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It's the four Purport all Things Food, Beverage and beyond with our Halloween panel today.

Ernie Alonso from Haunted OC to Dusty Sage, CEO of mice chat dot com, also does some fabulous tours we're going to talk about at the Disney Mansion in Los Phelis.

Julie Tremaine, journalist, extraordinary and cookbook author.

You write for sf Gate as well, right, or is that something you did before?

I do.

I'm the theme park editor for SFGate out of San Francisco, And everyone asked me if that means I live in San Francisco.

I do not.

I live much much closer to Disneyland.

I certainly couldn't do my job.

Yeah, I couldn't get to Disneyland several times a week.

Yeah.

I would imagine there's well, there are you know, theme parks up north, but not.

Like Hare not like not It's not like Universal.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's like all these things that we're we really are blessed.

I mean it is probably seven minutes from our place on the eastern side of Los Angeles to Universal.

So yeah, so it's like, you know, we go.

My wife and boy were there yesterday, and we're very lucky we've got passes to these places and be able to go here in southern California.

And that's something all you, all three of you have in common, is you guys like to go to all of these things.

Now is haunted season.

Have you guys been up and out to all of the different whether they're at the theme parks or one offs.

And not just here.

We've been all over the country already because Halloween meial now starts in August.

Oh boy, can you believe it's it's still one hundred degrees in humid outside and we're all putting on our Halloween colors and going to haunted houses and haunted theme parks all over.

That's so odd.

Yeah, well, I think that's probably the beginning of August was when I start my YouTube consumption changes to people making spooky props and I love, you know, the lighting techniques and all of these things that change every single year.

Have you seen anything, whether it's a theme or an effect, that just blew your mind?

This year's offerings.

What do you think, Julie.

I think that the appetite for really intense, immersive horror is bigger than it's ever been before.

And at Universal Orlando and at Universal Studios Hollywood, it's Halloween horror nights right now.

It's funny that you were saying, oh, we're starting Halloween early.

We've both started Halloween the last week.

Of August and it has been Halloween every day since then.

And I wouldn't have it any other way but that at both Universal Halloween horror nights.

They have this year Terrifier.

Yes, is hands down the scariest house I have ever seen on either current not just scary wise, not just jump scared and terror, but just the level of intensity disgusting.

There, the visceral, the smells, the sensations.

Okay, so you just hit a key that more and more I'm noticing that things are becoming more odorific.

Yes, and I did.

I never thought of it.

I mean, you think about that in certain you know that whether it was the original King Kong ride at Universal with the the banana smell when he's grown and things like that, but I'm hearing, no, the smell of really disgusting.

It's haring right right into it.

But you know, aside from the horror that everybody's into, I'm also seeing a lot more comedy in the haunted houses everywhere, and that's a nice release.

So some of the houses are really terrifying and others have a lot of comedy in them.

The Elvira House last night at the Haunted hay Ride was pretty funny.

And even Universal has now funny mazes.

They do ghostbusters and things like that.

I love that.

This year Five Nights at Freddy's is a really wonderful counterballance.

So you have Terrifier, which is the scariest you can possibly get.

But that's not for everyone.

Some people want that Five Nights at Freddy's.

It's you know, puppets.

It's Chuck e Cheese style puppets that maybe they're gonna kill you, but they'll sing you a song first.

Yeah, serve you with pizza.

I like that.

That's how I want to go out.

Little pizza and some songs.

Good night, Irene.

But I think my point is more just like the level of immersion is the designers of these mazes are saying, how can we make them an even more heightened experience for everyone?

So no more black walls.

Yeah, no, well everything but the mazes are they're rooms, the rope and they're Yeah, and it's different because I loved it all.

I remember the black walled mazes everywhere.

But really, now unless you have something tactile about that where the darkness is important to the you know kind of the emptiness you're feeling that you're walking through movies.

It's so true and really well done.

The new house that Notts this year has at eleven pm, they turn off all the lights and you walk through in the pitch.

