The Morning Stream - TMS 2575: New Year, Same Show

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

Rock-Em, Sock-Em Rats. Holy sister of the immaculate nugget. First Shit of 2024. I'll Never Say Twenty Twenty Threeeeeeeeeee. Both Ends Have A Butt. I can't drive...whatever the posted speed limit is ...in your particular state! Flipping the Fryers in the Temple of Big Mac. I can't believe I paid $55 for this! American Balls Dropping. OK New Boomers. You'll have no stops, no traffic signals, and no Lieutenant Yar!! Jamie's Big Nasty Hand. Stop trying to make AWE SOME happen. Red On-Air Light with Bill and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 TMS is brought to you daily by the support of our patrons at patreon.com slash TMS, like Rabbi Bob, Graham Stroll, and Mario. Coming up on TMS, rock'em-sock them rats. Holy sister of the Immaculate Nugget. First shit of 2024. I never say 2023. Both ends have a butt. I can't drive. Whatever the posted speed limit in your particular state is.
Starting point is 00:00:25 Fliping the friars in the temple of Big Mac. I can't believe I paid 55 for this. American balls dropping. Okay, new boomers. You'll have no stops, no traffic signals, and no lieutenant y'ar. Jamie's big, nasty hand. Stop trying to make awesome happen. Red on Airlight with Bill and more on this episode of the Morning Stream.
Starting point is 00:00:48 Cameras and keyboards take the place of traditional party favors as computer operators around the world prepare to take the information super highway to the first ever Internet New Year's Eve back. What you're seeing, I think, is a glimpse into the future. While revelers bring in 1995, strategically placed cameras will send live pictures and sound to the internet, where users will have the opportunity to download the hottest parties around the globe. In a happy new year. In a happy new year. I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a gladly pay you Tuesday for a. a hamburger today.
Starting point is 00:01:31 This is the morning stream. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbett. Yes, just like last year.
Starting point is 00:01:51 We're doing it. We did so well with it last year. We're going to keep the same format this year. Yeah, we didn't change a damn thing this week. No. Okay? Nothing changed. changes today. You know, we have a few references at two being a new year. We may talk about
Starting point is 00:02:04 the new year a little bit. Right. But it's the same shit you're signing up for, okay? But I'm still writing 2023 on my checks. My goal is, and I know this is dangerous, but my goal is on TMS to not screw up and call it 2023 this year, not even once. I'm going to do it. I'm going to pull it off. My prediction is within the next five episodes. It's totally fine. I think you should have this prediction because it'll help me be motivated. I'm going to be thinking about it every day because I don't like to lose.
Starting point is 00:02:35 So if you keep clear by January 10th, then, yeah, you're good. Now, here's the weird thing. The entire break, which, you know, we missed TMS terribly, although we did put a New Year's Eve, a little special. Hopefully people enjoyed that. But, you know, it was the first time we've really taken the entire Christmas to New Year's week off. and every night of that take time off
Starting point is 00:03:01 without exception I think I slept great just wonderful sleep oh no really oh gosh I hope the two aren't related totally slept like baby most of that time really last night not terrible sleep
Starting point is 00:03:16 I'm not saying it's TMS's fault in fact I'm convinced you know it's like this is something we look forward to not something that we go to bed saying oh god we've got new TMS on this tomorrow i know i know it's the thing is i had to kind of like probe my mind and figure out why i was feeling that way and i think i know i have a simple but i'm getting a uh or a cavity fixed today like an old filling is cracked and like just fix it not a big deal i've been uh i was
Starting point is 00:03:43 supposed to do it two weeks ago or whenever i was six i had to push it and they were like well we don't have any appointments till january i'm like fine so now it's here and i think that's probably why i didn't sleep because you know what going to the dentist sucks ass and i don't want to go okay yeah it does It does indeed. I don't want to go. I'm going to feel great after. I'll be a little numb.
Starting point is 00:04:01 That's fine. That wears off. I'll probably grab one of them there, J-dogs on the way home. Because that's what they give you over there when you get work on. That's right. You get a free J-Dog coupon. That is the...
Starting point is 00:04:11 It's pretty great. What is up with that business? I love that it annoys you every time I bring it up. You're like, my dentist needs to step up his game. But anyway, it's... I'm not looking forward to this at all because, you know, people's hands in my mouth. No thanks.
Starting point is 00:04:26 don't like it right yeah it's your it's one of your top uh like it's a thing that comes up any time we see it in a movie for film sack it comes up as what gross got out the most yeah fingers in somebody else's mouth or lick in somebody else's face what are you doing what are you how are we living our lives you know you are not liking any of that business no but i but i will you know go through with it hopefully maybe a story or two for the show tomorrow it's worth it if there is we'll see yeah i mean you want it to be oh my god the worst thing happened to me at the dentist's office. I'm going to tell you all about it on TMS. No kidding. Oh, speaking of the thing I've got to tell you guys about, you know, Mike Pachulik's always sending
Starting point is 00:05:03 his cool stuff. He's just the nicest guy. I got something in the mail that now sits directly next to the thing Brian sent me. Oh, all right. And when I say thing, I mean the beautiful, the wonderful, Furioso with her gun out and her hand out, you know. So she's sitting over here looking at me all day. And then, now, next to her is this thing that I probably should paint. She probably primer this up and paint it. But Mike Pichulik sent me. me a bust of Tio Salamanca. Oh, look at that. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:05:32 Look at that. All right. So, look at that's a perfect face. Why hasn't somebody, that's a huge bust, too. It's like a Beethoven, you like flip that down and, and the bat pole. Oh, now that would be cool. I should figure out a way to open this and then have like a little blown up Gus fring in there or something.
Starting point is 00:05:50 But let me tell you, what you need to do is cut the top off of that head and put a bell Like a, like a, like make the top, the bald top of Salamanka's head a bell. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Yeah, I love it. And then rig him with explosives. Oh, wait, I've taken it too far, darn it. Oh, wait. This is so nice, and I'm so, I just was so surprised to get this in the mail.
Starting point is 00:06:11 Is that resin or is that? No, it's, it's filament. It's filament. Wow. The layer lines are, from this view are nearly invisible. Yeah, they look really good. The only thing it probably needs is, you know, painting. Because it's kind of pink.
Starting point is 00:06:24 You can't really see how pink. it is. It was pretty pink. Oh, is it pink? Okay. Yeah. But in his head's separate, so that's how they pulled it off. They did two pieces here.
Starting point is 00:06:31 But I love it. And now he sits here and looks at me all day. Great. Very disapprovingly, by the way. He's not happy. He's pissed. Yes. No, exactly.
Starting point is 00:06:40 I love the expression on his face, though. The twisted dust scowl. It's like the very last thing Gus Frank saw before he went, no! And then boom. Yeah, well, before half of his face went, no. That's right. Somebody recreated that in, uh, Was they go? No, Half-Life 1, I think.
Starting point is 00:06:58 Oh, really? So they had like the, you know, the white-haired professor that was always going, oh, you're late, Gordon. Get in the room now, Gordon. That guy, he's in the chair going, freaking out. And then one of the other doctors who looks a little more like Fring is doing the work. And they use the voices of the characters from the game to recreate the scene. And even when he's hitting the bell, it's the half-life sound, the button sound from Half-Life? Really?
Starting point is 00:07:23 It's real good. It's real good. Oh, it's funny. Yeah, I highly recommend it. Anyway, Mike, you're awesome, and I don't even know what to do it with myself after I got this. This is amazing. I love it. What an obscure thing.
Starting point is 00:07:33 Now I want them all. I want, can I get a Pinkman? Can I get a, can I get a, pink, pink man? A pink man. I want Mike. Yeah, Tucco would be cool. I'd go for a Mike. Skinny Pete and a badger bust.
Starting point is 00:07:47 All of them. Give me the whole set. I'll even take a Skyler one. All right? Sure, why not? She's not a problem. Even a Skyler. Even a Skyler.
