Prepare yourself for: Mini Kiss, respecting the '70s, human library books, peanut butter gore, Frankenberries, and Mulligan Smith.
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Some days glue me my hours are slumberless Dear is the shadows I live with by nonetheless Little white flowers will never awaken you Not where the bright coach is all I'm taking you Angels have no fire ever returning you Or they'll be angry if I sort of join you Hello and welcome to Flashcast78 A Skinner Co presentation Skinner Co, we told you so, since 1979 This episode is also brought to you by generous donations from 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 Many Kiss, Respecting the 70s, Human Library books, Peanut Buttergore, Frank & Berries, and Mulligan Smith Death is no dream for a death I'm caressing you With the strength of my soul I'll be blessing you Glue me Sunday Hi, I'm Mo Popenax and joining me in for getting it due to Pink Chinatown Our Jessica May Hello Charity Hello And special guest, Jack Antor Hello And hello to you, Jack Antor Nice to have you in the studio Thanks for having me back again We had to have it expanded, we have an extra wing in the studio now Just to accommodate you Just peek in through the window Like a friendly giant, rest of your history We had to open up this side We had to open up the side of the building just to allow them inside Just like we have to do for this disco, so we're used to it Yeah, fair point It's like a giant garage door, it's very handy So, Jessica May Yeah, what? Being a songstress yourself, I'm sure you're aware of the lip-syncing scandal that is rocking the music world right now I may have heard I speak, of course, of Minikiss Naturally Apparently, Minikiss, and this is something that was near and dear to Strasburg's heart And he would not let it go So, I feel like it had to be up front Mm-hmm As Minikiss should always be Mm-hmm Apparently, according to FM News Weekly, which would be the financial marketing news For needing an actual Where you want to get all of your adult entertainment expo news from They report that Minikiss was playing the adult entertainment expo in Las Vegas And they lip-synced their way through their performance using a kiss album Oh my god I can see That's great It's not even live music, it's just small people I thought the sweat the thing is The thing is They do it backwards So, live renditions Jessica might play the clip That was the worst ever That was pretty bad Fans report that they have heard good Minikiss concerts People say they see ghosts, too I feel like Minikiss is a little bit old Their outfit wasn't even thematically appropriate Yeah, they look more just like tiny goths I feel like Or like many demolition from Minikiss is a continuation of a Vaudeville sort of freak show tradition That we don't see much of anymore Mm-hmm There must be licensing What do they do? Do they have to pay kiss a fee? A small fee? A miniature fee? I'm sorry, I'm sorry That was really cool Yeah, probably I'm trying to show Why don't we have more minibans? Why don't we have minimunkeys and minibidals? I think there was a mini-retallica for a while But I could be wrong What if it's kind of along the way of a personation? They can also feel like There's licensing to become all this impersonators So actually better point So I wonder if they've got to do Yeah, to actually be a license There's certain protocols in China Is there a course? You have to answer certain questions on the king If you don't know The King Trivia Vince Vaughn's apparently going to attempt a film version of The Rockford Files reboot How do you feel about that? Would he himself be the... He'd be Jim Rockford There would definitely be a few Just him ranting scenes Cause he likes to go off script and just rant away Yeah, is he? I don't know I feel like He could possibly pull off the roll I don't know, he's What you said he's producing or something He's financially backing No, no, he's just starring Oh, oh, okay And you said it's It was a film Last year, I think it was Steve Carell actually tried to get A Rockford Files pilot Put on NBC and I think it was Dylan McDermott actually Yeah, I remember hearing some Recent-ish discussion On the Rockford Files I think it's interesting This is a separate effort and I'm hoping as a movie That it might work a little better I wonder if they're going to go the same way it starts Oh, that's what's frustrating me Any movie that we do right now With that 70s kind of feel Becomes this kitschy thing It's cheap, yeah And that's not what Rockford Files was And that's my concern Is that that show was so of its era He's this low-refi eye Living in, you know, squalor And he's got this white trash sports car And he's scooting around And why take the name If you're not going to attempt To, you know, do it properly Or if you're going to make it into a joke Exactly, which is what I feel exactly What happened with dark shadows They turned dark shadows into a joke And I think there was respect for... I think Tim Burton probably does love the original Property dark shadows, but he had no idea What somewhere a little too far Well, I hope it works out It would be kind of nice to have Sequels with movies that weren't always Just like action or You know, romantical It's just, there was so much of the 70s In that show where I was like Yeah, well, it would be nice Even if they, that grittiness Or whatever, that same sort of vibe Without having it, you know, totally decked out And retro style Anyways, we shall see In other movie news Marvel has announced that they're going to be Doing two more new hero films And I don't mean new films based on already existing heroes I mean heroes who haven't had films yet Are getting movies One of them is duck strains Oh, that's going to be good Well, it could be good or it could be not good Whatever happened to Aquaman I thought Aquaman was going to happen Like a million years ago Really? A movie of Aquaman? Yeah, that would be a DC property for one And I know they're trying to work a TV show A WB type Aquaman show off the ground and I don't think It would be this teenager show Where there's this surfer guy And he's going to high school But he can talk to fish And he's just constantly complaining But I was never noticed by girls at school And it always ends with him throwing a shark at somebody Or like, he has to rescue someone under the water But he's under for like way too long And then when it's like, you know, Dylan, he's just a little weird So he's also outcast So he's like angsty and he wears a little bit of eyeliner Now... It always ends with jellyfish Staying people and he has to pee on everyone I would actually watch that show If he went with the perfect recreation Of the 70s era Aquaman costumes Throughout every scene Like in high school, sitting at a class Got this orange and green, garish thing on Anyway, my concern is that Doc Strange is also highly of the 70s And I love those books I actually recently bought an old collection Of just Doc Strange stories And they're so ridiculously mumbo-jumbo And they're fun They're fun in a way that you don't encounter these days And I'm worried it's going to be, you know There was the whole 70s era of cult flick That was like... And that's what he was, right? He came out of that 70s Yeah Yeah, I find some characters depending on what era they're in Really explain Why the heck it is that they are The New Age-iness of that 70s situation is so integral To who Doc Strange was He's a surgeon who also does magic By busting up his hands You taste the intricate arts of casting spells Yeah So who's the other one? Ant-Man, I think Ant-Man, yes Which is such an odd decision I assume that they're picking Ant-Man To pull in more of the Avengers lore Yeah, and they also got... I can't really see They also got Edgar Wright, the guy from Sean of the Dead, I think, to direct it Oh yeah? I think that's what I was saying in there Interesting, I wonder... Hmm... Are they going to play it a little more comedic? Ant-Man, anyway There's a pretty rough, uh... Rough, like, character... Like, traits, like, you know, some of those Batter habits are not terribly... Yeah, he's kind of a bad man, actually 'Cause he's married to the Wasp And in a lot of the ultimate stuff And I guess implied through the Avengers stuff He was very unkind to the Wasp Yeah, he was always kind of a jerk And he was... Really? What I remember from the comics is