1456 – Dino Institute Rover, Part 2 | Brick Builder

Episode 1456 – Dino Institute Rover, Part 2 | Brick Builder

 

SCOOTER: Friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, so nice welcoming you all I did it twice. What…? Friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…if only ‘four’ rhymed with ‘thrice’, I’d do it four times. It was quite…but it’s quice so nice to have you here. Welcome to Sleep With Me, the podcast that’s here to keep you company, take your mind off of stuff, and be your friend in the deep, dark night, maybe bring you some sleepy joy and delight across or within the deep, dark night, and to rhyme not so much after this, 'cause if I keep rhyming, you'll feel something that rhymes with ‘this’ but with two Ss at the end, and maybe an -ed. So, I’m glad you're here. If you're new, welcome. This show does take some tries to get used to.

 

The idea of having a friend hanging out with you to help you fall asleep and keep you company is a really different idea even though I’ve been doing the show a long time. So, it does take some adjusting or just getting used to. Actually, it’s more of adjusting by doing nothing except pretending…well, maybe we’ll talk about that later, how to pretend to be an active listener for a sleep podcast, not in your real life. But if you're new, I’m glad you're here and I hope I can help you out, and let’s see how it goes. If you're coming back during a tough time, you got something coming up or whatever, I’m glad to be here when you need me. I’m on call. That’s one of the best things about being…the old, temporary bore-friend. That should be a song. I guess I’m feeling like eighties, nineties pop-punk, My Temporary Bore-Friend, but maybe…there probably was a song like…a similar title, but I just can't think of it. It seems like it writes itself. Oh, my temporary bore-friend.

 

Anyway, but…and then if you come back night after night, week after week, year after year, I’m glad you're here as well. I’m hoping to help everybody out and…just by hanging. Tonight we’ll be building bricks as part of the Orlando ParkStop Fundraiser — you'll probably hear separate messages from this 'cause I record stuff way ahead of time — about all the great stuff we're doing and opportunities to participate or even get something cool, and you know more than I do right now 'cause you probably heard those messages. But yeah, I’m glad you're here. The way the show works is we got some support coming up so that paying for the show is optional, then a long, meandering intro meant to ease you into bedtime, and then later on we’ll be going through the instructions of a brick-building kit or two. So, I’m glad you're here. I work really hard. I yearn and I strive. I really hope I can help you fall asleep. Thanks again for coming by, and if you do come back night after night, you've been listening to the show for years and you're in a place where you could support the show and you just happen to be hearing me and you're like, yeah, I want to be a part of this thing, part of this magic that helps so many other people out, you could either support one of these sponsors or there will be requests to support the show directly. 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 about the past, the present, the future, thoughts you're thinking about, it could be feelings coming up for you, feelings related to those thoughts or feelings that are just there, it could be physical sensations, changes in time, temperature, routine, you could be going through something, getting over something, in the middle of something, traveling, maybe you work a different schedule, maybe you got a lot going on, or maybe it’s kinda one of those things…you say, I just don't even know.

 

Whatever it is, I’m glad you're here, and the reason I run through some of that stuff is kinda the opposite of when…normally during the day it happens, it makes…at least for me it makes me feel a little bit lonely. But here — and it may take some getting used to — it’s a welcoming thing. I’m trying to make you be seen in a indirect way or heard or understood, but in a way where there’s not…it’s not…it shouldn't feel performative or participatory. You could just passively…I don't know, is that possible, to be…? Yeah, I’d like to be seen and heard in a reflective way. Okay. Or like where one of the walls absorbs it. I know it’s there. You're having an understanding of me, but it’s absorbed in a wall on the other side of the room. So, if I need it, I could…I know it’s there. Okay, so you're saying you want me to design something where I could make you feel seen or heard or understood, and the wall will store it for you. No, no, no, not exactly.

 

I don't know if that would…'cause then I’d have to decide…or, no, no, it’s more like…it’s like molasses or something. Like slower than…huh. Yeah, kinda like…it’s not stored there; it’s just there. It never…it’s making its way to me, but I could move around, too. Then I might have to hit another wall. It’s like…kinda like it’s moving through some sort of foam slowly. I say, okay, no, it’s over on that wall if I need it. That could be a little bit confusing even for me, as the…they were not…believe it or not, they weren't able to design…they said, sir, this is an acoustics panelling company. I’d say, I get that part. So, anyway, it didn't go anywhere. Another part…another confusing co-lab.

 

But the reason I really run through all that stuff is because on this show, here right now, this beginning of the podcast, is when everybody’s kind of separate and together at the same time in a comfortable way, how anybody chooses to, but that I know what it feels like for me and all of the variety of sleep challenges I’ve had, and I know it’s a non-positive experience for me; anticipating it, experiencing it, and experiencing it the day after, in the moment, in the middle of the night. All those things are not easy for me, and I know what it feels like for me underneath all that, and I don't know what it’s like for you. I don't know what brought you here, but I always wonder in an open way, might there be some similarities or something we share, even if it’s a sense that…even if our experiences are different? I say, well, non-positive is a pretty good way to sum it up.

 

So, that’s one layer of how we're gathered together here, but there’s another layer which is that there’s enough people listening right now in this moment around the world at a nice, safe, comforting distance, that there’s people who have been through something similar to what brought you here, something closely similar or at least a similar feeling or a similar experience where they really do get where you're at. Some of those people that are listening right now are wishing you well in this moment. They are sending you kindness and welcome across the deep, dark night, whether this is your first time listening, your thousandth time listening, or you're listening for these two weeks and then a couple years from now you listen to the show when you need it again. Whatever it is, they're sending you those well wishes right now, because they do get it and they want to send you some comfort, too, 'cause they're glad you're here and they know the show helps them out.

 

They also know how good it feels to send it, and a lot of people know, hey, sometimes I’m gonna need to receive. I’m gonna need to know all those Sleep With Me listeners across the world are rooting for me right now. That’s actually…these are actual facts. There’s not many facts on this podcast, but the fact is there’s people listening to the show right now, and yeah, they don't know you, and yeah, it’s indirect, but they do care and they are sending their caring to you. There’s other people — if you're the one sending it out — that are receiving it, and I guess it is magic. It’s a indirect magic, but it’s real.

 

So…and it’s important because we’ve all been there in…at least in having a non-positive experience, and I can laugh about it because I know there’s some comfort there in this shared thing that we are kinda supporting one another and that you deserve a bedtime where you can get the rest you need so your life is more manageable tomorrow, a bedtime you don't have to dread, a bedtime you could look forward to or at least feel neutral about, or a bedtime routine that has things you enjoy in it so it anchors you to say, well, at least I look forward to these things at bedtime, and that you know that there really is a community around the world. In all rebelliousness, we share something nice together and we're sending it and receiving it or doing both things. Or being passive is just fine. So, that’s the thing, because ideally you get the rest you need on a regular basis, where it’s…whether it’s through this podcast or I introduce you to another podcast later on in the show that’ll help you out.

 

So, I’m glad you're here. I hope we can help. 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 kinda forget what I was talking about, then I’ll go on another tangent, and…filler words, all that kinda stuff. My voice is not traditionally soothing; it’s creaky, dulcet, soothing, or whatever that other word I said was. When you first get to this show, not only the creaky, dulcet tones, pointless meanders, and superfluous tangents might be confusing, but if you found the show through a search or a recommendation or you just stumbled upon it, whatever brought you here, you probably had some expectation of what a sleep podcast would be, or maybe you tried other sleep stuff, whether it’s sleep audio or anything else. Then you're like, well, this show…this isn't what I expected. That’s normal.

 

If this is your first time listening to a sleep podcast or something, of course you're gonna be skeptical or doubtful, 'cause if you've been having trouble sleeping on and off and you've tried a bunch of different things, you're probably at the point where you just want something that’s gonna work. Maybe you're a little bit like me; I just want something…I've tried a lot of things and I’m skeptical, I’m doubtful, and now you're going on and on and on, and seemingly about nothing. So, this show does take some getting used to, and most regular listeners who have been listening to the show twelve, thirteen years, that support the show or that just started supporting the show…I get e-mails a lot; hey, it took two or three or four times. Most people don't…the people that listen four times and then it works, that’s a pretty steep hill, right? But at first I didn't like the show; the second time I listened I was kinda like, what is going on here?

 

Then the third time I listened, either I fell asleep or I was like, oh, I kinda get it. He’s just hanging with me and kinda taking my mind off of stuff. It’s like a bedtime story for kids, but a little bit more adult in nature, not so much content. Like, I feel like he’s on my level. Or maybe you're on…you may be at a slightly higher level than me. Let’s just say…let me just say that in a non-deprecating way. It’s like, we're on the same level. I get it. But I’m a little bit more of a goofball, like your goofy friend that goes on and on and on about nothing. Particularly tonight we’ll be talking…I mean, we already talked about something important we could be involved in, supporting other people through the Orlando ParkStop Fundraiser, but I’m also just gonna be reading through instructions on brick building, and that’s not particularly engaging. It’s not totally boring, though, either, and that’s what works, is I kinda try to get your attention and take your mind off of stuff.

