(upbeat music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits. I’m Rhett. – And I’m Link. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we’re gonna grease you up for Thanksgiving. – [Rhett] Oh gosh. – Like a turkey. You know how you rub the turkey with stuff before you put it in the thing to then go through the process so you can then eat it? That’s what we’re doing to you ears right now. – What do you know about that process? – I used to flip through the channels on a television, I would see people preparing turkeys. Sometimes, internet videos float around of people preparing turkeys in new creative ways. – And your interpretation was that they were greasing it up? – Yeah, you just grease it up and then it’s kinda like a pig that you’re trying to, I know that would be pork but that you were trying to, you know, you’re trying to chase. I’m trying to corral a greased pig. – A turkey is like a pig. – [Link] That’s greased. – Yeah, I could tell you don’t spend a lot of time in the kitchen unless you’re eating. – We’re gonna have baste. We’re gonna baste you. We’re gonna baste your ears. – Oh, gosh. All the mental pictures that you’re creating for people. – ‘Cause this is– – Have you seen a turkey basted before? – This is the week of– – They look like some sort of dropper for an ogre. You know what I’m saying? – A dropper for an ogre. This is the week to be thankful, man. We’ve designated it. We’ve designated a date and we can get it out of our system. So the rest of the year, we don’t have to be thankful at all. No, that’s not true, is it? This is an opportunity for us to exercise. – It’s just to be especially, especially thankful. To focus on gratitude. – To focus on gratitude and so we’re happy to do that. We’re gonna do that today. We dedicated an entire chapter of the Book of Mythicality to what we called Throwback Thanks. And we’re gonna get into. What we didn’t do in the book was, when we thank some people, we didn’t get into a lot of the backstories or like we weren’t able to fully flesh out why we were thanking these people. We limited it to a couple of note card-sized thank you notes within our book. So we just thought this would be a fun opportunity for us to expound on those things. So we’re gonna do that today. – We’re also gonna hear some of the throwback thanks from new Mythical beasts. – Yeah. – But first, you know. – You’re still greased up from your– – My birthday party. – Your birthday party. – I had a very late birthday party because we’ve been traveling a whole bunch and the only time that we could get the venue that we wanted and the band that we wanted was this particular day. But you told me that, because I had the advantage of turning. There are certain disadvantages of being older than you. – [Link] Like what? – Just being the guy that hits 40 first, that’s not something you wanna sign up for. – [Link] It’s scary. – But the advantage that I have recently discovered is that now, you have to live up to the party that I threw for myself. Oh, really that my wife threw for me. – Right, well, for months leading up to you crossing the precipice, breaking the seal on 40. There were there were murmurs, there were discussions of a party. So, all right, well, if you’re gonna have a big birthday party, it should be 40. And I was in full support of a great celebration that I would not have to foot the bill for. But I would fully engage in enjoying. – But I did put it on the company. You gonna say, yeah. – You did? Oh, goodness. So, I mean, you throw a big party, man. It was like– – It started small and it got a little out of hand. – Well, I wouldn’t say it start. Well, in the conversations that I heard between you and Jessie about this party and the ones that I was involved in was like, well, once she decided you were gonna get a band. Which came first? Decided to get a band or knowing about the band and then building a party around the band? Because– – Well, so, over a year ago, my wife said, or probably right after I turned 39, she was like, “Now, do you wanna do something substantial “for your 40th birthday party?” Because we don’t really do big parties for birthdays. It’s just not something that, you know, Jessie is, we’re usually back home in North Carolina for her birthday. My birthday always comes in the middle of a really, really busy time for us. October’s always really busy. So we just haven’t thrown parties. She said that I was like, I think I wanna have a party on a boat and I want Harbor Party, the band, to play. That’s all I said at that time, so. – Oh, so you thought about boat. Yeah, it was a package deal in your mind. I thought it was from the moment we saw that band which you should tell them who Harbor Party is. – Well, yeah. – ‘Cause that’s the linchpin of this entire experience in my mind. – Well first of all, a lot of people did a lot of social media at the party and a lot of that spread and so there’s a lot of people who, you know, the people, the Mythical beast who do a lot of digging on the internet to find out things, they already know all about this because there was a lot of Snapchats. – [Link] Oh really? – And Insta Stories, I mean I’ve seen myself singing that freaking song a million times from a bunch of different angles because everybody was filming it. (Link laughs) But, what were we saying? What was the question you asked me? – [Link] Harbor Party, who is Harbor Party? – Harbor Party. So Harbor Party is a band that we saw play together for the first time at Good Times at Davey Wayne’s, a club, a music club in Hollywood. – But, I’ve never– – But not to say band. To call them a band as almost not even fair. – Well I’m first of all, I’ve never been to a music club and watched a band play that I would like, I’ve seen bands because I buy a ticket to their concert but I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever been to a club, period, actually. – I’ve been to like a club for like somebody’s party who had a party at a club. – But– – But I don’t do the clubbing thing. – But our friends, Gar and Rebecca knew about this band because Gar’s brother was– – [Rhett] Friends with the lead singer. – Really close friends with the lead singer and they were like, you’re gonna love this band, you’re gonna love this venue, we should all go and hang out. And this venue, it looked kinda like a, when you get inside, it’s low ceilings and a couple of rooms and it looks like a frat house inside. Like you’re literally in a house. – But it’s a very, very cool. – Very, very cool. – Very cool place. – And then in the corner of one of these– – And it’s also like a speakeasy when you walk into the lobby. – Yeah, it’s a secret. – It looks like just a room, a little shop with like a refrigerator in it. – Hey, you walk through the refrigerator. – And you walk through the refrigerator. – To get into this place. – And then you all of a sudden, you’re in this music club. – How awesome is that? And then without any stage, just in the corner. Just like you would have a house party band, there’s a band playing over there and it’s the band that they wanted us to see, Harbor Party, and they’re playing yacht rock. Only yacht rock. – Which we’ve learned that not a lot of people knew what yacht rock was. – I was surprised because yacht rock is my favorite