, that one, I'm sure. But yeah. 

Rich Bennett 28:45
Weeks. 

Ben Getz 28:45
Yeah, it was pretty crazy. 

Rich Bennett 28:47
What were you doing working around the clock? 

Ben Getz 28:50
We were-- yeah, we were working pretty hard. We didn't do many takes of things. Other than that scene that we were talking the 

Rich Bennett 28:56
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 28:56
same-- were 

Rich Bennett 28:57
We 

Ben Getz 28:57
getting two, three takes of something and moving on. 

Rich Bennett 28:59
Wow. 

Ben Getz 28:59
It was real quick. 

Rich Bennett 29:00
That's amazing. 

Ben Getz 29:01
Yeah, and it was great was that the actors were all on board and they were all really hitting their stuff. I mean, if they weren't giving the performance, of course, we would have done more takes, but they were really nailing the performance in the first two takes, and we were able to move on. 

Rich Bennett 29:13
All right, so with this, was this-- when it comes to the festivals-- 

Ben Getz 29:17
Do 

Rich Bennett 29:19
you have to submit a movie to the festival like 

Ben Getz 29:20
Yeah? 

Rich Bennett 29:20
with-- 

Ben Getz 29:21
He's 

Rich Bennett 29:21
an all that-- 

Ben Getz 29:22
Mm-hmm. Yeah, you 

Rich Bennett 29:23
to 

Ben Getz 29:23
submit 

Rich Bennett 29:23
any festivals? 

Ben Getz 29:24
We submitted a couple-- a couple big ones, Sundance, South by Southwest. We didn't make it in. And what's kind of crazy about festivals is that you have to have a lot of things working for you. You have to have some big name talent. 

The genre has to be right. So this isn't a hard hitting film, right? There's nothing about it. It's a comedy. It's not a dark comedy. 

There's nothing pulling at the heartstrings. 

Rich Bennett 29:48
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 29:52
It's-- unfortunately, there's no real big diversity play here. It's-- you know. 

Rich Bennett 29:57
Right. 

Ben Getz 29:59
It-- It's tough to get into these festivals, especially without the backing of a studio nowadays. 

Rich Bennett 30:06
yeah. 

Ben Getz 30:06
And it's kind of crazy because these festivals were created for indie films. 

Rich Bennett 30:09
Right. 

Ben Getz 30:10
And the whole idea is that all the films in a festival will be independent, but a lot of times those films will already be bought by an Amazon or a Netflix or something like that. And what they'll do is they'll say, we're not going to announce it until you play the festival. So that they get the press and everything from being in the festival. And then they'll go, oh, Amazon bought it for $20 million or something, even though they had already purchased it before it even hit the festivals. So it's crazy. And a lot of big producers will back these films and have inroads to these festivals. But honestly, this movie would never really have had a spot at a festival because it is sort of-- it's a fun comedy. 

Rich Bennett 30:54
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 30:54
And you don't see-- you're not going to see a stepbrothers at Sundance. Or, you 

Rich Bennett 30:58
That's 

Ben Getz 30:58
know, 

Rich Bennett 30:58
true. 

Ben Getz 30:59
it's just not that type of film. 

Rich Bennett 31:01
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 31:02
So but we do have a distributor who's-- they're based out of Ohio, actually. But they do-- they're in this horror genre space that we're in. And one of their other films that I love is called Extraordinary, which has Will Forteana. 

Rich Bennett 31:18
OK. 

Ben Getz 31:19
It's really-- it's a fun 

Rich Bennett 31:20
It's 

Ben Getz 31:20
film. 

Rich Bennett 31:20
probably why I heard about 

Ben Getz 31:21
Yeah. He's 

Rich Bennett 31:22
it. 

Ben Getz 31:22
a fun guy. But anyway, it's-- yeah. So we're distributed and we're just doing it on our own. 

Rich Bennett 31:31
So is this where wait, wait. 