 

But that takes some getting used to, 'cause at first if you thought this was gonna be a sleep podcast with something more meditative or guru-like or whatever…I mean, I can't even…I'm gonna be doing an episode about brick building, and again, my vocabulary —even though I’ve been working on it…this may be my fifth episode of brick building I’ve done — it’s not great. So…but that’s what makes it work. It’s like a imperfect friend. But that takes some getting used to. Now, if you discover…you've listened two or three times and you're like, this is not the show for me, you are not the sleep podcaster for me, the bedtime bore-friend for me, or you already are…know it now on your first listen, that’s totally cool, too. It’s actually good news, because I can give…I have a website set up just for you in mind, 'cause you don't have to like me or the podcast, and you don't have to like me or the podcast to deserve a good night's sleep.

 

So, I have a website set up, sleepwithmepodcast.com/nothankyou, and that has other sleep podcasts and sleepy stuff on there. But maybe if you're uncertain, that gives you a little bit more space to give this show a try, 'cause there’s no pressure for it to work or for you to like it, 'cause you could just go to that website and start checking out other stuff. The great news with the internet and podcasting is there’s a lot of different styles, and this show is kind of its own style. So, check it out if it doesn't work out, but I’m glad you're here and I want to try to help you out if I can. So, that’s one thing, most people don't like me or the show, and that takes some getting used to. It’s pretty funny. But it’s like…it took me a long time ‘til I set up that website and I realized, oh, okay, it can help…I can at least try to help everybody out who listens and steer you in the right direction.

 

The other thing is this idea of passive listening or not…this is a sleep…a podcast that you kind of listen to, but you don't need to listen. So, it is like sound panels absorbing most of the sound or the energy, a TV on in the other room that’s at a comfortable volume, a show streaming under your pillow, FaceTiming a dull friend or a friend on the phone, music across the breeze, wind lightly through the trees, sand passing through your hands, nice water running through your toes, your feet, or just the imagery of that kind of stuff, or clouds in the sky, nice…you know, nice clouds. Or, I don't know, clouds. I've done a lot of episodes about clouds. Clouds, you're all pretty cool, except…if you could…unless I’m…keep some of that stuff…hold onto it for a few more feet. By the way, this is probably not the best time to say thank you to a set of clouds or a weather thing, but I was staying at motel in an industrial area near an airport, and so, I had to go to the hotel early just 'cause of my ride.

 

Then I was like, well, I might as well walk around for a few hours, 'cause I don’t want to stay in the hotel from 2:00 ‘til I go to bed. It was like a motel, so it wasn't like…but so, I was walking around, and I got some good walking in, 'cause there’s nothing I love more…it’s funny. It was cool walking around. There was actually one mall that was almost…maybe Ray will talk about this. Ray was with me. But anyway, at some point I was like, okay, I gotta get dinner. It’s a little early for dinner, but there was a place that looked kinda good that I could pick up dinner from. The clouds were coming. They waited…now, I mean, yeah, I know clouds aren't perfect. They waited ‘til I almost got to my motel, and I was about…so, it worked out because I was able to pick up my pace. I went to the wrong place at first 'cause it was one more block, but I made it without getting soaked. So, thank you, clouds. I am…by the way, I am pandering to you, to hope…hoping to win some favors. So, what was I saying?

 

Oh, don't really listen to me. I mean, obviously. But this is a sleep podcast that I’ve been making since 2013, and I’m not here to put you to sleep. There is no pressure to fall asleep with this show. That’s the reason the episodes are over an hour, so you don't have to wonder, what if I’m not asleep in twenty minutes? You got plenty of episode to go, and there’s plenty more episodes that are out there for you to listen to. But there’s also people listening who can't sleep at all, who need a break during the day, or they need something to listen to while they're at work, or they need episode after episode after episode, or they're waking up early or in the middle of the night. So, I’m here to keep you company, not to put you to sleep. I’m here to set the mood for you to go to sleep or to take your mind off of stuff so you could just…literally fall asleep, or drift off into dreamland indirectly. That’s what the show is about. It’s very indirect. It’s a misdirect and it’s indirect.

 

‘Cause I’m here to be your bore-friend, your bore-bae, your bore-sib, your bore-bud, your borebie, your boreman, your borer, your Boris Borelaf, your chairman of the boreds, your bore-bra, your…what was that? Your bore-sib, your bore-cuz, your best bore-friend f’eva, and just keep you company and hang out with you. That’s what a bore-friend does, so you could fall asleep. Or if you need me…'cause that was the other thing I really needed, right, was someone…but no one could keep me company five, six, seven nights a week. So, that’s what I’m here to do. Again, we have 600+ episodes, so if you do need me every night this year, I can do that. Yeah, just see how it goes. The last thing I like to run through for new listeners or people that are returning…we haven't really changed the structure of the show in a long, long time. But the show is structured in a specific way, and like every podcast, it is adjustable or there’s some options.

 

But this version of the show just benefits the maximum amount of people the show can, and again, to go back to that indirect community message, that’s great that I can help out, 'cause this show is different and people that do enjoy it, they're like, I never knew something like this could exist or that I…I didn't know to look for something like this. That’s why it’s important to be available to the maximum amount of people it could benefit, 'cause it doesn't work for everybody. So, the show starts off with a greeting; friends beyond the binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, so you feel seen and welcomed in, and maybe I say something silly so you say, oh, okay, I get the tone of the show, too; I’ll check it out. Then after that is support so that paying for the show is optional, because most people don't want to pay for a podcast, right? Especially if you're not gonna…if it’s not for you or you don't listen every single night, or you don't listen…so, yeah.

 

If you prefer something without ads or you listen all the time, you could get that on Sleep With Me+. But for most people, this version works. Then after the support, totally separate from the support, is a show within a show, the intro to the podcast, that takes fifteen to twenty-five minutes of me tangentially explaining the…explaining how the podcast works, and I follow a familiar structure every time, but every intro is different so that whatever keeps you awake has something new every time, and this is kinda the part of the show where I ease you into bedtime, where I slowly help you wind down and get comfortable. So, most people are getting ready for bed, in bed getting comfortable, or winding down in some manner. So, the intro is not designed to put you to sleep. If it does put you to sleep, please consider supporting the show.

 

Or if you find you don't like the intros…you like the podcast but not the intros, we have a podcast set up, Bedtime Stories from Sleep With Me with just the stories…the greeting and the stories. Then, what else? What am I forgetting? Structure of the show. Okay, so the intro goes on and on and on to ease you into bedtime, to be like a buffer between being awake and asleep. Then after that will be some support, then we’ll have our brick-building episode. All told, I’ll be here for about an hour to keep you company and take your mind off of stuff so you could fall asleep. If you're new, I’m glad you're here. Give the show a few tries. If you're coming back during a tough time, I’m hopeful I can keep helping you out. If you listen a lot, if you listen all the time or work nights or school nights or weeknights, and this podcast greatly improves your life, you would miss this show if it was gone, and you're willing…like, you're the people that really do help us keep making this podcast. These are the ways you say, yes, that’s me. I want to be a part of this. Yeah, you could either check out these sponsors or support the show directly. Thanks.

 

Alright, this is Scoots still recording building a CTX Time Rover from blocks from the Dino Institute as part of our Orlando ParkStop Fundraiser for the Trevor Project. If you're listening to this in June, or in this episode late June to July, you'll still have a chance, if you're following us on social media, to win one of these kits, along with some Sleep With Me swag if you're donating to the Trevor Project as a part of the Orlando ParkStop Fundraiser. Just follow the instructions I’ve been putting out. We're picking up on Step 25, where we're working. We’ve got either…we're working with a rectangle with bricks, and I don't…alls I can say is it’s a rectangle. I don't know what the rear of the vehicle…I don't know the rear of the vehicle from the front, or the left or the right from the front.

 

But what I can say right now is we're…the rectangle will be in front of us just like a phone would be, vertically versus horizontally, but lying flat, flat vertical, so that the bottom-southern end closes to us is…has a bumper, a yellow-and-black striped bumper, and the side of the vehicle on our left-west side has a striped bumper. We just put a little bit of something…I think this is gonna be the back of the vehicle. But so, we're continuing on to Step 26. On Step 26 we're gonna need two teal mod…I don't know what kinda…what you call this; decorative brick that’s kind of like a half circle or an arch. Very small; 1×1 in teal. We're gonna need two of those, then we're gonna need two modified plates that have two…modified decorative plates that are 1x2s that have two lines in the top. It kinda looks…and it’s bevelled. The old, modified bevelled…line…two-line-on-the-top plate, and then two 1×1…oh, that was a tile. That was the tile I was referring to earlier, modified tile.

