Hello, and welcome to FlashCast episode twenty-eight – prepare yourself for blaxploitation, Harry Potter, lizard men, fedoras and Character.
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[music] Hello, and welcome to Flashcast 28. Prepare yourself for Black Sploitation, Harry Potter, Lizardman, Fedora's, and Character. [music] Tonight, we have myself, Opopinax, Keeper of the Seven Tongues of Narration, and Steward of the Editorial Second Sight. Jessica May, hello. Nourisher of the Triple Ego and Mistress of the Oracle, and JRD. Hello. Fray Sheveler. You kind of made that sound like Oracle. I'm just saying. So, I thought we'd move right into sort of the pulp spotlight for the week. Excellent. Okay, go. I found an interesting one. Miss Fury. Ooh, a lady this time. Well, that's why I found it interesting. She's a hero, but she's from 41, which is a time with few lady heroes. Does she wear a skirt? No. Actually, surprisingly, she wears a costume that looks almost exactly like cat. A hooker. [laughs] Like a hooker. No! What are you talking about? Not until the 80s, I guess. She looks like Catwoman with a cape. Okay. And unfortunately, later in the 80s, she fell into the hands of some no-good fellows who were using her for... For what? That makes it sound even worse. Selling books. Yeah. [laughs] Well, that's generally what they do. So, some details. Okay. Go. Miss Fury. Marla Drake. Not related to Nick Fury. Affiliations. Albino Joe. Albino Joe. Yeah, I want to know more about Albino Joe. Yeah. Where's Albino Joe? A series. He's got really bad pink eyes. Where's his cat suit? Yeah. It's not even that he's Albino. He just has a bad case of pink eyes. Enemies. No. General Bruno Bates, or Beets, I don't know how to pronounce that, Baroness Elsa Von Campf. Oh, that sounds awesome. And Dr. Diamond. She's a good fighter. She's athletic and acrobatic. Do you ever get superheroes that are lousy fighters? Supposedly, the costume was formerly the possession of a witch doctor, but it never actually displays any sort of magical property, so that seems like a weird bit of fiction to add to it. I'm also picturing a witch doctor wearing that costume, and it's pretty funny. The story is pretty interesting, too. She's essentially an airhead debutante who is on her way to a ball one night, puts on this costume. Her uncle, the explorer, gave her and beats up some criminals, suddenly gets a feeling that she should go and fight crime and flies into costume. It's essentially Paris Hilton one day deciding to put on a cat costume and go fight crime. Yeah. And being successful at it. That's awesome. Like, does she have kung fu action? I see a movie in the making. Yeah, that's essentially all she has is kung fu action. So it doesn't come from the suit. Like, she just, like, one day she's having tea, and then in the afternoon she puts on the suit. No, she's a kung fu action. She's essentially female Batman without the gadgets. She just beats people up. All right. Okay, whatever. I should also mention I got all of this information from internationalhero.co.uk. Okay. Yes. That's a mentionable. Yeah. I just want to give credit where credit is. Yes. Absolutely. Go check out the other superheroes. But I thought it was neat to come across it in early. Whatever her later costume problems, it was nice to find an early female character that I hadn't heard of before who assumed to have been fairly popular. So I also thought it was interesting that we went a while ago to see that real life superhero documentary. And since then I've done some reading online, and I mean we'd read some pieces beforehand as well. Okay. And it strikes me that the people who undertake those things all tend to be people from households with not a lot of extra cash, let's say. Yeah. And yet in stories... You don't get a lot of debut talent superheroes. Yeah, it's always social like Batman or Clark Kent, who's already a journalist. Frankly, Clark Kent may be able to do a lot of good just taking some pictures in some war-torn countries and selling some newspapers. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Shining a light where one is needed. Anyway. Indeed. The overlooked essays of Superman. Yeah. Yeah. Where are these articles? Actually, they're brilliant. Anyway. Actually a shoddy journalist that's way stuck to the superhero business. On the home front, we've been spotlighting a bit strip comic called "Treed" by a fellow called "Treed." "Treed." "Treed." "Treed." I love his promo, it's quite... I know. Quite fantastic. "Treed." He did a comic for us while on us, I suppose. Only an inmate, he asked why some episodes are labeled part one of one. Oh. Yeah, Jared Dee. I just wanted a simple method of clarification whenever we put an episode so people know what they're getting into. I hate not knowing what I'm getting into. Yeah. I want people to understand before they begin how much time they should actually have to invest to get through the story. But a comic about us? That's pretty awesome. Mm-hmm. I haven't seen that. So thanks, Street. Yeah. I'll send you the link. "Treed." He also accuses me of being a stalker. Oh, good. No. It's a mixed bag. Maybe we... Maybe