Prepare yourself for: Kitsch Batman, Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop, lying fireworks, tonal shifts, Saboteur, and The Wagging Tongue
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Some days, gloomy, my hours are slumberless Dearest, the shadows I live with by nonetheless Little white flowers will never awaken Not where the bright coach of sorrow ends taking you Angels have no fire ever returning you Or they'll be angry if I so don't join in you Ooooh, Sunday Hello, and welcome to Flashcast85, a Skinner Co presentation Skinner Co, it's not Monday unless we say so This episode is also brought to you by generous donations from giant gantars Scott Roche and Nick Tyler, many thanks! If you'd like to sponsor an episode, please feel free to use the donate button on the site But now, prepare yourself for Kitch Batman, Goblin-proofing ones chicken coop, Lying fireworks, total shifts, saboteur, and the wagging tongue There is no dream for a death I'm caressing you If you're the strength of my soul, I'll be blessing you Give me Sunday Hi, my name is Hope Poponex, and I am a slave Close as I can figure it, the year is 1300 AD And I'm being dragged to my death It wasn't always like this, I had a real life once I had a wonderful Jessica Meg, hello, and a JRD Hello Wow Yeah, after that intense opening, I asked Start on an up note It's almost humbling to note that it's just a quiet Easter Monday We happen to have the day off Yes, Skinner Co is closed, more or less, although we're still working in the interiors It never really shuts down in there We've crammed the junior execs into the basement temporarily Yep, so they may come up and say something to us I'm sure very extremely important to extremely Yeah, incredibly witty Highly intelligent Yep Speaking of witty, actually, have you guys ever heard of the Diagram Prize? No I've heard of the Diaroma Prize, I've won it many times Yes No The Diagram Prize is one of those, it's a very British thing to me Can you map it out for us? It's a Diagram Prize provided by the bookseller magazine for best book title of the year Okay Not necessarily judging all the content of the book, just the title Just by its cover or title This year's winner, Galbin Proofing One's Chicken Coop Okay Wow Alright Who judges these things, that's good It was actually, there was a short list provided by, I believe some And bookseller judges and then provided to an open vote Is it, is it like, is it like a write-in or is it like a wine tasting Where there's a certain panel and they all sit and they have ear masks on And then they take them off and then they just say the words Somebody says one title and they all got a remedy on it And then they put their muffs back on and they just sort of like sip it, spit it into a bucket This year's short list included how TCOsies changed the world And how to sharpen pencils Previous, the first winner, hold on I'm looking through this article for the first winner The first ever winner in 1978 was Proceeding to the second international workshop on nude mice Alright Well As opposed to the clothes, clothed mice One JMA and I never tie her up, winter's bone Why does that make you think it's a British thing? I don't see this sort of award, no one You know what's the funniest title? Actually, it's not even just, it was funny It's just, what's the best? Yeah, but it's also, it's a very British sense of humor You didn't see Goblin proofing your chicken coop, I'm an American Yeah, absolutely Booklist Probably not, no Actually Speaking of the British versus American situation Pinners on Twitter pointed to me towards a very interesting article They've done some, this is from nature.com They've done some text mining, you're familiar with text mining? No Essentially where they get extensive scripts to go digging through a large pile of Usually Google archive or Google Books information where they can look up, you know In this case, they looked up for a mode of words So soft or hard kind of language Okay And they found that the British are more reserved in their writing The US uses more emotion And that over the last, because now that Google has just archived massive amounts of books You can go back year by year and see how writing changes over time By using the search tools that Google is providing So they're seeing, the trend is that the US is getting more emotive And the British are getting more reserved, which is weird because I think of the sort of clever, almost homey word plays And you know, how to gobble and proof your chicken coop Like that's a very British thing Really, because I think holding on in quite desperation is the English way Yeah, I suppose Well that's really interesting that you can have like a really broad overview And be able to look at things really like mathematically Yeah, yeah, and I mean these things aren't always perfect I think that there is something to, you can't just Necessarily look at these things based on the adjectives And I'm not necessarily nay-saying these people's methods I'm just saying that a complex idea can be provided with words that don't necessarily come across as soft Yeah, it can reflect like language changing as opposed to a people group Okay, well to take the book talk down a notch out of the high class business I found this really interesting, this is actually in the comic book territory They're releasing a comic series from DC that is specifically Batman circa the 1966 television series So it is essentially Batman fan fiction from DC based on the TV show Like it was going back to the specific episodes or just like... No, just that cast of characters, they're bringing back that joker You know what I mean? It's going to be ongoing stories, but it's going to be... And then that same style Yeah, well the thing is if you look at the history of Batman, right? He's gone through these weird tonal shifts where he was serious But kind of weird at first and then he went to the super camp And then he rolled back to the Dark Knight And I think this is a return, this is playing to the people who love that camp period Because the knowing winking of the television show really came out of the not necessarily