Hello, and welcome to FlashCast episode twenty – prepare yourself for the Rapture, stickers, flashers, The Final Pilgrimage and tip jars.
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[music] Hello, and welcome to Flashcast Episode 20. Prepare yourself for the Rapture, Stickers, Flashers, the Final Pilgrimage, and Tiptures! [music] Tonight, we have myself, oh, propanex, local interpreter, Jessica May. Hello, everyone. Audio administrator, mm-hmm, and JRD. Hello. That guy over there. [laughter] Hello. Still remaining unwraptured. Yes. We're still here. Now, it wasn't actually supposed to be the Rapture. It was the beginning of the end, correct? There was a mass of earthquake, which I think was going to co-- Wasn't it going to coordinate with a Rapture? Okay, hang on. My understanding was that the Rapture was going to be yesterday. The Rapture being like, "Oh, good people being taken to heaven." Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. And that the-- it was the beginning of the apocalypse. The beginning of the end, yes, yes, of Armageddon, not of the Rapture being that one single moment. Yeah. Okay, okay, yes, yes. I should have known that. As a Catholic, I don't think-- Well, as an un-practicing Catholic, as a former Catholic, I was never raised to deal with the Rapture. There was no ever-- there was never a mention of the Rapture. I don't think it was-- I think the most I ever heard about the Rapture was in that book, Job, a Comedy of Errors. Oh, yeah, Heinlein. Yeah, that was a really good book. I think he wrote that one after he had his brain dang-urism/stroke/whatever happened there. If I could write a book like that after bringing-urism, then I'd be laughing. It's not-- it's a good book in its way. I do find it a little winding in places. Scattered. Yes, but it's not so much that it made him dumb. It just made him different. It's in a different style and it has a different feel than the rest of the books. I liked it. And then I believe shortly after that, they managed to cure his problem. He wrote a few other books, and then they somehow they did this surgery where they expanded some sort of blood pathway, and he was like back to normal. Well, how do you like that? Yeah, it was an odd moment. I should read up on it. I hope I'm not giving people wrong information, but-- I can understand the allure of the Rapture to those people believing in it, especially because they're the ones who are taken early to some fantastical place where I left behind are all the people who didn't believe in your Jesus and who died terrible deaths. But not that part specifically, but you're on the winning side, and something amazing is going to happen. And you're like, yeah, yeah, that crop's going to happen in my lifetime. Yeah, so I can understand why people want to, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you should delude yourself to that degree. Maybe he's ill, that guy in New York who spent all this money. Oh, yeah, the fellow in New York who blew his life savings trying to post up things. Barry was mentioning that earlier. Oh, yeah. Cool guy. Well, I don't know. The verdict is out on that. If you're sick, then yeah, poor guy. I wonder how many people killed themselves yesterday because of the Rapture. Because, I mean, I know there's a statistic of people that kill themselves every day, how many people. I can't remember what the statistic is. But I wonder how many people did it yesterday because it was the Rapture that day, you know? Because of Santa Claus. My feeling is that-- Because it wouldn't be. Because the people who believe it think that Jesus is going to be the one who picks them up or they meet him in the sky or whatever a junk happens. And the people who would be afraid of the Rapture don't believe in the Rapture. But the people who were flip-flopping on killing themselves already. Suicide is a mortal sin. Yeah, I know. But if they thought that they were going to hell anyway, and it was going to be like the end of the world-- My feeling is that no one who thought they were going to hell were convinced that the Rapture was happening tomorrow. The only people convinced the Rapture was going to happen were people who were sure they were about to be Rapture-ized. Rapture-ated. Yeah. Do you think so? Oh, you can hear them. Yeah, here's-- The fire was constant. They just started selling more of them in different convenience stores around here. So never-- everyone's sending them off every hour or so. Celebrating, Vicki. Well, you were getting so annoyed by it. We're actually trying to figure out which house it was, just in case we need to make any phone calls to the policey. Yeah, it's been going on for, like, what? Two is the third day. Two long. Fair enough. Charity should know. Pre-end post- Rapture. Yes. So yeah, the Rapture didn't happen again. Good thing too. I wasn't quite ready to be brought down to Hellfire. Speaking of-- Hellfire? Apokolai. Rock and roll nurse. That's rock with an N in a roll