Still on Treasure Island our gallant crew are trying to outrun ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and her super sharp axe. What an earth is she doing on Treasure Island? “Gulp!” 

Meanwhile, our resident voice over guy, Tony, appears to be having a break down. Just who is ‘Sharon’ and more importantly what is ‘Sharon?’

On the way, Nigel takes a tumble and Jim tries his hand at a new language. Could this cause even further danger? Which other cliches will the crew uncover on their journey to the center of the island?

The podcast starter motor loses a spring on landing. How will they manage to return to ‘sunny St Albans?’

Wait! This may be Treasure Island but for some weird reason (must be the writer) the characters inhabiting the island, don’t quite…well, make sense.

Dive in for silly, surreal and odd interludes, o’ and some great music from the house band ‘We Paint Houses.’

Stuff We’ll Hear in this Episode:

• Just how do podcasts really work?
• Is the podcast really writing itself?
• Just who is that wearing a red riding hood and what will she do with that shiny axe?
• What do they do with Winnie The Pooh, Eeyore and Tigger?

In short, in this episode:

00:00 Challenge Jim
00:00 Micro Sitcom: The Start Up, Mary ‘The Entrepreneur’ in ‘Pulp Baby’ Part II
00:00 List of the Week
00:00 Ways of Seeing

00:00 Ends

Interview Countdown

12 Questions in 12 Minutes, with Peter Freedman

We delve into Peter’s’ creative world and discover more about his creative agency, Think Inc.

Plus:

Bonus Episode with Peter

We continue the conversation and explore more about Peter’s world of creating buzz around startups, especially in North America.

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Website: Think Inc.

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Season 2 Episode 08 – Rearrange Part II

S/FX: JELLY TRUMPET INTRO MUSIC

TONY:
Jelly Trumpet Season 2, Episode 8, Part II

S/FX: WHIRRING OF TANK TRACKS

MR B:
I wonder where this road in the middle of the jungle will take us?

S/FX: FURIOUS TYPING

JIM:
[BREATHLESSLY] I’m writing a new script Mr b. I didn’t write the bit with an axe wielding red riding hood. I certainly should have edited that line, too much explanation for the sound effect.

MR B:
[SARCASTICALLY] Well, that’s a relief.

ELEANOR:
Ou is Nigel?

MR B:
What?

ELEANOR:
Nigel. Which way did he go?

MR B:
It’s alright. He’s still on top of cMac and I’ve set cMac to find the podcast at top speed. He’ll be fine unless…

S/FX: THUD AND A SHRILL SCREAM

JIM.
WHAT?

MR B:
…unless he gets knocked off by a low hanging branch.

JIM:
Quick! We’ll have to carry him! Put him over my shoulder.

MR B:
[BREATHLESSLY] There you go.

ELEANOR:
She’s gaining! She’s gaining. She’s GAINING!

S/FX; SOUND OF FOLIAGE BEING PARTED

JIM:
Through here.

MR B:
O my God!

JIM:
I don’t believe it!

ELEANOR:
[SOFTLY] Wonderful!

MR B:
cMac. Play tape!

S/FX: JUNGLE ANIMAL NOISES

RIFF 5

S/FX: JUNGLE NOISES

JIM:
How did that get here?

MR B:
Who knows?

S/FX: SOUND OF OBOE

JIM:
What…Nigel must be better? I’ll put him down.

MR B:
What is a two-masted British Navy brig doing in the middle of an island?

JIM:
[READING] Hang on! I didn’t write this either…worrying.

MR B:
Well, strange things happen in podcasts all the time you know.

JIM:
Yes they do!

MR B:
I wonder what will happen now…

S/FX; THE HEAVY THUD OF AN AXE HITTING WOOD

JIM:
Being attacked by an axe. I’m sure I didn’t write this. Hang on…maybe the axe is on the next page…

ELEANOR:
Run you idiots!

S/FX: SOUND OF A LONG NOTE ON AN OBOE

JIM:
NIGEL!

MR B:
Mr Jim!

ELEANOR:
Run to the ship…

S/FX: SOUND OF RUNNING FEET

JIM:
[BREATHLESSLY] Mr b. Would the orange button help us at this point in the show?

