Hello, and welcome to FlashCast episode twenty-one – prepare yourself for the Rapture, stickers, flashers, The Final Pilgrimage and tip jars.
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[music] Hello and welcome to Flashcast episode 21. Prepare yourself for more flashers, Bell's Palsy, PRB, the Crumble, Godfather Death, and Oz. [music] Tonight we have myself, Opopax, Artistic Alchemist, Jessica Bae, Yulu, AudioChammer, and JRD. Hello. Word Muddler. What's a Muddler? It's not a word molester, which is what I first read. Which would have been just as bad, really. As a Muddler. I would rather muddle the molest person. I can't see it. Muddling is what? Just messing things up, running them together and making a mess of them. Making them muddy. Ah, well I don't think that's true at all. I don't know if you've noticed, but at every one of these intros I've sort of been self-deprecating. No, I hadn't noticed. So by accident, the term "flashers" seemed to have stuck. Yes, people, the flashers, seem to enjoy the flashers. I wonder what that's going to mean for hits for our website. I wonder what that's going to mean at the first annual "flashers" gone. Because I'm a little worried about visiting our own convention now. What's wrong with the little nudity, man? It's natural. I happen to know that you... Well, what are you going to say? I don't even know what you're referring to. I make sure everybody signs a waiver before I get nude. That's my comfort with public nudity. Yeah, but they can't have their camera. That you will be nude in public, they just can't record it. Yeah, that doesn't sound like you. I just happen to know that you had a childhood experience with a flasher and I don't think you actually found it all that funny. Yeah, yep, it did. No, but he was part of the... Going back to "molusters." No, there was no... No, there was no "molesting." But it wasn't flashing to be funny. It was flashing for fun, like for... I think you have mistaken what the difference is. A flasher is never intended to be fun. A streaker is intended to be hilarious. Yes, it's like that heavy breathing guy with a robe. Aqua lung. Yes. Yes, well thank you. Yeah, now I haven't learned something about the difference between streakers and flashers. That's why people come here for the show. But I think it is kind of cool, like the creepy... Well, maybe not the naked part, but you know... It sounds more appropriate, the flasher, than it does, the streaker. Now, on the other hand, we could call everybody "pulpers" and pull in a bunch of orange squeezing. Yeah. Or paper making. True. Yeah, that's true. That doesn't sound as funny as flashers. I can understand why they've... Paper making is a beautiful art. Paper, yes, it's a lost art. That depends who you ask. Finally got to see "Inception." Finally. I had my hopes up for the best thing that came along. In a really, really long time. But I found it slightly confusing. It was overall pretty good. It was good. I didn't really find it too confusing. I found it kind of... I don't mean to say it was... Do you think the end got a little fuzzy? Oh, I think there was some hand waving at the end. And I don't think that the entire concept really maybe holds up in time, like as well as I would hope it would. It's a little bit nonsensical that you're in a dream and then you go into another dream and time becomes even faster. I would buy that they could go into a dream within a dream, but it would really just be that they were dreaming they were in a dream, if you follow them. But I do not see them actually going to sleep within their dream and then somehow having their brain capacity amplified. I love the concept. I love the whole idea. Oh, wonderful. Building your own worlds. Being an architect of that. But there were things that just weren't necessarily... Yeah, all the people in your brain just start staring at something that's not your brain that there's this initial... Like there's this subconscious ability to know when someone else is in your dream. Because that was a little weird. I don't mean to be a jerk, but quite often in my dreams, people aren't actually all that nice to me and they're really not trying to be... Yeah, they're not trying to protect you from outside influences. Anyway, but it was a good movie. It was just not as good as I think the hype had made me believe it was going to be. And it was so... The creepy bits of everyone turning and staring and hoping that they could get through it. But I want it to make sense. Well, it made sense. There were parts near the end where the concept started getting soggy and it was just a little overplayed. I think it would have been a better film at two hours maybe. And just a little less... Trimmed. Yeah, a little simpler. The less action scenes of a van on a bridge. Yeah, because for example, it was odd that the guy gets shot and then he goes into another dream and it's not going to be that much of a problem, except it does become a problem. It does become a problem. Because he's sedated. I did like the wife bit where she would come in because he made... Well, we're giving too much away, I think. Well, I thought everyone in the world saw this and it was just us. No, I believe that we're probably not the only ones. Oh, that's pretty naive of me. Sorry, flashers. That's it. That's all the inception you get. Guess what? What? Mail time. Dingle dingle. So we got a little bit of right-in mail from Nutty of the Nutty Bites podcast. Hello Nutty. You know, there was a moment there when you said right-in mail that I thought somebody had sent us a letter and I was so impressed. Oh, yeah, first person to send us... Well, there's a problem because we'd have to give it our address. I was going to say first person to send us actual physical mail gets. Yeah, we should invest in like a mail... What do they call those mail express or whatever? A P.O. Box. A P.O. Box. What's an appeal box? Well, that's for Don Andru fans out there. It's in the P.O. Box. Anyway, two things from Nutty. One, she finally got to listen to the last podcast. To the last podcast, I mean specifically. 