(upbeat music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I am Link. – And I am Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, you asked us anything and we’re gonna answer anything. – With everything. – That we decided to answer. – We’re gonna give you everything in answer form. – But we have a couple little things to update you about. One is– – We’re in announcement season. – Ear Biscuits is gonna continue through the summer. We also are gonna have a short three-week break from GMM, and we come back with Good Mythical summer episodes. – We also haven’t talked about if there’s an Ear Biscuits break. We probably shouldn’t be having all these logistic conversations on the show. But just suffice it to say, we’re still figuring that out. – No, but I actually was part of a conversation that you weren’t part of. – Oh really? – Where there was definite discussion about Ear Biscuits continuing through the summer. Not that there won’t be a break of some kind. I don’t want to talk us into anything. You know me, man. – Well, you know me. And you know what I’m thinking. – Let’s make more business decisions right here on the internet in front of everyone. – You know what, let’s just let you make them. #EarBiscuits, you make the decision for us. – That in itself is a business decision that you just made, to then– – Well, it was a joke. – Well, okay. – Okay, so let’s get to some of your questions. Jen S asks, “If you had to replace one room “in your current house with the same “type of room from your childhood home, “it could be bathroom, your bedroom, et cetera, “and keep it as it was back then, “same furniture, appliance, et cetera, “which room would you replace and why? “Nostalgia, practicality? “#EarBiscuits.” – Great question, Jen. This is such an intricate, original question. Kudos to you, and I don’t ever say kudos. That might be the first time I’ve ever used that when I was not referring to the candy. – The candy bar. – Do they still make that? – I don’t know. – What a good question. The funny thing is– – Kudos to Kudos, if they’re still making Kudos. – Yeah, it’s such a specific, interesting question. But it does immediately cause me to think. – I’ve got an answer. – I have an answer for this. – Oh, okay, what’s your answer? – Well, we have a guest bedroom in my home, in my current home. – Yeah, I’ve seen it. I put my jacket on the bed in this bedroom, ’cause that– – When? – Well, when I’ve come over there and there’s friends over there and if friends have coats or jackets– – You throw your jacket on the bed? – That tends to be the bed where the jackets go. – Other people’s jackets are thrown on the bed? – Yeah, I saw a whole pile of them on that bed. Never seen it being used for anything but that, like for a guest. – I don’t know how I should feel about that. I feel like I should have a place for people to hang their coats, not just throw them on a bed. – Yeah, you’re messed up, man. – You’re messed up or you’ve messed up? – I think this means you personally are morally corrupt. No, I actually think it’s a good thing, because a guest room, unless you constantly have guests, which would be stupid, and you’re not, because you don’t. Then it’s a great utilization of that room when guests aren’t there. It’s a coat holder. – My specific issue with the room is that my wife was dead set on having a guest room. And I totally get it, and she’s very hospitable, much more hospitable than me. – Oh. – And we do have, the guest room is used quite often, obviously when relatives come into town. But sometimes if we’ve got a friend who’s over and it’s really late and they’ll just be like, “Can I just stay in the guest bed?” And they sleep in the guest bed. So that happens, and I really like that, and I understand the utility and also just the hospitality in that. – I thought you were gonna say that you didn’t like it because then it meant you had to have guests. – No, I don’t mind guests. And it also serves as the room that I sleep in when– – Things go sideways? – No, well, I haven’t done it. Like when she’s sick, when Jessie’s sick. – Quarantine room. – So she’s been sick, I’d say in the past three years that we’ve been in this house, I’ve slept down there four or five nights, when just a real bad night, she’s coughing or something like that, or if I’m really sick and I’m trying to get away from her. Some reason, she gets the nice bed and I go down to the guest bed. Gotta think about that a little bit more. But my issue with it is that there’s no, it’s only used a very small, probably a single-percentage amount of the time. – But the coats. – Even then, you’re still in the 8%, 9% of total usage of this room, right? – Right. – And what I would like it to be is I would like it to be more like what we called the extra room in my childhood home. You remember that? – Oh yeah. – Me and you spent a lot of time in the extra room. The extra room was where me and you, like if you spent the night, we stayed in that room, because it had the TV. – Well, here’s my recollection of the room. See if I’m right. You go up the stairs, and instead of then wrapping around to go to either your room or your brother, Cole’s room, or then wrap around further to the bathroom, you hang a left at the top of the stairs and there’s this extra room, that then it had brown carpet. It had a brown couch that would pull out into a bed. It had a brown television on a brown TV stand. – Lots of brown in your memory. – That it had a remote, but it was like one of the first– – Now you’re talking. – Television remotes that was made. It was a remote that had two buttons. – I could– – It had four. It had a power button, it had channel up, channel down, and then it had volume up. – I could sketch you a picture of this remote that you’re talking about. – And it was huge. It was like a matchbox. – It’s amazing, okay. – It’s like it was a Hide-a-Key. – First of all, let me– – For like, a huge freaking key. – Let me confirm– – And then then there was an exercise bike in there. – Well, that was later. But let me confirm a few of the things, and then I’m gonna point out a few things that you got wrong. So interestingly, you had the entire layout of the house correct, except you didn’t go left. When you got to the top of the stairs– – Straight. – You just went right across. – Yeah, straight. – It wasn’t brown, it was mustard yellow carpet, which I guess could be construed to be brown. – Well, it was dirty. It was old. – It was very old. – Okay, I see it though. – And the couch was– – It was like that Chinese takeout mustard color. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brown, you could call it brown. The TV was not brown, the TV was black and silver, because it was a Zenith. And the remote was also– – ‘Cause the remote was. – Black and silver. And the remote was brick, was the exact dimensions of an actual brick. (laughing) And it had a power button that was– – What was hidden in this remote? – Well, I know you’re like, “Why are you guys talking so much about this remote?” But I have to tell you, because– – I remember this remote. – It had a power button. – Incorrectly, but it left an impression on me. – If you looked at the remote from the top, it was all metallic on one side and then all black on the other side. And the black part was where it had the buttons. And it had a power button, which was beige and went all the way across. It was a big, horizontal, like a space bar. And then it had a channel button, and then it had another horizontal button, which I think was the mute button. – You want to have a really big power button, so when your mom comes up those stairs to see what you’re watching, (imitating beeping) you can just scramble and turn it off. – Party in Progress, had to turn Party in Progress off. And then it had up and down volume. But it was so powerful, I’m sure that it gave me, I was exposed to something that may manifest itself as cancer later in my life, because it was such a powerful remote. I remember I used to take the thing and I would put it underneath the couch and then put pillows all around my hand to test it. – You create an obstacle course for your remote. – For the remote. And then I would hit channel up and it would change. It was like, you cannot do that with the modern infrared remotes. – It was like magic. – I don’t know how it worked. And why don’t they still do that? – Because just before that, there were television remotes, I didn’t own one ’cause we were too smart for this, it was a remote that was connected by a wire. – A cord, yeah, a wire. – A cord, you have like a 12-foot cord to the television. – Well, ’cause you might trip somebody, but at least you didn’t have to get up. – Yeah, that was the first remote, was just a tethered box. – A tethered remote. – And then I think when they had to remove that tether with whatever technology they used, the remotes got huge. And they slowly got smaller, just like phones. – But I would have that room in my house now, because it had a television in it, which is the one thing I’ve talked with Jessie about. I was like, we need a room that the kids can go and watch television in when they have their friends over. Because our house is so open that there’s two TVs in two different parts of the house, but they both, their sound bleed. And you kind of– – So you want to be able to make that room a play room, ’cause the door shuts. – Yeah, but you could still have a pull out couch. – Sure, yeah. – For guests, and we get into an argument about whether or not– – It’d be versatile. – Pull out couches are– – It’s a conversion. – Good enough to sleep on, for guests. Okay, that’s what I would do. – You don’t want them staying forever. – I’d put that room in that place. What would you do? – I would put my childhood bedroom in the place of either one of my boys’ bedrooms. Because my– – And they’d have to play with your stuff? – My childhood bedroom, it did have a little television. But it didn’t have as many screens. – Hold on, do you want me to tell you what I remember about your childhood bedroom– – Okay, yeah. – Before you tell me what was true about it? – Okay, yeah. – Now, I’m not going all the way back to the Jimmy house. I’m going to the– – From fourth grade– – Fourth grade house. – Until college. – ‘Cause I honestly don’t remember much about that first house. – Me neither, actually. Well, I do. – You walked into the house– – Ironically, I recreated my bedroom when Mom was married to Jimmy, that bedroom from kindergarten to third grade, I basically recreated that in my current, in what you’re about to describe, my second, fourth grade bedroom. It’s like a lot of the same decor. – Okay. – Same furniture. We just moved everything and then I reconfigured it. – You walked into the house through the carport. You took a left and then there was a door to a guest bathroom. And then you would walk through the guest bathroom to on the other side of the door, the other door, then you come into your room. You could also come in the front door and straight into the living room, then take an immediate right and go into your bedroom. So you had two entries to your bedroom, which I always thought was very cool, because I didn’t have that. – Know your exits. – I had one in and one out. And so let’s say I’m walking out of the bathroom, and then there’s your bed on the left, centered in the wall. You’ve got a bedside table with a Garfield phone. I remember that because also, there’s a picture of it in the Book of Mythicality. But then right at the foot of the bed there is a dresser with a television on it? – Yeah. – And then the closet is on the right side. Like a foldy, bi-fold doors closet. And I remember you had a wooden bed that had wooden balls on top of the posts that I would play with and take off of the bed. – Yeah, you could twist them off. – Had an NC State bedspread. – No. – You didn’t? You had a NC State pillow. – No, I had an NC State trash can. – Trash can. – With one of those basketball hoop things on the trash can that you’d throw your trash in, in order to make it through the hoop. – And we also had that in our office for a long time, same trash can. – Yep, that’s right. I don’t know how that got moved there, but as a grown adult, we had my childhood trash can in my office. – But you would put this in your home now. It was a small bedroom. – Yeah, the one thing you forgot is I had a, my stepdad Jimmy made a bench that the seat hinged open and it was a toy box. – Oh, at the foot of the bed. – No, at the side of the bed, in between the two windows that were the front of the house. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – And I had a freaking toy box in my bedroom ’til I went to college. – I thought about that from time to time. – I had a bulletin board on my wall that had a bunch of knickknacks from art that I made in middle school, and it just kept accumulating, all the way through high school. My room aged me down for many years. – It looked like a little boy’s room until you became a man, and then it still looked like a little boy’s room. – Right. – Nothing to be ashamed about. – Fun fact, that– – At least you don’t have that room any more. – Go into Lando’s room right now, you can screw off the top of the bed post. – You do that from time to time, for old times’ sake? – No. – You should do it tonight. – But the reason why you can do it is ’cause it is that bed. – It’s the same bed? – It’s my bed. Lando, I was telling him, I was like, Lando, you know what, this bed, I slept in this bed my entire life, literally. – I did not know that you had that bed. – Yeah, it’s painted white because we put it in Lily’s room when she was a baby. And Christy wanted me to paint it white, and now it’s been white ever since. But it’s in Lando’s room. And it’s that same one. – I have a white bed in my bedroom. It’s like I sleep in a big princess bed. – Maybe you want to swap it out. But there’s not a lot of technology in there. It’s just a lot of nostalgia. So I’d like to go into one of my kids’ bedrooms and step back into my childhood and it wouldn’t have as many screens to worry about. – Right, that one kid would be a little bit advantaged and disadvantaged, all at the same time. – Yeah, he’d start having girlfriends, he’d have to talk to her on a Garfield phone. That’s healthy, man. – Okay, we’re gonna get to more of your questions in just a second. But first we’re gonna take a short break to let you know that you can get the shirts that we’re wearing and the mugs that we’re drinking out of at a little old place called mythical.store. – Get these Boiled for Safety mugs while supplies last, ’cause they are on their way out. If you want one, you better scoop it up. And you know what, I just put it to my lips right now. That’s nostalgia. – Well, the funny thing about this is the Boiled for Safety, the reason that we made these mugs in the first place, is because oftentimes in the old-school GMM when we were eating something, it had just been boiled for safety, because we didn’t have anybody who knew how to make anything, and Chase would end up doing a lot of the cooking. And he would just boil things for safety, so we wouldn’t die. Thankfully, we’ve got some qualified people to make food for us at this point. – But they still boil some stuff for safety. – Every once in awhile, some things are boiled for safety. But this kind of represents a moment in GMM history. And it’s represented by this cup, this mug that will go away soon. – So mythical.store, also check out our Amazon store. What’s that URL? I always forget. – Amazon.com/mythical. – That’s it. Thank you for supporting internetainment. – Okay, here’s another question from Morgan, not the Morgan who works for us. – Not Morgan Morgan? – No, this is Morgan R. I’ll just, yeah, I can say her name. She’s not asking an embarrassing question. Morgan Rowland. – Okay. – “Is there something you have done or said “in publicly distributed entity, “GMM, Ear Biscuits, an interview, et cetera, “that you regret?” Yes! – Oh. – Do we regret anything that we’ve put out there on the internet? – Well, yes. – I mean– – I can think of a very recent example. – Well, be, okay, I know what you’re thinking. I was also thinking, and maybe we talked about this, I think we talked about this in a live AMA somewhere. Maybe it was in the Q and A after a Tour of Mythicality stop, where someone asked us why they can’t watch The Guacamole Song anymore. And it’s because we made it private, because we just didn’t think that it was, it comes across as culturally insensitive, the way that we portrayed ourselves and the characters we played in the guacamole song. – Yeah. – So it was worth much more to be respectful than it was to keep an old video up there. – Yeah, a lot of people ask about that one. We’ve changed and the world has changed quite a bit. And looking back over 10 years at that video, it was like, oh, this is– – And I think that’s a good thing. – This strikes differently than it did back then. But the most recent example that I’m thinking about is the international food taste test, the most recent dart food taste test on GMM, where Link brought in the professional dartist. – The actual origins of dishes that you thought were from one place but they’re actually from another. And one of those was– – Chicken Kiev. And we, in our ignorance, were just like, well obviously, this is from Russia, which is the capitol of Ukraine. So it’s funny, things like this– – But you didn’t, even what you said wasn’t right. You said Russia was the capitol of Ukraine. – I said Kiev, which is the capitol of Ukraine. – Oh, I didn’t hear that right. – And Ukraine is very contentiously not Russia, right? That’s what the whole controversy’s about. So now, this is one of those things that, what’s the best way to address this? Because what I will say is