as knowing direction of the comic books when they were getting very goofy And that 50s sensibility of Gee whiz You know, really with Robin and Batman and... Yes, birthday cake So I think when the show came out, they knew that they were playing to that That they were making it ridiculous But I think up until that point Batman had been sliding in that direction Not necessarily as a intended humor situation Anyway, I can see people having a lot of nostalgia for that era And they're definitely not getting it out of Christopher Nolan's Yeah, they're not It also had a very sexy quality, I wonder if that'll also translate Oh the... yeah Yeah, like the innocent, but Batman She's beautiful Yeah, yeah Yeah, exactly the Catwoman Batman stuff That was good You poor deluded woman I love that she had to be deluded Yeah, yeah, yeah She could be good if she wanted to Speaking of... Yeah, she worked a little Yeah, she worked a little Yeah, she worked a little Speaking of... illustrated resurrections Steve Jobs, you know that Steve Jobs book that came out not too long ago Some of these deep jobs The definitive biography that was out and everywhere They're apparently turning it into a manga I think this still has the ability to surprise me I love the idea because it allows... It's an accessibility thing, right? People who would never pick up the huge tone Will definitely pick up this manga for you And people who are only into manga Get a different kind of experience Yeah, but I was thinking about it What's the... what are you losing in that translation? And what are you gaining? It's weird because... It's so weird It's not like when they translate a piece of fiction where somebody can be Hey, Steve Jobs doesn't look like I imagined him He isn't nearly as muscular as I supposed to be But I mean, they'll have pictures of him too, right? Yeah, no, it'll be an exact Steve Jobs Well, more or less, anyway Yeah, I mean, to any of the quality of the artist Who does the art, yeah, like... How many be is it gonna be? Yeah That's so crazy Oh, that'd be cool I'd totally love to see a manga I would basically just be reading for the parts where he does get kind of angry And see if they do the anger lines and the buggas Yeah, the sweat drop That'd be awesome Although I suspect it'll be very respecting And what will this open at? This is the first time Imagine five years from now if this is really successful What it'll be like to... Yeah, to have many people who have... It's like the lifetime movie I think this is one of the first times that we're hearing about it a little more But I suspect this sort of thing has been going on for a long time I think it covers a lot of ground And we just don't know We just like mainstream biographies like that I bet you that somebody will be writing it And someone knows of... I'm trying to think of who would be... Anyway Anyway, yeah, that's pretty cool, though Okay, to sort of transition out of book news And into a movie, a little bit of movie news I believe you had some sort of Oz business about? Yeah, well, I mean, I was just talking about the recent Oz film in the last episode, right? Right, yeah, 84 Well, for those of you who didn't know, there's actually an upcoming Oz movie I don't know if you're aware It's called Legends of Oz Dorothy's Return And it's gonna be an animated film Okay I can't remember whether Disney isn't involved at all But it's... He isn't as always involved Yeah, it's set to be released in 2014 And it's gonna have, like, Patrick Stewart and James Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Kelsey Grammer It's going to have Brian Blessed in it And I'm really, really excited about that guy He's one of my favorite actors for when I was a kid Reminds me of a lot of my dad when he's laughing and his teeth are sticking out Oh, that's great It's too bad it's animated because I'd love to see him on screen But it's going to feature the character of the Jester He's gonna be played by Martin Short And in Dorothy of Oz, the book The Jester was just like a servant of Princess Whatever her name is, I can't remember Some princess in some kingdom Okay And he gets hold of... Lovely, I assume it was Lumpy Space Princess I'm like, no He got hold of the Wicked Witch of the West's Wand And he got, like, possessed by her ghost And so he went around, like, turning everybody into China dolls As you will Yeah, so Dorothy has to rescue everybody And she's gonna meet up with all these interesting characters on her way But yeah, it should be pretty interesting 'Cause, I mean, how different from the book is it gonna be? You expect it's gonna be pretty different when you see how the Oz things are going I'm finding, now that we're digging a bit into the Oz situation The state of the Oz, if you will Yes, the state of Oz I'm finding it interesting because The story is in public domain now, right? So anyone can make a movie based on Oz As long as they don't, probably I assume it has something to do with it as long as they don't dig too much into the movie The specific release of the film Don't make it look too much like Judy Garland, you know? Yeah, I suppose But, I mean, even that story differs pretty wildly from how it was originally written anyway But it seems like we're getting a lot of, isn't there a television show with... I remember there being an Oz television show No, just recently, though, wasn't there? It's like they relived these stories all at once Like, somebody's doing Oz, ooh, it's gonna be hot, let's do Oz too Yeah, well, these... As will happen It's just a meme, it takes hold and everyone's, you know But, I mean, regardless of how I think Oz, the great and powerful, turned out, I'd still, like, go see an animated movie of Oz Yeah, 'cause it's not even the same, like... It's nice to see Dan Aykroyd getting work these days No, he's still doing a video show, like... Yeah, he has his radio show It must be weird to work with Jim Belushi Anyway, to move on Did you guys see this thing that happened during Earth Day? Okay, there's that Earth Hour Turn off the lights for an hour, as you can recall Over London The Star Trek... What's the new, into darkness, or whatever? Ghost in