- 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.