Ben Getz 31:32
you-- 

Rich Bennett 31:32
Keep 

Ben Getz 31:32
wait, wait, wait, wait, 

Rich Bennett 31:32
doing the horror comedies. 

Ben Getz 31:34
We like-- I think definitely comedies. 

Rich Bennett 31:36
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 31:37
Um, I think our next one, if we were to do one, uh, wouldn't lean maybe more into the horror 

Rich Bennett 31:43
Right. 

Ben Getz 31:44
space, there's such a huge, um, fan base of horror that we feel like we, we, we didn't 

Rich Bennett 31:51
It 

Ben Getz 31:51
like 

Rich Bennett 31:51
is. 

Ben Getz 31:52
like really get into it this one because we didn't go so horror. And I think if we leaned into that a little bit more, uh, the horror fans would really come flocking. 

Rich Bennett 32:01
uh, the place is right here where you could record some good, uh, 

Ben Getz 32:04
God, 

Rich Bennett 32:05
especially with the stories. 

Yeah. The, 

Ben Getz 32:08
I know if you take one of the local stories and shoot it 

Rich Bennett 32:11
right. 

Ben Getz 32:11
here, 

Rich Bennett 32:11
Oh. 

Ben Getz 32:11
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 32:12
I mean, you hear the ghost stories, the murders and 

Ben Getz 32:16
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 32:16
every. 

Ben Getz 32:17
I 

Rich Bennett 32:18
mean, help right down the road here. We had the cannibal. 

Ben Getz 32:20
Yeah

, huh? Yeah. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 32:25
And the other thing is too with a lot of people don't realize this, but all the different actors from Maryland. 

Ben Getz 32:31
Mm hmm. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 32:32
Oh, man, if you could pull them all together and 

Ben Getz 32:34
I 

Rich Bennett 32:34
put 

Ben Getz 32:34
know I was, uh, afraid of his name, which is not great, but he is an actor on the good wife, Joshua Charles. 

Rich Bennett 32:40
together. Okay. 

Ben Getz 32:40
Um, who I think he was on the wire as well, but he's from Baltimore, 

Rich Bennett 32:43
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 32:44
um, I was about asking him to be a part in the film, uh, but I just never did it. Uh, but yeah, he's a local guy. But yeah, I know if you could sort of play into that local, um, thing. That's what's amazing about sort of Hartford County in Maryland in general is that there's so many different, sort of scenery here that you can shoot like there's a, there's corn fields, but there's little towns and there's woods. And there's, you just get everything. There's the water. It's, 

Rich Bennett 33:12
uh, 

Ben Getz 33:12
that was what was so amazing about this. Cause we have this scene in a cornfield that we went and we chopped down probably a 10 by 10 foot area of corn and we've set up a living room in this corn in the, in the movie, which was like, where 

Rich Bennett 33:24
uh, 

Ben Getz 33:24
else can you do that? You know, 

Rich Bennett 33:26
yeah. This 

Ben Getz 33:26
is really awesome. 

Rich Bennett 33:27
Yeah, he's, 

Ben Getz 33:28
he's everything you've been doing he 

Rich Bennett 33:29
parodies. 

Ben Getz 33:30
know, I mean, yeah. 

Rich Bennett 33:31
I 

Ben Getz 33:31
What's 

Rich Bennett 33:31
don't Yeah, it'll 

Ben Getz 33:33
your idea? 

Rich Bennett 33:33
be. Field of dreams. 

But the, the old players that are coming, 

Ben Getz 33:41
or 

Rich Bennett 33:41
zombies, 

Ben Getz 33:42
I mean, yeah, 

Rich Bennett 33:43
I 

Ben Getz 33:43
right. 

Rich Bennett 33:43
mean, just 

Ben Getz 33:44
yeah, 

Rich Bennett 33:45
if you build it, yeah, they will come all right 

Ben Getz 33:47
that 

Rich Bennett 33:47
and eat 

Ben Getz 33:47
idea, 

Rich Bennett 33:48
your brain. Yeah, 

Ben Getz 33:49
yeah. As you go home and write this and we'll make this. 

