The Morning Stream - TMS 2989: Black Licorice Adjacent

Episode Date: April 7, 2026

Stop Body Shaming My Alien Queen. Avengers: Dunesday. Little Bum Cheeks. SquareFrog NoPants. Human Eyes (clap clap) We're Biting you! Flys That Bite Eyes. The Elephant Can't Consent. The neighbor's kid is barking again. Hoodoo Voodoo Magic Poof. I Played Bass For Tribal Luminescence Back In '85. Partial Nipple Exposure. Mountain Dew Pepto Blast. Great Doctor. Small Fingers. Bundle your home and auto with Spider-Man. Girthy Bats with Bill and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If Captain Kirk and Commander Sisko ever got into a fist-to-fist fight, who would win? We would win, that's who. Keep winning by joining the TMS Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS today. I said, win. Coming up on the morning stream, stop body shaming my alien queen. Avengers Doons Day. Little bum cheeks. Square frog, no pants.

Human eyes, we're biting you. Flies that bite eyes. The elephant can't consent. The neighbor kid is barking again. Who do voodoo, magic poof. I played base for tribal luminescence back in 85. Partial nipple exposure. Mountain dew peptoblast.

Great doctor, small fingers. Bundle your home and auto with Spider-Man. Gertie Bats with Bill. And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Why don't 3D printers print 3D printers and then just return the 3D printer that the 3D printed? Stop thinking with your glands. The Morning Stream. Would you like a closer look?

Hey, everybody. What are you doing? You're here to listen to the TMS show. That's right. The morning stream is on now. It is Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. I'm Scott Johnson. That is Brian Abbott.

Hello, Brian Ibit. Hello, Scott Johnson. Hello, indeed. We're here for Tuesday. Yeah, I'm excited because I had a very, despite so I'm feeling a lot better today. I'd bump things up to like 85 now. Oh, very good.

That's definitely improvement. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm feeling a lot better. The cold, the cough still lingers, but for the most part, feeling like I'm on the other side,

which is great. And as a result, yesterday I started feeling a little better. And I just got a ton of things done that needed to be done. And I have a ton of things still to be done today that I will try my hardest to do. But I had a certain kind of energy, you know, you come off of a,

yeah, an illness and suddenly you're like, let's go. we got you know. It's almost like a spring that's been you know compressed for such a long time recuperating that it's like boing. Yeah. It's finally released and you've got all this renewed. I'm just nervous about how short lived it'll be. You know what I mean? Like I'll hit a wall later today and go, okay, that was that was a little too much, you know. Who knows? Yeah. Yeah, we'll see. I also had this weird back and forth. You'll, you'll understand this because you're, you and I do this

stuff all the time with either, you know, commissions or we just have to work out stuff for clients or whatever and it's always a little fishy but in this case I'm the client I'm trying to get part of the nerdtacular stuff some of the swag I wanted to order I'm getting it from lots of different sources because we're trying to just you know make them really unique this year and this one I won't say who or how this you know I don't want to throw them under the bus because they've yet we'll see how they deliver but they had a five-star review uh on a very popular site for making bulk items I'll say that okay all right and I get in there and they say, well, here's how it works.

If you're happy with your choice, then you place your order. And hearing the messages will send you a proof shortly after the order to make sure everything looks good before we do the big quantity. And I said, okay, that sounds great. Looking forward to your proof. They send me the proof looks great. And I said, this is awesome. And then the only other thing I said, well, if anything, I'd like to move it up a quarter

of an inch, just a little bit on the surface of this thing, this image. And she says, no problem. coming right back at you with another one. Five minutes later, I get a new one. It's showing me the exact dimensions right where it is. It looks great. I'm like perfect. Thumbs up.

Approve, please proceed. Okay. So far so good. I'm liking the sound of this. So far it seems like everybody's winning, right? Thumbs up all around. For sure, yeah. So then yesterday, or that was last night.

This morning, I'm in here getting stuff done. Bing. I get a notification that somebody has contacted me from there again. And I'm like, oh, interesting. This is probably just let me know the orders in or something. I go check it down. It goes, here. It's like verbatim from yesterday.

Here's your proof. Please approve. And I went, okay. That's weird. Kind of already did this. But then I'm really glad I did the next thing, which is I clicked the new proof, which far away, a little tiny one, it looked exactly the same. It was like, what are we doing here?

Maybe two people got involved and the other one didn't tell the other one. They already approved it. I don't know what. So I'm like, whatever, I click it, opens it up. And they completely mangled my thing I was printing. It looked terrible. Oh, no. And it said, you want option one or two.

And option two had the thing I already approved. Okay. And looked good. But option one looked like shit. And I went. So if you would have said, just go ahead and do it. Without looking, it would have done option one, the mangled garbage. I assume so.

Maybe they would have pressed me for, choice. I don't know, but it looked really bad. It was clearly them going, well, what if it was this way? Or I don't actually know why they did this. I already approved the thing. So now my confidence is shaken because, and I told, so I replied and said, actually, it must be, and I told her option two, which is the one I did. I said, it must be that, which is the one I approved yesterday. So I'm a little bit confused as to why you're asking for new approval. And then I doubled down and said, option one would be literally unacceptable. And I just made it really clear that it has to be this one. And she says, you know, they're going to say, oh, he said option one in his reply. We don't need to

read the rest. Let's go. Yeah. Then she writes back and goes, okay, sounds good, thumbs up. And it's just like, we're just not to acknowledge the weird thing you just did. Like, it's weird that you did that. that is really weird. And I don't know quite what to come. I feel like coming back and just going, out of curiosity, why the two phases of the thing and why did it change in between?

My two approvals and why is the second approval so much different? Or why is the, yeah, but I also don't want to cause potentially other holes in the ship. I just want, because they have a perfect rating. Every review is like, dude, these guys are amazing.