Starting point is 00:07:57 All right, let's get into it. How was your New Year's? Did you do anything crazy on New Year's Eve? We had, so my parents came out from Vermont. My dad and stepmom came out from Vermont and stayed with us for the whole weekend. Arrived on Saturday right before the Mammoth game, but they had friends they were going to see that night. So it worked out perfectly. And we went to, I took them to Meow Wolf, blew their minds with that place.
Starting point is 00:08:22 Yeah, but that was cool. They loved it. They said, oh, my gosh, this is so creative and really weird. And that part is kind of scary because it's like you go into these areas where there are these monsters that, like, you know, both ends have a butt, you know, no head. Or these things that are just kind of gripping the walls and looking at you from, you know, from far away. The meowulf here, basically every meow wolf is different. I don't know. I haven't been to the Texas ones.
Starting point is 00:08:52 but um and they're they're different but they do they stay the same or do they all do they change their setup every year so far none of them have have um changed their story there might be like improvements or things that they they fix or add or whatever but it's um uh for the most part it is just static you know your static um right uh set up at any of it's like a like a permanent installation that way or whatever whatever. Yeah, exactly. So we're, you know, we're trying to find Tristan, who was working that night, and we're making our way through the, through the whole place, the exhibit. And finally we go down to, you know, they actually did play the rat fight game, Hobbs Dog, which is cool. It's like a, it's like a video game cabinet that's open on both sides with a glass center and two rockum-sockham rats in the middle of it that you're controlling with little controllers. that beat each other up. You guys get to control or someone else does this?
Starting point is 00:09:55 You guys get to control. Oh, that one's not the Vegas one. I want that. It's not the Vegas one. Yeah, super cool. But, so we're looking for Tristan. We decide, oh, well, let's take the elevator up to the level that I don't think we've explored much of yet. And we get in the elevator.
Starting point is 00:10:09 And there's a woman already in there. And we walk in and she, like the door closes and we say, hi, how you doing tonight? And she's like, nah. I can't believe I paid $55 for this crap. Oh, my God. Wow. Not a happy customer. Wow.
Starting point is 00:10:31 I mean, what? I did not get the creativity or the inspiration from it or figure out like, oh, you know, this storyline of this place called Convergence Station, which lets you go to all these other areas and your memories get stored in this place and this other things. Like, I can't believe I paid 55. bucks for this. That's a boring way to live. You got to... Exactly. Happy New Year to you, lady. Hope you have a real good one. Open up your horizons a little there,
Starting point is 00:11:00 lady, and enjoy yourself. It's not for everyone. Claire's always going to take the negative, isn't she? No matter what I say, she's going to be the anti. If I say, oh my God, this place, yeah, it's just not, it's not great. She'd be like, no, it's absolutely the most creative place on earth that everybody should love it. Yeah, no, that's
Starting point is 00:11:15 her deal. And she does this so that you'll see that she does it, and then someone at home will write it and say, How come you guys reply to Claire all day? Yeah, that's right, exactly. You're right. Not we're playing to Claire anymore during the show. Take that, Claire, Gack.
Starting point is 00:11:29 Take it. Exactly. Oh, that's fun, though. So no, no mishaps, though. Everything went well. No mishaps. No, it was a really good time. We broke out last night, so they left this morning before the show.
Starting point is 00:11:41 And last night, I cooked a rump roast, a old Tina really cooked it. I was going to suave it. And then I realized yesterday morning, planning an eight-hour suvied that nope for a rump roast you really want to have like 24 hours suvied so we decided to uh we gave it a good rub down with some thyme and rosemary and some uh salt and garlic and stuff and then put in the oven and cooked it for five hours there nothing wrong with everything about that sounds magnificent so good so so good and then afterwards i said hey how about a board game and i pulled out i knew that they probably wouldn't be in
Starting point is 00:12:21 to like zombie side or Catan or something that that you know takes a long time to explain and is complicated so I broke out a game
Starting point is 00:12:31 called Sagrada and it's the Sagrada artisans and it's a game basically where you you have a stained glass window made of squares you roll these
Starting point is 00:12:42 colored clear dice and you put them in the places that meet all the criteria of your card in those in that grid and a couple restrictions. You can have two numbers, be the same next to each other. You can have two colors, be the same next to each other.
Starting point is 00:12:58 And your specific card that you drew that goes into it also sets certain boundaries that you have to stick to. It's crazy. A legacy game of dice, drafting, and window coloring. Yes. Stain glass. This is, it's such a beautiful game. It's modeled after the, what, Sagrada Familia, church in, I want to say
Starting point is 00:13:22 Madrid. Sounds like Spain. I think. Yeah. Yeah. But it's, it is such an incredible game and so, like, completely family friendly. 15-year-olds to 90-year-olds. No problem playing it very thin. Oh, Barcelona. So it's, okay. Barthelona.
Starting point is 00:13:40 It's in Barcelona. Okay. It's it is such a quick game to pick up, but there's so much strategy and everything involved that it's not a easy, easy win game. It's interesting. Maybe I'll bring it to, I might bring it to TMS Vegas.
Starting point is 00:14:00 Oh, yeah, you should. It looks cool. I'd play this, yeah. I love the look of it, wow. Awesome. Yeah, board games with your dad, that's fun. Can't beat that. So everyone should have in their collection, Sagrada, S-A-G-R-A-D-A.
Starting point is 00:14:17 That's right, by Floodgate Games. if you go to the flood gates look for them baby yeah uh all right well our christmas eve was kind of not i mean just not eventful we went to some friend's house darren's house uh played a bunch of jackbox nice um i felt like i this hasn't happened before because when we play with us it's just us hanging out having fun whatever we don't think that hard about it but when i'm playing somebody else who isn't doing a lot of that yeah they aren't as adept at some of those games that we are. And I was just, I was rocking people in, uh, I'm sure you were. Yeah. It was fun. Did you, what did? Uh, it was the, the pack they had was the one that had
Starting point is 00:14:58 the original TKO in it. So we played some of that. Oh, okay. Yep. Um, we played gaspionage. I forgot how fun that is. Gaspianage is awesome. Oh, Gespionage is great with percentages. Yeah. That's a, that's a great like, I've never played a jackbox game before. It's a great introduction because I mean it's just high it's just it's basically just high high low yeah with the focus being on the number
Starting point is 00:15:21 instead of the answer but it's it's great the way they just the way that thing's constructed it's just a fantastic game we we snooze on that too much we should play that one more often but it's an older pack so I never think about it yeah anyway and then we played the original
Starting point is 00:15:36 dungeon or uh not dungeon murder party um what's it called trivia murder party A good dungeon murder on my mind. Yes. I wonder why. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:48 We did play some of that too, but we played dungeon or, sorry, we played trivia murder party one. And they have a very significant rule change from one to two that I didn't know about. Because my first exposure to that game was the second one with you guys. I have never played the first. And in the second game, and you're doing the little final hallway thing where someone's trying to escape. And the dark's coming after the laggers in the back, gung, gung, gung, gung. You get the three things. When you get to the end and you're about to go over and escape,
Starting point is 00:16:20 you have to get a perfect answer card to get through. Correct. Yes. Even if you get one point. Which can be tough because you don't get all the, all of the choices, right? Or do you, when you get to that last one? I think when you get all, they start giving you all the choices, I think. Okay.
Starting point is 00:16:37 I don't remember for sure, but I think they do. Yeah. But here's what's different with the original. The original one, even if you had a three, questioner and you only got one right, that's enough for you to win because you just cross over. Yeah. And the new one, they make you get a perfect score before you cross over. And it really changed.
Starting point is 00:16:52 I thought it was always a perfect score thing. Yeah, they must, I don't know, that must be the only major change because everything else I played in that first game was very similar. Yeah. Almost the same. Just different trivia. Although I'm convinced they update all their games for modern questions. Because there's some stuff that one brought up where this all happened after that game came out. Oh, yeah, then I'm sure they do.
