1330 – PizzaRizzo | Brick Builder

Episode 1330 – PizzaRizzo | Brick Builder

 

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SCOOTER: Friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it’s time for the podcaster who is gonna…do bricks intersect? They inter…talk about interconnection or inner connection. Yeah, there’s interconnection, but sometimes I accidentally silence my Ts. I meant to say ‘interconnection’, but I said ‘inner connection’, which kinda sounds the same. There’s also Rainbow Connection, which Kermit sang about. I don't know…I mean, isn't Rainbow Connection about inner connection and interconnection? I realize I’m supposed to be just barely introducing a sleep podcast, but I think this is important to explore. Okay, why are…? Is that Rainbow Connection? Why are there always songs about rainbows, and what’s on the other sides…other side? Rainbows are visions. They’re only illusions.

 

Rainbows have nothing to hide. What’s so amazing that keeps us stargazing? What do we think we may see? Something…we’ll find it. Why is there always songs about rainbows? What’s on the other side? Under a spell…something magic? I realize people…I’m trying to also not do all the lyrics, 'cause then it’s like…that way I’m not using somebody else’s stuff. But I’m pretty sure they're about…rainbows have nothing to hide. Lovers, dreamers, and me, all of us under the spell. I think it’s about inter…I mean, it’s definitely inter…I feel an interconnection to that song and to Kermit, and an inner connection. I guess…well, I guess this is the only kind of…part of the show where I could do anything sing-song at the very beginning of the show. Now, if you're new, you may be confused. Well, welcome to Sleep With Me.

 

This is a podcast that’s here to put you to sleep, to keep you company, really, so you could fall asleep. It’s different than most other sleep stuff out there, because I’m here to be your companion, your distracted companion who’s here to be distractable and to distract you and ramble on and on and on, to take your mind over here to songs about rainbows and other things, maybe blocks that we build stuff with for fun. Yeah, I don't know, it petered out there. I was trying to figure…it’s such heady stuff, I can't link it all together. But I’m really here to keep you company and take your mind off of stuff so you could fall asleep. The show is very different, so give it a few tries. See how it goes.

 

What we got coming up…most people like listening to this ad-supported version and they listen linearly, some people with a sleep timer set to forty-five or sixty minutes. So, there will be support, so, that’s how you can listen to the podcast for free. If you prefer something without ads, you can get that at Sleep With Me+. Then there’s gonna be a long, meandering intro, which is meant to ease you into bedtime, along with this kind of part of the show, then later on there will be our bedtime story. So, you could ease…drift off into dreamland during that. So, that’s the structure of the show. I’m really glad you're here. This show is, like I said, very different. Just see how it goes.

 

Yeah, the way we get to do this show twice a week are the people that support the show directly, the people that support the sponsors, and the people that spread the word about the podcast, and that’s maybe five out of a hundred…if there’s five of you out of a hundred people doing that, we're in great shape, and I appreciate it, and we get to help those other ninety-five people together as a community. If you ever want to be a part of a community, that’s the best way, is to support the show or use the contact form on our website to get ahold of us. But if you're new, I’m so glad you're here, and this is…these are a couple ways we're able to do this for you for free twice a week.

 

INTRO: [INTRO MUSIC] Hey, are you up all night tossing, turning, mind racing? Trouble getting to sleep? Trouble staying asleep? Well, welcome. This is Sleep With Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep. We do it with a bedtime story. Alls you need to do is get in bed, turn out the lights, and press Play. I’m gonna do the rest. What I’m going to attempt to do is create a safe place where you could set aside whatever’s keeping you awake.

 

That’s…could be thoughts on your mind, things you're thinking about, thoughts, thinking thoughts, thoughts about the past, the present, the future, thoughts about rainbows or songs about rainbows, thoughts about blocks, maybe you live somewhere with the great rivalry, Playmobil versus Lego, much like here in the US…we’ve had episodes about that, Sears…or, not Sears, C’s and Whitman and the other ones. I don't even remember. Fannie Farmer, I think…and…but here, we…at my house, we do play with both. Now, all our Playmobil stuff was actually given to us. But I hear…I like playing with toys.

 

That’s…oh, what…thoughts, it could be things you're thinking about, it could be feelings related to those thoughts, feelings that are just left over from the day, feelings that are just popping up or appearing, it could be physical sensations, changes in time, temperature, routine, travel, guests, you could be going through something, getting over something, you could work a different shift, maybe you have a dog that wasn’t feeling so great that woke up at about 2:00 a.m., and she wasn’t sure what she needed, so then you laid with her and then said, well, let’s go outside and do some walking. Then you said, okay, well, let me…okay, let’s try lying here and I’ll try helping you, and let’s do some more walking. Then you said, okay, I could just hold you here in my arms.

 

So then…but then also, as a result of that, you suddenly were like, huh, now I’m wide awake. Then eventually you got to sleep. It could be something like that. That’s pretty specific. It could be…care for the ones you love, and…whatever it is. The only reason I go through that kind of stuff and list it the way I do is so you can get a sense you're not alone. I realize that’s kinda strange with a podcast, and…you don’t know me. Or, that’s what I would say. I don't mean to put words in your mouth. That’s kinda the way my self-talk goes. You say, you don’t know what’s going on with me. I say, yeah, I don't…I may not. You're right, but I think I can probably relate to how it feels on the inside.

 

‘Cause even last night, even though I was taking care of my sweet, sweet Koa, afterwards, it was kinda like, man, I don't know if anybody knows what this feels like. Also, even though Koa was in my room, my daughter was in the other room…I don't know, there’s just a sense there. That’s why I call it the deep, dark night. There’s a really good piece of news, which is that no matter what you're going through — and I realize this may be a stretch for your internal voices if you're anything like me — there’s someone listening somewhere in the world right now who has been through something similar, and they're rooting for you right now, and they're kinda saying, I really hope this podcast can help you like it’s helped me, and I hope that one day you're listening months from now and you're holding the place for the new listener and welcoming them in.

 

Once you do that, you realize even though it’s indirect and even though it’s a little bit…I guess we could say woo-woo, it does matter and it is real and it makes a difference for you and for the other person, because the space is bigger than this podcast, because it’s something we all relate around. The other important thing is that you deserve a good night's sleep. You deserve a bedtime you don’t have to dread. You deserve a bedtime you could look forward to or at least feel neutral about and a bedtime where most of the time you can have a nice wind down and then get the rest you need so your life is more manageable, so you could be out there living your life tomorrow, and ideally, down the road, flourishing. ‘Cause that means if you're doing well, we're all doing well.

 

Our world’s a better place with you in it, and we could use you out there. So, the way this show works is that I send my voice across the deep, dark night. I’m gonna use lulling, soothing, creaky, dulcet tones, pointless meanders, and superfluous tangents. So, I’m gonna go off topic, I’m gonna get mixed up, then I’ll forget what I was talking about, then I’ll start talking about whatever the two words…interconnected and inner connected, then I’ll think about something barely related. You say, the only thing related between those is the word ‘connection’. I’d say, well, are you sure about that? ‘Cause I don't know. I mean, I think…okay, so, you could say that…I say, okay, we don’t have to argue. You're only one part of my brain. You don’t have to argue with me.

 

But yeah, then I get distracted about that, then I have a conversation with a part of my brain, then another part of my brain says, by the way, shouldn't you be keeping going? I say, yeah, pointless meanders, superfluous tangents, creaky, dulcet tones, which means my voice is not traditionally soothing. In fact, when most people start listening to this show, they don’t like it. Maybe they don’t dislike it, either. I think that’s probably true. There’s some people…now, here’s a thing; if you already have a strong dislike for this show, I would still say give it a few tries, but you could always check out sleepwithmepodcast.com/nothankyou. That has plenty of other sleepy stuff on there, sleep podcasts and other stuff that you could check out if this show doesn't work for you, 'cause everything I already said is true.

 

But for most people, when you first listen to this podcast, it’s different, right? Maybe you heard about it or you were searching for a sleep podcast or bedtime stories for grown-ups. We’ve been doing the show a long time, and sometimes people are nice enough to mention the podcast. Then you get here and you're like, wait, what is this guy talking about? I mean, he is not making any…I thought this was gonna be a bedtime-story podcast to put me to sleep, but he’s just going on and on and on and not making any sense. I was skeptical, I was doubtful, now I’m even more so. To you, I would say, bravo, because that’s how I would be with this podcast, too. I’d be skeptical, doubtful, irritated. When does the chiming start? When is there some sort of deep, sub-based tones?

 

I need more than creaky, dulcet…do you read from creaky, dulcet tomes or are you just…tones? I say, well, I think my middle name is Creaky Dulcet Tome. So, it does take some getting used to, but when people get used to it, what happens…one is either they wake up and they say to their partner or whoever they see in the…hey, how’s it going? Pretty good. I think I slept good last night. Really? You tried out that sleep podcast for the third time, the one you loathe? Yeah, he said give it two or three tries. I gave it one last try, and suddenly I realized he’s…when he says the podcast is always never getting started, always going nowhere, it finally made no sense to me in the most sensible way. What kind of stuff does he talk about on there? I don't know.

