The Morning Stream - TMS 2635: Suspicious Gravy

Episode Date: April 23, 2024

The Whorehouse Club. I'll never Passover A Cheesecake. Hootie & The Bacon Reference. Is today a day, 'cause I like really want to know. One last wash before Vegas. Died of TMB: Too Many Birthdays. Kirkland Gold. Portugal The Man, the group from Alaska. Your Sandwich Was A Holocaust. Podcaster with the Biggest Unit. The Saxaphone Genre. Dip it!! Parasocial Internet Uncles. George Straight of what state? I'll be in my room, polishing my ring, 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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One last wash before Vegas. Died of TMB. Too many birthdays. Kirkland Gold. Portugal, the man, the group from Alaska. Your sandwich was a holocaust. Podcaster with the biggest unit The saxophone genre

Dip it! Parassocial internet uncles George Strait of what state I'll be in my room polishing my ring with Bill and more on this episode of the morning stream When you like pricing items

As much as I do It's just bound to happen sooner or later I guess Why is there a pig in the house? The morning stream. I must break you. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS.

It's the morning stream for April 23rd, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello, Scott. Happy Earth Day to you. Is it Earth Day? I thought it was yesterday. Was it yesterday?

I don't know. For whatever reason, I think you're right. I think it was yesterday. I don't know why I think 423 is, but I guess it was 42 yesterday yeah 422 it was you know

did we save the planet yesterday how did it go earth day people did we get it done we can still be good with the earth today though okay yeah oh yeah yeah we should probably make it every day really honestly

we should make it every day yeah if you're gonna take any of these fake holidays that we just assigned to things and make it every day why not Earth Day we live here you know exactly exactly let's let's make Earth Day

every day yeah it's the only one We've got. We don't have any other Earths. Not yet, anyway. Not yet. But anyway, I hope you all had a nice Earth day yesterday. And welcome to today's day. I don't think today has a day. Let's see. Is today a day special days? Let's see. Nothing on your calendar? No, I take that back. Yes. This is Passover. Of course. Oh, Passover. All right. So, we have Passover and full moon. All right. Great. It's also National Cherry Cheesecake Day. Oh, I like that. Yeah.

That's something that won't pass over. No, you'll never pass that over. How about this? National Lost Dog Awareness Day. That's pretty good. National Picnic Day. That's nice. Go on a picnic.

Wait, wait. So somebody loses their dog like two days ago. They're like, well, just wait. Tuesday's National Lost Dog Awareness Day. So we'll wait until then to go look for him. Yeah, don't be aware until the 23rd. That's a weird thing. Yep.

Host Dog Awareness Day. Here's one, kids. I doubt anyone was told this before they. went off to school, but it's school bus driver appreciation day. Oh, well, see. Get in there, kids. Oh, also National Take a Chance Day here in the States. Brian, what do you want to take a chance on today?

Well, I'm still free to take a chance on me. Excellent. Well, good luck with that. We'll celebrate all the holidays. Do I have to sing it, Scott? No, no, you don't have to sing it. please don't okay uh tomorrow tomorrow's got even a better one and i'll save it for then though because oh can't wait yeah it's a good one anyway we're uh here we're gonna do some fun stuff

today it's a tuesday so uh sit back relax enjoy we got bill later you know all the good stuff we're going to start things off with a little contest brian's always playing contests on us today i turn the tables once again and play one on him those tables turn them on me that's right take a chance take a chance on me that's right we're taking a chance on brian today Brian does a little quiz that I devised of my own making sort of this is actually sent to me by somebody and said hey you should use this as a thing with Brian I said you know what that's a great idea so thanks to Ryan and Michigan for suggesting this it's an excellent idea Ryan's a good dude always always up for some cool stuff and it's a music related thing here's what it is we're going to find out if by or how many states Brian can think of where the main artist, the best-selling singer, musical artist, or band. Oh, geez. What they are in each state.

So wait, okay, so you're going to give me a state, and I'm going to tell you who, you're going to say who the best-selling artist is, or you want me to tell you the best-selling artist is from that state? From that state. So they were born there, and then we'll keep it, you know, we'll keep it loose because obviously this is, you're not going to know, all 50. There's no way. Might be better to, oh, God, no.

Hell no. It might be better to do the other way around. Like, you tell me the artist, I tell you what state they're the... Oh, we could do that. We can do that. I mean, it's, no, I think it'll be, this will be a crapshoot either way because there are a lot of performers that, I even get their country wrong. Like, you know, I'll say, oh, yeah, I love the band McFly. Oh, great Scottish band McFly.

No, they're British. Well, all right, well, let's give it a shot. We'll see how you do. And we'll start with, we'll do my... By the way, the Tadpool wants me to tell you that the pre-show light is still on. Oh, I can turn that off. That's fine. There we go. They're going to not take any of this seriously because they're going to think it's all pre-show if we don't take that light.

Yeah, you guys are... That's how smart they are. Okay, I'm going to close that. Sorry, Britain and Scotland are... From the United Kingdom, but really, they were from... Oh, you're talking to them. Sorry, I thought you were talking to them. I'm responding to Dirtbox fingers while you're getting the pre-show light off.

All right, here we go. Let's start with, let's start with, let's do the state, because I think it is better that way. Yeah, let's do the state. Let's start with your own state. Let's start with Colorado. What do you think is the- I was afraid you were going to do this. All right, so from here, we've got the fray.

We've got. You got it. It's the fray. Oh, good. Thank goodness. Yep, nailed it right away. nicely done let's move over to your left and do the great state of Utah what do you think our who's the biggest Utah I can tell you my guess was wrong my guess was

panic not panic at the disco imagine dragons I thought that would be it and I was wrong yeah so oh right you know um okay so let's see Utah wouldn't wouldn't go so far back because Donnie and Marie Osmond, would it? No, but they are in the top of 20 or something, but it doesn't, it's not that old. I will say, okay, to help you here, I'll say this goes back late 80s, 90s. Okay. God, I can't think of who. And it is an individual.

A solo artist, individual. Yep. I'll give you one for being from Utah. Yep, I'll give you one more hint. They have, they go by one name. so like a single name which is not from Utah I know Madonna is not from Utah

Mm-hmm Um Late 80s This is a hard one I know Adele is not from Utah She know she's also not late 80s She's just born in the late 80s Uh

God You know I'm Um Give me a song Give me a Oh gosh Um

I think it would be too easy Um Here I have to do a quick search hold on, I can't remember anything she does. Okay. Oh, it's a she. Oh. Yeah, it's a girl, a lady.

Who Will Save Your Soul? There's a song. Oh, Jewel. Jewel, really? I thought she was from Alaska. Nope, she's from here. She was born here. She spent a lot of time in Alaska, guess.

Let's go to Alaska. What do you think that might be? Michelle shocked. Probably not. Let's see. Best selling artists from Alaska. Yeah. K.D. Lang. Let's find out if that's correct.

It is Portugal the man. Oh, really? They're from Alaska? See, this is where, this is where, like, I mean, I have zero idea from this stuff. Yeah. Really? Yep. Wow. Crazy, right?

All right. How about Hawaii? We'll go with the other one that's always in a separate little chunk on the map. Let's go with Hawaii. Sure. The other cutout. Hawaii. And I'll say this one's relatively recent.

the other hint I will give is we had a story on the show about this person and it was Vegas related. Oh, really? If that helped you at all. Single, oh, and it's a single artist. Another single artist, yeah. Probably, again, probably not Don Ho. Nope.

Who is from Hawaii, the rock, not a singer, Vegas related. Oh, is it Bruno Mars? You are, let's find out, is it Bruno Mars? Whoops, sorry. no it's correct okay good yes hit the wrong button owing owing millions of dollars to the mgm uh yeah you had a lot of the mgm now has disclaimed that or says that it's incorrect so now who knows who's saying that who knows uh right exactly yeah hobbs dog it was uh pace in utah that that jule was born in utah wow yeah little tiny town down south uh george straight is of what state we're going to flip it

A little flippy, A little flippy, Flippy. Yeah, let's flip it. I mean, my guess would be Texas. Oh, well, I'm going to just go ahead and give you that. Nicely done. All right, good.