the darkness, Star Trek in the darkness, whatever it is They did a promotional stunt where they had a bunch of those quad-broader drones Okay Fly over the city so that when everyone turned off their lights for an hour There was a glowing Federation symbol in the sky That is so awesome Now, it's a pretty neat idea That is so cool Hey, it's kind of weird that it's taking advantage of everyone being like We need to save energy, so send some quad-roaters up there And let's get some lights up, anyway But it reminded me of a trope I hated as a child And this is kind of going in a weird direction But do you guys remember seeing cartoons when you were young? In which there would be fireworks that would explode into a specific shape? Yes Or even text, extensive text on occasion? I feel like this is something I remember from the Ewoks cartoon, especially somehow That bothered me because when I grew older to a point where I was disillusioned with shaped fireworks He means when he was like six Well, they're getting back to it, they're actually disillusioned It ruined real fireworks for me to realize that they couldn't draw things in the sky You're like, what? That's it? This is bullshit I want an Ewok face up there What's my Ewoks? Yeah, it's like Hasbro or something is spelled out and... Yeah, there was so many... There was a star, something... Gem? I'm sure there was an intro bit from there, anyway Mmm, glamour and glitter, fashion and fashion As soon as you said Hasbro, that's what came into mind Oh, I'm gonna be singing the song forever now Yeah Anyway, everyone, so yeah Disillusionment with childhood Speaking of disillusionment It's gonna come out soon We've still been working through the TNG rewatch Not really anything super exciting to report But I did wander down a weird hole with the rape situation on Star Trek Okay, you went down, okay Uh, I got poking around on the tubes And are you guys familiar with memoryalpha.org? It's essentially a wiki for Star Trek It's the go-to wiki, if you will, for Star Trek They have a rather unsettlingly comprehensive article on the rape situation in the Star Trek universe And they have it listed by series by situation, if you will Yeah, well, you know, you can break that down for any one topic Yeah, no, no, I'm not saying that it was somebody creepy It was anyway provided in an erotic or whatever fashion It's not that kind of thing But it has been addressed But it's been recognized and it's odd to see how many incidents there are in the original series, actually Really? That we were discussing how the child, that episode where Troy gets impregnated Was actually based on an older script, 72 or whatever It seems like maybe that idea was a lot more comfortable for people to write about back then Because it's definitely, although they reference some voyage or some next-generation incidents It does seem like there's a lot of original series That's unfortunate That's not really Especially considering how short that show ran It's like, obviously, it's frowned upon in the original series But is it something that they take women easier in that? Well, no, it's always like It's one of the go-to things to establish somebody as a villain Oh, it could be like, he's trying to take advantage of a woman And then somebody comes in and saves them Yeah, exactly, but it's, you know, Kurt's been possessed And how can we purify this terrible person now? He tries to rape somebody, he tries to rape Janice Rand I think you said we didn't have any, like, really interesting episodes You forget, we just watched the data-ishula combs episode Oh, yeah, that's a classic video You know, I have a problem Did we discuss this last episode? I thought we might have I don't think we did No, and I have a problem with the holodeck, you know, when they're like Okay, the major crux of this is that they asked the holodeck to do something that it shouldn't be able to do Yes And then in doing so They accidentally asked the holodeck to turn off all safety features Of the ship, and you're like, that is just F'd up Like when that is seriously the crux of the story Well, I don't think you can really, like, say, oh, that wouldn't happen on the end of the day Well, I think the problem is that they've had enough of these holodeckes There'd be no connection between the bridge and the holodeck We're deep enough into the second season now that they've used this trope enough times That they can't just have it be it can't just be Oh, there's some more damage to the holodeck and now we can't turn it off like Do you remember there was part of the trivia that you saw that there was a scene that they cut Sort of implying that Picard knew because they had brought out I believe Moriarty is drawing Moriarty had drawn the Enterprise from inside the holodeck That's right And because Picard had been able to bring the paper outside the holodeck There was the possibility that Moriarty could actually come out of the holodeck And there was some contemplation there Because I believe Picard is trying to Yeah, they're eventually trying to shut him off, essentially And he doesn't want to die, and so Picard tells them, oh, we'll save you in our memory banks Which they do But originally he would have been essentially murdering him Yeah, he had asked, can I not leave the holodeck and Picard says no, you can't There's no way And so the scene was cut so that it didn't look like Picard was lying to him Yeah, be it a jerk Yeah More interestingly, I found the, apparently the episode was made with the permission of the homes of state Or not homes, geez, Conan Doyle's a state Homes of state Well, the people who, yeah, the overseers of the homes Yes, yes Anyway, uh And they were also at the time producing with Paramount young Sherlock Holmes Oh, yes, that's right, I don't recall discussing this But there was some sort of falling out over how this was handled And they weren't able to make, despite the popularity at the time of the episode They weren't able to make another Data as homes episode for like 40 years Oh, that's because of it You know, um I had actually Just like a day or two later, seen something on Tumblr Where somebody was posting how