dave yoder said um can we see your boba fett costume
and i have a boba fett costume i've been working on for years uh
and it's mostly done but yeah i'll show you a piece of my boba fett costume i'll show
you the bucket here is my boba helmet um it is a lovely bucket uh i like the paint job i may
redo this paint job i may actually i feel like the finish is just a little too bad for me um however
it's a good looking bucket i didn't build this i didn't paint this uh and i must tell you i am
ignorant as to who the original maker of this is however i'm guessing half a dozen of you watching
already know who's this is that like institutional knowledge you'll possess um i will eventually
wear my boba out in the world but i actually think there may be amanda first it's hard to say um
that is most everything oh except for my chewy my bow caster yeah this is my chewie's bowcaster
it is a little bit of a mix it's a little bit of a mix-up and a mash-up this is not the correct
bandolier sling but i really like this mandolin sling so i'm going with it um these balls are a
little large i think these are more like force awakens than the original trilogy
but again i don't mind that uh the best thing about this is that it is largely machined pieces
and real parts uh it's largely real parts and machine pieces by me so it has a weight it is
really durable like you can throw this around it is not going to uh it's not going to ding well
it's not going to break it's going to ding realistically but it's not going to break yeah um
i i guess it's incumbent on me to break chewbacca out again since i have recently rebuilt his his
bonecaster and well i mean i don't need any excuse to dress up as chewbacca right like just anytime
it's necessary let's go i'm ready to go coach send me in uh somebody actually just since i was
talking about bandoliers on on the rpf somebody uh on the rpf sent me a pair of here they are
patrick fitzgerald sent me a pair of the original microphone elements here let's open these up and
take a look at them i can do this on the close-up uh of the original microphone elements that are
on chewy's bandolier and i plan to do an install of those uh this is a part that has been like
everyone knows what part it's from um it's easy to imitate it is a fairly straightforward bit of
machining but i never imagined i'd have the real thing on my bandolier that is that's awesome um
patrick says the element with the darker mesh okay so there's two of them came from a ronette mm.65
harp mic and the element with slightly lighter mesh came from a voice of music bullet harp mic
wow yeah these microphone elements were made at a company called ronette of hollywood and were
used in a handful of different housings offered by a variety of brands this is the kind of um
esoteric research esoteric decentralized research that i love fandoms for going out and figuring out
that the control panels on the side of hand's carbonite containment vessel are actually the
backsides of a volvo dashboard that took like 30 years for people to figure out what that part was
and now i mean there's somebody on the rpf who injection molds identical replicas of the volvo
dashboard so just like imagine like somewhere in the 70s some volvo engineers designed and built a
dashboard and then some of those guys look up and 40 years 40 some odd years later there are people
replicating this one esoteric part to make their hand in carbonite that's both ludicrous and
awesome i mean yeah fills my heart with gladness uh i think that is all this oh yeah i've got my
i've got my first order helmet um this is the enovo's fancy version and even still i
think i replaced a couple things on it i actually replaced this little element with a hand machine
piece it is beautifully padded inside and i have a um i have a set of first order trooper armor and
this is another one i have not trooped it this is another costume i haven't tripping i've done
a regular stormtrooper but not uh first order so that may be another one it comes up soon
the star wars universe is just a source of endless amount of happiness and fun adventure for me don't
get me wrong it's a dystopian it's a dystopic fantasy it's and it's totally a dystopia but it's
such fertile wonderful territory i'm like i i've been actually watching episodes of the mandalorian
again because oh i just cannot wait for the next season um yeah it's great costume great show
that that is a uh that is a quick show and tell of some of my star wars pieces here in the cave
and uh in preparation for may the fourth many of you have submitted questions and
uh during this live stream i may get some more questions and yeah we're going to
answer them here the first one i'm going to answer it's got a good story uh the void pt
i think i know you guys the void pt um asks it's all fun and games until someone loses an
eye have you ever got into a friendly lightsaber fight that got out of hand
i did not but i have suffered from a lightsaber battle that got out of hand um the year
is i think i'm gonna guess 2006 whatever year the sony bravia 40 inch television came out the one
with that commercial of the bouncing balls pouring down one of san francisco's hills that television
and by the way side side pro side story my friend dave lives on that hill and said that they broke
so many windows they were going around just paying people for fixing their windows they
had a standard fee which is like a very reasonable amount of dough and they were like after they did
that shot they just went up and down the block giving people vouchers for a real sum of money to
fix whatever windows that broke and dave also told me that 10 years later he still was pulling rubber
balls out of the garden at any rate whatever year that sony released the sony bravia television
we were doing mythbusters and it was now a full hit and i think we had recently negotiated a
good salary and i decided for my 40th birthday oh right it was my 40th birthday so it's 2007.
