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Well, Faithful Nowhere listeners, we have now gotten to the point, or the part, that Josh has been eagerly waiting for, because this was the reason he wanted to go to the con. Well, one of many reasons. Well, I know one of many, but I knew this was the one that he was talking about on the road there, you know, on the way back, when he first told me, hey, so let's go get me there. So now it's time for you to hear the interview.
Yes, and now without further ado, here it is, the incredible, the wonderful Sid Hick. We are back at day to day with the legendary man himself today. Thank you for sitting down with us. Thank you.
How have you liked gone so far? So far so good. It was a little small, and you're picking up today. Yep, no, it's not a good one again.
But that's, you know, that's typically selling California conventions. No, exactly. It's like people's mindset is, why should I go and play Sid Hick and sign a picture when I just saw him in the supermarket yesterday? I didn't sign my receipt.
How many of you contacts have you been to? I do 12 to 14 a year. Wow. Yeah.
You probably have got a lot of different bands during that time. What's your favorite moment with a band or even the weirdest moment with a band? Maybe the weirdest moment with a band. Well, it's kind of weird and funny.
I was on the phone with somebody who said, it's my friend, cousin Ozzy, be unmerciful, okay, so I get to that phone. So I took the phone, and I called this guy every name of the book. I made shit up, and I said, all right, that's enough, I'm tired of talking to you. And I handed the phone back to him.
And I said, guys, you're roaring laughing. That was my mother. So I said, I guess Thanksgiving dinner's off, huh? I love that.
How did you develop the character for Captain Spalding? Okay, to answer that, I have to just give you my philosophy on the way I work on any character. Within each and every, and this is something that's true, within each and every person, there's every personality type that there is. And all you have to do is find the Captain Spalding that's inside you and bring him out.
Well, at the end of the day, you've got to remember to put him back. Okay, yeah. Right. I love that.
How do you feel about the, with the unfortunate violence going on, how do you feel about people blaming in a form of a leading job of a violent struggle? Because people have this huge immersion, have this huge immersion for taking responsibility for their own actions. Okay? People have been killing people since there have been people on the planet.
And they didn't have any movies. And Filmin' Eleven was a bunch of guys around a campfire. Okay? Yeah.
So to blame a movie is to just absolve yourself of any wrongdoing whatsoever. Okay? And with the kids that are, you know, taking guns to school and blowing away their classmates and stuff like Columbine and their... Yeah.
Yeah. That's just bad parenting. Okay? And parents don't draw boundaries for their kids.
Kids want boundaries because they want the police. They get the idea of reward and punishment. And they want the reward. So if you expect them to do a certain thing, then they will try to do that.
Okay? But if you just say, oh, God, I'm so busy and my wife's working and I'm working and we don't have the dogs and I've got to go to the vet and that and that... I think every damn excuse in the world for taking responsibility for raising your kid, then it's your fault. Thank you.
Thank you so much. How was it working with Rob on the WVC, the hunting adventures of LWD show? It was great. You know, it was great fun to work those shows.
He had a vision that we partook of. Okay? And he basically just got out of the way and let us do our work. That's awesome.
How does that be on the convention for the tenure for a half-a-half-half-year reunion? Well, I feel old. Okay. I thought I learned like 10 years?
10 years already? Holy shit. Way to go. Yeah, yeah.
So, it's very cool to be aligned in this business for as long as I have. I'm truly blessed, okay? This is my 51st year as an actor and that's all I've had to do since being an actor. So, that doesn't happen every day.
That's super. What kind of legacy do you think that would be up to that in all these years later? You know what? People are so self-absorbed, I'm not sure that there is a legacy there.
I mean, there's an appreciation for the return to the 70s style. Yeah. But, it's so difficult to say that a certain film or a certain book had a lasting impression on me and changed my life and all that stuff. The devil's rejects changed their life.
You've got to punch it up on your life. You went to the, you know, Universal Life Church and became a minister. Which I am, by the way. I do weddings as Captain Small.
There's an idea. I'm going to give you the start. I'm going to give you the start of my wedding ceremony. Oh, yeah.
Dear beloved, we are gathered here on the side of this company and this company has decided I will tell you. From the finance, one-legged ladies and little girls with big titties. Can I have an amen for big titties? Amen.
And then it goes downhill from there. That's awesome. Thank you so much. Glad you had an evolution on a form of your dream career.
It went from late when Universal was called the House of Horror to crap and it started to come back now. You know, all the senseless slasher films and stuff. Somebody actually got on the internet after The Devil's Rejects was released and said, well, that was hardly anybody. I was there when Waincroft loaded six five-gallon drums of blood in the back of the script.
How much more blood do you want? Exactly. And I guess this was about you've been asking this to everybody here and one of their questions out. What is your favorite what the fuck movie movie movie?
First opening in the remake of the House of Wax? Thank you, thank you. Okay, thank you. Well, one more time for just though and we'll wrap up everybody into this.
I'm going to wrap up one big thing. Holy fuck, that's just that. Yes. Yeah.
Well, my line's really blown because the man has got a career that spans 53 years and 130 roles and he bought it. Yeah, he talked to our podcast. Yeah, yeah. The man knows his stuff.
He is an artist. Yes, and from what he just heard in the interview, he was so freaking gracious and open to us. Especially the way he performs when he's ceremonies. Oh, God, that was great.
And how he'll Oh, yeah, and how he'll just randomly pass out someone's home. That was a great story. Honestly, we can say multiple things about the interview, but multiple things about the man. The man's the man.
The man's the guy. The man is the man. And just props to him. I don't know what to say.
It was just an honor to be that close to a person. Well, not just a person, but an artist. Yeah, I mean, I consider myself an artist and to be with someone who has had such a long, liberative career, I admire that. He's at one of these places where a lot of people that have worked as long as him, they're too good for that.
They are too busy. But he's made time for his fans and it just warms my heart. So I guess to close this house with Colin, we'll just do one quick roll-through. Thank you again saying, hey, Captain Staff, I'm going down to Maybel, Walter Thielen and Lawrence R.
Harvey, top armor, the great writer of Jason Axe and the one and only Edelman Gamm. Yes. Thank you all for making our first fun a very rich, very enlightening and wonderful experience. We said it before when we first were initially going on Nowhere's going somewhere and we did.
We did. We still went somewhere and you guys feel like something. And thank you. Thank you.
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