"The BumbleKast: Where Nothing Is Sacred!" --Ian Flynn, 2024

KYLE CROUSE: Next question is from @rabbithaver. “In 2018, you wrote IDW Sonic #14, which contained panels of Silver being thrown by the ankle by Metal Sonic. On May 19, 2022, tumblr user @catgirlkirigiri posted those panels with the caption, 'Happy Throwing Him Thursday.' Now, every Thursday, Sonic Tumblr celebrates by partaking in throwing Silver. Each week, participants render their followers' dashboards unusable by reblogging those panels dozens of times in a row. People have drawn fan art. There are multiple videos of people throwing their Silver plushies, including one of him being hurled off a five story balcony. In celebration of the two year anniversary of the first Throwing Him Thursday, would you both please rank Sonic characters based on how far you think you, personally, could throw them?” [TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE: The balcony mentioned was seven stories, not five, which is much funnier.]

IAN FLYNN: [in exaggerated horror] Two years?! KYLE: [laughing] IAN: My poor boy has been yeeted for two years?! KYLE: He’s getting yeeted! He’s getting yeeted like crazy! IAN: I feel bad! KYLE: [laughs] IAN: I’m glad folks are enjoying themselves, but… what have I done to the poor boy? KYLE: [still laughing] Ah, well, I mean, the fandom got a— the fandom got attached to it. To be fair, you know. You did it once. [chuckles] IAN: And really, the credit should go to Tracy Yardley and the other artists for rendering it, but hm… KYLE: True, true. [chuckling] IAN: Half-tempted to sneak in a panel somewhere. [as Sonic] “Happy Thursday, Silver!” [as Silver, panicked as he’s being reminded of his trauma] “WHY?!” KYLE: [erupts into laughter, then as Silver] “What is this?!” [laughs] Man, if you made a reference to Throwing Him Thursday, I think the— I think there’s a lot of Tumblr people who would melt down. In a— you know, in a good way. IAN: [chuckling to himself] Shadow just puts him off a— puts him out a window. [as Shadow] “Huh, is it Thursday already?” KYLE: [laughing] Oh, man… IAN: Anyway, characters that we could throw on a Thursday — or any day, really. KYLE: Any day. I could throw— I could throw— I could take Charmy. [chuckles] IAN: Yeah, Charmy, Cheese… KYLE: But then I’d have to contend with not being able to throw Vector and Espio as they murder me. [laughs] IAN: [chuckles, then as Vector] “Nice arm there, Kyle! Wanna see how [unintelligible] it is?” KYLE: [laughs] Oh! IAN: And I imagine Cream, but only because she wants to, like, take off, so she’s already got her ears ready, and you’re like, out in an open field, and it’s like throwing a kite into the air or something. She’s having a grand time, just, “whee!” KYLE: Yeah, she can fly. [chuckles] IAN: Uh… how heavy is Tails, actually? KYLE: Eh, I don’t think Tails is very, uh, heavy, and he’d fly, so… you know IAN: I’m gonna look this up real quick. KYLE: You could throw Froggy a little bit— [stuttering unintelligibly] a little bit far. You know. IAN: [as Big] “Once.” KYLE: Once. [laughs] IAN: Huh! Actually Tails is like, over forty pounds! KYLE: Okay, he’s a… IAN: That’s not really a throw, that’s more of a heft. KYLE: He’s a beefy— he’s a beefy boy then, huh? Wow. [chuckles, then reading chat] I’m being told that Ray was born to be yeeted. [laughs] IAN: [chuckles] You know that’s what he and Mighty do all the time. KYLE: Of course! IAN: It’s kinda like— it’s like with Cream! KYLE: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. IAN: [as Mighty] “Ready, little guy?” [as Ray] “Ready!” Woosh! KYLE: Yeah, pretty much, exactly. IAN: How much does Orbot weigh? KYLE: He’s pretty small, but he’s also a robot, so who knows how dense he is? Uh… IAN: If he even has an official weight… [Googling] Uh, he is— holy crap, he’s over sixty pounds! KYLE: Yeah, I was gonna say, he’s probably real dense. He’s got a lot in him. [chuckles] IAN: [sigh] I could probably pick him up and hmph, but yeah, I ain’t throwin’ that. Goodness. KYLE: The irony is that you’d think Cubot would be the dense one! IAN: [chuckles] Well, now I’m curious, if Orbot is sixty-six point one pounds… KYLE: He would be one really heavy bowling ball, at least. [laughs] IAN: Self-steering, no less. KYLE: Yeah! IAN: [Googling] Oh, wow. Cubot’s, uh, almost eighty-six pounds. KYLE: Oh! He’s dense— he’s even more dense! IAN: He’s a hefty boy! KYLE: [laughs] IAN: So, yeah.