i decided for my fourth 40th birthday to buy myself the bravia television set so i went
to best buy um and i bought the television set there's another story to tell you here um which is
everybody has a story about some famous douchebag who says to them do you know who i am
like everyone has that story and as someone who has enjoyed a little bit of fame i will tell you
i have never said do you know who i am except for once and it was behind this television so i'm in
best buy i'm talking to the guy uh he's a fan he's excited to be selling me a television i'm excited
to buy this television uh and i'm like that's the one that's the one i want the sony box it up let's
put it in my in my car and we're getting ready to do it and this other salesman comes up and goes
are you plugging that into the wall and i'm like that was my plan it's an appliance runs on 110.
he says you're gonna need a power scrubber for that and i'm thinking about the switching power
supply that's probably in this television and the robustness of sony's power switching capabilities
given the high-end nature of their products and i think to myself no i don't need a power scrubber
the power that comes out of the wall is just fine and i said i don't need a power scrubber he said
oh yeah you're definitely going to need a power scrubber and there was a pause while we were all
sort of standing there being quiet and i said you know who i am right and he went yeah you
don't need a power score the only time i ever said do you know who i am it was to cease and
upsell conversation and to be fair those guys were awesome and you'll find out how awesome they were
in a minute so i brought home the sony bravia i was living down in uh uh sunnyside
san francisco uh near city college and i put it up on the wall of our television room and
it was beautiful it was like one of the first big beautiful luscious gorgeous bright flat screens
man sitting there was like incredible next morning my boys at that point is 2007 they're eight years
old and i get woken up at like 5 30 in the morning by thing one pokes me says oh dad we were having a
lightsaber battle because i had the lightsabers i had the master replicas of lightsabers that
lit up i had a few of them and the boys really liked them and they were part of like
part of a lot of play in the house right so he wakes me up at five in the morning says we were
having a lightsaber battle and we accidentally smacked the tv the new tv and my like morning
brain is taking in this information along with like waking up at the same time and i'm like
oh [ __ ] that's bad and then i think what is the worst case scenario okay the worst case scenario
i know what that is but maybe it's not as bad as that maybe they just knocked the speaker grill off
so i said rubbing my ass what happened anything once said something colorful
it's the greatest description of what happened because when i went downstairs
sure enough in the middle of this brand new i think at the time
four thousand dollar television it was an obscene amount of money to spend on the television
but i was new to television money i was excited at any rate in the middle of this ridiculously
expensive television is this perfect rosebud of death where the lightsaber smacked the screen
right in the middle completely destroying the entire television so so so sad so intense oh man
what am i going to do like i'm not going to yell and scream
this is one of those ones that goes it goes all the way past all of that you're just like crap
so yeah so because it was my 40th birthday and i was like god i want this television i went back
to best buy and they gave me a employee discount for getting the television again they tried to
upsell me on the repair program and i said well that helped me replace the screen if my boys do
this again and they said no and i said i don't need your repair program i know i spend way more
on that television than i ever should have but again like i said i was new to television money
and i was excited and i was turning 40 and it seemed like the right thing to do at the time but
yes the void pt that is how i suffered from my lightsaber battle oh i'll tell
you one other parenting thing that came out of that that was really interesting
so when you have young kids you don't get to sleep in for what feels like forever
because young kids wake up teenagers will sleep until like the world has collapsed but
young kids like they're ready to go every day at like 5 30 6 in the morning and it's
freaking exhausting so you know you look for the spaces of rest as a parent where you can find them
and television is frequently a very reasonable babysitter when you're a tired parent and that
was one of my methods right now wake up and watch teletubbies that's fine just like
get out of my hair go watch what did they watch willy wonka probably 300 times
um and sorry right the whole point of this was i did actually punish
the boys for breaking the television and the punishment was no television for the summer
and that seemed pretty extreme but it also felt proportional to the busting the television
and here's the thing about no television for the summer is
it made them it made these young boys much easier to deal with in the mornings like i was trying to
sleep in and ask them go watch tv and i'll get to relax a little more but watching television
in the mornings would wind them up a bit and they would be sort of men it's almost like you fed
too much of their desire to not be bored right so almost like i fed too much of their desire not to
be bored with television and once i removed it they were actually saturdays and sundays
with them was much more graceful and easy um they were less temperamental they were less
they fought with each other less and i'm i'm not saying this is a harbinger of television
being terrible by any means i love television i watch crap tons of i've made crap tons of it
i and you know as a babysitter it's still like a key parenting babysitter i'm sorry to say i i
like that's just the reality but them not watching television for the summer made them so
easy to deal with we never again let them watch television on the weekends uh in the mornings
wouldn't let them start the day like that because just made the whole time together
as a family easier when they didn't start the day out like that yeah that was a little
parenting lesson i learned from the same same escapade yeah that was a that's a long one
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