Their turnaround's incredible. Their quality is awesome. Like everybody loves them. They're in Miami somewhere. Miami. Miami. Yeah. And, uh,

Gimbi. I don't, I don't know. When I, you know, whatever, I've done all I can do is all I'm saying. And I hate this stuff. I just hate it.

It's such a pain. And, but it's, you know who it's worth it for? All the people coming in June and, and, and those getting bags afterwards, they're worth it.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Just got to keep saying that to myself. Yes. Yes. There you go. Oh, I'll tell you this, though.

This is the coolest thing. So, let's see, where's the name? Here it is. Lydia and John, I get this out of nowhere in the mail. Look at this cute little guy. His little square frog. Oh, very cool. Yeah, look at that.

He's got a little bum. God, that would be so much easier to 3D print for the bracelets. Wouldn't it, though? Just a little square frog. And this guy's like a, I think he's resin. I don't know where you get one of these, but the fact that he's got little bum cheeks. It's hard to see it.

It's hard to see. Oh, there you go. Yeah. From that angle. It's like a little sponge bomb. Isn't that great? Yeah. Anyway, it's my new favorite thing and the kids keep trying to steal it and I'm going to put it down here where nobody can get it.

Very cool. Thank you, John and Lydia. And then thirdly, I, uh, this morning at 6 a.m. We have her windows open now because it's the kind of weather where you can do that. It's nice. It's perfect temperature. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice.

Kind of cool at nights here, cozy and all that. Yeah. And, uh, 6 a.m. about the time I'm getting up anyway. and I hear what I can only describe as the sound you would expect from a neighbor who forgot it was garbage day. And here's how I know, because, A, the window's open, and he's not, they don't live too far from that window. Yeah. And it's the only regret about the window is occasionally this neighbor will be loud with his car or something else.

You know, one of his kids will be out there barking or whatever. But at 6 a.m. I hear this guy go. And he can tell he's like up in the garage or something. and he goes, Garbage! And I assume that means, because I didn't see his cans out there, he realized shit,

it's garbage day. And then later he got him out. Everything was fun. You didn't hear the sound of like, as he drags the plastic thing out to the... I think I got in the shower, and then by the time I got out, he had actually done it because they were out there then.

But it was funny because I've done this. I mean, it's like what's the movie, Odin Kirk's The Nobody movies Nobody? Yeah. I still haven't seen Nobody too. Oh, it's pretty good.

It's kind of an arcade version of the first one. The first one is kind of an arcade game too. Kind of, yeah. The second one. A lot of many bosses. Yeah. Second one really goes into like,

just park your brain and have some fun mode. Okay. Because there's just stuff going on that you're like, nah, it would never happen. Or, you know, if you think too hard about it.

It's like Bullet Train. I really enjoy. bullet train on on bullet trains terms that's what i'm saying about nobody to enjoy it on its terms right yeah put yourself into that world that's the thing that that i can do with some movies i can't do with looper for whatever reason that's a yeah ever since you've really exposed the way looper does time travel wrong it it's impossible for me to really enjoy it now i just can't do i'm not saying it's your fault but i'm saying i know yeah like if you if you want to still enjoy looper out there everybody you know you know Ryan Johnson doing good work.

Don't let us deter you. Do not think too hard about the time travel or you will be like us. That's all. Right. Right. Because now it's just like, and I do this now with everything. Because Brian's right. It was the time travel's effed in that.

It's effed. It is effed in that. And this new thing that I talked about yesterday, Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice, there's a little bit of that. And after, after, people have seen it, especially after you've seen it, I want to tell you a little not a spoilery thing. It would be spoiler if I were to tell you about it now. But what they could have, how they could have ended it better or ended it differently.

I don't know. You know what? You're describing a pretty, it would be a really cool host special series from Brian Edombeon Film Sack. Oh, there we go. You take famous, not famous, but you know, well-known time travel movies. Well-known time travel movies and say, here's what's break. use of it, yeah. Like, did they do better than most? Or what is the, what is your, your, uh, your, uh, your mean for that? Like, where's, where's the best place for a movie to land?

Sure. Taking in an account it needs to be entertaining and fun, but also somewhat plausible on the, on that front. And then where, you know, where do you sit? You'd have to look at maybe some of your multiverse stuff in, uh, you know, MCU things or whatever. I think that'd be really interesting. I'd listen to that. He says, didn't Brian already do that? I kind of did that. I did a, I did an episode. about my favorite time travel movies and how they get it right and how they got it wrong. But I think there are newer ones that I'd love to pick a part that have come out since I did that one. Yeah.

I always used to hear that the only one that gets it right is primer. It is the only one that gets it right. Oh, that's crazy. And I think you talked about that in that episode, didn't you? I did. Specifically, yes, I did.

Yeah, I mean, it's just, and really, here it is. The bottom line is to prevent the paradox to create time travel that doesn't have a paradox. It creates a very boring version of time travel where if you go back and change something, you're going to a timeline that is affected by that change. You can't return to your original timeline.

So it doesn't change anything for the people who are already in that timeline. And that's what's really boring. It's like you want to go back and change something and then have it, go back and see the repercussions of your changes. Now, when they do something like wipe everybody's memory of who Spider-Man's identity is, that's different than time travel.

That's different. Yeah, that's Dr. Strange, hoodoo, voodoo, magic, poof, kind of thing. That's him flipping out for an hour and then going like this at the end of it. That's right, with his head going, roo-oh-or-you- Yeah, give that guy a freaking sedative. My gosh. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, no, it's interesting. I, uh...

It's what I need to watch. You know, I haven't watched. I've seen almost all the, the Marvel movies at least twice, the MCU movies, at least twice. Um, I need to go back and watch. Uh, what was it? No Way Home was the, was the one with the,

Dr. Strange and all the, the other, you know, Toby McGuire and Andrew Garfield, there's no way home, right? I want to say that was No Way Home. It's so, I love the fact that they named it with the homes. Yeah, exactly. I get them all mixed up. Far from home. No way home. Everyone's home. We all made it home.