MR B:
[BREATHLESSLY] Well. No.

JIM:
We better get on this old ship and hide.

MR B:
Good idea. cMac! Run next feature!

S/FX: CHALLENGE JIM THEME

CHALLENGE JIM

TONY:
Challenge Jim!

S/FX: CHALLENGE JIM JINGLE/MUSIC

MR B:
Each episode we challenge Jim with a creative exercise.

JIM:
I’m ready.

MR B:
The challenge this episode Mr Jim is… You have one minute to rearrange three classic fairy tales into a new fairy tale. Three…two…one.

JIM:
But, but…OK.

MR B:
We’re off!

[MR B THROWS IN DIFFERENT IDEAS / DISTRACTIONS AND COUNTS JIM DOWN]

MR B:
Moving on.

TONY’S WORD OF THE EPISODE

TONY:
Tony’s Word of the Episode!

[SOTTO VOCE] Sharon!

TONY:
Propaganda! Propaganda!

JIM:
Thank you, Tony. The definition of which is politely looking at geese.

MR B:
Are you sure Jim?

JIM:
No.

MR B:
Are you sure about this feature?

S/FX; SOUND OF SOMETHING CRUNCHY BEING EATEN

MR B:
Nigel likes the coconuts.

RIFF 6

S/FX: JUNGLE ANIMALS, SLIGHTLY QUITER

MR B:
Did you see the name of the ship? HMS Sappho.

JIM:
I did notice that Mr b.

S/FX; SOUND OF A MAN WITH A PEG LEG WALKING ACROSS A WOODEN DECK

MR B:
Good afternoon.

JIM:
Yes. Good afternoon.

ELEANOR:
Good afternoon Captain.

S/FX; SOUND OF A MATCH BEING STRUCK

JIM:
Perhaps the, er…captain doesn’t understand our form of English.

MR B:
A sound theory Mr Jim. What do you suggest?

JIM:
I shall talk to him in a relevant dialect.

MR B:
Go on…

JIM:
[ASSUMES COMICAL PIRATE VOICE] Arrrrh! Aye, aye Captain! We be marooned! T’was the curse of the podcast! Arrrrrh! WE BE MATIES! ARRRAH!

S/FX: A SPENT MATCH HITTING THE DECK

MR B:
I think he’s got the message. Arrrh!

JIM:
[ASSUMES COMICAL PIRATE VOICE] There be danger! A girl all in red. Arrrrah! Throwing axes at us. We seek sanctuary captain! Arrrrrah!

ELEANOR:
Garçons trompés!

JIM:
Can you…Arrrah!

PEG LEG:
I’m terribly sorry chap but I don’t understand a word you’re saying.

MR B:
Ah!

JIM:
O.’

[TWO BEATS]

MR B:
This is awkward.

JIM:
It would appear, good sir, that we are being chased by a girl in red with an axe and wondered if we can stay here for a short while, at your convenience.

MR B:
What’s your lobster’s name?

JIM:
Shhhh! Mr b!

TONY:
[SOTTO VOCE] Is it Sharon?

ELEANOR:
Why have you a lobster on your shoulder?

MR B:
It’s a lovely lobster captain.

JIM:
Beautiful. Yes. Er, a beautiful, er boy?

PEG LEG:
This is Louis.

JIM:
Ah.

PEG LEG:
I’ve always loved crustaceans and I am no longer troubled by sea urchins.

JIM:
Just curious Captain but erm, wouldn’t a parrot be more…

PEG LEG:
Enough! You are in my imagination now.

MR B:
[WHISPERING] Like I said. Awkward.

JIM:
Erm…

PEG LEG:
I said enough! You are disturbing my ship, my peace, my pipe! There, there Louis. I shall make the noisy interlopers pay for this. GUARDS!

S/FX: THE SOUND OF FEET RUSHING OVER THE WOODEN DECK

MR B:
WHAT THE!

JIM:
Blimey!

ELEANOR:
Quels animaux mignons!

JIM:
Yes. Your majesty. What cute, er…animals.