you shouldn't send us the link. We don't want him to think we're stalking him. Maybe I should just stop standing by his bedroom window at night. That's what he's been... That's what he's been... Whispering about trees in the night. Speaking of always watching... Fresh fish. A new batch of cinematic pulp with the "All Ways Listening" three-day fish. Hey, Flashcast. Three-day fish reporting from Massachusetts, instead of my normal location of Ohio. So, as promised, here is the fresh fish on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II. Now, actually, I'm going to have to edit my earlier statement. I'm going to call this segment, this time, "Spoiled Fish." And that is because this fresh fish is going to have a spoiler alert. If you are a fan and have read all the books, then you may want to stay tuned. If you want to have the purity of the experience, then skip ahead. The movie, all in all, was good. If you're a hardcore Harry Potter fanatic, then you've probably been disappointed by all the movies and this one won't be any different. However, if you're somewhat realistic and know that the books and the movies were going to be different from the start, then you may be more open to like this movie. This is the spoiler alert. There is a climactic scene in the book where Harry explains to Voldemort why Harry is going to be able to defeat him and why Voldemort is going to lose. This is the point in the movie that they really just took a whole new twist on and I can see a lot of people not liking it. In the book, it went down like this. Harry explained to Voldemort that he was going to lose because Voldemort had done the same thing the night of his parents' murder, which was cast his mother's sacrifice to herself to save her son, which gave him Harry protection from Voldemort for all time, yada yada. You know, when Harry willingly went to Voldemort and died for his friends and family in order to save them, he did the same thing. So everyone at Hogwarts basically was protected from Voldemort. And Harry explains this to Lord Voldemort and it's this huge epic monologue. And to be honest, in the book, I didn't care for it because I don't care for a huge epic monologues that explain everything. Those are the kinds of monologues that only belong in anime and in old-time radio, anime because it's anime and it's gotten away with it for as long as it's been around in old-time radio because they were without the benefit of visual aid. So they had to explain things. In the movie, they took a whole 'nother twist with this. It basically turned out to be a chase between Voldemort and Harry. And this is the only part of the movie that I thought was kind of weak. Well, no, I think that back. This is one of the points in the movie that I thought was kind of weak. I thought that while I was glad they skipped the monologue, I wish they hadn't turned it into like a huge chase between Harry and Voldemort that just kind of made Harry look like a coward in my opinion. The other thing I thought was weak about the movie was the portrayal of Neville because before that epic monologue I just described, Neville actually slays the snake and they totally botched that. Like, I felt like that kind of was ruined. But besides those two points, the movie was very, very much in the spirit of the books. So all in all, Harry Potter keeps the green light. Go see it. If, for nothing else, if you're not a Potter fan, you haven't read the books, it's a decent movie. And that's it for "Spoil Fish," always listening. Thanks. This year was fantastic. Thank you. I'm actually a really big Harry Potter fan, but I haven't seen any of the movies beyond Order of the Phoenix, or no, I don't, I think, no, I haven't even seen that one, I don't think. But it's because you're in lockstep watching them with the kids, right? That's right. And they haven't read the rest of the books yet because I haven't read them to them yet. That makes me bad. You know what I took away from that review? What? That I don't actually need to watch the movie. Keep spoiling fish because you're saving me some film time. I've still got to see the movie at some point. We also have a bit of a film thing I wanted to touch on just after "Fresh Fish." We watched "Straight Jacket" this week. Yeah. I was surprised because I've never actually seen a Joan Crawford movie. Oh no, there's considerably better Joan Crawford movies, but that one was a lot of fun. It was. Um, William Castle, same fellow who made 13 ghosts, the original, and have some haunted hail. Those are both really good movies. Amongst a million other low budget films. I got to say, we had it pegged from the beginning though, didn't we? Having Joan Crawford run around with an axe, though, it doesn't really matter what the plot is. You really captured the spirit of that movie with your picture. Mm-hmm. I really enjoyed the photo. Oh, thanks. I actually wasn't there to see it, so. Oh, you were. You just weren't conscious enough. Really? You were there, but you were unconscious. Really? Mm-hmm. It had been a very long day for you. It was a Netflix election. Oh, okay. Yes. Okay. I'm surprised all the screaming didn't wake you up then. No. If I'm sleepy, I'm a sleepy, unless one of my own babies. I don't want to give away too much because the plot needs all I can get, but there's axe murdering. Yeah, it's essentially axe murdering and a lot of Joan Crawford doing different characters throughout the film, which is a lot of fun. Yeah, well, I mean, she's got like two characters, well, three characters because I'd say she's like a third character at the end. Yeah. Was she the older sister and whatever happened to baby Jane? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, she had an epic film career, but that's definitely actually one of my favorite films with her in it. Because she has this wonderful, terrified look that's just so complex that I really enjoy. She's more, she's more Jane than the older sister and straight jacket. She's more than breaking one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And speaking of long monologues to cap the film, that's one that ends with two of the major characters essentially discussing the plot so that the audience can understand what happened. Yeah, exactly. And then this happened. And then don't forget. Oh, yeah. Yes, of course. Anyway, thank you very much, fish. Yes, indeed. Potter avoided. I mean, great review. And now... I do appreciate the honesty, honestly. Jeff brings us a new spot of bother, and he's even set up a blog at spotofbother.wordpress.com Oh, awesome. Where he's going to post the transcripts of his pieces. That's so great. Great. We should totally link that somewhere. Absolutely. We're going to look up there. All over the place. That'd be great. And I'll also link to his Twitter account in my notes in the show notes for this episode. Excellent. As you should. So, no further ado, our evil NPR piece. Spot of bother. One of my fondest childhood memories is swapping tales with the other neighborhood kids of unseen creatures and invisible forces that inhabited some of the more remote and mysterious wooded areas in our remote western North Carolina community. None of us ever really knew where the stories came from, nor did we question their authenticity. It was the simple belief in these unseen monsters that drove the fear. And the fear, well, that brought excitement to an otherwise uneventful and boring day on the farm. Sometimes though, the unseen forces stepped out of those mysterious woods and made their presence known. There was the story of the neighbor lady who discovered wood mourning that her car had been dented and torn apart sometime in the night, pushed around in such a way that discounted the possibility of human intervention and then there was my mother's little dog, a sweet little mud that lived outdoors. We found him one morning, torn to shreds, nothing missing except for his kind little spirit. Those old memories resurfaced for me this morning as I noticed this bit of news from Lee County, South Carolina. Here's the story from WLTX.com out of Columbia. Over the years, reports have surfaced about infamous and mysterious creatures. There's Bigfoot, the giant ape-like animal that roams the wild forest on the west coast. Across the pond, there's Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster that hides in the deep dark waters of the Scottish Highlands. In Mexico and Texas, they have the Chupacabra, the blood-sucking goat that some say has killed animals. And in South Carolina, we have the Lizard Man, the creature supposedly terrorizing Bishop Ville since 1988. That year, a 17-year-old reported a run-in with a scaly lizard that stood on two legs. Now, their speculation that the creature may be back. On Ida Lane and rural Lee County, they're struggling to explain what took place Monday morning. I ran into the house and told my wife to call the police because something happened to the car, explained Leon Marshall. The tooth marks went completely through the fender, added his wife, Ada. Suddenly that morning, the marshals woke up to find their car mauled by something. That's metal, and it's just been up. Like it was a piece of tissue paper, said Ada, the question is by what? We have no idea, no idea, no idea whatsoever. To former Lee County Sheriff, Liston Truesdale, this sounds all too familiar. This part here is how it all started in 1988, explained Truesdale. We got a call to come and look at something that had mauled a car. I went out there and looked at the damaged car and I haven't seen anything like it before. About that same time, there were bizarre calls coming in. They had been seeing a large creature about seven feet tall with big red eyes, with three pointed fingers. So we started asking residents, "Have you seen anything like a big tall creature around there?" And the guys said, "What do you mean, that lizard man? That's how it started and you got it from the horse's mouth." Back then, there was a media frenzy. Everyone thought they were going to get a glimpse of the lizard man, but it didn't appear. The damage on the marshal's car is almost identical to the damage on the two cars from back then. "Was it the lizard man? I'm skeptical about that. I'm not going to go that far. I'll believe it when I see it," said the marshals. Everything had