 

I think he was talking about Casual Connection or something, some store in a shopping mall, maybe? I don't know. Huh. Okay. Casual Connection? That doesn't sound like a store in a shopping mall. That sounds like something that should be behind a filter. Okay, well, I guess…maybe he was talking about connecting the dots. Okay, that makes more sense. Other people will say, oh, I had no idea I had been looking for something like this my whole life, 'cause I’ve used TV or daytime podcasts or called a friend and had them talk to me. I didn’t think something like this would be out there for me. So, yeah, it’s cool. So, it’s…I don't know, it takes some getting used to, I guess is my point. It’s an acquired taste that you…it’s something you…you already have the taste for it, but you acquire the taste?

 

You acquire the fact that you already had a taste for it. You just didn’t know it was out there. It’s also a podcast…I think this is kinda what I was saying, is that you don’t really listen to it. You just barely listen to it. It’s not just background noise, but it can be background noise. It’s not just nonsense; it’s listenable, but you don’t need to listen to it. You could listen to it. I’m here to talk whether you're awake or asleep, whether you're listening to me or not. It’s also a sleep podcast that’s not here to put you to sleep. Even though I’ve been doing this over eleven years or so, this podcast does not put you to sleep. It keeps you company while you fall asleep. There is no pressure to fall asleep with this podcast. I’m gonna be here. That’s why the shows are over an hour.

 

I’m gonna be here to the very end whether you're awake or asleep, whether you're listening or not, because there’s people who are listening who can't sleep at all or who need a break during the day. So, I’m here. I’m here to be your bore-friend, your bore-bae, your bore-sib, your bore-bud, your neigh-bore, your Borbie, your bores, your best bore-friend f’eva to keep you company while you fall asleep. You could listen to episode after episode after episode or make a playlist. I’m here to keep you company while you drift off or if you wake back up or whatever. I think those are the most important things.

 

The other thing that can throw people off that I like to talk about every episode is the structure of the show, 'cause the show is structured in a very specific way that can benefit the most amount of people possible, but it’s one of those things people…I don't know, I like to explain it 'cause obviously it’s another thing you might be skeptical or doubtful about. So, this way I can meet you where you are. So, the show starts off with a greeting to meet you where you are. It says, hey, welcome in, friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, then I try to say something silly or nonsensical or…to me, that’s humor-like, I guess, and somewhat entertaining. But it gives you an idea the nature and style of the show. You say, oh, okay, I might check that out. That sounds like a little bit like I could like it.

 

Then there’s support so that paying for the podcast is optional. Most people prefer the ad-supported version, but if you prefer something without ads, you can get that on Sleep With Me+. Then after the support, totally separate from the support, is this intro, which we’re about fifteen minutes or so into, and it’s about a fifteen or twenty-minute thing. It’s a show within a show and it’s meant to ease you into bedtime. It’s different every single episode. It follows a familiar structure, but I never know what I’m gonna talk about, even the times I think I know what I’m gonna talk about. Then I say, Rainbow Connection? Huh, it’s mysterious. People are like, it’s not mysterious. Rainbow Connection; the lyrics are mysterious to me, even the actual remembering of them. A rainbow’s got nothing to hide.

 

What about saying it…what if people said it like a statement like that? That would be off-putting, I guess. Say, look at that song, man. Why don’t more people make more songs about…? Rainbow’s got nothing to hide. Well, that may…when you say it that way, it makes me think that rainbow’s hiding something. So, we're…I don't…I guess I don't believe that rainbow…now that you’ve brought it up directly, I don't believe that that rainbow has nothing to hide. Well, what would a rainbow hide, anyway? Are you sure that’s even the lyric of the song? No, so I should probably move on, then. Yeah, you probably should. Okay, I’ll move on then, 'cause…but, yeah, now that you’ve brought it up, I don't know if I could ever…I mean, I trust the rainbow. I just don’t trust you telling me directly.

 

If you would have put it in a song sung by a Muppet, I probably would have trusted it, but…'cause you said it as a definitive statement, almost like a SAT question. If rainbows have nothing to hide, if then, therefore…I don't know. That’s why I make a sleep podcast. So, the intro…I try to explain what the podcast is, but it takes me fifteen or twenty minutes 'cause of sidetracks like this. But every episode, I try to explain what the podcast is, but the sidetracks are different. This is just my theory from making the show, is that that’s one of the things that works about the podcast, that and me being here to the very end to keep you company, to be like a service for you, but that having that variety and that familiarity kinda puts you at ease, but it puts you at ease because you're not sure what’s gonna come next.

 

So, whatever part of you is monitoring things to try to keep you awake, it can be distracted, too. It needs our help just as much as you need our help. It needs a bore-friend. I call them brainbots, but I’m trying to just personify it in one way. Our rainbow statement-maker…oh, did you buy that for the…? Oh yeah, the rainbow statement-maker? There’s only one statement; rainbows have nothing to hide. Yeah, so I’ve been told. Some choose to believe it. Okay, this has gone way off the rails. So, that’s the intro, but the other thing is the intro is intentional because it’s not meant to put you to sleep. There is a small percentage of people that fall asleep during the intro, but for most people, they're getting ready for bed, they're winding down somehow in whatever way they choose.

 

Maybe it’s in bed getting comfortable, maybe it’s petting their pets, maybe it’s looking out the window, drawing, knitting, hooking, playing with a toy, or just, yeah, just getting settled in. Then…so, the intro is to ease you into bedtime, to give you a buffer between being awake and asleep. That’s what’s been shown to work. It’s what works for me personally, is easing into bedtime. So, that’s what the intro does. It’s like a twenty-minute, thirty-minute wind down. Then after the intro is some support, and then there will be our bedtime story. All told, we’ll be here for about a hour. If you're new, I’m really glad you're here. I really hope this podcast can help you. If you're a regular listener, welcome back.

 

I don't know, this…I don't know if we’ve…I’m sure we’ve talked…I know we’ve talked about Kermit the Frog in the intro before, because that’s the…one of the only celebrity impersonations I can do. But I can only do Miss Piggy saying ‘Kermit the Frog’ and then going ‘hi-ya’. I think I can say…I think I could do…I can't do it right now 'cause now we're late in the intro, but I’m saying, Kermit the Frog here. I guess that’s the only thing I do, is Kermit saying that, and then Miss Piggy saying ‘hi-ya’. I’ve talked about this before; this…that one is…this other reference is very dated, but it was even on repeats when I was a kid. What was the name of the bear? Yogi Bear. He had a son, maybe, or some nephew named Boo-Boo, and alls I could say is…he would say, hey, hey, Boo-Boo. Not like that, though.

 

Those are the only celebrity impersonations I can do. Oh, there’s other…one other one, but I don't do that one very well. So…yeah, so, anyway, that’s the intro. It goes on and on and on…oh, then the bedtime story. Oh, I’m glad you're here. See? I can get distracted even at the end of a distraction. But I work really hard on this show. So do a team of other people, and we all yearn and strive. We really want to help you fall asleep. So, thank you so much for coming by, and here’s a couple ways we're able to do this for you on a regular basis. Thanks so much.

 

Alright everybody, this is Scoots here, and this is a new style of episode we’ve never done before, though I’m very surprised we’ve never done it before, and don’t know when this is gonna be coming out and hitting your sweet, sweet ears, but I’m very excited about this episode. This episode, it may have more future context than I know, because we're covering some things Muppet-related and Walt Disney World and MGM Studios, aka, Disney Studios, and we're gonna be doing some brick-building. I bought…I had no idea this kind of stuff existed, but as part of the Orlando ParkStop fundraiser that we do every summer…so, this episode could be coming out as a part of that.

 

That means I worked ahead and…so, you're hearing me in October if this is the summer of 2025, or I was also planning on doing a fundraiser for a couple organizations my mom volunteered at at the end of 2024. Or this could just be a regular episode putting you to sleep. But so, we're covering…oh, wait…so, okay, back up, Scoots. You're already off topic. Okay, so, as a part of the Orlando ParkStop fundraiser, I became aware of all these people. So, part of the Orlando ParkStop fundraiser that Alicia Stella runs is that a bunch of people will submit art or prints or things, and an auction and selling…the sales of that art also go as a part…are a part of this fundraiser. In the past couple years, I usually buy stuff, but then I usually also follow those people on social media.

 

Then at some point…I don't know which came first and I don't know what’ll be the situation when I’m recording this, but it became apparent that there’s a possiblity, at least, that Disney could close down Muppet Courtyard, it’s called. It’s not Muppetland. It’s Muppet Courtyard at Disney Studios. As a part of the Orlando ParkStop fundraiser we did in 2022…2022, 20…no, no, 2023, right? Yeah, we did a episode about Pizzerizzo, which is a pizza place in Muppet Courtyard. So, let me just walk you into Muppet Courtyard first before we start brick-building. If you're headed towards…currently, I think it’s called Grand Ave. You're headed towards Galaxy’s Edge. You're gonna either be coming where the ABC Commissary is or past Star Tours. On your right will be…what’s that place called?

