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Fandom Radio, Saturday, October 27th
Host Yakko: From WTFH Fandom, this is This Fandom Life, brought to you by Pirate Radio International.
Teaser Yakko: You know, there are these clubs that all kind of people are a part of.
Host Yakko: I'm here, looking at the meeting of Fandom High's Apathy Club. Well, actually, I'm not. But they won't care that I'm making this up. It's right there in the name.
Teaser Yakko: But this club, eh. You know.
Host Yakko In Field: No, I don't know. Can you explain it?
Teaser Yakko: I would but what's the point?
Host Yakko: This isn't an uncommon issue. In fact, everyone involved in the Apathy Club seems to have this kind of reaction. Which really brings into question, does Apathy Club draw people who don't feel strongly about much... or does it make them?
Host Yakko In Field: So you don't even know why you feel this way about the club?
Teaser Yakko: I never really gave that much thought to it.
Host Yakko: In fact, any question I asked him was deflected in such a way. The answers he gave ranged from, "Oh, you're still here?" to "We're all gonna die eventually. Except me. But you'll probably die sooner than most."
Teaser Yakko: You should really look into cryonics. Freeze your head. But it doesn't matter much if you don't. You know, the Mayans or whatever?
Host Yakko: This isn't the kind of community you expect, but sometimes it's the kind of community you get. *quirky music starts playing* A bunch of people who barely care enough to put up with me asking questions, banding together to not answer questions, together.
Today on our program, we have stories about The Strange Kind of Communities and groups that come together around here, by choice, by bar preference, or by class roster. We have people getting ready for a trip to space. We have people bound by duty to their jobs. And we have people who end up interacting just because they want to have a few drinks. Stay with us.
*quirky music continues alone for a short time*
Act I: Live by the class, go to space for the class
We all know that the reason we're all here is because of the high school. Teachers need to teach. People in town provide everything that's needed to sustain the school. But the people who are here for the school more than anybody else? The students. After all, in a pinch, teachers could get other jobs that only demand two days of work a week, tops. But the students have two choices: stay in school or get a job at Mooby Land.
But that first option opens up more options. Go to school in Fandom and you could take a trip to - and I'm being serious here - outer. space.
It's all the work of Kaidan, who teaches a class on Astro Physics and is from, you guessed it, space. Yesterday he took a predictable space track ahead of this space field trip by discussing space alien species and space evolution.
But just like space aliens, the very nature of field trips has also evolved. This space trip to space isn't just for Kaidan's space class; it's open to the entire student body.
So yesterday when Jono's Living on the Outskirts class had a movie day, featuring some very caring bears? They were probably thinking about space.
Or when Oz's Art of the Heist class discussed establishing covers and wearing disguises, someone was probably trying to work out a space cover and space disguise for a space heist.
One student who was definitely thinking about space? Library aide Billy Kaplan. He spent his shift researching... well, I think you space know by space now.
So there you have it. Be a student at Fandom and see remarkable things, and not just within the atmosphere.
As a side note, you may be wondering what some of the teachers were focused on yesterday. Well, for that we need to look no frther than Jaina Solo, who spent the day in her office. Tinkering with an astromech droid. That she got from her home. In space.
Act II: You can't spell "Community" incorrectly without "Common"
So yesterday we were looking out for any activity in the dorm common rooms. There wasn't much, it was a quiet day. But on the third floor, Stiles was watching a seasonally appropriate movie - one that was appropriately titled for the upcoming holiday - and eating some popcorn.
*quirky music starts*
And sure enough, that classic combination of movie plus popcorn was enough to bring someone else in. Tony Stark, grabbing some popcorn and making some small talk.
And harkening back to our first story, that small talk was about space. Of course.
Well, coming up, we leave the school and move into the communities in town. You'll get to see what the 9 to 5 life does to people in Fandom and we'll check in with the people who don't get going until long after 5:00, possibly because they're hungover until then.
That's coming up in just a minute, from Fandom Pirate Radio and Pirate Radio International, when our program continues. *quirky music stops*
Newscaster Yakko: It's whatever time you're listening to this. I'm Yakko Warner with the news. Things are happening, some other things, and one more thing. President, president, left-leaning news, world event, brief and uncomfortable reference to sports, weather.
And now I say the name of a sponsor! TOTE BAAAAAG!!!!! Please give us money?