laid off on the poor lizard man, Jokes Truesdale, but at this point, he must have grandchildren. Whether you believe in the lizard man or not, he certainly did generate a lot of buzz. In 1988, it's estimated that about 50,000 visitors came to Lee County in hopes of spotting the creature. In closing, I'd like to state for the record that I won't be driving to South Carolina personally to search for the lizard man. If anything, I'll just go visit my dad, sleep in my old bedroom with the window open and listen to him rustle around outside of the woods. I'll also make sure to keep the dogs inside, where it's safe. I'm Jeffrey Lynch, and that's this week's Spot of Bother. Thank you kindly, Jeff. Wow. Wonderful job. Lizard men roaming the woods. You'll be like, "Yeah, no crap, but it's a lizard man." Okay. Oh, you mean the lizard man? I love that. Yeah. Basically, my people have an age-old way of dealing with lizard men. You get sort of a hollow log thing, and you pack it full of a number of powders and some diamonds that you find on the alien planet that you've been caught on. They'll have to be big diamonds. And then when the lizard man comes at you, you just sort of light it and blammo kirkum. Blammo. Yeah. Oddly enough, we call it one of our children, Chupacabra. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, Mr. Eight. Nicknamed Chupacabra. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you can even say that to him, seriously, like Chupacabra, and he'll come to you. Yeah, he'll know you're being serious, too. Yeah. Yeah, excellent job. Very nice. I've also heard there's lizard men living under LA. I wonder if they're related lizard men. I'll go and jokes aside. Mm. That's an interesting theory. Maybe they're tougher cousins? And then I do believe that the... I'll cut you? Uh... I see. V situation, there are those who believe the UN and major world leaders are those who live as well. That's right. Yes. You know that's a series I want to watch with the kids sometime. But I think there's a new V, isn't there? Yeah. I don't know if it's any good or not. I don't know if it's any good or not. I don't know if it's any good or not. I don't know if it's any good or not. I don't know if it's any good or not. I don't know if it's any good or not. I don't know if it's any good or not. I don't know if it's any good or not. I don't know if it's any good or not. I don't know if it's any good or not. And now, I believe, speaking of curious local tales, the curious tales of Vienna. The Three Little Devils. In ancient times, three little devils played their mischievous tricks on the Viennese in and around St. Stephen's Church. They were called Ludifel, Sperifankel, and Sprankinkle. They teased the prayers frightened the penitents, extinguished the candles and hit the craftsman Hema and Chisel. Ludifel was the meanest and the most dangerous among them. He was the one who was responsible for the death of the architect who worked at the north tower of St. Stephen's. People were pursuing the evil Ludifel till they got hold of the demon. Soon, Sperifankel and Sprankinkle were caught too. The three evil spirits were put into a cage on the church wall from which they couldn't escape anymore. For a long time, they raged in the cage, then they turned slowly into stone. Today, you can still see relics of the Three Little Devils, but with every day, they vanish more and more. This is a fun one because she included a picture of the nubbins that are said to be the Three Devils. Oh, really? That's awesome. I assume that the legend sprung up around some sort of deformity on the building itself, and people wondered, well, why is that there? And over time... You mean it wasn't Three Little Devils? Oh, I assume that every word out of Ingrid's myth was absolutely true. Another fantastic telling, thank you. Yes, I really liked their names. That's cool. I won't try to pronounce them, but excellent job. Just a reminder, you can find all of Ingrid's legends posted up at vne'slegends.blogspot.com. And you can find Ingrid's poetry and occasional short fiction at dancingelda.blogspot.com. We'd definitely appreciate her work because she is fantastic. And believe it, he's just staring at the mic, he's memorized that all, so he cares. Now I think it's time for... You have to say mail time. Mail time! 'Cause I always put the jingle over top of your ridiculous mail time sing song that you think I'm going to remove, but I never do. Now it's time... I don't know if you've ever noticed, but... No, it's time for mail bag! Alright, a bag of mail! So the Rev. Peacold, unfortunately, he was in the middle of a riot, so take a listen. Right! Hi, it's Rev. Peacold from a very Brady Manchester, currently at a regular festival in suit. I don't have too much to say. I just wanted to say hi, really, and provide a bit of a feel like for this festival. So, I'll be all good, and I'll leave some of this a little bit more to stand until next time. Slightly, that's it. Thank you, folks. Bye! Okay, I can't quite understand every single word, but that's what Manchester stands like. Man, that's awesome! He was actually calling us from a... He mentioned this on Twitter. He