1448 – Dino Institute Rover, Part 1 | Brick Builder
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Episode 1448 – Dino Institute Rover, Part 1 | Brick Builder
SCOOTER: Friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it’s time for the podcaster who has got a low-lit Lego or block…my block-based…limited block-based vocabulary, and if I was hanging out with that Peanuts character whose name…it’s not Peppermint Patty, Scoots. It’s…it may be…is it Lucy? She would already be calling me. She’d say, Scoots, you have a head of block, and not Wisconsin cheese. Now, if you're…if you thought you tuned into a sleep podcast and you're confused, welcome to 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. Oh, but this is the very beginning of the podcast. Alls you need to do right now is see how it goes. So, welcome if you're new. If you're coming back, you listen to the show when you need it, I’m glad you're here, and if you're a regular listener, I’m glad you're here, too.
My goal is to bring sleepy joy and delight in the deep, dark night, and tonight just…not a brief twenty to twenty-five minutes from now, I’ll be assembling blocks. Well, technically I won't; I’ll be reading through instructions on assembling blocks. But my mind…well, anyway, I’m glad you're here. I’ll be helping you take your mind off of stuff, keep you company, so you could fall asleep, and maybe help drift you…maybe help you drift off into dreamland, or maybe just be here for you for whatever calm, soothing, ridiculous distraction you need tonight. I’m glad you're here. What we got coming up is support, then a long, meandering intro meant to ease you into bedtime, and then one of our traditional Orlando ParkStop Fundraiser block-building episodes. So, I’m so excited you're here, 'cause we get to be a part of something special, and I get to help you fall asleep or bring you comfort in the deep, dark night, and play with some…which I wouldn't classify blocks just as toys…interconnected blocks?
You say, Scoots, are you talking about blocks with letters on them? No. I mean, I could use…yeah. I mean, I probably could use instructions on a lot of things. But this will be fun. I still don't know if they're actually called pips or not, but I’ll probably call them, and somewhere in the world…if there is a Dickensian universe in the multiverse, old pip…and all the pips on our globe right now, including…I'm sure there’s puppies named Pip. A Puppy Named Pip: My Story. Anyway, I’m glad you're here. This is Sleep With Me, a sleep podcast, believe it or not. I didn't even finish my thought…somewhere in the multiverse, if there’s a multiverse with Pip in there, he’s saying, what? Something’s going on here. I’m being referred to in the eighth person by someone incorrectly labelling the tops of interconnected bricks as pips, though they may be pips. I never know. So, I’m glad you're here. Welcome to Sleep With Me. If this podcast changes your life for the better on a regular basis only and you're so rebellious, you're so…you're like, man, how can I be a part of this thing that makes my life so much better and other people’s lives better? You could either support the show directly or check out these sponsors, but only if all those are yeses. Thanks.
Intro: 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 could be thoughts on your mind, thoughts that you're thinking about, thoughts about the past, the present, the future, thinking thoughts, it could be feelings, anything coming up for you emotionally, feelings related to those thoughts, feelings that are just there, feelings that are showing up, it could be physical sensations, changes in time, temperature, routine, you could be going through something, getting over something, in the middle of something.
Whatever it is, I’m here to keep you company and take your mind off of stuff, maybe…not…definitely strive to bring you sleepy joy and delight, to be your friend in the deep, dark night and help you fall asleep eventually. The only reason I kinda list some of the stuff that might be keeping you awake is that I’ve been there or someplace very similar. I’m not sure exactly what brought you here, but you are in good company, whether you're checking the show out for the first time, you're referring…returning to it after a couple years’ break, your life changed a little bit and you say, I could use that sleep podcast again, or you're one of those people that listens night after night after night. I’m glad you're here, and I’m here to help out. One of the reasons I want to help out is that I know what it’s like for me when I can't get the sleep I need and I desire on a regular basis, and I’m not sure if it’s close…alls I could say is for me it’s a non-positive…oh boy, is it so non-positive that I have to state it in a way…that I have to state it in general terms like that.
It has like a thousand different degrees of non-positivity, because when I go to bed, I would prefer it to be like…a lot of those people out there…maybe you're even sharing a bed with one of them, and as soon as they lay down…right now they may be even soundly sleeping next to you. Maybe you got a pet. It’s a little bit different. It’s tough to roll our eyes at pets when they're sleeping so soundly, but we can. But yeah, it’s…that’s not my experience, right? I wish it was my experience to have my head hit the pillow and sleep a solid eight and a half hours in a deep, deep slumber, but that’s just not the case. It’s also the case that I don't really feel like a lot of people out there understand what it’s like, and that’s one of the reasons I make the show, and that a lot of people…you might be like, I don't know if you understand what it’s like for me, and I may not. But the good news is — there’s a bunch of layers of goodness — believe it or not, we're kind of that thousand degrees of non-positivity that just I experience.
I didn't realize this ‘til just now when I recording it; we're tens and hundreds of thousands of degrees of a positive version of that coming towards you or in your general direction. Not right at you, 'cause I know you say, I prefer nothing coming at me at bedtime. Yeah, no, not…I don't know what term…I’m getting sent in your general direction across the deep, dark night. There’s listeners, like regular listeners, who are in their beds right now, and they're thinking of you. They're thinking of you as a new listener or a returning listener or a regular listener who’s struggling in the deep, dark night, and they're glad you're here. They're rooting for you. They're sending you comfort right now in this moment from around the world. It’s happening right now. ‘Cause they know what it’s like to have those thousands of degrees of non-positive experience at bedtime. Oh, how could…? Let me count the ways I could describe how it’s non-positive.
But there’s so many more listeners than that non-positive experience out there right now wishing you well. Some of them have dealt with something very similar to what brought you here, and some of them are dealing with something totally different. But that’s the community around the show, and it exists right now in this moment. It’s not something vague I’m referring to. There are people sitting up in their bed, or maybe they're getting cozy and cuddling or sitting somewhere else in their room winding down, sending you kindness right now. If you need it, you're welcome to send it and receive it at the same time or just receive it. Or if you're new or coming back, you could say, eh, I’d just prefer to watch…I'd prefer to have a vague…yeah, I’ll be on the sidelines. That’s cool. This is a show…you're welcome on the sidelines, too.
You're welcome at the outside…well outside the stadium or whatever, whatever metaphor you want to use; the cabin looking in the window, the stadium at a distance, looking at the party…you say, that’s a pretty…I'm pretty comfortable watching this party…that beach party from here. Alls I’m saying is we're glad you're here and we get it, or we strive to…even if not all of us get it exactly. We're happier here, and I hope I can help. That’s what the listeners hope. They hope that the show can help you like it helped them, 'cause we all know you deserve a bedtime where you could get the rest you need on a regular basis, a bedtime you don't have to dread or put off, a bedtime you could look forward to or at least feel neutral about, and that’s something we all wish for you because you deserve it. You deserve a bedtime and the rest you need on a regular basis so not only if your life more manageable, but that ideally you could be out there in the world flourishing.
