Hello, and welcome to FlashCast episode thirty-three – prepare yourself for Batman, rotting flesh, Irene, bridges, Nickolodeon, and Thomas Blackhall.
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FC34 - Cookin' with Typhoid Mary
[Music] Hello, and welcome to Flashcast 34. Prepare yourself for Batman, Rodding Flesh, Irene, Bridges, Nickelodeon, and Thomas Blackhall. [Music] Tonight we have myself, oh, Popon X, Agent Naratar, Jessica May, oh, the very Russian Jessica May. Audio, Productorati, Productorati, mm, and J-R-D, hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. Hello. Burbschinter. Shunter of words that I can't pronounce. I think of shiver, like you're gonna shiv somebody with it. Burbschiver, I'm gonna shiv somebody with verbs. We also have an open window and a couple of puppies. Yes, staring at us like they're going to jump on. On anything at any moment. Yes. So we apologize for the traffic sounds, but it's the end of summer, and at least in Canada, I don't count September is summer. And J-R-D, why are we telling each other? And J-R-D wanted the air conditioning on, and I told him no, so we opened a window. Yes. Because that is best. So we narrowly missed mentioning this last week, but I just wanted to take an opportunity to spotlight fellow mobster and gentlemen about town, Peter. Also known as Jello from Radio's Revenge at radiosrevenge.com. Our fellow Jello? Yes, our fellow Jello. He has a summer gig in which he teaches acting at a camp, and he used his position to create a small zombie video with a number of little children as actors. That's awesome. Yeah, it's a fantastic little video, and we narrowly missed mentioning it last week unfortunately, but I just wanted to make sure we gave him his applause because it was definitely fantastic. Yeah, nothing's creepier than little children being creepy. Yeah, do you remember that time it was really, really foggy, and we tried to convince the kids to take a really creepy zombie picture in the, like... In the field? Yeah, in the super foggy field with the play structure. Well, come on, just put your arms out in front and kind of walk all creepy-like. But they wouldn't. We need more adventure students. Mind you, the younger ones seem like maybe they'll eat brains for us if we ask them to, exactly. Speaking of brain-eating, and actually Peter as well, he posted in the mob an item about season two of Walking Dead coming up, a trailer. Nice, yes, I noticed. Quite excited, although the question of what the loss of Frank Darabont is going to mean is still a bit up in the air. Yes. Now, he did a good job of putting the show together, but there is an argument to be made that, well, I think that the Darabont camp, for me, well, for everyone that I've ever met, either falls into "Did you like the mist?" or "Did you hate the mist?" And I don't think that there's a lot of people who just thought the mist was kind of okay. That ending basically demands that you have an opinion. I'm sorry, I can't. But we saw both endings. It's the one where they're trapped in a supermarket, and there's something in the mist. Oh, yes, yes. And do you recall how it ended? There were two endings. No, well, the theatrical ending, I think they put up the alternate ending just to appease people into buying the DVD, but obviously the intention was the much harsher ending. Yes. I know we're dancing a bit around the spoiler. I would recommend people see the film, but I just also would warn them that the ending may upset them. Yeah, you know what's another movie like that? The Woman in Black. Oh, yeah. That's another one of those major twists at the end things. Well, that was a great film all around. I greatly enjoy that film. That was a great movie, and I'm glad to hear about the remake. The remake. Yeah, that should be really exciting. With Harry Potter. I know, I just saw a trailer for that the other day, and I really loved the first one, so I'm excited to see how Harry does in this one. I love how, matter of fact, what you call mine. Well, I'm thinking you might have an easier time with it since he's so familiar with ghosts, and he'll have his wand. I think this is the easiest transition that Daniel Radcliffe could find out of. Yeah. Harry. I think it's still sort of super-naturally, and he sort of comfortably falls into the Victorian British situation. Yeah, all jokes aside, I think he's going to do a great job, and I wish him all the best. I have to wonder what the step, I think it's a good step for his career. I think it does help move him a little bit away from Potter. Yeah. I just wonder what he can possibly do after this. He can't play Victoria. Well, you know what, I was about to say he can't play Victoria in British gentlemen forever, but there is actually an entire- They're always remaking Jane Austen movies. But could he pull off? He couldn't be Darcy. He doesn't have to be Darcy. He could be anybody else. But he didn't film. But he was Harry Potter. He was the boy who lived. Exactly. He couldn't be like the boy who didn't get the girl, but had a good shot at it. What about sense and sensibility? What was the guy's name? Harry Potter a couple years ago was on the stage, and he wore like a horse's head and was nude. Like, he's certainly had some different things, and he's been awarded, so, so I don't think like- Wait, was he nude with the horse's head? Listen, you're talking Mccully Culkin slash, like you're talking Culkin slash Leonardo to Caprio disease, where maybe they're doing work that is a little more innovative or is taking risks, but at the same time, if the public doesn't buy it, like, yes, great. He had a horse's head on and he was dancing around nude, whatever the situation was. I bet you the majority of the public is entirely unaware of it, because it didn't take because it isn't Harry Potter. Well, it's also a good message. It's not exactly on our radar over here, but- Regardless, I'm excited about the woman in black, basically. Go Harry. Yes, thank you. We're rooting for you. Team Harry. So we went up North for a while. Yeah, the Nord. Blackout country. Very much so. And the best place to see the stars is so dark. While we were up there, we recorded a little mini-sode