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FC57 - Facebook Cancer
[music] Hello and welcome to Flashcast57, a Skinner Co. presentation. Skinner Co. intimately familiar with the muffin. This episode of Flashcast was made possible by donations from Colorado Joe, Ryan Hill, Doc Blue, Joojoo Click, and Scott Roche. We love you guys. Prepare yourself for Dalek Relaxation, Facebook Cancer, Sperm Hunters, Soda, Powerless, and Ruby. Hi, I'm Opoponax, and Rubber Duckie, I got a great big convoy of Jessica May. Hello, and GRD. Hello, before we get into the meat of the show, I think we should all work to get into the right mindset. Welcome to Dalek Relaxation for Humans. Take a deep breath in through your nose. [music] Now, exhale through your mouth softly. Focus on slowing down your breathing into a calm rhythm. Inhale, you are becoming more and more calm. Exhale, you are feeling more and more relaxed. Inhale, calm, calm, calm. So, this is something I thought you might find interesting, Jessica May. Did you, well, both of you, really. Did you see that article about Prada using the Final Fantasy characters to showcase their men's spring summer collections? No, that's pretty awesome. I did not hear. I found it a very interesting approach. They've just essentially 3D-modeled all of the clothing and put it on the very pretty Japanese characters. They're very pretty Japanese-cared. I think they're actually just using the Final Fantasy A13 II characters, which you weren't really a huge fan of that game, as I recall, or mostly original. But Final Fantasy A13? Not A13 II, but A13, yeah. Well, it's the same characters, right? Yeah, I guess. I thought it was an interesting approach to marketing, for sure, but at the same time, I wonder what the ramifications are for this reminds me. Do you remember that movie, Simone? Simone? I love that movie. I still feel like that was ripped off, eh? From Ico-cou, or something? Ico-cou, William Gibson's Ico-cou. Ico-cou, Ico-cou. There's increasingly this mix of digitally created, even to the level of maybe Photoshop models on the front of covers, all the way down to, you know, now we've got Final Fantasy characters modeling real clothing. Mm-hmm. It's interesting that we're going in that direction. Yeah, entirely unsurprising. It also brings to mind that, I believe it was a Japanese pop band. Of course it was. That they had sampled all of the band members to create the lead singer who was, like, a digital collaboration of a lot of them. That's really cool. It was supposed to be like the uber J-pop cute girl. Hmm. That's a cute concept. Yeah. And again, it reminds me a lot of that Simone movie. Which I must again say that I loved. Yeah, well. I love Al Pacino, though. Now in an entirely different direction. Whoa! Uh, yeah. Dylan Orion on Twitter mentioned to me the other day some very exciting news. Okay. Killer clowns from outer space. Oh boy. Is getting a sequel. What? In 3D. Who's paying for it? Well, here's the thing. It's become a cult classic, right? Yeah. I know. You made me watch it. Remember? You sound like you're scared by the event. I am on the inside. Um, it's interesting because it got me thinking about the long game, right? When they originally made this film, when they originally made killer clowns, they obviously thought it was going to make some money. But at the same time, they could have in no way predicted the sort of life course that that film, you know, to originally come out and become almost like the thing that you know because it's so ridiculous. You know what I mean? But then to over time, gain a certain sort of reputation and certainly I can't think of too many other B level was that 1988 films that have had that sort of longevity in the popularity. It's like, as you're talking, just my mind is blanking and nothing but scenes from that movie you're passing through. God, it was horrible. So, yeah, I'm quite excited about that. There's spaceship tent. Yeah. Fantastic. How many years? It's been, what, I guess, uh, 26 years, not 28 years since it was released, the first one? Uh, yeah, something like that. Yeah. That's a long time to wait per sequel. Yeah, well, hmm. That's true, but actually they got me thinking as well to sort of the long game sense of these, uh, these properties. Like, I, in the same way that there's no way these guys could have predicted where their property was going to end up, you know, when, um, George R. Martin was originally writing the first game of Thrones books. He certainly wasn't thinking, "Oh, this is gonna make a great series on HBO." Haha, maybe he was. Yeah, right. Uh... It is known. Haha. Oh, wait, that actually reminds me, have we ever mentioned on the show about how Jon Snow is Luke Skywalker? Um, no, I don't think so. He's just constantly whining, but you want him to get back to his Jedi training. Yeah. He's always trying to run away from the wall. Haha. Yeah, Jon is so known. Oh, that's true. Not interested in going to Tashi Station to pick up some power converters. Haha. Totally. You know, um, I've actually recently gotten on Tumblr and, uh, I saw this picture and it was like all medieval tapestry-esque. And it was like these two nights fighting. And it was like, "Lucas, I am thy father." Nooooo! But is all medieval style? Yeah, fairly. Totally medieval style. Actually, uh, speaking of swordplay, Strasbourg sent in some gold. Uh, he was mentioning, as I believe we had suggested, might be a possibility, or as we predicted, as it were. Uh, there's going to be a new Masters in the Universe, he-man series. Oh, that's awesome. He-man. Slayed it for July, apparently. He-man was always much cooler than Shira. Yeah, well, I mean, I continue to hold that, uh, Shira was at the disadvantage of just being a knockoff. In the same way that it's really tough to go from the original quarantine to rec or whatever. Yeah. Because you know the original series, there's- it's really tough to get into Shira 'cause it's just he-man for girls. Yeah. Or he-man with a girl which bent. Which is unfortunate. I would like to see, you know, why can't we do both anyway? In one mega show. What- why can't Shira have a battlecat? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, Strasburg was also mentioning Jugger. Have you guys heard about this before? It sounds derogatory. Oh, I was- Isn't he the one in the comics that had the little crown and all those eight hamburgers? Check in. Oh, her. Uh, that was a bit of a stretch. Yeah. Shut up. Um. By way of introduction, let's go to the trailer for the film. ♪♪ From the author of Blade Runner and Lady Hawk. Jugger's coming! Jugger's! Jugger's coming! They're coming! They're coming! In a future ravaged by war, all eyes are on. Jugger's. Outcast champions playing a game of survival. Jugger! Punishing! Punishing! This is the story of Kitty, who has heard tales of a world far better than the one fate has given her. Is there a lot of such a thing as so? She will do anything. I got speed, I can run. I'll quick for you. She will risk everything to be one of the judges. Okay, I have a couple of things to say about this movie. I really loved Lady Hawk, and I can't remember what they said the other movie was, but I remember being impressed by that too, and thinking, "Really?" It was probably Blade Runner. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I said, "Really, wow, that's so awesome!" But then they're like, "They're Juggers. They're sports, whatever, thing." But doesn't it matter? And I thought, "Oh, what? This is totally ridiculous." Okay. And I was getting very, very disappointed, and then Root Girl Howard came on screen, and everything was okay again. David Webb People is the guy who wrote and directed the film. Also, co-wrote Blade Runner, co-wrote Lady Hawk, co-wrote Leviathan. I love that movie. Unforgiven is entirely his script, apparently. Okay. Although he supposedly wrote it in the 70s, and it just took a long time to get made, which I thought was really interesting. He also wrote Hero. I don't know if you remember that one. Not such a great film. Not the Asian hero one. Oh, no. Yeah, sorry, the one with... It's got to... What the heck is that? Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman. Dustin Hoffman. Dustin Hoffman, yeah. Definitely. Definitely. He also co-wrote with the Lady, 12 Monkeys, with Gang of Peoples. Mm-hmm. But... You know... So, no wait. So that looks like a fun expenditure of a Saturday night, right? Like, you've had maybe a couple of Wobbly Pops and you're watching a poorly made film. Or, you know, made with the... What I love about these films with these fantasy flavors is that they're made in the utmost earnestness, but they maybe don't necessarily convey quite as they should. Like, if your world problems end up culminating, somehow in you having to conduct a sporting event, it'd be like... I don't know. Relations... Relations break down with North Korea, and everyone decides, well, you know how we're going to settle this? Basketball. Yeah, we're going to totally... Space Jam. Harlem Globetrotters versus whatever you got. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. But, you know what the trailer really wanted me to, like, really made me think of? Hmm. Root Girl Hauer, what is best in life? Yeah. Yeah, a little bit, eh? A little bit. But, uh, what Strasburg really brought to my attention, though, and what I found very interesting is, although this film seems to have gone into, you know, the back catalog of films without too much notice here in North America. Yeah, I've never heard of it. It never sees. Apparently, it got some traction. Really? And people actually play a variant of Jugger to this day, and there are... That doesn't surprise me very much. Ever expanding leads of Jugger players. That's interesting. And not only that, but better yet, there's some sort of split in the Jugger community, where some members of Jugger play a modified rule set, which is a little bit safer, and some people play a rule... Our core Juggers. Yeah, exactly. The Jugger loads. The original lists. Wow, that's rough. Yeah, I thought that was awesome. So, I'll provide some links. I got some items for the notes, but... Is it out already? This film? Yeah. No? It was made in 1989 or something. Oh, 89? Oh, geez. What am I thinking? I was thinking Joan Chen. She looks so young. Wow. I'm surprised. She did such a good job in the last emperor, but she doesn't look like she's aged today. Anyway, I thought that was pretty fantastic. Mm-hmm. You know, I just realized I may have been mispronouncing it all the time. It may be Strasburg. Strasburg. Meh. Hopefully he doesn't mind. Fantastic, fellow. That was fantastic. That was incredible. I always had Strasburg in my mind when I was thinking of J Strasburg. Oh, my gosh. You would not believe... It came to my attention this... I guess it's a story from Facebook. Oh, yeah! About a woman? Yeah, I saw this in the notes. It actually reminded me of the last collective detective that we did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, a woman on Facebook. Okay. It was like someone rather Vegas. This is true, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. True story. Okay. Someone rather, I can't remember her name, something Lady Vegas. Vegas. Okay. She goes on Facebook and she tells like all these people that she's got, like... Horrible cancer. Horrible cancer. Okay. And she's going to die and she wants to marry the father of her child. Okay. And have this like big dream wedding. You know, so she gets all these donations. She gets like a wedding dress. She gets flowers. She gets gifts. She gets a trip. All sorts of stuff. One thousand two hundred dollar wedding dress. Wow. Yeah. Okay. That's just the dress. But anyway, the point being she gets a whole lot of money. Only for people to find out that she's not sick at all. What actually happened is her fiance, the dude, he called the doctor and was like... He didn't know. He didn't know. He thought she was going to die. They got divorced. So this was like post wedding he found out? I guess. Yeah, because she got the wedding. She got the trip and everything. And you just thought she was doing very well? I don't know. But he called the doctor. But he's reconciled and had another child or whatever. What? That's pretty crazy. I know. If I were that dude. That's a tough one to like, laugh off. Remember that time you totally told me you had cancer and we really believed you were going to die in a couple of months? Remember all those donations you got from complete strangers that you were totally like stringing along. And she's being charged with your friends. Yeah. But she's being charged with fraud. Oh good. Et cetera, et cetera. But how terrible. Yeah. I'm sure it's not the first time at first something. I couldn't let that pass my lips if it wasn't true. Yeah. You probably couldn't even let it pass your lips if it were true. Let alone like, faking something like that. For presents. I like presents. It's nearly my 30th birthday everybody. That's right. It's less than I'm on the way. And maybe you won't see it because of that mysterious lump that you better send presents. Yeah. Yeah. I've been feeling a little under the weather. Feeling kind of cancer-y. Oh. Thanks. Okay, well, before we move into the other more regular spot of bother. [laughter] I did want to mention briefly, as we will probably be bugging folks every episode from now until the event. It's almost Jessica's birthday. [laughter] And I like presents. Also, fan expos are pretty good. I know. It is. Yeah. We've gotten our tickets. You know what? We reserved the hotel. Okay, again, we should make clear. We have tickets to fan expo and we will be releasing a shadow agenda, a backup schedule for folks who want to meet up and hang out. But at the same time, we are not maintaining a booth of any sort. We don't have a table. We are free roaming throughout the event. Yeah, we are just hanging out. And we would be happy to hang out with you. Mm-hmm. Come swing by the mob or email us at skinner.fm if you would like to keep in touch on the topic. Yeah, depending on how many of us there are, we could go to snakes and lattes and play some board games one night maybe. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And I continue. I don't want to hold Jeff to it because it is still a ways out, but it would be fantastic. I believe Mr. Lynch plans on being on hand. Yes. Yeah, he has reserved a room at the mobster hotel. And a right to be bothersome. Oh, and we have... I believe that Rich has as well. Yeah. But, you know, yeah. So if anybody wants to convoy. My heart is skipping. To carpool. Carpool up for... There's... There's so many of you Americans and you guys can carpool and come hang out with us. We'll be there all three days. August 23rd to 26th. We're saving up our pennies so we can take you out. And also because they're not being printed anymore. They recently announced some more guests. It's still a ways out there. Yes. Oh my God. Juiceilla and Spike. Oh my God. I can't wait. I can't wait. I really want to meet Spike. Yeah, that'd be cool. I'd be like, "Hey Spike, what's going on? How is Buffy doing these days?" There is a small chance that episodes are going to be delayed after Fan Expo as I may be in the can for having accidentally touched cards. What? I may accidentally assault. Don't assault anyone, especially Captain Picard. He knows Jiu Jitsu. Hey, can you give me the Picard to hand me on the back? Yeah. Okay. Well, on that up note, let's order in to spot a bother. Spot a bother. There's a new African safari underway and it's not what you might think. In this case, the local women are the hunters and young men traveling around the country in Zimbabwe are the prey. No, they're not being slaughtered so that their heads can be exhibited on some lovely lady's living room wall, but they are being mounted so to speak. Here's more from the Telegraph. Susan Delwayo claims she pulled her car over recently to pick up a group of male hitchhikers and they refused to get in because they feared they were going to be raped. "Now men fear women," they said. "We can't go with you because we don't trust you." 19-year-old Mrs. Delwayo recounted. Local media have reported victims of the highway prowlers being drugged, subdued at gun or knife point, even with a live snake in one case, given a sexual stimulant and forced into repeated sex before being dumped on the side of the road. The sperm hunters first surfaced in the local press in 2009, but police have only arrested three women, found with a plastic bag of 31 condoms in October. The attacks have continued since they were nabbed for allegedly violating 17 men. "We do not have the exact number of confirmed cases," said a national police spokesman. These cases occurred mostly when the victims were hitchhiking and boarded private vehicles. We encourage people to use public transport. The sperm's exact use is not clear, but it is thought to be intended for juju or traditional rituals to bring luck, anything from enhancing good fortune, boosting business or preventing a criminal from being detected. It is also not known why the semen is taken forcibly from strangers. "It's really an issue which is mind-boggling," said a University of Zimbabwe sociologist, who believes it is a lucrative business. "It's quite a big mystery. Obviously, we know it's being used for rituals." The sociologist said he was astonished to discover seven years ago that semen appeared to have become a tradable commodity. While doing research for his doctoral thesis among Herrera Street Youth, who told him that the businessmen would take them to hotels, give them new clothes and ply them with booze, they were then told to pick a prostitute and to hand over the used condom after sex. "It just shows there's some big racket somewhere, some big guys driving everything. But they are in the background in using these ladies," he said. The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association criticized the practice. "We believe that this is a form of witchcraft, so we are totally against the idea," said spokesman George Kangeiro. "It has really frightened people," he said. "It has really brought in a bit of shock because normally it was the other way around. Normally we know of men raping women, not women raping men." A Zimbabwean woman's rights group has criticized the spotlight shifting to male rape victims and paid for a newspaper advert to deploy that violence against women in the country is not met with the same degree of shock. The three women linked to the case, meanwhile, have stirred much attention and public anger. Audiences pack into the dreary courtrooms each time they appear on the docket and one of their lawyers said they have received death threats. No law in Zimbabwe criminalizes rape by women, so the trio arrested with one man faced 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault, though no trial date has yet been set. Dumasani Mathimbi, a lawyer for two of the women and the man, complained that five months after their arrest, prosecutors have yet to produce DNA test results. A charged sheet or witness statements, but nonetheless have, paraded the women around on national television as female rapists. "We have not been given anything, nothing," the attorney said. "We believe they don't want us to go to trial because they arrested the wrong people." The case has triggered a mix of shock, intrigue and humor, such as one newspaper cartoon showing a nude hitchhiker hoping to be picked up by a female driver, but also fear among some men. "Of course we are scared," said a 26-year-old hitchhiker on a highway south of Harrer, adding he would not get into a car driven by a woman. "Even if she's old, we can't." Now, personally, I