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Guardian Goddess in Manhattan.Book 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels."Our Princess grew up around a woman whose keen intellect we rely on to protect us from unseen enemies," Saint Marie's voice became deeper and more threatening. "At the age of ten, she," Saint Marie looked my way as my hand shot up mimicking Aya's identical plea for attention."Yes Ishara?" Saint Marie chose to acknowledge me."She's nine.""Fine. At the age of nine, she earned an honorific, Mamētu me eda, which I didn't accomplish until my 19th year." 'Yes Ladies, I'm an epic bad-ass and I've been out-performed by a child'."She was kidnapped along with the Head of House Ishara. They tortured her by clipping off two of her digits, one at a time, then seared the damage with a blowtorch. She gave them nothing. At the end of the encounter, the two of them managed to defeat thirty Seven Pillar's commandos, over fifteen she disabled personally.""After killing nearly half as many enemies as the 35 I have personally dispatched in my entire career, she crossed a mile and a half of barren rock in the midst of a Category 4 Typhoon. Cáel Ishara only helped her half of the way because he was engaged with the last two members of the Seven Pillar's team.""I have utter confidence the madness here today, while assisted by House Epona and Ishara, was the brainchild of Krasimira. I say 'assisted' because Cáel Ishara spared Kwenhamai's life on the battlefield. Katrina Epona removed Kwenhamai from Romanian custody to keep her out of the hands of those who wished us harm. I was aware Kwenhamai was in New York, but not her precise location.""My read on the situation is this:"Aya of Kururiyahhssi was aware of Kwenhamai and Krasimira's plot to adopt her into the bloodline of the first Amazon.""She was not aware of Kwenhamai's plan to exit the Host in the manner she chose. I read the shock and pain in, Aya's face.""Our Princess has not given me a single order and I am the only voice here today that matters, I am the Golden Mare and the Council has consistently failed to agree on a Regency.""Krasimira, why have you done this?" Saint Marie abruptly asked for either a denial, or acquiescence of her perception of events."As directed by the Ancestors, the statute of a goddess of a First House was recast then returned to her perpetual spot. It brought new light to a dark, sacred and painful place. In that moment I realized that for the first time in nearly 3,200 years, the descendants of every Amazon gathered before the walls of Wilusa (Troy) had been reunited.""I was troubled. Was this a portent the augurs couldn't divine? In their council (the augurs) then came up with the words 'speak to our eldest'."Oh shit, the rest of the Council was racking their minds trying to figure who was the oldest surviving Amazon. I knew for a fact they were overlooking the two top candidates."I sought out the eldest Amazon alive. They claimed to not have the answer for my worries. She had far more numerous things weighing on her mind such as her intimate demise. Though I hated sharing the same air with her, I asked her to tell me her greatest regret.""I had given up on the Amazon Race until an Amazon reminded me, through martial effort, valiant spirit and a kind heart, I was wrong to abandon my faith with my people. Now I will die, unable to pass on my renewed hope because the one Amazon I would trust with my legacy is equally childless.""I asked her the name of this Amazon she felt was worthy of her legacy. Then I informed her she was wrong and the Amazon in question did indeed have a daughter. She asked to meet the daughter,""Last night I requested the presence of a female child residing with members of House Epona," the Keeper of Records looked up at the Golden Mare. "I provided neither the resident female (Caitlyn, Aya's Mother), or the House Head with an explanation."Female childSince my revival, Amazons were using 'female' child a lot more often. This meant, the motheer had never told her daughter farewell. The true fate of Aya of Epona would never officially be recorded. She has been born, but never recorded as an Amazon of her true House."The three of us met alone. The two embraced; birth mother and daughter. The eldest of us proclaimed she saw the light of Kururiyahhssi in her daughter's eyes. Words were exchanged. The child agreed to be adopted then departed. Further arrangements were made without the child's knowledge as we have recently observed.""I testify that there is only one Amazon alive today who knows what transpired and I will take those conversations to my grave. Does that suffice?" Krasimira finished. I was already regurgitating my mental quandary with my Isharans. Was Aya really a daughter of Kururiyahhssi?"I will leave it to the others to contemplate your, bizarre actions, Krasimira," Saint Marie frowned. "As for the rest of you, Aya has impressed me. If she has not impressed you, I do not care. I think she is definitely influenced by those two," Saint Marie motioned to Katrina and me. "It is a given since Katrina was of her blood and she has risked much in the presence of a man she calls 'Atta' and he calls 'Duma'.""Katrina is a cold, heartless snake and I am convinced she is one of the best 'First Bearer of the Sun Spear through the Halls of Night and Death' the Host been served by in a long, long time.” Saint Marie paused then looked at me while she said; “ Cáel is a fool who leads with his heart when he should let better women take charge. Fortunately for the rest of us, he is reliably successful despite his multitude of handicaps."Was I upset about being insulted? No. The truth hurts and a Man needs to learn to roll with the punches. Buffy I could deal with. Katrina most likely appreciated being associated with a dangerous reptile. Saint Marie hadn't forgotten Katrina threating Saint Marie's daughter that was for sure."I am considering much of what our Princess would like me/us to do, because it is based in keen insight and well-reasoned thought. She wishes to spare our sons so we will have more warriors in the fight. We have already added men to Havenstone and one to the Council, as was the Will of the Ancestors.""Let me see, she wishes a bodyguard of fourteen (2 First House and 1 from Africa, Asia, Europe and North & South America, the Amazon presence in Australia was minimal and I doubted they would bring someone up from Antarctica, plus the seven matching Runners) without removing permanent members of any House and allowing all Houses to have access to our future Queen. I approve. It is a fine idea and I wish I had thought of it.""Should we add Runners directly into the Royal House? She doesn't think so and I feel this decision shows a remarkably insightful into the long history of our People and protects the Council's sensitivity on such matters. I approve.""Placing our sons into the care of the Royal House? We need to free up as many sisters as possible. Men under the care of the Royal House will be tradesmen and help-mates. Not a single weapon will be in their hands. If none of you have realized herlike will take two decades to implement, it only increases my eagerness to see her become 'casted'."Aya's hand shot up again.Yes?""I would hope the Council, or the Regents, will consider a 'like' which is not mine. It is a man's and it should be of no surprise the idea is Cáel's.""If you feel it holds merit, Aya, tell us," Saint Marie deferred."The 9 Clans have shown some interest in a children exchange programs among our youth as it would provide new techniques we can add to our arsenal an a new avenue to experiment with new ideas. I find the idea to be promising as the Host takes part in affairs beyond our own immediate needs. It would also supply partners between families to be shared for a season or two."Translation: Amazon women could breed with men of allied Secret Societies to reduce our dependence on our own, much smaller, male population. In the short term, it would go a long way to rectifying the Host's child-bearing problems.The Council's quarrelsome behavior was biting them in the ass big time. Saint Marie was right, the only opinion that mattered was hers until the Council elected a Regency. Had we not been at war, the Council would have ruled, but we were, so we took orders from the Golden Mare. Even if the High Priestess had been alive, she would have deferred to our designated War Leader on most things."Cáel Ish, Cáel Wakko Ishara is a very dangerous and devious male, Aya. Be careful of any council he gives," Saint Marie's caution was more playful than menacing."I'll be okay," Aya peeped. "He doesn't have sex with any woman until she is eighteen." That wasn't what the Golden Mare was cautioning her about. We all knew it. Aya was working to defuse a sticky bit of mental juggling, listening to a man's advice."On that we can agree," Saint Marie conceded. "Back to what I would 'like' to say. The New Directive is being implemented. I feel it goes beyond the purview of my mandate. I will leave it for the Regency to deal with. Katrina and Tessa have already invested in the groundwork in this endeavor, so I will endorse it if that is the decision of the Regency.""I have zero desire to add a single Runner to the Security Detail. I will open up slots in the training program if that is what the Regency demands. Each House's policy for dealing with the First Directive is their business, not mine. If any of you wish to consider something the Princess considers to be important, so be it. The idea of 1,000 Isharans does not appeal to me. Look how much trouble their tiny numbers have already caused us and take heed."Buffy began growling, which amused/worried the Houses on either side of us. Unlike me, Buffy didn't 'roll with the blows' and considered all manner of insults to me, House Ishara and her Isharan sisters to be answerable with violence. I loved her so. There was also no way I'd let her go after Saint Marie. The Golden Mare would crush her; I had no doubt."The unwelcome blood feud: are both House Heads ignorant of my forbiddance of such things? Apparently so. Both defied me by tossing insults back and forth. Considering we are at war with two of the most powerful Secret factions, I am angered by both for their idiocy.""The solution the Princess likes is rather novel," Saint Marie was punishing both Messina and me with her low voice and fiery gaze. Krasimira coughed."Yes?" Saint Marie suspended her anger."The suggested resolution is not without precedence," Krasimira spoke with a scholarly detachment. "In our early days, the Host settled such disputes in Spring and Fall gatherings by contests of foot speed, hunting, horsewomanship, archery and wrestling. If we revive the tradition, the competing Houses could nominate one woman for each contest to settle the matter. Only the hand-to-hand match would risk either contestant's health.""I will consider it and render judgement before the Sun sets today," Saint Marie nodded. "The final like pleases me greatly. Dealing with the 52 of you is, Cáel?"I was on the spot. I couldn't let down my fan base of one, Aya. Perhaps it was five, Buffy (who would never admit it), Daphne (who liked me), Katrina (because she liked fucking with my head) and Desiree (who was less likely to admit she found me funny than Buffy).I felt I gave a decent effort."'A ginormous pain in my hemorrhoids?' the basic one.""'More painful than having my cornea scrapped with a spoon?' more gruesome.""'Enough to make me want to give Sakuniyas a surprise French kiss?' most likely to be fatal.""'Worse than waking up to discover I'm related to Cáel Wakko Ishara?' most horrifying, for both of us.""'Inspiring me to toss it all away and take up Professional Bikini Mud Wrestling?' a personal fantasy of mine.""Why do we put up with him again?" one House Head remarked."Because I am worried that one," motioning to Buffy, "will stab me in the elevator after a meeting.""My First, are you acting psychotic around the Council members?" I looked over my shoulder at Buffy."Wakko Ishara, it is not an act. I am psychotic," she responded deadpan."Are you still packing that thermite grenade?""No Wakko Ishara. Daphne stole it from me and hid it," was her quick delivery."I love working with you two," Daphne whispered."What is it with you, your unsubtle sexual innuendo and me in a bikini?" Saint Marie stared at me."I find the combination of brilliance and lethality sexy. Just ask Elsa," I grinned. Then I grimaced as Buffy stomped on my toes. The House Heads and Apprentices on either side of me noticed and clearly expected me to do something, like to show outrage (because she was my underling), or start crying (because I was a guy)."Prestige," Daphne hissed quietly. "Prestige." She was reminding Buffy that beating me up in public made the other Amazons think even less of me than they already did."I will go with (B), the cornea scrapping," Saint Marie gave me a nod."Damn it," I muttered. I also got my foot out of the way before someone did any more damage to my phalanges.'Best Daddy Ever,' Aya mouthed to me. Back to the main action."It is not my place to order the rest of you to elect Shawnee, Rhada and Buffy to be the Regency. I do admit I admire the mixture of candidates," Saint Marie declared. I shot Rhada a quick look. She seemed really, really enamored of the idea of being part of the Regency, thus staying in New York for the next decade, or so."Before the idea is rejected out of hand, I suggest we ask the three people our Princess would like to be part of the Regency if they would accept the nomination," the Golden Mare continued. "Shawnee Arinniti?""I bow to the logic and reason of the proposal," Shawnee replied."Rhada Meenakshi?""I wish to join my sisters in battle, yet I accept the reasoning behind the proposal," Rhada nodded. "If my Head of House agrees, I will stay and do my part for our People." What was she saying to me? 'You are going to whip me, beat me, torture me, humiliate me and push me to beyond the limits of any pain I have experienced until I pass out ~ repeatedly'."I despair of finding any other compromise," Mahdi frowned. "If my Apprentice understands the greater difficulty she will face gaining prestige among her House-mates, I will consent to this proposal." Essentially a 'yes'."Buffy Ishara?""I was really looking forward to ripping the spines out of still living foes, but I would be a fool to go against Aya of Kururiyahhssi's smarts. If Wakko Ishara wants to walk out of this room unassisted, he will see the wisdom of this decision as well," she gave me a shark's smile. Daphne had surpassed her limit and punched Buffy."Hell ya, I agree," I exclaimed. "Now I know there will be certain times of the day when she isn't stalking me.""I'll work more pain into our limited schedule," Buffy grumbled."Are we sure he is the House Head and she is the Apprentice?" Yet another House Head joined the 'shit on me' train.It was telling of our group dynamic how we accepted the Pyramid of Pain. The underlings dispensed advice and violence as they felt necessary without their 'superior' getting pissy about it. Buffy felt totally justified hitting me and accepted being hit by Daphne, who continued to act unimpeded as Buffy's rapid-fire translator."If I was House Head, I'd handcuff him to me," Buffy clarified for her."What she said," I pointed a thumb Buffy's way. I'd have used a finger, but she might have grabbed, twisted and made me scream in pain."Perhaps the Council can vote on this as their second order of business," Saint Marie cloaked her command as a suggestion."Cáel Wakko Ishara, can I ask you a personal question?" Kohar of Marda caught my attention."Shoot, wait, probably not the best terminology in this crowd. Ask away," I replied."Have you faced a House challenge yet?""Yes. Just last night in fact. We free-climbed the north-face of Havenstone. I beat the next closest contender by three floors. I also had Princess Aya on the roof dropping bricks on anyone who attempted to get past me.""That means he isn't going to answer you," Beyoncé interpreted for my audience."Can't you ever take these meetings seriously?" Febe Mielikki glowered."La, Febe, in the past few minutes I have watched the person I love most in the world get her life shat on," I shook my head."The only thing worse than seeing this happen to Aya is knowing this is her sole opportunity to not lose her soul, so I'm sucking up my heart's pain and putting forward a jester's persona so I don't put any more pressure on her than she's already been subjected to. Like me, she doesn't want the distinction of being a Person of Note.""Like me, she knows she must sacrifice her dreams for the sake of our People, the Amazon Host. Trust me, you would rather have 'me, the jester' than 'me, the Amazon' furious with the destiny that has foisted this pain on her'. Do any of you take responsibility for forcing the events of this morning?" I growled. If they wanted to see the other side of the Janus, so be it."Had you chosen a Regency in the fucking weeks you've been bickering, Kwenhamai could have been dealt with privately. The fate of the Royal House could have been put off a few years. Had you not all been so dead-set on being heroines of the Host, three of you would have sacrificed your bloodlust, your birthright and the future accolades you could recite on your final night (before taking themselves to the cliff), but none of you did.""Instead, you set the stage for dumping all of your indecisiveness on the slender shoulders of a nine year old girl most of you had written off as too fractured and frail to survive her 12th year only three months ago. So Febe how do you like the honest 'me'?" I finished off furiously.It was not lost on anyone in the chamber I was an Amazon raging against the cruelty of fate. Every other bitch in the room knew they had discarded my daughter's life as trivial and I was prepared to unleash violence on the next one to show an ounce of disrespect over Aya's surrendering of her destiny and my grief at failing to find a way to stop this from coming to pass. St Marie had just reminded them that I was 'reliably" successful despite my handicaps. Not an enemy anyone in the room wanted any part of. Saku would have been proud.A Note:I have been remiss in informing my readers of the names of the 53 Houses, even though I created it some time ago. I have made a few alterations to the original version as I've had to rethink certain parts of this tale, but here is the list I now use.List of Goddesses:The First Twenty Houses in no particular order :1) Ishara, Oaths, Medicine and War (to North America) (died out 450 CE; Reborn in 2014)2) (Deceased) Anat, Goddess of War, Fury and Blood Sacrifice (died out 6th cent. BCE) ~ possibly resurrected by Sakunyias3) Anahit, water, wisdom and war (to North America)4) Arinniti, Sun Goddess (to North America)5) Hanwasuit, Sovereign Goddess6) Illuyankamunus, Dragon God (to North America) (Special Case)7) Inara, the Hunter Goddess8) au ka, fertility, War, healing9) Kamrusepa, Healing medicine magic (to Africa)10) Lelwani, Goddess of the Underworld (to Africa)11) Hapantali, Pastoral Goddess.12) Hatepuna, Sea Goddess (to India)13) Hannahannah, Mother Goddess14) Moirai, Fate15) Selardi, Lunar Goddess (to Africa)16) Nammu, Primordial Sea, sailing, sailors (to India) (to Indonesia)17) Uttu, Goddess of plants (to Africa)18) Lahar, Cattle Goddess (to Africa)19) Ereshkigal, Queen of the underworld (to India)20) Istustaya and Papaya, Twin Goddesses of Destiny (to North America)Additional Houses, founded in Europe:(Code: Sc = Scythian; T = Thracian, P, Phrygian, C = Celtic, R = Roman, Sl = Slavic)21) (Sc) Marda, the One-Eyed Goddess/Vengeance {fantasy creation}22) (Sc) Farānak, A Scythian Goddess also known as the Lynx Goddess and the Silent Huntress (Dora)23) (Sc) Stolgos, Monstrous Slayer of Greeks (known to the Greeks as the Gorgon Stheno) {semi-historical}24) (T) Cotyttia, Thracian Goddess of Sex, War and Slaughter (to North America)25) (T) Bendis, Thracian Goddess of the Moon and Hunting.26) (T) Semele/Rajah, Thracian Goddess of the Earth and Birth (to India)27) (T) Hylonome, Centaur Goddess28) (P) Cybele, Phrygians Earth Goddess on Lion's throne (to the Amazon)29) (C) Andraste, War Goddess; also Goddess of the Moon and Divination; 'the Rabbit Goddess'30) (C) Epona, Horses (to North America)31) (C) Cyhiraeth, Goddess of springs whose war cry precedes death (to Africa)32) (C) Maeve, War Goddess, the Enslaver of Men33) (Deceased) (C) Nantosuelta, Earth, Fire and Fertility (died out 1st cent. BCE)34) (C) Artio, the Bear Goddess (to North America)35) (C) Nemain, Goddess of War and Panic36) (R) Minerva, Roman Goddess of War & Strategy37) (Deceased) (R) Diana, Hunting and Archery (died out in India 16th cent. CE)38) (Sl) iva, Love and Fertility49) (Sl) Morė, Goddess of harvest, witchcraft, winter and death (to