The Morning Stream - TMS 2781: Beatle Fight!

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

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You get two today, everybody. Won't you consider the worm? That fish has six fingers. Simple, pimple, dimple. Jerk with Bill and more. on this episode of the Morning Stream. Mommy, what's for supper? Can't you see that I'm on the phone?

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I'm so mad I can slap your face. Did I do something wrong? Have you heard your kid today? You are indeed a leader. The morning stream. Get your bleep and tannico out of my face. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, February 18th, 2025. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbett. Hi, Brian Abbott. Good and talk, Scott. Yes. Very okay, I think. Very okay. I didn't sleep very good.

I haven't slept good for about four days, and I'm not sure why. I'm not sure what's going on there. Except, you know, I got the two thing today, so they're putting the crown back on. I think that's a little in the back of my head. Colonoscopy in a couple of weeks, that's a little bit in the back of my head and other places in me. You know what I mean? In the back of everything. Yeah, just a lot going on.

A lot going on. Yeah, I've been sleeping until five until this morning, until last night, and I woke up at one, Then I woke up at three, and then I woke up at four. And at four, I just couldn't get back to sleep. I was up. What did you decide to do? Did you watch something? Did you get up?

Did you do? I did. I watched a couple episodes of the Simpsons. Nothing wrong with that? 4 a.m. Simpsons. Well, Wendy might say there's something wrong with it. But I get it.

I do it. Exactly. I'm not here to judge at all because I do the same damn thing. I had the same problem last night. It's like 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm like, guess I'm reading my book. What else am I going to do? So I did that.

My eyes got all droopy. And I was like, all right, finally sleep. It's coming and it happens. And then, I don't know, about an hour later, woke up again. Before you know it, the freaking garbage man's out there banging everything. I may as well just drag my sorry ass out of bed. And I dressed like a hot dog today. Look at the mustard and ketchup motif.

Yeah, exactly. Decided to really go all in. Some cartoon character that has that red and white combo, isn't there? Red jacket, yellow shirt. Oh, is there? Sounds familiar now that you say it. I don't know who, though. Someone in the chat will certainly bark that out.

but uh yes yeah i don't know man we're just we're at that stage of our lives where sleep is elusive and i don't know i don't know how i take it when you can get it your body tells you how much you you need at that time and and then your brain says no i think let me take over for a little while yeah yeah let me be in charge i'm the captain now it'll say exactly yes well anyway it's nice to see you all hope you're all well uh we have some some great news we have a winner i know this is crazy. In fact, let me play some winter music. We have a winner to the TMS 32nd Film Festival 2025.

And very happy to be bringing you this winner and this name. It was a pretty close call between first and second and even third. There were like kind of a close haul toward the end on this thing. But we have a clear winner after all the voting came in. And huge thanks again to everybody in our voting group. It was very nice for them to all do it. In fact, you know, I can give them all credit real quick. We had Brian Dunaway, of course, me and Brian Ibbett here, Nicole Spag, Randy Deluxe, Red Fragel, Straven, A.K.K.K.A. Tanner.

T.T. Travis was here as well as Wicked Kitten. Big thanks to all of them for their votes and for their help in deciding our winner. And our winner, oh, and if you're all wondering at home, hey, can I see these somewhere? Later today, all of these will be up on the Discord and you'll be able to see them in full. So watch for that. There'll be links to all of them. Every single one, including our winner from Greg Hanshaw. Yay!

Congratulations, Greg. That's right. He made something called Peace and Furt. And we'll be contacting Greg about the details of getting him his big prize package, his multi-source prize package. He'll get stuff from me and Brian and a few other sources. Our pal Travis has thrown some stuff in there. So that'll be coming to him real quick.

And then just to give our top three some love, Gratz to Amy Robinson for her second place performance and Tony Perez for a very close third. And huge thanks everybody for doing it. But we'll put that up so you guys can see it and see what the winner did. And Gratz again to Greg for his fantastic work. I really thought he knocked out of the park.

It was great. It was a very clever, clever subject or a clever way to cover the subject. Yeah. And I thought he had like, He had like cinematography in this thing. Yeah, yeah. He went outside.

There's a nice little jump that he makes at one point that cracked me up the second time I watched it. Yeah, it's impressive. Like, what he, he didn't just, he didn't phone this in. Not that any of you did, but he really didn't. And it's awesome. So, grats again to him, good job, well done. May your accolades not change you, you know? People in the audience are demanding we play it live.

Here's the problem with playing it live. It's very visual. So the 100, so however many are there are of you, 200 there are of you in chat right now, would absolutely enjoy watching it and love it. But the 14,896, or whatever it is, I don't know, let's just say 15,000 that are listening via audio later, we'll just hear noises and it won't make any sense. Yeah, it's not the best way to see it. So what I can do, you know what I'll do just for Fonzie?

I will give out, if I can pull it up here, I will give out the link now. If you're going to give out the link, they're going to watch it while we're doing the show. Well, that's true. So if we're going to talk about something really boring for 30 seconds. All right, let's do it. My mom, just kidding, she's not boring. I shouldn't say that. Well, anyway, but my point is we will give it to you, just not yet.

We'll give it to you later. We'll pass it out. We'll watch it again together post show. Yeah, how's that? You know what? Perfect idea. Right after this ends, we watch it. boom perfect and then people who get the show in post with the unedited video version for patreon

you'll get to see it people here live will get to see it all the audio people will be spared wondering what the hell we're talking about how about that there you go yeah all right yeah um and um and before we get off that subject start thinking about if you didn't submit one this time don't worry we want to try and do this a little bit sooner than the than the big gap that we had since the last time uh that we did this so you know maybe three four months, be thinking about, be thinking about an idea. Post-Vegas will do another, another 30-second film festival and, or I guess it'll be the 33rd film festival. That's right.

And, you know, be thinking about your stuff right now. Maybe film some stuff in Vegas if you have an idea, if you're going to TMS Vegas. Oh, I like that. Plenty of opportunities there. Yeah. Maybe that's the, maybe that's the idea is. I guess we're saying that you might have an advantage if you guys do, you know. Maybe.

Yeah. So, yeah, so we'll try to announce something sooner. But, yeah, it's exciting stuff. Thank you all for participating. It was awesome doing that. And we'll look forward to doing it again. Got a message here. Speaking of TMS Vegas from Adam, who says,

I feel like this question is one that I should know the answer to as I listen every day. But have tickets gone on sale yet for TMS Vegas? I have never been, but I'm planning on attending this year. And now I'm worried they're already sold out a long time ago, L-O-L. Well, Adam, good news. No. You would have definitely heard if tickets were up and gone. They will be up soon, though.

I can promise you that. I can't give you an exact day, but it's going to be soon. I'm waiting for a couple of swag issues and some cost breakdowns and some other stuff. As soon as that happens, it's go time. But it's full speed ahead on, you know, certainly on Brian's side and everybody else's side on planning and everything going on there. Like, we're going, but tickets aren't up yet. And they will be soon. So watch for that.

We'll mention it. We will for sure say it on the show. I can promise you. We'll make a big whoop-de-do on the show. It will be so annoying to you that you'll buy tickets so quickly that you'll be like, all right, now never talk about it again. That's how annoying it will be. Please stop talking about tickets.

