The Morning Stream - TMS 2514: SWARMBALL!!

Episode Date: August 29, 2023

Evacuate... and then evacuate! The Pissers are Available! Prarie Dog Crowning. Parking Hacks with Brian. Seinfeld Siblings in a Bucket. Crikey! You've got BRAIN WORMS! Sister MacGuffin. What we do in the dungeons. There will be shadows. Juno Mandela. Doc Ock: Master of Muppets. I am Serious and Don't Call Me Shirley. Oh sorry. I'm a DJ. Crazy Zelda Fitzgerald. Full Dragoncon mode 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 the support of our patrons at patreon.com.com slash TMS, like Sebastian Gonzalez, Scott Thomas, and Ruben Paddock. Coming up on TMS, evacuate and then evacuate. The pissers are available. Prairie dog crowning. Parking hacks with Brian. Seinfeld siblings in a bucket. Crocky. You've got brain worms.

Sister McGuffin. What we do in the dungeons. There will be shadows. Juno Mandela. Doc Ock, Master of Puppets. I am serious, and don't call me Shirley. Oh, sorry, I'm a DJ. Crazy Zelda Fitzgerald.

Full DragonCon mode with Bill and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. And some of your favorite cartoon characters will help you understand how drugs and alcohol can ruin your life. You better be coke left in that fridge is all I can say. The morning stream. This little piggy is going to market. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for August 29th, 2020, 3.

I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibbitt. Hi, Brian. Hello. Hey, man. So that music, oh, go ahead. What are you going to say? Way better today, by the way, I got to say.

Today, much better day starting the show than yesterday was. No internet hang up. You get some sleep and all that. I went in a hang-ups. I still got to bed at midnight, a little after midnight, but that was for a good reason as opposed to just a flying home on an airplane reason. Right, right. For those who missed a pre-show. If you want to know what it was, you got to listen to pre-show. Yeah. Yeah, we're not going to, we're not going to give you any spoilers, but Brian did a fun thing, let's say that. Okay. I did a fun thing. Yeah. That's cool. But that's good. You get back to

normal. Actually, I'm a little surprised how that's a little intense. You go for a weekend away, big social gathering, and you immediately come home. home on a red-eye flight and then you have to get caught up on everything and then you immediately go to a big concert immediately go to a concert yeah and a late-night concert a concert with a big band and three and two opening acts a large i should say a big band it wasn't pan it was a popular band and two opening acts and so it's like leaving red rocks at at 1045 11 o'clock and dropping off Uncle George and Aunt Barb. How's parking at that venue?

That's the one thing I meant to ask. Well, if you have a lift sign in the front of your car, you can go up to the top. I didn't think about this little benefit. And it's like you're dropping people off. And that's kind of what I did. I basically took George Barb and Tina up to the top. Had the lift sign in. They moved the little pylons over so you can get through.

I took them all the way up to the top. and then drop them off and said, all right, wish me luck. And then I go down to the next parking lot, which they close off because it's quote-unquote full. And it's really just a counting error on their part because there were still at least, you know,

20 spots in the second lot, the second highest lot. The top lot is 12 parking spaces. You're not going to park up there. Yeah, no way. But the one below that is, it's just a stairway walk up. to the top for Red Rocks and so I rounded the corner basically in a spot where I was out of

visual range of the people that moved the pylons for me and the people up at the top and I just go yonk and I pull the little the little USBC cord that the um my light up lift sign is attached to and it pulls down into the seat I catch it I shove it into uh the corner in the car there in the front seat and then um and then I just go to the next uh parking lot, park and walk up there. This is clandestine. I like it. It's like a little sneaky thing. It's the first time I've ever tried it, but I've kind of always wanted to do it after taking a lot of people up to Red Rocks and seeing that there's always spots in the second to highest lot. It's like, oh, I could park there. I can totally do it. Hell yeah. No, I think this is great.

This is like that Simpson's episode where Homer pulls into a handicapped spot and then drags his foot to the front door of the store. It's a little bit like that. It's not like that at all. That's a horrible thing it is a horrible thing it is a horrible thing however it is like uh in homer's mind it might be the same i guess now that i think about it exactly in homer's mind it's okay i am i am and never would in a million years take a spot away i don't even i don't care how how close to prairie dog and i am i'm not going to take that big um the big stall in a public bathroom um even if even if the other stalls are taken. You know, speaking of which,

got irritated with that in the Atlanta airport. Oh, a bathroom story. Let's do tell. Yeah. So, sitting there at the gate with tea, and I'm like, oh, man, all right, I guess I'm got to go do it. I've got to go poop in an airport, public airport, toilet, damn it. The second least favorite thing, and I think we can probably agree on the worst place to have to do that. Yeah.

So, um, walk into the bathroom and, um, and there's a guy waiting. So, like, there's all the urinals and then there's all the stalls and there's a guy waiting there. I'm like, oh, yeah, see, there's a couple of urinals available, so I know why you're waiting. And, uh, guy comes out, do it in front of me, goes in, and I'm standing there waiting to use the, uh, the stalls. Two guys come up behind me and, uh, and then they're the, they're the nice guys who, uh, um, who basically let everybody know everybody who comes into the bathroom they're the ones who let them know

hey if you got to use a pisser the pissers are available and that's exactly the word he uses by the way pissers awesome the pissors love it okay uh yeah the pissers are available y'all anyway wow um so finally somebody else comes out and uh of a stall i go in i do what i need to do i hear some ticot videos or something going on from another stall whatever i do what i need to do i come out And those poor two guys are still waiting for one of the five stalls, one of the other five stalls to open up. And I, and I just look at one of them and I kind of like, like shake my head like people. Get off your phones. Do your stuff.

You're about to, you know, you can go do that stuff in the gate. You can go watch TikTok videos while you're sitting in the gate or on the plane or something. Yeah, big push and get off. Get out. Go get in. Exactly. Go, get out. Evacuate.

Yeah. and then evacuate. Right. I'm sure there's some exceptions where somebody's got a problem or whatever. Well, sure. I sure that happens. But for the most part, y'all are just sitting there wasting time. That's what you're doing.

While other people are like Brian says, prairie dogging. Okay. Yeah. There's guys behind me, guys who were behind me who were waiting. And it's like, oh, man, you know, I know that feeling. I know that feeling of being stuck and you're just like sitting there waiting and you're waiting. And it's bad enough you have to just sit there and stand. in a public restroom, just looking around like, yep, yeah, got to go to the bathroom.

You all know what I'm waiting to do, you know. Just run in there and go, I'm crowning and see if somebody responds, you know. Yeah. I would, you know, wanted to do with George Costanza and just say, you know, we live in a society here. People waiting for the stalls. You know, I realized that was the episode. We just watched that episode again. And Jerry has, Jerry claims he has a sister in that episode.

episode and we've never oh really never ever seen a sister in that no kidding oh wow yeah and george does this too in an early episode where he has a brother and we never see a brother and they never bring it up again they're completely like chicks in the bucket they just they never show again that's funny you never see any do you ever see any siblings from the main four no in fact um the closest you get is elaine's dad um going to the bathroom that guy Jerry's parents, George's parents. Yeah, the parents, you get parents. And I feel like the rest of the series

is just sort of assume their only kids, their only childs. I think so, yeah. And, oh, yeah, and Kramer's mom you get, right? Oh, yeah, Kramer's mom you get, right? I think, you see. I think maybe they were on to something by never going back to those ideas

because there is a simplicity to it, right? You complicate the relationships when you introduce somebody who is closely related that isn't a parent, because that's generational but a sibling is like I don't know complicate your story

so it's the right thing to do but it's just weird that they bring it up and then they never talk about it again plus it also helps enforce the fact that they're selfish a-holes because we all know that

only children speak you from experience only children are selfish a-holes as you can tell it just kind of goes with the yeah as you can tell Brian Brian the most selfish a-hole I know just the worst

That's right. And they're, you know, the trial, which basically, you know, says, look, these four people don't know. They're only children. They don't have brothers or sisters. They're selfish. Yeah, they're the worst. And so now let's have every guest star we've ever had. Come up on the stand and testify. Last night was fun because, well, we had a soccer game. So we went to see Van Soccer game. It was very hot last night yesterday. It's a super hot day and no clouds. And that sucks. I don't like that for soccer. But whatever. We're sitting in our dumb little chair. and watching Van play. And I want to give some credit to somebody in the chat. This is from, oh, you know what? I put that under news. I'll save it for that. Because there's this great term that somebody,

one of our listeners coined for the kind of soccer that Van is playing at this age. Oh, yeah. I love that. I saw that intro. I was like, oh, that is that. I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, we'll get to that later. But it's, he was dead on.

