The Morning Stream - TMS 2500: May Contain Rocks

Episode Date: August 1, 2023

You can eat rocks! Mustard Skittles: Puke The Rainbow! The Clean-It-Yourself Hotel. World of WaterCraft. Bug bites really suck. I'm 93, what's your excuse. Try the Zappa. Very Sexy Man Legs. It shouldn't be use on some parts of the body. Who has the key! Johnsons go Motor Boating. Bellybuttonless Drone Boy. Green Goblin Truck Face. Bro, do you even blaze? Bad ass badges with Bill and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TMS is brought to you daily. By and large, by the supportive patrons at patreon.com slash TMS. Like Ryan Williams, Sam Greenwood and Sam Long. Coming up on TMS, you can eat rocks! Mustard Skittles, Puk the Rainbow. The Clean It Yourself Hotel. World of Watercraft. Bug bites really suck.

I'm 93. What's your excuse? Try the Zappa. Very sexy man legs. It shouldn't be used in some parts of the body. Who has the key? Johnson's go motorboating. belly buttonless drone boy green goblin truck face bro do you even blaze bad ass badges with bill and more on this episode of the morning stream wait i know this one the freezer door is open exactly and if a customer weren't paying attention they can run right into it shelley i'm beginning to see that there's a lot of hidden dangers in the workplace nice cat perhaps annie oakley

The Morning Stream. Don't eat that. It's Pluto. Hello, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, August 1st, 2023. I'm Scott. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello. Hello. It has been a little time since you and I spoke last. It has almost a week. Like, it's been five days, right? Because we didn't do a Thursday. show and uh yeah that's uh it was it was a tight race to the finish uh i don't like normally being gone for that long but it is nice to do it over the weekend where you know we kind of have other stuff uh planned out on the shows and so things are already scheduled to go like film sac just kind of went up while i was gone that was nice uh didn't have to worry about it

too much but we're back you guys we missed you all we hope you had a a good extended uh restraint from us i don't know Hope you enjoyed our time away, hoping it the absence made your hearts grow fonder. I hope so, too. What I really hope for is some hydrochortizone because I've got the worst mosquito bites from this trip. All up and down my very sexy man legs, I've got little bites. And I thought I was going to, they usually don't come to get me. And I thought I was going to get away with it, but it didn't this time.

Yeah. Have you, if I told you about the little bug, what's the bug bite thing, that's what it's called? It's called the bug bite thing. No. And I think you have to use it fairly quickly. But let's see here. I'm going to give you a link. This is, we have one of these and we swear by it,

but you basically want to use it like the first, you know, within the first, I don't know, day of getting a mosquito bite. Oh my gosh. This thing looks like an injector or something. What is this thing? It's kind of the opposite. It's a sucker. And basically what you do is you,

put your you put the tip of this thing over god this is all like ticks this page it's all about fine tip tweezers and tick removal where's the regular suction tool chemical free suction tool that leaves the itching stinging and swelling from bug bites and stings by removing the insect saliva or venom under the skin so yeah it sounds like it'd have to be immediate right not immediate within the first day i've been surprised that uh that you know we can get a bug bite in the morning and then get one of these things or apply this thing or suck out the poison in the evening and still feel

tremendous relief. This seems pretty great. Yeah, it's really cool. It's like... They had prime day deals that I missed. Did they for like a $4 piece of plastic? That's great. I guess this mom on a mission.

What is this? The lady who started it probably. Oh, there it is. Suction tool. Yeah, you really just sucking it out, eh? you're really just sucking it out you're just uh you're basically uh you know doing what uh what old westerns show people doing after a rattlesnake bite to their to their friend yeah to their buddy to zeke over there place tool over the bug bite area step two slowly pull up on the handles until

you feel suction yeah hold for 10 to 20 seconds step three push handle down to release the suction all right yeah i wish i had one right now i don't have one yeah don't uh don't uh by the way this is not for use on every part of the body no just letting you know right now not for use on every part of the body no if you listen if you get a testicle bite we're not here to help you we can't help you yeah all right nothing you can do sorry um and even if you you know don't get a testicle bite don't put it on your testicles true enough true enough uh i'd like to say a quick shout out to chris privateer in the chat who says oh did they switch to youtube yes we did this in April. So welcome. Welcome back.

Sometimes people don't have a day off that lines up with our show and there you go. It's totally fine. Not a problem at all. Just glad to let them know and help them understand. So real quick, a rundown of what happened. It was a fun time. There were 38 people in our group. So it was a lot. But we were a lot of times separated because everybody had different Airbnbs. And so we had one. My sister Wendy, her family, and my mom shared

one. My brother Matt had one. So everybody kind of had their own space if they needed it or whenever they needed it for their own sort of immediate family. So for us it was me, Kim, Taylor, Dylan, the babies, Nick and B. We're all on the same. Oh, and Carter, of course. And we got there. So basically your Airbnb was just basically your house. Yeah, kind of just a house. I know many of your kids have moved out. They're on their own, but still. Yeah. I mean, I guess Carter's the only funny enough, Carter had to sleep on the couch, so everybody else had beds. But she didn't care. She's the single one, so she doesn't care. But anyway, we went up to this thing and immediately things go a little rye for everyone but us, kind of. So we get there, and I get word from Wendy on the crappy internet, barely getting texts through. We have a problem. There's flooding. We'll let you know if we're going to be late because we were having dinner at our place. We were all supposed to meet at our place because Kim made food. They, so some hose connected to the fridge in their Airbnb sometime in the last, the 24 hours prior had popped out and was just gushing water in this house. And it's a house, not a cabin.

It's like a regular home up in Bear Lake, which is, if people don't know what Bear Lake is, it's north and it's situated, about two and a half hours for us to drive there. It's situated between Idaho and Utah. So the lake is literally split in half by the state line. Oh, interesting. Okay. Kind of like, Shampaign is like that, right? Halfway between Vermont and New York.

I think so, yeah. So you can actually take a boat and literally just like two seconds later in the other state where I can get lottery tickets and the other one I can't. Buy fireworks. Yeah.

Right there on the lake. So anyway, so we get there and this happens and she's got flooding everywhere and the house is a mess and she's like, we don't know what to do. We're trying to figure it out. So they call it in. And in their case, it was a bonus

because the people are like, oh, no, shoot. Okay, don't worry. We can upgrade. ages at this other one we won't do it for any additional cost uh and this one is like on the lake bigger multiple floors it's like right there coastal looking thing is really nice and probably it would cost them like four times as much had it had it been one they chose but they got it because of the flooding so that worked out my other sister misha texan says we're going to be a while we have

to clean up like what's the matter they didn't the cleaning crew was terrible and everything is all there's food everywhere and greasy stuff oh no it's total mess so whatever whatever the cleaning service that this Airbnb hires to do their thing just did not do it just didn't show up which i hope they got like either a serious discount or something because having to clean up after strangers before the it's like can you imagine if you went into a hotel room and like you had to make the bed and uh yeah it'd be a nightmare toilet paper wash out the shower all that stuff you'd be so pissed you'd be so i would be so pissed yeah and that's what that's actually the Excalibur experience, by the way, so I shouldn't...

That's a standard room at the X-Calibur. It's pretty much a standard room. Did you ask for a deluxe tower room? No, standard room. Oh, okay. Well, here's pillows, sheets, and fresh toilet paper. You'll need to do all that yourself. Yeah, you have to put that in yourself, and that turd floating in the toilet. You're going to flush that down, and we'll see you later.

Well, she kind of had this experience, and it was gnarly, and they had to clean it. And they did, they comped them there. There's a $150 cleaning fee or whatever for the week, so like, they, they, you know, what do you call that phase that, or said, no, you don't have to pay that. Yeah, waved it. Waved it. That's the word I was looking for. Waved it. Waved it.

You'd think I'd remember that with all the wave runners. I was... But anyway, so then she has this problem. Our problem turned out to be smaller, but still kind of a problem. You know, we're supposed to use these new codes and RFD access to get through locks. They send you a lock in your phone, and you're supposed to just wave it in front of there,

and it's supposed to be super easy, and it unlocks it. It's all done wirelessly and everything. Would not work. to save our lives. You can tell by the supposed to in your sentence. Really, that stinks. It did stinks. About an hour, we're just like, what the frick, what the frick?