20, yep. And she says that there's a fantastic book called The Willowbrook Wars because we were discussing the film Cropsey and in Cropsey they discussed the Willowbrook mental school for the mentally something something. Mm-hmm. Yes. And apparently it wasn't just like Geraldo showed up with a camera. There they are. Geraldo. Really rare. She said reveal. Yeah, I recall. Yeah, okay. Good times. Good times. Well, this way I looked at me. It wasn't just like Geraldo showed up at the camera and everything was fixed. There was apparently quite a bit of back and forth about getting this institute closed. There was a lot of conflict and it just was not a smooth process. So there's a book called, like I said, The Willowbrook Wars. I believe the author is Sheila Rothman. Very cool. Um, I have ordered it from L. Amazon. Oh, so have you? It should be here hopefully shortly. That would be really awesome because usually with um like uh tv documentaries or things like that. Um, like I'm sure it was in depth enough, the Geraldo stuff but you only have so much time. You catch such a brief glimpse, yeah. Yeah, so books that would be fantastic. Just from what I've read from the sort of synopsis on the website, it sounded like this was back and forth of like a year or so. Wow. It's, it's quite a situation. Oh, it's a sad story but it's stuff you have to know. It's like all the Auschwitz documentaries I've watched this week or it was a series. I was just gonna say we should start a book club and this could be our first book but then you started comparing it to Auschwitz. Yeah, maybe not. And it's not entirely, it's a very interesting topic but I don't know that it's entirely pulpy. If we were to start a book club, I think we'd probably have to aim for something a little, a little lighter and maybe with more punching. A little lighter. People call in and they're weeping. Yeah, it was the worst thing I ever imagined. But Nutty also mentioned that her, so okay, I did some research immediately after, if you recall in the last podcast, Nutty was telling us about her mother-in-law and how her mother-in-law as a child had suffered from a cold wind in the night as it were and her half of her face had frozen and she had had issues regarding that. A friend of mine, a personal friend of mine, Nacho, shall we say, actually wrote me in and mentioned that his mother had suffered the same thing when she was a girl and it's called Bell's Palsy. It's semi-regular like it happens fairly commonly and from my reading, generally you don't do anything about it. You just kind of wait for it to stop and they think it might have something to do with some sort of nerve issue. They're not really sure they haven't, as far as I can tell, nailed it down and it may be actually a number of different factors or... Well, a number of illnesses sort of wrapped up into this one umbrella, but they're not really sure. Huh, I like this. Is it that not enough people have suffered it? They haven't had the research money or is it really weird or? Well, I don't know. I think it's fairly uncommon. Oh, I thought you said you researched this. Oh... Haha, I think it's fairly uncommon, but the thing is that it's such a, like it's relatively passing, I don't think it's fatal. It just sort of goes away, so there's probably been some research. I'm sure if it didn't go away, they would, you know, worry about it more, right? So I'll leave anyway in the notes. I'll leave the link to the Wikipedia article, if anybody wants to check it out. It's kind of interesting. Cure that. Yeah, get on that. Get on that. Get on that. So... You're not sure about that, that's looking, eh? Yeah, get on that flashes. That's how you... That's brilliant. That's brilliant. Yeah, brilliantly going to get us arrested. Well, it's not going to, we're just tossing around. Yeah, we're just throwing ideas out there. Yeah, we're just tossing it. Ingrid also wrote in. Fantastic period. Thank you. She, if you recall in the last episode, since we're discussing old episode business, last episode, her Viennese fairytale. Ruben Legend, however you want to term it. Northern Tower of St. Stephen. Yeah, the Northern Tower. The North Tower. Yeah, it was never, never finished. Now, I'm going to read what she wrote in. She did a little bit of research on our behalf, which I really appreciate. Thank you. I'm going to read it, but I apologize if I mess up any of the names. It's a fact that Hans Pukesbaum was one of the architects of St. Stephen's. He died in 1454 and then she quotes a site that I'll put in the link or in the show notes. The workshop was directed by Hans Pukesbaum, probably between 1439 and 1454. In 1444, the plans for the Northern Tower were made, but the foundations were laid on in 1450. After another break, the construction was ruined in 1467 by Lauren's spending. Pukesbaum's successor. The church then became a bishopric cathedral, which I just, I believe just means like it's a. Sorry if I'm messing up this concept, but it's like a church rubbish. The building of the tower ceased in 1511. And then on another site, Wikipedia, it basically just clarifies that when the cathedral works East in 1511, they disengaged working on the tower and then another. They did everything else, but that. Yeah, and there's another piece she got from a third site, which I will also link. Economic troubles