much they loved the Data as Sherlock episode And then just yesterday I was reminded of the Data and Picard as gangsters episode And I am so excited to see that one I can't wait until it comes up I hope it's sometime soon because Man, Picard is a gangster I know, with the hat on, I remember that It's awesome, it's gonna be awesome I'm totally We recently had mob movie night We did, Frank and Hooker Frank and Hooker Surprisingly good Uh, good isn't exactly the word I would use Well, it was a lot of campy fun I found myself paying a lot more attention to this one There was, you know, there was a plot That was understandable, it wasn't like the room Yeah, it was definitely a better produced film Than some of the ones we have watched I liked that Freddie Mercury was in it Muscle bound, not actually Freddie Mercury Zorro, I loved that we all knew That there were these Prostitute parts in a fridge That had been electrified And had become various, like Had stuck together in these weird, Frank And, you know, arm attached to head It was very reminiscent to the thing But we knew, yeah, it really was The really slimy faces and stuff We knew that at some point at the end We were going to meet these creatures And I made a Vine video So if you're not on Vine, it's an app It's free for the iPhone, you need to get it It's like the six second little video thing What's your name? No idea, Jessica May Jessica May, you can look for me And you can actually find me Well, if you want to become friends on Twitter I can find you that way, if you become my friend Then I will find you And we'll be friends on Vine And then you can watch my ridiculous video What's your Twitter username? Prostitute parts The Jessica May Yes Well worth it But it wasn't just the Prostitute parts It was repeated scenes with a power drill Oh my gosh Oh, oh, oh, oh This guy needs concentrate? Oh, my God Well, okay, so he's sort of a surgeon Even though he's not He's a mechanic who happens to know a lot about the brain Yeah, a backyard surgeon So when he wants to Like, he's got this brain and a tank with an eye attached to it It's like a pet He's trying to do something with it It gets left by the way, he said Well, it ends up in a fish tank And his mother's like, "Oh, you're doing so well" Anyways He wants to change His personality, right? So he's finding various parts in his brain Where if he is to drill certain portions He will have no remorse He will, you know, be able to Go out, find women and kill them In order to attach parts to his lady's brain His dead girlfriend who was accidentally run over by a partner So he doesn't lay down He doesn't have a machine He just gets a power drill And basically just pets his head And then just like drills all the way in All the way out And then he would add a little eyeshadow underneath his eyes And then he'd like look all badass And menacing No blood And so he did that Like, not just once But like five fucking times Well, it's a Walter Panning Yeah, that's right Yeah, that's right And every time I just couldn't believe it It was disgusting It was weird Anyways Totally watchable Thursday this week We'll be releasing the MP3 commentary Oh yeah So you can, there's a little countdown You can watch the film with us Yeah, it was a surprising amount of fun for what it was It always is a ridiculous amount of fun It was nice to have everybody show up to Yeah, my camera wasn't working But there was a lot of hats For an Easter weekend It was a little empty But it was nice to have people in Who's picking the movie next week? I can't remember Shade, I believe Yes, shade is picky Oh yes, that's right I feel like this is going to be a left-field choice But generally, if you show up to the end of the film And if you haven't picked before Then the person who chose last time Will pick from that group The Terrible Terrible movie So it is shade's turn Which means that she has to show up to the next one Which means she has to stay up to like 5am again We actually, we got to see Amber for a couple of minutes This time before she had her band It was so nice she stayed up for us She waved and then went to bed Yes, I guess And we wore wonderful hats JRD was nice as the doctor Yeah, he was a doctor who He was a tool maker, a doctor who Nice big floppy hat So yeah, we don't have another We don't know when it's planned yet But we'll tell you when it happens But we do have an upcoming We haven't announced the opening date for the form But we are moving forward With the new form And we will be inaugurating it With a mafia/wearwolf game Which would be great We can definitely announce this now Yeah, we were talking about it Actually at movie night We were saying "Oh, once the next mafia game is going to be" So it's really great to hear it being announced Yes, I'm quite pleased It'll give us a good opportunity to shake down the form Because it tends to be One of the more used items on the site When it actually is up and running That'll be fun Skinner.fm also still under renovations But come along nicely Lots of things coming in the near future If you'd like to stay abreast of updates It'd be awesome if you could swing by Facebook.com/skinnergo And just throw us a thumb And we'll try to start posting more news related items Generally, it's just my nattering about Pac-Man and the wear rules Which is delightful I want candy That sounds brilliant But first I think we need to hear a little A little game review from our man Gigantor G'day Flashcast and fellow officers Gigantor here coming to you from the bog With a board game review of Saboteur Do you have 3-10 players looking to play something? Then this is the game And if your group happens to contain little ones From the ages of 8 and up Then let them play too Saboteur is a nice sit down game That only takes about 30 minutes to play In Saboteur You're a dwarf in a mine searching for gold The characters look more like lawn gnomes But who's judging? Anyway, everyone is given an identity card Making the players either a minor or a saboteur Obviously, if you are the saboteur Then you want to keep the secret from the other dwarves This game doesn't have a traditional game board Like zombies, it