And we didn't know what to do. So finally, Kim gets a hold of the guy who owns the place. And he said, oh, that thing has been so fishy for us. Like all summer it's worked, but we've had a couple of instances where it didn't. So here's a special code to a secret box that's behind the shed. And back there is a key as a backup. And so we got it to work. But also, it was like the one ring in Lord of the Rings,

trying to keep that key safe all weekend i'm sure oh my god yeah i hated it so much because there's so many of us in the house people need to go back and forth take the babies back for naps and all that and like who has the key yeah not only that like you know you're swimming or you're getting in the water it's like you want to swim trunks on who has the key who keeps the key with them yeah exactly and it was a pain and if you took it out on the lake everybody was like all right where's the key before anyone get some water where yeah oh god because the last thing you want is, hey, we need to do some, you know, Phoebe needs such and such, and she's crying and screaming, we need this. Oh, I'm in the middle of the lake with the key. Yeah, I have the key.

Oh, no, you have the key. Is it in the lake or is it in your position? I don't know. Like, it was just a lot of that. And it was just a little, that was a little stressful. But for the most part, we kept track of it. And now it is thrown into the lava pits of Mordor. And it's all fine now. Anyway, our place turned out to be super nice. Like really, on the outside, kind of an unassuming looking little rambler like you'd look at it and go yeah that's probably crappy in there we don't know or good enough you know we won't hardly be here so it's no big deal but we got in there it was like all new everything flooring and pain and and furniture and a huge tv that dillan brought his xbox and played some on there we had like a giant kitchen it was awesome it was really nice

yeah i would go i would seek out that specific place again if we went up there again it was it was great i like that yeah when you get an air b-nbee the It's just so good. It's like, okay, when we come back to this town, this is where I want to stay. I know we're not going to do better. Yeah, yeah. It was great. And it was owned by just a dude, not some corporation.

I hate those. A guy owned it. He comes out there with his family in the summers sometimes and then uses Airbnb when he's not using it. And then otherwise lives in Salt Lake City. And he's not some conglomerate that owns 300 houses just so they can rent them. And I like that. Yeah.

Okay. Here's the weirdest thing. I've gone to lakes lots of times and I've rented watercraft lots of times. Sure. We've done wave runners, sea doos, freaking jet skis, all that stuff before.

I've never seen this before. So there's a big technology shift in that world of rentals. In the world of watercraft? Yeah. So here, welcome to the world of watercraft. Anyway, we get up there. We get our little, you know,

the guy says, well, here's your thing. You got to sit here and listen to me and tell you about the safety precautions and all that. So you do that whole thing. And then he proceeds to tell us. He said, now all of these are geolocated or some talk like that. And I'm like, oh, satellite stuff. He goes, yeah, I don't know how it works. But anyway, here's what it does.

Basically, it makes it so when you are in anything you rent there, a full-sized boat, a C-Doo, anything in between, they all have GPS tracking in them so that there's, lot of reasons one you can never steal one I guess but the main reason is it's a proximity thing so if I'm behind you know where the buoys are out a certain distance and you you're supposed to go like five or under before you get past them and then you can take off yeah that's just normal and everybody does that but this forces automatically all engines will only go yeah a throttled a physical no wake zone like a no week zone where you can't uh that's amazing it is amazing now here's the weird bit though So that part made sense to me.

You could floor it. It didn't matter. You were still only going to go five miles an hour until you got to the buoys. As soon as you hit the buoys, if you were still floored, suddenly the thing would go brer and you'd take off. And it could just tell where you were. The weird bit is, or I guess this is both good and bad, because it has a proximity thing to avoid collisions. So if I've got a rental boat that's 20 yards away and I'm in a sea do coming their direction, my engine

will not turn off but will kill any momentum I will basically be like I'm not getting a gas and their boat will do the same thing their boat will do the exact same thing and so it was great in a way because you're like oh this is nice and safe

here's the problem it's very busy is a Saturday beach day tons of people there and so you really had to get way out in the lake out in the boonies to get away from all these people so that you weren't constantly being throttled because they were so close to you.

you. Like, even if you weren't heading right towards another rental boat, if you were, if you were just in the vicinity, you would say, you're a little close. Yeah, exactly. Like, look out. I'm here. Or they'd have a flag or something like that. But in this case, it just goes, and you're down to nothing.

I think they could have adjusted the distance to be a little less, a little smaller radius. A little less aggressive. Yeah, it was a little aggressive. I understand airing on the side of safety and all that. That makes sense. Here's the big problem. This doesn't stop regular people from coming up to the lake with their own boats and watercraft and putting them on the lake.

Those guys don't have any of these restrictions. So you would have me pulling up too close to a boat. We both go, bleh. And then right in between us would be some Kawasaki guy just. Yeah, because he doesn't give a shit. He doesn't have this restriction. See, that's a really sucky restriction when it comes to water skiing, right? because you're like you're pulling somebody behind you

and then all of a sudden your engine just just down to the maintenance. Yeah, and those people had to go way out like way out afar from everybody and I guess it sort of worked out but it was a lot. But it was really nice.

The weather was insane. I got sunburn which I tried not to do. I put a lot of stuff on. It didn't matter. We had, oh, we had this thing happen in the middle of the afternoon. John, my mom's husband, John. That guy, you know?

That guy, yeah, we know that guy. It was his birthday. He was 92 on Saturday, or 93, whatever it is. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. And he's old as dirt, but he's still, he drove all the way up there. He's still, you know, he's mainly, he basically has the, the functionality of your average 60-year-old or something.

But anyway. He may have a lot of miles, but. That's right. Zoe yells stepdad. He was never my stepdad. Stepdad's have to raise. you or be part of your upbringing i met him when i was 35 or something that's he's not your stepdad at that point he's not doing any fathering anyway uh i just refused to call him stepdad i can't do it

i know i know yes i can't do it anyway uh he says i can't wait for these guys to get back from the boat and i said what's the matter john he goes oh there's people out of they're supposed to go get the the other canopy in my car but they're going to be out there all right he's just having a total meltdown about a canopy that's in his car that he wants someone to come in it and i said well john just asked us i don't mind we're not on the boats we're right here so we've me and me and i grabbed tanner tanner's my nephew-in-law uh okay he's married to my niece wonderful dude just love tanner to and uh they're also they have a great little kid and he's just a great guy just a nicest guy so he's like yeah yeah let me come help and i said okay cool so me and tanner

are going to go find this canopy and it's way up the path through a bunch of down another path and then up to these parking spaces that they gave us way off by, you know, the other side. So we're going to go do this together. And he says to John, now, can you tell me exactly where your car is? And he goes, all right, here's what you do. You go out to the thing and make sure you don't go past the bathrooms. If you've gone past the bathrooms, it's not that way.

You've made a mistake. I love directions where they don't tell you where to turn. They tell you when you've gone too far. Yeah, when you've gone too far. So as long as you don't pass the bathrooms, you'll see it right away, okay? hey, here's my keys, and you can beep it. He's got a Nissan Ultima or something. So we go out there, Tanner and I, and always

a fun time with Tanner, so it's not a big deal. He and I get to hang out and talk. He's a great guy. So we're out there walking around, and we're like, beep, beep, beep, nothing, nothing, nothing. And I go, oh, there's those bathrooms. We can't go that way because he said, don't go past the bathrooms, right?