Host Yakko: It's This Fandom Life, I'm Yakko Warner. Each week on our program of course we choose a theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme. Today's show, The Strange Kind of Community. We have stories of people coming together in different and sometimes unexpected ways around Fandom. We have arrived at Act III of our program.
Act III: A 9 to 5 world, but maybe not during those specific hours
Okay, right now we're going to check in briefly with some of our local businesses in Fandom and introduce you to the people working there, and how those people got through their days yesterday.
We start at Goodvalor's Little Bivoli. The employee is Toby Logan, and he's going on the space trip. His restaurant of employment? Space themed, with robot chefs and everything. That makes it kind of hard to avoid thinking about space, especially if you know the little-known fact that the restaurant is, in reality, a spaceship itself.
At Wellspring Arms, Fandom's one and only weapons store and meditation center - which just happens to be owned by the mayor of the town - Alec Lightwood had a quiet and very personal birthday celebration, consisting of having problems with his iPod and moving around the archery gear. Like the song said, it's his birthday and he can rearrange arrows if he wants to.
And finishing our tour, we stop at the local grocery (and more), Turtle & Canary. Hope Adams was behind the counter. With her? A magazine. And a Squishy.
Support local businesses, everyone.
Act IV: Because the night belongs to new bartenders
So we finish our show today with a look at Fandom's bars, and the people who spend time in them. We sent two of our producers out to the bars and had them observe and tell the stories of anyone who came in. Their conclusions? People go to the bar to drink and talk to people. Surprising, right?
We'll start off at Caritas, where a new employee named Mike Lane got the often surprising news that the zombie band on stage? An actual zombie band, actually on stage. After figuring that one out, he stuck to his area behind the bar.
Once he was back there and people started filtering in, it becomes your typical bar story. People come in, flirt with the bartender, talk to each other. Drink. It started off with another new face around Fandom, Max Blum, who just recently had his first shift at the other bar in town, the Devil's Nest. And the conversation drifted to a time-honored topic among new Fandomites: the fact that Fandom is weird. Case in point, Mike told Max about the upcoming Halloween party being planned at Mike's house by bar owner Kitty Pryde and a real live talking pink pony named Pinkie Pie.
And neither of them live in that house.
As it turned out, it was just a night for newer residents at Caritas, because Laurie Keller showed up as well. Laurie is the newly-minted landlord at one of the apartment buildings in Fandom, and she's already acquainting herself with the surroundings. When she took her seat at the bar, she didn't pay mind to the zombies. She and Max just started texting each other from across the bar.
The one thing that did shake Laurie out of her focused plans for drinking and text-based socializing, undead be undamned? Mike's arms. And probably the rest of him.
And we wrap up our stay at Caritas with a visit from Derek, also a bartender, also at the Devil's Nest. Also, Mike's housemate, who was just showing up to check in on Mike during his first day of work. They discussed zombies - neither is a fan - and Derek even promised to start packing lunches for Mike. But if you know Derek at all, you know that was just him being bitterly sarcastic.
Or, secretly romantic. We can't really be sure.
But while all of the Devil's Nest employees with the night off spent their time at Caritas, how did things go for the people actually at the Devil's Nest? Well, new door watcher Allie - and yes, we have had a recent influx of new bar workers in Fandom, that hasn't gone unnoticed - spent her night watching the door, talking to customers, and reading romance novels. One of which probably had me on the cover and was dedicated to her. Helloooooooooooooo, creature of the night!
One of her customers, longtime Fandomite and current Devil's Nest employee, Jack Priest, decided to check in. Although he couldn't help but editorialize a little that all romance novels are the same.
And bringing it all the way around, remember Kaidan? The space teacher from Act I? He walked in and introduced himself to Allie. And then? They talked about the zombies at Caritas.
*quirky music starts* Well, our program was produced today by me, Yakko Warner.
This Fandom Life is distributed by Pirate Radio International. Support for This Fandom Life comes from all of the looting done by international radio pirates. Thanks to everyone over at P-ARRRRRRRR-I. Remember, that's only one eye. The other has a patch because of the ARRRRRRRRR.
WTFH management oversight for our program by our boss, Jaye Tyler, who thinks of community like this:
Teaser Yakko: Eh. You know.
Host Yakko: I'm Yakko Warner. Back next week with more stories of This Fandom Life.