Black with a flashy through in the pitch black.

I'm not walking through in the pitch black, but they give you a flashlight so you can illuminate the set yourself.

That's weird.

And you're in a haunted zoo with you know, killer animals and you have a flashlight.

And a gun.

Your wits okay, and I'm a chete.

No, just the flashlight, just the flashlight a real heavy brick.

No, just the flast light.

They need to make sure they put kneel through security.

Yeah, can we get a bag check on this day?

Plan climb coming out of I'm like, there's nothing in there.

Stop checking don't go any lower that the you talked about the Terrifier.

That is that art the clown?

Okay, so who's you know a clown?

Already you're starting off bad.

But the gore, I know there's some you know, there's also some other scatological type of things.

In certain it doesn't get that bad, does it.

You are really dancing around what you want us to say.

Nobody wants to say it.

But it's true that the most disgusting room in any haunted house I've ever been in is the bathroom scene in Terrifier.

Gross.

It smells real, real bad.

It smells as bad as you could possibly imagine smell.

Yeah, it looks as bad as I have five brothers and only one sister.

So it's worse than anything I can amend.

Worse, Wow, worse.

How do you think they get those odors?

Thanks?

Ernie Sedition?

Hey, how do you think they make that stink man?

I got a couple of bumps in the back room.

I got something for you.

Wow.

So I don't know that that's my speed.

But the whole you know, five night at Freddy's.

The concept if you will and if you don't know about this listening imagine you know, Chuck E Cheese going bonkers and the animatronics going bonkers and some you know, some backstories that are creepy.

But it does have a humor side to it because it's a bear.

It's true.

And one of the big gags throughout that maze is they have this killer cupcake that keeps jumping out at you from the walls.

This cute little cupcake, but people still scream because something's jumping out.

Yeah, let me tell you.

They made that cupcake.

That's one of the Halloween treats they have this year, and it is really delicious.

Oh, they have the killer cupcake.

From It won't murder you, except probably with diabetes.

But if you go though the sugars is a nice way, I'll take it.

It's the silent killer.

I'll take that.

Wow.

So they are getting and even the.

Effects, whether it's projection or digital, you know, animatronics, all these different things, they're really multi layered now.

At Haunted attractions all over.

Last night we were at Haunted hay Ride, which is a small, you know, lower budgets experience in the Hollywood Hills and Griffin's Park Park and it's it's wonderful.

But they are using projection and digital screens in their mazes, and so it shows you that the technology is spreading.

Oh I did.

I was the head of last year for my son's schools Haunted House that they do every year, and I had rear projection and all kinds of stuff all over the place and animatronics in that and that was for school.

That type of thing to me, there are so many unique ways to do it.

We'll come back, we'll talk some stories.

We'll also squeeze some fun maybe spooky stories out out of Dusty.

You tell a great story, sir.

I have been breathless during one of your tours listening and and so we'll get into some of those things and what's going on in southern California for Halloween.

We'll talk about food some more with Julie and some more haunted fun with the tours from Ernie as well.

So go know where.

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It is our starting of the Halloween season for us.

We have Ernie Alonso with Haunted OC, Dusty Sage, who's the CEO not only of mice chat dot com, which I highly recommend for Disney fans, but also gives tours at the Disney Mansion and others.

Julie Tremaine journalists, cookbook author, and her book that we're going to be talking about more today is Disney Villain's Devilishly Sious Cookbook.

As we talk about this season, let's see, we only have about two minutes in this segment, Dusty, is there a spooky story, haunted story you can tell us in that time?

Well, I'll tell you.

When I started working at the mansion, I had no idea that the house was haunted.

I was the disneyn Disney Mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

I just knew the stories, and I was giving history tours.

And one day the owner called me to say, you know, are you going to be sleeping in the house tonight?

And I said, yeah, if you don't mind, because I'm going to be here for a few days.

And he said, if I were you, I wouldn't sleep upstairs in the yellow room.