think the locals should market Zimbabwe as the next big spring-break destination for young college men all over the world. After all, you can't rape the willing. I'm Jeffrey Lynch, and that's this week's Spot of Bother. Yeah, that's disgusting, and it was for rituals or thought to, and I loved how... Well, these things usually have secondary motives. Yeah, I can't remember who it was. It was the attorney or somebody who was speaking on behalf of the community was saying that they really denounced this behavior because it's witchcraft, and it's been really frightening people. The parallels, fascinating with sort of the '50s awareness of rape, like that uprising period where it became worrisome to hitchhike, and it really became a concern that was recognized, you know what I mean? The attitudes around it, like that comic strip with the nude hitchhiker, but if you had flipped that around and you had a nude female hitchhiker being like, "Here, come have sex with me." That would totally not fly, at least not in North America. Yeah, well, where else would it? Well, she would be, well, she'd totally be a slut. Whereas a guy's doing it, and he's just your average Joe trying to get some. I have to admit, I realize that that argument is made quite a bit, especially on the intertubes, and I actually sort of swing both ways. I'm not really a fan of either side of the gigolo scale. You have a problem with jigalos? Seems like you're opening up big can of worms. Have you ever seen the movie "Do Spigolo Male Gigolo?" Yeah, I don't really think that's what jigalos are like. I think if there's a happy jigolo, he should jiggle on. I'm all on board with the Heinlinian jigolo, I suppose, but we don't live in that sort of world. Anyway, this is a much deeper can of worms. Yeah, well, that's what I was asking. What are you doing, sir? Great entry, Jeff. Yes, thank you. Yeah, oh, yeah, that was awesome. It was gross, it was awesome. Jeff's been putting out a lot of great pieces lately over at bothersomethings.com, so it's definitely worth checking out. Yeah, you should go there. Mm-hmm. Plenty more bother on hand. Alright, well, we go from here to the mean streets of New York. I'm Barry, and this is your New York Minute. Hollywood Russell and the Case of the Virtuous Vixen, Part 3. Hollywood Russell was nobody's slouch, except for his hat there was no slouch about him. He entered his office, and there she was, sitting behind his desk and striking a pose that no one of Hollywood's gender could ever hope to achieve. "Russell," she purred. "It's Hollywood nowadays," he replied. She stood up. It wasn't that way when you were selling novelty toilet paper door-to-door back in Tennessee. Hollywood groaned. Why do people keep bringing that up? To be continued... I'm Barry, and this is your New York Minute. And I need some help this week, folks. Back in the early to mid-80s, there was a morning radio show called Breakfast with Bob and Betty. It aired in New York City on, I think, the old W.M.C.A. It was long after it left the classic "Good Guys" music format, but long before it adopted the current "God Guys" Christian talk format. And yeah, that's true. It was really a strange show. I was young, and I used to listen to it as I got ready for school. I'm not sure that says about me. Every other kid was listening to Z100. They're a motto. You can never get too much a flock of seagulls. And I was listening to old folks who talked about their razor blades. So what was the show about? Well, it was an attempt to recreate an old-style radio show from the 40s and 50s. Bob and Betty were a real-life senior citizen-married couple who invited listeners into their kitchen, where they served coffee, and coffee was a major sponsor, and discussed the day's events. Neighbors, and I hope you can hear the air quotes, would drop by to give traffic and weather updates. And strangely, they would drop by regularly every 20 minutes or so. Bob and Betty should have gotten a better lock. Bob and Betty would read the paper and discuss news events, and they would sometimes somehow include the listeners in their conversation. Bob, I see that the president is at it again. Betty, oh dear, and what do our listeners think? Bob, they're shaking their heads in amazement. Betty, would they like more Maxwell House dark-blend coffee from the container with the Stay Fresh Seal? Bob, but of course, Betty, yum. They were also focusing and talked about such things as when to replace your razor blades. Bob, a few days later, claimed that the listeners didn't stop calling about that topic. It really caused a stir. It seems that Bob changed blades every month, while his listeners were aghast. They got three months out of a blade. I think they were just too cheap to buy a new blade. They talked about cleaning your drapes, washing the dog, all the sorts of things you'd expect to happily marry 1950-style radio couple to talk about on the radio. But they weren't happily married. It was clear that they were having real-life marriage problems, and they often seeped their problems into the show. Some days, the banter between the two of them would be icy. The coolness between them was thick and palpable. Some days, they wouldn't talk to each other at all, and the news reader would be stuck in the middle. Bob, I see that the president is at it again. Newsman. Well, he's proposing some new initiatives that, Betty, perhaps our listeners would like more Maxwell House dark-blind coffee from the container with the Stay Fresh Seal. Newsman. Sure, more coffee would be great. Bob. What were you saying about the president's new initiatives? Newsman. He feels that Betty. I think our sponsor is more important than the president, don't you? Bob. I'm stepping out on the porch for a smoke. On other days, you'd only get one of them, and you were never sure if it would be breakfast with Bob or breakfast with Betty. On those days, the news reader would sit in all day and banter. Invariably, the remaining hosts would take thinly veiled shots to the absent host. And soon enough, both Bob and Betty were fired and the Newsman became the host of a new morning program. And that's really all I remember. I've looked it up online, and I can't find much about it. Did any of you listen to the show? Can any of you give me any more information? I'd really like to know. I'm Barry, and this has been your New York Minute. Let's hear it to New York, New York, New York, New York. Wow, Barry, that's got to be like one of my favorite bits ever. Yeah, when we began this bit, I wasn't entirely sure where the New York Minute would go after a certain amount of time. Barry's very talented, and I knew he would take it in an interesting direction, whatever the case. But it's fascinating how much radio history he has stored up. I hope that he gets some answers. I hope somebody in the mob can help him. I love that idea, though, that this couple together around the table and then it just slowly disintegrating. I mean, I don't like that part of the idea, but just the back story is so interesting. And the Weatherman getting a show at the end. Have I mentioned my descent into madness during Christmas time and other periods of working at Zellers? No. Where I was a maintenance, during high school, I was a maintenance guy for Zellers, which basically meant that I would haul stock out from the back to the... It's a big department store. Yeah, oh yeah, sorry. I'm not sure how international Zellers is. Sort of the Kmart mold. Yeah. Target, but crappier. Yeah, fair enough. So anyway, I would haul stock from the back and I would cut up the boxes and put them in like a binding machine and clean the floors and yada yada yada. One of the major things about working at Zellers is the constant, terrible music. And I got to a point where I formed this theory that there were a men and women or two people working the musical system that were actually constantly in a fight with each other. And they were sort of in a constant conversation responding to each other with each song as it came up. And as like a conversation, as one would be a response to the other. Yeah, exactly so. Very nice. And then sometimes... You gotta keep it interesting, right? If the music became a little more upbeat or like happier, maybe they were having a good day, but if it was bitter and a lot of low-term stuff... Did you notice like was it satellite where it was just playing the same songs over and over again? There were actually some repeating chunks, but... Yeah, or you knew what was coming up next. You're like, "I hate that one." Especially around Christmas where the options become considerably more illuminate. That was the most miserable time of the year. It's the most miserable time of the year. Although it never got so bad as a before radio show. Yeah. Thanks, Barry. Yeah, that was awesome, Barry. I'm especially looking forward to the next entry in Hollywood Russell. Yeah, we've got it. It's ready. Well, you can find all the Barry's work over at BMJ2K.com. Actually speaking of giving credit, or on Twitter at BMJ2K.com, but I also wanted to mention that Dalek piece we used off the top. We forgot to give credit for that. That was something off of BBC Six. Very nice. And just a little sort of promo piece, actually, for the new who... Actually, while we're looping back to things, do you ever think anybody walks up to Patrick Stewart and is like, "You were awesome in Dune?" All the time. That would be the one I'd go for. 'Cause I didn't expect it. Yeah. Next, Jen. A single tear rolls down his face. I've been waiting. That number one. Pelidation. Alright, Fish was having some technical issues. But I believe we still have a retro review on tap. And he wanted to mention some items about Kevin and the Woods. Indeed, yes. Jessica May. He says... What's the verdict? It was a green light. Mmm. Yeah, I'm not stressed. It's a self-aware slasher that asks the audience, "Why do we crave movies about butchering young, beautiful people?" 