- Taliesin Jaffe here on my
second episode of Signal Boost!
Recap for new watchers,
Signal Boost is our show
where rotating hosts share
the things they love.
Show and tell is fun, woo!
But before we launch into the cool stuff
I just want to point out that
this antenna of destiny thing
has yet to screw up on me
and I'm going to preempt
the setup for a joke
where the antenna screws
up now that I've said
it hasn't screwed up by
going meta and pointing out
that there's a setup for
a joke about the antenna
screwing up now that
I've said that it hasn't
screwed up by going meta and pointing out
that there's a setup for a joke about
the antenna screwing up now that I've said
that it hasn't screwed
up I started going meta
from, pointing out the setup for a joke
about the antenna screwing
up now that I said
it hasn't screwed up.
(screaming)
(electronic 8bit music)
Let's start this episode
off with some music.
You probably know Edward
Gorey, the artist slash writer.
You may have heard of the classical group
the Kronos Quartet and maybe
you just might have heard
of the Tiger Lillies,
one of my favorite bands
with a style that's
very uniquely their own.
But did you know that 13 years ago
all three of these fantastic
things came together
like a mighty golf turducken
to produce an album
called "The Gorey End?"
This is everything you want
in a collaborative project
Edward Gorey's nursery
rhymes of murder, despair
and tragedy sung in a
violently falsetto voice
backed by the thick background
of haunting violin and cello.
It's 110 percent gin-soaked,
goth, violet candies
that are probably poisonous.
You can find the album everywhere
one finds music these days
and hey, both bands and Mr. Gorey have
a giant back catalog of
spooky, give it a listen
and be prepared to be haunted.
And now because of an incident we had
during an un-aired episode of
Super Fun Awesome Party Game Time
that featured this
album and a Ouija board,
legal has asked me to
read this ridiculous crap.
Die in a fire, Greg.
Ugh we here at Geek and
Sundry do not endorse
the use of necromancy, disturbing
the spirits of the dead
for entertainment and blah blah blah.
We hold firm to the idea of this
oh, it was fine!
No one was hurt, the dead
didn't rise or possess anyone.
(devilish shrieking)
(electronic music)
So, here's some television
that's going to enrich your life.
QI is a kind of, sort
of, British game show
with amorphous, never
particularly mentioned rules
that don't really matter.
What does matter is that
Stephen Fry and his sidekick
slash whipping boy Alan
Davies play host to three more
random, clever persons of
note as they try to answer
complex trivia questions
but mostly just go
broadly off topic telling
stories, or exchanging
odd science facts, quotations, jokes.
The show boils down to having
lunch with the smartest,
funniest people you could ever hope for.
Each episode is a vague
subject and each season covers
a letter of the alphabet.
They've already made it to
season M without you noticing
so that's over 180 episodes.
Check out some of the clips
on YouTube and you'll see
exactly what I'm talking about.
This show is infectious and
incredibly entertaining.
Go watch it and learn all
the things about everything.
Yes, this is a real British accent.
No, I just want to be on the show.
Shut up!
(electronic 8bit music)
All right, hear me out on this one.
Way back in the olden
days of the early 90's
a group called the Cacophany Society
who I would describe as a
sort of militant dischordian
cultural pranksters club but not really
decided it would be a
great idea to gather up
a large group of miscreants,
dress everybody up as
Santa Claus and spend a summer's day going
from bar to mall to strip club
getting drunker and more ridiculous.
It turns out that this is an awesome idea.
And has turned into an
international pub crawl
slash mayhem engine whose jolly torrent
of inebriated Kris Kringles can be found
in over 50 countries and
300 cities across the world.
I'm talking about SantaCon
it's pure obsurdity
in the most delightfully bizarre form.
If a giant, drunken mob of
red velvet and fake beards
isn't your thing, I
welcome you to check out
some of the other great
works of public weirdness
the Cacophany Society has
perpetrated over the years.
I should probably give
you fair warning though
the Chuck E. Cheese one's pretty dark.
It's really dark actually.
(electronic 8bit music)
Another episode of
Signal Boost! in the can.
I don't even know how
we got through this one.
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it
didn't everything go to sh--
at the top of the episode?
(alarm sounding)
(screaming)
I'm the alpha and the omega.
All will end before me.
I will bring the fall of man.
Nah, nah this is just
crazy, see you next week
we'll just try this again, no, nah.
(groaning)
- [Voiceover] Shut up, Greg.