 

Next up we're gonna need a 1×2 plate in white, and that modified tile is white as well. Both…one of each of those. Again, we're gonna go to the southern end of our Time Rover, and right in the middle…so, the two open pips closest…I mean, closest to our belly button, we're gonna put the mod…no, not the modified; we're gonna put the 1×2 plate. So, there should be two open pips. Put that on top of those two open pips. Above that put the modified plate…the modified tile, yeah. This is confusing, for sure. So, you're gonna put that modified tile there. Then on the left and right of that modified tile, you're gonna put the teal arches so that the arch part runs right to left and the flat part runs north to south or top to bottom. Are those heads…headrests, something else? I don't know. But so, I think we got that 26 done. Oh boy, 27 we're gonna continue this process. So, we're gonna need two more teal blocks, teal…no, I’m sorry.

 

Teal decorative 1×1 half circles, and one 1×2 white…those are teal, the two things we need two of, and then a 1×2 tile, bevelled…the one we just used; modified tile thing with the two things. We're gonna put those, again, closest to our belly button, the two center open pips. We're gonna put that modified tile on there, and then to its left and right we're gonna put those teal things lining up with the other ones. So, that’s what we're doing there. Maybe one may be complete. I don't know. Maybe the back or the front side of our rover is complete. Who knows? Okay, now we're gonna start to work on the right eastern side of the vehicle, and I believe this is gonna be a repeat of a process we did before, but it’s been weeks for me, a month for you. So, I have no idea. So, we're gonna start it in the bottom-right…what we’ll call the rail or the step of the right side of our vehicle.

 

There should be a row from…that runs north to south or south to north on the furthest right side, eastern side of this vehicle, this rectangle. The first few pips that are open are all white. Here’s what we're gonna gather; a 1×1 white plate, a 1×2 white plate, a 1×1 white brick, and a 1×2 white brick. We're gonna place them…I don't know if this is what we did on the other side. First…so, the furthest…the lowest…the two open pips on the furthest-right southern, southeastern pips…so, the furthest southeastern pip and then the second-furthest southeastern pip. So, running from south to north there should be two pips we're talking about. First on that we're gonna put the 1×2 tile, and then on top of that we're gonna do the 1×2 brick.

 

Then on the pip above…north of that…so, the third southeastern-most pip…furthest south…furthest pip…southeasternest pip not in the United States or anywhere else, just on this rectangle we're working with in this moment, we're gonna do the opposite. So, first…or you could pre-assemble it. We're gonna put the brick down and then the plate on top of the brick. So, getting some styling going. It should all be flush. Okay, then we're gonna do some fender…we're gonna work on some fenders or something like that, mud flaps. We're gonna do…we're gonna have a yellow…bright canary yellow with four open pips on the top something that looks like a wheel well — I think that was the term I was looking for all along — and a 1×1 white plate. On top of those southern…on top…not on top of spaghetti all covered with cheese…we're not losing any meatballs here.

 

But on top of…now, on top of the two southern-most…southeastern-most exposed pips, which are raised up now, we're gonna put, going from south to north, the wheel well, the canary wheel well, so it’s overhanging the right side of our vehicle. Then on the third southern, eastern pip exposed…southeastern pips…third south…you're gonna put that 1×1 brick. Okay, then we're gonna do some more work on here, right, decorative work. We're gonna need a 1×1 tile, then a 1×1 modified brick. Now, this modified brick has a pip on top, and we're gonna put that tile on top of the brick. Just might as well do it now, 'cause it’s only gonna get more confusing from here. This is what I’m calling one of those porthole-on-the-front pips. So, we're gonna put it on the third…once again, we just put something where we just put that white tile, white plate, 1×1 plate. You can't put anything on the tile, Scoots. You're right about that. So, now it has a tile on top, though.

 

We're gonna put it on the exposed plate, which would be the third southern…southeastern-most pip. Then to the right of…then to the right of those row of pips…oh boy, I’m actually…no, no, that is the third southeastern-most pip. Now it’s gonna get…yeah, now we're gonna move to the right, to the furthest southeastern-most two pips, which are to the right of that one pip and down. On those we're gonna put a…that mustard fender thing on top to match the one on the other side. Then, much like we did on the other side, we're gonna assemble a decorative piece that could be a headlight or a tail light or something that doesn't light up. So, we're gonna need two 1×1 tiles, blue, two 1×1 tiles, white, and one 1×1 wedge plate, I guess, technically. No; tile. Then we're gonna make that into a little tower matching the one on the left side. So, it’ll go on the bottom, 1×1 white tile, then a blue tile, then a white tile, then a blue tile, then our wedge.

 

We're gonna attach that to the porthole so that the wedge is…matches the one on the other side. It kinda looks like if those wedges had…if those wedges had eyes and those eyes could talk, you could color me amazed, you know? But…that the eyes could be looking up at us instead of looking down. I say, shouldn't you be watching the road? It’d say, man, we don't even have eyes. So, we're just…we're decorative bricks, man. Also, this whole ride was on a rail. So, don't worry about it. Okay, got it. Was it on a rail? Now I’m recalling…I'm not sure it was or it wasn't. I’m trying to picture…I don't think there is a rail. Are you sure about that? Buddy, I’m not sure about anything. Can we just keep assembling me, though? You got it. So, we're gonna continue to assemble the right-hand side of our vehicle.

 

We're gonna need five, and these are pieces we’ve already used before; mustard yellow, L-shaped plate tiles with two portholes side by side, and those are kinda…I’d call them bumper-holders if I had to, if you held me to it…five of those. We're gonna start those…I think technically on the southernmost-exposed pip, southeasternmost-exposed pip, and run them north. If you've done it correctly according to the picture and not my instructions, then there will be three pips in the northeastern hemisphere, right-top side that don't have any mustard-yellow bumper-holders. But these are going underneath, by the way, on the bottom side of the superstructure. Okay, then we're gonna continue some work on that side. You may…let’s do this; let’s do a rotation right now. So, we're gonna rotate.

 

We're gonna take our hand or hands or have someone else do it, and we're gonna…so, we're facing our rectangle, and its point…its southern bumper…the old southern bumpers are…currently it’s the southern bumper. It’s pointing towards our belly button or our chest or where we're situation. Awesome. Ideally. We're gonna rotate it clockwise forty-five degrees. Forty-five, ninety…oh no, 360 is a circle. So, ninety degrees. Yeah, let’s do it all the way ninety degrees. So now we got ourselves a horizontal rectangle, and those porthole…those mustard-yellow portholes are facing us or whatever. Those are…yeah, those are a form of mustard yellow. We're gonna do some work. We're gonna continue to work on this rail…exposed rail, if we want to call it that. I think this is like the stepping area, egress, where you get in and off the ride.

 

Okay, so we're gonna need three black or gray…dark-gray 1×1 tiles, one 1×1 black wedge or dark gray, which I’ll continue to refer to it interchangeably for extra lulls, then a one 1×2 tile. These are tiles, right? Yeah, they're not plates. They don't have pip…plate; P. Plate; pip on top. Tile…Nile tips…Neil tips on top. That’s such a easy way to remember it. That pause was supposed to be left in on purpose. Tile…Nile pips on top. Nile pips at all…it just has receptors. Okay, what else do we need? One 1×1 brick, dark gray or black. Then we're gonna take our wedge; we're gonna put that on top of our 1×1 brick so that it…now that we’ve rotated our vehicle, right, we have to readjust our…I mean, I’m not gonna change my language, but everything’s changed. It’s a whole new beginning here. So, our left…but in some sense we're talking about…still talking about the most southern…southwestern exposed pip that’s not a porthole.

 

We're gonna put that 1×1 brick with the wedge on top so that the wedge…if you were sliding down the wedge, you'd slide to the right side. So, you'd slide the brick on the right-hand side, as no one would ever sing. I mean, if it was a slide I wouldn't recommend it, 'cause I don't know anything about scale. But so, I think you know what I mean, 'cause it’s also…you could always check the other side of the vehicle so it matches. But that’s the southwestern exposed pip, or the bottom-left exposed pip. The next pip we're gonna leave open. Then the next two pips we're gonna cover in 1×1 tiles, then we're gonna leave a pip open, then we're gonna cover the next two pips in a 1×2 tile, then we're gonna leave a pip open, and then we're gonna do another 1×2 tile. Those should line up with the taller pieces that are maybe the backs of the vehicles or where you put your stuff. I don't know. Or maybe those are the seats. So, that’s what we did there. Okay, we're moving on to 34. Moving on to 34.

 

For 34 we're gonna need three 1×1 white plates. Plate because there’s a pip on top, as I’m trying to help myself remember. Then we're gonna need five tiles that are 1×2, black-and-white striped. With those black-and-white striped tiles we're gonna cover all the portholes so it looks like, hey, don't put…don't kick this part of the vehicle. Then starting from left to right or west to east, southernmost…there should only be three exposed pips if we're working from left to right or west to east. So, we're gonna put those three white 1×1 tile — no, plates 'cause there’s a pip on top — on those exposed points. Excellent. Excellent work. Great work. Okay, we're gonna continue the assembly. So, we're gonna stick with those…'cause technically those three pips are still exposed. We just put another pip on top, or a tile, which has no plate 'cause it has a pip on top. By the way, this is just the way my brain operates. This is not a bit. I really am getting this confused every time.

