Can Attending Horror Conventions and Non-Haunted Tradeshows Help Your Business?

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Hello everybody. Uh Larry here and uh I'm going to put on my uh how do I look?

[00:00:14]These are Versace sunglasses. Okay, that's how I roll. But it is very bright in here. Uh and uh I have sensitive eyes today. And so today I'm going to talk about some of the things that's going on.

[00:00:34]Uh cuz we haven't been back out to Creepy World lately, but we're going to get back out there. We're waiting for a bunch of props to come in. And we did finish the back of the uh of Creepy World. We did finish the whole thing.

[00:00:47]And so we're going to get out there and get a video of that cuz that haunted house is looking really cool. Uh we have uh you can turn it off.

[00:00:58]We have um made quite a few um improvements to the Creepy World haunted house. Um getting much farther, but we've had to take a couple pit stops. Uh number one, I had to go see a client in Las Vegas. And uh while I was there, I made a couple videos. I made a video of myself going to the Grand Canyon in a helicopter. So, I'm going to put that video online. Uh, another video that I made while I was there. Let me think of what it was.

[00:01:34]I made a video of Jeez, I'm trying to remember. I can't even remember now. Um, but I did make another video. I'm trying to think of what it was. Why can't I think of where I went and made another video?

[00:01:52]um doesn't matter. Uh it'll come to me eventually, but I made a couple videos while I was out there. But next next week, I'm planning on going to Monster Palooa and we're going to talk a little bit today about the value of horror conventions.

[00:02:14]Um what is the value of them to somebody who owns and operates a haunted house?

[00:02:19]So I'm going to talk about that a little bit today because I think it it is very important just like it's important you know that when I went to Las Vegas here recently uh you know you see cool things okay you see a lot of cool things and in the process of seeing all these cool things okay you um get ideas okay and these ideas inspire you for your haunted house. Now, you know what I'm going to do cuz it's just annoying the hell out of me. I'm going to look on my camera and see if I took some photos.

[00:03:03]Oh, I know what I did a video on now.

[00:03:06]Oh, how could I forget?

[00:03:09]Okay, I remember now. So, I made three or four videos. I made a video of my Wizard of Oz experience at the sphere.

[00:03:20]So, I made a video on that. That's two videos that I made. And then a third one is I walk through the licensing show.

[00:03:28]Um, now why is that video relevant to you? Well, I will explain why it's relevant. It's relevant because when I was there, I talked to quite a few people. Uh, I talked to a lot of people about pinball, but I talked to a lot of people about, you know, licensing something like do an escape room to do a haunted house to do different things like that. Um, but that video will go online. Okay. The other video that I made was I went to a trade show that you wouldn't even believe. It was called the Snack and Candy Show. You're probably wondering again, what is that trade show? How is it relevant? Okay, and that's what we're going to dive into before I put these videos online. Now, there's also another video I'm going to be putting online. Actually, several.

[00:04:20]I'm going to be putting a video up of I did the filming locations to Schindler's List. See, now I guess maybe I am becoming a YouTuber. Um, and maybe I should get start from scratch. Okay. And then just be a YouTuber. Somebody said they'd love to see a daily vlog from me, you know. Um, I might like to see a daily vlog from me as well, just traveling, okay? Just running into cool things. And but you know why it's would be impossible for me to do that is because I have responsibilities, okay? And that's one of the things I'm going to talk about too is look, I know you're a haunted house owner and I know you're busy and I know you're like a one-man band, but you need to make time for certain things if you're trying to grow your business. So, one of the things I would tell you is that yeah, that candy show that I went to was pretty cool. Um, there was a lot of cool stuff there, I will tell you that. And if you ever wanted to sell bulk candy where there's a lot of money in that, like yeah, I found all the vendors to do just that. Okay. Uh the pizza show. Okay. I've done a video on it. It's on this channel. If you didn't watch it, you're a fool because that video, first off, that show, if you ever wanted to get into the food business, that's the show to go to because pizza is the easiest thing to to to do. So that show uh I documented it very well. I actually went to it twice. And so this is my second time going to the license show.

