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Greetings, everybody.
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Welcome to the Borgo Pass Power Podcast from the broken battlements here in New England.
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This is Scott, returning to you from a very long sleep, long slumber, if you will.
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It's been a long time since I sat in front of a microphone and utter the words, Borgo Pass.
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And I'd be lying if I didn't say I had goosebumps, feeling so excited, so optimistic, so nervous for reasons I'll get into, but such a pleasure to be here to the show.
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So if you were an OG of Borgo, you probably remember me from um the early, early year or two that you know, Jim and I kicked off the show.
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First episodes uh in January 2021 of Dracula, and you know, probably a couple of months before that, Jim and I were chatting online, and um we were just two guys stuck in a pandemic with not a whole lot to do, had a lot of creative juices and trying to figure out a way that um we can let those let that creativity free.
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And um we never met to this day, we've never met.
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I was on East Coast, he was on West Coast, and we we just bonded over a love for horror classic horror to be you know more more precise.
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And um decided to kick this off, kick off Borgo Pass Horror Podcast.
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And man, what a what a ride it was.
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And I just had so much fun collaborating with Jim and just individually too, getting to know, um, forming relationships with all of you guys through social media, through Facebook, Instagram, and you know, with with fellow um podcast hosts, and you know, got to, you know, meet somebody and work with so many folks over those early years of of Brawgo.
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So um just such an amazing treat.
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And um, you know, I think as most of you can understand, life happens.
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And, you know, I had to step away from the show, which was an unfortunate thing.
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But, you know, for me, I guess, you know, in my defense, not that I have to defend myself, but I think in my defense, I take horror, classic horror.
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I take what I'm doing right now very seriously.
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I want to have fun.
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I I have to have fun, and there's no reason to do this if if I'm not having fun.
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But I feel a real responsibility as a horror fan, and I hope you do too.
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If y'all are listening to this, chances are you're a horror fan.
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I hope you feel the same responsibility that I do to keep this, keep this going, keep the train rolling with horror, especially the classic movies.
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You know, we've got Dracula, we've got Frankenstein turning a hundred in a few years.
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So I can't imagine those films will ever go away.
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I think those are forever.
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But there's a lot of films, some of those B-level films with Universal and I don't know, RKO, you name it.
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Over time, people just lose them.
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And I I don't want that.
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I want, you know, to always keep classic horror out there for the you know, our generation, you know, my parents' generation, my kids' generation, my grandkids' generation.
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I don't want it to go away.
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And I feel a real responsibility.
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I do not want to do Borgle Pass at 80%, 85%.
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And at the time of, you know, when I was going through some some stuff, um, that's all I could give you.
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And I decided to step away.
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And I have to give flowers to first of all, Jim Towns, my partner, you know, co co-creator, co-host at the time, because without Jim stepping into, not that he wasn't in the in the seat, but you know, taking over, you know, when I when I when I left, Jim took the reins.
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And um, without Jim's efforts and talents and um being product um his just being proactive with the show, it would be Borgo would not be here today.
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We would have it might have been lasted, you know, a couple of years and would have been done.
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So if you like Borgo, if you like you know all the product and the the content, really we have to thank Jim for that.
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You know, I helped get it off the ground, but to be to sustain it for as long as it has been with Jim, and of course, um Livio, and it takes a village.
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So just for that, I just have to take a take a minute and thank Jim, thank Livio, thank the bevy of people that I don't know, I've never met, that for all their work behind the scenes and in front of the camera, in front of the microphone, to keep Oro going.
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Because without their help, this would not be here today.
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And that was really, that would have been really sad.
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That would have been a tragedy because I think that this is a great machine to help keep horror alive, promote the movies, and have some fun with the horror community.
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So, you know, I think, you know, not to put words in Jim's mouth, but I think he's leaving for a lot of the same reasons that I did, that he loves this so much, and that if you can't give 110%, it's not worth doing.
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Because we just love this
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and we spec we respect it so much that if we can't give it our all and give you guys and give ourselves an A plus product, it's it's not worth it, right?
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So um with Jim stepping away, I um was actually in the middle of starting, actually started another podcast similar to Borgo, but um not quite the same thing, and was in the infancy of you know putting on some episodes and working with some folks when I got the word from Jim and from Livio that you know Jim was stepping away from Borgo.
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And uh it was just one of those, one of those kismet moments that timing-wise, it was perfect.
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Sad Jim's leaving.