KYLE: Nice. [chuckles] Yes. Ah, yes. [reading chat] Cubot, the honorable— or, Orbot, the honorable Whipple. IAN: [snickers] KYLE: Welcome to the Whipple family. [chuckling] I don’t know if we could really throw any of them? I mean, sure, a giant mech could throw Jewel, as we’ve established previously, but I don’t know if I could. She’s pretty— she’s pretty big for a bug. IAN: Yeah, I… she might need to be hefted, not really thrown. KYLE: Yeah, yeah. You could throw a chao. IAN: Yeah. KYLE: You can throw Marine, maybe. IAN: Well, now I’m curious, uh… Charmy’s like twenty-two pounds. KYLE: Why is he so freakin’ huge? He’s a bee! [laughs] IAN: And I would imagine Jewel’s at least that weight, so… KYLE: Y-yeah…? [stuttering] How heavy are pounds on Sonic’s world?! IAN: [laughs] I mean, you could still maybe throw Charmy, but you’d have to put your back into it. You’d have to, like, limber up first. KYLE: Yeah! IAN: And just because we brought it up, you know, the idea is Cream’s just kinda using this as an excuse to be thrown, but— [Googling] she’s twenty-six pounds. She’s barely heavier than Charmy. What in the world? KYLE: [chuckling] What? What?! IAN: But yeah, I could definitely pick her up over my head and kinda, fwoop, and then she’d flap and she’d fly, and she’d have a fun time. KYLE: Yeah, yeah… yeah, yeah, I think they’re all a bit too heavy. It’s that— it’s that dang Beach Ball Head Syndrome they got going on. [chuckles] Those giant heads, you know?

EPISODE THUMBNAIL by @kiimeranova (lines) and @nintendoni-art (colors)! Exclusive Throwing Him Thursday Variant HERE!

IAN FLYNN: Uh, Sonic realizes that they’re trying to get tracking data off him, and takes that as a challenge. He’s gonna go fast enough that it fries every circuit they have. KYLE: Good luck. [laughs] Good luck tryin’ to keep up with this! IAN: Amy will find a way to make it fashionable. You know, if she’s stuck with it, she’s at least going to make it work. Silver… is a little weirded out because he didn’t think the tagging and collaring started for another ten years. At least, that’s not how history went. KYLE: Oh no. IAN: But at least the revolution is gonna be right around the corner. KYLE: Oh no! [chuckling] IAN: Wait, this collar doesn’t suppress his powers… who did this?! What— why did they do this? Now he’s really confused. KYLE: [chuckles] IAN: And Shadow will just hunt them down. KYLE: Mm. Shadow would’ve woken up before they even left! [laughing] He would’ve got— he would’ve gone Mutant X on ‘em. IAN: All the researchers wake up with their own collars and ear tags, and he’s just standing over them. KYLE: Yeah! [chuckles] Yeah… yeah. IAN: Luckily, Amy made it a fashion trend, so they’re perfectly fine with it. KYLE: Yeah, yeah. Thanks Amy.

Idk if you're doing transcriptions at the moment, but if you are, would it be possible to get my question Vector's question about the cookbook transcribed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8HZ8zy-G5k&t=3059s

Thanks :D

I'm still kinda iffy on how many requests I want to take, but I've actually had this one on my list of ones I've wanted to do, so... here's the transcript!

KYLE: [laughs] Fine, you can have ten bucks, Vector. IAN FLYNN: Look, Vector, bubby, all I did was help you guys get your interviews in for the cook book, okay? Then it was given to Inside Editions and they did their thing with the recipes and making it a little more fancy and what-not. And I kinda saw this coming, that’s why I coached Sonic a bit, and he says, you know, these recipes are suggestions. Y’know, add or subtract as much as you want. Add your own flair. Keep it simple, if you want. These are general ideas. Maybe a little embellished, but what’s a good story without a bit of embellishment, huh? Huh? KYLE: [laughs] Yes, yes. Now get outta here, we don’t have enough room in this studio for all three of us! IAN: [chuckles] That’s gonna wrap it up for this edition of the BumbleKast. [outro fades in]

KYLE CROUSE: [referring to the topic of the mini] Alright, here’s one suggested by HappyTimes. “Shadow and Cream?”

IAN FLYNN: [snerk] Everyone’s a little surprised that Shadow seems to be making a concentrated effort to go around and make nice. Apologize for any rude comments he may or may have not said. KYLE: [laughs] IAN: He just, he’s been very grumpy, and he shouldn’t take that out on others, so he’s here to apologize, just in case, and he hopes that they can be friends in the future. Meanwhile… Cream is on the warpath, riding around on the motorcycle as fast as she can. [as Cream] “Where’s that damn bodysnatcher?!” KYLE: [laughing] Oh, no! Give her a gun. IAN: [chuckles, then as Cream] “Cheese! Get ‘em!” KYLE: Oh, no. Oh, no! Terrifying, I love it. [yawning] Absolutely love it. Tear him to pieces!