uses a deck of cards That basically build the game board as you play You're given a start point in 3 end goals The end goals are supposed to be 7 tiles away from the start point Now, the dwarves are drawing cards from the deck Trying to create a path to one of these goals Hoping that the one they reach is the gold Only one of the three contains the gold While the remaining two are cool There are other cards mixed in with the path cards They're called action cards So you can use these action cards To bust another player's pickaxe or their lamp Or their minecart Then there are also cards that will fix a broken pickaxe Or lamp, etc By breaking another player's equipment You're usually doing this because you either suspect the saboteur Or you are the saboteur Also included in the action cards is the map The maps allow a player to peek at one of the three gold cards To pinpoint the location of the gold If they, depending on which item they find under the card They can then change their strategy to build their path to a different goal Now, if the miners make it to the gold Then all of the miners get some bounty for their hard work If the saboteur gets their first Then they keep the gold, and the round starts over Changing the identities and the play starts over At the end of three rounds, whoever has the most gold is the winner There's not a lot of room for artistic flourish Concerning most cards are just, you know, a path Like a mine path The lantern, you can only do so much with the lantern to make it comical But they do manage to succeed With creating a fun atmosphere with their art Like I said, the lawn gnomes are pretty entertaining I found that this game really does hit all of its marks By taking the whodunit aspect from a game like Resistance And then added a map building engine to it It really increases the play And less focus on accusing people at the table Now, if you are looking for a lighthearted quick game That can entertain a large crowd no matter the age Then you found it And for all that, I think saboteur deserves the first five blazing torches That I've given a game That is my quick review of saboteur For a very quick and fun game I hope you guys all get a chance to try it out Let me know Talk to you guys soon Our first five bli- Our first five- Not like blaming torches But blaming torches, you bastard torches First five flaming torches, that's awesome Yeah, I'm excited to play this actually I like the mix of those two aspects And I have to admit, I feel like dwarves are on the bubble to be the next Maybe the next big thing, but to be another strong vein in the geek subculture You know what I mean, zombies, you got your steampunk Yeah, well, I mean, even now, with the hobbit Yeah, there's a huge dwarf fandom There's a dwarf contingent I'm sure I don't understand, but Yeah, I'm just saying, it seems like they're picking up steam and culture Definitely Anyhow, it sounds fantastic, Gigantor, thank you very much I like that it's nice and short, too You can follow Gigantor on the Twitter as Gigantor King Indeed And he's on the Vine, too, and he had a video today He said it was an appetiteless lunch break And the office break room or whatever And it was just him basically looking really unimpressed And it was awesome, so if you don't have Vine, get the Vine and find Gigantor Because it's awesome Okay, well, because it's Easter weekend and we didn't really want to bother anybody To send in their contributions Yeah, we didn't call for any shoutouts We're going to move right into mailbag But if you want to send something in, comment at FlashWelp.com Hey, can I do it? For the episode 85, for the first time for me Yeah, yeah, so guess what time it is? Oh, bye! Gigantee I am my child Wow, that was fun I like didn't want to be over, clearly On that same sort of odd tone Last episode, I put a shoutout for local jingles Yes, I looked high and low Yeah, I actually checked out this too Yeah, you've got an odd one, I don't know I think you're very local I even emailed family, so we'll see, maybe next week I'm so into it now, because it was like, man, it was like the commercial of my youth Well, what's your story? That's the thing about this, I was surprised that I didn't get a bigger response Because as soon as you start hitting YouTube on this question You start digging up these weird memories of a time long past I found mine, I'll play it in a moment Because I wanted to continue, I'm going to keep this as a research question for another week Because I really feel like this is a strong one When I was a boy, this was played at our local radio station Now, I grew up in the tri-town area Which is basically three tiny towns in the middle of nowhere Not really connected to anything So we would get these commercials from places that We're technically our neighbors or "neighboring" towns But we're actually quite some distance away Yes, everything was quite some distance There's signage that's like, come to Wawaw In 720 kilometers, you're like, holy Christ I don't want to So, there was this commercial Actually, Jessica might just play it first I'll tell you, it may be sunny here, but it's pretty darn cold But the deals on all remaining 1997s are hot, hot, hot With every 97 minivan left over, it's $1,500 under dealer invoice Well, how about discounts of up to $6,000 on remaining 1997 pickups If Mack lives in Sundridge, the 97s have got to go What was that last noise that sounds like it was cut off? That bleep was always the end of the commercial That was to indicate that you had received the message We are done here now Now, those Casio trumpets were a part of my memory going back Well, before I actually had any examination of what was going on in my life You know what I mean, just the noises of your childhood Because it was the only radio station in town And if you, like, we were school children Schooled in my mom would leave it on in case there was a cancellation Or it was the local news, you know what I mean Weird when you got the local news from radio Yeah, that's another thing Now, this is actually out of a television commercial But I have no reason to believe that some variant of that wasn't just