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Originally Posted by The Gore-met
I'm not one to take it upon myself to speak on behalf of the old guard of RM contributors - you know, the ones who paved the path you two are now prancing on - but I think it fine to assume this mantle on this occasion to recognise the voices Bowen, Burrell, Corupe, von Lupton, and I both inspired and nurtured. While you'll always be second-run, you'll never be second-best! Cheers to the RM Podcast!
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Oh my. I have to laugh profusely at the notion that this group of motley characters are in any sense progenitors of the sort of nonsense and shenanigans I specialize in on the radio.
Long, long, long, long,
LONG before
Rue Morgue ever materialized as a magazine, when most of the blokes you mentioned here were little more than snotty nosed upstarts, I was interviewing bona fide
HORROR LEGENDS on my humble little radio show on CHRY in North York (that was eventually called CINEPHOBIA sometime in 1995!).
My first ever interview? Dario Argento in 1993. Me and Dario, sitting in his hotel room, trying to make sense out of each other's accents.
Also, in those very early, formative years, I interviewed the likes of Jennifer Lynch (
Boxing Helena), Shinya Tsukamoto (
Tokyo Fist), Peter Jackson (
Heavenly Creatures), Roger Avery (
Killing Zoe), Peter Weller (Screamers) and the list goes on.
So forgive me, Gore-Met, but from my point of view, many of these great 'fore-runners' as you put them, are little more than 'wet behind the ears' youngsters from my point of view. Was Lupton, Jovanka or Chris Alexander even born then?
And as for you and your loveliness, you hadn't even done the first of your many unsuccessful stints in rehab by this point. And I think Rodrigo was still president of the school's audio/visual club or something.
So puh-leeze.....!
Why do you think they call me
THE GODFATHER OF HORROR TALK RADIO?
(Or more accurately, why do you think I call myself
THE GODFATHER OF HORROR TALK RADIO?

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Or even more accurately, why do you think I call myself the four time
RONDO HATTON AWARD WINNING GODFATHER OF HORROR TALK RADIO and the only one of the three 'Andrews' who actually has Bill Zebub's home phone number!
