The Morning Stream - TMS 2975: Fridge Rigidity

Episode Date: March 10, 2026

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Happy Mario Day. Yeah. Who-hoo. Yeah. How you saw? Brian, you do anything like, I don't know. What are you doing for Mario Day? Doing anything?

I'm going to celebrate by recording something for a, a freelance client and working on some possible charms for a bracelet for anirtacular. Little frogies. Little frogies. Little frogies and little, what do you call it, game controllers, dual shocks or something. Oh, that's right. The person you're doing this for is extremely nice and kind. She is.

She's super nice and kind, yeah. Maybe she can make my Fury Road earrings. Well, I mean, I can, you know. Oh, no, no. Yeah, those are going to, yeah, you're going to print those. You know what I need. You'd be helpful if once you get your studs, if you have a, you don't have any digital calipers, do you?

It'd be great if you could tell me the exact size of the stud part, and then I can make sure that there's like a little hole in the back that you can put those on so that they're even more sturdy. Yeah, for sure. I can totally do that. I've got somewhere we have digital calipers. I don't know where. Oh, if you've got digital calipers, perfect.

They're upstairs. somewhere. They are the best. Like, if you've got a 3D printer, you need a pair of digital accalipers. A set? A set? A digital calipers. That makes sense, right? You're not, if you're, okay, so if you're like an electronics freak, if you're like Brian Dunnoy and you're taking apart consoles and being a weird out, you need them. If you're a 3D printer guy, you need them. If you're my wife, for some reason, you need them. I don't know why she bought them. They're not mine. But my wife owns a pair of digital calipers. Yeah.

Funny that she's the one who bought them. That's great. She got a deal. I don't know. Can I tell folks this is something they won't hear unless I even listen to today's daily music headlines. I recorded it, but I don't know what if Hammond stuck an Easter egg at the end of it. But today, one of the stories caused me to start laughing uncontrollably. And it's the subject matter is not what made me laugh. It's the Dr. Seuss-like paraphrasing that we got for that story.

So I want to hear this. Here's the story. Cumulus Media File for Chapter 11. bankruptcy to restructure $600 million in debt. For a sentence, no problem. Makes sense. It's kind of sad. Sorry, cumulus, but you kind of suck.

Here's the sentence that made me laugh. The company plans to eliminate existing equity, exchange creditor claims for new equity, and provide continued liquidity through amended credit facility. Oh, my gosh. It's like a doctor system. Or the way I described it to heaven was it's like a schoolhouse rock. exchange for new equity, provide continued liquidity through amended credit facility.

Oh, yeah. I want this on a shirt or something. That's amazing. You guys are doing swag yet for the daily morning headlines or music headlines? Oh, man. Unfortunately we're not. That's really funny. I think, do you ever think sometimes people, they write that stuff and don't notice,

or do you think they know and they lock it in? Or what do you think? I think that they don't notice. I don't think they don't know us. But, yeah, it was like. That's amazing. wrapping up financial equity with Luke liquidity. I say bring those back.

Start with that one. Yeah, start with that one. Cumulus media is filing for bankruptcy. Well, look, since we're on the subject of music, why not share with you something I learned yesterday? Okay, sounds good. I listened to Duran Duran. For some reason, I was really into it yesterday.

A bunch of Duran Duran playing in the background. Okay, interesting. Don't know why. Just randomly it was like in the mood. Nothing wrong with that. Did you just, did you do like a like a greatest hits kind of thing? Yeah, I found, I think YouTube music's greatest hits list is pretty good. And then they have some cool live stuff. So I was just like, all right. I'll give this a shot. So I put that on great as I expected all good. And then I kind of just got in this mode after lunch. I went, I kind of want to just, what's weird about this band?

Is there anything weird? I don't know. A couple things. A couple things I am sure. You may have known all three of these things, but I'm sure you know at least the first two. them. I knew two of them and they're way underselling one of them actually. I agree. Yeah, they're kind of, yeah. But go ahead. Let's go through these. All right. So, I found these strange

Durand, Duran Duran Facts. They named themselves after a villain and a Jane Fonda, Sci-Fi. B-Mumi, something we've seen on Film Sack, Barbarella. We talked about, and we talked about Duran Duran then as well, yeah. Yeah, so that's the only one I think I knew, or I had a memory of that. Yeah. But I'd kind of forgotten it was

Barbarella in particular, but anyway, They just dropped one later and made it their own. It was based on the villain, Dr. Durand, Durand. And that's how they did it. So that's pretty cool for those who didn't know. That's cool. You know, the Thompson twins came from, what was it, Tintin? No, it's the, yeah, it's the police that are chasing after Tintin, I think.

Oh, really? Yeah. I didn't know that. The Thompson Twins. I like the Thompson Twins. Yeah, they're also very good. And you should listen to their music as well. I have been in a mood for this.

Yeah. Kind of that like... Hold me now. Hold me and you're loving it. Exactly. And this is what I didn't know. I think you probably knew this. I didn't know.

This one I did not know. A keyboardist quit mid-tour by fax. Jeez. That's how I'm going to quit TMS. I'm just send you a fax. Just send me a fax? Excellent. Hey, Brian.

And you'll have to wait for it to come all out. Here's the funny thing is that we actually have a fax machine because Tina needs it for for, for, um, some facilities require a physical piece of paper, as opposed to like signing something, scanning it, uploading it, attaching a two mail, sending it,

they require, it's too easy to fake still. Too easy to fake still. Yeah, can't fake a fax. I guess. I mean, I mean,

there are probably, there are probably methods, right? PDFs have security methods to make sure that they're legit. So it's probably just a combination of slow, slow to change, you know. She needed it like up to five, like five years ago. I don't know if she's still there.

She might not need it anymore, I think. Yeah. Well, that's how we're doing it. And I'm going to just put a dumb meme on it. That'll take forever to thermal print. Right. Before you get to the actual announcement. Maybe even put a picture of, oh my God, why can't I remember her name?

