I made this because I used to be from Florida. But not anymore. I got out of there years ago. But not before the redneck state broke my family in so many pieces - I am amazed that I can tie my own shoes (Floridians primarily wear flip-flops). Anyway, I’m a huge fan of The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast and I love it whenever Joe talks smack about my place of birth. I thought I was the only one, honestly. So, I decided to edit out all the instances where Rogan mentions FLA because I feel he makes some really great points for why Florida truly is the worst state in the union. Perhaps I have way too much time on my hands. Or perhaps this is simply an interesting way to exercise my childhood demons. Irregardless, enjoy the next hour of Florida-banter!

The following episodes have been sampled in chronological order:
#372 - Mariana van Zeller
#386 - Joey "CoCo" Diaz
#390 - Mac Lethal
#393 - Tom Segura
#399 - Buck Angel
#422 - Greg Fitzsimmons
#431 - Matt Fulchiron
#445 - Peter Schiff
#480 - Duncan Trussell
#513 - Joey "CoCo" Diaz
#525 - Bert Kreischer
#529 - Abby Martin
#531 - Nick Youssef

I will create more as long as the truth continues.

P.S. The intro to this video is only a min long - if you don’t have the patience to make it through, you perhaps belong in Florida too.

On-Site Silk Screening

Available to screen print promotional T-shirts on-site at your next corporate event, block party, outside table day, etc - in New York City.

Works in Progress NYC
Location: 59 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003-8963
For info call (212) 598-0046 or INFO/SIGN-UP EMAIL  

Come learn how to screen print in New York City. Classes are held on Saturdays at Works in Progress NYC, located in the East Village of Manhattan. Short, simple commute from all outer boroughs, New Jersey and Connecticut. Students will learn all aspects of production-level screen printing at a topnotch production textile silk screen printing shop. 

Silk Screening Class

Intensive Introduction to Textile Silk Screening

10am - 4pm, Saturdays
Location: 59 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003-8963
Call (212) 598-0046 for info and to sign-up.
INFO/SIGN-UP EMAIL  

Overview: This six-hour course is designed to offer students a thorough and hands-on introduction to the many facets of contemporary textile printing. Whether you are a seasoned artist/designer looking to expand your professional repertoire, or a beginner with little to no experience with production and design, all attendees will leave our class with a basic understanding of what it takes to produce industry-standard silk screened items in a variety of workspace environments. Because the class is taught in a commercial-grade shop, instruction and demos will focus on techniques commonly used in professional printing. Through these lessons, students will also learn the skills and equipment necessary to print small and well-executed projects in their own home or studio without access to commercial-grade equipment.

Prerequisites:

- NONE  

Tuition: $100.00 (class enrollment caps out at 6 students per class)

Materials:

-One outfit you don’t mind getting permanently dirty (think like you’re dressing for a day of

painting).

-A great attitude and a desire to learn.

- (Optional) T-shirt or fabric to print on (we will provide you with one shrit or tote bag and  you may purchase additional blank items)

-(Optional) Pen/pencil and notebook.

-(Optional) 1 graphic, 1-color image (no larger than 10X12”.jpg, .tiff, .psd, or .ai) to be

professionally rendered on film using the Tech-styler and printed on your own t-shirt at the end

of the course. ***NOTE: This image, if you would like to print it, must be emailed to

info@worksinprogressnyc.org by the Thursday before the class.

-$25.00 dollars cash to purchase the screen with your image on it at the end of the class.

(Screens are 18”X 20” 110 mesh-count aluminum frame screens)

Schedule

10:00AM- Introduction. Explanation of shop safety guidelines and equipment.

10:30AM- Overview and demo of basic silk screen concepts and medium capabilities. Review of negative and positive images and how they apply to the silk screen process.

11:00AM- Creating and printing images for exposure. Overview of common design programs and their pros/cons in the context of silk screening. Strategies for printing quality film positives.