That’s what the show is really about underneath it all, an indirectly-connected community, like a heart…I don't know. The rest of the show is kinda silly. Just this part’s the important part to point out, and even that…you could just…yeah, you could stay at a distance from it, 'cause I…you know, I need to keep my distance from some of that stuff sometimes, too. I say, okay, that’s enough. I need a break from all that. So, I’m glad you're here. The way the show works is I send my voice across the deep, dark night. I use lulling, soothing, creaky, dulcet tones, pointless meanders, and superfluous tangents. So, I go off topic, I get mixed up, then I forget what I was talking about, then I use a bunch of filler words and stuff like that, then I use even more filler words. But my voice is not traditionally soothing. I send my voice across the deep, dark night, I use lulling, soothing, creaky, dulcet tones, pointless meanders, and superfluous tangents.
I guess I kinda got mixed up there somehow in the moment, but…yeah, I think I was…went on already a few tangents already. So much…I went on a tangent before the show even started during just the very…what we call the teaser or the welcome. But anyway, yeah, this is a little bit different of a show, and the thing is, when most people get here, they don't like the show. So, I don't know if you found the show through a search or a recommendation or you just stumbled upon it, but you may not like…you may be skeptical, you may be doubtful, you may be like, oh man, what are you going on about? I get it. That’s the way most people feel. It ends up, most people never…the show…most people don't ever like me or the show. But for the people it does, it just takes two or three tries. I mean, some people get it right away. Or, for a lot of people it takes two or three tries, and then you say, oh, okay, now I get it.
‘Cause when you first get here, you probably have some reasonable expectation of what a sleep podcast would be, and this show is a bit different than that, right? So, you're like, what are you going…? It’s a bit different. So, just give it a few tries, 'cause that’s what regular listeners…people that…first they didn't like the show. The second time they were like, I’m not so sure about it, and then on the third try they said, oh, it is always going nowhere. It is always never getting started. I had no idea to look for something like this. I didn't think I would want…innately I know I wanted this, but I didn't know someone would make it. So, just see how it goes. If it doesn't work out, like the show is not for you or you're in a place where you already are certain we're not a fit; like, I’m not so sure about you or the podcast, or I’m 100% positive I’m not…I'm having a non-positive experience listening to you, that’s normal, too.
I have a web…it’s so normal I have a website set up, sleepwithmepodcast.com/nothankyou, which has other sleepy stuff on there so you could find something that will help you. It has other sleep podcasts and sleepy stuff, and you'll find something hopefully that’ll help you out. Now, a couple things that do take some getting used to is…one, this is a podcast that you don't really listen to. It’s like a TV…it’s like a out-of-focus picture or a TV on in the other room or a show streaming under your pillow or something you're barely paying attention to or a friend on the phone who’s kind of dull, or a professor or a seminar or a presentation, particularly this style of episode. This is one of the more popular styles. Imagine a friend FaceTime or called you, and you were in bed comfortable, and they said, okay, I got a new plast…what are they called? Interconnected brick set, and I’m just gonna walk you through the instructions for the next forty-five or fifty minutes…you'd say, okay, do you actually expect me to pay…?
What do you mean? Well, I’m gonna go through the instructions, I’m gonna describe what I see…now, there’s one more caveat, which is this particular friend in this…most of the time your friend may have actual working, interconnected-brick vocabulary and knowledge, not…I do not. I don't know my 4×4, 2×6…I mean, I’m familiar with…I think the…no, it’s a 2×4, I think, or a 4×2. So, you'd say, huh, that’s an interesting idea. I say, yeah, but…so, it’s kinda like that, a friend in the deep, dark night to keep you company and talk to you so you could fall asleep, but you don't really need to listen. Listening is optional. This is also a sleep podcast that I’ve been making for about thirteen, thirteen and a half years, or twelve and a half years? I don't even know. But it’s…there’s no pressure to fall asleep with the show. The show is not meant to put you to sleep.
It’s meant to keep you company while you fall asleep. For a person that sleeps well, that may sound like…for anybody it might be confusing. But what I mean is I’m gonna be here over an hour whether you're awake or asleep, whether you're listening to me or not, and that’s why the episodes are over an hour, so you don't have to think about…oh, what do I…what if I’m not asleep in twenty minutes? Or, are you gonna stop talking or putting bricks together or whatever at thirty minutes or forty minutes or…? No, I’m gonna be here to the very end because there’s people listening who can't sleep at all for whatever reason, they're waking up in the middle of the night or early in the morning, they need a break during the day, they just need some company, whatever it is, a mild voice in the deep, dark night or the deep, dark day to be there for them. So, that’s really my job, is…my job is not to put you to sleep.
It’s to hang out with you, and you could fall asleep whenever it works, to be a distraction, to be a misdirection, 'cause my job is to be your bore-friend, your bore-bae, your bore-sib, your neighbore, your borebie, your boreman, your chairman of the boreds, your Boris Borelaf, your best bore-friend f’eva, and just to hang out and not to be listened to, which is pretty sweet. There’s over 600 shows to choose from, so you could…if you start listening on a regular basis, you could kinda…you have plenty of stuff if you need it, or if you start to develop certain tastes around the show, you could kinda pick and choose what works for you. But I’m here to be here for you, a comfort in the deep, dark night, maybe some sleepy joy and delight. That’s what a bore-friend does. A bore-friend is in my…whatever the new mid is, right? Mild, not bad. Like my nana says, he’s not a bad boy. I’m the not-bad boy. Oh, he’s not bad. Oh, she says I’m not bad. She says, yeah, he’s not a bad boy. He’s a not-bad boy.
He’s not bad. No, not like that, though. He’s just not…he’s not bad. I can't do my nana’s voice right now. But it’s in my head echoing always. Even though…it’s only my…a lot of people…you know how…? It’s like, every once in a while somebody will want to ask me or talk to me about the podcast, right? Sometimes they've listened to the show a couple times to be professional, right? Then other times they're actual listeners, and a actual listener will be like, is there…do you have a nana? No, just an…I have an internal nana. Never had a real-world nana, but somehow I got one installed. So, I got that going for me. But she’s…oh, he’s not bad. He’s not-bad boy. I don't quite have her voice down. I’m missing her…my imitation of my internal nana is off right now. Anyway, those are a couple things to know. The other thing if you're new I like to run through is the structure of the show and why we structure it the way we do and how you could adjust it if you become a regular listener.
But you say, I would prefer it this way…I'll lay that out for you. So, the show starts off…friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and I say something silly so you feel seen and welcomed in and you say, hey, I might check that show out. Let me see if it’s gonna work for me. Then there’s support so that paying for the show is optional, because most people only listen to the show when they need it, like for a couple weeks at a time or a couple days at a time. So, it makes sense to listen to a ad-supported, listener-supported version of the show. If you prefer something without ads or you listen all the time, you'll hear ways to do that. But for most people, they prefer paying for it be optional. So, there’s the support, then after the support is a intro of the podcast that takes fifteen to twenty minutes to introduce the podcast, which is terribly inefficient, I’ll be honest. That’s my…that’s not my will; it’s my forte. Well, I guess it is my will and my forte.
Where there’s a Will, there’s a Forte, in the case of Will Forte. But in this case that actually kind of works, because my…the will part is that I will show up every intro and be here for you with something new that follows a familiar structure so that whatever it is that may be keeping you awake, it feels respected, right? Oh, this person’s putting out a new intro every single time. Whatever it is that keeps me awake prefers fresh things versus something repetitive. Stuff in the past that’s worked for me, it only works two or three nights and then it doesn't work anymore if it’s repetitive. So, that’s one of the reasons the intro…every intro is different. But the reason it’s fifteen or twenty minutes long…not just because it’s my forte, but it’s also because the intro is designed to ease you into bedtime, not to put you to sleep. If you fall asleep fast, please consider supporting the show, 'cause this…it’s not…falling asleep fast is great, but it’s not conducive to the long-term sustainability of the show.