The bikini model that in the first downloading, like the first downloading, like the first downloading downloaded bikini superstar. Oh, right. The big internet. She was like the first blonde. Yes. And that was her claim to fame is like, you know, we all watched

her slowly appear line by line. That's right. Because this we had to slow Not Jimson. No, no. It wasn't a porn actress, right? It was some just a really pretty lady. Yes, exactly. Somebody's going to get it. It's going to drive us

and that's until somebody says that she's farming roses now somewhere quietly in her little cottage. I thought she was pushing up Daisy. Margoly. Cindy Margolis. Cindy Margolis. That's it. I can't believe we didn't think of that already. Yeah, we all used to watch Cindy Margollis slowly appear, a line by line.

Mm-hmm. AOL download or something. By the way, I just noticed this. Oh, good. I'm glad, finally. Yeah, how long has that been up there? Just a day yesterday. Okay.

I was like, wait a minute. How long has my face been on the libular? Boo, boo. Anyway, so then, so, okay, so Andy Taylor's departure from the band was dramatic, but perhaps most memorably keyboardist Nick Rhodes and the rest of the group found out one member was leaving, not through a conversation, but through a fax message. The band had a real habit of members vanishing at inconvenient times. So they don't say who, who left the band during the tour. Which is weird. They didn't go on. This isn't five. Yeah, no, it's poorly written. It's horribly written. Like I went to go find. Most memorably, Nick Rhodes and the rest of the rest of them.

rest of the band found out. And they all got freaking professored and Marianne on the end of that thing. So lame. Yeah. Anyway, so I don't know who they're actually meaning here. And I could have probably done additional searches. I just didn't bother.

It wasn't one of the main like Andy, Nick, Roger, Simon, or. Theodore. Oh. Andy Taylor, Roger Taylor. Yeah. Nick Rhodes. Who's the other Taylor? I said him the second we go.

Wait, were they? Were they brothers? Were they brothers? They were not brothers. Okay. They are not relations. Okay. Because I thought for a minute I'd gone crazy like the other one the other day that you told me they were brothers and I didn't know they were brothers.

Yeah. Not the Gallagher's. They were obvious, but Simon LeBahn, Nick Rhodes, Andy Taylor, Roger Taylor. Andy Taylor. John Taylor. John Taylor. Is that all five? Oh my gosh.

There's so many, like, famous people with those names. Yeah. John Taylor was a president. Mm-hmm. Andy Taylor was Andy Griffith on the Andy Griffith show? John Tyler was the president. Oh, is it Tyler? There was a Taylor.

Shit. Oh my gosh. I feel like I should know the first name of the president, Taylor. Taylor. Maybe it was John Taylor? Yeah, Zachary Taylor. Zachary Taylor and John Tyler.

That's right. Thank you. Yep, mixed them up. They were also not brothers. No. Turns out they were not. All right. The third thing I found out is they survived a near drowning accident.

This one I didn't know. I knew you'd know it though. Yeah, and this is like, this is, yeah, you go ahead and tell the story and then I'll be like, well, actually. Oh, okay, good. I like that. They survived a near drowning accident while filming a music video.

While shooting the video for Rio on a yacht, the waters got genuinely dangerous and several band members and crew nearly went overboard. They looked, sorry, they looked impossibly glamorous on screen, but the shoot was reportedly pretty terrifying behind the scenes. That's funny that if they're going to talk about a near, drowning incident that they'll bring up one where the band almost went overboard because

the waters were choppy when they filmed Rio. They didn't bring up the fact that Simon LeBahn was in a boating accident and nearly drowned. It was like in America's Cup style race. Like the front part of his boat got knocked off or got hit by another boat. And then

you remember the Wild Boys video? There was that thing that Simon was strapped to like a little propeller or a like a windmill that he was strapped to and so he'd be underwater and that thing

malfunctioned and like held him underwater like he was like strapped to it it became like a torture device basically oh shit dude yeah the you know this thing was rotating and so he was you know coming up out of the water and they had the camera following his Russ Mulcahy one of the great Russ Mulcahy

videos I didn't know that was a thing and he's strapped to that thing and it's going around and I guess it stopped like malfunctioned underwater and um you just described two way more dangerous drowning near drowning incidents exactly this was just like ooh it's getting choppy guys don't go too close to the edge right the bend almost went overboard well okay lame lame my trip this trivia side I went to sucks they didn't have the good stuff although I only did three there were like a huge list I didn't go through oh was there so maybe they did go into they might have.

Yeah, let's see here. I want to find an image of this. I knew you'd know though. This is great. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the more I look at it, it's like, wow, that video was kind of mad maxy. Yeah, a little bit. It's chaos. Here we go. Oh, it's very much a windmill. I forgot. I was thinking it was more like a, like propeller braids, you know, propeller braids. Sure. So how did it go? So there's photos of it. So he's strapped to that thing.

Oh, here we go. Okay. You know, whenever it gets to the bottom, his, his head is underwater. Damn. I could probably find the music video and just show you that little clip of it, but we, you know, we'll run into some. Yeah, that one to get us in trouble for sure. Yeah. Yeah.

That's wild. Now I remember the video, though. Yeah. Was it on a set or something? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it was an artificial thing.

There's a whole big set that looked like, I swear, it was like Thunderdome on Acid or something. and then they had that weird rubber head that was singing that kind of looked like like Patrick Stewart really I don't remember that you can get a screen cap of that that would be amazing Patrick Stewart's giant inflated rubberhead yeah there is in our oh shit you weren't kidding yeah it's like a young just scrappy Patrick Stewart yeah exactly from that thing PS1 game or something. Right. But it,

exactly. But it like is a, you know, it's got, I think something in the eyes and something in the mouth that makes it move, but it,

kill that with fire, dude. It's pretty horrendous, yeah. Damn. Yeah, it does. It looks like an engineer

for Prometheus. Yeah, totally does. Oh, this one's even better in the second one you put it. Yeah. Look at that.

