Prepare yourself for: Screwing with the classics, highway killers, the return of the returning dead, and Mulligan.
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FC66 - Explosive Erotic Scenes
[music] Hello, and welcome to BlashCast66, a SkinnerCo presentation. SkinnerCo. Despite recent disclosures by our competitors, the secret of our sauce dies with us. This episode is also brought to you by generous donations from Scott Roche, Gigantor, and Colorado Joe. Prepare yourself for screwing with the classics, highway killers, the return of the returning dead, and Mulligan. [music] Hi, I'm Opopon X, and also dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight, our Jessica May. Hello. Hey, Jerry. Hello. So I don't know if you can tell we're outside on the porch tonight. Uh, yeah, you're probably going to get a lot of background noise. Yep. For example, the neighbor kid has just decided to start jumping on a trampoline. Yes, so you'll hear, it almost maybe sounds like we're by the sea shore, but really it's rustling of the leaves. It's very lovely. It's a lovely day. Love the evening. A little warm. There may be some thunder showers, but we'll see. The sun is sinking away. Slowly getting darker. Mm-hmm. Those kids wouldn't be outside if their mother wasn't so drunk. Yep. We have a single lamp. It's getting dark. We would be remiss if we didn't briefly bring up the recent shooting. Yes. The dark night rises. That's right. Colorado. We had a brief moment of concern. I think it always happens. As soon as the same state is mentioned as somebody you know, you have to sort of reach out to them and just double check everything's okay. Yep. So we were glad to hear everything was fine with Colorado Joe. Yeah, it was nice to know everybody was fine with anyone we knew in Colorado. That was great. Although at the same time, I hate that feeling because you're also, well, at least nothing's wrong with me, you know. Yeah. But... There are a lot of people in a lot of pain right now. Needless to say, despite the fact that we are not Americans, we feel free, you guys. Yeah. Feel free. Not a whole lot of details yet, but just a sad situation. Yeah. Well, maybe, well, we'll talk it over. There are some pulpy aspects, but we'll talk it over. Maybe when it's a little less fresh. Mm-hmm. In the meantime, speaking of freshness, let's move on to... [Music] So you guys are both big fans of "Fifty Shades of Grey." Yes. I enjoyed it a little. I think it definitely has a pulp sort of connection, you know? Definitely. Cheaply made what, uh, appeal. Mm-hmm. Appeal. Well, it has caused a shift in the literary world, as it were. At least in the public domain, we can do whatever we want to them. Which is interesting because it's not like it's the first erotic fiction put out there or anything. It's just somehow made it into the mainstream. Every time one of these little events happens, like deep throat or whatever, where we have a temporary blip, where something a little more adult is okay. I think this sort of thing happens to a certain extent. Yeah. You know, we like to junk up at anything that we can layer hands on. [Laughs] But this sounds pretty interesting. Smutting up the classics. Yeah. Well, they're essentially getting writers to append explosive erotic scenes. Ooh, yeah. To such classics as "Ride and Prejudice." Yes! Oh, Miss Jane Eyres on there. Apparently they're going to deal with Holmes and Watson. Oh, really? Going to make, uh, the rumors suddenly no longer rumors. Twenty thousand leagues under the seas apparently also getting an unusual update. Uh-oh. With a bit of love between Professor Aeronax and Nedland, the Canadian harpoonist. [Laughs] Well, some of these, it makes sense to me. There's a certain closure in a weird way that erotica can bring to things like "Pride and Prejudice." Yeah, and then they did it. But... Finally! Trying to wedge it into twenty thousand leagues under the seas seems a little odd. I'm not sure anyone's wishing there was greater, uh, catalogs of oceanic life in their... You never know. Don't judge. In their... Smut. [Laughs] That's great. I mean, the Japanese, I suppose, are already working on that, but... Yeah, there you go. See? Somebody likes it somewhere. Don't judge. Anyways. I thought it was interesting and worth bringing it. That's awesome. I want to see that list. 'Cause... I want to read a lot of those. Speaking of reimagining, actually... Oh, goodness. Oh, my God. It's the monster. It's gotten the neighbor kids. Our monster is the neighbor kids, yeah. Speaking of reimagining, Manos, The Hens of Fate. Oh, my gosh. Which may be familiar to a small portion of you. I am so excited about this. As feasibly the worst movie ever made. Not long ago, I came across J.R.D.U. watching, uh... I guess it was a YouTube video or something of this Manos Hens of Fate game? Yeah, it's being made into a video game. It's very of the old school eight-bit... I hope he has... The paper mashay legs. Tor goes in it. Actually, let's just take a moment to listen to some of the soundtrack. Ah, brilliant. Fantastic stuff. It was great to watch the video, too. There's some Roman in there who's actually not in Manos. So, I think this is more like a movie as you saw in MST 3K. Now reference to a video game. But, 'cause you need that video