
The clip from @superretropodcast is a split screen. The top half shows one of two men at microphones, and the bottom half is a still photo of a toy revolver with a pale grip, an ornate silver frame and a round orange piece at its center. Bold white text on black bars reads “I CAN SMELL” above the photo and “THIS PHOTO” below it. The text and photo stay up for the whole 55 seconds while the video cuts between the two men talking.
The caption sets up the joke. “Can you smell this picture? Full nostalgia overload with this one. Yall remember the roll???” The post is tagged #80s, #90s, #Nostalgia, #Childhood and #Toys. The video itself gives only the picture, the on screen text and the two hosts talking. The post lists its sound as original audio, and the hosts’ speech is not captioned, so what they say about the smell or the roll is not in this write up.
Both hosts wear headphones and sit at microphones. One sits in front of a wall of Nintendo signage and bright arcade style artwork, in a black cap with a Kings logo, orange tinted glasses and a dark graphic tee with green lettering. He talks with his hands, most visibly from about 0:23 to 0:53. The other sits in front of shelves of VHS tapes with a television playing old footage behind him, in a Buffalo Bills hat and a matching Bills shirt. The video cuts between them: the first host at 0:01 to 0:07, the second at 0:09 to 0:12, the first again at 0:15, the second at 0:18 to 0:20, back and forth through the middle, the first host from 0:37 to 0:48, the second at 0:50 and the first again at 0:53. The photo stays on screen from the first second to the last.
To identify the pistol in the photo, start with what the frame shows: a pale grip, an ornate silver frame and a round cylinder face. A clear photo of both sides of any gun you find, plus close ups of the markings, is the starting point for a search.
The video never says whether the toy in the photo fired caps, and the caption’s question about “the roll” is the only hint. Toy guns that do fire caps are covered by federal safety rules. In a June 2012 notice in the Federal Register, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission described its rule at 16 CFR 1500.18(a)(5), which bans caps, and toy guns not intended for use with caps, that produce an impulse type sound at a peak pressure level at or above 138 decibels, measured at 25 centimeters. The same notice says the toy safety standard ASTM F 963 limits the peak sound from percussion caps to 125 decibels at 50 centimeters, and that the commission proposed revoking its older sound rules as superseded by that standard.


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