So that's like a big rubber prosthetic thing or something. Yeah. Or a sculpture. Weird. I guess it's probably not giant head. It's probably normal sized and just the way they filmed it. It looked a lot

larger. That's great. Man. Everybody go watch the video for Wild Boys after TMS today. Let me tell you who's got better trivia than wherever the hell I got this, duran.com or whatever. Brian does. Big giant bald heads and all that. That's awesome.

All right. Very nice. Let's get into some news today. We got Bill later, which will be fun. Yay. Always fun to have Bill on. fun to have Bill. Yeah, I enjoy it. Let's do some news brought to you by. Brought to you by dogs, because without dogs, life would suck. I just thought last night that I don't want to live in a world without dogs.

I agree. They're great. Like, in every way, dogs are great. I had a big Weimeriner laying on me. Right at the time, I needed to have a dog laying on me and sleeping. She had a big old paw across my chest or her arm. or forearm, and we just laid there for a little while and chilled. And I just thought, well, what do you do if you don't have this? What is life without this? Well, we don't have that. I have a cat that sits in my lap when we're sitting watching the pit every night. But I do have a lot of neighbors with dogs.

They all walk him in front of my house, and I go outside and I say, can I put your dog? Can I pit that dog? Can I pet that dog? Oh, you should do that and film it. Bring that meme back. Let's bring it back. Yeah. It's like an old TikTok, I think.

That one goes way back. Yeah. Anyway, let's get to the story here. We're going to start with a story in Florida, as we often do. Okay. You can't help it. A lot of news happens in Florida. It's a great big state, guys.

Yeah, it is. It's a great big state. Yeah, weird stuff happens there. A Florida man destroys a Chinese restaurant with a shovel claimed to be a profit ending the new COVID strain. Jeez. Okay. Derek, I assume he thinks that, you know. because it's a Chinese restaurant.

You're right. Yeah. That's where all the bugs, all the viruses come from. Yeah. Or whatever. He's accused of attacking a local restaurant owner and damaging a kitchen. He told deputies he was trying to stop a new strain of COVID-19.

COVID-19. According to arrest report, authorities say Richard Jarvis. Why is that name? Not Jarvis from Marvel, but the name is familiar. Richard Jenkins, but Richard, but there's like a, yeah, it does sound familiar. I might be thinking of Richard Jenkins, actually. Yeah. Yeah, you say it.

Anyway, I entered Pearl's Chinese restaurant. Oh, that's nice. It's usually like Golden Walk these days. Oh, there's a football linebacker, too, who played... Name Richard Jarvis. Yeah, played it Brown, but I guess he... And then there is an actor, but... Also Richard Jarvis.

Also Richard Jarvis, no photos. Best known for TV miniseries called The Winning Streak. The TV series called Jokers Wild, not the game show. Emmerdale Farm, production designer, and on the house production designer. Wow. He had a limited impact. Yes, he did. Well, this guy had more of an impact on this restaurant.

He certainly did with that shovel. Yep, on Monday, began destroying the kitchen with a shovel, causing thousands of dollars in damage. The backstory is this. Investigator is alleged he struck the owner during the attack. Vanessa Trejo, who owns another business in the plaza, said she just finished eating at the restaurant when the violence began. quote the guy had a shovel or no the guy had like a shovel

well was it a shovel or wasn't it was it like a shovel was it a hoe it was it a hoe it was it a ho or is it a spade um let's see uh the guy somewhere is it okay it was swinging and hitting them says trejo not to be confused with danny trejo not oh please don't confuse them with danny trejo also not yeah not brothers not siblings according to the arrest report jarvis still deputies. I had to destroy that restaurant. All Chinese restaurants are going to release a new strain of COVID on July 6th. I'm a profit. I'm trying to save everyone unquote. Freaking wackadoo. Yeah, no kidding. Why can't there be some kind of, by the way,

a new strain of COVID on 7-6? Yeah. But why can't they, why can't there be, all right, so the other day I was having some online discourse, we'll call it that with somebody about the idea of a rapture. And this guy was trying to say that it's any day now. And I was saying, where do you get that information from? He couldn't actually tell me. And I thought he would come back with like, oh, my pastor or my, you know, whatever. I don't know where he's hearing this from.

But it's not even in the Bible. Like there's no rapture in the Bible. They don't talk about it. It's not in there. So I don't know where these people get this thing. But what I'm saying is if there's going to be one, can it be selective and just take the, the freaking

Richard Jarvis's the world take those up the ones that think their profits take them I mean there's you could take one person I've got a I've got a short list

of who the rapture could take oh I got like 12 well okay 12 13 something because taking out that first one would be leave a little bit of a vacuum so maybe we don't want somebody just to shunk

fill in that vacuum yeah that's true I think I've got yeah I've had a list It's got names. Yeah. Which will probably get me on a list. Sure.

By saying that. Well, they're already on a list, but we won't ever see that list. No, we're never going to see that list. Yeah. We were just talking about this yesterday, me and my brother-in-law, we were talking about how the squatty-potty guy who tried to buy child porn online or C-Sam. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got arrested for that, and then we'll go to jail.

And he's a millionaire. And I said, oh, just shy if he just would have gotten over the 900 million mark, got hit that one billion mark. He could have been safe. He could have made it. All the billionaires may get away with it. They're fine with it. Exactly.

Just, you know, if he would have sold a thousand more squatty potty. That's all I would have needed. That's all I would have taken. Boy, it sure does make it. It makes me, it sure made me go, all right, if that's the guy, if he does that, and his best idea was like a toilet accessory. Right. I think that raises your feet up so that apparently it makes you.

your, uh, makes your shoot. Yeah. Yeah. Their commercials were that unicorn making ice cream. Have you seen that? No. It was like a Super Bowl commercial or something. Really?

