Hello, and welcome to FlashCast Minisode 01 – Prepare yourself for New York, hurricanes, Blackhall Country, and Fallout.
The Skinner Co. Network
FCM01 - sIrene
[Music] Hello and welcome to Flashcast Mini-Soad 1, Cyrene! Prepare yourself for New York, hurricanes, black hole country, and fallout. [Music] Hello! Hello! Hello! We're in the north. Yes, it's very northy. Winterfell! I really consider this black hole territory. Yeah, it's definitely more black hole. This is definitely what inspired my Thomas Black Hole pension. Yes, and that's why you want to instill the values in our children. Those lazy little... no, um... Southies. Yes, southeast. Anyhow, we're up here in the rolling hills and the rolling mountains and the rolling hillbillies. Far away from Hurricane Land? Yes, that is one advantage. We're a whale out of Hurricane Town. That reminds me, maybe we should get a quick New York minute. Or a hurricane minute. Emergency New York minute. Hey, it's Barry calling in live with your first New York hurricane minute. I hate the sound cliche, but it is literally the calm before the storm here because this is an absolutely beautiful day. It is warm, it is sunny, there is a cold breeze, and it is just fantastic out here. It's just very surreal because the streets are empty right now. The stores are full and everyone you see is carrying water. You turn on the TV and the mayor is talking about evacuating. They're shutting down the subway tomorrow. They're evacuating the coastal areas. I'm an evacuation zone, but I'm not in one that they're getting out yet, so I'm okay. It's just very strange here in New York and everybody's just waiting for the next shoe to drop. I will call you back tomorrow, let you know what's happening, and if I can, I'll keep up with during the storm updates. Have fun. Good night. Hope everything's okay with you, Barry. Mm-hmm, keep us up to date, please. Don't blow away. We actually, not to give away the, not to break up the tension, but we do have a follow-up from Barry, a quick sort of secondary he called in. I'm finding these actually really interesting, even though they're short little bites. It's weird to think of New York and this sort of state of tension in the entire city. Mm-hmm, everything's shutting down and at least they seem like they're pretty prepared. Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, not to whatever, but I suspect New York's emergency preparedness abilities in the last decade of hopefully skyrocketed. Mm-hmm, yeah. Anyway, we also have a quick little in this flashcast mini, this flash, flashcast. A quick little thought from our good friend, Three Day Fish, from the last flashcast that I thought we'd just throw in here, and then we'll have the regular flashcast with all of the contributors and everything. Probably Monday, frankly. I should also mention that 199 is going to be delayed, probably, oh geez, Sunday or Monday. We'll see how things work out. Yeah, sorry, we're sort of on Apocalypse Coast and we're further up north. We're certainly well out of the winds at this point, but it just was not going to happen one or another. We're looking through our mobster's status side, just to see who's preparing and who's not. Any mobsters on the coast, especially nutty. Robert Snyder, he's been working his butt off. Yeah, we're thinking about you guys, I hope everything's okay. Yeah, if there's any reason to teleport, this is why we need the sides. Skinner Coast got a lot of residences up on the 15th floor if you guys need a little place to crash. Yeah, let us know, that's right. Okay, so here's fish. Hey Flashcast, I was interested on JRD's comment about pulpy video games, and I thought I had to mention probably the pulpiest game on the market. I'm, of course, talking about Fallout, the series. Fallout 1, which I believe came out in '97, Fallout 2, '98, and the much more well-known Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. Very pulpy games have a 1950s feel to it with a post-apocalyptic survival. The music is very much of the age of pulp. The quests are all very pulpy. Here's an example, DLC, which is a downloadable content for you non-video game types, came out for a new Vegas called Old World Blues. And it's all about how you explore big mountain, which is essentially a site of failed scientific experiments. And you just come across all kinds of wacky stuff. You like, you find this machine that can combine robots and humans, and it makes robo brains. You can also combine dogs and robots or humans and dogs. So if you combine the human and the dog, you basically just get a mess of organs. There's a lot of humor attached to these games. And I would have to say that the games are really done in the whole spirit of pulp, and they are for 360 and PS3. So yeah, that's my little contribution on pulpy video games. Always listening. Thanks a lot, Fish. I really appreciate the... The extras. The commentary. Won't settle you with a regular game feature, but it would be nice. Yes. Mm-hmm. I'm actually quite familiar with the Fallout franchise. We all are. By Osmosis, if you will. I picked up the first game when it was first released. I was working at a little computer store. Accidentally ended up managing. That's sort of a long story. The guy in charge took off with quite a bit of customer money and left a 16-year-old running his shop. A very capable 16-year-old. Yeah. Well. But yeah, one of my victory prizes out of that little sorté was Fallout. And I fell in love with that game immediately. Played through the first and second one. And I was quite excited when Fallout 3 came out. I have to admit, I didn't enjoy Vegas quite as much. Just seemed a little bit repetitive compared to, like, it just seemed like more of Fallout 3. It seemed like it should have been. Added content to Fallout 3 or something. Yeah. No, well, it's not fair to call it a DLC because it was a lot of new stuff. But it just didn't feel like a new game. It felt like a new area of the same game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyhow, great entry fish. Mm-hmm. Appreciate it. So I think we're just going to let Barry carry us out with just a final follow-up before we check out. We may do another miniso tomorrow. Mm-hmm. And if anything new comes from Barry, we'll upload it as well. Mm-hmm. Because I think the New York minute by minute is kind of fun. Yes. So hopefully we're not clogging up everybody's feeds. Leave us some comments on the mob. That's probably the quickest way to reach us now. Or some calls about where it's like in your neck of Hurricane Land. Yes, please do. If you're in somewhere within the path of Irene, you're not having a good night Irene. Give us a call. See you later. To walk away Irene. This is Barry reporting from New York. We're still having a beautiful day. It's Friday night around 11.30, quarter to 12. And so far the only sign that there's a hurricane coming is that the humidity is way, way up there. Things are still quiet here. But I want to tell you about one of the strangest things that I've seen. Quiet, slow-moving fire trucks. Now think about it. These things are supposed to go fast to emergencies. And they're supposed to be blaring their sirens. But what's happening here in Brooklyn, so we've got fire trucks moving very slowly down the streets. No sirens, but the lights are going. That's a weird enough sight. And then they get to a corner. And then announcement comes on warning people is a hurricane coming. Prepare, evacuate. And they go down to the next corner, crawling the whole time. And it's just very strange to see these very slow, quiet fire engines creeping around town. Other than that, things are common. Common than usual for a Friday night. And everybody's just waiting. That's what's happening in New York. [MUSIC]