Hello, and welcome to FlashCast episode sixteen – prepare yourself for remakes, Viennese legends, Kar’Wick, and schmucks.
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FC016 - The Requiem at St. Stephen’s
[Music] Hello, and welcome to Flashcast Episode 16. Prepare yourself for remakes, Viennese Legends, Karwick, and Schmucks. [Music] Tonight, we have myself, Opoponax, Naratrix, Jessica May, Hello, Productionist, and JRD. Hello. Syllable Thumbler. So, Ingrid, fan of the site, and friend of the site. Ingrid posted up an item on her wall on Facebook the other day that I happened to notice. And it was a third-man tour around Vienna, including the sites from the third man, including, I believe, the sewers. And then they would also show the film and some other items. Yeah, I thought it was fantastic. And the trailer that she posted up, because it was a little YouTube reminder to check the schedule, because I guess there's some scheduling issues. I had a lot of that sort of Django Reinhardt, third-man music that I really enjoy. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, really got me stoked. Love that movie. Fantastic, Graham Greene, definitely one of my major influences. And the many lives, if people haven't had an opportunity, they should really check out Relic Radio's, well, the entire selection. But the many lives of Harry Lime is often on Wells on the air, one of the many shows that Jim puts out over at RelicRadio.com. And it's a precursor to the third man. It's the same character Harry Lime, but he's very much softer in the sense that he's not just, you know, killing children. So, it's a good show, and you should check it out. It's not always totally well written, but Orson Welles and anything will sell you. That's my opinion. You know, it's not like he was intentionally killing children. He was ripping people off and happening to kill people along the way. Yeah, it was a question morality, if you recall. If by that you mean he had questionable morality, then you agree. So, speaking of odd morality, I've been thinking, have you heard that the remaking total recall? Yes, from you. Who do they have anybody cast yet? Any directors? Who's the three boob lady? The guy who's in everything, the guy who's in everything lately, Colin Farrell. I believe Colin Farrell is the main dude. Oh, really? But he seems to be up for every weird role lately. And then the lady, one of the female leads, I believe, was cast as Jessica Alba, or like, could be wrong about that. All right, she would have to be the horror. You think so? Because that was the question. Is she the lady on Mars, or is she sharing stones? The fake wife? Yeah. I thought she would pick the fake wife. Yeah, but the fake wife doesn't really have that big role. There's like one scene. She gets like the opening of the film. There's all the house scenes, and then when she tries to kill them. And then she's all rough. She's a show more spectrum of acting abilities. She doesn't have to sit around filming with Colin Farrell for the entire run of the shoot. Colin Farrell, William Wilf Farrell. Who do you mean? Colin Farrell, did I not say Colin Farrell pretty consistently? Really? You look like you are graying a pope. Okay, I heard something wrong. Oh, you thought I said Wilf Farrell? That would be a very interesting film. I would actually really like to see that. I want to see it anyway. Yeah, well. But Wilf Farrell in Total Recall, he plays Quattro. But it's not going to be the same when he gets pushed out of the window and he's going... Oh, God! So fantastic. It would be fun if, like, the Wil home scream, they just captured some of Arnold's ridiculous young audio. Two weeks! Yeah, right. But I believe they're also making Robocop. I did hear about that somewhere. Which are both Paul Voorhoven films, I believe. I think you should tell that story about Robocop, about its budget. Oh, I was listening to another fantastic show earlier in the week of Film Sack. And they were mentioning that, I guess, some of the trivia included with Robocop is that the director specifically avoided filming the major scene in which Murphy, the guy who ends up being transformed into Robocop, is killed. He just put it off and put it off because he knew he was going to be going over budget. So he basically made up his budget by avoiding that scene. And then he came to the studios once filming was supposed to be wrapped and said, "This one scene hasn't been shot." But it's integral. So he would need, you know, quite a portion of money to make that scene believable. So