My gosh. Yeah. But also it's smart to keep your eye on TMS.orgas. Because that is where this will all be. So if you're like, well, I miss today's show, but I'll go check the site. That's never a bad thing. Go check the site and see if they're up because they will show up there as well. Yeah, we'll do, I'll even put something big up top that says,

Tickets now on sale, because I hardly ever change. Once we lock in, like, the plans and stuff like that, I hardly ever change anything on the site. As Zoe pointed out, Brian, it still says hotel information coming soon, even though the code is an inch below that. Oh, oops. So I still have, like, hotel information or hotel code coming soon. And then right below it said, use the group code, STMC-25. Yeah. Freaking, dude, there's so much stuff.

Like I was just going through the website yesterday Just show stuff Different show pages And I There's so many I have so many errors on there It's just like You said it and forget it sometimes You know we're busy

We got a lot going on Coverville.com Does what it needs to do Like it always has the most recent episode at the top Has a way to search the archives There's like a cover song search function So you can say How many bands have covered

Hurt by 9 inch nails All that's stuff is up there in works, but I have not done anything to actually improve the site in years, because I'm doing other people's sites. Off the top of your head, how many covers of hurt are there, if you had to guess? That I have, maybe four. Oh, that's actually, that's probably about what I would expect. That's a guess.

And obviously, the biggie is Johnny Cash, but let's take a look. Now that I've made my guess, this is a fun little game. Yeah. How many actual covers? the actual number of covers. Brian has at his library of the song Hurt. Allie Gertz, of course, on that great pealed back thing that came out last year. Oh, yeah, that was good.

Cecile Norby, Camille O'Sullivan, Johnny Cash, Unwoman, and two cellos, and Egyle. That brings it to seven covers of Hurt. I was low. Wow. Still lower than, you know, I wouldn't think this thing would ever be more than 10 good covers. Because at some point, you, how much? much can you squeeze out of hurt that's a hard one to do and once and once johnny cash does it you kind of yeah you kind of don't do it anymore it's like uh it's like uh get a little help from my

friends you know once joe cocker did his it's like well shoot yeah how do you compete with that how do i top that or how do i do something that you know is is more uh uh more creative than that You move down the line and do Everybody Harts from R.E.M., yeah, by R.E.M., sure. Somebody called Michael Stipe. Lots of covers of Michael Stipe. I would say 20 covers of Everybody Hirts is my guess. Shall we find out? Yeah, let's find out.

Everybody Harts by R.E.M. Michael Stipe. Headlining up there on the mic, baldhead, stoked to tell the world about, oh, that's me in the corner. That's the wrong song. But anyway. Religion lost. All right. Let's see. 23, but

two copies of the same version by a band called Bodies of Water, so that's 22. Is that the only... That's a great name. Oh, and then the original. Yeah. So that one doesn't count. So 21 versions? That's not bad.

I guess 20, and it was 21. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. And a duplicate by a very cool sounding name. What was it? Or Band. Bodies of Water. That's a great name. Love that. It is a great name.

Oh, they have two different times on them. One six minutes and 52 seconds, the old one's six minutes and 54. Which one do I keep? Oh, shit. It might be two extra seconds of space. It might be extra. It could be them at the end going, thanks, everybody, good night. Or something.

You never know. Speaking of Joe Cocker, I have a version by Joe Cocker of everybody hurts. Really? Yeah. I have a version by Bonnie Tyler of Totally Clips of the Heart Fame. Oh, I love her. I have a version of a version by Al Green of, uh, take me to the. River, drop me in the water.

That guy. Yeah, I like him. Tangerine Dream. Did a cover of Everybody Hirts? Tangerine Dream, wait, hold on. That's the music for movies and stuff. Oh, right. Yeah, risky business.

Sex on a train, whatever it is. Paul Anka did a version of meat puppets. Wow. Really? Yeah, Paul Anka. Everybody hurts. It should be Paul Anka and the meat puppets. They should get together.

Everybody hurts Paul. Blanca is what it should be. There you go. Well, that's great. As usual, a vast canoply of fantastic covers at Brian's fingertips. It's crazy. You got birthday requests. There's no reason not to ask for a great cover.

All right, everybody? Yeah, exactly. Hey, a quick thing from our old pal, Jeff in Canada. Jeff Seyer is his name. We love hearing from him. He wrote in and said the following. This has a bit of a visual element, but I can describe it to our listeners only. He says, Scott and Brian, this is what I'm doing as I'm listening to Brian say, quote, as anyone knows who lives in a climate where they get a lot of snow, unquote, says Jeff.

Yeah, Jeff's reminding us via this photo that they get a lot where they live, a whole lot of snow. And, you know, although I've heard from multiple Canadians that they've had real light snow this year. Like as an overall winter, it's been kind of low, low levels. Yeah. That's such a tough, like that area right. there you know the blowing wind blowing snow just collects in that corner so it does it's an inaccurate

representation of how deep the rest of the snow around it is because that's just like a drift yeah uh but that does not look fun to have to dig yourself out of no that seems like a nightmare in fact if it does this every use this blower on that no hell no well you can try but you're gonna have you're gonna have problems yeah you're gonna end up down at the home

depot looking for parts so don't do that because you can't take those down the stairs sir Yeah, that's wild, though. A lot of snow there. And that doesn't look like, I don't know, not good for your back, Jeff. You're like our age. Take it easy, dude. Take it easy.

Although he was in the Navy or something. He'll be fine. He's all right. He's fine. He's like a tough guy. It's a motorcycle. Consider it a drill, dude. You're doing a snow drill.

Yeah, get out there. Okay. Sorry if it's so deep. So sorry to hear me about it. He pretended some icing on a timetam. no one of the Tim Hortons one of the little Timbitts there you go Timbitts Pretend it's icing on a timbitt

Tim Tams are those Australian things right We had those here I was going to pretend I didn't know the difference between Tim Tams and Timbits in hopes that people would send me each So that I'd understand Should we play it up like up Aren't Tim Tams and Timbitts the same thing Scott? You know what's the difference between frozen crab

Like king crab And And ribby steaks, I just don't know. Right, I don't know. Aren't they the same thing? Yeah. Boy, you guys will have to really correct us. Really, really get down to the bottom of it for us. We'd appreciate it. Yeah, you'll visit Omaha Steaks and maybe see if they can help sort this out. I'm just going to, I'm just going to say not for any reason of trying or attempting to this, but I have not had a steak in so long that just talking about a steak sounds so effing good right now. What's wrong? I mean, you know, obviously you, you, you, it's protein. It's better for you than has. having oh i'm definitely not avoiding it i just haven't had one okay yeah yeah i don't know for me too

i don't know what the deal is sushi for the first time and i was telling tina like saturday net we're like let's go out and get something she's like what do you move for i'm like i haven't had sushi in forever and i was trying to remember the last time i actually had sushi and i couldn't i couldn't remember where i'd had sushi the last time which is bad that is i should be able to say oh yeah it was about three weeks ago at such and such place that means it's been it's been And it was 2024 last time I had sushi. So I had a, just had a big old sashimi plate. No rice.

No rice. Just give me the sashimi. Yeah. It was good stuff though. Good place. Good, good selection. So good. We got a place by us called Mika and their pieces of sashimi are, hey, they're so thick you can't see through them.