that He was always grumpy And, you know, Janet would be like "Oh, you just got to understand him like I understand him" But he's always in the shadow of Iron Man And Mr. Fantastic Yeah, yeah, he's just not as good 'Cause he's just a big Ant-Man Or a tiny tiny Ant-Man Or a mini Ant-Man Or a man man To stay with the book aspect But to move away a little bit from the comic territory Do you guys know about this human library book program? Yes, actually, I have heard that Oh, yeah... I'm trying to remember where... I think we were at some kind of, like, school event Or some things, some kind of community center And I saw a poster for it And basically it's this event where you go to, like, community centers And libraries and stuff They have a specific time, a specific date set up And you just go there and talk to people Yeah, they have life in your experiences Well, they're life in their experiences Well, yeah, like, they, yeah You can volunteer for it It's a living library because people will end up leaving their story They'll have veterans They have First Nations people Yeah, a wide array of... Yeah, just a bunch of experiences And you can go in and ask them whatever you want You know, as a writer, this is, like, a perfect thing for me It's just an amazing opportunity And I really may just track one of these events down and totally Yeah, give me everything Mind it, yeah Yeah Anyhow, I'm really... When I originally saw this, I actually saw it on a commercial But when I originally started looking into it, I noticed that It seems to be one of the things that libraries are getting into There's this interesting thing going on with libraries right now Where they're trying to redefine who they are because of... Places of learning Yeah, but also because of the e-book explosion And the changes in usage Yeah, but they're also trying to bring in a lot of internet usage I think we've even discussed this before in the last week So to see this, this seems to be a new idea That's kind of sweeping from library to library Which is a great, great, great idea And finding some people who are super interesting Yeah, and new ideas are important too And every community has, like, interesting people You just don't know about it because nobody talks about anything Yeah, well, you're given the right situation You flush back a few thousand years and we have communal fireplaces Where people are gathering around to tell their day's experiences Or to tell about that time they went over the hill and killed a bunch of guys in the war Yeah, but you can't even see this person do that Yeah, but we don't have that experience anymore In some ways, we have a lot of connection with the internet But for these minor day-to-day details There's no... They're all snippets of everything, you know? It's not one whole story Oh, before we step off the book news, I also wanted to mention Do you guys read that Stephen King Progun control essay? No Very interesting that Stephen King of all people came out And was willing to put his hat in the ring regarding gun control And I think there's a lot of hyperbole I had no idea that he had Going on right now in the news about what gun control means My American friends, it's okay Like we have relative gun control up here in a sense We have, you know, rules about what we can and cannot tote And everything's okay, no one... Yeah, because you're talking about how now specifically Obama has stated That he would like to have, you know, their specific steps Well, really Biden, right? He's had some specific steps that he'd like to implement And it's like because there's even any mention of gun control That somehow they're going to take away all your guns So because of that, there's lots of people buying lots of guns and lots of ammunition Yeah And they're freaking out Like they don't want to register because they're like... They're like, there's only two reasons why you're going to want to To tax them or to take them away And you're like, what to register? I register my children You're not going to take away my children You just want to know I exist so I can pay proper taxes And so I can get the proper benefits and have the proper representation And, you know, like all the good things... If something were to happen to myself... If something were to happen to myself... You would know about them and maybe help me If one of your children was stolen and used in the commission of a crime, I don't know Anyway, I just thought it was very interesting that The current biggest name, I think, in horror is coming out in that sort of thing Especially if you reach way back in his archive I believe it was called Rage, which was a Richard Bachmann book That is an interesting story to read Because I think he wrote that in the 70s And it was a Bachmann story, so it wasn't something that was ever published under the King name, obviously But it's about a guy... It's very much like a precursor to these school shooting situations Like a guy goes into the school and he takes his class hostage, essentially And it's a very odd read And it's a very odd read Anyhow, I just thought that kind of noteworthy Somebody with that much grasp of horror... Coming up with that position Uh, Jay Gantor, you said you were reading something fantastic recently? Yeah, I just finished reading Ready Player One by Ernest Klein I just opened it up here Um, basically, it's like this... It all centers around this, like, Bill Gates sort of... Empire King involving, like, virtual reality Right And, like, him and another guy who did a lot of gaming and, like, grew up in the 80s And very much affected by, like, all of 80s, pulp and 80s, like, television and comic culture and gaming and stuff Basically built this, like, elaborate VR world And so, you know, basically it goes from, like, you know, television to dial up to internet Uh, so then this guy dies And he's like, I've always been a... like, there's, like, this video Uh, video will sort of deal And he's like, listen, I have all my money I'll tuck away I've always loved Easter Eggs in the game And he, like, cuts, like, this first dev, very first Easter Egg in the game And he shows, like, this is the only way that the artist used to be able to get his name in the game Well, I've supplanted an Easter Egg, uh, into my VR world And the first person who can figure, like, the series of riddles or whatever The puzzles, essentially Is basically going to inherit, like, my entire dynasty Oh, that's a fun premise for a book So then you have a bunch of people, like, just, like, stockpiling, like, internet And, like, looking at all the facts and looking at, like, studying this guy's life, like, with a fine tooth comb To try and find clues to, to rush and it's been, like, five, six years and still no one's found it Because it's been that hard to find And it's just fascinating Yeah, it covers so much of the '80s, Paul, like, you start thinking of anything you did growing up Or, or, in that era, and more than likely you'll get named Yeah, but did you say this once again? Uh, Ready Player One And you said it was being turned into a movie, right? Uh, well, when I did a search, uh, it was, I think it's in production talks Okay, okay Which I find Which means you have to be careful Because, in production means somebody's optioned it But not, like, in talks like that means that somebody's optioned it, but not necessarily that it's going to get made Well, yeah, I find this one might have a hard time because of all the callbacks to all these licensed things And, like, all the stuff that they directly just copy in the book It depends on who makes it, right? If somebody, like, a Disney steps in, they own enough franchises in and of themselves That they can do probably a lot of the references, like, Star Wars reference, fine, whatever Yeah, and I can imagine most people, most of the smaller companies would love a chance just to be named in a Disney movie too Yeah, that's a good point as well I'd imagine Anyway, I'm not saying it's going to happen, but I think after record Ralph Yeah, after record Ralph, I think we live in a world where it could happen, whereas before that, probably not Okay, actually, speaking of Star Wars, speaking of Disney, I think we need to touch on one of the big things that happen since the last Flashcast J.J. Abrams Yes Yes As the head of Star Wars I don't know, Star Wars and Star Trek All of the eggs in one basket Let's feel rusty for some reason It's