[00:05:57]First time I went to the uh snack and candy show. There was another show that was going on there too and I didn't make it there unfortunately. So I wanted to go. If I lived in Las Vegas, that's what I would do every week is go to trade shows. I might start a a YouTube channel doing nothing but going to trade shows.

[00:06:15]That would be fun. Um, but with that being said, there's a couple other videos I'm going to be putting online.

[00:06:22]My trip to Daca, there's uh going to be a video of me going to see Jim Morrison's grave in Paris.

[00:06:33]And and again, you're probably wondering, well, why would I want to watch your video of Jim Morrison? By the way, it's not a great video because I was in a rush. Okay, I'd like to go back and do it again. I'd like to go and see the apartment that, you know, he died in, if he did actually die in the apartment. Um, blah blah blah blah. And maybe even find some of the locations when he was in Paris where he was sitting and you could find the the location. I think would be fun. But, um, when I go to, um, Monster Plus, I'm thinking that I'm going to stay. I'm going to go to Monster Plus. Then I'm going to do the filming locations for The Lost Boys. And then I'm going to do the filming locations for the movie Halloween.

[00:07:18]That's very consequential uh to the haunted house industry, I believe. Um it's not going to be a long video. There's not very many locations to shoot, but I'm going to do it anyway.

[00:07:29]Um so I'm going to do that. and and what I might do is get in my car and just drive round 66 all the way uh back home. So, you wouldn't drive the whole Round 66 because the whole Round 66 would take you to Chicago, which I'm not going to go past my house and go to Chicago after taking that long drive. So, I got a lot of stuff I've got to get taken care of this week to go out of town and do just that. Okay, so that's what I got on the agenda. I think it would be fun and I'm excited to do it. So now let's dive in to the topic. Okay, why should you go to horror conventions? Why should you go to oddity show? Okay, because I just did a video on that. Um, why should you go to the snack and beverage whatever show or the pizza expo?

[00:08:28]uh you know why should you do any of these things? Well, for one, let's look around here for a sec. Okay, look at my retail store. It's very cool. Now, I did a video recently and if you didn't watch it, you should watch it. I went to the toy fair.

[00:08:48]Okay, so the toy fair is in New York City. It's basically anybody who makes or sells toys. So you had everybody there from Hasbro, Lego, you name it, they were all there and small toys, okay? Especially toys for little gift stores like yours, okay? So I got a whole bunch of leads to buy stuff. But one of the things that I learned was there's like maybe two or three distributors. You get those Monopoly games. Like say if you want to buy Monopoly, and I'm using Monopoly as an example because that's a big brand, okay? You can get it all from a distributor. So, I can start buying Monopoly direct. You want to buy uh pretty much anything you can buy direct.

[00:09:33]So, there's quite a few things that you could be buying and I got the lead from going to the toy fair. Okay. So, I it took me a little bit. Okay. But I did get set up as a dist uh not a distributor, but as a buyer. Um, and they basically sell almost everybody's stuff. Oh, you want that? Well, yeah, you need to get set up with the distributor. You need to set up with the distributor. You need to set up with the distributor. You're taking off.

[00:10:03]>> I woke up early. I'm tired. I didn't go to bed.

[00:10:06]>> All right. Well, I'll call you when I'm leaving here.

[00:10:09]>> Okay.

[00:10:10]>> So, uh, that's why I went to that show.

[00:10:13]And so now I have the ability to buy products from I don't even know 100, 200, 300 suppliers. You know who else was at that toy fair? Was uh the the company Ghoullish Gallery, the mass company was there. There was so many companies there. It was ridiculous. And if you ever decided to branch off and do like another business, let's say in your your town there's just like this really cool little touristy area and you have an opportunity to go in there and you want to sell collectibles and you and you know what, maybe you want to open uh you know make your own candy bag store too cuz that makes a ton of money. Um you should have gone to the toy fair. You should have gone to the candy and snack show. I've found in my lifetime that um there's not a train show that I've never been to that I didn't see something. I went to a branding show once that was interesting because one of the companies that was there was, you know, can make your own Monopoly game for example. And then there was another company that would make your own shoes, meaning like you can put your Darkness logo on the shoes.