Yeah. No, I missed it. That was for Squatty potty? Yeah, I think so or I might be thinking of a, let me, let me just make sure here. Squatty potty commercial. I'm pretty sure this is it. Yeah, this is it. Oh God.

Okay. We'll play it here. This is where your ice cream comes from. A creamy poop of a mystic unicorn. Totally clean. Totally cool. I've seen this ad. Have you seen this?

Yeah. Hmm, they're good at pooping. But you know who sucks at pooping? You do. That's because when you sit on a porcelain throne, this muscle to kink in a hose and stops the Ben and Jerry's from sliding out smoothly. All right.

So that's them. And that was like, I think that was a super bowl at at one point. Wow. Anyway. Now he's in huge trouble. That's not him, by the way. No, no. I don't want to besmirch the stranger I'm looking at it.

Yes, I'm sure. His phones lighten up. I mean, he's a handsome, handsome man. Sure, sure. Yeah, look at him. Timu, Princess Bride. Yeah, but it comes on the money back guarantee. Yeah, that's right.

Exactly, yeah. Well, anyway, this guy's in trouble, and he's a profit, so watch out for that. There's another story. Angry Uber driver. Okay. Oh, this is in Colorado. This is why you picked it. Oh, really?

No, I'm just kidding. Oh, it's not. No, I actually didn't even think of it when I picked it, but here we are. A angry Uber driver kicks AEW wrestler. I'm not sure what the AEW stands for. Is it say in here? That sounds like a lower tier regional. Yeah, it's not W-W-E or.

AEW is all-elite wrestling. They're not like have TV pay-for-views and stuff. stuff, right? They're more like... I think they do. Stuff Justin C is like the weird amateur stuff. I'm seeing, I'm seeing like a, like a AEW, let's see, Fast Channel's part of my

AEU digital platform with pay-per-view access. Okay, so they do. But they don't have a deal with Fox or something like that. No, okay, a little smaller. Their own thing. We are not addressing experts, people at home. Please do not add it. We don't know this stuff and will happily admit to you that we don't know not a problem at all right I know who the undertaker is

pretty sure snapping into a slim gym is cool because of Randy Savage and I think you know Andre the giant speaking of Princess Bride I know we check people's oil sometimes to piss them off and I know that Hulk Hogan turned out to be a giant douche in real life and I can smell something that the rock is cooking

I don't know what it is yeah but I can smell it and Steve Austin's and please open the window Steve Austin says so or something like that something like that something like something like that. And we like, and we and we and every once in a while somebody like Dave Patista, genuinely good human comes out of wrestling.

Yes. And then the other guy that we like, DC Universe, freaking what's wrong with me? John Cena. John Cena. That's what we know. We've just given you our limited knowledge of wrestling. We know more about the people who've gotten out of wrestling. That's right. People are currently in it. So this guy

named Darby Alyn or Allen was seemingly left stranded on a highway in Tucson after his angry Uber driver kicked him out of the middle in the middle of an interview. It's kind of weird.

Interview. Is that any interview in the I need, I guess, we need more details. Yeah, something's weird here. Darby is one of the biggest daredevils in modern wrestling performing stunts

that a few others would attempt, but he still may have to face his biggest challenge yet in the form of a sleep deprived Uber driver with little patience. Okay, really? Dumb art, dumb paragraph. Do we know that it was, all right, okay.

I kind of like it, but I also think it's, it's throwing shade at the driver for no reason. I don't know, whatever. Anyways, Uber doing an interview. Oh, he was doing an interview with a radio station remotely. Okay, like a phoneer. Yeah, a phoneer. Yeah.

However, things soon turned south when the driver lashed out. Wait, did they say turned south to be a pun? Uh, maybe. That's a bad pun. That's a bad pun. Yeah. Turned south. you dicks

when the driver lashed out at the AEW wrestler out of nowhere and it got ugly as Darby was speaking to the radio host the driver interrupted claiming it was rude for him to be on the speaker phone during the trip. Is it cool if I finish, says the wrestler trying to find compromise but the driver was not having any of it. Look man, I've been driving since 5 a.m. I'm tired. Can you just

put the phone up? It's a little rude. And they know this because they heard it on the phone. They heard it on the call. Yeah, probably. Yeah, there you go. Who cares? Like, you know, somebody, listen, you come into my, the Kia Soul, the key cover mobile. If you want to talk on the phone during the ride, be my guest. I'll even, you know, if I'm wearing my glasses, I'll just tap on the side and transfer the music from the car to my glasses and listen there. So I'm not even listening to your call and you're not having any interrupted noise.

Whatever. If you want to, you want to be on the phone, fine. I think people should be able to be on the phone. car absolutely if you i mean you'd be fine in a taxi you'd be fine you know maybe not on a bus where you've got a bunch of other people but you're not there to have a conversation with me no you're you're you're you're there to get from place a to place b and if you need to make a phone call while you're doing it that's totally fine i've had people apologize like oh i'm sorry i'm going to be on the phone i'm like it's your ride do whatever you want yeah within reason yeah within i mean it's not

like yeah if you're if your idea of a call is screaming at the back of brian's head but two inches going, hey mom, what's going on? Or something like that. That's different. You're interfering, you know, interfering with your ability to drive. That's one thing, but. Yeah. Oh, Lucky Phil says it was a bit.

Really? It was a bit. It was a bit. How do we know this was a bit? Lucky Phil says he was having a FaceTime call interview to promote an upcoming event. He was, quote, unquote, kicked out, not real. It was a bit. Oh.

Oh. Because it's wrestling. Yeah. Exactly. Well, yeah, no, obviously. It's, yeah, it's something my wrestler would do. But, oh, this guy, this wrestler's creepy looking. Oh, really, Darby.