that, yes, now that I think about it and when Stevie pointed it out in the video, in the moment, it was like, oh yeah, of course. – Right, like a minute later in the video, we’re like, oh, that was a big mistake. And we left all that in the edit, which I’ll come back to in a minute, go ahead. – But what you see in the comments, and this is just a very common thing, is that the moment you make the ignorant, misinformed, insensitive comment that we made, not comment, but statement that we made about Kiev being in Russia and being incorrect, that’s when people who take this personally, who know about the situation and take it personally and are offended, that’s when they begin to comment. A minute later, they’ve already hit send on their comment and now they see that we actually say, “Oh crap, we’re gonna piss people off when we said that.” And a couple people did say, “Oh, I’m sorry. “I made this comment before I saw “that you guys corrected yourself,” or whatever. But I would say I definitely regret that. But at the same time, it is not the first or the last time that we’re gonna say something that is ignorant, insensitive, misinformed, can be construed and misunderstood, and will offend people, because it is the nature of the way that we make our show and we do our stuff. – Yeah, you know what, it’s funny, ’cause I was actually thinking about the way that we make our show this morning. I don’t know what got me to thinking about it. But I was appreciating the fact that very early on, we decided that we weren’t gonna make Good Mythical Morning a jump cut show. We weren’t gonna make it have a lot of cuts. We were gonna move at the speed of conversation, and the edit was gonna reflect that. The edit was gonna be very minimal, or not at all. As production is increased and we’re doing more things physically, it requires us to stop down and bring stuff in and set stuff up that is just plain boring. But in terms of conversation and what happens, I think I really am glad that we made that decision. Because I think a hallmark of the show, I guess I don’t think about it that often, I was just thinking about it this morning, was that some of the best parts of the show are those honest moments of something happening, that there’s not a lot of internet content out there where you see unexpected things happen as a cornerstone of any other property. I think if I am to talk about a daily vlogger, somebody who’s just catching everything and then, they’re making a calculated editorial decision to show you something that was spontaneous. But it’s being packaged. You’ve got a vlogger who, the classic, I’m vlogging, and then something makes a noise and it distracts the person so then they make a funny comment about it and then they get back to their thing, and they include that in the jump cut to give you a behind the scenes view on, “Remember how I’m making this vlog. “Things are happening or I’m messing up, “and for comedic effect, I can add these things in, “or just for a level of sincerity or whatever.” But I think our show thrives on the fact that those things happen. We mess up or something goes sideways, then that’s the thing that we walk away like, “Yes, something happened, we were surprised.” – We like things that surprise us. – We were surprised. I’ve said before that my favorite parts, my favorite shows and moments within shows are the moments when we make each other laugh, based on something that was just accidental or unexpected. But it’s not just that, it’s not just the funny stuff. It’s just that okay, this is what we plan to do, and it’s pretty live, it has this feel that. I’m proud of our show, that it is. I didn’t know it was gonna work this way, but that it’s kind of like, okay, let’s see what happens. – Yeah, because the show– – As a viewer and as us. We’re all seeing what’s gonna happen. – Because the show is not scripted. We talked before about, when we talked about the changes with GMM 22, people felt like things felt more scripted, even though we were basically doing things the way we had done them. We have parts of the show that are scripted, like the very beginning of the show or when we’re setting up an item that we’re bringing in. – Or setting up how a game works, just so we don’t get bogged down. – ‘Cause we don’t want to waste your time with a bunch of details that we’re just figuring out off the top of our heads. But then once we’ve set up a structure, and it’s just basically anything goes at that point. And the funny thing is this is an interesting middle ground. Because you’ve got livestreamers, which we all know, the infamous examples of people getting in trouble for saying things on a livestream. Now, here’s what I will say is that there are a number of things that we’ve said on Good Mythical Morning that we had to edit out, because we were like– – And you know, well, I won’t catch you off, go ahead. – The way that that came across, again, none of this stuff would be like, “Oh, I can’t believe they said that.” But it’s the kind of things that we know how the internet responds to things. And something was said in the moment or somebody made a joke and they didn’t realize, “Oh, I didn’t mean to make that joke.” But we end up crossing the line and saying some things sometimes. And then the crew will laugh and we’ll all know, “Okay, well that can’t go in the edit.” That’s the nature of just doing something off the cuff. And that’s maybe happened a handful of times, even on Ear Biscuits. But it’s not nearly the level, ’cause we do have the option to edit things out. But when it comes to something like the Chicken Kiev screw up that we made, I think usually what happens is if we say something and we’re like, “I could see how that how could be taken the wrong way. “I didn’t mean for it to come across like that.” So at the end of an episode we’ll say, “Hey Stevie, hey Darren, let’s take that out.” And sometimes they just make the call to do that on their