2024.12.08 Ken "Whit" Whitman Has an Advertising "News" Article Published

We've called it already that our man Kenny (Ken "Whit" Whitman) is trying to form a "school" to milk somebody, presumably children and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, out of their money. Sure, it's speculation, but the more we see, the more the speculation makes sense.....

Take this "interview" from Wave 3 News:

It is the latest project for Fort Knox native Whit Whitman’s production company, Little Monsters Entertainment, Inc.

It’s about “a bunch of homeless people who find [the] body of the richest man in Danville and so they dress up and go live in his mansion for Christmas Eve. Interesting part is, the guy wasn’t dead.”

Whitman started writing movie scripts 11 years ago. Since then, he has produced eight movies, three of them in Danville.

But what’s a reason to shoot movies in Kentucky?

Well, Whitman tells us the state has tax incentive laws, which help him fund his movies.

“When movies come here, our government actually helps them with whatever money they put into the state of Kentucky,” Whitman says.

He says it’s usually for smaller budget movies up to $1.5 million.

Whitman’s real spark for his passion comes from teaching others.

A lot of the crew members and actors in his movies are local students looking to dip their toes into the film industry.

Whitman tells us he almost gave up on storytelling three years ago, but mentoring is what changed his mind.

“I thought I was getting out of it and then these kids said no will you teach us about this? And so the universe gave storytelling back to me.”

Whitman says he wants to open up a technical school to teach young adults to write, produce, edit and act.

“I would like to take it out of Hollywood’s hands and make a blue collar, small, version that anyone could do. And that’s just gonna require someone like me to teach young kids a system that doesn’t cost a lot of money,” Whitman says.

He tells us another movie is coming up in January and several others are in the works.

“Home-less for the Holidays” is now streaming on Amazon Prime, the Roku Channel, and will be available on Tubi December 12.

Anyone interested in learning more about becoming involved with Little Monsters Entertainment can find their website here.

Wow, a lot to unpack here. 1st this is so not an interview. There is literally only one question asked, "But what’s a reason to shoot movies in Kentucky?" This is a promotional piece for Kenny's "school"....oh, but it actually isn't! "Little Monsters Entertainment, Inc." is listed at the beginning of the piece. 

Hmm......Little Monsters? That's not the name of Kenny's company....it was Little Monster (no "s")....what's up with that I wonder?

Oh for fuck's sake! Kenny has a new company! There is a new company that has a rather interesting incorporation date....the same day as the "interview"!

We wonder if this company was created to take advantage of the typo as the one company he has that is actually still active was "Little Monster Entertainment Inc." While there is this alleged school, no direct mention is made of it. The end of the article has a link to the Little Monster website, but NOT to the home page. No....instead it links to his "Actors Retreats" webpage.

This basically make the whole article an ad for the current film and for Kenny's Actor Retreats.

This article is also a bit misleading, because it's mostly Ken's words. The guidelines for those Kentucky Tax incentives are interesting. 1st of, it's not for films "up to $1.5 million" like Whit Whitman says, but it's for films production companies doing a minimum of $10M a year and $1.5M per production! Also the company needs to have 50% of that funding "available" and the "ability to raise the remaining funds necessary"

Now we can't speak for any prospective investors, but Kenny has already been proven to not be able to handle, what?......$186K in Kickstarter funds? Who TF thinks that having $5M on-hand is a good thing for Ken "Whit" Whitman? Not anyone here at NAD. Makes me think that his repeated mantra of "only" paying himself $18K a year is out there for multiple reasons....

2024.11.25 Ken "Whit" Whitman Reaches Out to KS Backers, Clearly Trying to Take Credit for ZOE's Efforts

Today one of our editors was perusing Facebook and saw this post from an old gaming buddy that had backed Kenny's KoDT: Live Action Series Kickstarter:

"Ken Whitman asking for help was not not [sic] on my 2024 Bingo card. What a joke"

Of course his interest was piqued and one info request later we got this message:

"I am writing to verify the distribution status of the KODT DVDs. The completed episodes were

provided to ZOE, who out of kindness handled DVD distribution to backers. However, I want to confirm whether you received your copy.