nurse. On Twitter was mentioning-- and it made the rounds afterwards, but she was certainly the first person by far who I saw mentioning it. The CDC zombie story that came out recently? I saw that, yeah. And you notice they were using zombies as sort of a methodology of teaching basic-- Survival skills. --emergency response. Yes. And it just brought me back to what we were talking about last episode, right, where we use larger horrors, sort of a training ground for the possibilities of the future that we can't really prepare for. So maybe we call it Godzilla, and it's really terrorists, but-- Yes. --or you call it zombies, and it's really a dirty bomb. But the aftermath and how to deal with it is virtually the same. There's a lot of overlap at least. Yeah. And it's a lot more fun to teach somebody how to survive a zombie apocalypse than it does nuclear war. Too sure. Anyway, speaking of getting caught up in things to look back to the rapture, well, not really. Ingrid caught me on a point that I made in an earlier audio biography, in which I said I would send anybody a sticker who caught me using any emoticons. Uh-oh. And then she busted me in a tweet. Oh, you haven't even got the stickers made yet. Why? Can we just send her some random sticker? Does that have to be-- No, it's going to be the flashbulb sticker. Well, you have to draw them by hand. I'll draw it on a label. On a bandaid. A smile that gets on a bandaid. No, that'd be too cheap. OK, Jared, you will get on that. Yeah. Well, the idea was always the impetus to make me get out there and get the stickers made, so-- That's right. Thank you, Ingrid. You're the first. You're going to get a sticker. I already asked her on Twitter to send me her mailing address, but I'll poke her via email. And it's not because we're stalkers, I swear. Yeah. I mean, if you don't want the sticker. If you don't want the stockers, stick her. Speaking of people who follow us on Twitter and listen to the episodes, I've been pondering what to call-- you know how any popular undertaking tends to have a name for its subgroup? Deadheads, if you will? Yes. Flashpulpers, is this cool enough for you? Flashers? What do I have for the flashers? Pulpists? Pulpinators. I don't know. Pulpus sounds too much like the pulpit. Well, I thought cultists. But pulpit is just a bad cultist. A pulpit sounds like something naughty. Yeah. I was caught in public pulpit. Also, I was just go, dude. What's the name of that? My guy, Santoram. Rix Santoram. Rix Santoram, yeah. Look up Rix Santoram. So I think if anybody has any ideas, they should call in and let us know. Yeah, that'd be fantastic. Yeah, what to call our friendlies. How about we just call them all the bobs? They're wonderful fans of Flashpul that come around so often. Friends of Flashpulp? Yeah. No, they don't want something gratuitously long. Fuff. Fuff. Fops. We don't want fops. We don't need fops. No. And this is why we're asking you. Yep. You're the creative one, J.D.? So we watched a few films that I thought were worth mentioning on the Flashcast. Yeah, we generally don't get around to watching theaters. Watch American Grind House, which is not going to be everybody's cup of tea. There's a little bit of naughty bits in there, but... It's a documentary, right? It was good. Yeah, about the early underground cinema. Well, not Hello Underground, but off the studio. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty, um, pretty like rating system. Yeah, and all those rules and regulations, no? Yeah, well... There was a point where there was a turning point where film was much more regulated. It was like the '40s or something? Exploitation film being made outside of the studio systems. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Anyway, it was a good film. It was an interesting documentary. I was certainly worth the time. It's very interesting, because industries like that that have been around for so long you just figure it like that's just the way it is, that's the way it was. And it's interesting to see the way the various styles of film kind of diverged and made their own paths and how that happened. The history of it all, very cool. And the other film, the next one we watched was Cropsy, which was also a documentary. I didn't realize at first when we started watching that that it was a documentary and not like a fakey documentary. Like a Blair Witch. Yeah. I even thought about the Blair Witch. I'm like, "Oh wow, I guess it's been a while since they've done that kind of thing." Well, I think the point at which you realized it wasn't... It was after... We were watching. There was a scene with people who were physically challenged and mentally disabled, who were like black and white footage of them laying on the floor and covered in their own feces and yeah, children and older people who had the mentality of them. Yeah, because it was a school, like a school for the mentally disabled people. And the institution. Yeah. Yeah. And it was Geraldo