own, or the editor makes the call to do that if they think that there’s something that could be taken the wrong way. But that Chicken Kiev moment wasn’t one of them. And I’m not saying it was some huge controversy and we lost, there was one person who said, “You’ve lost a fan.” And listen, I understand. I don’t understand, but I appreciate how sensitive of an issue the whole Ukraine thing is. And so it’s like, for us to, in our American ignorance, we have the privilege of being ignorant about so many other areas in the world. And it’s a thing that would come across as arrogant and insensitive to me, if I was not in the United States. So I completely understand it. We’re the only people in the world that only speak one language. We can get by with just speaking English. So it’s easy to hate Americans. And so I totally get that. And when we say something like that, it seems like we’re just completely missing the boat. But we didn’t really understand how sensitive it would be to some. Some people would respond to it. So in retrospect, would’ve taken it out. But it’s an example of one of those things that I regret saying. And I also regret not just saying it, but regret that you ended up hearing it. – Do you regret talking about it right now? – Probably, yeah. – Coral Dalzell asks, “What was it like when your first kids were born? “Working in maternity has me see a wide variety “of dad reactions to the birthing process, “and I was wondering what yours were.” We know each other’s. Who should go first, based on that knowledge? – I mean, yours is probably funnier than mine. – Oh, now I gotta be funny? – Well, I’m just saying that I think, well, but you had a different, your wife wasn’t– – Just go ahead then. I can’t make any guarantees as to how funny I’m gonna be. – Well, Locke’s birth was relatively uneventful. – 14 years ago, hard to remember 14 years ago. – I just remember that Jessie was dead set, we were not about the natural birth thing. She was dead set on all the drugs and all the injections that would make it an easy process. She made that decision without shame, from all the women who told her that she needed to go into a river and just poop the baby out into the creek. She was like– – You know, creek poop baby. Creek poop. – So good for you, ladies who make that decision. But that was not the decision that my wife and I made. And it was not my decision, it was her decision, and I was fully supportive of it. So she basically had some difficulty with the labor, but then she took the drugs and had the epidural injection and I went to sleep on a couch and then I remember– – You woke up and a baby was there? – No, no, no, I remember being awakened by a nurse who said, “Get ready, you’re about to become a father.” – Oh, crap. – And I stood up– – That’s a rude awakening. – The doctor came in there. And I’d say within 20 minutes we had a baby. And relatively uneventful. – Did you pull on anything or cut anything? I don’t remember. – I don’t think– – Did you hold an ankle? – No, no, actually, I stayed back. – Pressed against the wall. – I stood at a safe distance, like when you see a scuffle at an Arby’s, you know what I’m saying? – Dang, Arby’s gonna have a scuffle. – And you’re like– – Those curly fries will get you hot. – I don’t know if I should get involved in this. I’m a big guy, I could probably get in there and restrain somebody. – How could you even say that? Are you accessing a memory? – I’ve been in, I’ve watched a lot of internet videos too. I’ve seen many a scuffle at many an Arby’s. – You google “Arby’s scuffle.” Everybody do the Arby’s scuffle! – There’s so many ways we could take that. Arbysscuffle.com. It’s place where you either learn how to dance or you just see a bunch of videos of people fighting in an Arby’s. – That would be Arby’s shuffle though. – No, no, the Arby’s scuffle is a dance that looks like you’re fighting. – You’re fighting over curly fries. – Like, “Are those two people fighting?” “No, they’re dancing, it’s a two-person thing.” – ‘Cause there only so many tight curly fries to go around. Then everybody else is left with just the C-shaped curly fries. – Yeah, you don’t want that. – If I want C-shaped fries, I’m gonna order C fries. – [Rhett] But you can put– – But if I want curly fries, if I order curly fries, I expect them all to be curly. All of it! – But you could put a C fry into your nose like a bull ring. – Well, that’s fine and good, Rhett, but then the menu should say– – Bull fries. – Bull nose fries with a few curly pigtails thrown in. – I don’t know. – ‘Cause that’s what it is. – I think you’re asking too much of Arby’s. – So you– – I stood at a safe distance, and no one consulted me. I’m not the best. – “Do you think the baby should “come out at this point, sir?” – I’m not the best in birth and death situations. Like the beginning and the ending of life is not where you go to the Rhettster for comfort or words of wisdom. You kind of just go to me for safe distance, slightly concerned stares. – Yeah, you become like human wallpaper. – Yeah, I don’t know what to say to people who are going through hard things. I am actually learning, I am learning about how to connect more with this part of my humanity– – Your pecs. – And not just this part of my humanity. Yeah, I’m really working on my pecs. – You should be a doula. – I was pointing to my heart, by the way, for those of you who listen to Ear Biscuits. Bless you for that. – I think you should, well, all right, we’ll put a pin in the doula thing. – Yeah, so ultimately it was pretty uneventful. I did not offer a lot. I don’t think I looked engaged enough for anyone to ask me anything like, “Sir, do you want to come in and cut something?” – Oh gosh. – So I didn’t say anything. I just remember they put Locke in a little incubator situation. Not incubator, but the little, because he wasn’t– – The tub, it’s a tub. – It’s like a warming thing, but it’s not for preemies. It’s just