Please respond to this message with:

Your backer name/information Whether you received a DVD from ZOE 

If you recieve it, please confirm your current mailing address This information will help me:

Document which backers still need fulfillment 

Follow up with ZOE regarding any missing deliveries 

Create a clear record of the current situation

I understand there has been a lot of confusion and frustration around this project. While I no longer hold the rights to produce or distribute KODT content, I want to ensure every backer receives what they were promised.

Please respond within the next 14 days so I can compile a complete list and determine next steps.

Thank you for your patience and assistance in resolving this matter.

Sincerely, Ken Whitman"

Holy hell, this is a lot to digest......lets go through it quickly:

"I am writing to verify the distribution status of the KODT DVDs. The completed episodes were provided to ZOE, who out of kindness handled DVD distribution to backers. However, I want to confirm whether you received your copy."

No....."complete episodes" were not provided to ZOE. They got the one episode and a bunch of rough cuts and raw footage that Ben Dobyns worked on in his "own time (and dime)" according to Jolly Blackburn. Kenny DID try to take credit for those DVDs, in court no less, BUT they were supposed to be Blu-Rays. 291 were promised Blu-Rays that had a lot more than just the three episodes...

"Please respond to this message with:

Your backer name/information Whether you received a DVD from ZOE 

If you receive it, please confirm your current mailing address This information will help me:

Document which backers still need fulfillment 

Follow up with ZOE regarding any missing deliveries 

Create a clear record of the current situation"

So if ZOE missed someone you are going to do...what? You've already stated you cannot deliver the product, the product that was worked on privately by a third party isn't the product you promised, and were paid for....the clear record of the situation is that you owe a LOT of people refunds as you don't/can't/haven't provide(d) what you signed up for. THAT is the "current situation".

"I understand there has been a lot of confusion and frustration around this project. While I no longer hold the rights to produce or distribute KODT content, I want to ensure every backer receives what they were promised."

No confusion as you haven't delivered much of anything technically. No DVDs, no Blu-Rays, no movie posters, no premier (don't forget that the GenCon premiere wasn't ACTUALLY the promised premiere as he showed footage at an earlier convention...oh and you didn't have the promised, and again paid for, after-party with the actors. Again, 99% of promised content has not been delivered by Ken "Whit" Whitman (remember that he is personally liable as D20 Entertainment didn't exist when the Kickstarter ran) and he's telling us he cannot deliver it even if he had something to deliver....

"Please respond within the next 14 days so I can compile a complete list and determine next steps.

Thank you for your patience and assistance in resolving this matter.

Sincerely, Ken Whitman"

Please, please hurry and give Kenny your contact info that he already has access to (providing it doesn't need updating) so he can hurry up and resolve an issue he's largely ignored for....what...roughly 116 weeks at least?

2024.11.19 Checking in on Ken "Whit" Whitman's 1st Movie Premiere

It looks like Kenny FINALLY managed to get one of his films finished as Home Less for the Holidays had a premiere last week in New Albany, Indiana.

I know, starting a film and actually finishing it, in a year no less?!!!

Shocking.

While looking for some word about the premiere...the best we could find is one attendee/cast member posting some pictures. Not one pic of our main man, which is odd if he was the Director & Writer....

...also odd that, aside from trying to sell tickets to the premiere and an after-party (Hey, we've seen that before, and you can see where we got the idea for our name!) there is no mention of this movie on the Little Monster Entertainment website. 2024.11.27 Edit There is, just the page is only linked from a single spot elsewhere.

What we did stumble upon, and made us laugh, is this article from January that had some choice words from our main man (and our commentary):

"Like any production, I am making a hundred decisions an hour....." Ninety-nine of those decisions are how I'm going to make a buck off of this...

"We are on schedule and that is what you want to hear about halfway through filming a movie. On an independent film, you do not have the pleasure of a large budget 30 day production." On schedule? He's running what...a decade or so behind on some of his other films. Pretty sure this is the first one to actually see the light of day.

"We do education equity, we are running a school where a film happens to be made. The students do classes in the mornings, we want to get everyone up to par so when you see them on camera you are like oh, those are real actors. We are like an acting school on speed." So the students are the product being generated, not the movies. He's creating "real actors"? Ken "Whit" Whitman being on speed would explain a lot....Freudian slip?

"Being the writer I always try to make sure an instructor is in the scene with the new actors...I used to play college football..." Had absolutely nothing to do with the interview/task on hand.