North America)40) (Sl) Zorja, The twin Guardians (Evening/Morning Stars)41) (Sl) Oźwiena, fame and glory (died out in 1944)42) (Sl) Koliada, Sky Goddess and deity of sunrises/dawn (died out 17th cent CE)43) (F) Mielikki, Goddess of the Hunt44) (N) Ska i, giantess, Goddess of bow-hunting, skiing, winter, and mountainsAdditional Houses, founded in In dia:45) (I) Mookambika, Demon Slayers46) (I) Bhadra, Goddess of the Hunt (to Indonesia)47) (I) Meenakshi, The Liberator (Rhada and Madi's House)48) (I) Durga (Dark Mother) (to Indonesia)49) (I) Chandala Bhikshuki, Queen of Night, Death, Destruction and Rebirth50) (I) Jaya (Goddess of Victory)51) (I) Chelamma, the Scorpion Queen (died out 16th cent.)Additional Houses, founded in Africa:52) (A) Oshun, (Yoruba Goddess of Love, Sexuality, Beauty and Diplomacy; Lady of the Orisha ~ life spirits)53) (A) Yemonja, Mother of Rivers (to the Amazon)54) (A) Oba, Goddess of Betrayal and Exile55) (A) Ox ssi, Goddess of Hunting, Forests, Animals and Wealth56) (A) Jengu, Goddess of Jungles and Water SpiritsAdditional Houses: founded in North America(NT = Native Tribal)57) (NT) Uusheenhiton (noo'uusooo' heeninouhuusei hitoniho') (Arapaho), Storm Horse Sister {fantasy creation}58) (NT) Gahe, Apache (supernatural spirits who live in the mountains)Prospective House:59) New, (Hittite) SzelAnya, the Dragon's DaughterCurrent Number of Central Houses:12 in North America (9+Ishara from Europe and 2 native)10 in Africa (6 from Europe and 5 native)3 in Amazonia (1 from Africa and 2 from Europe)8 in India (3 from Europe and 7 native)3 in Indonesia (2 from India and 1 from Europe)17 in Europe6 Deceased{7:35 am Sunday, September 7th ~ Last day}Right where we left offMy rage over Aya wasn't called into question or challenged. Practicality had trumped tradition in the inevitable Amazon fashion. The only one elevated in anyone's eyes was Aya. Krasimira's apparent political adventurism was probably hard for the others to deal with. But in context, only Mahdi, Katrina and Saint Marie had seen her denounce Hayden, so this seemed a new side of Krasimira to most people in the room.Krasimira wasn't the spiritual authority, that was Hayden. She wasn't the Generalissimo, that was Saint Marie. Katrina and I were both appointed officials, we retained our House status. Saint Marie would die a member of House Inara and join her ancestors with pride. Her litany of accomplishments were well known to the Host.But Krasimira? She would die a member of House Cybele unheralded. The Keeper of Records recorded the feats of others, not their own. Nearly two generations ago, a young Krasimira had joined the Keeper's House as a guardian to an un-remembered (save by her) augur. The augur passed and she took up other duties within the house.When the old Keeper faced her final months, she elevated Krasimira to her spot. High Priestess Hayden had approved the choice without really knowing who Krasimira was. (No one outside the House of the Keeper had personal bonds with her anymore.) Seamlessly, she had sat in the old Keeper's seat and the Council kept chugging along.For the past eight years, she had sat quietly at Hayden's side and only speaking when addressed. Mostly, she did nothing overt. The actual note-taking was done by an underling. The Keeper took her own private notes squirreled away in her mind, to be written when she was by herself. Those notes would be handed over to her successor, for the Keepers' eyes and theirs alone.I don't think Krasimira knew me in particular when she dutifully followed Hayden into these chambers the day my death, or life in a cage, was bantered about. It was the day we first crossed paths. She would have known of Shawnee's request for the tooth of an Isharan, though she lacked the authority to ask why. (She wasn't a voting member of the Council.)But when Shawnee made her claim, Krasimira hadn't balked in her support, despite the oddity of Shawnee's declarations, I was indeed Ishara and my sisters could not dispose of me. The outrage of the others meant nothing to her. She pursued her obligations with true Amazon fearlessness both inside and outside of the Council.On the night of the 2nd Betrayal, a Keeper had sat there in silence as her fellow Amazons, the Ash Men, were sentenced to an unjust death. She'd had neither the numbers nor the authority to alter events, what else could she have done?So the Keepers kept track of the names of nineteen 'unaccounted for' Ash Men. For what purpose? An episode of Amazon history no one would ever want to revisit? Yet in my hour of need, coming back 2,600 years was the name 'Vranus of Ishara', sitting only a few keystrokes away. No one, save a few Arinniti diehards, wanted to know the truth of the Amazon Ash Men; and even they didn't want to remember us as individuals. To them, Vranus existed as a notation on the secret Charter of the Arinniti Sons.To Krasimira, Vranus had been a living, breathing warrior of the Host, not even dead, still mythically fighting the enemies of our race because his death had never been officially recorded. With my appearance, I stood in mute testimony to his death, and that of his sons and their sons for a damn long time.Still, I hated playing catch-up.With the Amazon custom of adoption, had no one asked if another possible Isharan heritage still persisted?I would bet they had. And I'd bet they had sought for that knowledge in the Rolls of the Host, always finding that pathway devoid of hope. But if the Keeper had known, why had she kept quiet?Pride, shame, Krasimira's words: we show anger when we should show humility. We are proud of our shame. We are arrogant of our weaknesses. We have heaped insult upon insult on our ancestors, yet are now aghast that they turn away from us, I had confused her soliloquy with that of an accusation, not the long held understanding of her office.Even staring extinction in face, the modern Host hadn't truly accepted the answer, the line of Vranus. Faced with the truth, the Amazons would have 'forgotten' the descendants of Vranus all those centuries ago in the same way they 'forgot' all the other Ash Men on the day I was brought into the Host.But the Keepers did something more than maintain the rolls and records of the Amazons, more than watch over the augurs and make sure their messages made it to the proper ears. They safeguarded the truth. No matter what the Council decided and the High Priestess commanded, the Keepers remained honest stewards of the real history of the Amazons.Why?The Amazons were terribly practical and the truth could run contrary to the needs of political reality. Honesty wasn't a highly stressed Amazon virtue, loyalty was. So was bravery. And thus generation after generation of Keepers had lied to the Council and the High Priestesses. Every time those august personages had committed something to 'the nothingness', the Keepers had defied them and not forgotten.The first heads of the first twenty houses had surrendered their names for the unity of their people, but the Keepers remembered. All twenty of those women had been of the Amazon tribe of the Pala people living on the southern coast of the Black Sea when the Trojan Wars began. Over time, their true blood descendants had founded new houses and been adopted into others.Aya was truly a daughter of Kururiyahhssi; I had no doubt of that anymore. Had she not shared the same blood as the first Amazon, Krasimira wouldn't have brought Aya and Kwen together. Resurrecting an ancient tradition in a complicated fallacious coup attempt wasn't in her; nor was such a maneuver even a necessity. The Host would elect a Regency eventually and Saint Marie was handling the war in a highly competent fashion.So Krasimira hadn't sought out the heirs of Vranus, yet when one appeared, she welcomed 'him'. And when she stepped into the President's office with Hayden while waiting for me to be brought upstairs to face judgement that night, I imagined sending Hayden to the cliffs was the farthest thing from her mind.The rest were playing politics, gender politics, and couldn't see the truth staring Krasimira in the face. The truth was a bitch and didn't play favorites, or worry about the sensibilities of others. Krasimira had seen her sisters refusing to acknowledge the ugly reality they had created for themselves.Krasimira wasn't an advocate for Ishara, that was my job, and my crappy performance was something between Dot and me. She wasn't an advocate for the males and the New Directive. That was what Katrina was for. No, like a hundred Keepers before her, Krasimira was the silent sentinel for the Truth and, the Truth didn't care about anything but the Truth."The assassin is indeed in this room. Its name is Amazon was a rather grand pronouncement from the Chief Librarian, wasn't it? Krasimira didn't chastise Hayden. That wasn't her place. Technically, neither was she disputing Hayden's ability to rule.This wasn't the climax of a dinner-theater 'Who Done It'. The crime before the High Priestess was High Treason and I was the pre-ordained guilty party. My 'ally', Katrina Epona, had not been an advocate for my defense. No. Again in my Hour of Need it was Krasimira.Lacking any true authority, she had defied her sisters and made her definitive statement. What truly transpired was Krasimira staring Hayden straight in the eyes and saying 'you cannot lie your way out of this one, High Priestess. We (as in all the Keepers past and present) will not let you'.Had she used those words, Saint Marie would have gotten around to asking what Krasimira meant. Krasimira would have rather died, because once those bitches discovered their nerdy sisters hadn't erased a damn thing in 3,000 years, they would insist they do so immediately. Krasimira wasn't about to do that. Thanks to the chaos surrounding Hayden's departure, no one had confronted her over her crucial action.To put it more precisely, the Golden Mare had been too busy and Mahdi had been wrapped up in Hayden's Decree and the resulting pressure on the Heads of House to pick the Regency. Katrina was probably a case of I'm not going to ask you so you don't have to lie to me. The only other living person in the room when Hayden's fate was sealed was me, and I'd had my hands full as well.I had to think about what I should and could do. I couldn't beat her up over Aya anymore than I could punish my Isharans for their misplaced arrogance. I decided to extend a 'thank you'; and not only for myself, but for every conceited bitch who had ever sat at this table, or all the other physical mediums the Council had used before this one.We held three votes: The Council couldn't collectively decide on how to implement Aya's other likes (1), so they agreed on her suggestion for a Regency instead (2). The final vote was to set a date for the next Council meeting (3). A date within 9 days of the Winter Solstice with the Regency to decide the precise date and give the House Heads two weeks warning.The last calamity at the meeting was initiated by a question of etiquette."How do we address the Princess at Council meetings?" the Head of House Hanwasuit inquired of Krasimira."There is no precedent for addressing the Iwaruwa alone. By our laws, she is not truly Dumalugal Aya either. She is Nasusara," Krasimira responded. Queen."She is a child," a third House Head declared, "not an Amazon.""No," Mahdi shook her head. "A, Aya is 'un-casted'. She bears an honorific presented to her by the leader of an established stronghold (Summer Camp) and confirmed by the Golden Mare minutes ago.""Congratulations my mamētu me eda," I winked to my past and present Princess, "you've just become a single-digit aged teenager.""Go Aya," Daphne and Buffy whispered behind me. Aya raised her hand, waiting for Saint Marie's recognition.However, Saint Marie moved steadily forward, declaring: "Until the Regency alters my decision, I decline assigning anyone to the Iwaruwa (heiress) whose sole purpose would be to stop her from sneaking off to endure her 12th Year Test. I judge it to be better we know where we placed her as opposed to failing to outsmart her as she needlessly proves to the Host she is, in fact, already an Amazon of the Host." Aya lowered her hand.Thus,'Yes, Aya is an Amazon of the Host' and 'Aya will take her 12th Year Test because she wants to take it, won't let us talk her out of taking it and the rest of us had better accept it'."So, she is our Queen then?"No one appeared to have an answer. Aya raised her hand once more."Yes?" the Golden Mare smiled down at her."Am I in charge?" Aya's other hand squeezed Saint Marie's as she spoke in a barely audible voice."Perhaps.""If I was in charge, I would like it if there was a law that declared the Queen of the Amazons would be officially represented by a Regency until she becomes casted, and antedate the law by one hour so this never, ever comes up again," Aya kept looking up at Saint Marie."Aya," Katrina exhaled.The council chamber was a mixture of awe, resentment and amusement. If Aya was Queen, she could make such a law. The Queen-ship was a Bronze Age autocratic institution designed to provide leadership to a 'state' in near-constant warfare with is neighbors.It was guided by oral traditions and military necessity, not written laws. As long as the queens provided successes on the battlefield and through diplomacy, she was deemed fit to rule. The traditional way of choosing a House Head was the same for the Royal House, the ruling Queen chose an heir.In the long list of Queens, less than half had been the 'eldest' child. No, those ancient War Leaders picked the bravest, smartest and most successful daughters to succeed them. Their wisdom in those selections showed in the fact the Amazons had held off a male-dominated world for over 600 years before fatally marching off to answer an ally's call to fight in the Trojan War."I advise against it," Saint Marie shook her head. "You are young. You are also the only Royal we have. Duty demands and sisters must always answer their sister's call."Translation: Aya was an adult now. It was similar to the first lesson Pamela gave me upon learning I was Ishara. We lived with bitches, it doesn't pay to play nice with bitches."Thank you," Aya nodded. She was 'thanking' Saint Marie for the lesson, no matter how hard it was to accept. Krasimira coughed."Now that the matter is settled," she spoke. The matter wasn't settled. Krasimira was steamrollering the discussion. "What do we call you?", to Aya."I, oh," in a very small voice. Aya's brow furrowed and her tiny nose wiggled. "I wish to be known by the legacy of my Anna (mother) and Atta (me, Cáel). I will be Assiyai hamai.""Love song?" Daphne murmured to Buffy."Assiyai hamai?" Krasimira asked for clarification. 'Love-song' was hardly the name of a 'fierce' Amazon Queen."The only other name I could come up with was Markappidusmene, which seemed less auspicious," she meeped. Markappidusmene meant 'Tiny Smile'."Perhaps Talliyahulla would be more auspicious?" Saint Marie nudged Aya. 'War Cry'."Oh no!" Aya balked. "That's your job.""What do you think your job is?" the Golden Mare questioned, suddenly realizing she'd made the mistake of making assumptions where Aya was concerned."To go to the cliffs with twice as many Amazon daughters, each equal to the likes of Saint Marie, Katrina, Oneida, Buffy, Elsa, Kohar and Tad fi as exist today. We must not 'survive', or simply replenish our numbers."We must become stronger because the World is a terribly messed up place," she raised her wounded hand and splayed her digits for the others to see the two she was missing, "and has become too small for us to seek safety in hidden freeholds any longer. If we cannot hide, we must rule openly. We are Amazons. Having no equals, we must rule alone. The only people we can trust, really trust, are the sisters at our sides."My job is to advance my People's cause with both compassion and cruelty and I will do so alone, because the Amazon Queen has no equals, only daughters."Not a sound. I could count out the individual fan blades recycling the air."Let our enemies tremble," Saint Marie nodded, repeating an earlier declaration."Assiyai hamai," Krasimira intoned, making Aya's royal name official before adding, "Assiyai hamai, you are mistaken about one thing. You are not alone. You have a mamētu me eda.""Oh," she perked up, shedding the gloom which surrounded her. She looked at me, our eyes met and we both grinned, then she giggled...and yet again, up her hand went."Yes?" Saint Marie looked upon Aya respectfully and then at me with much suspicion."Is the mamētu me eda of my mamētu me eda also my mamētu me eda?" Aya asked.Just like old times, only Katrina was ahead of the game. "Oh, by Epona," the Spy-mistress snorted."Cáel Wakko Ishara, who is your mamētu me eda, oh no," Saint Marie bristled."Ah, indeed," Krasimira nodded. "An unlooked for bonus.""Does someone care to enlighten the rest of us?" the head of House Nemain prodded."Oh!" That was Elsa."That's right!" Oneida, she was definitely a fan of me and my spasmodic lifestyle."Wakko Ishara's mamētu me eda, other mamētu me eda, is Temujin, Great Khan of the Reborn Mongol-Turkish Khanate and ally of the Host," Saint Marie let them know. "They are bonded by Cáel risking his own life to save Temujin's. It is actually a privately understood and publically declared fact.""In Temujin's words to the international press when our Cáel and our new Queen were kidnapped : I believe Cáel is still alive. If he wasn't, we would be seeing piles upon piles of dead enemy around him and his 'boon companion', clearly visible from orbit. Until they discover this carnal pit from Hell, I am sure they are both still alive," Oneida added. Rhada flashed ill-distilled hate her way."Shawnee, is your Apprentice's mind addled with the birthing hormones of their child?" Mahdi snipped. That was merely a cultural zing, not an attempt to expose my sinister erotic misdoings. Unfortunately, she was somewhat correct. Okay, she was totally correct."That was uncalled for," Shawnee graciously chided Mahdi, thus demonstrating her ignorance of the facts soon to be in evidence."Yes, I am carrying a child of Arinniti and Ishara," Oneida proclaimed loud and proud. "We share a Warrior's Love."I wasn't really sure how anyone else reacted to the news because House Ishara exploded into violence. That is the politic way of saying Daphne and Juanita were trying to stop Buffy from beating me to death. Here was yet another Ishara-baby and it wasn't gestating inside her. I was too stunned to defend myself.And the old refrain: 'and then it got worse'."Ta ah kattanda!" (IN HITTITE for 'you pig's ass'), Rhada howled. I missed her drawing her blade, vaulting to the top of the table and lunging at Oneida. Most of the Amazons in the room stood, yet held their ground.They weren't shocked into indecisiveness, only trying to understand the nature of the conflict before intervening. This was not the first 'your Amazon did something my Amazon found infuriating' public threat they had to have dealt with. Rhada was more volatile than the average woman of her breed and station, true, but a violent in-chamber assault?That wasn't the 'worse' though. Oneida drawing her blade in an open challenge to Rhada wasn't the worse either, nor was her shouting."He loves me! He merely saved you!"Saint Marie yelling 'Ishara! Ishara!' over and over again, demanding I put my house back in order wasn't the end of my woes, nope.Me being yanked free of my House fur-ball into the volcanic gaze of Elsa as she seethed, "Rhada?" Oh yeah, Elsa's people and Rhada's people had a bit of a blood feud going on, how could I have forgotten that?But wait!"Not Fabiola!" gasped Messina, bizarrely assuming I slept with, okay, not such a huge assumption."Gael?" voiced by the Head of House Bendis, followed by Gael's "I'm late.""Damn it!" I pulled away from Elsa (slightly)."No. She only lets me ejaculate on 'safe days'," to Messina, Fabiola's Mom."Oh, come on! We had sex one time!" to Gael of Bendis, and finally,"Stop it!" to Rhada and Oneida, (deep breathe). "Really?" with my most believable happy face plastered on. "This is great news!"No. No it wasn't, and I could read the ugly emotional undercurrents on the faces of everyone present, except Aya, who kept the faith."Ishara," Saint Marie rumbled. I held up one finger to forestall her wrath."Oneida, Rhada and I have already decided to name our daughter Parvati. My daughter by Tad fi, ordained by the Goddess to be the first born, will be named Shala while my first son will be called Harki heni (White Hair, I'd call him Raider when we were in the 'outside' world).""My daughter by Miyako Yuri will be named Suwais-urāni, Fushichou in her Mother's tongue, in honor of Sakuniyas. My, other relationships," I would have liked to say 'none of your business', except Amazon mothers, or not, those children would be of Ishara's blood and potentially their kin.