ripped straight out That undertone end jingle was always the end of the commercial And that just stretches different voice owners Always ended on that note But the voice owner changed it That's, you know, left for all the turn anything We should totally end our show with it Just, like, five minutes after the end of it, too Well, as a side note, in my mind I developed the idea of this play Sundridge As a very sunny place I thought, where is this paradise Sundridge? Because I'd never been there, like as I said There's a lot of neighboring "towns" that aren't really that close at all And you just never go through them unless you happen to have a cousin there A cousin, never a direct family member, so that was just a cousin A cousin? So, one day years later, I did pass through Sundridge Was it raining? No, it was a hole, it was just a really shoddy little pattern It was very sad Anyhow That was the one, that was yours That was the thing, so I think, Opoke, did you have one that you had? Yeah, um Oh wait, before we get to your commercial, actually I believe we have a little something to sample from the box Yes, we do, this is from the unknown pack I hope it's better than the boogers We are going to Oh, it has a hard candy sound, so I'm excited It does, it does, it's a box And 10% more free, so I think you're going to taste that in there The 10% more free So, this is American candy, because there's more freedom inside More freedom, I think the clones, the drums It's for illegal reasons, we can't talk about the clones Yeah, okay, so this is a chewy, cinnamon-fulivered hot tamales Oh, I've had hot tamales in my youth I've never had hot tamales Oh really, this was one of those like I have to smell them first You go to a rural country store and go back and they have this in black licorice and that's all you have Oh yeah, I would go hungry, generally Oh, wow, they smell like my whiskey These are oddly fresher than the ones I remember from my youth It's because they're not on Quebec Where I suppose Hmm, that's not bad From an age when you could just slap some cinnamon in it and call it candy Actually, my brother is quite severely allergic to artificial cinnamon So we could never have things like cinnamon hearts in the house or anything like that Cause you know, just in case They're fat free And they're 140 calories for 20 pieces That's pretty good Thanks, package Thank you, thank you For having me so... Alright, well I try to work the redness out of my teeth Let's listen to this, let's listen to Opokes commercial Oh baby born, please don't cry anymore Cajun mommy is here, baby born, baby born When baby born cries, she's thirsty Let's give her a bottle, just like a real baby She's wet or diaper Baby born, baby born Look at all the things baby borns got Hmm, doesn't that taste good? Baby born does everything, no batteries require Baby born, baby born, by Zeph, for toys that children dream of Zeph What kind of horrible enablers are you that it's When baby cries, give it a bottle You know what, okay, alright There's something lost in this that you cannot see the commercial Cause there's a specific... Well the idea was the jingle, and obviously this had a solid of that era jingle But when I say Pembroke commercial, like there's even a specific lighting It's all very soft And they add that because the video quality is regional looking Now what's original? It's very provincial What's really hilarious that you say that is that exactly what makes me think of Like, bad, local, like card dealer type commercials But when I actually looked up this commercial I had a hard time finding it in English, it was mostly in Dutch Because Zeph is like a European company So they're not local at all There's a series of card commercials, the actual make escapes me at the moment That to me really rings of it having been originally a European commercial I had it being brought over here and that bothers me The lip syncing never works out quite right You can tell though that some commercials are shot with that consideration of mine Where they'll do a bunch of like, I think the Kinder commercials actually shot like that Where they'll shoot the mom and the kid And then they'll cut to the toys and do all the talking over the toys So they're like no one, no mouths are in view Yeah, there's just one cleaning product, Oxy Action thing Where they're not even trying to hide it She is just like, her mouth is doing so vastly different than what her speech is saying So funny Jeez, we had a little baby-saving incident there Pulling a little Lego out of a nose Problem solved That's right here Yes, so you do lose a little something without getting the video But we will include all of them in the show notes Really, we did have one entrant for the local video suggestion It was Strasburg, our man Strasburg, actually before we get to his video though Which I sampled just the beginning of it And it was so gold that I had to stop to make sure that it was fresh for the show Yes But before we chew on that, we should chew on his candy His loving, loving candy from the Stras box Well, I'm going to say, for the benefit of the people in this room and Strasburg Yes, we let Jessica may pick these candies Just to give you a moment to understand what it is we're having before everyone else does I went with a spicy theme, if you can recall, something that was in the Stras box Hot tamales And something that we had feared having to sample And in the vein of hotness and tamales, I give you yummy earth's organic hot chili pops Did you just say hot shit chili pops? Yeah, lambada, chili mango, mambo The best lollipop I've ever tasted He's a food addict from today So let's do this, ladies and gentlemen I need to read this Oh, they're... I'm afraid, dude Can I read the add-copy as I'm sampling this? They're organic, so you know to be okay Oh, that smells like heaven Mmm, mmm, smells so good Gluten-free They're spicy And sweet And tangy Wow Mmm, spicier than I thought it would be This is one of those nice, heat and sweet kind of combinations When they do it right, I actually quite like this Yeah, I didn't think I'd like it No, not to impute on Strasburg's reputation But this