Darby O'Gill, what's his name, Darby Allen? Let me pull it up. Yeah, you got to see this guy's face. I don't know anything about him, but his look is something. Look at that. Oh, look at that. Yeah. It reminds me of that inky stuff on the bride's face.

Yeah, kind of, yeah, exactly. Which I still don't. It's like he fell asleep on a juggalo. Some juggalo's drunk on. on Fago. Right. Just laying on him. Well, anyway, there's your news for today.

Hope you enjoyed it. We sure did. Now this. There's still something wrong, isn't there, Bill? Well, maybe there is. Maybe there isn't, but we got to ask him. It's punished props on Bill Durant on the phone. Hi, Bill.

Hello, nothing wrong here. Everything's fine. How are you? Everything's great. How's the great city of Seattle this fine morning day? We are coming off of Emerald City, Comic-Con and it was terrific. Oh, yeah. That's awesome. Heard good things

from a few people this year that it was the con to go to. You go all right for that because it's so close. You don't have to worry about flying a bunch of stuff. You can drive as much stuff as you want there. You can make two trips if you have to. Yeah, and even better from the show floor

20 minutes, I can be back home in my own bed. Oh, it's the best. That sounds all right. Yeah. No stink bad for you. Put it right in the wash. No, sir. No, straight in the straight in the watch. Right to the watch. Yeah. That's awesome.

Hey. We had a, yeah, go ahead. We had a workshop, or I got to run a workshop, a foam smithing workshop that was really fun. So we had people in there, gluing things together.

They did an excellent job. Nobody ate any piece of foam or anything. Mm-hmm. And then I brought Bender out to drive around on Sunday, and he was such a hit. Yeah. It was a lot of fun. I bet he was.

I want to see Bender in June, but I don't know if that's true. Oh, yeah. We're going to try and bring Bender out to NerdTack Hillary. Yeah, baby. And I want to reiterate that we're doing a cosplay showcase. Not a contest. Not a contest. I just want to encourage people to come dressed up for at least one day.

And anyone who comes bringing a costume, they can go up on stage and talk about it for a little bit with me. Nice. I love that. We want to show off your skills. It's not a competition. No. It's just for funsies.

We're just going to have fun. Yeah. It's going to be great. And it's always been super fun in the past, so I suspect this year will be no different. So this is me encouraging anyone listening who's going to go to consider doing some sort of costume thing. It doesn't have to be a full halo suit. It can be a little more casual. That's totally okay.

Yeah, but if it is a full halo suit, we're not saying don't do it. No complaints there. Bring it on in. Well, Bill, let's get into what we're talking about this week in the world of making things. What are we making this week? Yeah, over on our YouTube channel a while back, we did a fun video with our friend Christy. Christy is from Portland She goes by the honest cost player

She also has a new YouTube channel She's doing more prop and costume tutorials like we do So we had her in a shop In a shop to work on Or show off a technique that she had been working on Casting Flexible

Glowing Materials Oh my gosh, look at these head things Jeez Loezus Look at you dude You look like you've gone super-sane on us What's going on with that hair? That's cool. So last time she was in our shop, that's what we made.

We made a Wolverine hair out of foam. Oh, that's fantastic. That's great. Very cool. So she made these vambrises that go around her forearms for a costume, and they're flexible, and they glow. And she was getting a lot of questions about how they're made. So she decided to come hang out with us to show off how they're made. The real secret sauce here is the molding and casting,

and the material she uses as a urethane rubber. It's squishy. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect timing for Scott to be showing it, getting all squished and bendable on there. Yeah, and it's all glow, that glowy bits. That's great.

How's that achieved the glowy bits? Because it's not all of it, it looks like. It looks like just some of it. No, there's some really neat LEDs that were put in there. Before we get to the LEDs, though, the original, since this was made out from mold, the original was sculpted. And something I thought was really cool. cool. The

sort of base for the sculpt was 3D printed. So she... Okay, we're looking at that right now, that purple frame kind of thing. Exactly. So to make it perfectly symmetrical and to space out, there's holes on the side for threading elastic through there.

She printed that and it's perfect. And then we sculpted clay over the top of that to add more depth and texture to it, to give it that sort of canned sculpting quality. Yeah. And we're More organic looking too.

Exactly, yeah. I just thought that was really clever. If you have to do a lot of sculpting, the printer can do like 90% of the work for you. Interesting. So you skin it essentially with a little bit of clay. And then you mold it or then you, you know, like you're doing here,

molding it. And then the thing's flexible. So the fact that it was laid out flat means nothing. You're about to, you're going to, the silicon's going to bend. That's right. And it makes for a very efficient mold.

You don't need to use a lot of materials. you do have to consider how it's going to bend when it's wrapping around your arm we go into into more detail on the on the video if anyone wants to go watch that but yeah it's a flat mold it's a one part box mold which is really simple and we just use any I think pretty much any silicone will work for this and then what are the little cubes you put in the sides to was that just to make it I don't know, more sturdy or something? Or what was that?

No, that's old silicone molds that we cut up and throw in there to take up space. Oh, okay. So you just end up using less goo. Right. Yeah. You use less fresh silicone. Old bolts will cure and bond with the new stuff. So you can cut them up and chuck them in there to take up space.

It looks like a fruit cake around Christmas or something. Yeah. That yellow silicone is like a banana cream. pie and I want to drink it. Yeah, dude, it looks so good. It's like Tron water. Just watching you get pulled off is so freaking satisfying. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And Christmas every time. How does it manage? This is maybe a question that would apply to a lot of uses of this clay. I assume this is oil-based clay. Is it just Yeah, yeah, it's reusable. What do they call this stuff? Not neoprene. What does it call? Plasticine. Is that all it is? Okay. So

how do you know that's not going to pull out pull off or I guess it doesn't matter once the mold's made. Once the mold is cured, yeah, you're done with it. You can be destroyed. Okay. But to get it out cleanly,

I did put it in the fridge so that it would be more rigid and pop it out. Oh, that makes sense. Sure. Like a proper thing I want to eat. This is like that stuff you're going to put those two. So you've got like a resin that you put two different liquids together. And then as soon as you do that, you've got like 10 seconds to get into the mold.