because of the strength of the rest of the film, I guess they give him quite a chunk of change. And he was able to do the scene really well as opposed to having to... It's just nice to see one guy using the system in a way to really help benefit, you know, to make Robocop. Well, maybe Ingrid can actually speak to this. I don't know if she's familiar or not. But I hear, I have heard that he's a respected Dutch director and that when he comes over to America, he makes like cheap kind of popcorn films. And one of the things I wanted to mention in bringing it, well, total recall in Robocop, is the underlying attempt at engaging on something a little more cerebral that both of those films go for. Robocop is really about corporatism and total recall is sort of a big mind game. I don't want to give away too much about those two things in case people haven't seen the film. Seriously, it's like the mid 80s, what are you people doing? But I highly recommend both of those films because although they are ridiculous action movies, they aspire to slightly more. They have a little bit more to mention than just that. Speaking of ridiculously one-dimensional things, Guess who's playing Miss Marple in the new Miss Marple, Agatha Christie reboot? Is it Agatha Christie? Isn't Agatha Christie dead? I don't know, but if it's not her, then I don't want to see it. She's never played Miss Marple, what are you talking about? Agatha Christie. Agatha Christie's a lady who wrote Miss Marple, isn't she? Oh, I'm thinking, um, what's her name there? He's not like a French person. Hurry there with the feet, I don't know, that's French. What's the lady's name, Christine? No, it's not Christine. She was in bed knobs and broomsticks. And that, what about the dress? That's her name. Yeah, I know, that's her name. What's the, uh, what's the one about the dress? Miss Brown or something? Yeah, I don't remember the name. She gets a fancy dress. Yeah, the Cartier gown or something. That's such a nice movie. It is. Anyway, that lady, what's her name? Jaredie, you should know. Uh... She was in bed knobs and broomsticks. Yeah, I know. Angela... Oh, Angela Lansbury, that's it. Thank you. It's only hard to remember because we can't... There's a microphone of our faces. Yeah. Angela Lansbury. Jennifer Garner. No. It should be Angela Lansbury. Jennifer Garner. She's going to play a woman... No, listen, it's not about being wholesome. Miss Marple is supposed to be, like, 80 years old. Yeah. Maybe they're going to put a lot of makeup on her to look old. Yeah, or not. There's not enough parts for old people in the movie. This is 13 going on... 13 going on, 30 going on, 60 something. You know who else would be really good? And Helen Mirren. Yeah. She would be good. Agreed. Yeah. Okay, I don't mean to be that guy, but it seems like every time there's an old lady role now, everyone's like, "I agree, Helen Mirren would actually really get it." 'Cause she's good. But every time there's... People recently have seen her in a bathing suit. I haven't seen her in a bathing suit. And... Is it... They're getting all hot bothered and now they want to see her? Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Where's she? How old is she? I don't know. Sexy. How old are you, Helen Mirren, 'cause I know you're watching. Oh, listening, I guess. She's not three days... Oh, wait, maybe she is three day fish and she decides it disguises her voice when she comes in. Oh, is this name? Guess what? What? Mail time. Hey, Barry Paulian has promised with a rainy day in Bensonhurst. This one is, uh, as immortalized by Ed Norton in the Honeymooners as Garden Spot of the World. Enjoy. So Barry, calling in from the rain in Bensonhurst, in New York. New York. As you mentioned the... The honeymooners. The honeymooners took place in. That's cool. That is so cool. Yeah. Thank you, Barry. Thank you, Barry. From somebody in the north, nowhere close to that. Yeah, I was considering... I was considering what might we record that would be equivalent for anybody else, and I don't think there's anything. We might... Niagara Falls, maybe. Some people would wonder about that, but... Yeah. This is what Toronto sounds like. This is what a lot of snow sounds like. Yeah. There's a lot of wind here. Yeah, they can't think of it. It's like that. Before we used to live in a country and we could have really awesome nature. Diverse, yeah. But there's not so much here. Yeah. I had a decent suburban... Yeah. With the wind chimes the other day. On the foggy morning. That was very lovely. Hey, Flashcats. It's