type of music. I mean, basically, to explain it to you, it’s like late 70s, early 80s soul music that is mostly played by white people. I’m just gonna be, you know, honest. That’s what they call blue-eyed soul. – Like a Michael McDonald, Doobie Brothers, Hall & Oates. – [Link] Yeah. – It’s like when white people are getting as funky as they possibly can. – [Link] Right. – It’s like the limit of white funk. – With in it so, and you make fun of it by saying one night, if you get a rich guy on a yacht, this is the music he listens to because it’s kinda like, maybe second rate. It’s a little embarrassing. – It’s easy listening but it’s also a little funky but it’s not so funky that you begin to, you’re gonna hurt yourself. – Right. – You can still like have a fishing rod. – And so I would respect anyone, I would not argue with anyone saying, yeah, but it’s not the real deal. If you wanna talk about funk, you can talk James Brown. – [Rhett] Right, right, right. – We’re gonna talk about somebody who actually brings the funk. – It’s derivative of James Brown. – [Link] This is derivative. – Right, but it’s still incredible. – And it’s like smooth out and for palatability of people on yachts, I guess, I don’t know. – Right. And these guys, so everybody in this band. – And if Michael McDonald sings a song, then you’re gonna bet that that’s a yacht rock song. – Right so. ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ ♪ We’re not in love anymore ♪ – And everybody in the band is a professional musician in their own right and usually a part of another band or like a studio musician. So they’re great at their particular instrument whether it’s the voice or the bass or the keyboards or whatever. Everybody is just an incredible musician. – [Link] Professionally. – And then they all come together, really, as a side project to form this band that plays at places like Good Times at Davey Wayne’s but they also will do parties. And just like I told everybody at my party when I got up to give my little birthday boy speech, everyone underestimates it. Like when you say this is a great band, people are like, “Okay, why are you making “such a big deal out about this band?” And then you see them and experience in a person and you’re like, well I can’t fathom this. But I will say that there was definitely a little bit of a segregation between the old people. Me, you. – [Link] Us. – Us getting into our late 30s, and then the like right in the sweet spot of millennials that we have working for us. And there was this moment where we were up there like dancing, just dancing our butts off, just like having the greatest time and I kinda looked back and like saw like a sea of millennials and I realized that we have become our parents. – Or like just sad uncles. – This is like when I went to, like I would see my parents, like get really excited about 50s music when I was growing up. And I was always like that song is good stuff but like, it’s a little embarrassing when mom and dad start dancing to like, The Four Seasons. You know what I’m saying? – Yeah, yeah. – Chuck Berry or something like that. – And you know what makes it even sadder for us? We don’t have yachts. – [Rhett] Yeah, we don’t. – You know, I mean. – We should look into that. – If we had a yacht, then you’d be like, yeah, but I got a yacht. I mean, I’m on it. I’m dancing on the yacht. So that was the idea when– – Well, it comes full circle, yeah. I wanted to have a yacht rock band on a yacht then I looked into how much that cost. And very quickly learned that that was not what I wanted to do. I coulda had like a jon boat party. That would have been– – That would have been an intimate affair. – Affordable. But I wanted to have like around a hundred people at this thing. So if you want to put a hundred people on a boat. – It’s gonna sink. If it’s jon boat, that’s gonna sink. – Yeah so we quickly downgraded. – Could be an under the sea thing. – From boat to club which I thought was just a perfect venue for those guys. They had a nice stage. But Jessie planned a lot of the details. – It was perfect. There wasn’t, there was the stage and then there was like a bar behind the stage. In between the bar and the stage, there was like a little dance floor but not too big to where. With that amount of people, it was like everything was full so it didn’t seem like there was like a big gap where some somebody should have been but they weren’t. – And here’s the one thing that I was able to do because I didn’t have it on the boat. Jessie thought it would be a great idea to get a lobster roll food truck. She’s a genius. – [Link] That was so good. – And the Cousins Maine Lobster food truck that had two types of lobster rolls, Connecticut style and Maine style. Connecticut is the warm lobster with butter on it which is the one that I get and I got and they had lobster bisque, tater tots. It was absolutely incredible. So it was like being on a yacht that was parked and having somebody who had caught lobster and made it into lobster rolls perfectly for you. And then she, you remember with the pie hole that we that we shot an episode of Will It Pie? at. We got pies from Will It Pie? hole because I tried a Earl Grey tea pie when I was in Pasadena at Pie Hole and I was like this is the best thing I’ve ever eaten and Jessie said, “I’m gonna have that at your birthday party.” – That’s so good. – So many things just came together and of course, I did choose to perform a song with the band which I was a little intimidated. You know this because I was telling you in the days leading up that little pressure ’cause we got really good musicians, these professionals. I got to get up there and I got a dance and I got to sing so I decided to sing not any of the songs that I know that they do so well. I didn’t want to ruin any of the songs that they. I wasn’t gonna any Hall & Oats, I was gonna sing any Toto, I wasn’t gonna sing any Michael Jackson. They do Michael Jackson which is not exactly yacht rock. – That’s not yacht rock. – But they’ve throw in some. – If somebody starts playing Michael Jackson, you’re not gonna stop them. – You can’t do it. So I was like, I’m not gonna sing any of the songs that I’ll screw up but it’s got to be a song that people will recognize and I can actually sing so I sang Brandy. And first– – [Link] Parenthetically, You’re A Fine Girl. – Stevie and Cassie both thought. So when I talked to Cassie about this. Shoot, I was like I’m performing a song and she’s like, “What are you singing?” I was like Brandy. And then she went and told Stevie that I was performing a Brandy song, from Brandy. And so then when the band started playing like the whole night, Cassie was like, “I don’t understand how Rhett’s gonna perform a Brandy song “and how this is gonna make sense.” And then when I performed Brandy by Looking Glass, a one-hit wonder who recently has come back into the public eye because they’re on the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack but she was like, “Makes a whole lot more sense.” And anyway, well tell me where– – You weren’t concerned about it because the day. – But tell your– – The days leading up to it, there’d be like a low on conversation where we were talking about work or something else and then you’d be like I was like, I gotta