- Sharon show. Sharon show.
Sharin'... with Sharon...
Shoooow. - (claps)
- Thank you. - That was really good.
- Did you get it? - Sharin' with Sharon.
We could do Games with James. - Do you--
I'm the grim reaper! - Yeah.
Yeah. - (Sharon) 'Cause...
- Why, 'cause of me? - Because of you!
- Okay. Yeah, I was-- the knife as well?
(record scratch) - You don't get that?
- Uhhh... - What is it in?
- It's in toasted rice. Cereal.
Oh, serial killer! - Ahhh!
- Okay. All right. All right. That one's on me.
- There's one! There's one. - That's good.
- Well, thank you for coming on the Sharin' with Sharon Show.
When they said, "Do you want James on?"
I'm like, "Well, come." (chuckles) That's two, guys!
That's two! Well, I've been following
your YouTube channel. - Okay.
- And it's amazing. - Thank you.
- In fact, I would say you're killin' it.
That's three! That's three!
- You're just countin' em, huh? - Uh-huh. Yup!
Jokes that kill count, James! - Wow. That's great.
- Thanks! - That's really good.
- Thanks! We're gonna be playing a lot of different games.
Charades! - Uh... dead body.
- Oh, good. That's what's up, dude. We're gonna kill it.
- Okay. All right. - This is shut on the ground.
Ground beef. - Uh, tombstone.
Tombstone. Tombstone pizza!
- Dinosaur! - Dinosaur!
- Yeah! - Big ass, old ass dinosaur!
- Oh, stop saying fat old [censored]! Goddammit!
- It's a big rhinoceros! - Yeah, like a--
like a big one. - Oh my god!
- (Sierra) A giraffe!
- Would you please guess this goddamn thing?
You're on my team. - (Sierra) Oh, oh! Beef! No. Uh...
- Beef note? - Meat! Dead meat!
- Dead mea-- oh, dead meat! - (man) Dead meat.
- Like me. I gotta get on with the theme here. Yeah.
- Can you do me a favor and stop calling me
old, fat [censored]? - I'm sorry.
- For Christ's sake! - Yeah, that's my bad.
And you know what? You're bad for not guessing
your own goddamn channel, okay? - Yeah. It's--
- Why am I even playing this game?!
- I don't even know who you are. - Why are we--
I have a better idea. Let's just-- instead of playing games,
how about we just do an interview?
- Okay. - (Sharon) Okay?
- That's what I thought was gonna happen.
- Why? - That was-- when I agreed
to come here, it was for that purpose. - Oh.
- So, if we could do that, that'd be...
- I understand you have a YouTube channel.
And what is the name of that YouTube channel?
- It's Dead Meat. - Right. That's why we did
the dead meat charades. - Mm-hmm.
- Right, right, right. - Yeah.
- No, it's really good. I do love your channel.
It's very good, because, as we were talking about before,
I'm a Gen X-er, so I grew up with those movies,
the Friday the 13th, Halloween, and stuff.
Mike, what's up? - What's up, Sharon?
- Okay. - (Sharon) So, you'll do, like,
Kill Count, where you go through and you'll either
count from a movie or sometimes just-- - I was told that's extremely sharp,
so... all right. - Yeah. So, anyway,
so you'll do a kill count. And then, you'll just do--
the other one is They Talk! - (James) That's our new series, yes.
There's also the podcast. - (Sharon) Right, the podcast.
- (James) In-depth conversations, yeah.
- It's really, really fun. Well, 'cause your last one
was actually from Halloween. - Yeah, yeah. It was Michael Myers.
It's you, buddy. - (Sharon) Yeah.
- Killed it. - Oh, nice.
- That's four! - We got four.
- (Sharon) So, did you ever have a head injury?
- A head injury? Uh-- - Like, frontal lobe head injury?
- Front-- like a brain injury? - Just, like, hit your head.
- I once had my head slammed in a car door,
and it left a raised bump. - Ooh.
- I looked like a dinosaur honestly, what we were guessing earlier, yeah.
- Did you ever play with fire... - Yeah!
- (Sharon) ...when you were a kid? - Oh, so much. Yeah.
- You did? - (James) Yeah. I would take--
- So did you ? - Yeah.
- Okay. - Okay.
- So much. - Mm-hmm.
I would take, like, random old stuff lying around
and take it out to a field, and then hit it with a sledgehammer
and light it on fire. What was really funny
is I lived in the city of Lincoln Park. It borders Detroit.
- (Sharon) Sure. - But I lived one block away
from the border of a little bit higher class city
called Southgate. And we would go to a field
in Southgate and do all this stuff. And one time, a cop rolled up on us.
