Prepare yourself for big news, Kommissar Rex, influences, Harm Carter, the last of Sexaholics Anonymous, and Chia bugs.
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[Music] Hello and welcome to Flashcast 11. Prepare yourself for big news. Commissar rex, influences, harm carder, the last of sexaholics anonymous, and chia bugs. [Music] Tonight we have myself, oh, Popon X, smartest artist. That was good, I like that. You wrote that yourself, didn't you? Oh, yeah. Jessica May. Ew. Audio impresario. Thank you. And GRD. Hello. Idea chia. Chia, chia, chia, chia. I had a chia pet when I was a kid. Idea chia. And it got bugs. So I threw it there. I know. Is there was a type of bug that you recognized, or was it like some tropical baby bug? No, yeah, it was all like on the inside of the thing. I was like, oh my god. It could walk in and out of side of your skin, that's good. No, no, my skin, the thing, the chia pet, it was a chia hippo. Anyway. It affected chia hippo. Yes. Yeah, hippo. [Laughs] It scarred me in, I'll never get another chia. Oh. Well, that's really sad because I wanted to have a chia pet at some point. It was before the stuff even grew. You make this little pastes de seeds, and then you put it on there. I did that, and after a day or two, I noticed little bugs on it. Oh my gosh. This is disgusting. I'm scared of my chia now. And so I threw it out. I want the chia pet, that's the guy's hair. That one I find the creepiest one. [Laughs] Well, at first I thought I want the original chia, just because even the shape of it reminds me of, like, every afternoon I watched a movie or Matlock, and the chia pet thing came on, that and the ultramatic mattress. I was one of those. I have some exciting non-related chia pet news. Television. No chia. Law news coming up, writer. Okay. Okay. But we have a big announcement that I just want to tease a little bit first because it's going to come up in the next bit to during mail time. Do I know about this announcement? Yeah. Okay. I know what your announcement you're talking about. Fantastic. Right off the top of the housekeeping though, I do want to say that this week's episodes, I apologize. We're talking about episodes, one, forty, one, two, and three are going to be a day late each. Okay. So this week's schedule is going to be Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. I have a ridiculously busy week ahead and I want to put out decent episodes. I don't want to feel like I'm about to implode, so I'm letting everybody know up front. Oh, that's good. Well known fact, we're in the middle of selling our old house and it's not always the most pleasant situation. Yeah, we're months ahead in the new house, so having two at one time is not the most pleasant. But we're at the very tail end of dealing with that and sort of the end of the move. So yes, I will be dealing with that heavily this week and work related stuff and although the episodes will be out, they will be a day late each. And I will reflect that on the this week page on Skinner.fm, which reminds me, if you also point your browser at flashpulp.com now, you will go to, well, essentially the same page of Skinner.fm, but now flashpulp has its own domain. So feel free to distribute that if you want. Flashpulp.com and maybe when you have a spare a couple days, you can make a flashpulp site, make it pretty. Yeah, because I have a lot of spare time lately. Yeah. That's what I was insinuating. Before we get into the actual mailbag, I did want to bring up a little something that's more general pulp related, although it does come out of a comment from our good friend Jeff over at bothersomethingspodcast, bothersomethings.com. Love those guys. Yes. So he shot me a little email since I know that you guys are dark tower fans that you might like this heads up. And he mentions that there's going to be a new dark tower book. Yes, and I think that's pretty fantastic because I am a giant, giant dark tower fan. I enjoy the dark tower series certainly. Have you heard anything about what's going to happen? Yeah, interestingly, because the series is technically finished, it's going to be sort of inserted between two of the previously written books. Yeah, a 4.5 kind of. They said it's going to, well, he said, I should say, it's going to take place between what happened after Wizarding Glass and before they get to Calab, Bernsteinous. Mm-hmm. So I can definitely feel for wanting to fill in holes in chronology and that should be interesting. Yes. Well, we're also still in sort of housekeeping mode though. I just remembered that I wanted to mention I've been in contact with Libson repeatedly. They are chasing down some problems for us. If anybody happens to notice missing the holes in the archive, like say you're just downloading every episode, but for some reason, let's just say for example, episode 19 keeps sticking and it won't download for you, please report that to me like ASAP. Because it means other people are having the problem and we know who can fix it. Well, no, the issue is really that I need to get one of the, Libson won't fix it unless they see that it's broken, essentially is what it comes down