game, for sure. Mm-hmm. But licensing an actual MST 3K would never happen. Mm-hmm. So, look for it on the 26th on iOS. Mm-hmm. Manos Hens of Fate. Actually, speaking of the 26th, we're recording this on the 22nd. Mm-hmm. We should briefly touch on the Asimov. That's right. The showdown between me and Jay Strasburg. Yeah, you're getting very hairy. I am. My technique, so far, has been essentially to trim the edges, but let the interior coder go wild. Yeah, go wild. Yeah, the time traveler saw a photo of you. He's like, "There's a giant caterpillar on the side of his face." Ah! In the process, I have allowed the lower territories to drift a little bit. Just to expand the impression of the overall size. But I have drifted weirdly into huge acumen territory. And I wanted to feeling a little too wolveriney, so I had to trim it back a bit. Yeah, it's nicely trimmed on the bottom. I've always called the Wolverine. 'Cause he's the best there is at what he does. And his fingernails, "Oh my God, you need to cut those." It's so funny that this came around now, considering how much I've been bothering you to cut off your mountain chops. Mm-hmm. And then you recently had to grow them back. But now I can't. Yes. At least for four more days when this thing is finally done. Yeah, that's crazy. Where's the showdown happening? Uh, I believe if you follow Strasburg on Twitter, Jay Strasburg, J-S-T-R-A-W-S-B-Y-G. Or me, J-R-D-Skinner. I don't want to spell for you. You will see pictures posted on that day. And they will be also posted to the mob where I believe... Is there a voting system? Yeah, somebody, who did we determine? I recall us determining a judge, but I don't recall who that judge was, which sounds like the work of the time traveler, so maybe he's set up behind the whole thing. Yeah. The Walking Dead are returning to television shortly. Mm-hmm. Yeah, they just came out with their hundredth comic. Oh, yeah. Not that long ago. It's so gooey. Yes, it's very gooey. Definitely. Uh, I have to say, I have to say whenever the show's on, get a lot more concerned about writing new Ruby material. I don't like... I don't like... Yeah, I don't like feeling there's an overlap there. Yeah, well, you've only seen the first two episodes of that show, haven't you? Yeah, but I've read way more of the comics. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I can see your apprehension and why we haven't watched more of that show. Yeah. I'm torn, right? Part of me doesn't want to be consuming the content, because the less I associate, the less I'll be... Tainted. Yeah. But at the same time, there's a real want to know what he's done so that I'm not copying, like not accidentally treading on Kirkman territory. Not that he hasn't had his moments of treading on other zombie film territory as well, so... It's just... It can get to be a tight space in the zombie fiction arena. I dig it. But your brain has a lot of unique ideas, I'm not afraid. Yeah, well, I think we're going in an interesting direction with Ruby that really hasn't been addressed in the Walking Dead, hopefully. Oh, but speaking of zombies, I did want to quickly mention something interesting. So Rob Zombie, you're familiar? Yes. Maker of horror rock albums and the occasional film. Indeed. I was recently wandering through his Wikipedia profile. I can't even recall why. I think I was trying to identify if he appeared in a certain film that I had just watched. Mm-hmm. And I ran across this little note, which I thought was extremely interesting in a weird sort of way. On June 21st, 2012, it was reported that Rob Zombie had an interest in directing a film about the Philadelphia Flyers during their Stanley Cup championships in 1974 and '75. The current working title for the film would be Broad Street Bullies. That's awesome. It's just not a film that I expected Rob Zombie to write a take on. Take what you're saying? Absolutely. What did you say, written, directed? How would he be participating in this directing? He's interested in directing it. I don't know if he's had any hand in writing it. I wonder if he's just a big hockey fan, or if he's a big Philadelphia fan. Yeah. He doesn't just have to, like, word, jaredy. It's just, I wonder if he'll hold to the Rob Zombie name even at closing off on that. That would be really funny. Of course not. He would do a bang-up job and show everybody he could be all mainstream. Yeah. In a weird way, it sort of brings me back to the Scorsese, the clash film that was briefly mentioned last. The Gangs of New York. Gangs of New York. That's right, eh? Anyhow, you may have noticed this episode comes pretty closely on the heels of Flashcast '65. Indeed, it does. We've actually only done one piece of fiction in between, but we wanted to get back on schedule. Mm-hmm. So it'll be a bit of a lean episode. But at the same time, hopefully, it was interesting. Yeah, we jab a lot anyways. Yeah. Yeah, and we have some new news about Fan Expo, anyway. Yeah, absolutely. Um, one of the outings we were hoping on planning was to a little place called Snakes and Lottes in Toronto. Uh, Split Bar Cafe with just a plethora of board games and a knowledgeable staff that'll teach you how to play 'em. Yeah, so we booked, uh, a table there, yeah. Mm-hmm. And we've got a, uh, event set up in the mob. Mm-hmm, on Facebook. Yeah. And we've got it booked for August 25th at 9 p.m. And the location is 600 Bloor Street West, and it's booked for the FlashPulp group. So let us know if you're coming, and we'll save a spot. We'll get a chair for you. Especially best if you sign up in the mob, but if you're concerned about privacy, just drop us an email at comments@flashpulp.com. Let us know you're coming. Uh, we may have to up the total reserved spots. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's a happening place. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta get those reservations in early. And is it, I don't believe it's very far at all from the hotel we're staying at. No, not at all, definitely walking, doesn't it? Yeah. So everyone will be staying with us. Or I hope so. I hope it might be. We can go as the troop. And I certainly discovered when I got there that it was a little overwhelming to choose a game, 'cause there's so many games there. There's walls and walls of games. So, what I found really helpful is they actually have a list on the website. If you just go to sneaksonlates.com, you can check that out and see what they actually have available, so you're not so overwhelmed when you get there. Asking the wait staff and having them-- Yeah, they're really helpful. They're really helpful. They suggested some really nice games to us in Jell-O. They'll read your group and try to provide something that's going to be appropriate for the time. So me, just there, have fun. Also worth noting is that the Fan Expo schedule will be up on August 10th. So hopefully we'll have the Shadow schedule up on August 11th. Yes, we're going to try to keep it easy and light. But yeah, anybody attending? Anybody wants to follow us around? That's right. Yeah. It'll be fantastic. We're happy to follow you around as well. But not on a creepy stacker way. Well, it's a fun. It's ridiculous. We've missed a few items. I know we've been talking about a lot of the guests as we've gone on. But there are a few people that are going to be showing up that I wanted to mention. The smoking man from the X5. Oh, yeah, that's really true. Oh, gosh, really? Yep. I would love, love, love to get my picture with that guy. Oh. Much less known, but almost more critical in my upbringing. Mitch Markowitz. Oh, who's that guy? Who is one of the last living members of the hilarious House of Fright and Stein crew? Oh, that's so great. That's so great. He played the Super Hippie, one of the few characters that wasn't done by Billy Van. You should totally dress up as that guy. Make his life. No. But I would love to meet the fellow and have a word or two. That's like a part of your childhood right there. Yeah, absolutely. That'd be great. Somebody else is showing up, who I had never heard of before. But I wanted to dig in a little bit and get to know some of the, you know, also appearing. Yes. Bill Fadon or Fadoon? He is a armorer who's going to be there. That'd be cool. He apparently has a forge that he operates just outside of the city. It's like what he does. He does commissioned armor. Saturdays, he opens up to the public and you can go and he'll give you sort of lessons on how to make your own armor. Oh, kidding. And you can, you can apprentice with him if you want to get more serious about it, but it's a larger process. Oh, my gosh. My heart's a bladder. Interestingly, he is one of the, in a very pulp related connection. He is licensed to build Clyde Caldwell armor, which Clyde Caldwell is a, I don't want to say a pinup artist, but he's one of those fellows who does fantasy pieces. He did a lot of the 80s, early 90s, D&D books. Yes, okay. A lot of ladies with armor that really doesn't do much in the way of protecting them. So anyway, I would actually like to meet this fellow. He seems very interesting. Yeah, totally. Maybe worth getting a brief interview with him or something. Yeah, for sure. And I mean, it may be worth a Skinner co-outing to heading over to his armory. Yeah, if that's close by, I would love that. That would be so cool. Stamped it. We should do some video too. Mm-hmm. Anyway, we would love to have you guys, love to have any of them all about to Fan Expo, and we're quite pleased to see who's already coming. Yeah. And everyone who is coming is a very good time. Yes. It's guaranteed. Actually, we do guarantee it. We write it down and we sign it. Yeah, we've got certificates for when you show up. Speaking of awesome people who are going to be showing up at snakes and lattes in Fan Expo, and in fact the mobster hotel itself. And that's Mr. Jeffrey Lynch. So we can throw now to his spot of bother. [MUSIC] Spot of bother. Once upon a time in my youth, while driving home from high school with my friend Sam, I did a very bad thing. The bad thing wasn't exactly my fault, but I did pull the trigger, so to speak. As we round at a bend on an old farm road, a large flock of guinea hens wandered into our path. I began breaking, and Sam says, "Oh, just drive through them. They always fly out of the way." Sam lied, and hens died. The stupid birds didn't even seem to notice our approach. Sam laughed hysterically as I blasted through the flock at a bright neck 35 miles per hour, crushing dozens of the birds and leaving a wake of death and bloody grey