And he goes, yeah, that's right. So let's go this other way. We go to four other places where cars are clustered. Nothing. Beep, beep, beep, nothing, nothing. We go all the way back to the beach. John or no I guess we called him and got through

that's what happened we were going to go back and we called him we actually got through it was real crusty got a signal enough to get a yeah and he's like what's the deal why you guys take it so long and he goes he goes well we're not seeing it we've tried everything and we definitely didn't go past the bathrooms

and I turned to Tanner and I'm like maybe we'll go past the bathrooms and see what's over there maybe he's just wrong about the bathroom part so we did we went past the bathrooms bingo there's this damn car past the bathrooms so we get you went too far if you pass the bathrooms that's what he said so we take it back carry this heavy canopy thing over there and i go john you told us not to go past the bathrooms it was totally past the bathrooms in fact that was the one direction

you should have said which is just past the bathroom and he goes you know we're in like 100 degree heat and we're all just standing there in the sweaty heat and he goes he goes wow what do you expect him 93 that was the answer nice yeah that was it so he gets to use that as a car now playing the 93 playing the old card right playing old guy card but anyway i mean it was a really fun trip overall and we did get if at times it did not feel like vacation because it's so many people and we're all dealing with stuff but there were other times where it really did feel like a vacation i love spending time with the little ones um wendy's kids are in town and i love those kids they're so much fun to hang out with her boys are great and her daughter's awesome they just are

great and my sister misha and all her kids and family um it was awesome this may be the we may not have many more of these where it's this many because everyone's kind of got their own growing families to do yeah where they're going to have to have their own big traditions so their own little reunions that are going to be you know fill up a couple Airbnbs on their own yeah exactly so so anyway i've been asking you something so would you um let's say you know you're meeting somebody and you've got uh your mom and john with you how do you introduce him? Do you say, well, here's my mom and this is the guy she married.

Oh, I'll go. So, like, if it's an interesting question, have I had to even do that? What if you've had to do that? Maybe not. It's mostly been, I don't think I've had any real strangers. Although when he's been at the house and maybe somebody comes by, I'll just say, oh, this is my mom and this is John. That's it.

Okay. All right. Yeah. And they just look like they're together because they're the two lumps on the couch, you know. Yeah. I don't know. Like, I understand the technical term, if you have to have one, And it's probably stepfather, but he's just, you can't do it.

Yeah, I totally get that. When my mom remarried, Barney and I had a really tough time to see an eye and I, and for a long time, I just called him, well, for all of his life, I called him Barney. Called him Barney, yeah. But it wasn't until, you know, later on that when we finally started connected, I actually referred to him as my stepdad. And I was 11 when they remarried, a far cry from 30 sometimes. Oh, yeah, 11 is pretty young. That's true. You're as the youngest.

Young Peter was, Wendy's the youngest that we hung out with this week. That kid is his little psycho, first of all. Second of all, he has, remember when he was born and we did a whole fundraiser here? Because he had the weird. His guts are on the outside. Guts on the outside. He's on the outside. So he's like a slender, 11-year-old kid.

He's tan and kind of buffed from just being a kid, you know, sinewy and mussely and all that. But you cannot get away from the fact that he looks like a drone because he has no belly button you just got this weird flat little scar wall and uh you see him with other kids you're just like is he is that a human or is he what is he what is he it's really weird i love that kid though it was a good time we uh we had fun so uh thank you everybody for your patience and uh letting us uh have a little time off and uh yeah we're back at it for this month so uh enjoy yourself at least at least until uh the 23rd when i go off to uh Asheville. Oh, that's right.

To Savannah, Georgia, and then off to Asheville for the for the Southeast Tadpool Meetup. I think there's still a couple rooms available if you're considering it. If you're in that area, you want to drive to Asheville and hang out with me and Brian Dunaway and Amy Redfragel and September

9 of 12 and all those people, Shane shaved Maddox, who's promised to take rotating videos, 360 videos of all of us. Oh, he's required to do that. It's not even an option. There's going to be, There's going to be, I think there's a couple rooms available, so come join us. Yep, he'll be in a, he'll be in a sleeveless shirt, holding the phone out here and going.

Yes. And then making a dead face while he does it, just kind of. Yep, exactly. Yeah, non, you know, expressionless. I'd love that. I'll be having my anniversary that weekend or else. I think I would have gone. Especially we never get Dunaway in the same place ever with us.

I know, I know. Part of me wants to do film sack, like record film sack with me and Dunaway in the same room, because that's only ever happened once at a Nurtacular. Yeah. The tremors, right? Because I think he wasn't able to make it to Masters of the Universe. He was 2013. He was there for 2011, 2013.

Okay, so two years we did a film sack. At least, I think at least two. Possibly three, but I can't remember what, 2012. What was the other one? He was Tremors and what's the other one he was there for? He-Man. Was that Masters of the Universe? Yeah, or yeah, Mass of the Universe.

sorry. He, or so Masters. Oh, Punisher. No, Punisher was without him. Punisher Fletcher stepped in as our fourth. That's right. And who did, um, was the one where all the machines come alive? I can't think of the name of the movie.

The Green Goblin truck. Yeah. That's the one. Maximum Overdrive. That's the one. I don't remember if he was there for that. I don't think he was. That was 2050.

I think that was, uh, is Brian Dunaway behind you.com. Oh, yeah. And I still have that over there. there, his stupid picture of him. It's life-size torso of him, which I don't remember even who made those. Oh, my gosh. Velvet lip.

Hey, look in the Discord under, man, I haven't talked to Velvet Lip in a long time. Ages. Look in the Frog Pants Discord under Meetups. There's a whole channel of Meetups and there's a Southeast Tadpool Meetup.

Doing it right now. Pulling it up. Are there photos? in here. Oh, there it is. Hey, Velvet Lipp, I haven't heard from you in a thousand years. I know. Photo guy, extraordinary.

Like, that black and white photo where I shaved my beard and I was putting my hand over my lack of beard, by the way. Only Tina and one person on my trivia team who noticed it over Zoom noticed that I've shaved my beard again. Oh. And I just have the mustache. It's because it's so light. It's so gray.

You don't even notice it's not there. You look like you're going to give me a deal on a car. I do. I was trying to go for, I was like, all right, could I, you know, I'm not a fan of it. I'm looking forward to growing it back. But I was like, hmm, let me try the Zappa. Let me try the, um, oh, I like the Zappa a little bit. The mustache and the, in the Soul Patch.

I think the Zappa's all right. I think it looks okay on you. Um, my son is full mustache these days because apparently their whole generation think that's cool. Yes. I hate it. I can't stand it. I don't know what's going on over there. They all look like a bunch of, they look like they all walked out of Shawshank prison. Their pants are too short. I don't know what's going on. All right. I got a couple of calls we're going to play today. And these are great because they're great. I found it. I think I may have found a new favorite listener. I'm no offense to everybody else. All right. But once in a while, it's a big talk right there. Once in a while, one of you will call in and just be like, what is this person? I want to know more about them. I think. Great.

And that's what this is. So I'm going to play this dude. He had questions about what happened to all of our mash-up people. And just the way he asks all of this is fantastic. So check this. The morning stream. I salad and bread. I'm just curious about your sound clip guys.

There's been three of them. Frozen lemons. Ice cold. And this new guy who I haven't heard. from in a long time what happened to him I know it was a name it wasn't a cold thing I think it was Johnny Utah

just curious all right I really like this guy well Johnny Utah left to go get us two Philly cheese steaks so yeah this was so okay ice warm is who he's

thinking of for the middle one Ice worm is one yep Lemon who was his name Lemon something well we had I mean we had Sebastian, I guess Sebastian never did for TMS. No, that was old, uh, birthday yesterday or day before, happy birthday, Sebastian. Yeah, a couple days ago.

It was the year, the ELR days is when he was doing that. Was it frozen falcon? Was he one that? Oh, freakish lemon. Freakish lemon. There's nothing cold about freakish lemon. No. Frozen lemon or whatever he had. And then the new one is Jamie and Jamie's just busy. So, uh, it's not that he doesn't want to do them. It's just a lot.

Isn't he? He switched over doing it for a core, isn't he? Yeah, he would for a while he's doing both of us and then it just got so busy he's like i gotta cut something out so he started just doing core and he still does although he's had some really busy stuff so we didn't have one yesterday for our show so you know it's whenever look we don't expect anything from anyone if people want to do stuff right we let them do stuff and it's really nice when you do stuff but we're not gonna you know we're not going to get weird about it but i love but uh but boy it's a great way to get some, you know, get some notoriety, Jamie, you know, doing TMS mashups.

You had T-shirts, had a website for that. Yeah, he did. He had a lot of fun with it, I think. But, um. I was contributing to his patron when he was doing the TMS one. But, uh, and, and same with Ice Worm. I still pay for Ice Worm's Patreon. I'm on his as well.

I don't even know what I'm getting out of it. I don't care. I just like him, you know? Well, I'm getting him updating every song that I play on TMS. He puts it on QuickTMS.L.I. So that's what I get out of it. That's right. He's a dutiful servant.