Like that 3D print I showed you earlier. Like it is some big fat pieces of sashimi. Oh, that sounds good. Yeah. I haven't had that either in a long time. know what my deal is but I'm usually like a I don't know five six times a year kind of steak guy just haven't had one so see if we can't fix that in the next couple of days let's fix that next few days I like that idea uh one final thing there's a new way to submit your calls to the show

so long and the short of it is there is a listener of uh mostly the instance and core I'm not sure they've heard TMS or not but TMS turns out to be like the perfect place for this to be used so that's why I'm so excited about it but he reaches out to me and says hey long time listener of the instance and been listening to Core. And I always notice that your voice calls are kind of crappy. They just sound like, you know, bad phone calls from inside cars and stuff. And he's right. They are. They're terrible. But they're kind of what we have, right? It's not a, you know, we don't have a lot. We're not picky because it's what we have. And he says he's a developer and was inspired to create a better way for podcasters to take calls. So what he did is built this

service called voiceline. app and specifically you guys are going to want to have this in your heads voiceline.com slash tms it will take you no matter if you're on your phone just you know mobile browser to desktop doesn't matter where you're at you go there it will just use your microphone on your phone or your mic on your pc or your mac or whatever and it will send voicemails that way instead of you having to do a phone call it costs you nothing super super simple you literally just go there hit record send done they can be anonymous if you want you can put more info there if you want i basically have a place for every show now that just collects these and throughout the week you go and pull them down and they sound amazing cool and i want people to start using your instead of

using your mic and then sending it through horrible phone lines it's just using your mic yep there's no phone no phone involved other than i mean you can still record with your phone but if you're like hey that's great because I wanted to do desktop stuff more. That's true too. Works on anything. Tablet, whatever. It doesn't matter. Is there a time limit? Nope. You can do as long as you want. Unlimited stuff. I mean, I'm still not going to put on three-minute calls.

Obviously, yeah, well, if you're, if you're, if you ramble on. Yeah. Ramble on. And he's also, he's also got automatic transcription on these, so I'll be able to see very quickly what you're saying. So if somebody's, yeah, I don't have to take all this time to go listen to it first. So I'll, I'll see at a glance what was said. And if it's like,

400 miles long, probably not going to make it on the show. Might make it at the end of the show. We might put it in post or something. Sure, sure. But does that mean you're, the person that you had vetting your phone calls is not going to be doing? Are they still you be doing these? No, these are probably come directly through me because it's a whole different thing.

I haven't thought that far ahead. But the text line's going to stick around and it will still do voicemails if people really want to. But if you want to use it for text, the 801-471-0-0-462. number is we'll stay in perpetuity we're not moving that out because we because people like texting they're fans of it and that's great we're happy to keep uh doing that but this is just if you want to be voice on the show voice line dot app slash tms okay that's really cool looking at right now how easy yeah it's very cool and let me set up multiple shows i'm gonna tell all our podcaster friends

about this because it's pretty awesome um yeah and it's just this cool this guy's like awesome project and this is not a paid endorsement i just i was just in pressed and I just got it last night. This is like a very overnight thing, but I liked it so much. And I had been looking for this. I've been scouring the internet for a solution like this for months. And I can't find anything good or that isn't tied to some other crap I don't want or whatever. Yeah. This just simply does this thing and it does it really well. It's super clean and easy. So again, voiceless.com. It's as simple as that. And you'll hear me bring it up here and there when we get messages and I'll remind people how to contact us. And every show has got

something like this. So there's a slash core slash play retro slash film sacs slash whatever. So we keep it nice and cool. It's even a general frog pants one for those who are just feeling saucy, you know? I don't know where this belongs, put it wherever it fits, please. Yeah, we'll take it however we get it. All right, there's that. Let's get to some news because we have some.

It's time for the news and it's brought to you by. Cold soup nachos. All right, you tell me if this is weird. So far, so far those three words together. I'd say yes, but let me, I'll hear you out. Kim made. Kim made amazing homemade, her own recipe, homemade broccoli, broccoli cream of broccoli.

No, not cream. It's a thicker broccoli soup. Broccoli cheese soup. There you go. Broccoli cheddar is the word I'm looking for. There you go. Broccoli cheddar, okay. I couldn't remember the damn cheese.

She made her own and it was very, very good. We've had this like container jar thing of it for what's left, and we've been eating it slowly over time, just leftovers, whatever. And yesterday I got this idea I saw it in the fridge there And I went I got to hurry and eat some I needed something quick

Because I had a meeting It's like what if I could just like Pour a little of that in a bowl And treat it like a little bowl of like salsa You know So sure yeah Now you would think With the broccoli is still in it though

Yeah with the broccoli still in it's not huge chunks But you know bits A big florets Like they've been chopped down Yeah they're all chopped down To make it more soupish And heating it up would have been the optimal way to do it. And I could have. It wouldn't have been a

problem because a warm broccoli soup and some good crispy corn-based chippage, that sounds like an okay thing to be eaten. That doesn't sound bad. It does. Yeah. But if you do it just fridge cold, it's a little gelatinous and weird. Yeah. But I did it. And you know what? I don't regret it. I enjoyed it. I'm not saying I'd recommend others do this. If you have that soup I'd say just warm that up and be normal but that's how I ate it and it was all right it was good all right okay all right look I don't want to tell anybody how to eat sounds great to me actually does it okay good it's the cold it's the cold part versus the hot part that's the only real issue right like the rest of it's fine I think people put people a little too precious with things that that they feel

needs to be hot pizza the next day does not need to be heated up agreed agreed um pastas do Pasta, you know, for your pastas, you've got to, those you've got to reheat. Yeah. Can you imagine like a cold fetichini? I've tried cold spaghetti before and it just didn't make me happy. Oh, that's awful. Yeah, because it's basically a big clump of, uh, yeah. Now, pasta salad, Caducey points out different, different animal.

Different deal. It's the marinera and the Alfredo, those you can't, those you can't do cold. I agree. Uh, what else? What's, that's another thing. Um, just fine cold. Um, pizza, sushi. Sushi.

That's a good one. Hard one to disagree since you kind of want it, you know, on the cooler side anyway. Yeah. Chili? Oh, fried chicken. Oh, yeah. I like it cold. I like, you know what I like?

Leftover wings, even like Buffalo wings cold. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. Nothing wrong with that. Chili, do not eat cold. It gets like an orange. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about?

It's the grease layer on the top. Yeah, you don't want that. Don't do that to yourself. Gaspacho soup, absolutely. Can't argue with that. Yeah, I think of the gazpacho probably is best cold, is my thinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think I've ever tried to heat gazpacho just to see what it would taste like, what heated gazpacho would taste like.

Somebody's probably done that, but. I'm sure somebody has and said, oh, wow, it tastes like warm salsa. Yeah, because it's like a salsa. You're right. Yeah, I don't want to do. I don't, I'm not even that big. was a gazpacho fan at the right restaurant and the right like setting i'm down but it's not really something i love gazpacho and you and and you literally cannot put too much cilantro in my

gazpacho i know a lot of people don't care for gazpacho don't care for cilantro yeah but as far as i'm concerned i have not reached a point where where i feel like oh this has a little too much cilantro on it so you're okay with you're okay with it in general right you're not love cilantro okay yeah you're one of those. I think I'm okay with it too. I don't think I don't think I don't like cilantro. I just don't think about it that often. But I think it's fine when I have it. Uh, my daughter and I think my wife think it tastes like soap. So they're one of those people. Yeah. Yeah. It's a weird. It's a weird thing. Some people really just can't do the, uh, like the flavor is, is, uh, so different to them than it is to the people who like it. It's so wild. Like the tequila keeping you up at night. It's like