where all babies go. – Yeah, it’s like at Arby’s where they put the fries under there. – Yeah, just like Arby’s. – Right, the whole thing. – The whole hospital is like Arby’s. – Right. Come to think of it, ’cause I visited– – Maybe it was an Arby’s. – It was an Arby’s. – That explains a lot, that’s why I never got a bill. But, and I just kind of like, that’s when I began to talk to him and sort of came out of the shell and became a father. – Yeah. Shepherd, on the other hand, different story. I’ll tell it another time. – In the past, you’ve added a part to that story which you left out, which was like, there was multiple layers to the birth, and you decided to leave that part out. – That’s Shepherd’s birth. – Oh. – You’re talking about the screaming? – Yeah, you just might as well tell that. I gotta hear it. – Well, I want to hear your story. But I’ll tell the quick version. We thought we were gonna do exactly the same thing with Shepherd. Take the drugs, get the epidural. But what happened was when Jessie got to the doctor– – It’s what had happened was. – What had happened was we got to the doctor and they tested her, checked on the dilation situation. And they were like, “You might as well just go back home.” But then Jessie was like, “I don’t think so. “I think I’m having this baby right now.” And then another doctor came in said, “You are having the baby right now, and we don’t have time “for any of the things that we’d planned.” – The first person must’ve been measuring in the wrong spot. – I think they were using a curly fry instead of a finger. But the– – The dilation of your, I don’t know how many different things you can measure the dilation of, but– – Three curls of a curly fry. – You gotta get that right. – She’s three curls! So the doctor that was supposed to deliver the baby was currently in the shower at home. And so another doctor, it might’ve been a janitor, I don’t know, it was just a dude with a coat on, he delivered the baby. – A stranger to you. – But she did it completely natural, going against all her best intentions. And she screamed so loudly that I was embarrassed, you know what I’m saying? I’m also easily embarrassed in situations like that, in social situations. So on the scale– – And she’s a voice major. Was this like a operatic, crack the glass kind of situation? – There was nothing beautiful about it at all. It was blood curdling. The way I described it later was it was as if she was about to be in a head on collision. – Oh gosh. – And she knew it, and she was screaming that way, and then it kept happening, over and over again, like a hellish situation. But again, I was more embarrassed than sympathetic. – Every contraction, it wasn’t just the last moment. – No, that went on for, well, from the time she said, “This baby is coming,” to the doctor saying, “This baby is coming,” it was like 12 minutes or something, and Shepherd was there. And that really just basically was indicative of what he was going to be like– – But you were embarrassed. – For the rest of his life. – People were like, “Look, it’s you,” and you were like, “I do not know this woman.” – Yeah, I was like, isn’t this gonna make the hospital look bad, they’ve got women like this screaming in here? – Close the windows. – I should be in an Arby’s right now. – Okay. Well, you know I’m not great with blood flow. – Yeah. – You talk about circulation and I get queasy. I knew I had to be seated for the birth of Lily, and the subsequent two. But they induced Christy, and 12 hours later, you know they give you this magic Pitocin stuff, and it makes you have a baby. That’s how babies are made, it’s called Pitocin. It didn’t work. So at some point, they’re monitoring all these vitals of everybody involved. Not me, I’m not really involved at this point. And they had to make an executive decision for her to be rushed into a C-section. They cut you open like a watermelon and pull out another, bit smaller watermelon. – Yep, that’s how it’s done. – And as anxious as I was about being party to a vaginal delivery, I’ve been waiting to use that terminology. I was much more scared when we were walking into an emergency, not an, an operating room. And I’m getting scrubbed up. And then I honestly, I’ve told this story before, and it would help me remember it by listening back to that, but I don’t know where I’ve told it. But it was, so I don’t know if this was the first or not. But because once you have one C-section, Christy ended up having three, one for every child. – It’s very dangerous to have a– – A VBAC, they call it. – A VBAC after you’ve had– – Vaginal birth after C-section, VBAC. – Oh, that’s the whole thing, okay. It’s an acronym for the whole situation. – Yeah, it is. – Because my sister-in-law– – She did it. – Did that, and it was, I don’t want to say she almost died, but maybe she almost died. – And my layman’s understanding of it is, once you have a healed C-section scar and you’re trying to have a normal birth, all of that pressure and pushing could just, you could just explode like a Arby’s roast beef-filled balloon. – Oh god. – And lord knows we didn’t want that to happen. But with the first one, it was like, oh man. We didn’t talk too much about C-section. It’s happening, she’s in the operating room. – More like a beef and cheddar. – Oh gosh, I’m outside putting on my scrubs, and they forget about me. – Of course. You’re not important. – And they’re like, they’re going about their business. And then I’m getting worried. I’m like, oh crap, they’re not coming out. I’m not in there, I’m gonna miss this thing. I didn’t have anybody to talk to. And then finally a nurse is like, “Get in here.” – “Get in here, you moron.” – The doctor knew that I was queasy about the whole thing. They put a curtain up and I’m up by Christy’s face, and then below the curtain, they’re making operational incisions and stuff, or one major one. – These days, it’s super small, for what they do. – And