Arts Underground: “Turns Out It’s the Apocalypse… we think?”

Cozy bunkers… a dearly departed cat… professional actors … who are also hamsters? All of those things are the comically macabre ingredients to an independent film being shot locally this month.

It’s titled, “Turns Out It’s the Apocalypse… we think?” and our guests today are the film’s director, Mike Hayhurst, and Natalie Lynch and Tara Jayn, who split the duties of co-starring and writing the film. It’s set in the end-times, in what they call an “everywhere town”- in Huntsville, Alabama.

This interview was recorded February 6, 2026. The full episode aired February 20, 2026.