The Conan Blimp and Future Projects

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Okay, let's get started Oh no, ch, chew What's your terrible Chin? Terrible mean. Oh no Hey, Welcome to Col Bany's home Hi. I wantan to apologize let me apologize quickly to you, sir. Matt Gorley was chewing what looked like a kind of a nut bar. It was a nut bar. And that's rude because we're talking to you. you're a guest, but my mouth is clear And I can speak to you succinctly. I just was given no real warning. No, I think you did thought that' just how you talked. Yeah. I. You've been away for a while. So maybe something happened. Thank you. Yes Andrew, Yes. I forgot how to talk. Andrew brought out the big guns right away. He knows you took an overly long Ttern to leave here we Um Your name Sir is Andrew Zoli, That's your real name, but you go by the name. tellell me how to pronounce this Breakfast. that name? What? had would I go It would have been I didn't know if it was it says breakfast and I thought, oh, chances are I'm gonna say breakfast and he's gonna go, Ecuse me. It's break fast. But it is here in the notes that it means to move head fust and break stuff. I don't read the notes. Oh, okay. I talk to people trying you're an accountant over to help you. You don't need to Ecuse me I got have another bite. Yeah You need to find to sc backard. need to carbo load. So breakfast. you are It says here you are a kinetic sculptor What is kinetic sculpture, tell me about it Can you see behind me? I can. but it's also a ponilado. I thought it'd be good too Yeah that doesn't really include some words in there somewhere. I read? I would. I do behind you, let me describe to our listeners who aren't watching this that yes, I see interlocking rings that are twisting and undulating. I see I mean, it's very cool. I see a shimmering series of silver rectangles, there's a I mean, look, I could describe these things all day. Could you ' that was a rough desion? Yeah, that was pretty rough. That was pretty. L was pretty. Look whose candy bar just hit the stomach You came in h. I wasah chomp, chomp, chomp. really cooded? Uh, Okay, breakfast, tell me. This kinetic sculpture, I've seen examples of this places. I go to Seattle a lot. It's where my wife's family's from and they have a hammering man there. It's a tall sculpture that hammers U a way like it's, u like it's it's hammering out some pewer or something, but it's really cool and it's about, I don't know be forty feet tall Yeah Is that would that be a kinetic sculpture? I think it would. I mean, kinetic just means moving. But I try to I try to dial it up a little bit. So like So yeah, all the things I make, I tend to try and one make them really interactive, which maybe if I run away from the microphone in a secondc I can show you. Oh. But then all these things are actually moving based on real time data as well. So like this little silver moving kind of moves like water. beautifuly like shimm. D us it and it uh ye, I'm gonna I'm gonna He's moving away. He's moving away. Oh wow his hand. He is like a magician, you just waved your hand over this surface and it It all started sort of undulating, responding to you and all the different tiles moved in a different way. It was very cool. Yeah. And it and it's actually the way that it moves, it's connected to Lake Chipala in Mexico, which is receding due to climate change. And so as that water goes up and down, it changes What happens when you move your hand through it? So kind of like if you had a puddle like got deeper or shallower. Yeah, it actually changes based on that. So all the pieces have This sort of real time data thing going to it and interaction. and it pretty much just comes from me Being a kid walking through museums and feeling bad that I was bored Rightan just trying to make he that you walked by Michelangelo's David and thought, why ain't that fucking guy moving around?? No, Yeahah. Why isn't his penis twirling? It's Oh my God Well, I'm serious. I can make twirling. I know. and it should twirl it should grow and shrink in relation Yeah to we're talking. okay. I went too far. Yeah. but growingry. It' so But I have a question. I have a well, wouldn't that be amazing if they could grow and shrink in relation to what's happening If only. Clearly I've I'm completely unfamiliar with how a real penis works Hey, mine goes up and down base on that lake in Mexico. Yeah.. Whenever a lake passes, he's likeow Breakfast and I say this, I love saying breakfast. Now listen here, breakfast. You are the most important meal of the day Are the devices at work? What's happening to what kind of mechanical uff are you doing? What kind of wiring? I'm just curious. I don't need, you know, to get into the wes on. It's well, I should be fair in that Over there, normally theres there's sixteen people that help me do this these days. because we make massive, massive things. So we're doing all the electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial design. So there's computers inside each one of these things. there's motors, there's, you know, we've made pieces with nine thousand motors that move twenty four hours a day in the middle of cruise ships and weird stuff like that. but it is Complex takes a tremendous amount of effort and time and It gets really nerdtyy. I have a question, but you know, it's just for the kids. What is It's very cool. These things look amazing. What is the it's funny to ask about sculpture, but what's the maintenance? I mean, you get called in like you've done a very beautiful complicated and they say, yes, one of the servos, one of the nine thousand servos is on the Fitz. Is it hard to maintain? Battery needs to be replaced Yeah, you just go to Angie's list to get someone How do Exactly. Yeahah, it's all ange. I'm here gonna to fix your sculpture. Where is it? Oh yeah, you got one of those undulating lake Tittykucka. All right I know what's going on. like a screwdriver in it. It'll be fine Yeah, no, it's I mean, it's that is the that is actually my favorite question to answer because I get it constantly. And and the way that I explain this is we live in a world where we are very used to consumer devices that are made as kind of cheaply and efficiently as possible and they got to cost very little If you think about sending a satellite into space that you don't get back, that's kind of more the model that we follow. R. So every that's why we make everything from scratch is to every motor is custom design, every circuit board and the part you put on there, you can choose something that instead of costing ten cents, o, we spent a dollar on that one little part and it will now last to one hundred years instead of five to ten. And so if you build it the right way, it will last. And then at the same time, you know, we got a lot of pieces all around the world And if something were to happen, you know, I've had you know, the cleaning person smash a broom into something, then we got to make it really easy to just swap it out. So we also design and fire the cleaning person where it's. Yeah, exactly. That's the first thing we do. att least fire them. S You designed and built a piece called The Pearl It says here it's a fifty four foot sphere with thousands of tiles and it mimics the wind and waves. that I mean, where is this? How can I see this? That is the one on well we've made two of them and they're on the two biggest cruise ships in the world. So they they literally hold up the decks above where they are. This is massive thing. Oh, so it's it's they're load bearing. As well. They're load bearing. Yeah. This is a horrible idea. It's ye. I mean, it's load bearing. It's fifty four feet Yeah in circumference, I guess. thousandousands of tiles And it's nine thousand motors moving. This is the one I was saying. It's just twenty four hours a day in the middle of the ocean, reacting to data across the Caribbean It's it's a beast and, you know, it was a little hard to sleep at night. I could just see the now those ships crashing all the time because everyone on board is just looking att the undulating sphere. And then they just ran into an iceberg. And then the sphere undulates even more. Yeah starts undulating. And then it's underwater undulating an orca I'm probably not supposed to say it, but there is a there's a stairway that so you walk down these stairs through the middle of it And my fear kind of came true, which is who on a rocking ship looking at a sphere can walk downstairs and not trip and fall. And they probably don't like me mentioning that. You know, it's there's some extra They're lighting now, we'll just pull that. 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Coop's pillows are adjustable, breathable and made to help keep things cool while you sleep Plus, they have sheets and toppers, so your whole setup can chill out If your bed's been running a little warm, this is your moment Go to coops sleepgoods dot com slash comedy. that' COOP sleepgoods dot com slash comedy and get twenty percent off Do you have a dream to one day build something that's on the same scale as you know, one of those sculptures or pieces of architecture that eines a city. You you know what I'm saying? the way the Eiffel Tower defines Paris U the way the Trump arch is going to define Washington, DCid you and by the way, you should you should make that thing move, you know? Somewhere else. Move on ofrump. right? Hey, we did political humor. it us. We're not so dumb,. Anyway, go ahead. What do you think Yeah, no. I mean, that's that is that is the dream, I would say is that that we don't build we don't build like Eiffel Tower kind of kind of pieces anymore. And and if they are I don't know, I want to create something that's the big dream. to create something. But now imagine U ind mass a giant giant mechanical conan used car balloon. Yeah. Yeah What would you