PEG LEG:
Bosun Pooh!

POOH:
[HIGH PITCHED SQUEAKY VOICE] Aye captain?

PEG LEG:
Take these interlopers below and put them in irons.

EEYORE:
[SLOW AND DEPRESSED] Do we have to?

TIGGER:
[HIGH ENERGY] Let’s doooooo it!

ELEANOR:
What are these?

JIM:
Well your majesty, they are characters from a children’s story called ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ and…

POOH:
I think you should come this way.

ELEANOR:
They are so little. Adorable!

TIGGER:
Move, move, move!

S/FX: SOUND OF SPRINGING AS TIGGER SPRINGS UP AND DOWN

S/FX: FEET WALKING ON WOODEN DECK

ELEANOR:
Who are they?

MR B:
That’s Winnie-the-Pooh, Eeyore the donkey and Tigger the tiger.

ELEANOR:
They will be easy to defeat.

MR B:
Where’s Nigel?

JIM:
Yes. Where’s Nigel? Wait my good bear. We…

MR B:
[SPEAKING INTO MIC] cMac! Run audio…

S/FX: A HEAVY DOOR BEING SLAMMED

TONY:
Tales from Jim’s Medicine Journal!

TALES FROM JIM’S MEDICINE JOURNAL

JIM:
In this episode of my creative journal writing I’m going back to something very simple. When I started my writing medicine journal, I would record everything that had a bearing on my writing.

Things like going for a walk when feeling stuck on something I was writing. Going and seeing friends or family when really stuck.

I even recorded which music I was listening to when feeling peak creative.

For years it was one particular track and the rest of the album that followed. That track was ‘Bittersweet Symphony’ by The Verve. You know the one I mean? The violins kick in and I’m on another plane of consciousness.

That track gave me power in my writing. It builds, the lilting voice, the simple beat. Anyway, for years and I mean years I would play the track and off I’d go.

Strange. Then it ran out of energy for me. I still love the album but I found another track that stilled my mind and built energy in my belly ‘Holiday’ by Green Day. And now? Well, now it can be anything or even no music.

So, keep a record of the simple things that work for you in your creative work. Use them to be the best you can be. Remember that this will change.

RIFF 7

S/FX: JUNGLE NOISES

JIM:
This is slightly ridiculous.

MR B:
Where did Nigel go?

ELEANOR:
Locked up by a trio of cute animals. This wouldn’t happen in the Aquitaine.

JIM:
To be fair your majesty, nor would you have a giant squirrel as your best friend.

ELEANOR:
Vrai.

MR B:
I didn’t know a podcast could do these things until Jim showed me to the scripts.

JIM:
But I didn’t write this bit Mr b. Peg Leg said something curious, didn’t he?

MR B:
You mean about not being troubled by sea urchins? Do you think Jelly Trumpet has become, er… self-aware?

JIM:
Lobsters eat sea urchins Mr b. No of course not. Wait. Yes.

MR B:
O’.

ELEANOR:
You mean the podcast is writing itself?

MR B:
Yes.

JIM:
Yes.

MR B:
Mr Jim?

JIM:
Yes?

MR B:
If you didn’t write us being locked up by a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear, a gloomy donkey and a hyper tiger then we’re stuffed.

JIM:
Technically there the ones that are stuffed. Wait! He said ‘you are in my imagination now.’ What if Jelly Trumpet can enter people’s imagination without them knowing? Is that possible?

MR B:
No. Therefore, we have no plot and no answer to being locked up by three stuffed toys?

JIM:
That would appear to be correct Mr b.

Mr B:
I see.

ELEANOR:
Then we will work something out.

JIM:
Of course…we’ll er work something out. In the meantime, could you use your radio Mr b and tell cMac to run the tape.

MR B:
On the radio? Right. [SPEAKING INTO A MIC] cMac run ‘The Startup.’

TONY:
Now The Startup micro sitcom!

S/FX: THE STARTUP THEME TUNE

THE START UP: PULP BABY
PART 2

TONY:
Our micro-sitcom, The Start up Part 2. Mary ‘The Entrepreneur’ is in a village hall talking to a video director about the shooting of a video to promote her new brand of baby makeup, ‘BabyMaker.’

