Hello, and welcome to FlashCast episode fourteen – prepare yourself for Japanese gangsters, Akira, Austrian cowboys, and the Collective Detective
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[music] Hello, and welcome to Flashcast Episode 14. Prepare yourself for Japanese gangsters, Akira, Austrian cowboys, and the Collective Detective. [music] Tonight we have myself, Opopenx, Artistic Overlord, Jessica May. Hello, Audio Magnet, and JRD. Hello. A letter pusher. Letter pusher reader. Push him before you're. So, front, I think the most pulpy thing, well, actually, we should clarify that we're not in our usual recording area. So, if the audio sounds different, we have a window open. We're in a bit of a more hollow room. Yeah, rather a room and not a closet. Well, no, we're never in a closet when we record this. We're usually on a couch, but it has a very short ceiling. It's like our, we call it our theater, it's very short and dark. Anyhow, last week, and last week, we got to go to something quite pulpy, in a sense, more the world. It was fantastic. It was fantastic. And what was it to celebrate? Bernard Herman's 100th birthday, even though he didn't really have a lot to do with the War of the World specifically. No. But he did work with Mercury Theater as an audio production guy, and I don't know if that's, I think he did some work earlier than that, but he came out of that sort of school. He, no, he did movie work even in the, like, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. Yes, he did hear that, that's correct, because that was pretty useful later. It was an interesting event, it opened with an hour sort of concert and video presentation on Herman's work, it was sort of a medley. Through it, which I constantly interrupted JRD saying, "What movie is that? Can we watch that movie?" Now, it was, although the War of the World section was really the upper billing, like the top billing, and it was really the part that was advertised. The, I had a lot of love for the Bernard Herman Montage section, because I listened to a lot of Herman while I'm writing, especially the murder plague, and uh... Did you, did you expect that, or was it a surprise when you showed up? I understood that there was going to be Herman music, but I thought, well, A, that it would be more integrated with the show, which they did that as well, like with the War of the World section, but I didn't realize the extent of the sort of mini concert they were going to present. Frankly, it was a pleasant surprise, it was fantastic, it was so fantastic. It was because we were also just expecting like a five-piece orchestra, and for the Herman part, it was like at least a dozen people. Yeah, they trimmed it a bit for the War of the World's backing music, but I think it would have just been too much, too overwhelming for the vocals, if, like for the actual line reading, if you'd had that much of a band. And frankly, not that much to do, because the music comes and goes throughout the broadcast, it doesn't really stay consistent. Anyway, I thought the whole event was fantastic if you happen to be in Toronto in the next week or so, it's still playing, so... And we had seats right above the Foley guy, so we could see everything that he did, and it was just so amazing, you know, watching what he used to make wet sounds and stuff. He had like a little garden-flower-shaped candle holder thing that just made a tin sound. The grinding sound of the alien's capsule's opening, he had a candle holder, which he rubbed a metal lid of some sort on top of, and it just made this fantastic grinding sound. And I'm sure that it was... Yeah, I'm sure it was actually really, really quiet, like you would not have been able to hear it in that theatre if you hadn't had the shotgun mic on it, but it amplified it to such an extent that it just sounded like this monstrous, horrible sound. And the sound of the artillery being fired, that made me jump, I wasn't expecting it that intense. The sound, he struck a coil with something to make the sound that the alien's weapon made, and it was so fantastic, it was just perfect. Very old school sound, it was great. The actors themselves kept things busy, like I'm sure it was all part of the stage direction, but you know, the guy playing Orson would move people towards or away from the mic if they felt they were running hot. He wouldn't constantly be putting an old-time set of headphones up to his ear just to be taking levels and stuff, although obviously it was probably not even connected to anything. Oh, my favorite part has got to be when the actors were coming out and the lights were still up. It's like they hadn't started the performance, but one of the guys came in and took a pull from a flask that he grabbed from his pants and then poured it into a cup of tea that was sitting on the table. And you could tell that there was nothing in the flask, but the fact that he even did that while everybody was still setting up and then he was getting into character like that, it was just fantastic. That was the DaVinci guy. What was his name again? Yeah, anybody familiar with the Canadian DaVinci series of shows? We'll know the guy. Nicholas Campbell, I believe his name, but that's just off the top of my head. Speaking