(steady beat music) – Welcome to Ear Biscuits, I’m Link. – And I’m Rhett. This week at the round table of dim lighting, we’re going to be answering your questions about anything. Thank you for submitting those questions. – Oh, yeah, I love it when you guys give us stuff to talk about. We got some introspective questions. We also got some stuff that kinda might take us back. – Nostalgic. – Gonna get a good story out of you related to your personal wife, I mean personal life. – My personal wife? – We’re making it public. Rhett’s married. – I’m making my wife public. – And I’m just gonna give a warning, we should give them a warning that you may pick up on a different vibe from this Ear Biscuit– – Don’t tell ’em. See if they can figure it out. There’s no way they can figure it out. – But there’s just a tremendous amount of tension between Rhett and I this morning. You can cut it with a, you can cut it with your finger. You know you say you could cut it with a knife, well you can cut things with a knife, but if you could cut something with your finger, then it must be soft. That’s just not coming together, is it? – It’s not working. – There’s no tension between the tall one and I. No, it has something to do with this conversation happening. Fresh off the car. – It’s the morning. – It’s the morning. Wow, I really have a hard time, I could have just come out and said it. – We’re recording this in the morning and we’ve never done that. This is a morning Ear Biscuit which seems appropriate considering that it’s a biscuit. I mean, I think biscuits are great any time of day, but I think traditionally they are enjoyed in the morning. We’re just changing it up. – Well we have a little bit more flexibility in our schedule with the, you know, with the summer time situation. – But you let us know if you want us to tell you when we’re recording because, no, don’t tell us that. – I feel like I have a little morning face for the video watchers. – You’ve already, I mean, you’ve been up for a while. I got up early, you got up early, I’m sure you went to the gym, I went to the gym. – Oh thank you for being sure that I went to the gym. I actually did. – Yeah, I went to the gym– – What time did you get up? – Uh, 5:45. – I got up at 5:30. But I woke up at five. I’m waking up before my alarm. Like, I think this is becoming my talent. Like whenever I set my alarm, – It’s not a talent. – It’s not the same every day, like some days it’s 5:20, some days it’s 5:30, some days it’s 6:30 and I’ll wake up before the alarm no matter what time it is. – But you said half an hour early, that’s not good timing. I mean, sometimes I’ll– – No, it’s not. – I’ll be like, I wake up, it’ll be like 5:25 and I was supposed to get up at 5:30, I think it’s just luck. And that feels good but if I wake up a half hour, I’m like oh man, now I’ve got that weird thing that’s gonna happen where I look at the clock, I don’t have to get up for another 30 minutes, I’m going to go back to sleep but it’s not going to be good sleep. – That’s what happened to me this morning. – Because now I’m thinking about I’m going to get into this nice cocoon spot and then the alarm’s going to go off. – Right, right. – I don’t want to do that, I should just get up. – Yeah, 20 to 30 minutes is just enough time to get really deep into a sleep. I mean, that’s the worst amount of time to wake up before your alarm and not get up ’cause A, who gets up before their alarm, that’s stupid. Why would you do that? Then I’m gonna sit on the couch and then fall asleep sitting up because I’m not getting ready. – You’re what? You’re telling me that if you wake up early, you go and sit on the couch and wait until the allotted time to get ready? – I’ve done that before, yeah. I said well I’m going to do everything out of order. I’ll make my coffee and I’ll sit here. I got 20 minutes, I could drink a coffee. – You’re telling me that if you get up early, you don’t just start the same routine, it’s just a little bit early. – I only did it once and clearly, – That was a mistake. – I did it wrong. Okay, and I apologize. – But you, of all people, as routine oriented as you are, you can’t change it up just because you get up early. – I didn’t, see, I didn’t. – You waited until the allotted time. – Right, which is the routine. So I kept the routine and that was my problem. – I think you should have kept the order and then you would just have more time on the back end. Are you saying that the gym opens at a certain time and then you got this space and you got to fill it with something. – Well there are classes. So I hate showing up to the gym way early and then there’s like this awkward I’m there with the other class before they’re done. – But to get up out of your bed and sit on the couch and wait– – I only did it once! And yeah, I fell back asleep and I didn’t go anywhere. – Did you wife know? She’s like, she wakes up in the morning and her husband’s strangely sort of just sitting next to the bed. – No, I didn’t just move over to the, we have a couch in our bedroom because that’s how we roll, I ain’t talking about that couch, I went downstairs and I sat on like a longsome couch, fell asleep. – Right, makes even less sense. – But usually, if I wake up that much before my alarm clock, I’ll go back to sleep but before I go to sleep, I convince myself that I’m not gonna get up at all. It’s like, if you give me 10 minutes or 15 minutes in my brain to like battle out whether I’m going to get up or not, I will not get up. – That’s called the resistance. – Right, the resistance. I just have to, I have to get up mindlessly. I can’t engage my brain before I get out of bed. – Do you ever snooze? – No. Because that doesn’t work for me. – So what happens if you snooze? – Well, I miss the gym so snoozing is not an option. – No, under any circumstances, if you didn’t have somewhere to be– – Yeah, I snooze. I’m not that weird. You think I’m a weird guy or something? – Snooze is part of the time that I have allotted. – Like, it’s part of your game? – Two snoozes is technically part of the time. – Every morning? – No, I don’t do it every morning but I have two snoozes to use. – But what about Jessie, she’s in the bed, is she already awake? – She gets up, she’s early too. I mean, she gets up about the same time. – So there’s like, a combination of four alarms going off when you count both of you snoozing? – Uh, no, because we have a white noise machine that plays at a very significant volume. – Sounds racist. – Okay. Well you can do pink noise as well. – Seriously, what’s pink noise? – I’m not real sure. And there’s also brown noise so really, everybody’s covered. There really is. – There’s brown noise, pink noise, and white noise? – It has to do with the mix of frequencies. – I’m sorry (laughs), it was just a joke. – Yeah, you shouldn’t have brought that up. But it actually, not a sponsor and it won’t help anyway because I don’t remember the name of it, but it’s this little octagon that has like 16 different fan sounds and then 16 different basically like, fuzz, like you know, frequency sounds. And so, it’s pretty bassy and it fires the sound up to the ceiling so it kind of spreads it around the room. – Hold on, it fires the sound up so it’s emanated from a place of a fan? – No, it’s emanating from everywhere. It feels like it’s inside your head. – How do you know? You have one? – Yes. – Oh, that’s the one you have. – (laughs) Yeah, I thought that’s what I said. – No, I thought you just said there is this thing, I didn’t know that you had it. – No, this is the one I use. I’m a super light sleeper so– – It’s an octagon? – It’s pretty small though. I’m a super light sleeper so– – You could just have a fan, by the way. Because then you also have a breeze. – No, ’cause then that blows air. What if I don’t want the air on me at that particular moment what if it’s a little bit cold? – You’re not an air man? I pegged you as an air man. – I have a ceiling fan as well. If I want that, I’ll turn that on. – Oh, you got it covered. – But see, my mom has always slept with a fan. She also sleeps with