ALAN:
The lady gangster is waving a gun.

MARY:
No firearms!

ALAN:
She’s waving er…a baguette and she shouts ‘This is a robbery, any of you Labrador-ing, er bunnies move and I’ll execute every mother-Labrador-ing last one of you!’

Then we cut to two guys in black suits in a car eating, erm large veggie burgers with a baby wearing, er, blusher.

MARY:
Go on!

ALAN:
Then we cut to…[GETTING EXCITED] We’ll call it ‘Pulp Baby!’

MARY:
Perfect!

ALAN:
Then we see a boxer, with a baby under each arm and they’re dancing, erm, the twist, lots of shots of baby’s with eye shadow…

Then the babies get in a mess and the Wolf arrives to sort them out.

MARY:
A wolf?

ALAN:
Mr Wolf, a fixer. He’s famous for fixing. He’s er, the coolest makeup man in the world and he fixes all the crying babies in the blink of a ‘smokey eye’.

We end with the boxer looking into camera, a baby in each arm, both babies looking perfect, like dolls, yeah perfect mini dolls.

The boxer talks straight to camera ‘And you will know my name is “The BabyMaker” when I lay my makeup upon thee.’

MARY:
Perfect! When can we start?

ALAN:
Tomorrow. We’ll need a couple of stunt babies, a dozen baguettes and lots and lots of ear plugs.

MARY:
Right! I’ll phone the nursery.

S/FX: THE START UP THEME

THE START UP: PULP BABY
END

RIFF 8
S/FX: JUNGLE SOUNDS

JIM:
Did you know Mr b that there is a certain type of jelly fish that is deemed immortal?

MR B:
Perhaps because the podcast is called Jelly Trumpet it now thinks it is immortal, has become self-aware and is reinventing itself?

JIM:
[SARCASTIC] I mean that’s science, isn’t it?

MR B:
Yes Jim. Science. Read a lot of science do you?

JIM:
Well, just mind-blowing facts, erm, on Facebook.

S/FX: CANNON FIRE

ELEANOR:
Quelle?

MR B:
Cannon fire.

JIM:
What?

MR B:
Who is firing at who?

JIM:
Is it pirates? I love pirates. They ran their ships as co-operatives you know.

ELEANOR:
I am thinking that the r-a-d-i-o could help.

MR B:
I’d like to meet Anne Bonny and Mary Read. They were pirates, interesting…

ELEANOR:
We could call cMac, on the radio.

JIM:
O’.

MR B:
What is it Mr Jim?

JIM:
That sound isn’t cannon fire.

S/FX: SOUND OF CANNON FIRE

MR B:
O’.

ELEANOR:
cMac can break down the door. Facile!

JIM:
Look! Up there.

MR B:
That’s a volcano Jim.

JIM:
[HYPER SARCASTIC] Is it? So, it’s not a heavy smoker with a really bad cough?

MR B:
No. It’s a volcano.

JIM:
What were you saying your majesty?

MR B:
[TALKING INTO RADIO] cMac. Run audio.

S/FX: LIST OF THE WEEK JINGLE/MUSIC

LIST OF THE WEEK

TONY:
List of the week!

JIM:
This week. Things I think about to help me fall asleep.

Number one: Name all the Formula 1 drivers by team.
Number two: Consider the bad choices I’ve eaten today.
Number three: Wonder why I’m single?
Number four: List my favourite films by category.
Number five: Imagine wearing a kilt in a high wind.
Number six: Exactly why am I still single?
Number seven: What does the lyric ‘bite your own neck’ mean?
Number eight: If I had million pounds would I spend it all on chocolate?
Number nine: Could I bite my own neck?
Number ten: Piers Morgan, could he be converted into a ship’s anchor?
Number eleven: Is the world being fought for on an invisible battlefield?

RIFF 9

S/FX: JUNGLE NOISE AND ‘CANNON FIRE’

JIM:
Mr b! Her majesty has an idea.

MR B:
Do tell.

