Prepare yourself for: Choking the elderly, Bill & Ted 3, the Black Dahlia, reformed white supremacists, land pirates, and Coffin.
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[music] Hello, and welcome to Flashcast64, a Skinner Co presentation. Skinner Co, you'll believe a baby can fly, briefly. This episode is also brought to you by generous donations from Ryan Hill, Doc Blue, and Greg Snyder. Prepare yourself for Choking the Elderly, Bill and Ted 3, the Black Dahlia, Reformed White Supremacists, Land Pirates, and Coffin. Hi, I'm Opoponax, and with me in this dream, within a dream, within a dream, whoa, are Jessica May? Hello. And J.R.D. Hello. Okay, I just wanted to open this episode with a bit of sad news. Okay. You guys. I'm bracing myself. You may or may not be aware, but recently the Queen of Clownporn died. What? Clownporn. Oh, my God. I knew her so well. Oh, no. Of course. No, I wasn't aware they were ruled by a monarchy. I do have some concerns about the line of succession. We're maybe very private, it might be like the Vatican. I'm sure it does. I'm sure it does. I'm sure it does. I like the Vatican, actually. Clownporn, really? I never knew you knew such a thing. Yes. A lady named Holly Stevens. Wow. I wonder what her clown stripper name was. Maybe that was... Holly Stevens? Yeah. Well, there you go. Hilarious Holly Stevens. Oh. Hilarity no longer. Yes, unfortunately. Wow. Clownporn, the Queen of Clownporn. Not just any clownporn lady, the Queen of Clownporn. That would get really messy with all that paint. Do you think when you get into a... Do you think they just paint their faces? Any niche genre like that, niche genre, that you're able to just declare yourself like the Queen. The Queen of it? Maybe. I think it's just like... It's like Four Square. You're the only one who's ever checked in there. So you're the mayor. I think you're voted into it. Yeah. Anyway. If somebody else declares you the Queen is something sort of fetish porn, then... I think it's somebody else who does it. I'm not judging. I just thought it was interesting. Yeah. Absolutely. Instead, I would certainly have some questions to ask. You know what? I think we should put a clip in the show notes. I'm just kidding. Yeah, we have. You should've seen J.R.D.'s face. It was so funny. Whoever takes over her position, I think we should open up maybe diplomatic relations with Clownpornia. I don't even know. All I'm saying is we probably don't want any acts of aggression from Clownpornia. So maybe we want to... Because they can so easily turn evil, turn bad blood. You know how many they can fit in there. So we had a little unexpected break there, due to illness. Yeah. The problem... Epidemic. Yeah. It had to be like a flu. Because, oh man, it's still lasting forever like we have such loose coughs in our coughing. The problem with living and working so closely together is that if any of us get it, we all get it. Yeah. Usually, one after another, which just drags out the window of illness. Yeah, but the school year's done, so we're hoping they won't pick things up from other little grubby paws. One of us is not sick very long, but this thing, there's just so much fatigue and so much uncomfortableness and a succession of ill people. It didn't all happen at once. Which is good and bad because then there's somebody always to take care of the others, but at the same time... To load the bodies on the coat. Yeah. It drags it out and then sometimes you end up playing catch up by the time the last person is getting sick the first time, the first person is getting sick again. Yeah. So by the time I hit charity, like you're still trying to wake up, so to like getting new stories out of your mind was impossible. It was a deep void. But we're back. Yes. Hey, we're back. Yeah. One of the advantages of being away, however, was that we caught up on a bag of a... Big ol' bag of Sherlock. A random... Well, I was going to say random odds and ends from the PVR, but one of those things was finally watching the last episode of Sherlock. Which I'd say for the last 40 minutes of it, JRG was just railing at the TV saying, you know, if they end up like this, if they do it, like... It's not even starting production until next year. Yeah, he was googling it. He was like, "I need more." It wasn't even done yet before he was like, "Ah, there's no more." Some of the bad shows make me a little angry. Yeah. But 2013 for production, come on now. I was wondering though, how do you think that Cumberbatch could pull off playing Sherlock in the Victorian era? I feel like he's so... somehow monitoring that I'm not sure that he could do the Victorian Sherlock properly. How? How so? It's hard to explain. I don't know that he could play Victorian. I think he can do anything. Yeah. I think you could ask him and then he could do it. But remember even to get, I don't know if it was Sherlock, but he was really super sick and he did it on his friend's iPhone and sent in... No, that was for Con. Star Trek. Yeah. For Star Trek. Yeah. Yeah. And he was like, totally messed up and stuff. Totally. Totally. I think he can do anything. He can be Con. I think he's fantastic. I'm just saying that I'm not sure... I don't know, maybe it's... Last summer. Get out of here. Get out of the sense. I think they both could do it. And unfair comparison to rap then. Oh. Yeah. I think they could both pull it off together. But yeah, this last season, this last three, it's three episodes, right? Yeah. For a season, an hour and a half. Yeah. Yeah, it tore at our hearts because it was about, you know, his, or Sherlock's, is not his pride, but his... Ego? Well, no, his credibility amongst, you know, the public. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Was no one ended up leaving him, except for Watson, because he always blew me. Yeah. I thought it was so sweet, the, you know, one more miracle, tell me this. Yeah. Who would have thought that a movie of the weak style detective series would suddenly crop up in 2012, after it had died in, I don't know, the late 80s or 90s. He purchased it, man. They know what they're doing. But what I'm saying is this is, this is as if, um, Colombo had suddenly captured a young audience. Because you know, it's not, you know, there's a lot of people tuning in to PBS Masterpiece who are otherwise not going to do so. There's this other Sherlock show, what's it called, Coming Up? Oh, yeah. So odd. Oh, yes. Miller and Lucy Liu. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I recall that. I was hearing about that. I don't know what to think of it. I just saw one small commercial for it. And Jaredie kind of looked at me and I looked at him and Rosar looked a bit hanky. I know. And I don't want to make assumptions, but speaking of looks a bit hanky, have you guys heard that Arnold has signed on for two more Terminator films and that their ending supposedly, the franchise, they're including all of the Terminator Salvation stuff. But he'll be back. But they're going to do two more films, Terminator 5 and 6. And then that's apparently the end of the Terminator universe. Wow. That's, uh... Supposedly. I mean, that's been going on since before I was born. Mm-hmm. I think that I would only really be interested if James Cameron was coming back on. And he really had a passion for it. The same sort of feel for it. Somehow ending it. He's the one who started it right and he made it huge. And then since he's left, there hasn't really been anything that's impressed me yet. Mm-hmm. It don't impress me much. Uh-oh. Shouldn't I explain? No? Yeah. Thanks. So speaking of movie news, I happen to follow Mr. David Morel on Facebook. Mm-hmm. Who's that? Who's the author of First Blood? That was the book Rambo was based off of? Okay. But I actually never read any of that series of his, but I was really fond of the series that began with Brotherhood of the Rose and then continued with Fraternity of the Stone League of Night and Fog. I think there was the fifth profession in there as well. Um... He wrote some good pulpy novels. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really great spy novels. And I actually remember Brotherhood of the Rose being one of the first like real adult books that I ever read and I was still in grade school and I just absolutely ate up all those books that were on my parents' shelf. The assassinations. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. But they have just renewed the options for a movie for that particular book which I think would be really awesome. Apparently Warner Brothers had the, had bought the rights to make a movie for it and they'd had it for several years already. And they've gone through two directors and a couple of scripts, but none of them have actually been written by David Morel. Right. I wonder how many he's actually written out of like the Rambo franchise, etc. Yeah. But apparently his book's, his book extreme denial is that the rights are owned by Michael Douglas and MGM bought Burnt Sienna, right around the time that Pierce Brosnan was playing 007. Right. That's like a pink color. Then they, yeah. Burnt Sienna. But then they decided I guess not to make it. And Jessica Simpson's dad owns the rights to creepers. So what you're saying is one day you were on Facebook and you noticed David Morel was bragging about how many scripts he's optioned out, but hasn't managed to sell the bills. Yeah, but specifically brotherhood of the Rose. I'm so excited about that because it, if they would make that, they could make it into a trilogy and you know, kind of like a born ultimatum, born, I don't know why I want to say born travesty. I know that's not the word I'm looking for. I love that though. I wish they were born travesty. Yeah. That's a trilogy. Yeah. There we go. What's interesting about those is interesting you bring that up because I do think of David Morel is sort of a more slightly more modern Robert Ludlam in a weird way. He does write like there's some overlap there, but Ludlam's original born trilogy is so much more about spy craft and sort of interior considerations than the actual films per tray. Like they're not, they wouldn't be my first thought for action books and it's weird how at the same time Morel started off. I have no idea. I haven't read first blood. I must admit, but I read, I read the brotherhood of the Rose books and again I could see how something he would have written with a little bit more. I'm not going to accuse him of having an extreme amount of depth because he writes good books but they're, you know, they're moving along at least in case they're pulpy and they keep you interested. But at the same, at the same time you can see how they would wander into ridiculous over violence, like the Rambo series has. Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, you've got these spies trained by the Mossad, you know, it's the secret organization. Yeah, but he presents it all, I mean, there's high drama and there's action, but it's not going to be a bunch of taken style, crunching, broken bones, but that's what the film would be turned into, you never would be. Taken. I don't know who you are. Everyone must see Taken, honestly, everyone must watch it, knowing that it's going to be both awesome and terrible but like the best terrible there ever is. He sold it. Mind you, there was a line where I'm like, oh my God, he totally sold that and that was totally awesome. Like, she was underneath the bed. Oh my God, guys. Yeah. He's like, okay, listen. And then I'm not going to tell you what happens, but it's so awesome. It's odd because Liam Neeson has such an interesting film pulp history with Dark Man, and he's the guy who trained Batman, and he's the guy who, you know, he's called Jim. Yeah. He trained Obi-Wan to train everybody else. Yeah. Yeah. He is everything to all people. But at the same time, he will kind of do any film for a paycheck. Yeah, the hunting. But he'll bring that. It's because he always needs, like, he always has to buy so many pairs of trousers. Kevin Smith reference there, yeah. Just Google it, I'm sure he'll find why. In other disturbing news, I actually do have other disturbing news. Yes. Prussian Blue, which in and of itself is very disturbing. For people who don't know what Prussian Blue is? Were. Were, yes. That's true. Who they were. Very much like I was a few weeks ago. Prussian Blue was a band. It was these two, like, 11-year-old twin little Aryan girls. Lamb and links were their names, and Jamie's barfing. And they were white supremacists. They were, like, self-proclaimed Nazis, and they had, like, a little pop band about it, which is crazy, crazy, terrible. No. [music] You're my boy, boy. Aw, well, what are they actually saying? Yeah, I don't know. Something about a little skatehead boy. Oh. Anyway, it's really creepy. Now, when you brought this up, I found it pretty interesting, because I had heard of Prussian Blue when they were originally actually, let's say, a problem. Yeah. I believe possibly not via the news, but via FARC, back when that was a thing to be paid attention to you. I don't even know what that is. Oh, sorry. I'm tossing out old internet. Not whole internet references that I don't know about. But this next bit was the part that I kind of found most fascinating. Yes. They are no longer in a white supremacist pop band. I believe it was Lynx. She came down with a case of cancer early in high school. And now... Went to go save the princess? I don't know. I don't know anything about, sorry. And now, apparently, they both hold medical marijuana cards, and they are peace-loving hit-beats. And they... I heard one is religious. I don't know how religious they are, but they're definitely not Nazis anymore. Cool. That's good. They promote peace and love in marijuana. And I thought that was a pretty big flip-flop there, don't you think? It's kind of the spectrum of white trash, really, is my experience of my hometown experience. Yeah. It's just generally ignorance. Yeah. And then you get smarter, and then you realize. Yeah, they were saying, you know, they were homeschooled by their mother, who, you know, of course, they came from somewhere, and, you know, when they weren't with her, they were playing with their goats on the hill, and they had no idea what they were saying. Yeah. So there you go. - Goats on a hill. - Yep. Peace-loving hit-beats. Goats on a hill being the name of the new band. Well, speaking of reimagining, I just wanted to quickly run something by you. So I was over at the Mary Sue, and they were discussing the Star Trek reboot. It doesn't really matter if you don't know who the Mary Sue is. But this thought came to me. If we've rebooted the Star Trek universe, and I'm sure other people have discussed this already, theoretically, at some point, possibly after the current popularity of the franchise wears off, we're going to get a reboot of Star Trek, the next generation. Mm-hmm. Oh, my God. They can't touch it. Can't touch it. Can't touch it. Well, that's what I was going to ask. How would you feel about that? I wouldn't like it. It's the lines. They have Patrick Stewart in it. See, it's so funny. See, it's so funny. Yeah, but I assume they're not. Of course not. How could they? As a general rule, you know, I figure, okay, it's a new time, man. If somebody wants to throw money into doing something new, that's great, or a reboot, or whatever, it doesn't touch the old one, you know? It's okay to have something new, because apparently people can't think of anything original. So if you want to do it again, whatever, but this actually happens where you touch something close to my heart, and I'm like, you know, I don't even pretend, you don't let it touch it. Mine issue? And I realized that they attempted to address this in the reboot movie. But my issue is that I love continuity. I need continuity. And when they start... Just love getting continuity next-gen. Well, yeah. Well, the reboot of it anyway. You just fast-forward a few hundred years in the same universe, the same bubble universe that's separate from the other timeline. Any continuity errors? Different timelines. Yeah. There you go. So that's why I'm not a continuity editor. Yeah. Anyway, it's an interesting thought. I'm just not sure that... Is that the world's ready? Yeah. Honestly... Honestly... I am not ready. I don't care about the world. I don't care about the world. That's right. That's right. Pardon me, wouldn't mind seeing another next-generation movie if they just did it properly. Yeah. Yeah. If Johnnes and Frakes was in it, and Patrick Stewart... Yeah. I mean, like, I'm talking original cast, but with a decent script writer... Oh my God. Yes. And... And... Yeah. Anyhow... That would be so crazy. I would definitely go see. Oh, yeah. I wasn't thinking that. I wasn't thinking reboot with original cast. Well, no, no. Yeah, he was talking about another next-gen movie. Yeah, okay. So I was with it the whole time. Yeah, yeah. You were good. Yep. Yeah. Okay. Oh. Speaking of crazy reboots... Oh, okay. Okay. No. No. The same storyline... Different... No. They're attempting to just tack on continuity. Instead of re... My understanding of what they're doing... It's just the next in the series. Yes. But at the same time, they're trying to introduce... The next-generation of... Ghostbusters. It's not a reboot. It's more like the next-generation. Ghostbusters the next-generation. Well, I recently heard some news on the matter, and it's so funny because it really does play well with our conversations so far into it, because we've been like, "Well, I presume this is what's going on," and oh my God, it's like these quotes. It's so funny. I don't have it in front of me, but I know pretty much what happened, guys, and you can totally trust me. So Dan Aykroyd, because you know, he's always yammering. He said that they're all excited, but they're still waiting because they want a good script because there's no point in going ahead unless it's good. So Bill will associate himself. This whole thing will move forward, but it's got to be good. I see. Yeah. So I'm glad. I'm glad that they're taking the time. I'm glad Bill was holding out. They've looped back, and maybe Bill had a little sit down. Listen, Dan. Man, it's just the whole mood of that movie. It's just my childhood. Mm-hmm. I'm so glad that they want to do it justice. Just as long as I bring it back to the library. Use my best friend. Well, you may have a chance to touch some of your youth soon at Fan Expo. Yes. Oh, if I could touch Bill Murray, oh my god, guys, I would so touch and run Bill Murray. Of course, he's not coming. He wouldn't understand. But that would be of you. That's OK. No one has to. I would know. But Christopher Lloyd of another beloved franchise of your youth, back to the future. And he's going to have the DeLorean. That is so awesome. I hope he gets to sit in it, a comfortable chair, and a cocktail. I get to sit in it. He's looking a little frail these days, so this may be over the high shots. But he's always looked. I think we've discussed this before, right? He's always looked really sketchy. He's always. Yeah. He's just growing into his own now. It really is solidifying his look. Christopher Lloyd's so Christopher Lloyd. Oh, actually, I can't even believe that we have this other nugget here. The Bill and Ted three script is ready. Yes, I heard. And everyone is going to be in it who we would want to be in it. What? Who's in it? Everyone that should be in it, technically, the other guy, actually, no, you know what? That's a fib. You're not going to be in it who's not going to be George Carlin. Yeah, yeah. Why did I almost say Robert Carlin? George Carlin. Yes, definitely. Rufus. Poor Rufus. Yeah. Be excellent to each other. I was so obsessed with calories for a couple of years. It was disgusting. Yeah. It really was. We won't go into it. Yeah. You just want to move on from the whole Keanu Reeves trauma? No, just my childhood and how ridiculous I was about boys and things. Teenage? A young teenage girl, weird about boys? No. I suppose. Speaking of intense burning love, I recently encountered a few things that I wanted to bring to mobster attention. That's disgusting. Marrowo Bones by Eric Orchard. He's a local Toronto illustrator. He's doing this sort of comic storytelling item. It's a graphic novel, I suppose, but it's not exactly just comic frames. It feels a little more long form in places, and it's fantastic. He does brilliant sort of gothic illustration. I don't know really how to properly classify it, but it's brilliantly done. It's one of those things that looks beautiful and is interesting to read, but is actually intended for children, and you feel pretty comfortable, even though it's sort of spooky to let a kid read it. Like Edward Gory? Yeah, actually, it reminds me of that. I wouldn't say the art style is the same, but there is sort of hints of that. I would definitely guess that it's it. Gory was an influence on Eric. Awesome. So you can check that out at Eric Orchard.blogspot.ca. Please. There's a lot of art, and you can buy the issues. I think they're like three bucks each, they're really worth it. Also, mobster Greg Snader, he of the teapots project has a Kickstarter up for a game called Barons of Tea, and it looks brilliant. He also has a very classic kind of Gory inspired style. Yeah, very, very cute art style. Yeah, this game is less of his creepy stuff, but it's... I would love to play a game where I'm a tea