my dad, but she (laughs) but she has a fan that– – Is it like, your mom, a fan, and your dad or is it a fan, your mom, and your dad? – The fan’s not in the bed, the fan is elsewhere. But I remember going in there, it was like freaking going in to like a helipad growing up. – Like where a helicopter was constantly landing? – My mom ran that fan so loud you could hear it when they turned it on at night, it was like (Rhett imitating fan) – Sounds like there was a baseball card stuck in the fan. – It could have been gas powered. I don’t know how they got such a loud fan, all I know is when you went in there– – They got a gas powered fan in there, that’s dangerous. – If you had to go get their attention at night, you had to knock on the door but you had to like bang on the door and then when you went in there, it was like speaking to someone in the middle of combat. It’s like Mom! My foot fell asleep! – I’m sorry but I got news for you man. You need to re, you just need to rerun this whole experience through your mind and realize that the fan was not to help them to sleep, but it was for something else. – It was dual purpose, I do believe that it was to cover things, to cover things that may be happening, but also my mom has always had a ringing in her ears and so it was a way to, I guess they call it tinnitus, what do they call it? – Tetanus. – Yeah, tinnitus, she has a tetanus infection. – Tinnitus. – So she needed that to go to sleep. I need it because I’m such a light sleeper, like I literally will wake up if like one of the children just kind of rolls over in the next room and makes a noise, they don’t even have to yell for us, even with the white noise machine on, a lot of times I’m like, Jessie, Shepard is yelling for you right now. She doesn’t know so she doesn’t wake up when my alarm, my phone goes off on my side of the bed. It’s like, but any little thing that breaks me out of the white noise. In fact, the other night, did the power go off at your house? – No. – In the middle of the night? We live pretty close to each other so I didn’t, I look out and saw all the other houses were dark too so, anyway, when the white noise went off, I woke up. Like, that’s how sensitive I am. – Oh wow. – So it’s the absence of white noise that almost shocked me, there’s gotta be an analogy there somewhere. – I’m great with those so I’m sure I can come up with one. But you use the white noise setting, not a simulated fan setting or like a helicopter like your mom? You mix it up? – I’ve done a lot of different things. – [Link] And Jessie doesn’t care? – No, she likes it. – [Link] She likes it? – I think, ultimately, all people could benefit from white noise. I also think it’s a little bit of a crutch so if you don’t need one, if you don’t need one, so now when I travel, I have a white noise app. I’ll demonstrate. – You’re going to demonstrate it? – Yeah. There it is, it’s one of the ones that comes up. – What’s the app called? Not a sponsor. – I don’t know, this is stream water flowing. This is the best I could get on this app ’cause it was free. So I listen to this all night if I’m traveling. – I mean, I wouldn’t call that flowing, I’d call that gushing. – Yeah, it’s all the way up man. I mean, ’cause you can go through some other things like a, (water trickling) that makes me want to pee everywhere. – I know, gosh. – This is a cat purring. I hate that sound. – Oh, put it up to the mic. (cat purring) – I wanna kill that thing. – It actually sounds like a cat purring in the foreground but someone with a weed whacker in the background. – Can you imagine the crazy person that needs this to sleep? – Well, you’re only saying that because of your love for cats. (crickets chirping) – Crickets. – That doesn’t sound like crickets, it sounds like a ringwraith breathing. – Yeah, that’s horrible. – You’re holding it too close to the mic, it’s crazy. (frogs croaking) – Frogs. – That’s creepy, man. I would dream about frogs crawling on me. – Yeah, it’s like a plague. Air conditioner. That’s not bad. – An industrial air conditioner. – I’ve never gotten this deep, I might use this one. – What if we just record some like, Link making mouth noises. (Link vocalizing) – How crazy is this one? A freaking grandfather clock. One time I tried to sleep at my aunt Helen’s house, momma Nel’s sister, still alive, she’s like 95 years old. – Helen yes. – She had a grandfather clock and I was trying to sleep in the living room, I could not go to sleep. It was like a horror movie ’cause it’s not a constant sound, it’s just like that. – Well it’s on a rhythm, it is a pendulum. – I couldn’t sleep, it drove me nuts. I was also in a recliner. – Yeah, that’s tough. – Anyway. That’s how I get things done. – See, we’re fresh out of that this morning. Having a morning biscuit. Fresh out the oven. Fresh out the oven. – Speaking of fresh. We got some fresh Good Mythical Summer stuff that you can get Mythical.Store. First thing you can get – Oh yeah. Check this out. All type of Good Mythical Summer merch, you gotta protect your eyes with some sunglasses. Check out these, we’re wearing them now. There’s tortoise shell. – I got tortoise shell. – And then I got the black pair and it’s got the the Mythical Randler on the right temple. It’s got the Mythical insignia inside. And then it’s got our signatures– – Our signature, we individually signed every pair of glasses, actually no. – It’s an embossed signature but that’s pretty cool. We sold this last summer, they were a huge hit. Get you some this summer. Sometimes when I’m driving, I’ll wear my sunglasses over my normal glasses like this. – You’re going to have to describe this ’cause I have to talk through the towel. – And then you can get the Good Mythical Summer towel. It’s made of fabric that will– – It is made of fabric. – Cotton, which will absorb dampness. It will also provide a beautiful sand barrier, or if you’re laying out by a pool and you don’t wanna touch the exposed parts of your body where other people have touched their exposed parts of their body, you can use the Good Mythical Summer towel as a barrier. – The Good Mythical Summer towel, now in fabric. I look pretty cool though, right? – Yeah, you look like a– – Wouldn’t you hang out with me? – You look like a professional poker player. Semi-professional. – That’s something no one has done, that’s wear a full sized beach towel as part of their get up. I mean those guys have done just about everything, I’m the guy with the headphones that doesn’t speak. But I’m gonna be the guy with the sunglasses and the full sized beach towel. – Mythical.store, support internetainment. – Get a little hot because of this fabric. – Okay, let’s get to some questions here from you, we posted a prompt on Facebook and Twitter so make sure you’re following us there if you want to get in on this. Rachel Deal– – You want me to take my glasses off? – No. I recognize your name, Rachel. If I were a splurgey type of person, I’d hire a maid once a month ’cause chores suck. What is one thing that you would like to splurge on more often and why don’t you do it? Hmmm. Okay, I know, there’s something that I’ve started to splurge on and then there’s a whole other level of splurge that I am flirting with. – You’re flirting with the splurge? – I’ve started splurging on more regular massages. Many times over the course of conversations, I’ve brought this up because I never hesitate to big up a massage. – And, I think we talk about this on the show but, our schedules are on each others calendars and so when you have a massage scheduled, I see it on my calender and you schedule a lot of massages. And sometimes, because I’ve got my Apple car play situation, I get in my car and it thinks that I’m you wanting to go get a massage and it begins navigating to your massage. Sooner or later I’m going to show up and get in line. – No, you can watch. I would not care. I don’t care, if I’m getting a massage, anything else can be going on, it won’t matter. – But what if I’m the one getting the massage and you’re watching? That’s not good. – No, that’s not good at