Starting point is 00:17:15 So that's a lot to maintain. Which is a great, which is a great way to increase the replayability of something. Oh, I agree. Yeah, but I just can't believe they do it for they must do it for every game that has trivia. I mean, some games don't have trivia, but it's crazy to me, and then you can make your own for, you know,
Starting point is 00:17:31 your own packs for drawful and stuff like that. But anyway, super fun. I haven't played, right, I haven't played regular, you know, old genus edition, trivial pursuit in a while, but I wonder how many of those questions you say, well, as of 1987. Yeah, yeah. We also had some sausage.
Starting point is 00:17:48 She made, not German, British sausage rolls. Bangers? Oh, British sausage rolls. Oh. They're really good. I was surprised by those. So we had that,
Starting point is 00:18:00 and then we had some kind of stew that was very traditional British thing. She's got all kinds of family from there, so that's why she did it. And it was nice. It just hung out, you know? I had a couple of mock tales. uh-huh
Starting point is 00:18:12 and uh we didn't watch anybody's ball drop but because that's boring we we had it on in the background we were watching uh oh Vanderbilt dude uh
Starting point is 00:18:23 Jeff no oh my god Andy okay it was Andy Circus that would be great right yeah yeah circus would be great uh
Starting point is 00:18:33 Andy Circus and Anthony Bourdain why can I remember their names on CNN watching one of them get completely hammered the other one. The other Anderson guy, Cooper Anderson, Cooper, Anderson. Anderson Cooper, Cooper, and, oh, God. The other guy.
Starting point is 00:18:51 Yeah, the other guy. Anyway, Andy Cohen. Got it before anybody said it. I got it before Show Joe said it. That's true. I can confirm. I watched the chat. Brian got it first.
Starting point is 00:19:01 I should just remember it's AC and AC, right? Yeah. But, you know, watching Andy Cohen completely get shit-faced, I'll just say it on, let's let's pop the chair. of 2024 with our first Oh, our first shit. Nice job. Our first shit of the year. But having that on in the background means you don't have to listen
Starting point is 00:19:21 to all the inane conversation, but you can still see the madness of the people who have waited 16 hours in Times Square, shoulder to shoulder with everybody else for a chance to watch a giant ball go
Starting point is 00:19:37 from the top to the bottom of a pole. Not interested at all. No. If I live there, I would not be. Yeah, you only do it so you can tell people you did it. There's no, nobody goes there and says, we're going to do this every year. They do this and say, all right, well, we did this once. We don't ever need to do this again, but we can now tell people we've done it. Yeah, and I think it's a lot of tourists. I don't think locals get as stuff. Someone in New York can correct us. Like, Ian, if we have this wrong, if Ian's listening, you can correct us on this, but it just seems like you guys probably roll your eyes out of a bit. I did see, I didn't know this, but Idaho does a drop, their own at the state capital.
Starting point is 00:20:16 It's a big old potato. I'm guessing it's a potato. Just a great big, glowy potato, and like it explodes as it lands as they get to the, you know, 3, 2, 1 and everything. And I thought, man, that's really leaning into your stereotype, you know? Yeah, but, you know, they're doing, they're sticking with what, with what brung, they're dancing with the date what brung you. That's right. That's right. Every time you guys get French fries in this country, there's a very good chance they came out of it.
Starting point is 00:20:44 You know, that does bring up a question. It is the big apple. Why is it a Swarovsky crystal ball and not a big apple? Yeah, why not a huge apple? Didn't they? Okay, as a kid, I have a distinct memory that they did decorate up like a light-based apple. But I might be wrong about that memory, but it seems to me at one point New York dropped a giant, glowy apple. It feels like they did at one time. Yeah, I think I'm remembering that as well. I can't tell you when it happened. Maybe you and I were kids or something. I don't know. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:21:14 You know, Dick Clark said, how about one year we do this with a big apple? I did have, so we had, Alicia's dad is here from the Netherlands where he's, he's from here, but he's over there running a company for three years for the company works for running an office and he'll come back.
Starting point is 00:21:31 Anyway, it was here for the holidays. We had him over for dinner one night. And it was a weird moment of like, Oh, my gosh, you and I are literally a month apart in age, me and this guy. He went to a rival school, grew up the exact same time, remembered a bunch of names of football players and crap like that. Same music tastes.
Starting point is 00:21:54 It was great. I'm so happy to meet somebody who is in our age group now, who hasn't turned into a total nerd ball or a jerk or whatever the word is I'm looking for. Yeah, we love our nerd balls. No, I love nerve balls. Just turn into a total jerk, a little... Yeah, a little jerky jerk. And this dude's all into...
Starting point is 00:22:13 He wanted to talk about Star Wars. We wanted to talk about all this stuff. Oh, perfect. Great. He's some big shot executive dude, but he was super down to earth, really nice guy. So that was fun. That's so cool. Very cool. We've got a quick email here.
Starting point is 00:22:25 It's a text, actually, about speeding from Jeffrey Hart. And Jeffrey says the following. After listening to the comment about Montana and the speed limit, I realized the person was probably too young. to know. In 1973, President Milhouse Nixon ordered a limitation of the speed on all vehicle
Starting point is 00:22:45 up to 55 miles per hour maximum for any and all roads in this here country. What's Nixon's first name again? Mill House, something Nixon, isn't it? Millhouse is the middle name. Richard. Richard Milhouse Nixon. Oh yeah, Richard Milhouse Nixon. That's right. In response
Starting point is 00:23:01 to the oil embargo, that was why he did this. Gotcha. Road funding had nothing to do with it as it was. It was was an executive order. In the late 80s, some, sorry, some states began to challenge this by raising their speed limits individually. The feds began to push back by threatening to withhold federal highway funds. However, all the states joined in and essentially forced Congress to lift the restriction, says Jeffrey. I didn't know any of that. I didn't know that either. That's crazy. So the speed limit initially, that speed limit was set for the oil embargo, because of the oil
Starting point is 00:23:33 embargo. Yeah. And Sammy Hagar's future was set that same day. That's right, exactly. Yep, that same day. When he performed that in other states, he'd adjust the number to whatever their maximum speed limit was. He's like, I'm sorry, I just can't, I can't tour Montana now that they've changed it to 75, just can't go in there. Anyway, I thought that was a really interesting bit of info, and also I didn't know that. So thank you for the info, Jeffrey. By the way, I'm excited about our current baby boom that we currently have going on.
Starting point is 00:24:03 I can't imagine how many new children we're going to have joining us. uh here on earth here in the next uh few months because it certainly seems like everybody on the road is driving like they've got a pregnant lady and sitting in the passenger seat about to give birth they yeah we're having a similar thing going on right now i don't know what everyone i don't know what everyone is doing yeah it is i don't get it is the wild freaking west out on the highways why why this year more than any other year did there was there some kind of pent-up covid era thing that it's now just oh yeah because it feels like it's been ever since like lockdowns ended. And the people who
Starting point is 00:24:38 went out and had the roads all to themselves just said, I'm going to do this forever. This is great. No cops. And, yeah. It feels like there's less enforcement. That's the other thing. I don't know why that is. I don't know. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I see way less cops falling people over. Way less.
Starting point is 00:24:55 It's freaking mayhem, man. It is. But I, look, it's not as bad as that week I spent in China, I saw some shit on those highways that I will never forget that that place with Southern China. I can't speak for the rest of it. Beijing maybe is fine. I don't know. Hong Kong was fine.
Starting point is 00:25:10 But Southern China, Shenzhen, Dongwong, all that. That place, every man, woman for themselves. And you were lucky. Like, that was the place I saw the guy with a giant pile of rags on an old, I don't know what truck that was, something from the freaking 30s, slam into a brand new Lexus. And both people got out of their respective vehicles, the old farmer with the rag pile and the fancy executive guy with his speedy little car got out and just walked away.
Starting point is 00:25:43 They just walked away and left him there. And so we drove around there, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. And that's how the sound of everywhere went because everyone's honking horns to navigate. Right. So there's just me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, like the whole time. And no, there's no cops, no traffic signals, nothing. Total chaos. I'll never understand it.