feathers fluttering in the air like a great foul fog. This has not been my only experience actively participating in roadkill. Over the years, there have been a few opossums, a cat or two, and I won't even go into the story of the deer in the pack of wild dogs. That was pretty tragic. I'm sure many of you have also had an unfortunate meeting with wildlife on the roadways, but if you did commit vehicular critter slaughter, was it intentional? A new study recently published says, "Indeed it was." Here's the story from the mail online. Mark Rober, an engineer at NASA, with apparently a lot of spare time on his hands, designed an experiment in which he placed rubber animals on the side of the road to see how many cars go out of their way to run over them. And the results are not reassuring. Rober found that about 6% of the 1000 drivers he observed would sort of out of their lane just so they could squish an animal, albeit a rubber one with their vehicle. The young engineer, decked out in a white lab coat, alternately placed a rubber spider, a tarantula, a turtle and a snake, with a leaf as a control object on the shoulder of the road. In an entertaining YouTube video presenting his findings in the form of charts drawn with colorful crayons, Rober points out that about 94% of the motorists stayed their course and ignored the animal in the road. The remaining 6%, however, deliberately ran over the critters, although they were placed outside their driving path and presented no danger to them even if they were real. One thing that might explain the higher numbers here in case people question my methods is that I used a tarantula. Rober points out in the video. He found that drivers seemed especially keen on killing the vile-looking arachnid. If the spider is taken out of the equation, the number of sadistic animal killers goes down to 2.8%. According to Rober's data, the worst offenders are SUV owners. Of the 60 vehicles that drove over the rubber animals, 89% were behind the wheel of an SUV. If the motorists' murderous desire to exterminate spiders and snakes can be checked up to the animal's lack of personal appeal and bad reputation, there still remains the question of why 1% of people would run over a harmless turtle. Rober's unsettling experiment results did have a silver lining. Nearly 6% of the drivers pulled over to try and help the animals, especially the snake and the turtle. No one, however, rushed to the tarantula's aid, prompting Rober to jokingly comment that the species needs a new PR strategy. The drivers who encountered the critters on the shoulder of the road had different reactions to them. One woman, who was seemingly poised to rescue the snake, ended up throwing plums at it, while a man whom Rober dubbed "Apponey Tailed Science Hater" stole the fake serpent. In the meantime, folks, just remember the old Hindu proverb, "A man who misses his opportunity and monkey who misses his branch cannot be saved." I'm Jeffrey Lynch, and that's this week's spot of bother. Wow, that was pretty amazing. I have to confess, when he originally brought up the 6% stat, my thought was, "Wow, that's really harsh." And then as soon as he ran down the list and mentioned tarantulas, I was like, "Oh, there's your anomaly, there's your spike." Yeah. I mean, I'm one to live and let live, but tarantulas. I wouldn't stop to save a tarantula on the side of the road. It's an interesting experiment, though. I love the lady that threw the plums. Could she actually stop to save the snake and what she realized it was rubber and then threw plums at it? No, she probably stopped then realized she couldn't prove that it was actually dead, so she was trying to throw plums to see if it would be fine, or to see if it would move. That's pretty funny, 'cause it was a rubber snake. Ah, people, and a guy who stole one. What the hell is this? Well, I assume he probably was like, "Jurch, you friggin'..." You friggin' scared me. Took in the snake. Oh, my gosh. Science hooligans. Yep. That's hilarious. And I guess if a guy's pissed like that, if you're the guy doing the experiment, I'd just stand behind the rock. You know what was really terrible, though? 89% of the people who swerved to hit the animals were SUV owners. That's a really big percentage. Yeah, you really only go out of your way to kill something if you're really sure you're not going to get injured as well. Yeah. No doubt. You know, a crispy tortoise shell. Yeah. Thanks a lot, Jeff. Yeah. You can find his regular bothersome bits over at bothersomethings.com, or on Twitter as, please lynch me. Alright, well, I'll bother some business aside. Here's Fish's commentary on the darknet. Hey, Flashcast. Real big fish here with a review of Dark Knight Rises. Now, because of the two-week interval on Flashcast now, you may be getting this kind of after the fact, but Fish will do his duty nonetheless. So, on we go. I have to admit, when I was watching this movie, I was pretty anxious the whole time. Because, like, little things in the story kept cropping up, like, these details that I was just like, no, this isn't right. Like, at first, I wasn't cool with Bane's backstory, and at first, I wasn't cool with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character. Like, all these little things, I was just like, what