(light upbeat music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits. I’m Rhett. – And I’m Link. Joining us today at the, I don’t even want to, I don’t want to say joining us today at the round table at dimmed lighting any more because– – Did you say dimmed? – Isn’t that what it is? – We talked about this before. – I’m sorry. Look all I want, I don’t want to say either one of those things. – It’s dim lighting. – I don’t want to say dimmed lighting, because that’s wrong. I’m just, I’m– – You’re admitting it? – I’m admitting that out right up top because– – Wow, we ain’t never had– – We’ve got too much good stuff written on the sheet of paper that we just jotted down that we want to talk about to get sidetracked about stupid stuff that we can normally riff on, okay? So I’m just gonna say I was wrong. I’m also gonna say not, I’m not gonna say joining us today at the round table of dim lighting because we’re here. We’re joining each other. – Now you’ve said it. – And we don’t need to unexplain that. – You’ve explained it. – Each other, we’re here, we’re doing this. – You’ve explained it multiple times now. – I’m very happy to be here with you by my side, Rhett. – Oh, really? (Link laughing) Likewise, Link. – Yeah, yeah, it’s touch and go these days, as will become clear with your– – Yeah it is. – With your vocal box. – Yeah. – Let’s see about that. Lots to catch up on. – Before we get into the details of not only my medical situation which is, our medical situations have become sort of a theme of our lives, something about almost turning 40, but we’ll talk about that. – Or not. – But we’ll talk about what we did today, which was very exciting and amusing. – Yeah. – And then we’re gonna talk about a recent trip to the New York City. – We gotta catch you up on all of this stuff, and it’s gonna be a rollercoaster ride of retro enactment. We’re gonna reenact some stuff. – Spoiler alert. Teaser. But first, we do want to let you know, very important, those of you who live in New York City or Los Angeles. – I live in Los Angeles. – We have added two shows, one in New York, one in LA, to the Tour of Mythicality, matinee shows on the same days that we already have New York and LA shows. – ‘Cause they were sold out, but now, if you want to see us in one of these two places, tourofmythicality.com. They go on sale Friday the 11th of August. – But, if you are a subscriber to the Mythical Monthly Newsletter, which you can do at mythicalmonthly.com, you will get very soon, probably by the time you listen to this, you’ll already have it, a special code, an early access code so you can purchase the tickets early. So– – That’s one of the many things you get when you are a Mythical Beastly subscriber to the Mythical Monthly Newsletter is perks of the firstness. – Yeah, so new shows, New York, LA, they’re gonna sell quickly, if the first shows were any indication, so go to mythicalmonthly to sign up for the newsletter. Go to tourofmythicality.com to get tix, get the tix. Don’t get ticks, nobody wants ticks. – Or lice, for that matter. – Ticks carry lots of disease. They keep finding new ticks with new diseases. – Man. – Very disheartening. Really is. – Good on ticks though, you know? – Good for them? – Good for them. – I don’t believe in, I don’t, I mean, my moral obligation is to humans first. – Well, I didn’t say that out of moral obligation. I just, I said it because, you know what? They’re doing their thing, man. – They’re just doing what they need to do to survive. – You gotta recognize that they’re working hard at their thing, and it’s working. – But do they really need to spread disease to live a fulfilled life? – Apparently so. – I don’t know, I think there’s some sort of nature mess-up happening. – As long as they don’t hurt anybody, I’m fine with it. – They hurt a lot of people. – Good point. I’m not fine with it. – Yeah. We should be anti-ticks. – I hate, I hate ticks. – I know you gotta be very careful what you’re for and against– – [Link] Right, I’m nervous right now. – These days. – I’m nervous now that we’re taking a stance about ticks. – Any time you take– – Oh, gosh. – In 2017, when we take a stand about anything, you offend somebody. We have offended all tick lovers. – It’s gonna bite you in the butt. – Yeah. – And incidentally, I’ve had members of my family who’ve been tick-bitten on the butt. – Oh man, growing up, I– – One guy died. – What? The tick or the person? – It was a spider, but he did die. – You had a relative die and got bit by spider on the butt? – Yeah, he sat down on the outhouse toilet, and a spider bit him on the butt, an he died from it. A tick was not involved. Why are we discussing it? – Are you sure that he died from the spider bite or just complications that arose from it? – Well, he didn’t die immediately, he didn’t like, yeah, he died from complications of whatever a spider bite gives you, man. – What year was this? – Don’t fact-check me. He was in an outhouse. – So it was a long time ago. – Yeah. – Before your time. It’s just like, it’s a story that lives in your family. – My nanny’s side of the family, Lucille. Because one day when I was a kid I was like, “Tell me about the last words of my relatives.” – What? – I just, I remember sparking conversation with my nanny and I said, “Tell me about the last words of my relatives.” – A very morbid thought from a child. – And she said, “Well, you had one so-and-so member “of our family who bit by a spider on the butt “in the outhouse, and he died.” I was like, “What did he say?” He’s like, “If you gotta go, you’ve gotta go.” Get it? – Did he really say that or was– – No. – That was a joke the nanny made? – It was a joke I just made up. I don’t remember what she told me. – Oh, you just made that up on the spot right now? – Yeah, I was pretty proud of myself, but then you didn’t laugh. – Well I was really I was thinking like– – Why aren’t you laughing? – Did the nanny– – Are you holding back for some reason? – Yeah I won’t be laughing a lot. – Let’s get to that. Because I want the people to know why you didn’t laugh at my amazing joke. When you gotta go, you gotta go. Double meaning. – I’m not laughing because I’m reserving my voice. – You can probably tell– – You can probably tell– – Mythical listeners. – I sound a little bit different. There’s not as much resonance in my voice– – You sound sad. – As normal. – You actually sound sad. I want the people to know that you’re not sad. – I’m not sad. I am concerned. (Link laughing) Which we will talk about. I don’t want you– – He is sad. – I don’t want you to be overly concerned, but if you remember from last week when we were talking to Steve Pink, friend and collaborator, director on Buddy System, season two. – Uh huh. – I had to step out. We had to abruptly end the podcast, because I needed to get to my ENT appointment. – Ear, nose and throat it? – So I don’t know how much of this I explained before but, the long story short is for like the past, like the last month of Buddy System, I kind of had a on again, off again cold, like sore throat that I just kind of chalked up to stressed out, working too much, not sleeping enough. Just, I’ve got some cold, I can’t shake it ’cause I’m not getting rest and whatever. And also– – Your immune system is weak because you’re working. – Right, but also, in the– – Trying to keep up with me. – Like three and a half weeks or so into this sort of mild sore throat, in the last week of shooting, well first of all, there’s a lot of yelling, I did think about the fact that there’s a lot of yelling this season. There was like, “Oh stick your feet in this bucket– – [Both] And yell. – Open this door– – Look at this little girl– – [Both] And yell. – Yeah, in unison. – Which, let me tell you right now, no more yelling in Buddy System. It all happened. – You’re gonna do like a find and replace on every script we write for the word yell. You’re gonna replace the word yell with whisper gently. – I actually thought about this. – Whisper gently and look sad. – From now on, when we have to yell in a narrative project, we’re gonna have to get– – Designated– – ADR. It’s going to be somebody else who sounds like me. – Designated pinch yeller. – And all I’m gonna do is just open my mouth. – Well it’s funny because we had that scene where we open the door, and we’re supposed to yell at this girl. And we rehearsed it. And we told her, because she’s pretty young, we didn’t want to frighten her. We were like, “We’re gonna yell in your face really loud.” But then when we rehearsed it, we were like, “But first, we’re going to just act like we’re yelling, “but no sound is gonna come out of our throats.” We actually told her that. – I wish I’d have stayed there. – You should have stayed there. Because I was yelling enough for the both of us. And coincidentally, am still fine and great. – Yeah. And I think it, based on some limited reading that I’ve done– – Limited? – I, again, so I went to the doctor. What I thought had happened is okay, I kind of kicked myself when I was down, like you got compromised, drainage and stuff happened in your throat and then you strain your voice by yelling, and I kind of like sent myself into a little bit of a tailspin, and I haven’t been able to really rest my voice. And then today we were out with a team, we’ll talk about that and I was, it was outside and there’s a lot of people so I’m talking, so now you can kind of hear that I’m hoarse, and this is what’s been happening every day. I’ve been waking up and feeling fine, like a mild sore throat and then by the end of the day, I feel like my voice is kind of strained. So I went to the doctor and, I went to the doctor right after last week, after the podcast right before we left for New York because I was like, if I’m gonna have to be on some kind of like vocal rest or something like that, if there’s like a node or something on my vocal cords, if I’ve strained them, I need to know what to do so I don’t make the problem worse. But– – And you want things to get better. If things can get better quickly by going to the doctor before we go on Fallon and Ryan and Kelly, you’d like to actually be able to talk when we go on these shows. – Right. – And you went to the doctor and what did he, what happened? – Well it was a very, it was an odd doctor’s appointment. I’ve told you this but I will tell you this now. – But I wasn’t listening, so tell me again. – Yeah, just listen this time then. So I had to go about an hour away from here in order to get an appointment, because it was so last-minute. – Which I will point out that if I did listen, I could tell the story, and then you could save your voice. – Mmm, too late for that. – Mmm. – And, so I had to drive an hour. I go to this doctor. And I kind of noticed that the girl behind the counter, who was kind of checking me in but also another girl, they were acting a little strange when I checked in, and– – Like a cult? – No, like, and this is, it sounds pretentious and ’cause this has happened a few times now, now that it is not uncommon for us, for one of us to be recognized when we’re in public, because of people seeing the show– – Our unending fame. – Sometimes someone looks at you funny or says something in a weird way, and just because we are selfish, self-absorbed people, we tend to think, “Oh, she must know who I am.” And then there are some times where it turns out that is true and other times it’s like, “Oh no, she doesn’t have any idea who I am.” That was a very self-centered thing to think. Because I’m an egomaniac, you know? Just like everybody is. – Well, I’m not. I think that when it happens, it happens enough that it turns out that people have recognized me, I know what that look looks like, and I recognize it. – But sometimes you’re mistaken. Sometimes you’re mistaken. – Yes, but I don’t think that makes me an egomaniac. – Well, I’m just saying we’re all egomaniacs, we’re all very self-focused. – I know, I know, I’m just trying to get out of the bucket with you. – So, but they didn’t say anything. – You’re hedging– – They didn’t say anything. – You felt the same way about this receptionist. – Yeah, but it was weird, ’cause they weren’t really, they weren’t really looking me in the eye, and it was just a little strange. I was like, “What’s going on?” And then another woman– – But you thought, “Maybe she recognizes me”? – Right, but I didn’t say anything. Then another woman comes out and she’s like an older woman who is like in a pantsuit. – Great. – She looks like some kind of like, she’s like the office manager or something like that, she’s not one of the nurses, she’s not in scrubs. She says– – And that’s why you said pantsuit? You’re not, you didn’t say something, you weren’t being sexist? – No, ’cause she had on a pantsuit. – Instead of scrubs. – Yeah, and she’s like, “Rhett?” And I had just gotten my paperwork, I hadn’t even gone through it. “Rhett, please come on back.” And so I go back there and she’s like, “Well, the girls in the back are really excited.” And so I’m like, “Oh okay, they do know who I am.” And now I’m a little awkward, right? Because, what am I supposed to say? And I said something