Later in the article Actor Al Snow states, "Kentucky Joe suffers from CTE and a little bit of dementia." Hmmmm, our boy wrote that and dipping back into the CTE seems to reiterate that Kenny thinks he has this degenerative brain disorder.

Of course the article ends mentioning that Little Monster Entertainment has "several upcoming actor retreats".

We're Certain Found Ken, er Whit Whitman's Current Scheme: AI Music

 99.9% Sure that we've found another alias for Ken "Whit" Whitman...and technically it wouldn't be an alias, but a fake persona for our main man...possibly a persona that allows him to make some money on the side.

Alex Idell

Seriously, who the hell is Alex Idell? As near as we can tell a literal nobody. This persona is allegedly a singer with no social media presence outside of being in some Little Monsters Entertainment "videos".

Now think about it a minute....do you know a single musical artist that is not doing everything they can to "get their name out there"? None of us can.

Our hot take is that Alex Idell isn't actually a person, but an AI generated set of musical tones. This is our reasoning:

1. The entire lack of social media presence outside of, at the time of writing, three (3) Little Monster Entertainment "videos".
2. The entire lack of ANY web results outside of the aforementioned videos (Kenny, that word means "stuff we said earlier").
3. "Lyrics by Whit Whitman" appear on each video, as well as "©2024 by Whit Whitman" on two of the videos.
4. You can buy Alex Idell's MP3 Album for $9.99 on Amazon Music
5. The videos are dated August 21, 23, and 24th of this year and they are all obviously AI generated videos.

Now, this doesn't obviously point to fact that Alex Idell is an AI, but.....

Little Monsters also uploaded a song/video called "The English Rap" and that one is denoted as "Performed by AI" as well as "Lyrics ©2024 Whit Whitman." Who really thinks that our main man, who self-professes to be "just trying to survive and make money" has the bandwidth to be writing music? On top of making movies and mentoring children?

...and if he's such a film-maker, why is he using AI generated music videos? Allegedly he knows how to make short form video as he's been proffering himself as a mentor and industry professional for years. This would be a great opportunity to promote himself as a filmmaker.....but instead he's using AI. The album: Persistence to the Point of Success isn't showing up anywhere...yet.

So we have evidence of Ken "Whit" Whitman using AI to make music and to make videos. It isn't a huge leap of logic to assume he's also using it to write the music and to create a virtual singer. 

Oh, and Alex Idell isn't the only one...there is also Atlanta Ingram who doesn't seem to have any existence outside of the song, "Home-Less for the Holidays", which seems to be the theme song for the same titled movie that Kenny has coming out next week.

Of course Kenny hasn't disclosed that these videos are AI generated, which is a YouTube requirement:

"Creators must disclose content that:

• Makes a real person appear to say or do something they didn’t do
• Alters footage of a real event or place
• Generates a realistic-looking scene that didn’t actually occur

This could include content that is fully or partially altered or created using audio, video or image creation or editing tools."

The emphasis is ours.....

See for yourself:

2024.11.24 Edit: We found a single bare-bones website for "her". There is a contact page at the address listed is for a Ghanaian LGBTQ+ non-profit located in San Francisco! Yeah....between this address and the fact that the contact page shows "Contact us today to book your appointment or to learn more about our luxurious spa services!", we're certain it's a bogus site for a bogus person.

The "About Page" is clearly a placeholder for what was a sample website, not unlike the placeholders on the www.communityfilmcollaborative.org website. Oh and this website, Little Monster Entertainment website, and the communityfilmcollaborative website are all registered through the same registrar...and it isn't a big name one, so quite a coincidence....

...what isn't a coincidence is that the home page graphic you're to believe is Alex Idell (OK, we just got that her initials are "AI") is a stock image file used a lot of places.

We're totally calling, with 100% confidence, that this is a fake person, presumably created by Ken "Whit" Whitman.

Pure NAD Speculation Based off of Ken "Whit" Whitman's Recent Interview

Post Warning: This post is mostly speculation, cannot be taken as fact (although there will be some facts presented), and is presented pretty much as a plea for assistance in either substantiating our speculation or debunking it in its entirety.

In reviewing the text from last week's Ken Whitman interview, a couple of things stood out and there was this huge underlying question of "Why now?"