do? What would you do Let's say I was insane and let's say I had a massive amount of money Yeah and I commissioned you what How would you depict me? How would you use your powers Oh ye. How would you use your powers in with all these servos and moving parts to do a Can sculpture So do a cone and. Okay. So what you like, I actually think we should live from the The Michelangelo. I think we need a nice tle. We need I need a tle figure. a boner and conan. Oaha we're use that. We're gonna to use that And then I think what we're going to do, we're gonna to make your hair It's got to be the hair. You got a brass. Yes. And it's gonna work actuallyually, we'll connect that to Brookline. So whatever the wind is my hometown of Brookine mass in how the wind is blowing in Brookline will affect how my massive sixty foot high hair is undulating Yeah, but I think the best part, do you know the sculptures that sometimes like you'll go by a There's like a statue where you'll rub it the guy's foot or his nose and it's like luck. You ever seeen these? Yeahes Yeah, yeah. and they're worn they're actually kind of worn away in those They're worn away. So I think this is how because my pieces are interactive So I think you need to rub some part of you and your hair Your hair shoots off. I think we all know I think we all know what we're talking about here. I think we do. I think you do and we should go for it. How about instead of that when the real man gets rubbed, the kinetic sculpture has a hookup. you know right. Yeah. And so, you know, Yeah it's be twirls. Yeah. when I'm in some rub and tug joint in Miami Water in Prague, my hair starts doing a loop de loop. Not your hair. The hair still connected to Brookline. Oh, o, the hair is showing you Brookline. Okay, I get it. This is This is amazing that you have madeade this your life, I'm always fascinated by people who manage to U through Perseverance, talent, a lot of hard work, I'm sure carve out this life for themselves that's just kind of perfect. and it sounds like you're doing exactly what ten year old you would have dreamed of doing, is that true I think that's that's very accurate. Yeah. Yeah. it's u, you know, still waiting for the The money But well we'll get to that I mean, you seem like you must be very successful this year. Yeah because you even your space is very there's there's this there's the the, you know, there's the success in terms of what We've achieved Yeahah, definitely. But then there's the, you know, I got to send my kids to college, right? There's gott to be a way to do that. Yeah Yeah. But Well I don't I'm going to go outside and just I'm gonna bus. and I'm just gonna to play guitar on the street and everything's going to be fine. Yeah. I'm not worried. E college is overrated. Tell me everything's going It's going to be fine. They can learn from their phones AI and their phones will tell them what they need to do Um You've got sculptures to make. They are not your concern I always say that about children. Is it true that you worked someomeone told me that you worked on the Conan Blimp when we launched on TBS back in twenty ten? Is that true That is yeah. Absolutely. I got to I flew in that blimp In fact, I will tell you, All of this is here because of that blimint Because it was the first project. So we started breakfast. It was me and two other guys. and we were trying to explain to people how you could connect the online world in the real world. and TBS calls up and says We have a blimp. Do you think you can connect that in some way? And that was the first project that kind of Oh that's' going. People could like tweet at Blam. And it would react It would u it was force. Does anyone remember four square Yeah, ye. I don't know if you remember F square. Yeah. So it was the first moving location. So people would get in their cars to try and get close enough to check into it And then the blimp would actually get or sad And when it got sad, it would like go and check into a cemetery and if it got happy, it would go over to like a baseball game and get a hot dog or check in And that's that was weird. I'm happier at a cemetery and sadder at a baseball game. I'm not even kidding Oh no But that you know, that's amazing. First of all, thank you because I thought that blimp was one of the coolest things I was ever associated with. It was so much fun. And then go in it. Yes, I flew in the blimp and I'll never forget this They let me take the wheel at one point, which isn't that scary because it's a balloon but I put it into a power dive and it was slowly diving down and through the windshield, I don't know if you can remember this Sona, you were at Gear think it was goode. Yeah was. You were at the goodoodyear you would come with me. And so you were in this giant field and I went into a power dive and aimed it at you and I remembered you like in jeans and that brown leather jacket running away as I was in a power drive P dive in it