As Jim noted as he opened the show, we are living in perilous times. These are times that the Apostle Paul warned young pastor Timothy about. He talked about how men will be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy and more, all of which you can read about in 1 Timothy It all reads like a commentary on 2022. --God's hand of blessing on America certainly appears to be slipping away. Will it ever return- Is there a way back to what we once were- Where is the solution---Joining Jim to explore this issue was Sam Rohrer. Sam is president of the American Pastors Network. Sam is a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives where he was Chair of the House Finance Committee. He is the speaker on Stand in the Gap Radio and Stand in the Gap Television.--Sam noted that God raises up nations and he takes them down. So as God worked with Israel, that's the pattern for nations around the world. - -He indicated that America got off course when we began to experience what Israel did as God communicates in Deuteronomy 28. God told Israel that he brought them out of bondage to a new land and if they'd fear him and keep his commandments, then he'd pour out so many blessings, Israel would not be able to handle it. Then after listing those blessings, God told Israel that if they turn their back on him and think that those blessings came from their own hands, he'd turn those blessings into judgment.--Don't miss your opportunity to review this special National Day of Prayer broadcast that also answers the following---Are we just now walking into judgment or are we close to final judgment-
As Jim noted as he opened the show, we are living in perilous times. These are times that the Apostle Paul warned young pastor Timothy about. He talked about how men will be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy and more, all of which you can read about in 1 Timothy It all reads like a commentary on 2022. --God's hand of blessing on America certainly appears to be slipping away. Will it ever return- Is there a way back to what we once were- Where is the solution---Joining Jim to explore this issue was Sam Rohrer. Sam is president of the American Pastors Network. Sam is a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives where he was Chair of the House Finance Committee. He is the speaker on Stand in the Gap Radio and Stand in the Gap Television.--Sam noted that God raises up nations and he takes them down. So as God worked with Israel, that's the pattern for nations around the world. - -He indicated that America got off course when we began to experience what Israel did as God communicates in Deuteronomy 28. God told Israel that he brought them out of bondage to a new land and if they'd fear him and keep his commandments, then he'd pour out so many blessings, Israel would not be able to handle it. Then after listing those blessings, God told Israel that if they turn their back on him and think that those blessings came from their own hands, he'd turn those blessings into judgment.--Don't miss your opportunity to review this special National Day of Prayer broadcast that also answers the following---Are we just now walking into judgment or are we close to final judgment-
Talking Craft while Being Tattooed This is a K D O I rebroadcast and that's of my old show. KDOI Podcasting I love putting these on for you because we had some great conversations back in my old show, and it would be a shame if they just lived on my external hard drive and we didn't get a chance to share them with you in this episode, talking with my good friend and tattoo artists, Ashley Hutchins, and we're talking about craft, but now here's the thing in this interview. I'm actually getting a tattoo by her while I'm interviewing her. I've never done that before. I haven't done that since. And it was a interesting time to say the least. So I hope you enjoy this and I hope you get something out of it. If you do email me timothy@createartpodcast.com and I'd love to hear from you. Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod [podcast_subscribe id="207"] Transcripts of the Show Intro KDOI Rebroadcast Conversations on Craft with Ashly Hutchins Timothy: Create art podcast. K D O I rebroadcast talking craft with Ashley Hudgins. Hi there, friends. This is Timothy Kimo, Brian, your head instigator for create art podcast where I use my 20 plus years of experience in arts and education to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume in this episode. This is a K D O I rebroadcast and that's of my old show. KDOI Podcasting I love putting these on for you because we had some great conversations back in my old show, and it would be a shame if they just lived on my external hard drive and we didn't get a chance to share them with you in this episode, talking with my good friend and tattoo artists, Ashley Hutchins, and we're talking about craft, but now here's the thing in this interview. I'm actually getting a tattoo by her while I'm interviewing her. I've never done that before. I haven't done that since. And it was a interesting time to say the least. So I hope you enjoy this and I hope you get something out of it. If you do email me timothy@createartpodcast.com and I'd love to hear from you. So without further ado here is the KDOI rebroadcast. Craft with Ashley Hutchins. Start of KDOI Intro I am your head instigator, Timothy Kimo. Brian. This episode will focus on craft now out of all the subjects this season, this is probably the one that is the most tangible we can put our hands or witness craft in action. And maybe that's why it's the easiest to talk about. Perhaps it's going to turn out to be the hardest our friends over at Merriam-Webster defined craft as skill in planning or executing dexterity and occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity, or artistic skill skill in deceiving to gain and end members of a trade. To make or produce with a care skill or ingenuity. Now our two quotes come from gene Fowler writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. And Stephen King amateurs, sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us, just get up and go to work. Now, gene Fowler was a writer with the Detroit post and a syndicated manager of king features. His later work included over a dozen screenplays, mostly written in the thirties, 1930s folks, not the 2030s and a number of books, including biographies and memoirs. Stephen King. Well, Hey, there we go guys, author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense science fiction, and fantasy, his books. And this is interesting, has sold more than 350 million copies. Many of which have been made into feature films, mini series, television series, and comic books. And from what I understand, he hates most of them. Stephen King's has published at least 58 novels, including seven under the pen name, Richard Bachman and six non-fiction books. He's also written about 200 short stories and most of which have been published in book collections. So obviously the question is why aren't we discussing craft for me? This is the most concrete topic yet. It's also a bit nebulous. Some people can fake craft with shortcuts or YouTube videos. Craft takes study craft takes doing craft takes failure and picking yourself up and pushing forward. Craft takes vision and research about where you want to go and what you want to incorporate into your work. The two quotes, I chose really speak to me about the hard work that comes with being artistic. This stuff just doesn't drop into our lap. We aren't waiting for some invisible friend in the sky to give it to us, or to give us a clue about how to complete something or overcome a barrier craft is the action of getting up when you are sick and blowing chunks, getting into your space and making something happen. When it's the last thing in the world that you want to do, craft separates the wheat from the. It's not meant to handcuff us. It is, it is there to help us to push through whatever blockages we may have that prevent us from creating our net from being our creative, natural selves. So, Hey, let's get this conversation going. Start of Interview All right. So we are recording live here in Sesame street. We have Ms. Ashley. She has been with us third time term. First time to get the perfect score on these seven questions. I'm just saying, well, you're the first one. Ashly: You're the first one Timothy: to get well so actually put this up on Facebook and I thought it was pretty cool. It is the sword. Oops. Ashly: Switch with switchblades. Timothy: it looks nice. Like it's a sword in somebody's Ashly: hands. That's how you say it's a mouse where it would be lacrosse or Timothy: I'm just saying we've got moon and of course we have skull on. It has been with us as, as per request and some lady face and a lady face. This is my, one of my first lady with you. We've got the the tiger could be considered a lady. It's on my heart. It represents, you know, my, my tiger at home. And then the minions they think they do represent the girls. So there could be women. Ashly: I mean, honestly, any of these supposed to be, Timothy: I have a lot of women on me. Ashly: Okay, Polly. Now let's Timothy: take a look at this. Okay. We're not going to Facebook poll on this guy's piece. You guys gonna do a choose what I did on my arms. Let's rock it out, make it happen, make some magic, right? Yeah, it was really good when I got into her. Some young lady, I think she might've been 19, but she wanted to get a face of an angel or something like that. And one of your guys out there saying, okay, we've got to do this really big, really bad. So she was trying to get as small as she could, you know, the whole thing. And I'm just like, oh, I get it. You want to get something small? So that way you can hide it. Ashly: Things like portraits. Yeah. Think that faces definitely need to be a certain size. And that is also why, which has crafted us because that's something that people it's for the longevity of your tattoo. And not because we just are trying to talk him into doing something larger. Exactly. So you're going to be hidden. Timothy: Fantastic. Ashly: Come on. We're here to the table. Timothy: I mean, towards me towards, yeah, those are the second table. Ashly: Oh yeah. Timothy: And I'm getting a massage on Friday night, so, you know, I'm just getting all the therapy on this. Awesome. Ashly: All right. So Timothy: right. Ashly: Yeah. When I was getting the Jim's put on my tooth and she was like, put it like Monday. I'm sorry. And I was like, I do this to people every day. Timothy: I like the idea that it's a subordinate switchblade, even though it is a Switzerland, Ashly: it can be whatever you want. It's like an impression is painting. It's it's whatever. There Timothy: we go. Nearly. No one says anything different. We just poke your head balls out. Like we normally do. We're actually talking Ashly: about Timothy: sweet and I promise not to ask so many basic questions. The answer to not everyone knows Ashley. Like I know actually, oh, I didn't pay the power bill. Yeah, that was the shortest tattoo I've ever. Ashly: No worries. That's another reason why we should talk about crap. I had to learn some things that shift in your program to forget is that, Timothy: oh no, no, we can, yeah, we can mark this as an explicit a okay. Well, I, you know, I did the one with my my nephew when I was no, we didn't do it in Chicago. We did it over a squad cast, but you know, he was dropping the F bomb, never got the vert, so we're good. We just mark it as explicit and we can park. Ashly: I was listening to . I said to my daughter, you talking about she's like, dad, you used to have tattooed, starts describing it, dealing with the sword, a crystal ball. And I was like, that sounds sweet. And he's like, no, I got saved. And I was like, oh, playing. Would you just state really can hear and understand? And I was like, Timothy: these guys are saved by somebody else. Ashly: That's like, fuck, it's sweet. Timothy: It's like, yeah. Well ask the song, my archive it's called up. Fuck you. I'm going up next to some nuns, you know? Yeah. Ashly: That's the way to do that. All right. Now. Timothy: Now, just let everybody know Ashley's using the painless needles, the non-permanent each. And this is her very first time tattooing this isn't a Ashly: very first hologram. Timothy: This isn't more Ashly: So Timothy: you're going to families. Ashly: All of you might say, Timothy: well, he posted something on RVA. Podcasts was about, I'm doing a panel discussion for the galaxy. So I was like, yeah, I'm doing for that dude. Ashly: And everybody was talking to me, not talking to you about Timothy: talking to me, talking to you. We're talking about everybody, but no, I've been trying to hook up with him for awhile. Kind of get like a meetup down here, somebody podcasts, that sort of stuff. Okay. Fantastic. Well, I was going to let you get a little bit warmed up in there. You're good. All right. So let's see here, let's start off with something basic. So like I know for me, you know, podcasting, I got into in like 2006, I had no idea what I was doing had no no apprenticeship or anything like that. And I seem to recall in college, you getting the sense too? That was on your neck, wasn't it? It was your shoulder. Okay. Geometrical. And so when was that bars or how did that hit you of, Hey, you know, I might want to do this. Ashly: I have been wanting to do that since I first learned about what they were when I was about six or seven Timothy: years old, Ashly: much to the chagrin of my mother. I started drawing all over myself with the Sharpies. So I've always wanted to be Kind of have to have the right set of circumstances, but yeah, I've always wanted to learn how to do it. That's definitely one of those things where it's like one of the labs beside being like the trade, like a carpenter or something like that. It's one of the last professions where you really do like one-on-one training specifically, just, you know, And sentence and you have to be committed to it. No. Timothy: Now did you have to learn these secret handshake and the door knock and the quaint nudge, nudge and all that we don't talk about? No, but Ashly: the guy guys all behind that, you definitely want to do a, have some sort of like may Sonic S ceremony. When I got my license Timothy: incessantly on my own, Ashly: which does not a full verse about migration and migration. A lot of history is that doing in there, which is really fascinating. And there was a lot of slate. He has to be all of those things. You have to be a technician. You're not just an artist. It's not some sort of like rockstar attitude to it as well, but you have to be humble mechanics. I just don't go about learning. Like, I love that new machine. It's about learning about your equipment, you know, Timothy: so you're not just, you know, well, I hate to say you're not just an artist because you know, people have a bad connotation of what artists do. Sometimes you're a mechanic as well. You have to have some mechanical apps as well as have that eye for detail and that skill and counseling or advising your, your clients on what they should get. Or, Ashly: yeah, there's definitely being able to draw. A lot of people don't realize. I mean, you can get that Timothy: and your canvas, you know, jumps out at you sometimes and switches and. Ashly: Yeah. Moving is, you know, that's another bird that you found to learn about it as you go along. So I'm not knocking anything about art. I love art, but I also like, I love the equipment issues, but like, I don't find that to be something that should be in the foreground is important. And you shouldn't be. It shouldn't ever seem like it's beneath, I'm fortunate to work with a bunch of people that like, something like that or warning them up again. I don't really follow stuff like that because it's unrealistic representation out there doing it. It's a game show which I used to do Timothy: earlier today. We were talking, you were not aware though, that the world is a weird, Ashly: strange, strange world. And even like not to get too technical about stuff, they didn't even have a whole lot of moving parts in it. They basically, they didn't have to even assemble all of it, like before they had to set up string, just not complicated. People are like, oh, I always get mine repaired. I haven't done that in years. You know? It's like, like it's something that you just, you know, like if I find that to be ridiculous, Timothy: we kinda, you know, buy a new tattoo machine every week and then open it up out of the box. It's all pre sterilized and everything like that. Well, well now for you that, I mean, for the show though, it's just kind of like, everything was all pre setup for them. They didn't have to do on their own set up. Yeah. Ashly: Or having a hard time doing some filming with the easy word of putting up a tattoo as you. But just talking about working on one, like it's the meat, you know what I mean? Yeah. You know, I'm the best on the east coast and whatever, you know, like, I, I haven't done this forever. I just send it out. I used to work with someone who I will not name who was like, that would just like, you know, could just immediately anything went any sort of way. And he's like, oh, well, if I try to repair my filter and I can't send it back to him, like, it's just an excuse for not liking Timothy: well, I mean, I think you have to know whatever tool that is that you're working with. No matter what what discipline you go into like a painter needs to know their brushes, the canvas that they're using. And you know, how the paint interacts and then the different mediums that they could add subtract from your existing, same way. You need to know how that machine works and how it's going to do the things that you put in it. I was going to react to certain skin and all that jazz. Ashly: Yeah. It's basically you wouldn't, you know, knowing your stuff, which is why in my version of it was a big deal. The guy who me on the tattoo to emphasize the business prep before the night. So often, Timothy: oh, I'm doing okay. And B you know, on the other side of the of the, of the machine, you know, you have to prep for. What's going to happen because we got that one long as you get up. And I did not eat that day, but afterwards I was like, and I went down, but that's another aspect of your craft that you need to know how to deal with somebody like that. Ashly: crashing, but yeah, you gotta be prepared for something like that. You're actually officially tattooed. Timothy: Well, you're the only person that I've interviewed doing their art while I'm interviewing. Ashly: This is just getting the sending. Cause last time we went and got and Timothy: exactly, exactly at a restaurant of which we're not going to name because it's a cool place and we don't want it to get all his Stearns for people to go there and try to get our autographs and all that kind of jazz. You have to be very protective of that. Ashly: Yeah. It's an hour thinking, thinking your show on, Timothy: well, you know, you, it's easy to do so I think you kind of mentioned this, but for you, the attraction is more the craft versus the arts say, or Ashly: I enjoy. Yeah. If I'm having like blocks working on packing machines as fulfilling as well, it sounded like, and I'm not saying that he is not a crap, cause obviously it is, but it's kind of like, like a pottery, you know, where you, there's another apparatus that you're using and not just like a pencil or a paintbrush, there's some, a whole other mechanical aspect of something that you use to create art. Lends it more to a craft for me. Timothy: Well, and you have your client, your patron, your desk, wherever you want to call them. Right there you get, you're getting the immediate feedback while it's happening. So, I mean, if something doesn't come out right, and just like bullshit or, you know, when it comes out fantastic, which, you know, not tooting your horn for you. That's what I do. But this is number 12, Ashly: really? Timothy: No, no. There's number 12 on my body. No, no, let's see the frame of chess. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. I'm losing count. That's okay. This is what happens when I get my a fifth core math skills become even worse. Majority of my tattoos are done by we'll just say that. Yeah. Cause I only had four done by somebody else and then you've done the rest. So I had the the Texas the chemo and then the dagger up here, the diagram, the scope of which, you know, it's, so it's like a dagger and a still after set that 92 94, Ashly: you Timothy: know, air force base. That's what city that was just down in San Antonio. That's right. Yup. If I was going to move to Texas and it tells you the town I'd go to, it's a good place. I went to a big old comic book store there it's right next to a Chinese buffet, Chinese buffet. It was first perfect match. so getting back on the crash site. So no, like in my, because I have a day job, this is your day, this is your job. And I put air quotes. So that way everyone can see the air quotes. That's what I do. Audio air quotes there, but it's your job for the work that I do. I do a lot of counseling with my clients and all that, but I do realize. There are some days that I do phone it in. Now when I do my art, I'm usually not phoning it in because that is something that, for me, it's a treat that I get to be. I don't necessarily get to do my art with every client. And I'm with you, you are doing your, with every client that you have with using your skills, you're using your craft and all that. I'm not doing Ashly: my art with everybody. I am definitely doing my craft with everyone. And that's yeah. That's why that's the craft or tattooing versus the art and tattooing. I'm doing my art with my tattooing right now because I drew this and, you know, it's something that I wanted to tattoo. I care about every single one that I do and I do the best job they can with everything. And I don't judge other people for what they get because not everybody, you know, I'm not you, you're not me. Not everybody wants to get a giant riding horse called tattooed on their thigh or two people making out tattoo on their throat. That's me. If, whatever you want to get the bond to the person, or you really like it, then that's cool. But that's not, that is an exercise in craft and not art. Timothy: So we're not going to talk about the, my shoulder, Ashly: but yes, I feel like that's kind of, that's where the difference is, you know, like it is an art, but my art and not in a derogatory way, but my personal art would be more than something that I've drawn out of my mind or, you know, like, like from a complication or something like that, you know, Saigon and. See, I feel like I put a different, neither one is awesome. I love that doing so it's like, even if I'm doing something, it's not that I don't like it, but even if I'm doing something that's not like for my book or something, that's not like out of my mind or drawing from my wall, I'm still practicing the craft. Gotcha. Yeah. In my women earlier today, you just did easily, like we got call it a remix around here tattoo. Sure. And it was really, really, really faded and you just kind of wanted to have it re reworked. That would be another thing that I spend my time with that thing. And I like did my best to make. I believe you possibly could. You know, so that's, again, it's not my art. I'm not even like, that's not even a Debbie that I didn't initially, you know, but the craft side of it is bringing it back to its fullest potential. Gotcha. That's another aspect of where, you know, I feel like tattooing comes to the craft first and second. Timothy: So when would that, that thread going on there? You're a craftsperson first artists second Ashly: say custom, you know, like a couple of years, whatever I knew, then I might call it an art first. But you know, if you're just doing your thing, we'll also, you know, Walk in and anything that comes in the door, but yeah, I feel it should be because otherwise I've worked with people who act like, you know, movies of my arts and I was not going to deal with the rest of us. And then they always end up having some kind of rockstar attitude. Cause you kind of pump yourself up in your head or your social media once yourself up in your head. Like, you know, the majority of the time, if you weren't tattooing your friends. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, Timothy: I think the kids used to call it way back in the day in the late eighties, early nineties don't believe the hype. I could be wrong on that. I am older than her, but don't believe the hype, Ashly: you know, I don't feel like anybody, especially. Year or two tattoos should believe that there any sort of rocks are beneath them to do a walk in. And that's just my personal opinion, but I also worked with people like that before. So Timothy: what's, what's going to turn to some of the aspects of your craft. So it's kinda some of the intangibles that you have so bedside manner or chairside manner. However you want to call that, I guess depends. If somebody's sitting in the chair or laying on a table, tableside married, there we go. How important is that for you? I mean, you get all walks of life coming in here. Is it important for you to connect with that person that you're tattooing. Ashly: Okay. I don't feel like you are forced to necessarily, but my feeling on that, even the blood I went, I would just go with my friends who were older than me. So I would go with them to get tattooed. And I mean, tattooers working with people I haven't met, you know, just joking around and having a good time and you know, like, oh my God, I want to do that. Cause it just looked like you were worried, you know? And so I feel like, especially when somebody first I will say, I feel like it's, you know, you have to, and sometimes you have to check your shit at the door, you know, because the person has kids and it's getting their first tattoo from you. They might not know. Just got ghosted by someone or, you know, you add some sort of breakup and you're upset or that you got to put your dog down or whatever else, because they don't know your life. And sometimes you just interact and it's just a job and you just, you know, you can't, but I feel like it's kind of important for people that you pull it together because I feel like you're doing them a disservice, you know, like they should have the experience that I have. They should, you should be the coolest person I've ever met. You should pull out some stories and be weird or be funny or whatever, because they're going to remember that forever. Oh yeah. You know, I remember, I, first time I got tattooed, so so yeah, I feel like it's important a lot of the times, it just like you pull it together and be that for them. Cause they're already nervous know. We tend to forget. Sometimes I feel like that we're in tattoo shops more than. Sometimes that aren't home, you know? So I am very comfortable as you shop, but these people only buy them. Haven't ever been in one, or they only haven't been many years because they were about to be hurt or they're Timothy: using the painless. Well, yeah, those are like, Ashly: woo. But you know, like it just, you should be that should be able to like, hold it together and be that person. And that's sometimes, I mean, like I'm talking, I just finished lining your tattoo and I'm talking during it. I usually don't talk a whole lot my money. No, but I Timothy: knew I was going to, well, this is a a special treat for everybody. Ashly: Yeah. But so yeah, sometimes people don't want to talk and that's fine. That's also fine. Timothy: No, you know, when you've tattooed me in the past, there's been times when it's just been, we've sat here for an hour or two hours and sends out five words, not the word mad at each other. Well, no, we can do our own Headspace. Ashly: It's going to take me like a couple hours too. Cause when I start talking a lot of buttons, cause I talk with my hands. And so a lot of times when I started talking and then I stopped doing gesturing with my hands. So but yeah, so I guess that answered the question. I do. I feel like it's important to be that for them it's not being disingenuous. And honestly it kind of, if I'm having a bad day, just gets me out of my head. Well, you know, making somebody laugh, cracking a joke, is that telling them a funny story Timothy: because you never know what you're going to run into with, with them. You know, they might have a funny story for you. Ashly: Yeah. You know, and it's disarming for people that are nervous, not just sitting there in silence, you know, Timothy: you can have the mascara. Where you can have a good time and have a couple of lives Ashly: doing this. Non-stop reasonably for everyone in case you leave this in there, I just broke a glove and smack myself in the hand with it. Oh, that's Timothy: not fun. Ashly: It doesn't leave a little mark. I used to work with this guy who will remain nameless a lot or name was Timothy: people Ashly: Being a diplomat that's Timothy: okay. Ashly: Who he thought he was such a rock star and he was one of those. He literally said, I'm just going to focus on my art one time. But I thought he was such a big deal in such a rough sort of the most important thing to him when he was tattooing was listening to his own God damn music. And I don't mean music that he made. I mean, just music that he likes and if anything else was happening, he would wear headphones. He would like freak out about having to listen to what you wanted to listen to. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Now you're I have my room. It's hot and you can listen whatever I want. Yeah. But it's not the biggest fucking deal on the planet as far as like what comes to tattooing, right? Yeah. Just driving videos. Timothy: So if I popped in here and said, you know what, we have to listen to some Johnny Cash. You wouldn't be offended by you just be like, Hey Tim, I'm going to put in the needle. Set hurt now. Ashly: Yeah. That guy was weird. He also had a weird perception of time and thought that they had found Atlanta. So, oh, okay. Timothy: Yeah, that's a that's next episode. We'll talk about the Atlanta's and the movie, the fake moon landing. Yes. That's the next thing. Ashly: He would always do this thing where he'd be like, well, you know, every time he would say something completely non-factual he would started out like that. And one day he just walked in the shop and his, well, you know, he's like found it Lantus, Timothy: all right. Some other non-changeable thing. So we, we've kind of talked about, you know, kind of your your, your bedside manner. You're a chairside manner with folks how you feel like it goes with you. Oh for me, well, that's, well, you're the person with the SharePoint, the object. So it's fantastic. Absolutely. Don't hurt me please. Ah, no, but I think it's important. I mean, because I dabble in a lot to a lot of different disciplines as do you, as. But know, I think, you know, when you're talking to your customers or you talk, you're not yet, I hate to call it customers, but clients or whatever, you know doesn't have to make me sell except for, but exactly. I am by the way, but you know, I retired back on no, actually September it was May 10th, 2013 is when I retired. Hey, sorry. I had to get married kids. That's what happened? Well, a Decker, a very decorated. Yeah. I mean, there's the come as your favorite porn star party, which I didn't know you at the time. I apologize. You know, that was a classic party. There is a picture of me wearing tassels and the trenchcoat not much else, but that was, and I came to the party. You saw that some people stayed, some people didn't who cares. We're going to ask you, oh my God. To me. And I'm just like, my brain goes, oh, no, you had actually turned the question around on me. And how has your bedside manner? And, you know, I think for me, when I do, like, when I meet people on the road, on the road, like here's the band back together, man. But when I'm on the road, I, you know, if somebody is talking to my, a podcast or something like that, or 15, one of my paintings, which I'm like, why are you in my basement? Why are you in my man cave? It feels cool. And I don't necessarily want to give them an experience per se, but, you know, I want to let them know that I appreciate the time they took. There's a ton of other things that people could be doing well, I'm not aware of these other so-called establishment. I'm sure they're fine. But this is the only one that I can officially recommended. This is the official, a tattooer and Bessie shop of the KT team and crew. We get all of our tattoos here. And if you would like to be on the show, you know, you can always email us at Katie DOI, podcasting, gmail.com. I will send you 11 topics. And if you have a topic or topics you'd like to talk to us by all means, feel free to email me and we'll go ahead and get you on the show. I will come to where you're at or we'll do it on slack. If you're attending. I have signed a assignment contract here, so you won't even be able to look at my skin, but that's, I know for me, your church I've met her has always been well. I mean, we've been friends forever the week and I'm bad with math, so I'm going to go with her. I'm going to go with a hundred years. Why not? So as far as your craft goes and I think, you know, when we did our very first interview for a year and a half Ashly: ago Timothy: Art portion of your stuff we talked a little bit about your inspiration on that. Are you finding it with today's technology? You know, you go on the internet and get any. I mean in use, if you want all that kind of jazz, is that making your ideas, closet or idea board easier to fill up harder to fill up with it so easy to kind of, you know, people out there copying other people's stuff. Yeah. Ashly: That's not it, you know, once you get energized, not like a copier, but but now you are putting a separate on this tattoo, right? When see it as a tool for good, you know, I still collect books, looking at references books, but it does make it easier. Thinking about drawing something that I can look up reference on my phone and use the internet or something or whatever is when people, you know, if somebody brings me an image on their phone and it's the first thing that they use. And I know there's another one that you can't ever have enough tattoos. You never have enough skull tattoos just because it's something it's popular. Doesn't mean it's wrong. If it's the first thing, if you Google searches, generally not wholly unique to you. Right? So the physics of tattooing, which I feel like goes into the craft and tracking there are some things that are possible that are not a good idea. And it's for the longevity of your tattoos, because it's not a painting, you know, and it's going to grow and it's going to change with you. And so if you use, you know, it goes together over time. And if not anybody trying to talk to you and just trying to get money on you or anything like that, It's just so that you can have a me just because it's possible. It's not a good idea and everybody fucking knows it, but there are people that will do tattoos like that, and they will be on the internet, mostly a site, especially for you that I won't name. Why they shouldn't be doing something and they're holding up their phone on a picture of exactly what they're trying to get. Same. It's right here and it's already done. You just can't do it. You know? So that's when it gets frustrating, Timothy: that's when you want to hit the hit time machine and go, okay, let's fast forward 10 years and see what that thing looks like. You can hear. So Ashly: we have a binder here that has tattoos in it from that are kinda like that, that show people what it looks like. So yeah, I try to speak for good, but it does get your, Timothy: so I guess that's another aspect of your being an advocate for the person or their future selves. You know, you're trying to love looking ahead for them and go, Hey, listen, you know, I've got 355 tattoos. I think I know what I'm doing. You're coming to me a professional that knows what they're doing. Like you wouldn't walk into your doctor's office and go, you know what, just take out the right house to live the last one, you know? And they're both insensitive. You don't do that to your medical doctor. Why would you do that? Catch a of it. Yeah. Ashly: Yeah. A bit of saving people from themselves, you know, and I either choose to listen or not honestly, like, it's kind of, it goes both ways. Sometimes people just frustrated and, you know, whatever. But most of the time I feel like people listen to what you're saying, even if they don't completely understand why. Well, I was just talking about physics and tattooing's like, there's art from a long way. The materials put a long way, but there's certain things that we can't just get by. And that's the way that it's going to work in your skin. It's just physics. It's science. Timothy: Like, I think I remember we had a conversation one time I was talking about doing daisies over my scar, on my left, on my back hand. And that's just not going to work. It's a great idea. It's a tribute to my mom. However, it's probably gonna hurt like, hell, it's not going to turn out. Right. Ashly: Yeah. And it's like that. Talk about going back to like people say the compensation too, because even if I'm talking to someone she know it's important to understand, sometimes you have to, sometimes you have to certainly, won't just, they understand what you're saying. And then other people, when you. When it's something like really important to them, or it's very personal, it's very emotional for them is not gonna work as a tattoo. And so you're like, okay, well that's not gonna work as a tattoo, or we've got to do this and that. And sometimes people will understand, and then sometimes people get really upset because they take it like you're trying to tell them that their idea's stupid, as opposed to just saying your idea is great. It just doesn't work as a tattoo. And it's, you know, that goes to the physics and the graphic, the whole thing. Yeah, I've definitely been in consultations with people that got started getting mad at me. They're like, oh, well, you know, I know it's not what normal, you know, I don't like, no, no, no, no, no. Let's say Timothy: there is no normal. Once you cross the threat, So again with me, you know, I got the day job air-quotes going here and hardcore, except on my left hand, I'm not moving my left arm at all. So for me, I know my time is limited in the art that I can do and practice and rehearse and all that. And I think practice is a big thing for you. Are you finding all right, so, you know, you're not allowed to catch you. You take an hour, two hours, three hours to, so in your eight hour Workday, shall we say, which you probably know of you, you don't have an eight hour Workday, but 40 enough at the time that you're not tattooing, you're doing the research, you're doing the consultation. You're doing, thinking about the business aspect of it. It's not just, Hey, we're sitting around here having a good time. You're actually doing research and practicing your frown. To get better at it. Ashly: Yeah. We all get along, around joke around too, you know, because it's important, in my opinion, especially when you do something, some people would see it as being cause it's permanent, you know? So she has to be able to laugh about things and not, if you take, I take this seriously, don't get me wrong. It completely seriously. But if you freak out about every tattoo that you're gonna do, then you won't be able to do it. Right. So we have to, there has to be a lightness involved as well. Timothy: I know I could never do a cashew because you don't have an eraser on the other end of that machine. Not a permanent non-painful. Yeah, exactly. Ashly: Yeah. I'm getting laser. It takes a long time. Yeah, no thanks. Yeah. Timothy: I don't want lasers in my eyes. I don't want losers on the body, Tom Brady, on the other hand, I'm fine with that. And I know, I know you don't care about no, you do care about sports. You care about hockey. Cause that's the only sport that's left. The guy was fine. He scored another goal later on in the game. Ashly: I actually thought about my beginning last night on the worst idea. Well, I didn't go watch it. So it was on draft. So at least halfway the half of one. Timothy: Well, I mean, they really need to bring the Richmond renegades back when they read here the Coliseum, they just, they just need to do that. My mom Ashly: told me over the holidays that she did not get. Yeah. She used to date a dude who went to the Wildcats and he, someone was playing a character based on him when she told me that I was like, Timothy: I I've never dated a hockey player. Ashly: I guess anyway, there we go. Somebody else will understand that Timothy: that's when we can pull it out for the Christmas show. So I know I've been guilty of this forever in a week by saying tattoo artist. So for you, is that kind of saying the same thing twice? Ashly: It's fine. I mean, it's kind of like when I'm talking about myself, I refer to myself. I don't have a problem Timothy: and everybody knows me cause I am just like, everybody's in August. And of course she has to be, if you know who I am, you've got to be an artist in some way, shape or form. You don't have the options. It's just a requirement because if you're not, I'll make you one. Ashly: Yeah. I guess for me, it just goes to like the for that ground. But you know, I don't care and I don't think offense to it. You know, like when people tell me, I look like Kat Von D I know they're giving me a compliment, but it's like it doesn't make me feel like they don't see me as an individual. So on my training. And also sometimes when you say tattoo where people understand, they don't understand what you're saying. So kind Timothy: of walk us through your Ashly: well, you mean like I'm a Leo, I like long walks on the beach and cannulate Laden. Well, Timothy: no, that's a material. No, I don't like somebody walked in Joe blow walks in it's either flashing them all. It comes in with an idea. What's, what's the process that you go through or he's like, Hey, listen, I want a tattoo. Don't care. What? Talking to this. Ashly: Well, they can't always say I'm not, you know what I mean? Like, let me know what you want to do. We had time to do what we have time to do it. If it needs to, if it requires an appointment, then it requires an appointment. Usually when I set up appointments, I do whatever it is. Usually I have people come in from complications, a lot of different variables and a lot of time to be able to do a tattoo. You know what I mean? Like it's all so subjective. It's just easier to do that in person. Yeah. You make a folder from there is when you set the time for an appointment. Okay. Timothy: And so let's say somebody, you know, wants to come to you and get a set to what, what should they bond? So I've cash. Cash is good. But no seriously though, what should they read? What's going to make it easier on you to give them what they lost. Ashly: Well reference for something. Does that sound like the first step? Like what people want to do? It doesn't have to be a completely, fully formed idea, but yeah, he got to know what you want yet. When you walk in the door and you gotta be serious about wanting to do it, he's like, I don't ever want anybody to feel like they are unwelcomed because that's not true. But you know, if you're going to beat up on back and forth, that's fine. But once you kind of come in and you're going to spend like 45 minutes talking to somebody about getting tattooed, that you're just mulling over. There's a better way to go about that hundred ideas, just a general idea of what you're trying to do. And that's when we can talk about all the options of how to, how to make that come to fruition and we're gonna work with not gonna work. And then there's some people that are like, oh, okay, well, I have another idea, a basic idea of what you want, because we're not sitting around telling people what to get tattooed, and I'm not trying to trick anyone in anything, you know, that's the best way to go about it because we can sit here and stare at each other and be like, okay, so you're laying in here is this habit. So I have that and wall over there. I ended up doing on my best friend So before I did that, I had to sit in the long. So if you have a general idea, you know, step one, it's not from a point of trying to be a jerk or anything like that, but you know, people don't want. Someone coming into their work and just like making them stand there while they, you know, Timothy: well, you wouldn't take your car into a garage and go, I don't know, maybe an oil change. I don't know, break. Ashly: I'm going to think about it for half an hour, but I don't want you to go anywhere. I need you to stand here with me. So when I think about something, I can tell it to you and then go, but I don't know, you know, and you don't act like you think, you know everything about it, right? A buddy of mine. I've heard of mine and I've ever had stickers made before. I also don't know how it works. Timothy: I forgot to bring stickers Ashly: and we're just like going over the design. I just told him, I was like, listen, I have never done this before. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't want working what doesn't work. So I was like, if I am asking for something that's realistic or by mapping for something, that's going to be gigantic pain in your ass. Just tell me, I don't know. And I don't want to actively try to do that. And that's how I feel most of the time when people are. When it's a difficult situation. And most of the time it's just, they don't know what's going on. I don't know why that doesn't work. You know? So that's why I always make a point. If I am going to tell somebody, no, I told them why Timothy: good deal. Now, as far as like, when you're in that consultation points and you get somebody that has a pretty good idea, and it is a feasible idea at that, I guess I'm kind of getting towards the whole I don't want to say ownership part cause it's, you know, You own that work, you put your, you know, your heart and soul and sweat and tears into this is why Ashly: talk about having someone or any, it's always a weird thing. You work on them, even as I say, Timothy: I see. That's something that I've learned that you don't have to recall catchy with you. I'm like, oh, I never noticed that Ashly: I got to do. Timothy: I mean, I've seen you put it on Instagram or I seen you put stuff out there. Ashly: It does sound that I can make it sound a lot, like, well, Timothy: but you know, it is a thing that you do get through together because there's a certain amount of pain on this side of the house because we're using the no pain needles, but I know your hands. Ashly: When you're done. Yeah. But yeah, it's definitely not just a physical thing on the angle of the person getting tattoos. I definitely wonder if my hand Timothy: and that's why it's always good to hear here, tattooist. And I'm going to start sending text cards to a massage therapist. Never happened. Okay. Well, I have a massage service. She works. Oh, yeah, I was there kind of like a certain degree of, I don't want to say sadness that a loss, especially when you designed your own, like this one is, you know, a, you designed it, but is there a certain certain sense of loss? Like, you know, after I get done here and walk out the door, that case is now gone. Not necessarily, because all you gotta do is guys, you can take a picture of that. You know, you got visitation rights to it, but is there a certain kind of a feeling that you have with that one? When we walked out. Ashly: You always want to get richer and then she's always nice of like the way it's going to look when it's all settled, trying to get a good picture of it. I don't really feel, it's not like a separate thing because what you're working towards is trying to get it on somebody else. So, no, it's not necessarily like that. It's not like I've definitely done drawings or paintings that I've her soul. And it's like, there's only, there's only one of those two, but I still have to drive weird. But there's kind of like a separation anxiety with that a little bit, because you've spent so much time on it, but we've spent a lot of time, like, I don't know. But it's a different thing Timothy: for me. So you get it more with the with the drawings and the paintings versus the tattoos. Ashly: Okay. That's Timothy: true. And I do plan on walking on my hand and you don't when you're done. Yeah, that would be hilarious. Well, no, I get that too. Cause I've, I've sold very few paintings, but you know, the the couple that I have sold, it's like, Ashly: yeah. Yeah, I guess for me, it's when something is in front of me, but if I've drawn something fully functional, if the drawing makes any sense, I think the ideas, I mean, just listening to Brian. That makes sense. Just like forever. Timothy: So we've touched a little bit on your drawing, painting and that kind of stuff. So with tattooing that's more France and art, but with like the drawings and the paintings and all that kind of stuff, is that more arts and crafts? I Ashly: would say. Yeah, not necessarily do a whole lot if I do. I don't, I don't do like, stuff like that, but cause that's the only, like the crapper has been drawing for you. You just know spatial relationships, as far as something that's going to be 18. And to me, it's not like you're wild artists, whether they come in, which is why, if you were like, I'm going to have my friend draw it for me, I'm like, no, it's going to have to redraw it anyways. Because a lot of the times it's like a lot of a lot of stuff in the foreground and then like, and it's just not, yeah. Timothy: So make sure you have a brush Ashly: or something. Just a hundred thousand. That's also aware in friendship in the future. So that's also Timothy: like with all that drawing in apprenticeship is it you're doing a lot of drawings and then you get to, do you get the secret chief into a tattoo or is it 15 versions of the same thing? And then, okay, you're gonna put it on yourself. You're going to put it on somebody else. Ashly: I mean, everybody does it differently. But I mean, for me, the first part about my version, which is basically learning how to keep everything clean. Yeah. You know, you don't actually have to work with it for a really long time, so you get everything else. Timothy: So what are you trying to tell me is if you want to be a tattooist every time I say I get 10 bonus points because I'm learning to change my vocabulary or some tattoos, tattoos, tattoos, that's 30 points and wood that I can buy three of my own books. But so th this isn't something that you can, you know, in five easy weeks when 1995 Ashly: be attached to it, people that that's, that's why. Because you can't teach someone how to be a decent tattooer. Good. We need decent tattooer in two months. It's just ridiculous. So, but people, you know, people buy in life, so that's just stealing people's money. Yeah. Timothy: And then a lot of that out there, and then you have a lot of your online schools or this, that, and the other thing, which for some things sure. You can do it, but I've seen, you know, stuff where they do online before. And you know, as people know you were, once my students in each class, I don't think you could really do that over the internet. Well, maybe you can do it with not even with Skype or maybe with squad gas. Thank you for the hundred bucks flat. You could kind of do it that way, but you know, actually to give us the, and I'm getting over the butterflies, you know, kind of plug stuff into the, into the sharp first day. Yeah. That's really gotta be done in person with somebody that can see what you're doing wrong, bad, bad habits and all that. Ashly: So many edges and every single one that he did that. And I watched them do it and I asked questions and you know, it has to be a hands-on thing that can not be something that's a commodity. Timothy: So now going from. Somebody who on apprentices right now? As far as I know, you're not, you're not doing that, but no, I don't no desire to do that. Ashly: It is so much work and it's such a commitment, Timothy: but that's not even a next stage thing. That's not going to look Ashly: into that. I don't have any, well, you've Timothy: dealt with me for how many years you have to have that kind of patience. Ashly: Yeah. Not that I want to be the guy who taught me basically. Timothy: And with that, you know, apprenticeship teaching where your craft is today, let's say six months out of that apprenticeship was it's, it's obviously you're doing the tattoos, but is there like a percentage breakdown of my instructor, you can see my instructor, you know, 60% of the work versus me, 40% of the work. And does that percentage kind of go down, whereas, you know, if we're looking, looking at your work today versus six months a year, apprenticeship, Ashly: Want me to like emulate the way that I draw. Gotcha. Which was good. It helped me to just like figure out what I like to do. You know, there's nothing wrong with. Timothy: He'll have a PBS TV show. Oh, there's got to be, my wife got me a Barbara Borgen. Totally different. So what was I listening to yesterday? It was on NPR. CBS made me think about NPR, which makes me think about PBR, which they were doing a thing on there. Talking about the Smith. She was working on the Emory and they had a little special on it, where they were talking about female artists. Her relationship with man Ray and all the abuse and all that kind of stuff. And then I guess she had a son that didn't know who she was in the art world. And I was like, mommy, I know, man, Ray, I know Lee Smith. And I'm like, how could he have not? I was thinking about that. I was like, oh, Ashly: okay. Well, I mean, it's kind of like, I don't like to, when I'm. Absolutely. Know you just have to put your head down, but I wanted it that badly that I wasn't going to get that Timothy: well, if it's something that you want to do with your life, if it's the calling that you have, and I'm not talking, like I'll put a special time for that, because that's what we do on podcasts. You know, you're going to get, you're gonna find a way. Ashly: Yeah. It was a very, very frustrating Timothy: well, and that kind of goes through one of the quotes that I found with craft that I thought was really cool is you know amateurs have writer's block writers, you know, and then the other one was you know, what crack is, is to be able to sit and look at the blank cage until you're sweating bullets and then write the story. Do the job and make that happen for yourself? Ashly: yes, we are a wild pack because I'm an adult, but when we need an adult Timothy: now, even when you're kind of doing the flash piece and, and let's say you've done it, you know, it's a. Let's go, mom, Ashly: are you burned on Saturday? Timothy: So even when you're doing one, you're still putting a little your own spin on it if Tweety bird, but you're not putting a, like a, like a subliminal upside down, cross on it. Ashly: No, I mean, I've only been to tattoo in the style of my tattoo, you know? Well, until that style changes. Cause that's what happens when you grow. And Timothy: it's funny, you mentioned that because our good friend miss Noreen barn she just emailed me back. Have you thought about style as a topic and I'm like, Ashly: you really want them to look the same. Wouldn't get them done by different people, which is also the other aspect is it's not about getting and then adding to that one tattoo over here next to it. I mean, it was like they wanted to do the whole same thing. They're trying to get five different people on the same tattoo. And I'm like, it's just like, you just went in to get this big tattoo. Which is something