A little more time on this. Okay. A pot life on this, I think, was like 20 minutes. Okay. What's really cool. The rubber she picked is a transparent urethane rubber. Oh, I love a transparent rubber. Keep going.

That's right. Because it's transparent, we can add color to it. So we use some tints to add whatever color we wanted to it. And then we dumped it in the mold and put it in a pressure pot so there wouldn't be any bubbles. That's what I was against you. Okay. So the pressure pot was to get all the bubbles out of the resin. Yeah.

Yeah. And we do a lot of molding and cations. passing a pressure pot in the vacuum chamber are standard equipment. Our pressure pots, is it, is, do you have to, it's a specialized thing you got to go get? Or can you just use it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you, you want a nice one.

It's, it's, it's a pressure vessel. It's got, you know, it's sitting there for an hour or overnight with like 50 PSI sitting in there. It's a, yeah. Yeah. You don't want a good one. You don't want one that's going to explode and blow your, your shop apart. That happened to a friend of mine, actually. Yeah.

I know you know the maker. I can't remember her name, but she's got the red and blue hair. I think she's Swedish or Norwegian. Oh, Martina. Martina. Just a nerd forge. Martina.

Yes. Yes. She just did a thing with like making a resin scene, like a little house and grass around and stuff like that. And she put the whole thing in the pressure cooker. Yeah, yeah. Really cool to like see. That really does like, it's amazing that that takes.

all the bubbles out, but I guess you're pressurizing the side to kind of make the levels rise to the surface. Well, what's cool is what happens is the bubbles are compressed so much, they go into solution. Oh, really? It's not like they rise. They just, they just. Yeah. Cease to exist.

Yeah. It cures that way. That's cool. Some hardcore science happening. Can you tell me what you're doing? Was there flooding or something? Because for a hot minute in this video, you went outside and danced around and some water. What happened there?

What was that? Yeah, my basement flood sometimes. Oh, okay. Okay. Just like that. Welcome to Seattle, everybody. Yeah. It rains all the time.

So, yeah, we poured the stuff in there. And then what's really cool is we added the lights to it. So the back of it is the part that's exposed. We carved some little channels for it. The LEDs that Christy got, they're called nudes and O-O-D-S nudes. They're like little noodles. They're super tightly packed LEDs in these silicone noodles. They are so cool.

You can barely see the individual LEDs with your eyes. That on camera, it looks like just a glowing noodle. I'll bet you had all. I was thinking you do like E.L. Wire for this, but these look like they'd be brighter. This is brighter. It looks like E.L. Wire, but it's brighter. EL is tough. It requires high voltage, so you need a, what's it called a sequencer or an inverter for it?

Because it has to bump it from your batteries up to like 120 volts. It has a high-pitched wine, which Brittany, had one of those in whatever helmets. Oh, drive you nuts. Give yourself tinnitus or something, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. So, you know, wire are pretty cool, but these nudes, I think, because they're LEDs are even cool.

I'll bet you, like usual, you see a new thing or a new take on a thing and you go, oh, there's like a thousand things I could do with this. And that's one of the reasons why I love having my talented friends be in my videos, right? They go figure this stuff out and then bring it to me. And I get to learn for free. That's right. So did she cut little grooves into the arm thing so you can put the noodles in there? Is that what we're seeing?

Yeah. So we dremont through grooves in there so they rest nice in there. And then we use more of the same material as our glue, more of that same urethane. Oh. So hold it in place. Oh, very cool. When she says send nudes, she's asking for more of these. For the more.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, these are more expensive. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

A lot more expensive. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. What a cool thing, dude. This one's awesome. And then we made elastic bands to go around the wrist and put a battery and a switch on there so we could light up the LEDs. And the LEDs run on like three volts, which is super simple. Just a single coin cell battery, no resistors or anything.

Couldn't be easier. So I'm trying to think of like a fandom these would work well for. Like I don't know. Like what's superhero or what video game character? like, yeah, well, I would think like World Warcraft druids and, you know, anything. Yeah, that's great.

And you could do it with boots and like shoulder or like face face things. Anything you need to flex. Like Silock deal where you've got her like little butterfly licking thing that's on her face and have that glow. That's cool, man.

Brittany did Carlack with a glowing chest piece. This is definitely, you could sculpt the whole like her scarred chest area with a. Oh, yeah. Carlack. That could be amazing. Liam's coming to Durnacular.

We should make him go shirtless and then make his, you don't do like his character in World Warcraft, his Illen Storm Rage, and he can yell, I am my scars and then light him up or whatever. You ask him. Yeah, I'm sure he'll be fine with this.

I'm sure this will be 100% just fine. Look at that. That's so cool. Oh, different colors even. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, that's kind of like, like there's a Geiger kind of quality to it.

Yeah, I was just going to say, the organics you could do and have it be, it's all shiny because of the silica. I guess it is. H.R. Geager. Oh, yeah, I learned that the hard way. I had to watch the documentary and I was like, oh, shit. I almost learned it the hard way by the chat room yelling at me because they're about to do that in seven, six, five.

They know what's up in there. Well, Bill, this is rad. The video is up and available. It's literally just called scopeded flat and cast in rubber. There you go. Which sounds like the, you know, put that on my tombstone, I guess, when I die. that's the third song on the new Taylor Swift album. Oh, is it?

Oh, wow. It's a big hit. Boy, ever since dating that freaking football player, she's gone weird. She just comes up with some weird stuff, yeah. Well, Bill, any other Linky this week that you want to share with us? Got a video, YouTube video. This is my pal Angus over on Maker's Muse. So Angus is a 3D printing enthusiast and maker, but he's also a combat robot enthusiast.