Exactly. Nobody home. Homeward bound. Home again. I have home insurance. Whatever. It's all home. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. And that new one's when. When do we get it sometime this year? July. That'll be a big hit of the summer. Yeah.

And then let's see. I don't know if it's up again. I guess it's still Dune and Doomsday. are not budging on having the same release date right now, which is crazy to me. How do you put an Avengers game and a Dune sequel? Avengers game. Avengers game. Avengers movie.

I had an end game on my head. Yep. But how do you put the Avengers movie on the same day? Or say it the other way. How do you do? How does Warner Brothers do the other thing? I don't know how either of them do it. I feel like they're playing a game.

of chicken where they're waiting for the other person to flinch. Probably. Who do you think? Who do you think Blinks? I think, uh, I predict Dune will blink. I think it'll be Avengers of Blinks. You think so? Okay, good. Well, it's a good, uh, yeah. My thinking is that, you know what? You're not, you're probably on the right track because Disney's, Disney's shown that they're not afraid to push things a month or a week or whatever,

and they've done in the past. Yeah, and they might not even do that much difference in time, but my main thinking is that the reason they might blink is that the Marvel movies have suffered as of late compared to their height. And even though this represents a return potentially to end game and such levels, right? That's the idea. Bringing everybody back together or whatever. I think there's some inherent risk in that that they would be more nervous than the Dune people who are like, no, this is the big finality to this huge, successful.

franchise and this is it. Third is done and we're good. We can tent pull it. This will be the year everyone remembers. This probably be the year that gets best pitcher nominations and probably wins a bunch of shit and they're like return of the king levels of follow up, you know, on a three parts thing. So I just that's just where my head's at. I could be wrong, but it'll be fun to check. So Mizzula, check the numbers. Let us know what the, you know, let us know the odds. The, you know, keep in mind, Marvel also like started this whole thing, the ball rolling with trailers that had a, or teasers that had a countdown timer on them for December 18th. Oh, right.

So they kind of have to keep it, don't they? They kind of, I mean, they don't have to keep it just because of that. But, um, Dr. Strange could swoop in and change the time. He could swoop in and say, poof, voodoo, voodoo magic. Um, a stigma says, I've heard Dune has all the theaters booked for IMAX, so they're less likely to change dates. So that's interesting that, um, oh, I didn't know that. that you can do that you can think that they would book half of the

iAvax theater so yeah we'll come back to it and see how it goes it'll be interesting though that's we haven't had like iMac sellout and a thousand dollar ticket whoa thousand dollar ticket for what dueling releases December 18th is dunes day June part three Avengers doomsday tickets for 70 millimeter

iMac screenings are already on sale according to a list on the official iMacs website several venues have already been sold out so yeah i mean so it's the the iMacs thing that seems like a good lock-in to say uh we've planted our flag do your worst yeah yeah well we'll see what happens no real money on the table everybody we're just we like a nice friendly bed around here so we'll see what happens absolutely we don't really have skin in the game either either way both movies are coming it out and i'm excited exactly i'm excited for both of them i see both of them opening weekend. It doesn't matter if it's two over two weekends, that's fine, but

Doom's Day will be first. Hell, I'll watch one, walk out of the room. P. Come back in and watch the other one. I won't be doing that because six and a half hours in a movie theater is not what Tina married me for. Yeah, that's a good point. That's not what she signed up for. I'm not sure how it would go here either, but

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He's always got a little controversy going on. He always has a little controversy. And this time it's it's repercussions from wearing a swastika t-shirt and spouting anti-Semitic comments. Yeah, being pro-Nazi will get people to pull sponsorships. It's amazing how that has an effect on things. Yeah. I ain't saying she's a gold digger. That how it goes?

It's how it goes. San Gabriel Valley sees early surge of tiny black flies that bite human eyes. Oh, we only bite human eyes. I know. It's freaking awful. Small black flies with a wicked bite are swarming parts of the San Gabriel Valley. And experts say their unusual early arrival is overwhelming residents from Asusa, I guess, to Adelina. Azusa. Azusa. Alta Dina. What did I say?

Adelina. Yeah, all Southern California right there in the L.A. The San Gabriel Valley. Yeah. Careful, Randy's pretty close to that. It might get some. Kind of, yeah. Fly eye bites. experts

to describe the insects is smaller than mosquitoes but far more aggressive they aim for the eyes and their bite is very painful let's see they're biting black flies is the actual term

and so they are different from your regular house fly says Anise Diaz Anias Diaz Annaiz Diaz Anais Diaz Anais

Yeah Anai is probably Because like the Silent Us The writer Anai Nin Oh right Okay you're probably right Anai Diaz

with the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District. Nice. She's in charge of both mosquitoes and then tracing your images to make them work in vector format. Handling those little spline handles and making sure that they're all parallel with your artwork. It's such a pain to add it. I hate that stuff. I just did something like that yesterday and it drove me crazy. Yeah, I'm just trying to get these big posters done.

Wasn't there another new update to Affinity that? Oh, yeah. They added, they actually added a bug I got to talk to somebody about. Oh, no. Can't figure it out. It's an eraser tool bug that is not that big a deal, but it's just annoying. And I got to see if someone can document the problem or if it's me. But I can't remember what they added.

They did add some, they added a bunch of stuff that people have been requesting. I've been loving it. So, no complaints except for this one new bug that I can't quite get my head around. If someone out there's an expert, they want to write me. And, you know, they work at Affinity. you let me know. Anyway, it's very unsettling. These things, get up into your eyes.

North Hollywood resident Tamara Atkins says, quote, oh, that's disgusting. Really is that? Yep. Okay. Here's what they're drawn by. That quote, Tamara. Yeah, instead of, like, a housefly likes

a bit of dog poo or, you know, fruit or food or whatever. Yeah. Black flies are drawn to human breath and the salty moisture around your eyeballs. Oh, really? Okay. You know what, Tamara Atkins is right. Oh, that is disgusting. That is disgusting. Yuck.