like he owns all the stars now All of the stars combined Does this mean that they're getting closer and closer to, like, a crossover? I don't know Star Trek is Star Wars That would be weird That would be weird I was thinking I need some air, hold on Yeah, nerd overload Against Wookiees Okay, so I was trying to think, because it is a lot of responsibility for one man Who, you know, I like Star Trek, but I'm not sure that I spent it in all I said With great power I like Star Trek I like Star Trek, but I don't know that it was necessarily the best film I've ever seen in my life Like it was enjoyable, but I would have liked to see in other people's vision for it And now that it's Star Wars as well I would have Are you afraid it's gonna be too, like, JJ Abrams stylized? Yeah, a little bit It's gonna feel really clean I think, okay? Which is not what you want Star Wars No, I was thinking Neil Blumkamp The guy who did District 9 Oh, yeah That was good Imagine him doing Star Wars Because of the detail Then we can get some pretty intense Grimey with some, like, alien-on-person issues And seeing, like, the giant creatures versus the size of the planet Like there were just so many grandiose wonderful Yeah, exactly, yeah Oh, uh, and then I continue to ponder who else I might suggest Duncan Jones, actually I got thinking about Moon, you remember Moon? Oh, that was good With Sam Rockwell and by himself on the Moon and how that played out And that, I realized it was a very, like, incredibly small cast It was a guy in a robot But it was It had that grittiness, it had that sort of feel I feel like he handled it amazingly It was very realistic Duncan Jones, actually, also did Sourcecode Which we haven't seen, or at least I haven't seen No, no, no, no But I hear it's really good, it also apparently holds up So he does have some sci-fi chops I mean, Star Wars on his hands The spawn of Bowie, I'd let him kill the Star Wars Well, I think you should have our people But you know what I did to this people? Actually, so I went looking around to see what he's up to Yeah, maybe he's free for this In case Skinner co needs to tap him for the project, I don't think He's actually working on an Ian Fleming biopic Oh, that would be interesting Which is really fascinating To do a movie on the man who wrote Bond Without having it, like, is it gonna feel a bit like a Bond movie? Yeah, is he gonna try to make him into Bond? Yeah And the thing is Ian Fleming lived a fascinating life His time on the Shoot, I don't remember the name of the project The fake fellow they made up and threw in the Channel to fool the Germans into thinking They would be an attack in a different place Are you familiar with this story at all? Yeah, they found a corpse They had to be very careful about which corpse they used, actually But they eventually managed to find a corpse that no one wanted A John Doe And they redressed it in British naval Officer uniform And put a bunch of "secret" papers on him that they had ginned up And this project had been going on for months For months, yeah, it was a lot of different details And they basically flew him over the channel, I believe And dropped him in the water in a place where he would, like, Obviously, wash up on shore with the tide In a place that was friendly to Germany But where he might have been, like, knocked off a ship or something But that was still loyal to the proper authorities To give the body and the papers away Yeah, it had to be, it was such a tricky But the body was slightly older and it was just like So many tiny, tiny little details And he was one of the guys who came up with this crazy plan Actually, it reminds me a little bit of Argo in a weird way Yeah, what we'll do We're gonna spitball this ridiculous idea And it's actually gonna work out fairly well Anyhow, an Ian Fleming film, very interesting I still think Duncan Jones should be doing something on Star Wars Yeah, but alas, he's doing this and we'll watch it Yeah I believe the last bit of movie news Yeah, it was very movie-heavy Well, no, I guess we had some book news Anyway, back to the Stephen King kind of business The Shining apparently had an extra scene at the end To which IO9.com was reporting earlier They managed to come across some script pages There's apparently a scene where At the end of the Shining At the end of the Shining, after the last thing with He's stuck in the maze He's stuck in the maze Then it goes to the kid and the mom And they're fine and everyone's happy And they move on with life and it's just kind of like a happy post scene And they cut it And apparently Kubrick even had them remove it from all the masters And burn them to make sure that it would never get out Because he really, like, I think It was like that would be shit My understanding is that he kind of fell in love with the characters over the course of the filming And then when they came to that ending He wanted to give them like a really happy ending But he realized afterwards that it really blended the effectiveness of The scene with Jack in the maze And then coming back to seeing the picture and everything And apparently there was also an extra little item that they never found his body Which is weird It's kind of like, "Oh, that's creepy" But then if you think about it, it adds too many weird questions to the plot Like, how did that happen if he was just hallucinating? It's better than these friends Was he even really there ever? Were they just hallucinating him? What's going on here? So, anyway, I just thought that was interesting But this reminded me that a while ago I had come across A different sort of reimagining of the Shining It was the Shining, the musical Really? Yes, in fact, we do have a snippet Here from the Red Rum scene Come on, let's wake up You just saw a bad dream, everything's okay Danny, can we go? This is time Danny, wake up! Come on, right now, wake up! Danny's coming, this is time Danny's coming, this is time Danny's coming, this is time Hey there, mama, please don't have a taste Oh, water, precious, lovely light to waste Don't drink the fries, you're bringing a mixed blood drip Oh, don't you even have a single sip Take a sliggle of it, and you'll be taking your break If I didn't drink for much you can't be safe Wow, it's epic We should just walk around one day and be like, this is musical day And you can't say anything, you must sing it all Sing it all Do it, give me a little Rex Harrison rap, Jamie Oh yeah? You want me to rap Rex Harrison? No, the Rex Harrison, well, she's saying just talk Because that's all Rex Harrison does Oh yeah, Jamie always complains that Rex Harrison doesn't ever actually sing Let's go to the seconds and we'll see a big giraffe We'll pull up next beside him and stick it in his Anyway, speaking of ass, we had mob movie news last night It was so good Platoon of the Dead So bad, so much peanut butter Yeah, they didn't have fascinating choice in his zombie film No blood, no gore, basically everything done with peanut butter And you know what, I can understand Just talk, use molasses, why not use peanut butter? Yeah, the peanut butter, I really liked the texture of it But they really should have colored it Yeah, a little red something would have looked a little more convincing Or green or blue It just made me feel like a baby was having diarrhea And they were throwing it at the zombies It was really horrible to me So, it was one of those films where immediately we were identifying the actors At least I was, by who they kind of looked like Yes So we had MacGyver and we had a Sheila Boof sort of a like And then we had, who's the other guy? Johnny Depp Here's a cross with somebody else, Johnny Depp He looked like a rat dude And Johnny Depp and the guy from Dracula His name is escaping me in the room Gary Oleman And Jamie kept being like, he's got long hair Just wait, he's got long hair He's gonna kick out that hat He's gonna have long hair He's supposed to be in the army or whatever And you're not supposed to have long hair And I see that he's wearing this weird beret And no one else is wearing it And I'm like, what the, oh, it's cause this guy's got long hair Cause he's got these poofy things in the back That only long hair people have But it's like the moment I said it He then whips it out, he whips his hair back and forth And there's this giant braid But every time this rat Depp, old man character Got upset All he did was just like Smelling his