But anyway, that was fun. It's always fun rooting for him. And Taylor was in charge of, treats and you know it's just a dumb tradition whatever you just do it so we're doing that but we knew we had to leave it around 615 because eric van skyhawk was in town um for to see his parents and um he was born and raised here so but he lives in uh just outside of new york and works in new york works in manhattan and uh was here to visit so he's like hey you want to go go hang out and we're like yeah we'll figure out a time let's do dinner so we did dinner at this peruvian place

and so we went there and it was great they did like you know it's really healthy like good chicken stuff and salads and avocado dishes grilled yeah it was very very good um but there's hardly anybody there which is weird uh but anyway we were hanging out and we were talking about music and I was telling him about how whenever this happens everybody in the chat goes nuts and starts typing TMS over and over the letters yeah he's never been to a live show so he didn't know his music was inspiring this this meme this thing so that was just a fun thing and i wanted to let you know tadpool and chat room a particular know about he really liked hearing that um i think i talked him into working on a not a remix but like a new arrangement oh cool so we'll we'll hear soon on

that i think maybe um and also uh we decided that we're all very old while we were there because we took this photo i need to share this i'll put it in you thing as well um this this i hate this photo because for two reasons i think i look like his grandfather and he wait why didn't it move oh there it is oh this isn't you know what the the weird i understand why the motion photos matter to people but the format it makes so you can't share it around

freaking pisses it it is a pain in the butt yeah it's nice and i wish i wish there was a button just one button you had to press not any sort of conversion process or anything give me one button where I can turn it into a gif if I want to exactly make it simple but anyway there's so there's Eric and there's me and I look like I smell something bad you know you look like you how do you I don't understand how these things work yeah it's horrendous it's a horrible photo it's the wrong angle I look like a thumb you know I've never looked my hair has never looked whiter

which is funny because you look at me in here I don't look that white in No, no. It's like more blonde when we look at it on camera here. But boy, right there, it looks like... I look like the snowman that came from the north. It's just horrible. And then Eric over here, you know, just looking a little salty. He's about our age. You know, he's our age. Yeah, a lot more salt in that salt and pepper.

And, uh, but he looks great. Yeah, he looks great. We both looked fine. But it was this shock of like, oh my gosh, what are we looking at here? Who are these two people? It didn't look familiar to us. And I think that's what threw me. So whatever, selfie cameras are, they're damn.

they're like borderline DMV cameras in there in there totally but he wanted to say he wanted me to send his hello to everybody and it's been a while since he's been in the thing and I told him how much we love this thing right here yeah we do yeah except for Stephanie she hates it she probably has it's basically her she actually just checked out as soon as you started playing that she said I'm out Jerry yeah it's like uh Funny enough, it's like Kramer when he hears Mary Hart's voice. Just brings out and falls over. But anyway, it was really fun and good to see them.

If they hear this, I hope they had a safe flight back to New York. They had their boys with them. You know their youngest, AJ, who's now 17, is about to graduate next year. Some kind of little genius boy. Really? He's having some of the most intelligent conversation I've ever had with a kid while playing this ultra-hard rhythm game on his phone. that looks like he's magically somehow...

You know, when you see somebody do guitar hero at the most extreme level and you're like, I don't know how on earth that person did that? He's doing that while going, yes, I believe I'm going to go to college for those... He's like this little genius kid. Wow. Wow. Really impressive.

Anyway, it's fun to see them, and they had a good time with over here. Very cool. I meant to ask you yesterday about your... Because when you texted me, you texted me from the plane and said there was some medical emergency or something, and I was worried...

You had mentioned, hey, a little, you know, format change tomorrow, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, oh, yeah, cool. By the way, this is the first time I've ever been on a flight where this has happened. And you, you know, because it happens so often in movies, you feel like it should happen more in real life than it does. But we, it's a nighttime flight. So what they do is they, once they get everybody on board, they do their spiel about how to make a seatbelt work. and then they let you know

we're going to take off here and we're going to dim the cabin lights so if you need a little extra light then you've got the little light button up above you blah blah blah and so everything kind of turns off and that's when I hit play on the movie I'm watching and about five minutes into it

the lights come back on and there are two flight attendants in the middle of the plane and one way of up at the very front where the PA system is. And she gets on the P and says ladies gentlemen is there a doctor

on this flight? If there is a doctor, please turn on your call button. Please ring your call button for us. Let us know if there's a doctor on this flight. She sounded very calm about it. Very calm about it. That's what you want. Oh man. So of course, you know, everybody is doing that

thing, you know, where they're like the cubicle everybody peers over the top so their cubicles to see what's going on. Could not tell what was going on. However, they brought up the field kit and they were checking vitals and stuff

like a stethoscope and stuff like that. But the flight attendants were talking to the person in the seat and kind of laughing as they were talking to him. Like basically, you know, we could tell that it wasn't, it was urgent but not life-threatening. Yeah, they weren't like out or have.

like full cardiac arrest or something. Exactly. That's good. Did you have any temptation to raise your hand and go, my dad's a doctor? I can get him on the phone if we need it. He taught me CPR one thing. I actually did have that thought.

Like, you know, if they start going down the line, right? Okay, no doctors. Are there any PAs on the flight? Are there any pharmacists on the plane? Are there any... Yeah, we're down to nurses, and then eventually it's like family of medical professionals. Right. Eventually it's family, and then it goes to, is there anybody who kind of claimed to have a medical degree on Facebook in the last three years? As anterologist or as an epidemiologist or something.

Yeah, that's great. So they were fine, though, as far as you know, it all ended and lights went out again. Yeah, all ended just fine. They did what they did. A doctor did ring their call. button got up there with them for a little bit and was kind of you know talking to the person in the seat i couldn't even tell i wasn't even 100% sure if it was which person in the row of three it was that needed medical attention that's how how non-serious it was like you know uh they weren't hovering

like standing over somebody doing all this stuff i could just see them kind of getting the field kit stuff out and and um and every plane has a load of that on the plane right they carry that i mean they have to. Oh, yeah. They have to have enough enough equipment to do some kind of rudimentary stuff. If those Mexican restaurants have the chest plate

things, like, what are they called? Defibrillators. If they have those, then I bet a plane has them, at least. I would think. Oh, but they do, yeah. Clear, boom, like that. Haven't we seen that in some movie? I mean, I know once again, it's a movie not real. I'm sure like every plane over a

certain class has um defibrillators on board we've had this exact thing happened to us but they didn't ask for doctors they just started pulling out a kit and doing vitals on somebody without the without the question maybe they i don't know how they would know but maybe the manifest somehow oh maybe i don't know just look down the line oh uh dr penelope johnson okay oh maybe they already knew they had a doctor that's met my but that was probably it is that maybe they didn't maybe they just knew somebody was on there or whatever right somebody goes by dr wilson or something right exactly oh no i'm sorry i'm a i'm a i'm a i'm a i'm a i'm a dj i just use doctor i just use doctor ironically i'm not an actual doctor this is my rap stage name sorry that's right

exactly i'm dr beat uh sorry i'm not going to be able to help you with you i can drop some sick some sick uh lyrics but that's it that's all i can do exactly yeah that's amazing well i'm glad everybody nobody was like in a big trouble that would be bad yeah yeah nobody wants to be there when somebody dies on a plane no for sure i know this has happened there've been people i think in our audience who've written in before about this thing where somebody died on their plane and and they had to stop somewhere uh to i don't think you can go the full flight especially if it's a long like international one if you're close to like i don't know on the west coast alaska you're just like well we're going to anchorage to right that's weird tin and i were both worried

about that, you know, I said, oh man, I hope they don't, we don't get diverted. And then we both saw them, you know, kind of like being more positive with the person up there. I'm like, okay, yeah, whatever. You're getting some laughs out of him. You're in pretty good shape. That's good. One thing I also forgot to talk about yesterday, a couple things. First off, while we were in Asheville, we were right across the street from a newspaper that I visited in late 90s called the Asheville Citizen Times. Oh, nice. And that newspaper, paper is, while it's still being produced, it's not being produced

in that building anymore, it's actually being produced in Greenville, South Carolina at the location of a sister paper, and they just kind of ship it up in the mornings, and then deliver it to the 20,000 people who still get the newspaper in Asheville. That's a low number. Is that a low number, like

if you're to, I don't know what circulation looks like these days. It feels like a high number, but it's, you know, it's people who say, ah, no, I don't care about getting news right away. from the internet. I'd like to know what happened yesterday, please. Yeah.