all. – That’s what I’m talking about doing. – I mean, you talked about going to the gym. I try to go, I try to get up with my alarm without snoozing and then going to the gym, three or, my goal is really four times a week and I really don’t feel good about myself if I only go twice and it has nothing to do physically, it’s just emotionally because I’ve set this standard. – But it’s mood enhancing. – Oh, absolutely. – It’s totally mood enhancing. – I mean, of course, everything is great about it except when I get injured, and when I get really sore, but I basically get sore every week. I don’t know, I guess that’s a good sign is like if you continue to work out and you continue to, if you stop getting sore it means that you’re not working out hard enough. – It’s because the people at your gym have designed the workouts to continue to confuse your muscles. Muscle confusion is the name of the game and they know it at that gym. I used to go to your gym until I got injured so I don’t do it anymore. – Meaning your back got strained, but what I’m– – My muscles were confused in all the best ways. – So what I’m saying is, yeah, you’ve noticed that your calender has a lot of my massages on it because I put more as an incentive, a, I need them, like my muscles get knotted up, and so I get very intense massages in order to be able to go to the gym the next week. But psychologically, I also consider it a reward like if you go to the gym your four times, if you meet your goal, then you’ve earned the right to get a massage and pay probably way too much money for a massage. And man, my pain tolerance has gone up so much because I just get the masseuse to go for it but I digress. My splurge would be taking it to the next level because yeah, I’m already splurging, every other week my goal being every week I want to get a massage. – My goal being every week. – But my splurge would be to hire a personal masseuse. – Do you mean a person who that is their only job is to massage you or do you mean that they just come to the office or wherever you’re at? – Well, I thought that they would come to like, the house and maybe give me a massage, give Christy a massage, even Lily, I think because of like, her back. It’s the one year anniversary of her back fusion, by the way and she’s doing fabulous. As of the recording of this, we’re celebrating today, right now, she was in surgery one year ago. – Did you have something special for breakfast? – No. We had a special discussion about it. Like, we commemorated it conversationally. – I don’t know what kind of breakfast you would have had. – You made me feel a little guilty all of the sudden. – Well you made it sound like it was, I mean it is a big deal but I thought– – Right, but we didn’t do anything. There weren’t cupcakes for breakfast. – We had a spine cake. We had a spine cake for breakfast. – But so splurging would be, so I started thinking about that but you got to find the right person, somebody who’s really good. And then beyond that, I started to think, if I found that person and I hired them to like show up where I’m at instead of me going to them, even a step further is having that person on staff. Just literally, someone following me around, just giving me a massage in increments throughout the day. – Can’t you over massage though? Is there such a thing? – Well I’d love to have to experience that and be able to answer that firsthand. That’s my goal. – Your muscles become like veal. – You know, I’ve just become, I’m too tenderized. – You just become a tender person. – That’s what I want to do, I want to push the limits of human tenderization. It would be so ridiculous, I know it sounds ridiculous having somebody, because I am not the type of person, I actually, I don’t like massaging people that I know or being massaged by people I know, I don’t like that. I don’t like this, well I’m gonna go up behind somebody, like a friend of mine, I’ve never massaged your back. You know there’s some people who– – Well, maybe for a video. – They’ll come up behind you and like massage your back. – Yeah, I’m not into that. Especially nowadays, you gotta watch that. Can’t be just going up and massaging people. – Well, yeah, I don’t feel like it’s appropriate. – But even back in like– – I mean, it has to be with consent. – But usually it’s not, usually it’s just like whoa, I’m being massaged. – Yeah but those weird, it’s just a weird instinct from some people. – There are certain people who are massagers. – And they should be masseuses and then if they’re on the payroll for that, then okay, it’s all legit. It’s like why is in every meeting, I just want someone massaging me while I’m in meetings. – Yeah, but you don’t want to be that guy though. You have to think about the social impact. – Yeah, that would be bad. – Because if you become a tenderized person that is constantly being massaged, now you created a social awkwardness with all your interactions because these are things that got to be done in secret and I am– – Not secret but– – Secret massages. – In private. – I am suspicious of becoming too tender. – So what’s your splurge? – First of all, I am a splurgey person. – Yeah. – You know, splurgey could be my middle name. So I am very often buying things for myself. I think that the most, this is not a position that exists but, I would hire a hobby, hobby trier. Let me explain what this is. Because sometimes I’m like, you know what– – A hobby trier? – I’d like to paint, you know. I’d like to paint. I wonder what painting is like. Well, I’d like to go home one day and the hobby trier would be there, he or she would say, welcome home, today you’re going to try painting. I’ve got everything you need. (Link laughing) You know what I’m saying? – So you don’t want someone to test the waters for you like welcome home, I’ve been painting all day, I’ma tell you what it was like. – No, it’s not like the person who tests the food for the king, what was that? – The cup bearer. – The cup bearer, it’s not a cup bearer. It’s not a hobby bearer. It’s a hobby introducerer. It’s somebody who is like, I’ve got all the equipment, here it is, I’ve done a little research, and go for it, you’ve got one hour to see if you like this hobby and I’m gonna return all the paint you don’t open, whatever. Because I’m always thinking about things I want to try but you gotta like, go to like JoAnn’s to really, you know, you gotta spend half a day at JoAnn’s just to be ready for it. – But isn’t the big thing for you actually– – It’s all at JoAnn’s, by the way. – Discovery and the spending of the money that is part of it for you or are you saying you don’t like that part, you just want to get into it? – I mean, I don’t mind the spending of the money. But I don’t think that’s what I am, I get into things and then I buy the things that you need to accompany the experience. But a lot of time, because I just kind of piecemeal it together, I need like a, I need a hobby introducer. Somebody should invent that, it would be an awesome business card, too. Anyway, I’d pay for that if that existed. A hobby introducerer. – Not a good name. – They’re not an expert in anything. Hobby guide. – JustGiveItAShot.com No, not shot. Give it a try. Give it a whirl. A whirl. – A whirl, is for you. – Give it a whirl. – But in general, I’m a pretty, I’m already a splurger so I’d probably only need to do that. Here’s another question though from Meg Manuel. Man-well but I like to say manual. (Link laughing) – You’re wrong, but go ahead. – I have a not-so called simple question– – Okay. – For you two. If you had a chance to use anything or become anyone in the world, or the impossible, what would it be and why? – If we had a chance to become the impossible, what would it be? I don’t know what that– – Use anything or become anyone in the world, or the impossible. Basically if you could do anything and it doesn’t have to be limited to what’s possible, I guess. – The thing that intrigues me is the if you had the chance to use anything, because I immediately think about that wave pool in Austin, Texas that you were