nose Kind of scrunching up your nose And exposing his two front teeth And just like, just talking through the key But it was just, oh, it was too much And it happened all the time And we got so chatty that we could hardly even hear What was going on all the time So we were just like chatting But we would just look over And we would know that he was mad Because we could see his teeth And it was interesting, the characters Who showed up later in the movie Had semi proper weaponry But all of the starting shots Had this weird ray gun thing going on Yeah, it was like faux Star Wars But the thing that I found even worse They were clearly Star Wars toys That they were using for weapons And they were using some animation technique To draw in a white light shot Yes, it was like there's... Doop, doop, doop Yeah, there's like three out of four of them That would hold it a particular way But another guy held it this way Like it was a two-hander for a lot of people And then this other guy was just a willy-nilly And he would just kind of like flail it around the air Yeah, and tippy's like The foley guy's just going "But you, but you!" It was so embarrassing And the lot shot Yeah, Richard Lott couldn't be with us But he said at 239 into the film We should think of him and think of it being upside down It was like a backwards moment or something like that It was the foam But yeah, this guy's holding the foam He's like "I need backup!" or some crazy nonsense But he's on his cell phone as if they would use his cell phone And it's upside down It closes it He takes such a long time to do it It's so obvious It's the worst thing in the whole world Okay, the whole thing The whole world Worse than famine Surprise, surprise, this movie is freely available on YouTube So should you want to subject it Subject yourself to reviewing it, but feel free Yeah, for real But you should join us for the next movie night Yeah, still the worst movie so far, The Room Nothing beats the room This film certainly had less thrusting Yes, it did, hopefully we'll have to Hopefully we'll be able to find a hangout Where we'll be able to fit more people Yeah, there's a waiting line Apparently you can only have so many people on video I'm already looking into how to correct it So check back with me next flash gas Oh yeah, we have so many people trying to get in You don't want to leave anybody out And having to share the same laptop amongst three people One who gets loud when she talks When she talks, when she drinks you mean When she talks and drinks But speaking of a man who he'd never leave out of our heart Sime, I believe, for a word for Mr. Jeffy Lynch A spot of bother Have you ever been driving along when suddenly Out of the corner of your eye You see a darting shape run into the road Directly into the path of your car And despite breaking, swerving and swearing You just can't avoid the inevitable thump and crunch Of the poor, creatureing body As it tumbled beneath your tires It's a sickening experience to say the least Why, I remember once as a kid driving home from high school A fairly large canine decided to play this evil little trick on me Try as I might, stopping the car in time To avoid the collision of bumper and brains Was impossible After hitting the poor beast, I pulled over to look for identification So as to inform the owner of the accident Not only was there no collar and tag, there was no dog Try as I might, I could not find the beast anywhere Maybe, just maybe, I hit the dog And he managed to run away unscathed Great news I got back into the car and drove the rest of the way home Unfortunately, after pulling into the driveway My hopes were dashed as the smell Of roasting meat met my nose upon exiting the car As luck would have it The poor animal's corpse was lodged between the car frame And the exhaust system This terrible memory came to mind this week As I was reading my local newspaper Sometimes it's not only old hunting hounds That meet with such tragedies Here's the story from the Asheville Citizen Times Police continued their investigation this week into the death of a pedestrian Who was hit by at least three vehicles on Tunnel Road And dragged nearly five miles, including onto Interstate 240 Sergeant Dave Romick said it's unclear how Dean Floyd Bush remained lodged beneath the minivan And why the 20-year-old driver was unaware the victim was there Until she pulled over and checked under her car It's also not known where Bush was going when he was struck while crossing the road from the south side He was struck shortly before 7 p.m. Monday By a car traveling west on Tunnel Road near the intersection of the Blue Ridge Parkway According to police The vehicle that initially hit Bush was driving in the westbound left lane And knocked the victim into the westbound right lane When Bush landed in the roadway, he was possibly hit by two other vehicles Before the minivan struck him The drivers of two of the vehicles stopped to check on the man Karen Schuller, who was driving the first vehicle that struck Bush Said she didn't see the man until the collision It was dark and raining at the time When Bush came out in front of me, she said it was completely dark It was just a matter of seconds before the other vehicles headed in the same direction Just west of the Parkway struck the man as he was lying in the road, Schuller said It was just one right after the other, she said Schuller said she watched as the minivan kept going We tried to find the body and it just wasn't there She said I figured the third car that hit him was dragging him It was quite horrible The driver of the minivan, who declined comment through her mother on Tuesday at her house in Canton Continued on Tunnel Road before heading west on Interstate 240 police said The driver felt something or heard something and thought they may have a flat tire No charges have been filed in the case, and police are still gathering information They are asking if anyone saw a small white passenger vehicle in the area at the time It may have turned into the Parkway after hitting the man initially Bush, 45, who was homeless, was pronounced dead at the scene He was chronically homeless, said Derek Towel, a case manager at a Hope Day Center Which offers services to help get the homeless into housing He was a really nice guy, Towel said He was very quiet and kind of kept to himself for the most part Towel said it's possible Bush's homelessness contributed to the accident Obviously, if you are homeless, you spend a lot more time traversing the city on foot He said there's a lot of places it's dangerous to walk And Tunnel Road is certainly one of them At the stretch where Bush was hit in East Asheville, there are sidewalks on the eastbound lanes But not on the opposite side where he was going when he attempted to cross the street Well, there you have it folks Just another reason why being homeless can sometimes be a drag I'm Jeffrey Legend out to this week's Spot of Brother Oh, that was terrible Mr. Lynch Oh, jeez Yeah, that guy? Are you talking about the incident or that pun at the end of the year? A little Colomie, a little Colomie Yeah, that guy must have been dragged so long, like he must have been missing news and scenes Oh, yeah, I missed him, some flesh Yeah, lots of stuff You know what's really creepy? It's not like they could have sent a car to go wherever that van drove or something like that To clean up the blood and stuff Yay, it's awesome That's disgusting, but awesome Like, just how did that ever get there? Was he in somebody's car and then they just pushed out a homeless car I was actually reminded of that Justin Bieber concert we were trying to get to the other Well, no, we weren't trying to get through We were trying to get past not to Yes But how people had pulled it over to the side of the road And that was really because traffic had come to a grinding halt It was like, "I'm gonna do it for you, Justin!" And they're like walking down an on ramp Thank you very much Mr. Lynch Yes, thank you so much, I know that you've been very busy And you're like, "Am I ready? Do I have enough time? Am I ready to go?" I'm like, "Yes, yes, you do!" And you popped it out in record time Yeah, and wonderfully disturbing Or at least disturbingly disturbing As usual Thank you You can find all of Mr. Lynch's bit of bother over at bothersomethings.com Or you can follow him on Twitter at @pleaselynchme Mm-hmm Next up, I think we have