to. Okay. So I need to-- We're not going around. They're fine. But the problem is that the holes get fixed really quickly, whatever, something in their system manages to correct the problem. So although I know for sure that there's definitely problems with the archive occasionally, say like episode 29 will go missing and then half an hour later it'll be fixed, but by the time they've received the ticket for that episode, it's already too late. So-- Dig it. Operation is appreciated. Holy crap, Japan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We keep the news on all the time just in case something new is going on, but every new thing is just so horrific and then he can't turn it off because who can turn off Japan? Topping it off with a volcano? Yeah. Man. Well, that's definitely the most expected of the follow-up events. The nuclear reactors are really what's got me concerned of the spotlight. Yeah. I was really impressed. Like I don't know if it's just because the coverage, you know, rarely shows dead bodies or chaos, you know, other than water. But the Japanese seem so like concerned for everyone else and so orderly and so-- Collected. Yeah. I was impressed. Well, I think it definitely depends where on the island you are, how impacted you were, you know. Yeah. It's going to be really, well, I shouldn't say interesting, but the next few years in Japanese pop culture and what I would think of as pulp culture are definitely going to be fascinating. They've always told sort of interesting and historically motivated stories. Thought provoking. So their pop culture is going to take-- I would suspect a darker twist and it's going to probably-- I just hope that they can still have their island after all of this. Yeah. Well, meltdowns or meltdowns. We'll see what happens. Geez. They just don't have enough space for this kind of chaos. You guys can come stay in the basement. Yeah. Well, speaking of foreign culture, I guess what time it is. So we got an email from Ingrid and I have yet-- this is a fantastic email. I really appreciate all of your missives and comments in grid. They're always appreciated. But this one is great because this is an insight into further questions we had last episode, but also more pressing issues. Hi guys. Thanks for the very enjoyable flashcast. Full of information and interesting insights she's talking about, Ted. Regarding your question about popular culture here in Austria, I would say crime stories of the most popular series on TV followed by a medical doctor series-- oh, sorry, followed up by a medical/doctor series. Most of them are imported from the states and translated into Germany, like CS on Miami, New York, Monk, Doctor House, but also Desperate Housewives and LA Law is also still running. Yep. Which is interesting. I think that as internet culture goes on, you're going to see more of these sort of mashups of classic television and modern television because the whole library for everything is going to be available. So accessible. Yeah. But I understand that it's also mostly about translation lag, but the truth is Canada gets its own weird little shows out of the states that maybe have stopped running there or even a lot of times shows that failed in the states, but for some reason we get really excited about the first season that was made when we just watch it open over again. Like Firefly. Well, that's a general kind of all over thing, but I know there's a lot of support for shows like Clone High, which is more of my college days than now, but sex in the city and Grey's Anatomy were also very popular. We watch crime series produced in Germany too, but also sentimental films with regional backgrounds, usually settled in a village in the Alps with all the tragic aspects of romantic love in it. Movies originally produced in Austria are also mostly crime stories, which in truth probably has a lot to do, and this isn't to say anything, cast dispersions against Austria in any way, but crime television I think is often very common because it's also pretty cheap to make. You just need like- Someone to lay down. Actor cop, somebody to lay down and be a corpse and then actor criminal and you're kind of there. Yeah. But wait. I learned something about Austria today. Ingrid you have really opened my eyes. They have usually a gentle comedian nature. Comedic nature. Cops are mostly clumsy or lovable, or they can even be dogs like a German Shepherd called Rex. I think Rex is known all over the world. Yes, we are all very proud of Inspector Rex. Aw, that's awesome. So listen. This is not a show that I've heard of in Canada, but you have to understand that our media is also kind of limited and mostly overrun by being so close to the United States, which is no offense to you, US people, obviously we like the high quality of your television. But the show originally runs as Comasar Rex in Austria. See, what I loved about that was that there was never- there were shots like location shots, but all the shots seen with, you know, the dog and everybody else in the cast were all like, you know, gray black background or black background, that was so great. We should mention that- We