baron. That's great. I checked out the Kickstarter, he's pretty close to his goal. Yeah, so mobsters get on that, I think it's... Yeah, there's only, I think, seven days left, so... Well, from the time of this recording, yeah, but it's 30 bucks and you get the game signed by him. Sounds worth it. Yeah. I do believe it is. Yeah. I love his art style, and the game looks great from what he's posted, so... Well, before we move on to our bit of bother, I did want to mention Flashpop.com, I've seen a little update recently for those who have been looking for the archives, the really early episodes, which got dropped out by Tunes, you can find that there, and you can also find the new propaganda section, which includes opops, brilliant posters, well... So far. I like the one so far, but there is the Mystery Project coming up the next one, which I also love the concept of, and I'm excited to see how you tackle it, so... Yeah, it's really nice to see our apocalypse posters popping up all over the place. Yeah. I mean... We've got getting pictures. We've been pretty diligent about putting them up, but we love getting other people's postings. I especially feel like when I see somebody put some up, I'm like, "I've got to go back out. I've got to get some more up there." Mm-hmm, and it really has been helping the site hits I would argue. Which is interesting. I think we're reaching maybe an audience that wouldn't otherwise be poking at podcasts sometimes, and that's nice, at least from some of the commentary I've got on Twitter. And it's so cool, because like, every night, or every other, there'll just be some random tweet from somebody awesome who we've never heard before, talking about a character we haven't written about in a really long time. Yeah. This is awesome. It's great. Actually, if you've arrived here via one of those little tags, let us know. You can email us at commons@fleshball.com. Yeah. Yeah. I'll send you free stuff. Yeah. We love sending free stuff. Well, we'll see. If you earn it. Alright. They earned it, man. They took it, they went home, and they typed it in, and now they're listening. Fair enough. By the ticket, take the ride. And huge thanks to all those who have been putting it posters. For real. Yeah. mobsters true. Mm-hmm. Don't forget pictures. Yes, Jessica made those pictures. Mm-hmm. I've had somebody else just ask me to deliver some posters, so I'm going to do that hopefully within a week or two. Mm-hmm. And community boards downtown Toronto. I don't know if I'll have something to put out there, too. Yeah. She got a lot of work, so I'm saying more posters, woman. Yep. Something new and clever. Okay. So now that we're feeling all uplifted, let's hear from Jeff. Spudger, bother. My former sister-in-law is a nurse. More specifically, she works with elderly patients who have been tucked away for safe-keeping and nursing homes by their loving and caring families. She tells me things, disturbing things. Heck, I stay in touch with her just for the stories. Although the staff at the various long-term care facilities in most cases do their very best to provide adequate care for the residents, sometimes the residents themselves can be troublemakers. Linda has passed along quite a few stories to me regarding things that residents do to themselves and more over each other. Thus, I've heard my fair share of disturbing anecdotes and was only moderately shocked when I came across the following story from one such facility in Pennsylvania that I think would make even Agatha Christie take note. Here's the story from Philly.com. Behind a door in a dark hallway of a rundown Roxborough apartment complex in Pennsylvania, a blind woman told a social worker that she did something to her elderly roommate and that something turned out to be incredibly disturbing. Geraldine Cherry, 50, admitted that she took Chex Party Mix, a lotion bottle, a piece of a diaper, a candy wrapper, and 10 inches of rope and shoved them down her roommate's throat, effectively killing her according to an arrest affidavit. At first, Kathleen McEwen, 70, Cherry's roommate appeared to have died June 10th of natural causes face-up in her bed, but it wasn't until an undertaker noticed something in McEwen's mouth as he was preparing her body that the heinous way she died came to light. We pushed her tongue in and the rope popped out, said Brian Hearst, a staffer with John J. Breyer's Funeral Home in Willow Grove. I was never expecting this to be a homicide. Hearst, who also found a candy wrapper, immediately contacted the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office, who didn't believe Hearst's story until he texted a picture of the rope to them. While examining the body, the medical examiner found the rest of the items lodged inside McEwen and ruled her death a homicide. Cherry was arrested Wednesday at the Parker Place apartment on Parker Avenue near Ridge and charged with murder. She's being held without bail and has a preliminary hearing July 11th. The relationship between the roommates isn't clear, but Hearst said that McEwen was a special needs resident of the apartment and had been placed there by the nonprofit social agency Resources for Human Development, headquartered in Philadelphia. A woman at the Parker Place apartment referred all comment to a representative of RHD when a reporter knocked on a basement apartment Thursday. RHD did not return a phone call for comment. The affidavit said that a few days before the slaying, Cherry told a woman who works for RHD that she was a bad person and did something. On Monday, police interviewed Cherry, who then allegedly admitted to shoving the items into McEwen's throat. Cherry, according to the affidavit, also admitted to some unspecified violent acts in her past. The few people at the apartment complex who knew of the roommates said they had only been there about a month. Cherry, who is blind, was vaguely familiar to one man walking in with groceries Thursday night. She was short. She wore pink a lot. She used to walk around with one of those red and white canes, said the man who asked not to be identified. She hadn't been here very long. Parker Place residents said RHD had moved in many people with special needs within the last month and went said there was not enough supervision over the new tenants. But Eugene Walker said some of the tenants placed by RHD often knock on his door. "They're bringing people here who might need to be in a mental institution," said another resident who asked not to be identified. "Just remember, folks, murderous crazies aren't always crypts, bloods, or clowns. Sometimes they're really old spencer ladies with befuddled notions blowing around in their demented minds, and they don't even have to see you. I'm Jeffery Lynch, and that's this week's spot of bother." "That was indeed bothersome, they always are, they tend to be." "Yes, thank you, Mr. Lynch. It's unfortunately easy to kill old people, and I don't say that from experience. It's just that I think the natural assumption is that it's always, you know, they went in the night or they're so old they, you know, whatever it was." "You didn't even check for roping their mouth anymore." "Now, that was interesting, because there was a list of items down there." "Yeah." "Do you think she was?" "I love the Czech serial, I mean." "She tried a little bit, and then, like, it obviously wasn't working, so she put some more stuff, and then she just really got to the point where she was like, "I don't know, candy wrapper, right? Rope, I could just strangle her, nah, everything's gone on the throat, let's just do this." "I think she was probably just crazy." "Just imagine, like, I don't know how that works, that you push a tongue in, and I was in a rope box out, but that would be so alarming." "Yeah." "I guess if that's your job, you know, he'd be like, "Oh, cool." "And the cops didn't believe them until he sent a photo." "Now, there's a certain generation of gamer who will instantly think, 'No, I've got to keep this rope, this rope is obviously going to be necessary somewhere else, I'm going to need this as a solution to a puzzle.'" "Just guess, otherwise." "Yeah, maybe she's been playing too many games, and she's got an element of the brain." "Yeah." "You know, those brain ailments." "The other thing was, these are possibly mentally ill people, like old folks, they get a little off their rocker sometimes." "Well, apparently she's had a lifetime of these." "Unspecified violent acts in her beds." "Yeah, yeah." "But it kind of brings me back to, what was that article saving Alex from a couple episodes ago where these old people might just go to prison because it's easier than taking care of them in a private home?" "Yeah. Which is really horrible." "Yeah." "But, you know, what can you do?" "Well, you can go over it about somethings.com and check out everything else that Mr. Lynch has posted, as well as find him on Twitter at @pleaselynchme." "That is all true information. I can vote for that, you know, because Jared is such a liar, he's always lying with the lies." "Fresh fish, a new batch of cinematic pulp with the always listening, three-day fish." "Hey Flashcast, three-day fish here, with a review of the amazing Spider-Man. Now since this is a reboot, we of course have to compare it to at least the first Sam Raimi adaptation of Spider-Man. I like Sam Raimi. There are things I think he did well with the Spider-Man adaptation that he did, but there are things that I feel like he didn't do so well. He inserts, you especially see this in the second one, but he inserts a lot of horror director styles, like the camera zooming in while someone is screaming, stuff like that. There's about one, I think he proves that you can definitely go to conventional, because the green goblin suit, when you look at it now, doesn't really hold up, we're just sad to say, because it's definitely the first one with green goblin, it's definitely the best of the three. But Sam Raimi did do a lot of things well, he set up the world that Peter Parker's supposed to live in really well, you know, have kind of passed technology mixed with super science to create this world that is like and unlike our own modern times. They capture that definitely here in the amazing Spider-Man. The things I think they improved on is this new guy, I forget his name and I apologize, he's much better than Toby Maguire, which I know there are people out there that say anybody would be better than Toby Maguire. The thing about Spider-Man is he's supposed to be like kind of witty and banter-ish while he swings around in fights, whereas some heroes in the Marvel Universe tend to be more serious. And this actor balances that well with the geeky pushover that is Peter