Yeah, I mean, it's... But that means any other country artists, you've used up my guesses for any other country artists. Yeah, we're done with Texas. How about, let's give you... Hmm. I'll do the state with this one. Louisiana.

Louisiana. Okay. God, and it probably, you know, first thing I'm thinking of are things like Dr. John, but he's not big enough. I don't think he's sold enough. Now, who is from like a Norlands-based band or artist? I'll say it's a single artist. Single artist again, okay. Modern, like give me an era.

Kind of modern, I'd say very late 90s up through now. Big. Biggest in the aughts. Okay. Well, it's still big now. Okay. Do you want a genre? Give me a genre. Rap and hip-hop.

Okay. Oh, yeah, right. Brittany Spears is from. Isn't she from, that's right. She's from Pride to Louisiana. I don't know if she was born there, but obviously not her if it's rap and hip-hop. Let's say Chance of the Rapper, I don't know

Incorrected is Lil Wayne Oh, Will Wayne is from, see again Lil Wayne, there's going to be a lot of Blank is from where? Wow! All right, I'll give you a boy band Okay

And you tell me the state Okay Backstreet boys Backstreet's back, all right They are from they are East Coast they are from

I will say that's your good direction so far yeah they're from New Jersey is it New Jersey Florida Florida oh they're from Florida I mean there's a coast and it's east that rules out me guessing O-Town when Florida that's right let's try this one

how about let's see that's a fun one Nevada. Let's do Nevada. What do you think Nevada? Nevada. Okay. So this is like where you, I mean, the killers are from Nevada. I'm going to say the killers because I think that they're, yeah, recent and big enough. Okay. Yeah, they were huge. Did we do California? Let's do California. We did not do California. Jeez, this is, this is a tough one because so many bands go to California and that's where they become huge. Right. I think it's probably a fair amount that are born there too. They're also, like it's a big state.

Big state, lots of creative stuff. You know, when I think California, I think California pop, I think the Eagles, I think. You just got it. Okay. Good. Woo. Well done. Eagles is correct. How about the state of Kansas?

Oh, well, would it be the band? No, it wouldn't be the band Kansas. I don't even think the band Kansas was from Kansas. Kansas is correct. Oh, were they really from Kansas? Do Boston next. Yeah, Boston is definitely not Boston. No.

Massachusetts, though. Well, I'll let you decide where we go on the map next. Well, let's go to New York. Oh, go to Georgia. Oh, yeah. Let's do New York because I'm surprised by this one. Oh, really? Yeah.

I'm going to say, oh, is it crazy if you mean to say Billy Joel? Oh, well, it would be if you tell me female. Yeah, female, single female artist, no band. New York female artist, no band. um oh uh madonna she's from uh isn't she from no she's they moved to new york didn't they i'm trying to see if she's even on here she might not be let yeah she might been from somewhere else and then they went to new like their family moved to new york and that's where she got big she's up in oh that's surprising um okay you know what madonna let's just go ahead

didn't do Madonna. What state do you think Madonna's in? Okay. Well, so definitely not New York then. Yep. Is she from, she's going to be something, uh, well, I'm thinking like Midwest. Let's say, um, let's say Iowa.

Let's find out if it's Iowa. Michigan. Now. Michigan. Okay. Yeah. New York. Let's do New York again, which is, you know, over the bay there. I still do in New York. Solo female artist. Yep. Oh, Gaga?

Lady Gaga. Let's find out. Is it Gaga? Mariah Carey. Oh, Mariah Carey. Yeah. I was a friend who went to high school with her and said that she hardly ever showed up to class and when she did, she was an entitled brat.

Oh, my gosh, really. Yes. All right, I'll tell you, I'll give you a little hint here. We got a, let's call him. Well, yeah, okay. So this is a dude. It is a country singer. He is born in the state of North.

Carolina, who are we thinking of? And he goes, I'll just say he goes by his real full name. Okay. Yeah, which doesn't, I mean, I don't know if, I mean, I guess there are a few country musicians who go by like a stage name, but I would think, uh, let's say, uh, Garth Brooks. Is it Garth Brooks? Randy Travis. Randy Travis. Same era.

Chad says, Lindsay Graham. wrong state. That would be... South Carolina. Can you guess South Carolina? Oh, geez. No, I can't. South Carolina. Biggest artist from South Carolina. Tell me a... Give me a genre. Give me a... Pop country crossover, kind of.

And I will also say they're unique by the makeup of the band themselves. It's an unusual, not something you see every day. And then I will give you a third hint, which is um there has been there has been bacon involved at one point in their lives okay oh geez uh well uh all those clues could i know they don't but they could point to

the bare naked ladies but but uh and they don't they'd be Canadian right I think they're Canadian very much Canadian yes um uh but having bacon and having an unusual makeup of the band featuring no bare naked ladies whatsoever. So an unusual makeup to the band. Yeah, it's unusual in that, let's see, how do I frame this?

So it's America. Let's say it's a crossover band in the South that is also Country Pop crossover, you said. Yeah, and I would say the mix of band members is interesting because of a multiracial

makeup, let's say it that way. Oh, okay. Oh, is it, um, uh, um, oh my God, all I can think of, it's not Sly in the Family Stone, but it's kind of the modern Tennessee. Oh, no, that'd be, uh, uh, if they had a song called Tennessee, they probably were from Tennessee, but maybe not. Um, let's say cool in the gang. Let's find out if it's cool in the game. Let's find out if it's cool in the gang. We're not cool in the gang. It is Hootie and the Blowfish. Oh, Hootie in the Blowfish.

There you go, yeah. You have much more crossover. Yeah, there's your bacon. Yeah, there's your bacon reference. Bacon cheddar range. I keep waiting to try and figure out because I don't know where Taylor Swift is from, but whatever state she's from is going to be the Taylor Swift state. Oh, yeah, good point.

And where is she on here? Has to be, right? Has to, I would assume so. but I don't know where she's Oh my gosh, I'm not seeing it. Oh, really? That's crazy. That can't be right.

Is she not here? I don't see her. Oh, really? I see James Taylor. I don't see Taylor Swift. Interesting, okay. Maybe it's... So somebody might have her...

People are saying Pennsylvania in the chat. Is she from Pennsylvania, and there's a bigger band than Taylor, or bigger artist in Pennsylvania than Taylor Swift? currently it has to be the great American singer Elton John because of his song Philadelphia

Freedom. Oh, there it is. It's totally Taylor Swift. There it is. It gets so cramped up in the East Coast. I'd lose names in there. All right, here's a fun one for you. Okay. Let's make this our last one. How about this is, like, by the way,

like, you know how years or years and where people, where bands and artists are from, kind of like my kryptonite, but I know you're really good at at least the year part of it. How about this? Let's go. Let's feel like you can get this one.

Minnesota. Minnesota. Oh, Prince. Very good. That's an easy one. One last one. I mean, Bob Dylan was also from Duluth, I think. Bob Dylan was?

Yeah. I think Prince just sold more albums, I guess. Yeah, sold a longer, well, longer tenure. But didn't sell as many albums as Prince. Now, where do you think? think this might be obvious. Oh, Wisconsin. I'm sorry. Shane Maddox, you're right. Yeah, that's right. How about Illinois?

Illinois. So, um, a Chicago band. Chicago. Yeah. Turns out there's a lot of those. There's quite a few of those. Like the fact that Chicago, Kansas. Yeah. I don't want to leave, I don't want to leave Washington State out. So they will be our last one. And I'll tell you this is this. Oh, well, Seattle. Sure. Yeah. This one needs a couple of hints, I think. So best selling. of all time most albums sold I will tell you that it's in a genre that I mentioned

on film sack that I think might be dead Oh, okay, so Do you mean saxophone? Yeah, it's the genre? I might mean that. The saxophone genre. The genre of saxophone? That's interesting because I wouldn't have gone,

I might have thought Pearl Jam, they're on my mind because of a brand new album, but I would have gone before you said that, I would have gone with something like Jimmy Hendricks or Hart because I think that even with the popularity of grunge, their longevity would have put them over. But

saxophone. It's surprising to me, honestly. It's actually surprising. Is it is it John, no, John Tesh, I don't know where he's from, but I can't imagine him being And you were in the top 20 of any state. Yeah. I mean, Charlie, I know Charlie Parker was trumpet.

