Prepare yourself for a lack of Bill Murray, zombie survival, pizza, drugs, and Mulligan Smith.
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[Music] Hello, and welcome to Flashcast 54, a Skinner Co presentation. [Music] Skinner Co, because otherwise, Fred Durst wins. [Music] Prepare yourself for a lack of Bill Murray, Zombie Survival, Pizza, Drugs, and Mulligan Smith. [Music] Hi, I'm Opoponax, and within hold of my awe-inspiring mental powers, I have Jessica Mae. Hello. And Jaredie? Hello. So, every once in a while, I'll go off on a Wikipedia tangent. I think that happens to everybody. Yeah, I was doing a little illustration recently that was inspired by, like, the Alice in Wonderland series, not necessarily Alice in Wonderland, specifically through the Looking Glass, but, you know, the Lewis Carroll writings of that series. And I was looking up, you know, the various characters in it, and I found a really interesting story involving the Duchess. And it actually has to do with the illustrations that are most commonly recognized as the Alice illustrations, the ones done in 1865 by John Tennille. Okay. And they feature a Duchess who's, like, really ugly. She has a great big head. She's very funny-looking. And a lot of the images of the Duchess have since resembled her. Okay. But they figure, and this is where Wikipedia came in, obviously, they figure that John Tennille based his image on a painting called The Ugly Duchess by Quentin Mazzas, I think his name was, in 1513. And that painting, they believe, is a painting of Marguerite, the last Countess of Tyrol. And what's interesting about her is she is believed to have had the first civil marriage. Interesting. Yeah. And what happened with her is her father was, like, this really important landowner, and he had no son, so he got special permission for her to inherit. And then she got married off at the age of 12 to this guy, John Henry, who happened to be the brother of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. But he was a really, really terrible husband and a terrible ruler, and he kind of screwed up her whole lands and stuff. And so eventually the nobles kind of kicked him out, and they said he couldn't come back. And Louis V decided that he would grant a divorce. And he would allow her to marry somebody else because he was in charge of the state at the time there. But the case for the divorce was actually supported by several well-known scholars at the time, including William of Occam, known for Occam's razor. Right. I thought that was really cool. But after the marriage was gone through with, I suppose you could say, she was promptly excommunicated, unfortunately. And she was actually given the nickname, Moltash. Moltash was what they would call like a whore or an ugly woman. It's literally translated into mouthbag. She was called beautiful by her contemporaries, but then she became known as this ugly woman, the legend that surrounded her after that. And that's why this painting was the ugly Duchess. But she wasn't only known as being the ugly Duchess. She was actually written about by one of the Grimm brothers, Jacob Grimm, in a collection of German fairy tales because she got cheated out of her inheritance by the Habsburgs. And so she went to take over Hosterwitz Castle and they were under siege by her forces, and they were like so short on food. What they did is they slaughtered their last cow and stuffed it with grain and threw it over the wall so that they looked like, "Oh, we have enough food. We can just start throwing it over the walls. We don't even care." And she was tricked, and she left the siege. And it's a very Monty Python-esque, isn't it? Yeah. Throwing the cow home from the wall. There's stuff with grain and chuck it over a wall. Yeah, but it works. Like, if anything, what you want to do in that point is maybe get some breadcrumbs and I'll put them in there and then put it over a spit. There's nice stuff going on. Yeah, some barbecue. Get a pit. Yeah. Yum. Anyway, so that was a little down the rabbit hole, but it was definitely really interesting. Hmm. Yeah. Mouthbag. Mouthbag. Speaking of mouthbags. [Music] You made me a little sadder there. You told me there might be a little less Bill Murray in my life in the near future. From what I hear on the Perez Hilton because I have a guilty pleasure, there will be no Bill Murray in the latest of Ghostbusters films. Why? That's horrible. Well, no. I mean, we've discussed this before. He's always said he's going to hold out for a quality script. And I think I know what this means. I think I'm seeing Blue's brother 2000 again. Hmm. So, from what I hear, Dan Aykroyd actually said something in the media about it. And he is saying that it's a surety, that Bill won't do it. But there still is interest from the studio, so it's sort of in suspended animation currently. But Bill has always apparently been adamant that he wasn't going to do it. He's got six kids, houses all over America. He gulps in these tournaments where they pay him to turn up and have a laugh. He's into the life and living it. I know he'd have a lot of fun, but I can't be mad at him. He's a friend first and a colleague second. Says Dan Aykroyd. Oh. Wow, six kids. Yeah. Yikes. Okay, listen. I appreciate what Dan Aykroyd is trying to say in that statement. At the same time, Bill Murray is not exactly turning down work. I think he's trying to say that he's maybe taking a little bit of a backstab, like a little bit of a backhand. It's just not a priority anymore, right? Well, I think that's what Dan Aykroyd is trying to say, that working isn't a priority. But I think if you look at what Bill Murray does, yeah, well, he's not looking to just earn a paycheck. He does still work fairly regularly. He just actually does a good project. Yeah, he's not going for Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters 3. That'd be so much fun, though. I wish he would just do it for me. I'd really enjoy it if he would. Oh, you should let him know. Huh. Well, that's disappointing, but I think it's a good canary in the coal mine to lower our expectations about anything that a Ghostbusters 3 might look like. Yeah. Hmm. J. Strasburg. Yes. There's a couple of great items this week to work with, and we really appreciate anybody who sends in a little something for the popular press. For real. Who's mentioning that Michigan State University will be conducting a quote unquote zombie survival class. Oh, yes. Yes. I've seen this video. No, it looks more like a class about possibly the psychological effects of disaster. Mm-hmm. Actually, Jessica May, why don't you play us a little snippet from the YouTube trailer for the class? In times of catastrophes, some people find their humanity, others lose theirs. So, kind of a fun, intense ending. Yes, they do very well. The editing is very good. Yeah. Interesting idea. I like the idea of mixing an app with a little popular culture. I mean, this isn't anything new, throwing in a... I'd take that class. Yeah. Totally. Mm-hmm. Anyway, sounds like fun. Sounds like an interesting way to take in some history and psychology. Yeah. Well, and it's such a downer and giant subject that it's nice to have. Yeah, true. I wonder if it's easier to think about it if it's a little bit disconnected from reality. Mm-hmm. And you know what? I always like to think of myself as prepared. It's right. In any sort of apocalypse. Well, specifically for zombie, because the zombie apocalypse is so versatile. It could be like the same as, say, some kind of medical outbreak or some kind of alien thing, whatever. We've discussed this before. I think where the zombie apocalypse is sort of a fill in your own disaster. Yeah. And that's why I like to use it as the basis for my preparedness. Mm-hmm. Mr. Strasberg also mentioned the Prometheus short film. I don't know if did you guys watch this? Yeah, yeah. I remember that. Very interesting. Very interesting. And edited by Peter Wayland, the founder of Wayland Uteany or whatever, the corporation that's sort of behind everything in the Alien franchise. I loved how it was like, he started off as a speaker at Ted, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It was just so great. Nice touch. It was a nice touch for a viral marketing sort of aspect. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I loved it. Anyway, I'll definitely put it in the notes. You should check it out if you want to get a little bit excited about Prometheus. And that was Guy Pierce. Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Yeah, he did an excellent job for just basically, well, it wasn't one shot, but it was a lot of just staring at him. Yeah, well, I mean, it is. It's tough enough to remain engaging when you're delivering a speech, and it's really easy to be kind of goofy in delivering a speech when it's a pre-scripted, non-actual information speech. You know what I mean? I was guessing a fictional film so I can get tedious pretty quickly, but they did a great job. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Agreed. Oh, Pope. You had a pretty hilarious tweet the other day. Oh, my Benedict Cumberbatch's of fun. Yeah, that was pretty hilarious. Yeah, yeah. That was from Lisa Hannah Walt from her site. She did a review of Warhorse. Yeah, she did a review of Warhorse. But it was something else that he was in. I can't remember what it is now, but she was Benedict Cumberbatch's of fun, and I just, it's my new favorite term completely. Well, I was reading that he's apparently going to appear in, or he may appear, in Doctor Who, the other business run by Steve Moffat. As a villain, right? Yeah, I want him to be sure of mine. Perennial arch nemesis, the master. Well, you see, that was exactly what I thought at first. I was thinking it would be more interesting to have almost like a Christmas special in which the doctor, the doctor has to pick up Holmes and Watson. But then instead of staying in a contemporary setting, they go back to like a Victorian mural. And that'd be awesome when you were doing a kind of Holmes-y. I know, wiggly. I'm so excited about thinking of that. It's great. It'd be a perfect way for mom and two rubbish shows together. Mm-hmm. But anyway. I don't know if you guys can hear neighbor dog. That's what we call him, neighbor dog. Boy. Neighbor dog, like, barks all the time during the day. Neighbor dog gets left outside constantly in the Canadian winter. We went one for a walk me and the teeny boys to actually find neighbor dog. But by the time we got outside and dressed, neighbor dog, it got inside. For one of his few interior visits. Yeah. They were very sad that we didn't actually discover him. Mm-hmm. Oh, uh, Nutty recently gave us a well-deserved beating about the head and neck regarding Jerry Orbach because we were saying that all we could really recall him from was Law and Order. Although, I think, hopefully, in my defense, I may have said that he was in a few other things that I recognize him in. But she was finding out that he was in, uh, he had a recurring role in Murder She Broked. Oh, yeah. He was the father in Dirty Dancing. He was... Oh, yeah. That's right. He was the candelabra in Beauty and the Beast. No way. That's awesome. Well, good for Junior Orbach. Good for Junior Orbach. Really, uh, Amy took it even a step further. And now I have something amazing to show you guys. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Whoa, Jerry Orbach. Yeah. Oh, she is. But it's funny that you... Well, not that you say that, but that you show me that because when you said Jerry Orbach, I thought you were talking about, like, an old-timey country singer you folk at. And, yeah, um, that other guy, uh, Hank something. Hank Williams. Hank Williams. Yeah, like that kind of old folky... Jerry Reeve. No, that kind of old folky cowboy type. That's... That's what I thought when you said Jerry Orbach. Oh, we got to get further into the Latin order marathon, apparently. Yeah. I would not say any of this to Nettie because she is going to kick your ass. Oh, shoot. It was my evil twin Nettie. Yeah. But thanks for the heads up, Nettie. Mm-hmm. You have a very good point there. And I agree with you entirely, even if I totally disavow all knowledge of this crazy country singer scheme. I don't... Don't hurt me. Hank Williams. [Laughs] Paranormal Activity 3, we finally saw it. Yeah. Yes. It had a few good scares, right? We called most of it that was going to happen. Mm-hmm. It was better than the second one. Yeah. Like what a bit I thought. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I really liked the little girls' room. And the little girls. I think they did a fine job. They were a few aspects of the movie that consistently bothered me. Like, it's funny you mentioned the little girls' room. I kept feeling like that whole situation was very like they rented that house or they owned that house. [Laughs] And I mean the production. Whoever's behind the production. And they've maybe got a whole, a full upstairs in there with a bunch of bedrooms and stuff. But they don't want to show any of that because that's where the production team is actually sleeping. Mm-hmm. So it's just a lot of showing like that's where the closet is. And then the kids are like right beside the stairs. Like I've never seen a bedroom. I know I've seen those little loft, you know, bedrooms where it's sort of that idea and open bedroom and it overlooks the lower... It's right there. It's a huge house downstairs and then there's just this tiny tiny little loft area. A lot of bloody merry stuff in there. Yeah, which was, yeah. I like the '80s aspect. I like the use of VHS. They do a scene near the end and this I don't think is giving away too much. They do a scene near the end which is all one long take as they're doing sort of a house walkthrough. Yeah. That felt a little forced. Yeah, it felt a little ridiculous. I mean if they had pulled the dock that would have been really cool. Like you're walking through the house and these are the various things that you're coming across but it was slow. It reminded me if you go to an amusement park you get on those rides where you're locked into a seat and then you're looking at a screen and the seat like kind of waves back and forth. You suddenly like jubicle when you go down a roller coaster ride or whatever. Yeah. It was like that. It was like now we're going to go to this spooky place. Oh, we're away from this spooky place. But what's behind us? Like the haunted houses that you get in the little card on the track. Yeah, yeah. It was very much just a view on a rail and you knew kind of it was coming in. You didn't really do anything about it which was kind of fun but. Well and we would call it, you would call it especially near the end. You would call it every single scene. This is when they're going to do this. This is when they're going to do this. It got a little bit, if you're familiar with horror films. You will be able to cite the scenes at a time. Yeah. Anyway, it was still a fun movie. Yeah. You're much better than that. And I mean we're obviously going to get a fourth at this point. I think it's going to involve the we're going to loop back in and that we've gone a little history. We're going to loop back to the second one and check out what happened with the baby and the sister, the possessed sister at the end of that film. But it's going to be really hard to continue pushing the idea of a found footage thing. Unless they just, I mean it would be better if they just said okay this is the end of the franchise. Like where you've nailed it, it's a trilogy, we're done. But it's not going to happen that way because it's a cheap, they're cheap movies to make. Even this one which had more special effects didn't cost that much. And really there is things that they could do better. If you know paranormal activity, it ends up being like the bomb. That'd be surprising. Well I found it interesting. I wasn't sure if it was the same director and writer every time. But it's not. So they're obviously, for example, as I recall, I don't remember they cite a scene that would have taken place during the second film. There's that whole break in part where that necklace goes missing. Except in this, in the third one all of a sudden it's this box of tapes that went missing. And it's supposed to be like oh you just didn't see this footage last time or whatever. So they've kind of had to go back and amend the history a little it feels like. But at the same time, I'm wondering if they're going to end up going down a sort of Halloween road. You guys, so you got Halloween one right? And then Halloween two takes place immediately after Halloween one, like literally Halloween one ends and then Halloween two starts and it's the scene after Halloween one ends. But then you get to Halloween three and there's really you've killed Mike Myers twice at this point and there's not really much more you can do. So what they ended up trying to attempt as you guys know, they tried to turn it into almost a variety series like an anthology series where every movie was going to be a different sort of story. And then it was crappy. Yeah, the third one is all and listen there's I'm sure there's somebody going to show up and tell me that three was really great and it's their favorite in the series. And I'm happy for you. Yeah, well, there's always that guy and I understand. But at the same time, that's not really it was just too much of a veer for the franchise for me and frankly, the plot of the third one just sucked. But then they came back, right? So they knew they had to bring back their money star Mike Myers. So but they needed to come up with some sort of premise to keep having this what was essentially just originally a creepy psychopath, they somehow have to make him. He's got to be able to come back again. Yeah, he's got to be able to survive like bullet wounds and more and more extreme behavior, right? Yeah. Which is exactly why Freddie and Jason have so much longevity because you don't have to do that much explaining when you just kind of wave your hands to the same mysticism. So what they ended up doing anyway was having and we may have actually discussed this as well before this whole cult situation and there's this whole the seeds curse situation where like Mike Myers is this demon that keeps coming back or something like that. And I grow a little fuzzy because they're not very good movies and it's been a while since I've seen them. But it feels a bit like that might be happening with this, right? Well, they keep trying to find a way to write a continuation on to something that really is already a completed work. Yeah. I think we talked about Juan too. And that was the same idea where it was like that movie was done and then they came up with another movie but they could only really stretch it out for another half hour so they grafted the last half of the first movie on to the start. Anyway. Yeah. That always really bothered me because I could never remember when the first one started when the second one did but yeah that just angered me. Yeah. It was so confusing. Speaking of movies that really angered me. We've been watching Real Steel. Real Steel bothers you? Yeah. Kind of really bugs me. I have to admit, we haven't finished yet but I'm actually really enjoying it. I kind of see why Fish Picked it as a movie of the year last year. I can't stand the dancing kid. I can't stand the kid in general. I love the dancing kid. I don't know. I think... Listen. The noise, the bajevas. Any child in this sort of role automatically is going against a plus 10 annoyance rate. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well. Any kid in that situation has could be a pain. He critically failed. Okay. I thought he did a good job. I thought they had kept him pretty low-key and not to... What? Jake Voidey. I loved seeing when he was screaming in the ring like he was really into it. Yeah. I thought he went both of these. I really enjoyed it. I suspect that if I were to meet the kid like the actor, I would probably hate him. He's probably a little jerk by the little smurming guy. Yeah. One time, I thought he did a great job in the role. I thought he was exactly what they were looking for. I'm sure Hugh Jackman took him under his wing and taught him how to be a nice, fine fellow. I also got the impression that Hugh Jackman may be his Barbie Jackass as well. He has. There's that. He's a musical guy. All musical guys are awesome. I wish everybody could stand like any of these people. Yeah. Just like Jerry Orbox. Joey Orbox. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. That's right. He came out of Broadway, which is what Amy was saying, is that he made the role quite famous. Now, people forget that kind of thing happened all the time. Vincent Price, he came out of Broadway. He was famous on the stage in England and Broadway before he was ever in a film role. And when he started in film, he was like a fop and dandy. He wasn't really the creepy fellow we know. It was really only later on when arguably his career was already in a bit of a downturn that he became the horror master that we know and missed today. Started starring in William Castle films, and that'll get your career on a scary trajectory pretty quickly. So American Horror Story, they're making plans for season two, and I'm not sure if people are aware, but Jessica Lange, she won some awards for her haunting skills, and she's done so well. They're actually going to have her return as well as just a couple of other cast members. It's going to be a different family, different state, different haunting entirely, and Jessica Lange won't even be the same character. Really? So all the returning people will have different roles entirely, will be different characters. What an interesting way of... Are they even going to try to write connections between the two seasons, or are they just going to say, "This is an entirely different story." Shouldn't it really be American Horror Stories then? I think you should write somebody and tell them that. Yeah. Tell them they forgot the "S". Yeah. And American Horror Stories. You were also mentioning some Hunger Games news. You had something worthy of the popular work? Worthy, at least to me, because I'm a huge fan of Arcade Fire, which is a band, if no one is worth, and they've released a few songs from the Hunger Games soundtrack. There's a... I don't remember. Taylor Swift. Oh, okay. She has a song on the soundtrack, but also Arcade Fire does. It's called Abraham's Daughter, and I'll play it after our outro music. Nice. Very nice. But yes. Yeah. I took a little listen. Sounds pretty good. Yeah. Pretty something. Yeah. Okay. Well, let's close out with some mob news, real quick. Just a quick reminder. You can find me on here with Adam and Jaredie Skinner, all one word. Just as on Twitter, Jaredie Skinner, all one. And he will hurt you. Mm-hmm. electronically. Getting some fun mob gaming going on, a little bit of Carcassone. Carcassone. Oh, yeah. Let's take a poll. How do you pronounce that? Carcassone. That's what they say on it. Oh, yeah. Carcassone. Yeah, you're right. And beating Rich, which I know is not going to last. You shouldn't beat Rich. That's not nice. But it's been a lot of fun gaming with the mob, both on here Academy and on Carcassone. Totally. So please. I believe Jessica and I Skinner. Come over to the shadows. Come forward. We'd love to beat you apparently. Play some games. Uh, we're also continuing the mob posting of pictures. Of yourself in your listening environment. Mm-hmm. So you can email them to comments@flashprop.com. Or you can drop them in the mob on Facebook. Yep. You can put them right into the directory for the photo album. Now, how much longer are you going to hold this open, Jessica, maybe before you do your drawing? I don't know. I thought I would let it linger quite a bit. Like mid-March, maybe. Ooh, that is quite a bit. Well, like another 10 days, maybe. Hmm. Sounds interesting. Well, I don't really think there's a reason to rush, right? Yeah, no, fair enough. Everyone is pretty good odds. I think there's probably like half to a dozen people in there, so. Yeah. I'm really enjoying the pictures that are posted there. I'm really hoping that-- Time Traveler Rich and his Feds, if you have the-- if you've been blessed with the opportunity to see that. Awesome photo. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I really love that. I have so many different ideas. I envy the Feds. Although, I don't envy the affiliation I do envy the Feds. Sorry? Um, there are other contests I have in my mind. And they may include a sermons of hats and the like-- Ooh, oh, a hat contest. Ooh, that's a very interesting idea. Uh, we'll discuss the other things the mob like in the mailbag, for example pizza and drugs, but we'll get to that in a minute. Um, Ms. Nine has created her own sort of pulp character that they've been using in their Imagineering in the last few days. Yes. And I just wanted to mention it quickly as a sort of, um, softener for the spot of bother coming up. She's created a character called Officer Slammer, which is-- We walked in and three of the kids were sitting on the steps together and just discussing their characters. And so she's--she's Officer Slammer in these role-playing games. And then she has her two sidekicks, the toddlers, Bubs and Babarino, who are constantly demanding Officer status but being refused. Or, or they want to change their name to Officer Smasher. Oh, I'm Officer Slammer. Oh, yes, Slammer. Yeah, Bubs. And then we would get Mr. 2 to say Bubbarino. Babarino. Babarino. Babarino. Okay. So cute. Yeah. Anyway, I thought that was worth mentioning. Yeah, we were looking at it. I have to write Officer Slammer into the universe. I'm not quite sure how we'd seen that one in, but-- Along with Sergeant-- She needs her own little pulp show. Oh, also before we go, before we go, I wanted to mention really quickly, mobster Richard Lott is doing some great charity work for Cystic Fibrosis, actually. I saw that. So if you'd like to do a little bit of donating, I believe he's got a $150 goal and hopefully he's moving along by the time you hear this. But I'll have the link in this show notes. It is CFF.org/great_strides/RichardLottLott with two T's, 7924. And thanks for joining. I know that you're new to mob. Yeah, yeah. Welcome to everyone who showed up in the mob this week, showed up in the mob every week, really. Mm-hmm. But to the newbies, especially. Mm-hmm. We care that you're here. We love our mob. We do. And now, to scare you into staying, here's a little spot of bother. Spot of bother. Hi, mobsters. Today's dark tale comes to us from across the pond in Mary Old, England. Tim's Valley Police are searching for a suspect who killed five gentle souls in the dark of the night, and then, after stripping much of the flesh from their bodies, left the remains to moulder in the remote, cold meadow. I must admit, when I first read this story, I could not help but wonder what Thomas Blackhall might say. Upon my arrival at the Ashton Note Nature Reserve, I was astounded by the amount of blood and carnage strewn about the cold, frosty hill. Oh, well, since Thomas isn't here, I'll just relay the story as reported by The Telegraph. Police are on the lookout for a professional butcher who slaughtered five sheep and carted away the best cuts of meat all under the cover of darkness. It would have taken more than two hours to butcher the sheep whose skins, feet, and internal organs were left behind at Aston Rowan National Nature Reserve in Watlington, Oxfordshire, a Tim's Valley Police spokesperson said. John Timkins from the Tim's Police Station said, "The sheep were in a remote field on Aston Hill along the A-40, and the offenders would have had to park a vehicle in a nearby gateway. To have butchered the sheep would have taken in excess of two hours, and they would have had to carry about 200 kilos or 440 pounds of meat to their vehicle. The job was professionally done, and I believe the offenders may have had previous experience of butchering animals and use professional butcher or chef knives." Alastair Hallowell, who helps manage the 400-acre nature reserve and the Chitrin Hills, said incidents like this are extremely rare. He said about 320 speckled-faced-pula sheep, which are a Welsh breed, graze on the land which is a designated nature reserve because of its wildflowers. He added that the sheep are an essential management tool in keeping the reserve. He said, "Through the local community we have a team of volunteers. One of the volunteers was checking all the gates when he made the gruesome discovery. It's not uncommon for farmers to have animals stolen from their fields or for sheep to be butchered on site, but in the five years I have been here I haven't come across it. We are in regular communication with the local police over all sorts of rural crimes, and we hadn't been alerted to the presence of any gang taking sheep. It's very unpleasant and irritating as we give a lot of care and attention to our flock. We invest a lot of time looking after the sheep and to have five slaughtered in this way, it's not very nice." Mr. Hallowell said the slaughtered sheep were about 18 months old, and this breed had been chosen because they are capable of staying outside all year on rough grassland and can cope with steep slopes. He continued, "It's a police matter and it's a very rare event for us to have anything like this to happen." Our nature reserves are open to the public to come and look at the wildflowers, to walk on and to enjoy. It's a wonderful place to come and it's upsetting that a small part of the population wants to come and commit crime, particularly one this nasty. I don't know about you guys, but all this talk of butchered lambs has made me a little hungry. For two of my personal favorite lamb recipes, please visit bothersomethings.com and look for The Night Butcher. Special thanks to a Pope and Acts for lending me a bit of Thomas Blackhall today. I'm Jeffrey Lynch and that's This Week's Spot of Bother. When he says the night butcher, I totally can't help but think of the night garden. I think of the night stalker. I think of the midnight metron. Really, because mine's a kids' show. So of mine. Depending on your household. That's pretty terrifying. Very nice job. Yeah, great job, Jeff. Lots of fun. Actually, what this puts me in mind of, honestly, is the scene from, what is it, Roger and me? And then there's a follow-up, which may have been just cold pets or food or something, in which there's a lady who's slaughtering her rabbits. She sells rabbits, but she also slaughters them if people don't come out and take those pets. Oh, yeah, I do remember that. They weren't allowed, they weren't allowing her to keep her rabbits. Yeah. So she wanted to at least keep their bodies. So she was killing them. Yeah, it was like a hammer on the screen. I guess my point is people end up in desperate straits sometimes, or sometimes you just run a butcher shop and you're short on meat, I don't know. Also interesting, Hunger Games Connection, there's a lot of talk of the lambs do in that book. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I wonder if that's one of Jeff's recipes I haven't gotten to check just yet. Fathersomethings.com, if you folks want to check it out, thanks a lot, Jeff. Thank you very much. Got a little something special from Fish this week. Ooh, whatever we're at. Uh, kind of a double header, but not in his usual sense. Ooh, can't wait to hear it. Fresh fish, a new batch of cinematic pulp with the always listening, three day fish. Hey, Flashcast, three day fish here, with a review. I'm going to do a semi-double feature, my jig. Basically, I'm going to talk about a new movie and a movie I came across on Netflix. So here we go. First thing I'm going to review is the Lorax. I'm not exactly sure how pulpy this movie is, but it's kids' movies, I don't do a whole lot of kids' movies, but a lot of mobsters have kids or grandkids as the case might be. And so I felt I ought to do you guys as a service. So here it goes. I wasn't a huge fan, to be honest. All these Dr. Seuss movies seem to be kind of hit or miss, you know what I mean? But the thing that worries me about this one and some of the other ones is that like there's no Dr. Seuss feel to this movie. They certainly look Dr. Seuss, you know, the artwork and all that fun stuff, but Dr. Seuss was known for his rhyming and they take out scenes that I thought were kind of important to the book. Like, there's this montage of just the onceler rising to power and becoming super industrious and whatnot. And in the book it was like, well, first he started chopping down the trees and then the bears couldn't eat the fruit. And then he builds factory, that's making smogula smog, and he starts choking the birds. And then he creates a bunch of waste and starts, you know, driving off the hummingfish. And when each of these things happens, the lorax comes up to the onceers, like, hey man, you should probably stop doing this because look at the damage you're causing once it's like, ahh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But they just skip all that and so it's just like all of a sudden you're like at the end of the story where it's like, and then he chopped down the last tree, you know. There's no, like, build up to that moment. And so I felt that kind of took away from the whole scene where he does get down the last tree because they do make it dramatic, but there was no, like, build up of that he was. It was just like, oh, I'm doing a song and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, oh, song's over knocked down the last tree. And to me that was kind of disappointing. But this movie is definitely geared towards kids. So like, the kids might dig the music, they might enjoy that aspect. So that doesn't go to see it but I think in all honesty, this is like yellow light, you know. I feel like when the kids go get older, they won't really, they won't really hold up, it won't be like a treasured movie, it won't be a movie like, oh, hey, let's bust it out. But at least not like the old school cartoon is, I can see someone keeping that, it's like, oh, hey, you know, like someone might have a copy of how the Grinch sold Christmas. So there's that. Now this next movie caught me completely off guard. I caught it on the Netflix, it was in their new releases. It's a movie called Rubber, it is a French flick, though it is in English and seems to take place in America. This is the strangest, not the strangest movie we're seeing but it has all the B-movie qualities but it's still like a decent movie and this is why. This is the premise of this movie, you're going to see it, I'm going to tell you the premise, you're going to be like fish, this sounds ridiculous, but just hear me out. So the premise of this movie is that there is a psychic tire, like a car tire named Robert, rolling around and killing stuff with the psychic powers. Like he makes people's heads blows up or he just like blows up little rabbits, you know. He's just rolling around, blowing people's heads up and he makes his way to this motel. Now this movie actually avoids a lot of mistakes that B-movies make, there's a lot of scenes where you see the tire just rolling and it's a wide shot, you can see plenty of like the tires straight in the center and you can see plenty of the background and the tires just rolling by itself, doing its own thing. So it certainly looks like a psychic tire, it's just rolling out on its own. There's also not a lot of hokey background music, like something that sounds like some kid made with his GarageBand software and a lot of things just get resolved in the story like plot points, just get taken care of. So yeah, with that I give rubber a green line, you got the Netflix, go check this look out and Jared, yeah, I'd honestly really like to hear your opinion of this movie because I feel like you might have more things to add, so that's all for this week from your three day fish. Oh, is this Nick? Before we get to the response, thanks Fish for all the effort you've been putting into the audio editing. Actually thanks to everybody. I'm really enjoying the background effects and stuff people are inserting, a lot of fun. Interesting choice with the Lorax, but I do agree with including in here, Zeus I think has a special place in everybody's heart. So much. I pray nightly to him, me and Zeus are like this. It's weird what's happening though, obviously there's been some opening of the property by the estate in recent years, sort of a cavalcade of these films and they're kind of a questionable quality. Well sometimes anyway, there's been a few that I've really enjoyed. Do you think Harry? Yeah, yeah. But it's weird to hear that they cut out scenes from the book because these books, that's always one of the problems right, is these books are very short, they're children's books. So you don't have a lot of extra meat to begin with. Or the message if it's a good one, kind of like the reasonable decency of it. Yeah, and that's a good point. Very interesting. I appreciate your insights, Fish. Interesting comment too about it not being the kind of thing you might, well I think of it in terms of showing your children, you know what I mean? There are certain films I saw in my childhood that I would really show the nines or even Mr. 3. That are mentionables, like things that you want to share with them. Yeah, you know Christmas rolls around, you bust out the old Grinch. Mm-hmm. You bust out Rudolph. Halloween, it's urna scared stupid, you know, the steeples. Great pumpkin. Halloween, whatever. Halloween, yeah. Yeah. Excuse me. Not Halloween 3. Yeah. Rubber. Hm. Yes. I'm going to take on the challenge, Fish. I promise you that by the recording of the next day, they're very excited by the recording of the next Flashcast. I will have seen this film, Rubber. You had me at Psychic Tire, my friend. It's so funny I find, given the reputation of the French for, oh let's just say open disdain, that they have these ridiculously almost campy over the top and they take them very earnestly sometimes. Like you get a very whimsical kind of amily, you'll come along, but then you'll also get something that's just, it wouldn't play in America because it's too goofy. Something that plays to their-- It's like a psychic tire? Yeah. But, you know, I'm not saying that's necessarily this film, I haven't seen it yet, although I'm quite excited to now. But the fact that the French cinema would turn this out, it was awesome. Mm-hmm. That was strange. I did find it very interesting that fish touch directly on the soundtrack for the film and you're going to keep a special ear out. I do admit, when you discuss a psychic tire rolling down the road, making people say it's explode, something like I have the tiger, it comes immediately to mind. Where it's strutting, it's strutting down the pavement, down the sidewalk, and there's going to be like other tires behind it that are like, also synchronized, snapping their fingers to the feet, they're wearing gold chains, weren't they wearing gold chains? Anyways. I also enjoy that he mentions specifically that it's very tight and it's plotting. Like, there's not usually-- or as if there's a genre of psychic tire films, but usually it's very loose at the end, they're not really-- they're kind of ambiguous. Yeah. They don't tie up a lot of the loose ends. This one's good. It sticks to a plot. Yeah. I'm very excited to see it. Thanks, fish. Thanks for both of your-- A psychic tire blood. Yeah. Thanks for your warning and your heads up. Anyway. Who's ready for a hysterectomy? So I've got a good one for you this time for the week of February the 19th, as it turns out, the source ethics on the history scope is off the whole time. I mean, it's a pretty bitching mistake. A couple hours' work, two dissolved mobs and a new crystal access leader and everything's working again, hopefully. So here we go, history of scope. The year was 1846 and an immigrant party began their trek through the high Sierra Nevada mountains, but 89 immigrants of Springfield, Illinois, who set out for Overland for California initially all went well and they arrived on schedule at Fort Breton in Wyoming. In early August, the immigrants made a mistake, however, and decided to leave the usual favor of a supposedly short cut, recently blazed by a California promoter, Landford Hastings. The so-called Hastings Cut-Off provided everything but a short cut. The party's lost valuable time and supplies on the trip, and when the immigrants finally arrived, they began a difficult pass onto the Sierra Nevada mountains. In early October, it was uncomfortably late in the season to attempt a high mountain passage. They almost made it, and on October 29th, they camped near a high mountain lake with plans to begin their final push the next morning. Unfortunately, an early winter snowstorm arrived and trapped them under a thick mantle of snow. Everything that was blocked, they were trapped. The panicked immigrants constructed makeshift tents out of canvas and from their wagons and hoped the thaw might save them, or whether or never arrived. In mid-December, the food supplies were running low, and all agreed that they didn't send help, and the entire party was starved to death. Fifteen of the strongest sent out west on December 16th. Three weeks later, having endured violent snowstorms and having been reduced to cannibalism to stay alive, seven survivors reached an Indian village where news of disaster quickly was dispatched to Sutter's Fort in North and near San Francisco. January 31st, seven rescuers left Sutter's Fort, and they arrived 20 days later. The men saw nothing but tall, white snow drifts. The men yelled out, "Hello!" and a woman's head popped out of the snow, asking, "Are you men from California or are you from heaven?" As the survivors emerged from their snow-covered shelters, one writer recorded that, it was if the rescuers, "Hello!" had been Gabriel Torne racing the dead from the graves. Their flesh was wasted from their bodies, they wept, and they laughed hysterically. After feeding the surviving immigrants as much as they could, the rescuers began their evacuation. Other rescue parties arrived, soon to help, and trials of the Donald Party, however, were far from over. As the rescuer parties struggled to lead the survivors back to Sutter's Fort, they too began to succumb to the harsh winter conditions. Many among the main party pioneers were forced to resort to cannibalism as well to stay alive. The last of the survivors, the last of the survivors, did not reach safety until late April 1847. Of the 89 immigrants, they were departed in Fort Brigadier the year before, only 45 reached their destination in sunny California. Well, the screen goes dark on me, a grand, my fellow mobsters. It's a scope to spend a little morbid, huh? Well, nothing seems to be wrong with the old history of scope this week, so I bet you all will fare well until next time. Wait, what's that life coming from the—no, what, no, I don't understand what you mean. Oh my god, it's full of stars. I love the endings to those, but this one in particular. Yeah, this one especially. Hopefully that worked out okay, hopefully you haven't either encountered the old ones or a monolith informing you that Europa is off limits. The stars are right. Yeah. Fantastic entry though, thank you very much, I enjoyed that one quite a bit. Great job with the rescue party there guys. Yeah, good job there. This kind of feels like a big one, it feels like he's touching on one of the big horrible histories. Yeah, that's pretty, yeah, pretty well-known horrible history. Yeah, other than the details, frankly, I've read about it before, but to walk through the details, it's going a little more interesting with it. A little bit more horrible. Yeah. Are you a man from California or are you from heaven? Oh, I loved that, that was great. Intense. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be that people either, no. I'm sure most of the mob has actually already seen this film, but if you haven't had a chance to check out Ravenous, that's a good one. Classic film, nice little horror flick, very much in that medium. Yeah, in a sense. Yeah. Well, it's about westward expansion and eating people. Yeah, a little bit more in depth, but definitely a good one. Yeah. Thanks a lot. I think the captain's going to spread a little bit of his salty rhine for us. That sounds disgusting. Maybe I'll start that over. We're keeping it. Ahhh! Ahhh! A hoey flashcasters, it is I, Captain Ignatius Pickard. I bring you this week a short adventure for a mindful of the epic length of flashcasts of late, and I've no wish to deprive you of life more than be necessary. And so this is the Danson Adventure. Allow me to relate to ye the tale of Alan and the Giant. Burly he were, and rough and tumbling manner, excepting for his feet. Childlike would be the kindest way to describe him, for they were minute and soft, with the dainteous nails of which he could conceive. Defining his tasks aboard ships, Trixie, his bulk made him a fine marauder, and yet his twinkle toes were ideal for dancing. Every third moon had combined the two in the pirate dance-off contest. For many years now, the buccaneers boogie had been the highlight of the season, held down at Caton's spims Honolulu Boogaloo hut up Knifers Creekway. Gahhh! It was a dance to the death. Hellabut Harry, a man rank with fishy paws, was the judge at the end of the springy months when we returned from sea and tossed Alan into the dancing pit. I'd high hopes of victory, and have rest in the ivory dancing pump back from Catman R's beard. Just before Alan's opponent leapt into the pit, I'd one of me hilarious premonitions adume. Knives and fire danced before me eyes, and a cruel muckin' laughter filled me ears. Less than a second's fraction later, there came a 'oh-oh-oh-oh!' and a vast figure of a man parted the crowd like butter, and stepped into the pit. Me heart-thumped Alan's failed. Now he were a brave lad, make no mistake. He'd taken down Mena's wide, but never so tall. Over ten foot tall at me best-rightening, for his head pierced the open mouth of the pit. Perhaps he came from foreign lands, where they prized his unnecessary heightitude. Quickly the diggy-bout was over. Right out of the flutey gate, where the tempo was set by a hammer's and metal bars, and the melody fluted over the top, Alan ran up the giant's back. His delicate feet carefully placed to ride his novelty spine. So swift was Alan's ascent, and so dainty his step that the giant barely noticed until it was too late. Quick tap, tippy tap, Alan's tap-shoe-clad feet slammed and punted into his foes' head and shoulders. Unless you've been slapped around the head with them steely totips, you've known no end of the harm they wreak. Virtue also style, Alan skipped and spanned the flighty flute tune, every step an elegant kick to the skull, and testament to his skill. We were silent as the music tailed away, and Alan's mount swayed in memory of his pounding. Xylophone burst into life to sound the end of the contest, and the giant collapsed. You could not believe the roar of approval and applause, as Alan nimbly hopped from the falling giant to the pitch-lip and landed in a plie. Xelously regarded him as we seized up the ivory dancing pump, and our rum reward. Oh my God, I love the idea of a pirate dance off to the death. I like that Nick balances his tails with all aspects of pirate living. It's not just all swash, there's a lot of buckling as well. Yeah. Anyway, thanks a lot. You can find more Captain Pickhart's tails for CaptainPickhart.com, and Nick does a lot of other stuff, too. He's a man after my own heart, he's got some Twitter poems he does. He's a Renaissance pirate. Yeah, he's a model now. Oh yeah. I have to model. Oh, that's great. Oh, that's great. Just for us, though. Yeah. Yeah. For our eyes only. And the rest of it. And the rest of it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's what I mean. Buss, you know. Oh, us, the mob. I didn't realize we were high by now. It's the Royal Us. It is us, the mob. Yeah. And feel free to take as long as you like to tell your stories. Oh, absolutely. Yes. Yes. Hopefully people don't feel the best. They're always present. Been running too long. Mm-hmm. Thanks a lot. Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, to round out the variety portion of our show, I believe we have another entry in the intense tales of duck as real. Hey, flesh, pulp gang, this is Doc Blue. Thanks for the kind comments last week. Yes, JRD. This is somewhat inspired by the old TV and radio serials, particularly the radio serials. But same feeling. And now, for the latest chapter of Doc Israel, "Angel of Death." The last episode of Doc Israel, "Angel of Death," we traveled back to the police station with Sergeant Parr, and we learned that he just might know a bit more about the mysterious vigilante than he was letting on. Officer Ronald Corley sat in his car, a half black block from the station house waiting for his superior officer, Sergeant Parr, to leave for the night. Corley's wife, Carol, would be annoyed that he was late for dinner again, but the young police officer had independent investigation to do. Nibleen on the stale half sandwich he had saved from lunch, Corley's patience and preparation paid off, just as Parr stepped out of the front door of the precinct, a taxi cab pulled up to pick him up. Like many of the more senior officers, Parr actually lived in the neighborhood within walking distance of the officer, office. This made it easier for them to respond quickly if there was an emergency. And at that, it wasn't unusual for them to get cab rides, particularly if it was raining. An area like this, everyone had a network of connections and friends. Local brochures often passed out a piece of fresh fruit, waitresses would fill a mug of coffee for free, cab drivers would cop rides. It's just what happened, just what folks did for one another. The thing was, it wasn't raining, and this particular hack wasn't from the neighborhood. And being the iconic yellow, it was an independent vehicle, or at least not, one not associated with any cab company that Corley was familiar with. The officer could make out the 936 licensing number that would let him track down the operator later. Corley pulled into traffic behind the taxi, and the gaps of the traffic Ronald could see that Parr and the driver were involved in a serious discussion. He really wished he knew what they were saying, but even if he were a liquidator, he couldn't get close enough to the other vehicle to translate without giving himself away. After a few brief minutes, the cab reached the sergeant's building, and proceeded to continue past it, turning right at the corner. The younger officer resisted the urge to gun his engine to catch up, and instead eased around the corner with the flow of traffic. Ahead he could see the taxi turning right again. Corley followed calmly, and the process repeated itself twice more as the cab did a full circuit of the block. This time the vehicle stopped in front of Parr's home, and the older officer slid out without comment or exchange of funds. Corley knew he had a quick decision to make. He could pull over now and confront his senior officer on the man's front stoop, or he could follow the cab and gather more information. In his options, Ronald decided that he could follow up with Parr later, and decided to shadow the taxi instead. Ronald patiently followed the yellow dim box as it twisted and turned through the streets. Though the driver took an indirect route, he led Corley quickly out of the officer's district. The pursuer considered breaking off the chase for fear that he had been detected, but he led his quest for knowledge to overcome his concerns. Corley glanced down at his gas gauge, and when he looked up, the cab was making a sharp left into a narrow alley. The officer adjusted his route and waited for traffic to clear before following. Once in the alley, Ronald was stunned to find nothing but trash and a chain-link fence blocking his path. The taxi cab had disappeared. With a quiet curse, he checked his rearview mirror, preparing to back out of the dead end. He hit the brakes, a black-clad figure stood behind the car, clearly intent on blocking the young officer's path. There's anything I've actually learned from those old-time serials, it's that you never basically want to go down an alley. Never. Especially after dark, but generally just avoid alleys. Chasing a taxi, yeah, yes. Especially when there's a chain-link fence at the end. Well he might not have known, I've been thinking there's gotta be a garage or something down there in order for that taxi to be a ghost taxi, yes, yes it's a ghost taxi. I'm putting my money on that one, sold. Thanks a lot, Doc Blue, David Went, you can find more of his stuff over at thesecretlayer.com where he contributes with a few other fellows to some very funny business. Okay, now I think it's time for... Feel Big. We have two big topics in the mob this week, but first I just wanted to mention a couple of quick items. Savage Glenn, he was mentioning Ukla the Mox Tantric Yoda. Oh yes, that was so good. I don't know that I necessarily need to explain this any further. Jessica may maybe just give us a little sampling. I'll show you the best bit, or at least my favorite. Do my sleigh, my whole welcome, my home, this is inside a tree. Off you must take those wet clothes, can I get you some hot tea? You are looking so good at me. I was thinking we shouldn't make the force slow, the feelings grow as each other we get to know on when I put some berry weight down low when they turn the lights, and they will support saga to chronicle the stuff we make tonight. Oh no, this actually got me down a sidetrack. That was quite funny, thanks a lot, Samhshun. Yes, thank you for reporting that out. But this got me down a sidetrack. It seemed like there was a time in my youth, like in my berry early youth, when Hannah Barbera cartoons were just played interchangeably at a certain era in the morning. Does this strike a chord for anybody? Like, it wasn't necessarily a space ghost, or whoever that one week, Thundar, Ukla the Mox. I see your stunned gazes. Ukla the Mox is a character from Thundar the