#424: Chicken Centipede

I saw um sexy Mr.

Rogers.

Great.

Now you're talking.

Ladies and gentlemen, a mortal gargantuan in size has appeared downtown,

and a gigantic city figures appear to be emerging from the foretext.

It looks as though it's a giant monkey,

Leave my body in the street or at least put it in a trash can.

The guy just said, Simi this!

You're gonna go in berserk!

Dismembering the giant short creature and tossing the limbs in any direction!

You're telling a girl she can't dress like a slot on Halloween?

That's shameful now.

Don't you do it?

Go away.

Destroying the surrounding town.

Oh, oh my god, we gotta go.

We gotta go.

We gotta go.

Move up.

Move it, creepy.

Get out of my way.

Tell them, Steve Dave.

Hello, and welcome welcome to this week's Halloween edition of Tell'em Steve Dave.

Is this where all the scary music comes in, Walt?

Is this where we put it?

That's where it should be.

All right.

I wish you had the lightning machine.

Oh, you had the lightning and the thunder thing?

Do you still have that?

I still have that, yeah, but we're recording at the shared universe.

I don't have my full repertoire of gear with me.

No.

Do you guys have, Christian, do you guys have sound effects here?

If a podcast asks you to put in a sound effect on the fly, are you able to do it?

I could do it.

I could figure it out for y'all.

Yeah.

You want some sound effects?

You want some thunder?

I want some stuff, like a soundboard.

All right.

You have over there?

I want to see.

This is a full-service podcast studio, man.

Halloween.

What's your favorite holiday?

Best month.

You got Halloween and Walt Flanagan's birthday inside of almost a week.

It's great.

Right.

That's true.

Walt, calm down.

I know you love Halloween,

but you haven't even looked up once.

What's going on?

No, I'm just

getting excited.

It's Halloween.

The day of Halloween is the best and the worst because when it ends,

you could not be further away from the next Halloween.

Right?

After Halloween?

You have 364 days to wait for it again?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's true.

It's the worst time ever.

Well, no, because Thanksgiving's right around the corner, and then Christmas, you know, so a lot of holiday festivities in October, November, December to, you know,

not as good as Halloween, some might say, but I say, you know, Christmas is,

if not better, just as good as Halloween.

Do people come to your house still, like kids?

Or do they come to your place?

Because you don't, it's yours is not a very like pedestrian-friendly area.

You don't have a sidewalk.

Nah, we just leave the bowl out now and it says, you know, take one.

Is that what they do?

That's what most of the neighbors do.

That's what we do too.

You know, plus with the dogs, you know, just it just riles them up, gets them overexcited.

You know, I'd rather have people just take the candy rather than knock on the door and go through all the

friggin' formalities.

Oh, look at you.

What are you supposed to do?

Let me fawn all over you and then give you free stuff.

Jesus Christ.

Yeah, there's no enjoyment in it, really, giving out candy anymore.

That was never the real allure of Halloween, was it, though?

It was like the spookiness and the creepiness and the embracing of all things horror.

You got to do it yourself because like people want it to be friendly and fun now

they want it to be accessible not me no

no i want spooky stuff and skippy costumes that's my halloween yes halloween sluts and halloween sluts oh i was talking about me i'm sorry i like wearing skippy costumes

bust out the black and orange thong yeah like what's up ladies that's so isn't this spooky

that's really not halloween anymore though that's

That's going.

That's fading out.

They're phasing that shit out.

Is it?

Who's they?

In society.

They're not going to be able to do that.

They are the biggest buzzkills ever.

They want to fuck up more shit for people.

They're not going to take this.

Oh, yeah, they are.

No, the girls are going to take it.

They can't take it.

You're telling a girl she can't dress like a slut on Halloween?

Shame, though.

Don't you do it?

Well, there's just not as many options unless they're going to do DYI costumes.

Oh, you think they're not making slut costumes?

Well, let's look that up and see how right you are.

I didn't even bother looking up offensive costumes this year because everything's offensive.

It's the same list.

Yeah, it's the same list.

You have your standards.

You have like your Native American gal.

Yeah.

Which, Dominant then, isn't even that good of a costume.

Unless a hot girl's wearing it.

Then it's the best costume.

No, no, no.

Across the board, yes.

But I mean, like, in terms of creativity, like, it's not even that good of a costume.

Especially if it's store-bought.

Yeah.

I saw

Sexy Mr.

Rogers.

Great.

Now you're talking recently.

I saw that on the news.

I saw that too, like the half sweater and the skirt and shit.

You would never know it was Mr.

Mr.

Rogers.

Or Mrs.

Mrs.

Rogers.

Mrs.

Rogers, yeah.

It was Howard.

Our old friend Yandy, whatever that company is.

What's that company?

Yeah, I think it was Yandy.

How dare you assume her general?

Yeah, there it is.

Is it Yandy?

Yandy's never going to let it die.

They're the ones that are like, fuck it.

Let's do a handmaiden's tail sexy costume.

Yandy's like, whatever country they're in, they're like, wait a second, what are these handful of Americans upset about now?

Ms.

Rogers?

Yandy.

Yeah.

Let's not make any money because they might cry about it.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Sexy.

If that's all they're making is sexy costumes, they'll be filing for bankruptcy soon.

No way.

Oh, yeah.

Dude, college girls will never stop doing that.

That's what they want to do.

Thank God there are some constants in this world, right?

Really?

It's college girls, you think.

It's educated women doing that.

They're not educated yet.

Until they have that diploma, they turn it to Yandy.

Definitely.

Some of them, they even have the sexy mortarboarding gown, I'm sure.

Like, they want to ride it to the end, the sexy college fun, right?

Oh, I hope so.

God bless Yandy.

A couple of mini mortar boards over there.

Can I buy stock in Yandy?

I go opposite of you.

Like, is Yandy a publicly traded company?

You may be able to buy the whole company soon.

Yeah, because there's going to be

so little demand for Yandy's merchandise, Yandy's products.

That's not on breakfast that you'll be able to swoop in.

Look at Yandy, a sexy Captain Marvel.

Is that what I'm seeing?

I don't know what that is.

I love that this stuff exists.

It's fucking Yandy.

I fully support.

Let me pick this up by the right handle.

I fully support

that Yandy is providing costumes that girls, if they want to wear it, they have the right to wear it.

Of course, they have the right.

There you go.

Sexy punisher?

Now, come on, man.

Come on.

The white boots.

That's a nice troll.

Yeah, somebody ordered me one of those.

But if I

fucking sexy punches.

I still say, though, Frank Castle looks better in those white boots than that hot girl, though.

You know what?

Nobody wears a pair of white go-go boots like Frank.

Oh, sexy Chucky.

Yeah, sexy princesses, sexy cats, sexy witches.

Oh, it's happening.

Sexy Holocaust victim.

What's going on?

It'll never end.

There's a billion pages of this shit.

I couldn't follow Yandy down that.

Like, Handmaiden's Tale, look, it's a fictional show, so I don't care.

It's like,

look, just because you watch Handmaid and Stale and you've put all this weight and importance on it doesn't mean that it's not just a fucking TV show.

So I don't care.

But a Holocaust victim, I'm my God, I don't know, Yandy.

Well,

that tops the offensive costumes this year.

I'll run down them real fast.

It's the same list every year.

A Holocaust victim.

Anything involving black people.

No, that's not a real thing.

You made that up as a joke.

This is where it's...

It's called 1940s girl costume.

Says Yandy.

No, did I see that?

I can't get it.

Yeah, there you go.

No.

I don't think that's Yandy-sanctioned costume, though.

Oh, my God.

They even got the papers pinned pinned to his.

Yeah, I saw that.

Oh, that's not good.

Yeah, I don't know that that's Yandy.

It was just a...

I can't follow Yandy down this road.

I'm sorry.

Is it Yandy?

No.

Yandy sticks to just smut.

Are there things that Yandy shouldn't try to sexify for Halloween?

Like, you're going to say Holocaust victim.

That's one.

All right.

What else?

I would say that's one.

Like...

Murdered children, like a John Binet or something.

Yeah.

I don't like the sexy, like, Twin Towers.

I saw that one here.

Sexy Twin Towers.

Some girls dressed up.

It's like Sam Bowie, and what was the other guy?

Yes, that was

Kim Olajuan and

I forget who Ralph Sampson.

Yeah, Ralph Samson, like seven foot four freaks.

Why isn't Yandy on the sexy and practical Joe Chris costume?

I'd like to see that.

Because any costume you guys wear is sexy.

You can nail that shit down.

Look at me.

How about wearing that?

Look at you go.

I'm wearing the North Face mountain fucking pants.