like, “Great.” (Rhett and Link laughing) – So for a second, you weren’t an egomaniac, but then you said great, and you became one again? – Yeah, I mean, well I’m just trying to play it down because I, I’m not looking for– – It is awk, yeah. – I’m not looking for special treatment, you know? I just, I want normal treatment. – You just want medical treatment. – Yeah, right. And so then I– – But the girls in the back were pretty, what? – Pretty excited. – That’s what she said. – I don’t know what they thought I was gonna do for her– – She’s making it weird. – I mean, I’m just there to have my throat looked at. So I go and sit down and then I– – Yeah, what do you say? – Exam room, I said, “Great.” – You said great. – So I sit down in the exam room, and then she’s like, “One of our nurses”, or who comes in before the doctor? Is that a nurse? – I don’t know, it’s a mystery to me. – So about 10 minutes later, knock on the door, I’m done with my paperwork, a girl, young girl, 25 years old comes in and she looks at me and she’s got this kind of smile on her face, and her face is getting a little bit of red, a little bit red, and she just smiled at me, and I kind of smiled back to her and then she sits down at the computer where she’s gonna take her notes for my pre-interview before the doctor comes in, and she’s like, “I’m so nervous.” And she gets up and walks out. – That’s all she said, and she walked out? – All she said. She said, “I’m so nervous.” And then she walked out, and I was like, well, I’m sitting here thinking, you know me, and we’ll talk about this, I’m a hypochondriac, I’ve talked about it before but– – Yeah, you’re pretty concerned going in here. – I go through, okay, I’ve got throat cancer, I’ve got thyroid, it’s all, I got, I think I’ve got everything and I’ve got some sort of throat thing and I’m gonna have to be, have vocal rest for weeks and it’s gonna change our fall and I’m worried– – You’re very worried, and concerned. – Yeah. And so, she’s not helping by saying, “I’m nervous”, and just walking out, giggling. And so I, then I wait 15 minutes. – [Link] Oh. – And then she comes back in with the doctor. So she couldn’t even come in by herself, so she’s gotta come back in with the doctor. She’s still got the same smile on her face. And… – Well, it’s flattering, but it’s just not, it’s not a good time. – But at this point, something interesting happened because I could tell that the doctor, as is not unusual, has no idea who I am, but knows that his girls know who I am and are excited about me being there. And so, there was an interesting dynamic there– – Uh huh. – Because– – You can tell when he walks in– – I can sense it. – Did he walk in with a swagger? – He kind of had a little bit like, “Who’s this big shot?” – I’m the– – Kind of attitude. (Link laughing) You know what I’m saying? And so, and then I, so he says– – You got this vibe from him. – Yeah, I did, ’cause then I, ’cause he’s like, “Okay, what’s going on?” And I said, “Well, you know, “I’ve been working a lot this summer, been on, “doing 12-hour days on set.” And he was like, “12-hour days?” “Welcome to the club.” (Link laughing) – Oh! He’s– – Yeah, yeah. – He’s asserting his power. – Yeah, and of course, I’m just sitting there– – He’s marking his territory or something. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, he didn’t pee, although. (Link laughing) I thought he might for a second. He did not urinate on me, or her, or any instruments. – Good gosh. Which is, they do teach that in medical school. – Yeah, if things get desperate, you gotta break it out, you gotta whip it out and pee on stuff. – No, if you’re, you can either sterilize your instruments with an autoclave, or you can urinate upon them. – Yeah, that’s right. – Oh my goodness. So he was, he was basically, you just saw the psychology written all over his face because, especially when he says that. – Right, I could have been reading some things into it. – He’s putting you in your place. – But, he was very professional, very nice guy, but then it got a little bit embarrassing from that point because– – Oh, good. – First of all, I was thrown off my game with the dynamics of what was happening. But what I wanted was I wanted that throat scope thing that you had done when we went to the plastic surgeon’s office. Not that we’re getting plastic surgery, we made a commercial for a plastic surgeon in Newport Beach years ago. – And just to get the lay of the land– – You got your throat scoped. – We found out that he had a scope that gets sent down in and get video footage of your vocal cords while you talked. And not knowing what that entailed, I was like, “Let’s do it!” And he was like, “Ha ha ha”, and it was like, “No, let’s do it.” – [Rhett] Yeah, yeah, yeah. – And then he numbed my throat and shoved the camera all the way down in there, and it’s in that– – The making of– – Making of a plastic surgeon commercial. Which is still on our channel. – That’s what I wanted done. – If you want to see my vocal cords move. And you wanted this. – Yeah, but what he did, he was like, “Okay, open your mouth, say ahh.” – Because you were convinced that you had a node or a something nasty on your vocal cords. – This is, I’ve never had this particular situation, and something seems different. – And you want confirmation, you want confirmation that you don’t have the worst case scenario in that moment. – So what he does is he looks at the back of my throat and he’s like, “Hmm, yeah you gotta let, “you got inflammation, drainage. “You got inflammation from drainage.” And then– – Welcome to the club. – Then he takes his little mirror, like a dentist mirror you can stick in and see different parts of the mouth. He’s like, “Say ahh.” And then he sticks that mirror back into the back of my throat so he can see down my throat so not using the scope, but using the mirror. And I have a crazy gag reflex. So he gets it close to the back and I start going, (gagging) and it’s embarrassing because I’ve got this fan in the room– – You got a fan. (Rhett gagging) The fan club. The rest of the fan club is gathering outside of the door. – I’m choking like an idiot– (Link laughing) And then I’m like, “Sorry, I got a bad gag reflex.” He said, “Okay, just breathe like this”, he goes, (breathing heavy) he’s got me breathing like a pregnant woman. And then he goes back in. – It’s another power play, by the way. It has no medical– – Right, he’s just doing this for fun. (Link laughing) But, he got a couple of seconds before I, (gagging) just choked him right out of my mouth again. (laughing) And he was like, “Yep, it’s just, it’s inflamed. “And here’s what we’re gonna do. “I’m gonna prescribe four medications”– – Oh, wow. “So I’m gonna give you an antibiotic, “I’m gonna give you an oral steroid, “I’m using nasal steroid and I’m gonna give you Mucinex”, basically like a… So– – But you were thinking, “I want the scope. “I want definitive, “I want a diagnosis or a clean prognosis.” – Yeah. – “I want something definitive. “I don’t want just like “a little gagging mirror action”– – Well, because first of all– – And then you got a lot of medication. – I’m very much anti-antibiotics. I don’t like antibiotics unless I have an infection. So I delayed– – So you’re probiotic. – Yeah, and so I delayed the start of the antibiotics until things didn’t get better and I was like, because he was like, because I could kind of feel like, again, this could be where my hypochondriac comes in, but I can feel some chest tightness and, well, I kind of feel like maybe it’s moving into my lungs, like I started, and I don’t know if that’s in my head, if it’s psychosomatic or if it’s legitimate like, “Oh, this is gonna turn into bronchitis, “I should take the antibiotic, I never take antibiotics, “it’s okay to do it once. “I’ll do a probiotic at the same time “I’m doing an antibiotic”, which I have been doing. – Are you saying this stuff out loud to Jessie because– – Oh yeah, I talk to her about it all the time. I’m nuts. – Oh my goodness. That’s horrible. – And then I also delayed the steroid because it’s like, makes you susceptible to infection and, but then yesterday, I started the steroid. Long story short, I’ve now basically done all four medications that he has prescribed. And… I feel exactly the same like– – Well that’s because all of them were just to express his dominance over you to the rest of his staff. – No, I don’t wanna, I’m not gonna get anybody in trouble. I think he, he did what he usually does when he sees somebody who’s in my condition, most of the time– – He just did it with a little more swagger. – It knocks it out. But unfortunately, I still have something going on with the throat. So I feel fine, I don’t feel sick, don’t have like swollen lymph nodes or a headache or whatever. Basically, wake up every morning and I feel fine– – You’re talking to yourself right now, by the way. – And then I– – This is self-talk to make himself feel better. – No, I don’t feel good. – I’m not saying it’s working. – And as I talk throughout the day, and if it’s a day like today where there’s a lot of talking, by the end of the day, I feel like I found a little bit hoarse. Just a little bit hoarse. I’m also talking a little softer because if I talk at a high level, it’ll, there’s just like kind of sharp pain that then makes it feel like my voice is about to crack. And, so… – You know what? Open, let me look. – No. – Just open. But breathe. (Rhett breathing heavy) Breathe, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then– – You don’t have a mirror. – Hold your arms like– – I’m not gonna do that. – Like a begging puppy dog. – Now you’re just trying to embarrass me. – Okay. – So, and of course, I get Hadile, our assistant. She’s gotta worry, you know, she’s gotta worry about all this medical stuff too. She’s made multiple– – That’s horrible. – Proctology appointments for us, and she calls the doctor. And then the doctor, I’m like, “Okay well he’s got a office over the hill, “he’s got an office way up north and it’s like well, “he’s got one type of scope at one place.” So I basically, I need a follow-up appointment because we’ve got a lot of things coming up as you know. We got a pretty big fall, we got some things that– – Many involve you speaking. – My voice is kind of an important part of this whole thing. And so, I’m also, I’m thinking worst case scenario. I’m like, “Oh, I’ve got got a nodule. “I’ve got something wrong”– – As long as we’re clear that your looks have nothing to do with it, then I’m on board. – Yeah. Hmm? My looks have nothing to do with what? – Anything. It’s just your voice, then I’m cool with this. – What about your looks? – That’s pretty important. – Okay. – It’s all important. It all works together. – I didn’t know that’s hot it worked. I thought the older ladies liked me and the younger ladies liked you and I thought that we were good. (Link laughing) That was my understanding. – All you gotta do is be able to talk, man. Just focus on, don’t lose that. – Yeah, so I’m worried. I’m worried about our plans. And so you know, you start reading this like, “Well, you’re gonna have this thick vocal fold thing that “requires a month of vocal rest and maybe surgery”, and all this. I’m like, “Oh gosh. “All this stuff we got planned.” And then stress. I think a lot of this is stress-induced. I’m making it worse. So anyway– – I’m making it worse? I actually don’t know what to do– – I’m making it worse. – I don’t know what to do to help you, except make light of it. – You can’t help me. I mean, I’m going back to the doctor. I’m going back to the doctor on Tuesday of next week. And I’m going to the office where he’s got the thing that is like the– – A different doctor? – No, no, same doctor. – Oh, same doctor? The one that you’ve been talking trash about this whole time? You’re going back to him? – Yeah. I think he’s a good doctor. – What’s his name? – I’m not gonna say that. – Oh, why not? – And, because he’s gonna use– – You need his scope. – He’s gonna use the proper scope to get in there and get the, that scope. You see that, that happened? That’s what’s happening. – You’re okay, man. – And so, I’m going to that appointment and then hopefully what he’s gonna say is, “Oh, it’s gonna go away on its own.” And then worst case scenario is he’s like, worst case scenario is like, “You’re gonna die.” I don’t think that’s gonna happen. He probably wouldn’t say that– – You’re gonna die and it’s gonna start in the throat. – But really worst case scenario I think is like, “Okay, you need to let your voice rest for X amount of days “in order for this condition to go away “because you really haven’t let it rest.” And then the question is, well how long do you have to let it rest? And what does that do about when GMM comes back, et cetera, et cetera? – Well don’t– – You know, that’s what I started thinking about. – Just don’t, don’t bring me into it. You’re making me nervous now is all I’m saying. You’re making me nervous. – Okay. Well I don’t want you to be nervous. Everything’s gonna be okay. – He’s gonna be fine. – I know I’m gonna be fine. – There’s a direct correlation with him, how much he