Yuck is right. Diaz noted that while black flies can transmit river blindness, sorry, can transmit river blindness. The risk does not apply locally. They are a vector for the river blindness disease, which you can transmit or it can transmit. But that's not something that we see here. It's mostly known in other parts of the world. Here, they're mostly a nuisance. Well, that still would make me. I don't know if that's enough to deter me from the river virus or the river whatever. What's it called? Right. River blindness.

River blindness. I, yeah, we need some eyedrops that turn our salty moisture around the eyes, by the way. Salty moisture might be the worst thing that we hear. Just that phrase, the worst thing that we hear today. I'm sure he won't isolate it. It'll be fine. Jamie's on. Oh, I'm sure.

It'll be totally fine. Sure. Exactly. Absolutely. But, you know, just change it to a different flavor. that deters these things or yeah or wear goggles. Let's see. I have some,

I thought I somewhere over here had some perfect goggles for that sort of thing. I don't know what happened to them. Well, yeah, that's what I do. I like that idea. You know what? goggles are kind of cool anyway.

So I'm kind of down for, if I'm anywhere, okay, here's the question. I don't want to look it up because I'll be freaked out. But river blindness is either the worst thing ever or it's just that you can't see rivers anymore.

That's the problem. Yes. It's right. You know, people have face blind this. Where did the Mississippi go? Yeah, where is it? I don't see the river. Or it's like, hey, meet me by the river.

What river? Yeah. I can live with that. But what I can't live is, you know. Does stand by me all of a sudden have one less actor in it? Yeah. Anybody named River gone. Yeah.

So you can't watch. You can't see. The character from. Firefly. Yeah. No river. Yep. Oh, shit.

A river runs through it. It's just, runs through it. It runs through it. Yeah. And they're standing in nothing? I don't understand that movie. They're standing in nothing,

pulling fish out of thin air. Yeah. It's wild. Yeah. Crazy. Anyway, don't get river blindness. Nobody get bit by these eye flies. These are terrible.

God. Yeah. Elephant painted bright pink for photo shoot prompted an investigation in India. They really like their elephants over there. They do. Yeah. And when somebody's doing Instagram shit with an elephant, I don't like it. I mean, it's funny because you hear about the activists out there who are making sure that elephants get better treatment out there because they've been, you know, too often beaten so that they perform for tourists and things like that.

But then you've got, you know, then you've got situations like this. This horse shit. Yeah. It's like this is good for nobody. Right. Although, I guess she painted herself pink too. So I don't know if it's the same paint. I don't know anything about this late.

She was given that option. The elephant wasn't. Yeah, good point. Yeah. The elephant can't consent to this. Yeah. It looks like chalk on them. Oh, maybe not.

It does. Yeah, like they've been dusted with, uh, at least they didn't do the non's photo face, right? Like half its... Most part, it looked like, yeah, part of half its faces still, but like the whole rest of the side was still pink. Yeah, I can't quite tell what they've done there. It's almost like they just got bored and said,

well, they're going to shoot this side anyway. You know, because that's the voice of your average Indian guy. Yeah, I'd say that that's something that could have been done with Photoshop. Yeah. They are applying the, uh, applying the pink dust. Yeah. Now she could see half the face, the part that isn't on camera, they just don't, they don't do. Which is probably a small mercy.

I mean, that's a small consolation. Yeah, exactly. I don't do this, but it sparked a, uh, a big stink. And the government has rules against this stuff. Sure. So, Forest. officials have started investigation following social media outrage over a Russian photographer's photo shoot for which a 65-year-old elephant was painted bright pink. I'll give this elephant a break, man.

It's 65 and he's just like, what the thing? I'm too old for this shit. Yeah. Animal rights activists accuse Julia Burr of Leva. Burrula. Barcelona, or as they would say there, Barthalona-based conceptual photographer of animal cruelty and painting the Tusker in pink color. for a photo shoot in Jepar City in the western state of Rajasthan.

I'm sure I nailed that one. Rajasthan. Rajasthan, is that it? I think so. The image shows a woman colored in pink sitting atop the painted elephant, blah, blah, blah. And this is in an abandoned Hindu temple, also not cool. Anyway, they're...

Yeah, that's probably a good point, too. Yeah, is this for a new Mountain Dew flavor? Do we know? Do we know what it's promoting? What would you call it? Fuchsia blast! Mountain Dew Fusial Blast. Because it's always blast. Like Baja Blast.

It's something violent that's always happening. Yeah. I don't know what, elephant. Bubble gum slam. Mountain Dew, Pepto. Trunk.

Oh, it is very pepto. Now I really hate it. Now I really hate it because I don't like Pepto. I can't do wintergreen for the rest of my life because of Pepto. I can't do the flavor. Because Pepto Bismol, really. Yeah. Like someone gives me a winter green like mint or something. And I'm just like, it just, it's like makes you feel like you're a kid and your mom's like taking care of

you when you're sick or whatever. I just hate that. All sets up a whole wintergreen certs. You know what else it is? Wintergreen is is black licorice adjacent for me. I bet it is. Yeah, there's probably some similar flavor profiles between the two, sure. Yeah. They're friends or whatever. However that works. So you never did that thing where you go on a dark. closet and you bite in, you hold up a mirror and bite into a wintergreen so that you see the spark? No, I didn't, that's a thing? That's a thing. Yeah.

Oh, I mean, I would do that for that. Can we do that on the show and turn on a lot? It's a real chemical reaction kind of thing. It's hard to see. Specific kind of mint or just any kind of. It has to be the winter green. And it might even have to be winter green certs. Whoa, that wretzen.

It keeps going to wintow green. Winto green. Winter green. We should, we should. test that on air. That would be... Yeah, I mean, I think I've got enough darkness in here that if I shut everything off, it would have to be my, like, my monitors would have to be off too to be able to do it.

Oh, good point. Yeah. Triboluminescence. Oh, this is a good Bobby topic if he's listening. Yeah. What'd you call it? What was it? Triboluminescence.