is all this? Why are all these distractions here? That was my thought at first. Then you get to the end of this movie, and things come together like your fingers intertwining as you put your hands together. They just come together so well, and all was forgiven immediately. When there's a few twists, and I was just like, oh, that makes perfect sense. It really leads you along, and if you're a fan of a comic, you may be able to catch a twist before it actually happens. You may be able to, but honestly, like, I knew this, and I should have known better, but I didn't, because the movie just had me. There was a carrot, and I was following the carrot, you know? There's nothing else but to me. As you can tell, this is a good movie. It's a great movie. I honestly think this will trounce Avengers. A hefty claim, yes, but I say it with confidence. There's an interesting, my brother put it pretty well. There's an interesting, like, inception, mind ninja shit at the very end that makes you wonder, like, oh, was that real or was that not real? For those of you worried about, I'll dress each of the things that I know were worried about on the internet. For those of you worried about Bane, he does a great job. He looks huge every second in this movie. He's not comic book Bane huge, but that's because Christopher Nolan was like, "No CGI, this is going to be real." And I can respect that. He looks huge the entire movie, so don't feel too worried. As far as his voice, he didn't give any Shakespearean soliloquies, so you need not worry about, like, missing some of his dialogue. All the important stuff you can hear loud and clear, but you do lose some of it, I have to say. Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. I was really worried about her. She does a great job. I was worried because I was just like, "Man, can Anne Hathaway really be like..." But see, they kind of stayed away from, like, sexy cat lady. It was more, like, street rat, staying alive, doing what she has to do, Catwoman. And the banter between her and Batman is really well done. And at times, it even feels comic-booky, but not so comic-booky that you're just like, "Ah! Bad taste in my mouth, you know?" That's all I can think of now. Yeah, it kind of sucks that this is the end of it. And honestly, actually, going back to my anxiety earlier, when I was watching this movie at first, at first, before everything came together in the last, like, 30 minutes of this movie. Because the last 30 minutes are when, like, everything clicks. But before this all came out, I was like, "Ah! This almost feels better as, like, the second in the series, instead of the third." That's what I was thinking at first. I was really, because, like, you know, everyone loved the second one. I mean, Heath Ledger was amazing. And, you know, some people will say, "I'm only saying that because Heath Ledger died." But now, watch that movie. Heath Ledger does a good job. Dead or not, it should be recognized. And I was worried that people were just going to compare this to the second movie and be like, "No, this isn't even close. This isn't even close. It is. It really is." I can see how some people who were looking for a lot of action might be disappointed because the beginning is slow, but it's all important. It all builds up in every, every detail clicks into place. I think that's all I need to cover. So, obviously, this is a green light. Clap, clap, clap. Everybody cheer. But I'm sure you won't do that. That is all. Always listening. So, Jaredie, are you going to want to go play Batman Arkham Asylum? This is what you're doing. I think this is the most enthusiastic I've ever heard fish. Yeah, that was really a great review fish. Thanks. Yeah, great job. You know, I really can't say I have any feelings for the movie. Good or bad. It's not something I really thought about too much, but after hearing your review, I totally want to see it. Yeah, sounds awesome. I will follow Where Christopher Nolan leads. Generally. I do feel like the first Batman movie feels a bit like him figuring out on the fly how to make a Batman movie. It doesn't hold up as well as the next two do. Well, I assume the last one, as fantastic, as a fish has painted it, will be great. Yeah, I liked the second one. I think we only saw each of them once, but I wasn't a huge fan of the first one, but I definitely liked the second one. I've seen them both a couple of times now. Oh, yeah. Well, the first one I've seen maybe three or four times. Oh, really? Yeah. How long ago did that come out? Oh, it was a good well now. It was before Katie Holmes or just at the start of Katie Holmes's Scientology run. Which fortunately has ended. Thanks, Z new. It's interesting. The way Nolan handles his stories, he really does like to have the moment or the climax where everything just happens. Yeah, it all comes together all of a sudden. Yeah. That's why I liked about Fish's review. Well, I wasn't sure about this at the beginning, and I wasn't sure. And then it all came together like fingers in hand. Yeah, I do appreciate a little lightning there a moment ago. I do like that it was entirely spoiler-free while down Fish. Yeah, I still will be excited about everything. You're getting so professional. Thanks. Well, time for with that sudden and random announcement. Sounds