reads and how bad he feels. I’m just gonna put it that way. – Oh yeah, I mean, I definitely make it worse. I don’t necessarily think– – You’re gonna be great. – That I manifest it, but I do believe that like with the back problems that I’ve had, I do believe that there’s a big part of it that I’ve manifested the problems. So I do think that is possible for me to manifest some sort of throat thing, because my back’s good now, and so then I’m like, “Oh, I got to find something else to go wrong.” – Well, let’s hope that’s right, but I think something immediately that is gonna make you feel better is changing the subject to the wonderful experience we had today– – Yes. – And in New York City, and also, showing some love to our sponsors. – Yes, let’s do that now. – [Link] Okay. – You saw– – Which is ourself. – Yeah, you saw on Fallon, if you saw that segment, that we introduced the new logo for GMM for when this, when the show comes back. – [Both] What that means– – Is that our– – Link. – Yeah, just rest your voice, man. – Okay, yeah, yeah, why don’t you do this whole thing, and I’ll just hold things? ‘Cause this might be your life for a few months. But just practice it. – Don’t make me nervous. It means that our old, I’m gonna call this the classic Good Mythical Morning logo which appears on beanies, T-shirts, and hoodies, available at, are we calling it rhettandlink.com/store? I don’t even know what we’re calling our store anymore. The beauty is that we’re calling all types of things. We’re working on the store, adding so many things, figuring out what we’re gonna call it. – That is currently the address, but I do think– – rhettandlink.com/store. – That address will always work. – It will always work. – But I do think we will come up with a catchier name at some point. – You can get the classic Good Mythical Morning logo collector’s item, guys. While they last there at our store. – Did you say 40% off? – I didn’t even say 40% off ’cause I there was another value in a scarcity, but now, Rhett had to chime in– – Yeah, you’re gonna have to get to a place– – Stop, stop, I got it– – You can cover all the details without me. – I got this, man. I got it, I got this. – All right. – 40% off. I was gonna say that. – 40% off until what? – It’s gone. – And then what happens after it’s gone? – Too bad. – It’s gone forever. – I said that earlier. – Okay, good, I wasn’t listening. ‘Cause I was concentrating on holding things. – Yeah just, just breathe through your vocal cords without– (Rhett breathing heavy) Without actually making noise. Don’t speak for the rest of this podcast. I don’t know if you can tell by the– – [Rhett] Shimmers? – Residual shimmer on our faces that we spent the day at an amusement park. – Oh yeah. – Or by just the natural glow of amusement, which is coming from our face, if you’re watching this, or even if you’re just listening to it. Can you hear residual sound waves of amusement from spending the day at the amusement park? – They probably can’t but– – Especially because we may not be exuding those. I think, let’s analyze– – Well it’s, I mean, it was 100 degrees out there. We went to – [Both] Six Flags– – Over Georgia. – Over Georgia, I was gonna say the same thing. – Well I think there is one in Georgia. – There is, we went to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita, where it’s approximately 10 degrees warmer than it is here, so it was 101 degrees. We took the whole team, which now requires a full-size bus. Did you see that bus we were in? – Yeah. – Did you like, check that bus out? – Yeah, my eyes were open when I got in the bus. I saw it. I got in it. – I actually said out loud, “This is what this has become.” Mythical Entertainment requires a big ol’ bus. That’s something to be proud of. – Yeah and then you started to feel a little egomaniacal. – Yeah, right, and I was like oh– – Like that doctor’s office thing. – Yeah, yeah. – I think that’s your real problem. You need to be seeing a different kind of doctor. – I’m still reading that book “Ego is the Enemy”. I need to read more, I guess. (Link laughing) – So we get there with the team in tow, because we came back, we didn’t have, not as many people came back. I don’t know if heat strokes happen, or some people drove in cars. – Did we leave some people? – I think Eddie was wearing jeans. – Yeah, that was heat stroke– – I think he and Ben, they went back a different way. – Yeah. – I was thinking, I knew it was gonna be hot out there, because I’ve been to Santa Clarita before. And it was literally 110 degrees. I’m like, “Man, we’re going there?” And I looked on that is it gonna be crowded, isitpacked.com– – It wasn’t 110 today. – And it was– – It was 100, 101. – 100. And so I started thinking, “What am I gonna wear? “I gotta wear shorts. “Oh my gosh, I gotta wear, “I gotta wear the right kind of shoes, “and I gotta wear, I gotta pack a pack.” I noticed that you asked me about my pack. I was like, “Well, I put a lot of thought in my pack.” – But what was in it? – A big water bottle, with ice and water. And it had a straw. It was one of, it was the biggest one we got. I was like, “I might bring a second.” I didn’t, but I was like, “I gotta stay hydrated.” You know me. You know I gotta stay hydrated, to keep that voice going. – But they had, I mean, they had water at the park also. – You either have to purchase it, or you get it from water fountains, which I knew I would still have to go to the water fountain but I would fill up a container, ’cause you, here’s what happens. You get, the whole thing is a survival situation. It’s 100 degrees out there. It felt post-apocalyptic, man. It’s like, there weren’t that many people, and it was just like reptilian rollercoasters everywhere and people serving hot dogs, and then just lifeless people crawling from thing to thing. – It wasn’t that bad. – It’s like a deserted wasteland of amusement. And you get yourself in a line. (chuckling) Brother, don’t get thirsty in a line, ’cause no one’s gonna turn around and, “Oh, here sir, have a hydrating beverage.” No. You’re on your own until you get off of this ride which but there are dozens– – There are many, many places to get waters. – Not when you’re in a line, man. You could be in a line for hours. – But I got a bottle of water and… – There’s also pain reliever in my pack. – Okay, okay. – When I’m still dehydrated for some reason and I get headache. There’s lip balm, which of course… – Gotta have that. – I not only manufacture, but I keep on my person at all times, to keep the lips hydrated. That’s an important part. – Yeah. I think personally, I believe you’ve become dependent on it but I don’t mind because we sell it. – I had sunglasses. I had, I wore contacts because if I take my, I don’t want to have to switch between glasses and sunglasses when I go from an indoor line to an outdoor rollercoaster, so I wore contacts and then I wore– – You need to get transition lenses, man. – Sunglasses. I think there’s safety concerns with those because in the moment of transition, which turns out to be a couple of minutes, I think– – No, I think it’s 30 seconds. – 30 seconds? You can run into a lot of wall in 30 seconds– – But you look so cool– – Trying to crawl out of a– – You look so cool for 30 seconds when you walk in. It’s like, “That dude wears his sunglasses inside.” Then you’re like, “No, no, wait, wait, wait, what? “They’re transition lenses.” – You walk into a freaking like dark place, and you have to freeze there until it transitions. So it’s like you walk in and stand– – And collect yourself. – Collect yourself. – I think it’s great. – People are piling up behind you, trying to get into the establishment, and you’re just trying to see. – Let me tell you right now– – And then you walk back outside– – The day that I need glasses, they will be transition lenses. (Link chuckling) Because I’ve thought about this quite a bit. – Oh, you think you’ve thought about this more than me? I had contact lenses. I had sunglasses. I had another pair of sunglasses that were also not prescription, in case the first sunglasses I was wearing proved to be uncomfortable halfway through the day. I had my prescription sunglasses– – But how could they prove to be uncomfortable? – ‘Cause sometimes the way they sit on my face, it hurts certain places where they sit if I don’t wear ’em every day. These glasses, which I don’t wear that often, are very comfortable. These are my night glasses. I wear these when I go home because if I wear my day glasses, which are the glasses that I’m known for, at night, by the time I get home, they start to push in certain places that I need new glasses that push in different places. So when I get home, I put on my night glasses which I’m wearing right now ’cause it’s night, and I packed these to go with me today in case I needed to abandon the contact lenses because they would be uncomfortable. So I packed these glasses. And then I also packed my prescription sunglasses. So in my pack– – All right, now I see why you needed a pack. – I had two pairs of non-prescription sunglasses, I didn’t realize how crazy this was, I didn’t add it up, a third pair of prescription sunglasses, a pair of prescription glasses. And then you and Stevie at one point put your glasses in my pack. Do you, when you were asking me, “Can I put my glasses in your pack “before we go on this rollercoaster?” You noticed I got kind of stressed? – Yeah, it was very weird. – Well because that would be six pairs of glasses in my pack and I didn’t know if my pack could take it. I didn’t know what would happen to all those glasses. – Now that I see the level of, I’m very familiar with your– – I also thought about bringing a hoodie. – That would have been inappropriate. – I literally thought for a second– – “It might get cold, it might get chilly from the shade.” – In the shade, even if it’s 100 degrees, sometimes in the shade, it could get kind of chilly. Now, I didn’t. – We haven’t, I’ve known this about you for a long time, we’ve talked about it. You have a different sensitivity level to these things. Lots of differences between me and you. One of the differences– – I didn’t pack a pack for you. – Is, right. And I took, I think I’m thankful that you brought a pack. I used your pack. – You did. I was like your dad. – I put, well I used your pack for one ride, I put my hat, even though I specifically said, “You know what? “I can just leave my hat out on the shelf”– – But you didn’t. – And then Stevie was like, “Your hat may get stolen.” I was like, “Okay, I’ll put it in Link’s pack.” – Along with Stevie’s cowboy hat. – Yeah, right, she had a big Stetson in there. – I don’t know how she crammed it in there. How much did you pay for this hat? – It got bent a little bit ’cause when I took it out and gave it to her, it was a little bent. But, I just don’t have the, I don’t have the sensitivity, so I don’t need to pack. – I felt like I was entering a survival situation, and I was, and I made it, because of the pack. You made it because of my pack. – But I’m just a little bit– – Where would you had been if not? – Worried for you when you are in an actual post-apocalyptic survival situation, because you were at Six Flags, not over Georgia, but Santa Clarita. It was actually, I mean, all my needs were met. I appreciate you meeting the need of putting my hat in your bag– – But the moment– – But I was very hydrated because what I would do is when I saw a place that was selling water, which, no, okay you saved money. – You bought water. – You saved money. – You supported an industry of bottled water which is, that’s negligent, bottled water. – But I just got a big thing of water and I, (Rhett slurping) drank the whole thing. I was fully hydrated, I peed multiple times today and I sweated a lot. you know, marked my territory around Six Flags Over Georgia. – I literally peed twice all day, and I drank constantly. – I peed three times. – I don’t know how I did it. – You sweated it out. – But I didn’t know, tsk, that at the beginning (chuckling) I didn’t notice– – You didn’t notice. – I didn’t notice. When we were getting on that bus before we left the studio that you said, you turned to me, saw my pack and you said, “You have a pack.” – I was interested what you might have in there. – And then I said, “Other people have packs.” And then you dropped it, which is good. We learned not to push each other’s buttons when we’re having a fun day. So you’re to be commended for stepping back from the button. – But, I’m just, I was generally interested. You have a pack, I’m like, “Well what’s in the pack?” – I can see it in your eyes. You made a judgment. – Yeah, but that doesn’t matter. I could be judging the fact that you have a pack, but I’m also just asking what’s in your pack. And so you can choose to be defensive, or you can just choose be like, “Well I’ve got seven pairs of glasses.” (Rhett and Link chuckling) – Well, I just was. – “Four levels of pH of different waters “for different points of the day. “Almost put a hoodie in there, “but that was a windbreaker.” – I feel like… – The lip balm. – The main reason we do Ear Biscuits I think has become very clear