barbarian. Thundar the barbarian, is that right? I don't know. I mean, I know Hannah Barbera cartoons, but none of those are about them. But you're familiar at least with that period of cartoons they were doing, or it's always like a large, bulky fellow, and yeah, you know, sort of a parade of ridiculously over muscled heroes, and a variety of alien and poorly animated landscapes. Yeah. Now, if I'm honest, the only thing I really remember about the Thundar credits, other than the mention of Ukla the Mox, is how much history they cover in such a short time period. We're talking rich the time traveler, sort of, rundown period. Here, actually, Jessica, can you just play the credits, because we're going to go from now till the future in about 30 seconds. Thundar the barbarian! A year, 1994, from out of space, comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the moon, unleashing cosmic destruction. Man's civilization is cast in ruin. 2,000 years later, Earth is reborn. A strange new world rises from the old, a world of savagery, super science, and sorcery. But one man bursts his bonds to fight for justice. With his companions, Ukla the Mox, and Princess Ariel, he pits his strength, his courage, and his fabulous suns sword against the forces of evil. He is Thundar, the barbarian! Wow. Yes, the future of 1994. Yeah, nothing hyper-advanced in your science, destroying all of your resources. And I love, like, 2,000 years later, when Earth is, like, dawned on a new age, presumably people still look like people. Yeah, there's some, yeah. No one's involved. And they still wear hairy underpants? Of course. Yep. Yeah. Science of barbarian science. It's very clear in the opening, if you can see it, if you want to go to the show, let's say, the planet's atmosphere is visibly ripped away, and yeah, we seem pretty okay with that. Yeah. We just get a better tan. Yeah, it's a little, it's a few clear days. We have three new people in the mob this week. Wow. That's a lot. Oh, because Richard Lott, very nice. Yeah, it's very nice, and new people are always nice to have around. One of them, Tibi, was mentioning that Mulligan would make a great web series, which I love the idea of. We'd have to find the right Mulligan, though. It'd be fairly easy to shoot in and around Toronto, frankly. Yeah, probably. We already got a billy when it begged. Yeah, we'll see. I do have to say, though, the name Tibi reminds me very much of the Gammera films. Tibi. Yes. Tibi is the little turtle that somehow sort of summons Gammera. It's a very, I had never quite understood that connection, or maybe, sorry, maybe it's just my memory. Does Tibi end up turning into Gammera? That doesn't seem right, because Tibi's like a small child's-- I believe it becomes one. They marry. Beautiful thing. Yeah, they marry. The giant monster marry in Japan, where it's legal. Don't be discriminatory. It's unbecoming. So the two big topics we had in the mob this week, drugs and pizza, sort of interesting. Which tend to go together? Yeah, for some people. Specifically we had a lot of reaction to Barry's fantastic pizza piece. Pizza pizza, if you will. I was very excited to hear that when I saw that what the topic was. Nutty specifically said, "I'm a New Yorker, so I will always vote New York pizza the best. Sorry Chicago, but you aren't even in the top five, but I think my list goes, one New York City, two Florence, three. The Emosys Oven, friends in New York, four. Janice is Oven, another friend in New York, five. My oven, but don't feel bad Chicago, you're a hell of a lot higher than Canada." But that's just a different food altogether, not speaking ill of pizza pizza or anything, but seriously. Okay, listen. Pizza pizza's gross. Don't please don't pin Canadian pizza on the reputation of pizza pizza, because it's all downhill from there. That's like the McDonald's of pizza. Yeah. Yeah, it is in a way. It's kind of worse than that in a sense. She does mention out here on the East Coast going to a pizza place. For me means I'm getting a donare, mmm donare's. Yeah, and I don't blame you, there's a lot of Ottawa pizza. Have we mentioned that before? What they call "Ottawa pizza" from back in the day? Well, they essentially just take a normal pizza and then put a good, I don't know, for our American friends, half inch of cheese on there, and it's gross, because it just tastes like you're biting into it. It is. I like cheesy. It tastes like you're literally biting into like, cheese pie. Yeah. Don't talk about my cheese pie, like that, okay? I like me some cheese pie. Joe was saying, "Hi, I'm up. Great FC. I'm going to decide with Barry on the pizza issue. I prefer the thin crust of New York style to Chicago deep dish. FYI, there is something called Colorado Mountain Pie, served at Bo Joe's, Originals and Idaho Springs, Colorado. I guess that the chain sounds interesting, is relatively thin crust rolled to a very thick border around the pizza, which allowed them to pile the ingredients a mile high. Wow. See what I did there? Linda loves it. I still prefer in Westau. But it is good. I want a pitcher, can you go and get yourself one so I can see a pitcher of this? Because I really like the thin crust. But the issue I do have is that you can't have a lot of toppings. So I want to see this. I'd like to reproduce it in some manner. Yeah. We'll have to make pieces again. So consider it field work. That's right. Thanks, Joe. Anyway, I find it interesting that no one stepped up from Chicago to defend their pizza reputation. Yeah. I know we have a few listeners from there who have contacted me on occasion. They don't care about pizza, I suppose. I suppose that's what it is. They've got other things to deal with in Chicago. Yeah, it's really windy. It's interesting, though. I find this fascinating because in my mind, the only other city is maybe L.A. and oh no, that's not fair Vegas. That would be those would be like the four large American pulp cities in my mind. That'd be fair. Can you think of another San Francisco Boston? San Francisco's a notable place and a place I'd love to visit. But I'm not sure that it's a pulp city. I'd say Boston. Dallas? Boston. Well... Cowboy hats. You get your Boston sort of 60s, 70s gangs. Is that what you're thinking of? Sort of that period of... Crime. Fair enough. But... The Irish. Yeah. But when I think of the tales that are told that really seems... What about New Orleans? Yeah. You know, you've got to go point that. Oh, New Orleans. Oh, New Orleans. That's a good one. It's thinking, man. And I don't want to swim. But I do think Chicago ranks high on that list of pulp cities. You can't deny it though. Prohibition. Yeah. The gangster connection. Yeah. You know what? I take it back about San Francisco. Now that I'm thinking of more and more on it, it seems like... Looking alcatraz. Yeah. Alcatraz. And there was a lot of sort of weird fiction. I think it had to do with the interaction of a little bit, unfortunately, maybe a little racistly, the interaction of sort of the Eastern cultures coming into America. Yeah. I can see that. Anyway. Give us your examples of really pulp-y cities. Yeah. Chicago, if you want to step up and defend your honor, you do so. And anybody else wants to defend their cities pulp traditions, please do so. Mm-hmm. But we don't have to even stick necessarily to the US, I mean, like London. London's pretty pulp-y. Yeah, absolutely. I would say. London's high on the pulp list. Yeah. So that's pizza. So that's pizza. We also... We took a bit of a... Dieter. Yeah. So the other day Jessica and I were out to our local favorite barbecue place. Mm-hmm. Newly discovered. Mm-hmm. The homie hollow. And we'd scooted next door to get some drinks. Some drawings. Because they didn't have their homemade iced tea. Some soda, if you will. For nutty. And I noted something, now it's not uncommon in southern Ontario, actually. I should say beforehand, it's actually quite common in any convenience store that you might second guess stepping into. Yeah. I mean, you might not see it at like a 7-Eleven or something. No, you definitely won't see it at one of the chain stores. It seems like it's always somebody's, you know, stopping shopper. Yeah. Some mom and pop shop. But we do have quite a few of those around. Yeah. The 7-Eleven slash here, it's mostly max now. Oh, I mean, mom and pop shops. We have quite a lot of mom and pop shops. Oh, yeah. No, I'm just saying that they haven't taken over everything yet. Yes. Um, the thing is what you'll end up finding is a shelf area just dedicated to equipment that I don't know, I associate more with head shops. Yeah, paraphernalia. Uh, pipes, uh, bongs. They've had one in every town I've ever lived in. No, that's interesting because when I, in my youth, when I was a boy, uh, I saw none of that. There was, you couldn't buy any of that up north. I'd never recall seeing that anywhere. Yeah, like even our corner store up here, it's not just the regular stuff. You can get like raw organic, there's crazy glass bongs, there's wood, there's metal, there's so many different things. It's very, yeah. Lots of options. I was surprised even our last home, which was in a pretty rural location, even the local convenience store. There was a lot of selection, yes. Yeah, that was weird. No, I don't know if there's any sort of correlation, but I never saw any hard drugs. That was all just for green goods, you know. Right. Uh, so we ended up taking a bit of a survey on the mob about what the situations were in different places in the world. And down in the States, it sounds like there are head shops, but there are fairly few and far between. Yes. Unless you're in some of the very, uh, liberal areas. Yeah, pot friendly areas. Nick was saying over in Britain, it's mostly just papers that, uh, community stores, which is how I remember it in my youth and my youth. And Ingrid was telling us that, uh, you can only find those sorts of things in the darkest corners of DnD's nightlife, which is fun. And I kind of gotten, uh, thinking about a small time Harry Lime selling, you know, like a Regano to high school kids or something, but, uh, yeah, I appreciated anybody who piped up on this, uh, piped up on this, uh, topic, uh, you know, this is the sort of research I can't turn to Wikipedia for, frankly. And yeah, it's interesting. It's interesting to see. Yeah. And how, how it varies, really, because these are people who we talked to all the time and that we wouldn't figure would have these sort of variances. But that would be quite a sight to someone who's not used to that. Like, I remember when somebody first saw that picture without us tagging any of the photos that it was like crack pipes. Jessica, may I hate to disappoint you, but some of those were crack pipes. Were they? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I find extra weird. It's not. It's definitely the same ones, yeah, the, uh, that's, yeah, that's the weird thing. It's not just, it's like, some of that equipment is meth friendly and anyway, it's just odd. It's odd. It's all for a green product. Negatory. Good, buddy. Well, I think that they claim, I think, and a lot of people on the mob, this is what they said, is that most of these shops had to sell tobacco or some sort of as a cover, essentially, to. And I guess if you were smoking crack, you would want to clean pipe. Yeah. Yeah. Well, actually, frankly, smoking crack is probably not high on your priority. Yeah. Anyway. That sounds pretty judgmental. Well, sorry. Yeah. Don't do crack kids. Yeah. I'm judging on this one. Mhm. Mhm. You can try the line of crack. It's the love. Yeah. Now, I don't, I don't know if we'll be discussing drugs or pizza, but it's time to go to the beauty. We love you to our back to the Maddy. Timelessly seeks through the age as for vacations, but as he's rich, the time travel. Hello, flesh, pulp crew and fellow mobsters. It's rich, the time traveler here. I wanted to start off this batch of comments with a mention of Mulligan Smith and the endangered granny. I won't spoil the end, so I'm not sure when this will air and if the spoiler statute of limitations will expire. I will say it was an interesting twist. I half-guessed what was going to happen and certainly didn't see the rest coming. And as I commented in the mob, it made me want to take a shower, silkwood style, after finishing it. But I really wanted to come back to part one, where Mulligan is flipping channels. I asked on, I think it was Jessica May's wall, where episode one was posted, if the eat and treats on fire was the same as the one that served as a location in an early coffin tale. JRD was evasive, so I figured I'd ask again to see if he'd confirm it. You know, for science and the wiki. In Flashcast 51, older aspect ratios were mentioned and it was asked if future generations will be as picky about them as ours was sometimes about black and white films. Well, I can say that I am already picky about it. Watching old shows, especially old shotgun video TV shows, wow, they look pretty bad both in quality and in that weird square shape in the middle of the screen. A Pope and Jessica May were talking about Downton Abbey. I wonder if you guys ever saw a British reality series called Manner House. Essentially, they took a bunch of people, gave them roles from various types of servants to the actual lords of the manner, taught them a little about what they were supposed to do and how they were supposed to act, put them in an old manner house, and filmed it. It's on Netflix, but only it's discs. Might be interesting to check out, needless to say the servants weren't particularly happy with the roles they were assigned. On the kids' pulp front, we still haven't made progress on powerless, but we did recently read Sweet Farts by Raymond Bean, from the bat cover. Someone has been farting up a storm at school, and everyone thinks Keith Emerson is to blame. Unfortunately for Keith, it has earned him the nickname SBD, Silent but Deadly. To make matters worth, Keith's dad is a self-proclaimed fart machine who really stinks it up at home. With the science fair quickly approaching, Keith decides he's had enough. He comes up with a science fair project idea to turn the foul smell of human gas into something sweet smelling. The idea lands him in the principal's office and in big trouble with his mom. With the help of his little sister Emma, his dad, his crazy grandma, and Benjamin Franklin, great American scientist, Keith will attempt to make the greatest scientific discovery of all time, the cure for the common fart. That's a fun, quick book, not 100% predictable as some kid books are. And unless the word fart is for boating in your household, and if you have kids in the five to ten year old range, I'd say check it out. You guys had asked if it was me that recommended it once upon a time, and I did. I'm still liking it. The last episode or two have been a little slow. You definitely want to start from the beginning. The way they tell the modern day part, putting that in air quotes, is mostly going forward in time, and the stories intertwined from the fairy tale world seem to be working mostly backwards in chronology. So jumping in midstream would be rather confusing. We're also still watching Grimm, it's okay, not sure if it will grow to be great, but they are starting to set up some interesting subplots, and that should pay off nicely in the coming seasons if they play their cards right. I just finished American Horror Story, and it was an absolutely amazing season. I looked it up online and saw an interview that echoed what JRD said about future seasons likely being in different houses and situations. That can be really interesting since they can blow through a lot of story quickly, not try to find ways to drag it out over too many episodes. These types of stories don't lend well to that. I could definitely see how Jessica Lyon's character could be recurring, however, given what she ended up with at the end of the season. We've also just finished the first season of Terra Nova. I know some think folks are pretty harsh on it, and perhaps it is just the lack of any other actual sci-fi on the air, other than falling skies which is in between seasons, but we liked it. It does suffer from a few of my pet peeve tropes, the buoyant science types that know too much about things outside the area of expertise, a cop that becomes invaluable to a military operation as a security guy. But I could overlook these and enjoy the action, and by the end of the season, some of my concerns about the colony being too overpowered to really be threatened or addressed. Now that they're nerfed, the next season could be very interesting with where it goes. I've also got episodes of the river and aquatras piling up on the DVRs, so those will be our next chrono journey. The new series Awake is premiering soon as well, I'm really looking forward to that. If I haven't mentioned it before, it's about a police detective who was in a car accident with his wife and son. After the accident he finds whenever he goes to sleep, he switches between two worlds. One where his wife survived and one where his son did, and in each world he has a different partner, different cases, and different therapists, related to believe that over time the cases bleed into one another, and elements from one side help him and the other. Also a BD Wong from Long Order SVU plays one of the therapists. I'm very excited about this, I just hope the writers can pull it off, and I'm worried it may be a little too clever for the typical crime drama viewer demographic. Lastly, I've been watching a new documentary series on Nat Geo called Doomsday Preppers. Now I'm sure everyone who likes zombie and post-apocalyptic fiction have indulged in the thought exercise of what would they do in that situation. I know I sometimes find myself mentally daydreaming how I'd fortify my house against the rise of zombies, or what I'd do if it happened while I was in the office, that's just a mental game. On this show, each episode follows two to three individuals, or families, who are actually prepping for an apocalyptic event. They then rate their preparations and how likely their doomsday scenario is to happen. And there's a brief follow-up segment to see what, if anything, they changed based on the feedback. Some of the events they are prepping for are a Yellowstone Supervolcano eruption, financial collapse due to hyperinflation, a solar flare quote unquote EMP event knocking out the entire power communications grid, the reversal of the magnetic poles causing sudden rapid movements of the tectotic plates, and a total government takeover via martial law within the next two to three years. As you can see, some of these events are highly unlikely, or at least unlikely to unfold in the way they predict them. One retired couple said they spent 50+ hours a week prepping. Not exactly my idea of retirement, but I guess you can view it as a hobby. They had a real estate developer on, who I've seen stories about before, who purchased an abandoned missile silo and is tearing it into underground luxury survival condos that he's now trying to sell. It's interesting to watch though, thought being too judgmental, there are a few folks with far too many guns and far too much religious zeal, and that amazes me a bit. They are looking for folks who want to be on the next season, I wonder what I could start prepping for. Hmm, I'm sure I think of something. I find it all too often, the best plan for apocalypse survival is simply to buy a farm a gun in a fence, but- Yeah, we are going to get some- That's not going to save you from Hitchcock's frankly. Gun range training? That's right. Oh yeah, we should discuss that when it happens, there we're going to get the left. Pictures, and such, but yeah, it's a death scene sounding show, I love the sound of- Yes, a week, or a week, and- Oh no, I was actually talking about the apocalypse show, but a wake sounds fantastic too. Yeah, I'm really excited about seeing that one, I've never even heard of that, it sounds super cool. Yeah, yeah, Rich really has his fingers on the pulse of quality television. Indeed, thank you, sir. Yes, thank you. We need quality television. I will say that survival preparations for the Super Volcano in Yellowstone Park pretty much just move away, like move as far away as possible, preferably, you know, maybe Russia or something. Yeah, it's already cold there, it's not like it's going to- Except they're banning the gay there, so don't go to Russia anywhere in Russia, sir. The Super Volcano is one of those things that I try not to think much about, but it is kind of a weird hovering, like you could wake up one morning and- It's Yellowstone. Yellowstone is erupting? Well, when the Super Volcano does erupt, it's going to be more than that, like it's going to be cloud and ash and a large- Darkness. Yeah, good bit of chaos in the states, I think there's going to be a lot of deaths, unfortunately. I mean, when it ever happens, that's the weird thing about these geological events, right? You don't know. It could happen anytime, anytime being now in the next 10,000 or whatever. I love the sound of sweet farts. I do believe we will be looking into that. Yes. Sounds like a lot of fun. Our children would love that. Yeah, it sounds like something Mr. Nine would love that. Mr. Nine, I'm really dig. I love the tossing of Ben Franklin. Yeah, it did. Exactly. I'm actually quite a fan of this revitalization of Ben Franklin's reputation in recent years, as sort of this body-scientific, you know. Not just the animated guy with the kite. Yeah, he's not just this happy old man anymore. He's very willing to skirt chase now, and we're more willing to talk about it. Just those odd little things, anyway. I must say, I'm