was calling us from a graffiti and reggae festival. Oh, cool! I totally heard that. That's exactly... I was going to call that. Which, I thought was interesting. I don't usually associate reggae and graffiti, necessarily, more hip-hop, isn't it one of the four essentials, but it's still very cool. Yes, I very much appreciate you calling in. It sounded really cool. And hello! Could be said you want to call say hi, so... Hello! It reminded me also that there's a definite reggae pulp connection between, "Hey, you guys ever seen the heart, did they come?" No! The heart of they come came out in '72, which was just when black exploitation was really starting up, which, to me, definitely falls under the pulp moniker. It was the first film in America, released in America, that used a reggae soundtrack. And it was one of the first, if not the first, my memory's a little foggy on it, but it was, I believe, the first Jamaican film product. Hmm. Oh! What year was this? '72. So, it was just, "Shaft" was released in '71", as was Badass, Sweetbacks, Badass song. What is it? Movie again. I always get the name. Sweet, Sweet, Sweetbacks, Sweet. I'm sorry. It's a good movie, but I never remember the title. Anyway, so, black exploitation was really just getting started, and this film came out, and really the structure of the film is very much like Scarface, the '80s film with the Chino. It's this guy, he starts dealing, and then he gets really rich, and then things don't work out so well for him. As they sometimes do, or don't. The Rev also sent a follow-up comment, "I respectfully request the fine folks of Flashcast re-engineer the day to provide more time for me and everyone else, of course, with which to enjoy the fruits of their labors." Oh, well, yes, thank you, Rev.P. We would like more time in the day to be able to produce this for you. Unfortunately, he sent it to the Flashcast, when really he should have filed it with time management in-- Our Timel Mansors. Yes. The Skinner Code Timel Mansors. Mm-hmm. So-- Wrong department, dude. That's right. We'll send it up, but this kind of paperwork can really cost you. Yeah, get a form from Windows 3. Bit of an anonymous call, didn't leave a name, but I really enjoyed his work. Let's go to it. The Webonax, the Webonax, its eyes upon your carapacts, its blood is tar and turpentine, its voice is harsh and asinine, its tentacles, insidious and scummy, slimy, hideous, its lips are dirty, dandorous, and shaley, scaly, slanderous, the Webonax, the Webonax. It just gave me two heart attacks when once it lurked in Canada, now slain by memoranda, it yells, you counterpoint, it rails, and happily good sense prevails. Congratulations, guys. Although I said it was anonymous, I should say that it did come from a good friend of ours. We do actually know who it is, and-- He just didn't necessarily say to you. Yeah, so I don't know who to credit him, but it was too good not to share, even though it was a bit of a personal item. Mm-hmm. I loved it. Yes. Great. Thank you. Other than that, but it was too fantastic. Too fantastic. Yeah. Supa. Anyway, that must have taken some effort, too. Yeah. I mean, he's a wordsmith, but dandory, he knows so well. [laughter] You know who I'm always happy to hear from? Who? Our good friend, Joe from Colorado. Agreed. Hello, Flashcast crew, and fellow mobsters, Joe from Colorado, coming to you from Colorado. One more summer trip coming up in the near future, but for the most part, we're done vacating and pretty much back in the grind. Since I like my grind, this is not a bad thing, just a change. It was great seeing the girl, and while we will briefly see her again in three weeks, it's never enough. My son and his family live near us. We see them at least once a week, and that isn't enough either, so there you go. Being distant from family is always tough. Agreed. We happen to have some family that we both moved away from recently and that we've been away from for quite a while, and it's always nice to get back together, but I certainly know how you feel, Joe. It's never enough. I still don't know really what we're going to do once the eights get out of here. They're never going to leave. Regarding our vacation travel, we don't have any inns with the airlines and fly cable class like everyone else. I know you got to say that so the government doesn't come down on the daughter, I understand wink, wink, nudge, nudge, Joe. I really laughed at JRD's suggestion that I need more sheep. I mentioned in a previous submission that I'm from Wyoming. There are some large sheep wrenches near my hometown. One tagline for the state is, Wyoming, where men are men and sheep are nervous. Yep, sheep jokes never get old. So Supergirl is going to be within 200 kilometers of you next week. She's flying to London to pick up a new multi-engine plane for the university and will return by way of the Oshkosh Air Show doing some PR for the school. Rumor has it that they may have a camera person with them to do a video documentary promo. So add actress to her superpowers. By the way, Linda says she can totally sear with a whip as well. Following up on the helium hydrogen discussion, we