Nice. Similar to the electrical charge buildup that produces lightning. It's my new goth band, tribal leavenessence. Perfect, excellent. It sounded like evanescence, so I kind of went there. Yeah, there you go. Good news, everybody. The news is over.

That's the good news. Darn, we had gotten to all of our chocolate news. I guess that will be later this week. Yeah, what a shame. But now this. There's still something wrong, isn't there, Bill? Oh, look who it is. Our old pal Bill Durant at Punishprops.com.

Calling in, like he does, about once a month, to talk about making stuff. Bill, welcome back. Good morning. Good morning. How are you this morning, sir? Doing pretty good. Yeah. I got to work on a very cool project. Tell me more. I just dropped a link in the Oh, there it is right there. Okay. Commercial that I worked on with a very famous sports team. You'll see. Oh, let's see what we got here. What? This is awesome. Hold on. Yeah. So that's... Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay. I saw this. I saw this on somebody else's channel too. I saw this on social media in little chunks.

I didn't know you had anything to do with this. So what did you do? The story is my friend Joel, the 3D printing there, and dragged me into this. Not too I said. And huge thanks to Joel for thinking of me to help on it. The Seattle Mariners are playing on the idea that there's this torpedo bat. There's a new shaped baseball bat they're using.

So they wanted to riff on that and come up with a bunch of other wacky-looking baseball bats. So somehow someone that with them knows Joel Joel reached out to me to do a bunch of the work on it And that was what I did last one Man So which way of these did you work on? Are these all these all? There are one of them

There is just a paddle but four of the bats are completely custom made Yeah There's a Thor bat, there's a wide bat There's a hockey stick bat and there is a palm tree Pat. Dude. Yeah. This is great. That's so cool. And you, and this was, I'm a bit blown away by this.

So he's holding your stuff. He made right there. Oh, yeah. Wow. Wow. Oh, it actually shows them trying to, I'm amazed that these things don't break. I guess they're not really hitting a ball with it because it would snap, right? It would explode. Yeah, yeah. I was going to ask what these are made of. So tell me more about that.

All right. So I got another video for you on the chat there. Joel, a 3D printing nerd, my buddy, he lives just north of me, He's got a whole video. He's the best. Joel really is the best. He did the build video. It's all over on his channel. It was a very short turnaround.

These projects tend to be like that. And I was mostly hired to do the CAD work and help with the assembly, which is most of the project. Yeah. But yeah, it started with some concept art. They sent me some pictures that appeared to be AI generated

but then I knew exactly what I had to make I just had to copy these pictures and it was pretty straightforward wide bat Thorbat you know are the it looked like parts of these are actual bats it looks like it but they are not

they're all completely 3-printed oh really so not even like a dowel or something inside it looked like wood to me there is a metal dowel down the center of them okay yeah yeah but I bet even these these baseball players, I bet if they swung it without even hitting a bat, it would still explode. The friction with air.

Right, yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. I love the palm tree one. That is just hilarious. Yeah, that's great. They sent me the art. I did all the CAD, and then I was able to send them a render so that they could check it off.

I did a couple of little edits, and then Joel did all the printing, which is awesome. He's got a huge print farm up at his place. He's got like 50 Prusa Mark 4s. He's got a bunch of excels. He's got bamboo printers. He's got resin printers. He's got everything. I'm sorry.

He did all the printing. He had 50 of those. What was the first printer? 50. 50, Brian, he's doing that thing you talked about where you have a shop. He is. And because of his popularity, Prusa probably sent him 50 of those printers. Those printers, I know he got a deal on, but he did, he didn't pay for those.

He did, okay. He got a bulk discount for 50. I have to. Geez. Yeah. But it's a huge part of his business. I know he gets sent a lot of printers, though, to review that he gets constant. But it's cool.

For him having the print farm, whenever he does a deal with a company, he can say, cool, you want a video? You want like a thousand of anything printed? Like he can add that on to any of his deals, which is really cool. And they've been painting a bunch of stuff for Spark fun. The painting is a huge part of this because you want to make it look like they're all still made out of wood. You know? Yeah.

And we're not weird. Weird plastic, yeah. Right. We were trying to figure out the best way to do that, but again, we had very little time. So at first I was going to model wood grain into the surface, but. Oh, yeah, wow. Yeah, not enough time for that. No.

And then we thought we'd do some fancy painting. Again, not enough time. So it ended up getting spray painted, a light brown. Okay. Yeah, so somebody pointed out to me online. I'll have to find it really quick. but there's a new tool you can drop your STLs into because a lot of a lot of tools that like blender and things like that have very rudimentary texturing tools on them. Sure.

But somebody came up with, I'm going to scrolling back in the TMS chatter, somebody came up with a really cool tool that you can drop your, there it is right there. C&C Kitchen came up with this thing. stuff on yeah and and it like creates a really cool here i'll put a link in the uh chat copy link um it creates a really cool texture to your 3d prints that you can like paint on you can have it go in certain areas uh tyvm thanks man thank you very much tyvm for setting this but this is this it's free to use there's no ads it's just like you know there's a there's the occasional ad for cnc kitchen but that rocky texture on that ball right there, totally just done by dropping your STL into a... Oh, nerling.

Neurles. Yes. This is my neural solution. How easy would it be to create a wood grain in this that just repeats? So if someone could send this to me a month ago? Hey, talking about time travel, Brian, we could solve all the problems. This would have been fantastic information yesterday. Look at that.

That's awesome. It's really cool. You can paint it on. You can do it by layer. You can make sure that the bottom, so you don't have adhering issues, you can have it not do the texture on the bottom of it. It's really, really cool. They suggested I look at something like this for the Khyber Crystal stands that I do. Oh, that would give it a cool thing.

Yeah, because I've been wanting to do some other ones that are based on other. Because the one I've got is kind of based on the Endor, not Endor. Endor moon, yeah. The Endor moon, yeah, the Battle of Endor. Yeah, the Battle of Endor where that they, Han and Leah come across that outposts that they've got to try and break into. I modeled it after all the things on that outpost. Oh, I like that outpost. It's got little knobs and weird shit on it.