 

Something Tap…Brickyard Taphouse or something. That’s a bar with food. I’ve never been there, but I do hear they have good pizza…I mean, good pretzels. That’s where…Rhino has a podcast interviewing people or a bonus podcast. But then across the street from that, they were actually doing construction. So, they were working on some sort of permanent…I don't know, stand. But behind that stand…so, you’d be facing one of the entrances to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, and on your left would be the entrance to Muppet’s Courtyard. There’s a…what’s that? Not a swan; a fountain with Miss Piggy in it. She’s…dressed…I believe; this is just my memory. She’s the Statue of Liberty.

 

If you're facing that fountain, to the left are restrooms that are medium to high-traffic restrooms, but I highly recommend those restrooms, 'cause the other restrooms that are closer to Star Tours…there’s two sets of restrooms closer to Star Tours and Backyard Cafe or whatever that’s called, Backlot Express. Those restrooms are very, very high traffic. So, these restrooms are lower traffic. You could even catch them in low traffic. So, that’s always an important thing, and especially when…if it’s me and my daughter, if I see a line for either one of us, I say, okay…I prefer it to be clean and no line. Those are a couple…those are part of the reasons I choose restrooms. Okay, but so, those restrooms are attached to the Pizzerizzo pizza restaurant, which is also on your left. Then on your right is Muppet Vision.

 

There’s other things in Muppet Courtyard, but we're not gonna cover those just yet. ‘Cause what I discovered was…so, I was buying prints and stuff and looking at different people’s…the way they do Muppet-type artwork, and then I discovered that…okay, that’s part of the fun stop…Orlando ParkStop fundraiser. Then I became aware that Disney may or may not close Muppet Courtyard, Muppet Vision, Pizzerizzo, and put something there, or they may put something somewhere else. That’s just speculation at this time. While we do have Muppet Vision and the Muppet Courtyard and the Pizzerizzo, I would not say…and that fountain…of course the fountain with Miss Piggy is worth a thousand words.

 

But I wouldn't say that Disney’s actually…I’d say, they could do more with the Muppets. Muppet fans would agree. We don’t want them…we don’t want to lose this little piece of the themepark, but if we do, I want to take some time to speculate and go there. So, I was aware of an artist called the Horizoneer, I think, and it’ll all be in the show notes, 'cause I’m not good at this remembering stuff. But I’m sure…pretty sure it’s Phil the Horizoneer. I became aware that they had custom brick-building sets. You know the four-letter word for brick-building. It’s M-A-K-E, make…I guess, no…connect? No, that’s too many. But, you know, there’s a big brick-building brand.

 

But I didn’t know you could go on Etsy and people would have custom brick-building kits. That’s a thing. I said, holy cow, this person has brick-building kits based on stuff in the Muppets Courtyard. I said, sign me up. I thought I would do it as part of…there’s always been a goal with the podcast to do a wind-down show, but I haven't done that yet. But I said, okay, I’m gonna do these, and then my daughter was under the weather. So I said, you want to put some of these custom brick-building kits together? She said, I do. So, we put them together, and so, now I’m gonna turn things over to our resident brick-building bud to build some bricks. Take it away, Bud.

 

Oh, thanks, Scooter. That was a pretty long way to get to a short introduction. But I’m Bud. I’m here to put together some bricks, build…we're gonna start off building Pizzerizzo, and that’s one word, P-I-Z-Z-E-R-I-Z-Z-O. It’s named after…oh, by the way, I’m just a brick builder. I’m not a expert brick builder. But this is not a scale brick-building. This is…I think they call it a mini-construction model of the facade of Pizzerizzo, which is a pizza restaurant named after Rizzo, who was friends with Gonzo, and it’s set in New York City, and they serve pizza. Scooter’s done a episode from there, and maybe even social media.

 

So, Pizzerizzo…so, the first thing we're gonna do…I’ve also never done this before…is…step one; we need one piece, and it’s a black rectangle that is one, two, three, four, five, six pips by two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen…what did I say, six by…? Six-by-sixteen. So, the old six-by-sixteener, a black rectangle. We're gonna take that, and then we're gonna take some things that are flat-toppers. I don't know what to call them. They look a little bit like two-by-fours. Maybe we call them cap…what are those called? Cap boards, 'cause they're closed tops. They kinda make something like a railing or a sidewalk. We're gonna need three of those, two that are…what is it? Eight and eight is sixteen? One, two, three, four, five, six…twelve plus four. So, we're gonna need two sixers. They're one pip wide.

 

So, I guess tech…they're like a board, and two of them are six long, and one is four long. We're gonna do them…if we have the rectangle with the…facing us as a long portion, we're gonna go along…we're gonna use one of those sixers, then the four, and then a sixer again. So, the long…what we're now gonna call the front until it becomes not the front, maybe, kinda like…temporarily, we're gonna pretend it’s a curb until it becomes something else. Oh, and we're continuing this motion along the two short ends of our six-by-sixteener with the same thing, two shorter beams…beam…cap beams that are five…six-by-sixteener…? So, it’d be four, then. One, two, three, four. You're right, four, and then two squares that are just one-pip squares. So, we're gonna create what now looks like a U.

 

So, the two short ends of our six-by-sixteener and one long end are capped. Okay, now…now what we're gonna do is we're gonna work on the other long side. But we're gonna get four green — and I would say they're not lime-green but not pea-green, either — things that when they're…they're reverse-arches, but they're reverse half-arches. So, this…I don't think…Scooter, I don't think you could have hired anybody better to make a sleep podcast. Can't believe it took you this long to do this. But we're gonna create four pieces. So, they kinda look like…they're one pip wide and they're the height of a normal brick, and…but only one part of it is high as a normal brick. Then it has a swoop down.

 

But if you connect…so, kinda like…like a half…half of a half-pipe if you connect two of them together, or a quarter of a half-pipe, or maybe a quarter of a quarter-pipe, so that when you have them facing together, they create…yeah, a swoosh, a slide up, a slide down. We're gonna go two of those back-to-back, proceeding along the other long end of our six-by-sixteener. Now, you might have a instinct to keep going with that, but no, we're gonna put some…we're gonna do a little checkerboarding, black-and-white checkerboarding, with square caps like we used previously, but they're just square…one-pipe squares. We're gonna go four black squares and four tiles, I guess — yeah, you’d say tiles — and four white tiles, and we're gonna alternate right behind our green reverse-arches, and we're gonna make a checkerboard pattern.

 

So, starting…a white square tile, then a black square tile, then a white square tile, then a black square tile, then a white square tile, then a black square tile, then a white square tile, then a black square tile, but all the way. That’s step five. Okay, step six is gonna take some…it’s gonna need some more naming conventions here. So, step six, we're using orange, and there’s a couple different pieces we're gonna need. Out of these…we're gonna need eight pieces total. Now, six…two, four, six…actually only six pieces. Check that. These are gonna be going up against the long curb…front curb of our base, and two of those are gonna be orange cap pieces that are two pips wide…two pips long and one pip wide. Then, two of those are gonna be tile…square tile pieces that are two-by-two.

 

So, two pips wide, two pips long squares, four pips total. Those other pieces cover two pips, okay? Then we're gonna take two pieces that are very much like that, but they have a single pip on the top, kind of like a pip cap. So, it’s a cap piece, like a smooth-topped tile, two-by-two tile topper or whatever you want to call it, with a pip on top. Old pip…I mean, talk about…my expectations are great now for this project. Okay, how are we gonna lay those out? We're gonna lay them out against the long side of the curb. We're gonna leave…if we're…if our curb is facing us like a U, the longest U you’ve ever seen…and on the top left-back side of the U, or going across, is our green double swoop. In front of that is black-and-white tile.

 

Then in front of that we're gonna leave one row of pips, and then on the left side we're also gonna leave three open pips. We're gonna put our first pip capper, our capped pip square…so, that means to the left of it is two pips and above it is two to three pips, depending on how you do your pip counting. Then we're gonna leave two open pips, and then we're gonna put one-by-two or a two-by-one. So, that will have two pips on its left, one pip above it, and two pips on its right. Then we're gonna put another pip capper to the right of that after the empty pips, and that’ll have two pips above it. You’ll know it’s right because that pip cap will end kind of lined up with the green swooper’s end and the black-and-white tile end.

 

Then we're gonna leave a space, then we're gonna put a one-by-two or a two-by-one, whatever you want to call it, and then flush with that we're gonna put two two-by-two tiles. Then that’ll be good for that. Then we're gonna move on to our next piece of construction. Step seven, we're on. Scooter was wondering how many…he’s like…he told me, I don't know how many sets of instructions we're gonna need for this. I said, it’ll be okay, Scoots. Okay, now we're going to a deep green, forest green, we're gonna say, and we're gonna find pieces that are one-pip squares with a pip on top that are half a brick or a quarter-brick thickness. I don't know the actual specifications. I would say that they're a brick thickness, but we're…they're actually a half-brick thickness, but we're gonna stack two of them.