People generally only do things for a reason and if Ken "Whit" Whitman is surfacing now, there has to be some rationale (for him) for doing so. At first we thought he might be going the "I've been getting help and I'm not that scammer anymore route" he did that once before and suckered Jolly Blackburn and it lead to his run of six unfulfilled Kickstarters and an excess of $187K:

"Ken's apologies and talk of being on new meds for his ADHD and having turned over a new leaf..."

So that seemed a good motivation....Kenny trying to dip into the same well for another go. Makes sense when you see his regular claims that he could start a new Kickstarter at any moment "And just to let everyone know, I can start a Kickstarter anytime I want."

The thing is...he's done Kickstarters and if he started another one of those, there would hundreds if not thousands of people backing for a buck just to get in and warn everyone to run, and run fast.

No....no...there is something else goin on and again that's why we have to go into speculation mode.

The first thing that stood out to use from the interview, out of the many things we won't elaborate now, was he mentioned a couple times that, "but I have never, since the time that we've done this, paid myself more than $18,000 a year."

$18K a year...why is that number significant?

Now again, pure speculation, but a cursory check reveals that $18,600 is the magic cut-off number for determining if your employment is considered a Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) when collecting Social Security Disability Insurance. Now we're not knocking anyone who needs to collect disability, but when a known scam-artist is on disability and limiting himself to a salary of $18,000 (or less),  which means he could pay himself more.....that's suspect.

Another number that jumped out again, because he said it twice in quick succession, was 480: "And then each state will give a kid 480 hours worth of being paid."

480 hours......480 hours, again why is this significant. 

Well there just so happens to be a Federally-funded (state administered) youth program called Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) that gives money, or in this case, labor, to employers: Work Experience Program or Work-Based Learning places jobseekers with an employer for up to 480 hours at no cost to the employer as it is covered by WIOA.

The way Ken describes what's he up to.....seems to fit right in line with Kentucky's initiatives with WIOA, so we're speculating that Whit is getting free labor from the great state of Kentucky: "I paid my kids $15, the state of Kentucky paid them."

So everybody's tracking...we're speculating that Ken "Whit" Whitman is a) limiting his "income" to $18K a year to maximize his SSDI gains and b) He's using state-provided labor to make movies. 

That seems like it should be enough for one post, but in reviewing things....we've noticed that Ken's fake charity has a new facelift! Now in the interview Ken stated that "I have never taken any donations with it so far." We do not believe, for a second, that Kenny hasn't taken any donations, but even if he hasn't...it's kind of chilling that he's specifically said..."so far", as in "yet".

Coupling this with the Community Film Collaborative website...no, not the Square site we mentioned earlier, maybe that is a red herring (?), but there is a new site: www.communityfilmcollaborative.org This new website has Kenny's fingerprints all over it, albeit a bit more professional looking than expected. It's a Kentucky registered site, but the pertinents are otherwise made private. The site is pretty much two, maybe three, pages right now and everything just links back onto the "about" page.

Now normally when a website is being made it it doesn't "go live" until it's complete, but this amateur operation is up now. It's clear that some of the pics are AI generated and the text is generally BS. This thing wasn't created in 2010, and those are so not the members of the "dedicated team".

Yeah....not buying it. You know what else we're not buying? That The Community Film Collaborative is an actual entity. We checked this morning....

Of course the "charity" is defunct, but Ken's "for profit" side of things is current...imagine that....

This updates our speculation to include this new bit information: Kenny is getting free labor from the state to help make films, soliciting donations (or at the very least getting set up to do so) to make films using the free labor as a selling point, not directly, but still....., and funneling everything through the only legal entity and "limiting" himself to only making $18K a year. He's clearly making more, otherwise he couldn't "limit" anything...

....but then, what's the angle?

Well the new website is telling, for certain, but....is it enough? Let's head back into the interview...

"Well, I am probably 24 months away from even having a profit off of anything that I'm doing. I am barely making a living right now and have to stretch out another 24 months before I see any profits from a film."

....and there it is!

Everything is revolving around Kenny making and the profiting off of his films, which is funny because he profited off of what, three films through Kickstarter and they were never completed (at least by him as promised). He's clearly profiting (but not by too much!), off of his "current" films, and he anticipates making money off of them in the future.

While still speculation....it all makes a lot of sense!

At the beginning of this post we mentioned a plea for assistance. We'd love to either prove or disprove (NOT WRITING TO YOU KENNY) these presumptions. If you happen to have 1st hand knowledge to share, please do: