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0:00:00 Thumbnail Image (Credit: B.L. Blankenship)
0:00:30 Interview begins
0:01:00 Authors Joe Lansdale, Chuck Buda, and B.L. Blankenship’s books are available through the links in show notes
0:01:35 How this Western Roundtable got started
0:07:15 Joe: “Cuse of the Undead” old black/white horror Western influenced Joe
0:09:36 Joe: People in the early 20th cen. Had a different language which he reflects in his writing
0:10:05 Frank: the lost worlds of the past and oral tradition
0:14:00 Chuck: Influenced to blend genre’s Western/Horror due to father
0:15:18 B.L. Blankenship is introduced
0:16:00 B.L.- Joe Lansdale is his favorite author and tells us about Joe’s comics
0:16:15 B.L. Western isn’t constrained by a time/place but a mindset almost
0:17:00 B.L. dives into the earliest Western movie 1895, and talks about the various films involving Western themes
0:20:55 Joe: Talks about first “dime novel” in 1860
0:22:00 Joe: Talks about Bat Masterson dying in New York City and the irony of his death
0:22:42 Joe: he says that the West was once in NYC
0:23:35 Joe: Historical fact, large percentage of “Indian Fighting” was carried out by minority soldiers
0:25:00 Joe: tells this AWESOME story about a pterodactyl sighting/attack in the Old West also some of the first sightings of Big Foot were in the West
0:27:50 Chuck Buda: ask a question, “What’s more horrific, than man?” chat about how man is the central monster in his stories
0:28:49 Chuck: “Everything we fight for today, law, order, dreams,” is rich in the history of the West
0:29:45 Chuck: story telling goes back to the campfire thousands of years long tradition
0:30:20 Frank: Ask if the “West” could have only happened in the United States
0:32:15 Joe: “We had phones in the Old West”
0:34:00 Joe: loves Richard Sale’s “The White Buffalo”
0:34:54 Frank: movie “White Buffalo” is a cult classic
0:36:40 Joe: he tells a really CREEPY ass story about a panther stalking a family in the West
0:37:00 Joe: connects vampire legends with OCD behavior of paranormal entities and West
0:37:25 Joe: “The Vampire: His Kith and Ken”
0:39:00 Chuck: Talks about an absolutely INTRIGUING storyline he’s done about witches and the West
0:39:40 Chuck: uses various monsters as antagonists “Curse of the Ancients”
0:43:00 Joe: Gets into authentic writing
0:45:00 Joe: “Fuck Bill”
0:46:50 “fictions tells the truth better than non-fiction” unity to everything
0:49:00 Joe knows some best-selling authors who are miserable because they are forced to stay in a certain genre
0:51:58 Joe “just be excited and someone else will be too”
0:52:19 Frank: New golden age of gatekeeping and writing
0:56:00 B.L. talks about a new anthology coming out
1:02:00 Joe talks about the Wendigo
1:04:00 B.L. talks about older movies “terror mask”
1:10:00 Joe: talks about an interesting story about a Shaman
1:11:00 Joe had to leave
1:12:00 What is Chuck’s favorite monster? Hint “Big Foot”
1:16:00 Werewolves are Frank’s most fearful monster