 

Okay, now we're gonna get…these are modified bricks, just to give you a heads up, to prepare you. 1×1 double-height brick? I don't know. 1×1 brick…white bricks with a double porthole, vertically, modified bricks with…one side has a vertical double porthole. Or you say, those are pips. Why are those pips hollowed out? I don't understand that, either. Is that for aesthetics or does it serve some purpose? We don't know. But we're gonna put those three bricks, 1×1 modified brick with…maybe double height or one-and-a-half-times height. It’s got two porthole pips. We're gonna put those three on the exposed pips running from left to right that we just worked on. Okay, now just to give you a heads up, we're gonna be working on an area we haven't worked on this episode. We’ve worked on it before, though, obviously, 'cause we have…everything has a pip. Almost everything has…we still have some open pips that have never been blocked before.

 

But we're gonna be working on the left…the open pips on the left side of the vehicle running from north to south or south to north. They're dark gray or dirt brown. We're gonna gather more of those. So, we're gonna get three 1×2 tiles, 'cause they have Nile pips on them, and then three 1×2 wedge tile bricks or…yeah, I don't know. Okay, the first thing we're gonna do…remember, we're looking at a horizontal rectangle at this time. We're gonna take…you'd say, how is this…how is it possible? But if you go all the way to the left or all the way to the west and you find the furthest southern-bottom exposed pip…it’ll be a dark-brown pip on a plate. We're gonna run those three tiles. Nile; tile. We're gonna run those three tiles from south to north or north to south vertically for us, horizontally if you were looking at the vehicle vertically. But because we're looking at the vehicle horizontally, these are vertical.

 

Okay, then in front of those, running from south to north or north to south, we're gonna put the three wedges. So, if you were sliding down the wedges, you'd slide from west to east. So, you'd sit at the top of the tiles we just placed, and then you'd slide down the mod…or the wedge tile, and then you'd kinda land in your seat, almost. Not a good idea except to try to describe where the bricks go. In a sense we’ve redefined where the southernmost exposed pip is, because now all those pips are covered as well. That was Step 36. Holy moly. So, this one…holy cow, they really are keeping me…I have no…okay, so, we're gonna move from 36 to 37, but first we're gonna have to rotate our vehicle. Holy…I mean…okay, I think I can do this. I mean, remember, I did…my brain does work differently from a lot of people’s. So, this is not…these things are natural to me, which is what makes it extra sleepy. So, it’s like taking something that’s a challenge and making it a positive together.

 

So, you would think this would be straightforward for a lot of people. We're gonna from Step 36 to 37. The first thing we're gonna do, though, is we're gonna rotate our vehicle. We're gonna rotate our vehicle 180 degrees, I believe. So…but let’s do it ninety degrees at a time, clockwise. So, on our first rotation, all the exposed pips…the majority of the exposed pips will be on the southern side near our belly button moving north, and our vehicle will be vertical. But then we're gonna rotate it another ninety degrees. Huh, I don't think that worked, actually. No. Huh. Hm. I’m at a loss right now. Ninety…oh, okay. Huh. This is…okay. Just switching back and forth here to see…just…okay, so, I just…we over-adjusted, is what I’m saying. So, let’s do this; let’s forget every…I mean, so, let’s just pause where we are. We did not complete our rotation, right? If we did…we're gonna undo our rotation. For some of you, that may be simple. But if you're like me, we’ll go through it.

 

Currently we are 50% of the way through our rotation I was trying to walk you through, which was a mistake. So, we have two ways to get back. One is just to go counterclockwise ninety degrees. Now, if you actually moved your vehicle 180 degrees, you got a couple options. You could move it counterclockwise 180 degrees…and I think if you move it clockwise another 180 degrees, it’ll be back where we started this whole thing since the last rotation. I think that’s correct. So, basically…so, again, we should have on the left western side…we should be looking at a horizontal rectangle, though it’s getting less and less rectangular. It’s really becoming something. But on the left or western side we should have a bumper, as well as bumpers on our north and southern edges or ends. But on our right eastern side we should just have exposed pips. Okay? So, that was unnecessarily confusing. Perfect for bedtime, though. But we're gonna continue to work, actually, the work we did before.

 

This is just a different angle and it threw me off. So, this is…you know, this is why I do these things. Okay, so Step 37…technically we haven't done anything. We're gonna need six tiles, 'cause they have Nile…modified, bevelled black 1×2 tiles with two notches. So, decorative tiles. We're gonna need six of those, then we're gonna need six of these L…1×2 L-shaped bracket-type tiles that we used for the bumper. But these ones are gonna be kinda a sandy or a muddy color. Okay, so the first thing we do…so, these…those brackets have two portholes, right? We're gonna cover all the portholes with our tiles, our bevelled tiles. Then we're gonna put these brackets so that the tiles…so, we're gonna run these brackets from north to south, but so that the…don't worry, I’ll do more explaining. Just…yeah, good, good. So that if you…so that the…how to explain this?

 

So, we're going from north to south or south to north…north to south or south to north, and the bevelled tiles are gonna be facing the bumper…the left western side of the vehicle. We're gonna run those north to south or south to north on these darker-brown…these two north-to-south darker-brown rows of tiles in front of us. It’ll make…it makes sense, and it’s part of the vehicle. It’s…I don't know what it is. I think it’s…oh, it’s where you lower the thing to say, okay, I’m gonna feel more confident on this ride now. Okay, so that’s done. Now, it does leave us on the top of the brackets with, again, another set of north-to-south tile…pips, exposed pips.

 

So, on top of those, on Step 38, we're gonna get six 1×2 wedges, six of those that are the same color we’ve been using, dark, sandy brown, and we're gonna put those north to south or south to north on those same exposed pips that are the brackets so that if you were sliding down the wedge, you'd be sliding to the right side of the vehicle to the eastern side, away from the bumper on the left side. Slide down the brick on the right-hand side, in this case. Okay? Okay, we got it. Now we're on Step 39. 39, we're gonna complete this door side of this…the southern side of the vehicle. So, we're gonna take…does that say nine? It does. No, it says six. So, six 1×2 tiles that are white, 'cause they have Nile pips on top. Okay, you're gonna get six of those and then three 1×2 quarter…25%-of-a-pie piece. What is that, a tile or a brick? It’s got no pips on the top, so I guess it must be…by your definition it must be a tile, but it’s kind of a…could we call it a modified brick?

 

No, I think a modified brick has modified pips. It’s kinda like a wedge. It’s a pie piece. Yeah, it’s like a pie piece. It’s twice…it’s two things. It’s a 1×2. Yeah, it’s a 1×2 pie piece, a white pie piece, tile-esque. It has no pip…exposed pips. Yeah, it’s double the size of a Trivial Pursuit tile. Okay, so you're gonna place those…so, basically what we're gonna do is we're making the doors or the doorway. So, we're gonna place those on front of the…so, we have these…facing our…looking right at us, actually, are these portholes, right? So, we're gonna do the same thing we did on the other side. We're gonna put those…two each on each porthole is gonna get a 1×2 tile that are running horizontally and not vertically above…so, we have two parallel lines with gaps for egress or…I don't know, on…ingress, egress of the ones for…I think it’s…I don't know which side of the vehicle…it’s the egress or the ingress side. I don't even know if ‘ingress’ is a word. Then above that we're gonna put the pie pieces.

 

So, it’ll match. At least we have the other side, 'cause I probably did a better job describing it, maybe. I don't even know. Now, you may start to notice, hey, Scoots, we're running out of pips here. We don't have a lot of exposed pips. It should make it easier for you to describe things. I’d say, let’s find out. So, next up is Step 40, and Step 40 we're gonna have a 1×2 plate that’s white, a 1×2 plate that’s black or dark gray, and then a 2x…no, yeah, a 2x…one, two, three, four, five, six plate that’s white. Now, this is…you're not gonna believe this 'cause it’s gonna sound ridiculous, but if we're being technical and I can see everything, the southwestern-most exposed two pips are pretty close to the right side of the vehicle. Then the southeastern exposed two pips are…they're all right in a row, right? There’s only four southern exposed pips running from left to right or west to east. So, we're gonna put first…if you're running from west to east, you're gonna do the 1×2 black plate and then the 1×2 white plate.