that. It might be. Yeah. There might be more of us out there who have that tequila. problem and either don't realize it or just deal with it and you do the worm whenever you get the tequila you get that little worm never had the tequila worm i don't know it would have to take a lot of a tequila for me to consider the uh the worm yeah i think that's the idea right you have to be so drunk on the tequila that the that you get to a point where you just don't mind the worm because you're so drunk right exactly that's what it'd have to be yeah i'm so not in that world i don't know how those worms work i don't know where they come from or why they're there in the first place but hey to everyone who loves having a worm at the bottom of their bottle yeah thumbs up to

you whatever enjoy what you enjoy it's a big note from me uh all right michael bay in the news filmmaker sure got milk commercial maven of the 90s i forgot that he's did those yeah those were big for him for a while music video director and now massively successful filmmaker all you know you could argue critically how things have gone, but financially seems like there's no question as to his dominance. But Michael Bay claims he was arrested at the Vatican, Vatican City, right there in the middle of, you know, Pope Town, Popeville, admits in a video he had handcuffs on. He was arrested at the Vatican. Interesting. Yeah. Famous filmmaker Michael Bay, best known for directing the Transformers movies. Is that true? That probably is his best known,

isn't it? Probably, yeah. It should be the rock. It's what I think of. It's a the first thing I think of when you say Michael Bay is the Transformers. I just think I always, you know what? I don't know if this helps Michael Bay or not, but I think of the Rock first, and I'll always think of the Rock first. That's just how it'll be. Let's play a little game. IMDB, don't look.

Okay, I'm not looking. I'm going to pull up Michael Bay. Tell me the four movies that come up as best known for. And you're not saying outside of Transformers, you mean everything, right? I'm saying whatever these four movies are that it shows. Okay. What are the four movies that it shows for, known for Michael Bay? One of them has got to be Transformers.

Number four. Whatever order these are in, but it's like in one, two, three, four, so I'm doing it. All right. So we got Transform, but we're just going to call Transformers one, one of those. And then I'm going to guess that the rest of these mix it up a little. So I'm going to say Armageddon's on there. That's number one. Very good.

I'm going to say one of the bad boys. I guess do have to be specific, which bad. boys on there um i'll say you don't have to be specific because none of the bad boys are among the four surprising i'm surprised by that is the rock on there the rock isn't that either holy shit now i'm depressed because i know what's left because islands islands too obscure it's not going to be on there right yeah okay yeah what else uh let me think let me think um tell me this is there anything left that isn't a transformers movie no everything else is a transformers movie So I'll guess, of those, I'll guess Revenge of the Fallen's on there.

That's number two. And I'll guess the night with the word knight in it. I forgot what that one's called. It's Optimus Prime with a sword, basically. The last night. The last night. Is that on there? Is it not on there?

No, I'm surprised. Okay. What's the other one? It can't be that terrible third one. What's the third one called? Or is it the fourth one? The Mark and Mark one's the fourth one. The third one is.

still Wic-Wiki, Wittwiki. Shit. That's a bummer to me. The rock should be there. The island should be there. Like, good stuff should be on there. I'm annoyed. Yep.

It is not the third one. It is the fourth one. Age of extinction. That's the poop. That's the one that's considered like the worst of all of them. Oh, God. Terrible. I know we've got it.

I know it's coming up on film sack. Oh, yeah. It's inevitable. It's inevitable. We're getting there. Yeah. If I was Thanos, I would say that that movie, that fourth movie is inevitable.

what I would say. Anyway, let's find out why... And you would snap your fingers in a race half of the transformer? Oh, yeah, yeah, exactly. It would be great, yeah. Maybe only the, if it's half the, of Cybertronians, then maybe you'd get lucky and it would only kill Decepticons, you know? Maybe that's how that...

Oh, I'm just saying. So, like, keeps all the movies, but the Decepticons are, or you're just talking, in the Transformers world, Thanos snaps his fingers, and half of the, the robots are, gone. Yeah, you get rid of all the mean ones. And you just left with Optimus Prime and his pals, you know? If only, you know, he didn't get rid of all the supervillains, unfortunately. No, he did not. Oh, that's a good point.

Got a real good record with the supervillains. How did he know, how did he know that wouldn't get rid of his little four posse? Yeah. Yeah. You know, Col Obsidian, and the rest. The rest. What was her name? Orphan, Black, and... What was Carrie Coon's character? She had a cool name.

Yeah, it was Proxima Midnight. Proximate Midnight. Yeah, how did he not know that he wasn't... See, I call. Now, endgame, I got questions. I got issues. I was like, it's a risk I was willing to take. I guess so.

I got real lucky. Rolled his dice well. All right. Anyway, this is what happened. He was arrested while trying to enter the restricted area of the Vatican. Bay shared a video on Instagram where he appeared to be in custody and wearing handcuffs. I wonder if the Catholic handcuffs are any different than normal ones. They're guilt-free. We're guiltful. Your handcuffs with a lot of guilt on them.

Got little crosses on them. I don't know. That's right. Yeah. I don't know how else you'd do it. In the clip, Bay is seen standing at Vatican grounds, on Vatican grounds, explaining what happened. Quote, they are taking me to the prison. It's a local prison here, he says in the video. So let me tell you, do not break into the Vatican. I got handcuffs. cuffs on right now. I turned to myself in, he says. Well, thank goodness he filmed it. Yeah. By the way, Michael Bay, catch your damn hair. Yeah, for real. There was a time there it was luxurious. Now it's like me. It's all stringy. Now it's a little stringy. Yeah. Get rid of it. My hair is shit. I'm this close to shaving it because I hate it so much. Wow.

Yeah. It's not like, it's not falling out. It's just so damned thin now. It's like my mom's hair. My mom wore wigs for years and I couldn't figure out why. Now I get it. I'm not going to do a wig, but, you know. Anyway, full details of the incident. I know, look, if we get the right level of Patreon, maybe I'll get a wig. That'd be worth it. While full details of the incident are unclear, Bay admitted in the video he attempted to enter the restricted area,

which ultimately led to his detention by the Vatican security guards. So who knows what he was up to there. I don't know why you'd try to. I mean, I don't care if you're Michael Bay or a normal, just regular guy who doesn't make Transformers. movies why are you in there doing that what do you do like trying to enter a restricted area at a country buffet i'd be fine trying to do that trying to do it at like Disneyland or Disney World okay you're up in the level of danger yeah to like five yeah do it at the Vatican I you know handcuffs would probably be the easiest thing I could think of that would happen to you if you did

that yeah don't forget those guys backed Hitler for a while when they thought he was winning so That's right. You know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be that comfortable over there. No offense to any hardcore Catholics out there. Yeah, yeah. Smugglers in the news trying to disguise as giant beetles. Sorry, smugglers try to disguise. I got that wrong.

I got that way wrong. Smugglers try to disguise giant beetles as Japanese snacks, and they did so unsuccessfully, and now they're in trouble. I kind of like the idea of smugglers disguising themselves as really giant beetles. Yeah, or all I picture. Maybe they're just, oh, what do we sing? Stronger Fields Forever, Paul. But they're huge.

They're like two stories tall. Walking around and going, peace and love. Exactly. I'm warning you with my six legs in peace and love. Fighting a kaiju in the middle of town. It sounds like the stuff of nightmare says this article. You open a bag of potato chips hoping for a snack only to find a six-inch long stag beetle crawling inside the container.

Now multiply that scenario 37 times. You know how some people have a thing with spiders, right? They're acrophobes or whatever. I have that with Beatles, whatever that is. I don't know what the beetle equivalent is, but I'm freaking hate them. Beetlemania is what that's called. Is that it?