But for most people, they're in bed getting comfortable, they're winding down, they're chilling out somewhere, they're getting ready for bed, and the intro is one of the things that just eases you into bedtime, right? So you have a buffer between being awake and asleep. It can be part of your wind-down routine. So, that’s why the intro goes on and on and on for fifteen to twenty minutes. If you decide you don't…you like the show but you'd like the intros, we got you taken care of. There’s another version of the podcast called Bedtime Stories from Sleep With Me. It doesn't have the intros. It just has the welcome and the stories if that works better for you, or if you're like a super-listener and you're on Sleep With Me+, you get both versions at the same time. So…but at first just see how it goes, right?
But yeah, a wind down during the intro, it’s like a sleepover where we all kinda hang out together, and then later on I’ll be doing this run-through of these brick-building instructions and easing you off into dreamland. All told, I’ll be here for about an hour. Yeah, just see how it goes. I’m glad you're here. Or if you're coming back, I’m glad you're back. I really want to help you out. I yearn and strive to help you fall asleep. So does a team of people that work on the show. It’s important to us helping you out in the deep, dark night and bringing you some ease and comfort. If the show brings you comfort on a nightly basis or more than one episode a night…and then there’s a way you could be rebellious and think about supporting one of these sponsors or the show directly. These are the ways you could do it. Thanks.
Alright everybody, this is Scoots. It’s time for some brick building. This is, again, a part…you probably heard me talking about this. But if you're listening to this not in the summer of 2026, you can always support the Trevor Project through the Orlando ParkStop page or directly, 'cause this show is about helping other people and helping you in the deep, dark night and helping people in the deep, dark day. I just want to shout out to Alicia Stella, all the hard work Alicia does not just with the Orlando ParkStop but with this amazing fundraiser, and Horizoneer Design, where I purchased these kits from for getting me the instructions and everything and being…willing to take part in this. Yeah, hopefully a couple of you are getting some cool things. So, we're gonna start…this will be two episodes or so, I think one right at the start of the fundraiser and one right at the end of the fundraiser, but we’ll see, 'cause I have other sets I ordered. Again, this is also variations on a theme.
Last year we were doing the Muppets before the Muppets announcement of the changes of closing down the Muppets Theatre and the Muppets Courtyard, PizzeRizzo. This year we're doing something after Disney is working changing things over, and that’s the Dino Institute. Unfortunately they also closed down Restaurantosaurus, which I know there’s other podcasts and YouTubers who have done deep dives there. Really…it was a really cool restaurant full of so many quality details. Hopefully Disney is gonna start a rebirth of that or a return to that way of doing things instead of designing spaces like you could find anywhere. The Restaurantosaurus was incredibly unique. It had multi layers of story integrated with the land. But tonight’s about brick building, one brick at a time. We’ll see if we can complete the CTX Time Rover from the Dino Institute or if it’ll take us two episodes. It’s been a while. So, we're gonna start off with some plates.
You can't work with the Dino Institute without working with plates. ‘Cause dinos have plates, and the first dino book I ever saw I think was from the Museum of Natural History, and it referred to paintings as plates. But I could be incorrect. But we're gonna start off with two plates. I gotta figure out how to…oh no, we're gonna start off with three plates. Two…we're gonna…one, two, three, four, five…6×6. A 6×6 black or dark-gray plate, and we're gonna put two of those squares side by side, and then we're gonna take a 2x…I'm presuming it’s 12. Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve. So, a 2×12, and we're gonna put that underneath the rectangle we just created, creating a slightly larger rectangle. So, basically working on a base. But then we're gonna flip that base over, or place it on top of something. These are more plates, smaller ones. They are 2x…two, four, sixes. 2X6s.
We’re gonna have one red 2×6, one yellow or mustard 2×6, just like the pipes inside of the Dino Institute that had constructions of mustard, ketchup, and mayo going…maybe it was going to Restaurantosaurus. Did I say two white 2×6 plates? We're gonna use those…hm, this will be interesting. How…? So, we're gonna have our rectangle upside-down, and the top line…and I’ll use north, south, east, and west repeatedly incorrectly. But on the…so, if north is where you're face…you're always facing north, even when you're upside-down, even in a sleep podcast, even when I’m trying to give directions. Straight ahead north or left and right and behind you, I will interchangeably change. So, if north or in front of you, you're gonna have the rectangle like it’s a television. So, not…so, horizontal, not vertical. On the top vertical will be the thinner 2×12, and we're gonna attach that 2×12, as well as attach the 2x2s or 2x6s.
I think the easiest way to do that is to take the red 2×6 plate…and that’s gonna overlap on all of them. So, it’s gonna connect the two 2×6 plates, and on the top two pips, they're gonna attach to the 2×12, thus creating…making all of them secure against one another as a rectangle. Then to the left or west of the…let’s say left for now. To the left of the red plate that we just placed, one pip separating it, we're gonna put a parallel of the yellow plate. So, that’ll be…it’ll have two more pips to its left, empty space, and it’ll overlap on our 2×12 and our left-side 2×6. Then to the right of the red we’ll do our first 2×12…is that a 2×12? Right, 2×6. 2×6 white plate with just a little separation, a one-pip separation. So, it’ll be…its top two pips will be…these are all upside-down. I think…maybe I made that clear. They're pipping into the plate on the underneath of the plate. But there will be a one-pip space to the right of the red plate, and we’ll put that first white plate there, and then we’ll go another white…space.
You say, Scoots, where am I putting this last white plate? I’d say, yeah, it’s gonna overhang. So, one row, its left row when it’s upside-down…the pips will be attached to the 2×12 and our right side of the 2×6 or 6×6. So, it’ll be overhanging, and that will conclude Step 2, but not quite, because…what is…? I’m not sure I understand. Huh. So, I have a new instruction, but I don't understand it. Four…okay, so for the next thing, we need four 2x6s and one 4x…two, four…two, four, six, eight. Oh yeah, 'cause our rectangle is eight, and now it’s 8×12. So, I don't…okay, huh. Okay, I’m confused, but that’s okay. One, two, three, four…okay, so basically what we're gonna do is we're gonna take our 4×8, our white 4×8 plate, and we're gonna…everything is still flipped over, right? We're just gonna extend our base. So, the overhang of the furthest-right plate, we're gonna also use to connect that 4×8 plate to our rectangle.
So, we're just making a larger rectangle where the furthest side is a white plate instead of a black plate. Okay, then we're gonna flip it back over. We're gonna have four 2x6s, and we're gonna…so, we're gonna flip our plate back over. We have now just have one giant plate, in a sense, that’s secured. We're gonna want to place it in front of us as a rectangle, a horizontal rectangle, with the white plate on…the white side on the right and…on the furthest right. Then what we're gonna do is we're gonna take those four 2x6s and we're gonna start securing the top. But we are gonna leave some gaps. So, we're take our first 2×6 and we're gonna place it vertically on the left…top-left of our plank, plank or whatever you call it, plate we’ve…we're creating, our base. We're gonna place this first one vertically. So, there’s two pips above, two pips below, and it’s flush on the left side. Okay? Then we're gonna take the next three 2x6s and we're gonna place those horizontally to the right of the plate we just placed vertically.