that I think, I feel like people forget to find everybody works in different style. If you want something to look like it was all done the same time, all at the same time, you know, otherwise. Timothy: Yeah. Because when I roll up my sleeves, people go, well, yeah. The other tattoos that I have have color in them and you know, with you, we do, we do the shadow work all the time, but people lacking gray was great. And I thought, I thought it was my hair. No. Okay. But but I I eventually all the body hair. Ashly: That's all we can make our riches, man. We'll just take a video of you Timothy: hanging out in the backyard with one adorable girls. Ashly: It was fun. It was like a little backbone. Oh, okay. Timothy: So being on this side of the needles, I know I was going to kind of that happy zone whenever I get tattoos for you. And now my regular job, I don't necessarily go into that happy. I'm turning up music really loud, you know, shutting my door on, know, cranking out Excel spreadsheets and TPS, cover sheets for my factors and all that good stuff. He goes, somebody did give me a red stapler told him, let's say for set off the space was one left will be split for you. Is there a point where you kind of get in that happy zone where your site get higher time and space kind of go away. And he was like, Symbiotic with the client, therefore the Ashly: past hour and a half, I don't understand what you don't want to bring a hundred people with them to watch them get tattooed. Because watching someone getting tattooed is incredibly wide, Timothy: they made, it's not like it is on TV. Ashly: It's like I also, because I told them, I'm like, it's the message television, man. It's like you ever seen a cooking show? Like they don't stand in front of the oven for 25 minutes and watch the oven. They bring out the little thing and we go, Hey, if we stood here and watched the oven for 25 minutes, here's what would come out of it. And same thing with tattooed TV shows, people were like, really? It's going to take that long. I'm like, yes, it's a very long process. Which is also, you know, I don't expect everyone to know that, but no the best way that I ever heard the lady to thrive, watching somebody getting back was that librarians. I did someone ask them, he just said to her and they asked them, what's it like watching? It's like watching two people sit close to each other for hours. Yeah. That's exactly what it is. Yeah. Timothy: Cause I'm weird. You're not weird Ashly: with the normal Timothy: one. Right? You're you're, you're the normal one. I am the purveyor of weirdness in the world. I would sit and watch people very closely for hours on end because I'd had my notebook right there and I'd make up a novel. I said, Ashly: yeah, I don't see you doing that. But it just makes me think of the, I've never seen, it's going to be a video of somebody walking up a hill for six. Yeah, I don't. Yeah. So unless you're like, watch myself getting tattoos, I like to watch the way other people got here. Sure. But interesting to people you don't even have that many people in can find the dressing room and not have the temperature. It can be really uncomfortable and ultimately. Ultimately one room. Absolutely. Timothy: That is why I will never have you Ashly: normally, normally, oh God, it's hard to do. I think a lot of distress, depending, if you want to make sure that. It's not funny. But But yeah, I have two names on me. I have my dog. And then I have my finger that he was going to use it as the front page of the portfolio. Timothy: No, I just had my name on me cause I figured I'm not going to break up with me anytime soon. Besides it's funny when people don't know me, they look for chemo, they looked for a little Oriental guy and I'm like, well, that's how it, that's how it started. Yeah. Have I told you the story of king? Oh my God. Okay. I, you know, we've known each other for a hundred years. Jesus. So my my brother Mike is four years older than I am. He went to college. I went to high school. Join the fraternity. There's a guy there from Thailand. His first name was 13 letters, long, 15 letters long. So they called him chemo, dragon. He and I got to be good friends cause, well, you know, I'm French Canadian. We can drink a lot. And so they call me chemo. So I'm in the air force. I'm writing poetry, go to my first poetry reading. And before that there's this bulletin board system, which was before the internet and I was putting poetry up there and sending it as chemo because I was unsure of myself. And so I'm like, Hey, I'll meet you guys at this, you know, poetry, that's in the coffee shop in town. And so I signed up his chemo and I'm standing in the back and I'm like, Hey, you know, we've got this new poet. Here's his first time out under the names chemo. Let's, let's bring them on up. So I pop up there and they're like, no, no chemo. No, that's me. They're like, you're not a little Chinese guy. I'm like, Nope, Nope. French Canadian button. You know, we looked Japanese if we were tall and really hearing. Yeah. So I used that you know, I had a good, you know, good turnout at that point. And so when I was in the airport working on aircraft, because I was a mechanic, we all have inferior inferiority complex to pilots, pilots have call signs. So we all had to give herself a call sign. So I gave myself. And that kind of stuff. So I started getting tattoos and I was like, oh, well I need to put that on my arm and make it stick. So that way I can tell people, no, really I am chemo. You don't want to go to Porsche. I have it on my arm felt the same way. And the skull kind of looks like me. I've been one time. I did have a full man. I used to wear sunglasses. These are transitions. They turn into sandboxes and that's about three minutes story. There's a 32nd story. And there's a three day story. I've only told the three day story twice. Ashly: The ceremony Timothy: involved with it. Oh yeah, there was, there was a fist fight afterwards. Cheated there. Like you could have told me, I had three minutes. I'm like, well, you asked for the three-day story. I gave you an option. So let that be a lesson to you. People, if you ask for it and you get it, you ask, can you do my hair too? With Ashly: highlights? Timothy: Also, we did we did the haircuts with the girl and her style. His name was Jennifer. They hit it off and equity. I had hit it off with her stylist to talk like they're old friends, I'm just, I'm sitting there going, there's going to be a nightmare. I'm going to Holland and crying and death benefit. They have their moments, you know, like when they wake up at three in the morning and you go in there and let the wife sleep and you go in there and now. I don't have to threaten any boy that's out there. Any girl that's out there. I have pictures. I have video audio. Thank God for Google photos, Google. That's a hundred dollars. Thank you very much. Ashly: We're done. Timothy: Oh, sweet. Ashly: All right. Timothy: Promise. I eat food Ashly: today. I know. Timothy: Oh yeah. That is, that is. That is done to my folks to get a tattoo, but not this one, this one's Ashly: wherever. Yeah. Timothy: Yes, you're right. It is a switch blade. Ashly: It can be a sword if you want it to Timothy: be a sword. Well, I mean, for, for a mouse, it's a broad sword, but for a tiny mouse, Closing Thank you for listening to this episode of create art podcast, KDOI rebroadcast. You know, it was a real pleasure talking with Ashley while getting a tattoo and interviewing her and getting her ideas and thoughts on craft. Do I recommend it for everyone to do now? I don't recommend it for everyone to do doing interviews while you're getting tattooed, but I do recommend you getting tattooed by Ashley, for sure. Now, if you are having issues with your practice, with your craft, reach out to me, timothy@createartpodcast.com may be able to help you out. Or I may be able to get you to some resources that will help you out. So until next time tame your inner critic, create more than you consume and go out there and make some art for somebody you love yourself. See you next time. This has been a gaggle pod, east studio production gaggle pod, where we've been helping creatives tell their story through podcasting since 2017, come on over to gaggle pod.com. Check out all of our network shows and let us help you tell your story through the power of podcasting. .
It's one thing to have a God-given gift or ability – we all do. It's another thing entirely to use that gift for His glory when we're facing stiff opposition in life. When everybody and everything seems to be against us. Right there in that place is where we want to give up. Rediscovering the Gift Over the past couple of weeks we've been chatting about "Rekindling the Flame"; the passion in our hearts for being about the business that God has left us here on earth for – His business, God's business. Many, many Christians love Jesus, they want to follow Him but they've lost their way. Not so much because they don't love the Lord but because the way they spend their life and their resources and their time isn't what God had intended. What we believe and what we do are meant to be linked. That's why faith without works is dead. What does that mean? It means that if we believe something with all our hearts and yet we fail to live it out with our lives eventually what we believe will start to die. And that's what's happening for many people who set out on this journey of loving God and following Jesus. Their faith has started to die because they've lost focus on what they're meant to be doing. Interesting how that strikes home. Interesting how we sometimes focus on our faith and forget about living it out. And then we wonder why our faith is dwindling, why we feel like a rudderless ship on an ocean being tossed this way and that way. Now can I say that's something that many people go through so this week we're continuing on our journey of "Rekindling the Flame" by opening up the second letter that the wise old Apostle Paul wrote back in the first century to his young protégé Timothy. It seems that young Tim was having the same problem. Timothy was pastoring a Church and as anyone who's ever tried to do that will tell you, that quite simply is not an easy job. And there are two verses in particular that really leapt out for me in what Paul was saying to Timothy. 2 Timothy chapter 1, verse 6. He says: For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that's within you through the laying on of my hands. And then down to verse 14: Guard the good treasure entrusted to you with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us. Coming back to this concept that each one of us has been given a special gift or ability by God, it's been handcrafted into our DNA by God Himself and He's done that with a purpose. In Timothy's case that gift was preaching and teaching so I guess I relate really well to what Paul is saying to young Timothy in this letter and clearly Timothy was finding things tough. He was facing quite a bit of opposition from all sorts of people. And when things are tough it's so easy for us to lose focus; it's so easy to forget that God has given us a special gift, that God means for us to exercise and to use that gift, that God's plans and purposes for this world and for the people around us and indeed for you and for me are intricately linked to the exercising of that special gift or ability that He's given each one of us. Is that really true, you might ask? Do I really have a gift and is it really important in the scheme of things? My answer to that is, "Absolutely you do!" and "Absolutely it is!" Today we're going to journey off to somewhere else to another letter of Paul's, indeed his letter to the Roman Church. And I want to share with you this passage that you might find familiar because while I was reading it the other day something leapt off the page for me and into my heart, something that I'd never seen before despite the fact that I've written a whole book that revolves around this particular passage. Have a listen. It begins in Romans chapter 12, verse 4. Paul writes: For as in one body we have many members and not all the members have the same functions so we who are many are one in the body of Christ and individually we're members of one another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us. Prophecy in proportion to faith, ministry in ministering, the teacher in teaching, the exalter in exaltation, the giver in generosity, the leader in diligence, the compassionate in cheerfulness. Let love be genuine, hate what's evil, hold fast to what's good, love one another with mutual affection, outdo one another in showing honour. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit and serve the Lord. Now what this is all about here is explaining how we, as men and women and children who love Jesus, should live together in a fellowship, in a community of faith. That's how God changes us, that's how God transforms us – in community. But how does that community function? Well quite simply Paul's saying, "Guys we're all different, one of you has been put there by God to speak His will into the community of faith, that's what prophecy is. Another has been put there to minister or to serve, another to teach, another to exalt or encourage, another to give, another to lead, another to show compassion." You look at that list of seven gifts and it's pretty comprehensive, it's the way things are meant to be. But that's not so much the angle that I want to come at this particular passage from today. As I said, I've written a whole book about this to help people locate their particular motivational gifting or as we might call it today their personality type. But will you please notice with me what Paul says that each of the people with each of these different gifts should be doing and we all have at least one of these gifts in our make up. The prophet should do what? Prophecy according to his or her faith. The minister or the server should do what? Minister and serve. The teacher should do what? Teach. The leader should lead diligently, the giver should give generously. The one with compassion should show compassion with cheerfulness. In other words live out your particular gift, do what God made you to do. Do you see that in the text? It's right here in front of us. God is commanding us to live out who He made us to be. Why are so many people unhappy? Well simple, they're trying to be someone else. They're trying to do things they were never made to do. And it's by living out this one particular gift that we've been given that we show genuine love and notice with me how Paul finishes this particular passage off, verse 11: Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit and serve the Lord. Be zealous; be ardent in using your particular gift to serve God. Why are so many of us finding it hard to live out our faith? Why have so many lost the passion? Why has the flame gone out in so many a Christ followers' heart? Because we've stopped living out the gift that God has given us to live out. It's something we all struggle with. Timothy was struggling with it which is why Paul writes to him to remind him, 2 Timothy chapter 1, verse 6: Rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands. And friend today God is reminding you, it's time to get back in focus, it's time to get back on purpose because God's plan to bring this lost and hurting world back to Him includes you, it includes me and it includes our gifts, our abilities, Gods plan is to work through the person He's made you to be, to work through the person He's made me to be to share His mighty love with the people in our lives. That my friend is God's plan. In the Face of Opposition I don't know if you've picked this up in life but life ain't always easy! Have you noticed that? We kind of figure to ourselves it should be, at least it should be easier than what it is. And yes there are some great things that happen in life, there really are but there's always something there, some adversity that seemingly takes the shine off things. And I'll tell you what that does to us. It discourages us, it starts to tear away at the hopes and the dreams that we had for our lives. I have a dear friend Keith (and in fact Keith and I have written a book together) and his particular gifting is to be a teacher. Now he's not the sort of teacher that stands up in front of a classroom and lectures, that's not Keith. He's more your life coach. Not a self-appointed franchise-owning life coach like those you find on the internet, but a naturally gifted life coach. People come to him naturally for advice and encouragement and he helps them to understand their own giftings and their abilities to get their lives back on the right track. This is a God-given gift that Keith has and his hopes and his dreams for the rest of his life rests on this foundation of his gifting. It's part of who he is. He understands that, he knows the stuff he's not good at and loves, absolutely loves doing the things that he's good at. Back in the 1980's he had a surfing accident, broke his neck and he was almost killed firstly by the surfing accident and secondly when the rescue helicopter crashed and some days Keith today still suffers terrible migraine headaches, totally debilitating. I phoned him the other day and he sounded like death warmed up. He told me later that he really thought he was going to die that day that the pain was so bad. Here's the thing about Keith, the adversity doesn't distract him from living out that special gift of teaching and encouragement that God has given him. The adversity doesn't rob him of the dreams he has for blessing other people through his God given gift. Do you remember last week we chatted about this whole gifting thing through the Apostle Paul's second letter to his young protégé Timothy who is struggling amidst the adversity of pastoring a growing Church and who was at risk of losing sight of his God-given gift. Why? Well adversity has a way of tearing away at you so let's take a look at the adversity by listening to what Paul writes to Timothy. If you have a Bible grab it. I'm reading here from 2 Timothy chapter 3 beginning at verse 1: You must understand this (writes Paul) that in the last day distressing times will come for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the outward form of Godliness but denying it's power. Avoid them for among them are those who make their way into the households and captivate silly women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires, who are always being instructed but can never arrive at the knowledge of the truth. As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses so these people of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith also oppose the truth. But they will not make much progress because as in the case of those two men their folly will become plain to everyone. Notice how Paul kicks this off. You have to understand this that in the last day distressing times will come. It seems that Timothy, maybe a bit like you and me wasn't expecting adversity. It's not something we hope for or look out for and invariably one of adversity's biggest impacts on us is the sense of surprise. But Paul's saying, "Look young man, don't be surprised, this is the reality, this is what is going to happen to you." I mean what a litany of horrible things that people do. Do you expect to find those people in your Church or in your family or in your circle of friends or in your workplace? Is that what we expect? No. But Paul's saying, "Don't be surprised, they're there and more often than not they're a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing, they hold to the outward form of godliness but they deny its power." In other words they're going to pretend that they're holier than thou but in reality they're out there to tear you down because on the inside they deny the power of God. And it's in this context, in this reality, in this opposition that Paul says to Timothy: It's for this reason that I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that's within you through the laying on of my hands: Guard the good treasure entrusted to you with the help of the Holy Spirit who's living in us. Do you see this? Adversity isn't our excuse to give up on doing good. Adversity and criticism and opposition don't give us cause to give up using our God-given gifts to love and to bless and to encourage and to comfort and to lead those around us. To the contrary, it's the reality in which we live and it's because of that reality that Paul is calling Timothy and I believe that God is calling you and me to rekindle the flame, to rekindle the gift that He has placed within each one of us. And that's what I want to encourage you to do today because I know without a shadow of a doubt that for some the dream of using their gift has grown cold. I know without a shadow of a doubt that there are some who've pulled off the path that God has chosen for them because it's all just too hard because people are criticising us, people are coming against us and they hold us back and all that stuff. Imagine for a moment, just imagine where you and I would be today if Jesus had turned back from the cross because it was all too hard. Adversity is the very place where you and I are called to grow and to exercise our gift because here's the thing, the gift we have is from God, that one special ability that we have to make a difference in other people's lives invariably turns out expressing the love of God to other people who benefit from that God given gift. Whether as in Keith's case as he coaches people back onto the path that God has for their lives or as in my case as I use my gift of story telling to share the good news of Jesus with you and others or as in your case as you use that special gift that Gods given you to bless other people. The Foundation of God's Word One of the people with whom I have been greatly blessed in my life is my good friend and mentor Graham. Graham would be twenty something years older than me I guess, we first met when he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Australian army and I was a brash young Captain. We hit it off and within a few years he and I and a couple of other ex military sorts were involved as partners in a management and IT consulting firm. So for almost two decades I worked with Graham and benefited so much from his great wisdom and insight. To this day he's seriously one of the wisest men that I have ever met and if you're a regular listener to this program much of the wisdom that I'm able to share with you came through the experience of my friendship with Graham and now in my fifties as I reflect on life I realise that none of us can do it all on our own. We need to be surrounded by wisdom from somewhere else. When the going gets tough and we're tempted to race off in this direction or that having some wise, trusted counsellor close by, well you can't put a price on that, you just can't. And as we continue our look today at rekindling the gift that God's placed in each one of us I'd really like to chat about that some more with you. Because when the going gets tough and we're tempted to pull off the path that God has prepared for us to use our God given gift for His glory then right there in that place we need some good advice. As we saw before the break Timothy was going through some tough times and it was for this reason that Paul reminded him to rekindle the gift of God that was within him through the laying on of Paul's hands. Because God doesn't want us to stop using the gift that He's given us. Well that's all good in theory I guess but when we're in the heat of the battle, when emotion and exhaustion and misinformation is all around, when the fog of war envelops us how do we stay on track? What do we do to maintain the course that the Lord our God has set for us? Well that's the question that Paul now goes on to answer for Timothy. I'm reading now from 2 Timothy chapter 3 beginning at verse 10. Paul writes: You've observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings, the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, what persecutions I endured yet the Lord rescued me from them all. Indeed all who want to live a Godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted but wicked people and imposters will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves. But as for you continue in what you've learned and firmly believe, knowing from whom you've learnt it and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient and equipped for every good work. Well it goes back to what I was saying earlier on about having a mentor and in this case the first thing that Paul says to his protégé Timothy is "Look remember me, remember your mentor, remember the things you saw me doing through the trials and persecution, trials and persecution by the way that you're going to go through too because we all do. Timothy follow my example", says Paul. As I look around and look back on my journey God's put some of those people in my life too. Graham of course, who I mentioned earlier; Phil the pastor of the first Church I ever attended. What a powerful example that humble man has been in my life and several others and these are people who have acted as, well a signpost in my life keeping me on track to use the gifting that God has entrusted to me. Were any of them perfect? Well of course they weren't and yet God used them so mightily in my life. To tell you the truth I simply wouldn't be here with you today had He not put these people along my path because I'm sure I would have wandered off in completely the wrong direction and the second thing, the second thing that God calls us to use powerfully to stay on course is His Word, the Word of God. But as for you continue in what you have learned and firmly believe knowing from whom you learnt it and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work. So many people imagine that they can follow Jesus without reading His Word the Bible for themselves. I'm sorry if you're one of those who subscribe to that school of thought but it's just plain wrong. God's gone to an enormous amount of trouble to preserve with unparallel degrees of accuracy the sixty six books of the Old and New Testament so that you and I will what? Use them as a door stop or an ornament or something in the cupboard? No. So that you and I will open them up and read them and allow God to transform our lives through His wisdom and His counsel. We set off on the journey of life where we hoist the sails of the good ship "my life" and sail off on this beautiful calm sea with the sun sparkling and all of a sudden a storm hits, all of a sudden the winter of life hits and all of a sudden we are drawn off course. God's Word is the compass that keeps us going in the direction that God wants us to go. Friend as I often say you can't even make it through kindergarten on a twenty or thirty minute teaching session once a week. So what do we Christians imagine that we can do that, make it through life, make it through the storms, make it through the blue sparkling ocean that's turned into this black foaming cauldron based on one short sermon on a Sunday. Come on, we can't. The Lord our God is so passionate about seeing you rekindle the gift that He's placed within you and me, rekindle the gift that He's placed within me, He is so passionate, He knows the adversity, He spoke through Paul, we're all going to travel through persecution. Anyone who wants to live a Godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But as for you continue in what you've learned and firmly believe knowing from who you learnt it and how from childhood you've known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. God has put His Word in your hands so that you can continue on the course that He has charted for you through this life and into life eternal with Jesus. He has given us signposts, Godly men and women and above all He has given us His Word to keep us on His path.