 

We're gonna do…we're gonna use eight of those deep-green squares total, a single-pip square with a pip on top, half-thick. You're saying, who’s half-thick here? But we're gonna take eight of those and we're gonna make them into four, like stacking. You say, well, why don’t you just use ones that are…? I say, well, this is what came with the kit. It gives us something to do on step seven. So, once you put all this together, we’ll go from having eight to having four. Then what we're gonna do is just basically…we're gonna place the first one behind the first white tile, which would be to the top-left of the corner of the orange pip-capper, then we're gonna place the next one to its right after a empty pip space behind the next white tile.

 

Now, not on the next one…the next one, we're gonna leave two empty pips, and then we're gonna place it behind one of the black tiles, and it’ll be in-between the flat, orange one-by-two or two-by-one in the next pip-capper, and then we're gonna place the next one…I guess those are a quarter-thickness, maybe. I don't know. But the next one we're gonna place behind the last black tile. Alright, this next step is…we're gonna use four pieces that look like lavender booths that you would sit in at a pizza restaurant, and we're gonna place those lavender booths on either side, to the left and right sides…they're two…they're two-by-ones, and they look like a booth. Or, I guess you could put them together; they’d be more like a box, a open box.

 

But we're gonna place those to the left and right of both of the pip-cappers, so they're…whatever. They're like booths. I think we can figure out what’s happening next. This is the first time. But no, next we're gonna keep constructing, and we're gonna use some unique pieces now, which is exciting. We're gonna take one Kelly-green…or maybe Kelly green was the other color and this is like a royal green. I guess our first green was a Kelly green. This one is more of a green green. Was the first one a Kermit green or this one? Not exactly sure. But we're gonna get one quarter-thick or half-thick piece that is one wide and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight…let’s check that. One, two, three, four…eight long. So, it’s like a long board, but it has pips on the top.

 

It’s not like those pip-cappers or whatever we were calling them, or caps. This is a full on…it’s got pip-acceptors on the bottom, pippers on the top, and it’s just…I don't know, a quarter-thick or half-thick, whatever math we’ve been using. We're gonna put that on top of our reverse-arches, kinda creating a nice shape there, almost like a crossbeam. So, now we have a couple arches below. Then above that we have four tan brick pieces that look like bricks, like masondry bricks. So, they're designed pieces. They have a little texture to them, and they're one…one-by-twos, and they're full-height bricks, like your normal brick height. So, we're gonna put those on top of the piece we just did, and we're gonna use four of those that are two pip…two-pippers. So, they're one-by-twos or two-by-ones. I don't know.

 

So, we're using four of those to complete this level. Okay, then what we're gonna do is we're gonna get four forest-green barrel pieces, single-pip barrels, which I guess are full-height barrels, and they just look like a barrel or a circle or a column. We're gonna put those on top of the Kelly-green pieces we’ve already placed, which are above now the booths, kinda…yeah, they look like columns. Okay, next we're gonna do four royal-green or full-green…we're gonna need four of these. These are…how would I describe these? So, these are squares, one-pip squares with a pip on top. They're royal green. They're full-brick height, and we're gonna take four of them and make them into twos. So, it’ll be like two-brick-height columns.

 

Then we're gonna place them one…all the way…if we're still in our U pattern looking at the U and we go to the right side of the U, there will be a orange tile at the bottom. It will have our U, then you’ll have your orange cap square, and then you’ll have your…we're gonna put that above…up against the right side of the curb, one of those. Then we're gonna move the other one all the way to the left up against one of the dark-green columns right next to one of the booths, okay? That sounds good, yeah. Okay, next up we got another very unique piece, a piece I’ve never seen before, but we also have two more…we have two Kelly-green…no, no, those are deep-green squares that are the same kind of one-pip square that we just used, just in a deep-green color, a deep forest.

 

We're gonna place each one of those on the inside of the ones we just placed. So, it’s almost like we're building a wall, but these will be half as…they're lower. But then we have two other pieces which are almost a blue, translucent piece that’s also a one-pip square. It has a pip on top, but it also has a pip on its face. It’s a pip-faced, pip-topper square, a one-pip square, that’s also blue and translucent. We're gonna put those on top of the pieces we just placed, face…with the pip on its face facing us, so we can make eye contact with these pip faces if we so choose. It’s kinda like they're looking out over the curb.

 

But then, on the next step, which is the step between twelve and fourteen, we're going to place…so, on the pip face, we're gonna place red…we have two square, red, flat tiles, like a pip cap, like a cap for…like a cap piece, and we're gonna cap those faces with red squares. So, that creates an Italian-restaurant kinda pattern, even though the square below it is inset. It goes red, green. Then in-between those, we're gonna take two maroon, two-by-one, full-size bricks, stack those, and then put those in-between our red…the things we just put the red faces on. So, we have a nice kind of wall developing or something like that, right? The next thing we're gonna do is we're gonna go back to a similar piece we’ve already used. We're gonna get eight forest-green square, half-thickness pieces with a pip on top.

 

Yeah, I’m sure there’s proper language for all this, but Scooter just brought me in to do this 'cause this isn't like pro brick-building, you know. This is brick-building to put you to sleep. But what we're gonna do…what we did earlier is we're gonna take those eight squares and we're gonna make them into four squares that are, whatever, full thickness or half-thickness, then we're gonna put those four squares on top of the columns that we had placed near the booths. Okay, now we're gonna complete our booths, and we have a very special piece that’s gonna go…a piece…a pizza piece. But first we're gonna put the table tops…so, we have two red circles that are a quarter-thickness. They have a pip cap on there, too.

 

So, they're like…they're kinda like a raspberry beret, but they're red, and they're not that much like a beret. They're like a table. We're gonna put those on the cap, the pip cap…we're gonna put a round pip cap on a square pip cap. It’s kinda like I’m announcing square dancing; put the round square cap on the red square cap. So, that’ll look like tables between the booths, and then we're gonna take these…we have some pizza pieces that are…they look like a quarter-square of pizza or a quarter of a pizza. We're gonna put those on the table on…we're gonna attach them to the cap. We're gonna put the pizza cap…put the pizza end on the square, round…the round cap we put on the square cap.

 

Then we're gonna bow to our partner, we're gonna put our left foot in, we're gonna shake it all about, and then we're gonna go to sixteen. Now, sixteen, we're gonna be getting back into this super-structure. Oh boy, is this structure gonna be super when we're done with it. So, we're gonna take…we're gonna go back to our royal green. We're gonna need two royal-green pieces. One is a one-by-six, full-height piece. Then we're gonna get a one-by-six…is that six or eight? I think that piece might be eight. That’s six. One, two, three, four, five…okay, so, that’s eight, and that one’s a quarter-thick…I guess it’s a quarter-thick. I’m looking at it lined up. Okay, so, we have those pieces, then we're gonna get a gray…like one of the thinner pieces, whatever, a quarter-thick…I guess it’s a quarter-thick?

 

It would take four of those to make the thickness of one piece? Maybe. We're speculating here. Obviously only try this to put you to sleep. Don’t try to do this kind of…don’t base your brick construction on us, though it could be relaxing. It would be interesting to see what you’d come up with. Okay, so, the next piece is gray, and that one is two pips wide and eight pips long, but also a quarter-thickness. So, we have three pieces total, right? Now we're gonna start capping some stuff. So, we're gonna take the six piece…the one-by-six that’s full thickness, and we're gonna put that on…if we're looking at the U, on the right side of the U on top of the wall we’ve developed, which will have red and green and maroon, we're gonna put it on top of that like we're continuing the wall height.

 

Then to the left of that we're gonna do some roofing. So, we're gonna put on the dark-green columns, the forest-green columns, the green, Kelly-green…is that Kelly green? No, that one’s the regular green. Okay, we're gonna put the eight-by-one on top of the dark-green columns, across the top of that, and that’ll be lined up flush with the piece we just placed. Then flush behind that we will place…now, you gotta be careful with that one 'cause it doesn't have…it’s not gonna have reinforcement, right? But we're gonna place that gray piece on the walls. It’ll be flush with that piece but on the walls behind it topping that, right? Just be careful doing that, 'cause you don’t want to push it in until we get some stronger super-structure.

 

Okay, seventeen is our next step, but we're gonna go back to basics here, and we're gonna get four more of those quarter-quarter-pipe pieces, if we were making a half-pipe. We may need these reverse-arches. Just like the arches below it, we're gonna continue that pattern. So, we're gonna put four of those so that they create two sets of back-to-back quarter-arches…reverse-arches, and below them will be the gray piece, then below that will be the tan brick pieces. Below that will be some Kelly green, and below that will be another set of Kelly-green arch piece…reverse-arch pieces. Okay, now we're getting some serious…this is the most pieces we’ve used and the biggest variety.

 

It’s only four…a selection of four, but…we're gonna need four black, one-pip square tiles, four black, white-square pip tiles, four orangeish, rusty, full-size, one-by-two bricks that look like bricks. So, again, these actually look like they're almost a brick color. Then we're also gonna need an eight, the same piece we just used recently, which is a quarter-thickness, one-by-eight, regular-green piece. What we're gonna do there is…the first thing we're gonna do is place our…in front of our Kelly-green reverse arches, on top of the gray, very carefully, you’re gonna place…you're gonna create a tile pattern; white tile, black tile, white tile, black tile, white tile, black tile, white tile, black tile, so that in front of that is still a open…one open row of pips on top of those dark-green columns.