But inside that building now is a record producer who's bought, like, the whole first floor and added a bar, a cafe, and a vinyl pressing plant called Citizen Vinyl. What? That's cool. And so we went in there. We saw something called Citizen Vinyl. I'm like, oh, guys, do you mind if we go across there and see if there's a record store in there?

I won't buy anything because I don't have any place to put it. And Chuck and Amy are so nice. They're like, Brian, we can ship. If you buy something, we can ship it to you. It's totally fun. I'm like, oh, whatever. Let's just go in there. So we go in there and, yeah, in addition to a vinyl record store, on the left side,

they've got this clear, like this window that goes into this whole area that's like them pressing vinyl albums. You can sit there and watch them. And I look down and it's like, oh, free tour starting in 30 minutes. So it's like, great. Let's do this. And we, you know, we find the tour guide, say, hey, we know you only have two spots left. Is there any way we can do four? Our friends are visiting from Denver.

And she's like, oh, Denver, oh, totally do it because Denver comes up in my tour spiel in what I talked about. Really? I can kind of, yeah. So I can kind of point to him. I'm like, great, awesome. So we took this one hour tour, went up to the recording studios, saw the, you know, the recording studios where old performers. like Jimmy Dorsey and Big Band, you know, used to perform up there, play on the radio, and, uh, et cetera, et et cetera. And then, um, uh, and then watch them press a dozen Dr. John albums, like brand new.

Can you tell me this? Do they come in a, does the record that you eventually press? Is it come in like a predefined, like ball? And then it gets mushed? A puck. Yes. So they get, so they basically get this hopper that they put all these little vinyl pellets in of the color of the album you want to, you want to create. So whether it's clear, green, or red, or whatever, these were just plain old black vinyl albums. All these pellets go in a hopper. They're heated up to 300-something degrees, and this machine extrudes it into about the size

of a hockey puck. Wow. And somebody pulls it out with their gloved hand. They put it on the plates, and of course the plates are the two metal plates made from the acetate masters of the album so they've already they've got the

the imprint of the grooves and all that stuff right this thing comes down squeezes the that that puck oh before they do that and this was this one kind of surprised me

before they even put the puck on there they take the B-side record label put it face down on the thing then put the puck and then put the face up or the side one record label on top of it

so I was Is the puck exactly the size of the label so that you're pinhole? Pretty close. Yeah. Because they have to pinhole, right? Yeah. They have the pinhole. And that centers the labels on the pinhole.

Wow. I always thought that they, you know, the record labels probably got added afterwards by a machine that these, the records went through. Shichung, shoot, shush, shoo, shoo. I assume so, too. I would think it would. I mean, obviously, this is a little bit more of a boutique operation, which is kind of rad. No, this is this is standard. Really?

This is how it's done just period. This is how they do. These guys have printed up albums for, like, foo fighters and I'm trying to remember all the musicians that they ran off the list of, like, oh, yeah, we've done, you know, 24,000 album runs for so-and-so and this person, this other person. That's cool. And so we watch them. And so, like, it presses it down, kind of like a little waffle press, and there's all that little extra goo on the outside of the record. They pick up that record, put it on another thing that's like it looks like. a turntable with a knife on one side the thing goes around a couple times clears off that

excess on the outside guy picks it up looks at it puts it on a stack of other dr john albums wow that's cool i don't know how i thought these were done i assumed it was way more automated than a yeah they had they have two automatic machines and then one manual machine and for for large large runs they'll use all three machines all at once but um i'm guessing it's expensive for the artist to have multiple plates made so they probably have a smaller run and just say all right here's one one set of plates um give me just a thousand album run that's really cool but the fact that they've got a cafe in there and like like food and a bar yeah we sat there we had some coffee and some pastries that's awesome very nice um and it's a free tour so if you go to ashville totally worth it to do this one

hour tour another tour in ashville that i highly recommend is one that i think september found uh and it's the LaZoom Comedy Horror Bus Tour. And now, Tina, as I've mentioned, as we know,

maybe mentioned on the show before, Tina is big on the, what's the scariest thing in this town, or what's the

creepiest part of town? She wants to go, you know, walk through graveyards. We walked through the graveyard

in Savannah. It was really cool. And she wants to see the houses that are supposedly haunted and have ghosts and have had

a dozen murders and stuff like that. Sure. and so this this bus tour was um uh one that um that again i think j that i think uh september found and it was high on the comedy we talked about this guy you saw a photo of the guy with the black oh the black under eye guy yesterday that we talked about yeah yeah here's what we didn't talk about though was uh all the weird weird references that um that came up up during the uh during the drive so um we're sitting there uh the bus the tour is starting and um the

woman who i talked about yesterday who did all the different actor roles and came out and and you know hi everybody i'm crazy zelda fitzgerald and i'm drunk and that's how i died from this and the consumption and blah blah blah and um but but she kind of also did the warm up uh to introduce mr bones and she's like, looks at the guy sitting in front of me who was not part of the TMS group. We had pretty much most of the bus except for like four poor people who got stuck on here. And she looks at him and says,

sir, have you ever heard of a phrase called Commit to the Bit? Whoa. Like the rest of us, you know, the 14 TMS people are like, oh, that was Rob in front of? Oh, it was, right. Yeah, you and Rob were in front of us. That's right. She says, have you heard the phrase, commit to the bit?

And the rest of us were like, what the hell? How does she know, did she get Scott all the head on this? Yeah, that's weird. Weird. And she goes and unbuttoned, one of Rob's, the second button on Rob's shirt and says, come on, commit to the bit. And the rest are like, oh, wow, funny. And then as we're going along in the tour, Mr. Bones does this thing where he's like,

and then this was back in the in the civil war days and he starts playing the exact dear martha music not a not just another sound alike and and we all go this actual music wow exactly that one and we all go oh and he's like oh good i see we have some ken burns fans in the house little do they know little yeah sort of yeah i guess so i think there was a third weird connection reference and I can't remember what it was but it was some third thing that made us all go like did Scott call

ahead and tell these guys? It does feel like somebody's messing with you but I didn't do that I wonder if um so the thing Jenny says maybe she got that from maybe that's a more common phrase. It's a more common phrase yeah I mean it definitely Jenny didn't invent that phrase but it she

put it into all of our heads and rightly so because it needs to be followed, adhered to, and trusted by anyone who does any sort of podcast presentation. Yeah, I think you do anything in life. You've got to commit. Yeah, commit to that bit. That's great. Yeah, Natalie or September, I don't see Red Fraglin here.

Do you guys remember what the other reference was? It seemed like there was a third reference that we're all like, God, how is this person? Yeah, because one thing, one thing, you're like, oh, wow, one thing. That's interesting. That's a coincidence. Second one's like, wait a minute. Third one's like, okay, who's trod? Something is paranormal here.

Something's going on because you don't, yeah, you don't get this. This is happening to where, what we do in the dungeon, or where, sorry, what we do in the dungeons. What we do in the dungeons? What's wrong with me? There will be, there will be dinosaurs. There will be dungeons. We have about five or six things that have shown up in. Baldersgate 3 that are, we swear to you, 100% feel like they've been pulled from our campaign.

Yeah, really. Like, my character had a, had a Dragonheart. I've never seen that in any kind of D&D module. Yeah. There's a character with this heart. There's a whole bunch of other references, and it's weirding us the F out. Also, we found out a bunch of voice actors on the game, listened to CORE. We didn't know that.