'Cause we hate the video. Well, I don't... I have actually been avoiding a lot of the press about this. I'm really glad that maybe we got a pared-down review from Fish on this one. Yeah, we want to see this. I really want to see it, and I don't want to know much about it before I go into it. This would be the kind of film that would be really nice to see it drive in. Ah, well, yeah. In the theater it would be pretty nice, frankly. Better? I don't know. It's not schlocky enough, I think. It depends on how they handle it, I guess. But I don't get the impression that it's schlocky enough for the drive-in. Horror movies to me are the best of the drive-in, because it's the creepiest atmosphere. You're there with a whole bunch of strangers, generally kind of in nowhere. You're not right in the heart of the city, you know? Yeah, it's true. It's not like it's somewhere you go all the time, so it's not that familiar. It's just got this spooky, like, surreal we're all out after dark wanting this spooky movie feel. Okay, well on that note, let's see what Fish has to say in his retro review. Fresh Fish, a new batch of cinematic pulp with the all-ways listening. Three-day Fish. Hey, Flashgast. Three-day Fish here. Fish would like to open with a thank you to all his supportive conspirators. But just so you all know, we did it for the Flashgast. Yeah, I would also like to take a moment and talk to my other segment, Contributors, and say nothing personal. We were kind of already underway before you guys became part of our wonderful program. So maybe next year. But on to what Fish does, and that is review movies. Sadly, American reunion came out this weekend, so there's not a whole lot of pulpy in this out in the market. So Fish dug into the freezer, deep into his freezer, and pulled out this gem. Fish is going to retro review Orca. So here it goes. Orca takes place in the Canadian, if I'm not mistaken, with an Irish fisherman and an American biologist. Super cool. So this fisherman, Richard Harris, who also happens to have been Dumbledore in the first two very Potter movies. They only Dumbledore in the US Fish. He's out wailing, killing whales, killing killer whales. Oh, which are actually Orca. So he's killing killer whales. And he happens to kill one specific killer whales, meat. And not only that, but there was a horrifying scene. Whereas the dead mate is strung up on this boat, it pretty much early gives birth to a tiny little killer baby whale. And it's horrifying, and he kicks it off the boat by shooting it with a hose. The situation was handled fairly badly, and he managed to make enemies with the Orca. He gets back to shore, and the biologist is like, "Oh, that whale is actually now." He's like, "Ah, you don't know what you're talking about." But it turns out this particular Orca has in-depth knowledge of human worse and human ports. And he starts destroying boats, and destroying the harbor, and blowing stuff up. This Orca means business. So the fisherman guy is like, "Fine, I'm going to go fight this whale." So he goes out to sea, and he follows it all the way to the Arctic, where they do battle. And now for the reviewing part. It takes place in the 70s, but it still looks pretty good. And the acting isn't bad, despite the strange jaws like plot, which I do believe this movie was riding kind of the jaws hype. It's a good movie. I mean, don't get me wrong, but it definitely has that 70s weirdness to it. They just are like, "Is this how humans acted back in the day? Is this how people were?" Parts of it seem a bit ridiculous to me. I mean, it is about a killer whale that can wreak havoc. And it's a pretty good man versus nature-type film, which is not something that is often sold. I don't think. I think, like you read it a lot of books like Jack London, and even some Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fish will have to conclude this with a yellow light. It makes me sad, because this is a good movie. But I can see why its age might put some people off. J-R-D, don't think I forgot about second forever tires, just because I had a conspiracy going on. Always listen. Well, I have several things to say, but the first one, the premature orca bing. Oh yeah, that was rough. That was super rough. That was so sad. Yeah. I also have several things to say. Oh god. Oh, and the other is that your segments are awesome. I've been really enjoying your stepping up your game each time. Yeah, your editing is getting fantastic. Mm-hmm. Great prop work getting your brother to blow bubbles the entire area. Yeah, it's going to be hard work. I hope you didn't pass out. Also, I have to say, I agree with you on Dumbledore. The only true Dumbledore was the first Dumbledore. And you know what? For anybody who has listened to the Blackhall series' support with the Aeromite, I was totally thinking of Dumbledore when I did the voice with the Aeromite. Oh, that's funny. Totally. You were working Dumbledore. Oh yeah. I was channeling his spirit. You should store that voice because I might be hearing it again. Mm-hmm. He's got a page in the wiki. It is tough to do man versus nature movies. Yeah, you know orca? That's awesome. I want to say my mom actually dated an orca trainer who had worked at SeaWorld and he got attacked by one of his orcas. Oh, wow. And he had this big scar across his chest and across his back from where he had bitten him and pinned him to the bottom of the aquarium. It must have known that he was into witchcraft. Yeah, probably. But this whole movie totally happened to him. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he killed a mama orca and that's baby fell out. Yeah, that's why he and my mom broke up. That's totally why they broke up. It was just too much. What do you mean nothing else? That's a big something. Yeah, that's really nice. I know what you mean about '70s weirdness. I'm actually very concerned about the new dark shadows movie because I feel like Tim Burton is using it as an excuse to sort of wax nostalgic about the '70s. That's going to be great. Oh yeah. I'm totally waxing nostalgic about '70s. I feel the pain about... It was new to life. There was... Okay, for example, the wistfulness of super-rate. I understand this period we're going into where people are considering their childhood. They're of a certain age. They're becoming filmmakers. Tim Burton's a little older than that, but I think he has a lot of love for the '70s aspects of that. But at the same time, dark shadows separately is a beloved project. The original dark shadows still has a big fan following and how to say this. I believe they take it a little more seriously than Tim Burton has taken his film. Yeah. So I'm a little concerned on that because I would like to see a fair treatment of dark shadows not, and I think that Tim Burton would be the person to give that. I think that he has the right stylistic view for the film. I'm just worried that he decided to take it in his own weird, separate direction, and it's not going to be the movie it could be. Yeah. It's going to yell a little over the top. We'll see. I don't know. I'd almost prefer him to approach it with the same kind of... the same take maybe as Sleepy Hollow. To have that sort of weird semi-fairy tale kind of, but at the same time, yeah, dark. Mm-hmm. But I don't think that's what we're going to get. It looks kind of campy and silly. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to get something a lot. You're going to get more like Willy Wonkaorber when Sweeney Todd. Well, even Sweeney Todd was fun in its own way. I think it's going to be a lot closer to a fat Albert episode. Yeah, really? Yeah. Anyway. Oh my God. We shall see. We shall see. And I have not forgotten about Robert. I actually quite enjoyed the film. I feel like by the end of the movie it had run out of tricks a little bit, but... Wait, wait. It had run out of traction. Yeah, yeah. It was traction a little bit. But I didn't think I was going to be as compelled by such a simple concept as I was, but I feel like... There's nothing simple about a psychic tire. It was, it was an, it wasn't a brilliant film, but it was pretty clever. I definitely think Robert is worth watching. Worth blowing a, you know, Saturday evening. Well, then... We don't have Saturday evenings. Yeah, well. When he says Saturday evening, he means when we're already unconscious. And it's like, when 30 in the morning, that's a Saturday evening. But yeah, sorry about the delay though. We've been a little bit off schedule with the flashcasts. I guess ending flash calls actually. But hopefully we'll be back on track soon. We're doing our best. I think that we kind of all agree that quality over quantity. You know what I mean? If we have to rush it and it's going to be terrible, I'd rather just wait. And to be fair, we do still have quite a lot that does go out. It's just we have high standards and you're militant and you give me bruises if I don't. I don't produce what you want to do. Don't make me send the tire after you. But these sorts of gaps hopefully allow for things like... Jupiter altered to get the package that we shipped off to him earlier. That's right. So let's see if he makes mention of that in horrible histories. [Music] Salutations my fellow monsters. Walter here and I welcome you to your horrible histories. So I've gotten lab gain under control. [barking] Quiet you and eat your tuna. [barking] No, you're not getting any more right now. [barking] I don't know. Check the mail or something. Anyway, on with the show. Histoscope on! The Battle of Barnet was one of the most the size of engagements in the War of the Roses. A dynamic complex in the 15th century England. In the year 1471 near Barnet, a small town north of London. Ever the second led the House of York. And a fight against the House of Lancaster. Back