 

If you're running from east to west, you'll do the two…the 1×2 white plate and then the 1×2 dark-gray plate. I did do that on purpose just to throw in an extra-confusing color. Then, if you use the two plates that we just placed and you go down the middle, above that raised up, running vertically from us is a set of six…is a brick that’s 2×6. We're gonna put that 2×6 plate right on top of that brick. Then what we're gonna do is grab another 2×6 plate and just put it right on top of that for…we're gonna start 41 off directly with a 1x…a 2×6 plate on top of the 2×6 plate we just placed. Then we're gonna need a 1×2 plate and a 1×2 brick, and we're gonna go all the way to the south and we're gonna…first we're gonna place the 1x…if we're working from west to east, we're gonna take the southern two-most pips and cover those with the 1×2 white plate, and then to the right of those, heading east, we're gonna put the 1×2 brick, or if we're working from east to west, we’ll place the 1×2 brick first and then the 1×2 plate second.

 

Excellent, excellent, excellent work. I mean, holy cow. I’ve never seen anything like it. Okay, now this one is interesting. I may have to break this into two steps for us. Okay, so we're gonna do 42a and b here, or I’ll just tell you. 40…so, we're gonna start 42 off. We're gonna have a 1×2 plate and then a 1×2 brick, both white. We're gonna place the 1×2 plate on top of the 1×2 brick, a little pre-assembly action. Then we're gonna go to the southwestern-most exposed pip and the second southwestern-most exposed pip, which are pretty much on the right side. There’s only two pips exposed to them. We're gonna place that 1×2 brick-plate combo on top of it. You'll notice that it drops down to another 1×2 brick-plate combo right after it. Okay, then we're gonna get three 1×2 tiles, modified tile…bevelled tiles with the notches, and then…those are black or dark gray, then three of these bracket things we’ve been using, but they're…this time they're black or dark gray. They're a L-shaped bracket.

 

They got two pips on front. Then we're gonna take those pips and we're gonna do the same thing we did with the dark-gray ones. We're gonna cover the portholes with the bevelled plates. Yeah, we're gonna get that done there. Then we're gonna place those just like we placed the other ones running north to south on the…we're gonna run those north to south or south to north, and basically what we're gonna do is we're gonna see that 1×6 double plate on top of a brick action. No; 2×6. We’re gonna place it on the left western north-to-south or south-to-north row, and it’ll be parallel with the other two things we did. So, it’ll make sense in context. Okay, then we're gonna do some more wheel-welling. So, we're get the same…remember the other wheel wells we did. So, it’s a canary-yellow fender-type thing with…so, 2×4…2×2. Then we got a arch piece that’s a little bit more of a mustard yellow.

 

We're gonna place that mustard-yellow arch piece on the southern…on the wheel well left-to-right pips, and then we're gonna place that on the…on our vehicle on the southern-most eastern two pips, or the right…lower-right…lowest-right side two pips, or bottom-right pips. It should look like we're gonna…oh, we're making a vehicle. Okay, I see that now. Okay, now we're gonna…now we are gonna rotate. We're gonna rotate our vehicle clockwise ninety degrees. To start Step 44, take your vehicle, rotate it clockwise ninety degrees so that no bumpers are near your belly button. You got a bumper on the left, you got a bumper on the right, the striped bumpers, and a bumper on your north side, but nothing near our belly button on our southern-bottom side. Okay, for this…oh boy, I have…I don't know if I’ve ever worked with this particular bricks before, but we won't get to it yet.

 

We’ll start off with two more L-shaped bracket pieces that are dark-gray, black…actually, they are dark gray, I’m seeing. Let’s say they're more of a charcoal, because I may…or, I don't know. I don't know my…yeah. So, we’ll just say they're charcoal. If you're working out of a kit, you actually have a chance, 'cause…so, those are 1x2s, right? How do I explain this? ‘Cause I have no idea. We're gonna place those side-by-side on the undercarriage. Presumably we're assembling what may or may not be a bumper or a license plate or something. But they're not gonna be on the left side or the right side. They're gonna be in the middle together. So, let me see if I can add some context with these other bricks. If you did it, you probably did it right. If not, you may have to disassemble if you're not working off of instructions, but that’s fine. Okay, so the next pieces we're gonna get are two 1×2 double-sided modified bricks…double-size modified brick. So, it has four portholes.

 

So, two vertical sets of face pips or portholes, and then we're gonna also find one gray, light-gray one, exact same; 1×2 double-side…double-size or one-and-a-half size…four portholes. So, a square of portholes. Okay, so we have…now, what we're gonna do is we're gonna look at the left side of our…let’s…no, no, let’s not look at anything. Let’s look at the southern-bottom row of exposed pips, right? Those should be…there should be a white 1×6…oh no, it should be a white…I don't know what’s down there, a plate or…a plate, prob…I guess it has to be a plate. But there should be a row of exposed white pips. Then if you went all the way to your right, it would drop down one level, one plate level, to a dark-gray or black exposed pip. So, I want you to take that right…southern-right pip, which should be a dark black or charcoal, then move to the left of that, right?

 

Those should all be one plate level up, white pips, and we're gonna place the…first we're gonna place the 1×2 quad-porthole brick so the portholes are facing our stomach or south, then the light-gray one, then the other white one. They should be flush, even level-wise, with the other stuff we’ve been working on, and they should be…so, we should have a bunch of portholes staring at us. Then below that…so, basically our…what do they call those? I knew what they were called and now I forgot. These square pieces, what are they called? How come I forgot that word? Whatever. The L-shaped brackets; that was the word…with the portholes on front. They’ll be meeting…they’ll connect…or they're…they’ll meet in the middle. We’ll know the middle because the middle of our vehicle will be right in between the two or the four portholes on the light-gray porthole thing, and that’ll be on the underside, where it’ll…we’ll be able to fix it 'cause it’s just…I think you got it, though.

 

We're basically attaching…oh yeah, so then we're attaching the next thing, the next part of the bumper. Okay, that was 44. Great job. Okay, so now we're working on something else, the bumper. So, we're gonna need one 1×2 tile, like a grate tile. Not the greatest tile, but it’s like a grate-style tile, light gray. Then two 1×2 barrels, I guess. It’s a brick because it has a pip on top, by my new language. So, now what we're gonna do is we're gonna…on the left…so, basically on that thing, the bracket thing, on the left and right sides of the left and right or west and east most exposed pips, we’ll put the barrels, and in the middle of that we’ll place the grate. Okay? Then we're gonna move on to Step 46. Step 46 we will need a plate because it has pips on top. It’s a 1x…one, two, three…oh boy, I hit the wrong button. One, two, three, four, five six. A 1×8 mustard-yellow…maybe even goldenrod. I don't know why I haven't used that term. A little late now. So, that’s a plate, a 1×8 plate, okay?

 

Then we're gonna take…and we’ve done this before, so it’s not unprecedented. We're gonna take…there’s a 1×2 wedge brick thing, and we're gonna put that on the bottom, basically just copy the other bumper we did. It could be easier. So, those are basically gonna go on the bottom of the plate so that they kinda make, I don't know, a nice wedge. Then we're gonna put four 1×2 yellow-and-black striped tiles on the rest of the front so it matches the other bumper. We're gonna attach that to the barrels. Then we're gonna get a clear teal or greenish or mint-colored 1×1 plate that’s trans…somewhat transparent. I mean, transparent about one thing; my brick language is limited. Then a 1×2 plate, modified plate that’s bevelled with two notches. Okay, so we're gonna be working…wow, this is advanced-level stuff. Holy cow. I don't know if I…it’s a good thing this is…this might be the…I mean, if you thought I had trouble before…okay, this is…it’s possible, though. It’s not difficult.

 

It’s just difficult for me to describe. So, here’s what I want you to do. We got our bumper, right? Start at your belly button, then look down like you're doing some…let’s do some navel-gazing. This is one of the most…things that people that dislike me or the podcast talk about. So, let’s do a little navel-gazing together. Okay, then we're gonna look up from our navel slowly. Raise your gaze ‘til you see the bumper of your vehicle within…or within your…within the theatre of the mind. You're gonna see the bumper of the vehicle on the southern side of our rectangle that’s now vertical. We see a stripey bumper. Okay, then we're gonna move up from the bumper, raising our view, and what we’ll see is four squares of porthole pips, or a combination of them; four white portholes, four dark-gray, charcoal portholes, and then four white portholes. Okay? So, let’s refer to this as a porthole conundrum, a descriptive conundrum.

 

So, we're gonna talk about…we're gonna deal…we're gonna be dealing, at this moment…if you look at all those portholes as a whole, the lower-left…furthest lower-left porthole, which will be on the…one of the white quad porthole bricks. So, the lower left one. Okay, I want you to just put your finger there, okay? I guess your left finger, okay? Even if it’s not your dominant…this may be difficult for…'cause I’m a lefty. But your left finger is gonna be on that porthole. On the porthole to the right of it…so, that would be the lower-right…if that’s just a quadrant of portholes, you're gonna put that transparent brick, transparent plate, a 1×1 greenish transparent plate. Now, this is gonna blow your mind. To the left of that plate we just placed, where our finger is, you're gonna place that 1×2…it’s a good thing it has visual instructions you could check…but the 1×2 modified plate, bevelled plate, so that it goes to the left. So, only one pip…it’ll only be grounded on one pip.