Oh, really? Oh, that's awesome. starting to just like it's scratching her head so it's like that's what you're telling me sounds about right for my week it feels like there's just like some weird connections going on and it may be all coincidence but sure feels weird anyway uh well let's see what they say uh hey i got a story i got a story for you do you remember back in the day we heard the story when i think even when we were kids that um magnum p i aka uh tom selik was supposed to be indiana jones he was offered the job and then didn't take the job

job because something to do with Magnum P.I. And I'd heard that story a bunch of times. I was like, oh, that's weird. That would have been weird if Harrison Ford wasn't that character. But I never really put a lot of credence to it because I just thought it was an apocryphal story that nerds would tell each other about their favorite movie and it was just no big deal. Well, I found this audio of Tom Selleck talking about this very thing. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. And it's super interesting and also made me really like the guy. So anyway, here it is. I'll just play it for everybody. Check it out. I tested for Indiana Jones and got the job.

Stephen and George, my newest pals at the time, offered me the job, and I said, well, I've done this pilot, and they said, well, thanks for telling us. Most actors wouldn't do that, but we got cards to play with CBS. Turned out CBS wouldn't let me do it. They held the offer out for about a month. Harrison Ford hates to hear this. Harrison, this is your role and you're indelible in it.

It's just an interesting story. But, yeah, I mean, look, I signed a deal for Magnum. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm proud that I lived up to my contract. Some people said, you've got to get in the car and drive into a brick wall and get injured and get out of Magnum and do this. I said, I've got to look my mom and dad in the eye,

and we don't do that. so I did Magnum it's not so bad is it I think that is such a great telling of that story it is for a bunch of reasons one he gives Harrison Ford the credit that's due him and does it in a very graceful way and at the same time you know he's acknowledging that it was a major thing that he missed doing because of this contract but I also like the integrity of it all I'm going to fulfill the thing I committed to so yes he seems like that

that kind of guy right like the kind of the kind of guy that the characters that he plays share, you know, human qualities. It's just a decent dude. Yeah, decent, good man. And the thing is, people say, oh, that movie would have been so different. I don't know. I think he might have been fine. He might have been great, in fact.

Alamo Draft House, and I'm sure it's on YouTube as well, Alamo Draft House showed test footage. When we saw Dial of Destiny at Draft House the 30 minutes before, one of the things they showed was Tom Selleck doing a test. uh test footage or test video of the character and i can't remember if it was karen allen i think it might have still been karen allen that he was doing somebody like somebody who was also trying out to be her stood in for her or something so yeah and uh and it was like oh wow it's cool but now i feel like this could be you know we're not far from somebody saying oh yeah i've got i've used

AI to do the entirety of Raiders of Lost Dark and replace Harrison Ford with Tom Selleck. It might already exist, honestly. It might already exist. Or at least a scene. Somebody's taken a scene and swapped voice. I've already seen this with other stuff, so I know they can do it. They can do it, yeah. So we have the technology now to do it, but does anybody take them the time to do it,

I'd be interested to see. Or maybe I wouldn't be interested to see. Oh, here it is. Tom Selleck, Indiana Jones, Deep Fick. Oh, weird. Brian, you got to see this. All right. Let me send you this.

This is just a scene like you figured they would only do. But it's him fighting the sword guy in Raiders. Okay. And it's freaky, real looking, oh my gosh, right here. So, Chad, I'm going to show you this. I'm probably going to not record it, though. So for later YouTube people, so I'm going to pause that. All right.

So here you go, Chad. You can see it. I'll put a little audio to it as well. Here we go. That was great. Let's see. Yeah, look at that. Oh, and it's even

Like young Harrison Ford shot to start Oh, there's like all audio and stuff But look at him Yeah It kind of works It does kind of work They did a good job with us

Geez Yeah, it's freaky I'd watch the whole thing To see how it turned out Yeah, I would too You know, just to be I'm just curious about it Oh they even do

Bring back Bring back the stones Although that scene They didn't replace They still have the side of Harrison Ford's face when he talks to the dudes. You can see it though. You could see it. I'm just saying it's easy

to say, oh, that'd be so different. It's because you don't know any better. You know? If this is all you would ever seen, you wouldn't even think, you wouldn't even think about it. You would go, you'd hear, oh, Harrison Ford almost got the job. Hans Solo? I can't even picture that. I mean, you would have the same problem. That's the way our brains work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think there would be a level. I love Tom Selleck. Don't get me wrong, but after seeing

King Solomon's minds, right? Am I thinking of the right thing? With him? He wasn't in that. That was... Not King Solomon. What was the one he did that was like Indiana Jones that was... Quigley Down Under, was that it? Quigley Down Under, that's what I'm thinking of, yes. After seeing that, there's a level of camp that I think

he would have instilled in Indiana Jones that we didn't want. We didn't want that. Yeah. And he even says, like, right here, where is that? Richard Chamberlain was the... No, who was it in... Yeah, it was Richard Chamberlain, you're right? Richard Chamberlain, yeah.

Here we go. I'm tested for... Let me do it. Hold on. Harrison, this is your role and you're indelible in it, so it's just an interesting story. Yes, I mean, that's the truth of it. Yeah, for the end result is he is our Indiana Jones. It's worked out for the best for everybody, and he's even saying that.

but I like Tom Selleck. Oh, I do too. I think, yeah, I think there had been a little bit of a different, it definitely would have been a different thing, and I'm glad we got the thing that we got. Yeah, we got what we got, and we get what we get. How about that? Yeah.

All right. We are going to now do some news. Yeah, we should totally do that. We've taken enough of your damn time. Here's how I know. Because this played. Ooh, weird. Perfect timing.

It's the news. and it's brought to you by brought to you by this is i love this the draper city swarm ball league that's right so that's the the draper city is the is the little kid four year four year old soccer league that vans in and uh swarm ball was uh coined by listener and pal of the show michael miller aka joe uncool on twitter slash x.com uh anyway he's he's the one that coined yesterday says ah the of watching youth soccer, which at this age is more properly called swarm ball. And he is so correct. All they do is just swarm around this ball like it's a nucleus to a larger proton or something.

And they're all just like swarming around it. No one really scores anything. It's just ridiculous and stupid. But anyway, love that. So we decided to use it today. So thanks for that. Speaking of kids, at least two children have suffered injuries after going down slides covered in bears. spray oh no oh no yeah don't put bear spray on your slides you idiots stuff that repel like the it's like

um mace for bears right like it's stuff you spray at a bear to get them to it's that or it's the stuff stuff to keep them away in general like something you'd spray like say you have a campsite and you spray your um i don't know you got a cooler full of food yeah you'd spray the the cooler and it puts them off. I think it's the, it's the, ah, there's a bear, spray it. Oh, is it that stuff? Yeah. They don't get into it. They just, they just call it spray in here. So who knows what they're doing. But you're probably right. Yeah. The city has closed off two large slides located at the playground in Twin Lakes Park after at least two kids suffered injuries after going down the slide, believed to be vandalized and covered in bear spray. So it wasn't even on, it wasn't like an official application of the spray. Some kids did it. It was, yeah, somebody did it on purpose. Oh, whoever this person is really needs to be.

Little bastards, did it. Pinned down, pin down to a chair and have a little bit of bear spray spray. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Just a really stinky, make your eyes burn a little bit kind of spray. Maybe I shouldn't, maybe eye for an eye is not appropriate. You just want to scare them, that's all.

And I get that. I do. You know what? Yeah. Hold the spray in front. and then go with your mouth and then watch them go

watch them flinch see yep only we're only trying to do psychological damage your people all right right exactly just psychological damage totally physical damage

according to Michelle Fers great name or Elfers sorry it's Elfers mother elfers deputy director of the city and borough of Gino or Gino Parks and Recreation Department

or Juno Juno did I say oh I guess it's not like Juno Alaska though it's a different kind of Juno. Anyway. Is this not, uh, this is not Juno Alaska? Where is this? I don't know.

Twin Lakes Park. I assumed when I saw Juno in there that this is, uh, it's definitely spelled wrong, man. Because they're, even their websites spelled wrong if they're, because Juno Alaska's J-U-N-O, isn't it? No, it's J-U-N-E-A-U. It is? Yeah.

It's not spelled like the Roman Jupiter. Hold on. I'm having a serious, serious, serious brain fart. Let's hold while Scott Googles to make sure. No, I'm not saying you're lying. I'm saying I think I'm going crazy. Oh my gosh, I am going crazy. Hold on a second. Is this for real?