And I was probably 12 years old. And I told him where I was from
down the street. And he was like,
"Oh, you're from Lincoln Park? Well, you take this trash
back to your trash city and get out of Southgate."
And I was like, "Oh, classism." - I would kill that guy.
- Yeah. - Mike... bring it down a little bit.
Just bring it down a skosh, okay? - Okay.
- Okay? - Sorry.
- No, you're fine. It's just, we talked about it.
You know, you're cool. It's all right. It's all r--
you know, we're doing this in doses, okay?
And in-- - You've gotta micro dose, man.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I like your style. - Yeah.
- (Sharon) All right. All right. - Is that a Rob Zombie Halloween mask?
- Mask? What are you talking about? - (James laughs)
- Small animals, hurt them? - No!
- Okay, great. - No, no. Only lifeless,
inanimate objects. - Okay, okay. Well, that's good.
I don't know if you know this, but throughout the little interview
that we just did, I sprinkled in some of the FBI's
"Are they a serial killer?" quiz. - Oh, okay! With the small animals
and, yeah. - Sure, and we're getting
our test results now. - Okay.
- So, you see, we have the... - (Sharon and James) Very official
test results. - Yeah. And you almost look
like a judge with this cloak on. So, I feel in awe.
- Great. - Yeah.
- That's what I like to have people feel when they're around me
is in awe. - Mm-hmm.
- James. - Yeah?
- I am happy to report... (drum roll)
you are NOT a serial killer! (party horns blow)
- (James) Yes! - Fantastic!
- You didn't ask about bed wetting. That's another one.
- Well, I didn't, because I wet the bed myself,
sometimes still. - Oh, that's interesting.
Did you ever have any head injuries when you were young?
- I did. I had a couple concussions when I was a kid from playing sports.
So, yeah, two head injuries. Two head injuries.
- Did you ever, like, play with fire or anything
when you were-- - Oh my god, all the time.
- Yeah. All. The. Time.
But my favorite thing was-- you know, I don't like to tell this
to a lot of people, but burning ants and--
- Sure. - You know what I mean?
- They can't really feel. - They can't feel.
- They're bugs! - They're little.
- I think-- - They're small and--
- You know, I think, technically, they count as animals, though.
So... - Right? Huh...
This is awkward. I see where you're going with this.
- Yeah. Kind of a mirror effect towards ya.
♪ (tranquil music) ♪
(record scratch) - We're going to play a game
called Build a Killer. - (laughs) Oh, okay. This--
- It's kind of like Build a Bear. - Yeah.
- But camp counselors die for you. - Could do Build a Butcher
if you want an alliteration. Tossing that out there
free of charge. - I think we'll leave
the show ideas to me. - (James) Okay.
- I mean, we'll call it Build a Butcher.
- You have graphics on that? - Yeah! Build a...
- Build a Butcher. - Right, right.
- It's alliterated. People like that.
- If you were to build a butcher... - Yes.
- ...would he wear a mask? - Yeah.
- Yeah? What kind of mask? - Yeah. That's a good question.
- Thank you. - First instinct was fencing mask,
'cause I was like, "Oh, that hasn't been d"--
it has been done in the Urban Legend's final cut,
the second Urban Legend film. - Okay.
- I think they have a fencing mask.
So, maybe like a beehive mask. That's basically a fencing mask...
- Sure. - ...for bee stingers.
- And they could always come ho-- "Honey, I'm here!"
- So many puns. So many puns can be created.
- And weapon of choice? - Apiary tools. I don't know those,
which is the name of bee farms. Did you know that?
I only recently learned it. Maybe you knew it more.
- What if you drowned them in honey? - Sure! That's fun.
- Wouldn't that be fun? - Yeah, it's very viscous.
It would take a while, but, you know, that's torture.
It's like that town that the molasses factory broke.
- Right! - And then, the molasses covered
the town and people drowned in it. - (Sharon) Right.
- And it was just molasses comin' at ya.
- With the slowest death ever. - (James) Yeah.
- Ever! And you-- 'cause you're not swimming in it.
- No. - It's like a dream, right?
Like, you're trying to run, like when you run in a dream.
- Literally. Yeah. - You're like, "Oh my god."
So then people thought, "Maybe I'm dreaming,
because this is a dream run." - This a good theory.
- Who would your serial killer target? - Hmm...
Industrialists. - Industrialists?
- 'Cause they're killing the bees. - Oh!
- Yeah. - Well done.
- (James) Yeah. - Well done.
I was supposed to be afraid of you as you were building this killer,
but I'm kind of liking the killer. (laughs)
- (chuckles) You know, that happens half the time.
- Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah! Okay, is it a guy or a girl?
Man or woman? - I don't know. I feel like maybe--
you know what? I'm thinking of Scream.
- Okay. - Ghostface talks,
but sometimes, it's a woman underneath the Ghostface mask.
So, maybe it's like-- maybe it's multiple people.
That's always fun. - It's like one of those
hippie communes gone serial killer.
- Ooh. - And they just trade off.
- Yeah. - Right? Right?
And they're going that direction since, to your point,
they're killing the bees, and they're like,
"We'll get our revenge!" - (James) Yeah.
- What are you naming this serial killer?
- How about Bee Arthur? - (laughs)
That's golden. - That's six!
- (both laugh) - Oh, man. It's tough naming--
- It is tough naming 'em. - 'Cause all the--
Michael, Freddy, Jason, those weren't, like, clever.
Those were just dude names. - I feel like then we just
could name this person, like-- - Brad?
- I think since it's-- how 'bout Pat?
Because-- - Oh! There you go.
- Right. Or Chris. - Okay.
- Yeah. Yeah. - Yeah.
- Any of those unisex names.
- Exactly! - Okay.
- Exactly. So, we'll just go
with Chris. - Chris. Chris is good.
I like Chris. Chris Honeycomb.
- (gasps) Nailed it. - Yeah?
- Nailed it! - Okay.
- Nailed it. What serial killer-- imaginary.
- Okay. - It's like, yes, imaginary.
Do you think is misunderstood and, with some counseling,
could have turned out okay? - I think Leatherface.
- Really?! - Yeah. He's more guided
by his family than outright malicious,
I would say, at least in the earlier films.
- Okay. - It's his brothers who are kind of
making him do what he does. And also, he doesn't like it
when teenagers just walk into his house without asking.
- Who does? - Which, you know, who does? Yeah.
- Who does? - I think Leatherface if he was
raised properly could've been an all right guy.
- There's a real lesson. Don't go into a house
that doesn't belong to you. - Yeah.
- What surprises you about your life right now?
- Oh! I guess the success that I've had.
Dead Meat took off pretty quickly after I first post the video.
But some people don't realize I had another channel
for four years before that that really plateaued
despite putting in just as much work and effort into it.
And so-- - I saw that on your--
when I was doing research. The channel was great.
- And I've just always been hustling.
And so, Dead Meat-- I put my first video online
when I was 27. I was one of those people
who felt like, "Oh, you gotta make it big
when you're 20 or when you're 21." And some facets of culture
kind of feed into that. - Sure.
- And so, by the time I'm 27, I'm like, "Did I miss the boat?
Is it too late?" - Yeah.
- So, it was-- which it's not ever.
You can always-- - Ever!
- Ever. It's never too late. - (Sharon) Yeah.
- It was nice to start to have that recognition
and validation for my work. - Well, that's great.
I think, you know, anybody who gets an opportunity
to do what they love, whatever that may be,
it's just such a treat for us to do that,
you know? - Yeah, it's fantastic.
- And you're right. It's never too late.
I always wanted-- I grew up in corporate world
and just moved to LA nine years ago. - Oh, wow!
- And I just turned 51. - You have a whole different life.
- A whole different life. And I just turned 51.
And today, you know, we're doing my first show.
- Yeah. - So...
- Congratulations, by the way. - Thank you very much.
Appreciate that. Well, I can't thank you enough
for coming in and I know you had no idea who I was,
no idea what you were in for. You were a great sport.
I have a little something that I just wanna give you.
- Ooh. - Just a little Sharin'
with Sharon hat. - Oh, yeah! Cool. Nice.
Thank you. - (Sharon) No, it was my pleasure.
- I'd put it on, but my hair is very,
you know, upright. - I get it. I get it.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So...
- So, this is how it would look like...
- (laughs) - ...if it were on me.
- Top of the day, sir. All right. Well, thank you so much
for coming in. I really appreciate it. And thank you guys
so much for watching. Make sure that you go
and subscribe to your channel, Dead Meat. It's so good.
Subscribe here also, hit the bell.
Let us know in the comments, who do you want us to have on next
to interview? And do me a favor.
Go out and have some fun. Share some laughs
just like we are on Sharin' with Sharon.
Thanks. Buh-bye.
- Well, I'm just about to start recounting the first series
I ever covered on my channel, Friday the 13th...
- Oh, yeah. - ...'cause, you know, I did that
four and a half years ago. The show was different.
I wanna give those movies their due. And so, I'm gonna recount those.
- Great! - And the Dead Meat podcast
is also coming back after its summer hiatus.
- Oh, good. Good. - Yeah, big month for the channel.