We talked about David Sanborn, but he's... He's small. He's small. There's no way he'd sell enough albums. He's awesome, but he's small. He is awesome, yeah. I have one of his albums right up there. Saxophone.

Yeah. Sax, I'm off. All right. or band? Solo. Solo artist. Who, okay, it's like Yanni.

No, Yanni's Greek. Yeah, he's Greek. He only played piano anyway. Oh, he was piano. That's right. Who's the, oh, is it the other guy? Kenny G. You are?

Correct. He's the guy who looks a lot like Yonnie. Yeah, take that Washington State with your vast history of music. Kenny G is your best-selling record people. Wow. Well, that was rough pulling that. Thank you, Ryan, for that. That was awesome.

Ryan in Michigan, home of, I already forgot what band was the big one in Michigan. We said, didn't we? Who do we say? Oh, I don't remember. Oh, Madonna. Madonna. Oh, right, right, right, from Detroit. Yep.

What was Wisconsin, by the way? Do you have your list up still? I do. It is the Steve Miller band. Steve Miller from Wisconsin. Okay, interesting. Yeah. The Fems would have been cool.

That would have been all right. right yeah okay you uh speaking because i was just about to say um if you if you rail against and rightly you should rail against steve miller because of that horrible song abracadabra um i encourage you to do kind of what i suggested yesterday with the uh with sandinista did you enjoy at least the first side of san an east yeah it's really really good there's some of that stuff's very not in their genre some of that album still enjoyed it though i still liked it a lot a lot of like a lot more dub and world beat kind of stuff but the first god the first 10 songs are just bangers one right after another they're really good i liked it a lot carter's over there going who is that

i said it's the clash he goes no it isn't i listen to the clash i said well you're not listening to this album so listen to this album and so i so i've already i've passed on the good word to the next generation brian about sandinista good good good now i'm going to encourage you to check out the full album of fly like an eagle we all know the song, you know, we all know Flat Lake and Eagle, but that's another one where the full album, and I might even still have that over here, but

I kind of have, I think I have a, I'm not on repeat, but I play quite a bit of his greatest hits thing, and there's probably some tracks on there. There's a few things, yeah. His greatest hit 74 to 78, it's very good. Let's see, that Fly Like an Eagle album. There it is.

It's the one where he's playing guitar and his hair is going all goofy. Yeah, Wild Mountain Honey, serenade. Oh, serenade is so good, like the chord changes. You got hits, like, take the money and run, rocking me. And then, um. Oh, yeah, dude. I'm going to listen to Steve Miller today. I'm in the mood now.

Yeah. Yeah. I always like it. It does a cover of you send me, darling, you send me. Um, uh, yeah, that's a great mercury blues. That's a, that's a, that's such a. surprisingly good album. And it gets not really overlooked, but it gets

pigeonholed because you've got three big hits on it. So it's like, well, if I'm going to listen to that, I'll listen to the greatest hits. Yeah. Yeah. But Serenade, man, I would put that above everything else that Steve Miller has done. All right. It's such a great song. I like

Steve Miller as well, big fan. Well, there you have it. Fun times. Oh, got some cool info that I wanted share this is cool you guys are always encouraged to send us weird stuff like this please uh cheese biscuit wrote in and said regarding the chat about record holders for old age and cause of death years ago we had a neighbor who was an emt and he told us they dealt with a lot of calls where an old person died happens so often they had an acronym for it TMB for too many birthdays that's uh that's morbid but it's all kind of funny like uh yeah it's a little little dark

Oh, how'd he die? TMB. Yeah. It's a little dark, but, uh, yeah. It's a little dark, but actually kind of, that's good. It's really fun. I always feel bad when they find somebody who's been dead for like two weeks and nobody knew. Yes.

Yeah. That means they don't have any family around and stuff. That sucks. Exactly. Check on your, check on your relatives all the time. Especially those that are living alone. And if they're old, you know, there's no, there's, there's, their expiration's coming. You've got to be there for them.

Also, this is odd. Uh, from TMS 2630. he says an anonymous texter. When going to a new town or city, my mom would always request a paper, newspaper, to read the obituaries while she was there. Yeah, that's funny, because we talked about, like, what's the first thing you do when you go to a new place? Like, you go find a comic shop, or you go find a record store or something along those lines. You kind of go around and see where the restaurants, the local restaurants and stuff are. But requesting a newspaper, makes sense.

Good, yeah, I think that's a great way to start. But to read the obituaries, because I'm not sure what she's looking. for specifically like old high school friends or something weird like that but if you're going to a new town i guess looking looking for your old high school friends who moved away there potentially moved away there to see this is people who don't know about facebook i guess or whatever and they just want to or maybe it's just a morbid thing it's like who's dying here yeah i'm guessing it yeah i doubt it was her looking for people she knew who died in a new town i don't want to yuck anybody's catharsis maybe maybe somebody gets some kind of chill out of that but i don't know

if i could do it that would be weird you you know you are reading about people from the people typically who love them and so that's true that's true i'd feel like they all they'd all start to read their people it feel like they'd all read the same like he was he was he was he left four beautiful daughters and a wife of 30 years you know like that it's all the same maybe there was some sort of uh uh uh nefarious reason she was doing this like she would say okay i can go and pretend i'm the long lost relative and get some of their stuff she's looking for social security numbers that's what that was about yeah that's it yes exactly like all right whose name whose name can i change my name too yeah maybe this texter has more

info about his weird mom send it in we'd like to hear about it i'd like to know more please yes do it also brian from denver wrote in not you a different brian not me i would remember he said if i wrote it he has a correction says hey guys i hate pushing up my glasses about language but i'm a product of my upbringing and I blame my parents. In TMS 2631, you dismiss someone for calling Fallout a Holocaust show. I think this was mostly me because when you say Holocaust, I think it's the Jewish Holocaust. Yeah. You know?

This is what I naturally go to. Just remember, folks, I'm not Jewish. I'm Jew-ish. Ish. That's right. 132nd Jewish. It says, but the franchise is literally about a nuclear holocaust. A quick Google will give you the Wikipedia page.

I know where you're coming from since the common parlance typically refers to the World War II era definition of the word. But during the time when we were kids and the day after was on everyone's mind, I remember nuclear holocaust being a common term and a distinct era, or excuse me, idea separate from the Holocaust. Anyway, sorry to be so defensive for someone in the chat, but they were wrong, weren't wrong. Sorry, they weren't wrong, he's saying he's defending them. I still fondly regard the production, however, says Brian from Denver. Yeah, that's a good point. when I hear that word, I just think, oh, yeah, of course, it's World War II.

Immediately you think of World War II. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, you've got like, you know, apocalypse and post-apocalypse. Yeah. I guess anything's a Holocaust if you, I don't know at the limited, like what's the upper or the lower limit of a Holocaust? Like, if you kill, if I kill 500 people, is that a Holocaust? If I kill two million, I think it is, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think so, too. Yeah, it's, it's, uh, um, I don't know what the rule is. Like, what makes a Holocaust, you know? I guess I can search for it. Dear Google, how many is a Holocaust?

I mean, it might actually say, let's see, Holocaust definition. Here we go. Okay, so even when I look that up and I go to like history channel.com or history.com, it just talks about the war one. I know that it was because we were getting those morbid stats at the beginning of the year of how many mass shootings there had already been. And they, the news folks, the story I read was very quick to say, and this is how many people qualify as a mass shooting as opposed to just, you know, one person getting shot or two people getting shot. It was like it has to be more than four or something.

I can't remember. Right, right. Okay, so, okay, I found a disambiguation thing on Wikipedia. Oh, good. All right. It says the Holocaust was a genocide during World War II during Nazi Germany, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. murdered approximately 6 million European Jews.