And there is a, some people are, starting to have new classes of combat robots that are all 3D printed and obviously you need like screws and motors and stuff but the weapons and everything are all 3D printed and he has a whole video showing off of his design

and also the class and what's cool because you can people are making these ant weight these 150 gram robots with like AR 500 armor and stuff which is cool but also insane so they have a class now that's basically

mostly plastic, anyone can join, and they're spectacular because these robots freaking explode. And it's so easy to just put a new... I love to watch it be kind of spazz out and go, yeah, yeah, yeah, and they do it to themselves, mostly. Yeah, I was going to say, like that guy right there looking and flipping around.

Yeah. Oh, man, that's awesome, dude. It looks like so much, I want to make one of these so bad. And I have, I just got my hands on a bunch of, RC components from a friend. So I've got everything I need. And I'm just really pumped to have an option that is very low barrier to entry. And people don't, they're not precious about these robots.

And they're very excited to smash them into each other. And that makes for very exciting fights. I agree. Let's fight. Plastic robot fighting is way better than human fighting. Let's do it. Yes, I agree. Yeah.

I like that a lot. Maybe not this year at NerdTack. But maybe next year we have a robot combat. Oh, man, can you imagine? Can you imagine? KT. David. I like that you're already getting Scott thinking about 20, 27. Yeah, yeah.

I don't know if I'm ready to think about that yet. But I can tell you this. Kevin in the chat, he's a big follower of the local robotics fighting. And apparently it's pretty robust here. They keep having these events that I keep trying to go to who with them, but they're always scheduled weird. But, yeah, I would, dude. Oh, and I had a conversation the other day with somebody who, was saying AI is going to take over the battle robots and they'll just fight autonomously.

And I said, they already have that. Exactly. But also, it's kind of against the point of the thing. Even if you have AI controlling them and there's not a dude with a controller on the other side, there's still this aspect of it of people trying to out-engineer each other. Yeah, yeah. People doing it. That's what we want.

We want the people to make the death robots. That's what we want. Yeah. And there's all sorts of, if anyone's interested in combat competition, not just combat. There's all sorts of competitions. My brother-in-law used to do this competition at Spark Fund. You would have to build an autonomous vehicle that would do a lap around the building. Oh, geez.

And it was a race. Really? Okay. But it was autonomous. So you're right. Like all the engineering and design work went into it ahead of time and then they hit go and see what happens. You got to just hope this thing knows how to round the corners and avoid other obstacles.

And other racers too, right? Yeah. And there are all kinds of wacky designs, ones that are full. flying ones that are on the ground. It just leads to so many fun designs and whacking it. Man, I love this stuff. You will too if you go to punishprops.com, everybody, and follow Bill and check out all of his friends.

There's so much going on in the world of makers right now. Perfect time to escape into some of that stuff. So go check that out. Bill, have a fantastic time until we see you again. Okay. See you. Bye. All right.

Hey, that was awesome. Always good to hear from Bill. Yes. I have a number of these lined up. This is about the jugs of P. Emails, texts and such. Like this one from, who's this from? Frank.

He's also T-Pock Cat in the Discord when he's in there. Okay. He says on the Professor X thing that we were talking about the other day, Xavier, Xavier, all that stuff. Xavier versus Xavier. Exilophone. Exilofing. To me, those were the best. That ended the argument for me.

Yeah. If we're not saying exilophone. Exylophone. Yeah. That really locked it for me. But he says, hey, fellas, I reckon the Xavier slash Xavier pronunciation debate might just be a weird American thing. Take St. Francis Xavier or Xavier.

Nobody calls him Francis X-Aviour. He's probably the most famous Xavier in the history or in history and is always pronounced Xavier. Love the show though, Frank. Possibly, maybe it's us. But I don't know where we would suddenly start going unless it was the comics. Why did we start saying X-Avier? Xavier. Yeah, I know. I think it has to have come from before that, right? I mean, again,

saying it for in the context of Professor X makes sense because he's Professor X. And if you hear, oh, I'm Professor Xavier with the leading my Z-Men. I mean, my X-Men. Dang it, Xavier, Xavier, whatever. My Z-Men. My Z-Men. Yeah, I love that. I would watch. I'd read a comic about Z-Men all over the place. Oh, no, there's Z-Men everywhere. Zeman samples. Would you like a sample of my Zeman? I can send some Zeman your way. Good Lord.

Anyway, the mystery continues, Frank. I don't know what we did here, but it sounds like it might be an American issue. Mark from Melbourne in Australia. And speaking of another name that people get wrong. Not Frank, or not Mark, but the Melbourne part. Melbourne. Melbourne, whatever it is.

He says, this is James Fisk, a terrible person in U.S. history. I'm going to show you this photo, Brian. Okay. I don't know this guy, but there's James Fisk. Okay. He says he can't be older than 36, the age at which he was assassinated. Love the show, though, regards to Mark.

So he's trying to point out that, you know. Yeah. At his oldest, he's 36. And he, you know, that picture could be at his oldest age. Yeah. Yeah, it could even be younger, which is to point out people back then just look freaking older. And it isn't just the black and white people at home. I'm promising.

you look at him smoking. I don't know what else. I want to look him up and see more about him. I don't know who James Fisk was, but... He just looks bored. Yeah. He wants out of there. That's right.

He'll soon be played by Toby. What's that British actor's name? Toby Jones. We just saw Toby Jones. We're watching the new season of Hijack and Toby Jones is in that. I unabashedly love Toby Jones. Nothing at all wrong with Toby Jones. He could do anything.

He's the best Arnhzola. Yeah. Yeah. And he's just great and everything. I've yet to see a thing where I didn't feel like the whole the whole shop wasn't improved by him being in there. You know? Whatever movie TV show it was,

it was just better because he was around. Love him. All right. Here's one more about jury duty and court things. Oh, good. Okay. Bernie Walter wrote in, as he often does, and says this. I was pulled into court April 1st.