Timothy Hallinan's mysteries and thrillers have made numerous Top Ten Lists for their imaginative verve and humor – and his latest release Nighttown – No 7 in the Junior Bender series, is no exception. Hi there I'm your host Jenny Wheeler and today Tim talks about he's how an LA burglar came to star in a series which proves bad guys have the most fun, and why writing is better than the best job ever. Six things you'll learn from this Joys of Binge Reading episode: Why writing is more fun than working with Hollywood icon Katarine Hepburn The amazing street kid behind the Poke Raffery series How 'getting a heap of useless degrees' finally paid off The new Golden Age of crime fiction is here now The writers he admires most - and they're mostly women What he'd do differently second time around Where to find Timothy Hallinan: Website: http://www.timothyhallinan.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tim.hallinan.1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/timhallinan What follows is a "near as" transcript of our conversation, not word for word but pretty close to it, with links to important mentions. Jenny: Hello there Tim and welcome to the show, it's great to have you with us. Timothy: Thanks, it's a real pleasure to be here. Author Timothy Hallinan Jenny: Now Tim, before we even dive into the questions, I know you've just had a week away at Joshua's Tree having a sort of personal style writing retreat. That seems to me totally romantic, I just love the idea of doing that. How did that week go? Timothy: It went amazingly well. I live a fiction in which I will never complete the book I'm working on even though I've written 21 or 22 of them. When I get completely blocked, I go up there and I walk around in the desert for 2-3 days. Everything just melts, and there I am again with the story and the characters. And it worked this time yet again, for probably the twentieth time. Jenny: That's just wonderful. Is there a certain point in a book where you get stuck every time, or is it different with each book? Timothy: I get stuck over and over again, but usually the big crisis is about a third of the way in. I've actually thrown out half a dozen books because I just couldn't push past the block. Jenny: Wow that's interesting. To get ourselves launched here, how did you get started? Was there a 'Once Upon a Time' moment when you thought I've just got to write fiction? And if so, what was the catalyst for it? Timothy: It was actually a "Twice Upon A Time" situation. We moved all the time when I was a kid. I'd lived in 22 houses by the time I was 18 years old. What that meant was I had no on-going friendships. I mean, you could move six blocks and you're in a different school. For a kid, it might as well be a different planet. So what I did was, I read. I read all the time. When I was 11, I read The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. I understand how the story works - it's something secret, and somebody has to figure out how it works. Somebody has to restore order. About a year and a half after that, in my family's house in Tarzana, on the old estate of Edgar Rice Burrough's, I read Gone With The Wind. For the first time in my life, I read characters who were more real to me than the people with whom I lived. In fact, my mother said that she had to come up and call me sometimes, two or three times, and she had to literally put her hand over the page of the book before I could tune into her. So by the time I was maybe 13, I understood that there was a kind of story I wanted to tell. And I understood that the most important part of any story were the characters. That was sort of the basis on which everything grew. Jenny: Now you mentioned that you sort of had a "twice revelation" experience. So that was how you got to really decide you were going to be a writer. How did you actually then carry it out? You had a couple of starts, didn't you?
Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about personality tests, claiming that it is our faith in numbers that is driving our faith in personality tests. After that he plods on to review Thomas Sowell's book, “Discrimination and Disparities”. Finally Wilson takes a look at Hamartia and Hamartano in 1 & 2 Timothy. Happy Plodding! Personality Testing: Anyone who has eyes knows that there are different personalities You are dealing with Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore We live in a technocratic age. We think we can reduce things to numbers Faith in numbers, transfers to the corporate world We think that we can actually put a number on people down to the exact degree Our faith in numbers is driving our faith in personality tests Discrimination & Disparities Written by Thomas Sowell Sowell is an economist and a black man, and he is fearless when it comes to analyzing economic proposals The whole book is on how it is possible for you to have wildly variant outcomes with different groups and not have it be the result of discrimination Hamartano & Hamartia: Looking at Hamartano in 1 Timothy It is used just once: (1 Tim. 5:20) Looking at Hamartia in 1 & 2 Timothy It is used in: (1 Tim. 5:22/5:24, 2 Tim. 3:6)
Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about personality tests, claiming that it is our faith in numbers that is driving our faith in personality tests. After that he plods on to review Thomas Sowell's book, “Discrimination and Disparities”. Finally Wilson takes a look at Hamartia and Hamartano in 1 & 2 Timothy. Happy Plodding! Personality Testing: Anyone who has eyes knows that there are different personalities You are dealing with Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore We live in a technocratic age. We think we can reduce things to numbers Faith in numbers, transfers to the corporate world We think that we can actually put a number on people down to the exact degree Our faith in numbers is driving our faith in personality tests Discrimination & Disparities Written by Thomas Sowell Sowell is an economist and a black man, and he is fearless when it comes to analyzing economic proposals The whole book is on how it is possible for you to have wildly variant outcomes with different groups and not have it be the result of discrimination Hamartano & Hamartia: Looking at Hamartano in 1 Timothy It is used just once: (1 Tim. 5:20) Looking at Hamartia in 1 & 2 Timothy It is used in: (1 Tim. 5:22/5:24, 2 Tim. 3:6)
RESIDUESeason 1, Episode 2 Written by John HarrisonDirected by Alex Garcia LopezTimothy: Welcome back folks, we hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Eve, and are ready to dive into this week's Zombpocalyse Now podcast!Dustin: We're talking about Netflix's 2015 series Residue again this week, so if you haven't seen it and you don't want SPOILERS, then watch to and come back and listen. We'll be here, it's OK. Timothy: Or you could listen to us tell you about it. Your choice. I did want to mention that we refer to Residue as a BBC series this week, aaaaaand it's not a BBC series. Dustin: Yeah, it turns out that there are actually other film and TV studious in the UK besides the BBC, and they do, oh I don't know, A LOT OF PROGRAMMING, and we fell into that weird American thing where we see something made in England and suddenly all you can think of is the British Broadcasting Corporation. I blame PBS.Timothy: It was produced as a limited release feature film and then picked up by Netflix. Supposedly there's talks about a longer season still going on. Anyway, things happen and we talk about them! Like we do! Listen to us do that! Dustin: And come back next week to hear us talk about the third and final episode of the show so far. Then we'll watch something else Not-The-Walking-Dead, because both those shows are still on their breaks. It'll be fun. Thanks for listening folks, and rate and comment on iTunes if you like the show, because it helps people find us and gets us more listeners. Which is nice.
RESIDUESeason 1, Episode 2 Written by John HarrisonDirected by Alex Garcia LopezTimothy: Welcome back folks, we hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Eve, and are ready to dive into this week's Zombpocalyse Now podcast!Dustin: We're talking about Netflix's 2015 series Residue again this week, so if you haven't seen it and you don't want SPOILERS, then watch to and come back and listen. We'll be here, it's OK. Timothy: Or you could listen to us tell you about it. Your choice. I did want to mention that we refer to Residue as a BBC series this week, aaaaaand it's not a BBC series. Dustin: Yeah, it turns out that there are actually other film and TV studious in the UK besides the BBC, and they do, oh I don't know, A LOT OF PROGRAMMING, and we fell into that weird American thing where we see something made in England and suddenly all you can think of is the British Broadcasting Corporation. I blame PBS.Timothy: It was produced as a limited release feature film and then picked up by Netflix. Supposedly there's talks about a longer season still going on. Anyway, things happen and we talk about them! Like we do! Listen to us do that! Dustin: And come back next week to hear us talk about the third and final episode of the show so far. Then we'll watch something else Not-The-Walking-Dead, because both those shows are still on their breaks. It'll be fun. Thanks for listening folks, and rate and comment on iTunes if you like the show, because it helps people find us and gets us more listeners. Which is nice.
RESIDUESeason 1, Episode 1 Written by John HarrisonDirected by Alex Garcia LopezTimothy: Happy Holidays, and welcome to this week's Zombpocalyse Now podcast!Dustin: We're watching Netflix's 2015 series Residue over the next month, since all the Walking of the Dead are on their breaks. And Disney's new zombie series isn't out yet.Timothy: I can't even tell you how much I'm dreading that. Dustin: WE ARE WATCHING IT TIM AND YOU WILL LOVE IT. So we looked around for something to fill the scheduling gap, and we stumbled across this 3-episode British show from Alex Garcia Lopez of Misfits. And since neither of us had seen it, we thought, hey! Let's see it. And we did, and will.Timothy: It's an interesting show so far. Got some good creepy vibe to it. We'll see how it goes, and you can come with us! As always there are SPOILERS, so if you haven't seen the show, I'd zip over to Netflix and check out the first episode.Dustin: Probably a good thing. Like Tim said, it's the holidays this time of year, and we'd like to wish you and yours wonderful ones, whatever you are celebrating. We appreciate you listening to our blather. We will NOT be blathering next week though, as both of us will be out of town with our families doing that celebrating thing. Christmas and stuff.Timothy: We will be back the following week, to kick off the new year with more Zombpocalypse Now! As always, thanks for listening, and please help us spread the word about this podcast thing we do, follow us on Facebook, and please rate and comment on Zombpocalypse Now on iTunes, or wherever you listen to our show.
RESIDUESeason 1, Episode 1 Written by John HarrisonDirected by Alex Garcia LopezTimothy: Happy Holidays, and welcome to this week's Zombpocalyse Now podcast!Dustin: We're watching Netflix's 2015 series Residue over the next month, since all the Walking of the Dead are on their breaks. And Disney's new zombie series isn't out yet.Timothy: I can't even tell you how much I'm dreading that. Dustin: WE ARE WATCHING IT TIM AND YOU WILL LOVE IT. So we looked around for something to fill the scheduling gap, and we stumbled across this 3-episode British show from Alex Garcia Lopez of Misfits. And since neither of us had seen it, we thought, hey! Let's see it. And we did, and will.Timothy: It's an interesting show so far. Got some good creepy vibe to it. We'll see how it goes, and you can come with us! As always there are SPOILERS, so if you haven't seen the show, I'd zip over to Netflix and check out the first episode.Dustin: Probably a good thing. Like Tim said, it's the holidays this time of year, and we'd like to wish you and yours wonderful ones, whatever you are celebrating. We appreciate you listening to our blather. We will NOT be blathering next week though, as both of us will be out of town with our families doing that celebrating thing. Christmas and stuff.Timothy: We will be back the following week, to kick off the new year with more Zombpocalypse Now! As always, thanks for listening, and please help us spread the word about this podcast thing we do, follow us on Facebook, and please rate and comment on Zombpocalypse Now on iTunes, or wherever you listen to our show.
THE WALKING DEADSeason 8, Episode 2 "The Damned" Written by Matthew Negrete & Channing Powell Directed by Rosemary RodriguezTimothy: The author you were thinking of is Gregory Maguire.Dustin: Ah yes, that's the one. Him.Timothy: Pretty nifty little theory you came up with there, actually.Dustin: I am very wise. Of course, the people will have to listen to the podcast to know what we're talking about here. Since you're being a touch cryptic here.Timothy: It's Halloween. I am attempting to create an atmosphere of mystery. Poorly, yes. But still.Dustin: Speaking of atmosphere, the audio is a bit airy this week.Timothy: That's because our nice mic is attending a conference in San Diego. Without me. There's a story there, but it's not very interesting. Different mic this week, so different sound. Dustin: Yeah, not interesting. Hey! Listeners! There are changes happening here on the website! Watch for our new Zombpocalypse Now Facebook page! Rate and comment about the show on iTunes! That's how we know you listen, and it helps us get more listeners!Timothy: This is a true thing. And hey, we want to thank everyone who has listened to our little zombie audio ramblings and read our reviews of The Walking Dead and other shows...Dustin: All available to read and listen to here on this very site!Timothy: ... and we encourage you to check out our other podcasts and video programs...Dustin: Like Tribble Bytes and Salacious Crumbs!Timothy: Hey, you remembered!Dustin: I wrote them down on this piece of paper here. Good stuff. Anyways, listen to our thing, and keep listening to our thing. We'll be back next week with more Zombpoclypse Now!
THE WALKING DEADSeason 8, Episode 1 "Mercy" Written by Scott M. Gimple Directed by Greg NicoteroDustin: Pretty sure this episode of the podcast was like 10 minutes longer when we recorded it.Timothy: Pretty sure I cut out most of your running commentary of the The Talking Dead 100th Episode Special. Not all of it, but quite a bit of it.Dustin: I can't imagine why. I was providing witty and insightful analysis of the reunion of most of the cast of the show up until now.Timothy: I'm not sure witty and insightful are exactly the right words here. I kept the funny bits. And your Boo 2 review, for those who have been awaiting the latest Tyler Perry epic.Dustin: The kids really did enjoy it, you guys.Timothy: And that is kind of what matters. Hi folks! We're back with the 100th episode of AMC's The Walking Dead, and the start of the eighth season of the show! Not only is this a milestone for the production team and cast, but for us as well, considering The Walking Dead is the kind of the reason this show exists.Dustin: That and my having human adult contact outside of my day job. I parent a lot.Timothy: It is a good reason for us to hang out, especially when we have Curtis and Molly and Anne-Marie stop by. Which they didn't this week, leaving Dustin and me to hold forth on the merits of this week's episode.Dustin: Which is what we did, so listen to it! Listen to it!
THE WALKING DEADSeason 8, Episode 1 "Mercy" Written by Scott M. Gimple Directed by Greg NicoteroDustin: Pretty sure this episode of the podcast was like 10 minutes longer when we recorded it.Timothy: Pretty sure I cut out most of your running commentary of the The Talking Dead 100th Episode Special. Not all of it, but quite a bit of it.Dustin: I can't imagine why. I was providing witty and insightful analysis of the reunion of most of the cast of the show up until now.Timothy: I'm not sure witty and insightful are exactly the right words here. I kept the funny bits. And your Boo 2 review, for those who have been awaiting the latest Tyler Perry epic.Dustin: The kids really did enjoy it, you guys.Timothy: And that is kind of what matters. Hi folks! We're back with the 100th episode of AMC's The Walking Dead, and the start of the eighth season of the show! Not only is this a milestone for the production team and cast, but for us as well, considering The Walking Dead is the kind of the reason this show exists.Dustin: That and my having human adult contact outside of my day job. I parent a lot.Timothy: It is a good reason for us to hang out, especially when we have Curtis and Molly and Anne-Marie stop by. Which they didn't this week, leaving Dustin and me to hold forth on the merits of this week's episode.Dustin: Which is what we did, so listen to it! Listen to it!
FEAR THE WALKING DEADSeason 3, Episode 15 "Things Bad Begun" Written by Jami O'Brien Directed by Andrew BernsteinSeason 3, Episode 16 "Sleigh Ride" Written by Dave Erickson & Mark Richard Directed by Andrew BernsteinDustin: Molly joins us this week!Curtis: I've missed her.Timothy: We've all missed her, so it was really nice to have her back, even if she was basically laughing at us the whole night.Dustin: Which is what happens wether we're recording this podcast or not.Timothy: This is true. So we had some actors this week whose names we couldn't remember for the podcast, which is pretty much normal for Dustin, but apparently it's catching, because Curtis and I were at a loss too.Dustin: I make it work. "Daughter Fodder", remember?Timothy: It has its upsides. Curtis?Curtis: Right, so Proctor John, or the Guy From Deadwood as I called him, is Ray McKinnon. He played Reverend H.W. Smith on Deadwood, and Linc Potter on Sons of Anarchy, and he was part of the reason I actually liked these episodes.Timothy: And then there was the sleazy doctor...Dustin: Or That Guy From That Thing I Watched That Time.Curtis: Yeah, he's been in a lot of stuff: Person of Interest, Girls, Ally McBeal, Justified, Mercy, Sleeper Cell, Phantasm II, Point Break - the good one - and a ton of other films and TV shows you've all seen. James Le Gros is that hard-working fellow's name.Timothy: These are, of course, things we could have looked up when we were recording.Dustin: But we didn't! So listen to the things we say about Fear the Walking Dead's season finale! We say things! Then come hear us say more things next week when we say the things about The Walking Dead's Season Premiere!