showing me on your phone. Who was that? Uh, Kelly Slater? – Kelly Slater– – The surfer, the professional surfer? – Is involved if not he did it, or he’s got another one, I don’t know all the facts. – It’s a big freaking, I mean, I would say wave pool– – Can you look up the name of that Jacob? – You’re starting to think that– – Wait, what would you call it? Would you call it automatic wave machine, Austin, Texas? Just search that. – Don’t think about like a water park wave pool when there’s like all these people on floaties and then a horn sounds at Emerald Point or whatever your water park is called. – And it’s not a standing wave like on a cruise ship. It’s not a wave pool like at the water park and it’s not a standing wave that you see on a cruise ship where it’s just going the whole time, that also looks fun. This is a freaking– – Huge pool. – Giant lake. – I think it’s as big as a football field, that’s what it looked like, could be bigger. But then picture right down the center line of the football field, not the halfway point, what’s that called? – Midfield. – Midfield. But bisecting the length of from goal post to goal post. And there’s some sort of robotic apparatus that then like travels from one end to the other and seems to create a wave that then you can surf on either side. – Either right and a left. – A right and a left at the same time. – And it’s a perfectly formed, I mean, they can manipulate the wave but it’s a perfect tube and– – I wanna, I wanna use that anyway. – We gots to go there man. Let’s just go there this summer. What’s the name of it? – [Male] Nland Surf Park. – Nland Surf Park. – Nland Surf Park in Austin or outside of Austin. Gotta do that man. – I bet those dude perfect guys have been there. – They do everything, don’t they? – They’re over there in Texas just doing stuff. – With their big old warehouse. – I love LA though, I’m not gonna dog it. I mean, we have a wave pool too, it’s called the Pacific Ocean but it’s very finicky. – Unpredictable and cold. – It’s so finicky. And if it rains, you can’t go in it for like a week. – 72 hours is the recommended delay. – Because all of the run off from the Los Angeles streets and what not go into the ocean, I mean it just goes into the ocean, it’s just run off. And then you’re sitting in there and you don’t think you’re drinking it but you’re drinking it. Your skin is drinking it. – You’re digesting at least an ounce of that water every time you go in it. – Of course, who knows what they put in that Austin pool. – Probably just barbecue sauce. – Cowboy piss. – Yeah, a mix of those two things. (Link laughing) – But I’m a little afraid, I mean, we can easily make plans to go there, I mean, it ain’t that hard. It’s not like the other thing I was going to say which was– – I don’t know, is your personal masseuse coming ’cause that’s an extra ticket. – Well, that’s on me, stay out of it. He ain’t masseusin’ you. – Oh, it’s a man? – Yeah, it’s a man. – Do you have an opinion? Are you, George Costanza situation here? Do you have an opinion about the– – All I care about is skills. So I don’t care if it’s a man or a woman, I just want skills. And I’ve partaked of both. It doesn’t matter to me, it’s a it’s like a sports deep tissue massage thing, there’s nothing weird about it and I’m completely naked but there’s a sheet and they know what to do with the sheet. – Keep it on you, hopefully. – I’m no different than Lebron James. I work out and then I go and I get pounded on. – I could make a list of the differences. – Well, when it comes to getting the sports massage, there’s no difference. I mean imagine how much longer it would take, I get a 90 minute massage, and I’m like, dang it, this is getting too short, I will not get a 60 minute anymore, like I am such a spoiled brat when it comes to massages. But if you’re like, think about how big Lebron James is or and there’s bigger people than him– – That’s true. – Imagine how long it would take to give them a proper sports massage. – Are you saying because they have more muscles? – Yeah. Like I’ve got dinky muscles and it’s like– – I don’t think that it increases the time. – It absolutely has to. – I don’t think it’s proportional to the muscle mass. – Of course it is. – You think that Lebron James– – Lebron James’ deltoid is as big as my head. – I guarantee you Lebron James does not get four hour massages. I could text him right now, I got his number. – I bet you he’s got three people on him. – I don’t have his number. I have a fake Lebron James that I follow on Twitter. Just a fan account. – The other thing I was going to say I wanted to use was I want to pilot the boring machine that Elon Musk has invented. I want to be the guy behind the wheel (Link imitating machinery) like boring into the ground and making tunnels. – Hm, seems boring. – I don’t want to do it professionally, I only want to do it once. – Let’s do the wave machine. Because that’s a realistic goal. And it’s in Texas, man, it’s not like it’s on the other side of the world. – Right. Maybe they’ll invite us there. We can make a video out of it. – That was the whole point, that’s why I kinda didn’t want to say it, you know. I was like Nland Surf Park, we mention them more– – Kelly, come on Kelly. – And then they’re like, oh we should invite Rhett and Link. – Let us know. – That was really the whole ploy. We’ll see what happens. Many people said that they wanted to hear my proposal story because we heard your proposal story and we might have said– – Right, even this one from Tamra Jackson says that we got Link’s in a Good Mythical More, so you can track down the Good Mythical More where I give my proposal story which has it’s it has more than it’s share of uncalculated mishaps– – User errors. – Left turns, user errors, and hijinks. – But it ended in a good way. – It still took. In spite of everything I did to make it, to contribute to the engagement. – Okay, I’m gonna do this quickly because there’s pieces to it. The very first time we ever really got to know each other, was while sitting on a bench at Macaroni Grill in Cary, North Carolina, waiting for Jessie to meet a locksmith because she had locked her keys in her car the night before. – Not with you. – She was not with me the night before, in fact, I had only talked to her one time, however, I went to like a pool party at her parent’s house that my parents were at and my brother was at and everyone was like trying to get us together, right. So like my sister-in-law was like trying to get us together. My mom wanted to, everybody wanted to get us together. – And you should explain a little bit more of the dynamic of how everybody knew each other but how you didn’t know her. – Well, her dad was my dentist growing up. So I knew him and knew that he had, I vaguely knew that he had daughters. But then my family and her family started going to church together and so, that’s how I actually got to know her. – But you were in college, you were a sophomore, right? – Yeah I was in college and she was a senior in high school. So anyway, I found out that she was a senior in high school and I was like, well– – At this party? – No, I found out about that before, like when, ’cause when I met her and I talked to her and I liked her, and then like at the end of the conversation, or later I’m talking to somebody else, and they’re like yeah, she’s a senior in high school, I’m like oh no. No, I’m in college man. No. So, anyway– – And I was like go for it. – No you weren’t. – Don’t worry, just see what happens. – So I basically made up my mind that I was like well, I can’t date this girl, she’s in high school. But, when I go to this pool thing at her parents house, I was kinda going because I knew she was gonna be there so it was one of these things like I like this girl, I can’t date her but I kinda want to know her because she will be in college one day. You know? I’m like talking to her at this thing and then she’s like well I gotta go, I locked my keys in my car last night up at the Macaroni Grill in Cary. And then Teresa, my sister in law, is like, well Rhett, why