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Are we doing this?
Yes. I'm glad you brought hecklefish. You did not have to do that. I appreciate it. I fucking love your channel, dude. I've spent countless hours watching your hilarious videos. So cool that you even found it. Well, you know, Gino told me about it, your brother Gino, who I've been friends with for years, told me about it a long time ago that you guys were doing this. And I was like, really?
All right. Interesting. And then I watched him like, this is fucking great. It's right up my alley.
You would show clips all the time and it would drive Gino nuts. And then finally it got named. Reggie Watts was here. And he's like, you ever hear of the Y-Files? You guys are talking about moon landing shit. And you're like, what's that? And I don't know, a week or two later, Gina gets a text. Are you the Y-Files? He didn't tell me the name of it.
He was so excited. Yeah, it's a great show, dude. It's like everything I'm fascinated by. Anunnaki, Aliens, Secret Bases. How did you get involved with making a show like this? Is this something you've always been interested in? I mean, like, grew up Art Bell. Yes, there he is.
There he is. I mean, the GOAT. The GOAT. Dad was an overnight cop, so always overnight radio. So it was always Dr. Demento. Yes. You remember him? And Art Bell. So I kind of grew up with the weird stories. And it just got in the Twilight Zone. We watched as kids. It was, like, required watching from Dad. The old black and whites, the classics. So that was always in there. So I'll skip 20 years.
We had a podcasting studio in L.A. on Sunset. We were doing pretty well, hosting a lot of shows, guys you knew, like when COVID hit, Kill Tony came and worked out of our studio, Jeremiah, Metzger, all the guys. Didn't make any money, but it was a cool setup. But then they locked down the city, impossibly. And we didn't really know what to do. Then they set fire to the city somehow.
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