right now. This is a safe place for having the discussion that if we, if we had the exact same starting point that, of this discussion, on that bus at that moment, it would have ended in a fight, not in entertainment. – But it wouldn’t– – It would have! – No, no, but if you– – I’m not saying it’d be your, it may be my fault. – I would have never meant for it to be a fight. I just wanted it to be a conversation. – No you didn’t, you judged me for having a pack, and I would have been defensive– – And if you judge me for having something, I would be like, I’d give you the, I’d spout the reason off. – Yeah, you would spout it. – I’d spout the reason off. – You’d spout it. – And I’m just saying if I, if you feel like– – In an aggressive manner– – If you feel like I’m judging you by asking you a question, just spout the reason off and I’d be like, “Okay, cool, seven pairs of glasses, I get it.” (laughing) – Yeah, right. But here in the, in the auspices of the dim lighting, we can safely have an entertaining conversation. – But you yourself just admitted– – And what’s what keeps our friendship afloat. – But just, you yourself just admitted– – That’s why you’re talking. Even though you shouldn’t. – As you describe your own– – It’s freakin’ ridiculous. – Situation, you recognize the ridiculous nature of it. – Just like you recognize that– – It doesn’t bother me though. I took advantage of– – There’s nothing wrong with your throat. – I took advantage of the fact that you had a backpack, which is good– – There’s nothing wrong with your throat. – But that’s just false. – Okay, I know, I know it’s false. I was pushing a button, but I’m saying you knew that you would be ridiculous about having hypochondria, having extreme thoughts, jumping to extreme conclusions about what you might have. You, yeah, in this environment, you were saying, “You know what? “It’s entertaining because it’s a bit ridiculous.” – Yeah. – And I’m doing the same. We can do that here. That’s the beauty of this table– – It’s a safe space. – This is a safe space for us to be ourselves and not take ourselves too seriously. But in the front of that bus, we could have had one of those things where the driver had to back away slowly, and I mean without the bus. – But that would have been ridiculous. – It would have. – You do recognize that would have been ridiculous? – But your fault. (Rhett and Link laughing) Yes, yes– – That would have been ridiculous? – I’m making fun of us if we, the fight we didn’t have. I’m making fun of that fight we didn’t even have. – But let’s talk about the fun that we did have at the amusement park because– – Did we? We split up, did you have fun? Because I know you’re so tall and– – Well, I was telling– – Gangly. – I was regaling some stories of my past and the way that I think about rollercoasters, and one of the things, the main thing that I’m thinking about when I get on a rollercoaster is, “Am I going fit on this rollercoaster?” (Link laughing) Because there’s seven different points of contact that could ruin a rollercoaster ride for me, the main two being I don’t have enough legroom, so my– – Well now the throat is one. – Right, yeah well, I’ll just explain that in a second but– – Oh, I was just joking. – No, but seriously– – You’re gonna explain? – Yeah, that was an additional thing I was thinking about today. – Oh, go ahead. – Are my legs going to be jammed into the car in front of me in a way that makes it uncomfortable, and makes me think that my femur is going to snap when the g-forces get applied? – Ooh. – And then the second thing is if it’s a rollercoaster that has a shoulder restraint, they build the shoulder restraints for normal-sized people within a certain range, and I’m outside of the normal range. And so typically, a shoulder restraint goes– – You have no business getting on a rollercoaster. – A shoulder restraint goes down and then is parallel to your, the front side of your body but– – It’s like wearing a, it’s like wearing a onesie. It’s the same reason you can’t wear onesie. – But the shoulder restraints come over me and then they’re at like a 45, because they don’t completely, so I don’t feel safe in my, and then if I go too far, like if I pull down too far and it locks into place– – It crunches you. – Now I’m hunched, and now I’m beginning to think about my back because while my back is doing good right now, historically, I’ve got all these disc issues with my back, you know? And so now I’m thinking, “Oh, now I’m in a compromised situation “and I can’t get my neck back”, and I’m gonna be thinking, basically I’m just thinking, “I’m not having any fun.” – Yet you ran headlong into it. – Right, because I, you know– – For the team. – What I thought about in the day is I enjoy doing things with people like that. I would never just be one of those guys that like, amusement park is opened, and I’m by myself, I can ride any rollercoaster. I would just go to the restaurants and eat. (Link laughing) Go see the shows. That’s what I did, I saw a great show. – You saw a great– – It was a great show. – Oh gosh. – You guys you guys were there. That was a great show today. – You drugged Cody and Jacob to a show at Six Flags, a place known for nothing but rollercoasters? – Uh huh. Kwerk. Kwerk the show in the Gearworks Theater. Check it out. – I don’t want to hear about it. – So acrobatic. Trampolines, there’s a girl on rollerskates. – Was it air-conditioned? – Very air-conditioned, that was the main reason I was there. – Should have been there. – But– – I would have just stared at the vent. – But I’m not, but I just don’t, the being in fear in that moment, it’s like, I used to enjoy rollercoasters when I was smaller because there was this like, oh, there’s no chance than anything’s gonna go wrong and I’m comfortable and I’m just living on, I’m living on the edge, but I’m totally safe, there’s like, it’s kind of like watching a horror movie, you’re really scared and you’re with friends but then you know you’re safe, same sensation, that’s why I loved it but then I just got so big, and then I started having these physical problems with my back and stuff. And now I just go, I’m just there for the other people. But today, the third thing that I’ve never thought about was I can’t yell, because of my voice. So I literally just like, just help my mouth open in a screaming posture without making any noise the whole time. (Link laughing) – Is that as good? – It wasn’t as good. I like to scream. – You gotta scream. – I’d much rather prefer to scream. – On the way there, Lizzie leaned over in the bus and showed me a video on her freakin’ phone of this recent mishap at the, I guess it, I don’t know if it was the one at the Ohio State Fair but– – [Rhett] Yeah, the Fireball. – The Fireball, and then a whole section of, I don’t know why I watched it. – ‘Cause a person died, I think. – I think I told her, “Show it to me”, but I don’t know why the words came out of my mouth ’cause I never would have wanted to see it. And then it was the iPhone video of the thing flailing about and then sending a whole section of it as a projectile and somebody died. – That was a state fair though. That’s not Six Flags. – A state fair. They set it up, they take it down, they move on, they don’t get dental work. – Right, yeah. – That’s what happens. – It’s a carnie joke. I’d laugh if I could laugh. (laughing) – Yeah, let’s ADR it. You open your mouth more so we can, yeah, and cross your eyes a little bit. – Okay. – Why did you cross your eyes a little bit? – Because that’s, I– – Don’t do that. – Did you notice? – That makes it, that makes it– – I always cross my eyes when I laugh. – It’s unconvincing. – I always cross my eyes when I laugh. – It’s not, I’m not convinced by it. Don’t do it. But do the other part– – But did you have fun? – And ADRer that. ADRer that. – You were concerned but, but you forgot about that when you got to the park. – I’m a compartmentalist. Like, mentalist. Like someone who can control their brain. – [Rhett] Yeah, right. – And I can compartmentalize. You see what I did there? I combined two things into one and I, did that make sense? I’m a compartmentalist. – Maybe in your own brain. – I can, I have, that’s my superpower. I can forget all the– – Well the word on the street was specifically what was what about you– – So I forgot about it. – We were like, “Where’s Link and Ben?” And then someone was like, “Link and Ben are going hard.” That was– – Really? (Link laughing) – That was the specific terminology used for you guys. Eddie seemed to know everything about the place, and right when we got there, he was like, “We should go to the Twister Colossal”, or what’s it called? – Colossal something. – Colossal Twister. So I was like, “Oh, you’re the guy I’m gonna follow. “You’re the leader now.” – Which is incidentally the rollercoaster featured in National Lampoon Vacation. The original, when they go– – This is the the updated version? – When they go to Wally World– – Feldman told me this too, you know? – Hold on, the new version? – No, the old version. – The old version with Chevy Chase? – It’s more intense, no, I’m saying the new, the rollercoaster has been updated. – But Wally World is Six Flags. – So be it. – When they pull up to Wally World in the movie, it’s the place we went today. – Cool. – You’ve never seen the movie, have you? – No. – No, well, 98% of you who have seen the movie recognize, that’s pretty cool. – I know they only made it to the parking lot and then it was closed. – No– – Spoiler alert. – No, they get in, and he uses a pistol to force his way on to all the rides. (Link laughing) – Sounds like a funny movie. – Yeah, it’s very funny. – I should see it. – Yeah. – So I was following Eddie, Ben was there, Mike and Alex were there, and then they disappeared. I literally haven’t seen him since. And Ellie, it was Ellie, Annie and Nicky. – You and Ben weren’t going hard? – Not any harder than the rest of the people in our party. – But that was the, I mean– – We just got on rollercoasters. – I know but– – But one after another, and I was concerned. I got on the first one. It was rather intense. – The Colossal? – Yeah. You go through it and then all of a sudden, you’re going through it again. It’s like riding the same rollercoaster twice. Don’t know how they did it, but I found myself doing it. And so I thought it was over, and then I was like, “Whoa, we’re going around again on a parallel track “that’s a different color, “but we’re doing basically the same thing.” Pretty cool, unless you’re ready to get off. And at that point I literally said to myself, silently, “Focus on your breathing, because I, “you don’t want to get a headache.” – Headache prevention. – Yeah. “You might get dehydrated “and if your brain is shaking around”– – You’re weren’t panicking about it. – But I’m already a little dehydrated, and I was mostly concerned about getting a headache. – But you’re not thinking like, you’re not scared that you’re getting, you don’t have an irrational fear about rollercoasters? – It’s not like I had just watched a video of people who literally died on an amusement park ride. – Well, ’cause I mean when– – [Link] That was a different coaster. – I rode rollercoaster with Lizzie and she had irrational fears about dying on the rollercoaster. – That’s why I avoided her the rest of the day, ’cause she has a knack for– – But then at the end, she was like, “Oh, this is fun.” – “I’m de-compartmentalizing my fears.” – “This is fine”, that’s she was saying. As hers, that’s how she– – She knows no compartments. – That’s how she was enjoying this rollercoaster, it was like she was freaking out as we were getting on. She was like, “This is a mistake, this is a mistake”, and then she was like, “This is fine.” “This is”, I never heard anybody enjoy a rollercoaster, she wasn’t going like, “Whee!” It’s just like, “This is fine, this is okay.” – Yeah, she was talking to herself. (Rhett chuckling) And I was on the other side of the park going hard. I focused on my breathing in order to not get a headache and then I somehow still got a headache, I think I was dehydrated. – Right, you didn’t have enough water. – I don’t know– – Should have loaded the– – I was constantly drinking water. – Should have loaded the extra water in the pack. – I think I’m addicted to water. I think my body– – There are worse things. – Needs too much of it. It’s spoiled. I’m constantly giving it water. – But then we finished up the day by riding, along with Stevie we rode the, what was that called? Tatsu. – Tatsu. – Tatsu, which unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before, this is like one of those– – It was horizontal. – Hangy down, so like dangly rollercoasters. So if you remember like The Big Bad Wolf from Busch Gardens. – You got an ankle dangle. – But you’re in this thing– – This one, no. – And your ankles are dangling, but you kind of notice that your shins are locked in, and then there’s a soft sort of chestplate kind of thing, and this all makes sense because right before the thing takes off, it leans you forward into a flying position. And at that point, I got very concerned because that’s