Rich Bennett 33:52
Yeah, I'm still working on my book. That's been taking me over. Come on. Hey, the funny thing is growing up, when I was 

Ben Getz 33:59
younger, 

Rich Bennett 34:01
before I got into music, I loved writing 

Ben Getz 34:04
scripts. 

Rich Bennett 34:05
And I don't, 

Ben Getz 34:06
It's 

Rich Bennett 34:06
I just always wanted to do that. 

Ben Getz 34:09
not too 

Rich Bennett 34:09
But 

Ben Getz 34:09
late. 

Rich Bennett 34:10
now I feel 

Ben Getz 34:11
like, 

Rich Bennett 34:11
they started writing music and now just doing this. I just, 

Ben Getz 34:15
yeah, 

Rich Bennett 34:16
I love doing this. 

Ben Getz 34:17
What's cool, do you know Ballae Hill? 

Rich Bennett 34:19
Oh my 

Ben Getz 34:20
yeah, 

Rich Bennett 34:20
god, 

Ben Getz 34:20
yeah, so we have two of the 

Rich Bennett 34:21
songs, how we, 

Ben Getz 34:22
yeah, yeah, we have two songs from Ballae Hill in the movie. 

Rich Bennett 34:25
Really? 

Ben Getz 34:26
Yeah, they were really awesome in letting us use those. It was really cool. 

Rich Bennett 34:29
Is he still doing his podcast? You know, 

Ben Getz 34:31
oh, I don't know. 

Rich Bennett 34:32
I know he was doing a podcast for a while. Yeah, we went and saw them a couple of years ago at Pier Six. They 

Ben Getz 34:39
Uh 

Rich Bennett 34:39
opened 

Ben Getz 34:39
huh. 

Rich Bennett 34:39
up for revolution. 

Ben Getz 34:41
Oh, amazing. 

Rich Bennett 34:42
Awesome. 

Ben Getz 34:43
Yeah, we saw them in New York. I mean, they're really torn. 

Rich Bennett 34:45
Yeah. 

Ben Getz 34:46
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 34:46
oh, 

Ben Getz 34:48
they're 

Rich Bennett 34:48
They 

Ben Getz 34:48
great. 

Rich Bennett 34:49
got a big, a strong fan base that it ain't just for the people from here. 

Ben Getz 34:53
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 34:53
They got a good 

Ben Getz 34:54
And 

Rich Bennett 34:54
five. 

Ben Getz 34:54
I think they sold out the New York show. It was awesome. 

Rich Bennett 34:56
Oh, it's awesome to see how well they're doing them. All time loads of other band from here. 

Ben Getz 35:01
Yeah. Do 

Rich Bennett 35:03
I actually are they back touring? I can't remember now. I don't know who knows. All right. So what's the next big thing for Ben Gitt? Yeah. 

Ben Getz 35:13
Yeah. I'm going to be in a play up in Williamstown Theatre Festival, which is up in the Berkshires. And that's going to be over the summer. Yeah. And we're going to get some cool. I can't, I can't announce the cast actually because they haven't announced it yet, but there are some really big name people in it. From like TV that you would recognize. Yeah. So they're going to be in a play up there. I mean, that's a trek from here. But yeah, in other than that, I'm still auditioning. We've written a couple other ideas that we're pitching around and hopefully someone bites and wants to help make it with us. 

Rich Bennett 35:48
So apparently you still love doing theater. 

Ben Getz 35:51
Yeah. Yeah, that, I don't know if that ever dies. It's 

Rich Bennett 35:55
funny because I've talked to other actors. 

It's the ones that have done theater, even if they go off and do the big movies. It's just 

Ben Getz 36:05
something about 

Rich Bennett 36:06
theater that they 

Ben Getz 36:06
love. Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 36:08
and look at many of these top actors are going back and doing 

Ben Getz 36:11
it. 