I had such a rapport with the doctor, and he knew that I was queasy. But then I was hiding behind this curtain, trying to be supportive to Christy, but I’m not fascinated about what’s happening down there. I don’t watch footage of any type of surgery. Like I’m not crazy or weird. – Well, I’m thankful for crazy and weird people, because that’s– – I am too, man. – Those are the doctors. – Yeah, by my definition. But then he was like, they were working on her for awhile, all of a sudden, he starts yelling at me. He’s like, “Link, stand up and watch “the miracle of your baby being born. “This is amazing, you stand up and you watch this happen.” – Wow. – And again, we were very friendly. We’d gotten to know him very well. This was not a janitor, like you had. And so he had earned the right to speak to me that way. And I respected the fact that he did that. So I’m slowly standing up and then I see him freaking pull a human out of a big cut in my wife. But then your eyes are drawn to the human and not to the cut. And they take her over that way, and I was okay. But I was scared. It was a lot, man, I really went through a lot. But I did great. – You did good. – I was a champ, you know. And I was also very anxious about, should I film this, and when should I be filming? – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – Nobody tells you. – I stopped filming. – If I had to do it again, I would’ve hired somebody to do all of that. – I stopped filming. I don’t think anybody– – It didn’t seem right. – Nobody told me to, but I stopped filming pretty early. – It didn’t seem right to be filming that thing. The process, I mean. – Yeah, you got a baby, why do you need footage? – I got some footage of her, of Lily, right when she first starts crying and stuff like that. – That’s cool. – I did pretty good, I’m pretty proud of myself. I didn’t faint. It’s not like when I got cut by the Barbie, or the knife, opening the Barbie. That’s another story I’ve told. – This is an interesting one. That took awhile, but you know what, it was worth it. – Yeah, totally worth it. – Kelly Jane Hartmann, “How do you put on your shoes? “Do you go sock, sock, shoe, shoe, “or sock, shoe, sock, shoe?” Does anyone go sock, shoe, sock, shoe? – I did, very recently. – What? – Yeah. I thought it’s so weird that she asked this question, because– – Why? – I go sock, sock, shoe, shoe normally. And I was thinking about this specifically, ’cause you know me, a man of procedure. I literally was thinking about this, so kudos, Kelly. What had happened was I had gotten these new shoes. I got these boots here I’m wearing. Well, not these, but they were like this. And I was really excited. I’m breaking them in, I’m trying them out. I got up the next morning after wearing these shoes home and breaking them in and I was so excited when I was putting on my shoes to come into work that I put on one sock and then I couldn’t wait to put on the shoe. I was literally so excited to put on the shoe that I put it on before I put on the other sock. – How did that make you feel? – Great. You know, you gotta have something to get you through the day. And that day, yesterday, I think it was, it was getting my shoe on as soon as possible. – But you don’t plan on repeating this? – No, once they’re not– – This is only a new shoe practice. – Yeah, only with new shoes would I do such a thing. – ‘Cause you know better than I do, but from an efficiency standpoint, sock, sock, shoe, shoe is definitely the most efficient. – I think they’re equally as efficient. – No. – In terms of time, it should be the same. – No, I don’t think so. Because I think, first of all, when you get into a mode and rhythm of a repeated motion, even just one repetition, you do the second one a little bit faster. – When it’s back to back. – But also you’ve got focus on the socks. You’ve got two socks in your hands. And if you’re like me, you hold the other sock while you put the other one sock on. – Well that’s, you know what, that’s slick, man. – You hold that sock in this part of your palm, and then as soon as you get through with the left sock, and I go left sock first, I move over to, I unfold it, almost in one motion. – Wow. – And then go to the right sock. It’s just something I’ve learned over time. So there’s no way that sock, shoe, sock, shoe can be faster than that. But along those same lines, so I got these, not a sponsor, Clark’s desert boots, because that’s what Anthony Bourdain wears everywhere. And I’m like, he travels the world, he’s cool. And I got them and I’m breaking them in, wearing them a lot. And a lot of people are like, “If you’re gonna be doing a lot of walking, “it could be good to get insoles.” And so I got some Dr. Scholl’s insoles to put on top of the insoles of the boots, because they’re kind of thin. – That’s always a good sign of a good pair of shoes, is when you gotta buy something else to go in them to make them workable. – But last night, I’ve been talking a lot about being naked lately, but I’ll just continue. Last night I was naked in my bedroom. – Except the boots, seriously? – And it was like midnight 30, and I was still up. And I am like, I gotta cut these insoles to fit the shoes. And I was anxious, just like you, putting the shoe on before the sock. I gotta do this right now. And so I’m sitting there, I put on the shoes. I put on the socks, I cut the insoles, I put them on. And then I sit there, I’m in my boots. And then I just stand up, and I didn’t know my wife was still awake. And I’m sitting there naked except for boots on– – You did. – In my bedroom. And I hear her say, “I should take a picture of this.” (laughing) Because I’m just standing there naked in boots. And then I said, you know what, maybe this is the moment. Maybe this is when I just post my naked– – Nudes, oh gosh. – This is when I post my nudes. – And where would you post them? – Instagram, rhettmc. I would also, but it would be taken down very