HARD OUT

HARD OUT is a 60-minute ticking time bomb of a podcast hosted by Chris and Jay Thornton (professional screenwriters and filmmakers of the upcoming indie feature CACTUS JACK). Aptly named, each and every episode abruptly ends at the 60-minute mark—no matter what’s going down as the buzzer sounds! The podcast includes several subseries, to include “Hard Out: My Favorite Movie “(in which we have a guest or guests on to geek out over their all-time favorite film) and “Hard Out: Fast Friends,” a social experiment concocted to beat the algorithms and expand our echo chamber by sitting down and talking to every single one of our 1,000+ facebook friends in order to get to know them better (or at all).

Screenwriter and filmmaker Rob Hagans, aka “The Bespectacled Mofo,” drops by to talk making movies on a true nano (or even “pico”) budget. We’re talkin’ $1k films, people!! Give a listen and hell—grab your smartphones and join the movement! Gull and Jay are already noodling ideas in the $1k space. To hear our swapcast where we were guests on his show to discuss making CACTUS JACK go to Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-microbudget-series-episode-three/id1588864867?i=1000580779853 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Wj7IhI60S4hVYwoaGLYF2?si=4BAulfQEQmiVy0x4KbA9Pg Or find it on any platform you use to get podcasts. Follow Rob on Twitter: @BspectacledMofo IG: @bspectacledmofo YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT_RHkfWrgQ63R_-HiXG_dg You can even watch his $1k feature films BARBARA and AROUND THE WORLD (over 1.4 million views) we discuss in this episode on his channel: BARBARA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uXG9sczPPg AROUND THE WORLD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2oSMwrCZv0 Speaking of films, go to www.cactusjackfilm.com to rent or purchase our own CACTUS JACK on Prime Video or Hulu, or to buy it on Blu Ray through Amazon and other vendors.