He loves what he does and he's great at it. All right. So if you have something cold in your name, then please hit us up and we'll talk to you about doing our mashups. Lemons are cold things. That's what we're into. Yeah, lemons, fruit, fruit are cold. Here is, we got a call from Stephanie. This is great.

Oh, good. Stephanie and Madison? Yeah, it also explains why we haven't seen her in the chat in a while. So here you go. Hey guys, it's Stephanie. Just letting you know that my new job does not allow me to go into the chat anymore in the morning, unfortunately. But I just wanted to say that I appreciate you for giving me the warning before you do as slapy. I absolutely hate that segment.

And I'm glad you let me know every time because sometimes you tell me before the theme. But yeah, I stick around for the theme and then I'm out. But love the rest of the show, though. I miss you guys. And, yeah, I'm just listening a few days behind, and you guys are awesome. Okay. I'm going to keep this part of this forever right here. I absolutely hate that segment.

Anytime we have something that, you know, we don't like, she's going to pipe in with how she hates that segment. Excellent, perfect. I love it. Yeah. It's like the opposite of why I can totally see why you like it, but opposite, you know. I love it. I reached out to her a couple days ago. I was at IKEA.

Yeah. And IKEA has a glowing head you can buy. Like it's a almost like a mannequin head, but it's a light and it changes color. And I currently, I've replaced my, can you zoom. I don't know, you probably can't zoom out. Yeah, I can see it though. That's awesome. Yeah, so I put my Spider-Man mask on that's Stephanie Dave.

And it's see-through. Well, translucent. Yeah. Like not just the eyes, but it's bright enough that you can see through the mask. It's so freaking awesome. And he's wearing one of your fedoress, so it's like noir or Spinofferson. He's wearing the original funny hat, the one that Chris Jericho coined as funny hat. Your fame, your brush with wrestling stardom.

That's right. Yes, literally brush. He kind of brushed his junk against my leg, but whatever. That's what he does. That's his move, his finishing moves. It's his finishing move, exactly. That's cool, dude. I want a glowing head.

I think hosting the podcast towards was his finishing move. Fair enough. Is he still, I don't know. He's probably still doing stuff. I'm sure he's still doing something. Yeah, I'm kidding. Okay, I want IKEA glowing head. Hold on.

Yes. Can I get this? I mean, I want like a dozen of these, and I want to print masks. Like, I could put, you know, I've got, I've got Immorten Joe mask. Yeah. It's like a plastic surface that you can kind of draw on. Oh, my gosh, I'm getting, I'm so getting this. Yeah.

I love crap like that. Yeah, get a whole, do the Beatles or something, whatever. There you go. Yeah, you could draw, right, just different facial hair and make it the four beetles from the cover of Sergeant Pepper. Yeah, where the hair was at its finest, you know? Yes, it really was. I'm into that. All right, we do have some time for a little bit of the news.

We'd like to keep you informed, and today we'll do a little of that, so enjoy. Good morning, good morning, everybody. In the news this morning, good morning. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. You get not one but two episodes. of core this week. One went up last night and another is going to post on Thursday. Get it where you get your podcasts

or at frogpants.com slash core. It represents about five hours of total content. So if you're into that sort of thing, good Lord, have we got a week for you? I mean, basically since we missed last week, we're like, well, let's do it Monday when I get home because I couldn't do it Thursday.

And they were like, yeah, let's do that. But none of us were thinking about, oh yeah, and then we'll do another one the very two days later. Two days later. Right, yeah. But we are. Yeah, we are. Actually, it may be Friday because Baldersgate 3 comes out on Thursday,

and we may get some playtime on that first. Yeah, we're excited about that. All right, quick news here. Trader Joe's, I like Trader Joe's. I go there a lot. We like them. I like Trader Joe's too, yeah. I go their chimituri sauce.

I swear by it. Like, you've got to get that stuff. Yeah, and they've got all kinds of stuff like that where it's like, why is this better than everywhere else and cheaper than everywhere else? It's insane. So I really like them, but they got a little problem. Trader Joe's has recalled cookies that may contain rocks. Oh, son of a...

Can you taste what that rock is cooking? Trader Joe's announced a recall on Friday of some of its cookies because they may contain rocks. The cookies subject to the recall are Trader Joe's almond windmill cookies. These have sell dates of October 19th. I love those two. Like, if I were to go to Trader Joe's and I saw windmill cookies, I'd probably buy those because they're like, they've got the slivered almonds in there and they've got almond flavor. Oh, yeah, dude.

I'm in, too. Because, you know, when you think of windmills, you think almonds immediately. Of course, every time. That's the flavor of a windmill. That's right. Trader Joe's dark chocolate chunk and almond cookies. Those also, right around October would be the sell-by date if you have those. They said, they said, all potential affected products have been pulled from store shells.

If you have purchased the affected products, the chain urges customers not to eat them. Customers with any questions can call them further information not available or how rocks may have gotten into the cookies. Probably manufacturing process stuff, right? Probably. I guess, but what are you putting in the, what are you putting into your ingredients that may contain rocks? I can understand bugs in your ketchup because bugs stick to leaves and leaves are on tomatoes. And sometimes those tomatoes where they grow in the ketchup have a leaf. have a bug on them but yeah the only thing i can think it's got to be two things one a machine

grinds ground its own cement parts and some of it got into cookies oh like it's like it's a mortar and pestle kind of uh maybe i don't i mean that's a total guess but the other one is sabotage somebody took a sabotage rather someone took a bag of rocks and threw it into the thing and when they say traitor joe my last day i'm leaving some rocks in this vat. That's right, exactly. But, like, the rocks, when they say rocks, I assume they mean, like, little, very

small, pebbly things. Not like a rock. You know, they didn't say sand. They said rocks. That's true. Which is like, yeah. I got a little sand in a sandwich this week in this last week. Did you? Yeah, I didn't like it. That's what Lake Eaton is all about. Was it a, uh, clam chowder sandwich?

Was that what it was? No, it was a, um, what did I have? I made a kind of a, we brought all the bread and fixin so everybody could just kind of make what they wanted. Perfect. Yeah. All 38 people. And mine just got a little dirt in it.

We were in a very dirty. We had these guys, probably about an hour before we had to leave and take the boats back for, you know, to return them. Some group of dudes, really, I don't want to, I don't want to stereotype. Try not stereotype. Let's just say they were a bunch of, they all had prominent beer bellies. They're all very white. They all had very specific. kinds of ray bands

backwards hats ugly tattoos I'm guessing their Twitter I mean X accounts feature them sitting in their car with their reflective sunglasses on and the driver's seat yeah yeah kind of that but then when they sat down

got all their stuff going they immediately started cooking something I don't know what they didn't have a canopy or a tent they were just like shirts off let's burn and they were in kind of a swampy part of the because the water's all receded from years of drought and now it's kind of getting better again,

but it's kind of a little swampy where they were. And then they surprised me. They turned on biggie music, like rap music. Oh, cranked it, too. Like, I'm glad we left when we did because I was thinking, no one else around is going to like this. They got real loud. No, exactly.

It's not going to be, the other lakegoers are not going to be happy with that. I really would have thought they would have started playing kit rock and referring to him as, quote, the real deal. Same, same, hard same. I thought that's where this was all headed, but it said it was like, biggie, biggie, biggie. can't you see it's like whoa what are we doing

I thought it was an aberrition like one song but then it was like some Tupac after that the irony wasn't lost on me that you know there's a whole that cold cases being revived I guess anyway it was wild

weird I finally figured I was in the pool with Crazy Neighbor who does like Kid Rock and and Nickelback and Limbiscuit really likes them unironically like likes

unironically likes all these bands And here I figured out So like the opening Riff of that summer Thing All summer long I think is what it's called Which is Hey I'm going to take Weirwolves of London

Combine it with Sweet Home Alabama And put new lyrics over it Oh I know the one Thing irritates the shit And But it begins And you think you're about to hear

Weirwolves of London Warren Zivon and so I get all excited. I'm like, oh, I love the, uh, it's a crazy. It's that crappy thing. Yeah, here, so I'm going to pause recording for the final YouTube. I'm going to play a tiny bit of it. Oh, are you going to really? All right, cool. Just a little bit. Yeah, it starts like it's, yes. F that, dude. Yes, exactly. I mean, if you're going to, if you're going to do it, change it up a little bit, if you're going to use it. I mean, yeah, I don't like it. Not a fan. But anyway.

