Bruce Beach X Kyle Hester - Underground Bunkers, UFO's & Hysteria? Indie Films & Hollywood

Episode 169: Hollywood Dreaming 

 Born April 14th, 1934 in Winfield, Kansas. Honourable discharge after four years active duty and four years reserve USAF. Radiological Scientific Officer. Graduated Southwestern College, Winfield. Master's degree in Economics from Texas Christian University. Taught in black colleges in the Southern US and in Northern Colleges in Canada. Built Ark Two in Horning's Mills, Ontario - home of wife's family since 1800's. Over twenty descendants. Founder and coordinator of the World Language Process. Has traveled to Europe, South America, Japan, and China.

Bruce Beach, began constructing the 10,000 sq ft Ark Two shelter in the early 1980s during the height of the Cold War. It's the largest nuclear fallout shelter in North America. The self-confessed 'survivalist' says he fully expects the world to descend into nuclear war and is surprised it hasn't happened in the decades he has been preparing his mega bunker.  He has appeared on the 2012 Netflix documentary 'Doomsday Preppers' where he talks through his plans should the world end and how he has prepared for various catastrophic scenarios.

Second Half

Kyle Hester

Kyle Hester was born in New Orleans La. to a professional football player father (Ray Hester of the New Orleans Saints) and a cheerleader mother (Hollis Huntoon). His inspiration to act came early in life starting out in drama class in junior high school. Kyle then attended the High School for the Performing and Visual arts in Houston, TX. He double majored in theatre and dance in his senior year. You may have seen him as a dancer in Houston at The Tower Theatre.

Kyle has had the honor of working with award winning directors John Frankenhiemer, Bruce Beresford and Mark Shelton to name a few. His film career has taken him to both sides of the camera including building the 1/3rd scale sets for "Team America" and being the art department lead man on the T.V. show "Wipe Out".  Kyle talked about his work in the movie "the chair", and being alongside "Rowdy Roddy Piper. " His latest involvement in the movie "Zombie with a shotgun", Also what to expect going out to Los Angeles.