We're gonna do these three horizontally flush with the plate we just placed with the pips above and below, one set of pips. So, in a sense we're creating a rectangle on a rectangle. We're also securing the top side of this rectangle. Okay, then we're gonna take two more white 2×6 plates, right? This one we're gonna place horizontally in the middle, so it’s gonna be lined up with the horizontal-middle white 2×6 plate we already placed, kinda complementing it, moving from left to right. Then we're gonna place the other one vertically…another 2×6 white plate vertically flush on the right side of our rectangle with the pips below and pips above. Then we're gonna take two 2×6 black plates or dark-gray plates, and we're gonna place those also horizontally above and below the horizontal white plate we just placed, completing a full rectangle on top of a rectangle that goes all the way…so it’s twelve across, but it’s only six up and down. Okay, and then we're gonna keep our thing in front of us or no?
Yeah, I guess so. No? Oh no, now we're gonna…huh. Okay, what am I doing here? Yeah, I think we're alright. Okay, so now we're on Step 5. On Step 5 we need three 2×6 black or dark-gray plates. So, three of those, and then we need four — now we're moving into blocks — 1x…one, two, four, six…1x6s. So, you know, longer thin ones. Okay, now…huh, how are we gonna do this here? Okay, so what we're gonna do here is we're gonna start…huh, on the left side. We're gonna count three pips in. So, we're gonna…at the top…on our rectangle attached to a rectangle…so, our rectangle that is 6×12 on the left side; it’s made from white plates…we're gonna count three pips on the top line from left to right. One, two, three. On the fourth and fifth pips vertically, we're gonna place one of the dark-gray 2×6 plates. So, it’ll go from top to bottom. Then we're gonna place one of the white blocks, 1×6. Then we're gonna place another dark-gray 2×6 plate. Then we're gonna place a 2×6 dark-gray.
Then we're gonna place two in a row. So, in a row…or one and then another; so, two in a row white 1×6 blocks. So, something is coming up vertically, clearly. Okay, that’s Step 5. Now moving to Step 6, what we're gonna need is one 1×6 block and one…oh no, 2; I’m sorry, 2, 2×6 blocks. So, a 2×6 block is like two blocks…two pips longer than the classic 2×4 Lego block. All these could be reversed, too. I don't know what the difference is, but we're dealing with blocks. Okay, so this one we're gonna build on top of our…or, well, we're gonna be keeping working on what we were working on. The first thing we're gonna do is take one of the 2×6 blocks, and we're go to the left of the…we're gonna place it vertically to the left of the 2×6 plate. So, flush against that plate, top to bottom. So, it should have to the left of it a row of six white pips, and above and below it, one or two levels down…or depending on how you…it’ll be on top of a black rectangle or dark-gray rectangle that has a white rectangle on top of it.
Then we're gonna go all the way to the other end, and we're gonna place the other 2×6 block in the same position on the other end. So, that one will be flush against the two 2×6 blocks, or 1×6 blocks, and it’ll have a row of pips to the right of it, and then pips below and above it. Then on the far-right top of that 2×6 block vertically, we're gonna place the 1×6 block. So, we kinda are starting to see the superstructure of some kind of vehicle, 'cause now that’s the…the right side now has the highest part, except that now what we're gonna do, if…right now it’s in front of us like a television, is a rectangle. We are gonna rotate it 45 degrees counter…no, forty-five degrees clockwise. So, we're gonna take our rectangle and we're gonna place it…we're gonna rotate it clockwise forty-five degrees so that now facing us…or on the bottom will be…the tallest portion is on the bottom and the lowest portion’s on the top, or pointing southerly or at 6:00 is the last piece we just placed at the bottom, but technically not at the…depending…this is where I get mixed up with the terminology.
But I have a feeling this is either gonna be the back or the front of the Time Rover, 'cause next on Step 7 we are gonna place six specialized blocks. So, these are 1×1 blocks with a round…I had the terminology at one point. It has a pip on the front, or one…a single pip on the front of it for attaching stuff. So, it’s a 1×1 block with a little bit of a ridge and then a porthole. Yeah, let’s just call it a 1×1 ridged porthole block for attaching them, and we're gonna place all six of those right at the bottom. We should have a open…now our rectangle is vertical instead of being horizontal, and if we look at the bottom of our rectangle, the bottom line of it, the southern line, the 6:00…oh, 6:00 southern line of Lego blocks or blocks…there should be a line, and we’ll place all six of those so their portholes are facing south or towards 6:00 like they're gonna be for…I think we could presume a little bit; something’s gonna attach to them, whether it’s lights or some sort of bumper.
Whatever it is, it’ll be happening at some point. Okay, now we're gonna…let’s just keep our…let’s keep everything…our rectangle where it is, right? The next thing we're gonna do is get five specialized blocks. The good thing is this comes in a kit, so we don't have to look through every block we have. These are yellow or mustard, and they're L-shaped blocks with a double porthole. So, they're 2x1s. They're L-shaped with portholes on the front, and then on the L are two pips. So, they're meant to be…these are ones that are good for attaching on the bottom of something. What we're gonna do is on the left side…so, the 9:00 west left side of our rectangle on the bottom…so, we’ll just lift off our rectangle a little bit, and running from bottom to top or top to bottom facing…so the portholes are facing out to our left, to the west, to 9:00 as if we were attaching something to the left side, we're gonna run those.
Now, we’ll know where to start, either at the top or the bottom, 'cause we're gonna leave three pips open at the top and the bottom, which means that our…from top to bottom our thing is sixteen pips. So, when we're done, the middle ten pips will be…will have, I don't know, a thing on the left-hand side, 9:00 side, western side of our rover. Oh Rover, oh Rover, we're building you some…you know, la lover. But I think I’ve been somewhat clear there. Now, we're not…now we're moving to Step 9. We’re not gonna repeat the same thing. What we're gonna do is continue building on this left, 9:00, western side. What we're gonna build is more of this area. So, we're gonna do some levelling out, maybe, even. If you're familiar with the Time Rover, you're gonna kinda see something starting to take shape. It could be like a boat, it could be a rover, it could be a ship, it’s…it could be a vehicle. I guess it’s a good time for me to pause and say, hey, this is actually a good superstructure where you could get creative if you're good at that kind of thing with Legos.
But we're gonna continue working on this left, western, 9:00 side of our rectangle, our rover, rectangular rover. What are we gonna need? We're gonna need three 1×1 plates that are dark gray. Or, no, plate…no, no, those things are tiles. I’m sorry; tiles. Holy cow. Tiles have no pips. Plates have pips. So, we're gonna need three 1×1 dark-gray tiles, three 1×1 white plates, one 1×2 tile that’s dark gray, and then one 1×2 plate that’s dark gray. Here’s gonna be the order; we're gonna take it from top left, west, 9:00 p.m. to bottom along the left edge of our rover. Going from top…so, we're gonna start at, whatever, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00? 10:00? Between 10:00 and 11:00? The top-left corner. We're gonna leave two pips open, and then beneath those going vertically we’ll put the 1×2 dark-gray plate. So, one of its pips will be behind our yellow L thing. Then below that we’ll do a 1×1 plate. No, tile; 1×1 dark-gray tile. Below that we’ll do a 1×1 white plate.