The word Holocaust derives from the ancient Greek holocaustos, a burnt offering is what it means, or sacrifice. So it is a specifically came up through Jewish lore, not lore, Jewish history. I don't know, I'm starting to think my definition

might have been closer to the bone there, buddy. I mean, it is a burn, if you burn everybody with a nuke, then yes, it's a giant burning, right? So it works. He's right. It works. It's a burnt offering. Yes. Yeah. Yes. But then Panera and my Asiago bagel was also a burnt

offering. So does that... Your your sandwich was a holocaust. Oh, my God. We're going to hell. Well, whatever. Words. Words. Words. Still haven't finished. I'm about two or three episodes. I think one and a half episodes away from,

no, just one episode away from the finale of Fallout, still loving it. And I've started the process last night of installing Fallout 4 back on my PC. Oh, nice. Oh, no, there are mods that make New Vegas look better? Are there mods that make Fallout 4 look better? Well, Fallout 4 has a, there are mods. It already looks good.

But does Fallout 4 looks good. Yeah, I mean, it came out in 2015. It still holds up. But there's a high-res texture pack on Steam. It's another 50 gig or something. Totally worth it. that if you can display it, they look great. So another thing I was going to say about that.

Oh, the 25th, so two days from now is the big patch day for that thing, and they're adding a bunch of stuff. Oh, really? Well, wait. I'm not going to start it then until, yeah. Which I won't start until I'm back from TMS Vegas anyway. So what's the point of me even worrying about it until then? There is so much.

I have a list. KT. Data. I think he's still on the chat. Dude, you're awesome. Thank you for making that list for you, me, Ducey, and Hammond about like, Here's what each of you are responsible for making sure you bring. He's good at that stuff. He's really good that stuff.

And it makes me actually a question, do I have, do you want me to, you don't have the road microphone on here. Do you want me, let's see, nope, looks like he's got, he's got mics and stuff. All right, cool. Yeah, he probably does. He's going to, we're meeting up on Friday. He's going to take one of these swag boxes for me because I don't have room. Oh, you know what I probably should figure out is the, because we've got all those, who, has all those microphone stands. Remember we bought a bunch of microphone stands for Vegas for

the desk for the tabletops when we do the, um, oh, I thought those were from the place. I didn't know we had. No, they never had enough. And so we always had to get more and we might have even had to bring our own, like they had maybe two microphones that they could. Did James keep on? Maybe James. He might have, yeah, he and that might have them. I'll check, uh, I'll check with them. I know I don't have. I need to check with them already on another thing for task fills. anyway so all right cool yes uh look forward to seeing you then kevin on friday we're gonna hook up in sandy somewhere yeah where i was born i was born in the town of sandy so it'll be a nice coming home so you'll you can you can uh you're the biggest podcaster with the biggest unit

uh in utah there was a map by far of yeah of the uh of the states and who the the podcaster with the biggest unit is in each state i actually wonder about that like if there was a way to do that i might i actually have the habit in utah i don't know because I don't know I can't think anybody else there's a couple of like big influencer type like lady influencers with kids or whatever not the one that went to prison a couple of weeks ago but more other ones they probably have podcasts and they probably therefore have you know millions and millions of listeners I don't know but that'd be interested in that that'd be cool yeah that would be cool uh Leo put together a new map Leo yeah get on that I saw yesterday

they're not doing any more live shows from the twit thing does that mean they're shutting down the twit offices. Anyone hear about that? Oh, I don't know. Wow. Had not... I'd look into that again. Had not heard.

All right. Let's move on to some news here. Time to inform the people, not just entertain them. All right. So here's that. It's time for the news brought to you by. Grumpy emo girl ponders whether to shag a corpse or a dog over several years. So this has been in our, this has been, like, we haven't gotten to the news for like a couple episodes.

Like, I think you might have put this in on Wednesday or... Definitely last week. It was definitely last week. And it wasn't until today, because I saw it in there and I'd like say, yeah, I can't think of it. And I'd just kind of move on and forget about it. And then the next day came up, was like, oh, yeah, nope, still no idea. And it wasn't until today and seeing it, there's like, would that be the Twilight series, Scott? That would be the Twilight series.

That is correct. Nicely done. I needed those extra days, apparently. Sometimes it comes to you when it comes to you. You can't control these things. Costco, I went there yesterday. Got a hot dog? Oh, no, it was the other day.

It wasn't yesterday. I want a hot dog today, I'll tell you that. I don't know why I'm craving another one, but I'm ready for another hot dog. Oh, I can ask you this before we were talking about hot dogs. Have you had the, I guess they're called K-dogs at Cupop? No, I saw them, but I haven't. I want to have them. I want to have one. I could go there today. Maybe I'll go there.

My mom lives near the cup bop, the place that's close, the closest cup bop to where I am. She lives half a mile away. And they keep sending her coupon book or coupon sheets and stuff like that, mailers. And she always texts me, do you want this one? I'm like, yes, I want the cup bop, you know. Buy one, get one free or $2 off a K dog or whatever. KT data says the K dogs are good. Good. Okay, cool. I'm going to go get me a K dog. I think I get one today. It's only a block and a half that direction. I could just go get it.

Oh, you're lucky to have a cup up so close. Yeah, I could park. The closest things I have are that Mexican place that makes the incredible looking burritos. Oh, yeah. And a buffalo wild wings is just up the street. Both of those sound good, though. Yeah.

Everything we're talking about sounds good. Gosh, dang it. I know. We can't talk about food on the show. So let's talk about Costco on their hot dogs. Let's do it. Well, this is different than that. Costco now sells up to $200, or excuse me, $200 million a month in gold and silver, all right? Really? So if you're like, hey, I need some gold because the world's ending or whatever. Costco's got you covered.

So this isn't like jewelry. This is like actual gold, like bars of gold and silver for people who are, I'm going to watch the world deteriorate the financial system and I want my gold. It's basically like, you know, like Fox News, CNN, they always have gold by gold commercials. They're basically the fruition of that. Shoppers are heading to Costco for more than just a budget-friendly hot dogs. Still only a buck 50, by the way, those hot dogs. Pretty good deal.

Yeah, yeah. The rest of the world can go up, up, up, and they'll still stay a buck 50. I love the CEOs. It's like, you are not raising the price of that hot dog. They're like, but we could make so much money. And he's like, nope, you're not doing it. Anyway, the Warhouse, Warhouse Club, better than Horhouse, has seen a spike in sales ever since it began selling,

one-ounce bars of 24-carat gold last September. I didn't even know they were doing it. With the gold bullion selling out faster than the store could replenish its stock, the discount in January added silver coins to its offering of precious metals. According to a recent estimate from Wells Fargo, the members-only retailer now sells $100 million to $200 million worth of gold and silver every month. Here's the problem. It's all made by Kirkland.

It's like Kirkland gold. It's not quite the same, is it when it's Kirkland? It's quite the same. It's like, you know, off-brand gold. Yeah. You'd think it's gold, but it's got like, it's from old people's teeth and stuff like that. Right. It's actually a solidified Kirkland cheese product. Great. Great. Well, they're making a lot of money. Sales have climbed partly because of Costco's aggressive pricing and high level of customer trust, according to Edward Kelly of Wells Fargo equity analysts. He said in a research note, the accelerating frequency of Reddit post, quick online sellouts of product and Costco's robust monthly. commerce sales suggests a sharp

uptick and momentum since the launch. Costco did not immediately reply for a request for comment on Wednesday, but apparently they're rolling in the gold money. Woo! Interesting. What an interesting thing. It totally makes sense. Kind of

more based on like the people who are prepping and they're stocking up on stuff for their shelters that they might also want to do this as well. Is that too much of a generalization, you think? I mean, it might, there might be something to do with it. I have a feeling you're right, but I could be wrong.

Like, it seems like you're going to Costco to get 400 pounds of toilet paper, a ton of canned beef that won't go bad for 20 years. And you're like, well, I'll get some gold. That'll be the currency of the future. And then they, sorry, I don't mean to do the accent. It just comes out. That's what happens. It's hard not to.

Sorry, yeah. Anyway, it's the highest that gold's been in a while. Currently, is grown since January to 14.5% over what it was prior to the end of the year. Let's see. They think these guys have something to do with it. It is right now at $2,160 bucks per ounce of gold. That seems like a lot. That does seem like a lot. Do you have any gold? I have a gold tooth. I can take that out and cash it in. I don't think I've got any gold. I don't think I've got any gold I can liquidate. I look around me like, you know, oh, I forgot about that gold bar I have sitting in front of my miniature tempest machine. Yeah, no doubt. No, I don't

Like no, I have a gold ring, the wedding ring. I don't wear it. I wear the black manly band because they were a sponsor, and I really like the manly band. I like them too. They're good. Can we get them back as another sponsor? Because I want to cover my hands with bling.