Parker. Also the thing I liked about the new Spider-Man guy is his tactics and his style of fighting and just the way he moved was just in general more Spider-like. And I was really impressed because I recently watched the first one before I saw this new one and there's a marked difference I can definitely say. Oh the CGI is not overdone, it's no more overdone than it was in the Sam Raimi movies. So that's a plus. That was the thing I was really worried about, I thought this was going to end up looking more like the latest Spider-Man video game as opposed to a movie. Lizard is done real well, the actor does a good job especially considering he has to sell a very CGI monster. I looked at him and I almost, almost wished he was a rubber suit as you may find. I can't remember the movie now, I reviewed it way back with, it was like half man, half crock type thing. If JRD, if you can remember that please help me. But I have to say this is a promising start and they definitely capture the like, the fact that Spider-Man is a regular person because that's what Spider-Man is kind of known for is like he has problems like other people and he's trying to balance that with this responsibility of having powers, superpowers. So yeah, that's all, always listening. I should also say that I got an email along with this to let us know that he did in fact give it a green light, but he had forgotten to say so. Oh, thank you, Fish. Excellent. I'm pleased to hear that this film is better than I expected it to be. Yes, very interesting insights. I agree with Fish's take on Raimi's take. I think that Raimi really managed to bring a sense of whimsy but where the original films went wrong was almost when he brought in too much whimsy. I'm thinking of the dance sequence from part three. But I think there was also a lot of studio interference there. I'm not sure that the films that were made were necessarily what he would have most liked to have put out. Anyway, and interestingly here that the old one doesn't hold up very well. I almost want to go back and rewatch it now. I like the concept that this new Spider-Man is more spidery and is Spider-Maning. I think that's cool. The choice of the Lizard as the villain. I thought was a good one. There always was promise about it in the original. I can't recall maybe part three. They almost implied that the next one was going to be with Doc Connors. Yeah, it doesn't surprise me. But I'm sorry, Fish. Maybe creature? Did Fish reveal creature I can recall now? The Lizard film. I have the one thing. He's like, "Have Gator Man? What was that?" But yes, I'm excited to see the Lizard. I mean, it would have been nice to probably get more practical effects in there, but more lizards. Or better yet, some Harryhausen. Yeah, right. That's a playmation in there. Yeah, Jason and the Argonauts style. Give him a thumb. He appreciates that sort of business. We're tracking him down in the mob. He passes through on occasion. He swims through, yes. Moving along, I believe we have something from Mr. Blog in Whose Tepid Ride. As we heard from Barry, he discovered he was on his way to Philadelphia. Mm-hmm. Without his consent. Yeah. Hi, I'm Barry, and this is your New York Minute. This week, continuing my Odyssey to Atlantic City with my friend Marvin. Last week, we left Atlantic City. I assumed that we were going back to New York, but I was really being Shanghai to Philadelphia. And there I was. In the back of a death mobile, and not the funny one from the end of Animal House, speeding to Philadelphia with a family of bizarre sheepskates with broccoli in their pockets. I spent the trip deeply engrossed in the static in my headphones. We were in some bizarre Bermuda Triangle of the radio, where the New York stations didn't come in, the New Jersey stations didn't quite come in, and the Philadelphia stations almost came in. But the sounds of my ears were better than the sounds coming from the Marvin family, which consisted of Marvin yelling at his mom in Chinese, his mom getting all pissy in Chinese, and his dad getting lost and misreading all the highway signs, which were not in Chinese but may as well have been, as every time I saw an exit sign, I prayed that Marvin's dad would see it in time, which he did not when we arrived in Atlantic City, and he almost flipped the car over swerving through a lane of traffic just to get off the highway. It was dark when we got to Philly, and I didn't see one single guy in a silly 1700 suit. The plan was to pick up Marvin's brother and go to dinner. There were only two things wrong with the plan. One, he wasn't home, and two, he didn't even know we were coming. Marvin's brother had no clue that we were on the way. We got to his apartment, parked the car right outside, and rang the bell to his building, and we waited. We rang again, and we waited. Marvin noticed that the lights and the windows are out, and the whole apartment seemed dark, and an argument in Chinese ensued. I stood back a bit, and I prayed that I was really back in Brooklyn, and this was all some sort of dream caused by an overdose of cough medicine or something, or a medically-induced coma, or the last stages of oxygen deprivation caused me to hallucinate, or anything that meant I was not really there with a bunch of kooks. But I was, and I said hopefully, so I guess we should go home? That caused another argument. I already knew a bit about this one, because Marvin and his brother weren't getting along so well, and Marvin would have been thrilled to go home, but not his mom who started crying. Marvin was scallowing, mom was crying, dad was trying to make peace, and I was standing there out of place, very awkward, and very Caucasian. I was trying to stand about as far from them as I could, so that no one walking by would see me and think I was part of that noise. It was a quiet street, and I expected the cops to show up at any moment and arrest them for disturbing the peace. In fact, that's what I was hoping for, desperately wanted that to happen. I could always take the train back home. I backed so far away without even looking that I bumped into a wall. However, it wasn't a wall. When I turned around and saw what it really was, a burst of insight came upon me. I suddenly experienced a moment of perfect clarity. I knew what to do. I knew how to fix the situation. In that moment, every synapse fired in perfect rhythm. Every thought was focused. I could solve everything. It was genius. I cleared my throat and said, "Why don't you call him?" I had bumped into a payphone, and called they did. After calling the apartment he was not in, they reached him at another number which I was not able to discover. Predictably, the brother had plans that he wasn't happy at all that he had to cancel them. In fact, he actually refused to see them. Marvin smugly gave me a play-by-play of the call because, of course, it was in Chinese. He wanted to go home, too, and after all, he had a pants full of purloin chicken teriyaki to take care of. Mom cried, dad begged, and eventually the brother agreed to meet them at a restaurant in Chinatown. Now, unlike the New York City Chinatown, Philly's Chinatown is a relatively straight and it's confined to one avenue as opposed to the catacombs and warrants of Mott Street, Hester, Canal, etc. Back home. However, the restaurant we were going to eat in was illogically, as was most everything that Marvin was involved with, located down at Dark Alley and in the basement of a store that sold, I think, crap, though he never said it. I'm sure Marvin Sr. found the cheapest Chinese restaurant in town. The basement was dark and furnished with a single long table at which we sat. Around the walls were coolers like you would take to the beach. I found out that they held Kansas Sona and finally had to drink some Pepsi, if only because I asked the waiter for it in a low voice and opened the can before Marvin Sr. could spot it and send it back. Ever seen the movie "A Christmas Story" where the family spends Christmas at a Chinese restaurant and they were served a duck with a head still attached, I had the same meal, but unlike the well lit place they ate in, I was in a basement with cheap peeling wood paddling, a waiter and a very stained apron and I was expecting the chopsticks because I was sure they were left over from whomever ate their last. To say the tensions were simmering at the table was an understatement. I could just see the love glared from Marvin's brother's eyes and drilled into his mother's head. I heard all the angry Chinese words, but I understood none of them except the F word, which I understand is one of those words that means the same thing in Chinese and English like shit and Playboy magazine, which really did come up in the angry conversation, but I have never known for sure in what context. I spent the good deal of time reading the fine print on my Pepsi can. It was strange. Back then I wasn't the seasoned traveler of the world I am now. I've been to London, Scotland, Paris and even Cleveland since then, but at that time any trip farther away than New Jersey was exotic. The soda can had an ad for a Philly radio station. It looked like any old New York City can, but the call letters were different. It all felt a bit like the story where a time traveler zaps back to the past and steps on a prehistoric flower and changes history so that when he returns to the correct era all the Pepsi cans have strange ads on them. That story, you know, was written by Art Lieberman. I ate very little with this meal because, in the dark, I wasn't sure if the foul was really a duck or as I feared a crow. Whatever the bird was, Marvin stuck some in his pockets and his mom got the bones, yes, the bones, wrapped up to go. The three Marvin's were all tense, having said very little to each other and even less to me throughout the meal. I was just glad it was over, but the happiness was mixed with white knuckle fear since I knew I had to drive back with Marvin's father behind the meal. Marvin's brother shook Marvin's hand, kissed his father, said something tense to his mom and left. Marvin's senior paid the bill and left no tip as far as I could see, and we got back in the car to go home. I made it safely, though I was in a cold sweat because we spent 20 minutes heading back towards Atlantic City again, and I was afraid he'd make more wrong turns and I'd end up in Newark or out of Mongolia or someplace. We got home, and I never got in that car again. This has been your New York Minute. Glad to hear you made it back, okay? Once you've done that one time, you would know never to get back in that car again, but I thought Philadelphia was the city of brotherly love. It was just fascinating how deeper and deeper the rabbit hole got. Yeah, and when you think it's over, and then it's just not, and then you're home. Something in this, though, did remind me, or something in this, though, did make me think, do you think we're going to see a gritty remake of the Fresh Pinsebell Air? Can't you kind of see how that would be right for that sort of ridiculous? Yeah, but who could do it better than Will Smith for real? Come on. Nobody could. I don't think you could bring me a compact back to Philadelphia at this point. Plus Carlton, come on. You'd need a Carlton. Come on. He was going to Blake out. Yeah. Only Carlton could Blake out. And Uncle Phil, who's going to play Uncle Phil? Oh, Uncle Phil. I can't stop thinking about Tom Jones now. I do kind of wish that Will Smith, even in his modern appearances, was sort of somehow contractually obligated to have DJ Jazzy Jeff appear in all of his works. Yeah, right. That would be great. I think he takes himself way too seriously for that, though. Oh, Will Smith? Yeah. Yeah, well, I have a lot of respect for the man, although he's sometimes a little ridiculous. You can find all of Barry's blogry over at bmj2k.com, and you can find him on Twitter at bmj2k.com. Not really. Not really. So now we turn to the histoscope if it's working and around and available, and it rich hasn't sabotaged it. And what it is made out this time around. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go to that. [LAUGHTER] Come from beyond to save us from our own past, Gibraltar has found only one solution to protect us. Now is your horrible history. OK, Labcat, do you have any ingredients? OK, let's start. I have new. Cinnamon. Ton of dog. Provolom. Here at bat. Yeast. Leg up wrong. Yeah, some following the recipe. Look, it's all written down right here, OK? Let's just go. Scientists, my fellow mobsters, welcome you again to your horrible histories. Now stir it three times and go. That's not right. Are we into a fire? Anyway, the body of Elizabeth Short was found at the Lynn Mid Park District of Los Angeles on January 15, 1947. Remindsman found in a vacant lot on the west side of South Norton Avenue, midway between Pelosseum Street and West 39th Street. The body was discovered by a local resident, Betty Barstinger, who was walking her three year old yard. Short, severely mutilated body was found nude, severed at the waist, the train completely of blood. Her face had been slashed at the corners of her mouth towards the ears, creating the effect called the glass glows of my health. Her body had been washed and clean and had been posed, with her hands over her head. Now Topsie stated that Short was five feet, five inches tall, weighed 115 pounds, head like blue eyes, brown hair, and badly to get teeth. There were marks on her ankles and waist made by rope. The consistent being tied either spread eagle or hung upside down. Although the skull was not fractured, Short had bruising on the front of the right side of her scalp, with a small amount of bleeding from a southern right to its base from the right side. Consistent of a bloated head, the cause of death was blood loss from the last ratio to the face, combined with shock due to the concussion to the brain. William Randolph Hearst's paper in the Los Angeles Herald Express had a Los Angeles examiner since they analyzed the case. The black-tailed suit and the short head been wearing became a tight skirt and sheer blouse. Elizabeth Short came with a black dolly, and adventurers who prowled the Hollywood Boulevard as time passed, and the media coverage became more outrageous with the claims that her lifestyle made her infected material. On the 23rd of January, 1947, the killer called the editor of the Los Angeles examiner expressing concern in the news of the murder, trailed off in the newspapers, and offered to mail items belonging to the short editor. The following day, a package arrived in the Los Angeles newspaper, containing the short spurs certificate, business cards, photographs, names written on the piece's paper, an address book with the name Mark Henson embossed on the cover. Henson, the last person known to have seen Short alive on January 9, became the prime suspect. The killer would later write more letters to the newspaper, calling himself "the black dolly of Endure," after the name given to Short by the newspapers. On January 25, Short's handbag, one shoot were found in a garbage bin, a short distance from Norton Avenue. Due to the notoriety of the case, 150 men and women have confessed to the murder, and police are swamped with tips every time the newspaper mentions the case, or a poker movie about it is released. Sergeant John T. St. John, an detective who worked on the case until his retirement, stated, "It's amazing how many people will offer up their relatives," said the killer. Jerry Ramlo at Los Angeles Daily News Reporter stated, "If the murder was never solved, it was because of reporters. They were all over trampling evidence and withholding information. It took several days for the police to take full control of the investigation, during which time reporters roamed freely throughout the department's offices, extended officers desk, and answered their phones. Many tips from the public were not passed on to police, as the reporters had received them rushing out to get their scoops. So, guys, this might not be the best time to tell you, but it was actually me who killed it. It must be interesting, but it must be weird to be the murderer and to see the way the press is drifting away from the truth almost knowingly. Anyway, it's almost like they're complicit that they're like, "Well, we're both going to lie about this, I guess." The clarity, I must say, Gibraltar, they're always good, but it was nice to hear you clearly. So what do we have next on the docket? I believe that we have a duck-ass real, and make it so. Grudge yourself for another entry in the tale of murder, mystery, and dark motives. That is the ongoing saga of Doc Asriel, Angel of Death. In the last episode, Officer Corley tried to deal with conflicting orders related to a series of mysterious blue lights. And now, the latest episode of Doc Asriel, Angel of Death. Sergeant Parr sat in his office impatiently. Surely he hadn't seen what he had thought, but he would find out soon enough. Actually, he would find out right now. Come in. Parr moderated the stone of his voice somewhat. You wish to see me, Sergeant Parr? It was Jimmy Keenan, the supposedly retired smuggler. Want just a strong word, Keenan? Get in here and close the door behind you. Jimmy smiled ingratiatingly and did as he was told. I appreciate the hospitality, Sergeant. Once the door was closed, Parr approached his guest. His meaty hand darted out and grabbed the smaller man's lapel, flipping it forward. On the backside, a small golden triangle was revealed. Where did you get that? Keenan brushed Parr's hand away and straightened his jacket, hiding the icon of wings and eyes once again. Much the same place as you, I imagine. His smile infuriated the police officer. One of the wings of Doc Asriel has recruited me, presumably at the de angel of Death's insistence. Apparently, he has determined that I have skills he might find useful. Parr settled heavily into his chair. Of course he did. Of course he did. May I sit? The Sergeant gestured absently at the open chair opposite him. I don't like this, Keenan, and I don't like you. Why I'm hurt, Sergeant Parr, I'm a changed man. Save it for someone who might be fooled. I don't trust you, Keenan, but God's helped me. I trust Asriel. These recruited you. He's got a reason. The older man looked directly into the importer's eyes. I will work with you, as far as Doc Asriel is concerned, but I will also be watching you. If you step out of line, I will have you in chains faster than you can blink. Secret sign or no secret sign. My first concern is the people of the city. If you endanger them, I will risk Asriel's wrath to bring you down. Jimmy Smile broadened. Of course, Officer, I understand completely. It was very late. Officer Corley had walked miles during the last several hours, tracking down information about the so-called "blue light" experience. He had visited the sketchiest neighborhoods in the district following up leads. He had interviewed the sort of people who lived in such neighborhoods, individuals of questionable veracity at best. And yet, among the tales of alien abductions and fairy rings, Corley had actually gathered some useful information. Or at least interesting information. In the third neighborhood he had visited, Corley had noticed an unusual lightning rod. It hadn't met much at the time, but when he had seen an identical rod in the fourth and then the fifth neighborhood, he decided to backtrack to the first two neighborhoods. Doing so, he confirmed the presence of these lightning rods in every neighborhood where the lights had been sighted. Now, by the light of his dashboard, he was looking at a map. The young officer had marked the locations of each one lightning rod. They seemed to circle the district, though at irregular distances. There was a pattern that Corley couldn't see it, not just at the moment. He rubbed his eyes with his left hand. He was very late for dinner again, folding the map. He started his car. Surely, he would figure it out by morning. I am totally digging on your delivery. I don't know if you've done this before, but it's really- Oh, and other venues you mean? They thought just in the previous episodes. Well, not just our episodes or whatever, but- Yeah. Yeah. Get a little extra fully in there, I like the dramatic punch-up on the narration. That was fun. Nicely done, sir. You can actually find all of the Doc Azrael tales over at TheScreetLayer.com. Yeah, go check it out. It's a secret, but we're allowed to tell you. Yeah, but don't tell anybody. They're posted by Dave Duckley-Winton as Mad Scientist friends. Only tell cool people. Oh, and many thanks to all our contributors, since I'm a little something. I believe it is now time for- Mailbag. Yeah, she says it's like a question. Mailbag? Probably due to the long time away from the mics, we actually have a pretty full mailbag this time around. We do. So- It's huge. I don't have any. You know, I was standing away from the sack jokes. Yeah, it's uncomfortable- I didn't say sack, I just said it was large. See, 'cause I got class, bitch. If you want to send along anything, you can find us at comments@flashbulb.com. Please, please do. We enjoy it. First up, I believe we have a little commentary from Nutty regarding something from the New York Minute. Hello, Flashpulp Crew. This is New Chas, and I'm here to tell you all about Fire Island. Now, I don't- I'm not going to get into crazy detail, but