when I start thinking about safety, you know? And what I think is a rational fear because I’m like, okay, it’s one thing to have g-forces push you down into a seat, which is like a part of the track, you know? Part of the whole thing. But when all your weight is being put on a restraint that just moments ago was open– – Yeah. – So I know– – And you know it opens. – It does open, it is possible to open. – So what, so if it did open now, I would just, I’d plop out. – Well, and so– – And the plop would take a long time, ’cause we were high up in the air. – It is the highest, longest, and fastest, flying rollercoaster in the nation, in the world. – It’s like if you were in your bedroom, and then somebody picked up the house and turned it on its side and you, you fell out of your bedroom into the front door, which was closed. And then you’re soaring through the air, rocketing away from earth to some other land, and you know that that door opens all the time. I go in and out of that door all the time. And let’s say that the door opens out. Is this analogy working? – No, nope. But I know what you’re trying to say. – Like if you’re leaning on a front door, which they usually open out. This is a great analogy. – But you don’t really have to make an analogy when you have the actual object that’s in the story already. Literally, we’re in a rollercoaster that has a restraint that could open any time. We don’t really have to have an analogy. We could just explain how freaked out we were because– – I, what makes you think I don’t agree? – I was super freaked out, and I notice, we were in a flying motion, and my hair is a lot longer than normal, and I still, I cut it but it’s still long, right? And so the first thing I noticed is when we started flying, it all just covered my eyes. It is all straight down over my eyes. – [Link] That may be a good thing. – I couldn’t see anything and my arms were locked in, and I couldn’t, and I didn’t want to– – You didn’t want to touch your hair because that’s not gonna save you. – Right. But the whole time I was thinking– – It’s tough for you not to touch your hair. Even in a life or death situation. – Because I started thinking things like, “I weigh a lot compared to normal people.” You know? – If anything, if any one of these front doors is gonna go open– – It’s gonna fail and it’s gonna be mine, right. – Well, I never thought about any of that. I was like, “Well this is a crazy cool experience.” – It was a great ride. – I focused on my breathing so I don’t get a headache. But then Morgan was riding this with us and Stevie, and he said he was white-knucklein’ that thing the whole time ’cause he said if it did hinge open, he was, he was dead set on dangling– – That would have never– – By his arms, as long as it took. But as fast as we were going, on a wing and a prayer, brother. – I mean how quickly would they, if that, one of those things opened, I wonder how quickly the rollercoaster would stop? Somebody who have to see it. Maybe there’s like a sensor that sends a message back? I don’t know. I don’t like to think about it. – Do you remember our sound guy? Ben was telling me this right when we got to the park. Another thing I had to compartmentalize, Rich, our sound guy on some stuff– – I remember him, a number of things. – Well he used to, he said, he used to work at Six Flags, “And one day we came in early and we were running “one of the coasters and it launched off of the thing “and landed in the parking lot “and paralyzed the security guard.” – The whole rollercoaster? – One of the cars from the roller coaster did this. And– – It hit the freakin’ guy who was just in the parking lot? – Yeah, and Ben told Eddie, and Eddie, who grew up around here is like, “Yeah I remember seeing that on the news.” Rich was there. I’m not saying it was Rich’s fault but– – It happens. That’s the thing is that these things fail, rides fail, and someone’s gonna be on them when they fail and it’s like you, it’s a, the chances that you’re in a wreck on the way to the amusement park are way higher than something happening to you while you’re on one of the rides. So if you just analyze the statistics, you really have nothing to fear but you can’t– – I was only fearing a heatstroke or dehydration. And it felt like enough of a survival situation that– – It sounds like neither of us were amused. I mean, I… – I left thanking my lucky stars that I made it out of there alive. – Yeah, you’re like, “I don’t have a headache”, and I’m like, “Well my back still feels good.” My knees didn’t, my femurs didn’t break. – I had a little bit of a headache. – Yeah, a little bit. – But I wasn’t really thirsty. So, it’s cool to spend a day somewhere and then be able to say at the end of it, “You know, I’m not that thirsty.” It’s like, that’s success. – It’s a sign of success. – Oh yeah, you must have had a good time. I’m not really thirsty. I don’t care how long it takes, we gotta give them the New York City– – Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s what I was gonna move into. So yeah, we just, we got back from a week, oh, eight days in New York City. We had the Fallon appearance and the Ryan and Kelly appearance, which turned out to be the Kelly and Andy appearance. And… – Yeah, we still didn’t meet Ryan Seacrest. – And then we, yeah, I was looking forward to that, but then by– – Ryan, you’re gonna have to come to us. – It was a great beginning and– – Maybe we’ll go back on the show. – But we, and then we tacked a handful of days, we brought the whole crowd, so we had the wives and the children, and– – All the children, man. – Yeah, so nine of us. – I kept threatening things like, “We’re not gonna bring you if you don’t “have a better attitude or if you don’t, blah blah blah”, You hang things over their head. They all know it’s empty, it’s hollow. – They all did pretty well. – I’m saying before we went. – And none of them had ever been in New York City– – Right, and we wanted– – We’ve been in New York City quite a bit but we’re always there for such a short period of time that we, we haven’t done a lot of the touristy things, you know, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and et cetera, Broadway show. You have never seen a Broadway show, right? And I don’t– – No. – I had seen one in the 90s, but I haven’t seen one since. – So we were doing all that and taking the kids so that they could experience that for the first time but I mean, starting with Fallon, they were really excited to be there. Now they, they were bummed because you have to be 16 to be in the audience? – Yeah. – Something like that. So I mean we might could have, Lily and Locke, we might could have snuck ’em in, they might could have passed for 16 in proper lighting, Tonight Show lighting. – Right. – Which we would have been fine with that, but the other kids would have been upset. So they just stayed in our dressing room. We each had a dressing room. And so we gave one to them, and then we just took the other one. And, it being the third appearance on the Tonight Show, we were finally, it says a lot that we were comfortable enough to make an appearance on a show that means a lot to us, because it’s the Tonight Show, that’s super cool. And to be invited back for a third time is awesome. So there’s a lot of pressure that that we put on ourselves that goes along with that, but it says a lot that we were comfortable enough to bring our entire entourage, meaning all of our blood, immediate blood relatives to be running around the place. And 30 Rock is a cramped place. – Yeah. – It’s not like, “Oh kids, you’ll have plenty of room “and no one’s gonna notice.” So I was pretty, we had to be pretty confident to like, okay we’re gonna be comfortable bringing our kids in this environment, putting them in this room and doing all these things so– – To give you an idea, I mean, all that, this building was built a long time ago and a lot of entertainment has taken place in this building, but it’s so interesting ’cause you’ve got the Tonight Show on one floor and then you go up another floor and you’ve got Seth Meyers, you go up another floor and you’ve got SNL, it’s all happening right there together but, and I don’t know if the, I’ve got the facts right on that, but basically that’s how it is. – What’s on what floor. – But the really interesting thing– – And it feels kind of like an office building when you’re backstage. – It’s like a small hallway, and then everybody has like their dressing room, and we were just very, ’cause even here at our space in Burbank it’s like, it’s open and there’s a skylight ’cause we’re just, we’re not in a tall office building, but it’s like there, it was built for efficiency a long time ago so it’s all very, and then all of a sudden, you kind of go in this hallway and boom, you’re in the room, you’re on the set, and there’s the audience. – Yeah, it’s like how did this– – It’s all very tight. – How did this room fit in here, the whole set? It’s crazy. – But one of the things I did notice is people, a few of you commented on some of the videos and as always on social media as well, like, “Oh, you guys are in the Tonight Show for the third time “in a year. “You guys must be close personal friends with Jimmy now, “he’s bringing you back.” – Yeah, which is true. I mean, it’s cool, it’s like, it’s nice to now be friends of Jimmy. So before, it’s like that morning we get up and it’s like, “Hey guys, you want to come play handball?” – Yeah, that’s what it’s like. – It’s like, yeah, I’ve never played handball. Is it like racquetball but just with your hand? – Right. – I didn’t know until we showed up. – At Jimmy’s personal handball court. – [Link] Right. – In his apartment, which is crazy. – Awesome. And all we had, all we needed were hands. He had the balls. – And then he was like, “Later”– – Cracking jokes, he was so funny. – “If you guys want to come back later after the show, “we can do”, he says usually third time guests, sleepover time. – Yes. – Don’t bring the kids, don’t bring the wives. – Right, just bring the sleeping bags. – It was a little bit awkward but we had– – And your hands. – We had a sleepover. His wife and his kid were there but we didn’t interact with them very much, we just played more handball. – Right. – Yeah. – And by handball, at this point, we still mean handball. – And what I’m really saying is that this is all a lie, we didn’t do any of this. – I mean Jimmy is nice enough to, he comes backstage but while we’re getting ready and he like says, “Hey guys, welcome back, “thanks for coming back.” And we’re like, “We’re so glad to be back, this is awesome.” – Yeah. – But don’t, there’s no mention of handball. It’s just like we’re grateful to be here, and he’s very gracious and seems happy to have us. I mean, it’s their invitation every time. – Well, think about it. – And then we can do it. Then he leaves and then we come out, we do the show, and then afterwards, we don’t see him. – This is a guy who hosts a show that has different guests on it every single night, and I’m sure that he has actual personal close personal friends and plays handball with some of the guests that are on there. – How many people can he play handball with? – Right, really. And, but no, so to answer that question– – How many hands do you have? First, just start with that, how many hands does Jimmy Fallon have? – Jimmy has been incredibly welcoming. – How many does he have? – He’s got two hands. – Two. – We got two. We got six between the six of us. – We got four, between the six of us. (Rhett laughing) – But he’s incredibly accommodating and nice and welcoming and it’s always great to see him and we do have legitimate conversation when we’re not doing the show, but no, it’s not like, he can’t hang. I mean, he can’t just hang out with people who come on a show. That’s all he would ever do. – And the same goes for us. If you come on our show, we can’t hang, we can’t hang with you. – Yeah, that’s true. That’s true. – I’m sorry, it’s like– – I think the thing that I– – We don’t even play handball. I’ve never played it. And the first time I play it, it can’t be with you. – Right. I think the thing that I was thinking was there was a certain level of nervousness the first time we went on. And I don’t think any of this, if you go back and watch the clips or whatever, I don’t think any of this really shows but I was very nervous the first time. And this is nervousness that is before we come out. I think for both of us, as soon as the curtain opens and we’re on the couch, we’re not nervous anymore. It’s the days leading up to it, and then the minutes right before the curtain opens and they call our name. That’s a very nerve-wracking thing. But I would, I’d say the second time we went on, I was half as nervous. And then this time, I was a third as nervous. It’s decreasing by a percentage every time– – Well, the next time, we’re not gonna be zero nervous. – No we’ll be– – That’s not healthy. – A fourth as nervous. – So it’s… – It’s inversely proportional to– – It’s asymptotic. – Yeah. You’ll never not be nervous but my theory is that you go down at a rate of a fraction of the number of times you’ve