Rivera. Yeah. It was Geraldo Rivera. It was Geraldo Rivera. It was from the French Geraldo Riviera. Yeah. She was like, "This is fake, right?" And we're like, "No, this isn't an institution filled with people who are supposed to be..." No, I don't want to give too much away about the film, but it took place on Staten Island and I'm wondering if maybe Barry has a little more to say on the topic. Well, Jaime was just horrified by the pictures that Rochelle and I was like, "What, is this scene?" And the entire film, yeah, the entire film isn't just a horror show of mentally handicapped people in their own poo. It's a much larger story about murder and urban legend. Yeah, murder and it really was like the whole institutional, the whole institution part was just basically, it was eluding or foreshadowing to his motive of why he killed. Yeah. But those images were just crazy of how people were treated back then and it was real. Well, you know, it has a larger discussion of urban legends and how things get bigger than they should be or what if, you know, the worst out there really is real? Mm-hmm. Anyway, so two good films to check out. Yes, absolutely. Anything for a certain Mr. 3-day fish? No. I'm sorry, I've been busy with things. Do do do do do do do 3-day fish. I really just mentioned it as an opportunity to make a popes thing. Hey Flashcat, 3-day fish here. I was starting to worry I wasn't going to be able to find anything to report on this week. As I was watching Pirates 4, I saw a preview for a very pulpy movie. The movie is called Real Steel and it has Hugh Jackman in it. And the premise of the movie is in the future, not like far future, but still future, boxing has become a sport where robots enter the ring as opposed to humans. And Hugh Jackman is a, I don't know what you call him actually, but he has a robot in the ring like it's busted up and he needs some help but no one's willing to loan him some money because he's not a safe bet and no one thinks he can win and then they find this not in the trash that's sparring robot, but his little kid is like, "No, I believe in it." So they fix it up and they get into the fight and it looks pretty good and it just struck me as pulpy because sci-fi really got its start in the pulp industry and so I figured it would be worth just kissing. So yeah, always listening. Oh, I love that, I love that at the end, it's so great. What did that come from? It was iTunes, sorry. I thought that was picked up by the mic because I'm keeping that. So Hugh Jackman, I'm wondering why he took this, he's been so busy doing all of these things that like, I don't know, this just seems kind of robot boxing. Yeah. What else has Hugh Jackman been busy doing? Wolverine stuff. You know, it takes a lot. I don't think the new Wolverine, the new X-Men film, first class, I don't think it has him. I think that he could pick whatever he wanted to be in and this is very interesting. I wonder if Hugh Jackman could be whatever he wants you to be. If he wants to fight robots, he can be the president of United States if he wants. If he's got the dumb shit, no, he can't, he's not an American citizen. I heard he was born in Kenya. I did check the trailer, I did check the trailer, it looks pretty interesting and I believe that 3-day fish is absolutely right, I mean science fiction and pulp have a long history together, you know, planet stories and amazing stories and stuff. I think that kind of continues on till today when you got like analog and asimovs but I realize I'm getting a little bit into the weeds here for some people but those are actually SF mags that still publish short stories regularly, like today on the shelves if you go to the right magazine store you'll actually be able to find them but their numbers are shrinking still. So I mean it'll be pulp, the next phase of pulp will certainly be online, I feel strongly about this. Anyway, thanks for heads up, I'm definitely going to keep an eye on the film. I love watching robots fight each other and I think that's pretty much all that's required. A recipe for success. Yes, thank you 3-day fish, I appreciate you calling it. And hopefully next time we'll have you theme sign. Yeah. Do do do do do do. So friend of the site, fellow podcaster Nutty of Nimlass.org and M-L-A-S-D-O-R-G, sent in a comment, which I'll play momentarily but I have exciting mentions beforehand. Okay, mention. She drew a little puffy-faced mulligan, a puffy, a puffy-headed mulligan. Aw, that's so cute. No, I haven't seen it, nobody showed me any. You actually have seen it, you just were not aware of this. I wasn't aware with this slurpee, I did see it, it was adorable. Thank you. And a puffy-headed mulligan sounds like a fish, but anyway. A mulligan puff. A mulligan puff. That sounds like a 3-day old fish cereal. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, so thank you very much, hopefully I'm just going to ask her, make sure it's cool with her that I posted up in the blog in the morning, but I'm very excited about that. I love you, great. Absolutely. I think she was a little concerned about stepping on your toes. No, I think that's awesome. I think that's fantastic, I'd love to get more fan art. Yeah, anyone who takes their own personal time and wants to spend it on Flashpult is very sweet. Absolutely. Certainly appreciate it. Mm-hmm. Now, if you changed your name and wanted to become a Popunax and only draw things that she did, well, yeah. Then I'd have to kick you. Really hard. Hi, I'm looking for the support group date and times for the Sex Attic Anonymous group. Just kidding. Hi, this is Nick Joss calling in for the Flashcast. Hi, everybody. I just had to throw in that little joke there from the old Flashcast call-ins from random people when there was a website with your number for something else. I wanted to say that, well, first off, you combined two of my feedbacks. Basically, my mom always does the whole, if you leave your face like that, it'll freeze like that kind of a thing, or if you make a face, it'll freeze like that, and she would point out people that were kind of scary-looking in public and say, say, her face, rose like that. My husband and I were told growing up was that if we had a fan blowing on us overnight, our face could freeze like that. My husband actually clarified for me because I told him about all of this, and he clarified for me. No, no, it wasn't just that his mom told him that, it's that when his mom was younger, she actually paralyzed half of her face from an open window. If you look at pictures of her when she's younger, she's not smiling because she can't smile on half of her face. Anyway, I thought that was really interesting. It ties in with your urban legend about fans, but apparently there's some truth to it. I always thought my mom was crazy. Also, I hope that the birthday celebration week was awesome, and you shouldn't feel bad about celebrating your birthday for a whole week because I do the same thing, and everybody I know whenever it's their birthday, I wish them a happy fill-in-the-blank day, so for my birthday it would be a happy, nutty day, and celebrate it like it's a national holiday because you should. It's a day of partying, and I think, look, there's a million, there's a million people out there in the world that are going to give you a hard time, so you might as well celebrate and enjoy when you can, and everybody gets one day a year that they get to be completely selfish and celebrate themselves, so let's do that. Celebrate ourselves. Alright, listening, enjoying, and keep up the good work. I'm really getting into Murder Plague, by the way. I've enjoyed it from the beginning, but it's just getting more and more interesting, so I'm very excited for how that's developing. I miss some Ruby departed, I feel like we need a Ruby fix soon, but, you know, those are my two favorites. Thanks. Bye. Thank you for calling, thank you also for mentioning the birthday. I was, I did have selfish points, but there was a lot of, like, sweating, working on children related projects, but otherwise it was cool. We even played music outside, just something I generally don't do because of neighbors, you know? But I did, and I didn't care. But as to the rest of her message. That was a hilarious opening, I love that opening, that was fantastic. I know. I know. A shout out to the Sex Anonymous. That was wonderful. We did actually have somebody call last night, last just last night. Yeah. I think she had sent this just like moments before, and I didn't realize that she had sent it at the time of recording, so. It was perfect timing. I don't think we'll ever forget that our first comments ever were not meant for us. That's so hallics anonymous. It was perfect. You couldn't have set it up any better than that. But yeah, maybe your mom is crazy and maybe your husband's mother is also crazy because there had to have been some medical reason that her face like, that that happened, like some mini stroke. It couldn't have been the way you can go around accusing people who can't move after they're being crazy. Oh. Okay. Like, yeah, whatever I can't. He always tells me what to do. I hope you're in Jesus fireworks. I hope you enjoyed your Ruby fix. Yeah. I had fun reading that one. It's been a while since I've done Ruby. I still have to write it out. Yes. You did realize just at the end yesterday when we were recording it, you're like, Oh, and I've got to write this out at the end. Okay. Great. Because you were also not feeling well. Yeah. I'm very sorry about. I'm very sorry about butchering your comments. That's the advantage of people calling in or sending in mp3 so that I can't mess up. Sorry I joined your two comments together and sort of mix them around. Oops. Won't we should fight them? Anyway, thanks a lot, Nutty. And we should just cut out her name when she says it. And then every time we want to mention her, we can just play the clip. Nootie. No trust. Nootchask. Fantastic