as I had said before, I used to do summer on Fire Island. Basically, that would mean that my parents and my family would take a sailboat and we would go over and we would dock on Fire Island, which is a barrier beach to Long Island. Long Island is actually not a traditional island in the sense that it was made by a volcano, but it's actually a glacier formation. So during the Ice Age, basically a piece of Canada landed down right off New York and created the suburbs of New York City. And there's actually still frozen glacier underneath Long Island, and that is our primary water source. Now Fire Island is the barrier beach to Long Island, protecting us from the Atlantic Ocean. And the interesting thing about Fire Island is it's an ever-changing island because thanks to hurricanes and storms and basic erosion, it's constantly changing. It used to be one gigantic island and connected at two points in the east and the west of Long Island. And now there's a couple of inlets. There's the Fire Island inlet and then the other area that you can get out is the Shinnecock inlet. And that's just basically due to it constantly changing thanks to the ocean and weather and so forth. Now growing up on Fire Island, we used to have a lot of participation with the federal wildlife rangers and they used to tell us stuff and ghost stories, oh all sorts of fun ghost stories about land pirates that still walk the beach. Now what's a land pirate you wonder? Now this is where I was told and I have no credible historical backup for this other than being told this by many rangers. It was explained to me that Fire Island got its name because the land pirates, see because there is an inlet, there are lighthouses on Fire Island and the land pirates would create bonfires on the beach to trick ships at night into thinking they were the inlet and causing these ships to crash on the beach and when they would crash on the beach the pirates would then go on and loot the ship which is a very interesting form of piracy if you think about it. Very clever and because of that, that's how Fire Island got its name. Whether it be from the lighthouses or the land pirates, it's definitely interesting and there are all sorts of fun ghost stories about these land pirates that, you know, there goes still walk the beach and you can hear the whistling or whatever. My father's favorite story to tell would actually take place on the Great South Bay which is the bay in between Fire Island and Long Island and that was always about the headless clamor which has nothing to do with where Fire Island got its name but it's definitely a fun story that I plan on telling my children whether it's completely made up by my father or has some urban legend lore to it at all, I do not know. The fact that my uncle was a clamor when I grew up might have made the story even more interesting to me. Fire Island, many people know of from, I believe it was weekend at Bernie's took place on Fire Island or was it the Hamptons, I can't remember, many movies will be shot on Fire Island. The interesting thing about it is that studios can recreate almost any beach anywhere in the world but whenever they want to shoot a film that takes place on Fire Island they always have to go there in order to film it, they can't recreate it and I find that very interesting that it's easy to recreate other beaches but you cannot recreate Fire Island. My father is a merchant seaman and he's been all over the world and he always told me that Fire Island was the most beautiful beach he had ever been to and I didn't quite believe him of course because I don't believe anything my father tells me but in my travels thus far I will say that I've yet to find another beach with sand as soft as Fire Island as clean as Fire Island with water that has the right amount of waves, Fire Island you will get, you'll get big waves but not so big that you can't go swimming unless there's a storm sometimes you'll get that and they're not so little of waves that you don't have anything interesting to do. I've been to many beaches where swimming is essentially like going into a pool with salt or fresh water but you know at Fire Island you've got to go out past the breakers, you've always got waves to keep you entertained and it's a lot of fun. It's also a lot of fun to go down to the beach just before or after a hurricane, it's definitely interesting, the dunes, the water comes all the way up to the dunes at that point and that you can really see how this beach is protecting not just, I mean, not just that the dunes are protecting the rest of Fire Island but that the entire barrier beach is protecting Long Island and I always found that fascinating. Many people may know of Fire Island with the reputation of cherry grove and pine air which are very big gay communities on Lula, sorry, on Fire Island. They have a great big reputation, they have the Fire Island parade where lots of drag queens are marching in it and crazy whatever and this has been going on for as long as I can remember and it's been totally accepted and fine and never with controversy because essentially, yeah, it's their area which is wonderful. Now, you know, once a year in almost every city you get a pride parade but going to these communities, it's like pride parade, what, no, no, that's just regular life which is a lot of fun but there are a lot more communities than just those. There's also, there are, what is it, three areas I think? At least three if not more areas that are considered national wildlife area and what that means is that's federal land, it means that you cannot drive on the beach, it means that you cannot hunt there and it means that I believe you cannot live there permanently unless you are, you know, one of the concession owners, so people that stay there tend to be in boats, not so much in houses and you, anything you do there is a federal crime. Several years ago, actually, when I was younger, there was a law passed that allows women to expose their breasts in New York, it is completely 100% legal to walk around without a shirt on in New York, whether you be male or female. That's not the case federally, so a woman cannot take her bathing suit top off on the federal areas where she can on the state owned areas. Also, there's a part of Fire Island which is actually separated, it's a couple of islands now because of all the erosion but there's a part of it called Jones Beach that everybody is very familiar with and a lot of people don't realize that Jones Beach is part of Fire Island and that Robert Moses Beach is part of Fire Island and those are the public beaches that anybody can go to. Further out east is where you come into the communities where the beaches are a little bit more private and in order to get there you need to take a boat, a ferry which is a public boat and find your way over there. You can't just drive your car over their park and then go to the beach. If you want to do that, you have to go to Robert Moses or Jones Beach or further out east over by Brookhaven. Anyway, it's a beautiful area, absolutely gorgeous and I highly recommend anybody in New York in the summer to go and have a visit because it's wonderful. I will be swimming in the ocean, off Fire Island from Memorial Day weekend through Columbus Day weekend. For Canadians, that's the week after 2-4 all the way through Thanksgiving because it's just that much fun. Now a lot of people will give me a hard time, they'll say, "Oh, the water's so cold, Memorial Day weekend." Yeah, it's awesome, it's wonderful. How can you go swimming in October? Well, because the water's still warm, no matter what the air is like, the water is still warm. Once it heats up around July, August it gets really, really warm. It takes a long time for the heat to leave the water so it's still warm and swimmable. Anyway, there's my little story about Fire Island, I hope it was interesting. I hope you all enjoy the story about the land pirates, that's my favorite part. And yeah, that's Fire Island. Thanks a lot, Nutty. That was great. It was fantastic. I really love your stories. Yeah, that was a great story. We often discuss the show in the context of the pulp that came before it as it were. What this really reminded me of in a weird way, especially if you've ever watched Turner Classic Movies, they have the travel lugs, the short films where it's, "Here we are and beautiful Ottawa, Canada." And that was really sort of just this nice little walk around Fire Island that was really nice. Mm-hmm. Very lovely. Thanks, Nutty. Looking at it from all different angles, it's so cool that it's such a big... But also the modern twist, yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. How it survives. All right, Culture. Very nice. Very nice. I also think that we have our first audio comment from Tibi. Ooh. Oh, beloved mobster Tibi. Yes. Awesome. All right. Well, here what she has to say. I'm excited. Hi, this is Tibi from Oregon, and I'm making a comment from FC 63 regarding the probable or possible fan base of Jerry O'Connell. As far as I know, there is no such fan base. How he makes movies these days is a mystery to me, much like the Kardashians. I remember when he got fired from Sliders, one with his brother, the collective wisdom seemed to be that he would never work in this town again. And then a couple years later, he started popping up again, much like that bump under the carpet that never seems to be able to be hammered down. Nobody knows. I was gone to see any of his movies. Nobody, I know even watches movies when they're free on TV, so how does he keep getting work? Who knows? That's it, really. It was a really nice stand cast, and I look forward to the next one. It's not just that you're so sweet that I love you so much. It's so funny. I know. When Jerry O'Connell hears this, he's going to be so devastated. I know he's going to be so-- That was so harsh, Tibi. We're talking about a man who made kangaroo jack. He can survive another motion that we can't even-- Okay, so he and his brothers were on Sliders. And they got fun. At the same time. Like, was it the same time, the same room, okay, that's not really a question, but-- I'm trying to recall. I believe they just sort of wrote him out of the show, and had his brother take over the dashing-- What? That's weird. I could be wrong. My Sliders knowledge is a little fuzzy. Yeah. As far as I can remember, the entire cast of Sliders were eaten by a dinosaur in the last episode, so. You're joking, right? Like a Seinfeld. Uh, I'm probably joking. Okay. You know, the one thing I ever remember about Sliders is that there was an episode with a lady who's had mustaches. Oh, wow. That's excellent. That's some Twilight Zone writing right there. Your