aren't any danger of running out of hydrogen. In fact, we have entire oceans of the stuff, not to mention all the hydrocarbons we currently use for energy, although easy access to the latter is starting to disappear. The problem with helium is that, as a noble gas, it doesn't bind to anything else and is light, so it tends to float out of the atmosphere when given the chance. And the only way to get more on Earth is as the byproduct of radioactive decay. I got a chance to visit a museum in Cincinnati last year and learned a bit about the Mississippi culture. It was fascinating. Really ashamed that they left no written histories. Orson Scott Card has a book, Past Watch, The Redemption of Christopher Columbus that explores the relationship of European conquest in the Americas and the future of the world. Really good speculative fiction grounded in historical fact. Side note, every year for Father's Day I ask my kids to read a book of my choosing and then we get together to discuss. This year I chose Past Watch. Really enjoyed the sound effects in buggy. Great job with a doppler shift on the engine and cutter sounds. Oh, thank you. For what it's worth, I hadn't noticed any change in harm's accent through the stories. Of course, now I'll be listening for it. Oh. And way to write yourself out of a tight corner, awesome ending to a great story. Regarding the publishing schedule, I wouldn't sweat it. As a software developer, I've always viewed schedules as somewhat fluid entities, much to my managers dismay. Yeah, Jerdy. But I've found that a good end product is remembered much longer than an arbitrary mark on a calendar. And to quote John Lennon, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Take care. Too true. You too, you too, Joe. Thanks for another lovely submission. Glad to know that you're safe back in Colorado, Joe from all over. Yeah, stay safe in the PRB and in surrounding environs. And you know, we'll wave to the skies. Yeah. Point well taken about not worrying much about the schedule, but at the same time I feel like this is an exercise and getting it done. Discipline. So like today, we're recording Flashcast and just before this, I finished edits on the Flashpulp. Did I push the edits? Yeah. It's been a long day. Yeah. Yeah, we just put out 187, which I don't want to give too many spoilers on due to the nature of the story. But we may be seeing some old friends as it were. You know, I, you just said it's been a long day and I just looked at the clock and I am shocked at the time, sir. Shocked. It is a mere 9.30. Yeah, well, it seems early, but it's also been long. Yeah. Like we did have, we did make plans for after this that aren't going to happen. Yeah, but it is pretty amazing the things that we can accomplish on a day. We got two episodes done. Do not besperch my time afterwards. Then I shall not, sir. Friend of the site, Ami, who I believe that's how it's pronounced. Ami. That's how I'm excited it's pronounced now. Ami has submitted a, I put out a shout out for a call out for items related to fedoras and she really surprised me with a brilliant little piece, so go, Opop. It's called Handy Dandy and it starts off with a quote from a Bob Dylan song. Although I've never heard it before, hopefully I'll do it justice. Handy Dandy. Every bone in his body was broken, he would never admit it. He got an all-girl orchestra and when he says, "Strike up the band," they hit it. Handy Dandy, Handy Dandy. He stepped off the stage and moved through the club into the alley. This is the moment he wants smoke, want to be cool, wanted to want the young females again. He settled his hat on the back of his head, shook the wants off his shoulders as he he hefted his base on his back, he'd come back later to get paid. He missed her, she was no longer there, home, to say the blue dog barked at the full moon and the rabbit in the moon only laughed at the dog. No longer there to say the beer was cold, no longer there soft and sleeping in bed. But the walls talked at him, reminding him how she flared with anger, blue eyes demanding his attentions, kisses, pecs, smooches, all to say, "Babe, it's okay, you're home." He straightened his hat, the fedora she picked for him, high crown, sable, horsehair braid. To keep from walking into the dumpy bar, he made his mind up to list all the gangsters and fedoras. Not the Panama hats, straw, too delicate for his beefy hands, but the felt, shaped, the kind that once used mercury on the pelts for shaping, mad as a hatter he told himself. He was a research librarian without a book, he was a bass player without enough gigs. He carried concealed, as was the law said he could, he would find her killer. Very nice, lovely job, fedoras. Thank you so much to our self-proclaimed den mother from the flash mob. Amy the Mammy, Mammy Amy, mhm, well on that slightly sobering tail, let's move into "Are you a Dassy" or "Pulp" I've accomplished this week getting finished the intro for Jeff's new bit, the S.O.B. spot of bother. I didn't even consider that until he sent it to me in an email and I'm like, "Heheheheheh." So yeah, we were talking intros, he and I, and he was thinking of the Hitchcock theme, the