My problem is my, I lost weight after I got mine, and now it doesn't fit me. It slips off, so I got to go get it resized. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Any jeweler can take care of that. Even if you have a manly band, we have one in the mall, actual manly band location. Oh, really?

They actually have a physical store. They'll do it for you for free if I go there. I just haven't bothered to do it. I keep thinking, well, if I lose more weight, then I'll just have to do this again. But I think maybe that's about as thick as my finger will be from now on. So I'll do that. Nice. Let's see.

Good for you. I think I've taken the weight on that you've lost. Well, I've brought it over here to Colorado. It is now here with me and the fray. I wondered where that 19.8 pounds or whatever it is went. It sounds like Brian stole it. Oh, gosh. Well, I didn't steal that much.

I took. Oh, good. That's good. Here, that just means I've got my... Oh, God, no, yeah, no, I'm, I'm maybe eight pounds heavier than I was last year at this time. Oh, that's not bad. I remember because I keep track of it every year's like, oh, can I do the jumping off the stratosphere thing again? Because, you know, KT Data and I and a couple other people who did it, we now get lifetime 50% off if we want to do it again.

And I always think, oh, do I want to do it again on this trip? It was a blast. And it's like, nope, I'm a couple pounds over. what they tell me is the limit. There you go. Icor says he gained it. I doubt it. Icor, you're a slim, you're a slim gym. Someone in the chat said their gold is in their, where is this? My gold is, I can't find it, it went so fast. Oh, here it is. The only gold I have in my house is in circuitry. Do we all have a little gold in our circuitry for home electrics stuff?

Yeah, is that something that we can melt down? Yeah, I didn't know that was even in there. I thought it was all copper. I got a bunch of old laptops I can't do anything with. I thought gold wasn't like very conductive, or do I have that wrong? Maybe I have it backwards. I thought gold and silver were non-conductive and copper and other metals were more conductive. I don't know. Oh, processors, really?

That's interesting. Oh, sure, right, yeah. Gold is super conductive? Gold leads on the processors. I had no idea. I had no idea. that's that's interesting monster cables i thought that was all fake though wasn't real yeah exactly you thought uh monster was just a scam felt like it really was like hey what if you what if you spent

nine times what you'd normally pay for a cable like this just because of the name how about that i'm it's all it is it's just a name yeah not my not my jam uh well all right then let's take a uh oh let's do we got time for one more let's do this uh hey ontario canada how how how is your gravy well here's a story for you. It's spread all over our puteen. Our puteen. That better be. That's where it belongs.

It's where it belongs. Gravy delivered to Ontario legislature sparks police investigation. Oh my. Oh, no. Yeah. This is such a Canadian story. You guys don't do anything crazy. It says a suspicious package delivered to Queens Park was delivered to be, or sorry,

determined to be powdered gravy following a police investigation in Toronto on Tuesday. The police service or the TPS there in Toronto said police were called to the Ontario legislature after 1130 a.m. For reports of a suspicious package, according to police, employees were evacuated from a small area of the building. It was later determined by an officer with the explosives unit that the package contained powdered gravy. It'd be weird if it was liquid, I guess. It would be obvious if it was liquid. I mean, they could tell liquid gravy over like some sort of explosive. They said they believe it was a joke.

So this is the second time in a week that gravy delivered to the Queens Park has made headlines. Last week, Premier Ford gifted a can of gravy to liberal parliamentary leader John Frazier after it was discovered that 48 of Ford's staff had made it onto this year's sunshine list. Whatever the frick that is. Yeah, I'm kidding. It was intended to serve as a reminder of the Ford family slogan, stop the gravy train, because they're, you know, conservative financial conservatives. oh gotcha okay so now for some reason i was thinking like all i could come up with is well everything else

is just gravy like you know you talk about how you know you you do all the hard work and then everything after this point it's all just gravy yeah i like that that says gravy train uh that makes a lot more sense yeah it's not bad it says i don't let's see they go on to say well they they go deeper into why it was a joke but the second one they don't know who sent it but they think it's related so Canada you your stories are the best because you guys They really are the best. Nobody died here. Exactly.

It's like, oh, no, we've been sent gravy. Meanwhile, the former president is on trial for hush money and farting in court. That's right. Also, this Ford dude, isn't he the Ford? He's the brother or the one that was the cocaine crazy Ford up there. That was a big story. Oh, really? What was his name?

Do I have that right? I think he's his brother and he got... Harrison. No, I'm kidding. Rob Ford. Oh, that's right. late brother Rob Ford Rob Ford

Shit I don't remember But one of the Oh there it is The premiere is Late Brother Rob Ford Use the slogan While Leading his campaign

For mayor To indicate how he would Cut red tape And save taxpayers money But yeah It doesn't mention Cocaine stuff there But

Yeah he was the one though If you go back And do a little Coder James he says You are thinking of mayor Rob Ford Is that a different I thought that was the same guy

Yeah as you say Isn't that Because he just said That his campaign for mayor So Yeah I think it's the same dude His brother his brother famously ran and got his old position got his brother's position but the one that died

was like some cocaine snort and psychopath oh is a crack it was crack he was really into oh really yeah there was some whole thing with that Canadians are like yelling at their radios i don't i don't have the detail yeah but good news is they're yelling at their radios but they're going oh sorry sorry sorry about that sorry sorry you got the story wrong sorry yeah don't worry there's always times to fix it uh we're going to take a you know go ahead There's a guy, a listener, Paul Jigger, who is a member of our Tadpool, also a guy that I play D&D with on occasion. And he is in Winnipeg, and the Winnipeg Jets are currently battling against the Colorado Avalanche

in the current round of playoffs. And we have a little, we have a little friendly food wager going on. And I found out today that even though Rocky Mountain Oysters are like the main, when you look up Rocky Mountain oysters, it takes you to Colorado. And for those who don't know what Rocky Mount oysters are, they are bull testicles, like cooked, deep-fried bull testicles. And they're actually pretty good. They're not bad. I've had one. They weren't bad. I didn't like thinking about it while I was eating it, but they were good. If you were given one and you didn't know what it was, you'd be like, oh, this is really good. It's like a, you know, a little bit chewier,

almost like getting like a trying to give it like livers and gizzards when you get those at KFC or something Yeah it kind of has that consistency but it tastes like good meat like Yeah

I was surprised how much it was good But yeah It's you know it's all up and down The Rocky Mountains and apparently Winnipeg as well It's over there and it's They're called prairie oysters So it's a whole different thing

So if the Jets win then I'm going to send him some candy from the Georgetown Valley Candy Company, which I will still have to pay for. I don't get free candy from them. I do their work, but I don't. There's no free trade or anything. And we need to figure out what he's going to send me, probably some ketchup chips or something from Winnipeg.

Yeah. I like ketchup chips. I don't know why. Why don't they take off here? I don't get it. No idea. Because Americans probably say, we could just take regular chips and put our own ketchup on them.

Yeah, as Phoebe would say, Dip it, dip it! She yells, dip it. If there's anything to dip, like if you got nuggets or anything, and if you give her a raw nugget, like a nugget with nothing on it, she'll hold it for a second, look at you and go, dip it. Like that.

Dipp it. She makes you dip it. I'm going to make her a t-shirt and says dip it. All right, that's it for her news. We're going to be taking a break here with a song. When we come back, Bill will be here. We're going to talk about making a few things. I got a question about him about all this fallout hype

if it's got him jazzed about. fallout stuff again. God, I mean, he's already, he's done the new Coca-Cola, he's done the Pip Boy. He's done a lot. So you could always do more, I figure. And he's got friends who worked on the show,

so I kind of want to hear about that too. Oh, cool. So anyway, all that coming up after this break, Brian, you got a song there to play? I have a song. Hey, there was a band a while back called the Velvet Underground. I'm sorry, not the Velvet Underground. The New York Dolls.