*quirky music continues for 20 seconds*
*silence*
Teaser Yakko: You know, there are these clubs that all kind of people are a part of.
Host Yakko: I'm here, looking at the meeting of Fandom High's Apathy Club. Well, actually, I'm not. But they won't care that I'm making this up. It's right there in the name.
Teaser Yakko: But this club, eh. You know.
Host Yakko In Field: No, I don't know. Can you explain it?
Teaser Yakko: I would but what's the point?
Host Yakko: This isn't an uncommon issue. In fact, everyone involved in the Apathy Club seems to have this kind of reaction. Which really brings into question, does Apathy Club draw people who don't feel strongly about much... or does it make them?
Host Yakko In Field: So you don't even know why you feel this way about the club?
Teaser Yakko: I never really gave that much thought to it.
Host Yakko: In fact, any question I asked him was deflected in such a way. The answers he gave ranged from, "Oh, you're still here?" to "We're all gonna die eventually. Except me. But you'll probably die sooner than most."
Teaser Yakko: You should really look into cryonics. Freeze your head. But it doesn't matter much if you don't. You know, the Mayans or whatever?
Host Yakko: This isn't the kind of community you expect, but sometimes it's the kind of community you get. *quirky music starts playing* A bunch of people who barely care enough to put up with me asking questions, banding together to not answer questions, together.
Today on our program, we have stories about The Strange Kind of Communities and groups that come together around here, by choice, by bar preference, or by class roster. We have people getting ready for a trip to space. We have people bound by duty to their jobs. And we have people who end up interacting just because they want to have a few drinks. Stay with us.
*quirky music continues alone for a short time*
Act I: Live by the class, go to space for the class
We all know that the reason we're all here is because of the high school. Teachers need to teach. People in town provide everything that's needed to sustain the school. But the people who are here for the school more than anybody else? The students. After all, in a pinch, teachers could get other jobs that only demand two days of work a week, tops. But the students have two choices: stay in school or get a job at Mooby Land.
But that first option opens up more options. Go to school in Fandom and you could take a trip to - and I'm being serious here - outer. space.
It's all the work of Kaidan, who teaches a class on Astro Physics and is from, you guessed it, space. Yesterday he took a predictable space track ahead of this space field trip by discussing space alien species and space evolution.
But just like space aliens, the very nature of field trips has also evolved. This space trip to space isn't just for Kaidan's space class; it's open to the entire student body.
So yesterday when Jono's Living on the Outskirts class had a movie day, featuring some very caring bears? They were probably thinking about space.
Or when Oz's Art of the Heist class discussed establishing covers and wearing disguises, someone was probably trying to work out a space cover and space disguise for a space heist.
One student who was definitely thinking about space? Library aide Billy Kaplan. He spent his shift researching... well, I think you space know by space now.
So there you have it. Be a student at Fandom and see remarkable things, and not just within the atmosphere.
As a side note, you may be wondering what some of the teachers were focused on yesterday. Well, for that we need to look no frther than Jaina Solo, who spent the day in her office. Tinkering with an astromech droid. That she got from her home. In space.
Act II: You can't spell "Community" incorrectly without "Common"
So yesterday we were looking out for any activity in the dorm common rooms. There wasn't much, it was a quiet day. But on the third floor, Stiles was watching a seasonally appropriate movie - one that was appropriately titled for the upcoming holiday - and eating some popcorn.
*quirky music starts*
And sure enough, that classic combination of movie plus popcorn was enough to bring someone else in. Tony Stark, grabbing some popcorn and making some small talk.
And harkening back to our first story, that small talk was about space. Of course.
Well, coming up, we leave the school and move into the communities in town. You'll get to see what the 9 to 5 life does to people in Fandom and we'll check in with the people who don't get going until long after 5:00, possibly because they're hungover until then.
That's coming up in just a minute, from Fandom Pirate Radio and Pirate Radio International, when our program continues. *quirky music stops*
Newscaster Yakko: It's whatever time you're listening to this. I'm Yakko Warner with the news. Things are happening, some other things, and one more thing. President, president, left-leaning news, world event, brief and uncomfortable reference to sports, weather.
And now I say the name of a sponsor! TOTE BAAAAAG!!!!! Please give us money?