 

Behind that will be the Kelly-green reverse arches. On top of the Kelly-green reverse arches we’ll put the brick-colored bricks so that they run across that. Then on top of that, we’ll put the regular-green quarter…eight-by-one piece. So, we're getting our second story really going now. Okay, now we're gonna do some more snazzy stuff. We're gonna get a piece…probably the piece we’ve used the most, which is the forest-green, quarter-thick, one-pip square with a pip on top. Once again, we're gonna combine those…four of those. In the past we used eight; now we're only using four to create two. Then we're also gonna take two pieces that are one pip…kinda like a little arch or a top…it’s a half-circle that kinda looks like a one-pip arch…decorative piece. You’ll be able to find it. It’s decorative.

 

If you're…if we're facing the U, right, we're gonna look at our first booth full of pizza, BOP, booth full…BFP, and we're gonna line the double-square, dark-green one…we're gonna put it on top of this column piece. So, in front of the tile work we just did, we're gonna put one of the square…double squares. Then we're gonna put one of the half-circles, then we're gonna put another double-square, and then a half-circle. Then we're actually gonna continue doing that on our next step, twenty, but we're gonna go a half-circle, then a double-square, then a half-circle, then a double-square. That should create where we go…this is all dark forest-green…square, half-circle kind of fancy piece. Square, half-circle fancy piece, half-circle fancy piece, square, half-circle.

 

So, if you were thinking about it, like if you have the table with the pizza on it, there would be a half-circle lined up with the center of the pizza table. But we're not gonna stop there. This fanciness continues, 'cause we're gonna take four barrel…one-pip-thickness barrels or columns and eight more of those VIP, deep-green, one-by-one quarter-thick squares…we're gonna combine those eight into four again. We're gonna put those on top of the column like a little toppy-pooh, and then we're gonna take each of those columns that we just made with the toppy-pooh, and we're gonna put them on the pieces we just placed earlier that are next to the half-circle pieces. Don't worry if you're lost already, 'cause I’m…but we're creating another level of column, almost. This is a fancy word.

 

This is a fancy…nice place to eat. It’s gonna create the impression — if you start to use your…you don’t even have to use your imagination — of a second story. ‘Cause next we're gonna start to enclose that second story. If you're really looking, you say, wait a second, now this…these columns line up with the back of the place, too. So, then we're gonna start to put some roofing on. For the roofing, we're gonna need three pieces, all gray. Not Earl Gray; all gray. Our first piece is gonna be a quarter-thick or half-thick, whatever you call it, a rectangle, two-by-six. Then two quarter-thick gray, three-by-three squares, and we're gonna place those on top of the columns all the way to our back wall. First, the two-by-three, and then the two squares. So, that should enclose our second story.

 

Now we're gonna get…this is a big step here, twenty-three, but we're getting fancy. So, we're gonna need a lot of pieces for this. We're gonna be doing some…what is that called? A awning. So, we're gonna need two pieces that you would probably use in a awning that are one pip…yeah, they're like roofing pieces. You know what I’m saying. We're gonna need one of those that’s one pip, and then one also that’s four pips. Then we're gonna…those are regular-height, full-height. Then we're gonna need one gray one-by-six, quarter-thick, then we're gonna need one full-thick, green one-by-six, and then we're also gonna need a dark-brown, quarter-thick one-by-eight. You say, holy cow, Scoots, I can't even…I say, don't worry. It’s gonna be great. We’ll start with the awning.

 

So, our awning’s gonna go on the right side of our U on the roof of our first story, which is starting to look like the entrance to a pizza place. So, we're gonna place our awning on there. The way we're gonna do it is…you could start on the left or the right, but we're gonna go on this top…one of the one-by…the one-thickness awning piece so it’s kinda sticking out like a awning, then our four piece, and then another one piece. Then we're gonna take our regular-green six-by…one-by-six, regular thickness, and we're gonna cap the awning. So, we're gonna put that on top of the pips that are on top of the awning. Now we get a nice facade going. It’s really looking good. Then we're gonna move over to our fancier side, our second story, and we're gonna start to do some reinforcement on our second story.

 

So, along the back wall roof, we're gonna put that one-by-eight, that dark-brown one-by-eight, and then in front of that, interconnecting all those gray pieces…one pip in on each side and one pip flush with the one-by-eight, but one pip in on each side to the right and the left, we're gonna put that six-by-one, quarter-thick gray piece. Alright, now we're gonna turn our U all the way around, right? Now definitely bow to your partner. We're gonna see…this may be breathtaking. This is the first time not just seeing the back side of water, but you're seeing the back side of Pizzerizzo. You might be saying, my word. But we're gonna keep decorating. So, this is the back side of our restaurant. So, you’ll see the little windows, which are very cute, but we're gonna do some tile work.

 

So, we're gonna take two green square tiles, two red square tiles, and two white square…or four white square tiles, and we're gonna do tile work behind the windows of our one-story facade, which is now kinda two stories with the awning. We're gonna go…if we're…all the way towards us, red, white, red, white, and then above that, white, green, white, green. Then we're gonna actually build up the back of the store. So, we're gonna take some very tall pieces. These are double-thick pieces, and those…these are two-by-ones or one-by-twos that are double thickness. Maybe one’s even triple thick. We're gonna place those on either side of the tile work we just placed so that they…we're gonna do…one is kind of like a dark brown, and another one is like a beige, and we're gonna stack those.

 

They should go up to the roof that we just built. Then we're gonna take some white pieces and we're gonna finish this roof work so that our whole roof is getting flush. So, we have some white pieces, two quarter-thick, white one-square pips with a pip on top, and then two right angles. So, these are one pip thick, but they're right-angle, quarter-thickness, and one pip wide, but it’s…goes one pip, one pip, and then it’s a right angle. Two of those. We're gonna arrange those pieces to start to create a roof thing that’s gonna hold on our roof. So, the only thing to note about this part is that it’s kinda tricky. So, it’s gonna be…we're capping the awning and the pieces we just placed, but right now we're doing…we're kind of on the reverse U, right?

 

So, we're gonna…first we're…on our little roofing, on our bottom-left side of the roofing we're trying to work on right now, we're gonna first put just a one-square thing, then a right-angle piece…huh, then a piece I guess we must have placed earlier? Oh, I did miss a part. Okay, I did skip…that’s why. Okay, but we're fine right now with what I skipped. Now the next piece is gonna be a facade…a piece that holds up a facade. So, it is…it’s kinda the thing if you were working on a car that would hold on the headlights. It’s a piece that has a four-pip face, but it hangs off a two-pip angle, kinda like…I don't know. I don't know any of these terms. It’s a pip faceholder or a pip…a car grill-holder. In this case, it may be holding something for the front of the thing.

 

So, we're gonna put that there so it’s facing the four pip faces on the face of our store above the awning. Next to that we're gonna put one white square, a quarter-thick, whatever, then we're gonna work on another facade piece, but it’s only one pip, so I guess that would be a brake light facade-holding piece. It’s got a one-pip face and one pip on top. Then behind that, we're gonna put another right angle. So, the right angle, though, is kind of…fits in there. Oh no, so, I misplaced something. We're gonna connect everything with the right angle and then a one-pip square at the end. It’ll work out. In the end, it’ll all work out. But we're gonna keep building. Always upwards; they always say this in Pizzerizzo…they always say that at Pizza…they don’t say that at Pizzerizzo, but they do say, order pizza here.

 

Pizza made by Rizzo. But so…okay, so, we're keeping going. So, now we're gonna take three brick pieces that are that brick color, or almost a brick color, that look like bricks. Bricks that look like bricks. Isn't that a famous…is that a famous photo…YouTube…? Bricks that look like bricks. Oh no, that was…I tried…I was originally gonna do bricks that look like people, and then I started the channel, Bricks that Look Like Bricks. It didn’t work out. But these…so, we're gonna get three of those that are two-by-ones or one-by-twos, full thickness. I can't believe we’ve had pieces that were double…triple thick. Yeah, I can see…now I’m looking at our picture. Those are triple-thicks, those ones we used on our back of our restaurant.

 

Okay, so, we have three bricks that look like bricks that are one-by-twos, and we're gonna put those on…along the front edge of the part we just worked on, so above what will be the facade for our store. Then behind that, we're gonna use a two-by-eight, I think…two, four…no, two-by-six, a two-by-six, quarter-thick, gray piece to cap the back side of our roof that we're working on. Oh boy, we're still facading it up, man. So, now we're gonna…we're even working on more fancy stuff. So, I don't even know what to call these pieces. So, this is step twenty-nine, and we're gonna take two regular pieces that are regular-thickness, square…they're beige with a pip on top. So, just a regular, old square piece, two of those.