 

Then the other one will be against a non-pipped face, but it’ll look good. That’s the whole thing. It’s like making it look good. So, this is for aesthetics. So, if you were on the lower pips, the porthole pips, now we would only have four lower exposed porthole pips, PPs, two gray and two white, which will make our progress…so, that’s where we're gonna keep…we're gonna go back to the green…the transparent 1×1 plate, and on top of that we're gonna put a…something I have no idea what to call it, even. We're gonna have two of these in our kit. It’s a 1×1 modified plate, 'cause it has a little…it’s like a spindle plate. You're gonna put that on top of the plate, the greenish, transparent plate. Then to the right of that we're gonna put a gray…a 1×2 gray grate plate, and then to the right of the gray grate plate we're gonna put another 1×1 spindle plate. Yeah.

 

Then…so, we should only have one right porthole exposed now. Then…this is Step 48, but it’s kinda 48a and b. Then we're gonna get a 1×2 white plate and a 1×2 white brick, and we're gonna do some of the similar work we had done on the left side. So, we're gonna put…so, we're leaving the portholes for now, okay? So, we're gonna set aside the portholes. We're gonna go to the furthest…so, we’re no longer going up. We're working back on the flats, you know what I’m saying? Probably not, but…these are like exposed…these are ones that have not been…we haven't worked with. On the right…the southern right side, so the southeastern…we should have only exposed pips that are black or dark gray moving from south to north. We're gonna place the 1×2 white plate on those first southeastern and the second-most southeastern pips, and put the 1×2 plate. Then north of that we're gonna put the 1×2 brick moving from north to south. Or, I guess you could move south to north. Okay?

 

Then we're gonna do another wheel well. So, we're gonna get…well, first let’s do this; let’s…no, it might be easier…hm. Let’s replicate the wheel well from the left side. So, it’ll be the canary-yellow wheel well thing, then the mustard-yellow arch thing, and you're gonna put that on the…on top of a white 1×2 brick, and then you're gonna put that on the 1×2 plate we just placed. Then everything should be somewhat flush, I think. Yeah. That’s Step 49. Okay, now we're gonna move to Step 50, and we're gonna be working…we're gonna go back to some porthole work, okay? What we're gonna need is a white 1×1 plate. We're gonna take that white 1×1 plate. We're gonna place it above the spindle plate that’s on the left side on the porthole…the second porthole…white, open porthole so they're…if we place it, it’s right above the spindle, but then to the left of it it’ll be a open porthole like an eye saying, hello. Okay, then to the right of that we're gonna place a 1×2 bevelled plate with the notches.

 

Then the right of that we're gonna place a 1×1 red transparent plate. Okay? So, we got that. That’s 50. Then we're also gonna take three 1×2 plate…plates, yeah, 'cause they have pips on top. We're gonna look at our wheel wells, right? We're gonna have two yellow…our canary-yellow things are gonna be exposed. So, we're gonna put two of those 1x2s on top of the canary yellows, and then on the right side we're gonna have two exposed pips north of the canary yellow. We're gonna put another 1×2 plate there so it’s all level. So, then our whole wheel well…everything’s starting to look really level now. Then if we're looking at our front of our thing, we have only three exposed portholes left. Then we're gonna move on to the next step, and we're gonna take a 1×1 white plate and we're gonna place that over the red, transparent 1×1…no, no, 1×1 tile, white tile, 'cause that has Nile pips…on top of that red plate.

 

Okay, then below it, to the right, we're gonna get another 1×1 white tile modified with the notches, and we're gonna place that in the same place that we did on the left side on the right side. So, now we’ll only have two portholes exposed that was like two eyes of our vehicle, if the vehicle was like, hello, I’m a car. I don't have very much personality right now, but you're working on it. Okay, then we're gonna take a 1x…a 2x…a plate; pips on top, plate. 2x…two, four, six, eight…a white 2×8 plate, and we're gonna place that horizontally across from left to right or from west to east. There should be eight…2×8 exposed rectangle plates above our little eyes. Or, again, now we're working on the base. We're working on the level area, not on the frontal area. We're gonna place that there. I think it’ll be now level with the black or dark-gray right-angle pieces. Okay, now we move to Step 52. Okay, so for Step 52 we're gonna close out our eyes of our car. So, on the right side…oh boy.

 

On the right porthole we're gonna place a 2×2 tile, white tile, so that its lower-left corner is covering the porthole and then it’s going up as a square. It’ll be kinda flush on one side with the wheel well and the other side with the headlight or the red thing. Then on the left side we're gonna take a strangely-colored olive-brown 2×2 plate. We're gonna place it in the same place we placed that one so its lower-right corner will be on the porthole. I don't know, we’ll see what it’s representing. I don't know yet. Okay, then we're gonna do some work on the top of the vehicle here. We're gonna take a 1×6 plate, white 1×6 plate, and we're gonna place that horizontally on the southern-most pips so that there’s one pip on the left and one pip on the right left over. So, in between the left-most pip and the right-most pip on the southern…on our southern line, we're gonna place that 1×1 plate. Okay?

 

Then north of that, what we're gonna get are these 2×2 modified brick…this is both a combination of a tile…it’s a tile on one side and it’s a plate on the other side. So, on the top…even though it’s a 2×2, on the top it only has two pips. There’s two red and one white, and we're gonna place the white one on the left side lined up with the 1×6 plate we just placed so that the two pips are lined up with it, too. So, the plate side is north and the pip side is south. Then to the right of that we’ll place one of the red ones, and then to the right of the red one, another red one. Okay, that’s 52. Now, 53, it’ll be, again, another fancy thing. It’s a plate and it’s a brick, but it’s also…it’s got two…I don't know what you call these. These are fancy spoilers-type thing. You say, you spoiled brick building for me, Scoots. We're gonna place those on…basically what we’ve got is…hm, how do I describe this?

 

Well, I guess technically these are the northern-most…on the left and the right…if you go to the northern-most exposed bricks on the left and the right side, they’ll be plates, white plates, that are dropped down. We're gonna place these little spoiler things on there. It just gives the thing a little bit more definition. Okay? There’s one of each of those. They're kind of…I don't know how to even describe them. But then on…those are two-pip tall. But then we're gonna look in our kit again. We're gonna have a three-pip tall one, and we're gonna place those on top along with a 1×1 right-angle piece with a porthole, so the portholes are facing out of the left and right side of our vehicle. Okay, then we're gonna do some tile work on Step 55. So, we're gonna get a 1×8 tile, white tile, and we're gonna place that across…oh, interesting. Interesting. We're gonna place that from left to right horizontally across the…basically across what’s already mostly tile.

 

There’s only on the left side and the right side…so, it’ll be the second from the north…one down from the northern-most pips, you're gonna place that from left to right. Then on the northern-most pips we're gonna place two half circles so that the flat sides are on the inside of the vehicle to just give it a little…this is just, again, aesthetic work we're doing, aesthetic work without aesthetic language. Okay, then below that on the right side, going from north to south or south to north, we’ll put a bevelled modified 1×2 white tile. Then on the opposite of that, on the left side on the…in the left top southern…oh, actually the southern and northern exposed pips on the left side, on the west side, we’ll put a 1×2 tile. Then we're gonna get a 1×2 olive-brown…2×2 olive-brown tile, and we're gonna put it on top of that 2×2 olive-brown plate. Okay, then we're gonna keep fancifying this thing, 'cause it’s a scientific vehicle. We're gonna put…we're gonna get…well, let’s see how we should do this.

 

We’ll gather all these pieces and then we’ll do it. We're gonna get three circle…one plates, 1×1 plates, one thimble dark-gray plate, two 1×2 gray plates, one 1×2 plate, and then two 1×1 dark-gray arch, circle plates. Okay, so we're gonna take the top-left exposed pip, northwestern pip, and we're gonna put a 1×1 white circle plate on that. To its right we're gonna put a thimble. To the right of that we're gonna put a gray half circle so that the circle part is touching the thimble, the arch part. So, on the right side will be flat, then against that flat piece we’ll put the other circle so that its arch is heading outwards. Below those two we’ll put two circles, white circles. To the left…on the next two pips we’ll put the grate plate, one of the grate plates. Okay, then we’ll move back towards the right, and on the furthest north and south right side, eastern side pips we’ll put a grate plate running vertically, and then parallel with that, to the left of that, vertically we’ll put that 1×2 plate. Okay, we're getting there.