Rich Bennett 36:12
I was watching a documentary. was it talking yeah I think it was a documentary on robin Williams and I didn't realize that's where he started 

Ben Getz 36:21
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 36:22
was in theater mm-hmm who is the other one 

but no I don't think it was Jean Wilder maybe I can't remember but I'm old-mathing Broderick 

Ben Getz 36:33
good yeah oh yeah 

Rich Bennett 36:35
he's 

Ben Getz 36:35
of course 

Rich Bennett 36:36
I just I think your best actors actually come from there 

Ben Getz 36:41
agree I think so too and what's really tough I think theater actors can do film 

Rich Bennett 36:46
mm-hmm 

Ben Getz 36:46
and a lot of times it's hard for film actors to do theater 

Rich Bennett 36:49
yes right 

Ben Getz 36:49
because it's it is a different type of acting where you're you're acting to the back of that house you know of 500- 1,000 people where in I in film acting it's such small things right 

Rich Bennett 37:00
I 

Ben Getz 37:01
and I find it's easier to start to tune it down versus having to tune it up I feel like that's 

Rich Bennett 37:07
yeah well yeah you've so you've done theater you've 

Ben Getz 37:10
that's 

Rich Bennett 37:10
done movies you've done TV what's the hardest 

Ben Getz 37:15
I think theater is it's more memorizing it's it's more 

draining the pay is worse so it's hard 

Rich Bennett 37:25
yeah 

Ben Getz 37:25
you know the bank account it's probably easier on the soul I would say it's it's more soulful-filling there's something about you know having a crowd in front of you and knowing that you're you're getting to them in that moment 

Rich Bennett 37:38
right 

Ben Getz 37:38
you know hearing the applause at the end which kind of fills you up in a way 

Rich Bennett 37:42
mm-hmm 

Ben Getz 37:42
you make a film and it's 

Rich Bennett 37:44
there's new crowd 

Ben Getz 37:45
I mean we shot this film back in 2022 I think so it's 

Rich Bennett 37:50
gothic 

Ben Getz 37:50
been right 

Rich Bennett 37:51
Slayer 

Ben Getz 37:51
yeah so it's been like three years 

Rich Bennett 37:53
wow 

Ben Getz 37:53
wow so you do it and then it's not out for three years and there's parts of you that are still in it but parts of you are gone and it's it's sort of and you never really hear you know good feedback unless you're searching for it online or something and then if you're searching for it online you're finding a lot of bad 

Rich Bennett 38:09
right 

Ben Getz 38:09
feedback too right it's like restaurant reviews it's like people rarely leave them if they're good and they only leave reviews if they're bad we've been getting some good reviews but 

Rich Bennett 38:17
it's good to say according to IMDB views have been 

Ben Getz 38:21
good yeah 

Rich Bennett 38:21
pretty damn 

Ben Getz 38:22
it is good it's hard not to focus on the bad ones though that's a bad trait right 

Rich Bennett 38:27
and that's with anything 

Ben Getz 38:28
yeah well 

Rich Bennett 38:28
but the thing is what I love about that and I found this out with my one business a lot of time if you're doing stuff good stuff if somebody leaves a berry view a lot of times it generates good a lot of 

Ben Getz 38:44
uh huh 

Rich Bennett 38:45
interesting uh 

Ben Getz 38:45
that's 

Rich Bennett 38:46
I found that out 

Ben Getz 38:47
yeah 

Rich Bennett 38:48
of one of my clients is a restaurant same 

Ben Getz 38:50
thing mmm-hmm 

Rich Bennett 38:51
somebody wrote a berry view because there's door no election year and they didn't want to play the election results on TV they play sports 

Ben Getz 38:58
yeah 

Rich Bennett 38:58
and somebody would kind of 

Ben Getz 39:00
have 

Rich Bennett 39:00
a berry view and all of a sudden it's oh the strong good review 

Ben Getz 39:05
starter well that's great it's great when you have people to rally around you 

Rich Bennett 39:10
yeah yeah I mean it's you get that following everything all right so 

Ben Getz 39:14
right 

Rich Bennett 39:14
tell everybody why 

why they need to go on either Amazon Prime Apple plus TV am I missing one? 