[00:11:28]Wouldn't that be cool? But like I've never been to a train show where I didn't learn something.

[00:11:35]uh that would help me or give me more knowledge to expand what I'm doing. And you know what? You guys are lucky enough that you have somebody like me going out there documenting these things uh and showing you um and commentary, offering the commentary as I walk through uh you know, showing you and telling you exactly what what the benefit of the show is. Now, let's take Monster Palooa, which is next week. What is the benefit of Monster Plus? Well, there's a lot of benefits to Monster Plus. Uh, even though I bought this at Transworld, this character right here, that person's at Monster Plus, that Joker I bought at Monster Palooa, the Nun, the Jack Nicholson down there, uh, the Pennywise, all bought from Monster Palooa because Monster Pooa has some really amazing artists there and they're really talented. Um, and if you ever wanted to get something custom sculpted or something like that, uh, you would find them at Monster Palooa. Uh, there's also a lot of vendors that sell things that you could sell in your retail store. Um, and you just run across them. Now, a lot of them are handmade, so they can't, you know, make you a gob of them. But, yeah, there's definitely some things that you could buy there. I'll give you one example. There's a company there that sells authentic like, you know, Freddy Gloves that you could kill somebody with. Um, now he probably wouldn't give you a discount. Maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't. But even if he wouldn't, that's something you could put in your display case and you could say, "Well, hey, I want $800 for them." You know why? Because they don't know where to get them. I mean, that's if everybody knew they could buy Monopoly games, why would they buy from Walmart? I mean, it's there's nothing strange here. Okay.

[00:13:33]So, uh, but that might be a couple cool little collector items that you could offer and and you could be like, "Well, if we don't sell them, I don't care. I just want them." And if somebody's willing to pay me $3 $400 more for them, great. Um, but with that being said, uh, when you go to Monster Plusa as well, uh, you also can get a lot of content for your social media. So, that's also a benefit to you. So, when I went to the snack and uh candy show, I took three or four cool videos uh that I'm planning on posting on my Instagram uh that I plan on post on my Tik Tok or Facebook or whatever just as filler, you know, why the summer is going by, you know, you just post cool things. Um you know, for example, I I made a video of Hey, there's the Teletubbies. You know, I thought that was funny. They were at the licensing show. Um, I saw a lot of cool things at the licensing show that I took videos of and I plan on using it for my social media to grow my social media. Just my social media doesn't always have to be about the darkness or creepy world or whatever. It can be something fun or funny or scary that I've seen. Um, and typically those videos do just as good, if not better, than the ones on your regular haunt. your goal is to grow your social media, not just to post like, "Hey, we're hiring actors, okay, or we're open tonight." So, there's another reason to go. Uh, also, like when you go to say for example, Monster Palooa, uh, I found people selling like costumes and whatnot there. Um, and I've bought some and you know there's people who sell different things and I bought it and brought it back with me. Um, but the another side benefit is that if I go to Los Angeles, you know, I might go over to um Halloween Town, the costume store, as an example. Okay, just as an example, and you might see something that you didn't know was there. Now, recently I went to Las Vegas and um I tried to go to Nightmare Toys. It's permanently closed. I think they made a big mistake when they tried to do the retail store. Oh, no, not the retail store. The bar, the heavy metal bar. I think they probably put a lot of money into that. I think maybe that sucked them dry cuz that closed first and then now Nightmare Toys is gone. It's Adios.

[00:16:08]Uh, no more Nightmare Toys in Nevada, Las Vegas. It's kind of sad. Um, but with that being said, every time I'd be in Las Vegas, I'd go over to Nightmare Toys and just look around and see if they have something I don't have. And that's another reason why you want to go to these horror conventions and stuff.