like the drag racing is starting. Yeah, I'm trying to erase the storm, feasibly. Riders on the storm. Nice. Well, this might actually be a perfect ambience for Duck Asriel, Angel of Death. Gird yourself for another entry in the Tale of Murder, Mystery, and Dark Motives. That is the ongoing saga of Duck Asriel, Angel of Death. In the last episode, a young family were unknowingly saved from a mugger by a mysterious figure in black. And now, the latest episode of Duck Asriel, Angel of Death. Doors Corley peered at the map on the dining room table, table thoughtfully. Her police officer husband had been obsessed with the marks on the document while he ate his dinner. A dinner that was cold because he had arrived home late again. Claiming exhaustion after a long day on the streets, Ronald Corley had drifted off to bed shortly after finishing his meal, leaving his young bride to clean up after him. The young woman had started to clear away the dishes when she got distracted by the map. There was something about the pattern of the marks her husband had made. On an instinct, she grabbed a pen and a sheet of tissue paper from the drawer, laying it carefully over the map. Moving the floor lamp so she could see better, doors transferred the marks from the street survey to the translucent purse Richmond. Connecting the adjacent marks made an almost perfect circle. There was a larger gap that she left open so the circle was incomplete. Doors then connected every other mark, again leaving the opening unobstructed. Stepping back, the young woman could see a second arc, together the two formed a near flawless crescent. That can't be accidental, can it? She murmured to herself. Her hands on her hip. Doors cocked her head to the left. I wonder, grabbing a different colored pen from the drawer, she connected the locations that appeared to be across the circle for one another. She was unsurprised during the first line, two lines crossed. Any two lines will cross, as long as they are parallel, she remembered from school. The police officer's bride then added a third line between opposing marks. This line also intersected the other two exactly where they met, as did the fourth line she added. She continued to connect the diametric points until only the position facing the opening was left unconnected. All of the lines intersected at the same point. Someone definitely planned this. Indeed, they did. The sound was like a dozen voices speaking all at once. Doris looked around the room rapidly, trying to find the source. Finally, her eyes settled on a figure in black, concealed by shadows. She shied away. "What? What do you want?" "The same as you." "But that is not what you really want to know, is it?" "You want to know why I'm here?" The young woman nodded cautiously. "There are forces gathering, and I seek allies to oppose them." "My Rani?" I initially thought he might be the one I seek. But now I suspect otherwise. The figure stepped towards the table, and though he moved into the light from the lamp, the shadows seemed to follow him. He reached out to touch the point of intersection. "I know this place. It is a warehouse. Recently, enemies of the city have installed equipment here." He slid his finger across Doris's drawing to the opening in the crescent. "But I am more interested in what lies here." "You should bring these locations to your husband's attention." "How you choose to do this is up to you." He was through his finger and stepped back away from the table, a small golden triangle lay on the paper. Doris cautiously picked up the lapel pin. It was marked with an eye and a pair of wings. "What is this?" "This is how you will know my other agents." Slowly Doris closed her hand around the bit of metal. "Other agents? Why would I work for you?" "Because, as I said, we want the same thing." The figure-and-back black gesture to her stomach. "We both wish to protect the city and everyone who lives in it." "How did I? I haven't told it. Not even runny." Doc Azrael just laughed and disappeared into the night. "I totally was not expecting that laugh. Those totally creepy posts were outside and it's dark. What are you doing?" "Well done. Very well done." "Fantastic laugh." "I love the pulpiness of the token that identifies you as an agent." "Yes, and actually, I'm wondering, golden triangle with an eye?" "Illuminati." That sounds interesting. We'll have to see where that goes. And you know what? I was wondering, how would you feel if you were Doris and all of a sudden Doc Azrael shows up in your kitchen and you're like, "What? What's going on here?" I think she took it pretty well. The pregnancy thing was a nice touch, but at the same time, it made me think, "Maybe Doc Azrael worked real hard, got himself a PhD. He's out there working an MD." "He's got to make money too somehow. He's a gynecologist in disguise. Obstetrician." "Dock Azrael." "Bringer of life and death." "Thanks a lot, Doc." "Thank you very much." "You can find all of the Doc Azrael entries over at thescritlayer.com, as well as a bunch of brilliant other work by Blue and a few other fellows." "Yeah, go check it out. But meanwhile, what do we have in the..." "My old bag." "Actually, we have a letter from Savage Glenn." "Ooh, it sounds savage." "My savage brother." "He does note that