three day fish. Just got down listening to Flashcats 15. And in regards to JRT's question about... Carwick. Sorry, I almost forgot for some reason. No, I feel the endings are actually pretty sweet. Like, I laughed the first time I listened to... Napierly farmers. Which I have a slight confession to make. When I was first getting into the podcast, I chose Napierly farmers to listen to. Because for some reason, at least the first time I read it, the name Mulligan Smith turned me off. He sounded like a schmuck. I'm going to hunt you down and find you for that. We're going back to the ending thing. Now, as far as the reason I did, Carwick has looked at the first... I'm sorry, I have a head pull, so nothing is coming to me. Oh, fanfic. Because I felt like he was... Like, firstly, I felt like he would be the easiest to imitate without making JRT pull out his hair and say, "No, that's not what I meant at all." But also because Carwick has that... Like, the endings are so effective at just killing the moment. Like, I did it in my story, and as is done in all of Carwick's stories, like, you're just so into the scene. And then it's all just kind of like... Yes! Ripped away from you. I like it for some reason. It sounds depressing when I talk about it like that, but I don't. I like it. One of my favorites for "Rise the Downtown" couple. That's my two cents. Always listening. Two cents from "Three Day Fish." Oh... Mulligan Smith, that's so funny. What a schmuck. I'm sure you're not the only person who will come to think of Mulligan as a schmuck. Him being a PI. But he's your favorite of Pope, right? He is. That's why I said I had to hunt down "Three Day Fish" and find him now. But, yes. I mean, I think I've mentioned it before, but the point of the Carwick stories, they're sort of my hat tip towards HP Lovecraft, right? Mm-hmm. But in the sense that I would never sit down and write such purple prose as Lovecraft did, I can't maintain description of a tiny room for three pages. Mm-hmm. But I think what he was really going for was this cosmic overarching, like, just... When Cthulhu shows up, it doesn't matter what humanity is. It's just the end. Mm-hmm. And you're calamari to them. Mm-hmm. You're nothing. You're a snack. Done. Not even. I mean, the idea of the Elder Gods is that they are so beyond our comprehension that to even try to conceive of them would drive us insane. They're living on it. To see them was to be mad. Yeah, they're living in a dimension beyond our very understanding. So, to even get a tiny tip of them is to destroy everything we can possibly understand. Mm-hmm. Which is what I like about it. Just being like, "Yeah, it's so big, you really can't write a story about it." So maybe you write a story about a couple people arguing and then... It ends. Yep. Anyway, thank you very much for the call. Mm-hmm. And your snotty words about Mulligan. Oh... We did get... All of the commentary I got back was positive about car work. Got a few things. Shout-outs to a friend of the site Ray and a couple people who just said, "Hey, I like Harwick on Twitter and stuff." Nice. Somebody thinks. I guess we'll just keep doing them even though they end sort of abruptly. Yeah. Now, we have another submission and this was fantastic from Ingrid who blogs at Dancing Ella. Dancing Ella duh... Dogspot, I thought? There's a little girl that I recently met at the earlier center and her name is Ella. She dances around and I call her Dancing Ella when I think of her. And then I think of Ingrid simultaneously. Aww. That's so sweet. Yes, it is a blogspot. I always get paranoid that I'm going to mess it up, but it is Dancing Ella.blogspot.com. I called it. It's because I love you Ingrid. Clearly more than charity. The Ray Gewehrm at St. Stephen's. The Christmas Eve of 1363 was a cold and stormy night. Reverend Graf Eyrebricht von Hömberg set in his warm and comfortable room. It was almost midnight and the candles still gave the man enough light to read the chronicles of St. Stephen's church. His mind was fully captured. He didn't even hear the noises of the storm. There was one striking sentence. He read it again and again. Those who were seen wearing a barrel gown in the church on Christmas Eve will die within the next year. The old man shook his head. He couldn't believe what he had read. Incredible. This must have been written by someone with too much imagination. At that moment he heard the sound of the church's organ and the singing of the chorus. He stood and went to the window. There was light in the