learn those lyrics to Brandy. I was like, dude, I think it would be great if you just kinda like mumble to your way through it because that’s kind of how he sings, he’s like, ♪ Brandy ♪ (mumbles) – And I almost did that. I was committed to that for a couple of days. ♪ From far away ♪ ♪ And if a sailor ♪ – But I was worried, it was kind of a risk. I was worried that people might not get it. So I took all this time to memorize the lyrics. ♪ Sailors say Brandy ♪ Yeah, you did. – And then had just had the lyrics on an iPad up there. So I took I spent hours. – Hours? – Yeah. (laughs) And then– – Well, here’s my experience. I’m out there just having the time of my life, man. I was happy for you that you were indeed 40 and you know what? You didn’t look that decrepit. I mean you got on stage, you performed a song. I was like there’s hope for me. But then, I hope started to dash a little bit because one person came up and asked me something. A few minutes later, another person comes up, asked me the same thing. A few minutes later, somebody else is talking to me and then changes the subject to say the same thing. Everyone was asking me what are you gonna do for your party? I’m like, man, I was thinking about it a little bit but I didn’t realize everybody else was thinking about it. A couple of people like complimented me on the party and then realized that it wasn’t my party. Some people associate us so closely that I got compliments and I was like yeah, it’s great. – Christy said the same thing. – I did not spend a dime on this. – That somebody came up to her and was like, great party. – So I don’t. I mean my response at time would be like, yeah, I don’t know what I’m gonna do but you’re invited. And then by then I’m like, I’m not doing anything and you’re not invited. – [Rhett] You’re just gonna go on a trip? – I was like I gotta go in a totally different direction. Maybe I’ll take like what they call a sabbatical. I’ll take a 4-0 sabbatical. Like 40 minutes on my own. I’m trying to keep it small. Like, I want 40 minutes to myself. – Well, I don’t know. I feel like we should figure out a way for you to– – I can’t have any other band. – I feel like, hold on, but let’s think about this. Here’s what, speaking of– – Maybe it’ll be Brandy. – Speaking of the book because we have a chapter in the book called throw a party that doesn’t suck. And I gotta say that chapter wasn’t necessarily my favorite chapter of the book. You now, because I was like, this isn’t as. I mean we told a funny story about going to the party at Redfoo’s house which is a really funny thing but it was a little more frivolous if you have to like rank the chapters from like, you know, applicability to your life and frivolity, is that a word? Throwing a party that doesn’t suck. I would have said this as a pretty frivolous thing. But having thrown a party that, you know, Jessie and I threw everything we could at this party to make it great and we talked on the way there that we were more concerned about everyone else enjoying themselves than we were enjoying it ourselves. – Kinda like your wedding. – Yeah, but so many people came up and said they had such a great time. In fact, one of our friends came up and he had a few drinks but he said, this is the best night of my life. (laughing) – Oh, wow. What a sad friend. – Having heard that from multiple people. – It was pretty good night. – It made me so happy. I was like people had such a good time. This has given me a new perspective on parties and throwing parties and I feel like it lived up to the standard that we said in the book, to throw a mythical party. And so I don’t feel like you can bow out. I feel like you have to embrace this challenge and you’ve got to beat me. You got to throw a better party than me. You got to have live animals, you got to have fire dancers. We are gonna get a boat. You can combine you and Christy’s birthdays together ’cause you guys are gonna be 40 in like within a month or two. – Yeah. – So you got that going for you. So financially speaking, it’s like you’re, I get to wait like four years for my wife to turn 40 before we’ve got to spend more money on that. – You don’t have any daughters though. You made that point, you’re like, this whole I mean. – You got to pay for a wedding. – I mean does that hold true anymore? – I don’t know. – Is that through in California? – It’s 2017 – I hope not. – I think that that tradition is changing a little bit. – I can funnel off that money into my own party? I don’t know, I haven’t talked anybody who’s got married recently but it’s probably more collaborative than it used to be. – [Link] I hope so. – It’s probably not just like the bride’s family pays for the whole thing. I don’t know. You should negotiate that. You know, don’t worry about that. That’s years away. – I hope so about that too. – I just think we got to figure out a way to make. – A lot of kids. – I’ve got an idea. – I definitely want lots of kids, like toddlers there. – I’ve got an idea and I will make it my mission. Together with you to make this happen. I dare is one way that we can do better than Harbor Party. Lionel Richie. – Did you hear my? – [Rhett] You just burped because it was so emotional. – It wasn’t a burp. – [Rhett] Your soul just tried to escape and came back in. – That noise came out of like, if I had a trach, that’s where that noise would have come out of. – We are going to make it our mission. We have, how many months do we have? We’ve got over six months. – Seven. – For us to figure out how we get Lionel Richie to play at you and your wife’s 40th birthday party. – But then you’ve spoiled the surprise because I would want it to be a surprise to everybody. – Well you got a– – Including me, by the way. – We gotta go public with this. – In order to get him on board? – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – But I’d still like Harbor Party to back him up. And I would like him sing– – I’m sure he’s got a pretty good band. – Yeah. – That’s all I’m saying. – And it will be on a yacht. – I will help you. I will help you make that a reality. – Maybe a private jet. – There will be no hard feelings at all you get Harbor Party. – A hovercraft. – To play at your birthday party. I feel like that’s, really you don’t have a choice at this point. You could go on a sabbatical though if we don’t get Lionel. – I mean I was definitely thinking I’m just gonna go on a trip. (laughing) That’s what I’ve been thinking ’cause I get so, you know how nervous I get when I’m in charge of making people happy. – Yeah, but you got to understand. I felt the same way and having been through it, I’ve been feeling so good this week because so many people have sent emails and texts. Just like, I had such a good time. And it makes me happy. – But you need people to tell you that you’re cool. I don’t need that. – Oh, give me a break. – I feel like I have more to lose than to gain. – Now, if you have Lionel Richie there. And if you don’t have a Lionel Richie, we’ll get a Lionel Ritchie impersonator and I’m gonna keep the lights low. – Put him at a distance. – Yeah. – He’s over there, stay over there. Contractually, he does not allow us to come close to him. – Okay. – I’ll think about it. – Think about it and we’re gonna continue with this. But first, we are