Starting point is 00:26:01 And I never want to go there again. Yeah, no. It was really weird, dude. Now, that and, you know, that in parts of the, the shots of, like, India where they've got all the tuck-tucks and the, the motorcycles and stuff like that, just j-j-j-j-j-j-j-joo, like all crossing the same intersection. No, I want none of that. They're all, they're all fast, though, because they all got diarrhea. That's the trick. Is that the reason?
Starting point is 00:26:26 Is that why they're, uh... Oh, everybody's got it. It's all, everyone's having an urgent moment. You've got to get to the place quick. You've got to find a hole in the ground. Sure. Meep, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Just get through and do it.
Starting point is 00:26:37 Sorry, India. I'm making broad assumptions about your current life. Listen, we've seen an amazing race. We know it's true. I go to the Himalayan kitchen. I've seen some rough stuff. That's what the parking lot's like in the Himalayan kitchen. Oh, man, just absolute chaos and diarrhea.
Starting point is 00:26:54 All right, that's going to do it for our top of the show stuff. It's time for us to inform the public. It's one of our mandates here on the show, and so we do it now with a little bit of news. Today's news is brought to you by Tower Song. Tower Song is a 2D pixel turn-based RPG throwback to JRP classics like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy. And it's up on Steam right now, developed by a tadpooler and ready for all of you to enjoy.
Starting point is 00:27:25 Search Tower Song on Steam today. Yeah, it's very cool. Talk to that guy a little bit over the week, and he's been a listener forever, but I just think it's great when you guys are out making shit. Yeah. So if you're doing something cool, let me know, and we'll put it in the show. We'll promote that. That's awesome.
Starting point is 00:27:43 F out of it. Tower song, everybody, is where you want to go. Tower song. Not River Song. That's a whole different thing. River sung, very different thing. Yeah, and River Dance. That'll be the sequel, River Song.
Starting point is 00:27:51 Oh, River Song is the sequel. River Dance is the prequel. So watch for that. Let's get to the one, two, three, and counting. We talked earlier about the one, two, three, one, two, three, and how that was the last day of the year this year and you know we didn't get to have too much fun with it on the show but Las Vegas weddings apparently this was written before but I think they actually did hit records they I was wondering about that they hit records for New Year's Eve thanks to a date pattern which is
Starting point is 00:28:19 the one two three one two three one two three so if you were going to get married in Vegas the time to do it would have been then because it's such a weird date and you could always tell people when were you married one two three one two three that was the idea for better for worse, a wave of couples saying, I do in Vegas on New Year's Eve, could set to record for the city's busiest wedding day ever. That's because of the 123-1-2-3, known in the massive Las Vegas wedding industry as a, quote, specific date. Isn't that what you and I would call it, too? No, no, a specialty date is what that. Oh, I thought it said specific.
Starting point is 00:28:55 No, it is a specific date, but I was pulling, I was pulling up notes on our middle of the show So I wasn't watching Loserty date. Specialty date. That's a funny, that's a funny typo for me, or misspeak. 777. There you go. Specialty date. It's a very specialty date, exactly, or 9-99 would have been one. 12, 12, 12, 12, or something like that. Yeah. Anyway, it's, when they do a certain pattern like this, this according to the journal there in Vegas. The icing on the cake, specialty date falls on a holiday famous for blowout celebrations, of course. It's a double whammy, says Melody Willis Williams, president. of the Vegas Weddings, which operates multiple venues. That's a name for your wedding, Vegas Wedding things, just Vegas Weddings.
Starting point is 00:29:40 Vegas Weddings. Hey, excellent. So anytime you get these specialty dates, they're always hugely popular, but tie that in with New Year's Eve, and it's a showstopper. She says, the number to beat on New Year's Eve is 4,492 in the city. The single-day record for marriages in Las Vegas set on July 7th, 2007, so that was a 7-7.7. Yeah. I said 7777.77, but yeah, that's actually a more recent example. Although 7707 unless, well, I guess, but then you'd have to do 07-07. Oh, right. So never mind, yeah. All right, that works. That makes sense. But you never do, you never abbreviate the year with one digit. You never say, what year you guys get married? Seven? No. You might say, oh, seven. You could say, oh, five. Yeah. If you're in the aughts, I guess you say that. Right. But you, you know, so you'd have to say seven, seven. Oh, seven.
Starting point is 00:30:29 yeah it says here the number to be oh no it says the second most popular specialty wedding date on record is uh november 11th 2011 that was also the day skyrim came out 11 11 11 just for the record yeah it was a fun thing they tried to do it again with um oh what was it the game releases they always try to do this Sega had dream cast day was 999 right i thought sonys was 9999 no No, because Sony was... That's the one I was associate with that, but maybe... That was a couple years prior, because that came out in the States in 96. 99 would have been Dreamcast. The PS2 came out in 2000.
Starting point is 00:31:13 Right? Anyway, what am I thinking of? Oh, Sonic Tuesday, Mortal Monday. They always do this crap. I'm surprised, though, that 1111, 11 was more popular than 12, 12. I would have thought, all right, December 12th, 2012, would have been a more popular day, but the second most popular one in history.
Starting point is 00:31:34 But I don't know, do we know, did they hit a record? Did they break a record? I was just looking for some follow-up. I don't see anything that says whether they got or not. I was hoping this article will just have a straight-up update, but it doesn't. But they might have. That's a good one.
Starting point is 00:31:49 You know, as specialty dates go. Yeah. And specific dates. Our next one. So obviously we won't have a, with the 23. So 24, I mean, you could maybe get people doing February 4th, 2024 as being a 2-4-24 thing. Oh, 24-24-4-4 is not bad, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:08 I'm trying to think if you could do just, you know, any pattern. Like, I guess 5-525 is fun. If you do year-month day, you could get 24-6-8 as your wedding date. Yeah. And then you can truly... That's your specially wedding. date. That's right. And marry the person you appreciate. Exactly, yes.
Starting point is 00:32:32 On your specialty date. All right, well, there's that. Let's talk about a pastor. Now, look, we live in an era where a lot of pastors and types like them are accused of a lot of things. Yeah. And before a certain CG in the chat freaks out, I'll go on.
Starting point is 00:32:51 Pastor accused of trying to throw a cook into a deep friar at a McDonald's for disrespecting his wife. What would Jesus do? Probably not that. I did that because I was pissed off that the shake machine was broken. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:33:06 Every time you go in, he shoves someone into that friar. Police have accused North Carolina pastor of attacking a McDonald's cook and trying to push him into a deep friar. Dwayne Madsen, age 57, was arrested on Thursday in charge with assault after police were called to a McDonald's branch there. Wal or Wadeen is a pastor in the elevated life international ministries. organization there and works as a semi-truck driver also according to his Facebook page he turned up so maybe he could just claim well that was the truck driver in me throwing the guy in the friar it wasn't
Starting point is 00:33:38 right exactly it wasn't the pastor it was yeah you can take a guy you can take a pastor out of the truck but you can't take a truck out of the pastor no at some point that's going to come back to the church to the holy sister of eternal breading Um, let's see, where is it? He turned out of the immaculate nugget. There you go, which, of which there is no such thing. There are no immaculate nuggets. No, there are no immaculate nuggets.
Starting point is 00:34:06 They don't exist. Just bell, boot, and ball. Bell boot and ball, my favorite place to go in the mall. Uh, let's see, he turned up at the fast food joint to assist his wife, Latoya Gladney, who is a manager in training at the branch. Uh, Gladney, 44, called her husband to help handle employees who she told police were disrespecting her on entering the restaurant. Police said, Wade and Wadden, how do you say it.
Starting point is 00:34:27 walked straight over to the counter, launched an assault on a 34-year-old cook, and tried to chuck him in the deep fryer. Put his head in there. Yeah. Head in the deep friar. Oh, my God. Yeah, you're busted, dude.