[00:16:30]Not to mention the fact you kind of are a fan of horror. So, you just kind of like recharges your batteries a little bit. And that's one of the benefits also. Now, if a horror show or an oddity show or something like this does come to your town, it's actually smart to get a booth and set up a booth and exhibit, okay, and try to recruit actors and things of this nature. So, that's another benefit, especially if they're in your town. But the side benefit of going to Los Angeles is, you know, uh for me, I can go do the Lost Boys uh filming location video. I can do Halloween. that's not going to benefit you at all as a haunt owner or a business owner. But, uh, there are other things in Los Angeles that you can go see. There's Icons of Darkness. You can go see that. Um, you can see how they've done things. You can check things out.

[00:17:23]Um, there's all kinds of reasons uh that when you're going to go to that trade show in that city that you can find a place to go visit while you're there. uh tourist attractions, museums. I love museums. They're great. Um and just to give you an example, in Cincinnati, they have Horror Hound Weekend. Uh all the haunts in Cincinnati open on the same days that Horror Hound Weekend is open are pretty much the same days.

[00:17:56]Plus, they have the Mass Fest. And I thought the Mass Fest was like the coolest show ever. I mean, I spent two whole days walk and it wasn't even that big. And I spent two whole days walking it again and again and again because I just liked it so much. And I bought a lot of cool things there that I put in my secret bar. I also bought masks for my actors. So yes, yes, yes, yes, you can go there and you can find things.

[00:18:20]Now, when you look around in my museum here, and I'm not going to walk over there, uh, but over there on the top, there's a life like Annabelle. I got that at a horror convention. Um, there's all kinds of other memorabilian props and stuff that I've got like at MassFest. MassFest is tied to Horhound Weekend. Now, also, if you look around the darkness, you'll see that we have a lot of autographs on the walls. I don't think that many people care that much about the autographs. Some people do, but it's just kind of cool wall filler.

[00:18:51]I always get those autographs typically at uh horror conventions because at horror conventions usually have celebrities taking photos uh or selling autographs and things like this. And so I'll go to these things and I'll get autographs of some of these people and uh you know and I'll come back frame it and put it on my wall.

[00:19:13]But when you think about my horror retail store, I find vendors, I find odd vendors.

[00:19:19]Um, but aside from all that, another benefit honestly is you see just a lot of cool things and sometimes you get inspired by something somebody did or they're selling or whatever uh to give you an idea of something to do at your place. Think about like when you go to Transfold. I'm sure a lot of people are inspired by a lot of the things that are displayed there. So, you might not be as inspired at a horror convention, but let's not forget isn't does the horror does the horror movie industry uh inspire the haunted house industry more uh than the haunted house industry might inspire the movie industry. I think the haunted house industry has inspired honestly uh Hollywood, but not to the same degree that the horror industry, the movie horror industry has inspired the haunt industry. I think a lot of the ideas for masks, costumes, props, uh, and animatronics have come from horror movies. I think a lot of scenes in haunted houses have come from horror movies. Uh, especially in the beginning.

[00:20:28]especially in the beginning, but probably not as much today percentage-wise as it did in 1995 or 2000. I think it's I think most haunts now are inspired mostly by other haunts.

[00:20:42]Okay. But I still think the horror industry is more inspirational to the haunted house industry than the haunted house industry is to the horror movie industry. If that if that makes any sense to you. So, in other words, I do think that our industry is inspiring the haunt uh the horror industry. I think it really is. Um, and there's a film being made right now about a haunted house.

[00:21:04]And you know what's really cool? Um, they licensed from me uh Haunt World magazines because they're going to be reading them in the movie. And I was like, "Yeah, sure." You know, why not?

[00:21:17]My collar's all messed up. Um, but I do think that they are going good handtoand. Um, but the point is is that you should go out of your way to go to Ayappa. You should go out of your way to go to Transorld. You should go out of your way to go to Eastern Haunt convention just so you can go on the haunt tours. Um, you should go out of your way to go to Monster Plus. Why not?