going to just remind you how committed we are to beautifying you with our beauty products, Mythical beauty products. We unabashedly use the term beauty when we talk about our Mythical pomade. Works on anybody’s hair. We got beard oil, works on– – Defeat the hair, defeat with that Mythical pomade. – Anybody’s beard. And I have already announced this but I am still riding the wave. Super excited about my all-new lip balm. I’ve been jealous of Link’s lip balm for the past year or so. – You know how I feel about your party now. – But I combined two of my favorite things, wood and berries. And you’re gonna be like, what? Would I like to try that? You would like to try it because it tastes incredible and it’s got this berry flavor which is a black berry flavor added to the wood. And it’s almost like going up to a blackberry bush without thorns and just rubbing your face all over it. – [Link] Making out with it. – And which I got to say is something that you want to do but it’s much smoother than that. – And I love Rhett’s lip balm as a secondary to my own but you can mitigate what your perceived risk by also buying the peculiarly perfect peanut butter peppermint lip balm which is proven to be the softest, most supple lip creator on Amazon. – And it also– – It’s what the reviews are saying. – It also has new packaging. – [Link] Two pack. – So that they can go together. – They look great together. They look great together. – the mythical.store is where you get all that. – Thank you for supporting the internetainment. In the book, we talked about #TBT but how we changed it to be throwback thanks. It’s the phenomenon where you reflect on milestones in your life and then realize that people played a role in that, yet, you forgot to thank them. Or you were thankful but you didn’t articulate it. And you know what? It’s never too late to go back, as we proved when in our documentary, Looking For Ms. Locklear when we tracked down our first grade teacher who introduced us to each other and thanked her was extremely rewarding experience for us. She actually contributed to the book to rehash some of that. It’s rewarding for everybody to express thanks. It’s never too late. So in an effort to encourage you to do that. I wanna to go through some of ours from the book. Again, in the book, we just had some thank you notes that we gave throw back thanks to people. But we didn’t get into the stories so we can give a little that to whet your palate. We asked you guys to give some throwback thanks and I’m just gonna go with some of the light hearted ones. A lot of you guys publicly thanked a lot of people sincerely from the heart and I really enjoyed reading through those. And it’s powerful because you did it through the internet. That was kind of the idea and it finds its way to those people which is super cool. Just for the sake of time and tone, I’m gonna go with some of the more lighthearted. – Time and tone. – Eve said some bloke on a train who matrix jumped through the closing doors to give me my gloves that I’d left on my seat. – [Rhett] Oh wow. – And then Eve never got to thank him and never found out if he got another train or if he was just stuck there, you know. – So then he probably is still there. – #throwbackthanks, you know, she got her gloves. – I don’t know if I would have done that. I would have thrown the gloves. I would have gone to that, just throwing them and just hope that they made it to the platform. I wouldn’t sacrifice myself. – That’s a good man. Cal Briley gave some throwback thanks. That old lady in the jeepney. – In a what? – A jeepney. – Jeepney? – Jeepney, I think it’s a vehicle. That old lady in the jeepney that heard me fart but didn’t react at all. I guess she understood me. Did the fart say, don’t acknowledge me? – Yeah, what’s to understand here? – Well, the point is Cal’s being grateful. – Sometimes you wanna be acknowledged. Sometimes, if it’s a big one. You might want a wink or you might want a thumbs up or something, a smile, just something to know you’ve done your job. – Evil Snail said, #throwbackthanks. I would like to thank whoever invented the word moist because now I can make everyone eternally cringe. – Yeah everybody hates the word moist. – Doesn’t make me cringe, I love it. – I’m particularly fond of it, personally, yeah. – Moist. Brownie wouldn’t be edible without it. – Without moist. – Caroline Tatar. T-A-T-A-R, man. – I’m sorry, I don’t know why I laugh at her name. – Don’t laugh at her name. – I laughed at the way you said it. – #throwbackapology. – Yeah, sorry. – She’d like to thank whoever looked at chicken and thought to fry it. Also the other beautiful soul who looked at fried chicken and thought to put it in nugget form. – Yeah, that’s tough to narrow down. You probably can’t pinpoint the person who first fried chicken. You can probably pinpoint the first nugget. At least you know, like you know, a professional nugget. I’m sure some grandma made a nugget first. – Nuggets, just a little piece of a chicken that fell in the fryer, man. – Right. – I’m sure it was parallel invented in many places. – We’re gonna get into some of ours here. – Where do you wanna start? ‘Cause there’s a lot of these and we can’t get through all of them but anyway you wanna start fine with me. – Well, I’d really like to start with Dick Bowser. – Okay, friend of your dad’s. – So here’s what it says in the book. Dick Bowser, thank you for nearly choking on a piece of meat at a Myrtle Beach steakhouse. We literally think about you every time we eat meat and throw in a few extra juice just for you. This is very true and we actually, back when we had our show, RhettandLinKast Live. What is it, 10 years ago now? – Could have been, yeah. 2007, 2008, yup. – We would do our show on Ustream live every week down in the basement in Lillington and occasionally, we had guests. – We started having guests, yeah. My dad was a guest. – We brought Dick Bowser on. – Well, my grandparents were in the audience every week and most of the time, Papa would fall asleep during a live broadcast and so we started putting a camera on them and we would, we switch the camera ourselves. We got real high-tech by the end of it. We had like that camera switcher. And I’ll just switch to the camera of them. – [Rhett] Nodding off. – He’s just kind of like nodding off, sitting on the couch. But yeah, we had Dick Bowser to come in. – We had him on because I think at the time– – No relation to King Bowser. – No, no. He doesn’t have spikes on her back. – From Super Mario Bros. – Although, every time he jumps up, I do run under him. (laughs) I’m glad you thought that was funny. – Oh, and thing that like, you hit the thing that then makes the– – It’s a weird like ax. If you hit the ax, the bridge falls. I mean, listen, I was a civil engineer, I’ve got a civil engineering degree. – [Link] I don’t know. – And the way that that bridge works in Mario Bros. is not sound right or logical. There’s no way that that could exist. – First time I saw a real drawbridge, I was severely disappointed because of that. – Right, yeah, you kept hitting that ax and nothing happened. – Yeah, it looked kind of like a haystack to me. Like a little loaf of hay. – Really? I don’t know. – You think it’s an ax? I think it’s just a switch. It’s