Scalarious
In a lively conversation with John from the podcast Scalarius, the duo discusses their unique blend of comedy and paranormal topics. John shares that he and his co-host, DW, have different perspectives on the supernatural, with John being a believer and DW a skeptic. The podcast began by interviewing comedians about their paranormal experiences, but has since expanded to include various guests with ghost stories.
Scalarious
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Hey everybody, welcome to a conversation with the folks from Scalarius. Now we have one of them here, and that is John, and the other one, DW, is doing the tape for America's Most Haunted or something, so he couldn't join us. But thanks for being here, John. How's it going? It's going good, man. How are you? Is it America's Most Haunted? That's one of those things, isn't it? I don't know. No, probably not. But even if it was, he wouldn't be doing it. Oh, okay. Well, let's get into that. Let's dismantle that statement. Goodness gracious. So, DW is a hanger on? Is that what you're trying to say? No, no, no. He's just… He's not… Man, there's… the dynamic of our shows has, it's going to shift quite a bit. I feel here shortly, but you know, I'm DW is very much a skeptic. I am very much a believer. And so that's where the dynamic is. But so, so tell us, give us the rundown on the show for people who don't know. And you know,Tell us where they can find it. We'll get that out of the way. We'll get the plug out of the way and then move on to other stuff. Both myself, John Olsen, and D.W. Serene were both comedians. Funny comedians, too, by the way. Not to pat myself on the back. Not to toot my own horn, but I'm pretty funny. He is most definitely a very funny guy. We're comedians and we obviously have a paranormal and comedy podcast. And basically we just kind of, uh, it started out, uh, two years ago, almost that it was, uh, interviewing comedians who have had experiences on the road and hotel rooms and bars and clubs they performed in and whatever, but we just expanded out and started, uh, talking to people who've had experiences, uh,that weren't comedians and me and him are the comedians. So hold on. I'm going to sneeze. or i'm not. No, you didn't. You didn't. If anybody wants to know, if you want to know how to stop a sneeze, announce you're going to do it. Oh, really? Yeah, I think so. It's an involuntary reaction. People get all mad about it or whatever, but i mean, apparently there's a way to stop it. And the way it is, is just announce you're going to do it. It's similar to diarrhea. I don't know. Like, um, If you say you're going to have diarrhea, that never seems to stop it for me, I'll be honest with you. I'm like, I'm going to have diarrhea, and it just happens. Sometimes it just flows that way. I don't know. Anyway, so we're the comedy, I guess, in the paranormal and comedy show. So we have groups on there. We've had psychic mediums. We've had you on there.Uh, so I mean, and you had experiences and whatever, just entertainers, whatever authors, things like that. And we just chat it up and see what we can, uh, what kind of show we can come up with. And usually they're, they're pretty good. I, I've had very few stinkers to be fair, but you know, do happen. Wow. So do you always have a guest or do you, sometimes it's just you guys? Um, we, 90% is a guest. I might even say 95%. There are shows that we do. We are going to do probably a two to three part series on the Warrens. Oh, yeah. We're going to have a special guest comic on or whatever, but it is just going to be us and talking about it. Does he have a character that's based on Ed Warren, perhaps? No.Oh, that'd be funny if he was like, I'm, you know… Just all serious. I'm Ted Warren. It's half-brother from a different marriage. Yeah. No. That'd be funny. It's just… Yeah. I guess… Informative, I guess, talking about that. I have no idea what we'll do, but we're gonna do it. It's the most honest… Comedy, uh, paranormal show on the internet. Yeah. And it gets us in trouble too, by the way so i mean but yeah well that's cool though. So, but i mean, that's interesting, but that you you really rely on the guests. And so that's, I mean, that's, uh, that's tough to do so it is you know, kudos. It's tough to do, especially when, I mean, the guests sometimes, I mean, I'm okay.Again, I'm going to throw percentages out there. Like 99.9% of the guests are really cool with everything we've ever done. And just kind of, I'm not going to say play along because we're not playing, but, you know, just go with the flow. Right. But there have been a couple that, you know, didn't really go with the flow too well. Did they know that it was a paranormal show? Or were they thinking it was some type of… true crime and or No, they do this entrepreneurial thing then it was paranormal. I just didn't think i don't know if they maybe misunderstood the whole entertainment aspect of it