So of course I went upstairs and I slept in the Yellow room, and all night long, I kept feeling like I was going to have a heart attack.

And I had my two little dogs with me, two little shelties, and I woke up in the middle of the night just feeling this horrible pressure in my chest.

This is it.

I'm gonna call nine to one one.

I'm definitely having a heart attack.

And the minute I opened my eyes, the dogs started baying like they were wolves, and it's scared the Bejesus out of me, and I thought maybe somebody was breaking into the house.

I grabbed a bat and at the end of this whole scenario, police come.

They look at the house.

Nothing, and I suddenly realized dogs see things people don't.

And maybe it wasn't someone in the house with something in the house, and maybe the owner just telling me don't sleep in the yellow room did it.

But since that day, I've been afraid to sleep upstairs in the house because okay.

So I'm thinkuring you go up, you go up.

The stairs, they curl the shape that the round shape, the spiral shape that goes up.

Is is that the main it's.

The it's the Walt Disney's eldest daughter's bedroom.

Oh okay, so that's that's As you go up.

Off to the right somewhere yep, until it's the first of the two girls rooms, and it's kind of a room has some creepy old dolls and things in it.

Dolls.

Why is it always gotta be doll dolls?

But yeah, and to this day when I talk about it, Teamore just laughs because you know, no one in their.

Own I would ever sleep in that room because okay, but why did it can't find its way into another room?

That's right, The ghosts need to leave because I need to get a good night.

But that's what I'm.

Saying, Like, why a room?

Like, aren't you afraid of any room?

At that point?

I O, Well, I am definitely afraid of a lot of the rooms in the house at night when I'm alone and when I'm giving tours or there during the day.

It's just charming and amazing.

But there's no denying the shadows and the noises and popping sound.

That house is haunted, even the Disney House.

You can't get away with it being unhaunted.

You just can't.

Gosh, thanks Obama, that's a joke.

He made.

He made Disney's houses haunted.

I just know it.

To somebody, Yeah, whoever, great, probably Hannah Barbera putting some sort of curve on it.

That is so weird.

Not to mention the thought of Shelty's howling at the moon.

Sheltis uh terrifying, Little Shelty.

Yeah, that's never heard anybody call them terrifying before.

It's like the most terrifying Chihuahua you've ever seen.

All right, back with more on our guest panel today, Ernie Alonzo, Dusty Sage, and Julie Tremaine, as we talk all things Halloween moving into the season Disney Villains is the book Devilishly Delicious Cookbook.

We'll be talking more when we return.

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Thanks for hanging out today.

We're starting out the Halloween season, the spooky season with a great panel today Ernie Alonso from Haunted OC, Dusty Sage, who's the CEO of mice chat dot com, but also give tours both haunted and historical throughout the Southland, including the Disney Mansion.

Julie Tremaine, which is like, you have to be a writer with the name Julie Tremaine.

I actually share a name with the Big Bad in Cinderella.

Also, oh wow, the evil stepmother is Lady Tremaine.

Oh my gosh, ask me where.

My villain origin story started.

It was right there.

You're all done and done.

I accept this author, journalist and cookbook author.

The book that we've been talking about is her book, Disney Villains Devilishly Delicious Cookbook.

Now I got to imagine writing a cookbook.

One of the hardest things is editing for space, Like did you have a bunch of recipes and have to edit them down?

Yes, there were a lot more villains that I wanted to include in the book I had.

I had a recipe in mind for a cake that was themed after mystro from Oh Yes, where it was just a blue cake and you it was like a belly of the whale cake you were you cut it, yes, yes, yeah, and it opens its mouth and just just like the killer cupcake, no where you cut it, and then all the all this candy comes out, because like came out of the stomach of the whale.

Oh that's cool.

But I didn't get to do it.

So if anybody wants me to write a second Disney Villain's book, that'll be in it.

Well, I as we were talking, because I don't have a copy of it.

As we were talking, I went on Amazon and bought it, so I'm looking forward to it.

Yeah, I'm hoping it does well enough that you do a second one.