by Henry VI. Leading the army to House of Lancaster was Richard Neville, the 16th Earl of Warwick. Formerly a key figure in the Yorkist's cons. Warwick defected to the Lancasterans over a disagreement on Edward's never-dism. Secret marriage and foreign policy. Leading a Lancasteran army, the Earl defeated his former allies. And forced Edward to flee the burden. The orchist king persuaded his host, Charles DeBold, to help him regain English throne. Leading an army raised with Bergen, D.N. Money. Edward launched his invasion of England, which culminated in the field of Barnet. Under the cover of darkness, the Orch moved close to Lancasterans. And clashed in a thick fog at dawn. At four o'clock in the morning, Edward had planned for an early attack however, and quickly rehearsed his men to engage the Lancasteran. Both sides fired their cannon arrows before laying into each other with swords and axes. The morning fog was thick, and the night movements in the two forces had displaced them laterally against each other. While the main forces struggled in battle, John DeVere, the thirteenth Earl of Oxford, and his Lancasteran troops rounded the Orchist under Lord William Hastings, chasing them up to Barnet. On their return to the battlefield, Oxford's men were shot at by his allies, commanded by John Neville, the first marquee of one truth. Obscured by the fog, Oxford's raises the sun badge when was taken by a mob to give his men who believed it to be Edward's reign, the sun in splendor. They assumed their allies were Edward's reserves and a dish to volley of arrows. Oxford is men immediately cried treasury. They stumped Lancasterans, they were weary of Montreal's defection. They struck back and began withdrawing from the battle. The shots of treason were taken up and spread quickly and dropped from Lancasteran line, breaking it apart as the men fled anger, panic, and confusion. As the fog started to dissipate, Edward sold Lancasteran's center in disarray and sent in his reserves, hastening its collapse. In the cries of exterior his demise, out of from your actions sounded through the battlefield. From the Lancasteran left and amid the confusion, mocked to give a struck in the back and killed by either a Yorkist or one of Oxford's own men. After over three hours of heavy melee combat and win the Singers Brothers' death, Warwick withdrew from the battle. Warwick knew the battle was lost, made for the horses and attempt to retreat. Edward, recognizing his victory of his hands, sent the order and dispatched his guard to bring the Earl back alive, regardless of King's intent. Other Yorkist shoulders, perhaps ignorant of the order, found Warwick first. They pulled him down, pried open his visor and fatally stabbed him through the neck. Edward's guard found Warwick's corpse, mutilated and stripped naked. All told, and depending on which historian you take your accounting, anywhere from 1,500 to 10,000 men died in the battle, although most rugged both accounts from the time, put the real loss of life at around four to five thousand. The bodies of the two Neville brothers were brought back to London, but did not suffer the customary fate accused of traitors. Corbering and displaying on the C's gates, Edward has exhibited the brothers' naked corpses in the St. Paul's Cathedral for three days to quell in the rooms the days arrived, before allowing them to be lead to rest at the family's vault in Brisbane Abbey, an ignoble end to a man once called the Kingmaker. Well, the histoscope goes dark again, my friends, and... Yes, Leipke. Oh, huh. We got a box in the mail. Hey, it's from Popenax. Thanks, Popo. You didn't have to send anything to us. Oh, let's see what is... with regards from Sour Thistle. Wonder what that means. Leipke. Leipke. Okay, well, let's open her up and find a... Oh God, the box is full of reeds. It's full of reeds. Leipke can't help me. Ah, curse you, Popenax. I'll play with that yard, help me, you dick. Okay, now the body by precious Oregon's. That was so fantastic. Oh my God. Surprise. Oh, that's going right through the organs. Ah, it's super Popenax. Very interesting bit of history. Oh, yeah, yeah. I was very happy to see the lap cat back. Mm-hmm. Very useful, yeah. I have to say Charles the Bold, excellent marketing. Yeah. Well-chosen. Also, never go to war in ethic fog. Yeah, yeah, fog a bore. Pretty rough. Killing your own dudes, also rough, or allies, rather. Yeah. Anyway, thanks a lot, Gibraltar. Apologies about, well, I mean... The Wolverine was supposed to be a joke. Surprise. Okay, now I believe we have another entry in the continuing saga of Doc Asriel, "Injured of Death." 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 Ronald Corley found himself describing his visit with Doc Asriel to his beautiful young wife. And now, the latest chapter of Doc Asriel, "Angel of Death." Jimmy Keenan approached the Third Heaven Club with trepidation. Say what you would about him. He was a man who was used to being in control, and he was anything but in control of his current situation. He was wearing an expensive new tuxedo, purchased with money provided by his new mouthpiece, and custom-fitted by a tailor recommended by the same. Keenan still didn't know who his benefactor was, or what the apparently very wealthy man wanted. All he knew was that he was in to meet with a Calvin St. Dell III at this club after 9 tonight. Jimmy checked his watch, also provided by his new benefactor. It was just before 9 now. At least he had this small level of control. He would be on top for the meeting. As Keenan entered the foyer of the club, a thin, fussy-looking man looked down his nose at the smuggler. "Can I help you?" Jimmy greeted his teeth at the tone of the man's voice. "I'm here to meet with Mr. St. Dell, Mr. Calvin St. Dell." I see. If the name made any impression on the Mater D, his expression did not betray it. Let me check my book. Jimmy rocked impatiently on his heels, while the little man made a great show of reviewing the papers on the podium in front of him, "I'm afraid I don't." Just then, a flamboyant and potentially slightly drunk man entered the foyer from the main part of the club. "What do we have here, Henri?" This person claims he has an appointment with Mr. St. Dell, the newcomer smiled. Keenan didn't like something about that smile. He couldn't put his finger on what. "Mr. St. Dell?" you say. Then by all means, "show him Mr. St. Dell's table." You wouldn't want a disappointed little Calvin, would you? He gestured enthusiastically, and then wandered back into the club. "Very well." The head waiter looked Keenan over one more time. "Right this way, sir." He led the way through the club to a large table right in front of the stage. Jimmy met the wandering eyes of the wealthy regulars defiantly as he walked across the floor. "You never let them see any weakness," he murmured to himself through smiling teeth. As he neared the stage, the sultry and slinky songstress made her way to the microphone, their eyes met and locked as she started into a rendition of fever that sent Keenan's heart racing. He had heard songbirds sing that song for the years, but he suddenly felt he understood the lyrics for the first time. He absolutely sat in the chair that the mator D pulled out for him. As she finished her set, the smuggler heard a voice in his left ear. Kirsten is pretty incredible, isn't she? Keenan turned to see the flamboyant man from the foyer joining him at the table. There was that smile again. What was it that Jimmy didn't like about it? It was like the man was laughing at some secret joke, laughing at him. Keenan wanted to wipe that smile off his face, but controlled the urge. I suppose I should thank you for helping me get past that stuffed shirt. I really do have an appointment with Mr. St. Dow. I know Mr. Keenan. For you see, I am Calvin St. Dow. Awesome, my goodness. I'm enjoying hearing magenta moms readings. Yes, also I love the name Calvin St. Bill. Yeah, that was awesome. Man, but I really like Doc's voice though. Yeah, yeah, he did an amazing job over the reading. He's a very good reader. Anyway, both are very nice. I'm just saying, you know. You know, you know. You want something to do so? Yes, so he seemed quite hot to trot on that singer. I'm really quite surprised. That's disgusting. Because he seemed sort of like a hardened fellow somewhat and then he was just totally taken aback by this songstress. Like he fell back in the chair. He was like, "Ooh." So that'll be interesting. I'm just thinking of Game of Thrones analogies because that's what I do. Yeah. I'll save you guys from it, don't I? You can find more writing by Dave. Doc Blue went over at thesecretlayer.com although it's much more of his two-fisted statician sort of business than it is of Doc Asriel. You can find them on Twitter. All those links available in the show notes. Mm-hmm. And refresh my memory. If somebody were to want to contact us, where would they send said contact? Comment at flashpop.com. And I think this might be a good time to open the mailbag. I think we have a call from my very favorite Nuches. My most favorite of Nuches. Hello flashcast crew and the flash mob. This is Nuches. I am recording from my car again. Joys of joy. I'm in the process of driving down to New York. This is nothing to do with anything. Anyway, listening to the latest flashcast. And I was going to record something for once I finished listening to the whole thing. But I remember that I had feedback for before you got into the spot of bother. And then after the spot of bother, I completely forgot what I wanted to say. So, I'm just going to say right now and record this part. For the spot of bother, yeah, caramel color, having icky things in it. I am a soda addict and I drink a lot of soda. I drink so much soda that I have my own soda fountain in my house. It's a soda stream. I make my own soda simply because