I was just in Alaska and saw signs. I swear, have I, have I, has my brain translated this to say, do you know when I see it? Am I thinking of the email app when we were in like our 20s? Remember June. I wonder if you're thinking of the, um, The Canadian Awards, the June Awards. Shit. That is one of the most hardcore Mandela things I've ever had.

Apparently, coincidentally, the most popular food item, though, in Juneau is carbonated meat. That one I'm still standing by until I get proof it doesn't exist. Those heels are planted, yes. I need proof, damn it. The funny thing is, I'm the one that should be required to bring them. proof and I can't find any, but someone somewhere needs to find me some carbonated meat. I know it exists. Yeah, we have an idea.

We talked about it at the tad pulled me up. Oh, what's the theory? Make you some carbonated meat. What's the how? You're going to make it and try it? Oh, shit. Who's doing this? Who's in charge?

Do you know? I can't remember if Amy or September brought it up, but we have the, we have a recipe that we're going to talk to Kim about making for you. all right i'll try it i'll do it yeah um yeah this blows my mind so i'm really freaked out all right so they're in alaska is that spelled the way i think it is man it's yeah and that spelled a l-a-a-a-s-k-a what i thought it was beep-bap-pah well anyway according to these people somebody did that and that's mean and don't do that okay yeah kids get hurt they slide really hard and uh they had to go oh there's some kid had just a reaction to it didn't even have Oh, I'm sure.

The slippy. I mean, it's pepper spray, basically, is what it is. Yeah, you're trying. Oh, and they found the empty can in the trash can near the park. Great. So maybe they can hopefully. Oh, look at the, do you see who the, the, uh, lieutenant's name? The Juno Police Department of Lieutenant?

Craig Campbell. Craig Campbell. Craig Campbell. Craig K-R-A-G. Somebody get Craig Campbell on the case. We have a news story with a Star Trek connection today. Yeah. Craig Campbell.

Craig Campbell. The Campbell part's a little weird for alien. The Klingons. Yeah. And Juno looks alien to me, so it's perfect. We nailed it. I cannot believe that. I'm still sort of shaken from it.

I swore for my whole life, J-U-N-O. I'm picturing episodes of Northern Exposure where they spell it that way. Really? I'm sure they didn't, but I have it in my head that they did. You have in your head that, yeah, gotcha. Man, I think that Juno email in the 90s ruined me because that was spelled it. I think that might have been it, for real. Yeah, yeah.

All right, moving on. Oh, yeah, a bunch of you submitted this, so thanks to everyone who did. Yeah, thanks. Thanks a lot. Thanks, everyone. Thanks. A lot. A live worm found in an Australian woman's brain.

It's a first time. That's not a worm. First time ever, by the way. This is a world first discovery. It was a fairly regular day on the award of the Ken Barra Hospital Infectious Disease Physician, Dr. Sanjira, hold on, Senanayaki, Sananayaki, Sananayake, maybe.

Something until neurosurgeon colleague called him and said, OMG, you wouldn't believe what I found in this lady's brain. It's alive and wriggling. Anyway, they pulled out in. Simple mind song. Alive and wriggling. Something in my brain. There you go.

It's like we're pulling. musical era has coming up on the show a lot today. Yeah, it totally has. Eight centimeter long parasite round worm from her brain. They weren't quite sure what to do. 64-year-old woman from southeastern New South Wales was admitted to a local hospital in late January, suffering three weeks of abdominal pain and dire. Oh, what do you got there?

Is that the length? That's eight centimeters right there. Like a little shorter than a. cigarette. I don't like it, Brian. No, I don't. Do you want to have that in your brain? No, you don't.

I don't want to have that. I don't want to have it any size in my brain. It's like a one centimeter live wriggling worm in my brain would not be good. She also had constant dry cough, fever, and night sweats all from this thing. By the year 2022, her symptoms also included forgetfulness and depression, prompting a referral to the hospital she was in. The MRI scan of her brain revealed abnormalities requiring surrogensualities requiring surgery, but they didn't see the worm in that process.

So they went in there, did the operation. Here's the quote. The neurosurgeons certainly didn't go in there thinking they would find a wriggling worm. It's just picture Rob Riggle. Isn't that weird? Just a little face on there? That's great.

Now I am too. It's impossible not to. Neurosurgeons regularly. That's the face. That's the face. I love that guy. I do too. Um, they say they regularly do it with infections of the brain, but this was once in a career finding.

No one was expecting to find that. She's going to be okay. They got it out, but, uh, they don't know how it got in there. I read later in the article. They don't know what, you know, what gets a worm into your head like that? I don't know. Yeah. Snorting.

What did you snort to cause that to happen? No kidding. Also another, um, parallel to Baldersgate 3. Anyone who's playing it knows that the whole, the whole point of that game is the evolve, you and all your companions have a paris parasite in your eye a wriggling worm that was put in your eye by um by nefarious means i don't want to give too much way you're gonna make me buy this thing aren't you scott i mean look i do you like really long involved potentially hundreds of hours RPGs do you like those uh i mean how many

hours do i think i'm in uh high rule with this Zelda game yeah hundreds of hours wouldn't call it an RPG though like a games where it's like tons of of tons of dialogue trees, lots of decision-making, turn-based combat. If you'd like that stuff, you'll love this game. Yeah, okay. But if, you know... I do and maybe, yeah, baby, but okay, I think it looks like something I can wait on then. PS5 version comes out next week or two weeks.

Yeah. Sixth, I think. So that might be when to grab it. Okay. I played with controller quite a bit because I play it on the Steam deck as well, and it's great on controller. Works good. It's a really amazing game. Because you're choosing, basically, you're choosing your path.

Like you're saying, oh, I'm going to play this. I'm going to use this spell. Or I'm going to choose this thing that I'm going to say to the person that we just came across. Yeah, and you are literally, you are literally playing D&D. Like, it's dice rolls. It's, you know, a lot of stuff happens in the background. Like when you're doing like perception dice rolls, those are just happening as you're

moving around the world but when you are in a situation where you need to convince something of something you might have to do a persuasion roll or and it'll roll a d20 you literally click in that d20 making it do its thing you have maybe bonus rolls we can add to it add a d4 from what's her name who's who can give you helping they're not helping hand what is it whatever it is anyway it's it's definitely it's like fifth edition rules d and d the video game really okay that's kind of kind of cool oh it's awesome it's kind of cool yeah best reviewed game in history, I think. It beat Tears of the Kingdom this year.

Tears of the Kingdom broke the record and then this came along and broke that. But they're totally different games. Like Tears of the Kingdom is very actiony and, you know, all that. Moving on to, oh, you know what? Moving on to take a break. That's what we're going to do. Oh, let's move on to break. Let's go to break.

When we come back from break, we will have our old pal, Bill here. Bill Duran will join us. We're going to talk about making stuff. Brian's got a little maker thing he wants to talk to us about as well, right? Did you bring that with you? Is it in the other room? I did. I have one right there.

I can grab it. Awesome. I can show it in the stream. Looking forward to that. Hey, Brian, before we do that, though, can you play a little song or something? Yes, I can. We're going to look at an L.A. Power Pop New Wave Band. That's right.

Listen to this. Called Uni Boys. Uni. B.O.Y.S. Two words. produced by Michael and Brian DiDario of the Lemon Twigs And it's going to be released in October, the middle of October on Curation Records So you've got a little bit of time to wait for the full album

That's all right. You're going to want to play this over and over and over again. It is a lead-off single to the brand new album. It is called, oh, the new album is called By This Now, perfect. Nice. The single is called Two Years. Here are the Uni Boys. Jealousy

Always gets the best of me It never leaves me meant to me It's always there within Generally More sensibly Ignore precious memories They're calling them in my skin Two years upon and you're still on my mind

Well I'm gone for good and things won't change this time But you're still on my mind You're on it every time I see your face Two years away from you, and now there's nothing I can do. Two years away from you, and though I've started through and through, I feel there's something pulling me closer, causing me to think me so, but guess that I am heading back to you.