That's good. Exactly. Yeah, it was a good one. and I'd love to do one based on Bespin, just the style of the kind of art deco of Bespin and another one that's just kind of sandy. That's where the texture would be kind of cool. It's to do like a tattooing or Batuca.

Also, Red Link says with this plugin or whatever, how you want to describe it, you can upload your own textures. So, Bill, you could still make your own shit and then... You can still make your own shit. And it would be like it does it with the black and white gray scale. So black is... no change to amplification and then white is max amplification so it's just like a bump map sort of exactly just like a bump map like we used to use with render man all the time yeah oh my god

it's basically it's basically texture mapping but the texture comes out as a real texture it's crazy right yeah yeah render that with mental ray yes 3d 3d modeling jokes you're back in the day yeah way back in the day and all that stuff yeah uh well that's that's great let's let's let's tell the fine people where, so this video that you're in with him, oh, that's already up. That's right. And that's up on his channel. Yeah. That's right. And that's up on his channel.

3D printing nerd. 3D printing nerd. There you go. He's a great, like if you're getting into 3D printing or if you've been doing 3D printing for a long time and you're not watching all the videos he puts out, you're missing out. Because he's, he's affable. He breaks things down in a way that makes it very easy to understand. He was just talking this morning about the software that they want to put into 3D printers that automatically detects if you're trying to make a firearm and not let you print it.

And I'm like, oh. That would be 90% of the things that print out my printers. Exactly. I was thinking about you. I was even thinking about like, well, wait a minute. What about like, you know, you create a Deadpool figure and he's holding a gun. Is it going to like go, oh, well, not thinking. about, well, that thing's only an inch long,

it's going to say, oh, it's a firearm, can't print it. You know anything I notice about him? This is a total side note. Yeah. You could fit one and a half bills inside of this guy. I had one, Joel. Because I never thought of Joel is, like, tall. He's very tall.

He's very tall. Because you're average height. I see you and I go, oh, average height bill. This guy, very tall. You never see him next to people that you know. Yeah. Or very rarely see him next to people that you know. And at first of this video, he's mostly,

there's some quick shots of him with the baseball. players. Well, they're also very tall. Yeah. And so it's just like, oh, yeah, average-hide people doing average-high-hite shit. And then I see Bill walking, and I'm like, you could stealth in there, and he wouldn't even know you took half a shit. You know what I'm saying? Walk out with a couple of those 50

printers. Who's going to count? Who even knows? Yeah. Jules hook me up with plenty of printers. Oh, good. Nice friend to have in the Valley there. Absolutely. What else? Anything else you want to mention? You should bring us a little bonus something. What do you got? I do. Our friend, Ali Spagnola, did some 3D printing.

Her, she's been leveling up her CAD skills. This is the massive. Yeah, she wanted to make a giant tape measure, and it's exactly the kind of project I'm into. Oh, that's so great. She's fantastic. Yeah, she's pretty great. So how big are we talking here?

I'm trying to get it. It's like three feet wide. It's enormous. Oh, I love that idea. Does it actually work? An expense? Oh, man. That's great.

How long is the tape inside of it? Um, 250 feet. Oh my gosh. She committed. She really did. Yeah. I love it. She had to get a custom tape printed in pieces because they wouldn't do it 250 feet long.

I hope. I hope she has a house because I can't imagine. Yeah. All the stuff that this giant stuff that she prints, her car that she covers with Chia Pet and, and poppers and things like. that like she's got a room. Oh yeah, that giant, she made like a giant statue in her backyard or something, right? Yeah. She has a, she has her house that she lives in and she rents an apartment that is her studio and that studio is crammed full of stuff. I slept there. Did you really?

Next to the giant teddy bear and waged between the giant teddy bear and the 12 foot mirror colored covered skeleton. Oh my gosh. Right. That's right. It was like a disco ball skeleton. That's such a college freshman moment, man. sleeping on somebody's stuff and a cool place like that. Look at Bill loving the dream. That's fantastic. We'll go check it out. Allie's always up to something wacky and subscribe if you haven't already.

And of course, subscribe to the Punish Props channel if you have not already. Bill, always good having you on, man. Yes. Yeah. See you later. See you later. A couple of months, man. That's all.

Got it. A couple of effing months. I mean, we may talk to Bill twice before we see him in person. Is that right? We probably will. Yeah. Jeez, that's not enough. I wish it was a favor and bring Joel and Ali Spagnola with you to Salt Lake.

And half your printers. That would be great. Half your printers. Yeah. See you then. All right. There he goes. Hey, guys. What am I going to do in Vermont? I mean, I can have my printers near me.

What the heck is, what am I going to be doing? I know. How are you going to fill the time, Brian? You just collect more Pokemon while you're there, probably. Probably. Probably. Yeah. Actually, that might be the perfect time for me to just dispatch. like from May 22nd all the way until June 6th.

I'll be doing that. I think dispatches. I'll be in Vermont the weekend before freaking ner-tacculatured. Would you get it on? What platform? Steam. Steam. So you could play it on your Steam deck or you could play it on.

I think your Mac will do it. Um, I think that game's on Mac. I don't think it's on Mac. I have to do the, um, the remote thing. The remote thing. Yeah.

I thought it was, I thought I was Mac Ready. Hold on. Let me just double check. If it is, it wasn't when I... Could have sworn, but I... Oh, that'd be great if it is. Geez.

May not be. Yeah, you're right, Windows only. Crap. Yeah. Dang. I was hoping that was on there. Me too, because that would make life a lot easier for streaming it. Yeah.

I'm still going to figure out how to stream it. I mean, basically, I've got the Genki. I'll run the Genki to the video out. of the Steam deck. I just got to figure out what my, what my controller situation is, because I can use a regular... You can use a regular controller.