if you guys haven't checked that one out. Yeah, that was fun. Yeah. Pull back in the queue. Uploading it was like the worst thing in the whole entire world, but- I remember JRD being standing at the crossroads, like the intersection in the middle of the downtown area of the town, and not being able to get any signal on his phone, despite being right in the center of downtown. Yeah, well, it's fair to say it doesn't look very much like a downtown, but that's part of the charm anyways. Part of it. It was beautiful. Yeah. It was a nice place. We saw a family. We connected. Play games. I thought it was pretty impressive that we managed to put together an episode while even as short as it was. Yeah, that was great. It felt a little like Harry was out there from the front lines. Yeah, he was- That was fun. So, it felt like we were kind of Judy and Mickey, you know, "Hey gang, let's put on a show." Yeah. We managed to pull the pieces together, even though, you know, maybe the episode art wasn't the best. Anyway. Yeah, and if we can do it, you know, from your Ma's kitchen, we can do it from anywhere, really. True. Which also makes me a little disappointed that we're not going to Dragoncon, because the parsecs are being announced in, what, four days, that we didn't get our video submission because of Jaredie. It's all Jaredie. Yeah, it's all my fault. It's all Jaredie. Not beyond time, I can't believe. And then yeah, our passport situation, which we're going to get, you know, result. We can't, you know, be traveling altogether just yet. But even if Jaredie could go and accept all the awards that people want to give us, we have starting with the parsecs. We have a secret to playing. If you want to go to the mob, if you haven't already. Yeah. If anybody wants to help us out, we have a request on the mob. Yep. Really, if anybody who's anybody is on the mob, so of course, it's on Facebook, that's what we're talking about. I wonder if they'll be able to hear that train in the background. Yeah. My brother once told me that scary people like Freddy Krueger jump off, and I live next door to a railway track. Oh, like, that's how they get around, and that's how a horrible monster gets around. And they were going to jump off and just, like, walk towards my door, you know? No stopping to the door. Nothing's so great. No stopping to the door opens as they're, like, you know, stomping through. Yeah. Of course. Your brother was great for stuff like that. Well, he only had to say it the one time, and then it just perpetuated itself in my mind. Yeah. And then 20 years later. Yeah. I'm listening to everyone. Every time you hear a train whistle, you think of Freddy. Exactly. Speaking of awesome things like parsecs, I just want to... Thank everybody for listening and telling people, I don't know what is happening, the reason why we're having so many people come and download our show, but it's, like, amazing crazy. Yeah. This has been a very successful month. Awesome. Thank you, everybody. Speaking of awesome people, Nutty and David, our CPO or Chief Pitchfork Officer, we're having a little conversation in the mob, and although we don't always necessarily interject a comment if we don't have one into the conversations, I do tend to read a lot of them with a lot of interest. Yeah. And this was especially fascinating. Apparently, the rights to Conan and the barbarian have lapsed in certain countries. David was briefly involved in an attempt with an audio group to produce some original Conan fiction, I believe, as should be possible if he's in the public domain. But the broken-see audio guys tried to do some original Conan fiction, and the company who owns the rights to them probably making bank off of the film licensing and the video game licensing. I think at the time it was more about the video game than the film though, came down and said that they couldn't put it up. Now I don't understand exactly how the work fell under public domain. I know there was a lot of argument, well not argument, but there was a lot of talk about a Stan Lee company suing about it as well. Does that strike a chord just come out? Indeed. It does indeed. Although, I don't know what claims Stan Lee has to... Not he the person. Apparently is unconnected with him. I see. The copyright probably lapsed, somebody probably just forgot to renew it. Although in different countries, because the laws vary, you know, you can take them to court in a different area and cause issues. Especially with the intertubes, which obviously stretch everywhere. It'd be funny if there is just a whole bunch of fiction coming out of Argentina. Yeah. Original Conan stuff. Ser Conan. Well, I have to assume that's exactly what's going on in Turkey, right? Like those guys have a long history of disregarding international copyright law and just producing the film that they feel like watching as opposed to worrying about who actually owns Spiderman or Voltron. And why not just make it Spider-Voltron? Spider-Voltron. Cool. Anyway, I actually don't have much problem with the idea of, like as it stands, a lot of folks have taken cracks at writing Conan stories. There's a lot of collections you can purchase where it's various authors telling an individual story. As long as it's understood that Robert E. Howard's original work is considered canon and everything else is just funsies, I never really see a problem with having it even open to public and something new. Anyhow, speaking of continuations of series, there's talk that, and I'll just mention this briefly because we've been bringing up Star Trek in the last couple episodes for some reason, David Foster, one of the muckamucks who's always been producing, I believe, the Star Trek series, is working on preparing another series pitch. Like a new Star Trek? Yes. It would be- Like a television series? Yes, a television series. It would be in the original canon, not the sort of J.J. Abrams alternate verse. Okay. And it would supposedly take place after Voyager, which is good, but I didn't really watch Voyager very much. Yeah, I don't really know anything about it, or most of the other episodes, or not episodes but serieses. Oh, blasphemy. I really didn't keep track of