saw the YouTube video and I will include a link to the theme. That was so- I loved it. I want to get it for our kids now, so they can watch Comasar Rex. Well, this is a, as far as I understand, a prime time and very popular show. It's got a cult following in Australia. Really? It's well-known all around the world, like we're one of the few non-Comasar Rex countries. So their theme was in English? Yeah. So is that the theme like, is the English theme played in Austria? I guess we'd have to ask Ingrid, I believe so. I think it- and again, Ingrid could speak to this better than I can, but I believe it's probably something like the Japanese habit of dropping in a little English here and there and having the main episode all in. You know, it's pretty common language, a lot of people know it. Spreads your net a little wider. So you get the impression from that opening that it's a pretty, well, as Ingrid said, a pretty kind of comedic nature. Yeah, bumbling cops, dropping a sandwich, the dog gets, you know, that was great. One of the people who later became- okay, I should set this up by saying brand- brand-er, brand-er. Oh, I'm sorry Ingrid, I'm so sorry. One of the main recurring heroes was originally- actually appeared on the show as a bit of an extra beforehand, and I was really surprised by his backstory. Many actors play different characters in different episodes of the series, with one of the more striking examples of this being Gideon Burkhard, I'm sorry, Ingrid, playing a villain who mistakenly thought he was infected with HIV and proceeded to murder the other members of his orgy club in an episode before returning as Brantner, who is basically like the main cop as my understanding. Wait a minute. Okay. Well, he reformed. Let me just get this straight. First of all, the main cop is an ex-sex orgy killer. He is an entirely different person, but it's played by the same dude. That happens on Law and Order, all the time would be fair. Okay, but also character, seriously, the orgy group gave him HIV or so he thought, so then he went and murdered everybody. That's hilarious. That's a great plot. That's a lot more hard-hitting than I was expecting when I saw that intro. He was misinformed? Like he doesn't have it? Yeah, I guess so. Yes. It was probably the end reveal. Why, why? Oh yeah? But you don't have HIV. What? What? My whole world is spinning. Maybe we shouldn't watch this with the kids. I'd guess no one would believe in a serious and tough murder story set in Austria. The crime we're in here is still very low. In magazines, it's pretty much the same. Love romances settled in the mountains, doctor hospital stories, and after doing a bit of research, I was surprised to see that there are still western stories for sale. Which is interesting. I wonder what an Austrian western looks like. Yeah. What's an Austrian cowboy look like? Operatic. Thanks again for being, well, I guess that's not really. Anyway, thanks again for being part of my balanced breakfast, six hours east of New York. I think it's the same with Toronto. Yep, Toronto's in the same time, times under New York. Looking forward to number 11, lovely greetings from Vienna, Ingrid. Aw. Thank you, Ingrid. That's so awesome. Lovely to hear from you. Always lovely. Always very positive too. Such a nice lady. Thank you. So this actually brought me back to a question we sort of had last episode. Well, it wasn't a question. It was just a thought we had off the mic. Why is it that in North American pulp at least, if you're an urban lawyer, it's fine. They'll get a wide variety of cases, but the only time we see or seem to see rural lawyers is when it's a sort of racially charged case. Because racists are bigger in the country when they're more secluded. Was Boss Hogg a judge or was he just a jerk? He was the mayor, no. Shouldn't there have been a judge somewhere in... There was the deputy. He's like Judge Dred, he's just like all of the law. Boss, Boss Hogg. I thought he was, maybe he's like the sheriff. No, Roscoe Pete Coltrane was a sheriff. I thought he was a deputy. No? Oh my God. No, I think there was another guy who was a deputy. Cleanest possibly. Something kind of named like that. Yeah, something ridiculous. Anyway, it just seems a little sad that all country is stereotyped as a... Yeah, I think that's totally what it is. It's stereotyped as racist. Well, generally smaller towns are less diverse, right? So more clicky. Yeah. Hey, you look like me, let's be friends. So yeah, I've solved that. And here's the answer to your question. The end. Hey, Flashcast. Yeah, I think the new format is when I think it just gives you more options and how you want to spend that time and it's great. It's great. More creative options for you is always good. I just wanted to express a little bit of my sadness that you got the whole voicemail thing cleared up. I think it's possible that you guys are doing more of a more of a public service. Yeah. If I found out that I was being anonymously, but still, I would know it was me having my call played, I would be maybe less inclined to do something I would regret, whereas you put me in a room when I know I have