 

Next what we're gonna do is work on some sort of…we're finishing off…how are we gonna do this? Okay, so we need two 1×1 white plates, two 1×1 white tiles, and two 1×1 white right-angle pieces. We're gonna assemble those…hm…in a way that I don't quite understand. Okay, so it’s gonna be…we're gonna take it; we're gonna put it to the right and the left, and then we're gonna put the tile on it. Then we're gonna connect it to the porthole piece, and then we're gonna put the tile on top of it. Or you could just follow the picture, because that’ll be easier. Now we're gonna take a tile piece and…or, no, now on 58 we're gonna take two thimble pieces that are light gray, and we're gonna insert the thimble into the portholes, which I’ve never done before. Okay? Yeah. Then we're gonna flip the vehicle over and we're gonna take four wheel connectors and we're gonna put those under the wheel well upside down so that it can connect the wheels. Then we’ll connect the wheels on Step 60.

 

Then on Step 61 we're gonna place two…probably gonna be four, right? Yeah, four. Let’s just do four 1×1 circle plates, and we’ll put those on top to keep the wheels…to give the wheels a little bit more…as like a cover on the whole of the wheel. Okay? Then we’ll flip it over. Holy cow, then we're done. That’s it. We did it. Now you could play with it and roll it around, or you could…if you're still listening, you could go to orlandoparkstop.com and support the Trevor Project. Thanks, everybody. That was a mouthful. Goodnight.

 

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Brick Builder

 

Sound Panels

https://acousticgeometry.com/how-do-acoustic-panels-work/?srsltid=AfmBOorGu6U3RmDuWNV2xKmWVfZw6-Tn11ei_ZfTJPQZHQDR8S-nqEJy

https://techlite.com/blogs/knowledgebase/the-science-behind-acoustic-panels-how-they-work

https://arturel.com/blogs/news/do-sound-proofing-panels-work?srsltid=AfmBOoprkJK_M30dyiG-laxqSPdsX1aGMGQeJ6ejI999Ss7IgwwUXsD2

 

Newest Lego Pieces

https://www.newelementary.com/p/list-newest-lego-parts.html

https://www.lego.com/en-us/smart-play/article/innovation?consent-modal=show&age-gate=grown_up

https://blocksmag.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-lego-smart-brick/

 

History of Mnemonic Devices

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/handy-mnemonics/

https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2017/2/2-1

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-history/ancient-memory-technique-still-puzzles-scientists

 

Dino Institute

https://parklore.com/main/lost-legend/dinosaur/4/

https://disneyshawn.blogspot.com/2009/11/get-institutionalized.html

https://www.wdwradio.com/2018/02/hidden-story-dinoland-u-s/

 

DOWN TO BUSINESS

It’s so nice to welcome you twice…thrice!

I’ll stop rhyming now

How to pretend to be an active listener (for a sleep podcast)

The benefits of the temporary boyfriend

 

PLUGS

Orlando Parkstop STOP HATE Fundraiser; Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Emily Tat Artwork; Crisis Textline

 

SPONSORS

Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; AquaTru; Talkiatry; Quince; Progressive

 

INTRO

Feelings that are just there

Sometimes these thoughts and feelings make me feel lonely during the day

But here, now, you’re welcome and understood

Seen and heard in a reflective way

Slower than molasses

Separate and together at the same time

I might be able to relate to what you’re going through

Generally Non-Positive

There’s not many facts on this podcast, but…

Other listeners are sending their caring to you

Indirect Magic

Being passive is just fine

My voice is not soothing, it’s creaky dulcet

You might be confused, and that makes total sense

You just want something that’ll work

We might be on the same level, but I’m a little bit more of a goofball

Reading through brick-building instructions for Orlando Parkstop

My brick-building vocabulary is still not great

It’s like sound panels absorbing most of the sound

Or nice water running through your toes

Or, heck, just the imagery

I’ve done a lot of episodes about clouds

Clouds: You’re pretty cool.

A tentative thank you to clouds

I was staying a motel in an industrial area by an airport

And I got some good walking in

The clouds waited until I almost got back to my motel

So thank you, clouds

BTW this is definitely pandering to clouds

I’ve been making this podcast since 2013

Your bore, uh…what was that?

The structure of the show

 

STORY

Back building a CTX Time Rover from the Dino Institute for the Orlando Parkstop STOP HATE fundraiser

Picking up on step 25

Working with a rectangle

I don’t know the front of the vehicle from the front

The old Flat Vertical

The Old Modified, Beveled Two Line on the Top plate

Modified Tile

White on white

Go to the southern end 

The two closest open pips to our belly button

Put the modified tile

This is confusing, for sure

Put the teal arches on top of that

26 done

27: continue the process

2 more teal…decorative, 1×1 half circles

Maybe the backside of our rover is complete now…

The right, eastern side

It’s been a while since I worked on this

Working on a rail for our vehicle

The first few pips are all white

A couple plates and a couple bricks, all white

The furthest southeastern pip

Tile, then brick

Then tile over brick

Working on fenders or mudflaps now

Bright canary yellow

A 1×1 white plate

2 southeastern most pips

Canary Wheelwell

A portal-on-the-front pip

You can’t put anything on a tile, Scoots

Don’t be silly

More decorative work

A bunch of 1x1s

Put the tile on top of the brick now, before it gets more confusing

Bring out the mustard fender

Assembling a decorative headlight

A 1×1 … wedge? Plate?

Alternating white and blue

This wedge should match the other one

If those wedges had eyes and those wedges could talk…

Is there a rail? I’m not sure about anything

Buddy, I’m not sure about anything

Get the mustard yellow pieces out

Start on the southmost exposed pips

Let’s rotate right now

The Ol’ Southern Bumper

Rotate it clockwise 90%

Now the rectangle is horizontal

The mustard portholes now face us

The stepping / egress portion

P=plate=pips on top

T=tile=nile pips on top

That’s so easy to remember

Put the wedge on top

Everything’s changed now

The most southwestern exposed pip that’s not a porthole

Covering pips in 1×2 tiles

Is this the back of the vehicle or the seat?

Moving on to 34

We’ll need 3 white plates

This mnemonic is actually starting to help

Don’t kick this part of the vehicle

There should only be 3 exposed pips

Excellent work, great work

BTW, this really is how my brain operates. It’s not a bit

Double vertical porthole

Why are some pips hollowed out?

We’re working on an area we haven’t touched yet this episode

Run the tiles vertically 

Sliding down the wedges

We’ve redefined where the southernmost pip is

Step 36

Holy Moly

We’re gonna have to rotate our vehicle

You would think this would be straightforward

We’re gonna rotate it 180% (clockwise)

Uh oh, that didn’t work

I’m at a loss right now

Oh I see, we over-adjusted

Underdo this rotation

How do we get back from here?

6…tiles

Beveled and black

6 bracket-type tiles

A sandy, muddy color

Cover all the portholes with beveled tiles

Don’t worry, I’ll do more explaining

Gosh, how do I explain this?

Slide down the brick on the right-hand side

A quarter of a pie piece

By my definition, this is a tile

But that’s not right

It’s a pie piece, I guess

Tile-esque

Making the doorway

Is ingress a word?

Maybe it’ll be easier to describe now that we’re running out of pips

Step 40

Who knows, maybe I’m making this sound even more confusing on purpose

Put a 2×6 plate on top of the plate we just placed

Going all the way to the south

The southern two most pips

42A and 42B

A little pre-assembly action

Place the mustard arches on the lowest right side

Oh, now I see that were making a vehicle

Rotate the vehicle clockwise 90 degrees to being step 44

No bumpers are near your belly button currently

I don’t know if I’ve ever worked with this kind of brick before

Some charcoal pieces now

How do I explain this, because I have no idea

Presumably we’re assembling the bumper

They’ll be in the middle together

2 1×2 double-sided modified bricks = 4 portholes

And 1 light gray one of the same

A square of portholes

Building on the underside

I think you’ve got it

Attaching the next part of the bumper

A great tile, but not the greatest tile

2 1×1 barrels

Technically a pip, I suppose

Is that goldenrod? Or mustard yellow?

1×8 Plate

I guess we can just copy the other part of the bumper we made

My brick language is limited

Wow, this is advanced-level stuff

If you thought I had trouble before…

Let’s do some navel-gazing

Raise your gaze until you see the vehicle’s bumper

We see a striped bumper

Raise your view until you see a square of porthole pips

Porthole Descriptive Conundrum

Put your left finger there for a sec

Place the 1×1 greenish transparent plate

To the left of that, place the 1×2 modified beveled plate so it goes to the left

It’s only grounded on one pip!

But it’ll look good

This is definitely for aesthetics

Now there’s only 4 lower exposed porthole pips

What do I call this?

A spindle plate

Now let’s do another wheelwell

Replicate the yellow wheelwell

A white 1×1 plate on top of the spindle

A beveled 1×2 plate to the right of that

A red transparent plate is to the right of that

The canary yellow things will be exposed

Everything’s starting to look pretty level now

Onto another exposed porthole

This car gets more personality with every second

A white 2×8 plate, placed horizontally

Level with the dark gray right angle pieces

Step 52: closing out the eyes of our car

An olive brown 2×2 plate. Not sure what that represents

These pieces are a tile on one side and plate on the other!