church. Strange. He thought a mess at such a time. But he wanted to know what was going on, so he put on his coat and walked through the list of graves. On his way he prayed to God. "Whatever I see there, I won't be afraid. I know you are with me." The brave man opened the door and walked into the church. He was very surprised to see the name full of people. And he knew them. Everyone wore a barrel gown. He looked towards the altar, wondering who was celebrating the mess. The price there turned around to bless the praying people. A cold shiver ran over his back. He saw himself. In that moment the clock struck one, and the old priest found himself in an empty and dark church. He hurried back to his warm room and wrote down what he had just experienced. Then he created a list with all of the names of the people he had seen there, not forgetting to put his own name at the end. A year went by. It was Christmas again. But this time it wasn't a merry one. An epidemic block had a flicked wound. And every single person on the price list, himself included, had passed away. That was so fantastic. Thank you so much, Ingrid. That was fantastic. I love your reading. I love your voice. The mood to it was just lovely. I wish I could replicate that. Jessica was saying the first time I played a small clip for her as a sampling, because we try to keep most things alive for the show so that we can react because otherwise we find we talk about it. And then when the show comes, we have nothing more to add. Yeah, or it sounds phony, and I don't like that. But I played a little clip because I was so excited ahead of time, and Jessica was commenting that she felt like a hillbilly afterwards. Yeah, yeah, I feel like a dirty redneck after hearing that. I know it's so pretty. Very melodic. So thank you very much. And I haven't heard that she had posted it up in response. For my blog, I've been discussing on the blog. Sorry. I've been discussing urban legends and legend dripping. Sorry, Barry, for using the term. And she posted it up in response. She was looking for local Vienna legends. That's awesome. That is so thoughtful. Thank you so much. So I believe this is translated out of the original, which is fantastic. You should read children's stories and then we could play them for our children. Wouldn't that be so awesome? It's just the depth, like the kind of imagery you get is just so much more vivid and clear with such a reading. And I should mention she's also been using her voice to read out her poetry and posting it on YouTube with imagery. And that's also, she does a great job of that as well. So it's dancingla.blogspot.com. For those of you who haven't already pointed your browser at it. Yes. And the sweetest fan ever. Very nutritious breakfast. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So that's it for mail. Alright. Let's move into... Backroom Watch. So, I have to make a confession. The other day, posted up a Thomas Blackhall story. Mm-hmm. Involving a certain disease, which I'm going to go a little bit out of my way, not to mention the name of in the podcast to give everything away. And I had mentioned this in a previous story, number 73 or 78. That's right. A Rasputin Phantasm. The Stranger. Another, yes, the Stranger. Another Blackhall tale. Kind of hate bull stories. Oddly, through pure coincidence, both stories came up in rotation during a period in which I was sick. And although I feel like my second stab at the topic was the better of the two, the Rasputin Phantasm, that whole tale, probably my least favorite in the archive. It's always bothered me, that's the one I just do not like how it came out. I feel like it's rambling and it's more than any other tale that gets off track. And then this one, I went too far the other way. I feel like I would have... You could have drawn it out longer. Yeah, I whittled it down too far and I didn't have enough, but it was because I was so out of juice while I was writing it due to my illness. The children come home with a lot of sicknesses, which affect us a lot. Anyway, so I guess I apologize, but at the same time... Stinking children? No, that's not what you're going to say. Well, every episode is a learning experience, the reason we keep making new ones is to forget about the old ones. Yeah, because when he hears an old one, he runs sheltering with his arms... Listen to the sound quality, omgoo! Correct. But on the other hand, I followed it up with what's become one of my favorite tales, my favorite story so far, which was the haunting of Bill Chandler Manor. Oh, I