problems with impulse control, put me in a room full of people with a similar issue and I don't know how that would work out. So those poor sexaholics, they may be in for a rough ride in the future. Yes. Anyway. And enjoying the recent broadcast, I feel like a little bit of a late comer, but enjoying it all a lot and can't wait for the next one. Anyway, thanks guys. You know, that's the exact same conversation I had with JRD about this sexaholics anonymous thing. We have a whole bunch of people who are addicted to sex all in the same room, knowing that each other are addicted to sex. I would have to assume that there's some sort of intake survey with some sort of gender preference. Yeah. Well, remember we discussed that. We discussed that. Like a really big rule, like you can't do your fellow on it. I'm sure it's probably taboo, but at the same time, it was just stopping. But yeah, thanks for empathizing and we did do the right thing. I do want to open up the lines if you feel like you need to be publicly shamed for being a sexaholic or anything else so you can always call in. You can still call in. Absolutely if you'd like to. We can still. But we should reveal that that is our friend. Friend of the show, friend of my existence. And mine too. Well, all of ours I would assume. And he also is the creator of Mobius March, the song that we use for the chillers now, right? Mm-hmm. No, for science fiction stories. Yep. Yeah. Fantastic. But thank you for calling in. I appreciate that very much. Mm-hmm. I like how I was very pleased with how you read it. And I figured you deserve to hear that instead of have it emailed. I think so. Just one question, I don't know, is maybe a dumb question, but what does it take to get a wiki going? What a good question. If it's not hard, I'm sure if enough here listeners should be done fairly quickly. Yeah. I feel like I had a fat Tuesday, but that was really just, I think I was retaining water. Yeah, because you made us go out for dessert when we're supposed to be having healthy things. Yeah. But the extent of my, I went to the earlier center where me and the tiny babies go play, and they had pancakes and stuff on the Tuesday. Oh, really? That's cool. And people had beads, and it was crazy. In truth, generally, I think in the Canada, we don't do that much. Yeah. No, not for Mardi Gras. And sometimes we watch things on the TV of ladies being flashy for beads, but we don't do this thing. Are you implying we watch porn? Yeah. That sounds a little bad. No, no, but I mean, like, the celebrations I've ever seen is... Oh, via television. Yeah. Like some news based on what some crazy Americans were doing. Mind you, it's legal for us to actually go around. Topless. Although it never happens anymore. Yeah. Well, yeah. There was a few friskies around the beginning who were like, "Oh, I'm going to do it because I can." Yeah. Yeah, but then the novelty wore off, and we all put our shirts back on. I think some ladies at the beach will, but you know, not just walking around the mall. Yeah. School. Down the street. Generally, it's not places that you're inside, right? Because you'll get a lot of places where it's, you know, no shirt, no shoes, no service. Yes, yes. But we had girls who would leave high school for lunch and just sit inside. Down the street. Yeah, walking down the street, looking across car accidents. Yep. Good times. Good times. Okay. Really appreciate the call three-day fish. Yes. Always appreciated. Thank you so much. And I'm really hoping to see your name up on the... I like that you're slightly creepy. I appreciate that. Always appreciating. Always appreciated in a world. I also wanted to mention his Twitter name, MC_Laffing. He did send, I don't know if you recall, after the last episode. We were trying to... DJ Fish. Determine if he was a DJ or he was basically Irish. He did tweet me later on. You're a DJ already in cast. I would like to dispel the rumors that I DJ on the weekend. It is indeed Mick the Irish surname prefix. I was wondering if it was like Mick, like, isn't McDonald's, McLaffing. Like, ha ha ha ha, like some generic... Oh, like... Yeah, you know what? That's actually what I thought too, when I got a hold on Twitter. I'm like, "What do you call him name?" You'll have to tell us the intention behind it. Yeah. Maybe he's Irish and he's laughing. Maybe. I don't know. Big announcement time. Thanks to Jim... Jim of relicradio.com has very kindly donated some space and installation time and administrative services for wiki.flashpulp.com. Thank you, Jim. Thank you so much. Thanks, Jim. Great. So I've got a little bit up there already. I've done a little bit of minor pre edits and sort of trying to set up template stuff. If anybody wants to go to the page, they can see the Mulligan Smith articles right front center. Yay. And they can use that as sort of a template to spread the love around. Mm hmm. Yeah, Charity was working hard while we were playing Wow. Working hard playing Wow. So yes, big, big thanks to Jim. Yes, that is so thoughtful and considerate to offer that, so thank you. wiki.flashpulp.com Hola. We also got a lovely email from Barry just recently. He