like a medieval switch of some sort. – I really can’t picture it right now. – So anyway, Dick Bowser. – So Dick Bowser works with my dad. He teaches law with my dad and they played golf together like every week. But Dick was down in Myrtle Beach with his wife and maybe his entire family and eating at a steakhouse in Myrtle Beach. – Oh, you weren’t there? – No. – Oh, you just heard about it. – I tell that story in such a compelling manner that you assumed that I was present. But what happened was as he was having dinner and he choked on a piece, began to choke on a piece of steak and it was very serious very quickly. Like one of those like lodged, deep, no air, like full on if we don’t get this out of my trachea, I will die situations. And there happened to be a man who saw him struggling. I think he was a doctor. Isn’t that how the story goes? You don’t have to be a doctor to know how to do this but he was qualified in some way and he came up and he did the Heimlich on him and he shot that piece of steak out across the restaurant. And Dick Bowser, at least at the time, last time we checked in with him had not eaten steak again. – I mean that is traumatizing for everybody involved. It’s like drowning in front of your family and they’re just sitting there. – Oh, it was scary. – In scuba gear just watching you. – Yeah, I just can’t imagine, I can’t imagine. That happens all the time. I mean it’s like a really, really common cause of death. Due to choking. – Because there’s so many, I mean, you keep sending that mail down south, something’s gonna end up in the wrong destination, you know what I’m saying? Odds are not in your favor. – Yeah, that whole trachea and esophagus coming together thing. That’s an engineering flaw. And so I think that he told us that story and then we had him on the show to talk about it. I don’t remember that conversation with. – Man, we had a lotta. We also had one of the people who was on the plane that Sully landed in the Hudson. – In the Hudson. Mike Kollmansberger. – He’s a friend of a friend. – Yeah well, I know he’s a friend, I mean– – I didn’t know him, so we had– – I knew him pretty well at the time. – We had him on a call like just a few weeks after it happened. – Yeah, he was freaking standing on the wing in that picture of all the be the famous picture of the plane in the Hudson. He’s one of the people standing on the wing. – We had him on our show and we were like, this is it, we’re doing it. We’re like we got an internet show and we got this guy on the wing of the plane talking to us. – Nobody cared though. – He was not still on the wing. – No, no. – No, the loyal Mythical beasts cared. – Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. – But it was like, it was such a, what’s the word? Nascent form of entertainment. It was very insular. – But I will say that I actually do think– – And the Dick Bowser thing. That didn’t cause any ripples across the internet either. – But it caused a ripple in me and you. – That’s a fact of the matter. – Now, first of all, you already live by this because what’s your nana told you about it. – Yeah, to me this is just like I told you so. – But I have been, you know, I eat like a vacuum and so it’s, I am moving my mouth the whole time but I’m also constantly swallowing and so if something just reaches the back of it. It’s like Hungry Hippos. If something gets in, it’s going down. You know what you mean? That’s how I eat. – Yeah, it is. – But now when I eat, anything that has a chokeability to it. – You see Dick’s face? – Yeah, every time, I eat meat, I see Dick’s face. (laughing) – Get a little Bowser. – So, but I tell that to my kids all the time too ’cause it’s like if they’re eating meat, I’m like– – Don’t be a Dick Bowser. – Yeah, you boys, no, you be a Dick Bowser now. The Dick Bowser of today, doesn’t eat meat or doesn’t eat steak and doesn’t choke. Chew that meat. Thank you, Dick Bowser. – What’s the next one that you wanted to talk about? I know you looked at these. Tee it up for me, I’ll talk about it. – Garfield-shaped phone. – Oh, there’s a picture of this to prove that I had the Garfield-shaped phone. In that picture, you can also see that I have a Goofy stuffed animal and a Sailor Boy teddy bear stuffed animal and a bulletin board with a Tony the Tiger tail that I got from a Frosted Flakes mail-in rebate thing. – And then a license plate that says for fun. – For-fun. Yep, that was me, the Linkster. For-fun and I’m wearing a shirt that says Palmetto on it. Which is not a brand I am familiar with. I think that’s like– – [Rhett] It’s a cigarette. – It’s like a casino or something. – You are in a cigarette shirt. – But I’m posing talking on my new Garfield-phone. Whenever you pick up the phone. Now this is one of those phones that plugs into a wall. They doesn’t exist anymore. When you pick up the phone, Garfield will wake up. He’s eyes would open. – He watches you have a conversation. – You can go in retro stores, like you can go to Downtown Pasadena and go in a store called Retro and they’ll sell these for like 70 bucks. – But we found one for something. – We were going around somewhere. I unapologetically put all this stuff in my room as a kid because I was not self-aware as a child. You were much more self-aware that’s why we make fun of how much I’m smiling and you don’t smile. You have this like cool look on your face. – [Rhett] I’m trying to be cool. – Trying to be cool. I did not have that. I mean– – I had teddy bears but they were not on display. You know what I’m saying? They were in the closet. – The thank you note said, Garfield-shaped phone, thank you for being the conduit for those couple of extremely awkward conversations I had with Leslie before she decided to dump me for Tyler Hamilton. So we give a shout out to Tyler Hamilton in this throwback thanks. When you– – I wonder if he knows. – I know a few years back, I was having some car trouble back home and he was working at the place where they fixed the cars. – In Fuquay? – A garage. No, in Lillington. – Okay, in Lillington. Well, the funny story about the, so we obviously, you know, we both dated Leslie. She’s our first girlfriend. – A lot of awkward conversation with Garfield phone. – And I remember like, we both dated her for about a month, maybe. And it was that middle school relationship where when you get to school, you’re boyfriend and girlfriend and maybe you do something like go to a dance together. But then, when you try to talk on the phone, at that age, it’s just like, with rare exception, it’s just like little boys at age, you know, 12. – Now they just text. They really don’t have to worry about it but yeah, for us. – The fact that we just could not communicate. – It was like stage fright. – It was such a difficult thing just to speak. – It’s hard. And speaking into the torso of the character known as Garfield doesn’t help as it turns out. It’s like oh, I’m gonna rip out the middle of Garfield and talk to it. It didn’t look like guts in there but it still was– – [Rhett] That would have been a nice touch. – That would have been a nice touch but– – But you’ve told me this story before and I’m sure we’ve told it at some point about how you were sitting there with her. – In school. – In school while dating her. – Yeah and then she