Yeah, I can just use a regular controller with it. Yeah, any Xbox style or even... And it's not like dispatch is going to require quick reflexes and, you know, because it's all decision-based stuff. Yeah, and there's some quick time events

during battles and stuff, but it's not like, it's not twitchy. It's not like, you know, you don't have to be like, like usually it's like everything will slow down. It'll say you want to go left or right. And you got to go, uh, shit, I'll go left. And then, you know, it's not like, it's not like some kind of precision fighter or something like that. Gotcha.

Okay, cool. You are going to love it, though. When is that, by the way? Is that soon? What is? You going to Vermont. Oh, yeah. It's next month.

It's May 22nd. Like you said, I'm going there for the two weeks before Nerdtacular, like some kind of idiot. it. And it's been upgraded now that not only do I have to take care of my dad and stepmom's cat, I have to take care of their sourdough starter. Oh, that sometimes is more important. Or however, however. Yeah, it's been a while since I've done anything with sourdose start.

I forgot how all that stuff works. Maybe you'll become a bread lord or whatever you do. I certainly wasn't during the pandemic. I was really good with the discards, with the sourdough discards. I can make these amazing biscuits. buttermilk biscuits and yeah and pancakes with the discards

yeah you guys are doing that you should do that with granny's sourdough discards yeah I think we might I didn't know you could do pancakes yes you could do anything buttermilk or sourdough pancakes anything anything yeast based and uh but my but my sourdough bread was always

either black on the outside and under done in the middle or didn't rise enough or whatever I had so many problems with actual sourdough loaves. It was disappointing. I have no. I have no skill in any of these departments.

So you got me beat no matter what. They would just kick me off America's baking challenge, whatever. You'd be immediately, yeah, voted out. But you might get a handshake from Paul Hollywood. You never know. Yeah. Might come over and go, hey. A little Paul Hollywood sweaty handshake.

A little handy from Paul Hollywood. All right. That's it for today's show. quick email. Actually, it's a call. Okay. This is from Hayes Skunk. This is about the jugs of pee. Here's what he has to say regarding some 3D printing stuff. Oh.

Today is all 3D printers. It is. There you go. Check it out. Hey, STL and Bamboo. This is Hayes Skunk, Colin, from Beaver Bay, Minnesota. I was just listening to Hot Bread and Brian was talking about how we wish there was some sort of setting where it could make, his printer could make the filament change. inside or where the infill is and I don't know if you've investigated your slicer much but

I know the bamboo slicer has an option it's called purge into infill and it will actually do the purge and eliminate some poop generated when it does print anyway just thought I'd mention that love the show though bye uh sound familiar you're aware of that does yeah this one has it too the I use uh any club any cubic slicer next because man Every other slicer I've tried. This is a fork of orca. Orca, so, and Orca's a really good. A fork of orca, I know.

Orca is what I used to use. It didn't work well with the new Cobra Max that I got. But any cubic slicer next is a fork of that, and it works great. Obviously, it's made for it. And I'm pretty sure there is an infill, you know, purged to infill. You can even, like, print another object. on your plate that's kind of like a larger object. You just say purge into that object.

Oh. Purging into your actual objects. Let me grab, actually, I'm going to grab something. Yeah, let's take a look. We may as well. We've gone all in today on the, on the ins and outs. If you're here for pre-show,

we had, you know, discussion around the 3D printing world. Now we got more. Nothing wrong with this. All right. Well, the printing of little frogs, frog pants frogs. So I've been printing these things. and the big problem is these brims are really, really hard to remove.

And I finally figured out why is that whoever designed this frog right here, I'll do a big version so you can see it. This is the big version of the frog. Whoever designed it didn't make the feet perfectly flat. So the feet actually have like the heel goes lower and the ball of the foot goes lower and then it kind of comes up, which is a bummer. Seems like an oversight. It's an oversight. It looks nice if you printed

like on a resin printer where you don't have to worry about a flat side. It's fine. But because you have to do it with a brim, that means the brim goes around the balls of the feet and the heel, but then is hard to remove on the, hard to remove on the other parts.

So it finally dawned on me. And it's exactly what BioCal is doing. Just chop off the bottom millimeter from the model. And this is the first one of those that I printed Let's see if it Come on frog butt There you go There we go

Focus on the frog butt This is the first one of those I did With that technique And it worked for A few of the Oh geez I printed four And it looks like it worked for

Two of the four Spaghetti frogs Spaghetti frogs So I have a lot of spaghetti frogs Here to deal with But I think that is Going to be the technique That's going to work

And it might be It might be a combination of an easier to remove brim, because the problem with all the spaghetti is that it didn't adhere well to the plate and got bumped by things,

so it knocked it knocked those, a couple of these frogs over. Yeah. And then printed spaghetti. But if I do a brim around this now, there's actual foot shapes that the brim will hopefully peel off of easier.

So I'm going to try that for, I've already got about 300 printed. So it's like I'm basically doing this for the last, You know, a couple hundred or however many, however many we're doing total. Yeah, those are going to look so good. Yeah. So excited. So excited.

Those are happening. And what's her name's involved? I know. Joy is doing a great job of managing me. What's her name? Well, you've got a lot of people you're managing for all this. I got to come up with a better way of saying that, though. When I can't remember somebody's name off top of my head, I got to call them.

Yeah. With actors, it's easy. It's like, oh, that's bean fork. Right. Exactly. Well, what you do is you figure out some other way of saying it. Oh, you know, all the great people that are helping us out here. See? There you go.

Instead of trying to focus on the name. But I've got to figure out also the trophy. You and I were talking about a 3D printed trophy for All-Stars. Yeah. So I've got to figure that business out too. Yeah. We've got stuff. Yeah.

Very exciting. All right. That's going to do it for today's show. If you'd like to send us your own voicemail, you can do that pretty easily. going to the website, frogpants.com slash TMS. There's a form right there. You send a voicemail, a text. There's emails there, whatever you want.