been there. – But a function never touches it’s asymptote. – [Rhett] Exactly. – So you know there’s always gonna be a certain low level of nervousness. – And there needs to be. – But I mean, we have that on our own show. Good Mythical Morning, the show we do. – I didn’t think like, I wasn’t like– – If we ever get back to doing that show. – Having like diarrhea, you know? I think the first time we went on I probably crapped three or four times that day. You know, you begin to evacuate everything because your body’s like, “You’re going into battle, sucker. “Evacuate so you can be light on your feet.” I probably took one crap that day, this time, you know? – I didn’t count but I will next time. And so, but this time it’s like Jimmy comes back and it’s like, “Hey, our kids are here, coming here”, and we got some photos with him. I even tweeted. Oh, I got a photo and I tweeted it. That’s pretty good, man, for me. – Pretty good for you, Link. – I tweeted a photo that I took, but I was proud, man. I’m proud of those children of ours and wives. The wives weren’t in it ’cause, the wives weren’t in the picture because they– – Were in the audience. – They’re over 16. They’re over 18, which is even more important, and they were out there in the audience. – Wow. – At the time that we took the picture with the Fallon. And then afterward they did a behind the, “Hey, can you guys do a behind the scenes “for our channel?” We’re like, “Absolutely. “So let’s do it with the kids.” So we go in there where the kids are and, if you haven’t seen it, you should watch it, but the the miraculous thing is that Lando was in the video. I can’t, I can barely get him to be– – In a picture. – In a picture, and I still fought that. – He likes to take pictures, but he doesn’t like to be in pictures. A lot of photographers are like that. – Yeah, he’s like Banksy. – Mmhmm. – Who’s not a photographer. – No. – I know what he is. – But it’s similar. You didn’t have to explain that analogy. I get it. We want you to see his art in us and him. – It’s like if you were in Banksy’s house and it was like rocketing off of earth to another place. – Yeah, don’t go there. – But I asked, I was like, “Hey guys. “Lando, you want to be in a behind the scenes video?” And he sits down, and we’re all sitting, we’re sitting on the couch and they ask us superlatives, who would get the award, and we’d get the kids to say which of us should get certain awards, like most likely, best gift giver and stuff like that. And Lando’s sitting there the whole time in the video, and I’m thinking, “I can’t believe this is happening, “I can’t believe”, and so then after, I was like, “Lando, I’m super proud of you for being in the video.” He was like, “I thought you said, “‘Do you want to watch a behind the scenes video?’” (Rhett chuckling) – That explains a lot. – So he sat, because behind the– – There’s a TV. – Behind the guy who was filming us, there was a television that showed, they, while they were backstage in our dressing room, they could watch the show being filmed. So they were able to watch it from backstage. And then they thought, he thought he was gonna sit down with us and watch a behind the scenes– – Well, he was just waiting for whatever was happening to be over– – So he could watch- – I think, by the time he got into it, he knew what was happening and it was too late. He wasn’t gonna show his butt– – He wasn’t gonna walk out in the middle of the video. Who would do that? – Yeah, I did. And we don’t have to bring up why I did. I don’t think you want to relive that. – No, I don’t. – You can watch the video. So I showed, so Jessie was watching this, my wife was watching the video, and she’s very self-conscious, very conscious about Shepherd’s haircut, and how it looked in the video. Here’s why. So if you watch the video, ’cause she’s like, “You didn’t fix Shepherd’s hair.” I’m like, “Nobody cares, he’s an eight year old kid.” But what happens is, if you look at Shepherd’s hair, it looks like, because it is, his hair is just like combed down and just cut straight across, like a home cut. Now we paid for the haircut, and I’m gonna tell you why it looks like this. So what she likes to do because she doesn’t– – Is this explanation something that, did Jessie want you to explain this? – On the show? – Is this gonna make things better? Yeah. – Well yeah, yeah, it’s just, she’s not gonna care. She likes us to, because of what happened with the haircut, which I’ll explain, which is a funny story, she likes me to push it to the side so it looks somewhat stylish. So if you look at that video, it’s just like, his hair is just straight across, bangs cut straight across his forehead. – ‘Cause he’d been in that room, running around. – No, but here’s what happened. So, we’ve, Jessie was taking Barbara to the vet, and so she had Barbara in the car with her, but Shepherd had to get a haircut. And so she takes Shepherd into the place to get a haircut. And she kind of tells him what to do and then she’s like, “I’m gonna go to the car to be with the dog.” – Can’t leave a car, and the dog in the car. Or a car and a dog, that would be bad. – But unfortunately what that means is that you’ve got an eight year old who is Shepherd who you know is very vocal, and he’s gonna tell you what he thinks. – Ooh, and what he wants. – Is now directing the haircut process. – Oh. – So what happened is while Jessie was like– – “Comb it all down and cut it straight across.” – She was like, “Don’t cut the front too short”, is what she said. Because we want to kind of be able to swoop it to the side, right? But what happened was is the barber, or the stylist, I don’t know what kind of place it was, basically Shepherd told Jessie, he was like, “I just kept telling him “take more off of the, “take more of the front “’cause I don’t like it to go in my eyes.” (Link laughing) So somehow Shepherd, an eight year old was able to convince this– – Well, it is his hair. – Barber to basically just, halfway up is forehead, just cut it straight across, and that’s what his hair looks like now. – But it’s your fault for not styling it before the behind the scenes video. – Yeah, well she didn’t really care, and I said, “Eh, but it’s cute, right?” It just looks like a bad haircut, but it’s cute, it’s on an eight year old. She doesn’t really care, but I think the lesson learned is– – Did people scrutinize his hair in the comments? – No, nobody noticed. – Well it’s funny– – Now that I talked about it, people will. – Well, that picture that I just bragged about tweeting, within 10 minutes, I got people talking about the stain on Lando’s shirt. And then a kind Mythical Beast went so far as to Photoshop the stain off of his shirt. I’m like, and then repost the photo without the stain because enough people were talking about the stain on his shirt. First of all, it was a, it was a water stain, it was no stain at all, it was a moist spot that a seven year old, and then they were like people who had kids or experience with kids chiming in in the comment section saying things like, “Listen, “there are huge victories going on here”, and not even just having him in a picture or a video, which they didn’t even appreciate, “But just the fact that you got a kid all in one piece “in public”– – Right. – “With a little bit of stain is not an issue.” But, oh yeah, so again, this is the reason why we’re, we’re a little calculated about putting our kids or loved ones on camera because you can’t help but pick apart the the one thing, like there’s this great photo, and then you’re talking about the stain. Now, I think most of it was just in good fun, it’s like no one was ripping him a new one because he had a stain. – People just like to find something that they could point out. – But it was funny that they did, and then it was a funny choice to Photoshop it off. I think that person did it as a way to make fun of the people who were talking about it not sincerely, I don’t think. – Right. – I wasn’t offended, I’m not offended now, but I do think it’s a little funny that there was a whole sub-thread about the stain on Lando’s shirt. – Well speaking of sub-threads, for the Ryan and Kelly, Kelly and Ryan, Kelly and Andy appearance, that video was of us cooking the steak with the irons, that was posted on the Kelly and Ryan Facebook page. Which then Jessie brought up the comments that the people who normally enjoyed Kelly and Ryan was furious. – I love it when this happened. I don’t know what it is, but I love it when it happens. – But you can only imagine what the average viewer of Kelly and Ryan– – They thought we were highly intelligent, thoughtful human beings who know, or culinary experts. – Exactly. So they were comments like, essentially, “Who are these fools? “Why did you have them on? “This is not safe. “They ruined an iron.” – Oh, goodness. Four irons. – People who were just not– – They ruined four irons. – Probably wouldn’t enjoy our content. But then Jessie was pointing out the fact that a good number of Mythical Beasts had gone in– – Yes. – And then defended us. And she was like, “And they defended you in a very thoughtful way, “it was like very tactful, and they were like, these are, “people did say something like, “‘Do you not have a sense of humor’, or whatever but”, you don’t have to feel the need to defend us, but I do appreciate it when you do. But, the crowd wasn’t necessarily ready for what we were gonna do, but the crowd in the studio was very responsive. – They were into it. – Very responsive in the moment. – Well we walked out there for a rehearsal, and they were, live morning shows are just like, it’s like chaos on camera, and then that, everything backstage is like, what’s happening, what’s happening? Well, we had the cooking thing over to the side, like a side stage, but on the main stage, the show wasn’t happening, they were showing footage and I think filming the audience, their reactions to it made my theory is to get more reactions, or just to show them something while they were waiting. But we come out and the producer’s saying, “All right, we’re gonna walk you through this thing.” She tells me this, ’cause I’m in the front of the line, you’re walking behind me, and we walk out there, people are watching the show on a screen in front of the set. But then we come out and there’s people cheering for us. And then I turn around and I look at Rhett and he’s got this panicked look on his face and he says, “Is this it?” For a second, you thought we were doing it. – Well because– – I knew it was a rehearsal, but we were in front of the whole crowd. – It was just strange because we had been backstage in this kitchen and we went through the recipe and knew what we were gonna do, and then you were talking to the producer and I was kind of like– – Thinking about your throat. – I was a little removed from that. No thankfully, at the time, my throat felt fine. – [Link] Okay. – Because it was the morning. That’s when it feels good. And, but when we went out there, everybody was– – Drinking some water. – Everybody was looking at us, and we were very, very close to the, the audience was extremely close to us like– – It’s very intimate, yes. – And so they’re all looking at us and I’m like, “I thought it was a rehearsal “but no one told me it was a rehearsal”, and now I’m like, “Are we gonna have to do this?” And then she was like, “Oh, you’re not doing this right now.” But we did stay out there for 10 minutes or so, going through what we were gonna do and this is where we’re gonna stand or whatever, and everybody was just kind of watching us do it. It was a little awkward– – You hate that. I mean it’s like, if you’re a musician who has to go out and do a sound check in front of an audience, you can totally relate to this but, and ’cause we’ve had that experience too. It’s like, having to do a sound check in front of people, or having to rehears in front of people– – I just don’t like to do something– – I’m not saying– – Halfway before you do it all the way, I don’t even like– – In front of the people who are gonna see it all the way. – And also– – But you hate it more than I did. – And not purposely, even when we do rehearsals on Buddy System, I purposely don’t like to– – Yeah, hold back. – Act in the way that I’m gonna act, which I found it interesting when we worked with Michael McDonald. Not the singer, the actor. And we were like giving him some direction in the rehearsal– – We rehearsed, and then after we were walking away, and we started to say something about his character– – He was like, “I like to hold back on rehearsal.” And I was like, “Yeah, me too.” – And I was like, “Okay, sorry, “I didn’t mean to try to tell you. “I didn’t think that’s what you were gonna do but “I just wanted you to know what”, and then it was like, “I’m gonna stop talking now.” – But a lot of people have commented on the picture that Stevie posted to her Instagram of the three of us. – [Link] Uh huh. – And people, at least one person was like, “What is Rhett thinking with that look on his face?” And the thing I’m thinking is that– – [Link] What described the look? Well okay, what were you thinking? – [Rhett] It’s just an uncomfortable, it’s just, it looks a little constipated, and it’s just, I’m obviously not comfortable. – [Link] Mmhmm. – Again, I don’t like to, I don’t like to be in front of people unless I’m actually in front of them and I’m doing something where I’m kind of like, I kind of know what my role is and I’m in control. – Like people watching you get a photo taken for another set of people is weird. – A whole audience of people watching me get a picture taken that’s the look I have. You can see that on Stevie’s Instagram. Maybe we’ll put it in the video as well. But– (Link laughing) That’s the look of a man who’s a little uncomfortable. – It’s a look of a man who’s uncomfortable because he’s posing for a photo while other people are watching them pose. – Yeah. – It was a success. – But yeah, I’m, I don’t know if the winner will have been determined by the time this podcast, ’cause I don’t know at the time, that the, but you can retweet their tweet about us and that’s how it goes though– – The way that these things works is– – The way that these things that these thing works– – They get people from the internet to come on their show because people from the internet can get people to vote for stuff and like to churn social media. – It’s all a big game. And it’s, I mean– – It’s part of a big game. – It’s just how it works, so it’s like, you guys are extremely loyal and you love to support us and I’m not, and we were very glad to be there. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing but I’m saying, that’s just how it works. They want to get people churning comments and votes and stuff like that. It’s good for their show, it’s good for us, it’s good, everybody wins– – And it churns– – And as long as you’re not doing it out of sense obligation but you’re doing it because it’s fun to support us and their show– – And if we win, then the $10,000 will be donated to a charity of our choice which, we’ve got a number of charities that we, we’ve partnered with in the past. I don’t know if we’ve made a decision about which one that we’re gonna do but it would be one that we’ve vetted and– – I hope that didn’t sound like I didn’t care about the charity. I’m just saying that like, let’s be real. A lot of times, the first thing people think about is not, “Let’s come up with something to give money to charities.” It’s, “Let’s come up with something to churn social media “and let’s also benefit charity”, as another thought, as a separate thought. That’s a, the best thought, but it may not be the first thought. And that’s just how things work. – It’s all about entertainment though, man. It’s all about entertainment. Right? – I have no clue. But then we shifted, once we did those two things, we tried to be very disciplined to say– – Personal time. – To the personal time to like, that was fun for the kids, they got to be in the audience for a Ryan and Kelly, and they made an exception for our family to let them do that, even though there was an age limit there and that was a cool experience for them. But then we had to go on the sightseeing tour. I think, we went to the top of the Empire State Building, we rode the subways, we walked around. I know you love New York City because you gush about it every time we go and the first thing Rhett does every time we go is we’re walking around, he’s like, “Look, we’re just walking, every time you turn a corner, “something else!” – I love it. – “And I look down, “and there’s like metal “doors underneath stuff. “I just wanna go down in there.” – Yeah. – “And look up there, “it’s like, people living up there and windows”, you’re just, it’s just like the kid in a candy shop, and a bull in a china shop, together. That’s you. – I didn’t break anything. I didn’t break anything. – Well, who knows? – No, but I do love it. It is my favorite city in the world. – So the kids experienced that. – But it wasn’t, it isn’t, I’m not saying I’d rather live there, when Los Angeles, but it is my favorite city to visit. I absolutely love it. I do love the fact that– – It’s like walking around in an exciting gift shop. – I just love how every single step you take– – Riding a bull. – There’s something else that somebody is doing that’s just notable. It might be somebody’s acting crazy, somebody’s off their rocker… – Somebody’s having sexual intercourse in an alleyway. – I saw that. – You seriously saw that? – I seriously saw that this time. And I was walking with my son when it happened, but I did not point it out to him. – It’s like the Wild West or something? What, where were you walking? – Well, this is another interesting thing about this trip is that Locke has moved on from from diving to basketball and he’s very serious about basketball. And he was very, he’s trying out for his school team so he’s like, very, he was like, “Dad, I can’t have seven days “where I don’t play basketball.” So we got him a basketball wear out there, and he went to like the public courts, like the street ball courts on the Lower East Side, which it’s not like real street ball there but, it was pretty street. – Well, there were streets nearby. – And he went four times and played real pick-up basketball with real city dudes, who were very happy to welcome him. And we actually let him walk out there by himself a couple of times, he was like, “I’m gonna go early in the morning. “Is it okay?” And I’m like, yeah he’s like, “Dad, I did like a crime analysis of this part of the city”, you know my son. Yeah, he’s like, “Dad”– – No, I’ll take that at face value. – Yeah, he’s like, “It’s actually much safer here “than it would be in downtown Los Angeles”– – He really wanted to go, so he had some data. – Yeah. But anyway, but one time, I went down there with him and then walked back, and that was when I passed the people having a transaction of some sort. In the alley. And it took me a second to figure out what’s going on. At first I looked over and I was like, “Did that girl lose something and that guy’s helping her? “No, no, no. “No.” – How far away? Could you have thrown a basketball and broke it up? – Oh yeah. I mean, I don’t know if I’ve got that good aim, but 30 yards. When I realized they weren’t– – Hit the right spot. – They weren’t looking for a lost item, they were finding love, I just… – Scurried on home– – I did a double take ’cause you don’t get to see that every day. – Was this in daylight? – Oh yeah, it was in daylight. – What on earth? – It was down an alley on a stoop in the alley– – I’m sorry that I brought this up. – And it was, it was not a good scene, you know what I’m saying? It didn’t seem like a romantic moment. It seemed like a it seemed like a transactional moment. – Oh. – And, I didn’t dwell on it very long. I hadn’t thought about it again until you brought it up. But I just knew that this is, now this is the thing– – Are you a same you a compartmentalist? – My instinct was to turn to the guy that I’m with, I’d be like, “Dude, check that out.” But I realized the dude was my 13 year old son. I was like, “Eh, I probably shouldn’t point that out to him. “He doesn’t even see that yet.” So I told you about it right now. (Rhett and Link laughing) And I brought it up here. – Yeah, yeah. – And now we roll the footage for the video viewing, no. – I did view it, I did view it, I was like, no, but I love the city and I was having the best time– – Until– – I was– – Can I say my highlight? – Worried about my throat the whole time, but I was having the best time other than that. – Can, but my highlight, well I mean, I think, taking, being with the family and seeing these things, we don’t go on sightseeing tours a lot, but all of that, we did at food tour one day, ate a lot of food, but we saw Bob Dylan’s house and where he first performed and where Jimi Hendrix first performed– – Awesome. – It’s like eating– – Cafe Wha. – A lot of food, that was great, but just experiencing that, with my family and with your family, like that, I mean that takes the cake. That’s the biggest thing. But if there’s one small highlight, it was actually, we went to the American Museum of Natural History right on the edge of Central Park, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s observatory, planetarium. I’m saying it’s his but he’s like the, I don’t know, he’s the guy– – He’s the public face of it. – We saw like a cool planetarium movie. – I tweeted about that, The Dark Universe. I said it was very moving. – And then we come right outside and we go to Shake Shack and get burgers and shakes, and they’re just, it’s like, it’s in LA now and I’ve had it here and it is amazing but it was just like to have it there and– – We definitively determined– – That it’s both of our favorite burgers. – Yeah, well everybody, everybody was like– – It’s nice to agree on something. – This is the best burger. The Shake Shack has the best burger. – But I got burned in my experience. – Metaphorically? – Literally. I burnt my mouth on a crinkle-cut fry. The roof of my mouth, ’cause I waited a long time for that. I mean that burger and that fry and I think it was the fry that did it. – Well you ate, you did a pre-fry. You didn’t reach in the back when you had the bag. – Right, when I got it. And then I burnt the roof of my mouth. And then I did something that I learned you should never do. Burn the roof of your mouth and then immediately start sucking down a shake. And I applied vacuum pressure. And the straw, the end of the straw just so happened to be at the place where I hadn’t yet realized that I had burnt the roof of my mouth with the crinkle-cut fry. – But typically, that would be a good treatment though, a cold liquid like that. – And maybe that’s what I was instinctively doing. But creating the vacuum to get this thick beverage out of the straw, I’m talking about the milkshake here, it made the burn bubble up. – Oh, gosh. – And it made it hurt bad the next day. It really didn’t take full form until the next day, I was like– – So you didn’t think about– – “Man, this is not just a burn”– – While you’re eating the burger. – Yeah, the whole time I’m eating, I’m like, I’m sucking down the shake and every time, I’m unknowingly making the burn worse, I’m making the roof of my mouth very tender and very bubbly. Three distinct bubbles where I was like, (slurping) – From one fry? – From, no, from the shake, after the one fry, yeah. The burn then got (slurping) and just now, as of last night, I can eat normally again. I mean we’re talking five days of having to eat on the right side of the roof of my mouth. You know how hard it is to keep food on one side of the roof of your mouth? Huh, it’s real hard. I had to do that, man. But that doesn’t denigrate the fact that that burger and that, and it was a vanilla shake, I didn’t even get the peanut butter shake. – You went plain. – Well I’ve gotten a peanut butter shake here in Glendale, at the Glendale location, and it was lacking. I’m being real here. – Huh. – But the vanilla shake– – I haven’t been there and I don’t– – It was amazing. – I don’t know the shakes– – It was blister-inducing heaven. – But the burger was just– – So good. – And again, and here’s what I say, because I try not to eat, I try to eat healthy, I did not eat healthy while we were in New York. I just ate whatever I wanted to and I think I’m suffering because of it but, I was like, I’m not gonna go back and just each Shake Shack all the time in Glendale. I can’t do that. – No. It’s gonna be special. – It’s gonna be a special New York thing. – A New York special. But we know it’s in Glendale and– – But I was like– – We can go there if we have to. – The bun. – Oh gosh. – The burger, which, the bun and the burger are the two, the condiments are, that’s up to you but the thing that, the restaurant is really making a choice for you is the way they do their bun. And they like, it’s like a buttered toasted bun and the burger was just unbelievable. – We were literally sitting, we sat near, we went on this big, long trip, days, days and days of sightseeing, and we’re sitting here going on and on about a burger. – Yeah. – It’s that good. And they’re not even paying us. – [Rhett] Yeah. – But we’re gonna send ’em a bill. – Yeah, can you do that? Can you do an ad for somebody then send them a bill? – We’re gonna try. – Shake Shack, you’ll be getting a bill from Mythical Entertainment. – The Linkster and the Rhettster. – At least 100 bucks. – At least 100 bucks. – Yeah triple digits for that. – We could buy handballs with that kind of money. How much does a handball cost? – Well a good handball could you run $50, I mean a good one. – We could get two. – Get two handballs. One for you, one for me. – Well, you only need one at a time, but if we lose one– – It’s a backup ball. – Can you lose a handball? It’s an enclosed room. – Yeah, but if you got a, if you got a drain without a top on it– – Don’t have a handball court with a drain, or crack the door. – You need a drain because you need to, what? You got to spray it down after a really intense game. – And then, I can’t not talk about The Lion King. – We’ll talk about it. They’re gonna pay us as well. – Yeah, we’re gonna send them a bill on The Lion