#304 - No Guts, No Gory: The Hollywood Mom & Pop Prop Shop
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Special Halloween episode! This family-owned shop in Los Angeles serves up fake meth labs and body parts to shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones… and it all started as a side hustle.
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| 0:00.0 | Guess what today is? |
| 0:08.5 | Well, you might be listening to this episode later. |
| 0:11.2 | But regardless, the day this episode is going out is the 31st of October, which just |
| 0:15.5 | so happens to be Halloween. |
| 0:17.0 | Now you've probably been wondering all month, what is Situsl School gonna do for Halloween? |
| 0:21.3 | Are we even gonna acknowledge it? |
| 0:23.2 | Well, fear not, we are creeping it real. |
| 0:24.9 | You're gonna get this party startled. |
| 0:27.3 | We have a pretty incredible story for you today. |
| 0:29.8 | It's actually not about trick-or-treating, even though that is a service-based hustle, |
| 0:33.4 | with revenue coming in the form of candy. |
| 0:35.6 | Perhaps we'll talk about that another time. |
| 0:37.6 | Today's incredible story involves a make-your-own tombstone, a little shop of horrors in Los |
| 0:42.4 | Angeles, the meth lab featured in Breaking Bad, and a highly unusual side hustle that ties |
| 0:48.7 | all those things together and actually grows into a seven-figure success. |
| 0:53.2 | It's not a ghost story, it's a true case study, and serving a niche market. |
| 0:57.1 | Today is this shop's busiest day of the year, but we were able to catch up with them |
| 1:00.0 | a couple weeks ago and get their backstory. |
| 1:02.3 | And all the details for this spooky, spectacular success story are coming right up. |
| 1:14.7 | If it could fit right in on the set of a Hollywood horror movie, you can pretty much guarantee |
| 1:18.4 | that BJ and Eileen Winslow, of Dapper Kadaver, can carve up whatever it is you're looking |
| 1:22.9 | for. |
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