Oh, oh, and I know it's true. you I feel empathy for those who battle tendencies to resort to their dependencies it's hard to straight from love's grip Endlessly, I'm reminded of our chemistry Even with logical secondly

It's never enough to persist Two years are born in yourself All along my mind Well, I'm gone for good and things won't change this time But you're still on my mind On my mind Yawning every time I see your face again

Two years away from you And now there's nothing I can do Two years away from you And though I've started through and through I feel there's something Pull of me closer Caughting me to think think Over

Guess that I am heading back to I'm still in love with you, you know, I'm still in love with you, you know, you tried to be crazy, even though you rearranged me, I still find some of myself in you. It's true, you know, I'm a believer, never thought I see a cleaner. You Two Two years And now there's nothing I can do Two years away from you

You know I feel there's something pulling me closer. Caughting me's super-shame things over. Guess that I am heading back to you. Oh, oh, and no, it's true. You're still in love with you. From our experiences with many people, we have tried to bring out misconceptions and facts

not well understood and tried to explain them on a scientific. basis. Next up, the Johnsons. When their waterline broke, they paid over $2,600. And we're back. Hey, I wrote down the name, but I'd like you to tell everyone else who this was. I'll tell you how to pronounce it because I know, you wrote it down, but you're not sure you've got it. I probably spelled it wrong. I guess I'm going to. almost guarantee you that. This is a band called the Uni Boys,

U-N-I-B-O-Y-S, and a brand-new single called Two Years. This comes from their upcoming album, Buy This Now, which comes out in the middle of October. Nice. I have a prediction. We're going to hear from people

who live in Juno who are going to tell us that this happens all the time. I bet it easily. You're definitely not the only person who... I'm going to feel better about it when they do, though. I'm going to feel better. Because right now I feel like an idiot.

my whole life. That Elliott Page movie probably, you know, swayed a lot of people into thinking that's how you pronounce. That's another one. That's another one. That's exactly right. I think I took the pop culture presentations of the name Juno and twisted it and just it stayed there. And even when I'm in Juneau, Alaska and I'm seeing signs, it's not clicking with me. So weird. Look at that weird, funny French spelling of Juno. That's funny.

They should fix that. So effed up. All right. Bill Duran time. You know him. You know what's up. I do know him, yeah. Yeah, he's a good dude. We're going to add him and add him to the group here. Goodest of dudes, really. Of all the dudes, he's one of the good ones.

There's still something wrong, isn't there, Bill? Hey, look who it is. It's Bill Duran joining us, as he does quite often here on the show on a Tuesday to talk about the world of makers and making things. And he hails, of course, from the Seattle area from a little company called Punish Props.com. it's good to have you back. Good morning. Are you in full, you're in full Dragon Con mode, right? I assume. Oh, yeah, no kidding.

You better believe, in fact, I need to make something from scratch today. Oh. Do you really? Like, is this the, oh, we need something for cosplay for Thursday. I guess let's make an entire stormtrooper. Yeah, you got to do the whole thing. But you probably have a plan. I know you well enough to know you got ideas, right?

I have a plan and I have a laser. cutter. Those are the only two things you need. I think I'm set. That's awesome. Well, tell us what's going on. It's been a while. We want to be inspired by whatever the heck you're working on.

Oh, before we do that, Brian, you had something you wanted to show off and then. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, Billard did a great job showing this off on Twitter yesterday, but this is the film, filaminder. I came up with the damn name and I should be able to remember it. I just wanted a name for it. So I'm like, fill a minder. But this is a spring-loaded filament holder that you put inside your filament roll to keep the filament from getting pulled out.

And the whole reason I did this, and there's a great, you know, a great thing that I learned from Bill is that most things like this come from the necessity of, well, I don't like putting the extra filament through the holes on the side because they often break and then things get tangled up. or by making those little three clips that you print on the side, those are great until you put your filament into a shelf where you've got other pieces of filament, and that clip just gets popped off because it rubs against the other side of another roll of filament. So I wanted something completely self-contained within the walls of the filament roll.

That's awesome. So I put it up on my site, Coverville 3D. You can coverville 3D.com slash shop. You can buy the STL. I made it dumb cheap just to make sure, you know, if you had any thought that you're going to want to print this thing at some point, it's a buck 50. It's like cheap. And there's two versions, one for resin printers, one for filament printers. Or hell, I'll print them for you. Made it super cheap too. I'll do eight of these for you for like 15 bucks with the magnets and all that stuff. Nice. Very cool. Sales pitch over. Yeah, I like it. Also, I just like the practicality of it. I think that's really great. Yeah, which is the whole point, I guess, yeah. So I printed one yesterday, and even though I printed it on my FDM printer, I did the one that's meant for resin.

Oh, you did? So the one you showed in that video is from an FDM printer? Yeah, and it did struggle a little bit with some of the smaller pieces, but it sure worked. Oh, it looks great. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, good. So worth experimenting with. I think it's great.

I love seeing 3D printed inventions. And it's a neat little thing. I'm going to probably print some more for our... I've been doing a lot of FDM printing and I have lots of rolls and I don't want to get tangled. Yeah. Yeah. My guess is your, that's a lot of people, a lot of 3D printers,

probably people sitting around going, man, all these rolls, what am I going to do? How do I, where's the... Exactly. How do I keep them from getting tangled? How do I, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Well, cool. Well, thank you. Yeah, very nice. Keep up the good work.

Yeah. Thanks, man. We'll do. All right. Bill, what are you doing, man? What's going on this week? I have a bunch of stuff to catch. you guys up on because I have been busy. The first thing super quick, I started, Brittany and I started

our own Discord server as sort of my way of maybe weaning myself off of Twitter maybe, I like the idea of having a place where I can have where the topics of discussion are my choice. Yeah.

So if anyone out there is interested in hanging out with people who just want to talk about making things and creativity and sharing the stuff they're working on and asking questions and getting help. I just tweeted out the link. I don't have a custom link yet, but if you go check out Twitter.com slash chin beard, you'll see a link to Discord where you can join us.

We also share a lot of animal photos. That's something else I want to both share and see. I can say after, you know, pretty concerted effort in the last year or so to make our Discord a much more, yeah, the place to go instead of just social media. media du jour. It's worked out really well. I love how our Discord is these days. You guys are going to build something red. I'm excited about that for you. Yeah, I'm excited to. I'm thinking at some point maybe of starting a gaming server of some kind. We've been playing Valheim again. So I might start a Valheim server. That would be a great place to coordinate that. We'll see. I have

plans. Nice. But so far, we've got a handful of people in there and just really enjoying talking about making stuff but also we have a channel for DragonCon specifically because we'll do a meetup and while we are there I want to have a place to talk to everyone else who's there about Dragon Con stuff. Very nice.

Love it. So we have been busy like I said we have made several videos since we last spoke and I'm going to go through them very quickly here. All right. First of all you guys are talking about Baldur's Gate 3. Oh yeah. Brits been playing it a whole bunch It is really cool.

We were contracted by Larian Studios to do a sponsored video and build something from the game. Oh, cool. Oh, yeah. That's cool. Let's hear all about this. I didn't know this, so I can't wait to hear what it is. So all of these videos are obviously over at PunishProps.com, you can see there on our YouTube page. We made the artifact that Shadow Heart is carrying around.

It is an icosahedron. or a D20, but it is got, it's got like spiky things on it and it glows from the inside. We built ours out of foam and we used a foam called Plastazzoate that is white, but it allows light through it. So we stuff that thing full of LEDs so that when you turn them on, the light leaks through the white foam part and it glows from the inside and it looks really cool. Oh, that's awesome, dude. she's my, by the way, so you can romance all the characters in this game, multiple characters if you want. She's the own, I am devoted to Shadow Heart.

I don't care about anyone else. She's my favorite. She's awesome. I even interact with the voice actor. It's not creepy or anything, but she's very nice also. But man, that character's real good. She's real good. Totally my type.

But anyway, that's great. Yeah, this little device you have, I won't give anything away, but it's a very mysterious thing in that game, especially early going. You're not really sure what the crap you got there. Yeah, I don't even know what it is yet. We're Britt's still working through Act 1, so we have no idea what it is. But we made it. And you can make it too.

We made patterns for it if you would like to go build one yourself out of foam. And this is a really good build if you're a beginner because it doesn't use a lot of foam. You don't even have to put lights into it. You could just paint it to look like it's all lit up. Let me ask you a question because one of the things that makes it unique, If you think of a 20-sided dye, the sides are flat. This thing has a concaveness to each side.