Okay, because I don't like them. You get me like a crunchy-ass looking, like a rhino beetle? Anything with a carapace, basically? I guess ladybugs? Ladybugs don't bother me, probably because they're small and cute. Whereas, but when in a ladybug goes full wingspan and like opens up to fly, that's a horrifying moment.

It is. It's exactly. It's like Iron Giant when he turns evil at the end of the movie. Yeah, I don't like it. Not a fan of that at all. But I don't know what it is. Something about spiders don't bug me. I mean, poisonous and hairy ones and they're not great.

I don't love them. But I'm not going to die. And if somebody says, hey, do you want the tarant to walk on you? I'd say, sure, let's do it. Yeah. You've never done that? No, I did when I had one. Remember the one that got killed by the praying mantis?

I had that on my arm once. Oh, yeah, okay. Him and the frog, poor things. Yeah, I've done the tarantial in the hand at a, you know, butterfly pavilion, uh, insectatorium or whatever it is. Sure. You don't want to be covered in them, but you'll, you'll have one. Yeah.

It's fine. And I'll even, yeah. Would you ever do the beard of bees? No. Hell no. If like a professional, oh, no. Bekeeper did whatever it took, which is what, putting the queen on your chin or something.

it's the it's just oh that that puts that gives me actual anxiety I couldn't do it just thinking about it yeah be could you do the bees beard the beard bees would look good on you dude tequila it would you could get that big old freaking brown ass looking beard just all down here all moving I think I I would if it was a professional doing it because you apparently you know if you have somebody who knows what they're doing you don't get stung and if you're calling and you don't the problem is you say well i'm not going to freak out and you freak out you get stung right is the thing so still so dependent on your own your own anxiety levels and you can't you can hold really still but they can sense if you're internally freaking out right they can

probably can sense pheromones you give off or or hear feel your heartbeat increasing or something they think the queen's in trouble might be a threat yeah yeah they don't want that i don't think i could do it that is one thing I think it would be that and like tight rope walking any kind of height oh yeah no tight rope walking I did tight rope walking where you're holding a rope above you yeah and still was like to where almost was almost sideways well that thing you did in Vegas I couldn't do either you've done a thing I can't do the strata the strata yeah I don't care how safe how harness how how how common every day whatever I just can't I can't I can't do that i would i would i feel like i would my body would eat itself before it let me

walk off the edge which is not doesn't make any sense like what does that even mean i know yeah but i feel like it would be just like i just turn into a surprise but basically i mean it is the stepping off the platform that is the hardest part and they won't push you you just basically have to step off the platform yeah yourself you did great with that i was impressed yeah the only part i didn't like that look like not fun yeah you look like Jesus with a seriously tight crotch a big wedgey yeah there was no there's no getting out of the wedgy coming down for those have never seen this where is this i have this somewhere oh here it is yeah i should probably change the name of this file it's called transit but which means transparent oh but i don't mean it

the way it sounds but look at that this is him coming down off that thing look at the the bright nevada sun big big fat like um padded jumpsuit that they make you wear over all your existing clothes and you keep in mind like you know I wear a a t-shirt a shirt over it and then pair of pants so it's like it looks like I got quite the fupa yeah yeah it's all it's all just bunched up material it's bunched up you can see how high the pet legs are above my shoes because it's all bunched up yeah you're even getting some cool room resistance in the in the pits like you got wing like bat wings almost back there oh yeah yeah a little bit what's this on your hand I never noticed it before the

A little glove. That is a, that's the thing for the camera that they provide. Oh. Okay. Or maybe that's what the camera I brought, because they let me bring my own camera as well. So you're holding, I'm going to try to blow it up a little. So you're holding, oh, okay. I don't know what, maybe I cut out whatever that is.

Maybe I took it out of the image. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know either. Plus your other hand, you got like a barcode on this wrist over here. What's that about? That's probably the stamp to say, here's the person. It's jumping, so I could get past the, yeah, past the.

This is great. Let's deal like this. The velvet rope. You go, we. Yep, me and KT Data and, oh, my God, there were like five of us, five TMSers that did one right after the other. KT Data, never afraid to do a weird thing like this. No, no.

That guy's a fearless bastard. A guy can consume an entire table full of dim sum and then consume you. Thank you, Bobby. Yes. Katsumi. Yeah. Yeah. We're the Stratosphere family. I feel like Kevin has the metabolism I had when I was like 17. I know. I'd love to have that again. Yeah. Well, anyway, so back to this. Yes. Sorry, Michael Bay. We're still on Michael Bay. No, we're on the Japanese. Yeah, the Beatles. Yeah, the disgusting, crusty-ass beetles. Anyway, last month at the Los Angeles International Airport, according to February 5th announcement from the Canadian or U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where agricultural specialists seized over three dozen packages, although intended to resemble various Japanese chips, chocolate, and other food items, each bag contained or housed a smuggled amount of invasive insects frequently coveted by collectors in the black market.

So people want these. I don't know why you'd want them. I wouldn't want them, but I don't, I'm not a... Basically, it's like, we're sneaking it through in what looks like a Costco package of Frito-Lay snacks. And it's really full of beetles and, ugh. It says here, CBP spokesperson says, enthusiasts, I guess beetle enthusiasts,

enjoy seeing them fight against each other during the mating season. So this is the why you do them. These are people with the... Beetle fight. Beetle fight. I have so much money. Please bring in the Beatles to fight. I need you.

Flawless victory. That's a way. lame. I want to see the remaining living Beatles fight. I want to see John... Paul McCarney Ringo Starr. Yeah. Put him in a cage match. Let's see who's left standing. With peace

and love, I'll do this move. Peace and love will chuck these beetles in the bin. That'd be his finishing move, peace and love, but what would it be? Like Paul's be? Well, what would... Pauls would be the obla-dee-obla-da. I'll just give

them the obla-de-o-blah. but life and then he'd say but life doesn't go on bitch or something like that that's amazing that would be great we're never going to get to see that let it be

try to do the John John is a little more nasal Apple let it be let it be pulled that's a really good John thanks I've never tried to do it before but he's like Dang it your best impression

is of one of the dead Beatles of the you know It's like Ken Kratz and you just Your best work are people That no one knows and James Yeah Although she come on

Everyone come to Vegas and meet James if you haven't met him He's great Oh my gosh, he's the best Yeah Yeah And you'll talk to him and you'll go Wait a minute Are you Brian Abbott?

Because that voice is dead on Here's another one Now we're going to an aquarium But we're also staying in the Crestat Not crustacean, the bug world A little bit Okay

The Via Aquarium in Schenectady, New York, is offering... Do you have you done an install there? Never been there, but I love the name. Schenectady. It's fun to say, right? Yeah, for sure.

Says here, via, I don't know what via, the VIA or VIA aquarium. Let's see. I guess, yeah, the, it probably stands for something like the, the, something, the V.I. Aquarium. Oh, that'd be great if it was V.I. Aquarium, Aquarium. The VIA Aquarium, yeah. Dr. Calhounan here, is he enjoying that? Must be.

The hot water heater. this Valentine's Day, they're doing these cockroach sponsorships for Valentine's Day. And this day is now a few days old. So, as you know, there is no more Valentine's Day that's coming up. It's now behind us. But anyway, Inskinectady, they offered a hilariously petty yet oddly endearing way to mark the holiday for just one dollar. You can sponsor a cockroach and have it named after the special someone in your life. So you could have a cockroach named Tina.