Horrible History The return of Gibraltar Come from beyond to save us from our own past Gibraltar has found only one solution to protect us Here, now, is your horrible histories Hello again, my fellow mobsters I'm Gibraltar and I welcome you again to your horrible histories Live cat, where have you been? No I'm being a corporate shell now Lovely Anyway, we got a show to do So, shake up the dine of therms and let's get started In 1895, a German physicist with Helm Rusgen was experimented with gas-filled vacuum tubes of electricity That in a memory of served at green floors of light coming from a tube that had been wrapped in heavy black dude He had stumbled quite accidentally onto an unknown type of radiation which he named X-rays A week later, broken gem made an extra image of his wife's hands revealing the finger bones and bones of what he learned The image was strictly circulated around the world to a dazzle audience Tom says, receiving using the discovery immediately sent out to experiment with his own floors He'd been known for his background and think he could visit labs Where electricity flows through filaments causing the machine to blow But as I had a newfound fascination with the chemical reaction of gases It rocked his frozen tubes and the X-rays he discovered Equally fascinated Kramer daily took to the work enthusiastically performing countless tests and holding his hand between the fluorescent and cardboard viewing tube cut up with the fluorescent in the middle of the salt And the X-ray tube had automatically exploded himself to poison radiation for hours on end Compare dandruff shampoos There's good, there's better And then there's blue Celsin blue The best dandruff shampoos money can buy Clinical testing among leading brands proved it works best with more complete dandruff control Celsin blue is the only leading brand with the added dandruff ingredient that is prescribed most Remember, there's good, there's better And there's blue, Celsin blue It simply works the best Did we just go to a commercial? 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When the daily was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, one of four brothers He enlisted in the United States and Navy at the age of 17 and served for six years After obtaining an honorable discharge, he went to work for Edison's landforms in Harrison and his father, and brothers as a glass boy Around 1890, he moved to the Ed He moved to the Edison land to arrange West Orange to assist his independent experiments with the incandescent land Following rotten gens discovery of X-rays in 1895 Crowns and his brother Charles worked on the development of Edison's X-rays focused on developing the force of scope using calcium tungsten Edison's force of scope produced sharper images than modern gens' fluoroscope which used barium plantar cyanide At the time, the local X-rays produced were not believed to be dangerous However, Edison noted that the X-rays had effectively poisoned my system, Mr. Daily In 1900, Crowns did a suffer from radiation damage to his hand and face requiring significant time off work In 1902, one of the regionalist's wrists left wrist was treated unsuccessfully with multiple skin grafts, and eventually his left hand was emptied in At all seration on his right hand, he assessed the amputation of four fingers These procedures failed to halt the progression of his costaromium and despite the amputation of his long arms at the elbow and shoulder He died in a status of cancer Daily stopped to meet the first American to die from the effects of experimentation with radiation Following this, Tom Zessen abandoned his research into X-rays In 1903, he shaken Edison said "Don't talk to me about X-rays, I'm afraid" "Bye!" "Bye!" Yeah, he ran a lab guy Edison was a douchebag "It's like that, people" I don't know that Skinner co-actually has a licensing deal to sell some blue So, is lab cat pocketing the back end on that? Because, uh, I don't think that's how we operate around here I think it's highly rude to pocket someone's back end The-the-the-the legal fees on keeping that histoscope running are not cheap as it is I mean, all I guess what I'm saying is You got a nice histoscope that would be shame if something happened to it Whoops But, there is a- Okay, listen sir, I love your pieces I enjoy the history Yes, of the scope There are you I enjoy both the histo and the scope Enjoy the surrounding shenanigans Multi-faceted relationship with your cat But, I do not enjoy your relationship with your micser I don't know why, but I can't hear you We need to work on this audio issue And if you know the mic is not gonna be that awesome, just maybe slow it down a little bit Everything else is cool But yeah, yeah, yeah We know we love you We'll see what we can do to assist you in this, but we need to- we need to have an intervention Your imaginary brother's here, the guy from your unit back in the war or whatever here Yeah, not the brother that you live with, but the imaginary one is here Not the other brother, or your shrapnel is here Yeah, it's time for an intervention It's time Thank you as always, we truly appreciate it, Gibraltar You do, and we enjoyed seeing you at this latest movie night I really enjoyed your hair Yeah, you looked pretty nice to drift up there sir Yeah, I believe we noted that he'd fancied himself all up Speaking of fancy, Strasburg several months ago sent us an item in the straws box Though the box we were lovingly referred to as the straws box A couple of cereals, which Gigantor can attest to When I was a youth, okay, the cereal you get up north is very like utilitarian cereal The closest you get to the marshmallow cereals is lucky charms In fiber? The big names you get like corn pops, frosted flakes, lucky chimes Yes, the standard only one kind of Captain Crunch Generally, if you can- There's more than one kind If you can buy it in a pack of eight of tiny boxes that you cut open when you're camping Then that's the kind of cereal you're going to buy on the shelf, right? Yes, fruit loops So, to have a box of Frankenberry and a box of Booberry shipped to us was incredibly exciting Yes, it happened a little bit ago, so, you know, it could have some extra burgers Now, there is the consideration that this is possibly stale cereal we're about to devour But the truth is, I feel like we've been saving this like champagne, the Booberry champagne It is better with this This is the occasion to open it So, as we listened to- Can I also describe that very soon after we got this box, the children ran in here And they saw the pretty Frankenberry pink box You didn't love Frankenberry? And they just ripped it open and were like, "Who the precious cereal?" Yeah, they didn't get to the interior They just breached the house So, yeah, we have photos of our delicious sampling bowls, spoons, and cereals So, we're going to listen to a fantastic podcast review by Mr. Scott Roche Yes, so happy to have you back, sir, thank you And as we do so, we will enjoy a small bowl of cereal until you put it on the other side But I also want to record this because we're opening, we're pouring, and we're eating And although I know- But you've used the parts we've had enough- I know that you're trying to get away from the chewing It's still a marshmallow ratio Yep To properly enjoy the cereal I just want like a spoonful of some more- It sounds like It looks like Countachula with colored marshmallows He tries to be all sneaky and be like, "Oh, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it after" But everyone wants to hear the bit more snacking No, people hate the chewing, people- I get comments, man I get serious, specifically comments Serious comments, he's got death threats He's got death threats over eating What have we eaten? All the chewing- I don't- The peep, not to like- I'm throwing in no matter what I do So anyway, the little bit you guys have done is not seen like- The one time you guys used the- You did like a chiller where the guy was eating cereal Yeah That was louder than I've ever heard on a flashcast Yeah, that was actually- That was actually- Intentional Mr. Nine eating a- Oh, okay Oh, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I- I- I miked him to eat the cereal Okay, so yeah, this looks like Countachula But otherwise, I just haven't noticed- This is the Booberry Booberry Okay, so it's not like blue It's brown, in a blue box Some of the berries