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Side Hustle School

#304 - No Guts, No Gory: The Hollywood Mom & Pop Prop Shop

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

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. Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. You need a hustle! Share: #SideHustleSchoolShow notes: SideHustleSchool.comTwitter: @chrisguillebeauInstagram: @193countries To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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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