of actors, I wanted to raise another pulp-related issue that's really stabbing me in the heart. I have learned that they are making an Akira film, a live-action Akira film based on the manga/anime from Japan. Which isn't the bad part? Akira was, like a lot of people, was my first sort of introduction to anime, and I have a very soft spot in my heart for both the movie and the manga and the remake. Not set in Megatokio, set in New York. And the guy playing "Canada" is a sparkly vampire. He's multifaceted, like the sparkles, kind of like a dead hand in the sun, yes? Absolutely. You always gotta jump in on my punch lines. You know, I've gotta admit, I've never actually seen Akira get out of this house. I have it in like a tin special collection. I know, and we've never watched it, because I've been too ashamed to tell you. Fantastic point. I don't even know what it's about, just that there's guys on motorcycles. It's about Japanese bite gangs and sort of, how do I explain it? Betterment over your situation, but that's sort of like the under text that's largely more about like... Blood. That's crazy. Psychic combat? Okay, well, outside the psychic combat, that totally makes me think of something that I just read about that happened in Japan. Okay. Okay, well, everybody knows that there's this crisis in Japan. There's the earthquake in the tsunami, and everybody knows that Japan is familiar with earthquakes. Actually, there was an earthquake in '95. I can't remember the name of it. It was the Great Hanshin quake, that was it. And it was in the Kobe area. I don't know how to actually pronounce that. But that actually brought about a lot of gang members in that specific area. I think they were called the Yamaguchi-Gumai. I think that's what they were called. They were a group of Yakuza in the area, and they had their headquarters there, and they started helping during the earthquake. And apparently, they gave out over 1 billion yen in goods, and they handed out something like 20,000 box lunches to the victims and stuff. Wow. Just because it was like their home area and stuff. You know, that actually got me into looking up some more stuff about the Yakuza. And I always wondered, like, why did they call them gangsters so much? I mean, obviously, they're gangsters, but we don't call our gang members gangsters. We call them gang members. There's something about the word gangster that it's hard to associate our gangs with their gangs. Like, I couldn't really picture a lot of the gangs. I think that Yakuza tend to be more associated with, like, the mafia, like organized crime. I think that, you know, we wouldn't think of the Yakuza as the equivalent of, you know, like an L.A. street gang. It's not the bloods and the crypts or whatever. But they're much more prominent than, well, I wouldn't say prominent, but numerous than the mafia type. I think the American mafia has mostly been crippled since the... I suppose. Did you know that actually the police have told the media in Japan that they're not allowed to... Well, no, no, no. They will be very open with the Yakuza, but they call them the Boryokudan. Okay. I mean, this violence group, and that's how they're referred to in the media, but they call themselves the Ninkio Dente, which means the chivalrous organization. I thought that was pretty awesome, but everyone's working the propaganda. Yeah, the leader of the guy that was of the gang that's in charge of that area that was doing the earthquake relief back in '95, he actually went to jail four months after he became the leader of the organization. And he's still in jail now, but the dude went to jail for 13 years for killing another mob boss with a katana. That's pretty hard going. Yeah, that totally made me think Kill Bill. Did they do all their... I don't know. I don't know what the background hearing that was. I don't want to say he's a pretty nice guy, because he's a mob boss. But apparently, like... As far as mob bosses go. Yeah, like for his induction ceremony, he took a cab. No, he took a train instead of a limo. And he had this big elaborate banquet set up for him, but he stopped at a noodle house on the street instead. I don't know. I just can't equate our two underworlds. Yeah. Well, I think they definitely fill different roles in the social structure too, I think. Yeah. I wonder what's going on in Japan's end of belly right now. Yeah, yeah, especially at the moment. It's interesting. Okay. Well, I think this is a good time to move on to... Madelbag. Can we have a sound for this? I don't remember. Yep. Madelbag. It's like if you were going to like a... Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember now. Yeah, yeah. I think so. Yeah. So, uh, no voicemails this week, but we do have some emails. Hey, Jaredy. I'm a relatively new listener to Flashbop and have really been enjoying it so far. I wanted to chime in with an opinion on something you mentioned in the Last Flashcast about releasing ebook versions of your back catalog. I think this would be a great idea, especially as I didn't realize that the stories I was listening to were part of a lot. I was listening to were part of a larger ongoing story. Maybe ebook editions of each story thread. For example, all the murder, plague story, and the one caught by him, the collective detective and another. Uh, keep up the good work, Ryan. Thank you, Ryan. That's a very good suggestion. What do you think? I like the idea quite a bit, but I can see some drawbacks. Like what? For example, at the moment, there are, what, three or four collective detectives? The collective detective stories? In total, if you think of the arcs as a single story, that doesn't make a very compelling book. You know what I mean? Like it's just, it would be pretty thin for being like a pamphlet. And then the alternate that I thought of after he had written this was that I might consider doing one book but breaking it down by section. So essentially one book that was a primer on everything you needed to know about Flashbop. But, you know, like a five or ten introductory stories to Mulligan. Five or ten introductory stories to Blackhall. Enough to give you the idea of their universe. Not necessarily every detail. And then maybe one more ad episode of Thousand. And I can justify putting in a book for each character. Uh, then going that way. Yeah, well that's kind of, uh, kind of like the little booklets I put together on me. Minor, a little more physical. I, uh, I put together a book for Blackhall and one from Mulligan. And I think there was going to be one for Ruby, but I hadn't figured that one quite out yet. And I put one together for all the kind of one-off tales. So, um, the Blackhall had, I think, the, it had the El Cara and it had Redmouth's Legacy or something like that. It had a, a longer story arc and the Mulligan one had, uh, like two or three. Oh, it was six episodes each, that was it. So, the Blackhall had a three-parter and then three one-offs or another three-parter. The Mulligan had three one-parters and a three-parter. And then the Weird Tales, it was just sort of a, a one-off of each of the other ones. It had one mother-grand, one-car wig, one-chiller. And I, personally, that one was my favorite because I got a little bit more diverse than the rest of them. Well, that, that would be the idea, right? I would take maybe 80,000 words worth of story and break it down by a person. Not really worry about what episode or number they were in. Anyway, I really appreciate the suggestion around. I think it's, I think you're right. I think this ball needs to stay in the yard. We need to get moving forward with this. Mm-hmm. Uh, yeah. So, we got another, I'm gonna just, we got a fantastic email from, uh, Ingrid, but I'm gonna do that last because it's going to need to become, uh, broken down into bite sizes. Got an email from Ray. I was wondering if you ever plan on revealing why Mulligan's father is mute and how long he's been that way. I guess you can throw in how it happened if you're feeling generous. [laughter] On that note, I've been loving the collective detective and generally all the stuff you guys have put out. You're batting pretty close to 1,000 so far from me. Anywho, have a good one, guys. Ray, AKA, AKA, El Gigante. [laughter] The Mexican version. Nice. Space it up. I do actually intend on revealing why Sergeant Smith has no tongue. Um... Well, there you go. You just gave it away. He's mute because he has no tongue. Yeah, I was gonna be all smart-alky and be like, "He's mute because he has no tongue." But then I realized that might give something away. No, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned that he has no tongue, haven't I? I haven't just said he was mute. Or at least if I've obfuscated that amount of information, it hasn't been intentional. Oh, maybe you have. Uh, I haven't mentioned why he has no tongue. Yeah. That's a tale to tell. I imagine. And I think that's what Ray wants to know. No. Only if he's feeling generous. [laughter] I had a later date. Ingrid says, "Hello, all." Hi, Ingrid. I think it's time for me to share some belated insights about the cowboy culture in Austria. Far from being an expert, but here are some thoughts and observations. Now, she's included some audio clips, which I'm going to force Jessica to play. Apart from the classical western movies, the Italia... Italia westerns? Italia westerns? I don't know how that would be pronounced. And Lucky Luke. Now, I must break here. Lucky Luke. Lucky Luke? Yeah, are you guys familiar? Oh, yeah. No. No. Do you know why? Why? Because in Canada, and I'm almost ashamed to admit this, Lucky Luke is only known in his French iteration. Lucky Dick. I believe he's one of those Belgian Franco productions. I think so, yeah. Like Tintin. Yes. Very much. Well, not very much of that school, but same area of production. And although we do see an influence of that in Canada, it's mostly if you're close to the Quebec border or you know French people. Yep. Or if you are in fact a French person. Yeah. I know Lucky Luke mostly from my grade school French classes where we would watch it as a sort of introduction to the language. It's a learning tool. Yeah. I think most people are influenced by the adventure novels of Carl May, 1842 to 1912, German writer. I have to admit, I've never read one of his books. But I can remember that I've watched his movies, made in the 60s. But most of them were far from the originals. So I'm going to get Jessica now to play a little clip of