Like detachable pants to turn in the shorts.

You could turn in the shorts like that.

There you go.

It just becomes sexy.

Yeah.

That's the kind of thing.

Like I see them and I'm like, they're functional, but I'm like, who the fuck would wear these?

Now I know.

Oh, I know.

Now I know.

You don't care.

Four pairs of these.

Nice.

In different colors.

That's all you have.

Throw all your other pants away.

I'm wearing a 15-year-old flannel.

I remember that shirt.

I like that shirt.

Now, what are the name of the pants?

These are North Face Mountain Pants.

Well, North Face is a brand,

but you can unzip the legs off.

Changed my life.

How so?

Because now, no matter where I am,

I can just...

Is it too warm in here?

Zip, they come right off.

Show them that.

How often have you had to resort to unzipping

the pants

and having shorts on all of a sudden?

I wear these on stage, and sometimes it gets hot in the arena.

It's like my basement floods more than you'd expect.

I've been on stage, and it's been hot in the arena.

I've walked off when I've come out, and there have have been shorts.

I don't care.

I imagine you must have your, like, you're, are you able to put the pants back together once you unzip them?

Like, after your assistant do that, he's from the practical jokers.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Actually, once I dream pants, you just throw them out.

I throw them out.

Throw the pant legs into the crowd.

The other day, I couldn't find one of the pant legs, so I went to another pant and I had one mismatch.

I had a green on a blue pants, and I was like, I don't care.

That's punk.

Could you be an influencer?

Like if you like, you know how somebody like Rihanna will carry around a thousand dollar purse that's a size of like a like a matchbox.

Yeah.

And everyone's like, oh my God, I got to spend a thousand dollars on that.

Think it could influence some people?

He's already an influencer.

He's already an influencer, not on that level of Beyonce.

Right.

But he's on that.

He's on the lower end of being an influencer, though.

Yeah, I agree.

Like, he's the type of influencer, if he's behind somebody that's like stopped at a green light.

If he honks, they'll move.

He's going

As far as swaying opinion or being a tastemaker, who knows?

I think you're wrong.

I think that.

Why don't we ask merch table?

Which shows the best?

Oh, fuck.

What was I going to say?

I totally lost it.

We're in Halloween.

It's Halloween.

It's Halloween.

It's Halloween.

Oh, my God.

Very spooky.

Are there any movies you watch religiously every year?

I usually run through some of the Friday 13ths.

Yeah, I like all like 70s horror movies around this time of year.

Yeah, you waltz.

I don't have a

traditional, like, oh, we must watch this movie every Halloween.

Yeah, I'm not really into that.

I don't find the need to watch a movie.

Does it put you in a mood?

I don't need to be in a mood.

I'm in a mood like, you know, I'm ready to go.

Oh, it's Halloween?

Okay, I'm ready.

Let's do this shit.

Yeah.

All right.

Holiday man over here.

No blackface, no transphobic costumes.

What's transphobic costume?

I want to make sure that.

I don't know.

It appears to be everyone's.

It's probably like Bruce Jenner or something.

No.

It's just like a guy dressed as what appears to be like a slavidly housewife.

Oh, so like Milton Burrell kind of escapades are no longer in vogue.

This is transphobic, evidently.

Oh, God.

So that man wearing dress like an old housewife is afraid of trans people.

Tranny Granny.

Was was pulled from Walmart after facing backlash.

There was a Caitlin Jenner caution from a few years ago.

Okay, so don't be a refugee.

That's not.

That was last year too, though.

I guess so.

It's the same shit every year.

Body shaming and objectifying costumes.

It's like, so don't pretend you're riding the shoulders of a fat stripper with tassels that doesn't even look like a human being.

It's an inflatable cartoon lady.

And the guy appears to be riding her shoulders.

She's happy about it.

She's happy about it.

But why can't I objectify?

I don't know.

It's only okay if like you're a female objectifying like Hemsworth or any of these muscle-bound Marvel superheroes.

No cultural stereotypes, Q.

No terrorists.

Why the fuck can't you be a terrorist?

Bad taste.

What if you're like gay terrorists?

Like remember in springtime for Hitler, they made Hitler gay and that was like real offensive?

I don't know.

Doesn't work anymore?

Are you saying that we are not as respected as Mel Brooks and people would not look at it this way?

I am saying that, yeah.

Televisions of recently deceased celebrities.

So no, what's his name?

Ruiz?

Carl Ruiz?

Oh, Bummer.

I like that guy.

I never heard of the guy before.

All I've heard are good things about him.

You know who Carl Ruiz is?

Some celebrity chef.

I rather liked him.

E-Rock texts me.

He's like, hey, Carl Ruiz died.

I didn't answer because I'm like, I don't know who that is.

And

you listen to the radio or you you go on the internet.

Everybody loved the guy.

I would watch him on Guy's Grocery Games.

He was like a Guy Fieri dude, right?

He was a judge on that

a good amount of time.

And he was always my favorite on the show.

He was good.

You ever watch a cooking show, Walt?

I used to watch Emerald with my daughter.

Oh, with your daughter.

Yeah.

Yeah, Guy's Grocery Games is a good one.

Like, I'll watch it and just veg out and watch it.

It's fun.

It's more like a game show with a cooking show.

It's good.

Right.

I wonder how long you have to wait.

We've lost a lot of entertainment icons recently, so it's understandable if you're inspired to tribute, to pay tribute to them in costume form, just don't be a zombie of them.

So, how long do you have to wait before you're a zombie and it's not offensive?

I wish good housekeeping would let me know.

Because if I'm going to live my life by the tenants that fucking goodhousekeeping.com has set forth for us as a people,

please.

25 years.

25 years?

Yeah.

I think it's safe then.

So Zombie Reagan is good.

You could do Zombie Reagan now.

Okay.

but i can't do zombie

rick o' kids george no no oh or uh eddie money zombie eddie money definitely like who are you i'm like god damn it

was trying to offend you i'd like to go on record that if anybody after i dies the day after i die gives a enough to be zombie dead brian quinn wouldn't it be awesome i would think it would i think it is awesome i i could die trick-or-treating with sage halfway through like the neighborhood yeah drop dead if somebody took my clothes off and slapped on some zombie makeup and dressed as me.

Yeah.

I mean, that's awesome.

I agree.

So leave my body in the street or at least put it in a trash can.

You know what?

Unless the woman who wrote this article, I'm assuming it's a woman, could be a man,

is a celebrity themselves, then they don't have a right to speak for celebrities.

Yeah, who are they?

Oh, it's Sam Escobar and Marcy Robbins.

It took two people to write this article.

Yeah,

I don't think that they are able to say that.

All right.

Well, you're going on record then.

You're saying, hey, I'm a celebrity.

You're a legit celebrity.

Nobody can take that away.

You could say.

I still say C-level, but yeah, yeah.

Still.

You got it.

Yeah.

I'm saying I'm giving permissions for people to dress like zombies.

I'm just like the editorial.

Who the fuck are you guys to tell people what is tasteful and what's not?

I just don't understand

housekeeping.

But you do it, but you do it on.

You give your opinion, though.

Why can't they give theirs?

This is definitive.

They're saying don't do it.

Wow, come on.

on you know it's not definitive it's only definitive to people who are reading the magazine you think some people listen okay like they have a kid that's like hey I want to go dressed up for someone with bulimia it's a respected magazine

it has a lot it has a history though that magazine does probably more respected than my opinion probably well I mean but they're looking oh it's good housekeeping it's been around a hundred years but it's like these other these fucking people writing it.

You don't know who's writing it.

You just have to be like good housekeeping.

Trust them with the editorial, with this shit.

So it's good enough for me.

All right.

Like, do you think, who's like,

like Buffalo Bill, right?

From Howdy Duty?

No.

I'm from the Lance.

Oh, okay.

More people would recognize me as zombie Eddie Bunny.

No, but like, like a really horrific

serial killer in movies.

Okay.

Not cartoonish.

Like, um,

is that a

like Annibal Ector?

I guess nobody would care if you dress like like Hannibal Elector.

Of course not.

So many people have done it.

Are you saying like, or you dress, even if you dress as John Wayne Gacy, I don't think people care, right?

It depends on what party you're going to.

It's a gay and lesbian alliance party I'm going to.

Does that change things?

It really depends on the crowd.

Know your crowd.

Know your crowd, all right.

But isn't it weird that like people could dress like

they're saying don't dress like the handmaiden's tail.

They're saying don't do it.

Remember, that was last year's big list.

Right.

I guarantee that's on the list here today.

But you can dress like Darth Vader.

Like, Darth Vader blew up planets, like genocide left and right.