Real deal that guy. Yeah, he's a real deal. Real deal. Yeah, real deal. He's great. No, he's not. He's bad. Hey, I don't know if you heard.

It's quite opposite of the real deal. It's the most unreal deal ever. Elon Musk rebanded Twitter. We all know about this by now. It's called X now. X.com literally get you there. It looks like the new nightclub at MGM Grand. It really does.

And you can't get until 11, 21 and older. You know what I mean? Exactly. There's a line. And you're definitely not wearing the right shoes to get in. Do you see the dumb new slogan? Let me see if I can. I can don't remember.

Oh, no. It's so bad, Brian. I don't know what the slogan was before. It's blaze your glory. Oh, good Lord. Blaze your glory. So, bro. Hello, bro.

It sucks. It's just sucks. That's just stupid. Yeah. But anyway. Laze your glory. That's not even one of Bon Jovi's best songs, people. Come on.

he's had some other problems though so all of this happened and as soon as he did it it got blocked by indonesian porn laws you can't have x as a part of your branding or there's specific laws in indonesia where they just can it so that's still ongoing uh they had another problem where uh the iOS app store doesn't allow single character names for products for apps oops you had to have two or more characters to have an app work yeah and they had to make a special exception so they went ahead and did it but that they had to make this special exception to let X happen. And then the third thing he did is he put up a giant X logo. Products. Oh, that's the other thing. It's a Unicode font that they used, which means you can never copyright it. Weird.

Oh, really? Yeah. Then they put up a giant flashing like Kenny Rogers Roasters on Seinfeld sign up on their building that's just too bright and all the neighbors because there are people to live around that in San Francisco. They were all like complaining. They came down two days later, didn't it? Yeah, they had to take it down.

Oh, and they went to take the old Twitter sign down and didn't get a permit to have the equipment to do it because you have to do that in downtown San Francisco. And the cops came and made them stop. So all they had, so they left it saying er on there, like ER, because they couldn't have finished taking it down. Well, there we go. Problem solved. They call it Xer. Yeah. And then it works for iOS, the Apple store.

Then you, you know, probably Indonesia is okay with Xer. Yeah. What it strikes me as is this is just something. who doesn't think anyone else exists. Well, that's the thing. I think that all of these decisions were made without any, like, I'm, you know, I'm all for the, let's not, let's not slow everything down with a full committee,

but let's maybe spend a few days and think about this. Is this the right thing? Is this a good idea? And what is the harm in taking even freaking 30 minutes to say, all right, what are the local laws say about signage? Can we do this? Oh, we can't. Okay, well, let's do a smaller one,

or let's do it on the other side or whatever. Like, I don't know. He's just a freaking weirdo, dude. Yeah. I will say my brother-in-law, Ken, got a new Tesla, and that thing is so, oh, it's hot. Oh, yeah. My dad loves his Tesla. But the reasons, like, Tesla making great cars, or Tars, making great cars is no credit to Elon.

No, he's not even involved mostly in the day-to-day. They kind of moved him away. They kind of forced him away from all that to keep the stock price from taking a shit. Exactly. Like if he was involved with Tesla, more, he would have driven that into the ground, too, quite literally. Yeah. By the way, don't send me any emails telling me how, what a genius he is. Elon Musk is the real deal.

Yeah, I can't do it. I can't do it today. All right? I don't want to read any of that shit. Yeah. Finally, there's skittal. I'm warning you, I'm warning you with peace and love. Peace and love.

Peace and love. You will go in the bin if you send emails about Elon must. Peace and love. Peace and love. I never recorded that? I don't know why I didn't. I need to. Oh, you totally need to.

I'll get to the link after the show. Please do. Final story, Skittles and Frenches. Yeah, that's right, the mustard people. Mm-hmm. Yeah. They're making a mustard-flavored skittles for National Mustard Day. Well, you know, I like mustard, but I don't...

Okay, I'd like to try it, please. If anyone out there wants to go through the trouble of finding us a little packet of these and sending them into our two addresses that are up on the site, we will try these on the show and tell you if we think mustard skittles are good or not. So I guess basically they need to be in Washington tomorrow or New York on the fifth. Right. These are very limited. Oh, Atlanta on 31st. Oh, that already happened. Yeah, you missed it.

That shit has sailed. They say, Skittles are always looking to inspire moments of everyday happiness and deliver unexpected ways for fans to experience the brand, says Rochang Mars, director of marketing. These sound terrible, but I'll eat it. Yeah. I'll try it. I know. Exactly. I'll try it. I'm looking right now. Let's see. Do I have to like...

What do you have to do to get them if you really want to? Sign up just to find out when and where I do. Oh, here we go. August 2nd. So tomorrow, Washington, D.C. So it's all East Coast, by the way. So I thought maybe it was Washington State. Washington, D.C. City Center, they'll be there from 11 to 3. Yeah. August 5th, Saturday.

Saturday. They'll be at the Hudson River Park in New York City from 11 to 3. Monica. If you... Yeah, Monica, get on it. Monica. Yeah, you're our East Coast representative. Get your ass out there.

Get a pack of these to me and Scott to try on the show, and I will send you on DVD, the complete Gilmore Girls. Wait, does it include the Netflix reboot follow-up thing? I don't think that was ever put on DVD. The first seven seasons of the Gilmore Girls on DVD. Wow, fantastic. All right, well, let us know. It's going to be expensive to send hell that I think about it.

Oh, well, I'll do it. I'll do it. Yeah, no, he'll do it because it's worth it. It's content. That'll do it for today's show or news. What? What? Wait a minute.

We're going to take a break. When we come back, it's Bill's turn to be on the show. It's making things with Bill coming up right after this break. Brian's got to break it, though, with a little music interlude there. What do you got? I do. One of the cities that you can't get the mustard. I'm pulling up my notes because I didn't have this information in front of me.

One of the cities you can get these mustard skittles. taste and throw up the rainbow is Los Angeles sadly but that's okay you can still enjoy Los Angeles

an album form that's right a new debut album is coming out November 3rd featuring get this ready

are you ready for this lineup I'm ready Loll Tollhurst has just got a funny name that makes you laugh out loud he is the drummer for Susie in the Banshees

Oh okay Budgie who's a member of The Cure. Hello, I'm The Cure. And a Burke. And Jack Knife Lee, joined by folks like The Edge from you, too. Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse,

Bobby Gillespie from Primal Scream. Mark Bowden from Idols, Mary Latimore and Moore, brand new album called Los Angeles. This is the title track featuring James Murphy from LCD sound system. You like hearing him sing about all his friends. Here is Los Angeles by all those people.

I just mentioned. Hi, Los Angeles eats its children Los Angeles eats its young Los Angeles you don't need water Los Angeles just needs guns And America loves its babies America tests its friends

Oh, we maybe don't trust its daughters With a love that never ends And Los Angeles eats its children Los Angeles eats its young Oh, the babies they got this fever A fever of a fever of 101 and 1 I don't need your atmosphere I don't need your atmosphere

I don't need your atmosphere because I'm better all alone I don't need your atmosphere I don't need your atmosphere I don't need your atmosphere I'm better alone There's a wall and this is the wall and this is the inside There's a wall and this is the inside

There's a world and this is the win inside There's an outside and there's this inside And it's sleepy time on this station Yeah, it's sleeping time on the ship Oh, it's paradise on these golden beds Are you body parts read these lips and go Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, now, I don't need your atmosphere, I don't need your atmosphere, because I'm better all alone.

No, I don't need your atmosphere, I don't need your atmosphere, I don't need your atmosphere, I don't need your atmosphere, I don't need your atmosphere. Get off alone So you tell me you need forgiveness You tell me you need forgiveness You tell me you need forgiveness You tell me you need forgiveness You tell me you need forgiveness You tell me you need forgiveness,

you tell me you need forgiveness, you tell me you need forgiveness, but Los Angeles just has loved. Na, nah, na, na, nah, la, na, na. Nah, na, na, nah, nah, na, na, na, na. Na, nah, nah, nah, na, na, nah, nah, na. Na Na'na na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I don't know

And... Yeah! You know? I'm picking now. There's a point of you, that's funny with you. We're going to be able to be. We're going to be.