It was the other New York-based alt-punk band. New York Dolls, You probably can think of the guy Buster Poindexter, who was the under his other name. He was the lead singer of that. But there was another guy in there named Steve Conti. And I was wondering where the hell

I was going with this. Steve Conti is now a solo artist and on record store day released a brand new album called the Concrete Jangle, not the Concrete Jungle, but the Concrete Jangle. Here's what's really cool. The album also features

five tracks co-written with XTC's Andy Partridge, a favorite of mine. So it's really, really cool. Here is a brand new song from that album. Here's Steve Conti and Shoot Out the Stars. Perfect. Also, quick note, if you've never seen it, 2005's documentary called New York Doll,

which was about the bassist, Arthur Kane. Amazing movie. So good. Oh my gosh, I love that thing. That guy was an interesting, sad soul. And I don't mean that in a negative way. He's just a sad.

It was a sad story. It's very good, though. New York to all. Find it. All right. We'll take that break. We'll be back shortly. Stay tuned.

Shout out the scars. This night in Hollywood, the dream is bare their scars. The kids tend to go wrong. The actor's tendin' bars Slingshot Sousy got to let it fly Set your sides And fall in the midnight sky

Let's drive out to the hills And climb up on the cars And shoot at all the stuff like And shoot out the stars Everything's fine when it's dark All that we need is a spark to light up the amusement park Find the trigger lights Shoot out the stars

The aimless taking aim We're all misunderstood To blame For all the hurt we got Under the hood Picking all the fighters in the skies that shine Teen head bottom, baby, ain't no crime Got them in our cross hairs

Between Venus and Mars We'll shoot out the stars Everything's fine when it's dark, All that we need is a spark We burn money like an only guard We've got to chill on the lights And shoot out the scars Shoot out the stars

Everything's fine when it's done All that we need is a spark To light up the amusement park Find a twinkling lights Shoot out the stars Everything's fine when it's dark All that we need is a spark To light up the amusement park

Find the trickling lights Pull it into the Nice Make a lifetime of nights Shoot out the stars Shoot out the stars Shoot Shoot

Shoot Shoot Shoot It's star Yeah Shoot Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot out of the dog. They made me a wig.

We made you a wig. They made me a wig. Diarrhea. And we're back. Tell me who that was one more time. Sure, that's former New York doll, Steve Conti, and his brand, new album, which is called The Concrete Djangle. The album

that features a few songs. Co-written by XTC's Andy Partridge, incredible songwriter himself. That's a song called Shoot Out the Stars. I don't know for sure if this song was one of the ones that was co-written by Andy Partridge. Oh, all right. When you ever

say Partridge, I just think Partridge family, but we're not talking about that guy. They are not relations. They are not relations? All right, good. No, come on. your, you know, your dear God, your generals and majors, you're the Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, XTC. Come on. Yeah, he's great.

Dear God, I'll pick up a letter and... That's that one, right? That's that one, yeah. And nearly impossible to see in concert because he won't get up on stage. Oh, he has... Stage anxiety. Stage fright. Well, you know, some of our most brilliant people are like that.

It's totally fine. This is true. Check this out. there's still something wrong, isn't there, Bill? Oh my gosh, it's Bill Duran ahead of his visit to Las Vegas with us. Bill, what's going on, man? Two days in a row with, oh no, Bobby was yesterday. Yeah, Bobby was yesterday.

Things are good, but a while. I've been busy, I've been traveling. Got to see a lot of our podcast pals. Oh, yeah, he went to Texas, did the whole look at the sun. Oh, the Austin thing. Yeah. Got to hang with Jury and Ashley. We crashed with them for a few days, hung out with the Shwood. Saw an eclipse.

It was pretty great. Also, I was in Florida and stopped by Garrett Weinzerl's place because I was driving right past it. Yeah. Did you say, get a haircut hippie when you were there? His hair is nuts, man. Yeah, it's crazy. He's got a bush of a hairhead thing going there. Oh, yeah.

So I'm pumped. I get to see all my podcast pals next week to be in Vegas with you all. and couldn't be happy. Are Brits going to be there with me this time? Yeah, that's great. That's great. That's right, yeah. Yeah, wives are always welcome at this thing.

So, bring the wives, I say. Well, that's great, dude. Yeah, you'll be able to, you can fill out your dance card entirely by the time you see us. And that'll be pretty much everybody. Now, you mentioned to me the other day, I know we're going to talk about something specific here, but you had some friends work on the Fallout show. That's right, yeah. Some props and stuff.

Is there something in the show we can, like, look at and go, oh, that was a thing that Bill's friends made or whatever, like the power armor. Some of the background. Power armor. The Nucca Cola bottles, my buddy Adam Green made those. There's a assaultron. You pan by them in the cleaned up

vault. Not going to give anything away. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. There's an Assaultron that makes a cameo. That was my buddy's costume. They contributed to their old one to the show, and they made new ones for Dragon Con this last year. Oh, nice. And there's a few more I'm missing.

Oh, Evil Ted made a Rad Roach. Oh, no way. Yeah. They're everywhere in this thing. There's probably more. And, of course, I contributed a bunch of stuff to my buddy's fallout fan film that's coming out soon. We talked about last time I was here. So, yeah, we're in full fallout mode over here.

I still haven't seen the show yet. Of course, I've got to go load that up and watch it. But very excited. Yeah, that was going to be my follow-up, was if you've seen the show or when you do see the show, just how inspired you end up getting because it's kind of, I mean, what, in Europe, 7,800% increase in sales of Fallout 4. It's the highest selling game in Europe right now. It's crazy. Here in the States, it's in like top two or three. They're some of the highest concurrent Steam users right now are playing like four different Fallout games. Like they're,

I've never seen a show, certainly a video game related show, that had this kind of impact on like immediately making people go out and play the games. Oh yeah. Crazy how that happen. I think the trick is to make the show good. I think that's the trick. That's the trick, right? Everything I've heard is that the show is quite good. I think the last of us got away with not having it didn't really boost game sales. And people are like, why not? What happened there? Well, it's telling the story of the game

and that's different what this is. This is telling a story in the world, right? So it's not like we're rehashing something, and that's nice. People are like, wait, you're telling me I can go run around and live in that world? sign me up yep yep a lot of new people uh a lot of people going back because they haven't been there in a while some of us never really left you know and i would implore anyone who is an old school fallout fan to please embrace the new fans with open arms and not gate keep yeah because

you see a bit of that on the internet and it's really disheartening yeah you know what i'll say this uh fallout new vegas is one of the greatest RPGs ever made but the stands for that game Need to back the F up. Yep, dial it back from 11. Really? Oh, gosh. Calm the F down, you guys. Even Obsidian would tell you to knock it off because you guys are way over doing it. Well, anyway, Bill, would you bring us today?

Let's talk about it. Sure. So seven years ago, I made my own wedding band. I 3D modeled and 3D printed a master of it. And then that I made a mold. I made a silicone mold using a high-tempe silicone. Then I cast the ring that I wear out of pewter. It's a lead-free pewter, so it's safe to wear on your body.

And I wore that thing every day for the last seven years. And pewter is kind of a softer metal. Soft metal, yeah. Yeah. Kind of bends, yeah. It does. And sure enough, mine got beat up. I'd have to, like, I have a ring mandrel.

I reformed it around to make it round again. And I'd have to polish it every once in a while because it tarnishes pretty easily. But I wanted to compare a fresh casting to the one that I've been wearing every day. So we made a video. We cast the new one because I still have the mold. Convenient. Very convenient. And cast a fresh one so I could compare them.

And it was really fascinating to see how much the original had worn away. Oh, this is cool looking at these two side by side, like all the indentations and stuff like that. I mean, this is a detailed ring. Wow. Yeah. So it was just a really neat experiment. You don't think about it as you're wearing the thing every single day for almost a decade. How much of it just gets lost or worn away. Now, I've polished my ring every couple months because it does get quite tarnished.

The pewter gets pretty tarnished. So it got polished. I wore it in the shop. It got scratched a lot. And it's just crazy how much of it vanished. Like, I don't know. I wish I'd wait it. actually i guess i could i could weigh the new one compared to the old one yeah right how many grams have have worn down on that thing yeah i'll have to go go do that and see how much uh how much weight it lost over the last seven years more than me i'll tell you that much fitness geek coming back soon right hold on let me ask you this so when i just watch you

dunk the ring okay and i'm watching you pull some slag out of there and all that yeah that must have been a little intense this feeling of like all right there's no turning back now like Here we go. My ring is in there. We're melting shit down. Yeah. So you used new pewter? Did you melt the old ring down and use it?