was writing. She was doodling and I like leaned over and there were hearts and stuff on her page and there was also, I saw that it said Leslie. – Tyler Peebles. – Yeah. – Leslie Tyler Peebles. – Why and I didn’t see the Peebles. I just saw Leslie Tyler. – No, no, no, no you did. – You think I did? – I specifically remember the story. You came to me and you said, “Sheez, she likes Tyler. “She’s writing Leslie Tyler Peebles.” Like they’re married and they took her name. – It hurt a lot. – And I said, Link, that’s her full name. Lesley Tyler Peebles was her full name. – Oh. – And you were like, oh, sense of relief but then, within a week, she was dating Tyler. – So I was right, you jerk. See? – I think that, yeah, but. – We were both right. – Yeah, but that wasn’t the sign that she was about to dump you. – Thanks Tyler. – I think she felt your insecurities. – Both of you. – This is a good one. And I actually have a story that I’ve heard very recently related to this. Brian Ratledge thank you for telling us about fiber supplements. We’re like clockwork now. – This happened in college. Brian Ratledge told us. I don’t think, I think we were, I remember being out of college. – Okay. That could be true, yeah. – I remember being like 23, 24. – That sounds right. – Yeah. – And you know, as happens, you end up talking about your bowel movements sometimes if you’re with people that you feel close enough to. And he was like well, let me tell you guys. Let me tell you right now, what you need to do is you need to be taking a spoonful of Metamucil every day. You should just do it. Just work it into your routine. American diet doesn’t have enough fiber. It’ll do everything, it’ll regulate both ways. No matter which way you swing, it’ll get you right back to normal. And so okay, and we both did it and we spoke. – He was very serious about it. This was not a joking conversation. It wasn’t even hey, isn’t it funny that we’re talking about this. – [Rhett] Yeah, yeah. – He was so centered. – [Rhett] A serious business. – That we gave us pause. And then I mean, there’s a reason why there’s a whole half an aisle in like every drugstore dedicated to this stuff. – And so now, both of us use this on a regular basis especially when traveling. It is the perfect solution to. You know what happens when you travel sometimes and your body is like, nope, hold everything in because I’m traveling, like I don’t know where you’re at, don’t know where you’re going and the next thing you know, you’ve gone three days without taking a dump? This completely solves that problem. – Which is amazing that your body can do that. It’s like how does my body know that I’m traveling? – Well, you know what it is? – And how do I know that Leslie’s middle name is Tyler? – My theory– – It is some mysterious world. – You know, my theory about that adaptation is that when back in the day, the hunter-gatherer days, you’re going into enemy territory and so you’re nervous, you’re in a new place and you don’t wanna take a dump because that’s two strikes against you. The first strike is you got to stop and take a dump. That’s the best time to kill a man. When he’s taken a dump. Number two. – Squat and knock him off. – You’re gonna leave your, you’re leaving yourself. You’re leaving a clue. – [Link] Evidence. – So like that’s not our people’s poop. That’s somebody else’s poop. Look at that berry, I don’t recognize that berry. So, there’s a survival adaptation to hold in your poop for a few days. But when you go to summer camp or you just go on vacation or you’re just traveling around, you don’t wanna hold your poop. It’s not hunter-gatherers. – It’s a vestigial adaptation, certainly. – But Brian Ratledge actually found out that he was thanked in the book because– – [Link] Really? – Jessie was like, “Oh, somebody tagged Brian Ratledge “in a post about your book.” And said hey, here and I took the picture of this page and it said you’re in the Book of Mythicality. And he was like, “Thanks for letting me know, I had no idea.” So he actually found out that he was the recipient of throwback thanks. – I wonder if he went out and bought one. – Went out and bought a book? Or that thing about Metamucil? – Both, that’s why we put his name in there. At least we’ll sell one to Brian. – And another one– – You may be thinking, you should give one to Brian or you may be thinking, you should have told Brian that you put this about him in the book. And to both of those I say, well, too late. – Yeah, you’re probably right but we don’t have that kind of time. Chewing tobacco, another substance that we’ve experimented with. Thank you for– – Okay, let me read. – You wanna say that one? – Thank you for having such sobering warnings printed on your packaging as well as for tasting absolutely awful. You made us vomit as 16-year-olds and then vowed to never try you again. – It may strike you as odd that two guys that you think seem relatively normal would have really gone in hard on some chewing tobacco. But you got to understand, A, how old we are and B, where we’re from. – And C, this way that Hank Williams Jr. had over our lives at that time. – Right. – I don’t wanna dog North Carolina, you know, that much but you can do it and then I’ll defend this a little bit. – Well so it was customary for the boys of our age at our high school to experiment with smokeless tobacco. In fact, the first time that I ever– – Well, if you looked out at any window of our high school, you would see a tobacco field. – True. – So it was looming. – But I mean, I was on probably what is the most preppy, you know, like you’re thinking this is the least redneck situation you could be in. I’m on the golf team, right? But it was on the golf team that– – [Link] Listening to yacht rock. – That I was introduced to dip. – Oh, gosh. – Which is the, you know, the tobacco that you take and you put in your lip. Of course, it gives you mouth cancer and it’s horrible for you. But we were young, we didn’t know, we didn’t care and also the whole golf team, we put this stuff in your lip and then of course, you do it because you wanna be cool and then you start doing it because it taste so bad but you’re doing it because you wanna be cool and it gives you this, it does give this little effect. You get you get this mild effect. I think you have this similar story but what I did is I remembered, I get sick thinking about it. I was at home alone and my parents were going somewhere for the day and I had like a whole day at the house and I was like I’m gonna get myself a tin of cherry Skoal and I just set up there in the upstairs room watching TV and I just sat there with just a dip. Just sitting there. I wasn’t hanging out with it, I wasn’t experiencing it with anybody. I was sitting there with his cherry flavored tobacco, just stinging my bottom lip as I watched TV and then like an hour and a half later, I stand up and immediately, it’s just like I’m super light headed and I run to the bathroom and just vomit. – How did you get it ’cause it’s illegal? I mean I can tell the story of how we got the chewing tobacco. – You just buy it. You just go to the place in Lillington that doesn’t ask your age. – Well that is the story. (laughs) Hank Williams Jr. had a song. – Country Boy Can Survive. – Yeah, and he was, who