what series came when and where, whatever. Well, I believe it's pretty much, like, original series, and then a couple hundred years later comes the next generation. That was hundreds of years later, really? I believe so. Wow. And then- I'm sorry, I just find that shocking. Why? I don't know. You- how do you think- without hundreds of years having passed, how do you think they get out of bell bottoms? And then came Deep Space Nine, and then Voyager. I believe that's all. I believe all of the- About Enterprise. Oh, Enterprise, I believe technically takes place before the original series, in the very early days of all of that business. But I don't actually consider that- in the same way that I don't consider Highlander 2 a movie, or Alien 3 a movie. Okay, can you explain to me why I would have an association between Enterprise and Scott Bakula? Because Scott Bakula- You're seeing that? Yeah. Really? Yeah. You remember he kept jumping from body to body and he- No, I don't know. Yeah, yeah. An owl was there. Yeah. No, yeah, he was the captain on the ship. Really? Okay, so that's not just me being crazy. That makes me feel a little better. Anyway, so it's in the pitch phase, probably won't make it to the air, or it may not. It may not make it to the air. But supposedly it's a pretty in-depth pitch, compared to recent attempts, which were essentially one-paters. Hm. So we'll see what happens. In their ship, more space. More space. More aliens with nose jobs. The final list of frontiers. I actually enjoy Deep Space 9 quite a bit. I can't say that I watched the entire series. I kind of peered it off after a few seasons. I did like the idea of a stationary location that had a variety of local politics going on as opposed to everything always being encapsulated in a single ship. Yeah, and there was that cork guy. Don't forget that guy. Yes, there was that cork guy. You know, the- Fish brought up an item in the mob regarding the new Batman film that's coming out, the final Chris Nolan Batman film. And it was a, I don't know, some website that was guessing that Batman will actually die in the next coming feature. Yeah. The article said that they figured Batman would actually die in the second act. To me, that seemed like a- at the midpoint of the film, essentially. That seems a little ridiculous. If he is going to die, it's going to be in the last 15 minutes, and it's going to be a very brief, uh, epilogue. But it will be essentially, you know, somehow Gotham will have been made better by it. At the same time, I don't necessarily think that it's feasible to go in that direction. I think there's too much of a sense after the last one, especially, that the, you know, cats out of the bag or whatever, and now there's super horrors and villains running around Gotham. So killing them off isn't going to end that, and it doesn't really make much sense, like just leave Scarecrow and everyone else running around. I mean, you can kill all of the villains in one go, or you can throw them all in Arkham Asylum and go. Did it this time? I'm sure this time they'll stay. Oh, Batman's dead. Great. I do wonder, and it would have to be a really closely held secret, because no one's heard anything about it yet, if there would be a Robin, 'cause it's really the only major component of the series that's still missing. Maybe he'll have a Robin and then die, and then Robin will become Batman. That can't happen. That can't. That would never work. No, Robin could never be Batman. I did hear that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is now on the cast. Oh, yeah? Do you know anything about it? Apparently there's a chunk of people from Inception that have suddenly been integrated into the film. Really? Maybe they dreamed it. So we'll see Tom Hardy heavily if that's one of those. Which one was he? He's in the latest Superman now. Oh, maybe I'm getting my... Which, where he has that weird tentacle face, the leather tentacle face. The leather tentacle face. Oh, leather tentacle face. Yeah. Freshfish, a new batch of cinematic pulp with the always-listening, 3-day fish. Hello, Flashcast. Coming at you gum-free. Today, 3-day fish is reviewing. Don't be afraid of the dark. Now I would like to open up this particular review by starting with a bit of humor. You know you were raised by 90s Nickelodeon television when you were constantly calling this movie "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" Like the Nickelodeon series. We were calling it that all night and then we realized it was don't be afraid of the dark. We felt awful silly. Now on to the review. This movie was indeed scary. I was cringing left and right and it doesn't know how though there's like a kid involved because it's like twice as bad with a kid because like an adult you can be like, "Well, you know, they probably got stuff done, you know, they lived life at least a little bit." Kids, no. You're like, "There's so much this kid needs to do." So yeah, cring tractor is huge. I was scared, very often. Also just a great story and also because of Guillermo del Toro it looked good. And I have to say the acting was really well done. It reminded me of a lot of movies where like the child doesn't feel wanted, you know like six cents, very believable, very pulling at the heartstrings, if you will. All in all, green light, go see this movie, it's scary, it's good. The ending is excellent. That's all for this week. Always listening. You know, I actually when he was mentioning, "Are you afraid of the dark?" I was like, "Wait, I thought that was a Canadian production." So I actually went and saw that it was a project between CINR, I think it's pronounced as a Canadian production house, and another American one, and then Nickelodeon picked up on it. So in all of the filming was actually done in Canada. And then there was actually like a reboot years later and one of the cast members was the same. Hmm. Really. I remember seeing a few of those cast guys on other Canadian shows later on. Yeah. Yeah, you could tell that it was definitely a Canadian actress. I liked that show. Yeah. I remember like, I remember the day it premiered on YTV, it actually premiered a year before it did on the American TVs. But I remember being like, "If I have to leave the room, guys, I'm really sorry, but sometimes things scare me." And I remember just being like, "I was a silly fan." That was one of those shows where although, to look back on it now, it seems a little cheesy, to have an anthology of horror shows for children. Yeah, for kids? That's great. Yes. Mm-hmm. It's a movie you wouldn't see today. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Or at least, sorry, I was going to say, or at least not to that degree. You'll find cartoons and stuff that will have like horror characters as the main characters in it, but they won't actually be horror stories. I think even those are lessening than... Yeah. Yeah, it's not really seen as a good thing to be scared. I was really pleased to hear that he enjoyed the film. I did see the original years ago, but I do not remember it at all. It was one of those films. I remember it being scary, but not having an actual like, gory content. I wouldn't be surprised to look it up and discover it was a TV movie or something to that effect. It's very effective in its way, but I put it in my memory, at least, sort of in the same category as the changeling, which was a fantastic film, but doesn't necessarily scare you through the right goryness over it. It has an overall like really deep tone to it, a real creep factor, and then it's heightened at certain moments by, you know, kind of lo-fi, just traditional creepy. Yeah. Absolutely. And George C. Scott's portrayal in that film. Yes. Just really carries it. Carried it. Absolutely. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Spud of bother. We must wage what I have called total war against public enemy number one in the United States, the problem of dangerous drugs. Everyone knows by now that there is an inherent risk in taking recreational drugs, right? Ever since President Richard Nixon declared an out-and-out war on illicit drug use in 1971, the mass media has constantly bombarded the public on the dangers of drug use. We have been inundated with propaganda ranging from radio and TV PSAs to billboards and print media with graphic images of young faces ravaged by drug habits spinning wildly out of control. Though some of the war on drugs campaign may be overblown scare tactics, there are, of course, real dangers involved with persistent drug use. Today I'd like to bring everyone up to date on the latest drug horror involving cocaine. I found this news story from Scientific America. To the list of cocaine's many dangers, health officials have added at least one more, per pera, a rash caused by internal bleeding from small blood vessels. In major medical journals have documented cases of cocaine users showing up in emergency rooms with patches of blackened dying skin on the ears, face, trunk, and extremities. The condition causes scarring and sometimes requires reconstructive surgery. Noah Kraft, dermatologist at the Harbor UCLA Medical Center, who co-authored a paper on the condition published online by the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology in June, says he now sees about one case per month. Kraft says it's become almost routine. The cause of the outbreak is a veterinary de-warming medication that has become the most common ingredient used to dilute or cut cocaine, coming into the U.S. from South America. The drug, called levamisol, was once approved for cancer treatment that was later pulled because of its side effects. Three quarters of the cocaine prick seized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration now contain levamisol. Equally worrying is another side effect, a sometimes fatal lowered count of white blood cells that are called neutrophils. Doctors suspect that both conditions are allergic reactions to the drug. In one disease, the body's immune system attacks the skin; in the other, it attacks the bone marrow. Traffickers may add levamisol to cocaine because it's cheaper than pure cocaine, and may contribute to the cocaine high. Papers between the 1970s and 1990s, when levamisol was being suggested and then approved for medical use in the United States, found it improved mood and caused insomnia and hyperalertness. It's that mimic that of cocaine. For now, the DEA will not change how it pursues traffickers, says Barbara Correno, an agency spokesperson, but doctors are learning to spot the skin rash quicker. Craft is added photos of his patients to a computerized alert system used by 1,300 hospitals nationwide. So to all of you, party yours out there in pulp land, consider this a friendly warning, and go buy yourself a red bull. I'm Geoffrey Lynch, and that's this week's Spot of Bother. Yeah, Jessica May actually has been hitting the red bull kind of hard daily. Yeah, not hard. Well, no, not hard, but I discovered it while taking the trip up north. I needed to drive a little more than my alertness would allow. And yes, it indeed gives you an extra heightened sense of alertness. And I'll be using it tonight. In fact, I'm drinking one right now. That was a fantastic spot of bother, but it was, but, and I really appreciate it, Jeff. But what, for once, once in this miserable life, I can trump our Mr. Lynch. That's ridiculous. Have you ever heard of a drug called crocodile? No, is it a party drug? No, it is a drug, poor people who do not care about anything take. It is a drug very much like that. Is that like when people ferment their own pee or poop? No, that's um, that's jankum. That's jankum. Jankum? Um, but no, that is not crocodile, believe it or not, is worse. It is a synthetic opioid. Worse than that? You being used by incredibly poor Russian people. And if you, okay, for example, in one of the articles that I read about it, if you inject it, but you missed the vein, instant abscess. It's, it's such a horrible poison that it is intensely, like, breath of your body. If you, if you manage to get it right, your skin begins to turn scaly and crocodile in, and then eventually your flesh begins to simply fall off. No, no, please do not like link photos in the show notes. No one wants to see this. No one googled it. It's over. It's a crocodile. I believe it's spelt. K-R-O-K-O-D-I-L. Google San Torum over