funeral march of a marionette. And then he discovered one performed by a U.S. Marine Corps band. Oh, that's nice. Yes, it sounds kind of, you know with the records it sounds kind of choppy and kind of, yeah, anyways, it's a lovely job. And we've, I've selected exactly ten seconds of it to use, so. I'm very concerned about copyright laws, I don't want to step anybody to us. He's a stickler. Like twelve and a half, give me twelve and a half, but ten it was. So yeah, I accomplished something, there you go. My gift to you. Thank you. You're welcome. Background plots. So I've decided that I'm going in the background plot section, I'm going to start discussing where in the chronology of each individual character the stories for the week fall. Oh, interesting. Specifically, the footnote for this one would be the bitter end, the Mulligan story. Yep. 186, I believe. Mm-hmm. I remember you put out a little Twitter blurby about this. Yeah, it would take place on the same evening as the favor. Mm-hmm. And if anybody doesn't remember the favor, it's, I can't remember the specific episode, but it was actually Billy Winnipeg telling a story to Mulligan. Yeah. Because they waited for his case. I don't know if I did or not, but it may not be the same interior sound with the car. Like it technically. Yeah, that was one of the first with sounds, right? Indeed. I went back and listened to it, but I think I found something better. I don't know. That's fine. They were moving around and you would expect a different kind of sound. They were going on to the highway as well, which I don't think they were doing before, so. No, there was a new still. Those sounds that you used for that episode, was that the rainstorm that Jaredie caught on his audio beam? I don't believe so. I believe it. Which one did you use that for, was it a black hole or something? I don't know. Mm-hmm. See, this is why I got to write things down. I always think I'm going to remember, but then I don't. You know what? Actually, I think we mentioned capturing that sound bite on a flashcast, so I bet you, if I go back and listen through the flashcast, I can just deduce from which episodes were released around then. I love logic poems. Speaking of Twitter, somebody reminded me of episode 21, which was well before we were putting out the flashcast to make any sort of notes on. Which one was that? The 21 was entitled Character, and it was about a fellow behind a counter at a general store in sort of a verbal location. Oh, yes. That's right. And that story entirely comes out of the idea I had one afternoon that it would be fun to write a story from the perspective of a B-string character in a horror movie. I don't want to give away too much more than that, but I think if you go back into the archive or check the show notes for this episode and sort of wander through it, you may enjoy that. Oh, Charity and I were discussing about how it would be really nice to just take some time and re-record all the episodes, because hearing 21 just scares me, like I don't want to listen to anything before 100. Somebody was... Well, let's be fair, 50. Yeah. No, my line is actually episode 100. Yeah, you know what, now that I'm thinking 50, we were still using the cone of silence. Actually, I don't even know if we had the cone of silence yet. Did we ever take a photo of that? It was like a blanket wrapped around a chair wrapped around the chair was one of those dressing screen. Yeah. A screen. Yeah. This sounds much better. But yeah, it looked very funny. And it was warm if I could. It was very warm, yes. And then if you needed things, you'd be like, "I mean a cone, give me something, I need it." It was very difficult to arrange the cone. Yes. So you don't want to do it once you're in. Don Adams was constantly barging in. Yes. He wanted me to use it. Absolutely. I gotta make a call. Get off that shoe and help me. Get those blankets back up. Yes. Okay. All right, backroom plots. Actually, I believe this might be a good time to move into. The R. O. Never raised you. You know what? I needed to actually update the wiki. I realized the last couple of times I've been saying anything in order of narration. It's, "Hey, I've updated the wiki. You checked the wiki." But she really has to keep updating the wiki. Well, I really appreciate that effort you're putting out there. And I will even give you a pass for the fact that I have yet to see the first Skinner Coink comic completed. And I would like to remind people about the wiki at wiki.flashpal.com and shout out to jim@raleopradio.com for hosting... Thank you, Jim. For giving me a wiki to fill out. For hosting both the wiki and the flashpal.com website. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, you can find us at Skinner.fm. Call the voicemail line at 206-338-2792 or email us text or mp3s to Skinner and Skinner.fm. Jessica made his vocal talents and musical stylists can be found at Matunes.com. Popenax's artistic work and general face can be located at a popenax feathers at workrest.com. The entire run of flashbulb can be found at flashbulb.com or via the search bar at iTunes. 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