of cost and not wanting to bring cans and bottles back and all of that jazz. So, I drink a lot. I can't drink coffee. So, it's my only method of caffeine and red bowls are gross and icky to me. I know that you guys love them, but I can't stand the taste. Tech loves them, but just nasty. So, even I don't drink a thousand soda's a day. So, I think I'm safe. I do drink diet and I know that Mr. Jeffrey Lynch is not a fan of the diet, but I can't stand regular soda. I grew up drinking not soda. We weren't allowed to have soda growing up, but I grew up drinking water down sugar-free drinks and so forth. You know, fruit punch and crystal light and all of that. So, I can't stand regular soda. It's so sweet, it makes my teeth hurt. So, I am a diet soda fan and I actually get really annoyed if somebody tries to give me a Coke Zero because it tastes like regular Coke or closer to regular Coke and I don't want that taste. I want that diet Coke flavor. That is the flavor that I want. So, anyway, I'd like to say, alright fine, just drop the caramel color. Nobody really needs it to be colored. I mean, I remember was it Snapple that would have the colorless root beer and the colorless cream soda and they tasted just fine without any of the coloring. But, if we did that, then you couldn't have caffeine in them in Canada. So, I guess I'll just deal with the cancer-causing caramel color. As for real Coke and corn syrup Coke, Canada has cane sugar Coke. So, unless you guys are getting your Coke from an import through Buffalo or whatever or Detroit, you guys should be getting the actual Coke, the proper way of Coke. Most other places use cane sugar. And my husband, he loves Coke, he loves regular. And he can definitely tell the difference. I never knew that there was a difference until he would visit me in New York and he says, "You know, your Coke just tastes funny." And then we started noticing, if you read the label, if it says cane sugar, you're getting the proper Coke. If it says corn syrup, you're getting a icky Coke. And we have friends that actually ask us to bring down real Coke from Canada for them. But, basically, a lot of people, they will import it from Mexico or Canada wherever is closest. Oh, and since we're talking about soda, for all the Americans that don't realize this, yeah, Mountain Dew in Canada has no caffeine because of the whole, you can't sell soda with caffeine if it's translucent. Yeah, so it makes no sense. Because the only point to Mountain Dew is to get a crazy caffeine buzz, right? I think that's the point. At least that's why gamers drink it. And I love talking about soda. It's funny how anytime we talk about food, beer, head shops and weed, and soda, like everybody seems to get involved, which is awesome. And I am a minority where I live in Canada because everybody calls it pop. But my soda fountain says soda on it, so it's soda. Alright, talk to you later. Oh my God, Nanny, you should have seen J.R.D.'s face when he heard that you have your own soda fountain. His jaw just dropped. Well, we don't actually have any soda in the house ever anymore. No, no, no, no. The odd title... Nice, since the law got handed down. The... Apla. Every once in a while, maybe a little ginger ale. But besides that, I've been trying to go straight off of it. More water, we have homemade iced tea. That's like the sweet caffeinated root. And that's it, everything else is water. Everything else is water. You used to drink a lot of diet soda when I was drinking soda. And I actually never really liked diet soda too much. But we had Coke Zero in the house for quite a while. 'Cause it was her compromise. 'Cause I would drink that because it tastes like the older Coke. So, wow, no coffee for Nanny. I feel bad for her, but no wonder she has a soda stream. That's not a surprise call. And it's funny she says she can't stand the taste of Red Bull. 'Cause I remember just like being revolved by it. Yeah, being disgusted by it. You know, Jamie would get it for me every once in a while. She'd give me a can and be like, "Drink it. You have to drink it and stand there and watch me drink it." And I'd be like, "Ah, but it's not just going to take out a barf, but I want to be awake." And like, if she was drinking it, I could smell it on her. Like she was smoking or something. It was like this odor of Red Bull. And now like, I've just gotten used to it or something. Oh, I swear to God, it tastes amazing. Since I don't have soda anymore, it tastes like candy. For me, it falls under that same category as certain cough medicines of my urine. Cough cough medicines of my youth where I associate it with an effect that is sort of positive and it tastes kind of candy-like, but not really. Something's a little wrong there, but at the same time. Like the-- You get so used to it over. Oh, wow. The antibiotic that tasted like banana from without-- Oh, yeah. Yeah. Um, there's only a lot of soda I wanted to say. Shit. I thought it really interesting. And I didn't know that we had a law for like the coloring of our sodas. Oh, yeah. I think Nettie said it's not allowed to be translucent if it has caffeine in it. I always-- I mean, it's a frivolous opinion, frankly. But I always had the opinion that clear cream soda is better than pink cream soda. I don't know why I felt that way. I guess it just doesn't feel as silly to me because it's a bright pink drink. I don't know. I've always preferred clear cream soda, and I never knew why there was a difference. But I guess there you go. Oh, interesting. I have to say to you that. Like we do have Red Bull, but it is only on Flashcast nights. And it's only because we can't get to recording until later at night until all the babies are sleeping and like really actually sleeping. And like we have some long ass days. So sometimes the bull comes in, but that's like our only-- Don't feel like you have to defend the bull. Well, I just want them to know that we're not like willy-nilly and not taking care of ourselves because we have, you know, the future empire to worry about. I'm huffing it constantly. That hairspray. One of the things that was always exciting about hopping over the border to the states for a few moments other than the alternate versions of Doritos and such that we would encounter. They have different Doritos? Oh, yeah. You can see them in the international aisle near like in our sobs. No way. But even wandering into the Walmart just on the other side of the river back when we lived closer to St. Lawrence. Oh, yeah. I find it funny that they have like a frying gravy chip, but they don't generally do the frying gravy. But Mountain Dew, getting the proper Mountain Dew, getting jacked up on-- Yeah, I've never had real Mountain Dew. I guess. I don't think I have either. I don't think I have either. Is it supposed to be clear? I've always known it to be like a neon green. No, it's the same color. It's sort of a year in a yellow. Yeah. Green. Yeah. I remember for a good deal of time, I would drink my coffee with Mountain Dew all the time. Ew. Not like together, but I would always have like, I would make myself a cup of coffee and I'd get myself a cup of Mountain Dew. That seems like such a 14 year old thing to do. I got my big girl coffee and my mug of Mountain Dew. Well, something cold to balance out the warmth of the coffee. But you needed that extra kick of kiff. I never understood Canadian Mountain Dew. Like, what's the point of even drinking it if it's not-- It's the soda. The soda to even out the taste and consistency. You know, and we've stopped the kids on soda because we like would have ginger ale or diet, pop or whatever. And we haven't given them any of it. And they haven't had ice, especially. He drinks a lot of water. He drinks a lot of ice water. Mm-hmm. That's fantastic. And Miss Nine is like a desert on the inside. She's powder. Cut her. Just her blood just flakes out. Well, I stand strong with nutty and our soda alliance. Yeah. I think it's awesome that she makes her own soda. Yeah. I want to make different flavors. Yeah. Like, is it just you buy the syrup? Or, like, do you make the syrup, and-- Can you make, like, healthy pop? Yeah. Tell us a little hemp oil or something. Yeah. Just to buy all sorts of, like, weird oils and stuff, like-- I'm putting flax seeds in these muffins. I put some hemp oil in this smoothie. You got to sneak stuff in. I'm learning-- I'm just learning guys. Yeah. She just slips it in and doesn't tell us until later. Or I tell the babies. At one point we stroke. This is this for you. Yeah, it is. I think it's great. You know who else probably really likes soda in a super cool? Rich the time traveler. Okay. Hello flash pulp crew and fellow mobsters. Rich the time traveler here. I just wanted to start off by chastising myself for completely failing to point out that you guys have crossed a huge milestone. That is, if JRD's 500 episode line in the sand remains, then episode 250 was the halfway point. So, is flash pulp halfway through its run? Well, give or take whatever monkey wrench episode 200 floating around the Bermuda Triangle throws in the works. Enjoying the recent coffin three-parter. Some nice twists and bunny, sober? No, that's scary. I will have to confess for some reason I can't explain. When you're describing the hipster's lair, I kept expecting to hear a cheery voice chime in. Hello, jello. I just picked up the We're Alive podcast that Richard Lott suggested in the mob. I'm a couple of chapters in and it's been quite good. So a big thanks to him for the suggestion. I finally finished slogging through Frank Herbert's God Emperor of Dune and it didn't defeat me this time. Don't ask. I'm enjoying a very pulpy and light read now called Zombie Ohio, A Tale of the Undead by Scott Kenimore. I think it was a Kindle deal or freebie when I picked it up. About a quarter of the way through, an interesting twist on the zombie apocalypse