So, it’ll be lined up with…you're gonna start to see it lines up with the right colors. Below that we’ll do a 1×2 dark-gray tile. Below that, a 1×1 white plate. Below that, two more 1×1 tiles, and then below that, another 1×1 white plate. So, it’ll go two pips, tile, one pip, tile, tile, one pip, tile, tile, and one pip. But one of those times it’ll be a double tile, and the other time it’ll be single tile. Okay, we're gonna continue working on this side of the rover, and we're gonna have some real specialized stuff here. First we're gonna have a wedge, a 1×1 wedge plate, then we're gonna have five…or, no, a 1×1 wedge tile that’s dark gray, then five yellow-and-black striped plates that are 1×2, but they're tiles, not plates. I keep misvocabularying. Then we're gonna have one 1×1 block that’s white, and one 1×1 block that’s dark gray. Now, the easy part is on the face of our yellow L, we're gonna place the plate…the tiles…the striped tile. So, it says, hey, watch where you put your feet, kinda thing, or this is a Time Rover, by the way.
So, it’s kinda like a decorative stripe across the side of our rover, and it covers up the yellow…all the portholes. Basically all the yellow portholes we're gonna cover with these yellow-and-black striped tiles. Then…how are we gonna do this here? Okay, we're gonna start on the bottom. We're working on the left, 9:00, western side of our rover or rectangle. So, we're gonna go to the bottom corner of our rover, which…and we're gonna have two open white pips going from bottom to top. On the third open pip on the furthest-left side of the bottom-left corner, so right around 6:00, 7:00, between 7:00 and 8:00…so, the third pip we're gonna put the 1×1 white block, then in front of that we're gonna put the 1×1 dark-gray block, then on the top of the dark-gray block we're gonna put the 1×1 wedge plate. On top of that…so, the flat part…so, the wedge is going downwards towards the northern, 12:00 top side of our rover. So, kinda like…so the flat side is connected to the…whatever. You'll get it.
I don't know if…I don't think you could do it wrong, either. Okay, we're gonna continue working here on the left, 9:00, western side of our rover. What are we gonna need? We're gonna need one 2×1 plate, two 1×1 plates, and then three double-porthole 1×1 double-sized…two vertical porthole blocks. So, the portholes or the pips on the side are…pips on the side I think is what I used to use, but I like portholes. Never been on one of those kinda things before with portholes, but…okay, so we have three of those. All these are white. So, what we're gonna do first is take the two 1×1 blocks, put them on top of each other, and then we're gonna put that on top of the white 1×1 block that we placed at the bottom-left of our rover at, whatever, 7:00 or 8:00…between 7:00 and 8:00. We’re gonna place it on top of that. So, it’ll still be two pips, then there’s a 1×1 block, and then we're gonna put these two plates on top of that.
So, now they're flush with the back of our wedge, then in front of that wedge…or a black block with a wedge on top, we're gonna put our first porthole piece. So, it’ll be lined up with the…it’ll make sense, I think, 'cause it’s the only place where it can go because of the plates on the ground. Then we're gonna do the same thing above it. So, two more spots above it, there should be a open pip. The porthole should be facing out to the left, 9:00, west, and then we're gonna do that again above it on the open pip. Then above that, one pip space…there should be two pips which we’ll place the 1×2 white plate on top of. So, that’ll be the only thing that kinda is…takes some deducing. But there should still be a open plate, then two pips, then it drops down to two pips on the upper…around 10:00, 11:00, there should still be two open pips. Yeah. Okay, so now, for right now, we're done with the left side. We're not gonna do any rotating, okay?
So, we're still gonna be referring to stuff in the same general directions in triplicate, as I’ve been doing. This is Step 12. For Step 12 we need one 1×6 block, one 2×6 block, and then three specialized bricks, just to get your attention. It’s a 1×2 specialized block, which is kinda shaped like a figure eight, kind of. It’s a different color than anything we’ve used, like a sandy color, maybe a…maybe more of a…I don't know, a dust…yeah, a dusty…sandy…gray, sandy-esque color. We're gonna need three of those. But so, we're gonna start on our bottom…now we're gonna be working…instead of…we're not moving anything in front of us. So, our rectangle rover is still in a vertical rectangle in front of us. So, pointing at us, if we're working behind it, on the southern 6:00 tier at the bottom, there should be portholes, right? What you're gonna do is…and on top of those portholes on…they have pips on the top, right? You're gonna place one of…the only 1×6 block from left to right along those portholes.
So, you're gonna place that one horizontally across our…the tops of our porthole bricks, thus securing them all together, and it should be flush with another 1×6. Then in front of that, moving upwards northerly towards noon but working from left to right horizontally, we’ll place our 2×6 brick flush with the 1×6 bricks, kinda working out what seems like it might be the back of the rover, but I don't know. Then along that same ridge there should be a open set of pips. We're gonna place the three 2x…1x2s specialized bricks. It’s almost like the back of the seat, maybe, or something. I don't know. But we're seeing more and more structure taking place, right? Oh, and now we're gonna continue that. So, this is gonna make it easy on us. So, then we're gonna get six more of those specialized sandy-gray blocks which are 1×2, and we're gonna do the same thing.
On our…from left to right…it’ll make sense when you're looking at this thing, 'cause you'll see…oh, this is the floor, and then there’s the back of another row of seats, then the floor, then the back of another row of seats. So, we’ll work those from left to right horizontally. Oh, and here we go; even more help. So, now we're gonna take nine…now, these are interesting 'cause they're a combination of a plate and a tile. So, they're a square. They're a 2×2 square, but on one side they're a plate, and on one side they're a tile. So, it’s a tile but with two pips on it on top. We're gonna do nine of those, and we're gonna place those on the floor in front of the pieces we just placed. But so, that the pips…the two pips are always going horizontally across on our 6:00, southern, down-side of our vertical rectangle rover. So, just to kind of help a little bit is that they're like the floor, but something’s probably gonna be attached to the floor on those two pips. Okay, but now we're gonna work on, I guess, the sides.
Okay, so, the next thing is we're gonna do…we're still working vertically. Our rectangle is a vertical rectangle, and we're still working on the left side. So, we're gonna need one 1×2 plate, and then six 1×2 tiles. This is another one where it’s interesting. So, the 1×2 plate is gonna go on the bottom-left two pips. So, our left corner has two open pips, like the most…you first find the leftmost pip in the left…lower-left corner, and there should be one pip on top of that. Put that 1×2 plate on there. Then we're gonna go to our portholes, and we're gonna place the plates on the portholes, but in a way I wouldn't have expected, which is each plate is gonna go on the middle…how do we do this? So, there’s six, so there’s gonna be two for each porthole…huh, or one for each porthole. So, we have three porthole bricks, and they have six…so, we have six pips total, we have six plates total.
So, they're gonna go kinda like…oh, they're gonna line up…they’ll be lined up with the striped plates below them, or they’ll be parallel with them, but they won't be lined up. So, they're gonna be…so, imagine if you were sitting in a seat. The doors don't open or close; you just slide in or out, just like you did in the real attraction. So, there aren't doors so much as a little…there’s a wall piece. It’ll make sense one day. Don't worry. Okay, so, we’ve got that. So, our left structure is starting to take form. Now…huh, one…okay, we're gonna take one 1×2 block and we're gonna place that again on top of the same thing we just placed on the lower-left two pips. So, at…we're gonna go to 6:00 or…6:00 to the south, to the bottom, then we're gonna go to the left, 7:00 or 8:00, and then the two pips…we're gonna place this 1×2 block on those two pips.