[00:21:50]Why wouldn't you? Okay. What's the reason not to? Okay. Uh, what's the reason for not going to Horhound Weekend? Uh, if your haunt's not open, cuz our haunt will not be open. That means that that night you can go to Dent Schoolhouse and you can make a video. If you go back on the Haunt World channel, you'll see I made two videos of the Dent Haunted Schoolhouse. The first video that I made on the Dent Haunted Schoolhouse was when Uh, I went to MassFest and Horror Weekend and we did a behind thescenes video. Okay. The following year, I went back to MassFest cuz I wanted to complete my horror bar and I wanted to buy more weird things for it.

[00:22:32]And uh, in the process of going there, I went to Dent Schoolhouse and shot the it live with actors. Now, there's other haunts um, in Cincinnati that open on that night. Okay. And there's also a big Renfair happening at the same time. You could go to the Renfair. Okay. You could go to the other haunts. You could go to Dent Schoolhouse while going to uh Horror Hound Weekend and going to MassFest. Does this make sense to anybody? Um I can only tell you this, okay? If you want to be a great operator, if you want to have the best haunt in your market, if you want to get inspired, yes, you come to Darkness Haunt Tour. Of course, why wouldn't you? Okay, to all the people who didn't, well, I mean, you guys are you guys got left out. I was about to say fools, cuz I think everybody should have came. Even if you have a great haunt, do you know the people that that own big haunts that came to the Darkness tour? I mean, all the people from Netherworld came. All the people from 13th Gate came. Several people from uh uh uh 13th Floor came. I mean, like all these people came, right?

[00:23:47]Because we're all looking around for ideas, okay? We're all looking for ideas. And when I was in New Jersey at and and here's a perfect example, folks.

[00:23:59]When I was in New When I was in New York and I went to the New York Toy Fair, I contacted Rich Kachi and said, "Hey, do you want to make a video and do a behind-the-scenes video of your haunt?"

[00:24:10]He was only 20 minutesish from the from uh Manhattan. So there is getting back to the benefits of going out of town, going to some sort of show, and then turn it into like an extra innings for a baseball game. I got to go see a really cool haunt. Does this make sense? And if you actually sit down and plan these things out, you could do the same thing.

[00:24:39]One of the biggest shows is the Chiller Theater. That's in New Jersey.

[00:24:44]um you know, say, "Hey, Rich Gonchi, can I take you to dinner? Can I see your haunt? Can we meet up? I'm going to go to the Chiller Show." And by the way, nobody has more celebrities uh than they do. Uh you know, and by the way, there's some big shows in uh Orlando, too. I want to say um one's called Fanboy Con or something like that. And then the other one's called, god dang it, I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head, but they get big, big stars like Orlando Bloom and Chvy Chase and it's something con, I don't remember.

[00:25:21]Then in Chicago, they have a bunch as well.

[00:25:25]Um, but yeah, and I remember I got Luke Skywalker's autograph in Chicago. Uh, they had some big people up there as well. So anyway, with that being said, uh when people see my retail store, you know, I remember all the years I was trying to build my retail store and get it off the ground, it was always a challenge like where do you buy the stuff? Okay, and it's taken multiple years to figure out where to get all this stuff. You know, it's one thing to get a, you know, a a dealership to Naka and Trick-or- Treat Studios. Uh that's the easy ones. Okay.

[00:26:05]But when you look around this retail store and let's look around this retail store, you see those books right there?

[00:26:11]Those books are really, really cool. Um, I want to say I saw them at the oddity show maybe and I bought them.

[00:26:22]A lot of these mugs and stuff do not come from NECA or Trick-or- Treat Studios. Um, you know, obviously you can go to Fun World and you can get a lot of masks. You can get a lot of stuff from Morris Costumes. These right here come from a certain vendor that we did not see at those shows. You know, uh, I'll tell you a show that, uh, I thought was really cool. Now, I didn't go this year, um, but I did go the year before was the Halloween Expo in Las Vegas. Now, you know what's really cool about going to the Halloween Expo in Las Vegas, since I think somebody told me it's moving out of Las Vegas, I don't know. I'd have to go check. Uh, but you know what's really cool about going to the Halloween expo in Las Vegas, was that, you know, Las Vegas is really the trade show capital of the world?