knowledge. Yeah. That's a nice land. That's a nice land. I think we're all agreed, Tibby. Yes. Yeah, that was a glorious review. I think they had to convince the kangaroo to work with him. It's so much fun, 'cause Tibby is always so much fun, and she has the best voice ever. Like, it's so cute and sweet. But that was like the most scaling review of a person I ever heard, so it was a really fun mix. I enjoyed it. Thanks for calling Tibby. Yeah, that was really nice. All right. Oh, my God, guys. Oh, my God, guys. Oh, my God, guys. It's peeps. It's peeps time. It's peeps time. Thank you. Time travel to Rich. Mm-hmm. We have commentary from you, but first we must try these peeps. I don't know. These peeps still seem pretty soft. I don't know that we've done it right. Uh-oh. Anyway, the shelf life of these things must be. Okay, so we're not just gonna have like a little bite out of one peep, we're all good. Yeah, it's still very soft. Oh, it's chocolate on the bottom, eh? Oh, these are special peeps. We're still Canadian, eh? So do you take the whole peep in your mouth, or just like little nibble in your head off? Can I bite its head off? And the eye appears to be just a piece of chocolate. Okay, so we're just gonna put it in our mouths. I wanna hear it go in your mouth. How much you like it? Oh, that's good. Schmellowy. It's nice with the chocolate. Yeah, I'm just gonna take off the head so I can get a pure peep experience. Tastes only the peep flesh. Yeah, there's no crusty exterior. I think I can totally do this again, maybe like not a whole lot, but especially 'cause there's chocolate on it. This would be like great for a lazy man's s'more. Mm-hmm. Throw this on top of a Korean record and throw it in the microwave. Mm-hmm. Yes. Nice, smart man. I'm a lazy man. Well, you know what? That was actually, I've been kind of afraid for the peep. Yeah, me too. And I was okay 'cause I'm not really a Schmellow kind of a girl, like if it's not cooked on an open fire. Yeah. But that was good. I could see how this could become a sentimental classic for people. Yeah. I don't know that I would go buy peeps, but if I had had it as a child, I think I would definitely be. It brought back memories of marshmallow brooms for me. Marshmallow brooms? Yes. Yeah, it's the same kind of thing, but different shape. Really? Is this where we should put the comedic discussion of the peeps that Rich sent us in? Peeps, peeps, marshmallow, chickies and bunnies, pink sugar, yellow sugar. Oh, I love them so much I can taste the difference between the pink and the yellow sugar. I can taste the eye and it's only painted on. You know, love peeps? Maybe you haven't had them properly aged yet. They're only good stale. You buy them, you slit the package, you go away for a couple of days. Come back when you can knock on the counter, you got some peeps there. Oh, peeps are good. They're seasonal. We can't just go get them now. We probably want them now. Got to wait. Peeps molt in the spring like soft shell crab. Then they come out in a 49 cents a box, not too bad day after Easter 10 cents a box. Eat them till you faint. Think I'll never want these again. A week later, you're looking for drug dealers, hey, hey, I got a hundred bucks. You got peeps. Hello, Flashpulp crew and fellow mobsters. Rich the time traveler here. Be warned, the following comments may be chronologically disjointed. I want to start out by saying nice work on the live show. I didn't realize you were repurposing an existing coffin tale, so as I was listening, I kept realizing it sounded familiar. And then I knew it was a previous episode, but I thought it was one of the urban legends reframed as a coffin tale. I searched back to the archives to figure out it had always been a coffin story. Memory is a funny thing. The coffin infrastructure and bomb marks are interesting. Will coffin be taking a tour of the states for a while, or this wrap up is visit. Greatly enjoyed the princess's long ride. I have to ask though, was it inspired by the Greek story of Atalanta, or perhaps the retelling of that story from Marlour Thomas and Friends creation free to be you and me? The He-Man track was awesome. I played it as a bit of background music the other day. I do have to confess four non-blondes may be a guilty pleasure for me, but hey, it was college. A lot of people were experimenting. Jeff opened a sore wound with his last spot of bother, not the actual spot, but his segue into it mentioning dead like me. That's one of the shows I really loved, and that was really hitting a stride when it got canned by the network. A real shame, and the follow up movie they made really didn't recapture the magic. Mike Anter's info about emergency calls and procedures gave me a real flashback. No, I was never an emergency operator, but one of my first jobs was developing and maintaining the software responsible for an I-1-1 service in the telephony network. Glad you're all enjoying the mystery box. Dun, dun, dun. Hopefully your peeps are now properly aged for tasting, and the words of a lame boozler, when you can knock on the counter with them, you got some peeps. That's about all for now. I'm still working my way through wool. I'm in the 4th novella out of 5 in the omnibus edition, and I really like where the story is going. Lots of twists and turns. We're heading to the Virginia mountains for the first week of July for our second big summer trip, and I hope to have time to finish reading it, so I can give it a proper review in my next set of comments. How are the story of Atalanta until you had brought it up, somehow a blind spot in my mythology, but interesting, and I now want to look up this free-to-be you and me thing because it also sounds, you know, I love that sort of '70s empowerment fairytale telling, as probably came through a little bit in the story. I see how you might draw some lines there. A lot of that is just coming out of annoyance with reading other fairytales lately. In bringing up the princesses long ride, which makes me think Mulligan's long ride too, which is funny, but when bringing that up, it totally made me think of all the new princess movies that have been coming out and Disney and stuff. They just had tangled, and now they have brave, and they're coming out with a new one called Frozen that's going to feature the Snow Queen fairytale, which again ties back into fairytales and stuff, you know, sort of a big revival lately, this female empowerment thing. Just like you were saying, back in the '70s, they had this, well, not exactly the same sort of, but yeah, yeah, this is the next advancement of that, maybe, a little bit. So, yeah, good call, Rich, that was a good story. Way to go, Jaredie. Jessica May and I were also huge fans of Dead Like Me back in the day. Oh, yes. I have to admit, we haven't seen the film. I haven't even really seen the series much. That's one of those we've been seeing it put together. I remember the horror and the hope that everyone would come, like, that this studio would figure it all out. Whether they would get the money, that the actors would be secured, and that we would get another season at it. We were way more involved in the process of the possible renewal of that show. Yeah, it went like real time when it was happening. Yeah. What's going on with Manny Potemkin? Oh, and then we found out when he finally had to move on to a different project. It was just on the bubble for a long time, and it was really critically popular, but not necessarily pulling in the eyeballs that it should have been in the only cabinet. Like Firefly. Yeah. And so us geeks have to miss out. No, I must say, some of the episodes, the writing was great a lot of the time, but there were some inconsistencies in the characterizations from episode to episode sometimes. So was it written by more than one person? I have to assume so, and it was sometimes... So you'd get these variances of who they thought the character was. Yeah, or they would all of a sudden be quite darker. Yeah. George is really the character to me, who went up and down the most, just in weird directions like she would seem like she was going to be... Okay. Yeah. And she was pulled back into mind seeing how old family was. She, you know, hated popular people, and then suddenly she would act like a valley girl. And then... Well, she was just trying to find her guys. I understand. I understand. You're like, "Yes, I understand the premise of the show, just give me..." But we never saw the film. No. No, we didn't. JRD. Well, I heard it was kind of terrible, so it never really went to the top of my list of watches. Despite our love for the show. By the time the film came out, we had sort of moved on a little bit, and that's just a... I was literally... I'm mostly invested so many things were happening at the end of the season, you know? And then they killed Wash, and I mean, what? And as you can tell, Rich, we've continued Coughton's tour around the States a little bit. I do get a little antsy, because we're in a territory that I haven't personally visited, but I've tried to do as much research as possible to make it convincing. Tibby seemed to... Well, I felt, especially when we were doing the Oregon episodes, I feel like kinship with those folks, because I do feel like their terrain is something familiar to me in Northern Canada, at least. But when you get down to Vegas, that is, outside of my experience a little bit. And I've done my best to sort of remind that, but... You're like, they were hot. Yeah. They were really warm all the time. Yes. Except that's not even true, because I had to make it uncea- well, not had to, but it was unseasonably warm that it, as mentioned. It's... Mm-hmm. It was even hotter. It was even hotter than normal. And it's hot. Yeah. Absolutely. Fortunately, I had Jessica May's brain to pick on that one, because she has actually been to Vegas, so... Which is handy. Ahhh. I liked it so much more than I thought I would. Yeah. I had no idea. And then it was magic. Yeah. Magic. We need to have a mob meetup in Vegas. For real. Many thanks for the comments. Rich. I hope you had a great vacation. Mm-hmm. Over the tardis to set down safely, and it's cooling now in the garage. Yes. Boy, did your vacation photos look awesome. I kind of pictured the tardis having that ticking sound after you've been driving for a long time, you know? Mm-hmm. It's kind of cool enough. All right, well, I think that brings the mailbag to a conclusion. As I mentioned earlier, if you want to throw in your own words of wisdom, travel logs, fantastic commentaries on Gerry O'Connell. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You can sort of want to get on your bad side. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't want to worry anybody, but he's listening. And obviously Gerry O'Connell knows how to kidnap somebody's child and threaten them with it, because I can only assume that-- Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, he's married to Rebecca Romaine, and I remember Stemos. Really? She was a Stemos, yeah. Yeah. All right. Or maybe they're dating, but they've been together a long time. But we'll put up a Jesse. I don't know. I'm assuming that she wasn't good enough for him. That's how I figure it. Yeah. She's a bitch. She's a bitch. I do a Jesse of hope. I've been-- I have some loose ideas. Better than loose morals. Maybe I should just discuss my loose ideas, because we haven't really firmed them up. And maybe people have, like, opinions. You're like, where are you going with this? Yeah. I would like some sort of, like, weekly contest or something, something that I'm participating in other than, like, captioning contests, but, like, something where I end up having to write a little ditty for someone in particular. Oh, yeah. You're in particular. And I don't know if it would be just about the person, or whether they would have to pick some sort of-- Well, were they submitting a little poem or something? Something. I don't know. We're going to have to work on this, people, but I need some ideas, and then I will write you ditties. Ditties. But I would like for it to, like, be a rather small thing, so it's fairly easy for me to do for you. Yeah. I don't swish your look. But, yeah, just the book on your brain, let it sustain-- I think the lyrics. The lyrics in short poems. Possibly about Jerry O'Connell? Yeah. Kudos if they are. Yeah, maybe I could incorporate the topic and the person. Hmm. Yes. So is that what you're saying now? Is that it's poems and lyrics about Jerry O'Connell? I don't know. That's it. Okay. We're in the mob. Yeah. Yeah. We'll talk about it further in the mob. Everyone go there. Look for the thread. That would be the flash mob on Facebook. Yeah. Go there. We're so much friends. Or you can find them. They're all the time. Oh, and dot FB.me slash mobsters. There you go. There we go. He's so cute. He's supporting me and shaking his head, yes, with a big smile, like, yes, you did it. Mmm. Mmm. They are. Oh. Now, Rachel. So, um, I don't know if anybody saw recently in the mob I put up a sketch of Mulligan. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's drawing his hair out a little bit. I really like that. Yeah, I think. So bad. I think, Amy was mentioning she liked the strong chin. We should actually have a section in the mob for that sort of artwork. For my fan art of Mulligan. One of the things I enjoy about our audio-only format is the variations that people come back with. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. The differences, even amongst what you've done, but I love what Nutty's done and great Snaters take. Mm-hmm. Um, so that was lots of fun. I want to get that inked and colored in. That should be awesome. Mm-hmm. Oh, well, I mentioned the site changes earlier. I also intend on posting up a art section that'll have some backgrounds and some fan art that people have submitted. Mm-hmm. Jeremiah Alkins has done some Blackhall and Mulligan work that just looks fantastic. Yeah, I really love that Blackhall too. Mm-hmm. That's one of my favorites. Not to pick favorites. Mm-hmm. Just carry on. Mm-hmm. Anyway, um, so I haven't done, aside from my baby Mulligan, I haven't done any of her art work recently, but I have been working on the wiki quite a bit lately. Oh, what about the Skinner Coes? Oh, yeah. You can have those like a crazy lady. Yeah, I think, um, we're coming up to week 27 for the Skinner Coes. Mm-hmm. This is number 27, and I've got a couple waiting in the wings too. Mm-hmm. That's crazy awesome. Yeah, and that's an awesome... And they're so good. I can't wait for you guys to see them. So good. It's good practice. And I learn lots of new skills and stuff doing and getting all the mad skills. But what I'm really pleased about right now is how the wiki's coming along because I'm working on redoing the whole front page and I swear to God, I'll make a user before the next Flashcast. Yeah, anybody wants to go down there and make a user, I'd be happy to put a link to them. In fact, she wants you to. On the Flashflow page. Mm-hmm. We definitely appreciate the help. I've told you you can include... Yep. It's lots of fun. Frankly, it helps me just as much as anybody else because I have to go back and double check my details all the time, so it would be helpful to have that reference. Mm-hmm. I just added a section for the Glorious, who weren't actually represented there, I was surprised. And we have all the Flashcasts linked up there as well, and a new section for special episodes, guest episodes, and the Urban Legends and stuff like that. So go check it out if you... if you're interested. Yeah, nicely done. Lots of little nuggets to buy in there. Good dankets. Backroom plots. Before I discuss the actual Flashpelt-related business, I had a personal experience recently that I thought I'd bring up because a lot of people at the time of what's happening seemed interested in my opinion on the situation, so I recently had acupuncture for the first time. Yes. Okay. I did not. I had a bit of tennis elbow. Mm-hmm. A smidge of the elbow, if you will, which... Or a smell bow. Oh, that's an empirical unit of measure? Mm-hmm. Yeah, okay. A smell bow. Yeah. Isn't that how Noah measured the arc? Smell bows? That was sminches. No, I see. I carry on. So I have a lot of skepticism going into a situation like that, but the person I was seeing had none of the energies aspect of how she provided it. It was directly... her explanation was essentially that the tendons needed to re-knit in a proper configuration, so she was damaging them, and the old break the nose to re-fix the nose situation. Yeah. See, it worked brilliantly. Yeah. I mean, she applied a few other therapies as well. So I can't promise that the acupuncture is what fixed me, but... But you've been therapist. Yeah. And I must say I had a little bit of concern as well, because my understanding is that often chiropractors do not want you to no longer be a patient, this lady, amongst other things, was a chiropractor. But I mean, I was there for, I think, three sessions, and a problem that had been nagging me for a long time has now resolved, so... Yeah, you're not complaining anymore, guys. Yeah. And that's great. That's rough. Whee! Whee! Whee! So I've been listening to a lot of the Raybeats lately. The Raybeats? My dog got Raybeats once. We had to put him down, he was very sad. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] So, yeah. You're into that sort of thing, eh? [Laughs] You like that? It's interesting. I've listened to surf music for a long time now. Mm-hmm. And I've never really... It's not like every time I sit down for a musical interlude, it's surf guitar. But at the same time, it's managed to stay with me a lot longer than some other genres have. Yeah. You wouldn't think there'd be that much variation, but it's so good. I generally like the music that you bring up during the show, but I do not support you in the surf. Are you? I'm disappointed in you. Oh my goodness. [Laughs] We may have to come to Fisticuffs over this. Uh-oh. You know. You know we will. [Laughs] So, there's always an issue when I'm doing coffin stories. And this especially came up in the tale that was the return of coil, if you recall that. Mm-hmm. Three part of it we did not long ago. Uh, which really, the current coffin tales are really the fallout of that and having to leave the city. There's always a balance about killing people. Because... You can't go back once you've... Well it's not. I don't want the stories to become, we've discussed the Conan problem in the past for one. Yes. Yeah. In which you must kill an increasing number of swordsmen every time. But also, I don't want it to be just chucking generic henchmen into a meat grinder all the time. Mm-hmm. I want death to be taken seriously. Mm-hmm. Uh, but it really reminded me of Batman in a weird sort of way. 'Cause Batman's the counterbalance, right? Batman never kills anybody. But he gets to the point where there's certain things that Batman does that are absolutely ridiculous and basically break the character's reality because he can just be shot. Like at any point, but he refuses to kill anybody. Mm-hmm. Um, even if you watch the Nolan Batman films, there's a scene, uh, I believe from Dark Knight, in which they're in a bar and there's like 50 guys he punches in the face in consecutive order and it's just, it doesn't-- Then it just punches again. Yeah, it's-- The 50th guy doesn't shoot him. And if you recall, even the '89 Keaton Batman, where there's like, you know, ricochets just flying all over and, and I know that the armor is supposed to protect him from bullet wounds and whatever. Yeah, it's the armor. It's got like a fair amount of exposed face and-- Anyway. Yeah. For real. Hala. So it's finding the balance. And not always finding justice through the barrel of a gun, really. Not having the transgressor having to die at the end of every episode, so. I'm interested to hear some feedback about this last repurter we just concluded. Mm-hmm. Word. Yeah, just some thoughts. Before we close out, I did want to mention, and this is something I should have brought up in popular dress, but our friends over at Radio Project X are holding another-- Oh, they are. --live show at the Black Swan on Danforth in Toronto. I really wish we could make it. You can make it. Yeah, unfortunately. You can make it go. Yeah, we have babysitting troubles. Yes. But if you are in the area, we highly recommend it. Mm-hmm. You can just set the door, and all the booze you can handle inside, as long as you pay for it. Yeah, and you're not a jerk. Only nice people. Yeah, yeah. If you'd like to follow our further misadventures, you can follow SkinnerCo on Twitter, or you can follow us individually at @jarityskinner. You can also follow me if you want to on the Twitter at @thejessicamay. Or you can follow me. It's opoponax with a 0, 0-p-o-p-a-n-a-x. We've got to do something about that, because as if your name wasn't difficult enough. Hey, you guys got to learn how to spell opoponax. And then learn to misspell it. Learn to spell it, and then learn to misspell it. With 0. I can't help it that there are wannabes. You totally need to do this. Yeah. Don't hate. Big thanks to Jim. Thank you, Jim, for everything you do. This buds for you? No. For hosting, wiki.flashpump.com. That too. And flashpump.com. That one as well. Enjoy the show. Tell a friend. 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