I still have the old one, but I had a couple of other castings originally, and those are the ones I threw in there. Oh, that's what you just threw in there. Okay. Yeah. So I still have the original. I'm going to hang on to it, too. Yeah, because you've got a picture of the two side by side. So in a few years, I could compare the one I just cast.

I'll have a little series of them. Wouldn't that be fun? It will be fun. Yeah, why not? Oh my gosh, this looks hot. Is it hot? Are you going to burn yourself? Is this one of those videos where I finally get to see you burn something? No, I didn't get burned, but it does get to over 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Puter melts it around, around that. I think 460 is the upper end of it. And then what's really cool is in the past seven years, we've done more pewter casting,

and we've got a lot better at it. So things like heating up the mold with a heat gun. so getting the mold up to temperature is critical because then when you pour the metal in there it stays molten longer it goes down into all the crevices if you pour your hot metal into a cold mold it'll solidify quidding

before it fills in the cracks exactly yeah so this new casting is actually has a deeper I compared it to the original video we made when we made the original ring and it's got a deeper better pattern on it compared to the original so

it's even nicer. So as far as strength goes, obviously, I mean, Peter, like you said, soft metal. If there's, you know, do you know, what's the easiest metal to work with melting down that maybe just some consumer level schmuck? Like me, could do. Like on the range of, all right, you've got your PLA and then you go up to PETG and ABS and stuff like that. And then you kind of go into the metals. Is there something that's kind of easy to still deal with, but maybe, is sort of, is. stronger than ABS, for example, or is ABS kind of a higher up a level that I might be

giving it credit for? So if you're talking metal, pewter is kind of the lowest you can go. Puter and lead melt at a similar temperature. Of course, you don't want to use lead if you're going to be wearing it on your body. But pewter is a great place to start if you're going to get into casting because you can do it with a silicone mold. Now, we've got this high-tempe silicone that will withstand that heat. But if you have a normal silicone mold, you can still cast pewter out of it,

but you'll only get one or two castings before the silicone mold sort of burns up. It draws all the moisture out of it. But it's a great, like I said, great place to start. You don't need a lot of tools. You can melt pewter on your stovetop. Like it gets hot enough. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah.

So if you're looking to get started into casting metal, it's a great place to start. You can do sand casting with it if you want. So kind of the steps would be 3D print an image or 3D print the thing that you want to have cast in pewter, then get your silicone, build a mold, have it, make sure that there's, you know, a smart place to pour the pewter in, a good place to break the mold apart to get stuff out, and then, like you said, you get one or two. You can make one or two from that and then before the silicone is. Yeah, there you go. Or you can get the mold max 60 is what I use from Smooth on. It's a high-tempe silicone. and you can get many castings out of that with pewter but yeah that's the exact process and it's pretty dead simple

and like I said we got a couple of videos if anyone's interested in checking that out now if you wanted to cast aluminum or brass or silver or gold anything like that that's a whole other process those melt at like 1200 or 1900 degrees Fahrenheit

so way way higher you need a furnace or a forge of some kind to melt something that hot. You need a crucible to hold it. You need to do some sort of loss wax casting or sand casting for that. So you could totally do that. It's just a very different process. I like the pewter thing because it's a really great introduction to melting metal. Yeah, that's cool. How much? Oh, I just found one. I don't know how much. I don't know how much I only like 10 bucks. I'd never heard of a mandrel until you mentioned it, a ring sizer thing. I'm looking at one on Amazon. You can make a freaking weapon out of that thing. Look at that thing.

that's cool man look at it it's like a baton a lot of tools in my shop you can turn into weapons yeah I'm coming to you when the zombies come I'm going to Washington

dude oh yeah I'm coming up there this stuff's fantastic hey did you know that the highest grossing musician of all time in your state is Kenny G

did you know that I did not know that my dad's gonna be excited to hear that he loves Kenny G yeah Kenny G's awesome very cool this video's up now guys you can go watch it and see the process um let me ask you this if i had to take we were talking earlier about taking a gold tooth out and melting it down because gold's worth

more than ever right now there's a big uptick and gold prices um do you have the stuff you you would need to melt gold in your in your uh i don't think so i think you need at least like an oxy acetylating torch uh and a crucible to melt it um because you said what 1200 do you say 1200 degrees what did you say before something like that gold is 1,700 or 1900 or something like that. Okay. It's quite hot. Special torch for that business.

Yeah, I don't have the tech to do that. All right. But that's, yeah. Not yet. Not yet. It's coming, though, everybody. Get ready. When you're molars, when it's time for those to come out, Bill's got your number.

Bill, always a pleasure. I can't wait for this weekend. You got probably a little something to give us, a little bonus link today. First thing, we have a bunch of our books in the Humble Bundle right now. If you go to humblebundle.com, there's a cosplay like a pro bundle. It's kind of bananas. It's, I think 18 bucks gets you 41 e-books on cosplay. Yeah.

A huge range of topics. Foamsmithing, obviously, my books are in there. But LEDs, wigs, styling, pattern making, sewing, everything is covered. And it's a crazy, crazy deal at Humble Bundle right now. Is that you in the, oh, no, that's not you. That's somebody else. I saw it, but there's a guy in a beard in it. I thought it was you on the book,

but your stuff's in here as well, of course. Oh, look at that. There you are. That is you. Ha! Love it. The cover of Foamsmith 3 is still my favorite photo you ever took you yourself. Oh, yeah.

I love it. Funny buying the scenes on that. So I had to wear a black shirt for that photo. I took that photo myself with like a self-timer. And the only black shirt I could find, for some reason, we had harvested the bottom third of it, the fabric. So, like, picture just below there, my big old belly sticking out.

It's cut off black shirt. You know, but I just love the fact that, you know, you're the angry player choice in this RPG. You choose your character compared to the horns and headdresses and sewing for beginners, mages. Yeah, you look like neutral evil or something. I can't quite pick what your character is. That's awesome. What a value. $112 worth of books, you guys.

It's kind of bananas, yeah. And you can choose how much of it goes to the creator, how much goes to charity. It's really cool. Yeah. female breastplate patterns. That's cool. That's cool. I like that. That way you can get your boobies in there, right? That's the deal there's the deal. Okay. Whatever you got. So this guy's from Utah, Scott.

thought you'd like this. He goes by Cody's Lab on YouTube, and he made chain mail out of chains. Oh, actual chain mail. That's right. It's talk about working with metal. He did a bunch of really neat stuff because he had to strip the zinc off the outside of it, and then he had to harden it once it was all put together. It's a really weird process, and he makes some big crazy chain mail out of it. So Cody's Lab, making chain mail out of chain. Super fun video. That looks really heavy. It does. Yeah. Oh, my gosh, dude. But maybe that'll protect you in your medieval fight for life, you know?

Mm-hmm. All right. Well, now I'll say I can't wait to see you next week. How about that? I can't wait to see you guys. It's going to be so much fun. See you, dude. All right, there's Bill, Punish Props.com. I actually, like, ordered all that chain online and they had to ship it to them. So it was basically he had to receive some chain mail chain mail.

Oh, I love it. Chain mail chain mail chain mail. Chain mail chain mail to make chain mail. For David. a desk melching no that would be good um that movie needs to hurry up and get on streaming by the way the horror movie i want that in my life oh yeah yeah yeah the uh late night with the devil so good and i'm just

going to tell you right now i openly left in the theater because there are so many opening movie studios that took part in it so it's like you've got your do do do do do and it's like this movie studio and then this other animated thing this movie studio and then this other animated thing this movie studio and by the sixth one i was like it's like is there another one like it was almost like like that spinal tap song where they put a ton of different endings on the song and it gets funnier with every extra uh ending that they put on there i think it's uh isn't that literally there's a there's a family guy episode where it's that exact thing where peter's like oh is this it oh no that's not at the theater or uh yeah in a movie theater it's there's a whole scene i don't

know where i don't know how you'd find it but i saw that i'll look at you too but it was like, oh, he's like, oh, cool, arrows. And he's like, oh, wait, that's a logo. Oh, cool, look, this other thing. Oh, no, that's not it. That's just another logo is great. TV's Travis says that it's on shutter. So, but I know, you don't have, you don't currently have shut up.