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He'll be back.
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Maybe he doesn't know yet, but Jim, you'll be you'll be back, even for an episode or two or 10 or 20.
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But timing-wise, it could not have been better.
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I had um the energy, the bandwidth, the ideas to get something going again.
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And to be able to sit here and take the reins of Borgo and really get us into you know the next year, I could not be more happy and excited and thrilled.
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And man, I just I can't.
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I'll go on and on on and on and on and on all day.
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Thank you for that.
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With Borgo, we started it as a horror movie podcast, right?
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Our focus was and is on really the universal films, the 20s, the 30s, then the 40s, right?
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The Frankenstein, Dracula's, Mummy, Wolfman, and all the amazing movies that fall into that genre of Universal, and you know, you name it.
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And it's been, gosh, 136 episodes, most of which I was not a part of, but a lot of episodes that Jim and um and the guys have have worked on.
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And, you know, it's probably time to open that door a little bit.
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And I guess I'll I'll say it in two different ways.
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Classic horror, universal horror will always be the foundation of Borgo Pass.
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I mean, just in the name alone, Borgo Pass, right?
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You can't escape Dracula.
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Just the name of the podcast itself tells you that we're our heart and our souls will always be in classic horror.
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But I think it's time to open up the door a little bit and start exploring some other other films, some other studios.
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And right off the top of my head, Hammer.
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As much as I love Universal and I do Universal is my number one, Hammer, Hammer Horror is right there.
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Hammer, I got into probably in my teens and just blew me away.
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And there's so many great, great legendary films that you know we haven't touched at Burgle Pass because of our focus has been on classic art, and rightfully so.
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So I think part of this, you know, call it the Big Bang.
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This I don't want to call it a new chapter because I'm picking up where um Jim and Livio and everyone has you know has left off.
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Not a not a restart, but I feels like a great time to explore some other things.
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With Borgo moving into um 2027, I'm really excited to start exploring some other films outside of Universal.
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And you know, right off the top of my head, Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula, Psycho.
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I would love to do Psycho, Night of the Living Dead.
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I'm a huge, huge Friday the 13th fan.
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I would love to dig into the slashes of the 80s and the 70s, you know, Halloween, um, you name it, the thing, anything, you know, John Carpenter, The Fog, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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There's so many films to name.
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And those are all on my radar for, you know, kind of this next incarnation, if you will, of Burgo Pass.
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And I'm just so looking forward to having old friends come back to the show to join me.
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I've got some new friends in mind, some authors, some um writers of you know the slasher genre that, you know, they've already tapped me about doing um some Friday the 13th films.
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One of our dear friends of the show has tapped me already about doing Exorcist 3, if you can believe that.
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So, Ian, I hope you're getting ready for Exorcist 3, because that's that may be coming up sooner than later.
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But um, really, really excited, guys.
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I don't want to go on here all day because I totally could.
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But again, many, many thanks for your support of the show in the time I was here, in the long time that I wasn't here, supporting Jim, supporting Olivio, um, supporting her, supporting podcasting.
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All those things are just so important.
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And without help and attention, they could just they could wither and and die and go away real fast.
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And we can't take that for for granted.
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That really is up to all of us to keep keep her going, moving forward for us and the generations to come.
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So, and again, everybody, thank you so much.
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A lot more to come, a lot more to come.
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We're at you know, Thanksgiving season, we have Christmas season coming up.
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My plan is to get at least a couple of episodes out before the end of the year, and um just talking to uh host of uh another another horror podcast not too long ago today.
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And um, I think he's he's interested in maybe some horror of Dracula.
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So hopefully before too long, probably early December, we'll be back at it.
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We'll get a full-blown, full-length episode out for you guys.
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And we're gonna keep rolling from there.
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Not sure how many episodes.
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I'd love to be able to do one a week.
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Um, I'd say one every couple of weeks is the plan, depending on co-hosts.
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And um there may be some times that I wake up at two in the morning feeling uh feeling pumped and that I just want to get an episode out.
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So you may get you may get Scott from New England solo once in a while for um for a movie, which I'll try not to do that too often because I think it'd be way more interesting for you to hear me bouncing off some some stuff with um somebody who's very talented.
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So anyway, stop rambling.
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Thank you again, everybody.
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Really appreciate your support.
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Boga Pass Horror Podcast.
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Back at it, and looking forward to some great memories and some um a lot of a lot more shows to share with everybody.
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All right, thanks.