11:45AM- Overview of photo emulsion and how to successfully coat a variety of screens. Lesson on mesh-count options and appropriate selection according to image being printed. Reclaiming screens. Using reclaiming fluid and pressure washer. Troubleshooting tough to reclaim screens.

12:15PM- Exposing screens. Suggestions on how to best place images on a screen depending on available screen space, emulsion integrity, and material being printed. Using the exposure unit. . Suggestions on how to expose screens when professional exposure unit is not available. Washing out exposed screens.

1:00PM-1:30PM- BREAK

1:30PM-2:30-Explanation of a wide-variety of printing techniques and strategies. How to conceptualize a multi-color job. How to select the appropriate ink(s) and printing methods. Conversation concerning industry preferences and quality expectations. Demo and practice printing a multi-color job. Explanation of when to use flash and conveyor dryers. What to do if flash and conveyor dryers are unavailable.

2:30-3:45PM- Printing with a one-color professionally-produced screen (Hands-on demo and practice for all). Printing your own shirt(s), in-depth Q&A, clean-up.

3:45-4:00PM- Q & A

For more info please email: info@worksinprogressnyc.org

To register please call 212-598-0046

Ahoy, me Hearties. Ye have heard of Bobby Pickles – podcast pirate, skilled in the fine art of double dutch. What’s your name, ye bilge-sucking seadog!? Hornswoggle!

Aaaarrrrgggghhhh! That’s what happened to today’s filibuster. The same Son of a Biscuit Eater, pillaged us buccaneers, savvy? And the retched scallywag hornswoggled us for more than our doubloons. Shiver me timbers, our pieces of eight fell along the emotional and psychological side of the poop deck. Ye old abbey lubber, Robert Taylor, ye were ram shackled and marooned on a deserted island in the south pacific for 20 plus years. So now ye’ve found your sea legs!! Well, blow me down! Don’t let me lookout set his sights on ye chowder-head, for ye are not afeared. And next time we’ll feed ye to the fishes!

But before ye pay a visit to Davy Jones’ Locker, me and me maties pay a visit to Carlos Morales, graphic sign man, musician, and able seaman. Dead men tell no tales but we do a bit of blethering about piracy, plundering, bleeding our powdered monkey, and spotting dolphins; Thar she blows!

So, under the guise of St. Elmo’s Fire, we hoist our Jolly Roger, and me crew of privateers trade in our rum for bud light grogs until we be three sheets to the wind. And so we form a guinea gangplank of our own, despite being anchored along the coast of Shell Island, and not Staten Island. Yo ho ho, a pirate’s life for me!!

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Hello. I’m Bobby Pickles. What’s your name? Stimulating!

Or perhaps it would be more culturally and/or historically accurate if the word of the day were “pioneering” or “trailblazing” or “innovating”…

Any of these can be used to describe today’s guest, Dave Reynard, the “glass dildo king” of Florida – actually, of the world. For Mr. Reynard is the inventor of and holds the patents to borosilicate glass sex toys. Before he and his company, Knowmind Enterprises, had brought them to market, no one had done it. The only people blowing glass were stoners manufacturing marijuana pipes. Today, however, there are a plethora of imitators. But the level of R&D orchestrated by his company is still unmatched in the industry. It’s something that was first documented back in the early 2000s on HBO’s Real Sex episode 27. HBO followed Dave, and business partner Steve Ritchie, around for eight days as they designed and manufactured these groundbreaking products, and conducted one of their infamous research and development excursions, which essentially entails shuttling around about four to eight single women and/or couples by boat throughout the vast waters of Tampa Bay, where their products are tested in real-time in order to gauge practical application. These “toys”, which Knowmind turns out, have been referred to as the “Rolls Royce of glass dildos” and for good reason. If anybody out there in the interwebs would like to purchase any of these awesome, impeccably crafted creations, they can click the link on the show page at Bobby Pickles dot Com, plus you will be simultaneously supporting the podcast. Dave has assured us that glass is a much healthier way to go, better than the traditional rubber, acrylic and plastic (or RAPs), and you can heat or freeze them, they won’t stain or smell, lubricants last longer, plus they’re a functional work of art (store them on your bookshelf).          