are blue But it's Booberry, doesn't say blue anywhere It tastes kinda berry- It tastes kinda berry-like Undead It's artificial berry flavored frosted cereal It's like I'm eating um- It's just gonna sound- Look close Frank and berry taste just like this, but like red jammy taste Like strawberry jammy taste rather than- Oh, I agree Mm-hmm Is anybody else unnerved by the idea that- It's ghost berries It's like the corpses of them berries, are you? Mm-hmm Well enough Yes, you know what, I think I need to go vomit- Or just getting a strunk So I don't really know um- If I like that I have to confess the Booberry was not my favorite But I must thank the straws box For continuing to give Well, we're not done Yeah, I know, but I'm concluding this box 'Cause I'm not- Like we can probably put it to the children now You're not coming back to the Booberry? No I'm most excited frankly about the Frank and Berry Which is- Frankly about the Berry? Oh yeah, he's taking some heavy damage Wow My nickname as a child was Boo, so I wanted to like the Booberry But that seems like a pretty irrational reason Yeah, cereal rational I don't really know Oh my god It's spot It's like- See, the cereal looks like it's smaller Or I've got- no, nevermind, I know the answer to this one Yeah, I didn't get it right It's like- Pretty sound colored Oh my god It does look radioactive And what are these supposed to be? Do you need a milk if there happens to be- Is it right? Yeah, any more? Thank you Yeah, hold on Spread the milk around And what are their Schmallows like? I'll post the pictures of- Oh no, today on Iron Scooter Go Oh yeah We mix Booberry and Frank And Frank and Berry Battle of Frank and Berry Battle cereal I actually like the Frank and Berry Yeah, I like the cereal It did a bit more familiar too I wanna see the orange chef when the secret ingredient is love That'd just be another episode about bacon I really taste the love in this one You did not put enough love in this I do not taste the love Oh, love taste sour I tell ya, pink is the tastiest color Uh... (laughing) What is it, dirtier than I ever did (laughing) I'm just looking at it a little bit (laughing) Oh shit (laughing) That was good We ate those ghostberries As the children of those bears We sent them to hell That's a bum Consumption of their parents' spirits But they were delicious I'm glad that we did that I'm glad we were gonna have you use that real from that Yeah, that and it's been weighing on me You know, I've been heavy Frank and Berry On my mind And we'd also check the date And it's not old, thank you Okay, so I think we're still gonna listen to Scott Roche now I know that JRD was trying to bypass that Delicious happening But here is our delicious podcast review This is Scott Roche, your podcast Proslite And this week, I am reviewing Other People's Heroes By Blake M. Pettit You can find Other People's Heroes And Other Works bar by Blake At Evertime Realms At BlakeMP.wordpress.com Here's a synopsis of the story Josh Corwood has spent his whole life In a world full of superheroes Even becoming a reporter Just to get a little closer to their world When he finally comes face to face With the capes of his dreams Though, he realizes his ideal view May not be in sync with reality The production on this podcast Is generally speaking good Blake has made some serious strides Compared to his previous podcasts I am going to ding him here For one pet peeve of mine Edit marks Not infrequently, he's guilty of leaving Obvious edit marks in the episodes This is easily rectified And according to the author He'll be doing a more serious quality assurance For the audiobooks version Which of course they would of course require No idea if he'll be doing the same In his own feed For this, he loses a letter grade Give him a C Cast Blake elects to act as the voice For each of his characters And stays consistent within each character If hearing a man do a woman's voice He irritates you, then this isn't the podcast For you But then that would also disqualify Sigler and a number of other podcast novels He is a stage actor And this is to his credit As I'm sure it played a role in his being able To play roles Grade B+ on the cast Story This is a comic book in audio form The characters are fairly well fleshed out Some more than others The story is certainly enjoyable And there are a few surprises towards the end That's always good If you're looking for a serious treatise On the state of humanity at large Well, there's actually a little bit of that in there If you're looking for an interesting take On what it would be like to live in a comic book universe Then I recommend this It compares favorably in my mind To playing for keeps by Merlafferty If you're familiar with her work If you're not, you should go to Merverse.com And check it out Grade on this one is a solid B+ Verdict Audio issues aside I think this is a strong entry It's funny I love the takes he has on some of the Superhero supervillain tropes In the world he's constructed is very interesting There are more stories in this universe Including one that was published in flagship I will continue to check out Blake's podcast projects I might recommend waiting for the Pottyo books version though Grade B So, overall I definitely recommend Check this one out As with the rest of these These are coming from the archive On my website which you can find At scottroosh.com/thoughts And you can follow me on twitter At spiritualtramp Thanks, and we'll see you next time At the podcast proselyte Thanks Scott, that was fantastic Mm-hmm I like how you break it up nice and easy It makes it very approachable I feel like people who aren't even necessarily Into a lot of different kinds of podcasts Could get a good grip for it Yeah, yeah, yeah Very easy flow Yeah, and you're very inviting To this, you know Different sort of medium I understand the pet peeve of female voices Being done by a male Although obviously I have no real problem going either way Although it just I think it seriously depends on the person And the voice they're trying to achieve A too ridiculous female voice Will always throw me out Yeah So it's my favorite voice Can I also say this is more of a personal note? Can I also say that it's fantastic? I think I may even mention this last episode That Scott includes his twitter And website address within his thing So I don't have to feel terrible afterwards Because sometimes I know I accidentally Drop somebody's address Or whatever it is And then I'm left with a week of views Dude knows how to hawk his wares I appreciate that he helps me Yeah, no, I really, yeah I didn't mean that in that sense I truly appreciate it Yeah It wasn't being sarcastic No, no, neither was I I just mean it's handy He knows what he's doing Professional Much appreciated, sir Do that again, Kay Will you do it again? K, thanks Okay, well we don't really have An official board game review But I think we can touch on a few of the We can do an unofficial board game Review from Gigantor, right? We've, uh, we've snuck a few into it Yeah, we've, we've snuck a few in the last few days Especially you and a poke Mm-hmm So, uh, what you play a game called Gloom Which we have reviewed, or you have reviewed, I should say Yeah, yes, I don't, there's a one or two That we've played that I haven't, uh, actually touched on yet But Gloom is a storytelling one With the, you want to Cause misery in your own family They'll pass on, they'll have, like, more paradise Based on how much misery they suffered Yes, which is a fun concept Uh, very gory-esque art Mm-hmm Yeah, kind of gothic-depressed Yeah, yeah, I enjoyed that But all the wording on is all joke Yeah, very much like the Very tiny and cheap Gory teenies, right? Yes What was the one you were playing with the kids Today that looked very Asian-influenced? Oh, sure And, uh, that's One that Will Wheaton did on his, uh, youtube, uh Tabletop? Tabletop, thank you And, uh, what it is It's just a little tile game and you have You start on the board and you have You're dragging, essentially And you're putting tiles down in front of it Which will kind of choose your path Mm-hmm And they'll connect with the cards that you play After, which will eventually connect to Yeah, cause the tiles that connect with the other players And then you just, like, swimming all over the board Yeah, and then they'll Connect up depending on which one you choose And then the idea is just to say on