actually already at a point where I'll pick a letterboxed film over a four-three film, like, in a moment. I must say, I'm at the point where I still don't know what you're talking about. Just the aspect ratio on movies. I'm not a fan of the square box. On the other hand, it's these sort of developments, frankly, that are what allow us to move forward in a way. If we just had all of this quality stuff that was made at the 1920s, we wouldn't really have a lot of reason to be still making new product all the time. Contemporaryization helps the turnover of the industry. So Rich mentioned in relation to the Mulligan three-parter that he feels he needs to take a Silkwood shower. But I have no idea what a Silkwood shower is, so... Cara, let's explain. Silkwood was a film. What he's really discussing is at nuclear plants, and also, I believe, anywhere they use dangerous chemicals. They'll have a fairly large shower. It's like a big disk, essentially, that hovers over you, and you pull a cord and it just dumps a massive amount of water on you to try to watch away any radioactive chemicals, or... Yeah, well, having your eyes burned out by acid is usually also pretty painful. So you take them as you find them. I guess. I do take that as a compliment, though. I'm glad that it worked out that way. That seems to be the reaction that I'm getting from a lot of folks, is that they had sort of... Disgust? Well, disgust, yes. But that was the intention. But at the same time, they figured out half of the story, but not the sort of punch at the end. Yeah. Or they thought they knew what the secret was, but they only knew half of it. Exactly. Yeah. I liked... I have to admit, I like this last one. Usually, I come away from them being disappointed in how they've been delivered, and this one I'm still a fan of. What do you mean, disappointed in how they've been delivered? Yeah, we don't have your delivery. I just... There's always a feeling like, "I could have done better. I could have done better." Yeah. Like, your plan was not enacted every time. Yeah. But I'm getting, you know, we're almost 250 in now, and I feel like I'm getting better at it. Anyhow... We're over 250, right? Oh, no. This is 54. Yeah. And that one's 49, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Not too 49. I think this is actually my favorite Mulligan story since the crumble, maybe. Um... That was a kidland. Yeah. I do like to... The problem with the one part is with Mulligan, although they're fun to put up. They're usually a little more larky than some of the other threads. I don't get to put in as much mystery as I'd like. Yeah, especially without having the multiple parts to sort of string things along a little bit. Mm-hmm. But... Oh, yeah. And by the time you're setting up and taking down in that story... Yeah, exactly. ...it's not time left. Exactly. Exactly. Anyway, thanks for the comments. Everybody, actually, everybody's feedback was much appreciated. Mm-hmm. And, yes, interesting about that Eton traits, huh? Yes. Isn't that interesting? Good catch, Richard. It closes our hefty sack of mail for the week. If you have any questions or comments about what you've heard, shoot us up with a... [laughter] Shoot us up? [laughter] Either we have-- We'd be like-- I've been trying since-- Yeah, we're gonna-- [laughter] Please send your text or mp3s to comments@flashbulb.com. Or you can find us on the map. Mm-hmm. Yeah, we're there. It's a closed group, but you can join it. You can find most of us on the map. Some of us have left. Mr. Hage. And it's really sad, Jeff. You're really bumming Jessica May out. Anyway, this is the platform to be. I miss you. Coming down on our brothers and men. To shoot him up. [laughter] I'm gonna shoot you up, Jeff. [laughter] Are you a dassy? Oh, ho! So, as you heard, I hope you heard. There's something wrong with your hearing. But Horrible Histories Now has a theme song. An intro, if you will. Mind you, it has no words. Because the word "myster" has many intro words to write all the way back to the cat that he needs to get on. So when that happens, it will be complete. But it is quite Terminator 2. That was my hope for you. I hope that's okay. And... Yeah, it'll be now next week. And then I'm hoping that also next week I will have completed the Doc Asriel intro. It's going to be, you know, 1930s crackle radio style. I'm looking forward to it. I am now Rachel. So, um... [laughter] So, um... I've actually sketched out the next 15 or 16 weeks worth of Skinner Coz. Mm-hmm, that's fantastic. Unfortunately, one for tomorrow is not started. Well, it's not completed. It started. It's a sketch. She's got a bunch of sketches. Yes. No, um... I went through and I read over all the Skinner Co entries that there are, actually. And I sketched out ideas for... All of them? Not for all of them. Um, but for, like, 16... All of the good ones. Oh. The 16 that I could think of stuff for. I sketched out, so that's good. I'm going to get working on those, because it's nice to have them done in advance. I'm really digging that. What about the flyers? What about the flyers? Blackroom plots. [laughs] Uh, yeah. Well, we finished a Mulligan story last week, and not much else plot-wise. Um, what ended up happening was I had this... I had this wee little Thomas Blackhall tale I wanted to tell. Or actually that Thomas wanted to tell. And then it blossomed into me realizing that I was right on the cusp of finishing up a bunch of Blackhall stuff. Weren't so wee. And my one parter turned into a six parter. So, welcome to two weeks of Blackhall. I hope you're ready for a lot of plot items moving along in that universe. Yeah, I hear a pope gets to sing again. No, I'm just kidding. I just want to see the look on her face. [laughs] Now I'm playing a song in part four and five. [laughs] My kidneys, but kidneys. It's funny, because Blackhall, I think, is the one that you've done six parters for the most. I think you did one in Ruby, and maybe one in the murder plague. I can't even remember for sure now. But I know you've done at least two six parters. Thomas is so wordy. It takes them forever to say or do anything. Oh, that's rough. That's rough. Oh, are you saying it's boring? I don't even know. No, that's not what I'm saying. [laughs] I don't like what you said. Cut that out, bitch. I love that. No, I'm just saying, like, it's old timey. There's lots of words. Yeah, yeah. Well, Blackhall takes a while to get through his pieces, but at the same time, I'm almost more comfortable with his setting being a little more epic. Does that make sense? Well, yeah. For you. It's about the great outdoors and adventure that has to be described. [laughs] Well, it's not just that, though. There's something about the pacing that is like Mulligan. I think we've discussed that Mulligan is really heavily influenced by the '70s detective shows that I used to watch. The cop ones, but the, you know, lone detective, the Rockford files, Band of Czech. McLeod. McLeod. Are you familiar with McLeod? No. Oh, Dennis Weaver and his mustache riding around New York. Yep. He was a Texas law man, brought to New York to teach him a little lesson about something or other. [laughs] I don't know. The way he is in the cowboy. He might have also been Thor. I don't really recall it. It is something about humility. But it was a good show. I mean, it's way. Macmillan wife. I mean, there was, you can't lose a solid. I guess Monk is the modern equivalent of that. I guess we've had this discussion before. Anyhow. So in those shows, though, the pacing has to move along a little quicker. Mulligan can't be lolly-gagging. He loves to gag lollies. But Blackhall, he's sort of more of a rest of time. I mentioned earlier the idea that it's... Sometimes I have to come away from a script, not fully satisfied with it. And the thing is that Flashtop has always been about running as fast as I can, right? Sometimes we don't make our three episodes a week quota. Sometimes it's two and that hurts me. Yes. It really does pain me. Faithful. Not hard. Yeah. But I wanted to do this one properly. And as it kept mushrooming and mushrooming, I didn't want to rush it through because we're going to learn a lot about Blackhall. This is the conclusion to the Earthdale after the Earth series. After the six stories are done or this six barter is done. He's moving on. Yeah, Blackhall's back on the road. And I love big plot building episodes. Not necessarily the ones that have a big plot because there's a difference between a big plot episode and a big plot building episode. Like, I can't even think of an example now. But you've had like a couple of long stories that don't necessarily, well, I guess like that last three parter that you had. It wasn't necessarily essential to the Flashtop universe. Yeah. But these next ones, you're going to learn more about Blackhall, where he's going, where he's been. And we've also, you'll note we've been circling around Coffin's sort of situation at the moment too. And as sometimes happens, there might be a little bit of overlap between Blackhall and Coffin's tales. So we'll see how that goes. I just wanted to mention briefly Sam Chapman, who I've been listening to during my writing periods. Yeah. You were looking for some old-timey music and I looked up old-timey music and found that good. Mm-hmm. Definitely a quality pick. I really like the preacher and the bear song. It's not his song, but is it, I guess it's all folk songs that he does or does he write any of them himself? He is. I don't really know. Yeah. I mean, he does hold a claim to supposedly writing sitting on top of the world. Did he actually? Was he that involved? It's hard to tell. It's one of the situations where, like a lot of the blues tradition, it's coming out of sort of passing it down generationally or coming out of morphing older songs or sometimes smashing older songs together with other songs. Yeah. So. Yeah, it's interesting because I was just recently looking again through one of my Wikipedia tangents. I came across the rude folk song index and I ended up falling down that rabbit hole too. Yeah. The song index and child's ballads, those are two sort of items that sometimes I, especially when I'm in the mood for sort of a mother brain story. Yeah. Well, that's what it made me think of because I came across the song The Fows Night Upon the Road, which of course, if anybody remembers the first episode of Mother Grand, I had to sing a little snack to that and I just remember being so tense about that. I just wanted to barf, but it was definitely cool to come across it again. So, yeah, it was lots of fun. All right. Well, on that musical note, we'll thank Jim. Thank you, Jim. Thank you, Jim. Thank you for hosting wiki.flashpulp.com and flashpulp.com. You can find his empire over at rail at radio.com. If anybody enjoyed the show, tell a friend. 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