 

We're gonna combine that with a sign-holding piece, I think, or a clock-holding piece, maybe, that’s a four-pip face with a two-pip bottom that could hold something, kind of almost like the opposite of the piece we just used, but that was only…this is a square four intead of four across. We're gonna have that square four in the center of the roof we’ve been working on facing outwards with the two squares on the back side of the square four, with those two beige ones. Then we're onto step thirty. For step thirty, we're gonna work on the back side of this side of the restaurant’s roof. So, we're gonna take two more one-by-twos or two-by-one bricks that look like bricks, full thickness. I don't want to say this is the first classic brick we’ve used, but I mean, it is bright orange.

 

But I believe this is the first prototypical brick in my experience. That’s a two-by-six, full-thickness brick which I just associate with most construction, but not like a mini-construction like this. Protobrick…I don't know. I don't know if it’s ever been called that. Most of our references have probably never been used with brick…toy brick-building in the past, but there’s a first time…a first and last time for…did you call it a protobrick? Do you know what protobrick means? Yeah, it’s like the brick…would you prefer I used archetypal brick? So, yeah. So, that’s a orange one. Okay, the way we're gonna do it is we're gonna have…on the left and right side of this portion of the roof are bricks that look like bricks facing out, with the orange brick kinda in the middle. But we're not done yet.

 

Holy cow, because now we're gonna continue building upwards. I mean, ‘til we get flush with our facade with the front part. So, we're gonna get all quarter-thickness pieces, and what we're gonna start with is our base…is two, four…two-by-six, quarter-thick gray piece. Then we’ve got a beautiful lavender two-by-four or four-by-two quarter-thick one. So, we're gonna put that in the middle of the one we just…of the gray one so that there’s two pips on either side, right? Then on top of the lavender one, we're gonna take an orange square, two-by-two, quarter-thick, and put that. So, a little ascending order there. Then we're gonna put that on top of what we just placed in thirty, you know, the orange and the bricks that look…the protobrick.

 

Cap that protobrick off and seal it in with those bricks that look like bricks. Now we're on thirty-two. Time to get seriously fancy with some roofing pieces. Capped angles? I don't know what you call them. We got six maroon…I don't know, capped angles. I don't know what else to call…angle caps. They're two…they're one-by-twos and look like a double-thick doorstop, if you're really looking for them. You could already see the tearing we're doing. So, we're just gonna take the tearing we just did with our gray, lavender, and orange, and we're gonna build this up to a little roof. It looks like a little bit of a barn roof.

 

Like, if you're looking at the back side of our restaurant and you're only looking at that part of it, you say, that kinda looks like a barn roof where we’d have a square dance, where you’d say, put the circle cap on the end cap and spin it round and round. Put your right foot in and your left foot out, and bow to your partner. Another thing with Generation X that comes up is we…most of us, as a part of our education for some reason…well, one, we played with one parachute as a group, some sort of collaborative play for PE, and we also took square dancing lessons as part of PE. What a time to be alive, man. I mean, playing with the parachute for me was very fun. You just kind of…everybody…it was a circle. I don't even know if it was actually a real parachute. I don't know why they don’t do this anymore.

 

What does this have to do with brick-building? I don't know. But you just kinda whoosh the parachute, and you…and it was pleasant. Okay, so, now we're gonna turn our store back around, turn our partner round and round. We're gonna look at the U, and we should be facing a store that looks much different than it did earlier, because there’s a lot of caps on it now. We're gonna put even more. So, we're gonna take two more of these face-capping type things that are red, the angle thing you would use to put on a facade. I don't even have…I just don’t have the vocabulary to describe it in any other way, but it would be great for holding a brake light again. Those are red.

 

Then we're gonna take six beige, one-by-one, full-thick squares, and we're gonna stack those in front of our barn roof, but with the red…we have that gray square with the face cap; we're gonna put it on the left and the right side of that red face-capper. So, again, we're starting to construct our store. Then we're gonna do some more design work on the tops of these things we just placed, and we're gonna need six and six. So, we're gonna have six regular-green, quarter-thick squares with a cap, like a pip on top, and then six beige tiles. We're gonna cap each green…each of those six greens with the beige, and then we're gonna cap each of the different beige that we already used on this top-front roofing…roof. So, we're gonna cap the roof with a square. It’s exciting times, right?

 

Okay, then we're gonna keep working on the decorative part of our facade, and we're gonna have these two really cool pieces which are half-circle caps that are blue translucent. So, kind of like lights, almost, and we're gonna put them on the two red face-capping pieces so they kinda look like…so, the flat part of the half-circle is down. Then on…we're gonna have that square that holds a facade…we're gonna have two light-gray pieces that are quarter-thick, one pip…pip-on-top squares, and in the top-left and the bottom-right quadrants we're gonna put those, this square face-capping piece. Then we're gonna take two dark-gray facade-holding pieces with the pip…with pip faces, angles, and we're gonna have one in the top-right quadrant with the pip face facing up, and then one in the bottom-left quadrant with the pip facing down.

 

If you're playing along at home, you've already won. Holy moly. Then…oh boy, these are…this is gonna be nice. Then we're gonna take four grate…are these pieces great? Oh boy, are they. These are pieces that kinda look like grates. They're two-by-one, quarter-thick, but they look like grates, like…you see grating over something in the street or on a roof. We're gonna take all four of those and we're gonna cap off everything. So, we're gonna cap off our front-facing face and then our upward-left…upward-right quadrant, we're gonna put one on top of that, and then on our lower-left quadrant, we're gonna put one. So, it’s just giving…give it some texture, man. Really nice. Those are all grays. Then we're gonna do a little bit more design work above our awning on the other open cap faces.

 

So, what we're gonna do is we're gonna do some fancy design. We're gonna take one forest-green tile cap piece, one red cap square, one-by-one square, or one square tile — these are all quarter-thicks — one one-pip red, quarter-thick square with a pip on top, and then one white grate piece, just like the grate pieces we used above, but this one’s white. We're gonna take that on our white facade-holding piece that has six openings, right, or five openings, and here’s how we're gonna do it. If we start on the left, in the first opening, we're gonna put the red, quarter-thick pip-on-top square. To the right of that, we're gonna put a green tile. To the right of the green tile, we're gonna put two…a rectangle, the white grate, and then on the last open pip, we're gonna put a red cap tile.

 

You say, man, I thought that movie…the brick-building movie was exciting, but this is nothing like that. I’d say, no, this…everything is lulling, man. Okay, now what we're gonna do is we're gonna do some work back on the part we haven't been working on in a while. On our left side, what was our second story, now we almost have a three-story building. On that one, above our green columns of the second floor, we're gonna put two sets of these car…front-of-the-car holding design facade pieces that each have four face caps on…face pips, pip faces on the roof, hanging down. So, then we have eight open pip faces above our green columns. Then we're gonna cap those with green, dark-green, quarter-thick…the boards, board caps, two of those.

 

So, those are, what, four…two-by…one-by-fours, quarter-thick cap boards, kinda like we used in the…back at the beginning with the curb. But these are green instead of black. Then on the left side of our roof here, we're gonna put another four pip-face, car-face thing…angle thing. That’s what it may or may not be officially called. Okay, we're gonna keep getting fancy here. Now we're gonna work on even more design work. So, we're gonna have one red quarter-thick tile piece, one square tile piece, a holding piece, which is a pip-topped, full-thick, full-height square, but it has a little clip…it’s a clip-holder on its face. Its face has a clip-holder. Then we're gonna have one piece that looks like it’s…I don't know, a fancy pipe piece or a light or something. We're gonna put that on that…remember that red…?

 

We're back to our right side of our face of our store above the awning. So, alls we have opening on the face of our store there is that one red pip. So, basically what we're gonna do is…this is just a fancy piece. I don't know. Maybe it’s a light, maybe it’s something else. But we're gonna make that into one piece. So, we're gonna take the piece that looks like a pipe, we're gonna put it in the clip, then we're gonna cap our top of our pip, and then we're gonna put that on the pip on the pip face. We’ll be all set there. Okay, that’s done, right? Now we're gonna do some more design work on the left side of our store or restaurant. So, on the left-left side, we're gonna…on that pip-facing…the four pip-facer that’s on the left side of our second floor, we're gonna put a four-by…a one-by-four, dark-green cap board piece.

 

So, yeah, it just finishes that piece off. That’ll be all the way on the left side. But now we're gonna go back to the right side of our store, but on the current piece of the roof we're working on. We're gonna take four gray grate pieces that are two…quarter-thick two-by-ones, gray grates, and also one maroon cap…square cap tile piece. All these are quarter-thick, right? So, we’ve got this open roof space with a lot of pips. So, we're gonna go all the way to the right ‘til we're up against the piece…our third story. In the…so, the top-back-right pip, we're gonna put that maroon tile square. Then in front of it, lengthwise, we're gonna put one of the grates. Then to the left of those, widthwise, we're gonna put three more grates, gray grates. You're doing great.

 

Then we're gonna get five more grates, one more maroon square tile, and then we also have a two-by-two maroon square tile with a pip on top, a pip-capper, as I called it earlier. We're gonna work on finishing out the roof there like that. So, we're gonna…let’s just start on the left side so it’s easier. On the left corner, just like we did on the back-right corner, we're gonna put a square…that square maroon. Then in front of it, we're gonna do the same thing as we did on the other one, but the roof…the heights on this roof are a little bit different. We're gonna put a lengthwise grate, a gray grate. Now, we're gonna go back to that back-left corner where the maroon tile was. Now, to the right of that, we're gonna put this two-by-two, whatever, pip-capper, and then in front of that we're gonna put a grate.

 

Then to the right of that, we're gonna put three more grates. Now…I mean, we're getting…we're almost there. Holy moly, this place is looking spectacular. Now we're gonna put a sign that goes on the roof, and if you've been to this place, you know it’s a very cool neon sign, which we can't quite do here because it’s bricks. So, we're gonna put on top of that pip-capper…we’ve got a piece we haven't used yet, but it’s similar to other pieces. It’s one of these facade-holding angle pieces. But this one has two pips going up. It’s like a sign-holding piece, or if your car…if it was a car piece, it’d be holding two brake lights. We're gonna put that on top of the pip-capper there. Then we're gonna be back in protobrick territory, almost. It’s a quarter-protobrick. So, a quarter-thick, regular-green, four-by-two rectangle.

 

So, a quarter or half-thick of our protobrick, and we're gonna put that on the piece we just placed, like it’s gonna be the start of a billboard. Then we're gonna work on the billboard. So, the billboard is gonna be red, mostly, with some pizza. So, we're gonna need two quarter-pizza circles that look like pizza. We're gonna need two square, red, quarter-thick tile pieces, which is the same thickness as the pizza pieces. We're gonna need one square…we need three of those? Oh no, two…? Okay, I see. Sorry, one…did I say one red square tile piece? Then two two-by-one…so, rectangle, red tile pieces, cappers, and then one quarter-thick square with a pip on top, red piece. I know that’s confusing, and you may even want to do this on your protobrick before you place it.

 

But basically, we're gonna take our proto-green brick and we're gonna hold it like a rectangle, lengthwise down on the left side…on the left…top-left and the bottom-left pip, we're gonna put one of the one-by-two red cap pieces. Then to the right of that, we're gonna make a pizza…half-circle of a pizza so that the arch is going towards the left and the complete version of the circle of the pizza is going to the right. Then we're gonna take…on the top…so, the top-right to the one to the left to touching the top piece of pizza, we're gonna put a two-by-one capper. Below that, touching the bottom piece of pizza, is the one red square with a pip, and then to the right of that will be a red tile. Wow, and then we're gonna put on…on that…so, then we're gonna take…we're almost there.

 

Then we're gonna take two more pieces, one of which is the mascot, Pizzerizzo, Rizzo. It’s not a one-to-one version of Rizzo, but it looks…it’s from the same family of friends as that Rizzo. Then we have a piece again that’s red that we’ve used earlier that’s like a angle pip-face holder, and we're gonna put our mascot on one, and then we're gonna attach it to the open pip on…next to the piece of pizza. But we still have one open pip below Rizzo’s friend. So, that was step forty-six. Then the funniest thing is that this one is a quarter…forty-eight…below Rizzo is a piece that’s a quarter-circle that looks like a piece of cheese that’s also gonna be in 3D away from the pizza. Then that’s it. We’ve constructed Pizzerizzo. Oh boy, was that exciting.

 

I can't believe it’s taken over eleven years to come up with this idea, 'cause it was so…I mean, it was fun putting that together. Yeah, if you like this style of episode, be sure to let me know. The best way to let me know is to support the show, and we might send you a message. I’ll ask you…I send you a video, you know, when you sign up to support the show, and you let me know what your favorite things are. Say, hey, this brick-building thing is pretty cool, 'cause we’ll probably use these for these fundraising things just 'cause it’s so related. Well, anyway, thanks, everybody, and goodnight.

 

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Brick Builder

 

Rainbow Connection

https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/the-rainbow-connection-at-40-paul-williams-reflects-on-kermit-the-frogs-banjo-classic/

https://muppetmindset.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/the-rainbow-connection-a-deeper-meaning/

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/06/rainbow-connection-muppet-movie-kermit-the-frog-making-of

 

Horizoneer / Custom Brick Building Sets

https://www.etsy.com/shop/HorizoneerDesign?ref=shop_sugg_market

https://www.theverge.com/c/23991049/lego-ideas-polaroid-onestep-behind-the-scenes-price

https://rebrickable.com/

 

Rizzo

https://toughpigs.com/problem-with-rizzo/

https://jdlcorp-qa.shuup.com/diverse4/rizzo-the-rat.html

https://frogoflamancha.blog/2018/10/24/60-for-60-october-2018-rizzo/

 

Square Dancing

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/square-dance-explained

https://squaredancehistory.org/

https://daily.jstor.org/the-african-roots-of-square-dancing/

 

DOWN TO BUSINESS

Interconnection and Inner Connection

And Rainbow Connection, of course

The lyrics of “Rainbow Connection”

I do feel connected to Kermit

 

PLUGS

Trevor Project; Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Rusty Biscuit Links; Emily Tat Artwork; Crisis Textline

 

SPONSORS

Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Progressive; Anker Soundcore; Acorns

 

INTRO

Thoughts about Rainbows

The great rivalry, Playmobil vs LEGO

See’s vs Whitman

In my house, we play with both

Maybe you have a dog that wasn’t feeling so great in the middle of the night

Caring for the ones you love

Someone listening right now can relate to what you’re going through and is rooting for you

Our world is a better place with you in it

Interconnected and Inner Connected

I’d be skeptical, too

When do the sub-bass tones begin

Reading from Creaky Dulcet Tomes

Making no sense in the most sensible way

Casual Connection, my new risque shopping mall experience

Your Best Bore Friend Fo Eva

Explaining the structure

The lyrics of “Rainbow Connection” are eternally mysterious to me

“Rainbows Got Nothin’ to Hide”

Trusting songs sung by Muppets

Have a wind down routine

Kermit is one of the only celebrity impressions I can do

Well, it’s technically Ms. Piggie saying, “Hiyahh”

Yogi and his nephew named BooBoo

I’m glad you’re here

Distracted at the end of a Distraction

 

STORY

A new style of episode we’ve never done before

Covering some Muppet Disney World stuff

And doing some brick building

This might be a summer 2025 ep

Or just a regular ep

The Orlando Park Stop art auction

A possibility that WDW will shut down Muppet Courtyard

A 2022 episode we did about Pizzerizzo

Walking through Muppet Courtyard

Medium to High Traffic Restrooms, but they’re highly recommended

Ranking restrooms by traffic

I was buying some Muppet art

A fountain of Miss Piggies is worth a thousand words

Disney could certainly do more with the Muppets

Shout out to the Horizoneer

Custom Brick Building Sets (you know the one)

I did some brick building with my daughter while she was under the weather

Brick Building Bud takes over

Building Pizzerizzo

This is not to scale

A mini construction model 

The old 6×16 piece, a black rectangle

Flat Toppers

3 Cap Boards

We’ll call this the front for now

One pip squares

Making a U shape

A unique shade of green

Making reverse half arches

One pip wide and the height of a normal brick

Half of a halfpipe

Or a quarter of a quarterpipe

A checkerboard tile

Step 6 is when we use orange

Up against the front curb of our base

Orange cap pieces

Kind of like a pip cap

4×2 tile topper with a pip

Talk about Great Expectations

The longest U you’ve ever seen

Styles of Pip Capping

Two 2×2 tiles

On to Step 7

A half thick pip on top

We have to stack these into a normal size

I’m just following the instructions here

Leave 2 empty pips here

To the left and right pip cappers

These are gonna be booths

Using unique pieces

Kelly Green vs Royal Green

Kermit Green

Pip Acceptors on the Bottom, Pippers on Top

Almost like a crossbeam

4 tanned bricks that look like actual bricks

Full Height Bricks

Are these 1×2 or 2×1?