Winnetow, and I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. The theme to one of his films. [MUSIC] So that was pretty epic. Very epic. I thought it was interesting that although you definitely get a feel of sort of the classic Western score out of that, it has a very distinctly sort of Austro German flavor. It's like if John Wayne were in the sound of music. Yeah, a little bit, eh? Yeah. Nice. Thank you. You're welcome. I'll continue the email briefly here. Anyway, Carl May's hero is Winnetow, chief of the Apaches. I still don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly. And his blood brother, old Shatterhand, the white guy. No, wait. Is that right? I don't know. Formed by my first picture of Indians and cowboys. Wow. And of course, I will never forget Bonanza and the Ponderosa Ranch. So that, obviously, Bonanza gets around in the world. I also, so while I was doing a little backup research trying to look in this fantastic email, Ingrid sent us, I found out that during World War, and this is something I had heard before, but I hadn't remembered till now. When American troops went into Germany during World War II, they were really surprised to find children playing cowboys and Indians there that seemed very familiar the whole concept to them. And I guess it's because of the novels of Carl May, who, like, popularized the whole concept there, even though my understanding is that it was very much sort of over the top as it will be. You know, but to be fair, even in North America, up until recently, the games of cowboys and Indians have been, you know, pretty stereotypical. Playing cowboys and Indians back to the email was a very popular game when I was a child, especially for the boys. It was a bit boring for the girls. They just had the duties to cook and clean the tents. But I can share a very personal story. I got my first marriage proposal in an Indian tent from a cowboy named Walter. Wow! We were both the age of four. That's so sweet, Ingrid. Now, I have a bit of a cowboy story to also impart. Did you propose to Ingrid too? No. When I was a boy, and I may have mentioned this before, I had a lot of difficulty differentiating timelines. So my dad told me, he grew up in a very rural area, and he actually rode his horse. He grew up in a farm, and he had a horse, and he rode it to school, occasionally. And I had a tough time understanding the difference between, like, when he was a child, and cowboy times, and frankly, pirate times. In my mind, they were all kind of like, it was a piracy, and then cowboys. As soon as piracy was gone, cowboys were everywhere, and as soon as that was gone. Cowboy pirates chasing your dad to school. There was a little bit overlap. The dinosaurs were like right behind there. That's why not everybody had horses. The dinosaurs ate them all. Yeah, exactly. But when I got a little bit older, well, no, just years after that, I frankly thought that cowboys were almost a Canadian thing. Because where I grew up, we would travel out to the country, and it was very much like the western portrayal on TV, you know, my grandparents farm. Look at like Calgary. Exactly. Oh, yeah. And I just had this idea that cowboy music was largely generated, you know, somewhere outside Montreal. Not even the prairies? No, I don't know what was going on. Well, I mean, I was like six at the time. I don't know anything. I didn't know anything about the world. Anyway, and it was only until years later that I realized it wasn't the Americans ripping us off with cowboy music. It was us sort of ripping them off. Yeah. Anyway. Speaking of cowboys and Indians, our one and only pop star Falco once wrote a song called "Cowboys and Indians" released in 1986. He was a Zed, awesome. Yes, cowboys and Indians. The song is about the time of Glasnose. Cowboys and Indians, Russia and the USA are the cowboys and Indians of today. Yeah. And now Jessica is going to play us 30 seconds of cowboys and Indians. The rock and mama party jibats would pick you some tea. Cry, boy, fire, the yes to yie. At the galaxy pop, the share of old Drigger. Up in my vita, off the light, the rich, the skies. To me. Cowboys and Indians, Russia and the USA. Hey. Cowboys and Indians of today and day. Hey. Cowboys and Indians, Russia and the USA. Hey. How the cowboys and Indians of today and day. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Also, in 2001, a theme park called "No Name City" opened in the south of Vienna. For a few years, it was a big attraction, but it's already closed again due to financial issues. Now, "No Name City" is essentially, I think, supposed to be a copyright dodge on Dodge City. Yeah, I guess. I saw some video on YouTube and it's essentially your standard Western recreation town that you might see. Nothing can go wrong. Nothing can go wrong. Not Westworld. Yes. It's a Western town. A robot. Or you a Brenner. A robot's a V-O Brenner. Some day, some theme park is going to make a V-O Brenner robot and then this weird circle of life completion thing is going to happen. Anyway. Yeah. It looked very much like your standard Western town. They look like they did Western shows there and I guess it went under, but probably due to its management more than lack of popularity. What also came into my mind