Why not.

It's it's very fun.

It's I never know what the next project is going to be, and they've taken me in some very interesting directions, usually haunted, creepy directions, which is fine by me.

I'm very happy about it.

Who is your Who's your favorite?

Let's say above the fold famous Disney villain, and then who's your favorite below the fold?

Well, I above the fold, I'm moleficent.

I feel like we are just soul sisters.

We're just I feel like we really get each other, the ability to turn into a pearl dragon.

But no, Lady Tremaine, I love her.

She's she and Anastasia and Drisella.

They don't show up in the parks very often at Halloween times.

Sometimes they do, which makes me really happy.

But every time I see them, I'm like, we have to take a family photo.

Yeah, yeah, I used to do, you know, the Evil Queen and stuff like that.

I take pictures and post it and say enjoying the park with my wife today.

But she likes the villains too.

My wife is very she kind of like, you know, let's go to the beat of her own drum.

And she always seems to act like the bad person of the villain is the good one.

And she'll explain to you why this is why they they're misunderstood.

So, what's one of your favorite recipes in the book that ties to Maleficent Moleficent?

I made a I made a trifle which is one of those layered kind of put cake and different layers of custards, and it's called the Mistress of All Evil Trifle.

And the layers are black and purple and green, so it's very dark chocolate cake and then pistachio pudding and.

Then purple with green.

Wow.

And did you.

Create the recipes for the individual based on inspiration saying what would what would this tie into?

Or was it a visual queue or a flavor queue that made you go down that path?

Well, foods don't really figure into very many Disney movies.

It's tied to villains specifically, Like you don't see villains eating very often.

You see Hades eating his cup of worms, which is in the book actually, but there's otherwise there's not a lot like Mother Gothel makes hazelnuts soup for the Punzel Entangled.

But other than that, it was really tough.

So I just watched.

I watched the movies, and certain phrases would stick out to me.

Where in Sword in the Stone, when.

What's the name of the the woman?

You know you're not helping me, you're a Disney editor.

I can see her from Madam Madam mad Madam, Madam mim uh.

She they have that.

She and Merlin have that like wizard off and they turn each other into things, and she turns into like a sick dragon.

I made a chicken soup that would heal a sick dragon.

Or I love it.

At one point she Marilyn, I think opens the windows, and she says, I hate horrible wholesome sunshine.

So I made a horrible wholesome sunshine salad, which is a very citrus forward salad.

Oh I love it.

So yeah.

So the inspiration come from some of the text or some of the context of the.

Yeah, some of the things they say really spark spark food ideas.

I love that, and so and I love that you have like the deep cut villains too, because you know, there's nothing.

Back when Disney would have the Villain's Night, I always liked when there was a villain that I had to go, wait a second, wait, wa, wait, wait, I know that where that's from.

And even some of the newer ones that I was less familiar with or my son would go, oh, I know who that is.

But they really, especially in the early days, really had such a beautiful way of showing the villains the sharp angles, the dark colors and all those things that they're hard not to fall in love with.

Yeah, and the freedom that they can sort of do what they want.

They have more agency over their own actions than the heroes, because the heroes are sort of bound by I don't know the rules of right, and I'm saying the villains are doing the right thing.

I'm saying that they can follow their bliss and they there's something appealing in that.

Some of the early ones were really beautiful and elegant, you know, proper, Yeah that you know.

What the evil queen in the mirror like, she's she's a beautiful lady, she's got a real she's got riz.

Yeah.

I think actually she would have been the one I hit on in my day, you know, that would have been, hey, what's with all the anger.

You feel like you've got.

It's like I'm the guy that looks and sees someone smiling and say, hey, why don't you frown?

He's happy about but it's it is funny that you say, well, they're all bound by that morality.

Like in uh, The Superman seventy seven when the three Batties come down and they're looking like, oh, he cares about them, like the humans, that's his problem, Flick one of them.

Look what he does.

He freaks out about these humans.

And so yes, it is a problem caring.