We're going to get up. We're going to be able to be able to be. We're going to get up a while you're going to be. I'm going to be able to be. I'm not going to be. Hey, tell when your microwave's about to break? Well, two of my microwaves

did the same thing. They made a pop sound and they caught fire. Reincarnation. What human being was your pet in a previous lifetime? And we've returned. Hey, Brian, who was that again? I guess you'd have to name all their names, but that was a big

group of people. I might love you going to give you a few names. I'll give you a few names. I'll give you because it's really attributed to three people who are the nucleus of this project and then all these other people I mentioned joined and performed vocals for a lot of them.

Law Tolhurst, Budgie, and Jack Knife Lee. That sounds great. Budgie is a bird, right? Susie and the Banshees. Budgie a bird? Yeah, Lola's a cure. I'm sorry, I had it backwards. Thank you, Molly Fenton.

Loll is from the Cure. Loll is from the Cure. Budgie is from Susie in the Banshees. Oh, all right. Is that a lady, budgie? Or a dude. No. No.

That budgie's a dude. And his budgie... By the way, that guy with a microwave, he sounds like his microwave didn't just die. It's surrendered. I think he put metal in it, if I had to guess. I think he overused it. Yeah. I think maybe that microwave is happy now to be in a better place, as my thinking.

All right. Anyway, thank you, Bobby Finn, for the clarification. Not clear, but the clarification. Yeah, exactly. That's an important distinction. Check this out. There's still something wrong. their bill oh there's nothing wrong with bill uh bill duran he's our good pal and friend from

the pacific northwest who runs a little company called punish props where they make cool stuff we come on the show with him uh every once in a while here and talk about it uh bill i'd love having you on how are you hello good morning i'm excited whoa you know why really we have a month to go until dragon con oh wow wow is that only a month holy holy crap are you i hear there are stoking up a lot of coal for the fires under Mount Atlanta to get it nice and hot and humid and pleasant. Yeah, perfect place for cosplay, I always say. Yeah, so speaking of which, you're probably got all kinds of plans for this year's

dress-up deal, right? What are you doing? A bunch of fun casual stuff, and there's one of them that I want to talk about today. So a group of friends are going, my brother and his wife are going this year, and my college roommate and his wife. Uh, so we're doing some group costumes with the six of us. Yeah. And one of them, do you both recall the hit movie from 1993 or four, uh, Teenage Mutin Ninja

Jules 2, The Secret of the U's? Can't place it. You're familiar? Not familiar. I am slightly, uh, unfortunately, familiar with it. Yes. I kind of remember two. Not very, not as much as I remember one, but I do remember two a little bit.

Sure. All right. Well, in the movie. Yeah, we did. You're right. In the movie, there are the scientists from TGRI, techno global research international, something like that. They wear orange jumpsuits, orange hard hats, and little ID badges.

And that's where we're dressing up as. I'm going to make a giant dandelion carry around. But something that these costumes require are ID badges for everyone in the group. and I made some. I made some for everyone in our group. In fact, I just tweeted out over on Twitter. I'm still calling it Twitter. So long as Twitter.com slash chinbeard takes you to my page.

I'm still calling it that. Yep, good call. Yep. So you can check that out. I made some badges for me and Britt and all our friends, including our own photos. I had everyone send me a photo. So we have these really cool badges.

And today I wanted to do. talk about that, making printed props, like paper props or something that easily gets overlooked when you think a prop, you think like guns and stuff, but there's a ton of stuff that needs to be printed. I.D. cards.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In fact, they're super common for cosplay, and sometimes when you go to like pop culture conventions, you'll find people who sell replicas of known badges. So like Mulder and Scullies, ID. you can get those. Or the McLevin ID.

Super bad news. Oh, yeah. And there's tons and tons of well-known and iconic ID badges. And sometimes you've got to make your own for a costume, which is what I did. So I was able to grab some reference images from the movie.

Now, none of them were very good or high-resolution or close. So I had a guess on some of the elements, but in my five minutes of research, I didn't see anyone else who have made one, so I guess no one can check me on if I got it wrong. That's a rarity on the internet, right? That somebody else hasn't beat you to creating something like that. It is charging up the wazoo for it.

I feel like you explained why, though. It's like it's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, the secret of you. It's right there. It's right there at the description. It's right in the description. And then it's this weird organization within the film that is very specific to that film. maybe it shows up in cartoons and stuff I don't know but you really did go

you know we dove deep yeah yeah yeah no doubt um so anyway I came up with my own design for some of it and printed them out and like I said there's a photo over on Twitter if you want to see what I did I'll have a short video on our YouTube channel in the coming weeks

showing how I put that all together a lot of the hardware for badges is available off the shelf so there's a whole bunch of different sizes and shapes and styles of the sleeves that you would slide the badge into. There's the spring clips that I need. Actually, I had to order some of the spring clips that are specific to the ones they have in TMNT2. Then there's also the retractable lanyards, which I already had a bunch of for my Wiccice costume from District 9.

I had to make an ID badge for that. Oh my gosh. I forgot you did that. so but you have one so it's like one of those like uh like like uh telecom employees have where they get the ID badge on their belt and it like unlocks the door on the yep that's exactly it yeah i have a bunch of those it turns out still left over i needed i needed one and i came in like a 10 pack so extras man you just reminded me that movie's now it came out in o nine i think i'm pretty good at movie years i think that's right very good at um but they they've been

talking about a sequel forever and there's nothing yet and it pisses me off I love that movie so much well they've got the new one coming out though do they is there a new one yeah have I just not heard of this oh my gosh and it's like animated and the animation is um it reminds me it's not the same but it reminds me of the across the spiderverse animation it looks fantastic I haven't heard a thing about what's it called yeah I haven't heard this either yeah teenage mutant ninja turtles oh no no no no no we're talking district nine oh you moved on to district nine oh you moved on to I was looking up. I was looking up Teen Jr.' The new Ninja Turrell thing looks amazing.

Yeah, and that's much older. Much older. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, District 9 came out in 09, and it was, they keep saying District 10 and will we ever see it? And I just never hear shit about it. I want that movie. I think if Chappie would have done better, we might have seen the District 10. Yeah, good point. I enjoyed Chappie.

Chappie is, you know what? I like Chappie, too, but for, I cannot convince you it's a good movie, but I can convince you there's cool shit in it. How about that? Yes. Yeah, totally. Fair enough. Anyway, sorry, continue on before I derailed us.

So a lot of fun tools to use in graphic replication. Photoshop is an obvious one, or Illustrator. I use Inkscape for almost everything because it's free and I'm very comfortable with Inkscape. So I recommend if anyone wants to get into this, that's a great place to start. Drawing your own graphics. Coming up with fonts, there's actually a website. This is what the font? Oh, what the font?

Yeah, I use that all the time. Oh, yeah. So what the font or what font is this? There's websites where you can put in an image of a font and it'll figure out what font it is for you. It'll parse out like you'll be able to say, like it says, what letter is this? What letter is this?

And it'll, it'll say, oh, that's a G, that's an H. And then it figures it out. It's actually really cool. It's not, it's 50%. I feel like I get 50%. good results from it. Sure. These are the kind of things you're going to see

AI be really helpful with. Yes. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. Especially when it comes to imagery. Sometimes, sometimes I do end up tracing the font in Illustrator or Inkscape by hand to replicate it. But if you can find the right font, boy, it makes everything easier.

Yeah. And then for the hardware tools, I have a color laser printer that doesn't get used very often. It mostly just gets used for this type of work. laser printers are really great because

if you're making a prop that needs like a sticker on it and then you want to weather it an inkjet printer if you get it wet it'll smear but a laser printer for a variety of reasons are better and more durable for this kind of work so that's the laser color printer

I also have a vital cutter so good for cutting out graphics in all sizes and that's a very permanent and very fun and colorful way to do it. I don't have a laminar, but I can see that being really useful too. I think my Wiccas ID was laminated with packing tape. I think that's how I did that. But if you have a legit laminar, I would need to be making a bunch of badges to justify the cost of it, but that would be a really

cool tool to have as well. Yeah, for sure. And those are pretty cheap. I mean, you can get those. I guess you'd want to get a decent one, but you can get them at craft stores and all over the place. Yeah. And then for materials, I have, like, photo printer paper. So for my TGRI badges, I got some nice photo printer paper, nice gloss paper. There's all sorts of really fun stuff, too. In fact, I have a stack of papers over there that are all for different projects. I've got, like, a parchment paper for doing stuff that's meant to look old.