4 Forest Green Single Pip Barrels

2 Brick Columns

2 Deep Green squares

Pip Faced Pip Topper

Making Eye Contact with the Pip Face

The step between 12 and 14

Capping that face with red squares

A nice wall is developing

8 Forest Green Half Thickness Pieces

Put those on top of the booth columns

A very special Pizza Piece

It feels like I’m announcing square dancing

Tiny pizza pieces

Back to the Superstructure

Time to start the roofing

Careful, there’s no reinforcement yet

Continuing the arch pattern

Almost a brick color

A black and white tile pattern

Kelly green reverse arches

We’re getting our second story really going now

One PIp Arch

Booth Fulla Pizza (BFP)

This fanciness continues

Barrel Thickness Columns

Combining 8 into 4

Don’t worry if you’re lost

This is gonna be a nice place to eat

Second Story Impression

All gray, not Earl Grey

Gray pieces for the roof

Dark Brown Quarter Thick 1×8

Start with the awning

It’s beginning to look a lot like a pizza place

Over to our fancier side now

Reinforcing our second story

Turn the U all the way around

The Backside of Pizzerizzo

More tile work

Red White Red White White Green Green

A dark brown and a beige stack

Get that roof flush

Uh oh, I did miss a step

A piece that holds up a facade

Hanging off a 2 pip angle

Bricks that look like Bricks

Triple Thick Bricks

Capping the backside of the roof

I don’t know what to call these next pieces

A regular old square piece

A square four

Step 30

Working on the backside of the roof

Is this the first classic brick we’ve used

Prototypical Brick

Don’t call it Proto-Brick

Continuing upwards to the facade

Seal that proto brick in with the bricks that look like bricks

Capped Angles

A double thick door stop

Kind of looks like a barn roof for square dancing

Gen X did square dancing in PE

Playing with the one big parachute

6 regular green quarter thick squares

Cap the green with the beige

Cap the roof with a square

Facade Holding Pieces

Oh boy, these are great grate pieces

Capping off the front-facing face

The Last Open Pip

It’s almost a 3 story building now

2 sets of Front of the Car Holding Pieces

Dark Green Quarter Thick Cap Boards

Car Face Angle Thing

Put the pipe in the clip

Working on the left side now

Right up to the third story

You’re doing great, gray grates

Finish out the roof, starting from the left

A very cool neon sign

Back in Proto Brick Territory

Working on the Billboard

Maybe put the caps on the proto brick before installing the proto brick on the billboard

We’re almost there

A family friend of Rizzo

Attach the mascot

An open pip below Rizzo’s friend

A quarter circle 3D cheese piece for the billboard

And just like that, we’ve constructed Pizzerizzo

I can’t believe it took us 11 years to come up with this

Let me know if you like it

 

SUMMARY:

Episode: 1330

Title: Brick Builder | PizzaRizzo

Plugs: Trevor Project; Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Rusty Biscuit Links; Emily Tat Artwork; Crisis Textline

Sponsors: Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Progressive; Anker Soundcore; Acorns

Notable Language:

• Woo Woo
• Interconnection and Inner Connection
• Creaky Dulcet Tomes
• Making no sense in the most sensible way
• Casual Connection
• Distracted at the end of a Distraction
• Brick Building Bud
• Flat Toppers
• One pip squares
• Half of a halfpipe
• Pip Capping
• Kermit Green
• Full Height Bricks
• Forest Green Single Pip Barrels
• Pip Faced Pip Topper
• Stronger Superstructure
• Kelly green reverse arches
• One PIp Arch
• Booth Fulla Pizza (BFP)
• Awning
• Red White Red White White Green Green
• Prototypical Brick
• Proto-Brick
• Archetypal Brick
• Facade Holding Pieces
• Great Grates
• Car Face Angle Thing

 

Notable Culture:

• • “Rainbow Connection”
  • Playmobil
  • LEGO
  • See’s
  • Whitman Chocolates
  • Casual Connection, my new risque shopping mall experience
  • “Rainbows Got Nothin’ to Hide”, my sequel song
  • The Muppets
  • Yogi Bear
  • Orlando Park Stop
  • Walt Disney World
  • Alicia Stella
  • Pizzerizzo

• Great Expectations

• • Earl Grey
  • Gen X

• The Lego Movie

 

Notable Talking Points:

• Thoughts about Rainbows
• The great rivalry, Playmobil vs LEGO
• See’s vs Whitman
• In my house, we play with both
• Maybe you have a dog that wasn’t feeling so great in the middle of the night
• Caring for the ones you love
• Someone listening right now can relate to what you’re going through and is rooting for you
• Our world is a better place with you in it
• Interconnected and Inner Connected
• I’d be skeptical, too
• When do the sub-bass tones begin
• Reading from Creaky Dulcet Tomes
• Making no sense in the most sensible way
• Casual Connection, my new risque shopping mall experience
• Your Best Bore Friend Fo Eva
• Explaining the structure
• The lyrics of “Rainbow Connection” are eternally mysterious to me
• “Rainbows Got Nothin’ to Hide”
• Trusting songs sung by Muppets
• Have a wind down routine
• Kermit is one of the only celebrity impressions I can do
• Well, it’s technically Ms. Piggie saying, “Hiyahh”
• Yogi and his nephew named BooBoo
• I’m glad you’re here
• Distracted at the end of a Distraction
• A new style of episode we’ve never done before
• Covering some Muppet Disney World stuff
• And doing some brick building
• This might be a summer 2025 ep
• Or just a regular ep
• The Orlando Park Stop art auction
• A possibility that WDW will shut down Muppet Courtyard
• A 2022 episode we did about Pizzerizzo
• Walking through Muppet Courtyard
• Medium to High Traffic Restrooms, but they’re highly recommended
• Ranking restrooms by traffic
• I was buying some Muppet art
• A fountain of Miss Piggies is worth a thousand words
• Disney could certainly do more with the Muppets
• Shout out to the Horizoneer
• Custom Brick Building Sets (you know the one)
• I did some brick building with my daughter while she was under the weather
• Brick Building Bud takes over
• Building Pizzerizzo
• This is not to scale
• A mini construction model 
• The old 6×16 piece, a black rectangle
• Flat Toppers
• 3 Cap Boards
• We’ll call this the front for now
• One pip squares
• Making a U shape
• A unique shade of green
• Making reverse half arches
• One pip wide and the height of a normal brick
• Half of a halfpipe
• Or a quarter of a quarterpipe
• A checkerboard tile
• Step 6 is when we use orange
• Up against the front curb of our base
• Orange cap pieces
• Kind of like a pip cap
• 4×2 tile topper with a pip
• Talk about Great Expectations
• The longest U you’ve ever seen
• Styles of Pip Capping
• Two 2×2 tiles
• On to Step 7
• A half thick pip on top
• We have to stack these into a normal size
• I’m just following the instructions here
• Leave 2 empty pips here
• To the left and right pip cappers
• These are gonna be booths
• Using unique pieces
• Kelly Green vs Royal Green
• Kermit Green
• Pip Acceptors on the Bottom, Pippers on Top
• Almost like a crossbeam
• 4 tanned bricks that look like actual bricks
• Full Height Bricks
• Are these 1×2 or 2×1?
• 4 Forest Green Single Pip Barrels
• 2 Brick Columns
• 2 Deep Green squares
• Pip Faced Pip Topper
• Making Eye Contact with the Pip Face
• The step between 12 and 14
• Capping that face with red squares
• A nice wall is developing
• 8 Forest Green Half Thickness Pieces
• Put those on top of the booth columns
• A very special Pizza Piece
• It feels like I’m announcing square dancing
• Tiny pizza pieces
• Back to the Superstructure
• Time to start the roofing
• Careful, there’s no reinforcement yet
• Continuing the arch pattern
• Almost a brick color
• A black and white tile pattern
• Kelly green reverse arches
• We’re getting our second story really going now
• One PIp Arch
• Booth Fulla Pizza (BFP)
• This fanciness continues
• Barrel Thickness Columns
• Combining 8 into 4
• Don’t worry if you’re lost
• This is gonna be a nice place to eat
• Second Story Impression
• All gray, not Earl Grey
• Gray pieces for the roof
• Dark Brown Quarter Thick 1×8
• Start with the awning
• It’s beginning to look a lot like a pizza place
• Over to our fancier side now
• Reinforcing our second story
• Turn the U all the way around
• The Backside of Pizzerizzo
• More tile work
• Red White Red White White Green Green
• A dark brown and a beige stack
• Get that roof flush
• Uh oh, I did miss a step
• A piece that holds up a facade
• Hanging off a 2 pip angle
• Bricks that look like Bricks
• Triple Thick Bricks
• Capping the backside of the roof
• I don’t know what to call these next pieces
• A regular old square piece
• A square four
• Step 30
• Working on the backside of the roof
• Is this the first classic brick we’ve used
• Prototypical Brick
• Don’t call it Proto-Brick
• Continuing upwards to the facade
• Seal that proto brick in with the bricks that look like bricks
• Capped Angles
• A double thick door stop
• Kind of looks like a barn roof for square dancing
• Gen X did square dancing in PE
• Playing with the one big parachute
• 6 regular green quarter thick squares
• Cap the green with the beige
• Cap the roof with a square
• Facade Holding Pieces
• Oh boy, these are great grate pieces
• Capping off the front-facing face
• The Last Open Pip
• It’s almost a 3 story building now
• 2 sets of Front of the Car Holding Pieces
• Dark Green Quarter Thick Cap Boards
• Car Face Angle Thing
• Put the pipe in the clip
• Working on the left side now
• Right up to the third story
• You’re doing great, gray grates
• Finish out the roof, starting from the left
• A very cool neon sign
• Back in Proto Brick Territory
• Working on the Billboard
• Maybe put the caps on the proto brick before installing the proto brick on the billboard
• We’re almost there
• A family friend of Rizzo
• Attach the mascot
• An open pip below Rizzo’s friend
• A quarter circle 3D cheese piece for the billboard
• And just like that, we’ve constructed Pizzerizzo
• I can’t believe it took us 11 years to come up with this
• Let me know if you like it