But Dave is anything but a one-horse man. An ex-cop, ham radio operator and top-notch marketer, Reynard is also the inventor of the cyclocharger, a new kind of intake valve, or throttle body, which is basically a split butterfly valve to be used in engines and generators. The cyclocharger is under development in the Tampa Bay Area and is patented under patent number 6,959,690 with the United States Patent Office. Licensing is now available in many markets for practical application in new car, after market, carburation, racing, fuel injection, turbocharging and supercharging. He’s also the original inventor of the cellular telephone, allegedly, which is one of the topics of discussion on this episode of the podcast. Furthermore, he is an amateur physicist who penned a hypothesis entitled, “The Relationship of Time and Gravity: Understanding cold fusion, the big bang(s), black holes, time travel, particle physics, and the theory of everything, while violating the least laws of physics.” The PDF of which can also be downloaded below. 

The following podcast was conducted on January 3rd 2014 from Dave’s boat, docked along the intracoastal waterways of Madeira Beach, Florida. Originally, the plan was to conduct the podcast at District 33 and a 3rd, which is the name my cohort, Ben Coletti, coined in reference to sandbar located a few hundred yards away from the mouth of Johns Pass, where, on any given weekend, boaters raft-up to party and have a good time. It’s where Dave can usually be found consuming mimosas, commiserating with tourists and natives alike, and perhaps even doing a bit of R&D, from 5pm Friday until Sunday evening. Anyways, this conversation just scratched the surface of Dave Reynard, the “glass dildo king”, so we’re going to follow up with him this summer. But for now, let’s just say hello to a very interesting, unconventional person. We talk sales, dildos and cell phones, among other things, and I’m confident you will enjoy the following discussion.   

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Dear Lord, Jesus
I know you're not always pleased with
the way we act and the things we say
but sometimes we're just deceased with sin.
We're only human
we don't listen all the time
but should
All I know is that my pal was all-good with you.
He had his own unique personality
his own outlook on life
and this is what made him so clever, funny, talented and bright.
Sure, he did the wrong things at times
but I know no one perfect
except you, Lord, and your son Jesus who took the world's burdens upon himself so that we'd all be saved…
but I won't go there
because we've all heard it.
I just don't know how the loss of my pal could be worth it!
They say this builds character
and ads personality.
Well, take this life-lesson back, God
because this doesn't seem like reality.
My good pal had to suffer this sickening fatality.
You know, this feels like a dream,
a crazy abnormality.
These drugs us kids are on gives us a clouded mentality
and this world tells us lies,
and we seem to live by this fallacy.
My pal's gone totality
from this St. Pete principality.
He's somewhere else now
(I hope in heaven) no more morality
all because of this partiality my good pal had to these raves…
He'd been enslaved with the ways of these techno nights and these bedtime days;
in too deep with this electronic, computerized sound
and now my pal's gone
he's six feet deep in the ground.
So, I now pray aloud -- LORD, PLEASE DON'T LET MY PAL GET ON YOUR NERVES…
He's just being himself, that looney, crazy, zany, lovable, funny-bird.
He loved pushing people's buttons.
He loved playing the guitar.
And when we started shooting pool,
he bought a table and became a shark.
That clever kid from Catholic school,
number 70 on the football team,
computer literate, intelligent fool --
I can't believe he bought those infomercial get-rich-quick schemes…
We disputed domestically
and we both loved Joe Popp
but I guess I took him for granted
because I thought he was too smart to be stopped.
Dear God, please bless his soul
and forgive him for all he's done.
And Lord, can ya pass this one last thing to Josh?
Tell him, when Rob The Wop get's up there
his big, lovable butt better run.
Amen.