Then we're gonna take a 1×2 specialized white brick that kinda looks like…it’s not a wedge, but it’s a quarter-pie piece or half a circle or half an oval or something. You'll recognize it even without me properly describing it. I know you can. We're gonna place those on the pips above the doors we just placed so that it lines up with the doors. It’ll be a little inset. It’ll make sense, believe me. Not just yet, but it will eventually, I think. It just adds a nice curvature, 'cause we want this thing to look modern. Okay, the next thing we're gonna do is we're really getting…so, first we're gonna get one of our 1×1 block, porthole-with-a-ridge pieces, another one. This is a new, fresh one. If we go to the bottom-left that we’ve been working on…when I say go to the south, go to the 6:00 bottom, go to the left…and we had those two pips we’ve been working on. We're gonna go one pip north of that. So, the third pip, and we're gonna place this one on that pip because it should be one plate pip taller than what we were working on.
We're gonna have that porthole facing downwards towards us saying, hi, come on, look in here. So, the porthole will be facing the same direction as all of our other portholes that are on the bottom southern 6:00 of our vertical rectangle rover. Okay, now we're gonna have one of the most specialized pieces I’ve ever seen, which is a 2×2 plate with a curve. What do they call those things? So your mud doesn't get on you when you're in a bike or whatever. I think they're called…it’s not a fender, is it? It’s called something. Mud…it’s not a mud flap. But it’s like a wheel outline thing, basically. We're gonna place that on…so, we have the porthole one we just placed. There should be two open pips, right? Or four open…no, yeah, two open pips. We're gonna place that on the two open pips, just like if we were gonna have our lower-left wheel at some point. It’ll make sense. It will. Okay, then we're gonna do some decorative work above this, what we just placed.
So, we're gonna get two blue 1×1 plates and two 1×1 white plates, and we're gonna stack those. It’ll go 1×1 white plate on the bottom, 1×1 blue plate, 1×1 white plate, 1×1 blue plate. So, then we’ll have a nice four stack of 1×1 plates that looks like a stripe, and then we're gonna rotate it, and we're gonna plug it into that porthole we just installed. So, it kinda looks fancy. You say, wow, that’s some fancy design. Okay, then we're gonna continue fancy design here on Step 19. What we're gonna do is we're get one 1×1 plate, one 1×1 wedge plate…no, no, those are both…no, those are both plates? No, they're…tiles, I’m sorry. Tiles. Then we're gonna get one…another specialized thing. This one’s definitely a mustard. Where the fender we just placed or whatever that thing is is yellow, this one’s more of a sunshiney color, like a sunset color versus a yellow color. Tough to describe, but you'll see it there. Oh, that’s the one, yep. Okay, so we're gonna take that…it’s a curved piece.
Kinda looks like a old-fashioned telephone receiver. We're gonna place that on the opening pips to the right. So, if we're working from left to right…so, from 6:00 to 3:00, west to east, on the left…lower-left side of our vertical rectangular rover, we're gonna place that on the left side, like on top. So, it’s kinda like a double wheel well thing. It’ll totally make sense, okay? Then on top of our porthole pip we're gonna place the 1×1…what is this thing called? Tile. Then on the front of the blue-and-white striped thing we're gonna place the 1×1 wedge tile. It’s almost like you can see this back-left side of the car starting to develop, clearly. I mean, not in my description, but you know. Alright, now we're gonna keep working on this lower…we're not doing anything with our rover, so it’s still in front of us in vertical, rectangle rover. What we're gonna get is some plates. We're gonna get two 1×1 white plates, one 2×4 white plate, and then one 1x…two, four, six…let’s just call it the sandy plate.
It matches the other sandy stuff we placed. Now, this is…we're gonna be working horizontally, or overall horizontally on this back…the back horizontal portions of our rover. We're gonna leave one open set of pips horizontally. So, there should be one, two, three, four, five, six…a row of open pips. Then above that we're gonna place on the left side…first we're gonna do it vertically, a 1×2 plate. Then after that, the 2×4 plate, and then after that, a 1×2 plate, creating, in a sense, a 2×6 plate, essentially. Then above that going horizontally will be our 1×6 kinda sandy plate. Okay? Yeah, it kinda makes sense. Oh yeah, that looks great. Okay, now we're gonna do some porthole fancification. So, we're gonna be working on either the front or the back of the rover. I have no idea. But we're gonna be making it look good. We're gonna be covering up our portholes. So, we're gonna need some specialized stuff, all different styles of tiles. It’s a podcast just about tiles, on brick building tiles.
So, we're gonna have a 1×1 tile that’s a rectangle that is transparent but is a orangeish, sandy color, then a 1×1 circular, gray tile, then a 1×2 black grate tile, and then a 1×2 tile that’s kind of…it has two things…two notches. Yeah, that’s the one. It’s got two notches and it just looks…it’s kinda got…I don't know, bevelled. Oh yeah, bevelled. I guess it’s bevelled with two notches. Double-notch bevel. That sounds like a ski slope or something, Two Notch Bevel. We're gonna start to decorate our portholes that run along this back and possibly back end. So, at 6:00 on the west…is it west? No, no, south, bottom of our rectangular…rectangle vertical rover on the…so, we have all our portholes. On the furthest-left porthole we’ll put the circular, gray tile. Then next to that, on the next two portholes, we’ll put the grate…whoa boy, what a great grate tile. Then after that, the transparent tile. Maybe it’s just some sort of light. Then after that, the bevelled, double-notch tile. Okay?
Alright, then we’ll finish up here with a couple…we're gonna work on this part and then we’ll finish up here. So, the next thing we're gonna do…we're gonna keep working on this. Whether it’s the front or the back, I do not know. But we're gonna get three white 1×2 wedge tiles, and then two of the same yellow L 1×2 double-porthole plates, I guess, reverse plates. It’ll make sense. So, we're gonna take the three 1×2 wedges, and we're gonna place those along that edge above the decorative stuff we just worked on. So, it’ll be the plates we just placed on the portholes, then a line, and then we’ll…on the top of that line we’ll put the wedges so that they're going downhill towards us, kinda creating a nice front or back of a vehicle. Then we’ll place…on the underside, just like we did on the left side, in the middle going outward, side by side, the two 2×2 L things. Then we're gonna take…in the next step we're gonna get a 1×2 grate…dark-gray grate tile, and then two barrels, 1×1 barrels that are circles that are dark gray.
We're gonna go…on the thing we just placed…so, it’s kinda coming out the back, we're gonna go barrel, grate, barrel on our portholes. Just like that great piece of wisdom; barrel, grate, barrel. Okay, and then we're building this out a little bit more here. So, then…so, this is the front or the back. Makes sense. Okay, now we're gonna take a 1x…one, two, three, four…one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight…not canary yellow; mustard-yellow plate. So, a 1x whatever I said, six or eight. Two, four, six, eight. Just 1×8 plate, and then another specialized tile, the same color. It’s…maybe it has two pips on the bottom. It has a wedge. It has a pip on the top. We're gonna place those on the bottom of the 1×8 so it kinda creates a bolt-type thing or a arrow-type thing. But it’s really a bumper, 'cause then we're gonna attach it to the barrels along…we're basically putting the bumper on, attaching it to the barrels we just placed so that the pips are facing towards us, and on the left and right side are these little angle pieces.