was he so angry at? – He says I had a good friend in New York City – in New York City. – He never called me by my name, just hillbilly. – Hillbilly. – But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife. – Switchblade knife. ♪ For $43, my friend lost his life ♪ – And then it’ like (imitating funky guitar). ♪ I’d love to spit some Beech-Nut in that dude’s eyes ♪ ♪ And shoot him with my old .45 ♪ ♪ ‘Cause a country boy can survive ♪ ♪ Country folks can survive ♪ – So yeah, so it’s about shooting somebody. – Well, he wanted to spit Beech-Nut in his eye. Now, Beech-Nut is a particular brand of chewing tobacco. – Chewing tobacco. It’s a cheap brand. – And then after (spits) in his eye, then– – You shoot him. – Shoot him with a .45 because eye rhymes with .45. Now– – Well, you got to blind him first. – Yeah, I’m sure he would never actually do that. He was he was doing what the artist did like Notorious B.I.G. was playing a character if you would ask him. – What he said I’d love to. He didn’t say I would do. I love to shoot that guy. – Yeah, I’m not going to and I didn’t. – Right. – Not admitting anything, so. – But of course, we’re listening to that. – Well, yeah and we latched on to the Beech-Nut part of it. (laughs) – We don’t latch on to the .45 part. – No. – We didn’t go out and get a gun. – Absolutely not. But what we did do was we went to the corner store. I didn’t go to the, I didn’t get in Lillington. – You went at the dip. – Around. – Right before you go to Womble & Sons. – Around the corner from Nana and Papa’s house. – Yeah. – Went to that one because I knew that none of my relatives went to that one. Now, the the C-Mart, just a few blocks away, is the one that all of my relatives went to and they knew all the cashiers and everything. But it wasn’t called a Junior Mart, whatever it was called. We went there because I was like listen, we’ll go in there, we’ll get us some chewing tobacco and then we’ll get out and they won’t recognize me. – [Rhett] Right. – And of course, we get in there and I’m like, what kind are we gonna get? – What kind do you think we get? – We didn’t discuss it ahead of time. I was just like, we’ll take the Beech-Nut. – I wonder how many Beech-Nut packs were sold because of that song. Could have said Red Man but he didn’t. – You open up the pouch and you just get hit by this strong scent of tobacco with like, I wouldn’t say it has a chemical overtone to it but it’s in the same– – [Rhett] It’s like a rotting tobacco. – In the same, we have a physical reaction like if you were to open like a strong bottle of cleaner and it’ll be like, oh! And it just like knocks you back a little bit. That’s how pungent opening a pouch of chewing tobacco is, or did a can of dip. – [Rhett] Right. – And it takes a lot of gumption to like pull out a plug of that and then (click tongue) shove it in your cheek. – You shove in your cheek and you slowly chew it and you spit. It’s one of the nastier habits that there is. – My dad did not chew tobacco for much of his life but I do remember when I would visit him on the weekends as a very, very young child and he was farming tobacco, he would chew tobacco. So I had this subconscious thought that was planted that like my dad, who I just thought was just awesome, I also thought that chewing tobacco was awesome for that reason. I mean I did so I felt like it was some sort of rite of passage at that point as like a 16-year-old. – Well, and there is something about like– – And that’s what gave me the gumption to get out and it’s like we’re gonna do this. – Well, there’s about. – There’s a lot of reasons. – Doing something that’s a little bit outside of the lines that you know you should be walking in. That’s not super, at least on the short term, it’s not like it’s not like we were shooting up heroin. It’s a pretty low risk thing if you’re gonna do it a couple of times. The problem is the risk is getting addicted to it and the next you know, you got mouth cancer. Just do a Google search of chewing tobacco mouth cancer. That’s all you need to know that you should never try this. But we would sit out there at the river and do it and just basically just make each other sick. – Yeah. – It’s just like are you sick enough yet? I’m sick now, man, let’s quit. You know, that was pretty much what we did. – It’s so gross. – Can’t say I miss it. Now, but speaking of– – It’s not, it’s so weird. It’s not like even in the short term, it’s a great experience but then you get mouth cancer. No, it’s a horrible experience. – Well, I think people adjust to the taste and just become addicted to the, they could become addicted to the effects of it. – That’s a big speed bump to drive over to get to your destination. – Well, think about the first time. If you just smoked a cigarette, how would you think that it’s a fun thing or a good idea? But then, next thing you know, you’re addicted to it. – [Link] That’s true. – Okay. – [Link] I guess. – Here’s one and we’re gonna pull out the paper that we have here. – [Link] Oh yeah. – We wanna thank the Dunn Daily Record. Thank you for featuring us on your June 26th, 2009 cover alongside Erwin woman murdered, teen charged and Sampson horse farm in trouble again. So this is something that we had framed way back in the day and we keep it up in our office because it is very grounding in a lot of ways because it is a about as clear of a picture of where we come from as you could possibly have and we’re– – This is June 26th, 27th, 28th of 2009. – Innocent, they did a feature article. So this is like the daily paper that we got growing up not, the city paper, called The News & Observer which came from Raleigh. This is the one that came from Dunn. it was like the Harnett County paper that you got everyday in a little mailbox that everybody had connected to their mailbox that said daily record. – [Link] Yes, they gave you– – And so they would come in and just put it in– – [Link] The mailbox. – They didn’t throw it I remember in movies I would see people throwing the paper in the driveway, I realized, it ain’t how we do it around here. You put it in the daily record mailbox that everybody had at the street. But we’re featured in the middle, right in the middle and it says enter the world of internetainment and it’s all– – [Link] Internetainers. – Internetainers and it’s all about what we were doing at the time. – But really, ironically, now, what it means is if you were to enter the world of us as internetainers back then, that world would be everything that surrounds us in the other headlines which are Erwin woman murdered. Erwin was the close back town. Teen charged. – And of course, Samson horse farm in trouble again which is the other one that we mentioned but we’re not gonna stop there because– – How many times does a horse farm got to be in trouble? To make the front page. – Twice is one too many. – And how is a horse farm in trouble? – Well, I think maybe they’re doing something bad with the horses or maybe they don’t have enough horses? – Animal neglect. – Ah, that’s what it was. – Has been investigated again for the same alleged offense. – Benson to celebrate 89 years of southern gospel. They’re so like, just that sentence alone, you don’t have, I don’t think you can appreciate just how rich that statement is. Benson