FEAR THE WALKING DEADSeason 3, Episode 15 "Things Bad Begun" Written by Jami O'Brien Directed by Andrew BernsteinSeason 3, Episode 16 "Sleigh Ride" Written by Dave Erickson & Mark Richard Directed by Andrew BernsteinDustin: Molly joins us this week!Curtis: I've missed her.Timothy: We've all missed her, so it was really nice to have her back, even if she was basically laughing at us the whole night.Dustin: Which is what happens wether we're recording this podcast or not.Timothy: This is true. So we had some actors this week whose names we couldn't remember for the podcast, which is pretty much normal for Dustin, but apparently it's catching, because Curtis and I were at a loss too.Dustin: I make it work. "Daughter Fodder", remember?Timothy: It has its upsides. Curtis?Curtis: Right, so Proctor John, or the Guy From Deadwood as I called him, is Ray McKinnon. He played Reverend H.W. Smith on Deadwood, and Linc Potter on Sons of Anarchy, and he was part of the reason I actually liked these episodes.Timothy: And then there was the sleazy doctor...Dustin: Or That Guy From That Thing I Watched That Time.Curtis: Yeah, he's been in a lot of stuff: Person of Interest, Girls, Ally McBeal, Justified, Mercy, Sleeper Cell, Phantasm II, Point Break - the good one - and a ton of other films and TV shows you've all seen. James Le Gros is that hard-working fellow's name.Timothy: These are, of course, things we could have looked up when we were recording.Dustin: But we didn't! So listen to the things we say about Fear the Walking Dead's season finale! We say things! Then come hear us say more things next week when we say the things about The Walking Dead's Season Premiere!
FEAR THE WALKING DEADSeason 3, Episode 14 "El Matadero" Written by Alan Page Directed by Stefan SchwartzDustin: Is he still sulking?Timothy: He is, in fact.Curtis: I hate you both.Dustin: Look, just because we told you that The Martian was fiction and not a dramatic recreation...Timothy: Something that should have been obvious, considering that it was based on a novel...Dustin: ... is no reason to pout. Curtis: I just want to believe that the indomitable human spirit has propelled man out to the stars, that C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate, that signals from buried monoliths have sent us to Saturn or Jupiter or wherever. Is that to much to ask?Dustin: ...Timothy: ...Dustin: You know, it shouldn't be.Timothy: It would be nice.Curtis: Instead we get the post-apocalypse zombie thing. You see my problem.Timothy: Can't actually argue with that. Still, the post-apocalypse zombie thing is why we're here.Dustin: And we get all that lovely grim and miserable joy here on this week's Fear the Walking Dead.Curtis: Or Fear and Loathing in El Matadero, based on about a third of this episode. Timothy: I'm not sure I could take a Hunter S. Thompson zombie novel. Anyway, we do talk the adventures of Madison & Co. again this week, and next week we get the season finale. I expect it will be bloody.Dustin: Most likely. Probably Lexx the hell out of the poor people at the dam. It is their way.Timothy: It so very, very, is. And after that, the season premiere of The Walking Dead. Which will also be happiness and rainbows.Dustin: As is their way. So listen with your earholes, people! We podcast the thing! Zombpocalypse Now!
FEAR THE WALKING DEADSeason 3, Episode 14 "El Matadero" Written by Alan Page Directed by Stefan SchwartzDustin: Is he still sulking?Timothy: He is, in fact.Curtis: I hate you both.Dustin: Look, just because we told you that The Martian was fiction and not a dramatic recreation...Timothy: Something that should have been obvious, considering that it was based on a novel...Dustin: ... is no reason to pout. Curtis: I just want to believe that the indomitable human spirit has propelled man out to the stars, that C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate, that signals from buried monoliths have sent us to Saturn or Jupiter or wherever. Is that to much to ask?Dustin: ...Timothy: ...Dustin: You know, it shouldn't be.Timothy: It would be nice.Curtis: Instead we get the post-apocalypse zombie thing. You see my problem.Timothy: Can't actually argue with that. Still, the post-apocalypse zombie thing is why we're here.Dustin: And we get all that lovely grim and miserable joy here on this week's Fear the Walking Dead.Curtis: Or Fear and Loathing in El Matadero, based on about a third of this episode. Timothy: I'm not sure I could take a Hunter S. Thompson zombie novel. Anyway, we do talk the adventures of Madison & Co. again this week, and next week we get the season finale. I expect it will be bloody.Dustin: Most likely. Probably Lexx the hell out of the poor people at the dam. It is their way.Timothy: It so very, very, is. And after that, the season premiere of The Walking Dead. Which will also be happiness and rainbows.Dustin: As is their way. So listen with your earholes, people! We podcast the thing! Zombpocalypse Now!
TEEN WOLFSeason 6, Episode 14 "Face-to-Faceless"Written by Will WallaceDirected by Linden AshbySeason 6, Episode 15 "Pressure Test" Written by Jennifer Quintenz Directed by Tim AndrewDustin: Alll byyy myyyysellllffff...Timothy: I am right here.Dustin: Don't wanna be... Timothy: Look, just because we had another week without Mindy...Dustin: Alll byyyyyy myyyyysseeeelllffff...Timothy: And Curtis was gone this week as well...Dustin: Sing it with me!Timothy: Um, no.Dustin: Aaaaaaaanyyymorrrrre.Timothy: I think you're being just a touch dramatic here.Dustin: Well, there's a shortage of songs that say: "We normally have three if not four people on the couch to discuss the shows we watch, but this week it was just the two of us, and consequently we were the only ones to enjoy the frankly excellent spaghetti I made."Timothy: It is a criminally underrepresented musical genre, yes. Hi folks! It is just Dustin and me this week, but we make up for it by having two new episodes of Teen Wolf to discuss, and lots of all the things happened!Dustin: We're just five episodes away from the finale of the series after this, and at this rate they're going to end the show with the town burned to the ground. We've got Fear Monsters, Hunters, Crazed Townspeople, Psycho Guidance Counselors, and more. More I tell you!Timothy: And looooove is in the air.Dustin: Gah. Barf. Do not get me started.Timothy: You can hear all about why Dustin is not onboard the love-train, and our other thoughts about the Wolves That Are Teens by clicking that link there, and we'll be back next week with more Zombpocalypse Now!
TEEN WOLFSeason 6, Episode 14 "Face-to-Faceless"Written by Will WallaceDirected by Linden AshbySeason 6, Episode 15 "Pressure Test" Written by Jennifer Quintenz Directed by Tim AndrewDustin: Alll byyy myyyysellllffff...Timothy: I am right here.Dustin: Don't wanna be... Timothy: Look, just because we had another week without Mindy...Dustin: Alll byyyyyy myyyyysseeeelllffff...Timothy: And Curtis was gone this week as well...Dustin: Sing it with me!Timothy: Um, no.Dustin: Aaaaaaaanyyymorrrrre.Timothy: I think you're being just a touch dramatic here.Dustin: Well, there's a shortage of songs that say: "We normally have three if not four people on the couch to discuss the shows we watch, but this week it was just the two of us, and consequently we were the only ones to enjoy the frankly excellent spaghetti I made."Timothy: It is a criminally underrepresented musical genre, yes. Hi folks! It is just Dustin and me this week, but we make up for it by having two new episodes of Teen Wolf to discuss, and lots of all the things happened!Dustin: We're just five episodes away from the finale of the series after this, and at this rate they're going to end the show with the town burned to the ground. We've got Fear Monsters, Hunters, Crazed Townspeople, Psycho Guidance Counselors, and more. More I tell you!Timothy: And looooove is in the air.Dustin: Gah. Barf. Do not get me started.Timothy: You can hear all about why Dustin is not onboard the love-train, and our other thoughts about the Wolves That Are Teens by clicking that link there, and we'll be back next week with more Zombpocalypse Now!
TEEN WOLF Season 6, Episode 12 "Raw Talent" Written by Brian Millikin Directed by Tim Andrew Timothy: So on the plus side, the sound of the new mic is cleaner and clearer than the old mic. Mindy: And the downside? Timothy: Well, while experimentation is good, we haven't quite got the positioning of this motley band quite right yet, so the levels aren't where they should be yet. Mindy: You mean Curtis and Dustin are louder than you and I are. Timothy: Yep. And Dustin keeps hitting the table and scratching the table and bumping the table... Dustin: I have difficulty keeping my hands still. This is a common thing. Curtis: And I can't help it if you two aren't projecting properly. Timothy: It's an improvement. It'll be better next week. Plus, we'll have less Yoo-hoo-based mixed drinks. Curtis: Oh thank God. That was... wrong, on so many levels. Timothy: Yeah well, I cut out a lot this week that was wrong on so many levels. Dustin. Dustin: Wait. What? Me? Perish the thought. Mindy: Mmmm hmmm. Dustin: You guys are just as bad as I am, and you know it. Tim just edits all your terrible things out to make me look bad. Timothy: Mmmm hmmm. Mindy: Anyway! Hi everyone! We're back with more of the final season of TEEN WOLF, and we lured Curtis back to join us! Curtis: Hi! Send for help! Mindy: So check out our massive digressions and marginally acceptable behavior as we talk about The Wolves That Are Teens, here on the Zombpocalypse Now podcast!
TEEN WOLF Season 6, Episode 12 "Raw Talent" Written by Brian Millikin Directed by Tim Andrew Timothy: So on the plus side, the sound of the new mic is cleaner and clearer than the old mic. Mindy: And the downside? Timothy: Well, while experimentation is good, we haven't quite got the positioning of this motley band quite right yet, so the levels aren't where they should be yet. Mindy: You mean Curtis and Dustin are louder than you and I are. Timothy: Yep. And Dustin keeps hitting the table and scratching the table and bumping the table... Dustin: I have difficulty keeping my hands still. This is a common thing. Curtis: And I can't help it if you two aren't projecting properly. Timothy: It's an improvement. It'll be better next week. Plus, we'll have less Yoo-hoo-based mixed drinks. Curtis: Oh thank God. That was... wrong, on so many levels. Timothy: Yeah well, I cut out a lot this week that was wrong on so many levels. Dustin. Dustin: Wait. What? Me? Perish the thought. Mindy: Mmmm hmmm. Dustin: You guys are just as bad as I am, and you know it. Tim just edits all your terrible things out to make me look bad. Timothy: Mmmm hmmm. Mindy: Anyway! Hi everyone! We're back with more of the final season of TEEN WOLF, and we lured Curtis back to join us! Curtis: Hi! Send for help! Mindy: So check out our massive digressions and marginally acceptable behavior as we talk about The Wolves That Are Teens, here on the Zombpocalypse Now podcast!
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Season 3, Episode 7 "The Unveiling" Written by Mark Richard Directed by Jeremy Webb Season 3, Episode 8 "Children of Wrath" Written by Jami O'Brien Directed by Andrew Bernstein Dustin: You know, we really didn't talk about the awful editing this week. Mindy: Well, we did mention it. Curtis: Barely. Tim could hardly contain himself a couple of times. Dustin: We DVR'd it because my Monsters hadn't gone to bed yet when it started, and he made us rewind it, because he thought we'd gone past a whole scene that one time. Curtis: It was really choppy. Dustin: Tim? Anything to say? Timothy: Yeeeaaaahhh. So, as an editor, I found it really jarring throughout, but when we went from Jake almost getting scalped to Ofelia being brought up on the motorcycle, it was like they yanked out at least an entire scene or more. I expect there is a deleted scene there that they cut for time, but jeez, it was abrupt as hell. Mindy: The cinematography was good though. Timothy: It was! I will say this for FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, even when it's been a train wreck on the writing side, they've done a great job with the visuals. And with this season and the vast improvement in the writing, it's really made those great visuals pop out. Dustin: Because our desire to have all the terrible characters die horribly isn't overwhelming our visual cortexes. "Daaaaaaaad! Daaaaaad! I have a moral quandary, Daaaaaad!" Timothy: And to think, we actually liked the moral quandaries of this season. Dustin: God, I hated Chris so much. SO MUCH. Mindy: Clearly I joined this circus at the right time. Curtis: Clearly. So listen with your ears as we talk about it. We'll be back next week with PREACHER, which I have got to catch up on. Mindy: And listen to our other podcasts and follow us on YouTube!
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD Season 3, Episode 7 "The Unveiling" Written by Mark Richard Directed by Jeremy Webb Season 3, Episode 8 "Children of Wrath" Written by Jami O'Brien Directed by Andrew Bernstein Dustin: You know, we really didn't talk about the awful editing this week. Mindy: Well, we did mention it. Curtis: Barely. Tim could hardly contain himself a couple of times. Dustin: We DVR'd it because my Monsters hadn't gone to bed yet when it started, and he made us rewind it, because he thought we'd gone past a whole scene that one time. Curtis: It was really choppy. Dustin: Tim? Anything to say? Timothy: Yeeeaaaahhh. So, as an editor, I found it really jarring throughout, but when we went from Jake almost getting scalped to Ofelia being brought up on the motorcycle, it was like they yanked out at least an entire scene or more. I expect there is a deleted scene there that they cut for time, but jeez, it was abrupt as hell. Mindy: The cinematography was good though. Timothy: It was! I will say this for FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, even when it's been a train wreck on the writing side, they've done a great job with the visuals. And with this season and the vast improvement in the writing, it's really made those great visuals pop out. Dustin: Because our desire to have all the terrible characters die horribly isn't overwhelming our visual cortexes. "Daaaaaaaad! Daaaaaad! I have a moral quandary, Daaaaaad!" Timothy: And to think, we actually liked the moral quandaries of this season. Dustin: God, I hated Chris so much. SO MUCH. Mindy: Clearly I joined this circus at the right time. Curtis: Clearly. So listen with your ears as we talk about it. We'll be back next week with PREACHER, which I have got to catch up on. Mindy: And listen to our other podcasts and follow us on YouTube!
We didn't just livestream from Planet Comicon, we also recorded this week’s "Zombpocalypse Now" in front of a LIVE audience! Listen! Dustin: Well, we, as usual, said we were going to talk about one thing last week, and here we are, talking about something else. Timothy: We did, and we are. We said we were going to talk about the last three episodes of "Santa Clarita Diet", but instead... Dustin: We recorded an episode in front of a live audience at Planet Comicon! Timothy: ... just like the last few years. Like the last, what, three years? Dustin: I am trying to make this sound exciting. You are not helping. Timothy: It was fun. Dustin: It was. It was also kind of a greatest hits episode, where we talk about "The Walking Dead", "Fear the Walking Dead", and "Santa Clarita Diet", and take questions from the audience. Who were awesome. Timothy: It's always a great time talking to other fans of these shows we love to hate to love. To hate. To love. Dustin: It is complicated. But this show isn't. And you can actually hear the audience! Sort of. Mostly. Timothy: And every time you tapped on the table. All the times you tapped on the table. Dustin: I... do that, yes. It's a thing I do. That table was loud. It's not my fault. Timothy: And you can hear it all its glory. We had a good time out there, and we hope you have a good time listening to it. Mindy: Oh! Hey! Hi! And rate and comment on our podcast and all our other podcasts on iTunes and Podcasts.com! Dustin: Where the hell have you been? Mindy: Working the floor, getting interviews and SO MUCH MORE! Check out all our great Planet Comicon Coverage! Here at SciFi4Me!
We didn't just livestream from Planet Comicon, we also recorded this week’s "Zombpocalypse Now" in front of a LIVE audience! Listen! Dustin: Well, we, as usual, said we were going to talk about one thing last week, and here we are, talking about something else. Timothy: We did, and we are. We said we were going to talk about the last three episodes of "Santa Clarita Diet", but instead... Dustin: We recorded an episode in front of a live audience at Planet Comicon! Timothy: ... just like the last few years. Like the last, what, three years? Dustin: I am trying to make this sound exciting. You are not helping. Timothy: It was fun. Dustin: It was. It was also kind of a greatest hits episode, where we talk about "The Walking Dead", "Fear the Walking Dead", and "Santa Clarita Diet", and take questions from the audience. Who were awesome. Timothy: It's always a great time talking to other fans of these shows we love to hate to love. To hate. To love. Dustin: It is complicated. But this show isn't. And you can actually hear the audience! Sort of. Mostly. Timothy: And every time you tapped on the table. All the times you tapped on the table. Dustin: I... do that, yes. It's a thing I do. That table was loud. It's not my fault. Timothy: And you can hear it all its glory. We had a good time out there, and we hope you have a good time listening to it. Mindy: Oh! Hey! Hi! And rate and comment on our podcast and all our other podcasts on iTunes and Podcasts.com! Dustin: Where the hell have you been? Mindy: Working the floor, getting interviews and SO MUCH MORE! Check out all our great Planet Comicon Coverage! Here at SciFi4Me!
SANTA CLARITA DIET Season 1, Episode 1 "So Then a Bat or a Monkey" Written by Victor Fresco, Directed by Ruben Fleischer Season 1, Episode 2 "We Can't Kill People!" Written by Victor Fresco, Directed by Ruben Fleischer Season 1, Episode 3 "We Can Kill People." Written by Clay Graham, Directed by Marc Buckland Timothy: We meant to review this show earlier than this. Dustin: But we're terrible with dates and schedules. Mindy: Luckily I'm here now, to rescue you two. Timothy: Yes, this week we start binge-watching... Dustin: And binge-reviewing... Timothy: ... SANTA CLARITA DIET, the Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant zombie-comedy! Dustin: Now with more Intern Without Portfolio! Timothy: We are, in fact, joined by Miss Mindy Inlow, whose name you'll have seen on many an article here on SciFi4Me.com, and whose voice appears on a podcast or two as well. Mindy: Hi! Dustin: Mindy has discovered how close we have to sit together to record this thing we do, and she didn't run screaming or anything. Mindy: Not yet, anyway. It's early though. While I'm here, I'll just plug our podcast sponsor for the month of April, HumanCharger, whose link is right beneath these very words. SciFi4Me 20% Off at HumanCharger. Use coupon code scifi4me during checkout. Expires 12/31/2017. Timothy: It's good to have a responsible adult around. Anyway, sit back and listen to the three of us talk about a zombie show that is actually supposed to be funny, and please rate and comment on the show, wherever you listen to this podcast of ours!
SANTA CLARITA DIET Season 1, Episode 1 "So Then a Bat or a Monkey" Written by Victor Fresco, Directed by Ruben Fleischer Season 1, Episode 2 "We Can't Kill People!" Written by Victor Fresco, Directed by Ruben Fleischer Season 1, Episode 3 "We Can Kill People." Written by Clay Graham, Directed by Marc Buckland Timothy: We meant to review this show earlier than this. Dustin: But we're terrible with dates and schedules. Mindy: Luckily I'm here now, to rescue you two. Timothy: Yes, this week we start binge-watching... Dustin: And binge-reviewing... Timothy: ... SANTA CLARITA DIET, the Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant zombie-comedy! Dustin: Now with more Intern Without Portfolio! Timothy: We are, in fact, joined by Miss Mindy Inlow, whose name you'll have seen on many an article here on SciFi4Me.com, and whose voice appears on a podcast or two as well. Mindy: Hi! Dustin: Mindy has discovered how close we have to sit together to record this thing we do, and she didn't run screaming or anything. Mindy: Not yet, anyway. It's early though. While I'm here, I'll just plug our podcast sponsor for the month of April, HumanCharger, whose link is right beneath these very words. SciFi4Me 20% Off at HumanCharger. Use coupon code scifi4me during checkout. Expires 12/31/2017. Timothy: It's good to have a responsible adult around. Anyway, sit back and listen to the three of us talk about a zombie show that is actually supposed to be funny, and please rate and comment on the show, wherever you listen to this podcast of ours!