And he's a fictional person, so should we not dress like Darth Vader?

Yeah, but it's not based on reality.

It's not based on reality.

What's Handman's hate maiden?

What is Handmaiden's tail based on?

What's the United States gets taken over by a rogue faction?

Oh, it's like Hunger Games?

Well, no, they just subjugate women and make them wear these outfits.

It was based on a book by McCarthy.

Okay, then it is kind of like, you know, it is a slippery slope then.

But it's not.

What is it?

Because if someone's going to tell you, don't dress like Handmaiden, but okay, Star Wars, Darth Vader's okay.

I agree with you.

Yeah, that is it.

You really can't.

If one is not good, then the other one can't be.

Right.

That's how I feel.

Like, that's it.

We're talking fictional fucking characters here.

Like, come on, man.

Yes, that's what a ghost sounds like.

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All right, onwards.

Walt, you set something up.

This is a special guest.

We don't have many guests on Halloween.

I think this could be the biggest get

in TSD history associated celebs go.

Sorry, Jolie Fatone.

I didn't mean it.

Well, I didn't mean it that way.

I mean, in your house.

You know what I mean?

It's just, this is pretty big.

This is pretty big.

Personally, this is big.

This is gigantic, and especially on Halloween, landing this dude on Halloween.

You know how busy he must be on Halloween?

It's crazy that he's found time in his schedule to come and visit us on Halloween and grace us with his presence.

I can't.

And wait on hold as we wax romantic about him over here.

You want to give an intro to who he is?

Because I'm not sure every single person.

You're out of your mind.

I think everybody who listens to TSD is going to know I'm talking about the goat of horror host right now.

You would me TV's one and only Svangui.

Hello, testing one, two, three.

Can you hear me?

We can hear you.

Yes, sir.

All right.

Good.

You got it?

I just realized I can't hear myself in these headphones.

No, forget that.

Well, that's all right, Child.

No problem.

We're finally going to do this.

How about that?

All right.

So this is Brian, and then we have Q.

Hey, how you doing, sir?

Big fan here.

Thank you.

Nice to talk to you.

Then we have the conductor of this orchestra, Walt Flanagan.

Walt, how are you?

Hello, Mr.

Svenguly.

It is an honor and a privilege to have you on the list.

Nice of you to say.

Thank you.

Sorry, is Mr.

the title?

Do you go by Mr.

Svenguly?

Rarely.

More like that, jackass.

Like I say, a lot of horror hosts, like, they seem to have Doctor in front of their name.

There's a lot of medical.

What's the other one?

Baron?

You know that.

Baron.

So what do you got this year, Walt?

You want to

dive in there?

I thought we would just spend the episode just

talking to the one and only Sven Guly and getting his opinions on some topics, some Halloween-centric themes,

and just like really just like...

We're hoping that maybe there's something that you've never revealed anywhere else.

Maybe you could reveal it here on this episode if it's possible even if it's made up it's okay i'm a communist okay that's that's good and i'm i'm assuming this is going to go up right around halloween then yes yes sir yes okay today is halloween well today is halloween what a surprise

theater of the mind

very good

uh so so you have questions um i had a whole bunch well How about we let Sven Ghoulie give us just a little bit of his own background so we don't ask all these very basic questions.

Yeah, like what's the origin?

What's Sven Ghoulie's origin?

Can you tell us, or is that a secret?

No, actually,

it began actually in about 1970 when there was a guy named Jerry G.

Bishop who was the

staff announcer.

That was back when TV stations actually had staff announcers live on duty.

And Jerry was the guy who was on duty on Friday nights when they started running horror movies.

And he was a radio guy, so he started doing shtick with

the announcements going back into the movie and eventually built it into this character that he called Sven Gooi.

And it quickly went from just being voiceover stuff to

there were slides of him.

That's how amazing TV was back then.

Slides of him doing things that made no sense, you know, holding a...

pretending he was playing a tennis racket like a guitar, things like that.

And then it finally became a video show, you know, with the video clips.

And I was just a fan of his and started sending him, you know, just some jokes and material.

And he liked what he got from me.

He found out I was a broadcast student, and he invited me to come down to the studio when they were taping a show.

And he started to ask me to write specific things for him, like, can you do a parody of this local commercial?

And can you write a song parody about this song?

And I ended up writing and working with him and doing some voices and things like that.

When his show ended, he took me along to radio in Chicago, and I was like a sidekick, and about 70% of the people he interviewed were me.

Along the way, one of his friends who was in broadcasting said to him, do you want to just do Svenguli again as a summertime thing, just like a summer fill-in, just as a lark?

And Jerry was like, well, you know, I don't really want to get dressed up in all that stuff again.

And he was the one that said to me, you could do it.

You could be son of Sven Gooly, and I'll produce the show.

And we had some false starts on it.

Nothing really happened with it.

Time passes.

Jerry moves to San Diego.

And when he was about to leave, he said, well, what are you going to do?

And I'd been working with,

just freelancing, I'd been working with Dick Orkin.

Are you familiar with him?

He did the Chicken Man series.

and the Tooth Fairy and a bunch of real funny commercials.

Were you talking about Chicken Man?

Was that Burt Convey or was that Bionic Chicken?

No, no, that's a whole different thing.

This was a radio serial that ran everywhere, as was the Tooth Fairy.

And he did a lot of radio commercials.

If you heard his voice, you'd know it.

He has this big stentorian voice and always talked in a sort of august manner.

And I was working with him, and he ended up moving out to L.A.

Jerry was going out to San Diego, and he said, so what are you going to do now?

And I said, well, maybe I'll try to pitch a local station on a TV show.

And he said, well, I'll tell you what, if you want to try to do the son of Sven Guille thing, you have my blessing.

He was very generous.

You know, he just pretty much turned the keys to the franchise over to me and said, go ahead and try it.

And after shopping it around and, again, some missteps or whatever, I finally ended up on the local station WFLD.

And I was son of Sven Guilli and doing the same sort of thing with movies.

How old were you when you got interested in the horror host stuff?

Like, did you watch a horror host as a kid?

Yeah, the funny thing is, when I was really young, that was when the first shock theater package of movies hit TV.

And although I didn't get to stay up late when I was home, when we'd go to visit relatives

and we'd be up later, I'd see a guy who was on here in Chicago.

His name was Terry Bennett, and he played this sort of beatnik sort of horror host named Marvin.

And I remember just vaguely seeing him a couple times.

But then there really weren't any hosts until Jerry was on in 1970, starting in 1970.

But I was interested in the horror movies themselves.

It was funny because when I was a little kid, I was afraid of everything.

You named things.

I truly believed that skeletons would come and attack me in the dark.

And it still happens.

I just want you to know that.

But yeah, I really just, again, the whole thing was using the horror host thing as a

stepping off point to do comedy stuff.

Well, did you, when you were young, did you watch any local shows that had horror hosts?

I don't remember any around here.

No, I mean, there was

that Monsters episode with Zombo.

Right, yes.

Do we die?

Yeah, so that was my first exposure to a horror host.

And I, and then as I was reading like monster magazines, magazines, like Famous Monsters and some other magazines, I saw that there was this history of horror hosts in American television in the 50s and 60s.

But unfortunately, you know, on the East Coast, in Jersey, New York area, I, I never was exposed to a horror host like that.

Not in the TV.

You saw John Zacherly?

Zacherly, yeah, but never on TV, though.

I was aware of him.

Always in magazines, right?

Yeah, in magazines.

Elvira, yes.

Of course, Elvira in the 80s became huge.

But I don't remember actually, but I would have been an adult when she became huge, like with her, with her name, like, you know, being the, you know, the, you know, big horror host of the 80s.

Now, how old were you when you, when you took over first Vengueli?

I was, I believe, about, let's see, I'm, I'm counting backwards, about 27, actually.

I was 27 years old, and I had been working with him since I was, you know, in my early 20s.

And in fact,

when I was 19 years old, it was when I first started sending him stuff.

And, you know, again, we worked in TV and radio together.

And then, yeah, I was 27 years old when I finally

had my own coffin.

Well, I always had, because when I was growing up, I'm a little bit younger than these two guys.

And

Elvira was the one that I always saw.

Plus, she was this sexy woman and she always had like the risque little jokes going in and out.

And then I saw Gremlins 2.

And one of the main characters, I don't know if you remember, was a horror host that was trapped in the building with all the gremlins.

And he was dressed like Dracula the whole time.

Yeah, wasn't he almost trying to look more like Grandpa Munster or something?

Exactly.

Yeah, he looked like Grandpa Al.

He was bemoaning that it was an art that was kind of dying, that people weren't interested in anymore.