Or if you want to print out, like, a certificate or something, parchment paper's really cool for that. And then I also have sticker back paper. Like I said before, sometimes props need stickers done on them. Like my Ghostbuster props have like warning labels and stickers. I have one, a sticker paper that is gold and I also have a silver foil that I can print warning labels on for my proton pack or my ectoggoggles. So it's got a back that's like silver. and then you print over it with like a matte

toner and it looks so legit and you just peel them off and stick them on there and then you can like scuff them a little bit with like some high grit sandpaper and it scuffs off the toner and it looks perfect. It looks just like you would imagine a sticker should look. You know this all strikes me is

you could, you have the skills, the wherewithal and the material that you could be like an illicit behind the scenes, like fake ID guy, you know? Oh, yeah. Like, you could be like, hey, for 500 bucks, I'll get you a new ID. Yeah. Be able to buy some booze.

They got to get the dude for you. Yeah, dude. You'd be the most popular kid and, or kid, popular person in the local high school. They'd all love you for all their fake IDs. Well, this is cool, man. I never, no one ever thinks of this part of it, right? But this is part of the authenticity of your overall, your overall jam. I do, how often, though, do you feel like you're going to have to explain that you're with this Ninja Turtle second movie weirdo?

See, that's the thing about DragonCon. Yeah. You don't need to, I mean, basically, there's so much, there's so many deep cut characters at DragonCon that nobody feels like they need to say, all right, now who are you supposed to be? Right, right. I just, people go there to say, I'm going to know about 80% of the people, the characters that I see people walking around as it's just fine. And if there's a place where anyone's going to get that one, it'll be a Dragon Car. There's another one. I'll spill the beans on one more costume that Brittany and I are doing.

This is, again, a deep cut because it's not even technically from a movie. You ever see the picture from the filming of Thor Wagner Rock where Kate Blanchett is standing there in her Hela costume? And Tycho Waititi is like a foot shorter than her holding up an iPad. Yeah, it's always a meme like, here's me showing my mom my cool Pokemon collection or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So picture Britney as Hela. me as Tycho Y-T-D. Brilliant.

Yeah. Brilliant. So I'm just going to stand there holding an iPad with Brit looking at it. That's awesome. I ordered, like, I found the shirt that Tika's wearing and I got a lot. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's awesome, dude. And again, Dragon Khan is a place for that.

Most people aren't going to know what that is, but like the 10 people that get it are going to lose their minds. No, I'd love that. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah, I saw two guys. I mean, I've only been there maybe five times, but one of the years, there were two guys that were walking around. We're probably the most popular people that I saw to have your picture taken with. And it was the two guys from Spaceballs that you see for five seconds with a giant comb.

We've been comb in the desert and we ain't found shit. Everybody wanted their picture taken with those guys. They could not walk two feet without people. Wow. I love it. Well, Bill, you're set, man. You're set to blow their minds once again in this year. Oh, yeah. Everyone's going to go.

We have more ideas, too. We'll see if we can pull them all off. yeah you got what three weeks two and a half what is it three weeks probably three and a month yeah yeah it's a good solid time i'll talk to you before it before yeah you'll start working on it a week and a half before right yeah well if it's anything like me well i know that's for sure uh well bill it's always good to check in on you and it's uh boy i always forget about this time of year it's like a rad all the builders get to have a rad time it feels like uh this time of year so we can't wait to hear how it goes and you'll fill us in next time at the punish props.com everybody go check

He's got a, you got a video. Oh, yeah, give me a, you got a bonus laid link thing. Sorry, I do. Highly relevant. So our friends over at Tested, Adam and Norman, those guys, went to film at Earl Hayes Press. These are the guys that make all of the printed props for Hollywood. How appropriate. Yeah.

I highly recommend checking out the video because there are things you forget have to get made for a movie. And the thumbnail there, Adam's holding up the almanac from... Back to the Future, too. Yeah, Back to Future, too. But there are so many things that have to get printed for movies that you forget about. And these guys do all of them. My friend Michael is in the video, and he has been recently working with Earl Hayes Press to sort of go through and catalog all the stuff that they have. And it is hundreds of thousands of things.

No kidding. It is astonishing. That's cool. Oh, they do license plates also, it looks like. They do everything. Upper stickers. Look at this. Bottles and cans and boxes.

of food stuff. Generic items. Yeah. Talk about taking advantage of a need or, you know, seeing a need and then really honing in on it because you don't think about this. In movies, you're like, oh, I guess they had to buy 14 Chevys to wreck them in this car chase and they needed to have that building as a backdrop. You don't really think about that office full of stuff or that guy's car and its bobblehead

and the dice hanging from the mirror and the paper in the back seat. The instruction manual for the, you know, the thorium orbiter or something like that. Yeah, that's really great. That's really cool. Or all the items on the background of a shelf in a convenience store. Yeah. It can't be real products. It can't be real products.

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I didn't think of that. Unless you have a deal, right? You have some Coke up there if you have a deal with Coke, but that's it. And then those are annoying because I can always tell when they're advertising stuff. Anyway, well, there you go. Bill, always good, man.

I can't wait to check in on you again. Have a fantastic rest of your week and we'll see you soon. See you. Bye now. Oh, punish props. com, everybody. In case I didn't make that clear. Brian, we have one fast thing from an listener.

I might be adding a second one just in case. Oh, all right. We'll see what happens. Maybe. Maybe. This is a question. We got via text from someone who did not leave a name, but they sent a text to 801-47-1-0462 and said,

Hey, Scott and Brian, this is, oh, I did say this is Marlon. Sorry, his name isn't there. This is Marlin. It was lowercase so it threw me. I thought it was the fish. Do you prefer TV? series or movies do you prefer tv series or movies didn't say of what or like a genre or anything like that's just like if you had a choice do you want a two hour story wrap up do you want you know

10 episodes of a thing right it's a kind of a hard question i like both but if you could only have one i guess what would you take if i could only have one give me give me a series because very it's it's way fewer times than i say oh man that series could have just been done in two hours and more than I say, oh, my God, I want more of this movie. I want a whole backstory on all these characters. Same answer. I think I would be the same for the same reasons. It's not that, you know, I love movies and, you know, some movies are insane and they're great.

But even if you said to me, well, sorry, no more movies, well, then fine, make Fury Road into a 10-episode series. I don't care. No problem in research calendars. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of series, we just finished a silo last night, Tina and I did. And thanks to Tristan's flight being. five hours late actually when all was said and done it was nine hours late like he was

supposed to get in at five he got in at uh two 40 or 230 or something in the morning is there even is there even our flights ever on time now is that ever a thing anymore right because it was you know it was a five hour delay because of some sort of equipment deal in dallas getting to Vermont. But then when he flew here, we had massive thunderstorms and stuff going on. So they had to divert to Salt Lake City. And then they waited at Salt Lake City for about 45 minutes to an hour and then flew here. But if they would have met their original time, United, they would have been here before all the thunderstorms, everything would have been fine. Yeah. The delay is what really did it. Then the other stuff is just like, you know, acts of God are only bad if you're a shitty airline.

But I mean, like, my brother-in-law, Ken, got stuck in D.C., didn't get to the family reunion until the last day. Same thing. Delays he couldn't control, all this horrible light stuff. Same thing for my nephew, Marshall, although it wasn't late for the thing, but he was supposed to go to a really important meeting in L.A. It's like an hour flight. It's no big deal. He did it hours ahead. And he ended up getting delayed like seven and a half hours, missed the entire thing, stayed in L.A. one night, flew right back home the next thing.

It's like, what are we doing? What are we doing? We got to get better at the air travel man. Yes, yes. I guess they're having problems getting people back into positions and stuff like that. Sure. Oh, well. Well, anyway, 801.447.

Regardless, a silo, fantastic. You hit the nail on the head in your praise of that show. So good. You might like the books. You may want to check those out because they're real good, those books. Yeah, I think I might. It's been a while since I've been reading a lot of graphic novels. It's been a while since I've picked up a.

a book. So that will be the one I pick up. What happened here with Fanholm? It looks like somebody's tempting you with something evil here. What do we got? Yes. So I'm just about finished. Like I've got the Iron Man sitting here behind me.

He's fully built, although there are a couple other pieces that allow him to like get in additional poses. And then I'm done. Then I was like, done with Fan Home, done with this project. Well, then I get the email today. hey, because we were talking about last time we had like, ooh, they have an Optimus Prime that's really cool or a was it a DeLorean or something?

Or oh, is the Infinity Gauntlet? Oh, and all these cool other projects and like, no, I feel like I can say no to those. Sure. Today I get the email. They have a millennium falcon. Look at that thing. And it's metal and ABS.

Guys, look at this chat. Here, let me scroll up. Look at the detail on this. Yeah. it's got LEDs in it the cockpit you know the lid comes off it's uh what's the total take on it like money wise do you know what it would add up to be it's a hundred so basically it's a hundred um a hundred uh sets with 13 bucks per set 13 per set so that's about a thousand probably about 1,500 or something tax and that's over how long of a time does it take over uh four months a weekly so a little over two years

Okay. Oh, that's tempting. Yeah. I wish they'd just say, or you can buy the whole thing finished for two great. I mean, I know some of the fun is assembling it. It becomes too daunting if you get it all at once. I don't know if I, I don't know if I would have put together. I've got a, you know, I've got models and stuff that I haven't put together that I got in Japan when I went in 2015.

That is like, yeah, I've got that whole thing. But when you're like, just put these four parts together today. Oh, four parts. can do that. Choo, chit, chit, chit,

done. Yeah. Oh my gosh, this is so tempting, look at it. Isn't it cool? Yeah.

It's so like, all that detail and reproductive, like, yes. The battle damage and all that sort of thing. Yeah,

that's really hot, dude. Oh, the little comb comes off. I might do it. I might. I mean, they do make it,

they do make it hit less when it's only that much a month or whatever. They do. Yeah. But then you also got to think, Yep, you're in it. You're committed. Basically, you're not going to stop halfway through and have a biannual falcon.

You need the millennium falcon. They have a wall mount for it if you want it. Yeah, which is, you know what it is? It's a freaking visa amount. Yeah, that's a visa TV mount. It's basically a television visa mount. Yeah, you don't need to buy theirs. You could just go get one of those a lot cheaper.

I can't believe it's this thing is visa compliant. That's hilarious to me. Right, exactly. It's kind of brilliant to be. honest to make it useful. Cancel any time. That means people could get like half a Millennium Falcon and never get the rest. That's right. Wow. It could be a bicentennial falcon. This is great. I want you to do it so that I can see and witness this happening. I don't think I could. Really tempted. I would just pay it. You know what I want? I want like, let's see. How big is that? I want like a catcher mitt sized Millennium Falcon with this level of detail that I can just buy finished. You know? I don't want a Wait, I don't have patience for this.

I don't think I... Yeah, this thing is one-to-one scale, the model that was used for the movies. Damn. Yeah. So the model they shot. Yeah, is this size. Oh, Brian. Right, exactly.

They even got a picture of these... This 70s picture of a bunch of Afro-haven mustache dudes painting the original. They're really going deep on this. Afro-haven. I know. I think that photo is from the 70s. I think that's, I mean, I'm sorry, the one of the dad and his kid working on the model, I think, is from the 70s. I know there's a couple photos on that site, but I don't think, I think one of those is actually.

Is it from the time, from the era? I think that looks like it's from the time. Look how yellow that photo is. I know it's supposed to look like father and son putting together the fan home version, but I think that's... I think that's from then. I don't know, like, let's see. It certainly looks like with the yellowy photo, but it doesn't say, I guess on the left side it talks about, yeah, because they're showing somebody painting it and stuff. So maybe that is.

That's probably what it is. Oh, man. Everything about this makes me want it. Maybe we'll explore this. Do people want to watch me assemble this? And I'll do a whole stream, dude. A whole stream. Oh, that's a great idea.

And you can watch me every month assemble this and live vicariously through me. Yeah, and then you'll have a whole series up there when you're done. Yeah. Zoe, I think you're on to something there. Fanholm, Infinity Gauntlet. Oh, it looks like people do these all the time. Yeah. Build your own.

Here's the, oh, yeah, they have the... The Iron Man one. I actually use somebody's Iron Man video wants to figure out how to make a certain part fit together because it wasn't working right. Oh, these are great. All right. Oh, and then it gave me a video called Only Fan Girl Living Off the Grid. That's great.

Thanks, YouTube. All right. Stay tuned for more info because I think I will. I will do this. If I can help, you know, if somebody can help subsidize the cost of this and I'll make it, you know, buck a month or whatever or whatever. Yeah. I mean, why not? You have room for it out down there somewhere?

I do. Plenty of room on that wall, especially if it's a visa map. Actually, I've already got a visa. amount right there and I'm not using that screen so I just take the T's the monitor off of there and put the moving falk in there I love it quick note that we are supported by you speaking of support at patreon.com slash TMS without your support we are nothing and it's a brand new month literally the first today this is a great time to get in if you've been on the fence for all these years and you're like you know what I just need to throw those guys a buck a month or something go read all about

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and helping us make this show. That'll do it for today's programming. However, we need to play a song. That's the rule. So, Brian, let's play one. What do you got? Yeah. Matt, aka Scatus X, wrote in and said,

And uh, greetings, sorcerer and barbarian. On Tuesday, I will reach the number of Earth's soul revolutions that brings to mind dolphins and whales and potted petunias and hyperspace bypasses. So let's test the ship's phasers and destroy them with lasers. And while Scott tries to find those clips, maybe play me a song. Here's this one. Let's test the ship's phasers. And he wanted, uh, oh, destroy them with lasers I might have out by itself.

Let's see. Let me just see. You only take a second, everyone. Just relax yourselves. Here it is. destroy them with lasers. Destroy them with lasers. Yeah.

Oh my gosh. I can't believe that was 2011. I did that. That's a long time ago. That's how long it's been since you've done that. Forever. Yeah. Also, they need a new album out.

What are they? Why is a knife party dragging their ass these days? Come on now. Anyway. They say, you guys and all the contributors are the high point of my workday. And always a hoot to listen to keep shoving hobos signed Matt Scadius X or Stadis X. Thanks, man.

He wanted to hear the Proto Men or Super Guitar Brothers with Dan Avedan, Ninja Sex Party or Scary Pockets. We're going with Proto Men and a song that we haven't played on TMS before. I haven't played this one on TMS before. That, and might hearken back, it's an older song, but it kind of got a little bit of new life when a greasy, shirtless saxophone playing maybe a vampire. Started playing it in, what was it, San, not San Demas, what was that called? San Angeles, San, no, San, oh, shit. It's been a while. Lost Boys, so I'm talking about them.

Talking about a song by the call called I Still Believe, or great design in a subtitle of parentheses. Here is, here are the Protomen from their album, the cover up from 2015 with a cover of I Still Believe. Show me. As we're going on. I've got in a cave 40 days and only a spark to light my way

I want to give out I want to give it This is our crime This is our sin But I still believe I still believe Through the pain Through the grief

Through the lives Through the storms Through the cries And through the walls No I still believe I Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel out of my back

that at sea Open these waves To cover me I'm turning tossed Upon the waves When the darkness comes I feel the grave But I still believe

I still believe Through the cold And through the heat Through the rain And through the tears Through the crowds and throw the chest No, I still believe

Yeah, yeah, yeah Oh! I'll march this room I'll climb this hill upon my knees if I have to I'll take my breath upon this stage

I'll wait till yet no time for you like everybody else Oh! I'm out of my own Walk in the streets Look at the face That I mean I feel like I

Like I want to go home What do I feel? What do I know? But I still believe. I still believe. Through the shame and through the grief, through the heartening,

and through the tears, through the weight, and through the years. For people like us, in places like this, we need all the heart. We can't get No, I still believe

I'm still believe Get more at Fragantz. How do we know that he's prepared to deliver two complete laundries at this short notice? don't know.