Starting point is 00:34:40 That's like some full-on assault business. There's no way. Jeez. Oh, my God. That is like a horror movie level, you know, death. Yeah. Didn't we see this in something? I feel like we did, yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:54 I know we saw, well, we saw one where it froze. the guy's face in Jason X or Jason in space. Right. And I know we've seen like, you know, scalding water, pushing somebody's head into scalding water and holding it in there. But, uh, I can't imagine now this would hurt. And it would also hurt forever after that. I mean, that's third.
Starting point is 00:35:13 You'll get third degree burns. Yeah. Yeah. And you'll smell like a nasty French friar for the rest of it. Depends on how fresh the oil is, cleaned out the friar. That's good. That's good point. Oh, this is worse.
Starting point is 00:35:23 I don't know how McDonald's does. I assume they're pretty tight about that. They probably clean it every day. Pressure oil, I don't know. I don't know what they do over there. No, I'm pretty sure they don't. You don't think they do? No, I don't think they do.
Starting point is 00:35:33 I'm over here giving them a benefit of the doubt. Brian's probably right. I'd be surprised if they clean the oil every two weeks and in a fast food place. Gross. I need it more often than that. That is gross. Yeah. Whatever, I'm off the fried food for now anyway.
Starting point is 00:35:48 We're going to take a break. When we come back from our break, we got Bill joining us. It's been a while since we've talked to Bill. It's going to talk about making stuff. and I might ask him, and you'll have good answers to this too, but what the best base paint to use on top of this pink Tio before I actually go for the full painting. I don't know. Sure.
Starting point is 00:36:08 Anyway, that's all coming up in a moment. Stick around. In the meantime, Brian has a song prepared. I do. We're going to Barcelona. Look at that. It's come back up. We're the home of the Sagrada Familia.
Starting point is 00:36:20 This is a punk band that I'm sure doesn't spend a lot of time in Sagrada Familia, just based on their sound. but this is the first single coming off of their album which is coming out this year the first single is called Move On Here is a band called Blowfews Ooh I love the name That's amazing All right, let's play it
Starting point is 00:36:38 And we'll be right back We'll be right back I've tried, but I cannot lie anymore. There's a truth out there you just cannot ignore. Don't back down, not again. We both know it's not happening. So cry, no more tears. It's over, I need you to hear.
Starting point is 00:37:12 Why don't you, why don't you move on? Why don't you just get over it? Why don't you, why don't you start to deal with it? Nothing would ever be like before. Now, can you please walk through the door? It's not turning back, the past is gone. So back your face, move on. I gotta tell you, my fish is where it's in.
Starting point is 00:37:40 Get your shit together, please I'll make us in. Trust me, you're stuck in the same end. I don't make the rules you still don't comprehend. Right now, I don't care. If you think this isn't quite fair. How just needs to see here So how can I make it more clear Why don't you, why don't you move on
Starting point is 00:38:02 Why don't you just get over here Why don't you, why don't you start to deal with it Because nothing will ever be like before I'm asking you please walk through the door It's not turning back the path is gone So but your things move on I'm standing twice and walk me instead trying to walk me instead
Starting point is 00:38:34 Listen up and find my words Seek and died I'm holding you Move on what you gotta do Why don't you why don't you want Why don't you move on? Why don't you, why don't you just move on? Why don't you, why don't you move on? Why don't you just get over it?
Starting point is 00:39:10 Why don't you, why don't you move on? Why are you stuck in the same shit? Nothing will ever be like before. I'm telling you just walk through the door that's not turning back the past the end. If you're having a new release from ID books. There's not turning back to back. But your things move on.
Starting point is 00:39:32 If you're having trouble finding someone online, you might be interested in a new release from IDG Books. The 1994 Internet White Pages is the first printed directory of Internet users and their addresses. It includes a Hot Pages section with Internet addresses for corporate VIPs and journalists, and a listing of internet service providers around the world. There are other ways to party on the internet New Year's Eve. And we're back. Hey, who is that song person thing?
Starting point is 00:40:15 That was Blowfuse from Barcelona, Spain, influenced by 80s and 90s punk rock. Definitely hear the 90s influence, a little blink 182 influence on these guys. Their fourth album is coming out on March 1st. It's a bummer. It's called, it's their fourth album coming out March 1st, and it's called The Fourth Wall. Why not release it on the fourth? March 4th. Yeah, why not?
Starting point is 00:40:36 Whatever. That's the first single from it. It's called Move On. The band is Bluefews. Speaking of music, I took your recommendation from New Year's Eve. Oh, did you listen to Caroline Petolic? Almost the whole day. that album
Starting point is 00:40:51 and all her other stuff very, very good she's great she is really good she was on you weren't wrong about the fru-fru stuff sounded a very
Starting point is 00:41:00 image in heap yeah heapish very heapish there's one song on there that kind of begins with almost a mariachi kind of feel too it's a weird mix
Starting point is 00:41:09 but it's very good and I noticed this is on like Rolling Stones Polich I said Pacholic Polich because I was thinking of Mike Pacholich Pacholic
Starting point is 00:41:17 this right here is Mike Picholik's head and this is a weird Not her. But, yeah, she's very good. And also, what was anything I was going to say? I was going to say something. That album covers a little provocative. Oh, I know what it was.
Starting point is 00:41:31 The Rolling Stone has it on their list. A bunch of other people did too. Oh, did they really? Oh, cool. I never heard of her before I saw the old music thing. And I'm like, oh, I'll check it out. Oh, my God. I'm so glad I did.
Starting point is 00:41:41 She's very, very good. You guys go check it out. She's crawling through. It looks like an AI-generated plane or something. Airport. Yeah, I mean, airplane? Yeah. I know.
Starting point is 00:41:49 What's going on? Which is a place you just don't want to touch the floor with your bare hands if you can avoid it. No. Or be that close to it. Yeah. I mean, any chance that RFK Jr.
Starting point is 00:41:58 had of me voting for him ended when I saw him walking barefoot in that plane. Yeah. Is that what it was? Yeah. That did me. I didn't have it on my list, but Boy Genius had an incredible album this year too. And that's the super group with Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers.
Starting point is 00:42:16 that's another one to check out if you're looking for more stuff kind of in that same same vein but with killer harmonies Boy Genius, all one word and the new album is called Is it just called the new record? I think it's called the new record. I love it.
Starting point is 00:42:35 That's one way to call your album. They name it like Nintendo names Mario games I love it. Waluigi, Wario. All right, let's do this year. There's still something wrong, isn't there, Bill? Well, if there is, he'll surely fix it in the year 2024. Welcome to the program, Bill Durand of PunishProps.com. Joining us this lovely Tuesday. Hello, Bill. How are you? Hello, good morning. Good morning. Happy new year to you.
Starting point is 00:43:07 I hope you had a good one. So go ahead, Brian. So before we talk about what you want to talk about, Bill. I'm going to tell you about a little lesson that I learned in 2023. That's perfect. Yeah. So you get these 3D print models that, you know, subscribe to a guy named Wicked 3D who creates these incredible Marvel and
Starting point is 00:43:27 movie statues and bust the, you know, the Furiosa that Scott has was designed by him. And said, oh my gosh, he's got a galactus that's huge. It's like size-wise, similar to the size of
Starting point is 00:43:42 this giant Iron Man, the fan home Iron Man that's behind me. Pretty darn close, in fact. And excellent, I'm going to start printing it. Let's start with his head. I start printing his head and the two pieces to his head and those little veins that stick out,
Starting point is 00:43:58 the wind veins that stick out on the sides of his head so he can tell you which way the wind's blowing in space. And then I get to put the torso on the build plate in my slicer program. and there is no orienting this torso so that it'll fit.