And man, oh man, is that not true?

And that movie, I think, came out in 1990.

Sure, yeah.

The thing is, it always seemed to work in cycles.

You know, in the 50s, they came and went, and then 60s again, and then early 70s, and then once again,

you know, late 70s when Elvira started and when I started.

But it seems like I'm very fortunate that I've kept going and have defeated the cycle.

Would you consider your biggest rival, Elvira?

You know, not really.

I don't think I consider her a rival.

I've actually met her and talked to her, and she's been very complimentary to me when she's been on interviews and stuff, and people have asked about it.

It's a whole different thing now, because

her stuff is online now, I believe.

She has that big, big, two big

advantages.

It seems like, you know, I don't like that, like, she gets that attention for two big reasons over the mail.

You know, I like the mail host.

They said, oh, you're like Elvira.

And I said, yes, but with different topography.

I'm just curious because I have a Svengouli shirt, one of the glow-in-the-dark ones of your face.

And when I wear it, it never fails to get people being like, oh my God, Svenguly, that's amazing.

What do you think?

I know why I think it, but I'm curious to hear why you think Svenguly has just lasted this long and why you seem to be more popular than ever at this moment.

Well,

part of it, obviously, is the fact that we went from just local Chicago area and Midwest to all over the country with me TV.

Yeah.

And, you know, before my bosses yell, you didn't mention when it's on.

It's Saturday nights at 8 o'clock

New York time and 7 o'clock Central.

But I think part of it is just...

Hopefully that people enjoy the material that's going with it.

I know one of the big reasons is the movies, especially the universal stuff.

And then there's the people who would rather see the just total schlock type stuff, too.

I often have people say, you don't show enough of that kind of stuff.

But I think people, there's an appreciation for this.

And also the whole nostalgia angle, just that people grew up,

so many people I talked to, did have a local host that they really liked.

And I always worry because I always equate it with Doctor Who, that they always say the first doctor you saw is always your favorite.

And I think, you know, with a lot of people, it was kind of like, you know, oh, you're not as good as, you know, Dr.

Cryptkeep boy there.

But fortunately, I think a lot of people have agreed, you know, with the fact that, you know,

you're okay.

And

I think that part of it is, again, you know, I'm like.

hopefully entertaining them and adding something to the program besides just the movies.

Walt just brought it up with Elvira being your rival.

Is there

like sort of a,

I don't want to say like a jealousy that runs throughout the community of horror hosts, but

if like a young brash horror host comes in, do you dismiss him or do you take him seriously?

Like a young baron, maybe.

Oh, him I'm afraid of.

Don't worry about that.

Actually, it's kind of like it depends on, you know, the quality of what they're doing.

There's all sorts of public access hosts out there.

And now, actually, because of our success,

it has gotten some stations to decide, hey, we could do this ourselves.

And they put people on the air.

I just think that if you're doing something good,

you know, that's fine.

You know, I'm not going to worry about, oh, he's trying to take my job.

I think there's room for everybody.

And unless, you know, they're putting them on right opposite me.

Or that, you know, he's submitting his tapes to me TV and going, no, I think they're cheaper than that guy, which is almost impossible, by the way.

So you mentioned the Baron.

You're definitely an inspiration to me.

I consider you the GOAT of horror hosts at this point.

And I was going to ask you, what advice would you give to young, aspiring horror hosts who might be listening?

Are Are there any do's or don'ts?

Yeah, don't wear a turtleneck.

I did that for a while under hot studio lights.

That's Walt's signature look.

So I keep thinking, okay, why did I do that?

You know, you're under hot lights.

You're already wearing all this makeup and hair and everything.

And oh, yeah, a turtleneck.

That's a great idea.

Don't wear a turtleneck.

Quite honestly, it's like, do your own thing.

You know, you can be inspired by what other people do, but don't try to just do exactly what somebody else is doing.

You know, give it your own slant, and

you don't have to necessarily do the conventional.

You come up with something else.

You know, it doesn't have to be, you know, a vampire coming out of a coffin or

a wolfman.

The best thing to do is use your own originality.

And another thing is make it something that's kind of an amplification of your own personality

because that way it is more natural that might be impossible for walt the dynamo that he is

so um that's now in the creation of the show like do you have to pitch ideas to somebody to get approved or are they just like do your thing man like go go to it Well, I'm actually in a real good position here because

our boss, Neil Saban, who created me TV, actually has pretty much done that.

He said, you know, go ahead and do it.

He trusts me to not do things that are not going to go well with our

audience.

And I pretty much write the scripts and we go and shoot them.

Nobody has to approve them.

Great.

That is a gift, isn't it?

Like, that's amazing.

It would take so much longer if we did have to do that, you know, and we're already under the gun a lot of times to get shows done pretty quickly.

And I think also you've clearly earned the right to go forth as you wish because it's just a joy to watch.

Like the show is never anything besides completely fun.

Well, that's very nice of you to say.

And that's what we're aiming to do.

You know, it obviously is not Masterpiece Theater.

You know what, though?

I never ever in my life have watched or will watch Masterpiece Theater.

But I'll tell you what, I tour.

There's far fewer rubber chickens on there.

There you go.

I got to tell you, just to have a little fanboy moment, like I travel a lot.

I tour a lot.

I do like

stand-up type stuff around the country.

And when I'm in a hotel room and you come on,

it removes all the tension of travel.

I'm just like, this is awesome.

I'm staying in and watching it.

It really is something special you have on your hands there.

Well, that's very cool.

And that's what I'd like it to be.

I hear from people that they watch the show as a family.

And I don't know how many shows there are now that

families get together to watch.

And that's a nice compliment to me.

And just the fact that.

Just that and the Practical Jokers.

Those are the only two shows I've heard families watch.

Why, especially Practical Jokers.

No doubt about that.

But it's nice because it is.

It's kind of like a break.

People have written to me and they said, with everything that's going on in the world right now, it's nice to have this that's just goofy fun.

And

it is.

It kind of relaxes people people and lets them laugh.

And I think that's cool.

So you don't get political on your show?

We try to avoid it.

I always remember Johnny Carson saying, why would you want to alienate half your audience?

Yep.

And

also probably because if I started doing that, the bosses would want to look at all my friends.

I don't want to go in that direction.

Now,

some other people who have cultivated a character, like let's say Alice Cooper, he has gone on record and said that sometimes Alice takes over and he and

the real Alice Cooper gets lost and the character Alice Cooper takes over and

kind of becomes this

creature or this character that can't be fed.

Do you ever find yourself like

trying to hold off Svenguli from

your normal human self?

There are moments, yeah, especially I think when you're dealing with certain people, you know, most of the fans are great, but sometimes there's always a few who just are a little hard to take.

And sometimes I don't even know if they know that they're being that way.

I had a lot of people who are not.

There are times when, you know, Ben wants to just, you know, start letting loose with the, you know, sort of Don Rickles attitude.

On Halloween, do they come to your house and tear up your lawn?

Do they do stuff like that to you on Halloween?

Actually, I make sure that usually I'm nowhere near the front door.

I avoid that.

We used to have one neighbor that their kids used to always come and try to pull things.

They'd throw eggs at the house.

We had like huge

Christmas light bulbs on the bushes one year.

There must have been 50 of them.

They actually took the time to unscrew and take every one of them.

And, you know, I finally caught them one day and went and brought them over to their mom.

And she was not very pleased by this.

And I think after that, things kind of stopped.

Okay, good, good.

Are you?

I'm not going to say who's against it.

One of us is.

Are you as staunchly against sexy Halloween as one of our members?

Somebody here is not crazy about the sex.

I like to keep Halloween wholesome, Svengoolie.

Mystery solved as to who it was.

The other two of us want to see a sexy Svengoolie costume of Halloween.

That's what I'm wearing this shirt.

As long as I don't have to to wear it.

I certainly enjoy seeing women dressed somewhat provocatively.

Oh, I'm disappointed to hear that.

The situation is, though, you know, it's like, you know, if there's a lot of kids around or something, it's like, you know, you don't want them going, hey, mommy, what's that?

I mean, there's a line, right, though?

There is a line, certainly.

But when it's, you know, adults,

I say

go right ahead.

I mean, I've seen the sexy Mr.

Rogers Rogers that they've been showing.

Oh, we just talked about that.

And to me, it's kind of like

it hardly looks like Mr.

Rogers, let's face it.

That's although, thank God it doesn't, don't we?

Would you like to see my playtex living, brah?

But yeah, I mean, I laugh because we've gone to some of those pop-up Halloween stores and it's always, you know, a sexy dental assistant or something like that.

If you say so.

Are you married, sir?