You know, I could have one named Kim. Tina and Cockroach. She would be so flattered. Yeah, wouldn't she? I mean, I can't imagine where our wives wouldn't. want this in their lives to be compared to or named after cocker or have a cockroro right yeah they'd be so flattered it's but an honor yeah i'm even on their f aq page they're not this is not a good f aq page because the most the most frequently asked question

has to be why via yeah yeah so that's how you know it's wrong right off the bat yeah exactly man i love a good and when i say good i mean like a really truly curated frequently updated frequently asked questions. If done right, they are some of the best pieces of information on the Internet, no matter what the thing is you're looking at. For sure, yeah. I can't remember the last time I saw a good FAQ. It's been a long time.

And having an FAQ page helps your SEO, by the way. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. That's probably. Google looks to see if you've got an FAQ page. Even if it only has three things on it, having an FAQ page for whatever reason boosts your... Is that why so many of them are so half a few? Fast?

Because they're... It might be. It might be why this one's so half-assed. Lame. I'm going to wager, by the way. Pull up the... I'll give you the link to the V-Aquarium. Sure.

I'm getting a little... I'm sensing a little AI on a couple of their images here. Let's take a look. I think... So if you scroll down to their little six panels... Oh, hell, yeah, these are AI. The underwater rolled away. It's general admission.

I think that's an AI photo. So is that lizard. I guarantee it. Oh, the lizard. think the lizard i thought might be real but the little kid looking up i think might be a i 100%. The only one that looks sort of real to me is the stingray feedings possibly but even that's questionable but these for other two that girl and that lizard fake as hell yeah really i can scroll down that one on the left there i think is also and obviously the center one is

i don't think any of these kids are not real you can get away with the center one there's no way it's all right it's all right center one you can get away with yeah these are all bullshit thanks a lot via via AI is what it should be called via that's right the VAI aquarium yeah the VIA they need to swap that to be via or VIE or whatever virtual AI aquarium nothing looks real fish has six fingers lameo oh you know what that's funny you brought that up let me show you something here this is great my favorite AI faux pa of recent years maybe oh can't wait here it is I can share this with the world this made me laugh so hard this morning Somebody shared this on Blue Sky, and I just laughed. Here it is. Okay, so whoever put up this post, I think it's on, this is on Prime. Dog Day Afternoon, the movie, Oscar winner. It's got the star rating, all this stuff.

It says, a man takes hostages at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines. That's on IMDB. Somebody paste, like either paste it or at auto did or whatever, but they're just using, like, prompt info from the GPT prompt. They did. Oh, my God. Or is this on a, is this, is this a, is this a, is this a prime, Amazon Prime. It's one of the streaming service.

Prime you said that. Yeah. Hilarious. Unfortunately, I do not have enough information. I'm going to go search and see if they've fixed it by now because they probably have. Yeah. That's absolutely hilarious. Afternoon, it says, uh, let's see if it did it.

Ah, they fixed it. Oh, that's funny. All right. Well, yeah, of course they would. They'd get wind of that. fix it, but I love when crap like this happens. That's great. That's so funny. Yeah. Well done, guys. Well done. All right. We're going to take a break when we come back. Bill's swapping out for Dan this week. He's going to be with us today and talk about the world of making things. It's a fortuitous timing because

he's making something really cool. I don't want to give it away. So we'll let him explain here coming up after this song choice from Brian to play. You know, Scott, I'm a big fan when a band's single, kind of feels like it goes with their name. Probably the best example of that is the song Hocus Pocus by the band name Focus. Oh, yeah. Or the song Popcorn by the band called

Hot Butter. Is that true? They really did that. They have that song. Yeah, yeah, that That's popcorn? That's that's called popcorn. I can't, right now my mouth is too dry. I can't do the popcorn sound. Sure. Yeah. Anyway,

here's a band called The Worryers, and their new album is called Trust Your Gut. All right. I like it. This is the title track from the album. So good. These guys are awesome. Trust Your Gut by The Warriors.

How am I supposed to trust my gut? When it makes me feel out of my mind. I'm just thinking 10 steps ahead. I just been waiting for my life a long time If they keep telling you that it'll be fine I think it's too good to be true Well, it's probably yes lately I've been feeling just a little

Oh If not you then baby who can I trust If you're not just yet in need a day to prove you wrong if you wanted to be here, if you wanted to be here, you wouldn't say it like you're already gone.

Think what I see in the mirror isn't what you're seeing at all. The feeling's just in my head. Because I'm spinning too This can't be worth it I'm at my best without you with it Keep telling you that it'll be fine I think it's too good to be true

Well it probably is lately I've been feeling just a little off If not you then maybe who can I trust If you're not just Just you're guessing me today to prove your own. I think it's too good to be true. Well, it probably is. Lately I've been feeling just a little false.

If not you, then, baby, who can I trust? If you're not just yes and me to death, to prove you wrong. If you're not just, yes, in me to death, to prove you wrong. If you're not just, it's not made a death to prove you wrong. If you're not just, if you're made a death,

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All Sleep Number smart beds offer temperature solutions for your best sleep. Check it out at a sleep number store or sleepnumber.com today. Suppose, for instance, that you want to get a closer look at, well, say my necklace. Masquerading as a god. All right. That was awesome, except I haven't heard it yet, and I will later. Brian, who was that one more time, so I know who it is, was. Sure, that is the band called The Warriors, or just Warriors. They're a band that doesn't do the the thing. With a song called Trust Your Gut from the album, brand new album of the same name.

Nice. It's good advice, too. Trust your gut. Yeah. Unless it's, your gut's telling you to rob a bank. Don't you. I agree. Well, yeah, okay. Then your gut has other problems. Yeah. If your gut is saying kill those people. People at the park, maybe don't trust your gut. But chances are you've had a big problem with your gut before, and you know not to trust it. If that's the first time your gut has ever led you astray, I'd be surprised. Yeah, it's a slow lead-up to when your gut tells you to kill somebody.

Yeah, I agree. For sure. Yeah, you've got big problems you should have dealt with years ago. All right, we are going to pull in one Bill Duran. Hold on one second here while I do such a thing. Punish props, Scott, not Bill. There we go. Okay.

And, you know, getting them early, getting them often. Find out what's going on in his world. Here you go. There's still something wrong, isn't there, Bill? Oh, it's our old pal Bill Duran up in the Pacific Northwest as he continues to run the massive machine cogs and wheels that are punish props.com. Bill, welcome back to the show. How are you? Good morning.

Happy to be chatting with you also soon. Yeah, right? We're doing a little early, week early. And not a dollar short, though. Actually, it's really good timing. I happen to know that you're going to bring up something that's like tied to a release date today. Oh, yeah. Unless you did early access, today a very fantastic new video games coming out.

And it turns out Bill's got all the right friends in the right places and got to do some cool stuff. So I'm going to let you explain while I go check my download status on the game avowed. Ah, perfect. Wow. So we got a new video up on the YouTube channel there. The folks over at Xbox reached out to see if we wanted to do a sponsored video for a vowed. Oh, cool.

I've been hearing about this. Oh, yeah. And it was already on my Steam wish list, so it was an easy guess. Yeah. Every once in a while that something like that happens, the stars align. You knew you're going to get it. I mean, it's freaking Obsidian. Obsidian doesn't make bad video games.

They don't know how to. I know. And I love Outer Worlds. I can't wait to play the next one. I'm hoping we have a relationship now, and they'll want me to make something for Outer Worlds, too. Yeah, dude. I hope so, too. That's coming.