this. Goodness. That's disgusting. That's not bothersome, that's disgusting. Wow. And then the bears came back and had another bite. She came back with her babies and they're eating me. Wait, I think I hear a warning from the people of New York. It's 56 a.m. Hi, this is Chancellor Dennis Walker with an important message from the Department of Education. As Morgan and I read and approaches VX City, it is critical that we have the staffing and studies to care for the thousands of evacuees who live using a city sheltering system. DOE employees will be compensated consistently to collect the bargaining rights and other applicable city policies. Do not have already done so. We agree to work in the city's coastal storm sheltering system by responding yes to this message. You can find the evacuation center mirrors you using the evacuation zone finder or evacuation zone map. That's going to be found at www.nyc.gov/aweam, that's www.nyc.gov/aweam, that's www.nyc.gov/aweam. That was forwarded on by Barry of BMJ2K.com, who I happen to know has recently moved out of the Department of Education and into some sort of super secret spy agency. If you go to a site, again at www.BMJ2K.com, he's recently blogged about the changes and the crazy security in his new place. Anyway, he did actually call in with another follow up. This is Barry Chucky, and again from New York, it is 710th, and it's not very nice out. It seems like about 20 minutes ago, the leading edge of this hurricane hit us. It's been dark and gloomy all day, on an upside, I'm not sure how much you can make out through the phone. I don't know if you hear the drops or the wind, but there are black clouds lying across the sky right now. These are some of the fastest moving clouds I've ever seen. There are police cars and those fire engines that I mentioned just crawling through the neighborhood. More people just walking around in the driving range than I would ever expect. I'm on my way home right now. I'm only about five blocks away, so I'm not going to be in this very long. But just since this started, about 20 minutes ago, it's ramped up, and it's going to be pretty bad. I'm heading indoors, and I hope everyone else is affected by this indoors, and I'll check back later. We've still got five to six hours until the main part of this hit, so it's not going to be pretty. Everybody stay safe. Wow, that sounds pretty epic. I was pleased to hear that New York was spared any super serious damage. I think Barry got a little bit of water damage. But at the same time, deaths were minimal as I guess the best we can hope for. I know that some of the mob were without power. Yeah, that's right. Nutty. Actually, for a while, was it without power? She had no connection to the mob for hours. Well, actually, it was more like days, as I recall. Oh, really? Yeah. Ah, she didn't complain nearly enough, no. You guys probably just weren't watching her Twitter enough. Not to say she was complaining. No, she's a lot of complaining. But she would just check in every now and then, and essentially say, no power. Boo. I know it was some crazy number of people without power for quite some time, so sorry. If we could have given you some of our electricity, we would have used some of our Internet. We would have. Mm-hmm. Now, as a total testimony to how organized Barry is, he had actually submitted a New York Minute 12 before there was even a hurricane threat. Yes. Way to go, Barry. Mm-hmm. It's because he foresaw the hurricane, so he wanted to have it done in time, so he would have all that extra time to do all the special reports for us. Yes. He had a premonition. Yep. He's good like that. Wait, Barry's working at some sort of super-secret organization, and hurricanes happen? Maybe they caused them. Buh-buh-buh. You have a weather machine, don't you, Barry? Hi, I'm Barry, and this is your New York Minute. Or if you prefer, hey, I got your New York Minute right here, chief. As a lifelong New Yorker, I almost never set foot on the mainland of North America. Seriously, I'm an islander through and through, and almost every New Yorker is. You probably know that Manhattan is an island, but so are three more boroughs. In fact, out of the five boroughs, only the Bronx is part of the mainland, and the less set about that, the better. Staten Island, as you may guess, is an island, but what you may not know is that Brooklyn and Queens are both on the western end of Long Island, and that name is accurate. Long Island is 118 miles long, but only 23 miles wide. If you heard the first few installments of a New York Minute, you heard me talk about the Verrazano and Brooklyn bridges, and it isn't a coincidence that I started out with bridges. In the city of islands, and crisscross with rivers and creeks, New York City has 57 bridges. And when I say a city of islands, I mean it. The five boroughs include almost 30 islands, so you see why we have all those bridges. Some of the islands are well known, like Ellis Island, where millions of people entered the United States, Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty, which welcomed millions of people, and Rikers Island, where millions of people got locked up. Many of the islands, like Rat Island, are uninhabited, but others like Governor's Island have a large population, and Governor's Island boasts beautiful parks in a sports stadium and complex. And speaking of islands, I began this series with an episode about Coney Island, and I have to admit that I lied to you, and I did it over and over, shamelessly. But it's not my fault, really it isn't. The big lie is that Coney Island isn't an island, it's a peninsula. It used to be an island, but part of Coney Island, Creek, was filled in before World War II to help construct the belt parkway. And what does Coney mean anyway? Well Coney is a touch word for rabbit, so named for all the rabbits at once lived there, though I've never seen one, must have been before my time. The Native American name for Coney Island was the much cooler Narayon. That wasn't me clearing my throat, it was a Lenape word meaning "land without shadows." That's a reference to the fact that it gets sunlight almost all day. I'm Barry, and this has been your significantly shorter and brighter New York Minute. I have to admit, although I am very familiar with New York as a setting in popular culture, like film and such, the nature of, say, a movie makes it very difficult to get any sort of sense of geography, and I had not realized just how many islands actually existed in New York. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I do recall the tale of typhoid Mary, who was quarantined on one of the islands, and left to live there under the state supervision for quite a while before she managed to convince people to let her out, and then immediately went back to committing her problematic crime. Well that's a very sweet story. Well, are you aware of what exactly she got up to? No, I have no idea. You're aware of typhoid fever though? Yes. There are some people who can carry it without showing symptoms, you know the idea of typhoid Mary, she was a cook by trade, and she found it very difficult to work in any other sort of labor. So she had a tendency to go back to being a cook, even though it essentially meant it would eventually infect her employers. And she was aware of this? Well. At a certain point. I make it sound as if she did it repeatedly, I don't know how, I can't recall how many times she actually did it. I know she did it being, post being released from the island, because she was caught at it. I'm being really careful, that's why. Yeah, well I mean it's tough if all you know is cooking. But you kill everyone in your path? Well, you make a second. Yeah, it's a tough decision to make. Yeah, well, yeah. Whatever. I'm not judging, apparently I'm judging quite obviously, but I'm going to stop now. Thanks a lot, Barry. That was fantastic. Yeah, that was very informative. So, we have a recurring problem. Not like typhoid Mary. It's not quite a rash. Yeah. This one you can get a prescription for. Jessica May, play the tape. Hi there, my name is Jade, and I got this number off the SA website, and I was calling and I'm disneying from out of town, and so I just wanted to check and see if your meetings are happening in Pamela City and what's going on, so you give me a call. And I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks so much. Bye. So I have contacted sexaholics anonymous again, tried to get them to once again, change the website. They had actually taken the number off the page, but somehow we found our way back on there. This young lady handled it like a pro though. I mean, I didn't feel too bad playing this one, because she could have been making this call from the interior of a mall or something. She seemed to really know the information laid down, she didn't say anything extra embarrassing. We've gotten some calls that made me a little uncomfortable. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, she sounded very professional, you know, and slightly southern. Yeah. Well, it is a Florida sexaholics and on that. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Anyway. Stop doing that. Sorry, lady. I hope that you found what you needed, but this weren't it. Yeah, and by that, we don't mean more sex. Yeah. So that's not what you need. Apparently. You don't know that. Do you hear that echo in the distance? Do you know what I think it portends? There's a Spanish chain that runs Virginia. Hello, Flashcast Crew and fellow mobsters. I hope the Flashcast Crew's trip to the north was enjoyable. Great pics. Very beautiful country. I mostly enjoyed the new Star Trek. I understand why they used time travel to reboot a well-documented timeline. But as far as sci-fi tropes go, time travel is probably my least favorite. Sort of the modern Deus Ex Machina used to get riders out of the corners they painted themselves into. Or in this case, to avoid the wrath of trekkers waiting to pounce on discontinuity errors. There has to be a better way. Quick aside to Nettie, I totally love the latest Nettie Vites podcast. And for sure, the time travelers you discussed get a pass. In those cases, time travel was the central premise. Not a mechanism that is brought out when needed and forgotten otherwise. I'm also over movie reboots that insist on starting from the beginning. Origin stories are cool the first time. After that, go explore the story's universe. Damn the folks who can't figure out that you've taken the characters and story in a different direction. I'm looking at you, new Spider-Man movie. So JRD, you sort of hinted I would get the queen reference regarding who wants to live forever. I got the queen part, but not the tie into Conan. Been a long time since I watched that movie. The song was used in Highlander I believe, another movie I need to revisit. Okay spot of bother guys, that was a truly chilling story. It was so over the top, I had to go do some looking on the internet to see if it wasn't a hoax. Unfortunately, appears to be true. That sucks on so many levels. The poor girl might have been saved by not running, but rather lying still and playing dead, then slowly crawling away when the bears were distracted with her dad. Not to guarantee, but predators are drawn to running prey. It sucks that they had to kill the cubs as well, but that is pretty much standard operating procedure for any predator that attacks humans. Barry, totally agree that Regis Feldman is a pinhead. We'll never forget the Who Wants to be a Millionaire episode where he misread Sakajawiya as Sakawaki. He added phonemes that were nowhere to be found in the word. Linda and I watched Little Red Riding Hood this week. Not amazing, but an okay take on the fairy tale. I mention it because Gary Oldman played a religious wolf killer in this one. He does such a good job playing a righteous, wicked person. As for vampires, I'm not familiar with True Blood. We'll probably check it out when it hits DVD or streaming on Netflix. We really enjoyed the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. It didn't care as much for the movie, and although there were a couple of seasons that sort of waned, the series finale was pretty decent. Enjoyed the end of the last black all tale, I've said it before and I'll say it again. A story should be as long as it needs to be to tell the whole thing. I'm definitely in the "This story was just right, Camp." My spotlighted author this week is Eric Frank Russell, an English writer who came to the U.S. and made his name in Pulp sci-fi. I'm a bit embarrassed to note that I'm only familiar with one of his novels, Wasp, but it is truly a great one. Written in 1957, the premise is that just as a wasp in a car can cause the driver to panic and subsequently wreck a car, so too, a person with the right motivation and tools can do the same thing to a technologically advanced society. It is chillingly prophetic in its portrayal of a society manipulated by terrorism into capitulating to an enemy. I'm amazed this one hasn't already been adapted to the big screen. Looking forward to KAV, good luck with it. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that JRD's vampires don't sparkle. Take care. Do you want to live forever? No sparkly vampires on this friend. Fantastic book recommendation. I'm definitely going to have to look into that. That sounds right up my alley. You knew what that made me think of. Maybe I'm drawing loose similarities, but I was thinking of a gift from Earth. Do you remember how there was the terrorists that were? Oh, yeah, gift from Earth Larry Niven. Yeah. I really enjoyed that normal. Interesting connection. I totally agree about time travel and science fiction unless it is the central premise as in Doctor Who, or actually that was a really good nutty bites debate to the time travelers. Anyway, unless it's the central premise and it's dealt with well, especially Star Trek time travel man. That is horrible. I've got to tell you my favorite time travel movie ever. Can you guess what it is? I'm sure you can. Bill and Ted. Oh, no. No, that's mine. Yeah, that's yours. Can you think of it, JRD? Come on. I know the film you mean. It's the one with Jack the Ripper in it. It's time after time. Yeah, sorry. I couldn't recall the title. Beautiful. ♪ I will be watching ♪ I love that movie. It's so fantastic. We have to watch it again. It's been years. Malcolm McDowell, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who doesn't love Malcolm McDowell? Exactly. I agree also about origin stories. Enough already. We're familiar with the franchise. If you're going to reboot it. Go somewhere else. Wait, wait. Can I bring this full circle? Absolutely. Malcolm McDowell, I do believe he was in Company of Wolves, which was also a little red riding hood movie. Mm-hmm. Although, I think the one he's speaking of is the possibly the, oh, no, no, sorry. I'm getting my little red riding hoods mixed. Yeah, they had a new little red riding hood movie. A man just recently. Just recently. Just recently. Just recently. So I fried Jack the Hedge. Jack Fried and Roy were in the film. I did. Yes. Anyway, basically I'll watch anything with Gary Oldman in it. Yeah. I think we've established that. And yes, he is fantastic as the wicked, wicked man. Mm-hmm. Ta-da. Ta-da. I can't help but think of Dr. Smith. Yeah. Well, I don't know that that is his proudest moment. I don't think he sits back and goes, ah, that time, me and Robbie the robot. Yeah, oh, I loved that, that role. Yeah, my vampires are going to be mean. That's where I will want to kill them all. Now I believe it's time for the occasional bit of, sort of fan fiction we get in. Fish sent us a little something, um, I hope it's going to read it. Sort of in the vein of our recent urban legends, and yeah, take it away, I hope. Wrinkleface. The legend of Wrinkleface began after the death of Blake Hayward. Blake's greatest present on his 18th birthday was having his Juby record erased. Clear to 23 counts of destruction and defacement of property, both private and public, 17 counts of assault and 11 counts of animal cruelty. Blake was feeling brash. Backering out of his parents basement drunk early one afternoon on Halloween, Blake made his way into town. Cat calling moms escorting their children and teen girls celebrating the holiday, Blake was proving to the town that he wasn't changing his ways anytime soon. Halfway through the evening, as the trick-or-treaters were making their ways back home and Blake was getting in his last few cat calls, old man Rivers approached Blake. Rivers was a kindly old man, who did not even take offense to Jess concerning his name. What Rivers said to Blake, none can say, but several witnesses can attest to what Blake did next. Throwing his arms in the air and spilling beer on himself from the bottle in his hand, Blake cried, "Screw off, you old Wrinkleface!" What happened next is not entirely clear. Some witnesses claim Blake brought the beer bottle down on Rivers with savage force. Others say that Blake threw himself off balance with his drunken justiculations, and brought the beer bottle down as he fell. Still others maintain that Rivers initiated hostilities, and that Blake was, for once, the victim. Whatever the case may be. It's as the children's rhyme goes. Drunk Blake Hayward threw his arms from his side, old man Rivers felt the bottle and cried. The bottle fell, but before the blood dried, drunk Blake Hayward had turned tail with great stride. On that Halloween, old man Rivers died. Halloween that year had fallen on a Saturday. At Sunday church during an evening mass for all Saints Day, in the middle of a reading of Deuteronomy twenty-one, at the end of verse twenty-one, Blake's panicked voice was heard through the church doors, "Please, please, for the love of God let me in, he's after me! Wrinkleface is after me!" A terrified scream, and the pounding suddenly stopped. It was Penelope Irving, old man Rivers granddaughter, at the time only nine, escaped her mother's vigil and pushed open one of the doors. A sudden gust with no apparent origin blew both the doors. There stood an unbelievably old man. His face so wrinkled that no other facial aspects could be discerned except for a pair of bright grey eyes, much like the ones that Rivers once had. The girl stood there, apparently without fear, and held up her arms as though she wanted to be picked up. The man with the wrinkled face only gave the girl a pat on the head before walking away. The official police report states that Hayward went missing, though no