is the second week in a row where we've had some reservations about his candy And it really came through It's like him, we were like, I don't know about that guy, guys Yeah, he seems like he's kind of falling over He falls over all the time, guys Oh, you gotta bring that up again, huh? [Laughter] Anyhow, let's listen to Yeah, I'm highly impressed, thanks, dude Hi, it's Brad Benson from Brad Benson Hyundai in South Brunswick, New Jersey Hey, let's talk waterboarding You know, Nancy Pelosi says one thing The CIA says another Hey, we should just waterboard them all and get the real truth And while there will be no waterboarding at Brad Benson Hyundai I've taken a vows celibacy until we become the number one Hyundai dealer in the country So now through Monday, you can pick any new Hyundai in stock, put no money down And I'll make, not defer, but actually make your payments for a year Listen, folks, we're close to being number one here And selling a boatload of cars this weekend might just do it And all the years I've been on the radio, I've never begged you to buy a car But this time, I'm begging you Because this celibacy thing is killing me I'd rather be waterboarded by Nancy Pelosi or self and undergo another month of this stuff So come on in and put me out of my misery No money down, no payments for a year, or take 30% off to post a dealer price Only at Brad Benson Hyundai on Route 1 in South Brunswick, New Jersey Or visit us at BradBensonHunday.com All new Hundays come with their 10-year 100,000-mile powertrain warranty America's best warranty in the Hyundai Assure I can see them diagramming how they were going to approach this commercial Okay, we're going to start with the waterboarding We're going to get a little bit of a political whatever in there And then we're going to loop it around to the celibacy promo thing you're doing right now And then, just to get it back to the topical humor We're going to loop it back to the waterboarding at the end So that it all curytales very nicely It's so ignorant to say that Nancy Pelosi would waterboard you Because she's totally against waterboarding It's just like trying to make a shitty association between somebody that nobody likes And this woman who would never do it You're like, what? That was celibacy, like it's so dirty Not to mention Now I really don't want to buy a card The guy's like, come in and put me out of my misery It's like, what? Do you have to like go in and screw the guy to like Yeah Do I have to? There are associations What if I just want a car? Jesus I know Now I have to take a political stand Apparently, Benson, the place that does this is still They've got new commercials, but this is the one that stood out to Now, it's interesting, this isn't a jingle, but this is a local sort of madness in advertising Indeed, bullshit What is he okay? Yeah Yeah Alright, so we're excited to get some more jingles to remember people if they want us on the men Yeah, I'd love to hear especially very regional ones Yes, yes They can send them into flashpulp.com Comments at flashpulp.com Sorry, it's this sucker, it's so delicious It's the sour, the sweet, and the spicy I can't help it But Joe keeps giving me the stink-eye Jured the stink-esque in it Well, let's move it right along then Are you a dassy? Hope Hey guys, so this week's Sing a song on Sunday is not out yet, but I'm hoping to release it today But last week's I got like the nicest comment guys From Ami and she said it on flashpulp.com Which is the best place to put comments About that sort of thing We didn't really push the site, but Any comments for the song, yeah, do it at flashpulp.com If we get more love there, we get more money there And we need more money Okay, so the comment is from Ami and it was so sweet And I feel like I'm like, you know, it wasn't as really nice guys That she said about me, but screw it y'all Cause this is totally awesome The delicate, almost reverent way you approach this song So often done with large voices Is the freshest rendition I've heard in years It's as if your voice is the pretty brook that feeds the river Isn't that beautiful? And that was about my unchain melody version Now it's a very stripped-down Excellent version Yeah, it was the song that I most played for my dad And he loved the song and he loved it when I hit certain notes He's like, "I love it when you just go there and it's so powerful" And this time it was just, you know, like I had some plans for what I was going to do A little bit more elaborate, but it just came out so nice the first time And I have never had a first draft be good enough and all the way through Yeah, normally I stop and get annoyed and restart and restart But this was just so unique and I thought really kind of a good example of it So I would leave it and it was awesome And thank you, Ami, for that And yeah, so I think this dacity of hope is really just about me being How excellent you are The brook that feeds the river Well in that case We are all in our race show So I finished up Skinnerco Ink 53 this past weekend Cannibal Cannibal Hippos? Yes, they are so cute I had lots of fun with them I almost forgive them for eating more of their kind Yeah, well there was a purple hippo at one point Well that's funny, yeah, because you left them all grey, are they not? No, no colors are all like their own orange green Yeah, they are the traditional hippo colors But there is a purple leg in the middle Yeah, but they are eating each other It's very messy It's fun because after you get through the process of having lived with this comic for a few hours The same question always ends up coming up, which is what do we call it? Yeah You always get done and that's when you ask me All right, what do we actually call it? She'll just declare like it's done, okay, what are we calling it? And we're like opening and closing cupboards and getting a drink for the kids And we're just like yelling out just what happens We should actually, you know what, somebody should write them down Just because we're saying them, just so like the B sides we can leave in the show here At some point, yeah, that would be fun We're going with a bit of an inside baseball