[00:27:10]So, there's going to be two or three other trade shows going on. It does not matter. It does not matter if you think it's related to you or not.

[00:27:19]Go, go, you'll find something. You have to pro, you have to trust me on this.

[00:27:25]So, I think last year when I went or when I went to the Halloween expo, there was other shows going on and I went to all them as well. Why not? And by the way, sometimes you can just kind of sneak into them by getting a badge like say for the Halloween expo and just walking in. I mean, I've done that a hundred times. So, you know, it doesn't matter. Okay. Uh, I might be going to the Las Vegas for uh the Conor McGregor fight. I'll do a video of the UFC FanFest. Why not? I did it once before. Um, but I'm going to check and see what other train shows are going on in Las Vegas because there's probably going to be a handful that might make sense for me to go that might make sense for me to go to it.

[00:28:15]And you've really got to think to yourself, uh, you know, if it's a if it's a trade show on pottery, okay, yeah, maybe that makes no sense.

[00:28:26]Okay, but a lot of trade shows that you don't understand what they are, they actually do work for you, so you should give it a whirl. Give it a try. Um, so I was going to Las Vegas to see a client and I spent a few hours trying to figure out what all is going on in Las Vegas. I found out that they had the candy show there. I was like, "Oh, hell yeah. I'm all in on that." And you would think I would have eaten a bunch of candy, but I did not. Okay, because I had to rush through the show otherwise, yeah, I would have stockpiled. Okay, I went to Cineacon. I found a lot of cool things at Cineacon. Trust me when I tell you I found a lot of cool things at Cineacon. There's there's hardly a train show ever that I go to that I don't find something. And luckily, if you go to the channel, Haunt World Channel, you can search for trade shows and you can see all the ones that I've uploaded to this channel and uh and hopefully you take the time to watch it. And you can't skip through it. You got to watch the whole thing. Uh there's some trade shows that I've gotten kind of tired of videotaping and putting online like that's one that I've just sort of gotten, you know, I I make the videos very lazily now. I don't It's just because it seems like it's the same show every year. I I hate to say this, but Transworld is another one that I've gotten a little tired of filming because it does always seem like it's the same thing every year. Um, you know what's funny about Transworld is I was saying to people that spent more time walking the show than I did, did you see anything that stood out to you? There was there anything that just popped off the page? And I asked that of everybody and nobody actually gave me a clear answer. I mean, I swear to God, not a single person said, "Oh, yeah, that one thing." No. I'm not saying there wasn't cool stuff there. It was cool stuff there. But was there anything that you had to have?

[00:30:37]No.

[00:30:39]There was nothing I had to have. I didn't buy a single thing. And it's not because the vendors did a bad job because I think the vendors did a good job. I think that uh but it's just more of the same. More of the same. More of the same. Um but there there was cool stuff there.

[00:30:56]Okay. There's always cool stuff there.

[00:30:58]But like if you've been to it 17 times, okay, it does start to seem like, you know what, I'm still ordering from the same people I did the year before and the year before and the year before, even though I've seen something I haven't seen before. Uh, that's why it's not a bad idea to go to other trade shows.

[00:31:21]I think it's really cool to go to EHC show, not really for the trade show part, but to go see other haunts and then you get to walk the trade show.

[00:31:30]That's called added bonus. Okay, that's an added bonus. Whereas in St. Louis, how many times can you go to the uh the um city museum? And you know, the funny thing is I live in St. Louis. I've never made a video of the city museum, but I did go to the arch and film on a video at the arch. I just have to edit it. Um, but I've never made a video on the city museum. I never go there. Um, but how many times can somebody go there? How many peop How many times can somebody go to the darkness haunted house? Okay.

[00:32:06]Well, I guess a lot because we did a lot of tours, but we also spent a lot of money to make it different and unique.