It does. That sounds hard to do in a solid piece of foam. How did you do that and not have it look all jank? So the angles, there are triangles that we cut out, and the edges are cut at an angle. And I figured out what would be the best angle to get them to lean in slightly. And then with foam, you can heat up the piece.

of foam and uh form it a little bit so i formed it over a sphere so that it dished a little bit and then once i glued them all together they maintain that shape that's cool yeah that looked really that looks hard to do it uniformly i guess is what i'm getting at you know it's not too bad when you glue it together um they all sort of press themselves into a uniform shape right okay that's cool the Because you think about, well, during the digital process or even with pen and ruler, you can mathematically identify, everything can be identical. But the minute you have to make that physical, that just seems like a handful. So I'm impressed that you figured out a way to do it.

All right. Yeah. Next build. We did a collaboration with our friends over at Film Riot. They wanted to do a video showing how to film miniature spaceships, the same way that Industrial Light and Magic would do it. So they sent us a toy of the Millennium Falcon. It's about 10 inches long. So it's sort of a small-ish toy.

They send it to us because while toys are getting really good at model, they're generally painted hastily. Yeah, right. Factory painted, you know. Yeah, she's a machine painted and stuff. It doesn't look screen ready or anything. Sure. So we took that toy, and I did a couple of things.

The first thing I did was I added some mounting points to it with quarter 20 screw holes so that they could screw them onto whatever film equipment they want. Oh, cool. Okay. Yeah, that was fun. I machined some parts so they could both attach it from the top or the bottom, and then they could hide those parts if they aren't being used. So you could film it from the top or the bottom.

And then we went over and repainted the whole thing. just to give it a fresh paint job. I'm looking at that paint job that's on there, you know, the out of the box, and it just looks like overly wet paint brush with dirt on it. Yeah. Yeah.

So they put like logos and text and stuff, they usually get pretty well, but it's that the nuance when it comes to weathering. Yes, right. Yeah. So we were able to go in. And it didn't take too long. But we were able to go in

and really, really refine that. And I'm super proud of how it turned out. So that's another, again, another really fun project, if you're a beginner, get one of your, a toy spaceship from the store and just give it a new paint job. Really fun. You don't need a ton of tools.

You could do it all by hand. I did some airbrushing, just some light airbrushing. That helped. And especially if you want to get into airbrushing, this would be a great one to get started on. That looks awesome. All right, third project, third in most recent. and we just put out a new video yesterday.

So for DragonCon, my friends and I are doing a group costume, which are so much fun. We're going obscure. We are dressing as the TGRI scientist from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Oh, yeah, we talked about this. You talked about it when it was still in its infancy, but you went ahead and did it. I think you weren't totally sure yet, right?

Or you hadn't totally decided. We're committed. We have the orange jumpsuits. We have hard hats. I'm building a giant dandelion. today for that. Okay, awesome. And then I made badges for everyone. So we talked about this last time, and I put up a video showing how to make badges for your costumes. And a lot of it's done in the program Inkscape, which is like Illustrator, but it's free. I even have a video course on Inkscape

over on our store, if you want to learn more about that. But I went through the whole process. We took photos of all our friends to put into the badges, and I made some legit-looking badges. And I'm happy with how they turned out. That's great. I can't wait for the group photos and all this stuff. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah. So, yeah, that is actually my favorite thing from DragonCon every year.

When I don't go, which is most of the time, but is seeing the photos you send back with all your costumes or cosplay, but also the folks that you pose with and the people you show. It's like, oh, you know, you guys are all so massively talented that thing. Yeah. I do like how this is a little low-key, though, you know, this particular one. Not everyone's going to get it. And we have another one, and I'll just tell you, because you're not going to be there to see it. You know the meme of Hela from Thor Ragnarok and Tycho Waiti, the director? Yeah, and it's always like when your mom looks at your artwork or whatever.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. So Brittany got, Brittany got a Hala costume for like $30 on eBay, and I got the same outfit as Tyka. and I'm going to have my iPad, and we're just going to stand there, and I'm going to be showing her my iPad, and I bet like five people are going to get it, and they're going to think it's amazing. Right, right. Oh, my God. For those who don't know what this meme is, I don't know how you see and search for it,

but search for hella, Tycho, a Titi meme or something, and you'll, it's one of the most, uh, kept, it's the gift that kept on given after somebody first used it. It's really good. Uh, that's great. Uh, very cool, man. I'm excited. This is when is like a week or, this is in two days

oh shit two days yeah all right look at you freaking sandbagging a wad of content before you leave oh yeah I'm kidding

then I'm gonna take all of next month off so I can play Starfield yeah I'm pretty excited that thing is well for early access starts like in a couple of days if you have

if you buy the expensive version but then game pass and every other purchase version will be on the 6th I think but that's gonna consume my soul. I got the expensive version. Yeah, you did.

I got the watch with the case. Of course you did. And you're probably going to take that out and make it cooler than when it came to you or something. The thing is, though, it's like all everybody wants to talk about is Ballard's Gate 3, but we're about to get another AAA freaking banger, hopefully. It's got to be bonkers. This year is insane. Baller's Gate in the next two days.

Come Starfield. That's going to take two more television. on hold. Yeah. It's something you're never going to come back to if you don't do it. I was saying this on Quora, it's just like, that's all I'm going to want to do. So I didn't get the expensive one because it's a 30 bucks to play

it early. That just seems like a lot. You know? And your version's different though. You're getting physical stuff. You're getting the watch. You're getting all that. That's cool. $300. Yeah, yeah. That's a whole different bag of cheese. But in my case, I'm really on the fence about the 30 bucks and I don't know why. I know I want

to play it early, but I don't know. Do I really? I'd probably be okay till the sixth, you know? Get a little more Baldersgate done. There you go. Get some power wash simulator under my belt. I've been playing a bit of that. Anyway, Bill, it's always good to hear from you. Punishprops.com's the place to go.

Check out Punish Props YouTube channel where all this content is today. It's really good stuff. Before you go, do you have a link for us? Oh, yeah. Give us a little thing. Bonus. Film Riot, they put up their video for our collaboration. So head on over to their channel.

Check out their video on filming. Star Wars with miniatures. Nice. You can see how our Falcon looks up on the big screen. And they did a great job. It's so cool. I love those guys. Those guys are rad.

And always good to see when you guys are doing some crossover. That's awesome. Yeah. It's Bill the Rand. If you're somewhere in the Atlanta area during DragonCon, look for a guy in a yellow jumper-looking thing with a helmet and a name tag. Come say hi. Yeah, come say hi to him.

Make your own meme with Bill Duran. Bill, have a fantastic week and enjoy you the con and we'll see you next time. Later, friends. Bye, Bill. Oh, it won't hang out. I've got Bill's link up on QuicktmS.L.I as well as the recommendals from last week, which I thought once I got to the cabins, I just go ahead and post it and I never got around to it. And everything I need to do it, but I didn't do it.

It's fine. Look, you're going there to have a good time. let Dunaway bring 400 pounds of crap from the 80s. Let him do all that. Which I had to haul in, by the way. I had to help him load in his 2017-inch CRT television and his VCR and his rewinder and his turntable. Yeah, that's a lot of crap, man. He's so committed to that stuff, though.

He is, but you know what? You can tell it's a labor of love and he loves it. Yeah, he's got passion for it. Yeah. Which is, you know, not everybody can say they got passion for stuff, but he can. No. Yes, for sure. Real quick to end things today.

We have a call from Amy. She actually sent this before you guys went, which will explain some of what she says here. But she had a thought about a news story we covered last week. So here it is. Hey, Scott and Brian. This is for TMS. And this is Amy. And you guys are missing.

I was just listening back to today's show. It's Monday, by the way. And you guys were talking about the lady with the Doc-Ock arms thing. You guys are missing the most obvious application, which is. for puppeteers. I mean, the octopus is actually the mascot of the

Puppeteer Association of America. So, there you go. I have given you a practical application for such a thing. And, yeah, and have a good week. Oh, I forgot. I edited it out of the part where she says, and I look forward to seeing you there, Brian, because it just seemed weird posting

it after the facts. I forgot I took it out, so that's all it was. So she was looking forward to seeing you. She was looking forward? She was. Good, because, well, gosh, that changes everything the way I treated those, too. Because I wasn't sure they were looking forward to seeing me, and Boyle's really mean. I know. Well, you know, I took it out. It's just an extra level of caution.