Or sorry, April of last year. I don't know why I said April 1st. The first day of a jury selection, I got to be on a Zoom from home. This is the best way to do jury selection. That's what I did for mine. No argument. That's right.

Yeah. And because your camera was so good, they dismissed you. Yeah. I still have that. He's too good at Zoom. Yeah. Everybody else was fuzzy, off to the side, sounded like shit. Horrible lighting, whatever.

But mine looked like, you know, kind of pro. And they dumped me and two other people that were in a similar boat. I swear to you, it's because it was a technology case. Love it. And they didn't want any people that knew their shit. So anyway, that's still my, that's my theory I go to my grave with. Yeah. He says the second day I was called back and I had to go into the courtroom overflow and watch the jury selection on Zoom on a monitor one floor below where the main courtroom was.

There was a third day of jury selection where we had to wait in the hall for about 25 minutes. And then the judge brought us to the main room and said, well, we settled to go home in a more official capacity. So they settle the case even into jury selection sometimes. I also think that's highly inefficient what they did with him. like I get that's the initial Zoom one I get it if you made it pass that one I get that you may be called again but three times and then told that it's ending just for the third time yes yes that's a waste of taxpayer money dude totally is yeah time taxpayer money all that stuff that's lame he says I'm betting that after brian reminded the attorney of the existence of the video they will settle this case out of court

love the shows I mean I think I think my reminding them of the video was what got it push too. It was like what made the defense say let's do let's move this to April. I still haven't heard but I'm going to bet I hear sometime in the next 30 days that it's been it's been canceled

or I mean that he took a plea deal. Took a plea yeah. I think your evidence will do it too. I really do. I think so too. It's it's nigh irrefutable. It was going full speed ahead until you said hey by the way did you see the video. Oh no let's see the video and then suddenly it all

went crazy? I'm telling you. Much like his car, the case kind of crashed into the guardrail. This is my favorite episode of Law and Order I've ever seen. Unfortunately, it was only 15 minutes long.

Boom, durn, durn, daren. These are their stories. Come back in two months and we might have the last 45 minutes of this episode. The people who enforce the law and the one guy in his car doing the lift driving. These are their stories.

Gung, gong. Well, anyway, Bernie, thank you for the message. We appreciate it. when you agree with you. If you'd like to send us messages, do it all at the website. Frogpants.com slash TMS, excuse me. All the ways to do it are there, including an embedded way to send your texts and your voice

messages just without going anywhere else. You just go to the site and they're there. So go check it out and send us your messages. We love to hear from you guys. And again, that's frogpans.com slash TMS. There will be a watch retro tonight 4 p.m. With myself and Brian Dunaway. Cool.

You doing the toxic Avenger cartoon? We're going to try. Let's see. He texted me this morning and he was a little. looking. Let's see if he found it. He may have found it. Nope, not yet. We got the Bionic 6 and we got Superman, one of the old shorts. Oh, cool. Seven-minute shorts from the 50s or 40s, whatever it was. And then

Eek the Cat, Meet the Thunder Lizards crossover. Eek the Cat. I remember Eek the Cat. Yeah, it was a comic, right? And then they got a show or whatever. Didn't they, I remember that being part of a Spike and Mike or Spike in Ike Festival or something? I think that's the origins, yeah. Like Beavis and Butthead was, kind of like that. Yeah. So that'll be tonight, 4 p.m. Come watch us.

Come hang out. Brian, you got the thing today? You want to mention? Yeah, new episode of soundography going up. Hammond and I listened to, shoot, who was after Venus Hum? Hold on a second. Did you end up listening in Venus Hum? Oh my gosh, thanks for the reminder again.

I need to write this down. Here's how I wrote it down yesterday. You put it down in our spreadsheet last time. And here's how. I'm going to remember. Here we go. Okay. All right.

Nice. I don't know how it's spelled, but here's what we're doing. We're going to bold that. And then I'm going to go, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boop, boop, boop, boop. Oh, very good. And then I'm going to go, all right. Perfect. Joe Jackson, the episode about Joe Jackson is going up today.

We listen to, I mean, the dude has been been around since the late 70s, early 80s. Of course, you know, songs like, is she really going out with him, look sharp. I'm the man stepping out. Oh, there you go. That is, you can't miss that. Yeah, I'll never, I'll never not see that before the show's over. There you go. But he started out as one of those angry young men along with Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, and then kind of just became this, well, kind of an angry older man, really is what he became.

He left New York because of strict smoking laws and moved to Berlin. Oh. Because he wants to smoke, and he doesn't want anybody telling him he can't smoke. But his music has just been timeless And every time you want to count him out He comes back with another brilliant album He's fantastic. So Joe Jackson

Check it out today on soundography.com Speaking of music, we have a song lined up right now. What is it? We have a song who is a request coming from Let me load it from Kim. Very short, sweet request. She says, This is a happy birthday request for my husband, Trey,

who is a longtime listener. And his birthday is actually tomorrow we have two requests for tomorrow, so I moved one of them to today. Kim wanted to hear a cover of 500 miles by the Proclaimers, and I'm happy to oblige. The song, of course, is really called, I'm going to be 500 miles in parentheses.

But there are so many great covers of that song. I think I have about 15 in my library, and there are some that verge on, like, blues and funk. There's another one that's, like, super electronic. There's, of course, eight-bit versions, and I probably have a postmodern jukebox version. But this one struck out to me as turning it on its ear. It's almost like a guitar pop version of it, like a rock version of it. It's great.

This is by Maximo Park. It was recorded for BBC Radio One's Live Lounge, Volume 2 all the way back in 2007. Here is, I'm going to be 500 miles. When I'm dreaming about the time I spend with you. Thanks for listening. The Frogpants Network lives at frogpants.com. I think I'll have a chicken burrito.