don’t you take her up there. Why don’t you drive her up there. – That was Teresa? – Mhm. And then my– – That’s very Teresa. – Yeah, definitely. – But the keys thing is very Jessie. It’s like, I love the fact that like– – Yeah, we have a personal locksmith. We don’t have a personal masseuse in my house, we have a personal locksmith. We have like two locksmiths on speed dial. – Okay, yeah. What you’re saying is this is the beginning of your relationship and I just think it’s so poetic that this is how it began. – We drive up there from Fuquay to Cary, you know, 25 minute car ride, and you know, we’re obviously connecting. Like, we’re having a great conversation and I’m like, I’ve got this sinking feeling because I’m like, no, I like her so much, this is not good, she’s in high school, ugh. And so then we have this, then the locksmith doesn’t show up for like three hours. – What? – We sit on this bench at Macaroni Grill, this is before cell phones so you couldn’t call the guy, he was just like I’ll be there at seven PM and he wasn’t there until 10 PM, like it was that kind of thing, but here we are, having this conversation on this bench, hoping he never shows up, you know what I’m saying. – That’s pretty cute. I think he was in the bushes watching you guys make a love connection and he’s kinda I don’t wanna ruin it, I don’t wanna cut it short. – Well I wanna be very– – Plus, plus, I wanna creep a little bit. – Be very clear that it was only conversation, it was just intense conversation. It was the, you know, you have those conversations where you’re like, when you’re in high school, you think these are deep questions like, if you could have one super power, what would it be, you know. If I could go back to what we actually talked about, I’d probably be like a little cringe factor. – So you don’t remember that being the topic but– – No, I don’t know. I was making up some questions and trying to seem interesting, you know, it was working. And so, we are very interested in each other. Now, fast forward, we did not date while she was in high school because I just drew a line at that. – Did the locksmith, I wanna go deep with the locksmith. What did he do? – I don’t remember anything about him. – He showed up and he– – He unlocked the car. I mean, Mazda 626, like that it was over. Not very exciting. I say that to let you know that bench in front of the Macaroni Grill at Cary was a very significant location in our relationship. We did not start dating officially until she became a freshman in college the next year. But things moved very quickly. Ridiculously quickly after that. Because she went away to, she came to Los Angeles for the summer between her freshman and sophomore year in college. You’re gonna think I’m a nut and I was because I would never advise anyone doing this but thank God it worked out for us. So she was going into, she was going to be a sophomore in college and I was going to be, I was graduating. I was graduating college, and so I was like, I’m going to ask this girl to marry me. I don’t care if she’s still in college. I don’t care if she just finished her freshman year of college, I love her and I wanna spend the rest of my life with her. – I was married, it was working fine for me. – You had just gotten married. So I was like, I gotta be married too, Link’s married. – I married a girl who graduated the same time as me. – And Greg, our other roommate, got married in the middle of the year so I was like, we all gotta get married in the same calender year. – I got married in May, he got married in December, and then you were like– – In the next June. So, but here’s the proposal, I don’t wanna drag this out. There’s other questions to get to. But, I was like– – Drag it out, man. – I needed to get a ring so my ring story is a little different than yours. I knew that I should probably have a ring when I asked her. – Well, that’s your opinion. – And so I was thinking about saving up a very, I didn’t have any money, so I was like how am I going to find a ring and I’m talking to her grandmother, Gaga, who we talk about in the Book of Mythicality, about how I’m trying to figure out what to do about a ring. I’m telling her whole family. I went out and took her dad out to dinner and asked for his permission, yes this is very traditional southern situation where that kind of thing was done. – Did he inspect your teeth? – No, he didn’t, he already knew I had good teeth because he was my dentist. That conversation went well. Everyone knew that I was going to ask her to marry me when she got back and everyone was okay with it. No one was like, you guys, shouldn’t she be older? No one said that. I don’t know if I would have listened but no one even said that. – You said that she was away for the summer which is exactly the scenario, Christy was away for the summer and then when she came back, I popped the question. – Right, so, as I’m telling Gaga about this– – You were basically following my lead, emulating me a year later to a T except you learned from my mistakes. – Exactly. – So you’re not saying that you wouldn’t, if I hadn’t have done it, you probably would have made all my mistakes. – Correct. So, I’m talking to Gaga and then she’s like, oh you need a ring, hold on a second. And she goes into a closet and pull out a freaking plastic bag of a bunch of knick knacks. And she’s like reaching down there and she’s like oh, this is my mommas diamond ring and she hands me over this giant diamond. Karat and a half. – Whoa. – And I’m like, what, I was gonna get like a third of a karat, I was gonna get such a small, and that was going to be pushing it. And it was like all covered up in some weird fitting, it was like an old setting, so I was like, okay, I’m going to pay the 250 bucks to get this thing reset and I’ve got this awesome diamond ring. So I’m ready, right, and I didn’t have to pay for the diamond. It’s an heirloom. Her grandmother’s name was, her great grandmother’s name was Jessie so she was, Jessie was getting Jessie’s ring. Everything was falling into place. – Oh wow. – So, when she gets back, about a week passes and I’ve got like this special night planned where I’m gonna pop the question. So what I ended up doing is, I was like, I want to take her to a series of locations that have been special in our relationship and I’m going to blindfold her in between the locations and then I will walk her out to these places and then take the blindfold off and be like, oh and now we’re here, do you remember the things that happened here? – Pretty kinky. – Yeah, blindfolds didn’t have quite the same, this is before 50 Shades of Grey, you know. We weren’t familiar with that. – I’m still not, for the record. – Just to keep someone in, you know, not knowing where they’re at. So, I’m trying to remember all the places I took her. I took her, if you follow– – Were you driving her around and she had a blindfold on? – No, I was on a horse. Of course I was driving her around. – I mean, you get kind of nauseous with a blindfold on. – She doesn’t. – Good. You escaped another ravine. – This isn’t like you in the Book of Mythicality when your mom was taking you to the birthday party, no. She was not getting nauseous, she was enjoying the conversation and the anticipation. But as I was trying to give myself a shout out on Instagram, @RhettMC, if you follow me there, you know that I posted a picture of the carving of our names in a tree on NC State’s campus. Which, by that point, the carving had only been in the tree for about a year. So one of the stops was taking her to that tree on NC State’s campus and talking about the memories that we had there. One was taking her to, I think it was, a lake near NC State, Lake Johnson or something. I can’t remember what it was. – Sounds about right. – But we had had like a special date out there. Anyway, I can’t remember all the places I took her but I knew that the final stop was going to be the bench in front of the Macaroni Grill in Cary. And the plan was– – Call the locksmith. – When she takes off the blindfold, I am on one knee with this