That's a big year for. them two of their biggest games in a year it's going to be awesome so excited uh so so i know a vowed is like for those not in the know like think uh first person uh although there is a third person though there is a third person uh action based RPG maybe skyrim elements but kind of their own thing too uh what what in that world would they ask you to make i assume probably a weapon or you know yeah we were really fortunate um that they just sent us a a ton of the art of all the props and they were like, I don't know, pick something.

So we got to pick whatever we wanted. I actually wanted to make the mask of one of the villains. But there's like a collector's edition that includes that mask. Someone already made it. Oh, wow. And they sent me one.

Oh, cool. So, and I got to find out who made this mask because it's exceptional. It's really, really well done. And I'm sure someone I, know made it but I got to reach out sure do you show the mask it all by the way in the video I'm scrubbing through to see no we didn't get it by the time that we finished the video gotcha okay um they did however send me a game uh a code early so I have already beaten the

game jerk nice wow well done this is Bill's final segment here on the show and uh I spent I spent a week all I did was play the game and build an axe from the game it was actually quite a lot of fun that's great that's a lot of A vowed in one week, sure. Yeah, that's great. And one of the companions, I didn't realize until halfway through the game, one of the companions, I was like, this guy is my ride or die bro. He's always in my party.

And I realize he's the same voice actor of Garris. Yeah, he's Garris, dude. Oh, it's Garris. I know. As soon as I heard that, I thought of you, almost sent you a message. You know Garris is in this new game, but of course you were playing it, so you knew that. But, man, the love that Garris has, is universal and unchanging.

No one doesn't like Geras. So having that voice actor back is pretty great. It's really good. So anyway, we built an axe from the game. I went with the superb act. We picked that one because it's got a really striking design with a bunch of hand sculpted stuff on it, different than I normally do.

I don't do a lot of hand sculpting. But there were a lot of really fun things to pick from. We went with the superb axe. And of course, we made it mostly out of EVA foam. We're foam fans around here. Smiths, you might say. There might be smote. Yeah, Smith's from foam.

Plus 3D printing, something like that. Very heavy. Right, right, yeah. So I made patterns. So if anyone else wants to go make this, we've got free patterns to go download. We've made most of it from EVA foam. With something like an axe candle,

you want to reinforce it. So I have these orange fiberglass rods. You would use them to like mark your, driveway in the snow. They just sell them at the hardware store. Great for reinforcing prop handles. Never even...

That's wild. The way you guys figure out this shit, it's crazy to me. I know. Well, it's because for the long time, nobody was making products specifically for all this, so we just had to go to the hardware store and figure out what would work. Wow. So, yeah, we used those fiberglass rods for

reinforcement. And then the real work on this was all that sculpting, all that hand sculpting. We used an epoxy clay. There are a couple different brands that make it. It's a two-part clay. You mix it together, and then once it's mixed, you have about an hour before it solidifies. So you have

a good amount of working time, and you can put really fine detail into this epoxy clay. So all of the filigree, and there's a golden ram's head on it. It was all hand-sculpted. Britney helped a bunch with this, so we both put our art school

skills to work, and it took two days to do the sculpting. We did one half of it, one day, let it cure, did the other half the next day. Nice. And then painting.

We tried to do everything kind of by hand, so if people want to follow along, they don't need any fancy tools. All of the painting was done with brushes, just hand-painted, and then sealed with a PVA, and weather.

Nice. A real classic foam smithing build. Yeah, that sounds like it. But also all the handwork, the kind of hand-carvy stuff that you had to do. It sounds like that's, like you say, you don't do it very often. You like a challenge like that, right? I do, yeah. That's great.

I remember my buddy Jimmy DeRessa did a video years ago where he wanted to make something out of a piece of wood. So he went into his property, found a dead tree, and cut it down with a hand saw. He owns chainsaws, but people were saying, Jimmy, why don't you just cut it with a chainsaw? He said, I want to make sure I still know how to use it. a handsaw. It's great. Bust those skills out every once in a while

just to knock the rust off and make sure you're still good at it. Yeah, nothing wrong with that. Well, this looks awesome and I'm so excited for the game. I've been waiting forever. I almost did the early access thing last week, but I was like, do I have?

It's a bit much. It's a lot. It's like 100 bucks. I'm like, just to get an extra five days. So it's on Game Pass, which is where I'm going to play it, my PCE today. Uh, later.

On Xbox Series S and X and Game Pass Ultimate. Yep. And there's a chance. I have the copy you sent me. There's some, well, there's rumor that Outer Worlds, too, their next game is coming to PlayStation day and date as well, which is a new kind of thing happening at Microsoft. They're putting a lot of their stuff on PlayStation and kind of anywhere, anywhere the stuff will play, they want it to be. So I have a feeling this one will end up on that list. And it's getting great reviews.

Like, I'm really stoked. I can't wait to play it. Big, deep RPG. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. dense. The world is dense with stuff to find.

That's what I love. I love exploring these worlds, finding secret passages full of loot. Yeah, right? It's a ton of that. It brings you back to the kind of the Skyrim vibe. Oh, yeah. And this is the team, you know, they famously did Fallout New Vegas, my favorite fallout game.

I just love Obsidian. There's nothing bad to say. Did it grounded too as well? You made that as speaking of axes. You made an axe for that too. that's right that kind of kicked all this off Brittany made that for fun then mailed it to them just sent it to obsidian's

headquarters and they that kind of started this whole thing they met us at Dragon Con one of us was there with a bunch of like Obsidian merch for us so yeah we made that axe mailed it to him we didn't ask for anything just mailed it to him and that kind of got the ball

rolling on all this nice there's a lesson in that creators sometimes a lot of the projects that we We have sort of, in relationships, we've cultivated over the last 15 years, are that. We would offer our time or things. I gave Scott, do you remember when I gave away the Warglave? Yes. A proton, a protas probe and Jim Raiders, that's, that's big deal.

What I would charge for that amount of work nowadays is a little staggering. Yeah, we were, you're in the many thousands of dollars of content that you put out that day as a giveaway. It's crazy. so many examples. That's how I got in with Tested. I contributed props to their yearly charity thing. Yeah. So

a little lesson there. I thought you're the mask from the mask was handy, but I can't reach it. It's way over there. I was going to show it to people. Anyway, following punish props.com and of course the YouTube channel is the place to keep up with all this stuff. And if you're going to be playing a vowed, this might be a little fun extra second screen business for

you while you are. Bill, you got a little bonus for us this week. before we go. Oh, I do. This is cool. Alex Steel, the blacksmith over on YouTube, has been trying to make Damascus steel with layered steel, basically,

with steel and titanium, which are two metals that do not get along. So he's been experimenting with this. The video I sent to you, he made a chef's knife out of it. And it's just really neat. He's doing all this testing. Watching him bending in the vice and it just flipping back in it.

Yeah. This is one of those guys where you're just like, man, safety first, buddy. And I'm sure he does. He does a pretty good job. Yeah, he does a pretty good job. I think one of his recent videos was sponsored by a safety glasses company. Oh, there you go then. It's spreading in the right direction.

Perfect fit. Now, that's cool. So a usable, like, stainless steel knife that a chef could use to... Yeah. That's crazy. One of the neat things about titanium is when you heat it, it will, or you can anodize it to get all these wacky colors, which is so neat. So he's trying to do some of that.