quickly, so I would do it on Twitter, where it would not be taken down. So rhettmc on Twitter, you want to see the nudes. Me in boots and nothing else. – I don’t mean to burst– – Socks, I did have socks. And insoles, Dr. Scholl’s, also not a sponsor. But I’m gellin’, and they feel real good right now. – I don’t mean to burst your bubble, but with that last story, and especially with the plug, you have brought this on yourself. Of course, when you were talking about these desert boots, which I’ve had, and I warned you about. I was like, I had those a couple of years back, and they’re not that great. Ben was there for this conversation. Ben comes to work the next day and he’s talking to me about how we’re gonna approach shooting some of this stuff. You’re not there. And he’s like, “Hey, don’t tell Rhett this, “but you know how he’s talking about “how Anthony Bourdain wears those boots everywhere, “and it’s what he swears by and he wears them all the time “and they’re his travel boots?” He’s like, “Well, I was watching some Anthony Bourdain.” – And he didn’t have them on. – And he said, “The opening scene of the episode “that I happened to watch started on a closeup “of Anthony Bourdain’s boots, “and they were cowboy boots. “And then it pans, it tilts up his body.” And then he says, “And then there’s a voiceover “from Anthony Bourdain and he says, “‘For as far back as I can remember, “‘I’ve worn these cowboy boots everywhere.’” (laughing) – That’s not true though. – Swear. That’s what Ben told me. And he was like, “Don’t tell Rhett, “because he was so excited about these boots.” – Well, no, no, no, no, no. – That’s what he said. I’m just saying, that’s what he said. And you know what, don’t tell Ben that I told you, because he told me not to tell you. – No, no, no, I found a picture of Anthony Bourdain with cowboy boots on when I did the research. I saw it in an article, and then I looked at all the pictures and I saw that he had these boots on in lots of different places. And then separately, somebody who works here was like, “Oh, that’s what Anthony Bourdain wears all the time.” And I was like, yeah, that’s why I got them. But I have seen other pictures. He does have cowboy boots. When he did a cowboyish thing somewhere on a ranch or whatever, he had cowboy boots. Anyway, you know, I’m not saying. Again, I could be wearing tennis shoes. But you know the other thing I did? – Anthony Bourdain doesn’t have to have worn those shoes for you to just read that he wears them so then you’ll have an excuse to buy. – Do you know who I looked up before I looked up Anthony Bourdain? You know who I was trying to figure out what they wear? – Who’s that host of Double Dare that then got his own How It’s Made show? – Marc Summers? – [Link] Yeah. – No I don’t care what kind of, he wears loafers. – Who’s the guy who hosted the Family Feud after– – Ray Combs. – Yeah. – He’s dead. – Was it him? – No. – Who’s the guy who invented Arby’s? Was it him? – Mr. Arby. – Was it him? – No. – Cowboy. – It is the guy, oh, Jack and Finn, Harries. – Oh yeah. – They’re all over the place all the time. They’re like the coolest, most adventurous, most ecologically-minded YouTubers on the face of the planet. – Good guys too, we met them in Nice a few years ago. – And those guys have always been way ahead of the curve. Super smart and kind of always get the feeling that they look at the business of YouTube and the chasing the fame and stuff and they just kind of moved out of that lane and said they just wanted to go do what they wanted to do. One of them went to school and one of them travels the world, and they both travel the world. Anyway, they got great Instagrams, even better than rhettmc’s, I gotta say. Their Instagrams are even better than rhettmc. – Of course, you’re not gonna mention. – Jack Harries and Finn Harries, I don’t know what the specific handles are. – Okay, okay, okay. – But they’re like the epitome of travel cool. And so I was like– – They got accents too. – I wonder what boots they wear. – Oh. – So I gotta say, I did a lot of pinching and zooming on Jack and Finn’s boots as they traveled the world, to try to figure out what they wore. And the problem is that one of them wore the Chelsea boot quite a bit, which is the one without laces. And I just don’t think that that looks good on me. You know the one that had the elastic on the side? – Yeah. – You wouldn’t wear those. – No, it elongates the foot. – But they make it look so cool. – I like something that shortens the foot. – Maybe it’s just because I’m a big guy, I don’t know. But they make it look cool. So then I was like– – They both wear them? – Who’s an older, taller, slightly less cool but still cool guy? Anthony Bourdain, and that’s how I got to Anthony Bourdain, and that’s how I got to the desert boots. You see my process. You see the things I do with my time. – I think we see your soul. – My psychosis? – I didn’t say psychosis, okay, yes. – You want to save these other questions for another time? – Absolutely, I think we, certainly, again, we will prompt more questions and we will, there’s a few of these that we didn’t get to that we’ll sit on a little bit. We’ll get back to, maybe next month. I think we’ll do one of these about every month or so. – Yeah, so we’d love your feedback. Again, we won’t necessarily take it, but we would love it. No, we will take it, we will take it into consideration. But what we’re doing right now with Ear Biscuits, that we’re playing around with, is we’re doing these AMAs on a regular basis. We’re also working in a rabbit hole and we’re working in a couple of more focused questions, whether that be about some subject, travel, parenting, whatever. Let us know what you’re thinking, which ones you’re really enjoying so we can continue to make Ear Biscuits that you like to put in your ears, simple as that. – We’ll speak at you again next week. 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