at the end of the middle age, the approaching danger of the Turks, the siege of Vienna in 1529, and finally religious developments, specifically the Reformation, were the very unspectacular reasons for the stop. And of course, with the end of the middle age, the architectural style changed from Gothic to Renaissance. Did they just didn't bother for a number of reasons? Well, yeah, and then they would have. Oh, no, sorry, my bad. That was actually Ingrid's summary. That was her sort of distilling it all for me. During the research, I stumbled upon these little videos, which I will also link because they are fantastic. Awesome. One's of the north tower and then one's of the. Cool, thank you very much, Ingrid, for all that. Yes, that is fantastic. Great little bit of information, a little backstory. So I've decided. Listen, guys, listen, flashes. You're taking us to Vienna. If there is an apocalypse, if the rapture does show up, we all meet at St. Stephen's. That's where we get together. It's been there a long time. We start our street gang. Who are you? I'm thinking of our outfits already. I can't hear it. And you did it. Exactly. I'll go get my vest. Yeah, we'll have leather vests. Yep. Done. Done and done. Okay. And we'll have our horde of flashers. Awesome. So, uh. Stamped it. Yes. Ingrid was very kind in sending in another Viennese legend. Thank you. She's a little concerned about the grammar, but I read it over. I haven't actually had a chance to listen to it. I'm doing it live now, but. I read, because she always sends a transcript, which I feel like I should do something with. Maybe I'll start putting them in the wiki. Oh yeah, that'd be nice. Because it's sad to see them go to waste. They're very nicely written and done so. Anyway, here it is. Here's the next Viennese legend. Godfather death. Once upon a time, a boy we were named Paul Ursenbeck searched for Godfather for his 12th child. He asked every relative and every acquaintance, but no one was wealthy enough to take the responsibility for the sponsorship. On his way back home, he had to walk through a piece of forest. His sorrows let him breathe heavily. And with a sigh, he spoke out loud. Oh, I wish I could die. That moment he felt an ice-cold hand on his shoulder. He turned around and saw a tall, spindly figure. I am death. You called me. What can I do for you? Suddenly the weaver was more interested in staying alive than in dying, but respectfully he had told the grim reaper about his trouble. Let me be Godfather for your child. My gristening present is neither gold nor silver, but I will confide you a secret that you can use for you. There we were thought. Better Godfather without gift and no Godfather, and so he agreed. After the ceremony, the black suited sponsor took the weaver aside. The secret I am telling you now is a chance for you to become famous and rich. Whenever a person is critically ill, I am there. Of course no one can see me. When I stand at the foot, a person will recover. But when I stand at the head, the person must die. Now you have the gift to see me. And with this ability, you can predict if a patient will glyph or die. Use this gift thoughtfully. This was in fact the precious secret, and soon the poor man had the chance to use it. By and by the poor weaver became a well-known and wealthy doctor, but the richer he was, the greedier he became. One day he was called to the Emperor's Treasurer, Wilhelm Graf Augersberg. He saw death standing at the illman's head, and so he said, "I am so sorry." His excellency will die. A fortune was offered to him to try to heal this man. The temptation was too big, and so the doctor couldn't resist. For a moment he thought what he could do. Then he ordered four strong men, and told them to turn the bed around. Now death stood at the foot, and so Graf Augersberg survived. Wasn't back looked at death, and he saw fur in his eyes. With a very bad feeling the doctor took the money and hurried home. Suddenly death stood beside him. What have you done? Instead of the man's life you've just solved, I have to take yours now. The doctor fell on his knees, have mercy, but death had no mercy. The next morning wasnback's dead body was found. He left an immense fortune, and was buried at the cemetery of St Stephen. That was fantastic, thank you so much, Engrid. That was so great. I've actually heard that story before, but slightly varied. Yeah, it's very interesting. We have a folktale book. What's the title of it, do you recall? Like legends in folklore or something like that. Yeah, but it's told slightly differently. There are certain aspects that are different. Yeah, it was fantastic. I really enjoyed that reading. Engrid, do you have a great voice I've mentioned before? I just can't, it's so nice to have your voice here, the little one. Not that long ago. Mr. Two. Yeah, the two-year-old loved it. I love the sort of clever and simple trick it involves, and the tie into St. Stephen's AKA apocalypse HQ. That's right. Well, I mean, there was no tie in to St. Stephen's and the one that I heard, and the variation was like a woman as opposed to a man. Right, it was Godmother. Yeah, and it was a longer version of the story too, but I like this one. Yeah, I like the- And I loved the telling of Engrid, it was great. What have you done? Yeah, that was so great. So creepy, but death had no mercy. So matter of fact. Also death, apparently kind of lazy. Well, death can be like that. I don't think you should say things about death. Make it fun of death. My favorite death was the meaning of life, Money Python's death. I don't remember him. I am death. Yes, well the thing is, we've got some people from America for dinner tonight. Who is he, darling? Is it Mr. Death or