Then what we're gonna do is fill in the open pips with four more plates that are stripe…yellow-and-black stripes. So, then we have a bumper that matches the left side of our vehicle, and that’s Step 25. So, I think that’s a good place to stop for now, and then we’ll be back to finish this off, and maybe we’ll even get into another pack? I don't even know at the end of this month. So, make sure to let me know. Stay in touch. If you support the Orlando ParkStop Fundraiser, follow whatever instructions…I record these pretty far out, so follow whatever other instructions, 'cause we should be giving some stuff away. Thanks, and goodnight.
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Brick Builder
Art of the movie trailer
https://www.brownfilmmagazine.com/blog/history-of-trailers-will-havens
https://www.20k.org/episodes/in-a-world
Horizoneer Design / Independent Lego Art
https://www.creativebloq.com/inspiration/lego-art-1233496
Restaurantosaurus
https://wdwnt.com/2026/02/last-look-at-restaurantosaurus-in-disneys-animal-kingdom/
https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/restaurantosaurus/
https://allears.net/2012/10/01/a-history-of-dinoland-u-s-a-and-restaurantosaurus-part-one/
Porthole
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bydesign/5836106
https://www.marineinsight.com/ship-portholes-a-general-overview/
DOWN TO BUSINESS
Limited Block-Based Vocabulary
Who’s that Peanuts character that says, “Blockhead”?
Sleepy joy and delight in the deep dark night
Blocks aren’t just toys, y’know?
The Dickensian Universe within the Multiverse
Surely, there’s puppies named Pip
A Puppy Named Pip: My Story
Being referred to in the eighth person
PLUGS
Orlando Parkstop / Stop Hate Fundraiser; Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Emily Tat Artwork Crisis Textline
SPONSORS
Odoo; Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Coyuchi; Aura
INTRO
I definitely strive to bring you sleepy joy and delight in the deep dark night
However you come to be here tonight, I’m glad you’re here
1,000 different degrees of non-positivity
But we’re hundreds of thousands of degrees coming at you, indirectly and positively
Getting sent in your general direction
Plenty of listeners are sending you comfort right now from around the world
You’re welcome to be on the sidelines, or even outside the stadium if you like
A world of meanders and tangents
I use plenty of filler words
I went on a tangent before the show even started
If you’re skeptical, I get it
Oh, it is always going nowhere
A dull friend calling you to talk about plastic bricks
A new interconnected brick set
My job is to be your borefriend
Whatever the new Mid is
The Not Bad Boy, as my Inner Nana says
I can’t do my nana’s voice right now, but it’s in my head always
Somehow, I got a nana installed in my brain, so I got that going for me
Explaining the show’s structure
Where there’s a will, there’s a forte
If you fall asleep fast, please consider supporting the show
It’s like a sleepover where we all hang out together
STORY
If you’re listening to this not in the summer of 2026, you can always support the Trevor Project
Shout out to the Orlando Parkstop
Shout out to Alicia Stella and all of her hard work
Also Horizoneer Design!
This’ll be two episodes to bookend the fundraiser
Last year, we did the Muppets before the Muppets announcement
This year, we’re doing the Dino Institute
And Restaurantosaurus
The CTX Time Rover from the Dino Institute
You can’t start without plates
Starting with 3 plates
6×6 black plate
2 squares side by side
A 2×12 plate underneath that
Creating a slightly larger rectangle
Flip that base over!
2x6s
Pipes of condiments
Hmm, this is interesting
I’ll use compass directions (incorrectly)
Attach the 2x12s and the 2x6s
The red plate will overlap all of them
Oh, this is all upside down, by the way
Pipping into the plate
This last white plate is gonna overhang
That’s not quite the end of step 2
I don’t understand this new instruction
4 2x6s and 1 4×8
I’m confused but that’s okay
The overhang will connect these smaller pieces
One giant plate, confirmed
Places these three plats horizontally, not vertically
Placing a rectangle on a rectangle
2 more white horizontal plates
2 2×6 black plates
Place those horizontally over the other horizontal plates
A rectangle on top of a rectangle
Huh, what am I doing here?
Step 5
3 black plates
4 1x6s
3 pips on the top line
2 white blocks in a row
Something vertical is coming up, clearly
1 1×6 block
2 2×6 blocks
2 pips longer than the classic block
Take a 2×6 block and place it vertically to the left of the 2×6 plate
Rotate it 45 degrees clockwise
The tallest portion is now on the bottom
The last place is now pointing…southerly
I think this will be the back of the time rover
A 1×1 ridged porthole block
The six o’clock southern line
That’ll be for lights or a bumper or something
Get 5 specialized blocks
Yellow, L-shaped blocks with a double porthole
These are good for attaching on the bottom of something
The 9:00, west side
Portholes face out to the left and west
Oh rover, oh rover we’re building you … la lover
Building on the western side
Something is beginning to take shape
Holy cow, I can’t believe I called a tile a pip
The left edge of our rover
Plates below Tiles
The colors begin to align
5 yellow and black striped plates
1 1×1 white block, and 1 1×1 gray block
The striped tiles indicate to pay attention
Covering up the portholes of the striped tiles
1×1 Wedge Plate
Whatever, you’ll get it
Working on the 9 o’clock western side
3 double porthole, 1×1, double sized, vertical porthole blocks
Pips on the Side
I like the term Porthole
An open pip to the west
For now, we’re done with the left side
The same general directions in triplicate
Step 12
3 specialized bricks
Gray sandy-esque Color
Our rectangular rover is currently vertical
Portholes on top
I think this is the back of the rover, but I don’t know
Combination plate/tiles, oh boy
A tile with pips on it, somehow
Now let’s work on the sides
The leftmost pip
Place the plates on the portholes
6 Pips Total
They’ll be lined up with the striped plates below them
It’ll make sense one day, don’t worry
One 1×2 block below the pips at around 6:00
A quarter pie piece
You’ll recognize it even without me properly describing it
It’ll make sense, believe me
A nice curvature to make it look modern
One of the most specialized pieces I’ve ever seen
2×2 with a curve and a … mudflap?
2 Open Pips
Stack some 1×1 plates
Plug this plate block into a porthole
Wow, that’s some fancy design
Tiles, not plates
This piece looks like an old-fashioned telephone receiver
Place that on the left side on the top
A double wheel well thing
You can see the back left side of the car developing, clearly (not by my description, though)
2 1×1 white plates
The back horizontal portions of our rover
Porthole Fancification
We’ll need some specialized stuff to cover up these portholes
Styles of Tiles, a podcast about brick building tiles
A 1×2 black tile
These tiles have notches on top
Double notched bevel – that sounds like a ski slope
What a great grate
We’ll finish up in a sec
3 white 1×2 wedge tiles
2 yellow, double porthole reverse plates
The wedges go downhill towards us
Dark Gray Grate Tile
Some 1×1 barrels
Barrel Grate Barrel on the porthole
A wedge with pips on top
A bolt-type thing
This makes the bumper
The pips will face towards us
Fill in the open pips with 4 more striped plates
The bumper matches the left side of our vehicle
That was step 25, we’ll pause for now
Support Orlando Parkstop!