story. Maybe not unique, but certainly an unusual angle. Following up on the river, I finished out the first season and without revealing too much, there is a bit of a left turn at the end to change things up. Not sure if it's enough though. I give it to maybe three episodes after it returns to get me hooked or it's gone. You ask why I don't like rats? Well, I'm not completely sure. Maybe it's the eyes or how they swarm around. They just give me the creeps. And certainly a viewing or two of Willard didn't help at all. Odd lake handsters, dribbles, white mice, and guinea pigs, and their ilk don't have that same effect on me. Well, that's all for now. We're heading out for a mini-stication the next few days. Tomorrow we'll be enjoying a famous local pulp connection. We're taking in a Durham Bulls game. The Bulls, of course, are the minor league team that served as the backdrop for the 88 Costner Surrandon Robbins vehicle, Bull Durham. So if you've ever been to see them play at home, all I can say is hit bull, win steak, hit grass, win salad. Tell car recognizes this is rich. So JRD 500, explain yourself. Well, that's really 600 now. Yeah, sorry. It is 600 now. You did your first like classic sci-fi fantasy author move there. Yeah, the creep has begun. No, it won't go beyond 600 now. No, no, it'll be like 700 now. It was going to be a month ago. But it once flashed up, it was done though. We're going to like there's going to be more from us. It just may not be fun. Yeah. How's cav going? Shashi, you. You know, it's kind of funny now that we're at this point. I've never actually mentioned, I remember like even the first episodes, I'm trying to get her to say flash pulp differently. And she still does it the way like flash pulp. Instead of flash pulp, the emphasis being on pulp, flash pulp. She goes, flash pulp. And it's just the, anyway. It's something that you're saying. I don't know, that seems kind of a mentionable to me. I don't know, whatever. It's your musicality. I'm like, she's saying flash pulp. Yeah, she keeps saying flash pulp. Flash pulp. Flash pulp. Flash pulp. Flash pulp. It's a jackal. Flash pulp. Oh, I'm sure people will be able to tell their friends. It's not just me. I can definitely, uh, third the recommendation for we're live. Nice bit of work. Mr. Whaland over there. The book. No, pockets. Oh, sorry. No, pockets. I'm thinking Zombie, Ohio. I do have to admit, uh, all of the later dune books have defeated me. Mm-hmm. I find it. I've never tried. They're kind of intimidating. There is a point at which they sort of sideline Paul as the main character. Okay. And it was very difficult for me to stay with the story at that point. Yeah. Which is unfortunate because it feels like, well, I suppose it's a bit of a superman problem, because they make him very, uh, he's made very powerful right at the start of the story. Mm-hmm, so they didn't beat him. Yeah, it's difficult to continue. They have to work the same giant trick for a little while. Yeah. Yeah. Just fly backwards. Go back in time, Superman. Mm-hmm. Really fast. But it's hard. Yeah, definitely still in the fence about the river. Yeah. Well, let us know how it goes. Yeah. Anyway, I appreciate the update, certainly. Yeah. I'm interested to see what kind of twists they could come out with at the end there. I don't know. And, uh, yeah, the bowl is very interesting. That is a fun pulp connection. Have you guys seen that for you now? I don't, yeah, it's gonna say I don't really know anything about... You're not up to date on your baseball film. On our Kevin Costner. It was actually one of my preferred Kevin Costner films by far. Really? I don't know that I have a preferred Kevin Costner film. It sounds like somebody's saying their favorite actor is Ray Liota. Hey, don't talk smack about Ray Liota. Kevin Costner has so many movies. Yeah, I know. You're like, "Oh, Kevin Costner." You're sleeping your whole way through this film. Anyway. Yeah. Yes. And rats and gerbs. Yeah. I've never seen Willard to be fair, so I can't get the Heebie Geebies there. Yeah, you seem to only have the Heebie Geebies charity for the rats. I just, I'm not a huge fan of naked animals. Yeah. To me, that denotes some sort of... You are a naked animal. You know, I wonder if maybe people's aversion to rats is also that usually when an animal has exposed skin like that. It's because they have the mange or something. Yeah, there's something wrong with it. And there's something wrong with it. Yeah, because that's what it is. I mean, I'm okay with them, but I find it very hard to bond with them. On the other hand, our fellow Jello has really brought me along my torts. Jello definitely shares my love of rat. Yeah. Maybe he's bringing you closer to the rat lifestyle. On a much more pleasant note, we have an extra submission. A very special submission. Olivia's literary considerations. I have just read the book Powerless by Matthew Cody. Powerless is a fantastic book full of action, mystery, and adventure. Daniel is just an ordinary kid living an ordinary life. Sure, he's moving somewhere to take care of his sick gram, but nothing's weird about that. As Daniel approaches his new town, he reads what is supposed to be a welcoming sign. Welcome to Nobles Green, the safest town on earth. Psst, Daniel thought. It couldn't sound lame-er. But as Daniel soon finds out, there's a reason why Nobles Green is so safe. A reason that makes it not so lame. The kids of Nobles Green have superpowers, or, as they like to call it, special abilities. But one by one, his new friends are losing their powers. And their memories, too. For example, his friend, Simon, lost the power to generate electricity. Daniel must stop whatever is taking away his friend's powers. But will he be able to stop this creature? After all, he IS just an ordinary boy. I enjoyed reading powerless because it was fun seeing how the kids of Nobles Green would handle Daniel, an outsider, finding out their secret. I also loved reading about how Daniel solved the mystery of the lost powers. I think this book can be read by kids from about eight years old, or a strong third grader, and up. I think even adults will enjoy this book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in action or mysteries. This is one of the best books I've read. And if you decide to read it, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Till Carwick rises, this is Olivia. So before we react to the content of that last segment, she got an intro. I put that together today for her, and Miss Nine, she did the reading for it. It was so funny because when she was done it, she wanted to hear it. And she's like, "And it actually sound like that." I'm like, "Well, to the rest of the world you do, honey, but it's only to yourself." No, no, it's the microphone. Yeah, that was awesome. But yeah, she did a stellar job. I can call her the talent. And then the music, the piano, is Olivia's. Really? I stole it from the Internet. I love it. Olivia, the time traveler, I assume. Yeah. That's how she got all the practice time. That's right. I assume she's actually going to be president of the future. Yes. Of the future. Of the future. Anyways, we're very happy to have you here. Mm-hmm. And it's such a great job. It was so professional. I believe that both the Nines will be quite interested in reading. Yeah, I like that it sounds like a good mystery because the Nines definitely love a mystery. Yeah, we're going to make sure that they listen to the portion of the show. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You know what I really, I found surprising? You know, in the book they say Daniel thought, "Nope was green. This sounds like such a name place." But I think that's an awesome name. Yeah. I'd love to live in a place called "Nope was green." Yeah. Yeah. It's so cool. But yeah. The premise sounds fantastic. Yeah. She did a great job of explaining it. Am I to understand Daniel has no super power? Yeah, he has an ordinary boy. But everybody else around him has them, but that's losing them. Mm-hmm. Or is his power solving the mystery? Oh my God. Oh, that's right. I would totally read something like that. And I think if Olivia wants to come back for future reviews, we should totally, totally welcome. Oh, always welcome. Certainly. We'll have a kids' pub corner. Yeah. And if you want a copy of your theme song, let me know. Her tilakara rises definitely. Oh my God. We giggled so hard. Little gasp around the table. Yeah. That was beautiful. Thank you for humoring us for not knowing what the heck that was. And please, I hope she doesn't know what that was. It's horrifying. Yes. But you did a lovely job. Yeah. Fantastic way to close up the mailbag. Thank you, Olivia. Thank you. And thank you, Rich. Thank you, Rich, for producing such a wonderful, talented, smart child. Yeah. Very good. Head of the Skinner co-crona nuts. To one day be, apparently, preceded by Olivia. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, I believe now we can get into a little... Are you a dassy? Hope? I have sent out all of the texts for the intros for everyone who has segments that do not have words or music or whatever. Doc Blue has already sent me his back, so his will be ready for the release. This release. This release. Thank you. So that's very exciting. And then there was Olivia's song today. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. That was totally not the arrangement of what it was going to be. And then I just messed with it. That was so amazing. So pleased. Yes. Mm-hmm. So that's what I've been up to. I've been also writing a song that hopefully I can have some time to finish and give to the internet. And that's basically me in audio land. The R-O-N-R-A-S-O. I've had a busy time over the last week or so. Mm-hmm. You've been working. Definitely. I've wanted to have a lot more time to work with my brushes, but I've actually been working on other things, which I'm surprised about, because generally I'll take a long time to fiddle with something new. But. You drew me. Yeah. It was so much fun to watch. Well, that's actually the last two Skinner codes that went out. One had J-R-D. Yep. And it's funny because Nettie was mentioning how much the other dude looked like Scott Sigler. That's just great. And then this one that just came out, it's got J-M-A in it. Yeah, I think I'm just drawing the moon. Just all of them. Just a little. Just hanging out of it. Just drawing the moon. But. Just up on top of the roof. Skinner code 17 to go up on Monday. Probably the same day this episode, actually. Yeah. So I really enjoyed doing those. But not only that, I came out with our very first flyer. Yeah. Every day I'm like, "But when about the flyer?" Yeah. And then I tried some other in her sleep last night. A plan series of three. Yeah. I've already got some ideas put down on paper for the other ones. But I got the Ruby one out and done. And it's been posted on the mob just a little preview of it. But we're going to put out a more printer-friendly version. Yeah. We'll have a PDF up at FlashPelp.com. We're going to have to do some site rearrangement. But we've had some art submitted recently that it's been fantastic. And I really want to find a way to display it. I've been holding it back a little bit because I'd really like to find a way to give it the spotlight it deserves. I really loved. I loved, loved, loved Nutty's drawing of you. She completely grasped the intensity of your eyes and everything. It was perfect. I was so pleased with it. She did a great job. Mm-hmm. I was very, very impressed. But we've gotten some mulligan art in that just looks fantastic. Mm-hmm. And I really would like to find a great way of sharing it. We're slowly outgrowing the site a little bit. And I'm going to have to do some restructuring. Yeah. Especially if I bring my workshop over to the site. Mm-hmm. Which I'm looking forward to. Mm-hmm. And I'm trying to figure out what we should do in order to thank you for posting. The flyer, which will hopefully have set up so it's easy to print. And then you just cut out along the bottom as if it was those, you know. You know, baby sitting service kind of things or my lawn mower for sale. Yeah. I'm really pleased with the one that came out too. That it was Ruby because you actually just planned a Ruby six-parter. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Who wants to have timey? But yeah. If you guys want to post them around your town or at a con or just somewhere. Yeah. A con here is definitely. If you'll take a photo of it because you know I love them and then we'll figure out some way to repay you. We'll certainly shoot you some stickers. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like a little variety for my mom, you know. I certainly know one reward that we could give them. We could maybe start inserting folks into the Skinner Co. comics. Comics. Yeah. Yeah. Have an artist rendition of them. Mm-hmm. I would definitely say that posting up flyers makes them an employee. Rich has already got a face in the Skinner co-workers. Yeah. He's appeared in an episode. Mm-hmm. I'll have to get Jeff in there somewhere. Yeah. Anyway, I love that idea. And I think you did a brilliant job on the flyer. Well, thank you. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's glorious. And I love that most of it is black, white, and grey. Yeah. It's still really intense, really nice, but it's going to be, you know, easy on people's printers. Yeah, that's the idea. It's got that cube. I call it the square. Your t-code? Yeah. Yeah. The scanning, scanning code for your phone. Mm-hmm. Which I have to admit, I've never actually scanned one of those, but I really think it's cool. You should wait and do it tomorrow when you print it. On your own. Yeah. And then you'll know how to get to our website. Great. You'll find it. Oh, we like the first time. We like magic. Oh my God. What are these intruders? You can't just dump that. Oh, the dump truck? Backroom plots. Okay. So we round it off the coffin three-party. Mm-hmm. Yes. It's pretty interesting conclusion there, eh? Yeah, that thread is moving along at a pretty good clip at the moment. I like the comment that you got on that episode. But what was the message? Yeah, Tippy, I believe that was. Yeah, it was great. Well, we'll get back to that, certainly. Yeah. Fun to see a return of a certain serial killer. Mm-hmm. I've really, we have a six-part Ruby coming up, as we've mentioned. Yep. Musically, I've really been listening a lot to a certain era that I never, okay. You've been listening to a lot of bad '80s music. It's horrific. I've never been a fan of terrible '80s synth music, but there's something about the man-hunter soundtrack. That's horrifically terrible. I'm like, what are you listening to? Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Business. Somehow it really gets to me. You know what? There's this one, like, really sort of epic sounding, like, instrumental, and it was really good. Oh, she liked it. I did. I did. Yeah, yeah. I liked it. I was like, "This is good." And then the next song came on and I wanted to laugh. Okay. Well, let's hear Jessica May play us a sample of the trashier strung as I am. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] You know, that was the one that I didn't mind so much. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, I totally did that one. But that instrumental was horrific. I was expecting Chek Norris to leap out from someone. It was sort of Glass Tiger and very, very early, like, Bono of the issue. It's the moodiness that I like. There's a lot from that soundtrack that sort of... It makes me want a wiggle dance. I don't know if you guys ever get the wiggle dances, but I do. Yeah, I had a relative in Glass Tiger. Oh, I thought I was going to say that at the wiggle dances. Really? Glass Tiger? Which one? You're like, "I don't know." He had funny hair. It was the 80s. Everyone had funny hair. The thing is, I go through a lot of music. I'm listening to a lot while I'm, you know, writing. And the truth is, I get sick of it pretty quickly because I'm constantly... I'm listening to manhunter. I'm constantly writing, and I'm constantly listening to, you know... To the manhunter? Well, right now I'm really enjoying the manhunter. It's bringing out the mood I'm looking for, and yeah, I got to admit. No, I'm talking about the guy on the horse with the cowboy hat. Yeah. What are you talking about? It's a bit of a guilty pleasure, but right now, that's what I'm enjoying. Yeah. No, that's not so bad. I can still listen to science. You can forgive me. Sounds from the 80s. I can live with you another day. Anyhow, I'm really looking forward to this exporter coming up. It's finally going to move the ball forward on Ruby out of the... situation that we left her in last time on the farm. Yeah, I have a little bit of apprehension because I actually just recently went through Ruby. I don't want to say the Ruby recordings because it was more of the Ruby scans that I was looking at, like the Ruby pages. Right. I would say. And... You're remembering how much work it is to write all those stories out. Well, not even so much. It's that I don't think the book's up to date, actually. No, it's not. I think I have to catch up. And then I'm going to have to do a six-parader. Yeah, we're going to have to find the pen. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe she lost her pen. Maybe she lost her pen this time. Drat. I lost another pen. You know, it'll be nice, though, because I don't have very many drawings in there. It'll be nice to maybe find a little something to put in there. Yeah, well, I know that iTunes has released the ability to throw PDFs into the... Stream now, and I'm not sure if it would be something people would be interested in, but every time we do a Ruby episode... It does get written out. It gets written out by hand, and there's usually some little doodles or some extras in the margin. It scans of her diary. If anybody's interested in that going into the stream, just let me know, and we'll start doing that. But for the moment, it'll go up on flashpup.co. That's right. For which we give big thanks to Jim. Thank you, Jim. And I want to give a special thank you to Jim just for the wiki, because he helped me recently. All of his assistance is always appreciated. Mm-hmm, definitely. It is. I have some big plans for the wiki. He's giving us some notes about the forums that we've been discussing in the mob. Yeah. Actually, maybe we'll shoot up on that up just really quickly. There's the idea that we may move away from a Facebook group and into a separate forum. This is something we've mentioned before. And I'm wondering, I feel like we might get a better turnout if there was a little more secret identity action. Yeah, I think sometimes people are a little too afraid of what their, well, can their family even see what goes on in the mob? I don't know. Well, now that there's-- Yes, Facebook. So, y'all's got to be worried about your privacy and some, some. Yeah, exactly. Anyhow, if you have thoughts on that, comment at flashpup.co. So far, people have been saying, like, I'll go where you're going, but Facebook's easy or-- But everyone, you know, sometimes there's a little leaning. Yeah, well, Rich has given me a good line on something interesting and Jim gave me some tools on how to compare them. So, we'll see what comes of it. Mm-hmm. Anyway, thanks a lot, Jim. Thank you, Jim. I always appreciate it. You can find all of Jim's Radio Empire over at relicradio.com. And he blogs occasionally at theaudities.com. It's always an interesting read, all too infrequent, but not to put any pressure on Jim. So, if you enjoyed the show, please tell a friend. 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