Yeah The Tragically Hippo? Yeah, it was supposed to be a Tragically Hipp joke But then I was angry because I thought nobody else would understand what it was Well, yeah, I'll do a Tragically Hippo Other Canadians, like it's a popular Canadian band But most of our fans are Americans, so Yeah, but that's a nice one inside Jocross And then we thought, well then we're just opening them up to the band, man But then we thought, okay, well let's just go with something that people can all, like all of us can find funny Yeah, and sometimes the problem is that they're too long Like the Donner Family game night Yeah, Donner Family game night I voted for that one, it wasn't my idea, but I voted But it's nice to have 53 now, because we have Oh yeah, things we can do with it Dot dot dot That should be fun Background plots So we didn't get to the three part Ruby that I was hoping to this week I fell ill Wednesday's episode fell off the map And when he doesn't feel good, the stories are disgusting Well, yeah, I was all going into it a little bit with that black hotel, pinch But that actually came out of my own experience with farm animals And being my kid Well, not quite And Dr. Pols Reminder about how you can cast big goals by an elastic Yeah, anyway Well, describe how that happens Oh, you mean how it actually happens in real life? Oh, well, they wrap the elastic around the testicles They make sure the testicles are on the other side of the pinch, if you will And then over time the testicles simply die inside the scrotum So it just becomes, you know, like a paperweight The blood flow is cut off and they kill them Yeah, well, not every bull is meant to breed And then so your story Oh my god Describe it, so No, I think people can go back and listen to it if they want to It's disturbing, dude's disturbing The sort of B side of that story is walking a bit of a dangerous line Because I'm in no way pushing eugenics But at the same time Symbols aren't meant to breed Yeah, not eugenics, though Anyhow I actually wanted to talk about the Wagging Tongue Which was the special episode we put out, special episode 16 Yes, that was fun That was fun Superhero, super repercussions Yeah, this is something that came up We had a little chat with Hugh O'Donnell and Pat Over on the Way of the Buffalo podcast Indeed, we did And we were discussing inspirations for Flashbulb And one of the things that came up was, and I hope I'm getting his name right Because I've never actually heard anybody say it out loud Michael Bonero, that's one of the odd things about the internet Bonero I guess it was something we may have discussed in the past But when you read a bunch of books when you're a kid And you would stumble across these words and try to use them Yeah, the kids are doing that Yeah, I did the same thing when I was a kid all the time But this is one of those things I've only ever known this fellow through the vague contact of the internet But he wrote Marvelous Bob Yeah A series of stories They were very realistically portrayed Sort of anti-hero stories about a fatigued and somewhat grumpy superman, essentially And the character would kill people occasionally But he was also very depressed But it was told in a way that was realistic And I don't want to say petty, but in terms of real life Yeah, and the going's on, right? Yes And when I started doing Flashbulpe, it was really Those Marvelous Bob stories were one of the three sort of prongs that really inspired me to do them And I've never really, I mean, we've had the, what are the captains' stupendous, captains' spectacular We have that thread of other goofy superhero stories But this, to me, existed outside of that And once we had talked about Michael on Way of the Buffalo This sort of just bubbled to the surface and gave it to mind Yeah It was a lot of fun to write The thing about, oh, I guess I'm sort of dancing around it The thing about Michael is that he committed suicide Like a decade ago now, I suppose, pretty close So he has these stories that are really quality And for a while we're really well known And he had his fingers in all these other online enterprises Like web comics and stuff But he just took his life, I think it was 25th or after his 25th birthday So we'll never know what he could have developed into That's so suck Anyway, but the thing is that I think the reality of his writing comes out of a lot of that experience And what brought him to that point, anyway Yeah But the story was a lot of fun to write I don't know where to go from there But it's nice and refreshing, like I think some people try to touch on the more realistic aspects of superheroes But not really, like If you're some regular Joe who has real problems Like real depression Something that's crippling In a, you know, an emotional way And having to deal with these really, really Sizable problems Yeah Saving the world and all the things that they could do If they weren't in this crippling situation Like Bruce Wayne or something, you know, you don't have a couple of million dollars to back you up You don't feel like going to work Kitch Batman suddenly strikes me as Bruce Wayne on really heavy duty mood enhancers Just realize that Like what would Batman be like if it was just, if he wasn't so sad all the time It'd be a lot like the Kitch Batman actually, I guess, I don't know Hmm Anyhow Even Kitch Batman had his moments Yeah, I suppose On that note Well, we're here not just to entertain and make people happy You know, like... Yeah, true, I mean, even that story wasn't exactly the happiest tale in the world It wasn't like it But it doesn't have to be Everyone ended up with jumping high fives at the end But we're saying something and that's cool too And if you want to listen to some of those things You can find them over on Twitter at SkinnerCo You can find us individually at Jaredy Skinner The Jessica Bay And a Poponex with a zero Big thanks to our friend Lord Jim Thank you Jim For hosting wiki.flashbob.com and flashbob.com Awesome, daily You can find his fantastic empire over at relicradio.com I'll let a candle for you You're gonna sing this out here? 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