Sam.

Do you ever, do you ever like, does this ever happen to you?

Like your wife might be like,

I don't want to say nagging, but giving you the business about something and you're like, hey, man, I'm Sven Gooley.

I wouldn't dare.

No, I mean it, you know, but you ever hold it inside to yourself?

You're like, man, I'm Sven Gooley.

I don't need this.

No, not really.

No, okay.

I realize that I'm just some goof and, you know, it works out fine.

We had a funny story about watching Matt Taman get yelled at by his girlfriend at the time.

Yeah, I don't feel bad, Svengooley.

Yeah, and we saw his current girl, Brian, so his girlfriend, this is years ago, yell at him to take out the garbage.

Yeah.

So

I'm always like, how do you yell at Matt Taman to take out the garbage?

Yeah, you wouldn't think of it.

I saw it.

You know what?

I'm looking at a picture of what you wear.

And

I have a fairly attractive girlfriend.

I'm going to have her dress up as Sexy Sven Gooley this year.

And I'm going to send you a picture, buddy.

Do you actively not go out like, you know, how Kiss back in the day would not be seen without their makeup on?

Do you go out in public without the Svengoolie custom on?

Is there a picture on the internet of you and not in makeup?

Oh, there's tons of them.

I've done other TV as myself here in Chicago, especially.

I did a show where we would run three Stooges shorts.

We called it Stoogia Palooza.

And I hosted that.

And, you know, in between each one of of the shorts, I'd kind of do the same thing we do with Sven, and that I'd, you know, give information about the background players and stuff that happened in the shorts.

And I did a show called The Co-Zone back when I was at Fox that at first hosted movies.

And then because the Fox network demanded that they have a hosted

kids block, they made me the kids' show host.

And I did that as myself.

And I would, you know, dress up as other characters too along the way.

It was fun because we did this stuff live three days a week and I'd pre-record stuff as one character and then it was, you know, flying by the seat of your pants.

They'd run the tape in a split screen thing with me and I had to make sure I would fit in my responses and stuff in the gaps that I had left on the tape.

So, yeah, a lot of people, most people here in Chicago know what I look like, definitely.

And I've done a few characters, I think, on the show where I think you could see what I look like.

But, you know, I've never worried about it.

The funny thing is, like, you go in a grocery store and you're looking around, and all of a sudden you look down at the end of the aisle and you see like somebody working there kind of lean out and look at you and then disappear.

And then like five minutes later, three people do the same thing.

And then they come over and they're tearing parts off of packing boxes for me to autograph.

Ah, nice.

Do they ask you to autograph chickens and stuff?

Do you get a lot of rubber chickens, I imagine?

Certainly.

Yes, yes.

Tons of rubber chickens.

When we do appearances, especially, people bring their own chickens.

And once some woman brought a live chicken, she didn't ask me to sign it, but she goes, oh, we brought our chicken with.

And I'm like, okay, well, I'll sign it.

And she opens up her sweatshirt.

And here's this actual little chicken.

And I was like, okay, that's normal.

How hopeful were you until you saw the chicken?

Let's just say I wanted to let that pass.

If...

If

the original Svenguli, you know, not if, but he did pass down the legacy to you.

When it's time for you maybe to hang up your hat and your cape,

will you pass on this Svengooli name to somebody else?

And if yes, do you have somebody in mind?

And if not, would you take a resume?

Well, originally when Jerry and I talked about it, we kind of

said that I would probably be the last Svenguly.

But I think that, you know, the folks I work here at Me TV,

I think they would want to maybe continue it, but maybe with another host.

And I think it would be a mistake for them to just put somebody else in the Svenguilli outfit because I think they'd get some bad feedback.

You guys probably know that here in town, we had the Bozo show forever on WGN.

And the original Bozo was Bob Bell, who was very funny.

I used to love to watch him.

He was actually one of the inspirations for Krusty the Clown.

And

he went on, and then they immediately plugged in somebody else as Bozo.

And the reaction from most people was, oh man, this isn't Bozo.

It was death friends.

And they, you know, I think it'd be a mistake to put somebody in there and it's like, oh, this is Fenghouli also.

Can I send you a tape?

You can send me a tape, sir.

I'll pass it on to the people in charge.

There you go.

Pass it right along.

Should have put it in place with my request for a raise.

Well, all right.

See, Walt's looking to take over your position.

No, no, no.

How about he's actively praying for you to pass on so he can take over?

But let me ask you something.

Would you be open to

like a like a guest come on for like maybe an episode here and there, nephew of Vengui?

And it was like, say your character has a nephew and you know, maybe he's on a TV show too.

You know, he comes on, he acts all impractical.

He's got the makeup on and he just flies up to Chicago for a day to shoot with you.

Now, do you think that they'd be interested in that?

Something like that?

It may be, but I think something like that would not be my call.

We'd have to.

Are you going to pass that along?

I'm kicking that can down the road as far as I can.

Wait a second.

So you think, what network?

You're on Me TV?

Yes, yes.

So, Q, you think that Me TV, if Sven Gooly was like, hey, you know, Brian Quinn from a practical jokers, we want to do a little son of Sven or a nephew of Sven Gueli thing.

Is it cool if he does it?

I feel like Svenguli is going to get

some mad respect there.

Yeah, I think what we heard was not the idea that the network doesn't want to do it.

Sven Guilli doesn't want to do it.

You know, I would not mind at all having somebody come in and do that.

I don't know for the whole show.

Drop in for a while.

I don't think that would be something that would be completely out of line.

Do you get a lot of this?

These sort of novices saying, like, hey, can I come on the show and dress up?

These guys who want to be in TV, but.

Oh, constantly.

And, you know, all the various public accessed hosts around here, you know, like, and also rock bands for some reason.

Dude, I think we should be on your program.

Okay.

Any notable bands?

No.

Not a single notable band.

If it was a notable band, it'd be different.

We're friends with Jim Peterik from the Ides of March,

and we keep talking about having him come on with his band, but

we've never been able to get the timing right.

And I'm sure that sometime we're going to have them on.

But also,

you've probably seen we've had Freddy Boom Boom Cannon on, and he called me out of nowhere.

No, he sent an email and said, I wrote a song for you.

And I'm like, what?

And this is the guy that did Palisades Park and Tallahassee Lassie.

And he had this song.

He sent it to us.

And we ended up making a music video with him.

He's a great, sweet old guy.

He's very funny.

He has great stories about everybody that he's hung with, like Elvis and Frank Sinatra and all these guys.

He worked with Chuck Barris, right?

Didn't Chuck Barris, right?

Was Palisades Park?

Yeah, Palisades Park was his big song.

Yeah, exactly.

Chuck Barris is one of my,

I don't know what this says about me, but he's one of my heroes in life.

Oh, yeah.

The Gong Show was always great.

And all the other shows that he was behind, that's pretty impressive.

Oh, yeah.

And his book is one of my favorite books.

It's top three favorite books ever that I've ever read, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Chuck Barris is an unappreciated genius, in my opinion.

I hate to ask this because it shows how ignorant I am, but is he still alive?

No, he died last year, unfortunately.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, but he died in his 80s, but he was with it to the end, man.

He was like, he

right there out there.

He was introducing bands at concerts.

He was pitching shows and stuff like that.

And unfortunately, he passed away.

Well,

I think he had a pretty full life.

Oh, yeah.

He certainly had a lot going on.

He sure did.

Walter, you like me?

Did you just totally check out After Washington didn't follow Freddy Boom Boom?

Wow.

Welcome back, Connor Reference.

There's like 99% of the audience listening to this is going to get none of these references.

What the fuck are they talking about?

I'm I'm used to that.

You know, there's times when I'll throw out a name or something on the show, and I actually will after it just say, just Google it.

I know there's, you know, when you get to my age, there's going to be things you're throwing out.

And I try to appeal to various parts of the audience.

You know, there's certain things I throw out that I know only a few people are going to get.

So it's sort of like a little Easter egg for them.

But yeah,

I know.

Can I ask you a couple questions, not as a human being, but as Spenguli?

sure okay

like

they're gonna be the human being no no like if like the character Svengoolie not what you like but what Svengoolie would what would his answer be to these questions sure just being a smart aleck there I knew what you meant oh god he's already spenguly

uh most overrated monster

I would have to say the mummy

First of all, you know, it's a little correct.

That's a little politically incorrect there, Svengooli.

Why is that?

Well, I mean, I don't know.

He's a Middle Eastern monster.

Nothing to do with that.

He's forming female circumstances.

Exactly.

You know, the speediest of monsters.

And many comedians have talked about that, that he's the easiest one to get away from because he's always walking so slow and dragging that foot.