he believes his original issue of this email may have gotten lost in my spam filter, and that's actually exactly what happened. I think he says he forgot to attach a title. So just be sure to clearly lay out your... "I don't mind if you want to throw them at Skinner at Skinner.fm. I realize that a lot of the old shows still have that address on them. And I will do my best to get them to the show, but sometimes I have a lot of email and sometimes my spam filter is very aggressive." "So we appreciate you following up." "Yeah, absolutely. If you don't hear about it, please reshoot it to us because we love you all." "Anyway, Glenn." "You fully like our children." "So Savage Glenn says, "Greetings, slash Pope Crew and a belated, happy candidate day." "A little extra belated, but yeah, thank you very much." "Due to an insanely hectic and mind-numbing work schedule, it's been a while since I've checked in. And I haven't been very active on the mob." "Yes, we miss you. I know we've noticed." "Well, here's the thing. Summer is always tough. The numbers take a dip. They always pick back up in the fall, but both in the mob and in the downloads. You know, we understand you're outside, you're doing stuff." "We want you to. You should be active. You'll live longer." "Yes, it's good for you." "He says I'm also woefully behind on episodes. Yes, I know for shame. I hope to rectify this soon." "Hopefully he's had the time to do that by now, we'll see." "I hope so too." "In the meantime, however, I wanted to give a shout-out to a tabletop RPG that I tried out recently." "It may be of interest to gamers in the mob." "I'd even go so far as to recommend it to non-gamers as well, as the game mechanics are relatively simple." "So that's great. You wouldn't have to just make sandwiches." "I'm here on the class floor." "It mainly requires an imagination and a twisted sense of humor." "Oh, well, we definitely have loads of that in the mob." "Mm-hmm." "It's a game called Fiasco, subtitled a game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control." "Oh, that's great. I love this already." "Snow crashed at you." "It plays best with smaller groups of three to five people." "Hmm, we should see if they have it at snakes in the lattes." "The object cooperatively craft a story where things go disastrously wrong." "Along the lines of two days in the valley, a fish called Wanda, or just about any co-and-brothers movie." "Fargo, burn after reading, etc." "That sounds like fun." "It's a short game that plays in about two to three hours." "There are a lot of different options for genre or setting." "Everything from touring rock band to dragonslayers to the voyage of the Titanic." "It's a great pick-up game that can be played without a game master or any preparation time." "Hmm." "And then he gives us a link to it, so we'll have to put that link out of show notes." "He says he will warn that the game contains adult language and themes." "But they do give tips on how to run a fiasco with younger players." "Wow, you know what?" "I'm sure you can, just as a note, I'm sure you can search for Fiasco on bullypublicgames.com." "Yeah, I bet you that'd be great for smaller mobsters, too." "As an aside, this isn't to say that my other game of choice has been abandoned." "My current Savage Worlds game is on hiatus, but I plan on jumping back into it fairly soon." "Once a Savage, all of the Savage." "I agree with you." "On that note, may your dice roll well and your games be epic." "Best wishes to JRD for a speedy recovery." "And he is recovered now." "Yeah, I have recovered, fortunately." "So your wishes were a thanks?" "Well, thanks for the letter. That was great." "There's a lot of gaming mobsters. I wish there was a way I've been toying with the idea of setting something up in a Google+ hangout once a month." "Yeah, that'd be awesome." "And having one of our designated game masters, maybe Dave Went, or a Savage Glen if either of them would be favorable to the idea." "I'd be up for that. I'd make the sandwiches." "I'd make the digital sandwiches." "They'll be so good because they'll be digital." "Speaking of things she makes." "Are you a dassy?" "Oh, hope." "So, I was promised some time today to do some work for you guys." "Oh yeah, today? That sounds pretty last minute." "No, maybe it sounds last minute." "Or at least it would." "Maybe you're already up for any." "No, listen, I think you can be forgiven because we really were one episode away from the last time we flashgasted when we said to we would." "Yeah, see guys, there wasn't any time to do it because it just happened." "So my promises extend to the following week. Maybe my slave drivers will leave me alone for five seconds." "She means the children." "Oh yeah, that's a good one." "So, yeah, I love you guys." "Take later." "The art of never raised you." "I still have a Skinner co out for this Monday. That's already done." "So I've started working on the next Gennico to stay ahead a little bit." "And that's going to give me some more time to work on our lovely new Carwick promotional poster." "Which is coming along nicely." "I've got the background done and I'm just adding some detail to the foreground now." "And there's awesome beads." "And so many, very many eyeballs." "Yes, I should make a contest if you can