bam! Giant diamond ring that I didn’t pay for. – Keiko, that bam, you’re gonna have to– – You know, that’s good, you need more bams. – You’ll have to warn them about that. – Needless to say– – Okay, so yeah, so you sat her on the bench, she’s blindfold, it’s like keep the blindfold on, just sit down right here. She’s starting to think, okay this feels like a bench, okay. She’s starting to guess where she is. – She’s smells the macaroni. – Yeah, the garlic bread. – I don’t think they have macaroni but, you know. She smells what they grill there. – The grilled macaroni. And then, so, you’re timing it to be like, okay, now, remove the blindfold. Okay, how did it go? – I didn’t say it in a magician’s voice. I didn’t do that. – So you got her on the bench. – I got her on the bench and then I said, okay, remove the blindfold. And when she did, I was down on one knee with the ring and I said something incredibly sweet that I don’t remember that ended with will you marry me? – When did something go wrong? – It didn’t. She started crying and then she hugged me. And she did not immediately say yes because she was– – Smarter than you. – She was 19 years old man. She was a freaking teenager. She shouldn’t have said yes. It was wrong. But it worked out, again. – Hold on, she didn’t say yes. – No, she did. It wasn’t like yes, yes, yes. It wasn’t one of those situations where you know that this is coming and you’re both in a place in life where it’s just inevitable that you’re going to ask the question. – She was surprised. Like, there was no leak from her grandma with the ring or her family from permission? – It wasn’t one of these things where like you go pick out the ring together– – Yeah, I know that but. – It was a surprise. – But she still could have heard. She hadn’t heard. – I think that she understood that that’s what I wanted but it wasn’t a very clear thing that it would, it wasn’t a super surprise like whoa, I’ve never even thought about this but it was like I did not know this was happening now. But then she started nodding and I was like, is that a yes? And she was like yes. But even after that– – Did you go in at that point or did the locksmith show up at that point? – No, we didn’t eat at the Macaroni Grill, we just used the bench. – Oh, wow. – I didn’t even tip anybody. – Did the locksmith show up? Was he a part of this? – No, I didn’t have his contact info. – That woulda been cool, man. If the locksmith shows up. – And he’s there. – Slow clappin’. – I mean, you can find ways to improve on my story. – I’m not saying that. Well the only way that I would actually improve, it’s such a sweet story, nothing went wrong. I was looking for a left turn or some sort of foible. The only thing I would change is it was super sweet, very cute, except because you’re wearing those sunglasses, when you tell the whole thing, you seem like a complete douchebag. (Rhett laughing) – I asked you if you wanted me to take these off. – I know, it’s totally undermining your, the vibe for those watching the video. But the audio, again, this is made ultimately for audio. – What’s gonna happen is, here at Mythical, we cut down these things so there’s gonna be just an isolated story me of telling my and they’re going to be like why is Rhett doing that? – Why is he wearing sunglasses? – Is he doing a sunglass thing now? And all the comments are going to be about how– – You’re crying under there. – Rhett must be hiding something. Oh, Rhett got in a fight. He’s got a black eye. – I think it’s that, the story should be that you’re hiding your emotions. – I’m gonna wear these sunglasses in life, from now on, in everything we do just to upset you. Not you, but you. – No one’s upset. – No, some people are. – Nobody’s upset. – I like upsetting people, it’s my hobby. It’s one of my main hobbies. – Let’s go with another question. You and Jessie are still together. – Yeah, we are, many years later. – Hanging by a thread but you’re doing it. – It’s been, how long has it been? Since that proposal– – 18 years. – 18 years. – Okay, that’s crazy. – Another question. From Zoe Sutton. What is the strangest hobby you have ever had? – Strangest hobby. I’m sure at some point I’ve talked about this grade school hobby of mine but it’s so strange, I just have to, I’ll tell you again if you’ve heard it before. As a kid, in my road trip travels, either with, and I’m talking like young, like first, second, third grade, because I know that I’d go on road trips with like my stepdad Jimmy and then like my papa, we would take road trips on the interstate and we’d always stop at rest stops, or different gas stations or whatever, would also have these big displays of brochures like local tourist attractions. My hobby was collecting brochures of places that I would most likely never visit. And then my hobby extended well beyond that to, when I got back home, I would pore over these brochures like three leaf pamphlets, and I would, I had a whole stack of them. You know, probably you know, a foot tall worth of brochures and I would go through them and just look at them. – Were you thinking about one day visiting these places or was it about the brochure? – It was about the brochure and I would think about visiting the places, and then I would rank them in terms of my favorite places. – Your favorite places or favorite brochures? – Favorite places depicted on brochures. But the quality of the brochure did have an impact. – Of course, presentation. – You know, Disney World was on top for a while but then right behind that, you have this place called like Alligator World. – Oh gosh, yes. – They had a really good brochure. They had a brochure that was as good as Disney’s brochure. – Maybe even better. – Something tells me that the actual experience of being there was not the same. – They had less rules than Disney, I guarantee you that. – But there were certain points in my reshuffling and ranking of brochures that Alligator World did a few times, move ahead. I was like freaking Casey Kasem and the Top 40. Like on a weekly basis, I would rerank them like last week you were at number four, now you’re at number two. – A little less entertaining for the masses but– – And then, once you got to the bottom of the stack, there was like yarn shop. – Threshold was pretty low. – Well, yeah, it was all part of it ’cause I didn’t want to leave any brochure out. I would feel guilty. – What did you do when you went to those things like that had like 60 of them? You got one of everything? – I wouldn’t get ones that were like steakhouse, like there were steakhouse brochures, I would leave those. I’d leave those for the retirees. – Did they have to be folding because a lot of the ones today are just one panel. – Yeah, I would never pick up a one panel. It would be like a bi-fold or a tri-fold or more. – More? – Oh, some of them are more. – How many is Alligator World? – I believe that was the tri-fold. Disney World had a lot. I mean, there were, like I had five or six different Disney World brochures because they had so many– – You still have these? – No. – You burn them? – I can’t think that I ever would have burned them. I just don’t, I probably put them in a box at some point and then, the box was probably thrown away when Mom moved out of the house. – Is this why your mom used a brochure to talk to you about sex? Because she knew you were– – I was really into it. Brochures, not sex. – Do you put that one above Alligator World? – It was not in that stack. – Son, I’m going to give you this Alligator World brochure to teach you about sex. See these two gators? Let me tell you what’s actually happening right now. – That’s my weirdest hobby, I think. – I got a bunch of hobbies, we actually did a whole episode about my layers, that I call them, some people call them phases. My weirdest one was probably bonzai. It didn’t last very long. – That’s not a weird hobby. I mean, it’s eccentric. – It might be a little unexpected. – Well, it is wood. You like wood. – But I killed a tree in the hobby. – This is a pricey tree. Like, Jessie got this for like a birthday