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Hey there, and happy happy Halloween, I hope it's a very horny Halloween. I hope you're getting in all the things that you couldn't do last year.

I planned to be doing that later, but more about that afterwards. What we're going to talk about now is my chat with the legendary Bill Mosley.

Who you know, of course, from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, House of 1000 Corpses, Devil's Rejects 3 from Hell, and the list goes on.

Bill is a true journeyman actor and a lot of legends are, particularly in the horror genre, and you're going to hear about some incidents that are going to kind of shock you in terms of what happens to a working actor in the business, and some workplace safety issues that might give you pause.

We talked about six or seven years ago, Army of Darkness fans, you'll be thrilled we get into that. We even mentioned Father Dallling's mysteries, so you can't ask for a more comprehensive chat with Bill Mosley, right?

So without much further ado, here is my chat from a few years ago with the fabulous Bill Mosley. How did you get into acting?

You know, I acted when I was a kid, I grew up in the town of Berington, Illinois, and my parents, my mom, especially, was theatrical. My dad was a, you know, I think he liked to act when he was in college, but he ended up working in a company that built paint cars.

So even though he was very much a Midwestern Republican industrial guy, you know, he loved to act and in my small town, there was something called the Berington Play Reading Group and every couple of months, a different family would host a dinner and then a staging of a Samuel French play.

And people would actually dress up and put on makeup, but they would actually hold the play in their hand and read.

And so I was drafted when these productions would happen, I was oftentimes drafted as a kid.

So that was a lot of fun. I was in place like the lottery and a thousand clowns and sunrise at Campo de Lowe.

So that kind of got me interested in it or got me comfortable with it and not as in school productions, both in grade school and then in high school and then in college.

But when I graduated back in the 70s, really just, you know, there was no sense in my family that acting was any way she performed a career goal.

So I graduated with an English major and so I did was until my mid 30s, I worked as a freelance writer.

My first was advertising in Boston as a copywriter and then I moved to New York City and did freelance writing for different magazines.

It wasn't until probably, let's see, I bet you was 1980 or maybe that I was working on a ranch one summer.

I was still living in New York, but I was working on a ranch where that my dad used to go to as a dude.

And I was working with a kid one day. His kid was maybe 16, 17 years old and he was the son that he was the adopted son of a funeral parlor owner and Geno CEO Ellen White.

Then was John Wright and John loved to pound the sugar. He was a teen. He was eating the frosted flakes and drinking the mellow yellow and fudgicles and he was constantly wired on sugar.

And when we would work side by side and do annual labor under the hot landing sun, he would go into what I called sugar delirium. And what that meant was that he would just kind of get this kind of motor mouth and just start singing snippets of top 40 radio hits and cartoon voices, commercials, all kinds of crazy stuff.

And I was just blathered out of his mouth and I would turn it deaf ear to it. And one day we were working and some were 84 and he's going, you know, I kept in crunch, whatever he was going and all of a sudden out of his blather came Texas team saw manicure.

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