something? He's come about the reaping? I don't think we need any at the moment. Anyway, thank you so much, Engrid. Yes, thank you again. It must take a lot of effort to get all that ready for us, and I appreciate it. Yeah, I can't imagine how much time that must be absorbing on your part, and it's certainly appreciated. Especially, you know, like, well, I only speak the one language. It popes up to three, right? Come see kimsa. Yeah, seven beer. Spanish and French answer your question. She's getting all embarrassed now. I'm fluent in Furt, though. In most Furt. Yeah. Come on, bring us back up there, Charity. Hey, Flashcast, it's three data fish. A couple of points of interest this week. One, you may have heard this, actually, but M.I.B.3 is in production. I heard. Which, like I said, last time sci-fi has a lot to do with pulp, so figured pulpy movie. Yep, for reels. I think, certainly, M.I.B. does, both in the sort of pulp sense and that weird government agency sense, because that definitely figures heavily in pulp, too. Those, you know, black jacket. Yeah, it's very easy. Yeah, it's very easy, so. And the first two were pretty good, but you may have heard of it because of Will Smith's trailer, which is apparently blocking off a lot of New York traffic, apparently because he needs like a whole freaking gym. I don't know. The other thing is, and I don't, I've, I don't know, I think you may have talked this in a previous Flashcast, but I wasn't sure, so I decided to bring it up anyway. There is a prequel to the Wizard of Oz being made called the Great, Oz, the Great and Powerful, I believe. I have heard this. My lacunas is in it and a couple of big new actresses, and I wish I could tell you more, but I'm kind of drowned around because it's so nice, out. He's driving. I thought that was pretty exciting. Hope you guys have a good day. Mr. Smith. I'm not creeped out. I am disappointed. I'm sure he's a very safe flasher. Yeah, yeah, you can donate his behavior. Okay, whatever. Hey, how's your theme song going? Oh, um. Okay, three, they fish. That's the guy. I hope that's all I got. Yeah, I was going to try to rhyme something, but we had some discussions on what we would have there, and I go, yeah, I was, I don't even want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it. It's amazing how much both film-wise and literature-wise, the Auss series affects sort of the latter half of 20th century American fiction. I don't think people realize just how large that story sort of Auss specifically, the first one, just kind of affected people, but... I mean, like how it's seeped into other fiction, like how it's affected. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, you said end-movie-making as well, right? Do you think because it had so many different elements, like it had so much like adventure and mystery, like do you think is it went farther than anything else? Yeah, I think it was the sense of whimsy. I think it was the adventure aspect, the good and evilness, while though that's fairly standard to fiction. But also just the... Oh, man, it's tough to put a finger on the gusto and the whimsy. Yeah, like it was a film over world, like nobody really had gone to an extent. Yeah, but it's also like really getting to the heart of the hero quest and the companionship sort of aspect and there's a lot there that really ranged a little, affected a lot of works. Anyway, fantastic heads up, both films. I honestly am maybe not that excited about MIB3. I'm gonna see it, but two sort of less than cold. It'll have some cool things to see. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sure visually it'll be a treat and I'll watch it one time, but I'm not sure that I'll... I don't really know if it's gonna say anything really important. Yeah, well, it doesn't have to as long as it's good. Yeah, I'm sure that. I mean, we brought a pulp over here, but we're always trying to say something, right? I don't suppose... Well, you are. I just try to make you sound good, which is easy. Hello, Flashcast crew, Joe. And Linda. From Colorado. Hey! How's it going, eh? That was me channeling, Bob and Doug McKenzie. Still trying to get a rise out of you with my bad stereotypes of Canada. Okay, I just need to mention, I doubt our American friends are really aware of this. Canadian content laws on the television require Canadian stations to play a certain amount of Canadian content. Oh, God, it's horrible. Um, so we have our version of comedy... What is it? Comedy Central, right? Down in Wisconsin? Yeah, it's true. We have the Comedy Network, which basically is just a bunch of Comedy Central content with the throw-in of sctv. That's all it is. It's like four hours a day of sctv. Yep. And then the rest of the day is like the Daily Show and Reno 911. Do you have any, um, original Canadian programming? No, I want to see new kids on the block, but it's so wrong. Kids in the hall. Oh, they do, they have, they have returned to playing kids in the hall. They used to do a lot of kids in the hall. If you haven't seen it, you should, because I know most of you listeners are actually Americans, so check that out. Check that out. I'm sure most... Well, maybe not the younger ones, but I'm sure a lot of Americans are aware of kids in the hall. And our A is much more like A. A? It's not like A, you know, like... It's like the French they know. A? A? Well... Yeah? There's one for you. Well... Yeah, well, you're getting in French here. I work big fans of Bob and Doug in high school. Oh, good. Feel free to tell me to take off, you hoser. Oh, was there? On serious stuff. I don't even know the end of this week's Mulligan Tale, was really wondering how you would tie the two murders together. Well done. Also