I don't currently have it, but I'd resub for that. I'd do that. Yeah, there you go. Do a month of shutter and catch up on some stuff. Why not? Yeah, there you go. So that's a good one to do a month, you know, do a month and then binge all the new stuff that's come out and then turn it off and then come back to it.

I like shutter, too. We'll have Monick on after Vegas. and maybe she'll have some other good shutter streaming recommendations to make it worthwhile for everybody to sub for them. Yeah, a couple of new horror movies out like Abigail, is it? Oh, right. Yeah, with the... That looks good. Yeah, from the folks that brought you ready or not, which is another, like, underappreciated horror movie.

Is that one from last year? That was from, no, like three years ago, I think. What am I thinking of? what was the one where they last year 19 well longer ago than I even thought yeah the one he okay so Dan Stevens is in the new one

what is the name of this movie it's called oh that Dan Stevens is in Abigail yeah that's the one he's in Abigail that's the one I was just trying to make sure I was thinking the right movie that that's getting raves I'm hearing real good things it's like

vampire hunters brought to a house to kill this little ballerina girl who turns out to be a chained up vampire yep it sounds great and the reviews are good so yeah i'm excited oh there it is family guys studio and oh good i'm gonna click that link and pause it and watch it as soon as we're done doing this you'll be amazed how exactly to your what you were describing yeah hilarious it's perfect perfect for that all right that's it's it for all that we're gonna read a quick email here to end

things uh the show is or the email is the morning stream at gmail dot com this came from nick uh it's about a don not's dream that's weird says hello stig and barry i were i were i I woke up this morning pondering the following scenario. Retired Mayberry officer Barney Fife testifies against a crime boss and is put into witness protection program. He subsequently assumes a new identity, Ralph Furley, and works as an apartment complex manager. What I want to know is which member of the three's company's cast worked with the mob and eventually took him out, says Nick. So based on a dream he had, but he wants to know who of three's company. That'll be it necessarily was a dream.

We just, he woke up pondering the following scenario. Well, sure. So either way, what would you say? Clearly, it was Larry. I mean, it was definitely, it wasn't Jack, Chrissy, or Janet. It was absolutely a neighbor Larry, Larry, lounge lizard Larry. I can't think of what his last name was. He lived upstairs, and he was so cheesy, that guy.

He is so smarmy and always groping women at the Regal Beagle, that guy, not Larry. I don't trust Larry at all. Yeah. But then you can continue this thing and say, and then, you know, after Reelbeal, Furley left that apartment thing, he became involved with mysticism and found

and discovered a remote control that could... Wait, was he the one? No, Wachin was the one who gave Sandler the remote control. It was the Pleasantville was Don Not. So he studied mysticism and found a way to turn the world black and white

for... I like it. And for a while he was a fish. So there's that. Mr. Limpit. Mr. Limpit. Speaking of John Ritter, he so good in Slingblade. I forgot how good he is in that role. He plays the friend the gay neighbor friend. He's

so good in it. You know, and this is completely, you can see how my mind works. You were talking about Mr. Limpot, and I was like, what was I called? The Talon Mr. Limpit, but I know it wasn't. Has anybody who started watching the Rippley, the talent Mr. Ripley show with the, um, it's the guy

who was Perry Mason, right? Oh, it's an actual, oh, the guy from the Americans. Um, I loved him. You never saw the Americans, but it might be that guy. I think so. What's his name? Andrew Scott.

Oh, no, that's a different dude. The dude, Perry Mason, was played by the Americans guy who is, whatever his name is. No, I like Andrew Scott a lot. Okay, so I didn't know this Netflix show was a talented Mr. Ripley show. Yeah, I didn't until I watched the trailer. I'm like, oh, it's the talented Mr. Ripley. Okay. Matthew, oh, I got to get this right.

R-H-Y-S. Because here's where we've got so many corrections, and I always second-guess myself. Is it Reese? It's Reese. Matthew Reese. Right? Yes.

The Irish guy. I don't remember it is Reese's P-C-C-S. Rees-P-C-C-S. It also stars that Elliot Sumner person, who I think is compelling as hell. What was she in that I loved? How do I know this? Oh, he's...

They, but let's see here. No, no, I'm saying this Andrew Scott guy. How do I know him? No, I'm, I know. I was looking at this other thing, but keep going. Oh, okay. From other, what do I know him from? There's other things and I, that's why I was like wanting to put him on the, uh.

I know the name, but maybe I just know my own name and it's throwing me. Andrew Scott. The priest and fleabag. Yes, that's it. Oh. Oh, I like him. He was great. Yes, he was great.

Yes. Oh, fleabag, dude. Such a great show. Oh, man, I miss Phoebe Waller Bridges stuff. When are we getting her? I know she was almost going to be. doing that other series, and then it got turned over to somebody else, the Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and it got turned over to Glover, which is fine because it was fantastic that way.

But I need some new Phoebe Waller Bridge stuff in my life. She's got four things coming up, something called screenshot, something called a big, bold, beautiful journey, a thing called Untitled Phoebe Waller Bridge Amazon Project. Okay. That's definitely going to be my favorite. favorite of all of them. Oh, it'll be great. And then something called if, and she plays a voice. Oh, that's, yeah,

didn't that, I thought that already came out. I guess not. Okay. That the one with, uh, I've seen a trailer for that, I think. Or no, maybe I just saw. John Krasinski thing. Is that the thing I'm thinking? Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Yeah. The big grimace, basically. Yeah. Ryan, uh, Ryan Reynolds is their main in there. Yes. Krasinski wrote it and directed it. I'm kind of, I'm very curious about it.

It's got everyone in it. John Stewart, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, freaking... Bradley Cooper, Richard Jenkins. Sam Rockwell, everybody. Christopher Maloney, good Lord. And Matthew Reese. Yeah, there you go. All coming back.

All full circle. Looks like the last Louis Gosset Jr. role. Oh, well. He did a voice. Yeah. Aquafina. You're going to get some Aquafina audio over. Yeah, we never...

We never get that. She's never doing that. How about Bobby Moynihan? He's cool. Love him. All right. I am going to see that, I think. That might be a theater go for me.

Wow. I know, right? It takes a lot. I'm seeing the Planet of the Apes when we get back. Ooh, I love those movies. Yeah, two weeks from Thursday. It's the first one that isn't Matt Reeves, but that's okay. I still believe in it.

I still believe he can do it. I know. The trailers make it look great. Hopefully those last two are something, man. So good. All right, that's it for the show. Thank you all for listening. Being here, all that.

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We'll now get out of here with a tune. Tune, a little song, a little song in your heart. Nat, aka Dirtbox Fingers. I think that's in the chat. I think I saw him there earlier. Hello, Brat and Skayan. I see what you did there. Always forget my birthday, but want to share this song.

Not a birthday request. Play it on my payday, if you like, which is the 25th every month. Now I'm playing it on the 23rd. Or in fact, any day. Love the show and love my favorite parisocial internet uncles. Wow. All right. I'll take that title.

That's fine. We'll take it. Sure. All right. This is great. This is the Gaslight Anthem and Karina Rickman. Reichman. This is from a gaslight anthem album called History Books, an EP that they released this year. It's a cover of the song Ocean Eyes by Billy Eilish. Here is the

Gaslight Anthem. touching you for some time Can't stop staring at those ocean nights Burning cities and napalm skies 15 fliers inside those ocean nights Your ocean eyes No fail You really know how to make me cry

When you give me those ocean eyes I'm scared I've never fallen from quite this eye Going into your ocean nights And those ocean nights I've been walking through a world Can't stop thinking of your diamond mind Careful creatures you made friends with time

He left her lonely with a diamond mind And those ocean eyes No fail You really know how make me cry When you give me those ocean eyes I'm scared I'm never fallen from quiet as high Falling into your ocean eyes

And those ocean ice You really know You really know how make me cry When you give me those ocean eyes I'm scared I never found my wife this high

falling into your ocean ice those oceanites Get more at Frogpants.com. I have to take my anticoagulant.