was a film entitled "Wanted" written by Alfred Dorfer, an Austrian cabaret artist, and released in 1999. The main character is Thomas Reiter, a surgeon overstrained with his everyday, dominated by his wife and his parents. He finds his way to escape from the reality by slipping into the fantasy world, the Wild West. Everything is easy there. Everything is clear, good and better to find. And his imagination, he's the director of life, of his life. His former classmate Herman, meanwhile a priest, tries to help him back into reality. Thomas shows Herman his adventurous world, the priest's world to the fantasy... Oh, sorry, there's a link there. Thomas shows Herman his adventurous world. Then there's a scene she provides, which I can't really show, but, well, the scene is the dialogue. This is where the dog's farting and it smells like turnip. No, how brussel spreads. Brussel spreads. No, it's trampy. Turnip. The line from the scene, everything is possible here, everything's easy. What I don't like to see, I do not imagine. I don't have to fail. I can come and go whenever I want to, I'm free. I think that's exactly what the Wild West is in the imagination, right? It's the open frontier and not having to deal with anybody else projecting anything on to you or whatever you can just live free. Treat him with what you have. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for your interest in looking forward to the next Flashcast. Have a great time, guys. Ingrid. Very nice email. Thank you very much. Very nice. She included another video at the end, which was fantastic, but... A video. Yep. Great email, Ingrid. I really appreciate that. I've been sort of tempted to start up a cowboy character, but I just don't feel like I have the gumption for it. I don't have a point to it. Yeah. You've got Blackhall and you've got Mother Gran. Between the two of them, they can handle anything cowboy could. Yeah. Well, the other thing, too, is I just... I don't think my writing necessarily comes from the same place as the American ideals that usually back-cab-boyfiction. So, I don't know if it would come off odd. I'd almost be more tempted to write like a farmer of the period than I would be to... Which is essentially, I suppose, what Mother Gran is. A neighborly farmer? Yeah. Well, that wasn't of that period, but yeah. Anyway, thanks for all the emails and certainly keep them up, guys. Let's move in to back-proof watch. So, we completed a collective detective story this week. And it's kind of interesting that we brought up the idea of a collected book earlier because I really felt like... More than any other story for the collective at this point, this one really lays out what this structure and function of the collective is. Mm-hmm. I feel like this would be the... Like, if somebody were to ask me, you know, point to the one story where I'm going to pick up what's going on with these people, this would be the one arc I would point them to. Mm-hmm. I can care. I found it interesting to do sort of individual character portraits almost with these three very different lifestyles that I kind of touched on. Yeah. But I think that it might get annoying if I was just constantly doing a rotating cast like that. So, my plan is overall, and I hope that I, even in these three new guys, I interlaced enough of the old stories that anybody paying attention to knowing what was going on would be able to sort of piece them into a larger chronology. Yeah, I kept the first time I read it, I kept thinking, "Killer Kroc, okay, he was in the first episode because he helped solve that crime, so I'll just go back and reference what he sounded like there, so I know how he sounds in this one." And for the life of me, I couldn't find him in the other stories, even though he was mentioned as being a part of it, and it just drove me nuts until Jared, he actually said, "Oh, no, he wasn't actually a part of the story." I said, "Oh, wow." Yeah, it's a little backward-lacing I apologize. Yeah. I like, though, that you don't have too much interweaving of old story where people can't, you know, because Ryan didn't even know that these are recurring characters. Mm-hmm. Well, I don't want it to, the risk where I run with all of these stories is over-dependent on the archive, because I've always got to consider that this might be somebody's first show or that they might, frankly, I don't blame people, they just forget. Like, it's been, sometimes it's a long time between whipping up Mother Gran or Karwick, or, well, not that there's a lot of connective tissue between Karwick episodes, but, you know, Mother Gran and some of the others, even Ruby, although Ruby is very popular, I can understand people not understanding what's going on if I'm not careful about it, so. Mm-hmm. It's definitely something I keep forefront in my mind when I'm writing the stories. Yeah. All right. The audio. I'm an asshole. I know that you do. I was wondering what you thought about the Foley guy over at the thing. Do you want to do more Foley in the episodes? Do you want to do more background sound effects? You know, if I -- well, you know what would be handy is getting some effects that were really awesome or some tools that we did, and then the only thing that just scares me is the amount of time necessary to figure out each sound and stuff. Right. Um, but if I had had a series of, you know, tools or sound making, Dilly Dallas, I could look it up online. I'm sure Google has lots of different things. I was looking at the specific tools that he was using. Um, I think obviously having that shotgun mic was probably really handy and really added to a lot of that. True. So I bet you there's, um, there's probably some easy tricks online that I could look into, but -- So you'd be interested in doing practical sound there. You wouldn't just go on like free- Stealing it on the line. Stealing it on the line. Ah, yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, because it's perfect every time that if I go to the internet and just take somebody else's, you know. So although it looked very cool. Do you think that perfectness might detract, though? Like being able to morph the sounds to the specific scene or even to be like, well, that sounds like the rig gun they used last time. It's always the same rig gun sound. Well, I can alter them any which way that I want to, like with tempo or note or anything. So what are you implying? Are you going to do more? Well, you have to write it in, sir. I can't just magically put in fully that isn't there. Yeah, I think there's a fine line as to what's included and what's not, you know? Yeah, what's important to the story to be hearing and what isn't. Like, you don't necessarily have to have stomping feet in the background when somebody's running somewhere. And like they're walking down a long hallway for a long time and they're trying to get somewhere that we're waiting for it. Yeah, and there's no dialogue or anything. But if it's just a case of, you know, going -- instead of saying he coughed, then, you know, that's a big -- Yeah, well, to be fair, you do a lot of that already. And when it's part of the -- you don't necessarily replace the "he coughed," but you will, you know, "he coughed." You may just want to consider it and pace it out, you know, put three or four different sort of sounds that you'd like threw at it so that they're not kind of grouped together. Interesting. Okay, well, it's definitely something I'll consider for the future in writing the scripts and people can keep an eye out for it, I guess. And I'll make the magic baby. The art of narration. So, I've actually -- I'm still in a pickle about getting my stuff onto the computer and everything. But I've actually come up with an alternate plan for the collective detective that I've sort of discussed with J.R.D. and he seems interested in. I was thinking maybe I'd do some hand-dinking and maybe paint it in some watercolor. Yeah, I'd definitely be interested to see what the results of that were. Yeah, I mean, it might be terrible and I might have to do something else, but it's been a while, and I think it'd be interesting to use different medium. And definitely since listening to the new theme music for it, it really gives me much more of a mood to work with. And I think that watercolor would really suit that. I'm really enjoying the new theme music as well. I love it. It's so good. Good pick me. My God. It was one of those. We all know this is it as soon as we hear it, and it was so fantastic. No, as soon as I displayed it, I put a display for you. Exactly. When it was displayed to us. But my question -- You've revealed a platter and there's just a tiny speaker on it. Yeah, yeah, that's just exactly how it went. I was wondering where the new FlashPulp logo for 150 is, because I know you haven't started, and I want one. I want it. We are rapidly approaching 150. That's going to happen. We are. Oh, my God. What are you doing, woman? Not enough, apparently. No. I think she forgot my great desire. You think it would be that great? I might have reminded her a little sooner than the show, but here I am. Gimmie. [coughing] Well, before a fight breaks out, I think we should probably say our goodbyes. Them spite words. Okay. I'm ready. I'm ready to fight you. Like, we always fight. That's fine. I think fighters, if they really are, they don't just keep using the word "fight." But them spite words. More creative words for fighting. I wonder what the common cowboy idioms are in Austria. That's what only got me thinking. Do they say them spite words? Yeah. Probably. Well, no, I... Do they say y'all? Do they have the, like, the... Put your hands in the sky. [laughing] Gimmie some cowboy slang from Austria. Is it the same? Hey, yeah. Do it in an audio comment, Ingrid. You know you want to... Speaking of, if you have comments, questions, or suggestions, you can find us at Skinner.fm, actually, or flashbalt.com. Call our voicemail line at 206-338-2792, or email us text or mp3s to Skinner@ Skinner.fm. Jessica Mays vocal talents and musical stylings can be found at maytunes.com. Yes, they can. Opoponax's artistic work and general updates can be located at apoponaxfeathers.wordpress.com. Mm-hmm. Agreed. The entire run of flashbalt can be found at flashbalt.com or via the search bar and iTunes. Flashcast is released under the Canadian Creative Commons attribution non-commercial 2.5 license. I want to beat you up. [laughing] Let's fat. 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