says, "I was asked not very long ago who my influences in my writing were, if any. I am influenced by Douglas Adams, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Dave Barry, who happens to be a columnist. I don't intentionally try to write like them, and it is even arguable if I approach them, but I do think that there is an unconscious influence on me because I love their style." Oh, that's so sweet. "However, I have on occasion intentionally tried to replicate some of Grocho Marx's phrasings and quips with varying levels of success. What are the flashpulp influences? What other authors do you think are similar to flashpulp, Mr. Geardy?" Well, I also wanted to open this up to everybody, influence wise, but I'll start off plot wise and story wise, and then you guys can follow up with what you think affects your portions. Okay. Yeah. The people that I aspire to, I suppose, are maybe Kurt Vonnegut. It all sounds kind of pretentious. It's like Graham Green, Kurt Vonnegut, Ambrose Beers. Beers. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. Can you name something that he's written? Spookhouse. Hmm. Oh my goodness, especially Spookhouse. You remember you reading that one, but... He has a very journalistic style. He's very much recounting what he's describing as if, not as if it's a newspaper piece, he's not trying to emulate that, but he has a very information delivery style and no nonsense. Like very objective. Mm-hmm. And I definitely try to aspire to that. Mm-hmm. Not a whole lot of extra. Mm-hmm. Floury. George Orwell, I wouldn't say every piece of work by George Orwell, but especially he wrote an essay on the use of English that I think Barry's probably familiar with because I know, I happen to know that he's a teacher, and I think most teachers probably are familiar with the essay, but a lot of what Orwell cites in that essay about cliches and catchphrases and crutches, I really tried to take to heart. Mm-hmm. And I think that Spider Robinson has really influenced me in that way. I don't feel like he's a science fiction writer for those who don't know. And to me, he goes out of his way to deliver things in a way that although maybe not always successfully are usually original. Mm-hmm. He doesn't, you won't catch him using common, like catchphrases or, you know, standards. Mm-hmm. Well, is there any like particular author or work that you find similarities with like specifically with Flash Bowl? Uh, your characters, any of them? I don't know. I guess, like, I've mentioned before, I suppose that Joe Monk is sort of based on Heinlein or Heinlein's stories, but they're not really intended to emulate him, they're just kind of almost a caricature of that kind of business. Robert E. Howard, certainly for things like Blackhall, although again, I don't think I write like him. I feel like a lot of those guys. A lot of my issue with the old pulp style is that it falls into the same hole that, and I don't mean any offense to anybody who really digs modern fantasy, but I find a lot of modern fantasy is overwritten and over-described. Even when I'm writing longer form fiction, like I really have to be very sparing when I'm doing Flash because there's, you know, there's a thousand words in an episode and I do not have 200 or 300 to spend on telling you about how pretty a hilltop it is or whatever. But even when I'm writing longer form fiction, my style tends to be pretty sparing on that, and so, in a sense, I kind of see a line between me and older writers, I suppose. I don't know. There's a lot of Elmore Leonard in there, too. I take his dialogue very seriously. All of his characters are basically laid out by their dialogue, in my opinion, and I really take that to heart. Anyway. And that's all aspirations, I don't want to sound like a jackass, like I don't think I'm writing Gram Green-level stories, but maybe one day I'll be able to. What about you, Mae? You got any influences for your choice of music or music, or I know you'll listen to a lot of podcasts and stuff, so... I want it to be professional, nice and crisp. I don't want a bunch of, I mean, yeah, I don't really think there's any... I guess it's sort of, yeah, I have a vision for what I want it to be, and I want to stick to that with whatever I'm doing. When you say you want it to be professional, what do you compare it to? What do you consider to be professional? Um, well, like, when I'm going in and out of music or whatever, I want to make sure that there's, you know, a decent fade where you're not hearing clicking in between or huge variances like going up and down, or like just things that would jar you out of it. I want it to be a nice, smooth, flowing adventure, and I don't like, you know, to extend songs past a certain point or play full songs, you know, I like it to be nice and crisp. Is there a show though you hold as a gold standard? Is there another podcast you listen to and you think, yes, this is how it must be done. These guys are right on top of it. No, I have none. I am completely original. Yeah, you're entirely curious. I'm not showing anyone. Mm-hmm. I know, um, I don't really have any, any influences, uh, art-wise