people, uh, Ingrid sent in another Viennese legend, which I'm quite excited to listen to. The legend around since Stephen's missing tower. Once upon a time, they lived a young man in Vienna. His name was Hans Pooksbaum. He was a very talented architect. He was very ambitious, but not yet famous. Hans was in love with a beautiful young woman. Her name was Mary and she was the daughter of an honored and rich citizen. The time since Stephen's was still under construction. The nave and the south tower were already completed. Only the north tower, which would mirror the one on the south side, was not built yet. The city council had given my contest to transfer the work to the abliest architect, who would complete the tower in the shortest time and at the lowest cost. So it came that Hans Pooksbaum had blied for the job to build the tower. He thought, when he could get fame and honor, he could acquire the hand of his beloved Mary. Hans promised to build the power within half the time of his competitors. And so he got a job. In the beginning everything worked well, but soon some troubles appeared. The materials were delivered to lay the calculations of the construction were not exactly enough and too many days the builders had to stop their work in cause of bad weather. Hans Pooksbaum recognized that he couldn't finish the tower in the time he had promised. One evening he stood, lost in his thoughts in front of the church and looked up to the unfinished tower, suddenly a little strange-looking man in a green suit suited on his side. "Oh, what a pity!" the little man said. "Things don't look good for you, eh?" Hans Pooksbaum told him about his sorrow. "Ah, don't worry, I can help you. And with my help you can still complete the tower in time." "There's just one little thing, I ask you to do." "What is it?" "You are not allowed to mention the name of God, Mother Mary's name, or any other name of a saint, till the tower is completed. This is all I want." "Ah, that's a deal!" Hans said, although he had noticed that he had just made a pact with the devil. Since that day the north tower grew faster than ever before. Hans Pooksbaum was happy, he saw his goal near, he could finish the tower in time and finally marry his beloved bride. One beautiful day he stood high above on the scaffolding. He looked down on the square and watched the people moving, his mind, just a few more days. In that moment he discovered his bride in the crowd. Full of joy he called her name, "MARY!" Suddenly a hollow mocking laughter echoed through Vienna. As scaffolding started to sway and with an incredible noisiness the whole construction broke down and drew Hans Pooksbaum into the depth. For a few moments a gigantic green figure with a grinning face was seen. Then the people dared to remove the debris, but the daredbody of Hans Pooksbaum couldn't be found and remained disappeared. The plan to build the north tower of St. Stevens was given up that day and was never taken up again. "Very nice, thank you so much Ingrid, and I hear you having a bit of a rough weekend. I hope things look up for you, I'm sorry to hear that." "You've certainly brightened our flash casts, and your encouragement on the flashpulps is always wonderful." "I especially love the connection to St. Stevens with all these stories. I'm sorry our neighbors are just firing firecracker after firecracker at this point." "I was gonna say, we're firing off firecrackers for ya some fireworks is motivation, Ingrid. And Jaredie's closing the window, sorry about that." "Yes, but there's no way that we would be able to replicate your wonderful style of storytelling." "So, wonderful addition, thank you." "What I find extra fascinating is that because all of these stories relate to St. Stevens, especially this one, how related to known historical fact is this story. Was there a north tower being built? I meant to go look it up and I just didn't have a chance we got out and about today but." "Yeah, like is all the lore based on specific events that happened while I was built?" "Yeah, like was it built and then it collapsed or something like that?" "Anyway, I should look set up, I should include some information in that." "Yes, you should, yeah, you should have done it for the show, you're so lazy." "I'm sorry." "Never prepare." "So, thank you so much Ingrid, that was fantastic." "Yes, that was so lovely." "Ingrid blogs at dancingla.blogspot.com, we should mention." "Yes, fantastic. Poetas." "And for the final call-in, we have a new guy, fantastic fellow I've chatted a bit with on the Twitter." "Yes, you alluded to this call, but I've yet to hear it." "Well, let's fix that problem." "Okay, let us." "Hello Flashcast Crew, Joe, that's Jay McT on Twitter from Colorado, that's the accent less part of America. Longtime listener, first time caller, and by long time I mean a whole six weeks. In that time I made it through the entire Flash pulp and Flashcast bat catalog. It helps that I have a long commute. Anyway, I