went back and re-listened to deliberation. Comparing Grumpy to Aggie the Sower made me think of the Monty Python line, paraphrased. They got better. Very nice, very nice. But I mean, yeah, he's gonna mention in a second that he's hoping we're gonna return to that universe. No. I think that all the flash bulb, again, all the flash bulb taking place in the same universe, those things are happening concurrent. Now, it may not be obvious, but maybe there's a certain apocalypse that we've mentioned in the past, that Aggie the Sower takes place after. And at some point, I was thinking I may want to derive a chronology that would maybe clarify some of these things. On the wiki. On the wiki would be a good place for it. But, I don't know if I'm willing to divulge that much yet, because there's some things that I leave ambiguous on purpose. Anyway. Maybe just to have it for your own reference would be a good idea. Well, I always have, except for maybe with a mulligan tail, where sometimes I just, I think he's doing whatever. It's a Tuesday. Yeah, but everything else generally, I have an idea of where it takes place and when it takes place. A lot of positive feedback about this mulligan three-parter. I'm really pleased with that. I like getting positive feedback. Well, I don't, yes. Everyone tell me how awesome I am. No, I mean that- I like it when you do that. I felt like this mulligan series was what I've been trying to aim for in a mulligan three-parter for a while now, and haven't necessarily nailed down. Just the feeling, the progress of- Not well like being nailed down. The progress of the arc, just the way that it played out and the amount of content and speed that I divulged, I felt really was a little smoother than maybe previous iterations. And I find myself falling deeply into Star Wars plotting, and it's not on purpose. It's an accident. And then hun and the wiggly. Who's looking the story? Somebody cussed. Anyway, I'm gonna bleep that out. No, it's the first one is semi-self-contained. It does leave implications for further episodes, but it does have a bit of an arc to itself. And then the second one is all Empire-style, where it's like, screw you guys, I'm not giving you any closure. How do you like that? And then the third one- Is this satisfying? Is the big, you know, climax with the Ewoks and the singing? Yeah, you always need some cute. You need a kid there. Can we pause this for a second? I'd love for you to revisit this world of the future. We'll do. Final point of flasher business in my last message, forgot to throw props to Collective Detective. Really loved the concept and the stories have been solid. On to other business, you asked me about my commute. I live in Aurora and work in Boulder. I drive 43 miles, mostly highway. There's some nice scenery on the way, but traffic is bad and I usually live in the dark. Also, I have less time to read, so I find podcasts help fill the void a bit. If I'm not driving, I still prefer to read over listen. As Jerry D. alluded, Boulder, where I work, was the spot mother Abigail gathered the good in the stand. Really liked that book. Colorado's typically thought of as a conservative state, but Boulder is definitely a liberal place, giving it the nickname, the PRB. That's the People's Republic of Boulder. Nice. I think that's a fantastic nickname. We'll find that hilarious. We'll continue with his comment in a moment, but he included a picture of his commute, which he may mention in a second. And well, not of his commute. I mean, it was an area and it's fantastic. It's beautiful. Wow. So it's nice, but busy. 43 miles. Would that be roughly like 80 kilometers? Be like an Adler. Let me do my math. It would be a boot. Let's see here. I believe it would actually be closer to maybe 80. Well, I said 80. Oh, is that sorry? I don't mean 80. I mean, I could be wrong. I thought it was roughly double. Let me do math on the air. It'll be fun. Ta-da. No, I was absolutely wrong. It was 64k. Okay. Well, and so we're all wrong. And so how fast do you get to drive? Oh, man, these are ridiculous questions, but these are a need to know. I'm really interested to see that picture. And I'm glad that you get to work in a liberal town. Because that's the place to be. Is in liberal town. Yeah, I wonder. Okay, hold on. Just a moment here. It's not altogether inaccurate, but it's a great place. I work for a great software company there with some very talented people. I've attached a pick of the view from our office. Adding all this stuff up and weighing against the commute, I'll quote Chief Dan George from The Outlaw Josie Whales. I'll endeavor to persevere. Anticipating the question, why don't you move? I'll answer. Our granddaughter, who is almost five, lives a few minutes away. Work is great, but come on, priorities. Finally, I have to address the reticence professed by a Pope in Acts and Jessica May regarding soliciting of funds for your work. I'm a free market libertarian. And while I can't honestly say I believe in the fringy rules of acquisition in their entirety, profit motive is never a bad thing as long as it is accompanied by honest work. I compare the great things going on with Creative Commons podcasts such as yours with the patronages of the Renaissance. Keep in mind, you're not telling folks they can't listen if they don't donate. You're saying, hey, if you find value in this, please help us keep it going. A lot of podcasts say, send money if you can, spread word if you can't, but regardless, enjoy. In my mind, that is a very honorable message. That is a good news. As a consumer, when I get value out of someone's work, I feel some guilt if I'm unable to support the people who make my life better. You fall into that category. Now you have to be gushing, I better go. Take care. Joe from Colorado. From PBR. Yeah, yeah, man, that's what I know. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It was PBRB. PBR Paps Blue Ribbon. When it was great that you were geeky, that really was, that really was a nice compliment. That's a compliment around this household. Yeah, I was poked for that, but it really is a nice thing when I say that to you. I feel so fancy. So I should. Compared to the renaissance and patrons. I love, I'm a lady. Thank you. No, I think that was super nice. I think his philosophy is absolutely correct. I try to support those that I can. And for real, I really appreciate that. So I should update the tip jar thing is on its way. I'm just getting PayPal all sorted out. And then it'll keep that comment around and just listen to it every morning. Yeah, I'll tell you what's in a while there. Pick it up a little. Anyway, so the tip jar will be up on the site sometime in the next week or so. I have started the process and it's just a PayPal shuffle around thing. Wow, can we use that clip as like an answering machine? That's, no, listen, every. You light up my life. We do like a PBS Fun Drive. We'll just play that. Over and over and over again. Yeah, everyone will be sold. They'll be gushing at the end too. They'll be like, oh, Joe from Colorado. PRB. I love you. But PPM. Joe in the Colorado. I don't know. It's such a ring. Yeah, Joe from Colorado. Absolutely. Yeah, but I think of, you know, mountains and beauty and streams. We can't forget Linda either. That was super nice to hear. That's always nice to have the drop in. Yeah, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yeah, nice to meet you. Flashers. Anyway. That's ditty flashing. It does sound like an insult a little bit. But we're lashes. Only whirl out. It's so true. But we need it with love. Yeah, we're in no way in tending to be insulting. Yeah, no, you're not going to rock from a bus. From a flash or either that doesn't sound. That just goes downhill. I'm not going to read. OK, so that marks the end of mailbag. Big thanks to everybody. Big thanks to Joe and Linda. Big thanks to Ingrid. Three day fish. Absolutely. Fresh fish. Is that what we're going to call his? Yes. I like that. Fresh fish? Yes. Do you know what that gives me an idea? Well, we're writing a jingle. Are you going to make a logo for fresh fish? Maybe. That would be cool because then maybe I'll start including his recommendations and heads up in the, like I'll give him a little more note space. He should have a rating system. We really, I really should move these flash cast notes over to the Wikipedia or to the wiki. I mean, now three day fish also mentioned to us. He's doing a research project at school regarding pulp. That is pretty exciting. Yeah, he's got a little wiki setup. Well, I shouldn't say wiki. It's not like he hasn't. He's been working at it quite a bit. Wikia, I'll leave the link in the show notes, but it's weird, amazing, startling, true stories and art wiki, dot wikia dot com slash wiki slash, etc, etc. It's pretty great. He's got a lot of covers and info in there. Very cool. Yeah. So I think he mentioned in his mail to us that when he first started listening to flash pulp, he wasn't entirely sure about the concept of pulp in general. And he feels like the wiki may provide some context. And I think it does. It's great work. So many, many thanks to you, Mr. Fish. Yes. Thank you. And many thanks to Joe and Linda and many thanks to Ingrid. And many thanks to Nadi and Nacho. Flashers all. Okay. I think it's time for... Back through flash. So I've already discussed Mulligan a little bit earlier. There was a minor, minor bit of hubbub about the first episode of the week. Part one of the crumble. Because there was some naughtyness. Yes, that's correct. And not everybody liked hearing about... Baby oil? Yeah. Implication. Did you have complaints about the baby oil? How did you not hear this? Yes, I got a short but sharp letter. I heard that somebody was angry about you for talking about the history of the Nazis. Oh no, that's a different thing. But I had not heard that there was complaining about baby oil and skype shenanigans. Who? Of course. Who said this? Where do they live? Flasher unknown. Actually, they're probably not a flasher. Yeah. They're not allowed to be a flasher. Stamp it. You can't end a little baby oil. You don't belong here. But I got a lot of... Literally going to get worse. I got a lot of pause and feedback about, you know. But what did the complainers say? We've always, we've always said... Oh, it was just, it wasn't really anything. Whatever, it was just... Then it was too saucy. Over the line. Huh. Sorry, over the line listener. We've always, don't get a rowdy on them. They're probably not even listening. Fio, lo, lo, lo. That's funny that you didn't even, anyway. You know that, but if I did, I'd be a little less angry now for the show. Geez, thanks guys. Because she's thinking about my emotions, about people's comments to you. We all have to make it up to Jessica Mason. Yeah. I've always said, I've always said the show is intended to be PG-13. That's always the line of toad. We bleep our cusses and we... We don't bleep our baby oil. Did you know, I did some... We still want to be in reality. And the reality is, in the health relationship. For your part, from each other. That's a perfectly normal and natural thing to do. And that's our stance on it. If anything, I'm promoting the sanctity of marriage. Exactly. They're keeping it fresh from far away. Did you know that in a PG-13, you're allowed to drop a 1F bomb? That's f*cked. No, you're gonna have to bleep that. I'm good at it. This is not a PG film. Apparently, you