present. Like, she showed it to me before you got it. I was like, oh this– – It was almost 20 years old. – I was like, Jessie, this thing, looks expensive. – It actually wasn’t that pricey. – Kind of big. And then I was like this type of thing requires like, steadfast commitment. For like, ever. I kinda left it at that. – That’s actually debatable. It requires– – I could be wrong but that’s what I thought. – It requires the correct conditions and so, if you live in a place that doesn’t have the right conditions or you’ve got it in a place that it isn’t in the right conditions, then the amount of care increases and I just didn’t really understand where it should be. And I had a book but it didn’t tell me about– – Did you put it, what did you do wrong? You put it outside or in the direct sunlight? – It’s supposed to be outside. A lot of them are supposed to be outside but I put it outside but it was kind of half, it wasn’t in full sunlight, I think maybe it should have been in full sunlight. I don’t know. The fact that I’m ignorant about it is the reason that I have a dead tree. – Do you still have it? – No. – You put it in the green– – I buried it. I did a whole funeral service for it. – No, you put it in the landscape bin. – Yeah, I did, I just didn’t want to say that because that’s so disrespectful. Like throwing a friend in the trash. – Did you keep the pot that it was in? To recycle, to use that for something. – Probably. I wear it as a helmet every once in a while. But the thing that I’m thinking about getting into tai-chi. – What is that? That’s where the people are doing like the slow dances by themselves in the park. And it’s like, don’t talk to that person. – Yeah, I want to be the don’t talk to that guy. No, but– – It’s like karate motions in slow motion. It looks like you’re surfing on a, like a yoga mat, or a blanket or just grass. – It’s supposed to be really good for like stress relief and balance and a lot of people who are already like into yoga or pilates like will kinda naturally move into it. I’ve had a couple people recommend it to me. – Easily confused with chai tea, by the way. Totally different thing. – Well, you can not drink tai-chi, chai tea while doing tai chi ’cause then it’s basically like nothing is happening because they cancel each other out, I’ve seen it happen. I’ve seen a person completely disappear off of the face of the Earth trying to put those two things together like sine and cosine. – They just like get sucked into a black hole of chi. That’s not true. – Well I’ve been thinking about that so if you have any, if anybody has any recommendations, any sources, or anything I should be worried about. – The discipline of like moving that slowly, I mean, I could see how that would be very centering. It requires a lot of concentration to not, not do anything too quickly. You know, ’cause you kind of want to get through it. Go through the motions, so to speak. – And I think you can like, conjure up energy balls. And like throw them at things. (Link yelling) – Um, that’s not true as well. – Didi Higareda says, brainstorm, how would you get a giraffe to the top of a 40 plus story skyscraper? P.S, not that you should. – Is this a team building exercise assignment? – I mean, we got engineering degrees, every once in a while I like to use them. I have an immediate plan that comes to mind for me. – What if they’re dangerous, first of all? I recently read about the cinematographer who went on the wildlife preserve filming giraffes and the giraffes swung his head around, hit him, and killed him. – I don’t think that they are– – Head butted. – I don’t think that’s a typical experience though. – Well, they said that he wasn’t following the rules. That’s what the police said, that the giraffe would not be punished and he wasn’t, for swinging his, I mean, that’s a lot of momentum. – There’s a restaurant in Africa– – Swing that head at the end of that neck around? Kill a guy. – There’s a restaurant in Africa where the giraffes will stick their heads in the windows while you’re eating. – At the Santa Barbara Zoo, which, I hesitate talking about zoos, you know– – They’re controversial. – That’s the last zoo that I’ve been to and it may be the last zoo I ever go to. I’m just gonna leave it at that except to say that while I was there, I fed a giraffe. – Oh, so you don’t want to get into the ethics of zoos? – I don’t want to get into the ethics of zoos, I’m just saying, I fed a giraffe at the zoo and it, I mean, I guess it could, it was in such a way that like, it couldn’t have swung its head and killed me, like the head at it’s farthest point is the closest you could get to feed it something and we fed it. I think that’s the last experience I will have at a zoo. – I bet you I can get you back into a zoo. (Link laughing) Now that you presented me with a challenge. You’re young man, lots of zoo time. Lots of zoo time left. Zoo time, that’s gonna be a new segment. – I don’t know how I feel about zoos. When I was a kid, I had, beside my stack of brochures, I had a stack of Zoobooks, they were called. Misnomer because they were magazines. They were magazines and they were called Zoobooks and each month, I would get one and it would have a different animal on the cover, tastefully shot. Well, tastefully photographed. (Link laughing) – Yeah, let’s clarify that. – And I didn’t keep the brochures but I kept all my Zoobooks and I still have them and Lando looks through them. Because I don’t take him to the zoo, I just take him to the Zoobooks. – Does he order them in animal preference? – None of my kids are as neurotic as I am. I encourage them away from like, what the hole that I dug and the well that I was in the bottom of. – I think it’s very simple how you get a giraffe to the top of a 40 story skyscraper. You sedate it and you put it into like a harness and you use a helicopter. A twin engine cargo helicopter. – There’s big elevators in like skyscrapers. – Well, yeah, if there’s an elevator that would hold the giraffe– – There is, I believe that there is. I mean, if you sedate it, you can curl it up like a snake. – Okay, well let’s just say there’s not an elevator like that, but if there is, sure. – A helicopter? Man, think about that. Like a droopy, sleepy, giraffe being sloughed up next to a skyscraper. – Hey, whatever it takes. If that’s what the people want. – That’s a Twitter moment. – I also agree with the questioner. This should not actually be done. We’re not suggesting it be done so if you’re thinking about it, you have plans to hoist giraffes on the top of buildings, you should probably stop that right now. – I mean, they would get quite a view up there. – Do it on green screen. – Once you factor in the neck and they’re on top of a skyscraper, I mean, that’s quite a treat for a giraffe, man. – Which kinda gets into the ethics of zoos. Does a giraffe in a zoo have it better than a giraffe in the wild? Giraffe in the zoo isn’t going to be attacked by a lion. – They’re just gonna have celery shoved down their throat by toddlers. Well, not shoved. – Some zoos have like giant open areas. I don’t know, I don’t actually have an opinion about it or that I care that much about it, so. Just want to stir the pot a little bit. – You’ve made people upset by saying that, that’s why I was like– – I like stirring the pot, man. – I said the safest thing, which was– – You brought it up. – I’ve been to the zoo but I’m not going to a zoo anymore. I just felt like that was a safe thing to say. – No, no, I want the people who absolutely hate zoos to just make a bunch of comments. ‘Cause I think it feels good for them. I think it’s cathartic for them to get their thoughts out in YouTube comments so I’m giving them the opportunity to do that. – And we can learn from it. (both laughing) – You shouldn’t have added that last part because it almost seemed sincere until you laughed. Until you said the thing that made me laugh. You gotta be more careful. – No, I was sincerely saying we can learn from it. I’m trying to do a little PR here, some spin. You’re the one trying to be funny, I’m just trying to keep us out of hot water. – I am not trying to be funny. That is never my intention. I am never trying to be funny. – Sunglasses, again, aren’t helping. I can’t read your face and plus, you look like a douchebag. I mean, the glasses look great, I think you should buy them but when you’re doing a podcast in like a dimly lit room, our great looking sunglasses that you can purchase at mythical.store, start to undermine your coolness. – No, no, I’m like Joaquin, man. – See what I’m saying? See what he’s demonstrating? – This is the kind of thing that Joaquin would do. But he would be a lot more low key than me. – WWJD? Joaquin starts with a J, right? – Yeah. – WWJD. You can repurpose the bracelets if, if you’re so inclined. – Last question. Rachael Horton. If you could know the absolute and total truth to one question, what question would you ask? I think I’d ask that giraffe at the zoo how happy he is. – That would be helpful, you know. – I mean, listen, I watch– – There are psychics who say they can give that answer. – I watched, freaking, Blackfish– – Free Willy? – I didn’t watch Free Willy. I watched Blackfish and I was like never going back to Sea World, that’s wrong man. What they’re doing to those animals is wrong. So they’re not doing it anymore because people stopped going, I’m all for that. – And I know that zoos are different. – But I don’t think that zoos are an equivalent. Maybe some of them are but I don’t think that most major zoos are equivalent to Sea World. But I don’t really want to talk about this. – That’s what you said you wanted, and that’s why we would just like to know. Instead of speculating and opinionating way out of our league, we would just like to ask the animals. On that front, I guess I’d like know what my dog was thinking at any point. But don’t I only get to ask one question, is that what it is? – You get to know absolute truth– – About something. – You want to know what Jade’s think– – Yeah, that’s boring. – You probably know what she’s thinking. – Boring, yeah. Not thinking much. – Honestly, I think that the question that I would really like to know is I would like to know the comprehensive definitive truth about aliens. – Yes. – So I would like to be able to, do aliens exist and describe them in detail to me. – I want the complete truth about aliens. – Yeah, so to be like, well, actually, you’re the only people in the entire universe which would be mind blowing, or there’s actually millions of other civilizations and let me describe them to you in this volume, this encyclopedia of alien information. Like, that’s what I want to know. – It would be nice to know but think about how disappointing it would be if the answer, the complete and utter truth, was the first option, that there’s nothing. There are no other lifeforms in existence off of our planet. You know, boy, that would be pretty disappointing, wouldn’t it? – I don’t know if it would be disappointing. – If the answer was, well, the truth is, there are, there is alien life, you know, like, yes, tell me more. As opposed to, oh, there’s nothing. (Link groaning) Seriously? I almost feel like I didn’t want to know. – It’d be disappointing in terms of like the personal entertainment factor. – Not entertainment but fascination. – Fascination factor, but it would be sobering. And I think it would probably make me think differently about lots of things. – Really? – Because I already think that what we have on this Earth is incredibly precious, you know, I think that the fragile responsibility that we have, you know, with the amount of impact that we can have on Earth and that we are having on Earth right now, you know, in our own civilization and, you know, we already have a huge amount of responsibility, but if we’re legitimately the only intelligent life in the entire universe, then I think it would make me even more– – That’s a lot of pressure. – It’d be like, hold on guys, for real, we can’t destroy this. Like, it’s actually, it’s even a bigger deal than I thought it was. – But if we had a complete knowledge of alien to us life, I don’t like calling them aliens. I like calling them aliens to us, life. – Extraterrestrial. – Extra-Earth-terrestrial, yeah. They’re probably terrestrial. – But terrestrial means of Earth. – No, it just means of dirt. – Yeah, but Earth– – Is our dirt. Again, you’re so self-centered here. I’m trying to get away from that. And I’m trying to eradicate zoos, too. – When the aliens show up, if they’re not as smart as us, we put them in zoos. We let all the animals out, we put aliens in the zoos. – I think, sincerely, I mean, you know a complete truth about these civilizations that probably, we do not have the capability to get to or communicate with so that may be very frustrating. But then ultimately, it would accelerate all of our efforts to be able to make those connections. And then to create an internet of various terrestrials. Or maybe spacetials, I mean, they all don’t have to be associated with dirt, I guess. What I’m saying is, if we knew that, it would accelerate our efforts to then connect. And get out of our own way. – The money that seems like a waste of time to some people in trying to make people and trying to monitor the universe and to send probes out, that kind of thing– – At the rate that we’re working– – Would suddenly become the most– – Maybe it will happen but it probably will not happen. – It would become the most important thing. Unless you take like the Stephen Hawking view, which is if aliens exist, we don’t them to know we’re here because the chances that they are friendly are very small. ‘Cause if they’re anything like us, whenever they move into a new environment, they destroy everything else. Put all the animals in zoos. – Well I want to have a more hopeful approach. But knowing the truth would help. Or would it? – But here’s the thing, we can’t know that. – I know. – We can only want to know that. – Now I’m still frustrated but I think that’s an excellent answer. And I think that’s where we’ll end this thing. We’ll begin the easy let down. – Let’s begin it. – See, and we can put the music in. We stopped putting the music in at the end of our podcast, we should put the easy let down music back in. So it’s in there now. It feels like this thing’s coming to a close but it’s not yet ended. – I will say I’m not going to wear sunglasses next time. – Don’t do that, yeah. – You’ve already said it in the comments. – The peak experience, I would still argue, is audio only but I know that it still impacted your ear experience because of the way that I had to interact with him with those sunglasses on. – And even though I’m never actually trying to be funny, that’s never my motivation, when I said that I was going to wear sunglasses this whole time, it was an attempt to be funny and, you know, I may have failed in your eyes and I may have annoyed you this whole time. – This is a bit of a moment of growth. – Which gives me a little bit of pleasure, to be honest with you but I’m working through that. I want to wear them again because you out there who are annoyed by the fact that I had them on, it’s what keeps me going. – I love everyone. I love you and I think that I want you to love me and don’t lump me in with this guy. – But I’m never trying to be funny, I’m always serious. You can take everything I say and everything that I say on this podcast– – At face value. – At face value. It’s all literal and it’s never being sarcastic. – The level of that value is is questionably attained but it’s probably low. – Yeah, because who needs sarcasm? Sarcasm does nothing productive for our world, we should not be funny, we should not joke, everything we say should be the literal meaning of the words that are coming out of our mouth because that would just make life simpler and less beautiful. – Hashtag ear biscuits is how you continue a conversation with us on social media. Please do that, we value that, as well as leaving a review on iTunes. – It’s actually bright in here. Funny. 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