alone. Just saying the word. – Let me break that down. Benson knows how to celebrate because Benson is the place where every year, they would have something called Mule Days. Where people would drive from miles. – [Rhett] Miles. – And show up with their mules and then parade. – They will do a parade. – Do a parade. – They did it for like a mule, and they canceled Mule Days. – Oh, it just got to crazy, man. Too many mules. – And the other thing was there was something that the high schoolers used to do called cruise Benson. – [Link] Yes. – And you would drive to Benson which was like 20 miles away and you would ride around with your windows rolled down and music playing. – Yes, cruising. – And then they made it illegal. But right when we got our license, so like we’re talking like ’94, they made cruising, I was so looking forward to like, man, I can’t wait to cruise Benson. And they freaking made it illegal and then they got rid of Mule Days. Benson, what’s up man? – Then down here we’ve got, oh, another thing from Erwin. Erwin woman wins another preliminary. She’s a beauty pageant contestant. She’s got a bathing suit on on the front of this thing. She won Miss Fayetteville. Good work, good work. And then former Linden man charged with lewd acts on a child. Oh, good gracious. – No, we’re not making light of any of this stuff. – [Link] No, we’re not. – We’re not trying to give you some. – [Link] It’s just– – You got to understand how typical every single article on this is so indicative of where we come from, okay? When you think Harnett County. – Can you read the caption on our picture ’cause we got a big picture right there in the middle. – And there’s a lot of wonderful things about Harnett County but there’s also a lot of just the things that are typical of just a rural place where a lot of people just get trapped. You got women get murdered by teens, you got southern gospel going on for 89 years, you got horse farms that are in trouble, you got young ladies winning beauty pageants and you got people performing lewd acts on children. – [Link] Oh, goodness. – I’m just saying, I’m not making light of any of it. I’m just saying that that’s where we come from and that’s why we have this thing. – Yeah, framed. – Right in the middle, here we are. Don’t ever forget this. Don’t ever forget, this is who we are, man. This is where we come from. – And what does the caption say? – Link Neal, left and Rhett McLaughlin practice one of the many songs that have made them a hit on the internet on YouTube and on their website, rhettandlink.com which is shown on the computer in the background. (laughing) More than one million have visited the pair’s website. – [Link] Yes. – That’s quite a stat. Their studio is in Lillington and some of their work features the town as a backdrop. – It’s true. – That’s true. That’s true, a lot of it did. – We need to go back and help those horses. – Yeah, okay. – Let’s just pause for a moment and be thankful with silent. I think that’s it. I think I feel great. – You don’t wanna thank anybody else? – Well, did you want to thank one more person? – I had one more than I thought kind of fit. – Yeah do it. – The theme that we’re in right now. – Alright, do it. – That’s thanking the pharmacist to Elliots in downtown Fuquay. Thanks for taking a break filling prescriptions to hold the mic from our Epic Rap Battle video behind your store. – Did we misspell mic? – Okay. – M-I-C. – No, the reason, again this is what editors do. We had an argument, not an argument but, so after we wrote the book, we had an editor but then we had like a– – [Link] A professional nitpicker. – Yeah, somebody who goes another layer deeper to think about your grammar and punctuation and everything. And they basically go through and correct and then they get to certain places where it’s not just a simple punctuation or spelling correction. But it’s just a decision that has to be made and then they run it by you. So we’ve always said mic as M-I-C ’cause it’s short for microphone. But they said, technically when you’re saying mike, the short for microphone, you should spell it M-I-K-E. Technically, that’s what was correct. And that’s why it says that in this particular thank you note. – Well, Link is short for Lincoln but it’s with a K so I’m not gonna argue with any of that. Back to the point though, yeah, the pharmacist. As important of a job as that is, he was still just able to mosey out there and be our boom operator with no particular time constraint. It was great. – That’s doesn’t happen anymore. – Well, it would be a long commute for him. – But again, as there was something special about being in a place where no one else was. We didn’t know anybody else who was making YouTube videos at the time. Not that same time but we told this story before when we were doing Commercial Kings, how we shot the intro to our show on IFC. We shot it in the middle of main street and the cop stopped. – Yeah, literally the tripod was in the middle of the street. – And he like rolls down his window and he’s like, “Y’all need any help?” And then another guy rolls down his window and says, “I’m the town commissioner. “And anytime y’all need anything just let me know.” It was like– – Well, you know what they did. They both saw the Dunn Daily Record. – Right, exactly. – We’re right on the front of it so there you go. We could carry that thing around as a credential back in the day. But I think, the point is it’s fun to reminisce but it’s powerful when you can transition a reminisce-ation into being grateful and it’s never too late to thank somebody. You know what? Brian Ratledge, I wonder how he felt knowing that we put his complete name in our book and associated it with Metamucil. I hope he’s honored. – I think he quite feels great if you still got the routine going. – Yeah, I’m bet he’s doing fabulous, man. He just keeps it moving. Like a train. I just wanna encourage you, Mythical beasts, to be your mythical best by throwback thanking someone in your life. Used the hashtag if you want to. TBT or throwback thanks. – I think you should use the hashtag and then I think because it can be done these days, I think you should tag that person that you’re thanking if they’re still around to be tagged because that, you know, it can be very, like we talked about in the book, it can be very difficult to thank somebody in person, especially when people are like, there’s like a moment in time that you have to be thankful like to like actually come out and say it, that you’re thankful. And usually if you don’t say it at that moment, the chance that you get the first time, you never say it. – Right. – ‘Cause there’s a lot to overcome. But there’s a lower threshold to thanking somebody through the internet and I don’t think it means any less necessarily and usually, it will lead to some kind of interaction that might actually lead to a conversation to the person that you can have with somebody. – So take that for what it’s worth and. – [Rhett] It’s worth a lot. – I would like to, that’s for them to say. Let us know using #earbiscuits. Let us know what you think about this convo and we appreciate you hanging out with us this week. You know we’ll speak at you again next week. Have a great Thanksgiving. – Yes, do it. (upbeat music)