can only say it in a context that you're angry, but you can't be using it as sort of implying the act. Yes, yes, yes. So it can't be, like, let's... No, yeah, no, it can't be... I want to put my penis into your vagina. It can only be... Well, it can't be. I want to put my penis into your vagina. But not, not. That may get you adult situation flagged. Good point. By the way, he gets CC. Never mind. Never mind. Penis to penis. Me and the Netflix, man. All it is is documentaries. I know. There's a good one there. Yes, I don't like the FCC. Yeah, no kidding. But I want to be Amish. Let's just tell up with arbitrary things now. I want to be a tree. I know, I watched the documentary today. I don't know what it was called or anything. It was actually called I want to be on. Listen... Well, you know, it's like Amish people of preservation. That's what it was called. The FCC has done some positive work in the world. Wait, the Amish. But the truth is... I swing more towards Carlin and his feelings about words. Yes, agreed. But on the other hand, I understand that maybe there's a line and people want to make sure it's attended to. I feel voluntary rating is a little more efficient. I just, frankly, it's my feeling. And I know that I'm just whatever that a lot of the jobs that is ascribed to the MPAA and to the FCC is really what a parent should be doing. But on the other hand, on the other other hand, there are kind of a lot of bad parents out there. And I don't necessarily want their children coming out damaged because they're terrible at their job. You can rule everyone over the lowest common denominator over this stupid guy. And that's what we do around here. Kind of, I feel over regulated. But I guess you do have to look out for the slow ones. For the dim, the less speedy in the pack. Exactly. Less marbles and such. Like the naughties who eat me on me. Yeah, I'm a Zionist. Anyway, so, I mean, I was a little bit concerned, honestly, when somebody says something about not liking the show, it does kind of get me for a second. For real. I did get a lot of positive feedback from people. You all love us, right? Come on, baby. I didn't mean it. We will save baby oil again when you come back to us, baby. I get the same song you like I'm preaching. Okay. I get an amen. No, apparently I can't get an amen. Not even one amen. I need some audio comments with strictly amen. I need some people to amen with me brothers and sisters. So, I think this might be a good time to move into the audio desk. Amen, brother. The audio is an accident of hope. So, it was my intention to finish a bumper this week, and I didn't. I did some brainstorming while vacuuming up some water that's constantly coming through the window that we just got replaced in our basement. Yes, there's a bit of a home issue. We just finished work in the basement. Just put everything back in its place. It looked beautiful. And apparently the first dude in the process mucked it up. So, I've been sucking up water for lots of time. So, I've been brainstorming about ideas for Mr. Fish's theme song. And we have a friend of ours, Peter, who's done a really fantastic jingle. You know, so good. They've also done some fantastic work for us, and we're working on that too. So, yeah, look forward to that. I believe they're going to be done in probably the next week or something, right? They've done such a wonderful job, and it's going to be so easy for me to finish it up. But, you know, it's just time. It's just time. So, very exciting. Yeah, floating in the basement. Yeah, but lots of awesome stuff coming up in the near future. But not out of our drains. And if you do want a copy of Ingrid's bumper, creepy bumper for the show, or if you want us to put your show's bumper on our show, then get in contact with us. Yeah, you can actually find Ingrid's fantastic creepy bumper up on the site right now. Oh, cool. If you go to the About Flashpulp section at flashpulp.com, there's a drop down. I believe it's called Promos. Very nice. Clicky clicky, and there you go. Very cool. Okay. The art of narration. Hey, so, uh, we started that new Facebook page for SkinnerCo. SkinnerCo is a, for realsies page now. Um, does everybody know what SkinnerCo is? Do you want to fill them in, Charity? I don't know if everybody knows. I think a pope can probably. Well, it's more of a blog thing. Oh, it is a flashpulp thing, but anybody who follows Jayardee on his blog or sees anything on his Twitter feed or his Facebook will see that he's constantly updating the status of, constantly broadcasting to all our SkinnerCo employees, various little messages and, yes, mandates throughout the day. And they're all very amusing. It's, it's, it's, it's highly amusing. You can find links to the SkinnerCo page at, uh, at flashpulp. If you scroll down, it's under the, about music. You've got some awesome inspirations. Yeah. If you want to go to any one of our Facebook profiles for, yeah, our employers, uh, links as well. But, uh, yeah, there's, uh, just fiddling about and talking to Jessica May and she suggested, uh, maybe an old timey radio. Well, she was thinking more, yeah. Yeah, I was thinking more of like a CB transmitter. Yeah, like in 1980s, you know, there's 80s movies with, uh, you know, kids in high schools and somebody was making an announcement and it was like this boxy looking microphone with like two buttons on it. With the stand. Like, yeah, like you were making an answer to the last beer. But you had actually looked up some different pictures and lots of inspiration. I actually ended up going with a broadcast mic. Yeah. And I like it. It's a fantastic job. It's an old timey. Oh, yeah. I was, I was moving impressed. I'm hoping that we can maybe take it