[00:32:14]And I think that's one of the benefits of the EHC shows going out and seeing some other haunts. And you know, and I even talked to people who said, you know, one of the haunts, I don't remember what what the name of it was, they thought it was completely awful and terrible and it was completely unsafe.

[00:32:32]Okay, but you know what? That's still that haunt offered you some insight for you. Oh man, that's something you shouldn't do. That's something I would never do. And that's still good information. And by the way, I'm not saying don't go to Transorld cuz you absolutely should go to Trans World.

[00:32:48]Transorld is a great place to go and get content for your social media. Even if you buy something or don't buy something, okay? Or even if you don't see something or not. It might seem really uh like, oh, I've seen all this before, but the people on your social media haven't. Okay? So, it's always interesting to them.

[00:33:12]I would like to see, however, the vendors, and I've said this before, I'll say it again. I would like to see the vendors this coming year spend more time talking to their customers. Look, I'm not trying to make myself out to be, you know, the king of Halloween because I do get people call me. I went I just went to Vegas and somebody at a train show knew who I was. I went to a train show, the candy show. The candy show.

[00:33:43]Okay, I'm not making this up. I literally get to the last aisle of the candy show. And he says, "It's Larry Kersner, the king of Halloween." Okay, you know, and I have been called this a million times, the king of Halloween.

[00:33:58]And I don't know if that's people mocking me, uh, if I should be, you know, glad that I'm being called the king of Halloween or if I should get pissed off because I'm just being mocked. Okay. I have I've never been able to figure out when people call me the king of Halloween if I'm being mocked. Uh, and I, you know, cuz one of the ways I look at it is like, oh, no, he's got a massive ego. That's why we call him the king of Halloween. So, no, I don't have a massive ego. I'm just confident in what I do because I'm willing to go out and learn things I don't know anything about. And that's why you got to go to these other shows. Okay, just saying.

[00:34:40]And by the way, that vendor, the guy who knew me, he had a really cool product um that I think everybody should sell.

[00:34:47]He had like suckers that looked like skeletons and he had dinosaurs and all kinds of stuff. So either way, either way, um I just want to say uh in closing for this video that um uh it's really funny when I do go out some I get noticed here and there and everywhere. I went to Orlando and I went to Disney World and as I was leaving some guy just walks up to me, I never met him before and he says, "Oh, you're Larry Kersner. I watch your videos."

[00:35:24]Like really? Seriously? I thought it was just for like a small group of people.

[00:35:28]But yeah, there's people who want to learn more. They want to know what it takes to to to do it the right way. And that's what we are doing with this channel.

[00:35:42]And so hopefully you found this video informative and hopefully you found it to be something um that can help your business. And look at this. I can't remember at the top of the video. Look at this. This is one of my favorite horror characters of all time. We just got this in. This is Chop Top from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. He's one of my favorites. See him with the coat hanger scratching his head.

[00:36:11]Dog will hunt.

[00:36:13]Did you get one?

[00:36:16]I got ME ONE, TOO. A BONUS BODY. Look at that beef.

[00:36:22]Did you get her? Did you get her?

[00:36:25]I always love Chop Top. And I used to have imitate him perfectly, okay? Cuz I used to watch that movie over and over and over again. So I love Chop Top. Love Chop Top. So finally, he's a toy.

[00:36:41]So with that being said, thanks for watching the video. Uh we are going to get back out to Creepy World. Um, uh, we had to, like I said, take a little bit of a break. It rained almost every day for a week, so we couldn't work out there. But we pretty much got that haunt done. We are waiting for some props. They're coming in. And by the way, I also want to say to one of the reasons why I'm here at the darkness on Labor Day is because Zach and Colby from YouTube, you know, they're huge YouTubers. They have 17 million followers. They came through the darkness and filmed it today and now they're down at the lamp filming the lamp and doing a whole video about the haunted Limp Brewery.

[00:37:24]So, with that being said, thanks for watching the video. Our game show is about to open hopefully next week. And there you have it. Lots more things coming soon. Until then, happy haunting.