Starting point is 00:44:17 On my large format, mega, my, any cubic mega. Wow. They don't call them mega for nothing, you know. It's a mega. I've got this head right here, this galactus head. Hello, I want to eat your planet. Yeah, he's beautiful. And then it dawned on me, well, right next to my any cubic resin printer,
Starting point is 00:44:38 I've got a pretty decent, any cubic cobra me. Max printer, a large format Cobra printer. And I said, you know, as long as I'm using a primer on this thing to make it match the color of the resin head, there's no reason I can't do a
Starting point is 00:44:58 filament body, a filament torso. So right here is the Galactus filament torso. Yeah. And it's just torso and head. That looks great. They don't quite match, but they will when I use the same primer on both. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:15 There's another wrong with mixing the two mediums, right? That's fine. No, not one bit. And I was just trying to be too much of a purist and say, no, it's only going to be a resin. Are there any problems with how you glue it or attach it or anything with the two things? There shouldn't be.
Starting point is 00:45:28 No, no. Okay. That's awesome. I'll tell you what, the FDM printers, not only have they gotten just crazy fast now, but the quality is sneaking up. It's getting really really good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:45:41 I have two resin printers that are just in the basement unplugged that I'll take them out when I need to print something small in detail. But right now my Prusa Mark 4 is like my favorite machine. It's so fast. And it does really good detail. I love it. It's all about that speed and detail. Those things will get better and better over time to the point where, man, can you imagine when you can poop this stuff out in like no time? Just like, bam.
Starting point is 00:46:09 There it is. oh yeah like a real it'd be like going it'd be like going from 24 pin dot matrix to to laser to laser yeah exactly i mean it's basically going to be at that point we'll have replicators you know it may not be making uh earl gray tea but it's still going to be instantaneous creation of what we yeah it'll make little little picard statues yeah yeah right right right exactly i love it uh bill it's good to have you back i know you've probably had all sorts of inspiration over the holiday to create all kinds of shit what do you are not really you're like me dude i took a lot of time off i heart i kept there projects i was like you know what and the that break comes i'm going to get this stuff done and that done and instead i watched a lot of cool tv and played a lot of radio games that's great that's what we're supposed to do because you know you know we will work hard on this show bill as well and uh you need to make sure you take some time if you're if your scale is unbalanced with the time of things you do for others or work and the time of the things you do
Starting point is 00:47:10 for yourself, then you've got a problem. Yeah. Take some self-care time. Exactly. Anyway. Great advice. Yeah. I played a bunch of the Lego Fortnite with my brother. Oh, yeah. Oh, cool.
Starting point is 00:47:21 Yeah, what do you think of that so far? It seems like a pretty fleshed out thing. Seems good. Yeah, I wish the vehicle system was better. It really doesn't work. I wish they had more vehicle type things. But other than that, I really enjoyed it. Yeah, it's the one thing, I'm not saying they're going to topple the reach that
Starting point is 00:47:38 Minecraft still has but it is the closest I've seen anybody coming up with a way to get a bunch of eyeballs on a Minecraft-like game. And they have a real chance here to flesh that thing out and improve vehicle stuff.
Starting point is 00:47:53 That is a problem in the game from what I've heard. But yeah, it's impressive what they pulled off with that. And the fact that it's Lego, everyone loves Lego. A lot of your skins move over and that stuff's pretty cool.
Starting point is 00:48:05 I built a castle with my brother last night and then we could run around in the castle, it was pretty great. That's great. Is it like a creative mode thing, or do you got to go out and get all your mats and everything?
Starting point is 00:48:16 I believe there's a creative mode. I didn't try that. We just played the go get all your stuff mode. Okay. I got to get in there and give that a shot. That's cool. Well, then you did spend your holiday the way you're supposed to.
Starting point is 00:48:27 I did. Tell us, now that we're into the new year, though, tell us what we have to get going on. What do we have to work on? Well, so I've got, I don't have kids, but I do have nephews and nieces. And my nephews got a 3D printing pen for Christmas. And they were playing with it.
Starting point is 00:48:45 And I thought, you know what? I had one of those briefly. I didn't really give it a good shot. I'd love to make some stuff to inspire my nephews. So I went and got one for myself. It's the Mint M-Y-N-T-3-D. I got on Amazon. I didn't really shop around.
Starting point is 00:49:05 I just picked the one with you. the most stars. And it seemed to work pretty well. Have either of you dabbled with a 3D printing pen yet? I got one to use as glue for when I glue two parts together. But I never tried actually drawing something with it. I think that would be a blast. Like the, you know, like seeing what kind of, it's almost like world of goo where you're
Starting point is 00:49:29 trying to build a structure that can support its own weight and see how tall you can make it. Yeah. And you've got to work inside of the limitations of gravity. and everything. It's pretty neat the way you have to work with a 3D printing pen to make it work. I've seen people fix like broken sinks or
Starting point is 00:49:46 shattered stuff. Does that, is that works? Is that a real thing to do? Because what's the material in there? What's it actually made of in there? So you use 3D printing filament, the normal stuff you'd use for a printer. I'm using PLA for mine. It's really easy
Starting point is 00:50:02 to use. I've seen people use it to repair like, not really repair but like there'll be a missing brick and a wall or something yeah and they'll draw a neat little thing there in 3d which is kind of cool yeah that's cool yeah i've seen i've seen these before but i've never really i don't know i've been curious like is it just a thing you can buy apparently yeah you went and got it yeah there's tons of them out there yeah uh so uh there's a lot of different ways you can work with these things you can be all free form and just sort of sculpty but what i like to do i also bought a little mat well there's two of them one of them is just a clear
Starting point is 00:50:35 piece of plastic so that you can like draw a pattern on a piece of paper put this piece of plastic over it and trace it oh that's smart yeah and then it just pops right off the plastic it pops off and i also got a silicone mat uh the same company makes it uh mint 3d it's a silicone mat and in the surface of the mat are shapes like little trenches so circles and squares and a grid and triangles and you basically fill in these lines to make perfect geometrical shapes that's cool so how um can you adjust the heat on the one that you picked up so that you can make the you can so you can make the the filament come out a little bit more liquidy you can yeah uh it's got a temperature control you can do a BS plastic if you want uh by setting it higher it's really really neat and
Starting point is 00:51:29 it's work works great um i imagine the tech has just improved since last time i tried it It hasn't clogged or anything. The kids are using it, and they're really, they got into it right away. What do you think my nephew, my six-year-old nephew, made first? Oh, gosh. Hold on, six-year-olds. A little iron man, a fully functional Ironman armor using a 3D printing pen. Not quite.
Starting point is 00:51:55 No. Okay. I'm going to guess. Hold on. He made what are six-year-olds into right now? You were talking about it earlier. Oh, okay. He made a Minecraft wall torch.
Starting point is 00:52:07 He made the tools. He made a pickax and a fork. He really wanted to make a fishing rod. Oh my gosh. You got one of you on your hands here. I know. I'm trying to be the weird uncle that inspires all his nephews to be created. But yeah, he drew.
Starting point is 00:52:27 I had him draw it on a piece of paper and then we put the plastic over it and he traced it. He traced the outline and then he went and filled it. back in. So it was just a little 2D, a little 2D shape that he made, but he did it. It was pretty good. That's awesome. Can you use this thing? Brian mentioned you can control the heat so it's a little more liquidy or whatever. I assume this is a good tool for getting two larger filament prints together, not as glue necessarily, but like creating detailed natural connections using the same filament and that kind of stuff. Right. You could absolutely do that. Yeah. It's almost like a little Well, that's the only thing I've used it for.
Starting point is 00:53:02 Yeah, exactly. I used it to put two pieces of a run-on airlight together. Oh, did you say it earlier? Yeah, I said that when we initially started talking about that that was the only thing I've ever done with it is like putting two three-d-printed pieces together instead of glue. It's all right. I totally missed it, but also how- You were licking up pens. I was. But also first red on air light of the year and it happened on Bill's segment.
Starting point is 00:53:27 That's pretty great. Which is pretty appropriate. Yeah, because he invented this meme. Yeah. So we're all back. We're back to where we started, everybody. Sorry, Bill, continue. Sure. So the way I like to work with this thing is I like to draw 2D shapes on the flat surface on this little silicone mat. And then you peel them up and stick them together to make a three-dimensional shape. Oh, cool. Almost like you're doing a house of cards kind of thing. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:53:53 I made a catapult, and I'm realizing I don't have any of the pictures of it. But I made a little catapult for my nephews to hopefully inspire them. That's what I want to do. I want to make a bunch of things with this and then just text them to my brother to show his kids to get them inspired to try and make stuff up with it. Because it's great for young makers.