S/FX: A MASSIVE GROUND SHAKING EXPLOSION

JIM:
Yes, before we get covered in volcanic lava.

MR B:
Your Majesty?

JIM:
Your Majesty?

ELEANOR:
Nigel!

JIM:
Mr b. The queen thought you could call cMac to come here and break the door down.

MR B:
That’s a brilliant idea.

JIM:
It is.

MR B:
And I can press my new orange button?

JIM:
Well, OK but not until we are safe.

S/FX: BUTTON BEING SWITCHED

MR B:
cMac, this is what I want you to do…

JIM:
There, there your Majesty.

S/FX: WAYS OF SEEING THEME

TONY:
Ways of Seeing!

JIM:
Here’s something like a meditation. Take your favourite song, or two or three. Read the lyrics out loud. Now draw the song in pictures. Doesn’t have to be high art. You are taking the imagery created by a lyricist and making pictures.

So, you want 10 – 20 pictures.

Now write a story or another song, a play, a short movie. Whatever appeals using each picture as the starting point for each scene or chapter.

JIM’S WORK OFFER

TONY:
Jim’s Work Offer!

JIM:
A man walks into his own head. Inside he finds two people. Each with an opposing view of his life. In fact, it’s two different forms of control.

That was the short play I wrote for a festival many years ago. Called Dream Drill. Now it’s a fun piece, only needs three characters.

Email me: jelly@jellytrumpet.com if you would like to have a read. I’d like to rewrite it as it was the very first piece I had put on stage.

S/FX: OUTRO JINGLE

OUTRO

TONY:
Join us in further episodes and:

• Be more creative
• Pick up tips and tricks you can put into play instantly
• Try exercises to boost your imagination
• Listen to creative guests
• And a whole lot of what we can ‘fun’

Thank you for listening
If you have any questions or ideas for Jelly Trumpet
Email us jelly@jellytrumpet.com

RIFF 10

S/FX: JELLY TRUMPET THEME

MR B:
That was close.

JIM:
We outran lots of things in this episode.

MR B:
Not your past though eh, Mr Jim.

JIM:
Well, it’s disappearing further into the distance. Recap please Mr b.

MR B:
Well, we outran a stream of lava.

JIM:
Check. Hurrah!

MR B:
We outran a murderous tall girl dressed in red brandishing an axe.

ELEANOR:
Check. Hurrah!

MR B:
We out ran the imagination of a pirate and his lobster called Louis.

S/FX: A QUIET ‘THUNK’ NOISE FOLLOWED BY SOME SOFT ‘HISSING’ – THE SOUND OF AN ENGINE RAPIDLY TURNING OVER

JIM:
Check…well…bit of an anticlimax that Mr b.

ELEANOR:
No need to mention the stuffed les jouets d’enfants.

MR B:
Eh?

JIM:
Pooh, Eeyore and Tigger

MR B:
Outrunning a volcano was cool though.

JIM:
Yes it was.

MR B:
We didn’t outrun Pooh and the gang.

JIM:
What?

MR B:
They’re in the cupboard.

JIM:
Why?

MR B:
They’re cute.

JIM:
Very well.

MR B:
Is it time to press the orange button?

JIM:
No. Next episode perhaps.

MR B:
You promised! Very well. Where to next?

JIM:
Just to be different why not St Albans?

MR B:
Aye, aye! [PROCLAIMING] FOR ALL MANKIND!

THANK YOU’S:

JIM:
Thank you for listening. Thank you for all those that encourage Jelly Trumpet. Thank you to Mr Tony for the voice work, thank you to Mr b and Kel. Stay fab.

IDENT

TONY:
That was Jelly Trumpet ‘Making you more creative’ with Jim Kinloch and Mr b.

Sponsored by Conversion Detectives, the creative content digital marketing agency. Search Conversion Detectives.

JIM:
Now here’s Mr b playing us Xxxxx by ‘We Paint Houses’ Find the band on Facebook.

MUSIC

‘We Paint Houses’ tune.

S/FX: TUMBLEWEED BEING BLOWN ACROSS A DESERT LANDSCAPE

END OF PART II