Ben Getz 39:25
I mean it's on Google play 

Rich Bennett 39:26
Google 

Ben Getz 39:26
it's on YouTube 

Rich Bennett 39:27
now 

Ben Getz 39:27
movies 

Rich Bennett 39:28
why they need to go out and rent or 

Ben Getz 39:33
it's a fun time it's really a fun time if you are a fan of sort of these nostalgic 

films that it'll bring you back to the 90s 

Rich Bennett 39:41
yeah 

Ben Getz 39:42
it that's what it really is there we have some like fun video game aspects in it where we turn into like video game characters and it's all pixelated it's just really a trip down like memory lane and and it it really is like those films of super bad 

Rich Bennett 40:00
right 

Ben Getz 40:00
and it's like super bad meet stranger things I think I said it um yeah but it's it's it's it's fun it's just those fun movies that we grew up with that you're not you know it's not your conclave and it's not your anora and it's not these hard hitting films it's just a fun time that's made locally and you're gonna see a lot of local sites in it too which is really fun 

Rich Bennett 40:22
all right so I'm gonna give it a new type of rating here yeah because we learned this with romance novels I had an author on that her books she said are three chili peppers 

Ben Getz 40:33
oh 

Rich Bennett 40:33
yeah which I didn't know 

Ben Getz 40:34
how spicy 

Rich Bennett 40:36
yeah so 

we're I can't believe I'm gonna say 

Ben Getz 40:41
this okay 

Rich Bennett 40:43
adults how many pairs of depends will somebody go through from 

Ben Getz 40:47
nice 

Rich Bennett 40:47
laughing their ass 

Ben Getz 40:48
oh nice nice I love it uh wow we're hoping it's a five out of five on the depends chart 

Rich Bennett 40:56
I'm starting something new here man 

Ben Getz 40:59
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, yeah, yeah, we hope you really pissed yourself 

We are sponsored by depends yeah 

Yeah, yeah, wow, I had no thought of that that way. It's gonna. I feel like I'm gonna have some weird dreams tonight 

Rich Bennett 41:18
Thank 

Ben Getz 41:19
for that 

Rich Bennett 41:19
you 

Ben Getz 41:19
rich 

Segal 

Rich Bennett 41:23
have all the cost players. 

Ben Getz 41:25
fine. Wearing depends right they really become a huge sponsor of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 

Rich Bennett 41:29
That would be 

Ben Getz 41:29
yeah, totally funded by the depends 

Rich Bennett 41:32
Then is there anything you would like to add 

Ben Getz 41:35
no, I think that was great. Yeah, go watch it rent it buy it Leave us a good review. If you like it if you don't like it, please don't leave a review 

But that's it. Yeah, I hope people watch it and enjoy it and get a kick out of seeing some of these local Harper County spots in it 

Rich Bennett 41:52
All right, so some of these people that are 

producers directors casting 

Other actors how did they get in touch with you? 

Ben Getz 42:02
yeah, you can probably find Contact info on IMDB. Honestly if they want to hit me up on Instagram They can if anyone listening has any questions about making a film or anything and they want to hit me up They can do that too. I mean I love helping you know local people as well or anyone honestly But it's it's really fun to get the local sort of thing into this because it's I've always wanted to come back and And do the film here and and seeing I already had some people reach out and it's just been 

Rich Bennett 42:31
Yeah, 

Ben Getz 42:31
really great to to sort of help out in any way that I can 

Rich Bennett 42:34
That's awesome. Thanks a lot

Ben Getz 42:36
Yeah, thank you Appreciate it. 

Rich Bennett 42:39
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