Starting point is 00:54:12 The very tip of it gets really hot, but it's otherwise fairly safe. You don't want to mash that thing against your skin. But it's fairly safe. My six-year-old nephew had no problem figuring it out right away. It's super, super fun. So the catapult, I did that. I drew all my parts on paper.
Starting point is 00:54:30 keeled them up and then basically used the pen like a welder to stick all these parts together. So it's really fun. If you have young people who are thinking about getting into 3D baking of any kind or 3D printing, this is like an awesome first step to kind of understand the principles behind the fused filament additive manufacturing process. It's really good. Yeah. Yeah. And, man, I different even thought about doing that, like,
Starting point is 00:55:00 your pieces horizontally and then just putting them together vertically. Because I always think of, like, all right, well, I'm going to use this. I'm going to create like a duck and just build from the bottom and go around, circle, circle, circle, until I get a duck. But no, you can actually create some pretty freaking intricate things. Did your catapult have like a little rubber band so that it was functional? No, well, it was functional. I just used sort of the elasticity of the plastic. Oh, the plastic itself.
Starting point is 00:55:26 Yeah. Yeah. It didn't, the parts didn't move or anything. It wasn't super sophisticated, but I would love to try and build something like that with moving parts and stuff. I think my nephews would go bonkers for that kind of thing. Yeah. Boy, now I'm getting an idea for a TMS Taskville. Oh, that could be fun.
Starting point is 00:55:46 Yeah, let's do that. Everything gives Brian these ideas, so watch out. I will be practicing my 3D printings or 3D pen skills this year. You better. You better. consider me interested in participating. Awesome. I would love to have you as part of that.
Starting point is 00:56:04 That would be great. It almost sounds as fun as that foam clay sculpting challenge. That was something else. Still have Fletchers right here with the great design, the eyes and the massive head wound in the back. The one that made him giggle like a girl for way too long. Like a girl. What am I saying? Giggle like a baby is what I meant to say.
Starting point is 00:56:27 keep your emails to yourselves Bill before you tell me about your little bonus link I wanted to point your squinties in particular to something I'm excited about so I know you and I are fans of these Factorial like you know automation games and there's a lot of them out there are not a lot
Starting point is 00:56:45 but there are a few really high profile ones Dyson sphere programs are pretty amazing they just put out a big update Factorial continues to be amazing and of course Satisfactory is a big deal you played a ton of that and got really involved in that scene. There's this smaller one, kind of a 2D one that's been around for a while called Shapes with a Z at the end.
Starting point is 00:57:06 Completely obsessed with this game and have been for a long time. Right now, I'm just kind of back into it and playing it like crazy. It's a simpler take, but by simple I just mean presentation. The actual game still has its complexities and all the things you've got to solve and do. And they announced a sequel. So if you go just wish list this on Steam. It's Shapes with a Z, so S-H-A-P-E-Z, 2, so 2 is the one we're looking for, the sequel. They're 3D-fying, essentially, the experience, and it looks so freaking good that I couldn't wait to tell you about it,
Starting point is 00:57:40 and so I figured to just do it on the show. So go wish list Shapes 2. You are going to love this stuff. Oh, look at this. Yeah, I'm so cool. It's so cool. Do you have gravity, or do you have to contend with that? Oh, I have no idea.
Starting point is 00:57:55 I assume it's probably, you know, the original game, Shapes game, is basically this, but in a 2D grid. And this just, like they just take into a third dimension to add a bunch of new things to sort of take advantage of that. Bill is going to be making all of these little desks with the... Oh, my gosh. Conveyor belts. Yep.
Starting point is 00:58:14 It's right. It trips all your, all your dopamine receptors for this kind of game. And I just thought you'd love it. So, anyway. Oh, and then they pan out to the whole thing. you see the massive scale of it. Oh, my God. How we're talking.
Starting point is 00:58:28 It's a very, very cool. Even the original is worth grabbing. I think it's on sale right now for like three bucks. Totally worth it. Anyway, Bill, you always leave us a little bonus something. What do you got today? There's a channel. I believe I've shared this guy before.
Starting point is 00:58:40 The channel's called Stuff Made Here. He's an engineer and he makes just absolutely ridiculous stuff. He's got a, let me share the link with you here. He's got like crazy CNC machines. He has a C&C water jet cutter. he decided to make the Inspector Gadget Extendo legs
Starting point is 00:58:59 Oh my gosh really Yeah So that he could dunk on a 16 foot hoop Oh my gosh dude This looks like something that you're just killing me Like this is this is oh yeah Brian created these and then died The first time he tried using them
Starting point is 00:59:15 Looks it's pretty he So he goes to great lengths to keep himself safe during this whole thing Because it's there's a lot of There's a lot of air pressure there's a lot of things going on there. Oh my gosh, dude. The way it launches him and he's got a good thing you had the harness on. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:59:33 Oh, like, watch this montage of the practice days. Yeah. Look at how those lakes extend, though. That's amazing. Yeah, that's really impressive. Stuff made here is the channel, and that is a video brand new, only a day ago. So go check that out. Check it out.
Starting point is 00:59:50 Bill, happy new year. Headlines. Excited to see what published, or published props. Punished Props does in the year, 2024. And having you here, as always, has been a huge pleasure, man. Great channel with you, friends. We'll see you later. You'll be talking to you too.
Starting point is 01:00:04 Bye. That video now up on quicktms.l.I where people can check it out. I should have mentioned Shapes 1 is also on iOS now. On iPad, yeah. It's only free for the first 20-level. and four bucks after that's like nothing and it's very it's a very good version of the game I recommend it I bought it I bought in both places because I am currently obsessed with that game excellent you should play it um all right yeah so very the first one very 2D oh yeah
Starting point is 01:00:40 yeah it's very much like it's wild it's it's very it sticks to the same rules like you know this thing is interesting because it's not like oh go mine dirt and it over here. It's go mine circles and then cut the circles in half, rotate them so you've got a corner circle that's painted yellow and then match that up with a square. That's the shape I need delivered. I love it. And it's almost like a puzzle game in that way, but not not really. It's still just you need to figure out how to automate your shit. It's great. And I'm terrible. Spaghetti all over the place. I'm not great at it, but I'd love it. It makes me want to play but also makes me want to go back
Starting point is 01:01:19 and start a brand new game of Astraneer because that... Astroeneer had great automation stuff. That's a great thing. It really does, yeah. Yeah. I'm in the mood these days, though. That kind of stuff just tripping all my wires.
Starting point is 01:01:31 All right. Hey, guess who? Guess who? Bellied up to the bar and said, what if TMS had a mashup in the new year? Shut up. A mashup. Don't tell me it was Sebastian,
Starting point is 01:01:42 old mashup man himself. Definitely not. Definitely not. Somebody newer and more. up on their game as far as creating mashups for us more recently. Gosh, I don't know who it could possibly be. Yeah, the Latin folks might call him Jaime. Somebody might call him Jameme, but we're going to call him Jamie.
Starting point is 01:02:02 And he reached down from Canada with his big nasty hand and said, here's a new mashup for you guys, a little over two minutes long. And I'm excited because this is not, this is a ton of stuff over time because it's been so long, that you and I are not going to know when any of this got said. I love it. I love it when it's like completely out of context and we can't figure out what's happened. Yeah. And I haven't heard it at all. So this is my first taste as well. So here it is. Let's all enjoy it together. Ah, I'm being scissured. Wait, nope. That's not the way I want to phrase that.