I guess that is a problem in Dean.

All right, stick around.

It is our Halloween show.

As we talk with our panel today.

Throughout the entirety of this show, we have earningy Alonzo from Haunted OC and that's just haunted oc dot com.

Right, yep, haunted oc dot com.

If you want to go on a tour here in southern California and talk about great date night or if you're one of those more cerebral people like a great experience going to make you think about something or experiencing something a great way to do it.

Dusty Sage, CEO of mice chat dot com find all things Disney and beyond there including finding out that Dusty also does tours at the Disney Mansion here in Hollywood slash Los Felis.

And there are some interesting twists and turns in that, and it is fabulous I went last year.

And then of course Julie Tremaine, journalist and cookbook author.

The book is Disney Villain's Devilishly Delicious Cookbook.

You can find that on Amazon or your better bookstores.

You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on demand from KFI AM six forty.

Happy Saturday to you, Neil Savedra.

Here of course with the Fork Report, we're starting off the Halloween season with a panel today that we'll get back to in a minute.

Earnie Alonzo from Haunted OC.

Dusty sage ce of mice chat dot com all Things Disney and beyond.

He also does some fantastic tours we'll be talking about at the Disney Mansion in the Hollywood Hills slash Los Pheelis area where he raised his family.

And Julie Tremaine, a journalist and cookbook author.

Not only is she a journalist for SFGate dot com, which is great.

I've used the stories many times on the show.

That's so funny.

But she also has a cookbook, Disney Villain's Devilishly Delicious Cookbook, that you can find on Amazon as well.

I got my copy today.

I went on there.

It's very simple that bezos.

He just.

Just going there and you click and ain't it easy.

Wouldn't want to be married to him.

But as far as getting a book, it's pretty simple.

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Okay, Ernie, you're up, sir, A couple We just got a couple of minutes here.

Give us a rundown.

You've got something starting this week at Bowers Museum.

Yeah, we do an annual a tour for them.

It's I think it's our fifth year doing it now, and so that kicks off this Thursday night at seven pm.

Is it haunted there?

It is haunted most museums, you know, they've got so many artifacts and collections that carry attachments of spirit attachments they say.

And so this is cool because the reason we got involved with them is they reached out to us and asked if we would be interested in developing a tour for them.

And while we were doing that, we had to interview a lot of the staff there, and I would say about maybe twenty percent had had experiences in the museum where especially people like nightguards and you know, security people that are are there after hours that would experience phenomenon, and so our tour we're I think we're doing seven nights there Thursdays, and then we have a October thirtieth tours, our last one before Halloween.

And then of course we have Old Town Orange, which is our oldest location, and that's in if you're familiar with Orange County, in the little Plaza area, Oldtown Orange.

And then we have downtown Santa Ana.

Let's see, we have San Juan Capistrano, so we kind of go around the mission there in the Los Rios district, which is the one of the oldest neighborhoods in California.

Do you find the missions haunted?

Yeah, the Missions has a lot of ghost stories associated with it, so we cover all those stories and so sometimes during the summer we actually take guests into the mission itself as part of the tour.

Then we have Black Star Canyon, which is in the sant Anna Mountains up near Silverado Canyon.

Then the Catlogg House, which is at Heritage Museum of Orange County.

I'm curious about that one too.

Yeah, we do that when and Darcy does it.

Yeah, Darcy's been on the show.

And then and then of course the Disney Manchine is what we're gonna kind of talk about a lot more later on in the show.

And Dusty does an amazing job with that tour.

And we've done that for how long now, like.

Figures, Yeah, we started before the unmentionable pandemic.

Yeah, still doing it.

Yeah, it really.

I can't recommend it enough.

And Dusty, you do a phenomenal job of having respects for all aspects of its history and telling that fabulous stories.

I just I'm a sucker for good storytelling and it's a real treat.

So we'll come back talk more of that, and of course get back into with Julie getting into Disney Villain's Devilishly Delicious cookbook as well.

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