promised jr.d on Twitter I would send something in when I finished. So here it is. In a word, awesome. In more words, as far as the series goes, while I love them all, my faves have to be Ruby and Black Call. But the real gems for me have been the rare singles. For the longest time I would have said, "Say it ain't so" was my favorite. It was hilarious, but then along came unheard of. Which I guess we don't talk about, and I had a new favorite. This lasted for an entire 15 minutes before I listened to the pilgrimage. "Jr.D, you're setting the bar pretty high with that one, it's going to be hard to top." I really wanted to say thanks for sharing these great stories. Podcaster, the only thing that keep me sane during my commute, and I'm really glad I found this gem. With the gushing out of the way I wanted to share a few other items. "Jr.D, you are prescient. Disney has filed for a trademark on the term 'seal team six'. I wonder what that's all about. Oh, sorry, translating for Flashcast, a boot. Speaking of Canada, I found a Popenax and Jessica May's attempt at Canadian stereotypes humorous. Waffles and maple syrup. When I think of Canadian stereotypes, they usually include hockey. My son played competitively in junior high and high school, and my wife is a die-hard avalanche fan. And Rush, whom I've been following since high school, my brother and I never miss a tour. Finally, I know a couple of times you've mentioned wanting sponsors to cover your costs. I can't help you directly, but was wondering if you'd considered putting up a tip jar. PayPal accounts are easy to set up. I would gladly donate to the cause each month. I already do so with other podcasts I like, and I'd love to help Flashpulp. Thanks again for the great stories, excellent presentation, and superb production quality. By the way, I recorded this rather than called for two reasons. First, phones are sort of last year. Second, I'm the proud owner of an iPhone, which can do everything except to make a phone call. Take care. That's great. I love you, Joe, from Colorado. That is great. That was a fantastic comment. That's everything you want in a call in. Yeah. That was so like, we can just end the show right now. We're just done. So I really appreciate everything that was in there, but the tip jar idea. Wow. I can't believe you went there first. How shallow are these? My greedy capitalist ways. It was so the tip jar. He's so rubbing his... Money money. Money money money. To add to the 61 cents with me. I don't know. Would people feel pressured to tip, though? If they felt pressured, would they give me more money? No, I'm scared. Yeah. Well, I guess it's something to ponder, but that's really a thoughtful statement that we're worth money. Yeah. That's sweet. I don't know how that makes me feel like. I'd feel like we were asking people for money if we did that. Well, he seems to know about it. If we know anything about Joe, it's that he tells the truth and this seems to be the way things are going now. Joe and ask a way back. Yeah. Six weeks. I'm definitely putting the tip jar up. It'll be up by next week. It wasn't really up for any questions. Thanks, Joe. Yeah. So, wow. I found... I was really impressed. Say it ain't so, right? That was one of the first. That's a go. That's a reach back. Yeah. Yeah, because you know, I know I've discussed it before, but that one was written before Flashpulp ever even began. Yeah. That was written a while ago and published, was it not? Sort of published on 365tomorals.com. Yeah. That was one of the very first. So how long's your commute? Is it over an hour? I find anything like an hour and under kind of not too tedious. I guess if you're like just watching pavement, it's not like you're looking at cows. Yes. He's in Colorado. That sounds kind of nice. Anyways, tell us about it. What's your commute late? Isn't Colorado where Mother Abigail collected up her followers? Am I? I'm off track, sorry. You know what? I never finished reading that book and I never saw the movie. Which movie are we talking about? The Stand. Oh, The Stand. Yes. Yeah. I watched it. I think, what do you think that Disney is going to do with the Seal Team Six copyright? Oh, geez. Because they're going to do a movie. They're going to do a live action film and it's going to be a remake of what happens. Sort of like what those Taiwanese people do, but it was lots more money. Yeah. It was Mickey behind it, you know? Mickey and a submachine gun. What if they did Pirates of the Caribbean but like Seal Team Six in the style of the kind of swashbuckle and swishy and... Yeah. Or cartoon. Cartoon. The Kids Movie. Why do they take... Pixar is going to do a Seal Team Six movie. Why do they take a gun out of VT but Disney makes war movies? I don't understand. Yeah. Like when is it an okay message? I guess because it's a kids movie. What war movie is Disney made? You remember that Herbie the Love Bug movie where he goes to Nom and they get the flamethrowers all hooked up on his roof and stuff? That was crazy. That's what changed society's ideas on non-war and the band. And Volkswagen's. Yeah. Well you're talking about a company that supposedly was Toss and Lemmings Over Cliffs for... Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty rough. So yeah. New caller. Joe from Colorado. Thanks Joe from Colorado. That was nice. And in case you missed it, that's J-M-McT-M-C-T-W-E on the Twitter. Yeah. And send in comments whoever you like. You don't have to use the telephone. Yeah. It's soul last year. Frankly, I feel more comfortable recording into the iPhone's memo function and then just emailing that because you can do two or three takes and then move forward. Yeah. Once you put it there in the mailbox, like that's where it stays. There's no bringing it back and making it sound pretty. But you know, everyone is aware that if you send something, I will make you sound wonderful even if you have a little flub. It's true. I'm looking after you. I'm looking after you. Now, quick, quick trivia fact because I don't think I'm going to be able to throw this in any episode. Okay. I consider Aggie the Sower from the final pilgrimage a direct descendant of Grumpy from episode 110 deliberation. That was the one with the robot trial, right? Yep. Yep. That's right. That's how you are right now. I remember no episodes via the name it is. You know J.R.D. because you wrote it and you know, Pope, because you have this crazy memory and I don't. We discussed that. It's the one with the robot and he's on trial from Moida. Yeah. Because he had killed that lady's boyfriend, right? Or something? Gregor. Good times. Good times. Whoo. Anyway, Aggie the Sower. It was a good one. It was the final pilgrimage. So that concludes Collins for today. Yeah, that was a very satisfactory group of Collins. Yeah, thank you all very much. Yes. It's very appreciated. Hmm. Back. Boom. Watch. I'm going to keep it pretty short this week, but I'm just going to tease a little bit of what's happening next week, actually. Mulligan's three part of first time in a while. Cool. I'm super excited. Billy Winnipeg involved. Very nice. I don't want to give too much away beyond that. But I feel like this is going to be a nice solid one. I get to do a little bit more classic detective style stuff that Mulligan maybe doesn't necessarily get to do very often. I like Mulligan because there's more dialogue. I hear some people want more dialogue. And he's not going to be hanging out in a Denny's all the time this time. I really like putting Mulligan in Denny's for some reason. It's because he's a watcher. Yeah. It's just a suitable place for him. You can sit there and order a coffee and be there for three hours with the same coffee. Yeah, that's true. That's why. But nobody's going to look at you too hard because you're out of Denny's. Because they just want to put on the, what do they call it? The feeding bag and get the heck out of dodge. That conjures up gross images. The audio. Got an accident. Of hope. Wow. Oh my god. I did something this week. Cool. Awesome. So just to review, we wanted to make some bumpers for the show to give to other shows to play or to play around our show or whatever. So I sent out some shout outs to some people that we know on the internet for them to record some text for me. And then I wanted to put some other audio components with it to make a nice, tight little bumper. So I've done the first one. It's the creepy flashpulp bumper and we asked Ingrid to do the reading for us. And yeah, it's all done. And I think it sounds pretty great. Are you going to play it now? Yeah. Jared, he hasn't even heard it yet. So I want to see what he has to say. The flashpulp podcast, three to 10 minutes of fiction brought to you thrice wiki. Two hundred miles below the surface of the earth at the terminus of a series of long seethed caverns and interconnected shines under the shadow of the eternally bleeding eye. There is a scribbled rag of a man writing tastes, stories of a dimension engulfed in madness. He is writing them of you. Think them all at flashpulp.com or search for it on iTunes. That was fantastic. Oh, I loved that. Good work, Eskime. So you don't think that because it was like in a tunnel and I had birds chirping that you hadn't issued that? No. I think it conjured up some fantastic images. I wish I could animate. And fantastic. I hope my friend likes it. Yeah. Fantastic greeting, Angard. That was great. So now we just need people to play it on their show so that people will come and listen to ours. Well, I'll link it from the show notes and I'll put it up on the site as a download for anybody looking for it. Yeah. If anybody wants to use it or wants us to put their stuff on our site, we would love to do that as well. And we've got two more coming. Yes, but give me some time. Yeah. Because, yeah. But I really enjoy doing that one and I have two others to complete. I got my audio from the last Gentufellow that I asked for help for, so I'm looking forward to it. I like doing them. It's really fun, except for I do like little minute differences in each little section and I can't figure out which one I like better, but we also we also got quite a bit of positive feedback for episodes 165s rain. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We recorded the rain. There was so much rain here. And I don't know who thought of it, but we I got the mic out there. The neighbors did think I was kind of weird. I saw some people walking by and they were wondering what the heck I was doing. Well, yeah. Screw those guys. I thought it sounded great. Yeah. So comment on the blog or something that more sounds are needed. We were discussing maybe doing that, you know, picking the major points of what happens and trying to do it. The only problem is is, you know, using other people's sounds, sometimes there's issues with that. And so we might have to make our own and, but I have a lot of public domain songs. I found another site today that, you know, had a lot of stuff. Excellent. Yeah. So we'll see about that in the future. I'm glad people like it, but it's, it's, it's, it's extra work. Yeah. Well, that's my concern is that it does take extra time, but yeah. And usually when these episodes are going up, it's very late at night and we have to get up early with kids. So I mean, we're so hard already. Well, I like to be awake and alert and have fun with kids and feel all everything else. Balance, balance. Yeah. Blah, blah. The art of narration. Uh, yes. Yes. Yes. I don't, uh, I don't really have a lot art wise to speak of, but, um, as far as narration goes, you know how much I loves me a good read, right? Well, I, like, I like to read to our kids a lot. And, um, one of the blogs that I follow, uh, geek with curves, it's a blog by Amy Radcliffe. Um, she just recently did a post on Katherine M. Valenti, Valenti. I don't know how to pronounce her last name. Her book, uh, the girl who circumnate, the girl who circumnavigated Fairyland in a ship of her own making, which is the best title ever. Sounds fantastic. So that's really what caught my eye, that and the beautiful illustration on the front cover, which I'm just in awe of, you know, it's beautiful. And you got to listen to this synopsis of the book, it goes, um, the green wind blows into Nebraska and asks a young girl named September if she'd like to go to Fairyland. Being a brave and smart girl and quite ready to take a break from home, September says yes. She flies out the window on a leopard into a place that is familiar, but yet entirely unexpected. A wivering, a werewolf, migrating bicycles and a city made of fabric are just a few of the delights of Fairyland. The wonderful Fairyland is not all glitter and gold. September learns of the unfriendly ruler, the Marquis, soon after her arrival, and she decides to take a path that will lead her right to the Marquis' door. Adventure, lessons, madness, bravery, pain, and laughter ensue, and sometimes they happen all at once. Very nice. I think that's super fantastic and I want everybody to go check out Geek with Curves. So go do that. For this and other stories. She's actually holding a giveaway which she's asking people to mention the book and how awesome it is. So I want everybody to go and check out the site, but I don't want anybody else to enter the contest. Just go look at the site. She's done all this work. It's the book. Well, for your not, she's going to have the book, but it's been worth fun. I think you're abusing your platform, Madam. I told Jay I do that if I don't win the book, he has to buy it for me. I agree. Yep. As he should. It's the decent thing to do. I'll definitely be sure to include a link to the site in the notes. Yeah, I think that's super fantastic. I'm also thinking of moving the notes over to the wiki for the Flashcast episodes so that people can come in and include anything because I tend to miss little things here and there. When I'm running the show notes afterwards, sometimes I just don't get a chance to listen to the episode and just write everything down at one thing at a time, so that would allow people to pitch in, make sure that all the links get there that should be. You can find the wiki at wiki.flashpulp.com and a big thanks to Jim at relicradio.com for providing that. Thanks, Jim. And for hosting for flashpulp.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, you can find us at skinner.fm. Flashpulp.com or at flashpulp.com. Color voicemail line at 206-338-2792 or email us text or mp3s to skinner@skinner.fm. Jessica May's vocal talents and musical stylings can be found at maytunes.com. A Bopanax's artistic work and general updates can be located at a Bopanax whethers at wordpress.com. The entire run of flashpulp can be found at flashpulp.com or via the search bar and iTunes. flashcast is released under the Canadian Creative Commons attribution at commercial 2.5 lessons. 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