guess how many eyeballs Carwick will have in the picture." "We're closest. Look at a copy of it since then or something." "He better be bristling." "But I've actually run into a bit more of a dilemma than I did in the last one." "Because the last one is all like silhouettes and stuff." "And this one, it's a little bit more like one of the Skinner co's almost." "Right." "And so I'm finding I can't make it too detailed because I'm still going to want it printed out in shades of gray." "Yeah, it's a printable." "All erotic and stuff." "I'm going to want to make sure that, you know, there's enough costumes." "We start singing monkeys when he say shades of gray, I don't know man." "I don't know if any of you out there." "Anyway, so yeah, I'm working on the poster and it's coming along very nicely and I hope to have it out for you guys soon." "She works so hard." "A wheel too." "Backroom plots." "So we put out an episode called The Jailhouse Lover, Mulligan Smith and The Jailhouse Lover." "Which was a nice return to Walmart Mike." "Why don't you tell us a little bit about how you came up with that idea?" "No, I don't want it." "Okay." "But I have a terrible confession to make about that episode." "Mm-hmm." "As the lightning builds around us." "Yeah." "There's a detail that I know is missing because I had originally written it in and it got deleted during my second drafting process." "Oh no." "Because there was a moment when Walmart Mike got a little bit too into bunny territory, a little bit too into..." "I would almost say Joe Pesci and lethal weapon three territory." "Okay." "Where he was ranting about power windows and power locks." "Yeah." "And if anybody noticed or was wondering why he just didn't open the door and step outside, there was a direct moment when I addressed that the power locks were also screwed." "But that got cut out." "So I'm hoping that people just make that assumption because it's so Walmart Mike and it flows very well, but I have to tell you it's been nagging at me." "There was nothing amiss when I read it. It all made sense to me." "Yeah, and that's the thing. I believe it's written in such a way as no one will ever notice it. And that's probably why, but now that I've mentioned it yet." "But on the other hand, we had that discussion at the top where people were screwing with the classics." "And not to say this episode was a classic, but people were inserting explosive erotic scenes into prep and prejudice." "Yeah." "And it bothers me because I don't like going back and blessing with something that's quote unquote published." "Yeah." "The work is never done and I think if people get too hung up on trying to fix what they've already released." "It's just revision, revision, revision, it's nothing new." "I'd much rather somebody write the new Pride and Prejudice than have them write Pride and Prejudice with porn." "Write a Victorian romance with explicit sex scenes." "Yeah, I do that." "So that it's natural and it works in the story and it's not just stealing someone else's work." "And name them Elizabeth and Darcy." "Yeah, well." "But you know what, I think actually to loop back to that just for a second. I think that Pride and Prejudice in Zombies is really what opened the door to this new..." "Yeah, revisionist." "Which was a great book." "Yeah, but isn't that often the case? Somebody comes in and does one great piece of something." "And then I get cocky." "And that doesn't change the original piece, honestly." "Yeah." "If you don't want to go there, you don't have to. But for us ladies who like a little smut, we can. Okay?" "Okay. Mommy wants her mommy porn." "I know we've been very Batman-y throughout this episode, not intentionally, but again coincidentally." "Oh, really? Because of the release of the Dark Knight Rises, but I've been listening to a lot of Hans Zimmer's Dark Knight soundtrack." "Now interestingly, there are a lot of notes to go back to what Fish was saying. There are a lot of themes or hints." "I don't have the musical terminology to really phrasings that remind me of Inception, and in the Inception soundtrack." "It's Zimmer and Nolan, and they're working together again, but I find those coincidences interesting." "But at the same time, I guess it's like when you..." "There's a lot of crossover in John Williams' periods." "You know what I mean? Like Superman and Star Trek?" "Mm-hmm." "I think that's just some of this going on. I think it's just Zimmer's current period of how he's approaching either." "It's current material that he's being put into work with." "That's a nice mix between the two." "Mm-hmm." "Okay, well on that note, I believe we will check out." "But if you want to follow us on Twitter, you can check out Skitter Co. Or you can follow JRT Skinner, the Jessica May, or myself, Opopinax, with a zero." "And we want to thank Jim for hosting our site." "Huge thanks, sir." "Thank you, Jim." "And the Wiki." "Yeah, Wiki.com" "Lots of love for the Wiki." "Yeah, you can find Jim over at theaudements.com or his empire at relicradio.com." "So if you enjoy the show, tell a friend." "Really enjoy the show when we've got a donate button on the site." "If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, you can find us at flashpulp.com." 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