mention is made, concerning old man Rivers, missing corpse. Thanks a lot, Face. That was a lot of fun. The Urban Legion series has really been saving my big and lately. Our special episode series, you mean? Yeah, they're special, Jaredie. Actually, this would be a good opportunity to move into backroom plots. It may seem like I'm dancing a little around 200, and that would be because I'm dancing a little around 200. We all need a little more time to do some work on our various projects in regards to 200. Mm-hmm. It's been a very busy, busy time at the... And I know we always say that, but it always does get busier at Skinnergo, but we're devoted to you. Oh, this by now, right? Cricuts! My hope is to get another Urban Legend, although this next one may be one that has not yet been posted anywhere. Oh wait, they've all been posted somewhere, anyway. It's my feeling at this point that these Urban Legends can all be taken to exist somewhere within the Flashpulp universe, although they may not come directly into play on any of the stories. I do think you'll probably hear at some point maybe coffin dropper reference to one of these things having happened, but I did it'll ever be a central item to a plot. Yeah, like something you might hear at Dorstitz or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyhow, 199, and a new Urban Legend this week, including the Urban Legend we posted on Monday. And we promised 200 it will be worth it. Mm-hmm. In so many ways. In all aspects. Are you a Gassy? Oh, Halt! I've done nothing. That's not true. I know I have done things. I was, well, see, this is the conundrum, as I can't really explain to you all the difficulties and all of the successes I've had in regards to my project for 200 because I don't really want you to know what it is. And you'll know, see, there's really nothing I can say to you because anything I tell you, you will know exactly what I'm talking about. And everyone in this room is aware. Yes. We couldn't keep our secrets from each other. Yeah. We had to spill our beans. Well, that and I explicitly told Jared he'd not to enter the room. And then he came in. Oh, not. And he's like, oh, what are you doing? I'm coming to Snoop because I can't have you to have any secrets. Okay. It didn't happen that way. Yeah, that's exactly how it happened. He walked in. He had no idea what I was doing. And then I blurted out what I was doing to see if he knew what I was doing, and the cat was out of the bag anyways. The short answer is everyone in this room is aware of what's going on. Initially, we're going to keep it from each other. But now we're just keeping it from everyone else. I still have secrets. No, you don't. You tell me everything. Eh, eh, eh. I got to be a better secret keeper apparently because you're holding out on me, sir. Well, they're plot details. I mean, I never really give you plot details ahead of time. Yeah. You don't really want those. Yeah, it'll ruin it. So yeah, things are moving forward. I was a little afraid that what I wanted to do was going to be impossible, but I figured it out. It's all going to work. And I just need the time to sit down and do it, which is really what a pope needs to. But this is in her section. We're talking about me right now. The art. Oh, never raised you. Yeah, I've been getting my stuff done slowly, but surely. I didn't take a picture of the last two steps that I've done. Don't call me surely. Yeah. But fortunately, the last two steps that I've done are still able to be photographed in their present state. Yeah, you've been doing a lot of really detailed work. Well, the whole thing is fairly detailed, but it's amazing. But I'll have a picture process for you all when it's done. Yeah. And I hope that we can really capture maybe we should borrow a better camera than we have for the final result. Maybe. I mean, I'm assuming everyone can figure out that your surprise has something to do with illustration. One would hope. Yeah. One would hope. And if not, then you should know that. She illustrates, everybody. Cats are the bag. There is actually something else I wanted to talk about. Just briefly, recently on the Wiki, we've had a couple of ads for-- Spam. Spam. Russian spam. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't really think that-- Tony Russians. Stop it. I think our ads have nothing to do with the Thomas Black Hole. So I removed a few posts, and I banned those people. But just, you know, you can keep an eye out. Yeah. If you want to promote anything, go ahead and promote it on your own user page. But we're not opening up threads for advertising and stuff. Yeah. I suspect that's not so much that people listen to me about that. No, I'm sure it's not our mobsters, definitely not our mobsters. But, you know, just a heads up there. If any buddy on the mob wants to step up and sort of become Chief Wicaneer, I wouldn't mind making you an admin if you're relatively known quantity within the mob. Absolutely. Feel free to volunteer. Give us an email or something. My email is opoponax@skinner.fm. So. This seems like a good time to close up the show, actually. So let's give a big thank you. Thank you, Jim, from relicradio.com. Hoot! Who also has a fantastic blog over at blog.retuagym.com. Yes, we also highly recommend that. Uh... Wait, wait. Do you know what I learned from my eight-year-old today? What did you learn from your eight-year-old today? Snowy owls. Don't. Hoot. That's vital information to my day. Mm-hmm. I was, you know, hooting at owls earlier and now I feel really silly. Yeah. They didn't understand us. Shh. If you have comments, questions, or suggestions, you can find us at flashbulb.com. Call the voicemail line at 206-338-2792 or email us text or mp3 to become us at flashbulb.com. Jessica May's vocal talents and musical stylists can be found at maytunes.com. The entire run of flashbulb can be found at flashbulb.com or if you get the search bar in iTunes, flashcast is released under the Canadian Creative Commons attribution of the United States. This is the last song and then I am ending it. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. I am not going to be here. 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