Host Yakko: It's This Fandom Life, I'm Yakko Warner. Each week on our program of course we choose a theme, bring you different kinds of stories on that theme. Today's show, The Strange Kind of Community. We have stories of people coming together in different and sometimes unexpected ways around Fandom. We have arrived at Act III of our program.
Act III: A 9 to 5 world, but maybe not during those specific hours
Okay, right now we're going to check in briefly with some of our local businesses in Fandom and introduce you to the people working there, and how those people got through their days yesterday.
We start at Goodvalor's Little Bivoli. The employee is Toby Logan, and he's going on the space trip. His restaurant of employment? Space themed, with robot chefs and everything. That makes it kind of hard to avoid thinking about space, especially if you know the little-known fact that the restaurant is, in reality, a spaceship itself.
At Wellspring Arms, Fandom's one and only weapons store and meditation center - which just happens to be owned by the mayor of the town - Alec Lightwood had a quiet and very personal birthday celebration, consisting of having problems with his iPod and moving around the archery gear. Like the song said, it's his birthday and he can rearrange arrows if he wants to.
And finishing our tour, we stop at the local grocery (and more), Turtle & Canary. Hope Adams was behind the counter. With her? A magazine. And a Squishy.
Support local businesses, everyone.
Act IV: Because the night belongs to new bartenders
So we finish our show today with a look at Fandom's bars, and the people who spend time in them. We sent two of our producers out to the bars and had them observe and tell the stories of anyone who came in. Their conclusions? People go to the bar to drink and talk to people. Surprising, right?
We'll start off at Caritas, where a new employee named Mike Lane got the often surprising news that the zombie band on stage? An actual zombie band, actually on stage. After figuring that one out, he stuck to his area behind the bar.
Once he was back there and people started filtering in, it becomes your typical bar story. People come in, flirt with the bartender, talk to each other. Drink. It started off with another new face around Fandom, Max Blum, who just recently had his first shift at the other bar in town, the Devil's Nest. And the conversation drifted to a time-honored topic among new Fandomites: the fact that Fandom is weird. Case in point, Mike told Max about the upcoming Halloween party being planned at Mike's house by bar owner Kitty Pryde and a real live talking pink pony named Pinkie Pie.
And neither of them live in that house.
As it turned out, it was just a night for newer residents at Caritas, because Laurie Keller showed up as well. Laurie is the newly-minted landlord at one of the apartment buildings in Fandom, and she's already acquainting herself with the surroundings. When she took her seat at the bar, she didn't pay mind to the zombies. She and Max just started texting each other from across the bar.
The one thing that did shake Laurie out of her focused plans for drinking and text-based socializing, undead be undamned? Mike's arms. And probably the rest of him.
And we wrap up our stay at Caritas with a visit from Derek, also a bartender, also at the Devil's Nest. Also, Mike's housemate, who was just showing up to check in on Mike during his first day of work. They discussed zombies - neither is a fan - and Derek even promised to start packing lunches for Mike. But if you know Derek at all, you know that was just him being bitterly sarcastic.
Or, secretly romantic. We can't really be sure.
But while all of the Devil's Nest employees with the night off spent their time at Caritas, how did things go for the people actually at the Devil's Nest? Well, new door watcher Allie - and yes, we have had a recent influx of new bar workers in Fandom, that hasn't gone unnoticed - spent her night watching the door, talking to customers, and reading romance novels. One of which probably had me on the cover and was dedicated to her. Helloooooooooooooo, creature of the night!
One of her customers, longtime Fandomite and current Devil's Nest employee, Jack Priest, decided to check in. Although he couldn't help but editorialize a little that all romance novels are the same.
And bringing it all the way around, remember Kaidan? The space teacher from Act I? He walked in and introduced himself to Allie. And then? They talked about the zombies at Caritas.
*quirky music starts* Well, our program was produced today by me, Yakko Warner.
This Fandom Life is distributed by Pirate Radio International. Support for This Fandom Life comes from all of the looting done by international radio pirates. Thanks to everyone over at P-ARRRRRRRR-I. Remember, that's only one eye. The other has a patch because of the ARRRRRRRRR.
WTFH management oversight for our program by our boss, Jaye Tyler, who thinks of community like this:
Teaser Yakko: Eh. You know.
Host Yakko: I'm Yakko Warner. Back next week with more stories of This Fandom Life.
*quirky music continues for 20 seconds*
*silence*