THE WALKING DEAD Season 7, Episode 12 "Say Yes" Written by Matthew Negrete Directed by Greg Nicotero Dustin: We are Curtis-less tonight. Timothy: We may be Curtis-less for a few nights, as he has theater rehearsals. Dustin: It was nice to have him back, though. Timothy: It was, and I'm sure he'll join us again, but for now, it's you and me, buddy. Dustin: Buddy? Timothy: Pal? Chum? Friend? Dustin: Uh... sure. Timothy: Fine. Anyway, hi folks! Dustin and I are back again with another episode of Zombpocalypse Now, and more The Walking Dead! Dustin: For your listening pleasure or something that resembles pleasure! Timothy: I am so not touching that one. Dustin: Shut it, you. As always, if you're listening to us on the iTunes or the Podcast, please rate us and make the comment thing. Not enough of you make the comment thing. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK! Timothy: That would be grand, yes. Also, check out our other podcasts, like Level Eleventy-Seven, GRIMMly Speaking... Dustin: H2O, Rogues Gallery, SciFi4Chicks... we have A LOT of cool podcasts. Timothy: Like this one here, for example. Take a listen.
THE WALKING DEAD Season 7, Episode 12 "Say Yes" Written by Matthew Negrete Directed by Greg Nicotero Dustin: We are Curtis-less tonight. Timothy: We may be Curtis-less for a few nights, as he has theater rehearsals. Dustin: It was nice to have him back, though. Timothy: It was, and I'm sure he'll join us again, but for now, it's you and me, buddy. Dustin: Buddy? Timothy: Pal? Chum? Friend? Dustin: Uh... sure. Timothy: Fine. Anyway, hi folks! Dustin and I are back again with another episode of Zombpocalypse Now, and more The Walking Dead! Dustin: For your listening pleasure or something that resembles pleasure! Timothy: I am so not touching that one. Dustin: Shut it, you. As always, if you're listening to us on the iTunes or the Podcast, please rate us and make the comment thing. Not enough of you make the comment thing. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK! Timothy: That would be grand, yes. Also, check out our other podcasts, like Level Eleventy-Seven, GRIMMly Speaking... Dustin: H2O, Rogues Gallery, SciFi4Chicks... we have A LOT of cool podcasts. Timothy: Like this one here, for example. Take a listen.
THE WALKING DEAD Season 7, Episode 10 "New Best Friends" Written by Channing Powell Directed by Jeffrey F. January Timothy: OK, first of all, we do need to let you know that this week' episode of Zombpocalypse Now is longer than the 30-35 minute format we've been sticking to lately... Dustin: That's because Curtis joined us this week, and we had a lot to say. Curtis: Hi everyone! Timothy: And since we haven't had the three of us together for the podcast in a while, there is a bit of digression that is happening here... Dustin: We talked like 50 minutes, and I think maybe 20 is about the actual episode. Curtis: No, no, it's maybe 25 minutes. Dustin: Are you sure? Curtis: Pretty sure, yeah. Dustin: Huh. Really? That much? Curtis: We didn't talk that long about soap operas and action figures. I mean, we did talk about soap operas and action figures a lot, sure, but we did talk about the episode too. Timothy: It really isn't that bad, folks. Honest. Still, this would also be one of those episodes where we should probably warn you about the content, because, well, it gets a little weird. Curtis: Of course, warning people about the content of a podcast about a show with zombies, disemboweling and swearing, is probably a little redundant. Maybe a bit. Timothy: We did promise to warn them. Dustin: And we have. Warned them. Now they listen to the words and rate and comment about the words on the iTunes and the Podcasts.com. Listen to the words! Liiiiiiisssssttteeen.
THE WALKING DEAD Season 7, Episode 10 "New Best Friends" Written by Channing Powell Directed by Jeffrey F. January Timothy: OK, first of all, we do need to let you know that this week' episode of Zombpocalypse Now is longer than the 30-35 minute format we've been sticking to lately... Dustin: That's because Curtis joined us this week, and we had a lot to say. Curtis: Hi everyone! Timothy: And since we haven't had the three of us together for the podcast in a while, there is a bit of digression that is happening here... Dustin: We talked like 50 minutes, and I think maybe 20 is about the actual episode. Curtis: No, no, it's maybe 25 minutes. Dustin: Are you sure? Curtis: Pretty sure, yeah. Dustin: Huh. Really? That much? Curtis: We didn't talk that long about soap operas and action figures. I mean, we did talk about soap operas and action figures a lot, sure, but we did talk about the episode too. Timothy: It really isn't that bad, folks. Honest. Still, this would also be one of those episodes where we should probably warn you about the content, because, well, it gets a little weird. Curtis: Of course, warning people about the content of a podcast about a show with zombies, disemboweling and swearing, is probably a little redundant. Maybe a bit. Timothy: We did promise to warn them. Dustin: And we have. Warned them. Now they listen to the words and rate and comment about the words on the iTunes and the Podcasts.com. Listen to the words! Liiiiiiisssssttteeen.
THE WALKING DEAD Season 7, Episode 9 "Rock in the Road" Written by Angela Kang Directed by Greg Nicotero Dustin: Hey, THE WALKING DEAD is back! A week earlier than we thought, somehow. Timothy: Yeah, somehow both of us managed to get it in our heads that we had another week to go before the show returned, but no. Dustin: We are clearly very intelligent people. Timothy: Oh yes, that's exactly what that says about us. Anyway, it's Rick & Co. up to their zombie-bashing ways again this week, and we are right there with them. SANTA CLARITA DIET will be a show for another time. Dustin: Binge-watch paarrrtttaaaayyyy! Timothy: When are you, oh father-of-three, going to find time to binge-watch, well, anything? Dustin: I... watch... things. Timothy: You watch things with the kids. Much of them of the cartoon variety. I don't think you're going to watch SANTA CLARITA DIET with the kids. Dustin: There was the incident with THE WALKING DEAD and the oldest one, yes. Fine. We will watch it and talk about it though. It does have zombies, after all. Timothy: It does, and we will, but for this week and much of the following weeks, you, dear listener, can sit back and hear us talk THE WALKING DEAD here on ZOMBPOCALYPSE NOW!
THE WALKING DEAD Season 7, Episode 9 "Rock in the Road" Written by Angela Kang Directed by Greg Nicotero Dustin: Hey, THE WALKING DEAD is back! A week earlier than we thought, somehow. Timothy: Yeah, somehow both of us managed to get it in our heads that we had another week to go before the show returned, but no. Dustin: We are clearly very intelligent people. Timothy: Oh yes, that's exactly what that says about us. Anyway, it's Rick & Co. up to their zombie-bashing ways again this week, and we are right there with them. SANTA CLARITA DIET will be a show for another time. Dustin: Binge-watch paarrrtttaaaayyyy! Timothy: When are you, oh father-of-three, going to find time to binge-watch, well, anything? Dustin: I... watch... things. Timothy: You watch things with the kids. Much of them of the cartoon variety. I don't think you're going to watch SANTA CLARITA DIET with the kids. Dustin: There was the incident with THE WALKING DEAD and the oldest one, yes. Fine. We will watch it and talk about it though. It does have zombies, after all. Timothy: It does, and we will, but for this week and much of the following weeks, you, dear listener, can sit back and hear us talk THE WALKING DEAD here on ZOMBPOCALYPSE NOW!
TEEN WOLF Season 6, Episode 9 “Memory Found†Written by Mark H. Kruger & Antoinette Stella Directed by Tim Andrew Dustin: I can't believe you cut out the bit about the action figures. Timothy: I also cut out a bunch of "ums" and "errs" too. Don't hear you complaining about that. Dustin: Those make us sound goofy. The action figure bit wasn't goofy. The action figure bit was awesome. Timothy: The action figure bit was awesome, and covered the subject of buying a female action figure for your son and him discovering that women and girl heroes are amazing and awesome as well, specifically in regards to the Star Wars Universe, but also applicable to recognizing that heroes come in all genders. Dustin: Exactly! Timothy: It also had nothing to do with Teen Wolf, and we already digress all the bloody time. Plus there was a visual component that is completely wasted on our audience, because this is a podcast. Dustin: I maintain my objection to your aural butchery. Timothy: Noted. Now that that is out of the way, hey kids! Check out this podcast thing we did what deals with The Wolves That Are Teens!
TEEN WOLF Season 6, Episode 9 “Memory Found†Written by Mark H. Kruger & Antoinette Stella Directed by Tim Andrew Dustin: I can't believe you cut out the bit about the action figures. Timothy: I also cut out a bunch of "ums" and "errs" too. Don't hear you complaining about that. Dustin: Those make us sound goofy. The action figure bit wasn't goofy. The action figure bit was awesome. Timothy: The action figure bit was awesome, and covered the subject of buying a female action figure for your son and him discovering that women and girl heroes are amazing and awesome as well, specifically in regards to the Star Wars Universe, but also applicable to recognizing that heroes come in all genders. Dustin: Exactly! Timothy: It also had nothing to do with Teen Wolf, and we already digress all the bloody time. Plus there was a visual component that is completely wasted on our audience, because this is a podcast. Dustin: I maintain my objection to your aural butchery. Timothy: Noted. Now that that is out of the way, hey kids! Check out this podcast thing we did what deals with The Wolves That Are Teens!
THE WALKING DEAD Season 7, Episode 7 "Sing Me a Song" - Written by Angela Kang & Corey Reed, Directed by Rosemary Rodriguez Dustin: Siiiiiing... Timothy: No. Dustin: Siiiing a sooooong... Timothy: It clearly states up there that this is not a musical episode. Dustin: C'mon, Tim, sing along! Timothy: Nope. Dustin: Fine. You're no fun. Timothy: I am known far and wide for being no fun at all. I am OK with that. Dustin: And we... were kind of OK with this week's episode of THE WALKING DEAD. You see what I did there? Timothy: Yessss, that was, in fact, a transition of a kind. And here's another: Only one more episode to go until we take the Winter break from THE WALKING DEAD, and next week is another 90 minute episode. Dustin: Which this week did not need to be. At all. And then, TEEN WOLF! Timothy: Yes, it's true. While we wait for THE WALKING DEAD to come back, we're going to give Mr. Adair a chance to talk about the show he's been watching and often reviewing since it began, as we turn our attention to the final season of TEEN WOLF. Dustin: It's going to be great. But that's in a couple weeks. Right now, we hope you'll enjoy this week's Zombpocalypse Now!
THE WALKING DEAD Season 7, Episode 7 "Sing Me a Song" - Written by Angela Kang & Corey Reed, Directed by Rosemary Rodriguez Dustin: Siiiiiing... Timothy: No. Dustin: Siiiing a sooooong... Timothy: It clearly states up there that this is not a musical episode. Dustin: C'mon, Tim, sing along! Timothy: Nope. Dustin: Fine. You're no fun. Timothy: I am known far and wide for being no fun at all. I am OK with that. Dustin: And we... were kind of OK with this week's episode of THE WALKING DEAD. You see what I did there? Timothy: Yessss, that was, in fact, a transition of a kind. And here's another: Only one more episode to go until we take the Winter break from THE WALKING DEAD, and next week is another 90 minute episode. Dustin: Which this week did not need to be. At all. And then, TEEN WOLF! Timothy: Yes, it's true. While we wait for THE WALKING DEAD to come back, we're going to give Mr. Adair a chance to talk about the show he's been watching and often reviewing since it began, as we turn our attention to the final season of TEEN WOLF. Dustin: It's going to be great. But that's in a couple weeks. Right now, we hope you'll enjoy this week's Zombpocalypse Now!
Season 7, Episode 4 "Service" - Written by Corey Reed, Directed by David Boyd Dustin: It was so nice to have Curtis back this week. Timothy: It was, wasn't it? Now if we can get Anne-Marie back again, it'll just be like old times. Curtis: That would be cool. Dustin: Holy @#$%! How long have you been sitting there? Curtis: Since Sunday? I like your couch, man. It's comfy. Dustin: But... it's Friday. Tim's been slow again this week getting the audio edited. Timothy: I've been busy! Dustin: Whatever. How have you been on my couch since Sunday and I haven't noticed until now? Curtis: You've got three kids, dude. And I'm quiet. Dustin: That makes no sense whatsoever, you realize that, right? Timothy: Anyway, here's our latest Zombpocalype Now podcast, folks! Now with more Curtis! Take a listen!
Season 7, Episode 4 "Service" - Written by Corey Reed, Directed by David Boyd Dustin: It was so nice to have Curtis back this week. Timothy: It was, wasn't it? Now if we can get Anne-Marie back again, it'll just be like old times. Curtis: That would be cool. Dustin: Holy @#$%! How long have you been sitting there? Curtis: Since Sunday? I like your couch, man. It's comfy. Dustin: But... it's Friday. Tim's been slow again this week getting the audio edited. Timothy: I've been busy! Dustin: Whatever. How have you been on my couch since Sunday and I haven't noticed until now? Curtis: You've got three kids, dude. And I'm quiet. Dustin: That makes no sense whatsoever, you realize that, right? Timothy: Anyway, here's our latest Zombpocalype Now podcast, folks! Now with more Curtis! Take a listen!
Dustin: OK, right off the bat, let's just point out that Ann Laabs is writing recaps regularly of Channel Zero. Timothy: She is, and you can find her review for the first episode here. Dustin: BUT! We wanted to watch it, too, and we like to talk about things, so we couldn't resist watching this incredibly creepy show and telling all of you about it. Because this show is incredibly creepy. Incredibly. Creepy. Timothy: It is, and with all the grief we've given Syfy, it's nice to see them get their act together over the last couple of years, because if they had tried this just a few short years ago, it wouldn't have been anywhere as good. Dustin: This is really good, and it's @#$%ing terrifying. Which is kinda amazing for a PG13 rated show that's trying to bring creepypasta from its home in the written word to television. This could have gone really wrong, but it didn't. Timothy: Yeah, it's really good. We may have to come back to this a bit even as we deal with The Walking Dead. Which is back Sunday. And we'll be back next week with our thoughts about that, like we do. Thanks for listening!
Dustin: OK, right off the bat, let's just point out that Ann Laabs is writing recaps regularly of Channel Zero. Timothy: She is, and you can find her review for the first episode here. Dustin: BUT! We wanted to watch it, too, and we like to talk about things, so we couldn't resist watching this incredibly creepy show and telling all of you about it. Because this show is incredibly creepy. Incredibly. Creepy. Timothy: It is, and with all the grief we've given Syfy, it's nice to see them get their act together over the last couple of years, because if they had tried this just a few short years ago, it wouldn't have been anywhere as good. Dustin: This is really good, and it's @#$%ing terrifying. Which is kinda amazing for a PG13 rated show that's trying to bring creepypasta from its home in the written word to television. This could have gone really wrong, but it didn't. Timothy: Yeah, it's really good. We may have to come back to this a bit even as we deal with The Walking Dead. Which is back Sunday. And we'll be back next week with our thoughts about that, like we do. Thanks for listening!
With both Walking Dead series on their season and mid-season breaks, #TeamZombie continues its new Zombpocalypse Now podcast by turning the baleful eyes of Mr. Harvey and Mr. Adair onto AMC’s newest supernatural thriller: Preacher. And now with more Dead of Summer! Timothy: Hey folks! Starting with this episode, Dustin and I move to a longer format to incorporate the new Freeform series Dead of Summer to our weekly Zombpocalypse Now podcast, alongside our ongoing look at AMC's Preacher. Dustin: Just as we started these reviews with The Walking Dead and added Fear the Walking Dead and Preacher to our weekly musings on things dead-ish. And didn't you say you we're going to make this two episodes? We talked for like two hours, and this is just a little over an hour long. You and Jason run longer than this on most of your H2O podcasts. Timothy: Yeah, that was the plan, and then I went through and cut out all the "ums", "errrs" and ridiculously long pauses. It's kind of amazing how smart we sound now. Well... relatively, anyway. Dustin: Editing can only go so far, so whatever. Anyway, here's our musings on Dead of Summer, a show that clearly was made by fans of the 80's wave of horror flicks, and who aren't afraid to embrace the tropes of those not-always-classic teen slaughter-fests. And there are tropes aplenty here on display. Many tropes. Not quite all the tropes, but wow, they do a great job of hitting the big ones. Timothy: Yeah, for those of us of a certain age, who remember watching the original Halloween and Friday the 13th films in the theater when they were new, Dead of Summer is kinda like an old friend. Well, if by "old friend" you mean something that is kinda ridiculous and yet stupidly entertaining. You can also check out our colleague Allison Isberg's take on the first episode here, and while she didn't have quite the fun watching it we did, well... Dustin: ... We're older and more jaded enough to laugh at it more. And then there's Preacher, where Eugene has been sent to Hell by the horrible Jesse, and everyone else on this show is awesome while being terrible. And if you're watching the show, you know exactly what I mean by that. Timothy: It is, in fact, a show about awful people who are a blast to watch, and things are about to get a lot worse for our not-remotely-heroes... but we'll let you listen and see if you agree with our thoughts on the subject. As always, thanks for listening, and if you do that listening on iTunes, then would you kindly leave us a comment and/or rate the show? iTunes uses that info to make us more visible to the general public, and we're greedy... we shamelessly admit we want a bigger audience. Dustin: And if you listen to us on Podcasts.com, that's also great, because they're cool people who actually share their data with us, as opposed to some people... Timothy: Who are also awesome. Really. Anyway... thanks for listening folks, we'll see you next week!
With both Walking Dead series on their season and mid-season breaks, #TeamZombie continues its new Zombpocalypse Now podcast by turning the baleful eyes of Mr. Harvey and Mr. Adair onto AMC’s newest supernatural thriller: Preacher. And now with more Dead of Summer! Timothy: Hey folks! Starting with this episode, Dustin and I move to a longer format to incorporate the new Freeform series Dead of Summer to our weekly Zombpocalypse Now podcast, alongside our ongoing look at AMC's Preacher. Dustin: Just as we started these reviews with The Walking Dead and added Fear the Walking Dead and Preacher to our weekly musings on things dead-ish. And didn't you say you we're going to make this two episodes? We talked for like two hours, and this is just a little over an hour long. You and Jason run longer than this on most of your H2O podcasts. Timothy: Yeah, that was the plan, and then I went through and cut out all the "ums", "errrs" and ridiculously long pauses. It's kind of amazing how smart we sound now. Well... relatively, anyway. Dustin: Editing can only go so far, so whatever. Anyway, here's our musings on Dead of Summer, a show that clearly was made by fans of the 80's wave of horror flicks, and who aren't afraid to embrace the tropes of those not-always-classic teen slaughter-fests. And there are tropes aplenty here on display. Many tropes. Not quite all the tropes, but wow, they do a great job of hitting the big ones. Timothy: Yeah, for those of us of a certain age, who remember watching the original Halloween and Friday the 13th films in the theater when they were new, Dead of Summer is kinda like an old friend. Well, if by "old friend" you mean something that is kinda ridiculous and yet stupidly entertaining. You can also check out our colleague Allison Isberg's take on the first episode here, and while she didn't have quite the fun watching it we did, well... Dustin: ... We're older and more jaded enough to laugh at it more. And then there's Preacher, where Eugene has been sent to Hell by the horrible Jesse, and everyone else on this show is awesome while being terrible. And if you're watching the show, you know exactly what I mean by that. Timothy: It is, in fact, a show about awful people who are a blast to watch, and things are about to get a lot worse for our not-remotely-heroes... but we'll let you listen and see if you agree with our thoughts on the subject. As always, thanks for listening, and if you do that listening on iTunes, then would you kindly leave us a comment and/or rate the show? iTunes uses that info to make us more visible to the general public, and we're greedy... we shamelessly admit we want a bigger audience. Dustin: And if you listen to us on Podcasts.com, that's also great, because they're cool people who actually share their data with us, as opposed to some people... Timothy: Who are also awesome. Really. Anyway... thanks for listening folks, we'll see you next week!
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