And the fact that, think about it, he's been embalmed.

He's got all those musty old

bandages around him.

He's got a smell terrible.

Yeah, but you don't like I always, my answer to that would be the creature in the Black Lagoon because he hangs out.

I love him, but he hangs out.

He hangs out.

Gilman, Svengoolie.

Can you believe this fool?

He wants to be on your show.

He's called the Gilman most overrated.

The nephew, the nephew of Svenguly wants to be on the show, not me.

But no, no, but the Gilman, if you don't go into his pond, you're fine.

And his pond is in the middle of the Amazon.

He can come out of the pond, right?

Svengoulie?

He won't, though.

He's an amphibian.

He can come out of the pond.

And look at that.

But he won't.

He's messing with all these hot babes in swimsuits.

Come on.

No, you know what?

You're right.

But no, he's not going to bother you unless you bother him.

That's true.

The mummy is a chip on his shoulder.

All right.

All right.

That leads me to my next question then, Svengoole.

In a Universal Monster Steel Cage match, who is the winner?

The Wolfman.

Why?

Because he's very savage, you know, and there's a certain strength.

He's almost like the Hulk.

You know, the more angry he gets.

I thought Frankenstein was more like the Hulk.

Yeah, except you can't, you know, have him sewn together.

The Hulk is, you know, you can rip off Frankenstein's arms and stuff.

He's only as strong as the twine that holds him together.

Do you agree with that?

You know, if his batteries, his electric charge starts running low.

That's true.

He's in trouble.

Do you agree with that, Q?

You think Wolfman's coming at him?

I think Wolfman is a strong contender, and I could see it.

I'd go Dracula.

I would go Dracula, too.

Because you can fly around.

Yeah, Yeah, he could turn into mist.

He can turn into a bat.

He can turn into a wolf.

That's true.

He's got an edge there.

But then, you know, all you got to do is hold up that little cross and he's crying like a baby.

That's true.

Like, he turns into mist.

That's like the least threatening form he can take, right?

Well, he could.

Like, now it's just mist.

He could go right down Frankenstein's nasal passages and turn into human and then explode.

So Dracula is vaping then.

Yes.

All right.

So I got comes into my next one then.

What is your feeling on modern horror movies?

Like, for example, the human centipede?

I thought you said modern.

I'll tell you, again, it all has to do with story and, you know,

the actors involved with it.

I think a lot of the modern stuff is just, you know, gory effects.

And there isn't enough real story, nor, you know, quite honestly, good enough acting behind it.

One of the amazing things about those old universal ones, and, you know, you guys know there's not really any blood in most of those or anything, but the way it creates the atmosphere is what's really impressive about it.

And even so, you know, moving forward a little bit, you know, like the Nightmare in Elm Street stuff,

you know, the first ones especially, I think, are very effective.

And the first Halloween.

And one of the reasons that I think those really became as big as they were were, you know, when you watch the Frankenstein stuff and Dracula stuff, it's it's always, you know, someplace in Europe for the most part.

Whereas this was something like, this could be right in your backyard here where you live.

And that made it a little more scary.

But again, after a while, I think there were too many, you know,

wacky, you know, it was like Freddie became Bob Hope throwing out the one-liners.

Yeah, I want to tell you, I'm ready to slash you up there.

It's wild.

But you can't dig like, you know, like the human centipede, like sewing faces to orifices.

That's just, that's just there's a line that like even that's that's too crazy that should be sure i mean everybody has their own you know standards i think and to me that that goes over the line i mean i know there are people who are into those kind of shows and and movies and that's fine but to me

I don't think it has the same quality as Maria Ospenskaya, you know.

You have this an Pentagram on your hand, my son.

It's like, you have your mouth on my.

Never mind.

So is that a big no to nephew of Sven Gooley's human centipede puppet show he wanted to put on?

I think we'll put a pass on that.

Well, I'm just saying we sew a bunch of rubber chickens ass to mouth.

And

we'll do it that way.

It'd be amazing.

Beek to beak.

Beak to spinal.

Is there a white whale movie that you want, like that you're like, I would love to air?

Like, what's the one?

Anything starring leave

without a face oh my god with the brains and the tentacles and the spinals oh my god

and we've never really had the chance to get the rights to it I keep pestering my boss Neil Sabin to try to get it for us

because I would love to have that you know because at first you don't see them then when they're visible it's like what the hell is this?

And when they get shot, you know, they make a noise like a whoopee cushion and it looks like there's raspberry jam coming out of them.

It would be so much fun to show that movie.

And I think a lot of people would not be aware of that movie.

It seldom

growing up.

So it's a movie that not a lot of people have been exposed to.

It's called The Thing Without a Face.

Themes Without a Face.

I have it.

I'll end it to you.

And I cannot even remember the last time I saw it anywhere.

Yeah, they did a DVD release of it.

It goes for big bucks now on the aftermarket because it's out of print.

Sure, yeah.

But yeah, I'd love to have it.

And the rights are just beyond.

Well, I don't know that we know who has the rights currently.

That's a part of this.

We deal with these different distributors, and at this point, I don't know that we know who actually has it.

It used to be under one person's control or one distributor's control, and they no longer have it.

It's kind of like almost tracking the damn thing down before we can even get to it.

Have you ever gotten in trouble for showing a movie that wasn't 100% cleared and somebody

caught some shit for it?

No, actually, no, because that's one thing that they're very careful of here.

They worry a lot about being sued.

I wonder why.

Yeah, we are very careful and don't show anything.

That's where, you know, I keep kind of, that's another thing for you hosts who want to get into this business.

Make sure that it's legal for you to show what you've got because,

you people are very litigious, and you run something you don't have the rights to, you're going to get sued.

Or just put it behind a paywall and no one can find it.

Exactly.

Make money off their work.

I've never seen it, but you could rent it on Amazon Prime for $4.

What?

I think he owns a copy.

No, no, no.

I just mean for listeners.

We're doing the show for other people, guys.

Help us to track down who actually has the ownership of it.

yeah put your fancy lawyers to work

hold on one second let me ask you something if i could if i could secure the rights for fiend without a face can that be to the nephew of son who presented with you not not instead of you with you

again uh it's difficult for me to say legally what can be done here i'm like perry mason here your honor i don't think that we could have fiend without a face um

there's there's a lot of stuff involved in it but you know maybe we could just put it behind a paywall.

Okay.

Hey, it works for us.

The telesteve motto is.

Yeah, the whole don't ask, don't tell.

Hey, I got one more question for Svenguly, the monster.

If one, just one of your body parts, is going to be used to create a new Frankenstein's monster, which body part would you want them to use?

Is he a player, this Frankenstein?

Let's see.

Well, there are people who, when they look at Svenguly, that they don't know me, they go, oh, is that Ron Jeremy?

But

the answer is no.

If you're going to use a part of me for Frankenstein, I'd say,

wow, you know, that's tough to say.

And is this to say that I would no longer be around?

Yeah, yeah.

You'll have to be deceased to use this part, yes.

I'd say vocal cords.

Oh,

that's a good answer.

You'd be able to speak again.

I could use those.

My voice is pretty shot these days.

I could use yours.

There you go.

Do you have a favorite horror host, like non-Svengoly related?

I really like Elvira and also Joe Bob Briggs, though he is not, you know, in the,

you know, vampire coming out out of the coffin class, he is a horror host.

And again, that's like what I was talking about.

A totally different kind of tack on doing horror hosting.

His character is great, and he's a smart guy.

The two of them, I enjoy both of them a great deal.

I did a little research.

And I found out that about within 20, 25 miles, there's another horror host in our area.

His name is Halloween Jack.

He's from Tom's River.

In your opinion, Svenguly, is there enough room in one county for two horror hosts?

I've never heard of Halloween Jack.

Have you heard of that, Svenguly?

Actually, I have.

I've seen him online.

I think I actually talked to him once in an interview.

I've never seen his show, though, so I don't really know.

Again, it depends on

who's doing the quality stuff.

And then there's also a Halloween Jack I'm reading right here that David Bowie created for his Diamond Dogs album.

Maybe you guys can get those lawyers to give him an old cease and desist, and that way the Baron can rule.

Yeah, that's him.

Yes, the Baron can take over and Halloween Jack.

It seems like Halloween Jack is very closely based on you.

I don't think so.

He's got a top hat.

He's got makeup.

I don't know.

I just feel like...

Has a top hat, too, and he's not taking anything from me.

Have you considered, yeah, anybody who wears a top hat, maybe like just launching a series of frivolous lawsuits like against like say slash and Halloween Jack.

Standing in front of Mr.

Minopoly.