the Board as long as you can and avoid collisions Avoid being sent off the board Because if you collide, then you're essentially off the board Both people were out, yeah, and then It kind of reminded me of Do you remember the old Old Worm versus Worm games Nivels? Nivels? Yes, exactly That sort of thing Yeah, it's a very interesting game It's a very pretty game The violin is very, very, very nice There's even, like, a race paper Yes Inside and the rules is, like, a Chinese invitation Oh, very nice, yeah Or a Chinese invitation, my apologies Yeah, it looks simple to play, but a lot of fun Mm-hmm, and it's very quick, too It's really easy to pick up 20 minutes Mm-hmm You, uh, we had a couple of rounds of super showdown With Mr. 10 We had the learning round Yes And it was a little, it took a little bit to realize It kind of went from, like, you know, It went from the way the turn worked And once I had to have the turn worked And how, like, every little piece on the card Was actually a rule, and it's like Oh, okay, I would just get it a piece at a time Right, yeah, it's one of those games Where the instructions are really not terribly clear And once you grasp them, it's really obvious How you play, but until you manage To work through an entire functional round It doesn't feel like it's coming together That's right, yeah, but Yeah It does a pretty good job of simulating A superhero combat game, though Yeah, it was interesting, the Different combat attack types And the guest game and that Mm-hmm, yeah, it's one of those games where you're trying to Outthink your opponent In the fight, essentially Where they're going to be Anyway, what else have you been playing? Uh, we played Castle Panic I got in with a couple of people Oh, yeah, Castle Panic, which you also reviewed Let's look at the, yeah, it's the Tower of Defense Orcs and Trolls and goblins And such are running out of the forest It was nice, um, a cooperative game Where everyone's trying to save the castle At the center of the board It was nice to see everyone working together I really dig cooperative board games And it was something that when we were kids I don't remember ever seeing No, no, everything was very like Monopoly, very cut through Very immersive Who's the murderer with the clue Yeah, but this one's like The problem coming towards us Let's throw it down Yeah, and the kids really dug it too Mm-hmm We got cards against humanity in Oh, yes, fantastic Yeah, that was post-game night Or post-movie night Well, actually before that Even we played a little bit of dominion Online as well as the TT I have to admit There was a little bit of a Sentimental moment there for me Yeah, at Fan X, so to have us Back together playing dominion for that one moment That was a lot of fun Mm-hmm Even if it was online and I had Totally forgotten the rules and had no idea What I was doing and I still don't really understand Why Rich kicked our ass, it was a lot of fun He hacked, sorted it Yeah, he totally He went to the future, somehow convinced us to fail But cards against humanity Was also brilliant I really enjoyed that, it was my first, I know You guys had played it before and I kind of watched you play a little bit But the experience of playing And there's a lot of that sense of You remember when you, well At least this stands for me, I assume you guys probably had similar experiences Remember when you were a kid and you were in the library And you weren't supposed to be laughing Or you had this thing, you had this secret You weren't supposed to be discussing or focusing on Yes And you're just giggling away Because you have this really ridiculous Thing in your hand and you're like I go with this ridiculous thing and this ridiculous thing Yeah, that's exactly right There was laughter, then there's tears And I'm like snorting Yeah, it was a good game, I greatly enjoyed that Yeah, it's highly inappropriate Or, you know, the fun too is not even when it's your turn But you're picking up another card for your deck And you're like, oh my God, I can't wait to play that card That's the best card Oh my God! I got next man Yep, there was so much of that There's so many hidden giggles in that game You often get a card and you feel like You pick up syphilitic insanity and you think this is gold I know this is going to be usable, I don't know where, I don't know when You slam it down and crickets Yeah, sometimes, eh? Sometimes you think Or when you flip over, like, you know, your answer is still buried in the unrevealed pile And you just see the one answer that is so much better than your own Yes Yes Well, alright then Yeah, we care if I win this round, that's funny Yeah, that's fantastic It's interesting because it is a game where you often feel like Even if you had an investment in your own card Once you see that one that everyone knows is sort of the winner You kind of feel like, oh yeah, okay, fine Fine, I gave it a good effort, but this one was just brilliant Yeah You know, fine, it wins And we found that we were like, well, we're going to play first to ten wins And we're like, first to twelve, first to fifteen guys Well, yeah, Jared, you kept pushing the ceiling And we were having a good time And then Jake gave it a one It snuck it Yeah, yeah, it was a good game, though Alright, well, guess what time it is It's time for lunch We got a very light mailbag this week We've actually discussed a lot of the mailbag in the upfront But we did get a note from Doc Blue, which I thought was includeable Apparently Marvel has, and this is maybe more something I'm going to end up discussing what Jake Antwerp But not DC Marvel has, hey, we had discussed how the X winner putting out an all-female book last episode Apparently Marvel also has an all-female defenders title out there right now Like the Avengers defenders? Like the defenders, you know, like the secret defenders Oh yeah, like strange Hulk Strange Hulk, whatever, except this is The team is Danny Moon, what's her name now? Moonstar? Danny Moonstar, yes, and a few other people And Valkyr? Oh, okay And she's the female Thor-knock off Yeah, kinda You sound so enthusiastic But they're... Listen, I like the idea But the idea of the premise of the book is that Valkyr needs to collect all of these Lady warriors together to be like the new Valkyries Which is kind of a fun idea And it's a good premise to go into an all-female book is really what I'm getting at Because having an all-female Xman feels like a weird coincidence of Like I don't really, I don't remember reading what the premise of how they got to an all-female cast is But at least with this situation it explains, you know, why there's a bunch of females It's not just we're pandering to Mm-hmm. I love my comics, but it feels a little shifty that they're kind of trying to push on the Feminist movement was like, "Hey, look, all-female team and they know the guys are gonna buy it anyway 'Cause the guys are guys and It's an all-female team Scared Lucids Yeah, and again The writer, I believe, is a male again, Colin Bunn, who did the sixth gun, which I hear is fantastic But I have not read But at the same, like, great. I'm glad that he's getting a solid book I'm glad that, you know, he might be able to do something fun I don't want to make it sound like I'm detracting from him But again, it might be how it might be nice to have a female writer or a female team Yeah Mm-hmm Yeah Having that insight But China's versus Penis Unite But going back to China's Unite Oh wait, wait, wait, I think that's what they have, what the title of the show is But China's Unite Stamped it Going back to Wonder Woman, if you remember the guy who wrote Wonder Woman, he had two wives That was disgusting He did I know, I know, we have They were major influences, though Oh yeah, they were major, I think To help him with his female character So you think an actual lady writer, wow Yeah, anyway Yeah, we'll back then, ladies couldn't write, right? Right Right You know what, that reminds me, I was watching Charlie Brown Um, was that, I think that was today And they're, what's Charlie Brown's little sister's name again? Sally? Sally, okay, Charlie and Sally are going to the library And Sally is complaining, Charlie, you only want me to go to the library Cause you want me to learn how to read And I don't want to learn how to read Next, you'll be having me conjugating verbs and stuff And I just want to be a good housewife Oh Now, but do you think, forward thinking on Charlie Brown's behalf? Well, do you think Schultz was taking a poke at that kind of mentality, though? Was that what he was doing or was he just being, yeah, okay But it was like, do you think that joke? Do you think that joke? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Even if that is a joke, don't say it to a child They won't think it's a joke Yeah, not then Are you a dassy? Hope? Hope? I'm working on a song Chilling on to me That's invisible That's invisible The earth, oh, never raised it Um, I have got Photoshop installed on my laptop now She's got Photoshop And I've also, I've got the look She's got the look Backroom plot So bad news, totally left field bad news My iPad died And I know that doesn't really mean a lot to a lot of the folks out there But I actually do a lot of my on the go writing Okay, the only way Flashpulk gets done is if I cram it into every tiny little hole that I can Because we give everything we have to you people Well, I'm not trying to make people sound guilty I'm just saying that scraping together that many words requires some Sometimes it means doing it in some awkward places And a lot of the times Sometimes we just don't like the lack of books wagon It's like, damn it, I got misboated, oh no Exactly so though, and the iPad really makes that possible Because I have a Bluetooth keyboard, hook that up to the iPad iPad doesn't even have to be on my lap, I can just, as long as I can see the screen And I can have that keyboard on my lap, I'm good But I watched Winnie drop it and break it The youngest Yep The heir The heir to the throne Dropped it and shattered my screen And to replace it, I thought that they could do screen replacements for like a hundred bucks But they can't It's not I was told the replacement was going to cost like 250 grand bucks And we got a mini, which is great because you know what? He always complains like, this is a great iPad, but you know what? I just wish it was just a little bit smaller You know, it's like one hander, it's a one hander So when he got it, I love it that he put it in his hand Like he, you know what they do for the blizzard, you know, they make your blizzard And then they put it upside down and then they flip it back over He was showing you like how versatile Yeah, we don't all have giant hands But anyways, he's like, just look at this and he's like maneuvering it in his hand He's like, you know, if we want to do this And because like, you have a new case for it, which is beautiful Yeah Very much like the last one on the suggestion of Jeffrey Lynch Yeah, it's another book book, Jeff Lynch originally steered me that directly Anyways, I guess because, well, since people have been using the original a little more They're figuring out ways that you can still use it without taking it out of the actual Yes, I like this redesign much better I mean, I really liked my original book book, but the mini book book is very nice Yeah, exactly, in so many ways really It's going to be really, really great, so the children can't touch it And that's that It's going to be children, but To have it back is to have repaired that little hole I mean, there was a week there, whatever, that I didn't have that option You should have seen him, you should have seen him He's finally repaired Welcome back, Jared And one of the things that I actually wrote on my iPad mini It was a story Mulligan's been the patient I really liked that one Yes, he's at the hospital room The elderly woman with Parkinson's But they wished would dive faster Yeah, well, there is a bit of my grandma in that character, that story My grandmother suffers from Parkinson's and she's in a home And I love her deeply, and she's one of the strongest women I've ever met, but at the same time She's also the weakest, and she's being sapped of this And we're so far away, so there's not a lot we can do And sometimes there's people who, you know, in your family Who you wish would take a different kid I am in no way using the story as an accusation against anybody in my family No, but I'm just saying, everyone handles it differently Yes, well, okay, on the flip side of that though, a lot of what went into this There's the woman and the sadness of seeing her disappear into her disease But a lot of the family aspect actually comes from a separate experience I had in a nursing home I spent a time in my high school years volunteering at a nursing home Actually, the same one that my grandmother was in for a little while No, it was a separate thing Cool Anyway, a lot of what I had to do was essentially just wheeling people back and forth To the cafeteria area and then feeding them Aw, that's so sweet, you fed people Old folks That's why you're so good at feeding me Not to say he feeds me all the time, but like the odd time if he ever did That's why he's so good Oh, God, I just, I love you more now He's gonna take care of us when we're old But there would be the occasional family who would come in and they would just be horrible people And you would have this old person who, okay, these people, they're like And they have feelings, they're not like goldfish or something The thing is about this home specifically is that a lot of these folks were much even further gone Than the character in our story, the mother in our story Full on hospital care, sort of thing Yes, I mean they're the kind of people who need somebody to feed them So they would have family members come in and they would just be horrible to them Because the family member would essentially be acting like the person was no longer there And I understand that sense because to a certain extent you do have to back up to like heal over that situation To know that that person mentally is not a hand anymore And then it's just sort of their husk that's left over But at the same time, yeah, yeah The extent of horribleness that I kind of witnessed And I mean it wasn't like constant, it was two or three people that you would see come in and you would know like Why are you even here? Yes, but they would come in and it was almost as if to vent from There's one lady I think of specifically that who acted almost as if to vent from the rest of her life And how horrible she thought she was being treated by the other people She would come in and take it out almost on her into the mother And it wasn't like a physical thing but she would be really Really rude? Yeah, anyhow Great story Good times Now I really nice, I got some really nice feedback on it The ending was wonderful Tibi was very sweet to me about it And she mentioned that it would be a really good selection for stage play Or something with some sort of video project Because it's all one room, it's very tight, you don't need to move around a lot But yeah, a lot of the things come to you You know, like nurses who are giving pills that are, you know, drowning her sanity away And all the various components And I would love to see anyone interested in trying to adjust I know Jeremiah Elkins a while ago promised that he was going to do some web comics Of the Mulligan stories which, you know, no pressure to that fine fella Except for me But I would love to see somebody's adaptation of a video project out of one of those stories And that would have been nice with the radio project X If we actually adapted, you know, story Oh Peter, we missed you Well, Mr. Church was on hand for our movie Night Yes, he was in Orange She's traveling the American city With the didgeridoo? Yeah, we got to see Amy for a while I think we mentioned that last episode Anyhow, fantastic folks all Oh yes, it's so nice when you pop up You can hear the sound when you're meeting in Google Hangouts And you're like, "Who's here, oh my god?" Oh, their name pops up and you have to wait until you see their face You're just like waiting So we actually got to say Jay Langoliren as kids Yeah, it was so great We made faces at the little children And they're like, "Yeah, why are the girls being silly?" He's so, so adorable Yeah, that's great Okay, well on that note we should say thanks to Jim Thank you, Jim Jim, you should come hang out with us sometimes Yeah, Jim was a busy, busy man hosting, really? Yeah, I know, it's just he's like our Jesus, you know? Jesus, I don't know Well, you know, Jim's fantastic, I'm not Seriously and magically hosts us and has for years He just came from nowhere and, you know... 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