a step further and maybe turn it into the new flashpulp logo. I've always felt like the flashpulp logo we had in place was somewhat temporary. Yeah. I remember the night that you made it. It was like big, big boop. Well, maybe even like, I like to, if we get a really awesome, like, uh, flashcast picture or something, so I knew I like to put it up on the, for the flashpulp picture for a little while on Facebook. We can do that. Like, stick it there for a while and see how it goes. But it's really nice. You've done it. Oh, thank you. A marvelous job. Um, oh, I, I encourage you to go to the page and to become friends with a, uh, friends with us. We watch regularly to see everyone here. Jessica may obsesses specifically over how many. I like the flashpulp page. I really do. But the numbers going up and down, how many people like us. It really, really affects me. Sometimes we stay around a certain number for a long time, and I wonder what's going on and why don't you love me, but... Maker, stop hurting us. I'll get over it someday sometime. No, I won't really, but I want you to feel optimistic. We forgot to discuss an audacity of hope. The, um, I, I really enjoyed your TV work in the second episode. I would love, I would love for somebody to figure out what it is that I was recording. Because at first, we were thinking of doing like just some news, but I still, what I was watching, because I was really interested. And I thought, I thought if I had a certain distance away, like, if someone were to have a conversation in a room, where would they be from the TV? I didn't want to have it so close and, and, you know, like just produce the volume, so somebody could turn it up. Like, I wanted it to have that sort of, you know, it's a while away from me. What are you going to do if somebody figures it in? Uh, they want a sticker because we're getting stickers. There you go. And so far, the list of people I owe stickers to are Ingrid for catching me in a smiley face and Barry for finding a technical issue with an episode I had posted. So those are your conditions for, uh, at this moment, achieving a sticker. You can either figure out the, what show Jessica May was watching, or you can catch me in using an emoticon, because I'm supposed to be weaning myself off of that. And I think I've been doing a much better job, especially since Ingrid caught me. And, uh, yeah, if you see a technical problem, if you see any sort of errors on the site, let me know. And they're generally, they're generally not there. So you're going to have to look pretty hard because Charity is obsessive about that. So, I mean, in a good way. Anything else you wanted to add to loop back to the art of narration? Yeah, I knew. I'm happy with Ingrid. Yeah, he did it. Yeah, no, it's fantastic. As usual, a huge thanks to Jim of the Relic Radio.com network. Relic Radio, you're so wonderful to us. You're so Jim at Relic Radio, eh? And, uh, I might recommend to Joe Yehoser. Oh, is that even me? Seriously. If you're looking, it's a dude who he handles hose. He is a hoseman, a hoseman. Is that like a metaphor? We're going to discuss this off the air. Baby oil, if I get this. Shh, no, that's him. When a man and a woman love each other. So, you can check out the wiki, which Jim hosts for us at flashpulp.com. Oh, yeah. And if you have any additions you want to modify on that site, please feel free to do so. It's a quick process to sign up for a user and off you go. And it would certainly be appreciated. As mentioned earlier in the episode, if you can't donate cash, which is certainly okay, then spreading the word is the next best thing. And if you're willing to go one step further than that, then editing the wiki would be fantastic. Do you think we have to pay Joe from Colorado for using that? A small royalty for using that? Uh, I'll give him a free hoser every time we, uh, I'll throw in a really bad Canadian stereotype. Every time, every time we use it for something. A little something that you don't really need. I'm trying to think, okay, no, what we'll do is we'll give him the real Canadian cliches. I'm trying to think of something, okay, a true Canadian cliche. Hipsters here aren't quite the same as they are in America, although in some of the major metropolitan areas, especially like Toronto, we do have plenty of hipsters. But the truth is that what you would think of is like a dude with a hipster mustache and the ridiculous sunglasses and the out-of-date t-shirt and maybe the messed up pants or whatever. We just call a guy from Quebec. And he's not trying to be ironic. He's not trying to be like super hip. That's just him. That's how he's been dressing since the mid-80s and he's just not changing. That Metallica shirt really is his Metallica shirt. He's going down to Club Super Sex and that's it, he's done. Yeah, that, that, uh, bullet never went away. So there you go, that's first pro tip of the day. Canada retro because we're still just hanging out there. Okay, because we're not retro at all. If you have comments, questions or suggestions, you can call us at Skinner, find us at Skinner.fm, call our voicemail line at 206-338-2792 or email us, text our MP3s to Skinner@ Skinner.fm. Jessica May's vocal talents and musical status can be found at maintunes.com. Pooping access is artistic work and general updates can be located at poopingaxfeathers.org. She always looks away like you can see her when she says it. Her shame. I hope you can feel her shame through the mic. The entire run of flashpob can be found at flashpob.com or via the search bar on iTunes. Flash gas is released under the Canadian Creative Commons attribution and commercial two-part-life lessons. 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