A penguin.

Vampira, Elvira.

Vampyra versus Elvira.

Which one are you?

More of an Elvira guy?

I would have to say, yeah, because I think just from what I know about Vampyra, she was a little odd.

And in fact, you guys know

Dana Gould?

Yeah.

He told me that he, for a long time, was kind of almost like a caretaker for Vampyra, Mela Nirma, or whatever her name was.

And he knew all sorts of things about her.

And,

yeah, I think Cassandra, Elvira, kind of has her life and act together a little better.

Than Vampyra did?

Now, Vampyra is dead, right?

Yes.

So if you were to give us some gossipy, juicy tidbit about her, she couldn't defend herself.

So we would listen to it if you wanted to say it.

Well, I keep hearing stories about how

she was hanging out with James Dean.

Oh, yeah?

I don't know too much more than that.

But yeah, and you guys remember the big lawsuit that she filed against Elvira.

Did she?

Yeah.

I remember that.

Yeah, because she felt that it was ripping off her character, and I don't think she was successful.

Yeah, I guess Budweiser didn't want a 90-year-old horror host doing the thing, huh?

Yeah, put her in that outfit.

That'd be great.

Well, her losing probably means that there's a precedent set that you couldn't go after the Baron in any way, shape, or form.

Courts have shown that it's really hard to win these ceaselesses.

And I don't think anybody would even think of

trying to sue the Baron at this point.

Yeah.

Walt's pretty committed, so he'll lose his house in order to best you for whatever reason.

What if I started a show on True T V called Nephew of Sven Gooly?

Would that be an issue?

Yeah, I think that might be an issue.

I'm sorry.

I'm looking at a picture of Vampira in 1947.

If you were around in 1947, yeah, you'd probably be into her.

She's very, like, very golden age, Hollywood-y looking.

Not to mention the fact that if you could see, she had the tiniest waist.

Oh, yeah.

It was incredible.

If you've ever seen Plan 9, you can look at it and you go, how is that even possible?

Yeah, she could barely walk, right?

It had had to be like some sort of like girdle, right?

I'm wondering.

I don't know for sure, or else I don't know if she went the share route.

That's what the Baron's going to do now.

He's going to get a girdle.

He's going to try to get that

sninnier waist than a vampire.

She'll go over big, definitely.

So, what does the what does Fanguli do on a typical Halloween?

How do you spend Halloween?

Usually, I'm working.

I usually have some public appearance somewhere.

You know, we've done like sports events like the Chicago Bulls game.

We've done appearances at nightclubs and bars and things like that.

Have you met Michael Jordan?

I've never met him, no.

Oh, okay.

What about Juicy Smollett?

That guy lives in Chicago, right?

Yeah, I left him some clothesline.

I don't know what he did with it.

That sounds dangerously political.

We put it to questionable use.

And a red hat, right?

A red top hat.

A red top hat that says MAGA.

That's how you go out, Svengoo.

One day you walk in, you're like, I'm done with this.

You've got a red top hat that says MAGA on it.

Any other questions, Walt?

I mean,

I was going to ask, I think everybody probably asked this, though.

I think it's one of those amateur hours, if I ask this, but I guess I'll ask it anyway.

Your favorite all-time classic horror movie?

Yeah, I get asked that all the time.

And the thing is, I don't have just one favorite.

There's different movies I like for different reasons.

I will say that I really do like

Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula.

Those are two of my top favorites.

And then, you know, it almost goes by the various time periods.

Then, sorry to say this, Creature from the black lagoon.

No, great movie.

Great movie.

Yeah.

And

those are like my real top ones.

I like the mummy, but I agree with a lot of people.

There's parts of it that are just so slow.

And also, you don't get a heck of a lot of the actual mummy in it.

It's more Karloff as the sort of wrinkled-looking

strange Egyptian fella.

Well, that brings me to because I have a quote that I found online attributed to you about the Tom Cruise mummy remake.

And it says that you said it's the biggest pile of dog shit you've ever seen in your entire life.

Is that true?

Did you say that?

No, I did not.

I never even saw that movie.

All right.

I'm saying it now.

He just posted it.

Damn, I was trying to get us an exclusive waltech.

I was hoping to start some trouble.

You misattributed a quote to the guy.

I just made up that quote on him.

Trying to get him to confirm it.

Oh, you guys.

Come on.

I want you to know I pretended to look at my phone as if I was reading that online.

I was totally buying it.

I was like, wow, Spenguli.

You know, the standards and practices people here, that were I ever to actually say that in an interview, I'd be hearing about it and I might be facing, you know, it's like professional wrestling, a suspension.

Oh, no.

Oh, really?

Okay.

Now, are you a backer of this?

I know they kind of abandoned it, the remaking of or the reimagining of the Universal Monsters.

Do you think it should be done?

Do you think a 2019 or 2020 audience, you can remake the Universal Monsters and have them be popular?

I'm kind of like on the fence about it.

I think yes and no.

You remember Van Helsing?

Yes.

Yeah.

There were things actually that I liked a lot in that, and some things that I was like, you're kidding, right?

I think if it's done correctly,

I think, sure, because, you know, there's still a market for these characters.

Otherwise, we wouldn't be running them, you know, on my show.

And I think that you're also also fighting with people's memories of those movies.

And Karloft as Frankenstein and Lon Cheney Jr.

as The Wolfman

and Bayla as Dracula.

I think that you've got to somehow find a way, and I don't know if that's even possible in this day and age, find a sort of the same feel as that.

And I don't know.

I don't know if that would actually work or not.

If you could, I think it would work.

What I like about it, when they remake, like you said, that dog shit Tom Cruise movie, like, when they, when they remake that, it does reignite interest in the old.

Like, people are like, oh, let me re-watch that, and then they order it off Amazon.

So, I do like when they do it just because it reminds people that the old ones or audiences that were too young,

I feel they go sniff it out, which I like about it.

I do.

Yeah, and the funny thing is that when we started running the Universal movies on our show,

a lot of those had not been on regular broadcast TV in maybe, you know between 15 and 20 years.

So it was another way of re-educating people on those classics.

Is there a non-horror movie, any non-horror movie that you can see Sven Guilli hosting?

Oh, wow.

I mean,

a movie that I really love is Night of the Hunter.

Do you know that one?

I've heard of it.

I've never seen it.

One of the strangest movies that you've ever seen.

And

it was the only movie ever directed by Charles Lawton.

And it was panned so much after it came out that he never directed another movie.

But there are shots in that that are so incredibly beautiful and some incredibly scary moments in it as well.

That's one to look for.

And actually, on our show, I have hosted some non-horror movies.

We did a couple of Marx Brothers movies.

Did you ever go?

I love the Marx Brothers.

Did you ever go to the Acker Mansion?

Went for is a bad man?

No, no, I never did.

I was not able to ever get there.

And, you know, by the time that I could have, he was already long gone.

I have talked to, do you know, Joe Moe, who used to stay with him and help him with his stuff?

He's told me a lot of stories about

Forrest and just how amazing the Acker Mansion was.

Yeah, I lived in L.A.

at the time and only found out afterwards that if you walked up to his place, you'd be like, yeah, come on in and check out all this shit.

Isn't that amazing?

You know, that would be so cool.

And, you know,

you think it's probably a good thing that a lot of people didn't know that because think how many people

then he'd be so sick of it that obviously he'd probably pull the plug on it.

That's what Kirk Hammett should do, right?

He has a great collection.

Oh, yeah.

Just let people go in his house, check it out.

Sure, it sounds safe.

Now, Svenguli, you're going to be appearing in DC Comics in October, right?

Why, yes, it's happening right now since this is Halloween.

It's a four weeks' worth of these little

chapters in which Sven Guilli faces a terrible horror and has to rely on the Justice League and its members to help him fight it off.

And it's just amazing to me.

You know, I was a comic book fan from when I was a kid and still love comics.

And the fact that I get to be, you know, on the same pages with Green Lantern and Wonder Woman and Superman and the Flash is

just, you know, something I never would have thought of.

And it's a lot of fun.

We had the chance to actually, I got to help write some parts of it.

And

the artwork by Christopher Jones is just outstanding.

I love seeing it.

And he's caught, you know,

seeing yourself and seeing how well he's captured you is amazing.

As I've been telling people, he's even caught my less than perfect posture in some of the artwork are you were you a big comic collector growing up or or still

yeah I still have them I've still got books from the early 60s

and I have the the very first

one with with Bat Girl oh really first poison ivy

do you have a favorite creator any favorite artists or writers in comic book field?

Oh, yeah, I always liked Kurt Swann,

Gene Colin, Jack Kirby, of course.