Starting point is 01:02:32 Nope. This is not, today is not that lesson. We're not teaching that today. Deep breath in, deep breath out. Pancakes. I say I'm not the sharpest tool in. the shed. Pray thee, tell me why. Well, I was looking kind of dumb with my finger and my thumb in the shape of an L upon my forehead. The forehead? Except for Brad Pitt, who's just flat out unintelligible. Yeah, and in, um, what's that called? Slit? Snatch. Snash. We were planning on a rough night of intercourse, so I'd sure like some Epson salts to soak in after it. I like bleaching elephant buttholes. I could have swallowed that thing. That thing was small enough.
Starting point is 01:03:19 Oh, I need something bigger. I don't think you spank. Spank. Yeah, so you get a before you put it in your, um, your, um, your, what do you spank it with? You put in your palm and you go, like that. You literally spank it. To what end? What does it actually do to it? Yeah, that also releases, uh, releases the flavors and the stuff. Fortunately, it doesn't look as much like I'm masturbating as I was worried. So that's good. All right. As you were hoping. You know, I only have girl dogs, have I told you this? Why? Because boy dogs wipe their wieners on everything. And then if you're rubbing up the belly of a dog, if it's a female dog, the VEJ is nowhere near the general rubby zone. But if it's a boy dog, they got the any minute that pink lipstick holder's going to pop out. You don't,
Starting point is 01:04:00 you don't want that? I never blew one of those. Do you ever blow one? No, I mean, I maybe did once or twice, but for the most part, it's, I think it's because I was jamming it in so hard, never had a chance. It's like, heik. I don't want to rub a dog's wiener, what I'm saying? It's a tough way to find out that you're gay When you find yourself rubbing the dog's belly And the winger comes out like, oh crap, I must be gay Yeah, that must be it I'm wearing a diaper, Claire, I'm taking a shit right now
Starting point is 01:04:24 A lot of lesbians Lots of lesbians I can't try to understand why people do things they do Like why would you just follow a phone And then why would you act like everything's fine Okay, I'm just going to dinner now Why wouldn't you open with that when you get to the doctor's office? Oh well, I have stomach pains
Starting point is 01:04:39 By the way, a couple months ago I had a phone I had a freaking phone You have a phone in your guts. It might be related, but I don't know. Maybe he was hiding from the police. Could have been one of those deals. It's a burper phone. A burper phone.
Starting point is 01:04:50 Burper phone. Yeah, no, that was bad. No, I kind of like it. I'm not going to. It's not even worth, yeah, acknowledgement. The court will allow it. Wow, it has been too long, Jamie. Geez, Louise.
Starting point is 01:05:04 I don't even know. I don't even know. I remember the spanking the, uh, the basil discussion, but I could not tell you what you and Brian. and I were talking about blowing. No, I still don't know. And I don't, maybe I don't want to know. Yeah, I don't want to know, yeah. Oh, it was probably a cartridge.
Starting point is 01:05:21 We were probably talking about, Oh, right. Retro game cartridge blowing the dust out before the contacts don't make sense or whatever the hell he used to do as a kid. Anyway, thank you for that. That was great. He's got something in the works for core this week as well,
Starting point is 01:05:34 so I watch for that later in the week. And we're very happy to have him. Whenever he wants, there's no, there's no, you know, schedule we hold anybody to, around here. But if he wants to make them on the regular, we'll play them right here on the show. All right. That is it for that. Let's also get out of here. The rest of the week, pretty normal, guys. We get shows all week until Thursday. Then we get Friday couch party for patrons. And yeah, also, we need new, Brian, we're out. We need cover requests for the year, right? Tell people how to do it. Oh, yes. Look at that. You, right, run right into it. We do. We're low on January. It's a new year.
Starting point is 01:06:12 new, a new, new request for requests, because the one I'm pulling for today is a year old. We're finally getting around to a request from somebody from January, 20, 23. But it's because I've only got four requests total for the entire month of January, 2024. So please, if you've got something you're celebrating, I know a couple of people have a birthday this month and get your requests in. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I think that sounds like a great plan.
Starting point is 01:06:41 Also, while I'm thinking about it, join us on Patreon. Brand new month. Brand new month, brand new year. Perfect time to get in. That dollar a month thing still stands. That's still a thing. You can get in there. You can plunk down your hard-earned dollar.
Starting point is 01:06:55 And bam, you're a member of the family in a deeper way. You'll never get ads. You'll get pre-show content every day. These couch parties, I mentioned. You get art in the mail, other monthly cool stuff. You got to go read about it and find out which levels for you at patreon.com slash TMS. That is it for today's show. One more song, though, before we leave.
Starting point is 01:07:13 One more song. This is Dan Andrews wrote in and wanted this one. I just realized he had a couple requests in here that I don't have in here, or that I haven't played. So this will be the one he gets today. Hey, Dan Andrews. Andrews, good, good job. Ahoy, hoi, hoi, salty and bitter. You wanted some requests to fill the month of January, so here's number three for me.
Starting point is 01:07:35 Apparently I asked for this last year, too. For no reason other than I want to hear them, how about some more rock. sugar. I'll take anything from the mash-up Kings. Things that shouldn't work together but do, just like Fred and can. Cough, cough, cuff. Settle hint for new strips, Scott, cough, cough. That also works this year. I'm behind.
Starting point is 01:07:53 That's right. Well, now that you're done with the Santa's, now you can... Yeah, now I can draw that. Although I've got a whole other thing I'm working on, but news on that soon. Can't wait to hear about that. Johnson pulled. All right, from their 20-21 album, I can't believe it's been that long.
Starting point is 01:08:09 From the album, Reinventa, Here is their mashup of not just Stevie Nix, not just Survivor, not just Phil Collins, but those three. Stevie Nix is Survivor and Phil Collins. It is their song, another edge of the tiger in the air. You can figure it out from there. Here's Rock Sugar. Sounds awesome. I'll see you guys tomorrow right here back for me and Brian on TMS.
Starting point is 01:08:41 and the Phaas Bhaas Bha Bhaas Bha Bha
Starting point is 01:08:58 Bha Bha Bha Bha Bha Bha I can feel it coming in the air of night Just like the wide wind up sings the song sounds like she's singing
Starting point is 01:09:34 Ooh, ooh, ooh, just like the wide wind up. songs sounds like she's singing, ooh, baby, ooh, said, ooh. And the days go by, like a strand in the wind, in the way that is my own, I begin again, said my friend, baby, nothing else mattered. But the moment that I first laid as old. You all alone on the edge of 17 Just like the wide wind Just like the wide wind up Oh
Starting point is 01:10:27 Ooh Just like the wide window Just like the world It's like to sing you Oh Baby expected when it lands and the sea changes color but the sea does not change. So with the slow graceful flow of age, I will fall with the nature of the nature of desire,
Starting point is 01:11:11 To be on the edge of seven dream. Ooh, I can feel it coming in the end of the air tonight. We don't need no education. I've been waiting for this moment for all my life We don't need no thoughts control I can feel it coming in the air tonight Dark sarcasm in the classroom And I've been waiting for this moment for all my life
Starting point is 01:12:01 To leave them kids alone I can feel it in the air tonight Hey Take your love Leave them kids alone I've been waiting for this moment For all my life Just stay
Starting point is 01:12:21 Another breaking in the wall I can burn in the air tonight Oh no All in all You'll just stay Another brick you know Never waiting for this moment But I can stay
Starting point is 01:12:36 I have the tigers The thrill of the fight the fight rising up to the challenge of our rival and the last monster all the stalks is praying the night and is watching our soul with the eye of the target will i hear you in the morning and i hear you i'll hear you in life for sometimes To be near you It's to be Unable To fill you
Starting point is 01:13:18 Singing Come away Come away Come away It's like the right We're eyes and all Back on the street Moonded in my time
Starting point is 01:13:31 Took my chances I can't just like the One me Day We'll choose to survive Let's see the song That's like she's singing Oh
Starting point is 01:13:47 Oh Just like for wild Winding Sing the songs That's like she's singing Boom Who I'm going down
Starting point is 01:14:01 It's sings the songs That's like you singing I can't feel Coming in a year Just can't Oh, I love, sing the songs and it's like she's singing. Ooh, baby, ooh, baby, ooh, said ooh, sooo.

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