or or what but yeah so yeah all right yeah okay that's interesting it happens did anybody just leave in the middle? I haven't had anybody leave, but i had some backlashes.a couple episodes um but um no i haven't had anybody leave really no that's good not yet not yet right yeah well i mean to be honest with you you know the setup is that it's supposed to be you know funny and kind of off the cuff and so if they leave it's just as good yeah pretty much yeah because it throws you a curveball and then you can go with that right so and the thing is is that Both myself and DW are, I mean, me probably more recently, but we're both pretty kind and, you know, we don't, we're not outwardly trying to be mean to people. So if anybody really like, I mean, they have to dig pretty deep to get offended to want to be able to, you know what I mean? I guess. Yeah, that's true. I didn't find anything offensive.Whenever I was on the show with you, but maybe if I think about it a little bit. I mean, if you want to. I can think of something. I can think of something. Maybe. I'll background process that while we talk. So that's fun, though. So you're the believer and DW is the skeptic, right? Yeah. I mean, that's kind of the roles you guys think you inhabit there. Is that the idea? of yeah i mean um yeah it's just the way we are. I mean, he's skeptical about everything though. So, I mean, which is ironic because i am the more pessimistic of the both and he's just the most skeptic. I don't, you know and i'm trying to, uh, change that about myself, you know, the whole pessimistic thing, but i was trying to be more optimistic. Okay.Yeah, I try. I do. What are you doing to facilitate that? Well, boy, we're going to hit this right off. Well, you offered it up. I renewed my faith in Christ. And when I did that, things just, you know, like you're not supposed to be all down. Hope and all that good stuff, right? Hope, faith, love, you know, all that good stuff. All that jazz. I mean, it's true. What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding, right? There you go. Which made it kind of through a bugaboo into the whole Scolarius thing because I'm like, what are we doing now that we can do to glorify God? Because that's what I want to do, right? I got to glorify God. It's kind of hard, but we've taken a little bit of sabbatical to try to regroupAnd when I say a little bit, I'm talking two weeks without recording. So it's not like a long month or six months or something. No, no. So let me ask you a question. So do you think, so you, you believe that there are ghosts and you, you think you believe in Christ, right? So now what's, Does Christ believe in ghosts? Funny story. Somebody's asking me if I'm really blue. Millie, not only am I blue, I'm furry. Sorry. Go ahead, John. Uh, no, Christ doesn't believe in ghosts. And so really Christ doesn't believe in ghosts. Um, no, it, but there's theories on this. Okay. Like, I don't know how deep you want to get into this, but I've, I've had some friends go deep. Let's go. Okay. Fair enough. I've had some friends that, um, like if you want to go, like, I don't know. Um,I have a friend of mine who was recently on the show, and he's actually kind of popular on TikTok. He's actually really popular on TikTok. He goes by the Supernatural Sleuth. He's from Appalachians, Tennessee. He's a cop who does paranormal stuff, and he's also a devout Christian. You know, there's a lot of cops in the paranormal stuff. I don't know if you've ever noticed that. Yeah, no, it's really cool. Isn't that interesting? it is so if anybody wants to check out his stuff, it's the supernatural sleuth. It's on TikTok. I think it might actually have something on uh instagram as well. But, um, you know, he's like all ghosts are demons and okay. Um, and there's theories for that. And that's part of it is because like demons are all around and they hear you talk andthings like that. And they could whisper things into your ears and the hence psychics and mediums. So, and so like, you know, whisper stuff into their ears so they can tell you. I want, I got to stop you. So you think Jesus, you said Jesus doesn't believe in ghosts, but you're saying that, that so demons is a whole different classification. So a demon is not necessarily a ghost. Cause I'm assuming Jesus believes in demons. Absolutely. Jesus believes in demons. Jesus actually did a favor for a demon once. Um, which is kind of a, that wasn't, uh, Charlie Daniels, was it no no no um well the story goes basically is that, that's uh, Jesus came on the shore and this, this, uh, man who was extremely, extremely possessed comes out of the cemetery and he's like naked. He's like wrapped in chains and stuff like, you know, whatever. And, uh, he walked. Yeah.Usually when you lose your clothes, first thing you pick up is some chains. Chains, yeah. No, he was breaking chains. He was howling at the moon. Most definitely possessed. And so he recognized, well,...