Follow other instructions, because we should be giving some stuff away
SUMMARY:
Episode: 1448
Title: Dino Institute Rover, Part 1 | Brick Builder
Plugs: Orlando Parkstop / Stop Hate Fundraiser; Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Emily Tat Artwork Crisis Textline
Sponsors: Odoo; Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; Coyuchi; Aura
Notable Language:
- Pip
- Sleepy joy and delight in the deep, dark night
- 1,000 different degrees of non-positivity
- A new interconnected brick set
- The Not Bad Boy
- Mid
- Where there’s a will, there’s a forte
- Pipping into the plate
- Ridged Porthole Block
- Six O’Clock Southern Line
- Oh rover, oh rover we’re building you … la lover
- Porthole
- Gray sandy-esque Color
- Fancy Design
- Porthole Fancification
- Styles of Tiles
- Double notched bevel
- Great Grate
- Barrel Grate Barrel
- Bolt-Type Thing
Notable Culture:
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- LEGO
- My Inner Nana
- Caddyshack
- Will Forte
- Orlando Parkstop
- The Trevor Project
- Alicia Stella
- Horizoneer Design
- The Muppets
- Walt Disney World
- The Dino Institute
- Restaurantosaurus
- Museum of Natural History
- Styles of Tiles, a podcast about brick building tiles
Notable Talking Points:
- I definitely strive to bring you sleepy joy and delight in the deep dark night
- However you come to be here tonight, I’m glad you’re here
- 1,000 different degrees of non-positivity
- But we’re hundreds of thousands of degrees coming at you, indirectly and positively
- Getting sent in your general direction
- Plenty of listeners are sending you comfort right now from around the world
- You’re welcome to be on the sidelines, or even outside the stadium if you like
- A world of meanders and tangents
- I use plenty of filler words
- I went on a tangent before the show even started
- If you’re skeptical, I get it
- Oh, it is always going nowhere
- A dull friend calling you to talk about plastic bricks
- A new interconnected brick set
- My job is to be your borefriend
- Whatever the new Mid is
- The Not Bad Boy, as my Inner Nana says
- I can’t do my nana’s voice right now, but it’s in my head always
- Somehow, I got a nana installed in my brain, so I got that going for me
- Explaining the show’s structure
- Where there’s a will, there’s a forte
- If you fall asleep fast, please consider supporting the show
- It’s like a sleepover where we all hang out together
- If you’re listening to this not in the summer of 2026, you can always support the Trevor Project
- Shout out to the Orlando Parkstop
- Shout out to Alicia Stella and all of her hard work
- Also Horizoneer Design!
- This’ll be two episodes to bookend the fundraiser
- Last year, we did the Muppets before the Muppets announcement
- This year, we’re doing the Dino Institute
- And Restaurantosaurus
- The CTX Time Rover from the Dino Institute
- You can’t start without plates
- Starting with 3 plates
- 6×6 black plate
- 2 squares side by side
- A 2×12 plate underneath that
- Creating a slightly larger rectangle
- Flip that base over!
- 2x6s
- Pipes of condiments
- Hmm, this is interesting
- I’ll use compass directions (incorrectly)
- Attach the 2x12s and the 2x6s
- The red plate will overlap all of them
- Oh, this is all upside down, by the way
- Pipping into the plate
- This last white plate is gonna overhang
- That’s not quite the end of step 2
- I don’t understand this new instruction
- 4 2x6s and 1 4×8
- I’m confused but that’s okay
- The overhang will connect these smaller pieces
- One giant plate, confirmed
- Places these three plats horizontally, not vertically
- Placing a rectangle on a rectangle
- 2 more white horizontal plates
- 2 2×6 black plates
- Place those horizontally over the other horizontal plates
- A rectangle on top of a rectangle
- Huh, what am I doing here?
- Step 5
- 3 black plates
- 4 1x6s
- 3 pips on the top line
- 2 white blocks in a row
- Something vertical is coming up, clearly
- 1 1×6 block
- 2 2×6 blocks
- 2 pips longer than the classic block
- Take a 2×6 block and place it vertically to the left of the 2×6 plate
- Rotate it 45 degrees clockwise
- The tallest portion is now on the bottom
- The last place is now pointing…southerly
- I think this will be the back of the time rover
- A 1×1 ridged porthole block
- The six o’clock southern line
- That’ll be for lights or a bumper or something
- Get 5 specialized blocks
- Yellow, L-shaped blocks with a double porthole
- These are good for attaching on the bottom of something
- The 9:00, west side
- Portholes face out to the left and west
- Oh rover, oh rover we’re building you … la lover
- Building on the western side
- Something is beginning to take shape
- Holy cow, I can’t believe I called a tile a pip
- The left edge of our rover
- Plates below Tiles
- The colors begin to align
- 5 yellow and black striped plates
- 1 1×1 white block, and 1 1×1 gray block
- The striped tiles indicate to pay attention
- Covering up the portholes of the striped tiles
- 1×1 Wedge Plate
- Whatever, you’ll get it
- Working on the 9 o’clock western side
- 3 double porthole, 1×1, double sized, vertical porthole blocks
- Pips on the Side
- I like the term Porthole
- An open pip to the west
- For now, we’re done with the left side
- The same general directions in triplicate
- Step 12
- 3 specialized bricks
- Gray sandy-esque Color
- Our rectangular rover is currently vertical
- Portholes on top
- I think this is the back of the rover, but I don’t know
- Combination plate/tiles, oh boy
- A tile with pips on it, somehow
- Now let’s work on the sides
- The leftmost pip
- Place the plates on the portholes
- 6 Pips Total
- They’ll be lined up with the striped plates below them
- It’ll make sense one day, don’t worry
- One 1×2 block below the pips at around 6:00
- A quarter pie piece
- You’ll recognize it even without me properly describing it
- It’ll make sense, believe me
- A nice curvature to make it look modern
- One of the most specialized pieces I’ve ever seen
- 2×2 with a curve and a … mudflap?
- 2 Open Pips
- Stack some 1×1 plates
- Plug this plate block into a porthole
- Wow, that’s some fancy design
- Tiles, not plates
- This piece looks like an old-fashioned telephone receiver
- Place that on the left side on the top
- A double wheel well thing
- You can see the back left side of the car developing, clearly (not by my description, though)
- 2 1×1 white plates
- The back horizontal portions of our rover
- Porthole Fancification
- We’ll need some specialized stuff to cover up these portholes
- Styles of Tiles, a podcast about brick building tiles
- A 1×2 black tile
- These tiles have notches on top
- Double notched bevel – that sounds like a ski slope
- What a great grate
- We’ll finish up in a sec
- 3 white 1×2 wedge tiles
- 2 yellow, double porthole reverse plates
- The wedges go downhill towards us
- Dark Gray Grate Tile
- Some 1×1 barrels
- Barrel Grate Barrel on the porthole
- A wedge with pips on top
- A bolt-type thing
- This makes the bumper
- The pips will face towards us
- Fill in the open pips with 4 more striped plates
- The bumper matches the left side of our vehicle
- That was step 25, we’ll pause for now
- Support Orlando Parkstop!
- Follow other instructions, because we should be giving some stuff away
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