Fancy spoilers

It just gives a little more definition

Step 55: do some tilework

Aesthetic work without aesthetic language

This is a scientific vehicle, it’s gotta be fancified

Now we need some plates and tiles and bracket pieces

We’re gonna assemble them…in a way…I don’t quite understand

Insert these thimble pieces into the portholes

Insert the wheel connectors under the wheelwells

Connect the wheels

Step 60: connect 4 1×1 circle plates to further define the wheels

And then we’ll flip it over

And holy cow, we’re done

Go to Orlando Parkstop and support the Trevor Project

 

SUMMARY:

Episode: 1456

Title: Dino Institute Rover, Part 2 | Brick Builder

Plugs: Orlando Parkstop STOP HATE Fundraiser; Sleep With Me Plus; SleepPhones; Story Only Feed; Emily Tat Artwork; Crisis Textline

Sponsors: Helix Sleep; Zocdoc; AquaTru; Talkiatry; Quince; Progressive

Notable Language:

• Generally Non-Positive
• Indirect Magic
• Modified Tile
• The furthest southeastern pip
• Canary Wheelwell
• Buddy, I’m not sure about anything
• The Ol’ Southern Bumper
• Double vertical porthole
• Tile-esque
• Ingress
• A little pre-assembly action
• Navel-Gazing
• Porthole Descriptive Conundrum
• Porthole Pips (PPs)
• Aesthetic work without aesthetic language

 

Notable Culture:

• Orlando Parkstop
• The Trevor Project
• LEGO
• The Dino Institute
• Walt Disney World
• “Pass the dutchy on the lefthand side” song

 

Notable Talking Points:

• Feelings that are just there
• Sometimes these thoughts and feelings make me feel lonely during the day
• But here, now, you’re welcome and understood
• Seen and heard in a reflective way
• Slower than molasses
• Separate and together at the same time
• I might be able to relate to what you’re going through
• Generally Non-Positive
• There’s not many facts on this podcast, but…
• Other listeners are sending their caring to you
• Indirect Magic
• Being passive is just fine
• My voice is not soothing, it’s creaky dulcet
• You might be confused, and that makes total sense
• You just want something that’ll work
• We might be on the same level, but I’m a little bit more of a goofball
• Reading through brick-building instructions for Orlando Parkstop
• My brick-building vocabulary is still not great
• It’s like sound panels absorbing most of the sound
• Or nice water running through your toes
• Or, heck, just the imagery
• I’ve done a lot of episodes about clouds
• Clouds: You’re pretty cool.
• A tentative thank you to clouds
• I was staying a motel in an industrial area by an airport
• And I got some good walking in
• The clouds waited until I almost got back to my motel
• So thank you, clouds
• BTW this is definitely pandering to clouds
• I’ve been making this podcast since 2013
• Your bore, uh…what was that?
• The structure of the show
• Back building a CTX Time Rover from the Dino Institute for the Orlando Parkstop STOP HATE fundraiser
• Picking up on step 25
• Working with a rectangle
• I don’t know the front of the vehicle from the front
• The old Flat Vertical
• The Old Modified, Beveled Two Line on the Top plate
• Modified Tile
• White on white
• Go to the southern end 
• The two closest open pips to our belly button
• Put the modified tile
• This is confusing, for sure
• Put the teal arches on top of that
• 26 done
• 27: continue the process
• 2 more teal…decorative, 1×1 half circles
• Maybe the backside of our rover is complete now…
• The right, eastern side
• It’s been a while since I worked on this
• Working on a rail for our vehicle
• The first few pips are all white
• A couple plates and a couple bricks, all white
• The furthest southeastern pip
• Tile, then brick
• Then tile over brick
• Working on fenders or mudflaps now
• Bright canary yellow
• A 1×1 white plate
• 2 southeastern most pips
• Canary Wheelwell
• A portal-on-the-front pip
• You can’t put anything on a tile, Scoots
• Don’t be silly
• More decorative work
• A bunch of 1x1s
• Put the tile on top of the brick now, before it gets more confusing
• Bring out the mustard fender
• Assembling a decorative headlight
• A 1×1 … wedge? Plate?
• Alternating white and blue
• This wedge should match the other one
• If those wedges had eyes and those wedges could talk…
• Is there a rail? I’m not sure about anything
• Buddy, I’m not sure about anything
• Get the mustard yellow pieces out
• Start on the southmost exposed pips
• Let’s rotate right now
• The Ol’ Southern Bumper
• Rotate it clockwise 90%
• Now the rectangle is horizontal
• The mustard portholes now face us
• The stepping / egress portion
• P=plate=pips on top
• T=tile=nile pips on top
• That’s so easy to remember
• Put the wedge on top
• Everything’s changed now
• The most southwestern exposed pip that’s not a porthole
• Covering pips in 1×2 tiles
• Is this the back of the vehicle or the seat?
• Moving on to 34
• We’ll need 3 white plates
• This mnemonic is actually starting to help
• Don’t kick this part of the vehicle
• There should only be 3 exposed pips
• Excellent work, great work
• BTW, this really is how my brain operates. It’s not a bit
• Double vertical porthole
• Why are some pips hollowed out?
• We’re working on an area we haven’t touched yet this episode
• Run the tiles vertically 
• Sliding down the wedges
• We’ve redefined where the southernmost pip is
• Step 36
• Holy Moly
• We’re gonna have to rotate our vehicle
• You would think this would be straightforward
• We’re gonna rotate it 180% (clockwise)
• Uh oh, that didn’t work
• I’m at a loss right now
• Oh I see, we over-adjusted
• Underdo this rotation
• How do we get back from here?
• 6…tiles
• Beveled and black
• 6 bracket-type tiles
• A sandy, muddy color
• Cover all the portholes with beveled tiles
• Don’t worry, I’ll do more explaining
• Gosh, how do I explain this?
• Slide down the brick on the right-hand side
• A quarter of a pie piece
• By my definition, this is a tile
• But that’s not right
• It’s a pie piece, I guess
• Tile-esque
• Making the doorway
• Is ingress a word?
• Maybe it’ll be easier to describe now that we’re running out of pips
• Step 40
• Who knows, maybe I’m making this sound even more confusing on purpose
• Put a 2×6 plate on top of the plate we just placed
• Going all the way to the south
• The southern two most pips
• 42A and 42B
• A little pre-assembly action
• Place the mustard arches on the lowest right side
• Oh, now I see that were making a vehicle
• Rotate the vehicle clockwise 90 degrees to being step 44
• No bumpers are near your belly button currently
• I don’t know if I’ve ever worked with this kind of brick before
• Some charcoal pieces now
• How do I explain this, because I have no idea
• Presumably we’re assembling the bumper
• They’ll be in the middle together
• 2 1×2 double-sided modified bricks = 4 portholes
• And 1 light gray one of the same
• A square of portholes
• Building on the underside
• I think you’ve got it
• Attaching the next part of the bumper
• A great tile, but not the greatest tile
• 2 1×1 barrels
• Technically a pip, I suppose
• Is that goldenrod? Or mustard yellow?
• 1×8 Plate
• I guess we can just copy the other part of the bumper we made
• My brick language is limited
• Wow, this is advanced-level stuff
• If you thought I had trouble before…
• Let’s do some navel-gazing
• Raise your gaze until you see the vehicle’s bumper
• We see a striped bumper
• Raise your view until you see a square of porthole pips
• Porthole Descriptive Conundrum
• Put your left finger there for a sec
• Place the 1×1 greenish transparent plate
• To the left of that, place the 1×2 modified beveled plate so it goes to the left
• It’s only grounded on one pip!
• But it’ll look good
• This is definitely for aesthetics
• Now there’s only 4 lower exposed porthole pips
• What do I call this?
• A spindle plate
• Now let’s do another wheelwell
• Replicate the yellow wheelwell
• A white 1×1 plate on top of the spindle
• A beveled 1×2 plate to the right of that
• A red transparent plate is to the right of that
• The canary yellow things will be exposed
• Everything’s starting to look pretty level now
• Onto another exposed porthole
• This car gets more personality with every second
• A white 2×8 plate, placed horizontally
• Level with the dark gray right angle pieces
• Step 52: closing out the eyes of our car
• An olive brown 2×2 plate. Not sure what that represents
• These pieces are a tile on one side and plate on the other!
• Fancy spoilers
• It just gives a little more definition
• Step 55: do some tilework
• Aesthetic work without aesthetic language
• This is a scientific vehicle, it’s gotta be fancified
• Now we need some plates and tiles and bracket pieces
• We’re gonna assemble them…in a way…I don’t quite understand
• Insert these thimble pieces into the portholes
• Insert the wheel connectors under the wheelwells
• Connect the wheels
• Step 60: connect 4 1×1 circle plates to further define the wheels
• And then we’ll flip it over
• And holy cow, we’re done
• Go to Orlando Parkstop and support the Trevor Project