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About two hours of that. By the way. Games amazing. Maybe F-bomb. it's how good it is. That's true. Yeah, that's... Is that a vote for how good it is? It made you F-bomb?

Honestly, I think it might be. It's so... All the Resident Evil games have varying degrees of, like, there's some really great things in the series. It's an all-time series for a reason. But something about this one's pacing and structure is really... And I'm only two hours in, and I'm already feeling this, like, really solid attention to having some things not

overstay their welcome, keeping the story moving in really interesting pacing ways. It's just a, I just think this is like a culmination of all the things they've learned over the years. And now they're making the ultimate Resident Evil game. I don't even how you follow it up a 10. Because from what I hear, it's very consistently this good all the way through.

So what even is the next game? I don't know. It's good though. So if you guys want to hear me scream like an idiot and cough wildly because I can't, you've got this stupid cough. It'll happen today. at 1 p.m. mountain time right here at twitch.t.tv.com slash frogpants. You can find all our other stuff going on on the schedule at frogpants.com slash schedule, including,

oh, no, there is no show tomorrow. I was going to ask you, yeah. I was going to ask you if you wanted to still, if you're doing tomorrow still or what the story is. So I think I'm probably going to try to get Bobby, I think, because my plan was I was going to take it for some, just get some other stuff done. But because I was so sick. Friday. And we missed TMS Friday. I feel bad. So I don't, I think I want to fill it. So the plan right now is yes, there will be a show tomorrow and we'll let you know if anything changes. But Brian's

having something done. I forgot what you're doing. I'm just going in for physical. Oh, that's what it was. Yeah. Not the court thing. Talk to him about the sleep apnea and some some still trouble sleeping. See if I'm going to see a new doctor because the one that, um, that I was going to move to another, um, another location in the same practice. But it's 45 minutes. away and I don't want to go. I'm not going to keep going to that same doctor, even though he's, you know, he's great. And he had small fingers.

I don't know if the new doctor has small fingers. I'm hoping that the new doctor has small fingers. Big hairy knuckles, man. I know, exactly. So we'll see. Oh, boy. In our TMS' Discord chat, by the way, is the pronunciation guide. It is, this is how you pronounce the name.

I think I might have gotten it wrong. I said, I said you don't pronounce that last ass. I think maybe he says, you do. Well, let's see what he says. I'm going to play it right here. Why isn't he talking yet? It takes a while to fire up. That's why we're looking at how to pronounce this name as well as how to say more confusing names that many get wrong, including from fashion. This is famous for being the name of a perfume and a famous singer as well. In French, it is said as Anais. Anais. A naïis. Do you pronounce the yes? It's sometimes.

and has two dots. More dots, more dots. Nice. What happens? He usually has music playing and stuff. What happened to that? Oh, yeah, I don't know. He decided, Mr. Julian Miguel has decided to, let's see.

Okay, we're going to say how to pronounce sex in Japanese. Oh, great. Okay. Let's hear what he asks to stay there. How do they say and pronounce the word sex in Japanese? This is how they would write it, but that's not very helpful in understanding how to pronounce it, is it? That might be a little more. This is how you would spell it phonetically in Japanese.

It is said as sexer, sexer, essentially. You know, I could have guessed that. Yeah, I could have too. You want to have the sexer with me. Exactly. I am secret ingredients. I'm going to get in trouble for that. Yeah, well done, dude.

I love that guy. I guess he's not doing music anymore. I kind of like it. I can isolate him and make clips and stuff. Yeah, that's right. He did have like little like cafe music or something in the back. Yeah. Yeah.

So I don't know what changed. Something changed. Also, maybe start talking earlier in your video. What's the point of that? I know. He really wants to eat up the time for the, whatever the needed amount of time for monetization. of your YouTube video.

Is it 60 seconds or is it? He has the same follower number as, uh, sorry, he and, um, who we were just talking about? Joel telling.

No. Uh, he's doing the big, did big measuring tape. What's wrong with my brain? Oh, Ellie Spagnola has the same exact follower count as the guy who says, this is how we pronounce.

YouTube. Yeah, but I think you're right about the timer. I think it has to be over a minute. I think, Unless it's a short. If it's a short, you get monetization stuff there. But if it's a video video and it's under a minute, you don't get anything.

Or maybe it's something to do with the algorithm. I don't know. I don't know. No idea. But I do know this. I don't understand any of that stuff. No, I wish I'd understood it more. Trying to learn more.

So I'm not an idiot. No, I'm glad you are because you're relaying some of that stuff to me. And it's like, oh, that really makes sense. That's very good. Yeah, you hear it. And you go, oh, yeah. Why didn't I think of that for 10 f'n years of the other way? right I just like when things lock in and then I can be consistent yeah the problem with that is when they change you're not attuned to it so you lock in is right it doesn't do any good doesn't do you any favors how to say getting old

let us get out of here let's do it with a song though you got a little something all right yeah this one's going out to tray in Memphis another April first request so many of you guys um hello soft spot and bottle today is my son lincoln's first birthday day. I'm humbling requesting of the covermaster something that brings together the vibes of President Abraham Lincoln and April Fool's Day into a stellar cover song. This was a poorly thought out request. Blow the snow though, sign Trey. I'm trying to think, I don't know that I would naturally know the answer to this, but I bet the cover master might. Well, sure. Back in 1980, they might be giants came out with a great album called Lincoln. And on it is the song dead talking about a guy who came back as a bag of groceries

reincarnated past the expiration date covered back in 2006 by Steve Burns. Yes, Steve Burns from Blues Clues, the original Blues Clues, Blue Stripe shirted dude. He contributed

this cover of Dead to the Hello Radio, the songs that they might be giants. It is fantastic and it's not something you expect from the guy who used to yell when the mail arrived and talk to Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper. Here is Steve Burns and his cover of dead.

Groceries accidentally taken off the shelf The ration three is accidentally taken off the shelf before the date stamped on myself. Procession wave their torches as my head fell in the basket This has everybody dancing on the casket.

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