when I'm, I'm doing pictures and stuff, but I know when, um, when I do my narration, I always find it very helpful to think of a person that I want to emulate when I'm speaking. I know, um, I've mentioned before that when we did the El Cara story, I just thought of every time any of the El Cara were speaking, I, I thought of Eric Northman from the True Blood. But this most recent one, um, there was a, a bit of a, of a Spanish accent and I, I thought of Penelope Cruz every time I spoke. And so I found that kind of helpful. I, I just thought, how would Penelope Cruz say this, you know, and I, I found that, uh, to be beneficial? I'm not like, I don't hear that, like I'm never like, oh, she's making, uh, you know, impersonation of this person. Yeah. Well, I always want to make it a little bit mine, but there's, there's somebody in mind generally. But the majority is stolen. Yeah. There, there's always someone in mind. Not like mine. That's completely original. Yeah, completely original. This seems like it'd be a good time to go on to backroom watch. So, uh, last week was a series of one shots. We did, uh. Was a nutty bite, Sad. Yeah. And nutty bites. Oh, big thanks to, uh, new chairs, nutches, nutty, hey nutty. Hey nutty. Hey nutty. Uh, nimless dot. I really liked your voice. I think you really did a really nice job with the ad. Mm hmm. It was a pleasure to. Why don't we just drop the ad in right now? Okay. Here you go. Wake up. Go to work. Work. Come home. Eat dinner. Wrought your brain out. Go to bed. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Are you tired of an old humdrum life, tired of things that just weigh you down and depress you? And you're rather just focused on things that are awesome. Tune into nutty bites. Find out what's awesome, nutty bites, nimless dot org slash vlog. Thank you very much nutty for, uh, doing that. And next week we'll be doing the ladies of pin dragon. Ooh, that sounds fun. And then after that. I have a phone on them on the Twitter. Mm hmm. They seem nice. Mm hmm. Yay. Ladies writing. Whoo. Uh, so yeah, last week was a series of one shots, started sort of up and ended sort of down. Mm. Sort of down. We, we have this kind of rule. No bad babies. Yeah. If anybody saw on Jaredie's post, but he was kind of worried that, uh, this most. You wouldn't agree. Yeah, this most recent flash pulp would get the axe because of the, because it's gotten it before or based on dead babies or potential dead babies. And I think, um, so long as the child does not die within the story, it's okay. It's, but, uh, like a fan, a fan-tasm. It was definitely close. Like it, it definitely made me tear up every time I read it. And it hit a little close to home, but abandoning your dead baby, living in your house and growing. I'd be interested in hearing from somebody like three day fish on how much, how they feel about. Yeah. Who isn't a lady with sensitive heartstrings that has, that have children. And four children. Yeah. So the, uh, previously banned dead baby episode was also rejected by a friend of the site, Ray. Oh, really? Oh, he ran. I didn't know that. I later, after you guys were like, no, this is ridiculous. We're not doing this one. I sent it to him asking him if he thought it was really that bad and he thought so too. He. Yeah. It got a little close to home. You know, yeah, cause he killed the baby ones. Yeah. No. Just a one. Well, the thing is it's not like it's a horrible, it, the real problem is, no, we're not getting into that story. No, I'm not going to get into it. But the real problem is, is that it's not unbelievable. It's not like some guy busting in with an ex and killing a family or anything. I'm telling you what it's not like cause then you have to tell them what it is like. And I'm not going there. It's just, it's something completely, it's over. It's weak, harm Carter, calm, calm, and less between now and Tuesday, I certainly have to change my mind, but I've already written a good portion of the first story and I've got all the three parts plotted out so I don't see why it wouldn't be harm Carter. Return to the murder plague. It's a weird balancing act to try to maintain returning to a story that you haven't touched in a while. Like, I'm feeling like we're getting a little far from the collective detective too. So it wouldn't be. Go back and read your last story or two, just to kind of get back to where that character was. Well, that's kind of why it's handy to have all of these audio recordings cause a lot of times I'll just, when I know I'm going to be out for a quick walk or scoot in a boot before I have to write that story that evening, I'll re-listen to the old episode or... Yeah. You said a boot and I don't know if anyone's going to just scoot in a boot. I found the same thing. Sometimes I'll have to go back and listen, like especially black hole cause you'll come across the same character, you know, and then you have to, oh, what did that person sound like? Go back. I have to confess, I'm hoping that the wiki is going to allow me to be really lazy and be like, did I say blah, blah, blah, let me go look it up. That's awesome. It was very exciting to be like, hey, is anybody interested in people wear in helping us? Yeah. It was very nice. That's very exciting. Yep. So I think this is probably a good time to move on to... the audio of an assaging, of hope. Hey. Is that your new Santa Fe? You're doing fully work now? It's a horse. So you got anything to add about audio? I really like it when we have an ad for three days in a row because the length of the ad is always the same, and I know where to cut it in gloomy Sunday, and it's just basically a visual thing. I don't have to listen to anything. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, paste, paste, paste, fade, fade, fade, fade, and I'm good to go. Did that make any sense? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. I can understand that. Well, next week we're running a ladies pin dragon promo, as I mentioned, and then the week after that, I would like to run maybe even the two weeks after that, a thank you promo for Jim in his relic radio, at relicradio.com, enterprise, so you may, at least for a week, you'll have pre-rendered promos. Anybody else who wants to hock anything for reals, send it to me. Yeah. Any friends with Flashpult? Shoot us an email at skinner@skinner.fm and we'll definitely find a place in the rotation for you. LS, we don't like it. No, I'm just kidding. We'll run it anyway. The art of narration. Hey, I happen to know that you completed a bunch of Ruby work that we have yet to post. Your hand was so sore. Writing in the back up soothes. Your poor little teeny tiny hand. Yeah. Your Raptor Claw. It became a Raptor Claw. I couldn't un-bend my fingers after a while. It was fun. But I did a couple extra little doodles in the Ruby book a little while ago and that's great. You just need to get them scanned in up. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's another, we haven't really plugged in the scanner since we unpacked, so there's this whole issue with getting them scanned. Well, there's painting going on in one of the floors entirely, so we don't really want to unpack too much. That and you never unpack your office. You always wait for somebody else to do it because you're an artist. Mm-hmm. It's not left really. I live almost entirely out of my bag. I have everything I need for my writing and existence out of my bag. It's really epic that I don't really need to unpack an office. I really like, it would be nice, but it's not necessary. Anyway, I would also happen to hear that somebody had a suggestion regarding drawings that you wanted to make. Yeah. Yeah. Do we even tell a OpenX about this? No, I don't believe so. Okay. We're sending out a request for fan art. Really? That's awesome. Yes, and in return, you, OpenX, will spend 15 minutes drawing a subject of the fan's choice. Oh, wow. So, and in addition, we will show your fan art on our Facebook page and on the, on the flash pop site. That sounds fun, actually. Yeah. It's kind of like a challenge. You know, you're not going to get color or nothing, but it will be, you know, pen in hand. You can do that. Strictly crayon. Yeah. And then she'll, she'll even kiss the paper and give it, bless it with good wishes. Yeah. Let's go with that. Yeah. Yeah. No, that sounds fun. That sounds interesting. We'll see. Great. The flash pop art challenge. Yes. I'm excited. Who will be the first. I hope you like stick figures. Yeah. It'll just, um, be hangman, you'll send him back and forth the longest game of hangman. Maybe there'll be a, some room in the wiki for that too. That would be lots of fun. I love playing hangman. Oh, I could definitely. You like scratch that. We're playing hangman. Yeah. Let's play hangman. That's what this is about now. We're done. Yeah. If we get decent entries, I definitely make a fan art page on skinner.fm. That'd be fun. I should also post up, uh, the first bit of fanfic we got. Yeah. We should get our, our stickers done and all this stuff, and then we could, you know, send them a little. Thank you. I just got the wiki set up. What, what more do you want? Obviously, clearly. Lots of other things. I say that, but it was really Jim who got most of the heavy lifting done on that. Yeah. You, you asked and he gave it to you. Jim, can we have stickers? Thank you everyone for your questions and comments and all that stuff. We really appreciate your calls and emails. Yeah. Big thank you to everyone who shoots us something over the course of the week, um, or even comments on the blog. Big thanks to a, uh, Mac of Bionite, a talented musician who's been coming around pretty regularly and, uh, always big thanks to Barry, both for emails and comments. If you have comments, questions, or suggestions, you can find us at skinner.fm, color voicemail line at 206-338-2792, or email us text to our mp3s to skinner@skinner.fm. Jessica May's vocal talents and musical stylings can be found at maytunes.com. Poponax's artistic work in general updates can be located at poponaxfeathers.wordpress.com. I'm sure she'll be posting up all of the, uh, return, uh, fan art. The entire run of Flashpulp can be found at skinner.fm or via the search bar on iTunes. 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