It's just neat to see someone who's got all the equipment he needs, all the materials he needs, to really experiment with this sort of material science type things. Well, look for the aptly named Alec Steele. It's not spelled S-T-E-E-L-E, but still, it's a pretty good combo names there. For guys that's making knives out of giant slabs of metal. Anyway, go find that.

And of course, punishprops.com for all things, Bill and Brittany and all that fun stuff over there. Dude, it's great to talk to you. So good. Have a great week, friends. Yeah, man. We'll see you next time. All right.

Cool. We did it. Putting those links, by the way, on quicktm.s. For folks who don't listen live. Nice. A wonderful resource all week long, everybody. Use it or lose it. Real quick, the reason Dan wasn't here today was getting a haircut, so everyone tease him next time he's on.

Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. Just give him a little hell for it. just say ah haircut more important than your uh these things are usually really easy to schedule around other things like usually you can uh i don't know yeah you can schedule a haircut fairly specifically times don't fill up as as as fast for this but you know yeah or you could totally go full you know dumpster dive and have your wife do it like me you just just go to go

as cheap as possible and have kim do it at four o'clock in the afternoon floby yeah i'm as close to flobys you're going to get when it comes to hair i just don't yeah i don't do anything fancy but anyway uh good luck to him and we'll see him next week instead of this week um one quick thing i recommendal for us from a listener this is from chris d christ d we had to get that d brian uh uh chris d get that get that d from chris chris says for recommendals if that's how you spell that's as close as yeah i do t's i don't think it matters we made it up so well technically Nicole made it up, but anyway, if that's how you spell it. Something the Lord made is the name of this movie.

So, strange pairing, but Moes Def and Alec, or, excuse me, Alan Rickman are phenomenal. That is a weird pairing, for sure. That is a very weird pairing, yeah. He says, I know it's, he says it was an HBO, didn't know anything going on, but it's an amazing movie, or didn't know anything going in, comma, amazing movie. 45-year-old man here, I cried a couple of times, do yourselves a favor, and watch. So sounds interesting. I don't know what this is. It must be a little older if it's got Alan Rickman in it.

Because he's been, he passed some years ago. He did, yeah. What is it? Something the Lord made. Let's see. Something the Lord made, yeah. Never, never even heard of this. So, and most deaf.

Wow. Yeah, but a weird thing. Plus, he's kind of now acting as much as he used to. Oh, look at that. He's not in those army of, not army of thieves. What's the, um, uh, the George Butler. Oh, a den of thieves. Den of thieves. That's it.

Some thieves deal. That's 50 cent in those. Okay, here it is. Something the Lord made 2004. Yeah, it's reviewed well, too. IMB has it at 8.1. That's about as high as you get on IMB. Nice.

It's on Max. I might check this out and recommend it. Yeah. I don't have anything this week, so maybe I'll watch it tonight. Oh, there you go, watch it tonight. Yeah, I've got something fun. I think I'm going to do this. Yeah, it says

So the summary is A Dramatization of the relationship Between Heart Surgery Pioneers Alfred Blaylock and Vivian Thomas All right, I'm in Cool It's like it's set in the 50s or something 40s maybe

30s 30s? Yeah, hard to tell I do like Charles Dutton He's not good stuff Yeah And Merritt Weaver Oh not Merit Weaver

Wait This says Merit Weaver Is that her? I love her There's a picture as Mrs. Saxon, Merritt Weaver. And she, so this must be like early for her, 04. Yeah, probably. I love her, dude.

Yeah, she's great. Yeah. Oh my gosh, I'm caught up on. When was a nurse Jackie? That was, uh, right around that, right? That was early 2000s, too. Yeah, so probably right around that time. Wait, that, no, it's late 2000s because it was after Sopranos.

So it would have been like, post-O-7. So this must have been a really early thing for her. Well, anyway, we'll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation. Appreciate it. And a quick reminder, if you'd like to send in your text, you can. Just keep using that number we've given you before, 801471012462. But the new way to call in, if you want to do a voice call, voicel.

Voiceline.com. Sliple.com, simple pimple, dimple. And it's up on our website so you don't have to search for it. Not a hard thing to find if you can't remember it. But it works really well. Let's see if anybody's used it so far, Brian, just for funsy. Oh, yeah. See if we've got anything.

Sure. Somebody might have by now. All right. I just like simple pimple dimple. That's pretty good, right? Oh, we already have, we've got four calls in waiting. Cool. Nick from Ottawa.

Brian, oh, no, it's, oh, Ian sent something in. That's great. Look at you guys. I won't play them yet because we'll save them for shows, but, you know, it's exciting stuff. Thank you for doing that. Again, that is voiceline.com slash TMS. And huge thanks. Let's give them some real named credit here to ETHROM.

A-thrum? Sorry, how would you say this? A-E-T-H-R-U-M. A-thram? Yeah, that's how I'd pronounce it. Whether it's right or wrong, but that's at least how I'd pronounce it. He said he'd be checking out the show today. So if he is listening, a huge thanks to him again. This thing is freaking rad, and I'm going to recommend it to all my podcaster buddies, because it's really cool. So cool. Something we've been looking for for a while. All right, that is going to do it for the show. FrogPants.com slash T-M-S for everything you're looking for. Brian, the only thing I don't have is a song to play today yet. You're going to tell me about it.

Oh, I'm so glad you asked because I actually happen to have one. Again, catching up with all the birthdays that we missed, going back to February 5th and Squishie. Yay, happy birthday, Squishy. I love Squishy says, hey, yako and wacko. I love starting my mornings with you all, and I'd love to make this one an extra special one. Could you please give me a Bersh Day shout out on or around February 8th? I've been a huge fan ever since the Snowbird Nurttacular with the elevator drop experience. and tune in live almost daily

like it's a ride in the Snowbird elevator drop experience I plan on attending the TMS Vegas this year so we can hang out IRL and party to the late nights

thanks for making mornings better and keep up the awesome work your show is the highlight of my morning all the best Squishy Well Squishie you get one of these then Happy birthday, do you Happy birthday man

Yeah Favorite celebration cover right now is Excuse me the only prompt that Squishy gave me So this is something that I was amazed to discover. I love, I love Susanna Hoffs. I love the albums that she and Matthew Sweet did,

taking decade after decade and doing covers of some of the biggest songs from those decades. Something I didn't realize is that two years ago, she released her own cover album called The Deep End. It's awesome. And it includes this great cover of the Rolling Stones Under My Thumb. Listen for the Kitty Cat Noise. Here is Under My Thumb by Susanna Hoffs. Under my thumb, the boy who once had me down.

Under my thumb, the boy who once pushed me around, round it's down to me the difference in the clothes he wears down to me the changers come is under my thumb that's right listen

under my thumb he's a squirming dog who's just had his stay Under my thumb A boy Who has just Changed his ways It's down to me

Yes it is The way That's just what he's told Down to me The changes come He's under my thumb And it's all right Under my thumb

A simi's cat of a toy Under my thumb He's the sweetest He's my boy It's down to me Oh yeah The weight talks when he's smoking too Down to me

The changes come He's under my thumb And it feels all right It's down It's down to me Oh yeah The way it talks when he's spoken to Down to me the change has come

He's under my thumb And it feels all right Under my thumb His eyes are just kept to himself Under my thumb Well I, I can still look at someone else It's down to me Oh, yeah

The way he talks when he's spoken to Down to me The change has come He's under my thumb He's a rat He's my boy I like it like that He's under my thumb

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