loved that one. Absolutely. I knew when I was writing it that I had something fun and it seems to have gotten a lot of positive reactions. It's nice looking at different people's perspectives and/or dead people's perspectives, and then he ran it. Yeah, well, you know, I was trying to strike some of the classic ghost tale kind of tropes, but make them interesting and... Yes, fresh. Oh, I should also mention, I think Jessica May has an apology she wants to provide to a certain Mr. 3-day fish. He has some fanfic and we're so excited about it, but I really don't feel good and I can't edit right now. It would take a really long time. I'm sorry. She's making a face that would make you feel bad about how upset you are over that 3-day fish. Even if you're slightly creepy and hard-shelled. And always listening. Yes. You might fillet me. Oh! Oh, that was bad. That smells like a 3-day fish. Nice. I like that one. That was insane. The audio by NASA Day of Hope. Which is my section. Yeah, that was those breaks going. You get the breaks all set up so I can post them on the blog and have people vote on the breaks. Oh, yeah, we were going to have a contest. Well, not really a contest, but people vote on their favorite break sound. Maybe if you didn't have so many children. Or tasks. Yeah. No, it's not a good enough excuse. Never has been. What levels your wow character? Okay, today I played a little wow, which I generally do not especially during daylight hours because mama likes to keep busy. But today, yes, I played a little wow. And now I don't have breaks. Well, I kind of forgot. Like, I kind of forget these things. I think I need a better receptionist. Yeah, if anybody wants to come intern for us, please feel free. It's really pleasant here. You'd enjoy yourself. It's on a volunteer basis for the first while. Yeah. You would definitely be an intern. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This is the audio audacity of apologies. Audio audacity of nope. No, that's great. Okay, let's go on to the art of narration. So, I didn't do anything. No idea. I actually did some stuff, but it didn't work. Oh, see? And so nobody cares about the stuff that tried and failed. They just want to see product, baby. Exactly. And so JRD is going to get me a tablet. Oh, yay! He's not actually. I'm saving up the AdSense money. I looked earlier this week when we had two cents. All right. Maybe when he fixes your tablet. Maybe when my receptionist comes. Yeah. They'll do that. They can transcribe the picture. Here's what I'm thinking. Yes. Make it so number one. Yes. Um, yeah. We're pretty lame right now. Fortunately, I'm pretty awesome. No, that's not really. It is true. He is quite awesome. Yeah. But we're not so lame though. Well, I think, I think we'll call this on illness. Everyone's been pretty rough lately. Or taking care of people who are rough. Yeah. Mostly me and my wife. I'm a children. Well, yeah, but... Can you weigh children? Yeah. Okay. Well, let's wrap it up. Well, I'd like to, before we go, give a big shout out again to Jim from Relic Radio. And remind people that the wiki is out there. If you've got some thoughts on things you'd like to add to the Flashpop wiki, you can find it at wiki.flypop.com. Things are definitely changing over there. I appreciate very much everyone's additions. Yeah. I've been adding a couple of new things. So if you haven't been there in a little while, then feel free to pop up again. I'm all again, jerk's car. What did he call it? Schmuck. Schmuck. Schmuck. Schmuck. It's like it breaks a piece of my heart every time. And you can look forward to this week. We got a trio of murder plague stories coming out. The mid-a plague. Although how exactly we're going to operate that? I am not entirely sure, but we will figure it out. Are we actually going to have a murder plague? That's how we're going to operate. I was going to keep it a secret, but I have a team of scientists. We're working on the problem right now. So, if you have comments, questions, or suggestions, you can find us at skinner.fm. Call our 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. Please visit. Apoponax's artistic work and general updates can be located at apoponaxethers.wordpress.com. Please don't. The entire run of Flashbulb can be found at flashbulb.com or via the search bar in iTunes. Flashcast is released under the Canadian Grid Commons attribution on commercial 2.5 seconds. Thanks, Ingrid! Bye! Thanks, everyone. Everyone. Sunday comes afterwards. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING]