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Good morning. Good morning. Is this KJ? It
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is. Hi, KJ. I have Rich Coats
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on the line for you on hold. OK.
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You have until 40 past the hour.
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Let's do it. OK. There you go,
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OK. Rich, hi. Hello.
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Oh, my gosh. Well, I'm, you know, thrilled. It's a it's another
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spooky season. And here we are chatting again. And Sven
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Gulli still going strong, man, like 45 years. This
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Well, I've got some interesting questions from our
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fans today, Rich, but I know that somehow,
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someway, y'all keep coming up with new ideas to
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keep Svengoolie going, and you've got the Sven
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Squad this year, so let's talk about some of the new stuff coming up
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Well, it's great to have the Sven Squad with us. Very
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talented people. Sarah Palmer, who plays Gwen Gooley,
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Scott Greider, who is the Imp, and my buddy Bill
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Leff, who hosts the morning cartoon shows, but also plays Nostalgia
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for Autu. And we've had such a great time incorporating
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them into the show, and they've added a lot to it. And in fact, we're
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giving them a chance to host their own movies the last two
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Saturdays. of this month as part of the second
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part of our Double Features. They're going to be hosting two Jim Henson
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movies, A Labyrinth and Dark Crystal. And
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that'll be the second part of our Halloween Double
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I love that. And you say you're giving them a chance to host,
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but also isn't that giving you a chance to maybe
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Well, no, because we're still doing the first movie of the Double Features. But
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it's a chance for them to kind of, you know, have their own say in things
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You know, so my husband and I, we have a group of
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people who, you know, Svengoolie's just kind of
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been a part of what we do, but I do think it
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gets a little more special, at least for us this time of
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year. We, you know, we'll take a TV outside and we'll sit by a
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campfire and watch whatever feature you're doing
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on Saturday nights on MeTV. Is there something a
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little more special for you this time of year as well with
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Oh, yeah. I mean, this is, as people put in my very busy
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month, I get to make a lot of appearances and
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go out in public and meet and meet the various fans, which is always great.
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And we get the chance, you know, these double features, which
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is tremendous stuff. We actually have on the last Saturday
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of this month, a movie I've been looking for for a long time that we
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finally got the original 1953 version of Invaders from Mars.
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And it's always great when we can get in, you know, something like that. that
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we've been looking for for so long and trying to get. And
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the whole month is fun for us because, you know, we sprinkle
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in all the various scary versions of
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the Westerns and sitcoms and it gives
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the Halloween season, you know, a little more of a feel through the
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I love that after 45 years that there's still, you know, movies
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and gems out there that you are still figuring out
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how to get your hands on and be able to bring new
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material. Is it a long list or has it become a short
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No, we keep looking. We try to get different distributors who
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have movies available. Movies are not as easy to
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get as they once were because in the past you used
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to have distributors, you know, knocking on your door trying to
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push packages of movies. And now because of all
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the competition, the online stuff and everything and,
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and various streaming services, it's not always as easy to
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get these movies. So sometimes we have to wait until there's
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a, you know, a contract lapses or something like that
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before we can actually get them. But there's a lot of stuff out
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there. And people always say, Oh, how come you don't show this or that it's
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because, you know, it's under contract elsewhere. But
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I've got some fun questions from people who just
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absolutely love you, Rich. Here in Indianapolis, we've
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actually had a few people. I know Amy said
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she got an opportunity to come up and throw a
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rubber chicken at you. So there's a lot of spin fans here in Indy.
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Kara is our first question up. And I can't believe as
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a woman and talking to you multiple times, I haven't brought this
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up, but she said, my question for Rich
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is how long does the makeup take and what
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kind of skincare regimen does he have to
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Well, actually, when I first started, it took almost 55 minutes
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to put this stuff on now. I've kind of got it down to around
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35 minutes. So it's a little streamlined and a
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little easier. The main thing is taking
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it off is the worst part and would actually put the
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most wear and tear on your skin. So I started out
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first using baby wipes to remove the makeup,
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but now they have the various makeup wipes and
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I use those. And that kind of, you know, keeps it from, you know, before
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you scrape it off and use harsh soap to
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Robert wants to know, Little Rich,
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growing up, were you a Halloween fan and did you have a
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favorite outfit that you like to dress up
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Oh, yeah. When I was a kid, I loved Halloween and I always looked forward
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to being able to wear different costumes. One
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of my favorites was a Popeye costume. that I had when I
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was a kid. It was really great. And also a Woody
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Woodpecker one. A Woody Woodpecker one where the
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mask was made out of some sort of, I don't
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even know how to explain it. It was like, it wasn't like the plastic type stuff. It was
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almost like fabric and very elaborate. I think they made a
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lot of those costumes so much better back then. But
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yeah, and you know, one year I made my own robot costume out
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of a cardboard box, which was not very comfortable. But
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That is so funny. I'm pretty sure that, like, you know,
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you get to that teenage years where you're like, oh, maybe
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I'm too cool for this. But I'm pretty sure the last time I dressed
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up for Halloween as a kid was
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a robot costume that I made out of a
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So, you know, nowadays, Rich, we, you
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know, we associate you and Sven Gulli with Halloween. Do
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you, you know, if you had an opportunity to go to, you
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know, say a comic con, would
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you want to cosplay? You know, would you ever be like, you
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know what, forget this Sven Gulli stuff. I want to be Iron Man for
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Well, I used to have one of my good friends, famous
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comic book artist, Alex Ross, used to have Halloween parties
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every year. And that was the time when I really got
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the chance to dress up as something else. One
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year, I was the Penguin from Batman. Another
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year, I was Groucho Marx. And yeah,
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that was always fun. I didn't mind at all dressing up as other
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You brought up the Penguin from Batman. That
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was one of the questions I wanted to ask if we had an
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opportunity today, and we got a couple more minutes. We all fan
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out watching Svengoolie and love what you do, but when
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you have an opportunity to relax, is
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TV something you turn to? Do you have fandoms?
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Yeah, actually I am. I
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certainly use TV as, you know, kind of a way
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to just relax. I love Turner Classic
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movies. I love seeing all the stuff that they show. It's a
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lot of fun to see that. And our company's movies
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channel. It's great to see that stuff.
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And I do, I try to keep up on certain things. I've always been
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a superhero fan. So when there's various superhero stuff,
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I do tune into that. The Marvel Agatha.
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Yeah. What do you think of Agatha? We're watching that here
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Yeah. Well, it started out kind of slow and I wasn't sure about it,
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but the last episode I felt was really good and I'm
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I am enjoying that they put it out at
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this time, and we have this opportunity to have this witchy show
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from Marvel during the Halloween season.
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But we are, right now, let's talk about, before
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we go, When people should start watching because
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I think we you know, we used to be Getting psyched
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up for this for Halloween weekend, but I want to make sure people know it's
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Programming already going, you know day one of October
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No, actually, it'll all start on Saturday October 5th and
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we're gonna start out with our Sven squad actually hosting some scary
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Looney Tunes cartoons in the morning and then We've
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got a bunch of the Westerns, I think I might have mentioned that, that have
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sort of scary themes to them all afternoon. So
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it begins then, and then of course we have scary three
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stooges shorts. We've done various ones. And
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then we'll pick up with our double feature. So that's
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the whole first day that'll launch the whole thing on
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I love it. It is the third year of Spengoolie's Halloween Boo-Nanza,
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and we certainly hope in our household that this is
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a thing that's going to be a regular Halloween feature