King. Disney, Disney’s gettin’ a bill! ‘Cause we talked about how great The Lion King was! I’m sorry for yelling. Well, we need to like put a little beep in, in retrospect that like people will know, Mythical Beasts will know, Link’s about to yell. That beep means hold the earphones or the earbuds, pull them out. – Ah, Link, you’ll be fine. Compression, man. – It didn’t even hurt them? I’m just trying, I’m trying to be sensitive. I don’t want to turn anybody away because we’re getting that Disney money. – Now– – The Lion King. – Now I think we talked a little bit about this but I– – We didn’t talk about it enough. – I think you and me both… – Us. – Teared up very early on in The Lion King. – I can tear up right now thinking about it. Listen. – I mean, I teared up– – The opening vocal was, I mean it’s like, you got this, you got a character which turned out to be a– – The baboon. – A baboon, I didn’t know that– – He didn’t know that until the very end. – Yeah. It’s like, I didn’t make any– – That singing woman was incredible. – You know what? I compartmentalized the movie, The Lion King, from this experience and they were totally separate, so I didn’t, I wasn’t trying to figure out now– – It’s been a while since I’ve seen it. – Is that the baboon who holds up the baby? – We should have known it because she held up Simba at the very beginning. – But even before that, she bust out singing. – Unbelievable. – And the voice was just amazing. And there was a guy off to the side singing too, and the two of them are singing in another language. – [Rhett] Yeah. – And it didn’t matter what they were saying– – But as the animals come in, ’cause they– – And then, it was two giraffes. It was a person giraffe. – Well I mean, I think most people do have some idea of how The Lion King musical works but– – We were behind on this one. – Yeah, well I knew– – This is not new. – Did you not know that that’s how it was, it was gonna be like, it’s puppets and stuff? – I did know. – I have been told– – I’d seen– – And I’d seen pictures. – I’d seen pictures. – But when the cheetah girl– – Well, you have to explain it. I don’t care if people have seen it. It’s one person on four, on stilts– – Well that’s the giraffe, yeah. – That is the giraffe, yes. But the cheetah, I know which one was the cheetah. – Yeah, yeah but I’m saying– – I don’t think the cheetah had long legs and a long neck. I know that’s a giraffe. – No but I’m saying that the cheetah, that all of it– – She was my favorite. – All of it made me tear up. I teared up multiple times throughout it. – When the giraffes walked out and they were singing the song, I started crying. And then a cheetah comes out, and it’s, the back legs– – The cheetah was so graceful. – The back legs, it’s a woman whose legs are the back legs of a cheetah– – And then she’s puppeteering the front legs, and her head is connected to the cheetah’s head, and when she moves her head, the cheetah’s head moved. And it was so inventive and so beautiful– – I’ve never liked puppets. I’ve been anti-puppet. – But now you’re pro-puppet. – I’m so pro-puppet now. – The Lion King has made you pro-puppet. – These are special puppets. These aren’t just like normal puppets– – You’re pro-special puppet, not pro-normal puppet. – I’m pro-special puppet. I’m pro-African Savanna special Lion King puppet. – I think you’re pro-puppet that has a person attached to puppet that you can see them puppeteering in a very– – Well they could have done costumes, and it would have been like Disney on Ice. – Does I mean you’re into ventriloquist now? – Yes. No. – No, no, no, no. Definitely not. Because it was very different. Although– – They didn’t do that. – The bird was very much a ventriloquist. – The bird was a ventriloquist. And I almost bought the bird. – It was my least favorite. – I thought the bird was one of the best things. – No, no. I love the bird’s character. I love what the bird said. – You didn’t, you weren’t comfortable with the ventriloquy? – The, it was a less-creative approach. But then I started thinking, “What else could you do with a bird?” They did what they had to do. (Link laughing) – You’re thinking all this? – Yeah, I’m also thinking– – I’m just thinking they could have been dressed up as animals, but instead, they did this weird thing that’s never been done before, when it’s like, you see the animal, but then you see the person, and you can focus on the person– – Or the animal. – Or the animal. – And you make a choice. – And you can make, you can constantly be choosing to appreciate the puppeteering, or just the performance of the person. – Right. – And the way that they were built. I mean it was like, inspiring. – Yeah. – It was in those creative choices of how they said, “We’re not gonna do a costume “and we’re not gonna do puppets, “we’re gonna do both and we’re not gonna do either. “And it’s gonna be something totally new “and it’s gonna make people be pro-puppet.” – Yeah, that way they become pro-puppet. So that was a highlight. That was a highlight– – And I was literally tearing up when it just, it was so, it was so great. – But I will say, I will say in an effort to wrap things up here, the next to last day, we were walking on the High Line. Again, another great experience. Met some friends from LA out there who were also in New York, and we walked the High Line. – The High Line is a, it’s the railroad that is suspended kind of next to the river– – It’s the west side on the Hudson. – And then they were bringing freight and all this stuff on the railway, which was above where everyone walked around– – But now it’s been restored and turned into a place where people can walk like and– – Like an, it’s almost like a nature park way, walkway. – That then goes through the city and there’s people’s apartments and buildings right up on it, super cool. – Yeah. Kind of long though. – But, I was walking next to you and you were like, “Well, I’m ready to go home.” (Link laughing) I’m sitting– – And the moment I said it, I knew that it wasn’t, I shouldn’t have said it to you. – Well ’cause you know, now I’m on the, we represent very opposite ends of the spectrum, right? So I’m doing something that I know is completely irrational, right? It’s just totally irrational. When I’m walking on the High Line, I’m seeing these apartments. And I’m like, “I gotta move here one day.” That’s what I’m thinking, I’m like, “We need to, I just want to do like a year, “we need like, well how much is one of those apartments “to rent for a year? “We should just come here for a year “just to spend a year in the city like”– – Your mind’s racing a million places. You’re in the future. You’ve living there. – And then of course– – You can see that, this would be your daily commute. – And my son is exactly the same way. By the end of the trip, he’s going to NYU to play– – Yeah, yeah. – And that’s how we think, we’ve always been that way. It’s like you go into a situation and then you immediately like put yourself in it, and Jessie’s the same way, she’s like, she gladly participates in that conversation. So I’m like, my mind is up here in the future, I’m thinking about this, I turn to you and you’re like, “Well, I’m ready to go home.” (Rhett and Link laughing) – And I wish I had the ability to think a little bit more out of my circumstances but I think that by that point in the trip– – You’re ready to go home. – The logistics of everything kind of started to weigh on me. I’m really starting to understand how sensitive I am to space, to personal space and to, by this point in the trip, being in such close proximity to my family, my kids and their problems, I mean Lando fell over and skinned his knee and then we’re having this moment, and we’re searching for a band-aid, we’re trying to like, “Okay, just, it’s okay, just keep it down here.” You’re falling apart here. And then the building start to close in on me. – But they weren’t actually. – They weren’t moving, but I recognized that– – It felt that way. – And then it’s just like my own space and, it’s not about, yeah, maybe it’s a little bit about comfort and about things that we’ve explored a lot on this show but, it wasn’t just that, so it would be an oversimplification to say, “Well, in this moment, I couldn’t appreciate where I was “and how amazing it was”, and anything like that, but it was also an accumulation of many days of another world pressing in on me, and a lot of– – And having the, I mean having the kids there– – Whew. – It does get… – I was ready to get back. – Yeah, I get, I could not, I would not do well. I’d have to have a serious personality adjustment to be a stay at home dad. Like that would be a difficult thing for me to do, because just– – Well for me, I’m not putting it all on the kids, it was like, it was everything, it was the environment, and just the sheer mass of people. I even, we asked Lincoln, like, “What do you think about New York City?” He was like, “There’s a lot of people.” (chuckling) And he was like feeling, “There’s a lot of people really close up.” – Yeah, well and I did ask Lincoln, the second night we were walking around, I’m like, “What do you think about this place?” He was like, “Eh.” (chuckling) – Yeah, it’s not for everybody. – That was his response. – I love to visit. – But the kids– – I don’t think I love to visit anywhere too long, I just think that is as simple as that. – The kids have, kids have kid needs and there are sometimes you’re just like, “Man I just like, if we could just go”, and we did this once, just go out on a date, with our wives, with Stevie and Cassie, and that was a great night but, yeah, so what, when I actually, I think about some unrealistic scenario and I think about being there, I’m like, “Oh this is like, yeah, the kids are on their own now, “the kids are in college “or the kids have their own careers and, “we just go and spend a summer in the city.” – But in fairness, every time I’ve left, to bring it back to the amusement park for today, every time I’ve left an amusement park, I’ve been like, “I’m ready to go home.” And I definitely– – I feel that. – I definitely thought it was like, “Man, wrangling these kids and keeping them all happy “and alive in this survival situation “that is an amusement park, “boy, that really takes it out of you.” And then actually, they weren’t there today. And I kind of felt the same, so I’m like, “Whew, this is a little bit of a wake-up call. “This is”– – Right, it’s not about the kids. – This is a little bit, maybe it’s me. Or maybe it’s just the amusement park. – But I was there. But I did, there was a special feeling that I had when I got back home and I was like, “This is relaxing, this is quiet.” – I know there’s mountains there, but I can’t see it through the smog. – Comforting. – There’s something to that. – But yeah, I was glad to be back and I was like, “I’m glad we live here.” I’m not saying I want to live in New York City. – Well, you want to live everywhere. Just be real. – I do want to, I want to live wherever I go. I put myself there and I’m like, “How could I live here?” – But no one summers in New York City. – [Rhett] Yeah. – That’s what they always tell you, summer somewhere else. – Yeah, it’s too hot. – Wow. Thanks for hanging with us as we, it’s just a lot of catch up. I like to process what we’ve been through, so this episode has felt like a scrapbook. We just had a scrapbooking session. – We journaled. We journaled, verbally. – No, I scrapbooked. – Yeah. – I didn’t… – Same thing, we made memories. We cataloged memories in a way that I would like, you would like to scrapbook about, I would like to journal about, but we didn’t, and now that we have a record, a time capsule if you will of our experience in New York and at the amusement park and at the doctor’s office. – And everything else. – We’ve recorded history, that’s what we’ve done. – And with a few tweaks. And if we tell the story a few more times, we will have played handball with Jimmy Fallon. – That’s the beauty of recording it now, because every time you re-access a memory, you change it. – Yeah. – But if we, if we’ve got a record– – Oh, so now we can’t to it actually, we actually made it worse. So we could have played handball with Jimmy Fallon if we wouldn’t have done this. – We locked it in. – Ugh. – Well, thanks for joining us. I’m gonna– – We’re done with it. – I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that we’ll be back again next week. There’s a small chance that I’m gonna not be able to speak and you’re gonna be talking and I’ll be making motions next week. I don’t know, maybe it’ll happen, maybe it won’t. – Let’s find out. – We’ll leave our options open. – Yeah. – Tune back in to find out. – I’ll talk at you next week, I can guarantee that. Love you. – [Rhett] To hear this Ear Biscuit in its entirety so you don’t miss a thing, follow the links in the description to Art19, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available. To watch more Ear Biscuits, click the video on the left. To watch more from This Is Mythical, click the video on the right. And don’t forget to subscribe by clicking the circular icon. Thanks for being your mythical best.