I didn't want to cause any more problems. But anyway, yeah, no, she's right. And I didn't know that the, why would an octopus be the logo of the puppetry association? Because it's got all the arms, all the many arms, so you can have a, you can do a whole puppet. This is my guess. Somebody can confirm it. But I'm guessing just because you've got all the extra appendages to do more puppets. I guess so.

Well, then she's right. This is the utopia we've all been waiting for for puppets. For sure. All you need is one person wearing that and then one David Bowie and you got yourself Labyrinth, two. That's exactly. That's all you need. That's all you need.

Oh, no more David Bowies, though. We've run out. Along the way from Atlanta to Asheville and back, we passed in one of the towns a pigly-wiggly. And of course, both ways, Amy had to do her, uh, pig deals are happening at the pig rewink, like her, her voiceover. I love that thing. And she, she turned it on in like a split second and it was just like, wow, just right into it. And it's so funny. That's great.

That's great. Love that. Um, I found an old file from her back, you remember back when we were on the, uh, what would, what did we call that weird little consortium group of podcasts? We're all together. Pod show or mevio or. No, it was something we all said on our shows. It was like, Oh.

This is, you're listening to the Pod Something Network. Tripod? It's on. That's it, Tripod. With Len Peralta's deal, yeah. Yeah,

and if I, see if I can find it. Oh, I don't know where I put these files. I found some really old audio of various people, and Amy's one of them. Oh, funny. Wow.

Doing this tripod network, it's on or whatever. What a weird time. Netcasts you love. from people you trust we've given up on this we don't we no longer push for this weird we're not we're not sure we're quit trying to make netcasts a thing that's right prion ibbson we don't do it in yeah that's Brian Abbott that's oh now you're Brian Abbotson sorry I'm Brian Abbott he's a Abbott or Abbotson I don't remember now I think just

Abbott Brian Abbott oh well Brian Abbott still doing coverville a little bit I have it right when I become let's see if I can find it okay when I become Brian Abbotson then we know I'll fully made it. Is it this one? Brian Ibbott. No, that's where he got you right. He did that. Scott Johnson's got quite the...

That's not it. Oh, that's not it. Brian Ibbotson. Ibbotson. I can't find the Abbotson or Abbott. I don't know if we ever kept it. We just played it from the YouTube video or the podcast link. I found it.

Brian Abbott is still doing coverville. Oh, that's what he almost said Abbotson. He went, Brian Abbots. He almost said Abbotson. Yeah. It's like, oh, no, I'm not going to say Abbotson, because that's wrong. I've been corrected so many times on that. I'll say Abbott, which is correct.

Yeah, we'll get that fixed. That's amazing. All right, that's going to do it for today's show. Big thanks, everybody, for supporting the show. Look, we've got a brand new month rolling over, and that's a perfect time to hop in. We're going to do a play date this weekend. Are we doing it our normal Friday time, did we say? Well, we should talk about that because we've had some people request to do a Saturday play date.

that people who work on Fridays can participate. I think that would be fine to do it after a film sack or something. Yeah, could you throw up a like a poll on, or just we just do it. Maybe we just do it and we don't even like give people the option. Yeah, we're, we're going to dictate your lives. That's what we're going to do. Why don't we say, so we usually end around what 11 at the latest? Yeah, yeah.

So if we said, I don't know, 1130? 11.30, yeah. I like that. Let's say 1130. 11.30 Saturday, play date. That means anybody in the anybody, actually, this isn't just patrons. Anybody in the audience who wants to come watch and even maybe play. Patrons get first shot, but if we fill up slots or whatever,

you can definitely get in. Don't know what we're playing yet. We'll figure that out. There was talk of a, shoot, what was that? I'll have to do some research. Somebody was saying, oh, is there a new game that we could possibly do that? Yeah, but I can't remember if it was like more than a, if it was enough like we won a stuff where you know at least eight or more people can play

and i don't remember if what they talked about was that so i got to find out i'll find out okay yeah um but something anyway that'll happen saturday 11 30 and there we did it we locked it in 1130 saturday 11 30 we've locked it in it's happened help help it's happening that's right most fridays you get your uh your couch parties which will return to the very following week and uh every day you're going to get pre-show content as well you're going to get other great monthly benefits. You can only get those by being a patron at patreon.com slash TMS. Big thanks to everyone who already

does. And if you have other questions, you want to request songs. You have all those other links we always talk about. Quicktm.lis linked there as well. You can go to frogpants.com slash TMS to get everything, all of it. And we record every morning at 9 a.m. Mountain Time

right here at frogpans.combees.combe, if you want to watch us live. All right, that is the town of Salem? What is? Who? Where? The game? The multiplayer game. Merrick said town of Salem. I'm looking at it right now. It looks like an online one-night werewolf kind of thing. Salem, I haven't heard of this.

I'll give you a link. Unless this is the one they were telling me. It's a video. Oh, yeah. Blankmediagames.com. Oh, America was suggesting it. This looks really cool. This would be a great one to do. So it's five bucks. 2014. It's older.

Oh, wow. No kidding. Let's see. I'm trying to see if this. Can people join in if they don't have it? Well, we'll look into it. I know there's a few of these things floating around. Oh, there's a Town of Salem 2 on Steam, too, so we'd probably want to get the sequel. But yeah, we'll talk about it. That sounds actually really, really, that'd be a lot of fun. Yeah, that one just came out. August 25th. Did it? Okay, so that might be why it's... Eight bucks.

And, yeah, and we can, you know, it's basically among us verbally. That could be fun. That would be a lot of fun. I'd totally be up for that. The only reviews that are bad are saying, very fun game, but toxic community. Well, we're not doing that because it'd be just us. Yeah.

That problem is solved right there. This guy says, best social deduction game ever if you are racist. So there must be a, I think they clearly have a community problem, but we wouldn't have that problem because it'd be us playing. That's definitely a them problem and would not be an us problem. No, I don't think so anyway. All right, that's going to do it for today. Brian, let's play a song to take us out.

What do you have? Yeah, absolutely. This one, I'm finally getting to this, and I apologize. I'm getting to it late, but we had a lot of stuff going on this month. This one was from the 11th of this month, so a couple weeks, three weeks late. Hi, Scott and Brian, says Anonymous. I'm keeping myself anonymous, as I was the emailer for Therapy Thursday back in October 2021, 2021 episode, episode number 2190, dealing with a lack of will to live. You mentioned that you would like to hear an update, but there really wasn't any change until recently.

A mere week and a half ago, I met someone. She's also someone that has had to deal with loss. She's a widow. We have connected in a way that is almost troublesome with how powerful it is. Last night, she proposed to me. She wants to start the rest of our lives together as soon as possible. We're going to the courthouse on Friday. I've never been one to rush things like this, but it feels right.

I was wondering if there was a cover of Adam Sandler's grow old with you to play in celebration of our nuptials. If not, another appropriate selection would be a cover of Queen's Love of My Life. I know this isn't much notice, but if you have a spot on Friday or soon after that, I can surprise my Scottish tornado of a fiction with it would be appreciated, signed anonymous. This is great news to hear that this is all going on for you. This is great. Absolutely. All of that makes us happy to hear.

So congratulations, Anonymous. And yeah, Grohl with you, we've got a cover of that. This one's by Brent Morgan. Came out as a single this year. And it's a sweet song. I won't, you know, I'll tell you that, well, one of our first class passengers has asked to sing this song and dedicate it to a person and coach. We're going to allow it because we basically let our first class passengers. Pass passengers do whatever the beep they want.

So here you go. Going out to you and congratulations and good luck, Anonymous. We love hearing from you this great news. Here is Grow Old with you by Brent Morgan. I want to make you smile whenever you're sad. Carry you around when your arthritis is bad. Oh, all I want to do is grow old with you I'll get your medicine when your tummy aches

Build you a fire if the furnace breaks So it could be so nice growing old with you kiss you Give you my cold When you are cold Need you Feed you I'll even let you hold

The remote control So let me do the dishes In our kitchen sink Put you to bed when you've had too much To drink oh I could be the one Who grows old with you

I want to grow old with you I want to grow old with you