What's up? I'm Rob.
You're watching Man vs. Pin, the 50th episode, as a matter of fact.
But it's not just the 50th episode, as a whole,
ThreadBanger is about to hit 1 million subscribers.
So to celebrate, we're taking a suggestion from one or our
most famous subscribers and viewers,
the butter-loving racist Paula Deen,
who suggested that we do a pin wars between Corinne and I.
So this week, ThreadBanger presents Man vs. Pin—no.
Man versus >> Corinne.
versus pin. Sure.
All right, so this pin has been floating around the Internet
since basically the beginning of the Internet,
the styrofoam linocut.
That's where you take the recycled food containers
and you make art stuff out of them.
Yeah, basically, instead of using a linoleum block,
which is really hard to carve, you use Styrofoam.
This is good for people that are prone to injury.
And good for people that are broke.
Step one, order chicken wings.
Step two, eat the chicken wings.
Mmm, chicken wings.
Step three, cut out the top of the Styrofoam box into a square.
Ah, mother [beep]. Goddammit.
Um, that didn't even happen. >> Oh, yeah.
Step four, grab a pencil and get your art on.
Get my what? >> Art.
Your art on. >> Okay. I thought you said hard.
No, it was art.
All right, so we're both doing one here.
For mine, I'm going to do a very elegantly poised middle finger.
Very classy. >> Yeah, I know. It looks good.
What do we got over there?
Well, Elhami posted a comment last week on my video,
Chocolate Bowls, saying that my little water drop character
was her spirit animal, so I'm bringing
the water drop character back again this week
because we all can relate to water drop sometimes.
All right. I see that coming along there.
My middle finger I'm accentuating here with some fingernails,
a little bit of line creases, really adding some detail in there.
That is a good amount of detail.
I can't really say that I have so much detail.
And then I'm going to write the word "million" underneath here,
so that way it's kind of like the middle finger
is kind of representative of the one,
and then the million on the bottom of the 1 million subscribers.
That's really smart. >> Which is just [beep] crazy.
Now, the main thing that you're going to want to do
when writing any kind of words
on here is you're going to want write the word backwards,
so that way, when you make the print,
it shows forwards. >> [beep]
[laughter]
Is that not what you're doing over there?
Um, no. >> That's a shame.
So my backwards million
word is looking pretty good.
Let's just really talk about how [beep] easy this is.
I thought this was going to be a little bit more difficult,
but it's really just drawing on Styrofoam.
You want to make sure that you don't press down too hard.
After a couple little lines, you figure out what the [beep] you're doing.
It's not [beep] rocket science.
It's way easier than using a rubber stamp
or a lino cut. >> Rubber.
So I'm thinking that
I want to be kind of real artsy over here.
I'm not even going to use this ink.
I'm going to use the tangy, spicy barbecue sauce
from the chicken wings itself onto here and see how that works.
This is like some [beep] Andy Warhol shit.
It's just Rob. It's gross.
Corinne, what kind of ink is that?
Regular ink that you're supposed to use,
Speedball regular ink. >> Okay. All right.
Let's flip them over, and let's figure out how this works.
You just flip it over, right? Boom.
Well, yeah, you put the ink on, and you press it down on a piece of paper.
Right, yeah, put the [beep] on and flip it over. >>Yeah.
Okay, here we go. >> Flipping it over.
One, two, three. >> Flip.
And then you just— >> You press it down.
Make sure you've got full pressage and stuff.
Technical terms here. >> Yeah, press that [beep] down.
Yeah, and then you peel it off.
Slowly, slowly peel off in three, two, peel.
Oh my gosh. Okay, peel.
Huh. >> Mine looks like [beep].
You can't read it.
Yours obviously looks like [beep] too.
Yeah, that doesn't look good. >> I think you should try it with the regular ink.
Trying with ink. All right.
Okay, this turned out pretty— this turned out pretty good.
So one more time, just for everyone out there
who can't read that, what does that say?
One million. >> No, for yours.
[laughter]
Retsue carb.
If you looked into a mirror and you held it, you'd be able to read it.
Well, I can't wait for somebody to do that.
We're sending it to you, Elhami.
You're going to sent that to him? >> Yeah.
They'll love this [beep]. You definitely won this throw down.
Oh, have I? >> I feel like you won this throw down.
I'm going to just go ahead and concede and say that you win.
Let's give these away.
What's the protocol here? >> They should probably be subscribed.
And then leave a comment below saying what your favorite
Man vs. Pin or Corinne vs. Pin episode is,
ever was, or ever will be.
Well, that is about the end of the project,
and if you don't give a [beep] about anything else,
then you can just kind of click out, but we're going to do a little Q&A.
So we asked, over on Instagram and Twitter,
for you guys to pretty much ask us any question you could think of.
Why not? It's the 1 million subscriber bonanza episode. >> Celebration.
And ask you did. Here's some of our favorites.
First of all, I'm very disappointed.
There was an obscene amount of questions about our sex life.
Well, they can see that over on our other channel.
ThreadBangHer. >> ThreadBangHer.
Kelly, over on Twitter, asked if we regretted this fashion choice.
Yeah, yeah, that is definitely some regrettable [beep] right there.
Yoitslow asked which pins that we've done do we actually use.
Oh, none of them. They [beep] go straight in the garbage as soon as they're done.
I made my wedding dress. I wore that. >> That's true.
There are some things. >> Very few.
Six percent of all ThreadBanger projects have actually been worn or used.
I have a higher percentage.
Galaxystars asked, what is life?
[beep] >> Good luck with that one.
It's a big middle finger is what it is.
Elegantdestiny asked if we ever wanted to kill each other,
and if so, how? >> I don't think we should answer that question.
Cyanide or hemlock. >> That's so mean.
Untraceable poisons is really the route that I would go.
But you've thought about killing me?
No.
Will you write a book? >> No.
[laughter]
Forkiley asked, who would win in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors?
Champion. That's how you play the game.
In all honesty, though, we couldn't be more appreciative
of all your comments and questions
and views and subscribershipness.
Get the [beep] over it.
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