Just great stuff.

The legends.

Yeah.

I was lucky enough to recently get some

original Kurt Swan artwork.

And I just love it.

I look at it and I'm like, he just looked amazing the way he drew Superman.

They did the characters so well.

And, you know, and even going back, the Bill Finger stuff, I love that too.

This is a man who is a refined taste right here.

Yeah.

Oh, I can't.

I just can't wait for the nephew to meet, to meet me on the show.

It's just going to be amazing.

It's just going to be so much fun.

Oh, my God.

Wow.

So what is, what is like, how, how is, like, what is the worst show you've ever done?

I always find this interesting asking, like, what is two questions I always like asking people is one, what is the question you've never been asked that

you want asked?

And two, what was the worst show that you got done that you were like, oh my God, how did this happen?

How did we blow it like this?

Wow, that happens to me.

I'd have to say, one of the ones that I wasn't real fond of is once they had us do Look Who's Talking.

Oh, boy.

That's one that I think I'd pretty much like to forget.

I think the question I'd like to be asked is, why did you ever do Look Who's Talking?

Great, great.

So now that you've conquered TV, now comics, what's next?

What's down the road just a little bit?

Wow.

You know, I really don't know at this point.

You know,

I don't know that I'll ever have the chance like Elvira to make a Sven Guilli movie.

Well, not with that attitude.

Yeah, well, that's it.

That's all it is.

I mean, in the era of like

crowdsourcing and

what's the website where you can.

GoFundMe and stuff like that.

I can't imagine if you really wanted to do it, that you wouldn't be able to pull it off.

It almost seems like a no-brainer to me.

Spendable could easily raise $100,000, right?

Yeah, without a doubt.

Having the time to do it right now would be difficult.

And

I just don't know that I'd be able to handle that with my regular job here.

How many hours a week do you work on the show?

How many hours a week do you work on the show?

Pretty much every single day and even on weekends, I'm working on the show.

You know,

and I'm doing stuff at home as well.

I'll be home in the evening or in the morning, and I'll be writing.

There's an awful lot of work that goes into this.

People always think you have like the huge staff, and you know, and I've got writers like Buddy and Sally in the other room.

But in reality, was that a Dick Van Dyke uh reference?

Yes, sir.

I'm the only one that's gotten that one.

Anyone, all our listeners ain't gonna get that one.

I was just saying, I recognize the names couldn't pin the show.

I thought he just had a stroke.

I was like, What is he talking about?

He's like, You know that.

If you ever watch the show and see, you know, the lid of the coffin, the skull face talking,

it's based on Maury Amsterdam

in the Dick Van Dyke show, he was called Buddy Sorrell, and so the face is called Body Sorrell.

And he talks with the same kind of voice like he had.

Hey, Rob, what are you doing?

So go Google that one, kids.

If anyone who watched Dick Van Dyke was still alive, they would appreciate that reference.

I think it's still on Sunday nights if you watch me TV like at 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock.

Company man, right there.

You know, if I don't, I hear plenty about it.

All right, Svengoolie.

Well, thank you.

Right, Walt?

I mean, any more questions?

No, I mean, this has been, like I said,

on my Mount Rushmore of people I respect, it's Tom Brady,

Tom Brady, Tom Brady, and Svengoolie.

That's the four heads on my Mount Rushmore.

That's really nice of you.

I appreciate that.

And it would have been nicer if it was three Svengoolies, though.

Like the three Stooges.

it means a lot to me that people appreciate what I do.

That's one of the things when I go and do appearances, people will come up to me and they'll say, thank you for doing this.

And that means a lot to me.

I'm just, you know, really, really flattered.

And I'm happy, you know, basically, I'm happy to still have a job, certainly.

But it's nice to know that people really care about what I'm doing.

In the time between I was son of Svenguli and came back as Svenguli,

there wasn't a week that went by that somebody didn't recognize me and say, when are you going to do that again?

I really liked it.

And I really figured if people cared about it that much,

you know, there was no way that I could say, no, I don't want to do it again.

It means something to people.

And because of that, it means a lot to me.

And if I can get in some plugs here, please go to spangooli.com or meetv.com.

You have a choice.

And make sure you watch me Saturday nights at 8 p.m.

Eastern, 7 p.m.

Central.

And I don't know what time it's on in Transylvania.

Walt just passed me a note to cut out your plugs.

I don't know what it means.

No.

Even if my hair plugs, possibly.

Well, look, I really look forward to working with you.

I'll have my agents reach out to the producers, and then I imagine we'll be working together very soon, I hope.

Sure.

And I'll be doing a show called Practical Berwins.

Thank you so much.

It really was an honor to talk to you.

Happy Halloween, Svenguly.

Thank you.

Great to talk to you guys.

And I've been fans of you guys as well.

So

this has been a lot of fun for me.

Wow.

Thank you.

Thanks, man.

Have a good Halloween, Svengoolie.

We'll talk to you soon.

Okay, I'm going to go out and soap up my own window so nobody else will.

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All right, back to the show.

That was great.

Right?

Yeah.

What a really nice guy.

What a great guy.

I don't know if that would be, but if I could go back in time, I would like to be a horror host.

And I would like to do it the way that Spenguli does it, you know, with wholesome family entertainment.

That's what I respect so much.

The guy never works blue.

It's completely safe and just, you know, kid-friendly.

And I have so much.

It still works.

Yeah.

It still really works.

Do you think he mints new viewers frequently?

Well, I can imagine, like, say, you had younger kids and you're like, I'm going to watch this.

Like, maybe your kids would watch it with you.

Yeah.

I think that, like, he's.

But kids finding it on their own and being like, wow, this is awesome.

Probably.

It's tough.

I mean, there's so much content out there.

Yeah.

I mean, it's hard to find an audience, but obviously he has because, I mean, he's fucking bigger now than he has ever been.

If there was a situation in which they're like, hey, we love the Baron.

That works like we love the Baron.

We love Sven Gooley.

Yeah.

Sorry, there's not room for two of them.

So we're going to let Sven Goole go.

We just wanted to tell you ahead of time.

He had a good run.

He had a great run.

He had a free run.

I mean, hey, it happened to the first Sven Guillier, so he knows shit to go down.

He just said he's grateful to have a job.

He just said it.

Moments ago.

He's still riding the high.

He's like 10 down.

Not Mount Rushmore.

Now Waltz next to Tom Brady and Svengooli's

gravel.

You don't think that we can do that?

You don't think we can do that?

Do what?

Like a barren-hosted...

I mean,

I've dabbled in it.

I've kind of played with it, experimented with it a little on the Patreon, but

it takes a lot of work.

It takes more than just, you know,

one man pulling all that off.

Like Svengooli says,

it's a lot of work.

I would need a staff.

Yeah.

Yeah, I would need a staff.

You need more than just chucking in a green blanket.

He just said he doesn't have a staff, though.

Well, I mean, he has Me TV behind him, too.

So he's got something.

He's got more than what we have to pull it off.

And, you know.

Who owns Me TV?

He told us.

Did he?

I don't remember it.

I couldn't remember what network he said owned it.

You need a staff, huh?

I need a staff.

Well, you do.

You need it because you got to get the movies.

Yeah.

You can't just make all that shit up as you go.

So you're going to need sets and fucking writers and all that stuff.

I would love to do it.

But that right there, that man is an inspiration, though.

So like Q says, if I put my mind to it, I bet you I could do it.

You can do it.

We got to do it for the right reasons, too.

Like

he loves it.

Like that guy was for free writing jokes and sending them to some dude.

In today's world, if someone wrote jokes and sent them to us, and they're like, hey, you should say these jokes on the show.

I'd be like, what?

Well, that's, well, I actually did take somebody under my wing, like Tom Malazowski for the all-new Sunday Jeff show.

That's true.

I mean, this guy became a regular.

Yeah, so it happens.

I mean, I don't think Tom is ever going to become good.

What are you looking for?

But happy Halloween, guys.

Happy Halloween, man.

I know it's your guys' favorite holiday.

I hope that

this was worthy of some of the previous Halloween fairs on Tellum Steve Dave.

I mean, we didn't do video this year

because, well, for once, Spengley didn't want to.

But I still think even without video, it's back, harkens back to

vintage TSD when it was audio only.

You know, with sound effects.

That's a good spin.

I like it.

I'm always spinning.

Q, you ready to hit that party?

I have a costume.

It's a sexy migrant who did not make it across the border and is dehydrated.

Yeah, let me just put on this mask to completely cover my face and identity, and let's go hit the party, bud.

Come on, man.

You get your costume from Yandy?

What's up with you?

Tell him, Steve, Dave.